Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 September 1898 — Page 7

WEEKLY COUBIBB. c. .M1. MMMMP JASPER. T " INDIANA

I THE LION'S CLAW An EnJ ol-tha-ctMury Lm Story ( a, ravror (ami.

none eateemed Im r not o. - hsl Mil j FILCHING FROM THE PEOPLE, her aa offer of marriage. So hf jiul led I

LlKl'T , Jl Lll'N PI KHK kU returned from his station in Cochin- . i.ina. Convalescent, after three months' illness at hi mother's hmiif In Touraine. he shivered at the first wintry bre:ith in the autumn air. uud wl ordered by the doctor to Tau: -.l,iüt what you want mild but bracing climate." in mid-Xovember Julien sat at kia sunny window in Hotel liardere. '.ing at Pyrenees and smoking a cigarette in honor of hi reeorary. My faith! Pau ia full of pretty Women." If "aid to himself, the first HON he went to listen to the military bund at the Place Royale. Neither iibertine nor fop. the young fellow türilled with u fresh joy in living aa lie put on hi coat with it shining three straps, the rosette of the Legion of Honor IB the button-hole the roeette hia mother had laid on hi bed whCB he whs so 111, and that he thought lie would only wear in his joffln. How jolly Pau CM any how. with Its vast horizon, its aacwj peaka. it brlllinnt sun, the cosmopolitan crowd, where pretty foreigner chattered all the languages of Europe, like tropic birds in an aviary. A few aad sights, to be surethe consumptive young Englishman in a bath chair, wrapped in plaids, with the eyes of boiled Ush. a black talTcta muMler over bis mouth. It gave on a shiver, yet man is ao selfish it made Julien remember what a skeleton he had been ehrte mouths ago, with chocolate rings tinder hia eyes, and here he was cured, tossing- silver coins to the beggars a - d watching the hearty little American girls in fiy-nway white frocks (.i.! black gloves and stocking, dancing a "ring :rouud-a-roy" to the bai.d's quickstep.

Just tho frame of mind for falling in love, wasn't it '.' Which the happy convalesce :.i proceeded to cio the first time he set eyes on Mile. Olga Ilabarlne. the belle of the Ku-ian colony, as ehe dismounted in front of Hotel CJas-nn-th coup dc foudre. in fact. Itaek from fox-hunting on evening at Ave, she had slipped from her horse into the nrin of the nimblest of the pink-coated adorer- who rushed! fur her. stirrup, .striking the veranda table with her crop, she had called for a cup of milk, and drank it off at a draught. Looking like a l'rimaticcio goddeas, her '.im figure and copper-colored hair Illuminated by the flaring sunset, she paused, laughing merrily, a creamy mustache on her short upper lip. Suddenly grave, with a curt, imperious l od, he left the red-coats and enteret! the hotel, tapping her riding-habit with her whip. Three days later, after many a "Who It she? I niut know her!" to his acquaintances. Julien got himself introducednot a difficult process and joined thr fair Russian's court. Was she a Ilti'sian. after all. this intoxicating creature, who rode all day and waltzed all night? Yes, by her putative father!, her mother's lirst husbf I d, (Klint Haharine Hut everyone remembered that at the time of Olga' birth, her mother the daughter, by the way. of a New York banker named Jacobson was getting a divorce, probably or Seconal of her notorious liaison with a northern prince-royal, some Christian, or (Near, or other. What was the nationality of a child brought up successively in a Scottish nursery, a Neapolitan c n vent, a tie net an pens; on na t. who had slept half her nights on the cushions of the express, whose mem ory was a stereoscope in which retolvrd a scries of watering-placer, and winter resorts, whither ber mother, 1 'sc. in. tili in spite of erysipelas, had carried the ennui of a (Ming coquette alot.g w ith her samovar and her pet monkeys? The odd girl used to say, laughing at herself: "I am neither of London, nor of Paris. L .r of Vienna, or at P tersburg I'm of the tablefhotet" Hail she any family? Hardly more o. Her real lather, the Oscar or Christian, so often rWarred to by Mine. Haharine. had been dead sonic years, and the Kussiun count, her legal father, never bothered his head about er, Utterly bankrupt, a civilized bather-stocking, who won at al! p igeoa -matches, his unerring gun gave h a living. The countess, in spite of periodical iittr.cks of maternal devotion-painfully hollow was gifted "i'h one of the perfect, absolute, spherical egotisms that never show a flow; when Olga at eight had almo-i tied of typhoid. Mine. Harbarine. of the white hands f,.r the sake .if de tney sitting up with her child did not once forget to put on her gants gra. Ml this Ie Rhc learned after enlisting in the flying squadron that ma neii-.ere.l about fair Olga. He began to l"w. the ,i range girl who let hi in look tralfht into her eyes, nnd who said t" alas, as she lit a pheresli eigarett. . the day a friend presented him: "Ah: J an are the man who are ao much In or with me? How io vou de? ere

