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All communications Intended for publication in this paper must, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Can be found at the following places: NEW YORK-Astor House. CHICAGO—PaImer House, P. O. News Cos., 217 Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and Grand Pacific Hotel. CINCINNATI—J. R. Hawley A Cos.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE—C. T. Dee ring, northwest comer of Third and Jefferson streets, and LoulsvllU Book Cos., 238 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUlS—Union News Company, Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Riggs House, Ebbitt House and Willard s Hotel. Emperor William has decided not to go to Jericho. Os course, he cannot fear to encounter the fate of the other man who once went down to that town and fell among thieves. The statement of the three men who were used Indirectly by the Sentinel to blacklist the Industries of this city simply, adds greater turpitude to the conduct of that paper In that matter. A gentleman informs the Journal that on Monday he counted twelve men raking leaves In a small tract of woodland west of "White river, which Is part of the park purchase. As the leaves will continue to fall the Job can easily be stretched out till after the election. It is part of the general rakeoff. No pensioner who realizes that the cardinal idea In the platform of the Democratic party 1q Indiana Is to put the country on a silver basis by the coinage of 45 cents’ worth of silver into a legal-tender dollar with half or two-thirds ihe purchase power of the present gold-basis dollar can regard Leon Bailey or any other Democratic candidate for Congress as his friend. A Democratic speaker complains that the administration started off In the Spanish war "with the War and Navy Departments lumbered up with a lot of bureaucrats.” If that were true it would not be half as bad e condition as existed at the beginning of the civil war, W’hen the departments were filled with Democrats giving information, aid and comfort to the enemies of the government. The present situation, as far as business Is concerned, Is much the same that it was prior to the last presidential election. It is one of anxiety and suspense. If the election returns next week show conclusively that the next Congress will have a safe majority for sound money, against meddling with the tariff and In favor of standing by the President, the remaining months of 1898 will undoubtedly see as great a revival of confidence and business, relatively, as that which followed the election of McKinley. . In New York the Democratic party refuses to recognize or discuss national issues p>n the ground that only the affairs of the State are involved. Governor Black said, in a speech, the other day, "I have seen the announcement on a Democratic banner that the supreme issue is the canal.” Intelligent voters in New York will probably conclude that the senator and members of Congress who go to Washington from that State will not deal with canals, with the Raines law or any other State issue. There, as in this State, the overshadowing issues are national. In the history of local politics or Journalism we do not recall anything more reckless and vicious than the Sentinel’s attempt to misrepresent the business situation by Its false reports of pretended interviews with manufacturers. Even if the interviews had been genuine, and the situation as bad as it was represented, local pride should have prevented their publication, but their utter falseness makes the case much worse. It is a vile cause and a vile method of advocacy that call for such an assault on the interests of individuals and the community at large. The Democratic platform in this State declares that ‘’We are in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the existing ratio of 16 to 1, without the aid or consent of any other nation.” It Is hardly credible that a person with sense enough to write a resolution of any kind could believe it possible that there would be any coinage of gold if there were free coinage of stiver at 16 to 1. A dollar of gold weighs 231-6 grains and a dollar of silver weighs 371 grains. It takes almost eight hundred grains of silver anywhere in the world to buy 23 1-5 grains of gold, or what a gold dollar will buy In commodities. Yet Indiana Democrats propose to make these dollars of such widely different value an equal legal tender and give them the same debt-paying power, and they profess to believe that the owners of gold would have It coined when any person who wanted to pay debts could do it with the cheap silver dollars. Under those condtions there would be no gold coined at all —nothing but silver. The main question in the case of the Philippines, namely, the possession of the entire group of islands, seems to have been decided In our favor. We say this because that is the substance of the demand made by the United States, which is In a position to dictate and enforce its own terms. The main question being thus decided, the minor one of money considerations should not present any great difficulty. If the Islands are worth anything to us they are worth a good deal, and we ought not to object to dealing fairly with Spain, even if she is vanquished and helpless. We ought not to wish to do injustice, and the fact that the world knows we can take and' hold the Islands without any compensation. If we wish to, should make us more willing to yield a point. At the close of the Mexican war we paid Mexico $15,000,000 for territory which we had really conquered, and five years later we paid her $10,000,000 more

