Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 September 1898 — Page 7

mr v t it w mere I uily utll the

umalateu cienl fundi to buy a

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JASPER.

1 SKI ANA

AFTER A SHOWER. X MMN burat of sunsrtilna; A Spray of dualling dropa, Willi every light breelo awi-eplag I ht heavy-leaved tree-tops; A: I ml, In perk Iii head Up fron the beaten clover, i ! i; ni hla breaat of red. piping'- "It's over, overl" Out if the sodden grasses The ilmld cri-keta peep: from white tenia of the Ullee 'I'lii clumsy bees outcrecp. Oi.,- oppers rustle by, Mil amoky hay-rlcka skipping: ,,1 ari infliBS cut-blrda cry: 'dli, jur! oh, dearl we're dripping!" Tin- VMM alonif the roadside In green disorder trail: And hiirk! "Bob White" la cullligg From rondar xigruK rail. In wavering groups of gold Wee bUttarfUal are shining; And fluey muds uprolled Show tarth thtlr allver lining. The drugon-fly la sunning Ills J weled win; again; gky-dsppled, white and axure, The brook laughs down the plain; Ai.d yelUr llrdlea pipe Atop of the thistle-flower; ' Twill make the berries ripe W BaM a lovely, lovely shower!" George Cooper, In Golden Days.

I Davenport's Difficulties

lion of the little1

odeS tblircB lull u Uoek away se-

f. BOMB respects Mr. Davenport wm

I not a particularly nervous man. He could listen to the lachrymose

trail - Ot a barrel organ with equa

nimity and the gay ruttling of a piano organ rather exhilarated hi in. Moreover, bit wife kept a uiaeaw whose cs-

pecial sccomplishment was the Lmlte-

im ,,' .1 ci re ui ar saw tear 1 111 its wuv

I through a knotty log. He did not

I . - I J a A . . I I J

liljli ii.e bueieiy ox ins ai x-y ear-om ton. Yet as he stood before Lis shavi: ig mi rrot he looked anxiously for eori Mi. i:s in hi fnrchpnd niul ktrciki

if silxfl lit hiv ti'inr il :ii i1 un mir.

prised, in view of the fact that Phi rnettou had been praet icing, to lind that no alarming change bad taken pluee in ins appearance.

He was still Wondering at this inex-

pUonble circ umstauee as he paced up and down the platform of the little biiburbnn nation, waiting for the trtin that was to bear him to his dailygrind in the city, and when he raised his meditative head am! W before him a new automatic weighing machine that had been placed there by

an optimistic Corporation lie at once dived into his pocket for the necessary penny and adjusted himself carefully and exactly 09 the center of the balance plat. The penny rattled down through the internal economy of the machine, and the dial hand amin

irourd and stood (inhering at 180.

'That :-cttles it." said Mr. Davenport, triumphantly. "Three pounda gone. PbernettOfl and I are going to have a little talk together. I'm not going to be redueed to an emaciated wreck for anj leatherlanaed pariah that ever

blew a horn."

A dog, a curly black retriever, with

a tongue several inches too large for Its mouth, had driven Davenport from 1 r. - nci HO minutes walk from

the city hall. It was then that he be

fame aware of the fact that he had

. . r. ... 'IM.-. 1 I . f ,

'""" ine aiiimai ai irregular 11.

lervala would wake in the night ar.

f ir I ,n . . i ,

".' iiiwuii kh nntiiii!Lr eise lie

ti Ilk it itltll his to-'irl in lw If 1. . .

- II v. WM At Iii. 11(11

iic nun euiisiiuiiiv am coin inuout

ly Davon port would not have minded

BW the barks Would have intermis

....... .ur inu 1 1 inn nv Kconai in two

"irs, and there were frequently

I t. r . ....... i... . , .

