Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — Page 3

BRYAN IN CHICAGO.

GREAT THRONG GREETS HIM AT THE AUDITORIUM. Cheer Him Loudly at Entrance and During His Speech Leader Talks Strongly Against Imperialism and Trusts. The old leaders and the old platform were reindorsed by the great Democratic meeting at the Auditorium in Chicago held under the auspices of the Chicago platform Democrats. Bryan and AJtgeld were the old leaders whose names and whose presence evoked tumultuous cheers. The principles of 1896 were cheered at every reference, and equally emphatic and enthusiastic were the bursts of applause and cheers that greeted every denunciation of the war of conquest in the Philippines. These were the four features of the meeting that stood out boldly and in even measure seemed to hold the affection of the 7.000 men and women who thronged the immense interior. To Bryan was given a welcome the manifestation of which was limited only by the power of human expression. Ihe audience was singing "America” and the big organ was rolling out its volume of music to the rhythm of voices when Mr. Bryan stepped upon the stage. There was a cheer from the stage and the singing was converted into a roar of answering cheers. Mr. Bryan was rechived with long-continued applause, the people standing up and cheering for some minutes. He said: Mr. Chairman and Ladies sad t.ent.eaien. I am not going to tresiws supon your t-iue. Toil have already listened for is long a time as you are accustiwneu t • attend a meeting, and It would not be proper for me to eater at any great length upon any of the que> tions winch are now before the public. 1 am sosneit hat embarrassed in speaK.ng in CuicagJ, because the auvvc.stes of :he Chicago platform are divided ;nt > two kinds aud it is not my Lus-ness to eaipioy the secret servie t> a-oTta.u what Democrats are firmest believers in the party s creed. All Chicago platform Demo rats "look alite to me,” aud n v atiu is not to drive out of the Democratic party any professed beilev ers in the t’h'.eago plattonu. but to so impress upon all Democrats the imp r *" i the principles tit siake that all local differences will be forgotten in the d**terhi»nai..*a to carry this g verumeiit back to the foundations laid by the fathers. When Lincoln was appealing :•» the people of the country in ISSS ne gave ntt» rance to a sentiment th<t must tn* the wuiiment if every one who rt-a ixes the magnitude of thStruggle iu which' we are engaged. Af.c. paying a tribute to the f -under- of the country and to th— declaration of independence he used these words: **l charge you .o drop every pal ry and insignificant tu-itigat for any man s success, it is nothing: I uui n -thing. Judge Douglas is nothing; but do not destroy" that immortal emblem -if humanity, th ■ declaration of Amer can iudepe <le <•*.” So in this country to day we find some dis Cussing pets ns. s line d>ucssiug whether this man or that man or some other man is the best representative of Democratic doctrine. 1 appeal tv you as Lincoln did. to drop every paltry thought about any man. and think only of the principl -s enunciated by the Democratic party in isytf; principles that carry us luck to the landmarks of the constitution. We are inter sted first in writing a platform and we want a pi st form that fits tae Democratic imr.y, a patform wr.tten like the last platform. u : by party b»s *s. but by the voters of the Dem--cratic party sap piaus l. When we get a .plats •nu that fits the Democratic party it will be easy enough to find in state aud nation candidates who fit the platfurai. but it i- th principle above the man, and no man is tit to be a lead-r when he is wanted to lead who is not tit t*> be a follower when some one else is wanted to lead. In the brief time that I shall occupy y.iur attention I desire to crowd into a few pr> p;> sitions an argument on three subjects. 1 need not tell you that the Denn-cratie platform of IS. <5 w.li be reaffirmed as the first plank of the Democracy-of ItKtO. Occasionally s me one talks about getting off of that platform, but on investigation it is generally found that the man who wants to get off of it Was never, iu fact, upon the platform. The people who mad • the fight and who by winning the fight saved the Democratic party In lS9t» are still firm in the faith, a,,nd there is only one plank In that'platform of which 1 shall speak tonight. and that is the on-* plank toward which most of the criticism is directed.

