Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1896 — Page 4

THE 1KDIAXAF0L1S JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEr TIMBER 29, 1893.

TUESDAY. SEPTEMHKU 2918.

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THIS INHIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: NEW YOKK Windsor Hotel and Astor House. JCHICAGO Palmer House and P. O. News Co. 217 Dearborn street CINCINNATI J. It. Hawley & Co., 134 Vine street. XjOUISVILLE C. T. Deering, northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville , Book Co., 3o5 Fourth avenue. T. LOITIS Union News Company, Union Depot .WASHINGTON, D. C Kiggs House. Ebbltt House, Willard's Hotel and the Washington t News Exchange, - Fourteenth street, between ! Fenn. avenue ana F street. Even the Sentinel admits that Mr. Jew lett'a speech was a masterly blow for .Me iKInleylsmr. , i , Opinions may differ as to the cause of hard times, but they certainly never can be cured by debasing- the currency. ! Mr. Sewall has a thinking part in this Campaign, but there is reason to suspect that his thoughts would not look well in print. . Indiana Republicans will not hang up red (flags in derisive attention to Mr. Bryan JWhen he comes here next , week. He is hi3 town red flag. The' time has not yet come when level headed American citizens want reckless demagogue? like Bryan and George Fred iWilliams to rul-? over them. ! Just as soon as the campaign is over the American press will be able to attend to (Cuban and Turkish affairs and other for IBign matters. Business before pleasure. If the value of money has been apprefclated f6r twenty-five years under the gold Standard it is a little singular that the rate of Interest has been 'steadily declin Ing. Candidate Watson's voice is heard in the land, but as Mr. Sewall has been selected by Mr. Bryan as his favorite, and proposes to stick, how can he be got off the Popo cratic ticket? John Boyd Thacher has at least achieved the distinction of being the only man who ever declined a Democratic nomination for; Governor of New York out of sheer disgust with the platform. To double the wealth of a few thousand wealthy mine owners, largely In Great Britain and other foreign lands, Mr. Bryan Is laboring to ; prejudice wage-earners against employers. Bryan and George Fred Williams, each with three nominations and unlimited gift Of gab, are two of a kind. After Nov. 3 they will have another tond of union three "nominations and no election. The Sentinel tells how. many millions of wicked Republican gold Mark Hanna is Bending to Indiana, but continues to assert that it never, never can be bribed. Doth it Hot protest too much, mayhap? The Business Men's Sound-money Association' of Chicago has 94,000 men enrolled lor a great parade Oct. 9. It will be the greatest display ever made in a political campaign if the weather should be favorable. in what "class" does Mr. Bryan put the Beven million depositors in savings banks and shareholders in building and loan associations, against the robbery of whom Mr. Kern indignantly protested May 2S, 1896? " . The Democratic naticnal .committee and Mr. Bryan should turn' over their troublesome candidates for Vice President to Governor Matthews, who is an expert in mak ing over the tickets ot regular conventions. . . Already $34,200,000 of gold has come to us from Europe since midsummer, amf $11,000,000 more is ordered and on the way. .And yet the Popocratic orator tells us that the cowardly yellow metal is leaving us. Mr. Bryan's friends deny that he is teaching anarchy, but when incendiary fires follow In his wake , and his supporters telegraph congratulations on the injury done a political opponent denials are of. little weight. Mr. Bryan ignores his managers and proposes to play a lone hand from this time tVi T-ttfk wrttilrl fn'iv s better rvriisnt.ofr if it were not for Tom Watson, who carries an ace up his sleeve and will persist in rta ing in the game. Mr. Bryan has not yet found time to accept the Populist notification of his nomination. As he is making Populist speeches doubtless Mr. Bryan thinks his friends of that name should accept them as an acceptance of their views. Now that Mr. Bryan has been a long distance out of his way to visit Mr. Sewall in Maine, Mr. Watson might ask him when in Georgia, If he could not make it convenient to spend a night of a Sunday at his humble residence. If Mr. Watson should do this he would find out at once that Mr. Bryan thinks that Sewall is a better nan on the ticket. Besides, the Sewall mansion, in Bath is much more imposing and sumptuous than the Watson cottage In Georgia. Mr, "Bryan's organs are quoting his speech In favor of compelling railroad tornpanics to put safety couplers on their cars tin Jl no writ iuu utni dim Kfiuy v iiu"l'iuil Of that measure. More than three years before Mr. .'Bryan made his srx-ech in the House advocating the measure General Harrison gave all the facts in h's first message to Congress, adding that 'it is a reproach to our civilization that any class of American workmen ; should, in. the pur