- .. . .. . ,1 1 Ii II I Ii II 1 1 1 Dil I K II I a

UM night when the dog had been

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"i un ni ci t ii mi, . ,7 .. iL ,1 :

m - ...... v. . in, in hsiij

lie mil tinilr r ...... 1 .... . t

, w ii'uiiri II oil drawer. He understood that by im lemorial custom, as bia.oned in tht

I.U , m .. I -

. ' uiein, ur nnn iit

Km to snoot the (loir -or wa it rnl

lIMfl. -I . . . I t . . - . 1 1 a m

-io.iKiiht mm imis c-finooned

" Mcamined the ejllndor of the

Mt v i n in tiarna inai sianted ? thronsrh the Venptlnn hlinit fmai

he street lamp and saw that it W 11 s

Hied wi-h cartridges; then he rmem

'ri thai 1rnlitinn mmkImJI

. . . v. .. , ,iii it ,i piiui-

1 "no that he ougnt to have been

g a tasseled lMchtcan: besides

shot at niffbt Would III" Inn

bell, which the pride (wJ sexton tolled on every legitimate o. i uiou and whenever bit t me was not otherwiso occupied. At liit Davenport wai inclined to like t. "It put B m paiad of wlien I waa g boy," he ani in Mrs. Davenport. "I remember bow sweetiy and softly tbfl sound used tu eoiiie in me, blown frmn th gi :iy .iil meeting boUM in windnodulated melody across, the fragrant ii. endows. I can smell the in w mown hay almost when I hear it. I wish, though, there were a few meadow - ni between here to kind of take oil the rough eilges." Later mi bl wished for an intervening continent, and at last remonstrated with the paator. "I told him." he said, "that his bell was obsolete a remnant of barbaric, oust. mi of an age when people measured time by Unreliable tallow candles of varying tblokaeuee and sun dials and hour glasses Inexcusable in this latter day oi Waterbtirj wutches and nickel alarm clocks. He seemed almost persuaded, hut with a lamentable lack of judgment I added something about people not needing bellg to let them know that a theatrical performance waa due, and then be froze. He said that he waa an old-fashioned man and not addie'ed to the higher criticism or to Until uting comparison between Divine service and vaudeville, and he fart me some advice which I suppose I needed, but which I didn't want."

Then Davenport .sought out a suburb where the boom had expired, and burdock, tall grass and sunflowers ran riot between long lines of rusted street lamps and pushed their way through the zigvng crevices, in the cement sidewalk. I he real estate agent, w ho tat in tl.e ade of hit. little sign covered oflice, said there was no church, but a man like Davenport a hustler could soon get one, for there were several members of his denomination scattered about the place, and there was not a dog within half a mile. Davei port was convinced of the truth of the latter assertion, for there was no house with the exception of I'licrietton's and the one that he thought of renting. So he Bored into the orange villa with the scrollwork cornices, and for a week it seemed as though he had found the haven of

rest his tired tympanum craved. Then l'h' mi ttun In ran t . play t he hi rn. l'liernetton began feeblj at first. Then he gathered strength and resonance and distinction of notes and ultimately urrni ged the notes into recognizable tune, or rather part of a tune

for Pbernetton never got further j than two bars in any one uir. Hy that I time he would be so hopelessly tangled

that he would have to Isegin a train. He would start steadily to climb the scale, falter and waver, fall a note, pick himself np and seem in a fair way to reach the summit, when he would flip and fall headlong into nn abysamal and dolorous bass blare that would make Dav-

FINANCIAL POISONING. BeMaVsuK i:aeet of tin- .uia Htaa4rii I pun ihr Moai-y I iruu-lallttn.

DILEMMA OF REPUBLICANS

ol

tr. i .

looKKi around the room for some

II a II V. .1 i

" " " onoijacK - in tact.

n ll ll i i on v fi l i j a .

j ,v.j na.y idea or wnai cootjack was. He Wbtlld not have

t v '.....I . .A . .

iU ,w HuimGi uis Hairbrush if

'xecu'.ion had bo-Mi likely to nrove

Vf,n painful, or his water bottle if he

heen confident of his aMIU.

Ur s ...!.i .

ä " ",r Ireeision. Then an

a uddenly illuminated hl b-Immm.

ne sto.ipe, uiul extracted the

'ers from tho four leu-a of hi. had

ning far out of the window, bf nrw one of the little iron xvhi.i.u

t- - nis iorce at the black shape -it waa jerking out its occasional . There was a crash of broken

nncl the rattle of U irin chnin '"ter had gone through the basest winoow and the dog had retreat- ! r fennel, from winch reftlM dirked with renewed

"avenport was noi.inir t.;,.,J.i ..

tlntl .. w """"" ir

muht throw M'l,,,.,

, v" I'oiiceinati gruflly out of the ml,..,..,. :..