Ready to Defend Ml Hanks, I would' defend every plank where every plank is assaded. But there are some who Say that if we will just drop the money ques lion we will make it easy for th.>se who left us to come back. The tight in 189 d was wou on th? money question. It was the money question expressed lu a speeim- remedy that afforded t:s the means of distinguishing the believer in bimetallism from the believer in the gold standard. And if they tell you to-day that events have vindicated the gold standard you can answer them, first, that when Mr. McKinley sent a commission all the way to Europe to" get rid of the gold standard he admitted that we were right in 1895 when we said the gold standard was not satisfactory. Some of y u may be s> prejudiced that you can not do justice to Mr. McKinley, but 1 am so fair minded that I can give him credit for sincerity when he app inted three distinguished ni< n and sent them all the way to Europe to cry out in,every market place: “Help. hi 1? the Amer can people out of the hole that the gold standard has put them Into!" Xot only ean you point to "the fact that - the commission went to Europe as an evi-dem-e that the g old standard was nut then satisfactory, but you cSn point to the ..fsjjfc, iire of the commission to secure international aid as an evidence that Independent action Is absolutely necessary to secure success. If they toll you that the discovery of gold in the Klondike and the importation of gold from abroad has given us more money and made better times you can reply to them that when they say that they confess the truth of the quantitive theory of money and you ean add that if a little gel 1 from the Klondike or a little gold from Europe is able to make a little better tunes, that if we would open the mints to the coinage of silver aa well as gold and take the money out of our own mountains and have our own money now and at all times we could have a great deal better times, and not depend on English gold either from the Klondike or from our own exports. You can remind them that when we were discussing the silver question and our ability to maintain the parity they said that because of an increasing production of silver we could not keep the metals together. If that argument bad weight when they made It wo can now say that, an Increasing production of gold makes it easier to keep the metals together than it used to be when they found fault with us. Bal this Is an old question and one about which we have talked many times. ’ There la another question half new and half old—the trust question—that was iu the campaign of 1896. enough to’ get all th? trusts onto the other side, and yet not enough to make the people understand what the trust question means. And even m>w you will find people who say that the Republican party is doing all that it can do. Why. the trust ia so bad and so indefensible that even In Ohio in a state convention controlled by Mr. Hanna they had to adopt a resolution declaring trust* to be bad. and when that conveutitn condemn* the trusts who in all the world will dare defend the trusts? The trust is bad because of the monopoly feat are. When a few people control a product neceaatry to human existence dhen those few control to a large extent the fives and the happiness of all who produce those articles, all who work In producing and all who furnish the raw material used In Its manufacture. And can we afford to build up In this nation a system by which a few shall transmit wealth from generation to generation, where

