Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 40, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 August 1898 — Page 7

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THE DOOLEY BOY

By FRANCES WILSON.

T .....ft,.....,,, i im ( ! telling what i lot of w I !' he found there, nml he to Mi ( lark yesterday in i'wr -ii pleased. IM try to get to.ii' fo

TN BAR me," a id tit mini t i . look

YJ i g oat of litest ndj irlndo with u irowu "There i- that Dooiey box in tM garden .gain, tio away, boy! What ui vu BOlng 'u that ctruvs berry bed ? I'll -i sorr, nt iaii eoBM Mit the fence,' explained the Poole hoy, xxith Bin mouth full of straw lu rries. It real remarkable how often the Doolejf boy's, ball "eneas oxer tlM fence" i Ii t the minister's garden, ince tin- si raw bf rncs bad begun to r i i it-ft . t ihn pwital moment it was lying In in path beside the straxxlitriv bed, in plain sight' ami tin Ueolet boy, wiihTna air of having jnat dtieovered it. picked it up ami vm iiIm.iiI to make Iiis exit from the garden in the mine araj that be ami the hall hail entered- over th fem--. But Um ovinia ter called, in a tone of vexation: '(to out through tin- cafe. You are breaking that ft mi down, climbing mi r il as you do, nearly i n n ila J . If you ilt not stop it, I shall have a bin of expanse for repairs." "Yt-s. sorr.' saiil the I loob y hov. culiniy : anil he walked around to the front of the bouse, nod went out iy the L'ati . Be eft the gate open behfaal hitn. !ut the miiii-ier did not notice lliat. s-nil was working i.n hist sermon with great terror, when Iii cars vert- asailed by n startling din in the garden, lie rushed ngain to the window, sind

hebe Id the Dooleys eoa wbicb commonly grazed on the highway, eon trnry to law Bad order crashing nnd stamping around among th ri getabiea and Sower beds, pursued by Mrs, Hgthawaj xxith a broom, Aunt Maris w ith i feather duster, and Bridget with a mop. nach I owl 1 3 lifting ber voice againal the Invading cow, Just then Ernest Bnthawny, the minister! son. coming borne From School, arr.Ved upon the secne, "Hi! ki: I'll head her off:," he shi uted. Anri he faulted over the fence", in imitation of the Dooiey hoy. Unluckily, the valine of the feaee arere already loosened. Thej gave way, and precipitated .Master Broest into the straw In rr bed. with a I Ol g rent in his nexv jacket sml a painful bump on his Knee, Nearly n week elapsed before the I hoy xi-iturei! atrniii. Then he sauntered pa the parsonage, and east u longing pin nee at the strawlierrv hed. It ahnnced that little Roue enme tod dliag at that moment doWB the gar den path, ami called out to him, in lier pretty. COoIng lisp: "'riio. Timmy! Where Itb oo doIn'.1" "Mullo. Boeie! t nine and acc nie! raitl the Dooiey hoy, stooping down nml holding out his hamU to her Ihtween the paling1 f the fence, while ii brand grin of gi a nine delight sprend iurr his freckled faee. Piekii'ir 'wo or three hip rerl strawberries. Hose squeezed them tightly In her chubby little hat, put the at ream Ing, erimsou tn" into the Dooiey boy'i hand, llapinaj 'vth aeraphic ami let "I haw herwies doodl Timmy en' ttta chawberartes!

Ii4t wai atnined with mmi

Slid In - faee w as ili,-t y . "Wtiy, Krne! Bathnnayf c. it d Annl Barks. "What ha..- yon baosj into nnn f "I'xc heel: in'o the pond hole down in titliu awnmp, Aunt Muri.-!." said Kniest, looking half ashamed and -! ft . utmä .