him a hearty hand shake like a The sailor, true-hearted fdlo.

"''Ii he was, loved her the more as he to .inderstMid and pity her. for j" "as right; Olga wa fantastic, ill "ffight up. but neither a flirt n.-r a

""ö eeling. perhaps, the ra nit v of her 11 M p'e.iMire. she judged, nri.1 that

11: n

rely, h. r fox-httatla

r. r

covuliou partners. All desired ber,

them ap short if they ventured to ipeak too closely to her ear in the whirl of the waits, or pressed too long the hand she held .ut to thrui et cam a rule. Julien, ensitlve and discerning, discovered the secret hlgh-hear te.lnes of the "thoroughbred," as Olga was culled. He loved her too for her beauty, of course; and his head would swim when, at a pause in the dance, the auburn-haired goddess, with th

black eyes .-tad t he tea-rose si in. w .ul!

lean ou his arm and intoxicate I. in; with all her atarry gaze and violet breath. He would marry her -snetrh her out of this poisonous air. and take her t Ma owu saintly mother, show her t true family save her! He aometiinu j fancied Olga understood his purpose; aa she handed him his glas of Rlaolaa

tea, he thought he now

caught, deep in her eyes, a get tie licht that seemed to answer to his (OMMMM pity.

Hut the IWi.ubll.un A I I D Isl ratios Trlrs lo Hrvy t p (! Trru ary Surplus.

AS TO ALGERISM.

A republican contemporary U bandy with ligur.s, but l.ot bandy enough. In defending the I.: .i.eial policy of Mr. M K.i. ley's administration It ahuws a wonderful faculty to bungle up things. Ita purpose is to mislead the public, but it succeeds only in makii.g more glaring the administration's methods of filching the public. It says that by July 1. ls'J'J. the cost of the army and navy, including the cost of the war and peace footing expenditures, will have reached WJO.OOU.OOO. Meanwhile the apcciaJ war tax will huve folded up $150.OO0,00O. This will reduce the war debt and current expenditures to $4,000,000. Hut that ia cot all. The Dingier tariff will have

nd then yielded a surplus of $50.i)0i,000 by July.

IS'.'J, leaving a delicti or oniy mou,000. That is to say. by next July the country will have by taxation and custom duties reimbursed the treasury for all ordinarv and extraordinary ex

penditures of the war establishment

Mat I'alllleal Prejudice. Hat Paalt lleutantl 'that Arraigns lue War llriinrlii.ru 1.

"Yes, mademoiselle;, my leave la tq next wek. I leave Pau to morrow.

M J . t . I . .. . - - - . .

a: .. ii.:- r a tew cay wun my usiri except the little balance or su.'juu.ouu. in Ti,uraine, I hall go to Breotf in a That is very good, indeed, or would be, year I 'ball be at sea again." jt w. re not true that the Dingley They were .standing in the hotel jaw wjj not ony leave a surplus of w ri'ii .g-ronm. near the op n window $;,o,O00,OlrO, hut a positive deficit of with ita palpitating night sky. mnre than tiat um. Good fi then, and bon voyage." yjut assuniingi that our eontemporsald Olga, in her frank, firm voice. mry't flg,jres are correct. What then? "Put you must give me a little keep. What do they prove? They nrovethat sake tiiat lion's claw jom wear as a ,e people are being most unmerci-w-atch charm a trophy of an African fully robbed. There w as a net balance lion hunt, didn't you tell me? It up in ,jie treasury of considerably over peals to the fierce and free In me. yoc fioo.OOO.OOO when war waa declared, know." j BDd subsequently $200.000.000 of bonds Julien took off the charm and pnt It were sold, the special war tax will

Into the girl's fingers. Suddenly grap j-jeij fisc.noo.OOO. and after paying the ing her hand in both of his, ardently: j current expenses of the government.

