Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 September 1896 — Page 4

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The codification has been completed and Frank A. Horner, the compiler, will be present at the meeting. LOUIS HOLTMAN, Chairman Committee. Wanted: The freeand unlimited coinage of confidence. . No Republican should waste time in armiing with a Populist silverlte so long as he knows of a doubtful voter upon whom his arguments may have effect. The sound-money Democrats in candidate Bewall's city ratified the Indianapolis ticket with fireworks and bonfires. The , dispatch says that Mr. Sewall was not present. While William J. Bryan traverses the country trying to "work" the masses .William McKinley remains at home, advocating measures that will furnish work for the masses. The Sentinel should present a few affidavits In support of Its absurd lie about President Fisher, of Hanover College. Who Is the wicked Republican who has again Imposed on this truthful supporter of Bryanlsm? Mai..y financial quacks of ; the Bryan School assert that the legal-tender quality alone maks good money. There is no better paper money in the country than national bank notes, yet they are not legal tender for any sum whatever nor receivable for customs duties. The Muncie Times says a poll of the employes1 at the steer works in that city re sulted: McKinley, 146; Bryan, 36; Prohibi tion, 1, and undecided, 5, who will probably vote for McKinley. There are no alarming indications that workingmen are rallying for the cause of free trade and 51-cent dollar. A person who advocated reducing the wageb of all workingmen GO per cent, in order to raise a fund for the benefit of silver mine owners would not be apt to speak at more than one meeting of workingmen. Yet free silver coinage 'would accomplish the same result by reducing the purchasing power of the dollar one-half. "We cannot fix by law the wages of labor. That is a matter of mutual contract between employer and employe. But we can fix by law the kind of money in which wages are paid and we will never decree that they shall be paid In anything short of , the best dollars in purchasing power recognized throughout the civilized world." William McKinley. ' -Mr. St. John, treasurer of the Popocratic and silver national committees, complains because Secretary Carlisle has caused notices to be posted in federal offices in his department notifying subordinates that they are not required to pay campaign assessments to any committee, Mr. St. John v seems not to know that the law protects all federal office holders. In the days of wild-cat State-bank currency a man with a roll of bills never knew at night how much they might depreciate before morning. With free-silver coinage and dollars fluctuating in value according tt the price of bullion, a wage earner paid off in silver would have to consult the daily market reports before he would know how much he had received. One of the first questions which Coin Harvey will be asked as he proceeds on his tour as an American patriot to lecture on money is: "Why did you insist that a Chicago bank shou'd pay you gold coin, and why did you place it in the safety vault of another bank if you are certain that your free-coinage scheme will make the silver dollar as good for all purposes as the gold douar?" No wonder that Mr. Bryan, With all his cheek, has some hesitation in speaking to veterans of the war. his father being copperhead politician in Illinois during the war. while In .his tariff speech in 1S94 he declared it had not been his good fortune "to show any loyalty to the Union or any devotion to a State." Besides, if one of Mr. Bryan's assertions is correct that in favor of a cheaper dollar, he must feel that he is advocating a reduction of pensions. In his speeches on Saturday Mr. McKinley made one or two notable additions to the list of his epigrammatic expressions. Alluding to Bryan's demagogic appeals, he sahl: "Instead of trying 'to work' the masses It would be worthier on the part of all of us to try and get work for the masses." Again. "We have learned from experience that we cannot get work at home by giving it to people abroad." There 1b a great deal of argument condensed into these sentences. Tbe Portland Oregonian says that there is more harmony among the Republicans of that State, "more general union In a common cause, more hearty co-operation

for a general object than has been w tnessed for years," and that while "McKinley will lose the votes of but very few who have ever called themselves Republicans, there will be heavy gains from the accession of Democrats." Yet Oregon Is one of the States which the Bryanites count aa certain, and the Oregonian i3 a paper which, before the June election in that State, deplored the situation frcm the Republican point of view. LA HO It DAY. The celebration of Labor day has more significance in this country than it could have in any other, if the observance existed anywhere else, and more and more significance here every year. Such a holiday could only exist in a country where free institutions and free men combine to give the greatest dignity to free labor and where every legitimate movement finds expression in organization and co-operative action. Labor day is as distinctly an American holiday as is the Fourth of July or Washington's birthday. The first general observance of the day occurred in Maine, Sept. 5, 18S7. Npw it is a legal holiday in thirty-two States. In 18SS Congress passed a law establishing a Department of Labor, to be under the control of a Commissioner of Labor. Now twenty-nine States have regularly established bureaus of labor and industrial statistics. s These bureaus and the labor laws passedin recent years by many States, including eight-hour laws and laws for the proteevrop of labor in various ways, show that great progress has been made in that direction. In so far as such organization and legislation contribute to the protection, advancement and elevation of labor they should be encouraged and extended, but their beneficiaries should take care that they are not made a means of discriminating against or persecuting any class of workmen. The protection and elevation of labor and the keeping up of wages to the highest point possible under given business conditions are legitimate and commendable

