Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 16 September 1898 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER V. Kumulier. JASPER. : I INDIANA THE WAY TO RUN A FARM. Xu 0M 1 '"' rti; . i ' Talk l HtS Hoys.) When I was roUBfl at firming, I'd wall h tin' Ufratp-tops, Aii'l quickly k" tu Wishing I''iir ttoml, bin, rouMiiH crops I wImIi ii fur nearoraoth pusipkloo All other tu outweigh; In short, I took to nothing Hut wUhltiK nil UM day. A solace PMtfll anil sonthlnR In every wish wuulillurk, TIM dreaming HeciiUtlon S. . tu. I sur. r than hard work. 1 wtabee mV . liar full of Potato, a with a will; I Wished th.- granary groaningWith corn to go to mill. tVhllc other farmers vvlshi 1 for A good supply of rain, I thoiiKtit It a sound lorln To wish for fruit uml icrutt.. And ho I went on wlxhlnir, i ..tit. iitt d with my lot. , In autumn i.o potatoes Wire boiling tn my i-uW I tell you I discovered Th.it wishing only breed Ki . n disappointment; Irfhtng Won't pull up choking weeds; It won't ho.t rorr. In imnWi or husk It in the fall; I tell you, boys, that wishingWon't run u farm ut all. That winter my potatoes 1 hail to go and buy Right from my smiling neighbor. Who had a Rood supply. Th. y'd slyly nudge their elbow. And taught me with a laugh. That labor's wheat that's gol len. And speculation chaff. I learned thin goodly lesson And In my heart It teems One day of honest labor a worth ten years (if dreams. Atid now In Idly wishing, My duty ne'er I shirk; I'.ut lust roll up my shirt-sleeves. And like a beaver work. K. K MUBktKACk. tn Ooldra Days

1 A ÜESSON IN SWIMMING. I

I. 5. How the- Bronze-Faced Young Man $ Wai FooUd by a Mite of a Girl.

f BS1 saiü the young "l:in with the reconcentrado-brouzed face ami hands he returned, a couple of days ago, ft"""1 ,vv" week's cruise down the river-"that girl surely did jiut it OH tu' pretty linnl. ami if she didn't make me feel like 30 darh, mauve, alloyed cents of the reulin, 1 never was made to feel that way. "I met her at one of the fnniily beaches, on brackish water, 'way down the river. The morning 1 hauled mj sloop alongside the pier I met a Washington cliai 1 knew, and he took me miking dtiwn the row of cot tapes. Tin- pirl was hitting alone on the cottage pavilion belonging to her people's cummer shack, overlooking the river. The Washington chap introduced me

to her. I didn't see 'em exchange any winks, but I'm going to bruise him up J mine, anyhow, the first time I meet him. on general principle. The girl ' was about If, and just about as demure 1 ft die :is nu eer saw. We worked oft

the usual line of talk, and then, as the

JH.- i' en down in tl water, yon L'ninv, All ou c got to do, for in stance, to Unat, is to lie perfectly still on the water's Mirface, and yuu tiui'l M to thl In. ft. .in to s..e nur soul ( oiitidence that's the wLolfl thing. Same as riding a bike. Atiwi itv can ride a Wkt that's got the necessary confidence In wv immii g, just like rid lug a In i I. you've got to keep moving Just like thi ' "And 1 pliinc.ed in und struck out with un overhand stroke, throwing a wbo! lot o' grace into my inovement.s, and just pitting the surface of the water with my open pn! ins as t hey conn down, to .show r.ow perfectly at home I VU Then 1 mam hack to where the girl a as sitting. "'Why, how perfectly loveh!' anic he. ' ti, how easy it looks, too! "'asy as rolling off a log,' said L 'Cone i n in and try it. "Weill say. when that tall, lithe gir stood up, and gne her bathing tOgl I few little hitches, and threw her long hair back from her face, I height have known what was coming from the pract ed way she moved Rut I didn't. " '( nine on.' said 1, hacking' into the water. 'See If von can't swim out to me. I won't let your head get under water. I'll see that you ' "Tl at was as far as J got. She suddenly raised her arms over her head until her palms met . and then she dived head first toward where I stood. Say, before I had time to muster any kind of a line of thinks, I heard a chuckle from all the ether bathers, and 1 look-d around. That girl had Just eoav up about 10 feet behind me. and fee was striking out, with her right arm fully extended ben eat fa the n ater and the left nr-n gracefully propelling her about seven feet with every move she made with it. She cut the water like a dolphin. She looked back at m with a merry oh, a merry, merry lauirh a merry ha ha, for a fact. All the rest of the bat hers echoed the ha ha Talk about a jay feeling small! That girl kept right on. She switched to a double overhand stroke, and swam thai way for 100 yards or so, and then she went ahead dog fashion, making f team-launch time right along. Dkfl say 30c? Well, all I could down to stand there In wnist-hit'h wn trr and look at her. After she ha' gone about a quarter of a mile, she turned around, and. say. swimming on her back, and just kicking the water away from her. without using her arms at all. 111 bet a watermelon that she was back t the beach in less than three minutes. She looked at me beamInL'lv out of the tail of her eye. " 'Why. Isn't it nice!' she said. 'And It seems so simple, too!' "Then she ran to the end of the pier and tamed a double sommersr.ult into the water, cutting it as clean as a knife. "'The little- water witch is enjoying h melf this iiioruinp, isn't she?'I he arc some people on the pavilion say. "Well, then, I came away, nnd 1 sailed my sloop to a beach about 21 miles further down. 1 haven't volunteered to tench any demure-looking girls how to swim since, you hear