"I love you will you lie my wife?" I lift f reed herself, keeping the Honl claw; folding her arms, she lookec straight at him. apparently unmoved "Jto no and yet you are thefiift t love me and to tell me so in thst good w a v. That's why I refuse you." "Listen to me and I will explain I aa not worthy of you you would b Dl happy with me. Yon rememlvei r. r sl-ter's letter that vou said vot

current expenses of the go

other than the war department, the Dingley bill wi!l yield a surplus of $5 making' a grai.d total of tSO6,00O,OO0 to provide for IQW.OOO.OOO for war and navy expenditures up to July, 1690. Who gets the balance of t2i0.00O.OO0? It seems by our contemporary's figures that there would be ample funda for all ordinary and extraordinary expenses without the inr evoi-e tat. Then, whv keen Oil

bad lost? Well. I picked it up here anc j robbing the people? Why was the ex-

read It. She replied to the cor.ndenc you had made her of your love for m a love I had long guessed. Herwordi showed me the vast difference be weer trtt simple girl and nie. And I anw

too. what a real family is yourfnniily

. 1 . .1 I V- nlnnol

r:r iujs m rum .11 n.c. The treasury surplus and the bond issue aggregates $30,000,000 more than the cost of the war and the maintenance of the entire war establishment until July. 1409. What haa become, or

Be crateful for the mother you have j ia to become of that surplus of ML de Ithe. I have a mother, too. but $50,000,000? To what purpose will the 1 hae been forced to judge her. Yon ! $156.000.000 of war excise taxes be di-

l ave seen only her ridievloot s.ids. but I know her better. She would re

fuse you my hand because you are only of the gentry and in moderate circumstances. She has decided that either

varied? Who will get the f .-.n.OOO.OOO that the Dingley law will pile up? The tacta are. the war tnx revenue will

have to be used to make good the deficit the Dingley bill creates, and

he will find something elee. I know a

I am to make a brilliant match or ne fso.OOO.OOO left over from the treas-

urp surplus and the bond sale will be found under the head of "miscellaneous items" in the disbursement side

of the nation's ledger, but adroitly

eovered up. Kansas City Star. TITE WAR TAX SHOULD GO.

a Seedless tlarden Imposed I p.is the

People i the Admin latratloa.

"OOOD-nV.THKN. AND HON VOTAOK.' lot, don't I. for a girl of 19V Horrible iP n't it? But it's true. That's whj last winter we were at Nice, last sum mir at Schcvcningcn, now at Pan That's why we are rolling like trunk; from one end of Kurope to the other Mamma was almost a princess royal you see and from 15 I've leen gi v en tc understand that I was meant for ac archduchess, at least, even if a lefthanded one. Marry a mere gentleman almost a bourgeois! Ah! youarcdi" irusted and I am ashamed of my elf Do not protest, lieside. I am ex pensive and useless, and you don"' need me and I wouldn't make yu happy and I don't love you. I don'" love anyone; love is in the things tha' I've always leen forbicklen. Oeod hj get up and go away without a word Put leave me your lion's claw to re mind me of the honest fellow whom have treated honestly. Adu u "

Thre yearn later, one stormy r itrht the transport Du Couedic. back frort Senepul. stopped at the Canaries tc take on the mail. A package of pa pert was tossed into the ofTieers' mess. D MW, seated there, opened a three weeks' old Paris sheet, nnd under tht heading, "arrivals," read the follow ing line: "It M th Klne of SuaMs. tn ths strict t Incosrr.lto. aa Duk of Ausrshurir. Is ones mor' amor.R u Ar. unfirturste Irci.ler.t ncurrei at the station. The Itsror.r d Hall. who. ccompn!'l by her mother, t'omtmf Hahartr.e. was travellr.c with hla majesty-, suddrnly missed an ornament f small value, hut to which Mire le Hall is. tt seems, greatly attached a lion's claw mounted In a gold circlet. Mme. de Hall has offered two thousand frsi.es far ill recovery." l Is ar fellow, you'll miss youi watch, if you don't look sharp.' " Thai. Us." said Julien, throwing down the paper and springing up as in a dream. That ii iirlit the ninr at the wheel alone on the bridge with the yowtg oflicer. saw .Iv.l'.en pas his handkerchief i. vera! times BOrota hi face--stranpe. was it not? Since, tlo-ugh thert was a stiff breete. the spray did not rench them.- Adnpfcd for the San Francisco tryotiaut from the Irene of Francois Cooot.