suance of a necessary and useful vocation

be subjected to a peril of life and limb as great as that of a soldier 1n time of war. THE LEG1SLATIBE. There are indications that the Matthews managers in this State have given up the idea of getting the electoral vote for Bry an and are now bending their' energies to securing a Legislature which" will make the Governor United States Senator. One of these indications is found in the fact tha the Matthews managers are giving more at tention to making trades with Populists oa county and legislative tickets than in push Ing the general canvass. A sort of a -gen eral directory has been established here for the purpose of making over the tickets of ccunty and even congressional conventions The revision of regularly nominated tick. ets is being made under the supervision of Governor Matthews. The Democracy is be-' ing sold out to the Populists wherever the Governor thinks a vote will be secured in the Legislature for him. Republicans and sound-money men are given this warning in order that they may offset the efforts of Governor Matthews and his clique. Neither Republican nor soundmoney man wants Claude Matthews in the Senate, for the reason that neither wants a free-silver Senator there to succeed Mr Voorhees. No Republican wants a Senator there to oppose tariff legislation or to act with the Senators of the silver trust. Gov ernor Matthews is the stubborn supporter of all the heresies connected with fres trade and a depreciated currency. It is true that Indiana, a central State, with many and varied Industries and with interests closely allied to the progressive States of the North, should no longer be grouped with Missouri, Alabama, South Carolina, Arkansas and Tennessee in the Senate. It should have Senators whose names will not be found in the roll calls in the order, "Tillman, Turpie, Vest, Voor hees." Now, the only hope of Matthews is the gerrymander which the Supreme Court preserved lest that official plunge the S:ate into anarchy in the selection of a Legisla ture. ' In view of the situation and of the efforts of the Matthews clique to make him Sena tor, Republicans should take special pains to cee that Matthews's agents do not .trade off their legislative candidates, promising votes here and there for votes for Matthews candidates for the Legislature. Let Republican voters be especially warned that much of the fruits of a general victory would be hazarded In the selection of a Legislature which would send Governor Matthews to the Senate. A DISTIRBIXG RUMOR. There is a revival of reports to the effect that Governor Matthews and his immediate advisers are considering the advisability of naming candidates at a late day in the districts which have hold-over Senators. If this is true he has changed his jnind since May. Then he declared that such a thing could not be thought of, and suggested the apportionment under which nominations are being made as a compromise. He should have called the Legislature to make a new apportionment, and, in not doing it, he failed to discharge his duty to put it no stronger. The Supreme Court refused to pass upon the constitutionality of the apportionment under which the election of the Legislature will take place, sim ply that the people of Indiana might avoid just such , confusion and po3sible conflict as it is rumored the Governor and his ad visers are contemplating. Six months ago the people of Indiana would not have listened to such a rumor as that to the effect that the Governor pro poses to violate the Constitution by having bogus Senators elected In districts already constitutionally represented. But Governor Matthews has developed a new character since he became a presidential candidate. When, in the circular presenting his qualifications for the presidency, he or his friends left out all account of his efforts to maintain law and order in Indiana in July, 1804, he led many to cuspect that he had regretted his action. He has also advised local officers to defy the federal courts. He has refused to name an election commissioner after a nomination had been made by the proper authority. These and other symptoms of a disposition to ignore the laws cause people who once respected Governor Matthews to have some anxiety in regard to this rumor regarding the election of bogus Senators. If there is nothing in it, if such a conspiracy against the peace and the Constitution of the State is not contemplated, Governor Matthews's denial of any such design will dismiss all apprehension. Should he re main silent, it will increase. He cannot dismiss the matter in silence, because it is hi wont about matters of insignificance, like the rumor about his treatment of Gen eral Harrison, to explain. This is not a matter of minor importance. It has been stated in several papers as coming from his leaky attendants that it is his purpose to have bogus Senators elected in the hold over districts. Are these men mere babblers, or is it a fact? The Governor can dissipate the rumor by a simple denial. AX ABSURDITY ABOUT SILA ER. A score of men form a corporation, con tribute and borrow money, which they put into the mining and smelting of iron ore. The product is pig iron. Years ago pig iron began to decline-in price. That decline was due to several causes, among which are less expensive methods for getting the iron out of the ore, the competition incident to largely Increased production, and, above all, the supply and demand. Nevertheless, year after year the corporation digs ore and turns out pig iron. When its managers are not able to get 125 a ton they take $13. When they cannot find a market at a pay ing price the digging of ore is stopped and the furnaces go out of blast. This is a loss of their capital for a time, or for all time, and a greater injury to the men who have been employed. But, whatever comes, em ployes and employers accept their fate, however grievous the loss or severe the suf fering. They have never thought of doing anything else. Just now many companies in Indiana are piittiing capital Into the production of oil. They raise money with which to lease land, hire labor and purchase machinery. At the price that oil brought when they began their enterprise there is profit in the ' business. But suppose it should be discov ered that there is oil in abundance in other States, in Russia and other parts of the world, and that capital should be invested u utilizing these oil licids, the result would . be an unexpected supply, overstocking the market. Oil would fall and many wells, which would have been profitable at the prices which prevailed when they were 'shot" would 'become valueless and must be closed. What do the sufferers do? Simply accept the situation. Another company of enterprising men form a. corporation for the working of sil

ver mines, costly machinery is purchased and Immense fortunes are realized. The result is that hundreds of mines are opened in this country, Mexico, South America and Africa. Tens of millions of British and other capital are invested. In fifteen years the output of these mines has been quadrupled. With the increased output the prices begin to fall. Corporations like these do not heed the warning, but turn out yet more white metal. Prices decline more rapidly. Yet in the working of the mines which are richest and best located there is a large profit at the low prices. The price is not half the figuie of 1870. Do these capitalists accept the situation and the low prices? So far from that, they began fifteen years ago to insist that the government shall pay them a certain price for silver bullion simply because, years ago, that was the commercial value. A few months ago the silver trust took the country by the throat in the United States Senate and said: "Your industries shall wither and your government shall fail for want of revenues unlees you pay us the price which silver brought in 1S70." For the copper and lead that are taken out of the same mines they accept the market price, but for the silver these mine-owning corporations demand that the government practically pay them the price of 1870. Put aside party names and political excitements and sit down in your right mind and calmly ask yourself, why should the owners of a commercial article called silver, less useful than iron or oil, demand that government stamp it at a figure double the market value? Ask yourself, if it is right for the government to stamp a price upon' one commodity, why not fix the price of all others wheat, iron, days' labor? Wheat, iron and days' labor are each more useful than silver; if government marks an ounce of silver $1.29, why not stamp a bushel of wheat the same price, and every useful article which represents labor with the number of days' labor at ?2 a day, which it has cost? . Take these questions about with you and ponder them, and you must see the absurdity of the pretensions of the silver mine owners.