DISASTER FOLLOWS

The Ps-vteellv I'lnn Impedes Progress and rlt.pl. AuarrIiiiu luduatrr.

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nor li Kit tikis OS. tide was high, and it was about the bathing hour, 1 suggested a sw im. "'fan JTOn twin? I asked her. " ' Mi, a very, ery litt 1c,' she replied, byly, " b, that's nil right.' said T and I guess she must Tiave thought I was nothing but a half-grown, clumsy N, foundlttnd, at that 'I'll teach von. I'm pretty nearly the real thing when it i onics to swimming, if 1 do say so myself, as I shouldn't, f ome on in, and I'll eive you i lemon, or so.' "Well, she went into her people 'scottaire and got ker bnthing togs on, and 1 foi a suit nnd showed tip at the private pier by the time she was ready. A lot of the other cottagers, including the girl's parents and younger sisters, were already la by this time. The girl was gotten up pretty nattily, and her bathing rig looked so natural on her that I thought it was a pity she COnldn't -wiiu. Hut she tripped over to the edge of the water, stepped into about three inches of it, and then sat down just like the ordinary run of women who ore afraid Ofgettlttf their lair wet, and who think thv;. 're booked to drown if they get Into the water up to their knees. "I plowed into the water with the idea Öl showing what a torrid tatnale 1 was when it came to the wavc-clisport-ini: biisin. ss, a... i i swam out a couple 0' blocks or so. Then I returned on my hack. J " 'My!' said tke girl, 'how beautifully J'oii do sw im!' ' "Oh, it's dead easy,' said I, 'when you get the nack of it. dust reqnireea Üttl confluence, that's ail. You cea't

OUGHT TO LIVE A CENTURY. If It err ..t for the HnMt of orrj. I i iii I lie li nil II ii 1 1 1. i tirai on 1 .1 lie I oiif r.

Almost a'l persons die of disanpo'ntmeiit, pi ts. nal. meutal, cv bodily toil cr accident. The passions kill mm sometimes even suddenly. The common expression "choked witjt rage" ?as little exaggeration in it. for even though not always suddenly fatal ctrong pas.uons shorten life, saya the lioston Herald. Strong-binlicd men often die voting, nnd weak men 'jsunlly live longer than the strong, for the strong use their 'rer.gth and the weak have hardly any to use the latter take care of themi. s, the former do not. As it is with the body, so It is with thl mind and the temper the. strong Die apt to break, or, like the candle, ran J the weak burn out. Man. of all animals, is one that seldom comes up to the a er.ige. He ought 10 live 100 years, according to the physiological law, but instead of that he scarcely reaches an average of four ,ines the growing period. The reason is obvious loan is not only the most irregular and most intemperate Init the most laborious and hardworking of all animals. lie is a!tno-t tit- most irritable, and there is reason to believe, though we cannot tell what an animal secretly fee In, that more than any other animal, man cherishes wrath to keep it I arm, and consumes himself with the Art of his ow n reflections.

