Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

-Mon, the presSem Si *XO« te M> W9SUI tmtMt off a* MM9 1 iLnJante? gwta off tta w ttaffl.” and yet mban X Iqn ptftete out that during this off what th* republicans atm «a3l -Ymmtetal ■*&»- tknT Mr. UcKMfy UiwK wwl tar Mt»U land for opposing It; that "wem iff ISM the rkde regafcßtaai pasty Mmd Imgßnraipe n Ois try te led g® off at," «nd than, am te Europe te tsy ie grit ric «f the piU

off bdhh% ib! making them legal sender tar aM <MHsv voted to override that w». «T the Cmitcdf States ami who Smn gold monometaßHun te a sjpewdh defir<nd at TtAeda, Otoio, caaqftaiteed das “during all of Preaideao Owefiarnff* he was dishonoring one off «mr proeitens metals, one es ear great nuoffTtk. 'discrediting silver and eahamriteff the price of gold." and made 9t aa espetfial grievance that through—ft his daw administration Cleveland had pwteßtttetly need his poaert® step the oosuageaff silver dollars and make Turney the master, everything else the serveae.’*’ Pleasing as the perseaaMty off McK» ley is It becomes -evident ta—a a gjhuace over his record that he laths ifiraa eta victions and is not fitted hy Hi «r ly and consistently «a great ■gi’mnml questions. —Chicago D—aaiaL

There is nothing 3ft* toeing gcegsutel tor the worst, aal these topniMiirm •elves with the reflection that eras iff their party is toeste® to ttoe etacneas <sff tids year the «taaces'e( ftaema n yeair training themselves i«4ecfe an the ftaaft side, and to extract ns —eh esftartadefeat la this way is nett adam a* oTtoe ladder only aa hneftea ratif iessly dabbed to the gi maad tt.* tetoZ?pXnM on when it dees came, is Cmhsd SStsne* to an article ever Ms sea dptofs. -fugues that the sacoessM party to the year before the rMtaOldwan hope that It win win n tsm.iUn.ii—lh totftpolitical history, and gee* hark aa the ■Civil war pealed as stwagntom Mb paafl-

It is certain that ta the jtacs tawvfi|MrZ|iikaV]«rb aTcaiMK Sfi Tl j!a exists, fli~l i/astaasin tfin MV «f them rote their MeeSt iiwWiwiM V ;•»'" : A'" A' ' : .. " ■

any thhet ever nuiad in the Buckeye Stam.” 1 the idli—■ opposition of the German— was ytii. “We are aide to deattna W—|h’ said the Republican pailtrfrhm £a his interview. “We can Jwfigr as this fey tike sentiments, wholly ma-Aasnteaa, which he has expressed maawa hfnhfem on a large scale, if am hag nihil figure ha politico. This asst at tttag fia repugnant to the Geraasm wta, and eoooeijue'iitly 1 look for a hafit fftem the Republican ranks." Shsaftl the Democracy secure a vlc9—y ta Qfita this fall ft will prove a aassaa item to the administration and mSB give height promise of Democratic The mtum off tike Democracy in Kmte—bj an— Maryland this year, mhfith shrewdy seems assured, will undenfidedEy aanua the restoration of those States to the Democratic column 8m the Pus—initial election. Kentucky 8a ca—efiefi he strongly Democratic

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ttoaae tsa fltuftm restored there ought | and JbHßtfts toss kitted Ms party in j Batons—n. There fia every Indication A— toe aid aa—to. which showed nf w nail lufflag to 18—y will be soiKy Be—anratto to toe great contest of neat j— toad tor toe North, It daes n— take a very sharp observer to way Stote ttam it was three years Jritoari Mm to toe w—SSTthey ■ toil——todnk B—red, by a—ad toy ran— toiry with Carter toned. In hato ca—» toe gsratzanmt’s —as tony—t —C—l—,a—it togfrea 26mr T—VsM. 1 " J paaed the hypscottficnl excuses d— yararnaar— daes n— —end to

“YOUR MONEY OR YOUR JOB.”