the masses can only hope for a clerkship under some trust, and if they say that there is no way to stop the trusts, that the Itepubli< ans are doing all they can: remember that it is within the power of rhe'president to appoint an attorney general who will enforce the law against trusts even If he has to go out of the Republican party to get the attorney general. And if the law upon the statute books is insufficient it is within the power of the attorney general to propose laws which are sufficient, and if the constitution stands in the way it is within the power of the attorney general to recommend an amendment to the constitution which will give to Congress plenary power to deal with this subject Fc«ren the Republicans. But rhe Republican party is powerless to annihilate the trusts so long as the trusts furnish the money to keep the Republican party in power, so that the administration has it in its power to extinguish the trusts if it so desires. When we come to the Philippine question again they say: “What can tut* administration do?” There were two months between the signing of the treaty and the breaking out of hs.iti'hs. two months lacking six days, and when we asked them what they were going to do they said they hadn’t had time to decide what to do—not time to decide what to do. Why, there are but two sources of government, force and cons-nt. Monarchies -are founded upon fqrce, republics upon consent. Our declaration of independence declares that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Is that doctrine true or is it false? If It Is false how long ought it to take us to decide what to do in the Philippines? We recognized the trirth of that declaration when we went to war with Spain. We su'd the people of Cuba are and of right ought to be free. Why? Because they live near us? No. Bera us * they are part Spanish? N>*. They were and of right ought to l>e free becinnse they wanted to be free and governments come up from the people. If they were and of right ought to lie free. wh<» can draw a line between them and the people of the Phtllp > ne-? Where i sth-* philosophy that enthl ts one to liberty and another to vassalage? You say you don't kn< w what to do? If you find a pxketbo k and on it the name of the owner, do. • o .* have to count the money iti th - p cie'b ok before you know what to do with the pock tbook? If the doctrine s -t forth in the declaration of independence s .round th. n we -.can not rightfr. y acquit - - title by cinques:. If the doctrine s-t rih iu the d 'claration of independvnls - un-.t we can not rightfully purchase S-Comuo of people at S 2 apiece from an alien ’n-'tiareh. whose rebellious subje ts we • -u:selves armed to tight agaifist tbeir m- narcti. Th. r- is a t-rfn-iple involved, and when the principle ; s ouee understo.h! its application is not difficult, an 1 if the people of the l-htlippm Is-a mis are and of right ought to l» free, then thus nation shoui 1. without one moment’s -I 1 »y. auu-ume to those iteople that we art* there as friends and not as enemies to establish a government which shall be their government and not our government when it is es abilshM. Not -’illy ought we t- do that now: we ought to. bare done it in the beginning; and if 11*0 promise made to Cuba ba 1 been made to the E:1 piin.s cot one dr p es niood would have b-eti sh.-I in the I’h lippiue Islands. An-1 we w> ill I be s tiding si-a-tpl tea- iiers t<- Manila to t a--h th -ni instead of s-ldi-Ts to t-dl them that the d-claratiou was a lie. The Filipinbs cam ■ into our hau ls by nec’det.t - fwar, and c.cning into our h inds they must l*e dealt with a- c r iing to American principles and not ap- ■ rd.ng to European principles. They s y that if we were :o git-• thesr t-e -p -* their independence other nations - f Europe would laugh at us. Not At'r-id of Ri>!ictile. Are we afraid to be laughed nt? Why. more than is»> years ago. wne.-i th-.-o were but l«o iw p ople i.i this couu: ry. otir forefathers dare 1 to give the world a dev-l.ir.iri-.-a at whi h the pc ode of the old world laughed, but for which - nr people f ugh:. -Win ■ tile framers of the ileclarati -n -j-f in-lepcudeuee wrote among the s--ls evident truths that all men are created equal, endowed ' witli inaiietuibie rights, that govern, meets are instituted am mg men to s-s ure thes* rights, derivli g their just ;w»wers from the onsent of the governed, tin* people of the oid world laugli -!. But they didn't laugh long. 1-e ause our foref-ithers mamt-iinei their declaration and f- r more than a century this republic has been the most potent factor in all th ■ w orld in infiueneing the destiny of the huiujti ra--,*. Snail we be .islia-c--I to admit now th w • believe in the declaration of itid.*pe:ul••lice? I r. peat that we must dial vviih these p-»ple ae -ordi: g t > American principl. s. They desire i heir indep- ndeMrie.vj z et us say to them, as we said to Cuba.'"Stand tip, be free! ' end th n to ail the w rid say, "Hands off. and let every repaldi ■ live:'' Tei! me that we don't know what to do? AH we have to do is to read our nation's his tory. to wa eb the nation as it traveled the pathway to lead from the tittle name of might to the lofty name of right, and then you can tei! what this nation must do if it is true to its past. You have in your city a poet who has written the best poem on the Philippine question. Dr. Taylor has crowded .into a single verse more philosophy as well as poetry, more philcsnphy than you will find In a whole speech on the side of Imperialism, and if he never does anything else he has ddne.enough in that writing of this one poem to give him a claim to the consideration of his fellow men. L.*t me quote the verse, although it may be familiar to you: “Did our liberty bill ring iu vain; was the declaration a lie? Must we turn to the old world again, with tHe penitent prodigal’s cry? Mast we remain so and remain in the vein of Europe and barbar.c parade. And boom out a gun to open a pathway of trade? Must we strut through the world and blust- r aud brag .' That the -1 liar mark's stamped on the brave old flag? I ask the question of you. did our liberty bell ring in vain? Why. history tells us that when the declaration was about to be signed the people gathered in the streets and waited for the sgnal. and finally when th se immortal n.imes were fixed to that Immortal d-cument the old liberty bell rang ou: aud the people - aught up the sound and cEWted aml cbeefied again. And fr, ui that -lay to this that- great relic of revolutionary days has b e:i carried from state to state and from city to city, and eyes are filled with tears as they look upon It. Did our liberty bell ring in vain? Shall its tones no more be heard? Was the declaration a lie? Have we been false for 10t» years in teaching that governments come up from the people? Must we turn to the - Id w rid again with the penitent prodigal's cry? Th s nation is not a pr-nllgaj son.