Now, more than at any other time, the weakness of our commercial policy is made evident. Colonics and protective tariffs do not work well together. The Kreuch colonies are n fair sample of what this tystein will bring forth. The French management of Touquin has been on protective tariff lines, and the re ult has been the tagnation of the life and business of the colony. The MMOtsI that England has with her main comes very largely from the oure she pursues with her tariffs. The fullest liberty is allowed to commerce, nud the result is that the commerce and manufactures of England have bees able to hold their own, in torn parisoti with other gold standard nations. If then n i r was a time when a free trade policy would be of benefit to the I'nited States, it la now. The settlement of the Pkilippiao qaeetloB will be influenced ry greatly by the course we intend to pursue there. If we are to allow a'.l nations to trade there y, ithout res traint and without linew for so doing, most of them will be very willing to see this country the master of the situation. If we are to erect a tariff avail User we may expect some very vigorous opposition from several of the European governments most interested. Ureed and grab 1 not a policy that commends itself to our neighbors ucross the water, except when it is practiced by themselves. That policy hangs like a millstone about the neck of America. It will be found impeding our progress at every step. It cannot fat thrown off no matter how heavy it becomes, for the republican party is in power, and that party it committed body and soul to thu policy named. Kvcry trcuty entered into must take cogni.-.ice of that fact. Every trust and every "protected" interest in the country wi44 from this time on have its agents busy watching the progress of event3 in the settlement of the great questions growing out of the w ar. A the protective policy is really a policy that these same "protecte.1" interests have developed ar.d foisted on the country, we may expect that thi smart lawyers whom they are able to employ will be eminently successful in having all treaties and regulations fixed to suit their interest, without regard to the interests of th-' rest of the country. The sufnr trust, whose influence was fo potent in ke framing of the last tariff on sugars, and which was able to raist- the price to consumers some 2'J per cent., as a result of that tariff may certainly be looked to to take a hand in settling the questions of our relation with Cuba. That devastated country should have the freest tariffs possible to enable it to rise from it ashes, but we cannot expect that a generous policy will be followed. What, open the markets of the United States to free Cuban sugar? What can we expect of the trust? The policy is a disastrous one, so far as present business and present prosp'-rity are concerned, but the working out of the present republican policy in relation to these new possessions is likely to bring the protective tariff scheme into bold relief and showup the iniquity of it. The people will have an object lesson that will not fail to imprc8 them. If we do not mistake the Intelligence of the American people, the time is not far dhatMt when they will turn down the whole policy with the party that espouses it. Nay, more; the time is not far distant when no party will dare make a protective policy an issue In an election. It is one of the errors that nations are slow to outgrow, bu once outgrown will he cast aside forven II F TJU ItSTON. PRESS COMMENTS.

CAN STATE MAKE VALUE?

Human Un ( an 0lr Ilsva Its 1.1amItatloua In tflrrl I oa Mapply nil Urntaaal.

I The Currency Question

I nefnl Hints. When tired or warm bathing the face in tepid water will be refreshing. A cupful of sea salt diluted in the warm bath before retiring will give a healthful Sleep. Do not load the top of cour piano with books or music, or even too uiany photograph, as the tone is thereby deadened and a jar produces a disagreeable whizzing sound, which Is injurious to the instrument and unpleasant to the musician and the listener. A bed pocket it an acceptable gift to ar. invalid. It is made of cioth, silk or colored cretonne, in the form of wall pocket, and. if desired, may hava various compartments. It is hung at t he head of t In- In d. and should contain the handki i chief, witch, brush and comb, hand -mirror and all the other et cctcras which make the tedious lifa of the invalid comfortable. Chicago Record.

I nUi.T renaler iot. .Jimmy I bet your father l. -ksyov when be sees vim wit' that black eye Sammy No. he won't. He don't lick no ft.' fihtm' lessen I git my clotatt toted.- Dit roit IVce Preen

It looks as if the war might, be a hotter issue than the republicans will care to handle. Hiiifhumton (N. V.) header. Secretary of War Alger is getting a "round robin" from the people which promises a big dinh of crow. Chicago Dispatch. When next Mr. McKinley selects a secretary of war he should light shy of anyone for the place who has only Mark Hanna's indorsement to recommend liiin.- St. Lottbl Republic. The first mistake was made by Presidi nt McKinley when he placed at the had of the war de part Stent a political soldier whose political record, like his nrmy record, is more notable fcr self-seeking than for better characteristics. ieveland Plain Dealer. A Igor's hide has been penetrated. lie bas brguu to w rite explanatory letters to show how his subordinates anil the soldiers themselves w ere to blame for the failures, privations and mortality, more terrible than Spanish bullets, which have followed our armies from the moment they fell under the charge of thi- war depart ment. Philadelphia Record. The American people have arrived at the conclusion that personal politics governed Mr. Alger's appointments and conduct of the war; that their army w.is exposed to unnecessary hardships because the militarypreparations and leadership of the Santiairo campaign were both ns bad ud inadequate us the motives which governed tin in. St. I.ouis Ih niblic. The people p.-ncrnlly did not know aii r, but they had eoafideitee in McKinley. They did not believe thati the president's choice for a secretary of war would be nn utter it -competent, nnd thfij bad faith that the president would g t rid of such a secretary ns soon ns hi incompetence was proved. Tl.fy were im-taker.. The awful experience of r.ur tropps in this war under Alger w ill have t o be forgotten lefore another volunteer stmv ava be rslsed. Ponton Post.

