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Oulahai. was in it. So the newspaper
men in return for the politeness the
Bryan family has shown them have ex
erted themselves to be pleasant.
Mr. Cleveland would be more popular
with the American people if he had
been able to form the newspaper habit
as young Mr. Bryan has. But he hates
reporters and they hate him and the im
pression has spread all over the United
States that Mr. Cleveland is disagree
able and there is no enthusiasm for him
even among those who believe his ad
ministration haB been a good one.
Frank Stockton's book "The Adven
tures of Captain Horn." might be Is
sued as a campaign document by the
gold party as well as by the gold and
silver party. Captain Horn, two wo
men, a" boy and a few sailors are ship
wrecked off the Peruvian coast. They
land near a rocky promontory which
after the vines have been burnt from
It, shows a face cut In relief upon it.
The face Is a mask to a cave which
leads to a subterranean lake. The lake
has a machine In It which is worked by
a lever. The lever when pulled down
opens a hole In the bottom of the lake
and lets the water out. Captain
Horn goes In swimming and ac
cidentally pulls the lever down.
The next day the bed Is the
only part of the lake left. Cap
tain Horn explores the bed and finds a
mound In the centre of It ten feet high
projections a foot-step apart lead up
to the top of the mound. He mounts
by these to the apex where he finds a
slab sunk Into the top. The slab Is
about eighteen Inches square and fitted
Into the Joint around it with resin. The
captain dug this out with his Jack
knife and dug out another lot of resin
in the middle of the slab which covered
a ring. He took hold of the ring and.
by exerting all his strength, was able
to lift it and lay It to one side. He let
his lantern down into the cistern and
saw that it was filled with gold. The
shipwrecked party decided that the
treasure had been deposited In the
mound by the Incas when the Span
lards invaded the country under Cor
tez. After many attempts upon his
life Captain Horn, with the help of two
white men and four black ones, got
the treasure to Paris in a sailing vessel.
There the gold was weighed and he
received for it J200.000.000. He con
sidered that J40.000.000 or one-fifth of
the whole should be divided among
those who found the treasure, and at
the risk of their lives, transported it
to Paris. The rest he was willing to
give to the Peruvian government al
though the owners of the gold hod
hidden it there to keep it out of the
hands of the invaders and ethically, he
had as much right to the whole of It
as the Peruvians.
Frank Stockton's stories are as real
istic as Jules Verne's fairy tales. This
one is related with such attention to
the difficulties of getting a treasure
amounting to J200.000.000 of gold away
from an uninhabited coast without at
tracting the attention of the govern
ment or of any body whom that amount
of booty would develop Into a thief,
that the atmosphere of exploration and
discover is never once disturbed by
a ray of the light that never was on
sea or land. The stupendous value of
a ton of gold Is given In the labor of
eight men for eight months not in
earning, but in transporting it. The
story has the dash of Wyman, the de
tail of Verne and the humor of Stock
ton himself.
SILVER AND GOLD.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., the
capital city of Mr. William J. Bryan,
relates the interesting but not sur
prising fact that a vast army of grass
hoppers, "so dense as almost to ob
scure the sun." passed ovtr there from
west to east last Sunday, "but few of
them alighted." Naturally. The grass
hopper can 11'e almost anywhere, on
almost anything, but he Is no fool,
and, ravenous as he Is. he Is not with
out bowels of compassion. He pities
and spares a place which Is already
pestered to death by populists. Be
sides, he Is a frugal and prudent fel
low, and he knows better than to go
Into business In a town where he would
be exposed to so much competition as
In Lincoln. A particular tract of
country may have resources enough
to enable it to survive the ravages of
the populists In one year and of grass
hoppers the next, but the Garden of
Eden Itself could not support the
populists and the grasshopppers at
the same time. Of the two plagues,
the populists are the greater. I doubt
If Egypt In Its worst days ever saw
anything half so plaguey. The grass
hoppers showed their wisdom In steer
ing clear of Lincoln. I hope the United
States will be as wise and steer clear
of the Lincoln populists.
The following special report comes
from one of the leading bankers of
Chicago: "I would say that the po
litical situation here (Chicago), so far
as I have been able to draw conclu
sions from closest and most persistent
Inquiry, is not as bad as the news
papers and the chronic bears In Wall
street would have us believe. Com
plaints of business stagnation are no
longer prevalent, not because there
Is no longer ground for complaint (for
general trade could not be more dull
than it Is now), but business men,
merchants, manufacturers and bank
ers alike have accepted the situation,
and have made up their minds to bear
it uncomplainingly and to await pa
tiently the better times that they fore
see after free silver has receivd Its
death blow In November next.
"Free silver and the agitation for a
change In the money standard of the
country has cast a gloom over the
financial and commercial world. To
this condition of things, the profes
sional stock-jobbers, by selling what
they do not own. have added the feel
ing of distrust, and thus dislodged
more stock which owners, who do not
believe in the change of values sug
gested by the Chicago platform, have
held on to rather than make sacrifices.
The silver scare will gradually be
effaced. In my opinion, and, as No
vember approaches, its threatening
aspect will have disappeared, and
men's minds will be calmer and in a
condition to Judge more sensibly re
garding the questions at Issue.