This nation has not wasted i:s substance in ribtons living. Tit's natl, n is not ready to turn back and with trembling voice ask to be classed among the hired servants of royalty. This nation has not sinned against heaven, and Hod grant that the crowned heads of the old world may never have occasion to kid the fatted calf to celebrate tld* return of this republic from independence back to the creed <f Cain. VVbat should the Democratic party do? Why. there Is but one thing that it can do. Sometimes 1 hear the people say that If the party Is not carefn! about this question of Imperialism it is going to lose votes. My friends, when the declaration of independence is repealed there will never more be a Democratic party in this country of a need for one. OUT faith Is built upon it an I we can not turn our backs upon the teachings of the fathers. Every wrphg to be righted finds I’s Inspiration in that document. We can not ask for a single r-form without showing that all we ask conforms to the principles of the declaration of indepeudemie. And so the Democratic party must be true to the foundation principles of this government. It believes in the independence of the individual in industrial life ami says to the trust, "Yon shall not erjish the life out of lhe struggling manhood of this country." It believes In independence In the fimincutl world and says to the foreign financier. "You can not make the policy for 70,000.000 of American citizens.” It b«i|eres In the doctrine of liberty nnd independence everywhere. and when we plead for the right of people to govern themselves, although they differ from ns In color and in race and lii history, we are not pleading for them. We are pleading for the safety of our own inetkutlons. Lincoln said that the safety of thia na-

tlon was not In its army or Its navy, but In the spirit of liberty, in the spirit that prizes liberty as the heritage of all men In all lands everywhere, and he said that if we destroyed this spirit of liberty we plant the Seeds of despotism at cur own doors. i Answers a Ounvtion. You ask me why the Democratic party believes in giving independence to the Filipinos. I reply, because we can no-t destroy self-government iu the orient without endangering self-government in the United States. It Is not for the Filipinos that we plead. It Is for 70,000,000 people, the greatest in the world, and yet a people not great enough to do harm to the humblest people in all the world. We are preparing for the campaign of 1900. The national committee met to-day and prepared for its work. We are going out to fig-fit. You ask me whether we are going to win. I tell you I believe we ought to win and there is no way upon which you can predict success except to deserve success. We are not going to ask. “Is this thing popular?" or “Is the other thing popular?" We are going to tisk. "Is this thing right? - ’ and if this thing is right the Democratic party would rather go down as the champion of the right than to win as the champion of the wrong. Don’t be afraid of defeat. I can speak from experience, and having met face to face a large number of those who were kind enough and generous enough to give me their support in DOH. I can say to you without flattery that having seen them. I would rather go down with them to eternal defeat than be president and have to ask England what to do for my country. Long continued applause followed the conclusion of Mr. Bryan’s speech.

Alger and Pingree.

It is an old saying that makes strange bedfellows. This pi overb finds a Striking illustration in the political partnership which has just been made between Gov. Pingree, of Michigan, and Secretary of War Alger. No man has been more highly thought of by the plain people of this country than Governor Pingree. No man has been more severely condemned by the popular verdict than rieeret:iry of War Alger. .Aud yet Pingree had pledged his hearty support to Alger :ls a candidate for the United States Senate. Iu order to make tins alliance appear soinewhat lessgrotesque. Alger comes out With a declaration that he is opposed to trusts and that he favors the election of United States Senators by popular vo»e. Both of these claims are plainly intended as an appeal to the easily deluded c-mstituents who live in the well-known district of Buncombe. In alleging a hostility to trusts Alger is simply imitating Mark Hanna’s Ohio State convention, which, while statrng its hostility to combines, inconsistently "turned down” Attorney Genera! Monnett, the man wiio fought the Standard Oil trust in the Buckeye State to a finish.