Ulr what the distnrl.n,, i

-viiport counseled him ..I...- kl.

an.. . " w ' Hi's

-a- "r,n go l.nek to bed. The dog Pl'ared to be listening.

'nileil ,v linn,!,,,,,

Ur,., , 1 1 P'.ving live ra ami costs, afouatiag to U, tonde ioM mischief nn, m 18 'or disorderly conduct it...n. ...

"iVe In t,..... i.i.iiliK

K'i.itfi. nil. .ir ii. i-

L - -J MI'MIIII hue a little beyond the city

be Uvcd peacefully and bau-

HK THKi:V ONEOFTlli: blTTbK I HON WHKBIJa

enport's hair prickle at the roots and s nd a chill down his backbone. Davenport had stood it for three weeks on the morning that he weighed himself. That evening he walked over to the Din ruction villa with gleam of determination in his eye. I'hernettnn, who was out on his oreh. laid down his horn as he approached and advanced to meet him with a curious

smile and something' of a gleam in hit

eye also. '(i.iod evening," suid Davenport. "I called er tbe fact i " "You would like to have nie stop playing that infernal horn, I suppose; isn't

that it? I'm glad you did call, and I

shall be glad to gratify you if we can

irrunge it. Take a scat, won't you? "I know that horn is maddening,"

continued Phernetton, "I calculated on it; but I've quit remonstrating w ith

my neighbors. I've had bad luck as a

rule in that respect. Until iron came to

trouble me 1 thought that 1 bad escaped noiae nuisances. 1 had Ml tired of run

ning away, and there was only one

course open to me- retaliation."

"I don't understand," said Daven

port.

"I et me explain then. You have a

parrot.

"I beg your pardon am.icaw." "A distinction wit botil a difference."

remarked the virtuoso. "Tbe nrineinla

the same. I object to roar Btaoaw

md its demonical, rnsping shrieks. I

lied from the haunts of men io escape

that sort of thing. Now let me make yu a fiiir business iironosltion Vm.

a t uu win g that Mrd'l in . k, and I'll help

yon secrete tb. corpse. We Will then

walk over to block Ü with my favorite

instrument and a Hick of dynamite

and give it one BnaJ and everlasting

ninrt. is it a tro 7 "

Davenport reflected a moaeenti then

be said: "Ifa a o." -Chii-niro DaIIt

Ret ord.

We have just bad a sample of how the purty in power in U a h.ngtou can run a war depart ment. With unlimited money nt its comm.. ml, it basalSowed our sick soldier to die for the want of food and medicines, beniuses of incompetency have control of the things that affect the very life of the nai ion. The affair in the war department is but a Mravv that shows the way the tide is running. The MUM incompetency eontroJa tbe financial affairs of the country. Financial bloodpoi oning is tin- result of their doctoring, and the whole commercial life is United ami weakened by it. Slicking to the gold standard and trying to fasten it mo securely on us that we cannot shake it off, they are giving' us a credit money instead of a basic money. Tbe H renin t lag medium of a country Is the blood of it, and to make the principal part of that circulating median, bank notes is to inject Into it the worst kind of poison. It is one of the inns' potent means of elreum renting the people In their right to rule tbemaewea. We bare the material in ourseivesof a healthy and abundant circulation. !ccr was n body better fed or better derelopedt but we arc now refused the right of using the resources we have. The very fact That It is proposed to greatly increase the Issue of national bank nntes is a proof positive that the men in control know that it Is nn impossibility to get enptlgb gold io form a safe currency or enouph abundant to meet our needs, in working for a great circulation of notes Issued by private institutions they tacitly acknowledge nurnced of the HUl i d silver lying in our mines. That silver would do away with the necessity of haviPL' nntlonal bank notes, fn fact, it Is enough abundant to take the place of most of our credit money and give us n large amount of basic money, the only credit money then being necessary would he the I'nited Mate note, than which no better redit money exists on the earth. The great light between the bimetallists and tbe monometallists is fast narrowing it self down to n quest ion of whether government shall be for the

1 advancement of private or of public

Interests. Were there gold enough in the world to take the place of the great quantities of credit money in the world we might believe thnt the gold standard advocates wrere sincere in their efforts to displace silver. But since both gold and silver are insufficient in quantity to fill up the gulf we can but conclude that the light

I being carried on with the hidden

UUfpOse of making the private In

terests of the moneyed classes paramount, and with the added purpose of abolishing the rule of the masses of

I the people in financial mat ters.