Human law cannot change the law of supply und ilcmaud, but is emu limit the supply, as by a protective tariff, copwight of patent-right law, or increase the demand, as by a law putting the whole demand for money upon gold alone, instead of upon silver and gold as before, or the same law muy both increase the demand and It sm u the supply, as by a declaratioa of war, which diminishes the number of producers and enlarges the amount cf consumption; In all of these ways does law create value, as truly ns a man creates value who changes wool into a garuient. The law of nation after nation demonetizing silver and placing the whole d n a I for nsoney upon gold have enhanced the value of gold and lessened the value of silver, until now it takes 40 ounces of silver, instead of 16 under bimentallism, to equal in value one ounce of gold. The closing of the Indian mints alone caused an immediate fall in silver (as rated in gold) nearly 2w per cent. On the other hand, 'he passage of the Sherman law in 1890, though far from a free coinage law, caused an imniei'.iate advance in silver (in terms of gold) to $1.21 per ounce, or within eight cents of the ratio sixteen to one; and it can be easily demonstrated, both from experience and reason, that the passage of a law by the United States for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen to one would immediately so increase the value of silver and lessen the value of gold that K ounces of silver and one of gold would be of equal value as bullion. T4iis would result, in uccord with the law of supply and demand, by taking from gold and putting upon either silver or gold ( and therefore, upon silver so long as it remnined cheaper) the demand of the commerce of this people for money, which is equal to or great-r than that of all the rest of t he world. These arguments are not new. They were advanced by our great lender in hit unparalleled campaign nnd were never ar.&wered except by such fallacious assumptions as "state cannot create value." and if democrats admit such assumption they admit away our whole contention. In the strictest sense only Ood creates value, but in the sense in which man creates value the state can, for what is n stat but the organisation and united energies and capacities of all its citizen:-?

PROSPECTS OF DEMOCRATS. Thing- Are l.ooklna llrluhl for Pre Silver ThriiORhoat the Middle West.

In P'inois the republican party la split wide open. Its members are quarreling about the A Wen bill, t he schemes of (jov. Tanner to defeat Senator ( nllom nnd elect himself to the United States senate in 1901, the condition of the state treasury in consequence of the candidacy of the deputy treasurer for tw o terms to be treasurer for what would be virtually a third term, the quarrels of local candidates in nearly . ry legislative district, and other troubles too numerous to mention. Tin- republicans who voted for McKinley in 196, on the bimetallism platform, now see their error and will vote for the democrats. In Wisconsin the success of the "doodle book" campaign in the renomination of (iov. Scofield and the prospects of a silent bolt by at least onethird of the republican voters illustrate republican harmony in that state. The silver forces ars splendidly organized. In Michigan the open w ar made by Gov. Pingree on Senator Purrows, the aspirations of Pingree for a renomination and to be elected senator, while Alger has designs tp retire from the war department and to be elected senator, are political conditions illustrating republican "harmony" in the state. Michigan, alwayi a silver state, will swfng into the democratic column without a doubt. In Iowa anil Minnesota the conditions are subrtnntially the same. There is internal war in the republican par ty f rom center to circumference. The cause of gold monometallism haa split 1he party everywhere in the central west. In Indian the republican situation

is so bad that it could be hardly worse. The leaders know and acknowledge the fnct. There will be again of several democratic congressmen on the financial issue. A democratic legislature will be elected and t'nited States Senator Tnrpie will be chosen for nnother term. AYith all the facts !n view the rosy rh scription of republican prospects in the west attributed to the secretary of the repnbllcni congressional com

mittee is subject to large abatements in the brilliancy of its coloring. The west will send a largely incrensed silver delegation to congn ss this yenr and w ill give nn enormous democrat lo electoral vote in 1900, The Dit L-leyites show no better enpneity in tariff nnd revenue mantif cmetit In the future thnn they have ihotm in the past they will be in dancer of reviving the tariff as the prent WUM before the people of the I'nited States. Bogus "cxpr i-ts." who are now building arithmetical temples on war foundations wi'l find their structures tumbling. War taxes will he tolerated for some time after the war long motten fo close np the war account. Then there will have to be n revision, such as Plngley dt Co. hnv shown themselves jmt qualified fo rnnks, Public not ice canr.ot be diverted from this Important aubject for the hp. OMratodntloa of politicians to whom It may be troublesome. Cincinnati P.nnulrer.