ii. in i ri.impn.i it . inn i to

tIUng what a lot of while point lilit-a

brought some morning ,Sh So 1 thought

For mot her ami

you. BUntie, nnd Vim said heM help uie. . went ut mi some oi.i loga and pot a w.mle armful. I put tksm in a pail of water out in the WOudahcda Coma ami look, mother." "Yev "liar, presently; hut you inu-t pet mi -nine dry elothes at mirr." laid Mr. Hathaway, with a smile ami a -i'h "It was niee to think of j;etting lis lilies hut how did you get so Wet?" "IHi. a log turneil over and pitched me in." mi id Kniest. "The water'a .ni tty ileeii there, and it's all blank

asnd ami stuff at the bot torn! ami 1 lot my shoe. "Hut you should tea Tim Dooley'i elothes. Bis school auit, too. Ami he hasn't any other.'" saiil Krnent. with a stilit-r faee. "My elothes are good stuff ami they tan he cleaned, hut hia are spoiled foi sure." "Thea you both fell into the water? What careless hoys!" said Mra. Hat litt w ay. "No, mother. Tim ilidn't fall in. He eailie ill after llie. Voll see. I tlulllldered Into the deep water, nnd my feet sunk in the mil!, and and I don't Im it e I eoulil have pot out if it hada'1 benn fr Tins, He Boated out a big braneh of tree to bnngon to ami helped me out of the mini: and, between us. w e managed to pet nahore Tim was all over iniid; he lookei enoutrh worse than I do." There wna a new trolley linh through the rillape. ami it was Hose's delipht ti atand at the front gate and wntch thi ear goaplnning past. The butchersboj had carelessly left Ikegateepen. hi. sie was consumed with curiosity to dinCOrer where the bright sparka were hidden ahleh Hew off the raiii when the ear went by. and presently shtf was crouching on the forbidden track, picking at the rails with a stieh. So. u there was a bumming sound which gave warning that a car wna coming. Aunt Maria looked oat of the window to see it pass, and saw a itiht that rurdled the Mood in her veins. She saw oie sittint on the track-, I too muc h sbaorhad to hoed the up- I praaehing ear. The motorsshn was

TRUE DEMOCRATS. The ctemo ratio party, wl.rn r nird Bear at hnadj Aiivisvi a . . ly ronfliil w::h the f: Patrtoilc peeehea were made throughout the lulid By democrat who volunteered to ro Win history Ii rillt i. and the tulo of war In told. And the BeroeS brave are courted name for Saasa, Aa many frit nils of ellver aa advocate of Bold You'll find have earnti the ahoulder Htraim of fame. From the brav and fearle Dewey, and the gallant Winfteld Schier To the humbli-Kt private lighting In the ran ha Surrounding Santiago or In Manila bay. The democrat were fort-moat with the Yanks. No partisan can drprlve them of the glorlea t!.. y have won. On thf-lr military m-ord we'll atand pat Aa aure a the eastern horizon ( iiomri the mornltiK sun. Our nut preaidtnt will be a democrat. Blvouaclng Cuba and the far off ThlllpBtaen, Beneath the atarry flau of Uncle Sam, Two armies wrapt In al umber are dreaming peaceful dreams. Sheltered by the mango and the palm. When the enemy aurrendera. which It aooo will have to do. Within our hearts we'll have aome grassy plata. And welcome home the gallant boya who bravely wore the blue, And camp them there aa silver democrat. G B. BVG HKS

BONDS AND THE PEOPLE.

Hcbtme of the I'lutoi-rata wink the People hy 1'opular Loan.

to lloodrdso

T"MMV I I.KY T-.THK HKSl'UE.

looKinp at a frei-Kleil ami ilirtv-faceij hov. lottnging down th- atreet, with both hands in his pockets, sad be had not discovered the child. . Aunt Maria ran out, utterinp i scream that brought the ministen from his stml. At the same moment)

Naturally enough, there was a feel

ing of opposition to the popular loan ou the part of the trusts and syndicatca, hut as a rule the expression of i; approval was smothered. It haa remained for the New York Titnea to "pive away" the sentiments of the plutocrats under a mistaken idea that the bond issue as a popular loan has proved a failure. The Times says: "It was the theory of the demagogues anil certain very ignorant and baneful newspapers in this city eagerly helped them in their labor that the WOrhlngmen who put up a few hundred dollars would he quick to draw his money out of the savings banks, where he was petting four per rent, interest, in order to invest it at three per cent, in government bonds. The truth is and '.he attempt was repeatedly made to get it into the thick heads of the demagogues that the American wagp-earner is and has always been an investor in government honda. His investments are managed for him without charge by the truster of his savings batik, and the government bonds have always been a favorite form oF investment for him." But the bank trustees did not "manage" the wnrkinpman's business For hi.n in the recent issue of bonds. In fart, the worWngman showed himself quite Sapuble of managing his own business. As a simple matter of statistics, the resuH of the bond issue stands as Follows:

TnM! amount of bonds loan t jno noo vn Totn! amount subscribed l.!rn,r.viofi

Totnl n mount of money deipoBi ted sno.nr.