A HYPOTHETICAL CASE. 1 The Director of the Mint in his last annual report points out some of the defective features of our present currency system and discusses some measures of reform. , Among the latter he regards as essential an increase in the. amount of our gold currency, the final retirement or the greenbacks and treasury notes issued under the act of 1890, and the issuance, in lieu thereof, of gold coin or of gold and silver coin, under proper limitation of the amount of the latter. The discussion of these propositions in connection with other measures Of currency reform will be in order after the present attempt to debase the currency and put the country on a-silver basis shall have been defeated. The following extract from the report of the Director has a special bearing on the present situation. He says: It Is certain that any scheme for the reform of our currency which tints not contemplate the continued suspension of the coinage of full legal-tender silve; except by virtue of an International agreement, and. perhaps, at an altered ratio, would prove abortive. The free coinage of silver by the United States alone, especially at the legal rate of 1 to 10 while the commercial ratio is about 1 to 32, means for this country the single silver standard and depreciation of its currency, for at the legal ratio of 1 to 16 silver is not the eoual of gold in coinage or out of it. This wiil become evident if, for the sake of argument, it be. supposed that both metals are freely coined, but" both deprived of their full legal tender power. If. in the battle of the standards, the legislative power did i.ot interfere in favor of the depreciated metal. by making the coins stamped out of it lull legal tender, either alone or concurrently with the more valuable metal, the s-yuggle for silver and the monetary question would soon be settled: and in the struggle lor existence between the gold standard, the double standard, and the single standard, the fittest for all purposes of trade and in ail forms of commercial intercourse would alone survive. It is safe to say that if in the United States at this moment the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver were guaranteed by law, but both gold and silver coins deprived of their legal-tender power, it being left to the creditor, whether a capitalist demanding the payment of interest on his loaned money or a day laborer his week's wages, whether the millionaire receiving his dividends or . collecting the value of his coupons, the planter the price of his cotton or tobacco, the farmer of his wheat, or the humble shopkeeper that of the few vards of cloth, or the few pounds of beef or butter he has sold, all would de mand the coin least liable to fluctuation of value and farthest removed from the reach of unforeseen contingencies that is. the millionaire and the laborer, the rich and the noor man alike would insist on pay ment in gold, and would refuse it in sil- : ver. I This, be it remembered, is not from a-1 partisan speech or campaign document, but from an official report of the Director of the Mint, made in November, 1895. His statement as to what would happen under the free coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, if neither was made legal tender, is undoubtedly correct. If the law favored neither a gold currency above a silver currency, nor a silver currency above a gold, but left it to the free and unconstrained action of the people to choose between them, they would inevi tably choose that which was always and everywhere least subject to deterioration, whose value depended upon itself and not upon Congress, nor upon legal-tender acts, but upon free and not compulsory acceptance. In other words, under existing cir cumstances they would choose gold and not silver. If the two metals were stripped of all adventitious aids and legislative props the people would soon settle the battle of the standards on what Jefferson called 'commercial principles." The facts which State Statistician Thomp son has condensed from the United States census and supplemented with statistics gathered from the official returns made to his office, will satisfy any Intelligent and unbiased person that the wail of the calamityite about the devastations of the owners of farms by mortgages is with out cause. Many people, farmers no more than others, feel the burden of mortgages these hard times. It could not be otherwise unless those who owned the property years ago could not sell it. The fact, how ever, that 82 per cent, of all the farms in the United States are unincumbered, and that the value of the incumbered farms in 1S90 was but $3,054,923,165, while the unincumbered were valued at $10,221,329,484, disproves the constant cry that farmers are being robbed of their farms by the holders of mortgages. The further fact that 94 per cent, of the outstanding mortgages are for the purchase of farms and their improvement is confirmation of the baseless char acter of such claims. But more imporant are the figures presented in reference to mortgages in Indiana. Of 320,879 mort gages recorded In the decade 1SS5-94, decrees of foreclosure were made on only 21.712 of them, and sheriffs' deeds, indicating that the party giving the mortgage could not ittisfy the creditor, were only 11.39S in ten years. And these include town property known as lots as well as farms. This means that one piece of mortgaged property in twenty-eight has been going into the hands of the creditor during the past ten years. The figures of the Statistician further show