for the Gadsden purchase, w’hich we could also have taken by force and which to-day is scarcely worth what we paid for it. Jf we really want the Philippines, we can better afford to pay Spain a few millions for them than to stand before the w’orld as having treated a beaten foe ungenerously, A WORD TO FIRST V OTERS. In a State as populous as Indiana several thousands of young men come of age each year and cast their first vote at each recurring election. There is a dignity and importance attaching to the first vote, in the eyes of him who casts it, that do not attach to any subsequent one, and it is probably cast more conscientiously than any that follows. The present situation appeals with more than ordinary force to first voters to make their ballots count for right principles and national progress. There is a great deal more involved in the coming election than the mere control and administration of the government and the possession of the postoffices. Every person who looks beyond this to the national interests involved must see that they are large and important. At home they involve the question of maintaining a sound money standard and protection for American industries, and abroad they involve me question of maintaining the honor of the Nation by upholding its flag and establishing its authority over new possessions. Such questions as these should appeal with force not only to the intellect but to the imagination of young men who have the welfare of the Nation at heart, and who may live to watch its course until the middle of the twentieth century or beyond. It is of great consequence to the future standing and prestige of the country tnat it should take a right position on these questions, for they involve its weal or woe for generations to come. Many of the young men w’ho will cast their first votes next week were volunteers in the war with Spain. They enlisted with hearts full of patriotism and ready to give their lives for the honor of the flag and country. The war has come to a glorious conclusion, and most of them will return to their homes without having had an opportunity of meeting the enemy. But the issues of the war remain, and the honor of the flag and country are still involved. If these patriotic and high-spirited young mtin had had a chance to shoot no one doubts how they would have acquitted themselves on tne firing line. Duty requires that they should vote as they would have shot—for the honor of the flag and country. If they believed the war with Spain was a just one and that the flag should be carried to victory with all tne consequences it might involve, they should still assert their faith by voting with the party that represents that idea and against the party that would belittle the government, surrender the fruits of victory, haul down the flag and destroy the national prestige, POLITICS IN THE GAS BELT. Few events In the history of Indiana have had as great an influence in promoting the prosperity of the State and its people as the discovery of natural gas. The effect has been marked in many w’ays. It ha3 added materially to the population of the State, given a great Impulse to its manufacturing interests, extended the area of its trade and business influence, increased the wealth of a large number of individuals and the comfort of a still larger number, and in other ways contributed to the welfare of a considerable portion of the State. Not the least of its benefits has been its effect in a political way. The establishment of many new manufacturing industries, owing their existence and prosperity largely to Republican policies, and the introduction of a large number of skilled and intelligent workmen, have added materially to the strength of the Republican party and, of course, to the wellbeing of the State. The extent of this influence in adding to the population and to Republican majorities will appear by a comparison of the vote in the gas belt counties before and since the discovery of natural gas. The discovery dates from 1887, but as its effect was not materially felt before 1888 it is fair to compare the vote for President in that year with that of 1896. The following table shows the vote in each of the gas belt counties for Harrison and Cleveland in 1888 and for McKinley and Bryan in 1896: In 1888. In 1896. Harrison. Cleveland. McKinley. Bryan. Delaware ... 4,227 2,368 7.340 4,253 Madison .... 3.436 3.928 8,388 7,550 Hamilton ... 3,599 2.412 3,074 1,300 Howard 3.604 2.002 4,195 3,188 Grant 3,929 2.990 7.723 5,072 Blackford .. 1,111 1.2:52 2.154 2,212 Jay .. 2.811 2,741 3.473 3,680 Total 22,747 17,673 36.347 27,355 This shows an increase in the voting population of seven counties of 23,302 in the eight years from 1888 to 1896, and an increase in the aggregate Republican majorities from 5,074 to 8,992. During the period named the Democratic vote in the seven counties increased 9,682 and the Republican vote 13,600. Both parties polled tlieir full strength in ISBB, and the Republicans of Indiana never had a more popular candidate than Harrison, yet with the aid of the gas belt vote and the sound-money Democrats they were able to give McKinley a majority of 18,181 against 2.34S for Harrison. This result was mainly due to the increased interest felt in the tariff question and to the effect of the sound money issue. Both of these questions operated in favor of the Republicans all over the State, but particularly in the gas belt counties, where the w’orkingmen had had a bitter experience of a tariff for revenue only and where they fully understood what the effect of free silver would be on the interests of their employers and on their own wages. There is no reason to beileve that citizens of the gas belt counties who voted for McKinley two years ago have changed tlieir minds on either the tariff or the money question. On the contrary. there is every reason why they should be of the same mind still. The Journal believes they are and that the gas belt counties will pronounce as decidedly In favor of sound money and protection In the coming election as they did two years ago. AVAR LITERATURE. The newspapers of the country “covered” the war with Spain, as the technical phrase has it, in complete style. From day to day the public knew ail that was being done, or if for a time certain facts were withheld by a censor they were all made known later. Reporters and correspondents, the most intelligent and trustworthy members of their profession, were everywhere and secured all the necessary information. Tuese descriptions of conditions of camp and field and of events as they occurred were supplemented by official reports of naval and army movements, interview's with naval and military authorities and the written contributions of many such men on the various phases of the war, so that altogether the world in general and the people of the United States in particular have all the information they at present desire concerning this episode in the country’s history. The monthly magazines, however.