Higneat tntlviriu.il ullotrm nt lO.opfl I.ow-st Individual allotments .. to I.ea.i than S.'JO suB-arrh tiona

arceMd 50.fO.W

ueaa t- in j.o u!s rtptions accepted lO.ooonnfi Whenever any means is suggested a Inch has in It any consideration For the rights oF the people the plutorrats ran be counted on to raise the cry oF "demagogistn." Hut in the matter oF the war bond isue the people seemed to have secured the best oF the barpain. TAXING INCOMES

This temptation was more than the ' '' freckled bov gmte a yell that made

could

hut

Ilooiev box's flesh and blood

rt and. He sw allow cd the crush

ei t Icing Fruit, and hel

for more. Iii. sie. with a gargle of phvaaare, Stooped down to clutch another berry, aid the Hooley boys mouth watered with eagerBeaa. Jusl then a wrathful roice From the direction of the Kitchen Boot exclaimed? "W hat are ye doin' there. ouiip raaklil (et nwav with your misch!, f!" ii Dfhlgvi came down the garden path like a whirlwind, picked up the struggling Roafce, and ponred not tinall of her scorn. "Ttou're ihe wotal goad' for notkiu' hoi in this neighhorhoodl Ain't von ashamed to be amhin' the little Innocent h-lp ou ateaJ t raw berries?" "I didn't!" f.tid the DoOkff !. red den lag under hhtfracldea, "Sin glrc 'em io me horse If. l never sshed her for 'em " Hut Bridget bore away the baby, kicking sad protest lag loudly. "No. no! Timmy not bad' Timmy dood box! Uosie gived him chawbi m lea her did." Ilridgct'l view of the -ae. howexer, bCOepted; and llosie was told that ab must have no more to da with the iMioli-v boy. "Although," said pintle Mr. Hath nw.i. "I should not wish my little iriri to suppose there wai atMtliinp hg in giving him a Few straw -berries, son thottld have asked mamma'i peraalmlon, Uosie diar." Kmeat, howe-r. continued In Watch for the EktohlJ box, ami walk with him to school, ami forgathered with him. in ri.mmoti xvith his male. Hi irenls did not feel like sellinp an Interdiction nn his Friendly lnicreonrai xxith a schootniste, except : Hnf rant cause. uch cause appeared to ha.e nrlsen, alien Kniest came home, one Bat ix afternoon, In täte that amde 1 - mother and mint look xoluities of dimay. He was soaking Wet from h ad to Fotit. mid imeared to the w.nst aith black mud ami green linie. One sLov WM misMug. ilia white straw

the motormaii turn pale, and put ou

the brakes with all his might.

out hi hand , " Xi,s ;te to stop tiie car. Another moment, and it xxould have beer

too la'e to saxe the child. Hut the box made one spring s flying leap and snatched her out oF danger. Uosie was rrxing loudly, but quitt unhnrmed, She xxas crying not st much from fright as from tender pit, for the Dooiey box ; for she looked U) into his face, doxvu xvhieh a stream ol blood xxas t rich ling, and piteonslx sobbed: "Timinv hurt! riminx face all bud p x ; Poor Timm j I " "Vou dear boy!" cried Aunt Maria And she. too. began to cry. Mr. Hathaway, claapii g Hoste, took the Dooiey boy Into the aaiar embrace much to his surprise. He xx as taken into the house, and Iiiblood Washed from his face, the cut. which xxas nothing serious, dressed

Jnat to

and Itraannable M Swell the Income of the Nullt. o.