objects of labor organizations, but when they are used to oppress any form of free labor or as a means of exciting hostility between labor and capital they lose sight of the fundamental principles of free gov ernment and become engines of evil. Labor day celebration has much greater significance in Indiana than it could have had a few years ago, because the discovery of natural gas added largely to the number of manufactories and wage earners in the State. Just now, unfortunately, owing to the present tariff law and the added effects of the free silver agitation, many of these establishments are either closed or are employing but few persons compared with what they formerly did or will do again when better times return. The Journal would rejoice to see every one of these closed estalishments running again, with many new ones added, and every workingman in the State now out of employment employed at better wages than ever before, but this cannot be till we have wiser tariff legislation and an end of the free silver agitation. The best celebration of Labor day would be a unanimous declaration by aJi labor organizations in favor of a protective tariff and sound money. THE TALK ABOUT COERC'IO.V. The fact that many employers of labor, including railroad companies, manufacturers, contractors, etc., are opposed to. the free coinage of silver, and are doing -what thev can to avert what they think would be a national disaster, is causing much distress to the silverites. The companies and firms alluded to are charged with trying to coerce their employes into voting for sound money. If the charge were true it would be a serious one. Nothing Is more sacred in this country than a' man's right to vote as he pleases, and nothing should be more odious than an attempt on the part of an employer to coerce or unduly influence his employes to vote against their convictions or wishes. The line against any kind of coercion should be clearly drawn and strictly enforced. But it does not follow that an employer may not express his opinions, and, like any other person, present reasons and arguments to his employes why they should support a certain policy or vote a certain way. It would scarcely be proper for him to ask how they intend to vote, and he has no right to know how they do vote, but he has a perfect right to appeal to their intelligence and present reasons why they should vote a certain way. An employer has the same rieht to do this that any other person has, and his employes should have the same right to reject his arguments or advice that they have in the case of another person. With an understanding as to this relation there is no coercion, and the suggestion of such a thing is equally in sulting to both parties. An employer who feels that important interests are at stake ought to be willing to try and help his employes to a right understanding and conclusion, and if he frankly admits the right of his employes after hearing his arguments to vote as they please, they ought to be glad that he takes interest enough in them to make a respectful appeal to their intelligence to think as he does. An employe who calls this kind of a respectful appeal "coercion" insults himself. This is a country of free speech as well as of free suffrage. The right of speech is not confined to professional politicians, self-made candidates for office or boy orators. An employer of labor has a perfect right to do a little campaigning on his own account, and his arguments ought to be all the more effective if they are based on business instead of partisan considerations. AX "IXSl'LT TO AVAGE-EARXERS. A few days ago the Journal called at tention to the fact that Mr. Bryan, in one of his speeches, advised his hearers to treat those who were engaged in the promulgation of the gold standard as they would treat those who "were making war upon their families and homes." He could scarcely go further than that in advocating revolution. In one of his harangues last week he said: I have had men tell me thev were un der compulsion to join Republican clubs and wear the insignia of Republicans. I shall not complain if they do. 1 appreciate tiie condition of the man who feels nis -wife and children tugging at his garments, and who knows that want may stare in the face those whom he loves if he dares to assert the sovereign right of an American citizen. 1 recognize the embarrassment of his position. Let him wear the opposition button if he will. Let him put his name on their club list if he must. Let him contribute to. the eampalgn fund If he will, but let him remember there is one day in the yeir wnen he Is hf own master and can use a tencil as he pleases. 1 am willing for you to be Republican every day in the year if you will just be Democratic on election dav. I am willing for you to wear gold-bug but tons for ail tne rest or the time if when you enter the booth you will remember that the gold standard never conferred a benefit upon those who toll, and that it was never indorsed or approved or sanctioned by -any body of the people except those who hold fixed investments and trade In money or profit by the extremities of the government. If any men have been to Mr. Bryan with that story the chances are a hundred to

one that they were lyfng. From the tenor of the article quoted, it is fairer to infer that Mr. Bryan is lying about the matter. Fairer, because the man who advises another man to live a lie and be a hypocrite, is in all probability a liar and hypocrite himself. It is a well-known fact that the employers of large bodies of men are not so unwise as to attempt to dictate or coerce their employes in the matter of suffrage. In 1892 a large part of the men employed in the protected industries voted for Mr. Cleveland when they knew that their employers desired the election of General Harrison. Some of the most prominent of the local leaders in the Democratic party are foremen in factories controlled by Republicans. The men are employed because they are faithful and efficient. In 1894 the larger part of the employes in the larger establishments voted the Republican ticket because they had learned that free trade is a snare and a delusion. If the intelligent men who work in factories, shops and on the railroads are with the sound-money people this year it is because they are convinced that it is the best "thing for them to do. In all the world there are no men who are more jealous of their independence than the mass of those who work in factories and shops Therefore, when Mr. Bryan represents them as wearing a political badge at the dictation of an employer, he Insults hundreds of thousands of men as much as he would if he should slap each of them in the face. The object of the Populist demagogue is to fill the hearts of wage-earners with malice against those who pay wages. He will fail; the thoughtless will applaud such incendiary expressions and his advice to men to be hypocrites, but the man who insults the hundreds of thousands of wage-earners as has Bryan in this quotation, will be held in universal contempt ere long. Answering the assertion that the goldstandard confers no benefits upon labor.