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proceed upon the theory that their readers are hungry for more literature and fill their pages with contributions from the same newspaper correspondents and the same official authorities —cmitributions that go over the same grround and offer no new facts. The people are not tired of the war; they are proud of their country’s achievements, proud of their heroes and interested in all the developments growing out of the conflict, but having once got the knowledge they w'ant they do not care to read the story over and over. Consequently the magazines are already a trifle wearisome, and, judging by their prospectuses, are likely to continue so for a considerable period. But, as if this were not enough, numerous books on the war are announced for early publication. These books will have their uses, of course; they will contain the facts from which the real history of the war and its far-reaching results will eventually be written; they will also have an interest of their own, since some of them will be from the pens of men who have actively participated in the events they describe. But will the people who have been studying the newspapers with eager interest care to read them? It is doubtful. It is no doubt desirable to have the written testimony of the men who saw the war and were a part of it while the events are fresh in their memories, but if the publishers could be persuaded to barrel up the books, say, for twenty-five years, or until a generation not familiar with the history of this period has come upon the stage, they would confer a favor upon tho people of this day. But publishers are a commercial brotherhood; they mean to bring out the books now and compel us to buy them and preserve them for tho coming generation ourselvts. Being a canny people they will doubtless have their way and we shall load up our shelves with a variety of handsome volumes, but in selfdefense will perhaps repeat the experience of the ingenuous citizen who lately confessed that the profusion of war literature outside of the newspapers had driven him for Sunday reading to the Bible and “Sherlock Holmes.” The following is from an article on the market page of the Chicago Tribune, reviewing the business situation; Business interests now feel renewed confidence in the probable defeat of the party whose success at the congressional elections would mean another era of bad business and hard times. The Republican party at the present time, on its national issues, has the solid support of all classes of intelligent business men, who, whatever have been their past political affiliations, feel justified in voting to protect themselves against individual business losses. A political party which has lost the confidence of conservative business men to such an extent that the possibility of its success casts a shadow of bad business \and hard times has no right to expect the support of any person who is interested in prosperity. Rev. Thomas A. Goodwin, D. D. The Journal extends its heartiest greetings to Mr. Thomas A. Goodwin, who today celebrates his eightieth birthday anniversary. Holmes’s happy phrase fits him Vith exactness; he is emphatically “eighty years young.” His perennial yorthfulness of spirit is the admiration and wonder of a generation of fewer years, but of lagging interest in life. At four score he concerns himself actively and earnestly with the educational affairs of the State; he takes heed of local politics, not for personal or petty purposes, but because of their bearing on important issues; he writes keen, incisive articles on all sorts of current topics, over his own name, over an assumed name —that deceives few people however—and anonymously, as editorial contributions to more than one newspaper; he turns aside for a time to produce an illuminative version of that Oriental love story, the “Song of Solomon;” he preaches sermons that cause those who had come to listen to a visiting celebrity to forget their regrets at the celebrity’s absence; his conversation is always cheery and his presence welcome. Most characteristic of all, he combines with the utmost amiability an irrepressible fondness for controversy. In other words, he is a born fighter. All his life he has been accustomed, when he saw a head, to hit it, and his blows have helped to bring about many a reform. This union of aggressiveness w’lth unfailing good temper is unusual and has had its part in making him the notable character he is. An Indiauian by birth, he has been identified all his life with the social, religious and political life of the State, and his influence has been felt in many ways. The Journal takes pleasure in testifying to its own and the public regard for him, believing that it is well to express such sentiments occasionally while the person concerned is in the flesh. That he may live many other happy years is the wish of all who know him. Mr. James Whitcomb Riley is now cn a lecture tour, and in every city the local poets write dialect verses 'of a very poor quality in his honor and fire them at him through the newspapers. The path of a popular poet is not entirely a happy one. Mr. Tekla and young Mr. Edison are Just on the point of springing some very marvelous inventions upon the startled public, but if the public is wise it will not stand and hold its breath while w’aiting for the inventions to be sprung. Can a voter w'rite in a name where nomination is blank? —T. C, B. A voter cannot write a name into a blank on a ballot. The voter can make no other mark on his ballot except the X in the place designated. The expression “Blanco has no objections” sounds really funny. However, there may he less unhappiness on Blanco’s part to see things done when he can’t help it if he can only persuade himself that he didn't care anyway. The authoritative statement has been given out that on Christmas day Admiral Dewey will become ranking officer of the United States navy. This is a Republican act, and why don't the Democracy object? STATE I'ItESS OPINION. No sane man will deny that times are better now’ than they were before McKinley w’as elected. The sensible thing to do, then, is to iet well enough alone.—Noblesville Ledger. When free sliver becomes the financial policy of the United States we will have to buy in the markets of the world with gold and sell to the world our products tor silver. They will catch us both coining and going.—Fort Wayne Gazette. Ex-President Harrison’s letter presents all the masterly argument and scholarly force which the country delights to honor in this great Hoosier statesman and demonstrates that he has not lost the art of saying the right thing in the right place in the right way.—Frankfort News. Leopold Levy came home Saturday night from a three weeks’ canvass In various sections of tfle State. Mr. Levy reports the Republican party in good trim in all localities visited and is confident that the state ticket will be elected by a handsome majority.—Huntington Herald. The Republicans are acting just as if they expected to carry everything or the most of everything next week. They carry that look of confidence about with them that has a depressing effect on a Democrat. They fed pretty sure of something or else they wouldn't look and act as they do.—Columbus Republican. The man who casts a vote against the administration next Tuesday is doing Just what Sagasta and Wsyler would have him do. The man who votes against the Re- . publican nominee* is doing just what Wil-