that the number of sheriffs' deeds since

1830 was fewer, compared with the num ber of mortgages recorded, than previous to that year. These are good facts to fling at the professional calamifyite. The stories which Mr. La Follette, form erly of this State, and a New Yorker tell of the manner in which they have been vie timized by Che silver mine statesmen. Jones of Nevada; Teller, of Colorado; Dubois Pettigrew and others, thow that as manip ulators In the gold brick or green goods bus iness, they would" be "out of sight." Mr La Follette was first Induced to negotiate for the New York Mercury, which was to be turned into a silver organ. He got some of his money into it for these gentlemen and statesmen, who gave all sorts of promises Mr. La Follette interested a New York speculator of wealth, who kept the Mercury afloat as a free-silver paper until he had put up $400,000 in purchase money and otherwise. Latterly Chairman Jones urged the New Yorker to continue to put up his money at the rate of $7,000 a week to sup port the Mercury. For a time he did, but when he was convinced that the silver Sen ators were not intending to keep their promises, he let the Mercury 'go, and with it his $400,000. The same men are trying a confidence game on a larger scale upon the American people. The Rev. Dr. Talmage, in his sermon at the First Presbyterian Church In Wash ington City, on Sunday, is reported to have said "that never within his memory had so many people literally starved to leath as in the past few months." The Journal is not advised as to "where the Rev. Mr. Talmage spent his summer va cation and saw so many people literally starving to death. It certainly could not have been in the farming districts, where corn and potatoes are selling at very low prices, and where a cartload of vegetables can be purchased for a dollar. Who be sides the Rev. Mr. Talmage has heard of any one literally starving to death in this country? There aro . thousands of men without employment on account of the iniquitous tariff legislation of 1S94, but there is no actual starvation. Why did not the Rev. Mr. Talmage take up a col lection if his statement, is true and save from actual starvation some of those who are not yet dead? "Every keeper of sheep grows less grain on that account, and as his flocks increase becomes a buyer and consumer of the grain grown by his neighbor; hence all farmers are interested in wool growing, though they are not flock masters themselves." So says David Harpster, of Ohio, the leading sheep raiser of the United States, in a let ter declaring his belief in the necessity of protection for the wool-growing industry and his ardent support of McKinley and sound money. , Richard Harding Davis writes to the New York Critic denying that he made the re mark attributed to him to the effect that he regretted having written the story called "Gallagher," because it reminded him of the days when he was a, mere reporter a time he wished to forget. He also denies a number of other foolish, and egotistical speeches with which he is credited. It is a manly letter, and one that might have been expected of tle author of "Gallagher" in his unspoiled days. If, his head was a little turned by success, as seems, according to all accounts, to have been the case, it Is, perhaps, not to be wondered at, but if he has got his bearings again, as this letter indicates, his early rjends and admirers will be gratified. ,,His success, too. doubtless created envy among his less fortunate rivals and caused them to circulate baseless calumnies. If he Vill return to his labors and produce, tales as good as the earlier ones, which made his reputation, the public will speedily judgebetween him and his defamers. Financier La Toilette's faith in the unsupported word of the silver mine owners in regard to the purchase of a New York paper was touching. He knows now that signing a paper testifying that it is a desirable piece of property is not precisely equivalent to signing a check in payment for stock. A woman came into the courts in Paris, last week, claiming to bo the moral wife of Prince Bismarck anil wishing to 1. made ' his legitimate spouse. The term "moral wife" is probabiy used by the ingenuous French people because the situation indicated is immoral Mr. La" Follette is not ' the first Indiana gentleman of a. speculative turn who, after finding his own State too small for his powers, has gone out into the world to be a great financier and there come to grief. Mr. Bryan had his hair cut while he was in Boston This may . be fatal. Indiana Populists find it hard enough to excuse the candidate's lack of a beard, but they look confidently for football hair. After mature consideration Mr. La Follette is convinced that the depraved silver mine owners were in the combination that sold him the gold brick. BUBBLES IX THE AIR. Opek to Discussion. He They say that ill temper will make a woman grow ugly in appearance. She More likely it is the other way. Losing her looks will make a woman grow ill tempered. , Ob, Well Yabsley Ever notice the habit Mudge has of prefacing his remarks with "Oh, well?" Wlckwire Why shouldn't he? If there is anything Mudge can do well, it is to owe. For Home Beading. "I just finished Miss Skryber's new novel this afternoon." "I have heard something of It. Is it ah suitable for home reading?" "Strictly. I know I would not like to be seen reading it in public." Triumph of Boston. "You may ridicule dear Boston if you like," said the maiden with the gilt-edged glasses, "but her influence is extending over the world, silently, yet surely." "I guess you said 'er that time," assented the lady from Chicago. "It hasfi't been more'n a week since I read that the earth was getting colder and colder every year." INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION. Good times and bad money cannot exist at the same time. Greensburg Standard. The swallows will be smoked out of factory chimneys after the election Of McKinley. Con nersvllle News. Major McKinley's speeches grow better daily and make the best political literature of the campaign. Mishawaka Enterprise. It is, of course, an insult to the workingman to say that he can be coerced by anybody into voting either way. Noblesville Ledger. The United States is too great a nation and its people are too honest to settle at 50 cnts on the dollar. North Vernon Republican. Bryan's faiUi in his being a child of des- . tiny is certainly on the wane, judging from the growing bitterness of his speeches. Richmond Telegram. Senator Teller says that the free coinage of silver would not bring immediate prosperity, but that within the next twenty years all those who might be, content to labor and wait would e rich and every