every intelligent wage-earner knows that while the price cf labor under the Republican system of protection gradually advanced in money as good as gold, and four times as much as it is in any silver country for the same labor, the silver wages did not advance in Mexico or Japan, but fell in purchasing power compared with gold. When Mr. Bryan declares that a gold standard, which prevails in all countries paying the highest wages and where the condition of the wage-worker is best, has done nothing to advance the interests of labor, he proclaims himself an ignoramus or a falsifier. . LEGAL-TE.DBR SILVER. Tho Noblesville Ledger recently offered "$25 to the person who will show that the standard silver dollar is. not a full legal tender at this time in this country, for any amount." The Noblesville Democrat replies, claiming the reward for the following ' reason: ( The silver dollar is not a full legal tender at this time for any and all amounts, as you must surely know. We admit that it is a full legal tender for any amount as between individuals. For instance, you hold your neighbor's note for $1,000. payable in coin; h3 has the option to pay you in silver dollars or gold dollars, as best suits his convenience. But not so with the bondholder and money monger who presents his bonds, greenbacks or treasury notes to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He can refuse silver and demand gold. The government, under Benjamin Harrison, having surrendered her rights to pay these favored creditors in either coin that best suits her convenience, it is by this process that these Shylocks are enabled to draw the $100,000,000 gold reserve from the treasury and force the government to issue more bonds every three or four months in time of peace. , It would be difficult to condense more error and misinformation into the same space. All government bonds are made payable in coin, and may be paid in silver if the government so chooses. Jt chooses to pay them in gold, as it always has. No United States bond was ever paid in anything but gold, since the foundation of the government. There is no law requiring the bonds to be paid in gold, but it has ever been regarded as an essential feature of maintaining the public credit. In a letter dated May 15, 1864, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, wrote: "It has been the constant usage of the department to redeem all bonds In coin,- and this usage has not been deviated from during my administration of its affairs." It has not been deviated from since, and all Secretaries of the Treasury have construed "coin" in the payment of bonds as meaning gold. The policy of the Harrison administration in this respect was no different from that of all its predecessors. If the government chose to claim the right and take the risk of paying its bonds in silver it could do so, and the bondholders would be obliged to receive it, but the effect of refusing to pay gold would be to send it to a premium and place the country at once on a silver basis. One of the loud complaints of those who would upset the currency system of the jcountry is that the Eastern States have been growing at the expense of the South and West, but the valuation of real and personal property,, as shown by the census of 1SS0 and 1890 reveals the absurdity cf that claim. By sections, the values of property were as follows: Sections. ' 1SS0. 18S0. New England and Middle States.... $21,435,491,864 $17,533,000,000 Southern States.. 11.531.2til,6S5 7.641,000,uf 0 Western States.... 25,255,915,549 16,186,000,000 Pacific coast States and Territories 6,811.422,099 2,2S2,0OO.0OO Total for U. S... $65,037,091,197 $43,642,000,000 These figures show a smaller increase cf wealth in the .Eastern States than in any other section. During the decade the increase in the Eastern States was less than 23 per cent.; in the South, 53 per cent., and in the West, 55 per cent. These figures are a complete refutation of the demagogic charge that the East is making wealth rapidly while the West is making little progress. A correspondent in Oakland City writes that a prominent Democrat there asserts that the Republican platform of 1892 declared for free silver. The writer knows that this was not the case, but has no copy of the platform at hand to refute the falsehood. Doubtless other Bryanites are telling the same story, so the text of the plank of the Republican national platform of 1892 is given, as follows: The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimetallism; the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver for standard money, with such restrictions and under such provisions, to be determined by legislation, as will secure the maintenance of the parity of values of the two metals, so that the purchase and the debt-paying power of the dollar, whether of silver, gold or paper, shall at all times be equal. The interests of the producers of the country, its farmers and its workingmen, demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued bv the government shall be as good as any other. We commend the wise and patriotic steps already taken by our government to secure an international xnference to adopt such measures as will insure a parity of value between gold and silver for use as money mroughout the world. It will be seen that there is no phrase in the foregoing which can be twisted to

mean the free and unlimited coinage of sil