To declare against trusts and to discredit those offi ers who oppose trusts is the regular Republican scheme of political warfare. So far as Alger's declaration in favor of electing Senators bv popular vote is concerned, it may be set down as a shrewd and perfectly safe bluff, Alger knows there is no prospect of such a change being imide, and by advocating it does not hurt the corrupters of legislators, but simply makes an appeal for the vote of I’ingree s supporters.-Chicago Democra r.

Fancy Unsupported by Figures.

The State labor statistics of New York d<» not bear out the noisy shouts of Republicans that the number of unemployed is smaller now than ever before known. The Bureau of Labor of New York gives statistical returns from the trades unions of the State. The bulletin is careful lo set forth the well-known fact that the position of members of these labor unions with respect to employment is more secure than that of the average workingman, but the statistics show that one-fourth of the whole number were idle throughout the first three months of 1837, and that the percentage of idleness was greater in IS.ill and IS9B. This enforced idleness, it should - be remembered. embraces skilled workmen. Twenty" thousand employed during some part of the last quarter worked only about half time. On the 31st of March over IS per cent, of all trade unionists in the State of New York were idle. What is most surprising about these statistics is the fact that during the first quarter of the present year, when there was a considerable increase in the number of unemployed, the claim was made on apparently good grounds that business and industry were far more active than for many years at the same season. The truth is, this publication by the New York Bureau of Labor is calculated to cause thinking men to scratch their heads and ask themselves if there, is not something dead up the creek widely the voluble- and vociferous Republican organs ar 1 trying to conceal.—Atlanta Constitution. '

Mixed Allegory.

Evcn in the pulpit the Irishman's speech presents, on occasion, the eccentricities which afford so much joy to unprejudiced listeners. "The Church,” said a brave, hardworking little priest to his Western parishioners, ‘’the Church, my friends, is like a ship r that sails proudly on through this sea of trouble that we call the world. The waves of sin beat in vain against her stalwart sides, afid the waters of error dash about her prow and do her no harm. “And why is this?” he asked, with impressive earnestness. “Why is this, my friends? Because she is founded on a rock; not on sand, but on a rock, a solid rock, from which no power can dislodge her!” The largest flower in the world, it is said, is the bolo, which grows on the island of Mindanao, one of the Philippine group. It has five petals, measuring nearly a yard in width, and a single flower has been known to weigh twenty-two pounds. It grows on the highest pinnacle of the land, about 2,000 feet above the level of the sea. There are some curious superstitions concerning waves. The Arab sailors believe that the high seas off the coast of Abyssinia are enchanted, and whenever they find themselves among them they recite verses which they suppose have a tendency to subdue them.

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY

The question of what metals are used In the coinage of a nation is a matter of no consequence oilier than as they affect money supply. Tile terms free aud unlimited coinage applied to gold or silver mean that the mints will receive and coin for lite lienefit of the owners of all such metal that may be offered for that purpose, thereby leaving money supply to be determined by the productiveness of the mines, l-’rom time immemorial down to 1873 money supply was fixe.l by the joint product of the gold and silver mines of the earth without any attempt on the part of man to in any way limit the coinage of either metal. The fact that some nations struck their coins from one metal exclusively while other nations struck their coins from the other did not constitute monometallism in any sense so long as the entire output of both metals was coined and entered into the money mass that fixed the world’s price level. Money supply could not be curtailed by England making her coins of gold alone, while Germany coin d only silver and Eraiiet* coined both metals indiscriminately. The fact that England refused to coin silver simply left a larger stock Of that met::! u> be coined in Germany. Austria. Kus-ia and Eranee, While the fact that Germany. Russia and Austria sfruck their <• -ins from silver alone enabled England to se-lire a larger •amount of gold! ImUs riminate cointig-* of both metals in Erance at the rat in of lie g to 1 fixed the relative value of gold and silver coins at the French coinage ratio wheresoever coined and made the result, so far as money supply was concerned, the same as though all nations coined both »m‘tals.