xxith coiirtphiHtcr. the dirt slo washed sway, and the "hock of early brown balr pushed back from the welt shaped Forehead; and. behold! the Donlcx box xxas a reallx pond looking bo x ! "V brave box!" said the minister, xxith emotion. "We shall nexer Forget what yon have done (or nw, Timothy ,n "It's vou that's pood to me. sorr. I've done a lot of things to plague you. but I I didn't mean to. I'm sorry I left the gate open, so the COW got into your garden. And I'm sorry I broke the fence climbing oxer, and I'm sorry I ptehed the st ruxx bcrriet. And I'm sorry " "Yes. yes, my box . 1 am sure yon nn -nrry. and BO am I." said Mr llathaway, seriously, "I amsorrv that have not Known jron wall enough tn dlaeov i r Ihe brave, pood spirit in you. Hut I .nn glad I knoxx it iioxv. We will de bet ter alter 1 his." Yes, sorr!" saiil the Doolet lim. drawingth aleeveofhla rnggng Jnahat aero- s his ox es. Recognition nml rneonraganaint brought ou; the good that was in him .'ind It vxns not long before people began In MJ there xxas not abetter behaved boj i" Iowa than the Doolejr box. I hi -i .an K r.

That the democratic p!;if form adopt

ed nt the state convention oflllinois is ; worthy of hearty approval on the part , of the people needs no argument. Following the si!x-r plank comes a declaration that will appeal to the sense ! of Justice in every heart not hardened ' by selfish interest. Thia plank reada oa follows: "We demand the adop1 tion of a Fair and equitable tax on incomea and an amendment to the Constitution of the United state, if necessary, to accomplish thia purpose." This is just anil reasonable on its face, i s the laxv now stands the burden of taxation Is placed on the shoulders of ( those least able to pay it. The man who has an income oF flO.OOO a year may be able to avoid taxation entirely, hut the man who earns a dollar a day must pay heavy taxation and has no chance to evade such payment. I.ythe I xote oF one man on the supreme bench I It has been declared that an income tax ia unconstitutional. Although thia Is simply the opinion oF one man. it Is binding so long aa it is not reversed, nnd perhnpa the simplest way to reverse It is to secure a constitutional nmendment. In the long run justice will be secured, and the democratic i party of Illinois ia pledged by their

plat Form to aid in its securement. not only in this one rase but in other cases, Whhnh will be reFerrrd to later on.

The senate refused to confirm W'imberly for collector of customs at New Orleans because oF Witnberly'a very bad character. So aFter the senate ha adjourned the president appointa W'i'.nberly ad interim. Thia is W'imberly a reward for hax ing turned Heed votes over to McKinley in the national convention. It is ibonl as disreputable a proceeding na ever oc-

curred in national politics N. Y.

World.

The protectionists xxho stick for exclusive patronage of home industry overlook the axxnrd of the contract to take the captive soldiers home, to Foreign ship owners, Spanish harbor would scarcely be a pleasant place For our Amencan transports, so the Job aa not begrudged. L'tlca Obaerver.

THE GOLD STANDARD.

It Standi fur a Theorr Thai la Kai laelnna and Ullhaal Inundation When we speak oF value we speak of a subject around which the goldites hax e cast a halo oF superstition, w hich, in the language of Senator John I. Jones, ha contributed more to ths martyrdom of men than war. pestilence and Famine. The gold standard adxorates claim that money must have intrinsic value; that gold only has intrinsic value; thercFore, gold alone ia lit For money. Thia doctrine ha been thought falae by a reputable economist. It has been refuted by cience and denied by experience. Value in economics ia purely a relation, and the idea oF value being intrinaic, or independent of anything intrinsic, la an unthinkable absurdity. The value oF atix thing is what xve exchange for it. The value of a dollar is so many bushel of wheat or so many barrela of pork, or sa many bales of cotton, or o many days oF labor, etc. Conversely, the value of a auit of clothes is the nuaiber of dollars For which it can be had, the value oF a day's labor ia so many dollara. Kach ineasurea the other. One is the standard of the other. Thus, the value of a dollar depend upon ita power to command labor or the producta oF labor. A dollar that commands two days' labor ia twice as valuable na a dollar that commands one day's labor. This is selfevident, and the truth is virtually denied In every argument that ia made for the jold standard. Thia x-alue ia absolutely independent of the intrinsic elements which, combined, constitute the substance of the dollar. It Is not the substance but the Func tion giver, to the substance which makes the dollar valuable. It ia be, cause the function imparted to it givea it potent tO perform certain work that a dollar h.is value. That is, the value of a dollar depends upon the work which it has to perform. Hemembering that the demand For money ia equal to the demand for everythinff else, it is obvious that the amount of work which each dollar will have to do xvill depend upon the amount oF dollars that are secured by law to do thia work. To state it in another xvay, the value oF money is determined by the laxv of supply and demand. Now the word "standard i t self suggests the idea of stability and inx .ariab'eness.