body happy. Senator, do you remember the remark of one Governor to another? New Castle Courier. Bryan says the first effect of silver would be a panic. If that vrould be the beginning may a kind Providence save us from the end. Decatur Journal. This paper is strongly in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of protection, reciprocity and sound money at a business ratio. Union City Times. .There is great apprehension In the Popocratic organs lest employes should be coerced into voting against a reduction of their own wages. Shelbyville Republican. Bryan is still striving to stir up hate between the people of this country, to array sect!-jn against section. Such a man is not fit to be President. Greenfield Republican. Bryan kept off the grass at Washington. The people are keeping off the grass at his home in Lincoln, but just look at McKinley's lawn at Canton. Fort Wayne Gazette. If theratio of Republican gains in Vermont and Maine is sustained in Indiana this fall, McKinley's majority in the State will be about 70,000. Now watch us do it. Muncie Times. The Indianapolis Journal says one of the features of the campaign is the number of business men who are making addresses. They have to do something to put in the time. Montpelier Leader. We have the best country, and the best people on earth, and we should strive to

have the best money system a system that will keep every dollar at an equal and exact parity. Middletown News. The crime of 1S93 is the one that has accomplished the greatest, damage to the business of this country. The so-called crime. of '73 has almost lost its effect as a campaign He. Martinsville Republican. The best service that a Republican or sound-money man can do his country until the close of the polls. Nov. 3. is to spend his spare time in personal efforts to win the doubtful or sincere voter. Oakland City Enterprise. Never has a fad struck the American people any harder than did the sliver craze nor never did the people flee from a pestilence more readily than they are now fleeing from the party which espouses the erase. Auburn Dispatch. When it is settled that there will be no Popocratic tinkering with the business of the country times will improve and it will not be on account of the increase of money but because confidence has returned. Fowler Republican Era. The counterfeiter clips or punches the coin and we have a severe penalty against .all such acts. The free silverite proposes, by general legislation, to make half a dollar a dollar that is. they propose counterfeiting by the wholesale. Valparaiso VIdette. Isn't it the part of wisdom to keep a good sound-money standard while we have it rather than fly to a condition which cannot make us any better.and -.vhieh may make us infinitely worse, and which, at any rate, will be attained only after a severe panic? Seymour Republican. To the farmers' credit they have proved that they do their own thinking. They resisted the appeal to vote for free trade four years ago and it is no fault of the country districts that the Democrats won in 1S92 From present indications they are not going to be caught with the free-silver bait any more than they were by free trade in lal2. Monticello Herald. The expression used by candidate Shively in his Peru speech is causing a profound sensation among the Jewish people. Hundreds of letters are coming in inquiring about the truth of the matter. Mr. Shively s denial in an evasive way will not avail anything. He used the expression: "Every hcok-nosed Shylock from Jerusalem to Omaha." and this can be substantiated by affidavits of reputable men. Peru Republican. From every quarter of Clinton county comes cheering news for the cause of sound money and prosperity many substantial Democrats are already with us there will be many more before November comes. This paper has claimed all along thct the Republicans in Clinton countv wbn re ceived by the free-silver fallacy, had left the household of the grand old party, would after a thorough study of the issue! awaken to their folly, and return home in time to contribute to the overwhpl mill? m:i jority that McKinley is sure to receive. 1 ney are coming, and coming fast. Frunkfort News. ABOUT PEOPLE AXIJ THIXGS. Grant Allen is a noted naturalist, as well as a novelist, and has lately been elected president of the Microscopic and Natural History Society of Haslmere, in Surrey. Mrs. Alexander, the popular novelist, is known in private life as Mrs. Alexander Hector. Although ambitious to heoomo n novelist in early girlhood, she abandoned her literary work on marrying Mr. Hector, nor did she resume her pen until .after his death. 4 "The Sultan of Turkey is the most wretched, pinched-up little sovereign I ever saw, writes a correspondent. "A most un happy-looking man. of dark complexion, with a look of absolute terror in his large Eastern eyes. People sav he is nervous. and no wonder, considering the fate of his predecessors." At the last garden party in Buckingham Palace two American ladies were rather unexpectedly presented to the Princess of Wales, who held out her daintily-gloved hand to them. The strangers, probably not having been duly "coached." instead of making a court&sy and slightly shaking the extended hand, kissed it, much to the surprise of the Princess. In the days of his boyhood Edwin Win ter, who recently purchased the entire line of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, its bonds, stocks, leased and branch lines, for $13,000,000. and has iust been elected its president under the reorganization, lived in Campton Village, N. H., his father being a native of that town. When Edwin was in his teens the family moved West, and there he worked as -a clerk in a Chicago grain house. The Queen of Denmark has just cele brated her seventy-ninth birthday. She has shown plenty of courage during her. time. The withered hand that she .bears was due to a mauling it received in youtu ful days from a tame tiger which attacked her in play. Though she was seriously hurt, she realized the importance of not showing fear, and drew the animal with her to a place wherv, she could call on the palace guards to shoot it. Hector Malot, the French novelist, heing close upon sixty-six, had announced his intention of retiring from the world of let ters. He proposes, however, to nublish a farewell volume which will serve as an lutoblography and a key to his romances. all of which, he declares, are drawn from the life. This lifting of the mask is likelv to prove interesting enough, and will cause his books to be read by many who are strangers to their fascination. Paul du Chaillu, the traveler, who has been traveling through the Northwestern States, says: "A great change has come over the ideas of the Swedes and Norwegians, especially the ' latter, in the Northwest on the money question. They no longer believe that the election of Bryan and the free coinage of silver is Eoinu to make them all rich in a jiiTy. One man 1ns had more to do with bringing the Nor wegians to their senses ttiun ' all other forces put together. That man is Senator Knute Nelson, who has been workintr like a. beaver among his countrymen ever since the conventions were over and the campaign opened." The smallest tree that grows is the Greenland birch. It lives its whole allotted number of years (from seventy-iive to one hundred and thirty) just as other species of the great birch family do. although its height, under the most favorable conditions, seldom exceeds ten Inches. Whole bluffs of the east and southern roast of Greenland are covered with thickets of this diminutive species of woody plant, and in many places where the soil Is uncommonly poor and frozen from eight to ten months of the yoar. a "forest" of these trees will flourish for half a century without growing to a height exceeding four inches. She droops like a wilted lily. Iter bangs are out of cmi. She is ready to die. she is so tired The end of the century (run) girl. Detroit Tribune. Are start lingly immense; Are startlingly immense; The man who talks so light and flee Of "billions" and "finance" js he Who borrows twenty cents. Washington Post. I.iiuKhiiiK t Bismarck.. Harold Frederic's London Letter, Both here and in Germany the report that Bismarck's views on bimetallism are