liam J. Bryan and the free-silver party wants him to do. The Republican who fails to vote is giving a half vote against the administration of President McKinley. —M uncle Times. The broad and liberal policy of the Republican party is well defined and known. It stands for America and Americans, for the broadest Held and the amplest opportunities for American commerce; it stands for maintaining the flag wherever it has been planted; it is in favor of utilizing and improving all the opportunities that have come to this country as a result of the war.—Marion News. If there is any question in the mind of the voters of Wabash county that General Prosperity has come marching into Wabash since the inauguration of President McKinley and that he has pitched his tents with the intention of remaining as long as the Republican party is in power, the statements of the factory owners in this city should at once and forever dispel such doubts—Wabash Plain Dealer. General Harrison said a timely word in his letter and said it well. He urges the gold Democrats to stand by their convictions on the money question in order to keep the free-silver issue out of the next national convention, and to stand by the national administration until the issues growing out of the war are settled. The advice is good enough for any body of voters or any individual.—'Terre Haute Express. The dangerous financial scheme of the Democratic party and its position on the tariff in 1896 closed a very large per cent, of the factories and drove many banks and other business institutions into bankruptcy. The triumph of Republicans put anew set of policies into effect and panic gave way to prosperity. The voter must not forget what his vote did two years ago, and there is no good reason now for undoing what he did then.—Anderson Herald. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. M 011, Well! “Like proud man,” said the well-bucket, “I get elevated w’hen I am full.” The Old Bear. Mrs. Grump—The church was Just crowded. Many people were turned away. Old Grump—What was the matter; weren’t their clothes good enough? No Cards. He—l do believe that some women go on the stage solely for the pleasure of taking anew name. She—l—ah—there must be an easier way than that! Iler Friends in Donbt. “Would you prefer to marry the man of deeds, or the man of words?” “I think,” said she, “I should prefer one answering both descriptions.” Were it not for her assured position in society, her friends must needs be in doubt as to whether her maiden fancy inclined to the prize lighter or war correspondent. OUR RAILROADS IN 1898. 180.500 Miles of Tragic Worth sll,101,000,000. New York Commercial Advertiser. Duane Doty, of the Pullman Car Company, has been studying the railroads of the United States as a whole, and has developed some comparltive figures which are of interest. “An instantaneous photograph of any domain of human activity,” says Mr. Doty, “constitutes an instructive study, and especially so when it includes our own field of effort. From twenty-two miles of railroad in 1830, and in less time than the biblical span of threescore years and ten allotted to the life of man, our railroads have reached their present magnitude, though still in the morning time of their evolution. Had our country to-day, exclusive of Alaska, as many miles of railroad proportionately as the State of Illinois it would have 600,000 miles of such roads, or considerably more than three times its present mileage, or, really, a greater mileage than that of all the existing railroads of the •world. A good laborer able to earn $2 a day, working as a carrier of freight does in Africa, could transport one ton, say of lead, one mile by working hard for four days. In other words, eight dollars ($8) would be a fair price for the work that would have to be done. But our railroads now carry one ton of freight one mile for eight-tenths of a cent, or for one one-thou-sandth of the cost of doing that amount of work by muscular effort alone. “Had the whole population of the globe the same amount of railroad mileage proportionately that we have in the United States, the world’s railroad mileage would be four and a half millions (4,506,000), instead of one-tenth of that amount, as now. Our periods of existence may well be looked upon as the childhood of the lace. A retrospective review of our railroads, a glance at their present condition and glimpses afforded of possibilities fully illustrate the truth that we are only in the dawn of our material development. The habitable portions of the earth's surface, comprising only about two-fifths of its land masses, even with our present very imperfect agriculture, can easily afford four times the present population of the world, or 6,500,000,000 human beings, and this number will be reached 260 years hence, or by the year 2150 A. D. Miles. Length of roads now owned by 2,000 corporations 186,500 Double, triple, quadruple and yard tracks, sidings and turnouts 58,000 Total of all tracks in the United States to-day 244,500 “The average value of our railroads is usually placed at $60,000 a mile, though it is a little more than that; at this rate 186.500 miles of road is worth $11,191,000,000. The investments in these roads, including capital stock, funded, unfunded and current debts, can safely be placed at $11,500,u00,000. Our population is now 73,000,000. If the wealth of our country has increased in the past eight years proportionaiely with the increase between l&O and 1890, the wealth of the whole country to-day is $34,000,006,000, or $1,150 for every man, woman and child of the population. The average wealth in 1850 was only SSOB per capita, the increase being nearly fourfold since then. Tne wealth of our country is now increasing at the rate of six millions of dollars a day. One-seventh of our wealth is in railroads, or $l6O for every member of our population. "The railroads of the United States now employ 85u,U00 persons, and the average annual payxof each is $565. A lew officials receive large salaries, but the 80,000 station men end track repairers and the 70,000 switchmen, flagmen and watchmen all get small wages, though their pay is sure and their employment is, as a rule, uninterrupted. There are now 450 employes to every one hundred miles of road, or four and a half to every mile.. "Exclusive of sleeping cars, our railroads now have 1,325,000 ours of all kinds, or thir-ty-seven cars to every locomotive or seven cars to every miie of road. Inclusive of sleeping cars, there ai'e now 38,000 passenger, mail and express cars in use. Considering the life of a freight car (twelve years), and Its earnings after that length of service will barely keep it in repair, it is clear that about 100,000 of these cars now annually go into scrap. In other words, 100,000 new freight cars are needed every year to replace those which are worn out, io say nothing of the additional cars required for new roads and for the natural increase of freight business. There are now 36.000 locomotives in use, 10,000 of them being in passenger service. All these passenger " engines are fitted with train brakes and over half of them with automatic couplers. Ea<h passenger engine handled upon an average over 50.000 passengers during the year and ran nearly a million and a quarter of miles. Each freight locomotive on an average drew 39,000 tons of freight. "Our freight trains for the year ending Sept. 1 carried 700,000.000 tons of freight, and every ton was carried on an average 125 miles, making in all 95.000,000,000 tons qf freight carried one mile. While the average cost of carrying a ton of freight one mile was eight-tenths of a cent, it was only six-tenths of a cent in some of the States. The cost of carrying freight has steadily fallen from 2 cents a mile per ton In 1867 to Us present low rate. Our railroads last year had to carry a ton of freight 1,530 miles to make sl, and the freight work done was equivalent to carrying one ton 1,300 miles for every man, woman and child of the population. Over three-fourths of the receipts of our railroads are for freight. “Our railroads, with their 10,000 passenger enginaa and 38,uu0 cars for passenger trains.