The world's.price level depends upon tlie world's stock of money. When the Stock is large prices tire high. when it is scant prices are low. Price is an expression of the relation existing between money and oilier things. As money is only a means to an end and not an end itself, when fluctuations in money supply are so violent that price levi Is suddenly or rapidly rise or fall -it causes great disturbances in the business world and changes the relation of debtors to creditors. doing an injustice to one or the other. Honest money is money in which debts can be paid without doing injustice to either debtor or creditor, In order to be such, the money volume must increase from year to year in the same proportion that population and demand increases, because any change in its purchasing power between the time that a debt is incurred and the payment of the same involves the transfer of property from one of the parties to the other without compensation. When money supply keeps even pace with demand the success of men engaged in business will be gauged by the judgment, industry and capacity of th ' men themselves uninfluenced by a rise or fall in prices due to changes in the value of money. The supply of gold has fluctuated violently from, time to time throughout all history. The same is pme of the supply of silver, but it has usually so happened that the supply of one was large when that of the other was small, thus each in turn counteracting the evil influences of th? other. Besides, with both metals in use and consequently a larger money volume the variations from time to time in the supply had a less violent effect upon prices than would be the case if one metal only was coined and the volume of money was smaller. The effect upon business and production of an increasing or diminishing money volume is widely different aside from the injustice that accrues to debtors or creditors. An increasing volume of money and rising prices tempts all money into active circulation, starts all the wheels of industry into motion, furnishes employment for all labor, and, if continued through a period of years, gives to labor a larger share of the wealth it produces than it would receive tinder any conditlous, because under - such circumstances money Is constantly losing its power over other things, so that to hold it idle causes loss to its owner, while under ri-ing prices an investment always means to part with that -which is growing cheap in exchange for that which is growing dear. Under such circumstances with all labor employed and with products steadily going to a premium while money is going to a discount, the competition for labor will be so sharp that it will be employed at a small margin of prolit to employers and the laborers will receive as wages a correspondingly large share of the products of their toil. When such conditions prevail production reaches its maximum and but few debts are created. The money lender and usurer at such times are in but little .demand. On the other hand, when the money volume is diminishing and prices falling hoarding money in Idleness is the only sure road to wealth. The judgment, industry and capacity that would win a fortune under normal conditions ean now only court bank ruptcy. Those engaged in production must anticipate lower prices and reduce costs to meet such prices. This means a reduction of wages and a consequent curtailment of l>oth production and consumption. If this condition continues a long time the savings of the laborers are first consumed bn account of enforced idleness and the competition for an opportunity to earn daily

bread becomes so severe that the laborers have no voice in regulating the share of their product that they shall receive as wages. During such periods in the world’s history when the mines were productive civilization advanced by leaps and bounds, slaves disappeared and freemen multiplied upon the earth. But during those other periods when the mines were not' productive and prices continued to fall laborers lost first their savings, then their liberties and finally the money changers destroyed all other classes and civilization itself disappeared. In view of the power of money as a controlling factor in the industrial world it will be readily seen that a combination of the world's creditors and money dealers, if permitted to manipulate the money supply through dictating coinage laws, legal tender aits, and file issue of bank notes for circulation would thereby Ih* enabled to plunder the world ad libitum. Such an organization was formed nearly half a century ago. Lt was through its agency that silver was clandestinely demonetized in the United States in 1873. It is in the interest of that same class that the Republican members of the ba nki ng. cu rre ncy sn d coina go com mi ttees have been recently holding unofficial sessions at Atlantic City. If Mr. Henderson is not pledged to appoint congressional t-onimittees in the interest of that organization he st.-tmls no show whatever of being elected Speaker of a Republican Congress. There is only one question that equals in importance the money question, aud that is the question of creating a large standing army. Militarism would mean death to the republic, and the end of liberty.—National Watchman.