It la now manifest that the special

taxes levied by the war revenue bill were needlessly burdensome. The

people were called upon to furnish at least $100.000,000 more money per year than w as really required to prosecute the war to a finish, just as they were called upon to furnish at least 100,000 more men than were needed, or ever likely to be needed, for the same purpose. Not aatisfied with raising $200.000.000 by a apecial bond issue, the administration forced through congress a bill putting taxes on about everything In sight, from patent medicines to bank checks and from express packages to telegrams The American people, with the same marvelous patience thee have shown in bearing every burden and sacrifice, however mistakenly and unnecessarily imposed upon them, uncomplainingly submitted to this complicated and annoying system of internal taxation. It is now known that the collections under the war revenue bill will surely yield $140,000,000 by the end of the current fiscal year. That sum, added to the $200,000,000 derived from the bond Issue, will bring the extraordinary revenue of the treasury for w ar purposes up to $.140,000,000. It is also known row that the total cost of the war up to the end of the current fiscal year will not exceed $233.000,000. Still further. It is known that the increasing volume of imports Is likely to increase the ordinary revenue of the government, derived under the old laws, by about $50,000,000 within the same period. In short, the financial prospect before the country is that, unless the superfluous war taxes are reperled. there will be an enormous treasury surplus on June 30, ls99, whih the country has no use for. These apecial war taxes should be repealed. They were Imposed under conditions that have ceased to cr:lst. They are yielding at leaat. $140.000,000 a year of unnecessary revenue. They are taking just about $400,000 a dayout of the pockets of the people needSIcssly and for no purpose whatever except to pile up a huge surplus In the treasury which will be a menace to the financial and commercial welfare of the country. These war taxes will confine to be collected month after month, year after yenr. HI III they are modified or repealed) altogether. Muster out the unnecessary wnr taxes aa well ns the unnecessary warriors! X. Y. World. Mnrk Hanna nays he knows the war department la nil rlirht became he "won there nearly all the time." ITere'a a chance for Alger to stand from under. Pt. Louis Republic

The hue nnd cry that has bees raise against the mismanagement of tha war department was taken up at the o 't by representative newspapers of both parties. All along, bowewr, the press has had nothing but praise for Mr. McKiuley'a personal attitude during the war. The scandalous blunders which marred the Santiago campaign and developed later in every camp of mobilization began In the war department and should have ended with tho

removal of Secretary Alger. Itepub- ' lican newspapers, partisan organs of j the megaphone variety excepted, were : not slow to find the cause of the trouble. They printed the facts as ' told IfJ news dispatches and exploited !

them editorially without reflection upon the ability or motives of the president. These newspapers are still clamorous for the truth. They would sustain the president and punish the guilty. The most rabid politician would not manufacture evidence from a thenje so unpopular as the inability of our officials to care for our soldiers. The poverty. Ignorance and cruelty of the methods followed by the war department are not good material upon which to base a political issue, nor would the most reckless partisan organ advance charges so repulsive to American pride without biir.g sure of

ita ground. Disagreeable as It Is. the mismanagement of the war department Is a fact. The nannacrat apologists admit hal Secretary Alger was aoflt for the position he hehi. without occupying, before and during the war. To the demands of the public nnd press generally, they shriek chaiges of political prejudice, overlooking or con. cealing the fact that the more intelligent publications of their own parts also demand truth and justice In ths case at issue. As much of the truth ns could be gleaned from personal ob