WHEAT AND SILVER.

.Normal Crops Abroad Will Aala Urin to Our rrral Its H.'dlrrd . old Mtaadara Price.

The wheat crop of India failed In and over a.ouo.ooo of the inhabitants of that unfortunate land died of starvation before another crop was raised. The drought in that country was so severe that it caused the crop of 1--U7 to be exceedingly short, falling far below the demand for home consumption. In addition to the failure in India, there was a short crop in Kussia, a failure in the Argentine liepublic, and an exceedingly short crop of 'both wheat and rye in all tin- European rtates, especially Austro-Hun-gary. The United States was favored last j-ear with more than an average crop, and instead of meeting competition in the Knglish market and ot her places where ttie world's surplus Is disposed of. Indie, Austria and other countries that hail formerly been our chief competitors had to buy wheat from the United States. These facts, tegnther with the foolhardy attempt o' young Leiter, of Chicago, to corner the wheat market, caused the price of wheat to advance during the pas-t year to a poiut which brought back to our farmers the memory of better days when wheat raising was a profitable industry. The republican press and orators loudly proclaimed throughout the land that the advance in the price of wheat was due to republican legislation and republican congres stnen sought diligently to impress upon

their constituents that credit was due to them for bringing about the advanced price of wheat, and claimed that it was but the beginning of an era of better prices generally, that would place the nation on the high road to prosperity. The republican press claimed that, as wheat was advancing in price at the same time that silver bullion was falling in price, it furnished complete and conclusive evidence that the argument advanced by the democrats in 1-3G, that there was tome relation between the price of wheat and silver bullion, was completely exploded. They forgot, however, to tell the people that the only ground upon which any silver advocate claimed that a relation between the price of silver and wheat existed was that wheat fiom bo'hgold and silverstandard countries was being sold in the same markets in competition. Under this condition they claimed that a bushel of wheat from Ilusia. India, the Argentine Republic or the United States would be sold in the common market for a like quantity of gold. It must be borne in mind that the cost of wheat or any other commodity, that is tlie seed, labor, land rents and interest on capital, together with the profits to the producer are reckoned in the money of the country where tbc wheat or other commodities are produced. It is an undisputed fact that sliver in India and llussia will purchase as much labor and material at the present time as at any time in the past Therefore, when the wheat of India or liussia is sold in Liverpool for

gold that can he exchanged for double the amount of silver money that it would command before silver was demonetized, it can be sold for a lower price in terms of gold and yet return the producers sufficient silver to pay them a good profit. It is also true that in proportion as silver bullion falls in price they can seil their w heat cheaper for gold and still get the same returns and the same profits that they formerly received, and that every decline in the price of silver brings them additional profit. The advantage accruing to silver standard countries from a favorable exchange of moneys stimulated the production of wheat in auch countries and made wheat raising

unprofitable under the gold standard while the profits to the silver-using countries continued on the increase. The price in gold that the people of India and Russia are willing to accept for their wh-at in the Liverpool market is all that the American can obtain for his product. The wheat from all countries meeting in the market where the surplus is sold sells at a common ji-ja) in the money current in that market. Therefore, the gold price of the wheat of America is fixed in Liverpool by the surplus of wheat of India and Russia so long as those countries h?ve wheat to sell. Last year the silver standard conntries were buyers and not sellers of wheat, hence the connection between the price of silver bullion and wheat was severed for the time being and no relation between the two exist !. Hut this year Russia has a large surplus to sell and India ami the Argentine Republic have a surplus and the price of silver bullion will again fix the price of the American wheat crop, because our surplus must be sold in the market of the world in competition with the surplus from silver-usingcountries. Last year the silver standard countries had no wheat to sell and there