The blood poisoning has been slowly working for nearly a quarter of a centurv. and we see its effects more

and more every dnv. Ihisinese 1 Still

far from its normal condition, even

after years of depression. The recovery Is slow on account of the slowness

of the circulation In the body politic. The poison shows Itself more and more every day in our politics, where money is coming to have predominating Influence. All of the legislation to better mntters is after the nature

of outward applications to a blood dis

ease. The blood itself needs purifying

It needs) the nbolition of the right of

nationnl banks to issue and curtail our circulation. It needs further the injection into that circulation of the streams of the white dollars to dinplace the credit money. In the human body the "white discs" of the blnod are the disease destroyers. In the body politic the "white discs" wiM perform the like act of purification. IT F TTIT'RJTON

SOLDIERS STARVED. khnmrfnl eatlrct nml Matna of Jobbery In the BWUtafY llcml-quirlrri.

imiiy aeff in foetnWsleae There is seflM talk of starting adaiU uaner in Jcrusslcm.

While death at the hands of the Spanish soldierw has been a rare event during the late war. death from the neglect of the war department has bei D frequent. Eepeeial attention to this shameful and criminal condition of affairs has

been called in more than one instance, -and the death of Lieut. William Tiffany, of the rough riders, in Hoston. will intensify tbe feclingof resentment which has arisen against the war department. Lieut, Tiffany terred at Santiago and wa.s brought north in the Olivette and lai ded at BoatOBi Re was taken to a

hotel, given care, but could not rally. The deatb certificate signed by Dr. Y. M. Johnson gives this as the cause of young Tiffany's death: "Death dtte to protracted fevers, due to war life In Cuba, and starvation." While the go eminent cannot control fevers, it can provide food ntu medicines and decent shelter for it soldiers, and this it has not done. There hnvc been criminal blunders In the selections of camps, criminnl blunders in sending troops home in pest ships, criminal blunders in exposing men to contagion, criminal

blunders in failing to supply medicine and surgeons. In addition there have been robbery. Inefficiency, carelessness ami cruel neglect in the commissary department. Alger has much to answer for, and by tbe storm of popular Indignation a hieh la rlvng he will be swept OUt of public life into an obkvlon which is his just deserts. John Sherman fs not a copperhead, a demnrrat. or a mugwump, but Ms voice la for an Immediate Investigation of the war department. St. Louis liepubilo.

illundrr of Ihr .4. l in I n la t rutin

the ri In a Had lrr UleUMirul.