"I have talked personally with man
ufacturers who employ large numbers
of men In steel works, harvesting ma
chine works, with superintendents of
street railroads and others, and the
concensus of opinion leads me to be
lieve that the average wage-worker
Is perfectly alive to the disastrous re
sults that would folllow the success of
the silver Idea, and a suprislngly large
number of them are able to give in
telligent reasons for their opinions."
There Is no doubt, alll reports to the
contrary notwithstanding, that the sll
verltes are losing ground In eastern
states. There Is still a great deal of
missionary work to be clone, and the
cause of "honest money" will have to
be looked after, hawkblike fashion,
until the vote is polled on November 3.
Speaking with me a few hours ago a
prominent political leader said: "It
behooves every man who has the gold
standard Interest at heart to discuss
the question Intelligently with those
that are disposed to vote In favor of
free silver. The Ignorance that Is dis
played, or that is. at least, well
grounded, not only in the west, but
likewise in the east, will not be over
come by mass meetings or through
the appeals of paid orators. True old
fashioned missionary work will have
to be done, and conviction must be
carried by voice argument, because,
outside of comparatively few. the 16
to 1 ratio Is not well understood, nor
the III effects that would follow the
adopted by a majority of the voters
of the democratic ticket recognized,
much less appreciated. This fight that
we have on our hands is the most
formidable ever encountered since I860,
and while the principles Involved are
not likely to cause any blood-shedding,
the feature of the country is Just as
much at stake, on the results, as was
the case thirty-six years ago."
It stands to common sense and rea
son that with such a momentous ques
tion yet to be debated and decided, the
speculative markets are likely to be
highly feverish and most fitful.
Under ordinary circumstances the
decline already experienced would
amply discount ordinary events, even
of the most embarrassing character,
but In this Instance the affair on hand
Is not ordinary. While the deepest
thinkers believe that the outcome will
be an unmistakable victory for sound
money, they recognize that this Is no
time to make rash ventures, or, for
that matter, to assume contracts that
must be affected materially by the re
sults of the general election.
Norman B. Ream Is here from Chi
cago, and he proposes to remain In
the east a couple of weeks. I had a
chat with htm a couple of days ago.
and he said: "I have been pretty well
over the west recently, and have come
In contact with tens of thousands of
voters. I Incline to the belief that the
sliver craze has reached Its zenith,
and from now on the cause will re
cede. I fully expect that sound money
will win the fight In November. I rec
ognize the advisability of appreciating
rival forces, and I think It would be
a sad mistake to underrate the
strength of the enemy in any fight.
I feel, nevertheless, sure. Judging by
my personal observations and as a re
sult of my peregrinations, that the
good, sound, common sense of the
American people will prevail, and that
we shall continue on a gold basis."
Too much praise cannot be awarded
to Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan for the
manner in which he got the bankers
together and formulated a program
that not only replenished the treasury
reserve, but likewise prevented further
exports of gold. Mr. Morgan Is a
financier without equal or compare in
this country. He no sooner recognizes
a situation than he grasps it, and his
patriotism and I use the word "patri
otism" In Its fullest sense has been
shown on Innumerable occasions.
Many a less broad-minded man would,
after the adverse criticism that was
passed upon him, have left the admin
istration to take care of Itself, but
Mr. Morgan recognized the duty that
he owed to the country, and In the
hour of need came forth, lent his best
efforts, and succeeded In restoring con
fidence at a moment when utter de
moralization seemed to be taking pos
session of our people. A monument
of good words and thankful expres
sions from all parts of the country has
gone up to Mr. Morgan because of
his laudable and most unselfish action.
I wonder when Mr. Bryan's word
works are going to resume active busi
ness. I must protest against the ef
forts of some of his managers to re
strict his output. If he is not an ora
tor, what is he? And what Is the use
of befog an orator if you are not al
lowed to orate? Nobody who followed
the series of profound and masterly
addresses which Mr. Bryan scattered
along'the line of his triumphant march
from Salem. III., to Lincoln. Neb., has
ceased to long for more of the same
kind. They combined some of the
characteristics of the able orations de
livered by the late Mr. Harry Blood
good, or the late Mr. Luke School
craft, with some of the characteristics
of a comiosltlon on "The Four Sea
sons." written by a lad of eight, who
has been slightly blighted by scarlet"
fever. There was a delightful fresh
ness and innocence about them. I
must confess that they drew tears to
my eyes and made me think of the
pictures In the back of the old-fashioned
spelling books. Mr. Eryan ought
not deprive the world of his inex
haustible resources of instruction and
entertainment. It is true that a part
of his mind may now be devoted to the
preparation of that colossal master
piece which Is expected to make the
Madison Square Garden fall down In
a dead faint and shut up the stock
exchange forever, but such a vast in
tellectual engine as Mr. Bryan pos
sesses ought to be able to turn out
more than one piece of work at a
time. After he has collated all his old
speeches, and all the old speeches of
the other members of the two con
gresses in which he served, I hope that
he will favee us with a few more speci
mens of his rich Impromptu eloquence.
The acerbity of politics Is notably
softened by these gentle syrups of the
Infant school Town Topics.
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