ver in the ratio of' 16 to 1. Instead, it de clares that both shall be used under such regulations as will insure the parity of value of the metals, so that the purchasing anu debt-pa ying power of the dollar. whether of silver, gold or paper, shall be at air times equal. The free and unlimited coinage of silver would destroy all parity. Furthermore, if the Republican platform had meant free coinage for silver, why did Colorado, and most of the other silver-pro ducing States, with Kansas, give their electoral votes to candidates upon other plat forms? The concluding words of Hon. Carl Schurz's able speech ought to be read and pondered by every American voter. After showing that the demand for the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 meant repudiation, rascality and the destruction of confidence between man and man, he said: Fellow-citizens, think this out. It is a grave matter a matter of vital import to the existence of this Nation. The father who teaches such moral principles to his children educates them for fraud, dishonor and the penitentiary. The public men who teach such moral principles to the people educate tne people for the contempt and abhorrence ot mankind. The nation that accepts such moral principles cannot live. It will rot to death in the loathsome stew of Its own corruption. If the nation accepting such moral principles be this Republic, it will deal a biow to the credit cf democratic institutions from which the cause of free government will not recover for centuries. The moral aspect of the case has not had any stronger prese'ntation than this. A correspondent calls attention to the fact that many of the labels cf trades unions show that the organization is international, and suggests to the members that if International agreement is necessary in the matter of labor organizations engaged in the different industries, the money in which labor is paid should be defined by' international action. The point seems to be well taken. The sound-money men are so well posted that in the street debates they are too much for the free-silver orators of the curbstone, some of whom, it is said, are in the pay of the silverites at a very moderate compensation. E. B. M., Redkey; Jan. 1, 1S66. extra flour was quoted in this city at $8 to $9: superfine, $7; fancy . brands, choice old red wheat, $1.60 to $1.80 per bushel; new wheat, by weight, 75c to $1.25. The following prices are added: Refined sugar, lOc to 20ct extra C sugar, 17c to 18c; New Orleans molasses, $1 to $1.30;, nails, 6p., $8.25 to $8.50 per 100 pounds; glass 8x10, $6.30 a box. Jan. 1, 1S67, fancy flour was quoted at $13.50; extra. $10; superfine, $7.50 to $8; choice red wheat, $2.50 to $2.55; corn, 40c; granulated sugar, 16c to 16'c; raw sugar, 12c to 14c; 6-penny nails,. $S.25; common pine boards, $17.50; cotton; batting. 28c to 4J)e. Dec. 31, 1867, wheat, $2.25; Dec. 31, 1S6S, fancy flour, $8.25 to $10; superfine, $5 to $6; red wheat, $1.00 to $1.65; cattle, $3.50 to $7.50. It appears from the foregoing that wheat rose from an average of $1.70 a bushel Jan. 1, 1S66, to an average of $2.52 a year later, or 82 cents a bushel, and that, during the year' 1868- wheat fell from an average of $2.52 a bushel to an average of $1.62 a bushel, or, 90 cents. These unprecedented fluctuations took Dlace in three crops, when the country was upon a papermoney basis. During 1866 the premium on gold fluctuated from 27 to 50 per cent.; in 1S67, from 35 to 43 per cent., and in 186S, from 35l2 to 45V& per cent. G. C. M.. Oakland City: Major McKinley did not fail; he signed the paper of a man who had befrieridecf 'him.! - Those notes were not redeemed, as Major McKinley had been led to believe they would be, as that when the man failed it was found that, to make payment, every dollar, of the property of Major McKinley and his wife would be swallowed up. They preferred to do this, but several of the , numerous friends of Major McKinley assumed his responsibility so that he can gradually pay off the liability. When the calamity first fell upcj Major McKinley - he proposed to abandon public life, and gef into the practice of law to earn a livelihood after all the property of himself and wife had been given up. BUBBLES IX THE AIR. An Anclojufy. From the Plunk vill Bu.yle: "Yesterday we thoughtlessly. . called the Hon. Major Wetwissle 'an empty rhetorician.' We hasten to withdraw the statement. The Major has not been empty 'for twenty-eight years past." " Vicissitudes. "Life is full of ups and downs. "Yes. I know a young fellow who was in business and went under." "Well?" "And immediately-his friends threw h'm over." The Charitable Institutions. "And you, my friend," shouted the street corner orator, "are you a supporter of our American institutions?" "Me?" answered Weary Watkins. "Lord, bless you, mister, no. The institutions support me." Tlieosoplileal Discussion. "The spirit of the man," said !t:e theosophistic person,' "enters into his work. That is to say, if a cook, for in-staueo, is of a dull and sluggish nature, his l.read will refuse to be otherwise than heavy. Catch the point?" "Think I do," said the man with the red neck. "I remember when we were camming out, that eery time Mudge n.ade the coffee there was no getting it to settle." IXDIAXA NEWSPAPER OPIMOX. Free silver will not make silver free Middletowh News. ''.' Vermont was first to forge a nail for Mr. Bryan's silver-plated political casket. Fairmount News. McKinley's speeches appeal to man's reason; Bryan's to their passion and prejudice. Goshen Times. The Vermont farmers have set a splendid example to the farmers of the country. Greencastli Banner-Times. A good dollar in the hand is worth two bad ones in tho possession of the oullion owners. Greensburg Review. It is not more money but more business we need. More money does not mean more business. Kendall ville Standard. The real crime is the crime of 1803, when the Democratic Wilson tariff bill "demonetized" prosperity. Rushville Republican. Having, trifled with the tariff and made a mess of it. the Democrats now want to try their hand on the money of the Nat'on. Evansville Journal. There are two ways of reducing wages, one by paying in a less number oi dollars, the other by paying in a dollar of less value. Owen County Journal. The people are, getting on to the freesilver arguments. It is not a popular thing to want to pay debts at 50 cents on the dollar. That means repudiation. Greenfield Republican. The sooner the defeat of the Popocratic ticket is assured, the sooner there will be a decided improvement of business and a larger opportunity for employment. Oxford Tribune. Thus far in the history of our country, every party that has favored repudiation has been wiped out at the polis and 1896 promises to add another to the list. Seymour Republican. The fact is the business interests the country are afraid of Democratic ley'slation. because every time it gets an. opportunity it demonstrats its incompetency. Pendleton Republican. Bryan's wholesale abuse of bankers is an unerring indication of his caliber. You

will never find a successful man, whether