carried 550,000,000 passengers during the year ending Sept. 1, and received for this service $275,000,000. The roads had to carry a passenger 500 miles in order to make sl. The net earnings of the roads for the year were a little more than $1,000,000 a day. “One passenger was killed for every 2,250,000 carried. Twice as many people ar9 killed annually by falling from the windows of their dwellings as lose their lives while traveling as passengers on our passenger trains. The average mortal, it would seem, is safer as a railroad passenger than he is at home. Two-thirds of those accidentally killed lose their lives at stations, highway crossings and while trespassing upon tracks. The theory of probabilities required a passenger to travel 75,000,000 miles to be tolerably sure of getting killed. This is equivalent to riding continuously on an express train for over 400 years. One passenger only was injured in every 4,500,000 miles of travel.’' FAULT OF VOLUNTEERS. They Would Not Pay Attention to Snntltnry Regulations. Washington Special in Chicago Post. A conspicuous feature of the investigation which has been going on under the direction of the war commission for the last month Is the evident restraint under which regular army officers who are on the witness stand labor in speaking of volunteer soldiers and volunteer officers. The regulars try hard not to speak disparagingly of the volunteers, but they have a hard time keeping within bounds, - and the transcript of the testimony is full of apologies which the regulars make for unintentional "breaks." A majority of the army officers who have been on the stand bear testimony to the fact that it has been next to impossible to get the volunteers to obey in letter,and in spirit the sanitary regulations prescribed. The regulars are trained to obedience. They do not stop to question w r hether the judgment of their superiors in matters of bacteriology or chemistry is good or not; they simply obey orders. The average volunteer feels himself to be superior to rules and regulations for the protection of his health. He feels himself proof against disease until he is stricken down. Flagrant violations of rules such as have been commonly indulged in by volunteers may involve the health of whole companies or regiments, although the actual number of men committing indiscretions may originally be small. Witness after witness has testified to the apparent utter inability of a great many of the volunteer soldiers in the several camps to realize the importance of guarding against the drinking of impure water. They simply would not be governed by the rules of common sense in this matter. They reckless in eating as well as in drinking, and violated every known rule of dietetics. One instance was given by a witness to illustrate the inability of volunteers to grasp the significance of the simplest sanitary precaution. There is a canal running past Camp Meade which carries part of the sewage of Harrisburg. On the establishment of the camp orders were given that men should not be allowed to bathe In the canal, and full explanations were given. The order as to bathing was obeyed, but the men, with astounding stupidity, made a practice of washing their clothing, their dishes and their cooking utensils in the water of the polluted ditch. These were among the things which taxed the patience of trained professional soldiers. Enough of that sort of testimony has come out during the sessions of the war commission to satisfy that body that 90 per cent, of the sickness in the camps was due entirely to the refusal or neglect of the volunteer soldiers to observe the rules formulated for the preservation of their own health. The report of the war commission will have a great deal to say upon this phase of camp life, and it will go a long way toward exculpating the officials of the War Department from jlame for camp sickness. AMERICAN WIRE NAILS. Used In Practically Every Country on the Globe. Washington Star. Tne rapid growth in exportation of American manufactures is illustrated by some figures -which the Bureau of Statistics has recently compiled regarding the exports of wire nails. This compilation is the result of a recent publication in the British Iron and Coal Trades Review-, which says that "it is clear that the United States threatens Europe with a serious competition in the nail trade despite the fact that it is a highly finished product and involves the employment of a large amount of skilled labor.” This compilation shows that the exportation of wire nails from the United States has grown from 1,547,078 pounds in the fiscal year 1888 to 22,894,099 pounds in the fiscal year 1898. The growth, which has been phenomenal ever since the beginning, has been especially so in the last two or three years. In 1895 the exportations were 4,367,267 pounds; in 1896 8,031,927 pounds, thus practically doubling in one year, and in 1898 22,894,099, showing a similar gain in the last two years, the exports of 1898 being more than five times those of 1895. The universal demand for this product of American workmen Is shown by the fact that our wire nails go to every grand division of the globe and to practically every country. Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Canada, Central America, the West Indies, all the South American States, China, Japan, Asiatic Russia, British Australasia, French Oceanica, British and Portuguese Africa, in fact, it is difficult to find a spot among the civilized and semi-civiiized people of the globe where this recent product of American invention and American labor does not now find a place. To the Danish West Indies the exports last year were 4,880 pounds; to Peru, 25,985 pounds; to Argentina, 268,942 pounds; to China, 9,632 pounds; to British Africa, 49,299 pounds; to British Australasia, 1,118,459 pounds, and to Japan, 4,372,292 pounds, the exports to Japan being larger than to any other country and forming in the fiscal year 1897 nearly one-half of the total exports of this article. Hugh Hanna's Advice. Lafayette Courier. The Courier presents to-day a statement from Mr. Hugh Hanna, the indefatigable worker for sound money, on the importance of the approaching election, in which he takes the broad ground that business interests demand that there shall be no alteration in the public sentiment so emphatically expressed in the election of 1896. It was as a result of that contest that the country has recovered from the depression and despair which had seized upon