The Gold Standard Farmer. I cannot but pity-many of our fellow men who find it difficult to obtain even the bare necessities «f life, crying for their oppressors. Why. how much, or rather how little—slense it takes to realize that something is wrong when we find millionaires able to pile up other millions from year to year, while upon the other Ijand. the man with a few thousand invested in real estate can, by constant effort, only make a living. Yet too many of them are like the farmer (In* is a McHaimaitei. who said to me. “Times are all right, money is plenty, but soinehow I cannot pay my debts." Poor fellow, he was much like another farmer who said. “1 can not read and don't know nnu-h about polities, but Mr. S •-- says the gold standard is best and he ought to know. Mr. S was a banker and held mortgages against the farmer for probably all that he was worth.

It is passing strange that these same men. when they go to a merchant in. their own town, won't believe him. but think he is laying for them and is making large profits upon everything he sells, when in reality it takes careful financiering to keep afloat. Now. what kind of an animal is the gold-standard farmer? His genealogy is beyond my ken, and I have frequently tried to discover the source of his perversity. Hate seemingly has permeated his very soul; he so detests anything not having the brand "Republican'’ upon it. that he refuses to even view it. Like one whom I saw once knock a jiaper out of the hands of a person and kick it after it was upon the ground. Such people -will always vote the ticket according to its label: they need masters, and for my part I would have no objections if 1 and mine were not included in the serfdom and have to suffer as well. There is hope dawning. 1 now find some, whom we regarded as hopeless, are inquiring after the truth, and may the people unite and in 1900 sweep over this fair land with such force as to presage the utter destruction of the golden calf worshipers. Let Americans rule in America. No treacherous Briton need give us advice. K.

High-Priced Ice Cream.

“I tuk two gals down street last iilglit to git 'em some ice cream,” said George M'ashington Snowball, "but when I got down I ’mos’ had a tit of heart disease.” "What was the trouble? Did they ask for a second helping?” “Secon’ helpin' nothin'. Dey didn't eben git de first helpin’.” "What was the reason? Did you discover that you had left your money at home?” “No, sali; dat wasn't what was de matter at all. We went down street jus’ as happy as you please, sah -one gal on each arm. you know an' when we got in sight ob de ice cream saloon I read dat sign, an' I fought I should drap dead.” "What did the sign say?” “It said: ‘lce Cream, $1.25 Per Gal.’ I had two gals, you know, besides mawself, an' l hadn't no pocket full of money.? Say. mister!” “Well?” " “Do you fink dat one ob dem trustses has got hold ob de ice cream business ?”—Harper’s Bazar.

Caps Off.

The comedian boarder allowed his eyes to roam around the table until they rested on the strawberries. “Any one,” he said, addressing the sweet singer, “could see that these berries were not brought up right.” “And why not?” “Because they come to the table with their caps on.” Then the landlady gritted her teeth.

INDIANA

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THB PAST WEEK. Struck by a Lightnins Bolt-Rural ; Mail Delivery System to Be Extend-fil ed—Caught byan Undercurrent-New 3 Trial for Flory-Foretold Hia Death. During a heavy thunderstorm Earl D. . Simpson met death in a tragic manner. ! He. in company with Edward Jones, was ■ diving from the Chester River Steamboat Company's wharf at Chestertown. The swimmer had mounted a pile twelve feet high for the purpose of making a dive, and as he stood, poised for the plunge the fatal flash came from a comparatively clear sky and the young man fell to the wharf dead fl His companion and a teamster and four horses that stood scarcely twenty feet away, were shocked,/ but in no degree stimmsl by the current. Rural Delivery in Indiana. Rural free mail delivery, which has been in successful operation at several points in the State for some months past, may lie greatly extended within the next ■ year. E. H. Hathaway, special agent for the work in Indiana, has bogim reorganizing <-l-l routes and establishing new ones. Many places have applied for the delivery of mail in tin* country districts, but Mr. Hathaway does not think all can get their petitions granted, although most of them have the indorsement of Congressmen. He thinks that perhaps twenty hew routes will la* established within tin* next year. Boys Drowned in the Wabash. Five Ihivs were in bathing in the Wabash at Lafayette .and three of them— Charles Zink. Walter Velliiiger and Paul Held were drowned. Two hoys named Snyder were heroically rescued bi’ another boy named George Miller. The boys, were drowned by the under current at the month of Dtirgee run. the most., treacherous'i>lai-v in the Wabash. None were over 12 years old. Flory Given a New Trial John Flory, whom the jury at Paoli sentenced to life imprisonment for the killing of Jessie Burton at Mitchell last November, was granted a new trial by the court on account of errors made in instructing the jury. Flory was taken to the' reformatory at .leffersouville for safe keeping, owing to some fear of mob v iolem e.