treated as of importance by any section of the American people Is received in a mirthful spirit. Bismarck's hopeless ignorance on all dnancial questions made his the butt Of two generations of his parliamentary associates whenever he essaytd to talk on them. His speeches on these subjects used to be filled with maddened retorts to men who criticised him. While it was true, he would say. that, as a nobleman, he had not been trained in the small tricks of trade and money counting, yet he bad the Emperor behind him. and that was more important than any socalled economic principle. His commercial wars with his neighbors, his grotesque unequnl systems of domestic taxation, have done more toward making the Social Democrats the largest single party in Germany than all other causes combined. He knows no more to-day about the silver question than Secretary Carlisle does about the family arrangements regulating the SaxeAltenburg succession, and no one in Kurope. not even among the ex-Chaneellor's most heated partisans, would dream of regarding him as an authority on that or any other fiscal question under the sun. A Bit of Xevrn for Mr. Riley. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Mr, E. V. Lucas contributes an interesting article to the September Fortnightly Review, one of the leading literary periodicals of England, entitled "Some Notes On Poetry for Children." Among other thing3 he says: "Among poets who can with knowledge describe for us child life, both subjective and objective, we are fortunate in possessing Mr. James Whitcomb Riley. Mr. RPey is a New Englander. and the boy to wh m he introduces us Is a New Englander. too, speaking the Hoosier dialect, but none the less boy for that. Let Mr. Riley's right to speak for children be found in these two Hoosier stanzas called 'Uncle Sidney' it is quite established there: , " 'Sometimes when I bin bad. An' pa' correcks me nen. 4 An" Uncle Sidney he come-3 here I'm alius good again. 'Cause Uncle Sidney says. An' takes me up an' smiles . 'The goodest mens they is ain't good As baddest little childs.' " He follows with two stanzas from Mr. Riley's "Raggedy Man," which is familiar to everybody hereabouts, and upon which he bestows a deserved compliment. Mr. Riley's friends all rejoice in the growing appreciation of his genius by the English and the English-speaking people everywhere. His little volume of "Old-fashioned Roses," published by Longmans, Green & Co., of London, has passed through sixteen editions. Mr. Riley's new book, entitled "Child World," is to be issued simultaneously here by the Bowen-Merrlll Company and in London by Longmans, Green H- Co. some time in October. There is no uoubt about its success. Having been privileged to see some of the advance sheets, and with some knowledge of the motive and scope of the work, 1 predict for it a greater popularity than any of his books have hitherto attained, his friends like to see Mr. Riley's praises in foreign periodicals, but at the same time are sorry to note the ignorance of his friendly critic in the Fortnightly concerning Mr. Riley's home and the boy who speaks the Hoosier dia