all the American people, by reason of the mismanagement of governmental affairs by the Democratic party and the threatened danger of repudiation through the adoption of a depreciated and depreciating currency. Mr. Hanna has cogerrt reasons for urging the people to stand firm in the faith, the demonstrations of recent months having made clear the benefits to be derived, and he makes these reasons clear in a few words. The people of this community know Mr. Hanna well and favorably. He is such an one as would be sought for personal advice in matters of private interest, with full confidence that what he might say could be relied upon. In public matters he is not a politician. He seeks no personal promotion and desires no honor at the hands of parties. He recognized at an early stage the menace of a free coinage policy and at once became a close student of the problem of finance. His conclusions, like those of every man who has weighed well all the questions involved, are in favor of a money standard equal to the best in the world, and when he advises the general public that this issue is important and that the next Congress should be a sound money Congress, he does It because of an interest in the welfare and progress of the Nation. He Is the kind of a man whose advice the people may safely accept, because his interest is the same as that of every other man who is in business and who desires stability of currency. War ns a. Missionary. Leslie’s Weekly. English cannon balls first opened the way for the spread of modern civilization and Christian influence in China. The same kind of a missionary agency may be effective in blazing a path for the advancement of education and general enlightenment in Cuba, the Philippines, the Caroline Islands and other regions long kept in darkness and semi-savagery by the retroactive and repressive policy of Spain. In no region where Spanish power and influence have been dominant have free churches or free schools ever been known. Testimony from many unquestioned sources goes to show that the Philippine islanders have suffered more from the ecclesiastics who have ruled over them than from any other source. If the spirit animating the Spanish church fix that quarter during the present crisis may be Judged from the various addresses sent out by the archbishop of Manila, American influence in the island will find its bitterest and most malignant opposition - in that direction. On the other hand, the natives will be specially receptive to any influence tending to free them from that hated .rule. Where the American flag goes there will go eoual rights for all, freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. In this way fie prosperity and contentment, law and order. Dewey’s Rabbit Foot. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The fact that Dewey has given away his rabbit foot may be considered a sign of continuous peace. With another war in prospect the hero of Manila would not have parted with his talisman. This I* Coxey’s Off Year. San Francisco Chronicle. Coxey needn’t wholly despair in these food times of mustering another "army.” f any State goes Populist this year it will soon be In shape to get one up for him.

GEN. BACON’S REPORT DETAILS OF THE RECENT BATTLE AT LEECH LAKE, MINN. e Accidental DUcharge of a Soldier's Rille Warn Followed by a Volley from the Indians. GALLANT TROOPS PRAISED AND REWARD RECOMMENDED FOR SEVERAL OF THE FIGHTERS. ♦ Long, Costly War Averted by Defeat of the Bear Island Pillagers—Monthly Treasury Statement. WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—General Bacon, who commanded the United States forces at the i’ecent Indian battle at Leech Lake, Minn., has sent a detailed report of the action to Adjutant General Corbin. The interesting portion of the report is that in regard to the battle, of which General Bacon writes: "At 9 o’clock a. m. we reached Sugar point, twenty-five miles east of Walker, located on a neck of land or peninsula extending about five miles into the lake, averaging about two miles in width and almost two miles north of Bear island. At this point a landing, difficu.t by reason of high seas and natural obstructions, was effected and two Indians, for whom warrants existed, were arrested by the marshals. "After searching the vicinity of the point I left Lieutenant Ross and twenty men to guard the landing and boats, and proceeded with Captain Wilkinson, the remainder of the detachment and the civilians, and searched the country back for three miles. Occasionally we saw at a distance a few bucks who disappeared with our approach. The women and children seemed nervous and gradually concealed themselves. At 11:30 the entire party had reassembled at the landing, about which Lieutenant Ross had thrown out pickets. I had concluded to remain at Sugar point all night, and had given ordei's to send back one boat for rations and tentage, both boats being too heavily laden with men to load rations on coming up. The detachment had received orders to stack arms, when one of our rifles was accidentally discharged. Instantly the Indians fired a volley into the ranks of the detachment from the surrounding woods and underbrush, and charged to the edge of the same, keeping up a rapid, continuous fire. "My detachment was composed of fiftyeight absolutely raw recruits and nineteen old soldiers. When the attack was made they were in line near a log hut. ey were for a moment confused with the Indian volley and demoniac yelling, b. ranks and attempted to conceal thamselvvi behind the hut. But they recovered almost instantly and, under the personal directions of the three officers present formed a steady skirmish line and in their turn charged and drove the Indians back through the thick brush as far as it was penetrable. I then formed my deployed line two sides of a square, each side skirting the timber whence the attack came and protecting the log liut, wherein were placed the wounded. ARMED WITH WINCHESTERS. "The Indians continued their tactics of crawling up, concealed by the underbrush, and attacking until dark, the attacks growing less and less vigorous. They were armed with Winchester repeating rifles, and appeared well supplied with ammunition, judging from the prodigal use which they made of it. During the night they disappeared from the peninsula, so far as could be ascertaiixed, supposedly departing in their canoes to neighboring lands or islands. They seemed to have had quite enough of fighting, and were not heard from, except