Absolute stability is HlflBBBfflj an impossibility. The degree oF stability depends upon the ratio oF stability between the demand For the dollars and the supply oF dollars. The most perFect monetary system is that f which the supply oF money just equa's the demand, For such a system gives stability. If the supply does not keep pace with the demand the result will be an appreciating dollar, the evils of xvhieh xve will mention when we see how gold performed the Function of a standard of deFerred payments. When under bimetallism both gold and silver flowed freely into the channels of trade nr. 1 supplied the demand so that there was a stability in the value of the dollar, a fair level of prices xva maintained. Since that time, while the demand for money has been increasing, the supply has been decreasing, heraus the xvork Formerly done by both the metals has been placed upon one alone, nn 1 that one has been entirely inadequate. The annual production oF gold is approximately $200.0f)O.OtiO, oF this ihr demand For use in the art absorbs $'20.000.000. leaving For monetary use about $80,000,000. For thi instgntfteant sum all the nations are clamoring. The universal scramble For gold is illustrated by the fact that the annual coinage of gold is greater than the total annual production. Thhl simply means that it is taken as a commodity in the form oF coins From one nation to another, where it ia coined lr.;o the coins oF that nation. That stich a standard could be stable xvill not be maintained by anyone that is at all familiar with eronomio science.

I The Monetary Problem.

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OPINIONS AND POINTERS. Mark Har.na's Mrategic board la r.ot directing war mat tera. The operations of Mark's board are usually con

fined to Ohio und Wall street. St. Louis Republic. The last republican executive who fooled with forOS bill dynamite xv;.., Itenjamin Harrison, lie xxas not reelected. Not to any considerable extent. Albany Argu. At last accounts the commerce destroyer Nelson Ilinglex was wallowing in the trough of a heavy sea. with a cyclone bfowtag and a formidable deficit rapidly COmiag up on the starboard quurtcr. Chicago Chronicle. Above all things, individual democrats, whether in congress or out of it, cannot afford to become even the blind assistants of those xxho. under cover of the war and nexv issues, are striving to make the aingle gold standard a permanent fixture in our tinnncial system. Atlanta Constitution. The national sentiment was for war. the ritional sentiment Is For a short nnd decisive war, nnd the national sentiment will be For a speedy pence when Spain yields, as yield she must, and that soon. Taxation For

conquest nnd annexation, with the

splendor nnd burdens of imperialism, will not be popular with the masses of the American people. Louisville Dispatch. The Fact that American Fac

tories nn.! American workmen are idle on the average one-third oF each y ear Isar imporlant one. It means, in the first place uneconomical production, for marufacturers and employes must live from the product made. Constant operation, then, would admit of a material reduction in prices, without loss to either the workers or t hi ir employers. The remedy is to be sought In an extension of trade Info Foreign marketa. Pittsburgh Dispatch.

DEBT IS ENTHRONED. The Pnni er V h l-b Koatrra llr hi shuald tie aaaama Phra gonm of I'avstlr. U have passed through file years of panic five yeara of unexcelled business depression and univcraal suffering five yearn of the suspension of general prosperity. Why? Our banking system secures a minimum volume of money in tincountry. This require! business t o he done upon a credit rather than a cali basis. Its greatest profita, are realize'! fr.tui loanin .'i;e j.osits- money not Its own. A nominal capital only is thus required. What haa been the effect? When the