suited,” but in plain English and fit plain Dutch the people off the two republics are told .that their territory is wanted by Great Britain, and that Great BrftaJn proposes to take it There is a quality of manliness, though a brutal manliness, in the way England is going about the business that la found wanting In bur Invasion pf the Philippines. We ape there under false pretenses. We say we are going to give the people home rule, but we refuse to promise anything definitely Kansas City Times. Trne nnl Ki*l»e Kxnanaion. In one of his Western junket speeches President McKinley brings forth the old, threadbare and fallacious argument that expansion on the North American continent and the subjugation of troplwtf Asiatic islands are one the same thing. J lHe cites the Louisiana purchase by Jefferson as justifying his own Philippine policy, when the truth is that there ie no resemblance between the two whatever. The expanding of our frontiers on this continent has been going on steadily during the century simply. We have grown rapidly in numbers, and needed more room to breathe in. In securing the regions west of the Mississippi River we merely extended the fences of the fields we already occupied; wo did not cross a wide ocean to secure a graveyard for our sons in a pestilential climate. Even the purchase of Alaska from Russia, which McKinley also refers to, presents no parallel to the Philippines To be sure, it is still doubtful whether there is anything of value beneath the ice and snow, but the territory is American, and sooner or later “the

whole boundless continent” Is destined to be ours, so that eventually this northern section wIH round out our possessions. The Philippines belong lu no sense whatever to this continent, and they are already so densely populated that there Is no chance of colonizing them from our Shores unless we undertake to kill off all the present inhabitants. The President's policy toward these islands is both Inhuman ami un-Ameri-can. The * r «nnn-Na«h-Bttrdell Ides. _ The “Ohio Idea” in politics is 111®, trated again by Chairman Burdell, of the Ohio Republican State Central Committee, who is duftning every Federal officeholder In Illinois and the West generally, for a contribution to carry the ticket through in hts own State, the ground that “the defeat of the party in the President’s borne State would be heralded by the opposition as a rebuke* to his administration.” Civil service law amounts to nothing with Republicans; but tbe Ohio idea among them appears to be that the Union would go to pieces unless they are kept In control.—Brooklyn Citizen. Getting Miaky All Aronnd. The western situation is probably serious All accounts agree that Hanna to having a terrible struggle in Ohio, while in Nebraska it Is certain that Bryaa’s epigrammatic denunciations of tbe Philippine policy have made a distinct impression. On no other theory can be explained the summons Ur Roosevelt to go over Bryan’s recent route in Nebraska. lowa, too, may need looking after because of tbe large number of Germans there—Springfield Republican.

OrcaalMd Plnndering. Tbe soft coal combination in Western Pennsylvania was no sooner organized than it advanced prices. There to no scarcity of bituminous coal. Scarcity to impossible unless artificially produced, for tbe bills art full of coal. There has been no increase In wages to Justify tbe advance. It seems to be as Instance of organized plundering.— Philadelphia Record. The Root of the Matter. Secretary Root observes that everybody is bound by patriotism to support Mr. McKinley’s policy of subjugating tbs Filipinos. Secretary Root forgets tout very few people are drawing as large a salary through Mr. McKinley’s favor as he to tee present

THE PEOPLE'S MONEY

Silver Bullion. The challenge has been made In the United States Senate time and again to show where there is more than $25,000,000 of silver bullion in existence in the world, outside of the United States treasury, and no gold standard man has ever attempted to point out where even such a quantity of silver bullion exists. The reason there is no great quantity of silver bullion in existence is because It has not been profitable to keep silver in the form of bullion. Silver has been going down in price year after year ever since 1873. and consequently the man who has attempted to hoard or store silver bullion has lost not only by the lower price of silver itself, but also the interest on the amount he invested in the bullion. The truth is that as soon as silyer bullion leaves the smelter it goes almost Immediately into subsidiary coinage and into the arts. Therefore we could not expect this predicted sppply of silver to come from silver bullion now in existence. In fact we could not expect more than $25,000,000 to come from such a source, and that, of course, is a mere drop in the bucket compared to the enormous demand for $006,000,000 which would be created by the displacement of gold.