producer, manufacturer or merchant, abus ing the banks. Lebanon Patriot. If it had not been for the avaricious wealth of the silver octopus that "has been spending- millions of dollars in the last four years in paying Bryan and other speakers to advocate their cause and send ing silver literature all over this country. mere would have been no silver question, North Vernon Republican. There could be no more odious kind of class legislation than that which the Bryanites seek to effect in the form of a 50 Itr cent, reduction of wages for th3 benefit of the owners of silver mines. Huntington Herald. , . The orator on wheels seems to forget that a poor man cannot afford to lose a part of his wages by depreciation of 47 per cent, as easily as a rich man can lose tne same per cent, of his fortune. Terre Haute Express. Four years ago Democracy was telling the people they were being robbed by high prices (that merely existed in the minds of the Democratic speakers.) This year they are telling them that high prices, caused ?jy tne circulation or a depreciated dollar, is the only way out of the difficulty tfn'i IVmocratic mismanagement has brought upon tne iation. evansville Journal.. The free silverites claim that free coin age will double the price of everything the farmer has to sell, but they say nothing about the doubling in price of everything tne rarmer and laboring man has to buy. Covington Reporter. The National Democracy has been organized just in time to prevent the name Democrat as applied to a political party from becoming obsolete. The Bryan brand of Democracy will simply be a reminiscence after Nov. 3. Anderson Herald. Which is the better policy, to encourage a man to defraud his neighbor by paying his obligation in a debased currency or to help him to earn an honest dollar by giving him an honest day's work at good wages? Greenfield Republican. Governor Matthews has probably realized the fact by now that there are-.juKe a god many Democrats in the county who can't be induced to trample on the timo-honored principles of their party at the bee!; and call of such men as Aitgeld and Tillman. Worthington Times. The Bryanites are claiming that free silver has been a good thing for Mexico by compelling her to make her own manufactured articles. Uncle Sam knows of a better sort of protection than degrading his n oney so that other folks won't trade with him. Columbia City Mail. One of the two hundred sound-money Democrats in town, after witnessing the cold reception that Bryan received at the depot here yesterday, remarked that his candidate, Palmer, would create more enthusiasm than did the silver champion. Myshawaka Enterprise. The Republican party told fie truin In 1832, and the Democratic party lied itself into power. Isn't the party that lo'.d the truth four years ago entitled to more credit than the party that then 'led to tle country, and is to-day disowned by its best element. Mount Vernon Sun. As the people become enlightened on the subject, Bryan's speeches on the question of free coinage are beginning to fall dreadfully flat. He possesses neither the depth nor the breadth of a statesman, but he's as full of cheap talk as a soda fountain is of fizz. Connersville News. McKinley aims to unite all classes and make this Nation what it should be, a harmonious whole in which eacti class shall seek to promote the prosperity and happiness of all. Bryan's speeches are a continuous effort to array one class asrainst another. Richmond Palladium. Mr. J. W. Bryan is running for President on a platform which declares in effect tint the experience of the world on the money question is of no account and that Vn2 fu ture results of dangerous experi ne its in finance can only be iudeed bv the Mri;Lj-in-ation of boy orators. Liberty Herald. Silver is not the money of the poor, and gold is not the money of the rich, but a silver dollar or a paper dollar that is as good as a gold dollar is the collar of the people, and it is the dollar of ail the interests which depend unon the nrosnpritv of the whole people. Knightstown Sun. Free and unlimited coinage of silver, say the Populistic-Democracy, will give the country plenty of money, and the laborers plenty of work. That sounds very much like isa', wnen we were. advised to vote for Cleveland and free trade and eret a dollar a bushel for wheat. Parke County Journal. William Jennings Bryan will always re member his reception at LaPorte, for It could not have been any colder had it been packed in a cold-storage building all summer. Even the prominent free-silver Democrats were not on hand to srlve their candidate the glad hand. LaPorte Herald. Mr. Bryan has been promising the farm ers and taxpayers cheaper dollars with which to pay their debts and taxes, but he does not promise the soldiers that their pension dollars shall be any larger than tne dollars tnat men win have to use in cheating their creditors. Vincennes Commercial. The depreciation of silver has not t;een caused by the action of any particular nation or coterie of men. any mora than the depreciated price of wheat and horses has been; it has simply come aoout by overproduction and has been regulated by the great law of supply and demand. Crawfordsville Journal. The farmers are no fools. Th?y know that the law of supply and demand :s the great factor in fixing the price of both wheat and silver. They r-.iso Kr.ow that a protective tariff, with reciprocity, has done more to increase the price of wheat than any legislation that has been or can be enacted. Greensburg Standar.I. If Mr. Bryan had the idea that the great throng gathered around the grand stand on the government grounds last night was composed of his admirers and supporters he was deceiving himself. A poll of the voters of the crowd would undoubtedly have shown a large majority for McKinley. South Bend Tribune. Most people believe Mr. Bryan is sin cere in his advocacy of free silver coinage. He is either honest or dishonest. If dishonest he is not fit to be President and ought not to be supported by honest people." it nonest ne wouia innict injuries the country would not recover from in half a century. New Albany Tribune. Bryan says the way they will get the free coined sliver into circulation the mine owners will pay it to their hands. That's just it. the poor laboring man will be the one . who will have to take depreciated monev at sound-money wages and when he comes to spend it he will find that it will take twice as much of it to get the necessaries of life as under sound money. Noblesville