panic or l"J. xxas prei ipitateu, irom , the best estimates, the bank and leavings credits amounted to over eight times fMio.orKi.lKM) actually held by I these institutions!. The whole business and industrv of the country rested upon about four billions oF confidence j currency, or. in othci xvords, of credit. This must inevita' ly follow under a I narroxx , limit ed supply of money. Debt becomes a necessity. What xxas the result? The exjianion became so great that banks Failed to pay their depositors. The whole system, through its clearing house as1 sociatioti. reFusid nccommodat ions nnd demanded jayment of Its call loans. The supply xxas thus cut off. and the debtor could not respond. The high tension of cn-ilit. snapped suddenly, causing a panic. What saved the whole system was the issue and use among the banks themselves of clearing house loan certificates- a species j of currency which would not have beer, tolerated by individual merchants In failing cirrwrrsta nres for a single day. The people went under and are still down. The s-jme thintr xx ill occur periodically ander rüch a system. What gala, Itarl years of hard times? We see what n power there is in such a system to expand nnd contract the currency. Then inflated to its highest capacity, noxv. curtailed to Its lowest limit. When t he ban ker speaks of "re

stored confidence" he rdmply means the restored ability of the people to

commenrc this deceitful scheme of

horroxriti- Bgnin. The great quertion then is. shall xve foster this mot bid system of credit, based upon a limited supply of money, or shall it be radically- changed so t hat there can be u volume of money adequate to carry ofl all business upon a eanh baala, as in FVnaee, where general panics are unknown. If tin- 1 atter policy, the supply money must not be limited in amount hy tntttte laxv. It must he governed by the economic law of supply and demand. The GOinsgB of the money metals must lc tqually free at the standard ratio. The government must iBSne nil paper money dirert. This is progressive. Private corporations n ist not usayp the money Functions oF the government. This ia retrogressive. Then must be no monetary alliances w'th nations not In Full sympathy w ith these fheories. There must be no compromise upon these vita! points. IF thane principles had lcen in Operfition. the present panic would not have occurred. Wl.y ? Decanse xxi would have had the full per capita of money required. It would have ben more evenly and justly distributed. It could not haxe been monopolized by banks and rapitalists aa now. We would not have lieen all over in debt. The people, and not the banks, would have hoarded the money. IF the panic had been a speculative flurry as niijrlit occur, the effect would have soon been over. The people would have unlocked

their hoards and the temporary strinrency would have been soon relieved. Now, there Is about 596,000 .0efl of money and currency In the treasury, und most of the hal.ince is tied up in f n at bundles In the vaults of the banks, leaving a small per capita in actual circulation. In the meantime the panic is st ill on. st i fling enterprise, and making laggards and coxvarda of the people. fJnder the gold standard oF credit the term "investment," "money to loan." haxe a siren charm. They nre very profusely added In our nexxspapers and show w indows. We have Iseen educated to the notion that the deeper we are In debt the mere prosperous we are. The government is most Foolishly run Into a war de oF hundreds of millions, really in the interest of the

ihanht. They tnlk about a popular loan. Nine-tenths of the people hnve no money to Invest in bonds. What they desire is money not bonds. They ask For bread and nrr offered stones. Hut many with fixed incomes cannot realize this, unless they study the question, xvhieh manv of us do not do. The government might hnve Increased Its present volume of over 44'.OOO.ooo legal tender demand notes the best money exer created by this or nm other nation -and thus have reliexed the rountry from the panic. Purely It might hnve coined $4O0,. 000.000 of the seigniorage, monthly, ai d added aliout ft.'.ooo.OOO to the volume of money w ithin a year. Hut no! It would have brought a little tr.rirc money into more immediate circula

tion and eased up tin money market; ! raised wagrs. and furnished xvork fori the unemployed. Tbit a niggardly $1.500.000 a month will not effect n chatige I f present hard conditions. Hut then, j we must remember that we are now mnr.ntrinc Mir finances upon the prlndfdaa of a sound cttrretiey nrd maintaining the financial honor and credit of the government. It oes seem tl v now ths voters would sm the motive,