a af

licpublic in campaign managers find themj'lvis "between tho devil ami the daMB sea." I he ink iiad not dried on the protocol errengred between this country and Spain before the republican congressional committee announced that its huridliook was ready for the mails, (her 00 per cent, of the co nt entA of tbe compilation was, it was given out, taken up with the recital of how the republican party had brought on and eo ad voted the most saeeaaaful war of ancient, or modem times to a conclurinn without tbe aid. advice or consent of any other political organization. Ii' iure tbe bot pre seed pages of the ham! book were off the press, the "round robin" signed bj the generals of tl.o army in Cuba an e like a burning simoon to draw public attention upon the horrors of mismanagement by the republican war secretary. Then Came tbe gaunt and hollow-eyed heroes to their native shores to grow weaker still in a treeless, waterless ( .unp nad to teil with trembling rojaaa the story of their privation and neglect. Tin ii eame revelations of the unmediclned and unvictualed hospital ships-, tht mortality and pestilence of the military camps and the political favoritism, jobbery and incompetence responsible for these unnecessary and horrifying conditio ja. The mass of these exposures have been made since tbe ri publican campaign handbook has been plaeed la the hands of the print er. Other facta, too, have emerged. Alger and Corbin have been charged with the unparalleled conduct of Bending a secret dispatch, calculated to cause i clash of authority between the general in command of the armies of the I'nited States and his subordinate, which might have dangerously intensified the military crisis brought to a focus by Shafter's bungling management of the Santiago campaign had it not been for the g-ood .-nse. promptness and firmness of the former. Gen. Miles' coming will be the determining point in the course of the republican administration as to uh tber or not the chargca agalnai the war 'k'jiartment will be subjected to earehiag Inquiry wieh is de'ii led by an overwhelming mnjority of tie American people, the democratic and independent press, and all the republican organs that have not been Hannabted. The president is said to be wavering between duty and the counsels nf the men who have beer, the controlling element in republican polities and have supplied It with Its bigtjest scandals. U nn invent! rat ion Is staved off t!M after the fall election. It will be looked upon by the people as an exhibition of cowardice that is equivalent to a full confession of the sins laid nt the floor of that large segment of republican oiTiclnl life known as Algerism. If an investigation is ordered, the dntiiacrir.tr facts that have already been

ventilated will receive the sanction of judicial corroboration. In either event, the criminal b!un ders committed by republic. ,n officialdom will come In for a scathing rebuke at the hands of the ontrnged and deceiver! people nn the eighth day of No vemler next. Chairman Babcock has dore wisely to take his prematurely advertised handbook out of the hands of the printers and to hold it for correction and revision BL Louis Republic

tr

I The Monetary Problem.

I

BETTER TIMES AHEAD. A Sunlhern Junrnal's Prediction True I'roaprrll) Will ol ma Till lllinelalllaiii la Hi ilored.

OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

The salutation among Ohio republican politicians now is: "Good morning; It John Sherman hot enough Bor you?" Dallas (Tex.) News. It is a poor day for politics in this country w hen the republican prcs cannot Bad some awful (?) fight in ihr democrat io ranks to sputter about. Buffalo Times. lp to date, so far as has been announced, no American girl has attempted to kiss Secretary Alger or

any or Ute omeials in the various

bureaus of his department. N. Y.

l'ress ( Hep.).

It is announced that "Mark

Haana has been done in marble."

Thi tru not, however, have the effect of pulling a stop to the efforts

of several Ohio republicans, who pro

pose to "do him in politics. ISingbaniton (N. Y.) Leader. The republican goldite organs are bOBBtiag over the large surplus in

the I'nited States trvabury. They seem to be unaware that a large surplus in the pubiie treasury mean a large deficit in t he circulation of money for busines purposes. It does, however, Illinois State Ueg'ister. For a gentleman who was supposed to have been quietly and decentIf. Interred the venerable John Sherman is dancing around in a most lively nnd mennciug fashion. It iooks as thouirh Mark and the major would ban to set to work Bad bury him all over a grain a most disagreeable job w hen the deceased pe r ist i in kicking off his winding sheet and chasing the BBOVrBBBa with an ax.- hicago C'hron cle. Concerning the silver issue ex-

Gov. AltgpsJd says: "I have been asked kf the silver question would be prominent in this campaign. Well, gentle-

tut -n, v on might aU w ill you have winds hi .September or will you have frosts in winter. We are getting back to 60 cent wheat, with all the hardships, ail t he rnibnrr i-Mii" i fs, nil the trouble flint that implies, and the moment you rtep outaide of Chicago you will be confronted by nearly 3,oO0,000 of people, who are directly affected by It. Now, then, that money question Is ttoere. You can discuss It or not Just s you please, but It 1 there in the nslnds of the people."