Ledger. The adherents of the Chicago branch of the Democracy sneer at the Indianapolis ticket and convention, call it an annex to the Republican party, Hannacrats, and so on. but it is certain that thev would feel much easier if they knew that the men who are behind the Indianapolis ticket were to vote for the ticket nominated at (Thicaco instead of voting against it. as they are de termined to do. Terre Haute Mail. Fort Wayne has a motorman llvina at 406 Br 'iaway. He is in the employ cf the street railway. He works eleven hours per day and receives $1.80 per day, worth 300 cents on the dollar. He has a brother in Mexico engaged in the same busiiuss with the additional duty of superintending some other employes. This brother vorks fixteen hours per day and receives $1 in Mexisan silver worth 50 cents in our money. Fort Wayne Gazette. A party which appeals to the ignorance of the country; that hopes to succeed by arraying one class of our people against the other; that attempts to secure votes by placing one section against the other; that embraces in its fold the Socialist, the Anarchist and the vicious element that is always arrayed against law and order, is a dangerous party and is a menace to bur form of government Warsaw Times. The whole drift of Bryan's harangues is to array the laboring man against his employer; to stir up strife and trouble between the rich and the poor, and make it appear that wealth is a crime. Suppose that all the people were poor, or were possessed of only moderate means, who would build great mills and factories, and carry on gigantic business enterprises which furnish employment for millions of people "ho want to work for wages? A ngola Magnet. If the agricultural implement men of the country believed that the free and unlimited coinage of silver would benefit the farmer you would find them organizing for the support of Bryan and clamoring for the adoption of the monetary system de-roancr-.l by the Chicago platform. But they believe that just the reverse of this would result should Bryan and him free-silver hertsy triumph at the polls next Novem

ber, and for this reason they are organizing for the protection of the farmers and themselves against a financial heresy which would first destroy the farmer and through him the implement men. Wabash Tribune. The blue and the gray have never been ir.ore closely associated sines the war than they are in the ticket nominated at Indianapolis by the sound-monev Democratic rational convention. While the ticket cannot possibly win in tht present campaign, it will serve as a nucleus around -which the better elements of the Democratic party may gather and preserve themselves from a disgraceful death at the hands of the Bryanites. Wabash Trlbur.e. We do not wonder that Bryan felt complimented by the presence of Governor Matthews at his meeting here, as he expressed it, "to extend a welcome in person." The number of Democrats of national fame who have stood by him in his advocacy of repudiation of the national credit his been so few that the sm til-bore politician of Nebraska miy well congratulate himself that so well-known a chief executive had the condescension to unhea l himself ami not only welcome him. but raise his voice in advocacy of his porni?1oui policies. It is doubtful, though, if Governor Matthews, in doing thirf. raised himself very highly in the estimation of his party in this c ction. as his argument was aboiU as Impotent as 't c uld p-ssibiy iave been, ard indicated that he had r o heart in Bryan's candidacy. It certainly lowered him in the estimation of a good many Republicans who have - learned to respect him for his sturdy good sinse in administering the ufairs cf thisStatr-. Elkhart Review! ABOUT PEOPLE AXD T1IIXKS.

Neal Dow hts come out strongly against the, Chicago platform and ticket, but he has not yet got to the point of saying that he will vote for McKinley and Hobart. The huckleberry crop in the Blue mountains of Oregon is enormous this year. Every bush is loaded and the berries are so thick on Blalo?k mountain that the cat tie that rantre are all stained purple from walking through and lying down in the patches. William A. Clark, who is known as the Silver King of Montana, and who is re puted to be worth $20,000,000, is about to erect a mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery. New York, in memory of his wife. v. ho di?i about two y?ars ago. The memo rial will cost about $100,000. Raisins, dates and chocolate tablets are all good sustainers for a day's tramp or a day's run on'wheels. A country rhysician who finds himself obliged often to be oblivious to mealtimes says that he rind. the compressed chocolate cakes, easily carried and easily nibbled, his food salvation over and over again. in the course of the year. Miss Jane Harrison, the English woman who is said to be the first woman to have received the degree of LL. D. honoris causa, has broken another record in being elected a member of the Archaeological Society of Berlin, in spite of strenuous opposition to the innovation. This partly makes up for her rejection on account of her sex in the recent election of a professor of archaeology in London. A South American lady is quoted as saying that some time ago, in the absence of water, of which there was a great dearth at the time, she washed h?r face with some of the juice of a watermelon. The result was so soothing that she repeatedly washed her face in this manner, and her astonish ment was great, a few days later, on seeintthat there was not a freckle left on her previously befreckled face. Richard Harding Davis came over on the tame ship with Li Hung Chang, but somehow failed to convince the Chinaman that he Was the grmtest American extant. Mr. Davis told Mr. Li that he was writing a novel. This disgusted the Viceroy. "Writing a novel!" he exclaimed. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Writing a novel, indeed! A big. strapping, able-bodied fel low like you ought to be at work. v hy clcn't you go to work?" John Bull petitioning the House of Lords for redress of a grievance sounds like a joke. But it is, on the contrary, a pro ceeding of the most earnest description Mr. John Bull is the appropriate name of an officer who. until the 30th of July, was resident superintendent of the palace of Westminster. A little more than a month tgo he received notice to quit from the Lord Chamberlain, who refuses to ropen consideration of Mr.' Bull's case. Hence the petition to the House of Lords. Senator George F. Hoar, of Massachu setts, who is now in Germany, was seventy years of age last Saturday. "It is difficult," bays the Worcester Spy, in noticing the anniversary, "to realize that Massachusetts's senior Senator has reached this three-score prd ten. If anybody in public life has mas tered the art of growing old gracefully it is George Frisbie Hoar. It has often been remarked of him during the few years pnst that his latest work was his best work the fruit of an extraordinary combination of vigor and stage experience. He is at seventy in his intellectual prime, better qualified out of the ripeness of his accumulated wisdom than ever befcre to serve his State 3nd country. Comparing Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell ri.illips and John B. Gough together. Major Pond says that the two former were more eloquent and had a greater power to hold their audiences, but tnat uough was a more popular favorite for a greater num ber of years than any other lecturer. He lectured altogether U.bOO times, to about 9,000,000 hearers. She had learned to be a rusher In a weary business vorld; And along a dizzy pathway By life's pressing needs was whirled. So enr-lave.I was she to phrases Of that hustling, bustling clime. That, when r- man would wed hr. She said: "Thank you haven't time." Chicago Record. ClRItENT MAGAZINES. "Prisoners of Conscience," a story of Shetland, is the title of a two-part novelette by Amelia E. Barr, which is begun in the September Century. The Bookman's September poster rer re sents a veiled girl reading tnat o.cdlent periodical bv the lisrht of a r-w of Jiranese lanterns. But who ever did read any thing by. such light.' Percival Lowell contributes an account of some of his .latest observations on Mars to Popular Astronomy, taken from the Flasrstaff (A. T.) observatory. He also gives some charts of the Martian polar caps. The publishers of the T ;w Bohemi in an nounce that the magazine has discontinued publication. This is the C'iclnnatl magazine which was established ,r jder to afford unappreciated Western w liters a means of communication with the wor ld. Among the subjects discussed in the Sep tember Eclectic are: " The Incarnation." "The Bab and Babism," "Public Sentiment in America on the Money Question.'' "Talks with Tennyson." "Champagne," "Oliver Wendell Hoimesj" "Art and Life." and "New Letters .f Edwarl Gibbcn. ' Godey'a Magazine devotee considerable space to the history of niia Eili CiiToll, who is said to have furnished invf.oai le aid to the Union cause during the rlvil war, but whose servt es wvre ne-'er oll!cially recognized. Mis Carroll died in 1891. and an effort is being made to perpetuate her memory. The editor of the Philisdie hrs l.een to Europe, and the current number of hi magazine is largely givm up to 'he notes he made there of bookish lliinqt: Poan Farrar contributes a paper on Westminster Abbey, in which he sneaks quite disrespectfully of some memo; i:ls to tho nobility found there. The Spokesman-Re. -low, of Pj-fnar.e, Wash., sends out a handsomely r.rlrsed and illustrated book called llwz for Empire," which consists of "true tales of the Northwest," and is really -in advttii-e-ment of the attr i?ti ins nv.d ad.ai:aj.f r'of that region. Its stories, hower. j;r iiatements of fact, and su;',i mate 5nti-rt-st-ing reading. John M. Stahl, secretary of th Fnrrnirs National Congress md I's'-i-Americ tn Agricultural Parliament, a: ks In the Vmber number of the North merie in Peview. "Are the Farmers Po.o tli ;::?" .tnt nrj'r.uj that American farmers, as a body, have always by their votes proved themselves solicitous tor the national noimr, ,nd 'hat they will do so again in the iipuroachinc election. When a young man of literary turn it.wadays feels that he lias tftvat and . 'g'r.al thoughts, and does not find editors of periodicals sufficiently appreciitlvc of hi work, he starts a miniut.n'e n-Aa-anc of his own. The number f tliesj o.jeer little publications Is so great t:v.tt no nan net in the business can name thorn all. fh Idlest specimen comes from Chat !liefcvill Va and 1j called the Maie. its v or thy pur

pose is "to give good, wholeaom l.'Jertlura to the masses." and pcrha'ut the masses

tire yearning tor just ;i.ri hteiMtJre t.s It presents. There !s nothing more interesting in the September Century than a brief account of the gold fields of Guiana, by Thomn Dalgleish. The article would be more complete and satisfactory if the author had Included an explanation of the peculiar objects !i the main street of Georgetown, as shovn in an illustration. Mrs. l'ennett makes a, readable chapter of rather hackneyed material in her sketch of a summer in southern Spain. Because the currency problem is an economic one. and not a subject for mere partisan controversy, it is discussed In nil Industrial as well as in political circles. The Engineering Magazine (New York) for October opens with a ;.aper by J. Selwvn lait on the free-silver poison. Hi argument is that a vitiated currency produces national decadence. Other subjects treated ?vL "'l1. a-s vs- Kloctriclty. Direct from r?i ..Xe Underground Topography of a , J..he Known Gold Fields of vVZr0 "Th0 Economy of the Modern. Engine Room." "Railway Pooling nd th I fn.?1) Frht Rates." 