servation and private aources has been printed fearlessly. What all fair-minded people want is all the truth nnd nothing more nor less. It so happens that this can come only from a republican administration. Thus far public indignation against Algerism is anything but a ynrtisan howl. The insolent mouthlnps of men like Senator ITanna and Steve Elkina are calculated to direct public sentiment against the administration of which they nre a part, and to force the president and his party to make common cause against the popular wfTL The persistence with which Mr. McKinley clings to his so-called friends without regard to their merits or the rights of the people is another influence which will rot fail to bring odium upon the republican pirty. If this should be the result of hir. alleged determination to shield his friend Alger the controversy may grow into a national Issue, but Mr McKinley can b'ame nobody but himself and his bad advisers. St. Louis Kepublic. paraöräpITc" "pointers. The navy's cry was: "BenembeV the Maine." The army's cry will be: "I;. member Alger."" lt ica Observer. The republican chanticleer must be sadly In need of an excuse for trying his voice when he indulges in a husky crow over the republican victory in Ycrmont. Bingbamton (X. Y.) Lender. An exchange pictures Mr. ITanna as congratulating himself because lie is not secretary ot war. How would he feel if he had accepted the position of secretary of state Instead of unloading it on poor Mr. Sherman? Cincinnati Enquirer. hemovinjr Alger wi" not sure the disease. That would be only dnctorinir a symptom. The remedyjles in sweeping from authority the party responsible for the power he hns exerted to Inflict so much suffering and harm upon the country. St. Louis Republic. Alper and his beneficiaries, the Incompetents and their relatives and friends, are talking glibly of "the necessary horrors of war nnd military camps In time of war." The wrecking and ravaging of our volunteer array are not horrors of war. but horrors of Alcrerlsm. And for their continuance after they became known WilMam McKinley made himself responsible. X. Y. World. President McKinley was none too quick In abandoning his first intention to refuse an investigation of Algerism nnd to make bis administration responsible for it. Already thej first Intimations were becoming audible In his party that, If McKinley were to shoulder Algerism, the republicans would need to look elsewhere thnn to the white house for their candidate In 1900. X. Y. Post. The official family of the administration started in with the Idea that "a public office is a private snap" nnd they have managed the affairs of the government along that line. This is how the republican leaders have been manufacturing democratic campaign thunder, and they may be nssure.l that the democrat ic party will make It sound to the uttermost parts of the country nnd weave in n good many streaks of lightning, too. KansasCity Times.The election in Vermont has set all the republican organs nt work to find nn explanation of the phenomenal results reached by tle populnr vote. It Is n surprise party, and no mistake. Tha democrats increase their poll foe governor by a very respectable figure: the republicans lose to n degree which In a less sure state would menn defeat ; while In the legislature thedemocrncy makes what Is a stupendous gain In representnt Ion. comparatively considered. Tloston Post.

The Cause of Free Silver, s

DEAD AGAINI Tin. Omina of SeMeeeeef "' More Beae I'ahllaulnB nlceB of the Silver (turnllou's Ural.

The burial of the silver question goes r.rrilv on. There hai hurdlv been a

. . ..j day during the past three years that we have not been told by the esteemed mil organs of the east, and their cuckoos in other parts of the country that "silver is dead." Every turn iu the affairs of the government, foreign or domestic, ami every event that can be construed aa having any politicnl bearing whatsoever, has been huiled as another evidence of the great fact - the death of silver. That the issue, with the lusty vigor of youth, persisted in kicking out of its ready-made, goldplated coffin, mide no difference with the esteemed doctors charged w ith editing the Wall street newspapers. They hail said It was dead, and dead it must be. If they had U keep on killing it very day. Especially voluminous and vigorous have been these dcclarationsof demise whenever a democrat of any prominence opened his m.iuth to discuss anyother question. Such conduct has been taken as proof positive that he had abandoned silver, whether the question he discussed was the tariff, the crops or the weather. It made no difference to the doctors. For him to

think of anything else than the silver

question meant that he had abandoned the position he took in the last

presidential campaign; for him to talk of anything else meant that the entire partv had abandoned the Issue which

gave life to that campaign and showed

to the world that the party was still

the party of the people.