Pome of our esteemed gold sta mlard contemporaries, say s the Atlant a Constitution, are laying the nattering unction to their souls that the Constitution's prediction of better times for this winter is an indication of weakness on our part In the belief that prosperity, in its fullest measure, will not be restored until the currency is r formed and rested on a basis of both gold and sib er. T he Troy (. Y.) Times, for instance, Iii bidding adieu to the calamity howler, whose occupation, It ays, will be gone with the advent of better times, ays: 'The Constitution Is a shining; example of this chana;.-of opinion. A rabid advocate of free silver, this most prominent southern newspaper aw nothing; but misfortune In store as the result of the defeat of Bryan, but now It sings a different tune. Thi- Constitution In ejuite an much right this year as It waa wrong a year ago." Ve predicted last year, continues the southern paper, that the fullness of prosperity would never be reached under the single gold standard, and we are as in earnet in this belief now as w. -iTf it year ago. But the Constitution was not then, is not now, and never will be a culamity howler. It la alwuyc lived in the suns-bine never In the shade. It has had faith nil along that, however adverse may be the legislative conditions surrounding the people, the energy and the determination inspired by American grit would triumph in the end and enforce success, even against such conditions. The misfortune we predicted in democratic defeat a year ago was in the comp-irative prediction that, in whatever degree prosperity might be restored under a republican administration, better results would have been attained with democratic success and with the currency reformed to the

basis of the democratic demand.

The Constitution lias not doubtei

since the country entered the long

period of business depression and

financial unrest a few years ago. that

Its duration was self-limited. To have

predicted that condition as they ex

fated n the darkest days of the reeent

period of panic had come to stnv

would have been an abandonment of

the belief that the recuperative power of American energy could not lose Its

vitality, and admission that the repnb

lie had entered upon the period of its darkest era. Hut our people, however

unfortunate they may be. can adjust themselves to any condition, and even if throw n back to the primitive method of barter and trade and settlement In

kind, they would have overcome nnd

bettered the condition in which thev

found themselves after the panic of 'S:! Prosperity is n comparative term Commercial activity may be revived business generally may be better. In

dustrial enterprise may awaken from its long slumber, giving employment to the unemployed and opening up the

avenues which have been cloved by the

long period of depression, and vet tin

degree of prosperity enjoyed may not

be what the people have a ritrb t to ex

pect if the unlimited natural resources of their country were given unham

pered opportunity for development. The Constitution predicts a splendid business winter. Conditions are ripe for a change, aud if, as n result of the slose of a successful war, with the country reunited, with our fields groaning under the burden of th? most bountiful harvests this country has known in 2( years in Itself cnoug-h to bring prosperity; if, after the peculiar combination of II these circumstances, which it looks as if the Lord Ood Almighty had wrought as a special dispensation for our people, to lead them from the darkness of financial depression if still there should be no materia Improvement, it would feeni indeed as if there were but little

hope for relief and little eneouragenirnt for the future. But there are better times nbead, and from all sides come testimonLaisof the nwakening impulse of trade revival. The farmer sees it In his overburdened storehouses and overrunning granaries; the merchants anil the factories feel it in the increased de

mand for their goods and when once trade revival has been started, it will not top until It ha gone the full length of tbe line. It will accomplish ita mission even In spite of nn adverse currency system, which is pulling down while It should be building up, a system which makes the rich richer

nnd the poor poorer, and which even in better times laughs in mockery at the realization of what it could do in opening up the fullness of prosperity to the enjoyment of all, If it were engaged In the broader business of bet terinfj 1BC I nWI generally rather than in the exCluefce function of serving only a favored few.

LET IT GO AT THAT. Ila-ma rkahle A Am laalun by a t.uldlta. Organ Hi-aardlnaj the Amateur ladlanapuila Finance Ttnkcrrra.

The New York Kvening Post is deLighted with recent tokens that the Indianapolis monetary movement survives the clash of arms, and that It promises soon again to be lu the saddle. Jlut m t renting of its mission and accomplUhment to date it makes some remarkable admissions. After atating the self-evident proposition that "tks subject it hud to deal with was a difficult one to understand," it saya "it was necessary, in greut part, to educate its own members." It declares that "but few, if any, of those engaged in the work have failed to gain Inwt ruction in financial science, in their endeavor to impart it to others." And it further remarks, with a dising-enu-ousness altogether charming, that some of those who are now most admirable and efficient In carrying on the work "owe their whole training as economists to the education they have here received." We fanry that Mr. II. II. H.mna, whr is sponsor for the Indianapolis convention and its work, will stand aghast when he reads this characterization ol the thing in so orthodox a singlestandard organ as t he Tost. A kindergarten, forsooth or a summer school at best drinking financial wisdom at the Indianapolis pool .and then setting out upon the mission of converting country to theories and tenets that were confessedly new to moat ol tbe members when, in response to the call of the bankers, they packed their grips and went down to Indiana's capital! Did anybody ever hear of anything more grotesquely absurd than that? It will be remembered that thii school of amateur financial doetors evolved an elaborate scheme of fiscal reform, condensed it into a bill for an act, and had It introduced into tie