'Shifting "Th ? In,hl!5trf-'l Interest in Electricity." unJIL lHr-m?nX of Architecture and LandvPnnmiV'k' "Modern Machine Shop u rof RvL'rdp'T.hf .Manufacture and Lse or Brick for Paving." An interesting article on the tin supply of the United States is found In the National Magazine (formerly the Bostonlan). In the course of it the writer says: "A small duty to keep out tea dust and other low jrrades. htcrhiv xrinit., ... . . ri rr ably prove beneficial. Tea dust, the lowest grade, can readily be purchased in Asia for 12 cents per pound, but when sold at retail costs much more. in former years mueil of this cheap dust, being narrcd out of England, has been shipped to Russia, which takes the best and the poorest grades olt thP A',latlc rockets. Tea buyers saj it Is impossible to secure tho very be.it grades for the United States and England thTe-1;UT,an buyers- k'ng tea for the official classes, pay as high ;s $lii and Ji per pound for the best quality thu quantity of which is very limited." The Lotus, the Kansas City magazlnelet edited by Walter Blackburn Harte announces that the special aim of the editor will be "to gather into its pages all the most talented, original and vigorous writer. of this generation In America, and with '?ii?h?i0peri,Uo?i to r,rt'nt PVfry month a faithful mirror of American life and thought and literature." One of these vigorous writers discusses the recent Hood of Scotch literature, and raises the objection to Maclaren that his characters are stuffed with all the virtues. "There I not he says, "a single peccadillo to divide in this whole villageful of souls. Thev ar quite intolerable in their Impeccability' and more unbelievable in this particular than in their narrow complacency in the verity of election and damnation." This is u, sound criticism, but the popularity of these stories may be explained bv the fact that they are a welcome change from the decadent world in which man Is uniformlv vile. W. J. Dawson adds another to the innumerable eulogies of Stevenson, and contributes to the Bookman discourses on th religion of the departed novelist, as set forth in his books and his life. "In the truest sense." he says. "Stevenson was an entirely pious man. He knew what it meant, as he has put It, to go up 'the great bare staircase of his duty, unheeded and undepressed.' In the trials of a life unusually difficult, and pierced - by the spears' points of the sharpest limitations, he preserved a splendid and unbroken fortitude. No man ever met life with a higher courage; it is safe to say that a man less courageous would not have lived nearly so long. There are few things more wonderful and admirable than the persistence of his energy; ill and compelled to silence ho still dictates his story in his dumb alphabet, and at his lowest ebb of health makes no complaint. And through all there runs a piety as invincible as his fortitude; a certain gayety of soul that never deserts him a faith in the ultimate Tightness of destiny which holds him serene ston!d a sea of troubles." ' "Couldn't Keep a Good Man Iown. Chicago Post. Whatever the members of the convention may have thought, it soon became apparent that the great object of interest to the people of Indianapolis was Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky. The local disappoint, ment was pronounced when the hero of the interesting Pollard episode was not permitted to speak Wednesday night, and local sentiment fairly forced him on the convention at the early session of Thursday. Mr. Breckinridge undoubtedly took this as another illustration of the absolute impossibility of keeping a good man down, and he lost no time in taking the platform and delivering a speech that he had carefully prepared for the instruction of those whom he invariably addressed as "my feller citizens." The audience was respectful and Kood-natured. and the few hisses that greeted the orator were subdued Into nti amused titter when Mr. Breckinridge sp jke vehemently against the party that went wrong in Missouri and "trilled with her honor." It was a dangerous expression for a gentleman In Mr. Breckinridge's delicate position, but he took all the chances and made his point. EmburritBsing4. , Philadelphia Record. Apropos of Li Hung Chang's fondness fot asking very pointed questions, which often prove decidedly embarrassing to those questioned, an amusing story comes from England. In London he met a woman of titled family and influential social position. H asked her how many children she had. "Three." was her answer. "Only three?", responded the Earl, through his interpreter. "Why haven't you had any more?" What the titled lady replied to this is not recorded. His questioning of an Englishman along the same lines brought out the fact that the Englishman had no children, and never had had any. "Never had any," wan the surprised response from the Earl; "then why haven't you?" A lot script. New York Mall and Express. The most spontaneous applause which was evoked by General Harrison's magnificent speech in Carnegie Hall was that which followed bis declaration. "As a Republican I am proud of many things, but I can sum up as the highest satisfaction I have had in the party and Its career, that the prospect of Republican success never did disturb business." He micht have added, and have been only recalling history, that the attainment of Democratic success has always disturbed business., and thrice, at least, precipitated a disastrous panic. Chief Arthur In RtKht. Minneapolis Tribune. I. M. Arthur, chief of the Locomotive Brotherhood. Is quoted as saying that 00 per cent, of the order will vote against the 16-to-l programme. They figuie that free coinage would hurt them In two ways: First, by diminishing the ability of the railroad companies to pay wages, and. sec ond, by diminishing the uurchaslng power of the wages. It would affect all wageearners In the same way. Time for SuinsIiliiK to Drain. New York Advertiser. When Mr. Bryan was asked If t'lic nomi nation of a straight Democrat.c ticket would defeat him. he said: ' 1 n t tell, but if it does. 1 will have the satisfaction of smashing the Democratic parly." Nov that the ticket has been nominated we look for the ' smashing, pro and eon, to begin. He Indorsed Free Silver. New York Advertiser. The distinguished Democratic candidate for Governor of Vermont, who was going to do tremendous things, did not curry his own town, his own ward or a single ward in his town. This is a treat year for Democratsto stay at home or go to ttie polls and vote the Republican ticket. Con vine in m:. ' New York Mail and Express. The convention at Indianapolis sustains the Impression that the gentlemen who were read out of the Democratic party at Chicap-o took the brains of the party out with them. Only Oner Left. New York Mail and ExpresV. it appears that the sole survivors of the Vermont Democracy are Bradley II. Smalley. who sailed for Euror- last week, and Hon. E. J. Phelps, who voted the Republican ticket. Bryan' Idea of Farmers. New York Evening Sun. The farmers of the United States, if they onlv sto to think, will not In- very much obliged to the Hoy Orator for describing them as "peasantry. ' By nt Least Two. Philadelphia Record. LI thinks there are too many political partUs in this country. There will be fewer after tkctlwu.