of the friends of this stingy gold stand aril eredit policy, ua carried on by the govern ment in the intereat of ths banks. Let ua ull pray that the banking scheme couceived by the Indianapolis conference now pending in the Ioxm r house of congress, may be defeated. We regard that as the most insidious and dungiTous measure ever offered upon this subject. It is intended to tighten the grip of the present system more firmly upon tin unsuspecting people. We have no space for comment.. F.u-ry voter of the I'nited States should read the open letter oi lion, fleorge A. (Jroot, to this commission, in the May Arena. He most effectually punctures the attempt to transform this svsteni into an angel of light. I have simply attempted to froshea up aome Ideas that should be kept to the Front. These isMics must not be Forgotten amidst the glapiour of war They are and must In more alive than 'erin the Future. William Knapp, in Silver Knight Watchman. THE ISSUE THAT -'DIES." Unl still the Silver MDeatlnn la III Moat lnitrtuut of All allonal laaue llurlna Campaigns. We are row witr.essii .g the bi-month ly "dying out oF the silver question." This wonderful perFormance, a usual, is taking place in the editorial rooms. uf the plutocratic press. It BBCVS that a travt-i ing correspondent of one of these organs met a man in the road in Illinois, and told him hoxxdy. The man BOWdied, and suggested something about the weather. The correspondent, not being satis-tied with this, asked the man xvhither the roud led. 'From here to the cross-roads," ansxxerec! t lie man, "but at the cross-roads it branches out an' goes every xvhieha wax ." This was more satisfactory, for the correspondent clapped spurs to his horse ar.d galloped to the nearest telegraph station, whence he sent a thou-sami-wurd dispatch announcing thai "the silver question is dying out In all ptrt8 of the country." Aa a result, xve

lind it "dying out" in all the plutocratic organs. This "dying out" business ia a great deal too numerous to count its anniversaries, and there is no need to go back to history to verify dates. The silver question was "dead" in 1 -V x ii g out" in 1 -''4, "dead" ir. 1'.8 and "dying out" in 189S. Thisbeingso xve wonder that the plutocratic presi concerns itselF so Far as to keep silver's memory green. It is queer that the editors have never been led to suspect hat the xxhole financial question. xvhieh is inseparably connected with silver, gets at least a part uF its vitality from the conspicuous manner in which they advertise it. The fact Is, however, that the talk of War naif makes the silver question more impor''int. OF all national isstni it Is the only one that is sure to be Found at the bottom oF all political dU oussion. If the talk is about xvar, you hear the plutocratic editors ask with a shiver: "Hut won't war involve a suspension of gold payments and bring us plump to a silver basis, or. what It worse, to a paper basis?" Let the talk be about the prospect of currency reForm, or the effecta oF the tariff, and, behold! our old friend, the silver question, bobs up as chipper and as rendy for a Frolic as a kitten. Does a man wart to run For governor! Very well; the first thing he must do ii to announce where he stands on the silver que, tier. Does he xxar.t nr.y othe? important oftlee? He mutt tell the voter hoxv he Feels in ref-ard to the re monetization oF silver. This, oF course does not interFere with the regular bimonthly "dying out" oF the silver question In the organs; but it shows that the people are neither dead nor sleep ing. Wars nrd rumors oF xvar may corns and go; the "honor" and "integrity" of the nation may he talked t by those who wouldn't know national integrity if they met It in the road; "sound money may Form the subject oF voluminous editorial articles, and numerotn pamphlets, but the silver question continue to he aiive amorg the fi.'iOO.onn who voted for Free coinage. The Intelligent white voters oF the land voted to remotiet ize silver by a majority of more than a million. Atlanta Constitution. GOLD DEMOCRATS DEAD.

Silence IIa Kallen on the lamp at Ihe Aaalatant Mnitle Mnnilaril

Hrpnlillean Party. Silence his fnllen upon the camp ol the assistant republicans. Such a silence aa i kept in the presence o! death. If there are any gold democrats yet numbered among the living their voices are not beard, their influence is no longer felt. This i as it should be. Democracy araadeflned by the nat ional deniocratit convintion held In Chicago in ls'.ir.. It pronounced itself as in favor of ths money ol the constitution. It called for the renin: "it ion of silver hjr thf 1'tiited Btatrv independent of any other Batt ion, and It demanded the opening ol the mints to the free coin aire of silver nnd gold at the ratio of sixteen to one. This demand xxas approved by tha vote of 6,500,000 dfmo-Crttn, and it was opposed hi a vote of 1 I I -i-jr.l"l ft d denim-rats. Whore are these t e rnlrltrnnts noxv? Tin x ha VI gone to that bourne fron which nn traxeler returns. TV.iee to their allies. Let silence be their epitaph, as oblivion Is their Fate.-Thicai go Dlspa tch.

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