The second source from which it is said we must expect a large supply of silver is from the arts. He ignores the fact that the cost of skilled workmanship upon the silver articles adds such a value to the articles as makes them worth more than the coinage value of the silver contained therein. It must be remembered that the cost of workmanship in the proportioning of the metals, in the molding, polishing, the gilding, the carving, and other ornamentation of the article must be very great, and the man would be an idiot who would coin into dollars something that was worth more in the shape of a work of art. As man is guided by self-interest, it Seems clear that not any of this pretended supply of silver would come from the arts. Not even any considerable part of the worn silver articles would be coined, because of the sentimental associations connected therewith. The third source from which it is said we will have the flood of silver is from the conutries of Europe. There is a great quantity of silver in the form off coins existing in Europe. It is said that they are of the value in our money of $1,500,000,000, but the man who says that these coins will come to this coun-

try in the event that we open our mints to the free coinage of silver is either ignorant of or ignores one important fact—that is, that the coins of Europe are la circulation upon a gold valuation, ahd by minting it again be could not make it Any more valuable. So the holder of European coins that are circulating upon a gold valuation could gaiu nothing by having them stamped at our mints. In fact, he would lose enormously by the transaction. The ratio at which ti® coins are in circulation in Europe is 15V& to 1. which makes the coinage value of silver in Europe $1.33 aa-ounce, whereas in this country the* ratio is 1C to 1, which makes the coinage value of silver $1,119 an ounce. The man holding European coins would lose not only the freight and insurance in bringing these coins to this country, but also would lose 4 cents on each ounce of silver coins that he brings. Those Europeans may not be so IntelMgent and bright as are the Americans, bu t they know enough not to lose 4 cents on each ounce of coins they import to us. Thus it is clear that silver coins in circulation in Europe would not be brought to our mints. The fourth source from which they

SSy we must expect a flood of silver is from the silver standard countries. They are China, Mexico, Siam, Straits Settlements, Central and South American States, Persia, Tripoli and Japan, constituting at least one-fourth of the nations of the world in commercial Importance. Japan has adopted a gold standard, but upon the silver valuation, and is therefore still on a silver basis. In those countries silver circulates at its commercial value, namely, about 50 cents on the dollar, and consequently at first thought one might believe that silver would come from those countries to our mints. In order to determine whether any silver would come from those countries it is important that their condition and needs of a circulating medium should be F. Shafroth.

Plnnncl*»l f nnditlona. “So scarce is the local supply of currency,” says the financial reporter of a New York daily, “that it is likely that New York will have to ship gold to the West and South to move the crops, provided the demand for that purpose to equal to farmer years.” If that, to the situation now, What will It be when the gre.nbacks are all retired, and bonds are issued in their stead ? The loss of the greenbacks will make one hole In tbe present insufficient money supply, the interest to be paid on the newly issued bonds will make another, and tbe New York gold brokers must be depended upon to furnish the people with the circulating medium which they should furnish them selves. Is It likely that the people will be better off as their necessities become greater and the mesne of supplying them are made less?—San Francisco Star. The opal mines in New Mexico and the United States have been about ex-, hausted, no gems of much value being extracted from them, though at one time large sums were made out of these mines. •

STUDENTS MOB DOWIE.

Vi—eat Sc—■ ttc K— l lt off I—rite—g Medic* to Mis lattes. John Alexander Dowie, tike maseSd, who claims to be able to effect nmacmloaa cures by divine dispensation, was routed at his West Side £IOO tabernacle in Chicago Wednesday night by than 1,500 angry medical students armed with offensive chemicals, and had So be escorted to his carriage by the pntire The young men who clacked the faith apostle while be was on his way te bin tabernacle to deliver a lecture on “Doctors, Drags and Devils,” care out of the encounter only partially victorious. Twice the police beat a tattoo on their heads with stout dobs before they were content to remain outside of the besieged auditorium, and a dozen were arrested and sent to the police station to think over their temerity. Throughout the feetore the howls off the enraged students of the several medical schools in the vicinity coaid be heard and unpleasant reminders that they were still on hand came through the windows from time to time in the shape of bottles of nitrate of ammonia, which, as they broke, exhaled a smell, compared te which the odor of Yorick's skull might be considered a perfumed breeze from Arabj the blest. Hardly a pane of glass was left in the Dowie sanctuary and when the exponent of a new gospel was finally led forth by a back doorway to his costly carriage and helped in by two quaking footmen whose once rich attire reeked of the laboratory he was in a state of perturbation that belied his confident assertions inside the brick walls which no longer protected him. Twelve students, more demonstrative than others, were placed under arrest, but upon recommendation of the city prosecutor they were discharged upon payment of costs.