an occasional distant shot, one of which killed a soldier digging potatoes in an adjoining fiexd on the morning of the 6th. “Captain and Brevet Major M. C. Wilkinson, Third Infantry, was killed very soon after the first repulse of the attack, while steadying and gallantly leading the portion of the line assigned to him. I had observed his coolness and courage up to the moment of his falinxg, and feel sure that had he survived his action would have merited the highest consideration from the War Department. “I cannot too strongly express my admiration for the intrepidity, absolute coolness and good judgment displayed by Second Lieutenant Tenney Ross, Third Infantry, commanding the left half of the line. He exposed himself both in leading his platoon and in care for the wounded. He was commissioned only last July, but appeared in this fight to be a veteran. From the courage shown by him in this engagement ills well-known ability and good habits, I feel safe in predicting for him a brilliant military career, and beg to recommend that he be brevetted for conspicuous bravery in this action. “I also fake great pleasure in calling attention to the courageous conduct and efficient professional services rendered by acting assistant Surgeon Herbert J. Harris. U. S. A. This officer, ut the time of the' attack, was on board one of the steamboats, anchored some distance from the landing, but returned to shoi-e in a small boat under the Indian fire and joined us. "Upon the deatlA of Captain Wilkinson, First Sergeant Thomas Kelly, Company E. Third Infantry, was assigned to command the skirmishers on the right of the line. He performed this duty so gallantly by his example in leading and directing his men that I most earnestly recommend that he be awarded a medal of honor. FP.AISE FOR A PRIVATE. "I would fall in my duty should I neglect to relate the part taken by Private Oscar Burkard, Hospital Corps, U. S. A., which elicited, during the six hours’ fighting, the applause and admiration of our entire line. Scarcely a man fell who was not Instantly attended to and received intelligent aid from Private Burkard. He exposed himself throughout the entire engagement, and Is most deserving of the medal of honor, for which he is heartily recommended. “At the beginning of the attack the two boats containing the United States marshal, some of his deputies, and the Indian inspector and Indian agent, with most of the citizens. left the scene. It was the only sensible course they could have pursued, for had they remained they must have been under the fire of the Indians concealed in the underbrush along shore. I am greatly indebted to Marshal O’Connor for his subsequent prompt and intelligent action in sending supplies and ammunition. The civilians unable to reach the boats took shelter along the lake'shore, immediately in rear of my line, whence they joined me after dark at my bivouac. Among the latter were the following newspaper correspondents: K. O. Beaton, Minneapolis Tribune: Will A. Brill, Pioneer Press, and Harry L. Knappen, Minneapolis Times, who made themselves most welcome guests by their attention to the wounded and cheerful deportment. “I regret to report that during the night two Indian policemen, who had failed to get off the steamboat, and whose presence near my camp was unknown, attempted to cross the lake in a canoe and whilst near my picket guard w - ere mistaken for hostlles and fired upon, one being killed instantly and the other slightly wounded and captured." General Bacon then reviews the subsequent events, ending with the surrender of ail save two of the Indians wanted and closes as follows: "From all obtainable Information these Chippewa Indians have long entertained complaints of the disposition of timber of their reservations; they also rlaimed to have experienced much suffering by reason of promiscuous arrests among them by United States deputy marshals. It is believed that th*y have been for more than a year preparing to resist the United States authorities, accumulating ammunition. dancing, and getting ready after their own fashion for war, and when my detachment of seventy-seven soldiers reached their almost inaccessible holes they made their one desperate effort. They were badly whipped and driven from their chosen battle ground, and now declare that they want rio mure fighting wrlth United States soldiers. They were found arrogant and I boastful; they are now humiliated and beg- ,

glng for peace and I believe with the commissioner that they are honest in that statement. I further believe that the result of that fight prevented the Bear Islanders from being largely reinforced by large numbers of neighboring Indians and saved northern Minnesota from a long and costly Indian war. Owing to the densely wooded nature of the country the losses sustained by the Indians have not been accurately ascertained.” ♦ TREASURY STATEMENT. Public Debt Swelled to 91,110,06,02a by Issue of Bonds. WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The treasury statement of the public debt shows that *at the close of business Oct. 31, 1898, the debt, •ess net cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,110,966,922, an increase for the month of $43,487,717. This increase is accounted for by the issue during the month of about $36,689,000 of the *new 3 per cent, bonds and a decrease of about $7,238/)00 in the cash oa hand. The entire amount of the new loan, so far taken up in the monthly statement, is $179,399,180. The debt was recapitulated as follows: Interest-bearing debt $1,026,766,960 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity 1,246,870 Debt bearing no interest.. 