lect. W. P. F. Indianapolis, Sept. 28. A Hopeful Sinn. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal : I. noticed in the Journal yesterday this statement: "It is hard to teah an old dog new tricks. It is said Senator Teller gives as much time in his speeches to protection as he does to free silver." This is part of the programme of the silver mine owners. It was their .purpose, at least those who have previously Leen Republicans, to advocate protection. The only hope they ever enteralned of electing a silver President was by securing Republican votes. Mr. Teller appeals for votes for free silver, assigning as a reason, that protecton can only be maintained on a silver basis. When he was delivering his valedictory in the St. Louis convention he spoke with very great emphasis on that theory. There are thousands of Republicans who are tinctured with the free-silver coinage idea who believe that the greatest factor in restoring prosperity will be- protection and reciprocity. Men are now advocating that doctrine who, a few weeks ago, were discussing nothing but the money question, among them those who have . been freesilver Repulbicans. This is a very hopeful sign, it seems to me that a large proportion of the voters recognize other issues, and that every effort that Senator Teller makes to induce Republicans to vote for free-trade Bryan to secure protection will be frutlless. The free-silver clouds are "being rapidly dispelled, and the golden dawn of prosperity is approaching as we come nearer the triumphant election of Major McKinley. D. STROUSE. Rockville. Sept. 2S. ilniii;ctl an it Sliotv. New York Sun. It was announced that a man would be hanged at the Westminster Aquarium, m London, one day recently, and a good many people assembled to witness this elevating spectacle, which is understood to have been Imported from Paris. They did not see the man hanged, but when they were admitted to the "chamber of horrors" they found him already hanging from the roof by a rope which passed through the ceiling. "He was dressed in a French workingman's serge suit, and wore a voluminous red silk scarf around his neck, which completely concealed' the disposition of the rope. The official explanation of the performance is that the weight rests on the jaw. not on the soft parts of the neck. It was a ghastly spectacle, and was so unsuccessful as a money-making scheme that the managers have since withdrawn the. exhibition. A Fool Prorreiline. New York Mail and Express. Some of Mr. Bryan's fool friends in Chicago have arranged a feature for the big free-silver parade on Oct. 9 which is likely to react unpleasantly upon themselves. They propose that one detachment of the procession shall be made up of men claiming to have been coerced by their employers into pledging their votes to McKinley. and that these men shall wtar black mi ks to conceal their identity. The masks will be capital. But it Is safe to predict that they will be worn, not by the victims of coercion or oppression, but by loafers and liars hired for the occasion by free-silver campaign funds. We don't know cf anything more likely to start a riot in Chicago than the an;earance of a lot of masked hirelings paraaing as down-trodden workIngmen. Si initio Faetn. New York World (Dem.) - Wages are higher now than 'at any time before 1873. Every workingman knows this fact or can easily find it out. " Each dollar of wages will now buy much more than any dollar did before 173. Every workingman knows this fact or can easily find it out. Every workingman is fetter off to-day than at any time before 1S73. Every workingman knows this fact or can easily find it out. Why. then, should any workingman vote for a return to "the conditions prior to 1873." 'I' lie Foollwh Advertiser. New Yol'k Recorder. That advertising ass who depends upon good note paper and a fashionable handwriting to attract attention, is flooding club boxes and private houses with notices of his wares. Last year it was a play; this year it is a cleaner. The thing is clever in its way. but it is. nevertheless, a. bore and a nuisance. The day is not far off when jn private-looking carriage, extremely well MP!ointeri. will drive anoui anu a neauiltui1y dressed ladv will get out at your house and leave cards business cardsof enterprising firms. Sliownl Htn I k 11 o rn ticeNew York Evening Sun When Bryan talks about the clergymen of the country lolling In luxury, he simply shows that he does not know what the average salary of members of the profession is.; Taking parsons all around they are more underpaid than overpaid. t'nii't B- TriiKtPd, Kansas City Journal. Neither Bryan nor Sewall can carry his own Htate. or his own town, or his own ward, or his own precirtct. If one's neighbors and personal friends won't trust .him who else should? At LrKf. Philadelphia Press. Special onnouncement Mr. John Boyd Thacher is pleitxd to announce that h Is now open for other engagements. . . A I'lln iMMtie. New York Commercial Advertiser. The issue of this campaign is not one of politics. but common honeh-y. If you catch a man with his hand in your pocket, vou do not care whether he Is a Ioto(tai.

a Prohibitionist or a Socialist. You only know that he Is a thief and denl with 'him accordingly. It will be the sime way va election day. BRYAVS llOKT DOLLAR.