CALL THE WAR A CRIME.

Anti-lmperiali*!* Meet and Denounce the Philippine Caapiio-Anti-imperialists from thirty States were congregated in Apollo Hall at Chicago Tuesday induing. when the conference against expansion was opened. Public meetings were held Tuesday evening, Wednesday afternoon and evening. Edward Burritt Smith called the meeting to order. I’rof. A. H. Tolnian es the University of Chicago delivered the opening address and was followed by a number of other speakers. The speakers announced themselves, some in violent and some in quiet words, as the bearers of the true spirit <>f iudei*cndcnee and free government. Following are some of the sentiments expressed: The American people should stamp the administration’s proceedings with a verdict of disapproval so clear and so emphatic that this will be a solemn warning to future Presidents instead of a seductive precedent. —Carl Schurx. The people begin to comprehend that homicide is homicide, that bloodshed is bloodshed; that it serves nothing to call oneself Caesar or Napoleon, and that in the eyes of the eternal God the figure off a murderer is not changed because instead of a gallows cap there is placed upon his head an emperor's crown.—JL Sterling Morton. In nearly all the eventSTff'TSstory the dominant minority fought out the principle of liberty. History will repeat Itself.—Edward Atkinson.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Smith College has 400 freshmen this year. Brown has a smaller freshman class than last year. University of Illinois professors have organized a golf club. Williams began its 106th year with at freshman class of 110. Residence in college halls is now required at Bryn Mavr. Four new dormitories are to be erected for the University of Pennsylvania. There are 240 women at the Umversity of Illinois this year, more than ever before. Two Cornell students have been given appointments in the Chinese customs service. Yassar has 239 new students, and toe number who dropped out is smaller than usual. Twenty changes have been made in toe faculty of the Massachusetts Institute «f Technology. Prof. Rush Pbees of Newton has accepted the presidency of the University as Rochester. • The growth la recorded me toe books in tbe Cornell library daring seven years is 232 per cent. Nature study at the zoological gardens Is to be a part of the course of instruction in Philadelphia public schools. Reports from the University of lOnne sot a indicate that its total asm her of students will this year reach, or even pass, 3,000. The alumni of Tofts College have obtained a voice in the government of the college in the form of a board as overseers.

Two hundred and fifty-nine University of Michigan men were to servku, either at the front or in camp, during toe recent Spanish war. The Presbyterians of Tennessee are striving to establish a college at WinpMi to be known as the Cumberland Prefiy terian University. Franklin Remington, *B7. of Chicago is one of the new members of tbe executive committee of the Athletic amo fia tion of Harvard graduates. There are 426 colleges la America, with property estimated at Girard, with $15,000,000. and leUad Stanford, Jr., with are tbe richest The Princeton flag was at tbe masthead of the Peary relief ship, along with the Stars and Stripes, and was carried farther north than any fimerirsn flag since 1871. ' Athletes on the University of Michigan football team will likely be taken to the Paris exposition. Trainer Itoptukk has broached toe idea, and it is papnlsr The opening of toe school year has been attended by few reports of baring, tot barbarous method of wukxmiag fee tomes 15,53 w °*