house, with a favorable recommendation from the committee on banking and currency vl.en the war broke out and (hushed the designs of the administration leaders to rush it through under spur of the party whip. They capitulated, but didn't surrender, and are now again actively at work upon the scheme of taking the government out of the banking business, and vesting the sole power to Issue end control the currency of the country In the hands of the national banks. The currency question is simple enough, and a primer would be ufficitM to make clear everything about It that may to the dullest intellect appear recondite. Hut these financial tinkers have just issued a book, of 600 octavo pages, to elucidate the composite theory of the Indianapolis conrentiOB which, reduced to original elements, is that the government doesn't know- anything about money, and can't be trusted to control the circulation, but that the national bankers are the embodiment of all fiscal wisdott extant, and to them snould be delegated the power to create, diffuse and BOntraei the money of the country at will! A skeptic as to both sides of this proposition, wc ask for no other characterization of the Indianapolis convention than has been volunteered by tbl New York Kvening l'ost, the high

chief Bpeatle of currency reform that

t was Composed in the main of men

who were ignorant of the primary and

fundamental truths underlying the

science; that it was necessary to edu

cate them; that "few, if any, of those

engaged in the work but have gained

instruction in financial science in their endeavor to impart it to others," and that some of them "owe their whole

training as economist to the education they have received."

Let it go at that Los Angeles ITer

aid.

Ilritrll on n Paper Hnnla. Braafl for ma BJ years has had a technical gold standard, but in fart lias no metallic basis. There it neither goid nor silver in circulation. Her only currency Is the paper miln-ls,

having a parvalue of 54 cents, but now, relative to gold, worth 20 cents. This

ptpar is legal tender for all debts, and regulates all internal prices. BhsM Slnndnnl and Wnr geBgaV. Uader bimetallism nnd prosperity the Dingley bill would not only produce sufficient revenue to pay the Mirrent ixpcnsc of the government, but would produce, in odditlon thereto, ar annual surplus large enough to pay the expenses of a w ar such as we havr hid with Spain.

Iilren in One or Ilm. The issues involved by the free coin

age of the precious metals are not en dry quest ;ons of "finance." Thay involve the vital isues of republican

institutions. The republican party, as BOW controlled by the i D t ernat i unal

plutocracy, is using its winde power to

mdnlmlaa coin eireuiatita, so as to increasi- the circulation of corporation

notes. It Is contract incr tbe circula

tion of cash (gold, silver ami treasury notes) and at the same time inflating debt by issuing bond and promoting the issue of corporation notes ba.sod on them. The policy is ruinous financially and Industrially, while politically it means thnt the t boutand men ho : on control over half the wealth ot

the country hr.ll control the government, and, through their control of money, dominate the people in procruo t i on and, in t be cxeha titfe of their prods ucts. Free coinace at sixteen to one means unsurrendering opposition to plutocratic policies. It Opposes the) rule of the majority and the rights of the indlvidunl to the usurpation of an Oligarchy ns unscrupulous In Its methods and ns despotic In Its purposes ns that of RassJl Of Turkey. Mississippi Valley Democrat. rrarllenllr BB a Pnper llaala. Bpata lias nominally a double stand

ard of silver and gold, but effectively" only a paper sdrindard. The Itank of ?pain had in PW in Its vaults tMo.oon.Ono of gold, but there Is none In circulation. The circulation consists of Silver $m eflrt IW 1: ink paper y C.nOP.'ooo pll full l-gil fender, and the bank paper is redeemable in silver or gold at 'be Trench ratio of MUtBl. In fact I he'paper Is not now- redeemed In coin? .".nd Is to nil purposes the afandant money which fforerns Internal prleee