383,191,367 Total $1,411,205 197 This amount, however, does not includa $553,631,933 In certificates and treasury notes outstanding, which are offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury for their redemption. The cash in the treasury is clasified as follows: Gold $275,224,071 Silver 505,929,773 Paper 557,029,237 Bonds, deposits in national banks, disbursing officers’ balances, etc. 96,566,31$ Total $9.3,249,397 Against the above there are demand liabilities outstanding amounting to $633,011,122. leaving a net cash balance in the treasury of $3uu,238,275. The monthly statement of the government receipts and expenditures shows that tha receipts for the month of October amounted to $39,630,061, and the disbursements $53,982,2(6. The receipts from cus.oms amounted ed to $15,555,234, against $9,713,494 for October, 1897; internal revenue, $22,356,511, against $13,614,872 for October last year; miscellaneous, $1,718,305, against $1,063,047 one year ago. The increase in receipts for the month as compared with October, 1897, amounted to about $15,250,000. During the four months of the present fiscal year the receipts exceeded those for the corresponding period in 1897 by over $60,000,000. The monthly circulation statement of tha controller of the currency shows that tha total amount of national bank notes in circulation on Oct. 31, 1898, was $239,546,281, an increase for the month of $4,189,331 and an increase for tho year of $9,499,916. The circulation, based on United States bonds, amounted to $210,945,456, an increase for the month of $4,989,388 and an increase for tha year of $6,119,776, The circulation secured by lawful money aggregated $29,500,825, a decrease for the month of $800,062 and an increase for the year of $3,380,110. The amount of United States registered bonds on deposit to secure circulation was $235,618,470 and to secure public deposits $70,875,100. Os these amounts $58,544,220 is in the new 3-per-cent. loan of 1898. The monthly statement of the director of the mint shows the total coinage at United States mints during October to have been $8,600,841, as follow's: Gold, $5,180,000; silver, $3,354,191; minor coins, $66,650. ♦ NO FEARS FOR THE TERESA. Navy Department Thinks She Will Elcape the West Indian Cyclone. WASHINGTON. Nov. I.—The Navy Department is under no apprehension as to the safety of the Marie Teresa although some fear has been expressed in the Santiago dispatches that the vessel, along with her consorts, the Vulcan and Leonidas, have fallen into the sphere of a West Indian cyclone. The Teresa passed Cape Maysi, at the eastern extremity of Cuba, early yesterday mpming bound for Hampton Roads and signaled that all was well and that her machinery was working smoothly. By this time, according to calculations of the naval officers, she should be well on towards the Bahamas, keeping well to the eastward and away from the Cuban coast. Meanwhile the Weather Bureau reports to the Navy Department show that a cyclone Id forming to the southwest of Havana which probably will come up the southwest coast of Florida and if this prediction is true the war ship would be well away from the pathway of the cyclone—at least I.OOQ mile*, according to calculations. The latest calculation, made at the department, is that the Teresa will arrive in Hampton Roads next Sunday afternoon. Presuming that she has no fever aboard she probably will come up to the Norfolk navy yard for survey. Whether the repairs recommended by that board will be made at the same navy yard or not will depend largely upon the report of the board and upon the recommendation of Chief Constructor Hichborn, but the probabilities are that the work will b done in Norfolk. A PeototHce on Wheels. WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—The Postoffiee Department has ordered an innovation in the postal service by the experimental establishment of a "postoftice on wheels’* to operate In the vicinity of Westminster, Md. The service, which is to begin shortly, calls for the use <sf a postal wagon to travel over a designated route in rural districts. Mail boxes can be placed at some point on the route for every farmer living a mile or two off the proposed route, and mail will be collected therefrom. One important feature of the contemplated innovation, which, if successful, will be extended generally, is that it will have money orders and registry matter facilities. An American Honored. WASHINGTON. Nov. I.—Chas. A. Schott, chief of the computation division of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, has been awarded the Wilde prize by the Academy of France. The Wilde prize is a coveted honor open to the world to be conferred on the one judged the most worthy from among those who make discoveries or write works on astronomy, chemistry, geology, physics or mechanics. The award to Mr. Schott is based on a work on terrestrial magnetism. The committee which made tlie award consisted of some of the best known scientists in France, including MM. Savvan, Bertrand, Levy and Berthelct. Movements of War Ships. WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—The Hist has arrived at Santiago. The Marblehead has sailed from League island for Boston. Tho Topeka has sailed from Philadelphia for Havana. The Nashville has sailed from Port Royal for Norfolk. The Montgomery and the Princeton have sailed from Charleston for Norfolk. The Cincinnati has arrived at Caimaritra. Commander Snow, who is to relieve Admiral Schley as commandant of the San Juan naval s*a’ion. sailed to-day from Norfolk on the SoU.ce for San Juan. Appointments by the President. WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—The President has made the following appointments: Col. Samuel M. Mansfield, corps of engineers, U. S. A., to be a member of the California debris commission. Third Lieut. Rictiard M. Sturdevant to be second lieutenant in the revenue cutter service. Joseph K. Goodrich, of Pennsylvania, to be interpreter to the consulate of the United States at Nagasaki, Japan. CAUSED BY A CIGARETTE. Explosion of Powder That Injured Four Regular Soldiers. DETROIT, Mich., Nov. I.—Four privates of the Nineteenth Infantry, who were left at Fort Wayne when their regiment went South, were badly injured to-day by the explosion of a quantity of powder which they were transferring from the basement of the guardhouse for transshipment to the regiment in Porto Rico. The men are: Privates Fred Fisher, Company G; Archie Miller, Company E; Robert J. Navuil, Company L; I red ( raw, Company D. With the exception of Miller, who was badly burned In the thigh, the injuries were confined to the men s heads and faces. Comrades of ths injured men threw buckets of water over them to extinguish the blaze. It is not thought any of the burned men will die, but all will be disfigured. The explosion occurred just as the men had arrived at the top of the stairs leading from tho basement. It is believed that the powder was Ignited by a spark from a cigarette which a soldier was smoking. Canada’* Prohibition Vote. OTTAWA, Ont., Nov. I.— Official figures jon the recent vote taken throughout Canada on the question of prohibition were glvea out by the State Department to-day. Th majority in favor of prohibition is 13,881. Only 22 per cent, of those entitled to vots i cast their ballots for prohibition.