Pnporrncj'ii Cnndlilnte Commfnili the Chen p Mrxliuu CcIa. ' 1 111u1.1r4.111a 1 A Mexican dollar is "an honest dollar," Mr. Bryan says, because it Is worth just as much melted as newly minted; that is. it is worth just the value of th bullion that is in it and nothing more. This Is not entirely true. There is a charge of 4 -X'l per cent, by the Mexican mint for coining silver and a Mexican dollar melted rioyn would only bring the owner 95 t!-1') cents at the Mexican mint. It is true, however, that the Mexican dollar in generally valued for just the Oliver that is In it. It is honest to tht3 extent. It is worth a little more than half a dollar of our good currency, as yet untarnished by Bryanism. An American dollar, silver or gold, wilt buy ns much as two Mexican honejt dollars in. either the United States or Mexico, but if Mr. Bryan has his way this will ease and the American dollar will become as cheap and nasty as the Mexican dollar which he commends. Mr. Bryan pays a oor tribute to the Intelligence of his audiences wage earners most of them hv exploltiog the Mexican dollar as the model coin for the United States. Does he imagine that they are so dull as to desire that the dollars' in which their wages are paid shall be made one-half as valuable as they are at present? By tho credit of the government and because of the fact that the treasury stands ready, by equal exchange, if need be. to maintain its parity with gold, our big volume of silver and paper currency is made nd kept ns good as gold. Every one who receives wages, salaries or fixed Incomes from anysource will be robbed of one-half If Mr. Bryan's equivalent of honest Mexican dollars ever becomes the currency cf the United States. The Mexican dollar has been used as an object lesson to Illustrate the cheap and nasty currency Mr. Bryan's party would introduce into this country. Mr. Bryan not only admits the truth of the comparison, but glories in it. A silver dollar that i worth only Its bullion value, and that bullion value 50 cents of our present good currency. Is the kind of an honest dollar Mr. Bryan's party want to bring into tha United States. Such a dollar would not bo honest because It would lower wages, cheat creditors and rob the thrifty of their sav ings and benefit only the silver mine owners and the repud tutor who want to pay their debts in cheap dollars. ?oyn Victoria Han MIhkciI. Chicago Record. Queen Victoria has reigned for a great many years, and is being talked about a good deal Just now. All sorts of pleasant things are of current mention concerning the healthy widow of Windsorand yet, and yet somehow the thought will come that the Queen has not had all the best of it, even though she holds the long-distance standing start record for reigning against time. Although she has bfti prominent in British society for nearly sixty years, and has seen her name in the papers tor four generations, she has never had the inestimable pleasure of bossing and making miserable a quartet of expressmen on May 1. while the said quartet was engaged in taking up the folding-bed and walking. She has not tasted the delight of being right tackle or left quarter-back at a bargainday sale. so. that the 40 cents saved by muscular strife might be fitttingly invested in a matinee ticket and 15 cents' worth of chocolates. The keen ecstasy born oi' finding a half-dollar in a worthy husband's old trousers, filed away and forgotten, has never been hers She has never looked on In a blandly supervisory way while the man of her house ..ugged a tubbed oleander weighing 7,211 tons down the cellarway to hibernating quarters. Nor does she know any of the sweet sublimity or arguing with the landlord when he comes to say ho cannot possibly put on new window shades, until he not only abandons the - negative window-shade theory, but promises besides to varnish the parlor floor. She never put up a singie giass jar of peaches, and if tthe has ever nuido over a last year a aecordionpiaited cape into a this year's bicycle suit the royal chronicler has neglected to give the date. Queen Victoria wears no century bars; sh- hasn't shot the chutes; she hasn't-rbut pshaw! She has done nothing but reign continuously for 59 years 111 days. Wo rather pity her. ' .. . 3 Bryan on I'ennlon. Omaha World-Herald (Mr. Bryan's paper). Nov. IS, 1SS2. . , The next seseslon of Congress will havo to wrestle with one dellckncy of $36,000.000. This is on account of pensions. The appropriation for pensions for the next year most not be less than $150,000,000. It is therefore easy arithmetic to perceive that th appropriation that Congress must make for pensions next session must aggregate not less than $JS-5.0o0.00o. This tremendous sum would In Itself be enough to run a reasonable government. One would not complain if it were an honest debt, but a large proportion is not debt, because It was not earned by any act of patrotim or heroic service. The government is held up mid despoiled of no mean portion of this, anil it seems helpless to defend itself. One cannot help being curious to know how many moro years it will take to exhaust the generation which feels itself Injured by the war. It is safe to say that never did a generation display such remarkable longevity. After Hearing; the .Man. Boston Transcript. Mr. Bryan's speeches In Boston will make no converts, nor will they change the minds of those who have all along held him to be simply a smart politician with all that the .term implies. There aro scores of public speakers who are his superiors in forcefully and eloquently presenting a cause. Many of his own supporters exceed him in eloquence, and few aro less logical. We would like to consider Mr. Bryan a superior man. for It is not a pleasant thought that millions of Americans will cast their ballots for one who has plven few evidences of possessing marked ability or even conspicuous talent, but nothing that he has. said or done since his nomination has led us to revise our first opinion that he is the most unpresldentlal man ever nominated for the presidency. He Felt Queer. Atlanta Constitution. "I'm feelin' sorter queer this mornln'," said 4he oldest Inhabitant. " 'an i don't know whether I'm goin' ter have the-chills or bolt the party. Better tell the family ter steer clear o' me; thar's no tellin' what I may do endurin' o' the day." . Theory Worth Notice. Chicago Record. "Don't you know that the wages of Fin 13 Ueatn: "Yes. and that is probably why the world is so wicked nobody is drawing full pay these hard times." One Trouble with Voting; Men. Chicago Tribune. "What is the matter with our yount? men?" asks the Detroit Free Press. . Th trouble with a great many of them Is that they don't sit up straight on their bicycles. m 4 Behind the Portiere. New York Sun. "So you are a confirmed bachelor? Is It from dlsesteem of women in general or a particular woman me. for Instance?" "Ah, you are not a particular woman." Thou Shalt Not Steal." New York Commercial Advertiser. f Bryan may quote Scripture frornGMiesii to Revelations, but he eannouget lid of the fact that what he advocates Is the annihilation of the eighth..w-)tnmaiulment. On The Quiet. i-wansas city journal. . . 1 . -. , . .-I, , L. . . ..I A U'UIni I V I I, HI'.' .,...... ..auto.' I axed ye to be my company. Billy." Billy Bryan No danger. I'm as mucU ashamed of it. Poppy, us you bo." In the Potato Line. Kansas City Journal. "Mayor Pingree roe early." -remarks a Detroit exchange. If the, country is correctly informed, Mr. Pingree has been, an, Early Rose man for some time. Need 'ah. New York Commercial Advertiser. "The money power must got cut of polltics." says Bryan. It seems o have riono so as far as his side of the campaign 13 concerned. , Sertoli Matter. Kansas City Journal. . ' There is good deal of newsi-wrpcr pleasantry about "saving th cpw.t'ry." but IhU is one of the years whrtr It js no joke. J nut Another l'hjc. Chicago Record. "Physicians say th bicycle is god for mental derangement. " v "No doubt of it: It changes the kind." Kicking,'. Puck. V "Yes. sir; Ihe drama Is on Its laiit leg." "Well. It seems to be making the mot of them."