STATE CAPITAL CHAT

TV <iwnwr ami staff ami a party off Grand Army mn ami -tier Fait* v»b tol place in the ff®Eme histories off the United States. The peoeefni mission mi the Man «ff a Caofedrcate battle dag caprmed firms Terry's Texas Rangers at CWavifie. Ga_ Ort_ IX I*3. by Wilder's brigade. by I Sen. A. O. Miller «f Lrbu«L The Seventeenth Indiana m piiMcMwm of the tftig ami it was sent Neath s* the Governor of la- s fima. It Ip been sa the State capital rimee the war. The dug of Texas Trias. It is stSB in gi-wi eooditiea. tboagh somewhat faded. The iimemimi are three by two Sort. The mate part of the flag » bone sk. In the center is a white cirdc of satin, yellowed with years, and within this white circle is a red cross te nhinh eleven stars are -fctlifafiy vwfad with yeffow sf!k thread. Near the bwrdec of the wSite circle on ■me side are wwoked te bine silk thread the woods; Tid defend the right. Tenth’s Texas fiaagnsL" On the -other side off the Iff which is the same te aQ other tefpixts. are the woods; “Unit amor patriae. Terri's Texas Bangers. - AJjL Wm. E Ibfbf of the Seventeenth In-

THE FLAG OF TERRY'S RANGERS.

-liana he®!* * diary es the week *f that regiment. In the desiy appeurs- the f««t----b-vnang Icief ueowaal wf the capture of ■the flasr 1? Move! oa the enemy. FVnod hia jt-eigy prwted ■• * a creek near Co«iaTS>- Shsr hetsade rtareed Ui-on -anted, teeaking the vaeasy** Line; st the same time tbe brigade of Minty charged and teak their artillery, killed and wounded atoms fifty in the trio of rebel brigade*. Cter rcriwcut test for kiljed and tone w-anded. Capt. Weller f-jV.uiar tbe -rawmy «w the flank captured the flag *f "Terry's Texas- Ranker*.’ Re turned after the fight to near Rome. Bay's march. 30 Balts.' The survivorfs •*f Terry's Texas Raaerrs originated the State Lcpdataw for a ret era of the A eg. Mai- -I- -I- a past commander of the Grand Army, jwiimd to the request. The matter was pcv-eo;«<£ to Gov. M<*cmt, who approved of it after eoaferriag with ■ Gen. Mißer. Senator Binkley of Richmond totTwdmed the (esetotMa to the Legtotan- whaeh appropriated $250 for the expenses of the return. In the party wen- the Governor and meet of toe member* of his staff. A-djt. Gen. Gate was unable to ** hecauoe of aEaoess. The $239 was turned over to BaUiri Ryan, past department nuuiiflrr. who selected the fofiuwing party; W. J. HiESgww. Via <de; I»atue! Ryan. Flat Rath: W. L. Daalap. Frank®*; Timer hy E. Howard. >..*cTh Bend: R M. Hutchins. Cotomtorr; H. C. CayJsr. NrUmffe: G- V. Menm*. North Vtmn and Senator Berkley of Rkhmtad. The tattered battle flag was restosed to tbe swriviag tern naat «f the gaSaan Confederate hand, the at tbe fair gmafe at Bafias. Texas. Got. Meant of Indiana and staff. Gov. Sayers of Texas and ia( and a mounded escort of Capo. Ffigeu's rough riders formed to ton of the Cfcy Had and proceeded to the entrance of the j i mndi. where they were met by a delegation of ex-Ounfederat*** and aaeaalegs of the Grand Amy of tbe Repnhfic. who escorted them to toe auditorium Guv. Meant to an impressive jpeech before a large assemblage presented the flag to ri«a of Teny's Kaapnx Mach enthnma«m eras miii'Ti mud ilai ng the proceed togs.

The annha of the State Ms Seen «3ei fcjr a series of 4th» a* the fart ‘that these ate LM tsflTj Mni tatlStF off the Stale n pie them ranfive treatment. Each of the fm State joeomi Wl< patterns ate hemp rami for aai the <af*rUT «f ewij mem and eraixl is taxed t* its etmi nt The last off beat* the fins Cam—tat. State ar off the Camßa t it iiaj. m this impact. was < jrrlrd. each Indiana has foamd it neeematy tn take tp the *ey jndge off the MohrcLt at Vfit W«rwe Sa mewed the late lalpr Dawde (dare off Mr. 'thf' fiRMHI' VFlfe9 kCW'IHW