Preacher Foretells His Death. Rev. Quiller I’aitoe died at Martinsville. aged Ml years. He preached at a basket meeting a few days ago. and remarked that he would make no further appointments, as he did not expist to live totig. The next day he was seized with brain fever and his premonition was vertfied. Within Our Borders. Diphtheria is raging in Patrieksburg. ■ Martinsville will have a street fair in August. Bair flour bill. Princeton, damaged jtpiyMMt by tire. George Gentry. 17. Boonville, drowned v- hile swimming. Huston Hood. 22. drowned while seining in Haw creek, near Columbus. CT. Godford, farmer m ar Brazil, was drowned while fishing in Eel river. North Vernon has seven churches and eleven saloons, the erap shooter's limit. Janies Cook. Carbon. says robbefl chloroformed his family and stole tSUiO. j Harrison Kurz was seriously stabbed: near the heart by Albert Blake near Pilot Knob. * Alpha M«Dowell. 3. Kokomo, set fire to her clothing while playing with a box of matches and is dead. Ten cattle belonging to O. M. Tusli* son. Putnam County, licked white lead from a paint leg and died. .lames T. Rei<l. an influential citizen: of Sullivan, is dead in Denver, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health. The Peerless flour mill at Mount Vernon. the property of Kauffman Brothers of St. Louis, was destroyed by fire. Loss s]pi.iKMi, insurance $75,000, Mrs. William A. Cullop of Vincennei lias been appointed by Gov. Mount an honorary eommissioner to the Paris exposition to represent the women of Jacob Ellis >f Anderson, aged 85 years, has become father of his sixteenth childThe mother is but 45 years old. The youngster is sturdy and has good lungs. It weighs ten pounds. Elmo Interreiden .late of the 159th Indiana volunteers, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head whik standing in front of his father's place o business at Vineeimes. G. T. MeKim of Thorntown has received a letter from Stephen Fell, formerly ol that place, dated from South America which says that for twelve years he hai Ihm'ii a slave in a tribe on the upper Am azon. The Fairmount zinc spelter works a Fairmount were destroyed by tire. The fire was caused by an explosion of gas About 100 men were employed in the: plant. There was no insurance. The plant will !«• rebuilt at once. Huntsville, the town built on alleged magnetic iron ore. has l>een torn to pieces again by an electrical storm ami one death -that of Mrs. James Rodgers— re-| suited. The town has been the mark on lightning each year. Every great st or raj is certain to center its worst bolts at that! fioint. | Joseph Mosely, colored, a carpenten was the victim of a peculiar accident ati Evansville, and his death will be the tH suit. While engaged in repairing the rood of a house he started to saw a board foq a scaffold. He carelessly sat on the outed edge, though, ami sawed between himseM and the fastened end. As a eotisequeiUM when the broke he plunged down head foremost a distance of eighteen feed between two houses. 1 Martin Crapp was bitten on one thin in three places, the hamstring being fq] tally severed, during a fight at a picnw near Sodom. Death from gangrene is UM tieipated. 3 Ralph Schelley. 8 years old, died JH Montpelier ns the result of u vicious AM tack on him by four of his The boys were all playing together wh4M some difficulty arose over a trifling QitN ter and the four combined -to thrush hhM Two of them held Ralph Schelley wbifl the others kicked him and pounded h|M on the neck, head and back with Lockjaw fidbiwisl, and then death, g