fore were unable to purchase silver from abroad, but on the other hand were forced to sell silver in the world's markets to buy wheat, thus the scarcity of wheat. In those countries compelling them to be buyers instead of sellers operated lo mahe silver gn down at the same time it made wheat go Up. The Ding'ey bill had no more to do with the high price of wheat lat yenr than it has with the low price of wheat tbia'year. Republican legislation on the money question has made the price of wheat low, and will make It continue

to go lowtr under conditions of a nor-j mal crop throughout the world. Ud-j der the gold standard nothing will make wheat bring a fair price, except a famine abroad that will create aa abnormal demand that must be tup plied from this country. Drought and famine iu other land and good crops in America gave us a fair price for m heat last year. The rate of exchange between gold money and silver money arlll fix the price this year. bilver K nigh: -Watch man.

LESSONS FROM EXPERIENCE. llrlllsli Financiers Arp l.earalne ( hat m iioie Maatlard la 1 iupoaalble fur Indiu. British financiers arc learning a few costly, yet wholesome lessons from the) school of experience. One of the most forcible of these is the fact that a monetary standard not adapted to the needs and uses of a country cannot be successfully forced upon it and long maintained under even the strongest possible pressure of a great end powerful nation. Experience has amply demonstrated that natural laws cannot be defied in India with any greater success than elsewhere, and this fact is slowly but surely impressing itself upon the Knglish mind. Even the London Times, most conservative in all its opinions and most ultra in its support of the gold standard, is forced to practically acknowledge that the effort to establish that system of currency in India is a failure, and that it is probably an impossibility. In a signed communication to that paper, Sir Robert (iiffen acknowledges the gold standard failure, aa follows: "It is a hard paying to s-rvme that a gold standard is impossible for India. The subject has been discussed a it the choice of a money standard were within the unlimited discretion of a government, and as if tbc only question were the method of acquiring- the standard selected. This is not a seien tiflc view. Governments would certainly act wisely at all time in having regard to the economic conditions of their subjects, and their tastes and habits in tue matter of currency. To force something unnatural, es pecially to attempt a change when a community bas already got a money which admirably serves the purposes for which money is required, is always injudicious and injurious. "But such a change may be impossible as well, and this is a point not t o lie overlooked in the matter of a gold standard for India. Is a gold standard for India really possible or not? Ina discussion from this point of view I am in full agreement, I believe, with the best city opinion, which encourages me to take up the subject. We may throw aside at the beginning all Idea of establishing a gold standard without a ge id money, or w ithout a currency Immediately and readily convertible into gold, which implies the existence of a gold reserve. All such fancy schemes are essentially bad. They are to be rejected, among other grounds, on the score of the injury they inflict by causing discredit Thia has been exemplified in the cast of India dur.ng the last few years. Capital, we are told on all sides, has been brought home from India at the high exchange ruling, and new capital will not go out because no one knows what the money of India will be. This is the penalty the government and people of India pay for an artificial and badly managed system of money. The same discredit must continue until there is again un automatic standerd money with which the government

does not meddle."

Daily the fact is becoming more and more apparent that the only posts i hie relief for the Indian situation lies in the reopening of the mints of that country to the free eoinaee of silver; and, unpleasant as tie acknowledgment may be, there are evidences in abundance that the British financiers nre already preparing themselves for the change. This fact, considered in connection with the development of entirely unexpected strengt1 on the part of American coin Iwnds, forms ground for most substantial encouragement to the advocates of free silver eoinaee nnd a full bimetallic currency in this country. Denver Times-Sun."

Would Only Aacrnvnte the I'vll.

Some enthusiastic bimetsllisteanTrra their belief that the Ur.fted Statei and France will unite with India in reopening their mints to free coinage at the ratio of twenty-two to one with the result of cheapening gold and generally and materially raising prices. Rut neither France nor the I'nited States is likely to enter into such agreement, for unless they would relegate ail their present legal tender silver to the position of token coinage, they would be obliged to undertake Its recoinage at a cost of nearly $2O0, 000,000 to the United States and $1C3.000,000 to France. What is more such recoinage would lead to a contract inn of their silver currency br $"!:3.noo.000. so that the adoption of bimetalhUB at a rati') of twenty-two to one would for sonic timeter.fi toward contraction rather than expansion, and so depress rather than raise prices, irgravate at first the erlln we htvn suffered under gold inonometaliHin and gire to bimetallism a bad name that It can ill afford to carry. Philadelphia American. Keen It Caba l.lhre. The victories of our navy were won for Cnba Libre not for Sugar Trust Cuba,