When the democrats of cenereat nt

the extra session manifested differ

ences on certain phases of the tariff

question nr.d discussed them, the sil

ver question was pronounced deader

than ever. The fu t that all declared

themselves as t'.rv.i in their belief In silver as ever made no difference with

the critics, nor did the more Impor

tant fnct hat demoeratic conventions everywhere were indorsing the Chicago platform. Silver was dead the doctors said so and that settled It! There have been many manifestations of joy over the difference of opinion nmong derranrrnts on the question of territorial annexation, and this difierence has been hailed as furt her evidence of the "death of silver." Here, for Instance, Ia the New York Evening Post, chief organ of the pold gang, as well ns of the torb s and traitors who have tried to injure their count ry during this war, which says:

A wink ts as rckh! n a nd to a blind j horse This action In Missouri will be accepted by democrats in other parts of the I country as evidence that silver Is no lonjrer the leadlnjr issue In politics. The question j ssay be eafcsd, what is the ksdlagtssaof ! It i; iaJ4er to ask the question than to ! answer It. If the democrats drop silver and go in for territorial expansion and a big navy, the repu oilcans' win accuse tn el ! of sttallr.jr their thunder. Consequently

thero will be no Issue. The Evening Tost is just as close as ever, and r.o closer. The cause of silver restoration is just as dend as it has been the hundred and one times when tue Evening Post has chronicled its demise, and no "deader." The action of the Missouri convention meant the abandonment of the party position on silver just to this extent: Ke solutions were unanimously adopted indorsing the Chicngo platform and specifically indorsing the party position on the silver question. If the actions of the democratic conventions of Texas and Missouri on the question of territorial annexation mean anything, it is that the democratic masses do not propose to be drawn away from silver as the overshadowing feature of the party faith. It must be borne in mind that all of this rUacuavioB among democrats

w as precipitated by those who though t it the duty of the party to go on recl ord against territorial expansion. It

was the effort on the part of some democrats at Washington to make opposition to Hawaiian annexation a party is.ne that precipitated the disII imioW of the territorial question, and the effort to make the democrats of Ti xas assume a similar position brought on the discus-sion there and resulted in the convention taking a 1 .-Ition in favor of the reasonable and sensible expansion made necessary by the w ar. However much they may differ on other questions, the democrats of T. xas am! Missouri, and of every other democratic state of the union, are a unit In support of the position taken by the party on the silver question Tin1 re arc differences on det a üb of tariff legislation, and there are differ ences on this question of territorial expansion; but there are no differ ences among real democrats on the question of the immediate and independent restoration of silver to its place be-oi. fold in a s U of genuine bimetallism. They lelieve in it. and they w ill continue to fight for It, Atlanta Constitution.

OPENING THE INDIA MINTS. Xot I'robahlf aa ear as Some In. Vlnr Hot (aauot H An P.iwrr II IstlellHIIrb Pmlpnuril. The report that the Indian mlntsara

soon to be reopened to the free coin

age of silver at an early date lacks con-

lirmation, as well as probai.oity. lhe

rejection by the government of the de

pendency, of the overtures of tho

French and American commissioners.

was so positive in its terms, una oi so

r. c. tit Origin, that little ground for en

couragement is left that a change haa

taken place in the convict ions of those who rule the country and control ita

policies.

And it is quite as unlikely that either Fram e or the I'niteiiMatcs asstated.

has "evinced a willingness to change

the ratio from sixteen to one to twenty-two to one.-' There is nobody in this country authorized to offer in advance any such concession, or any concession w hatever. If a change is ever made, it is more likely to he to fifteen and a hulf to one. to correspond to the old-world ratio, than to 22 or any other arbitrary figure necessitating a reeolnaf of all 'he silver dollars in existence. It is quite as certain, however, that India can never be placed upon the gold standard, for the very obvious reason that the goldin sufficient quantity is not procurable for that purpose. The attempt thus far has met only with failure and discouragement. The present chaotic condition is likely to continue in the empire for some time, and until all of the makeshifts have been exhausted, and the folly of trying to do business on a gold basis without the gold is fully-demonstrated. Dimetallists ever contend that there is not enough of the yellow metal in existence to base the world's credit upon a self-evident proposition to all except those who will not see and their conviction upon this score only increases the complacency with which they wateh the evolution of the theory. The population of India is four times

that of the I nited States. Kilver is the traditional money of the people. To discard the one mtal and adopt the other is mu.-h ensier recommended than accomplished. When gold becomes so plentiful that It can he depended upon to carry- the burden now borne by both. India may be placed upon the single rtandard not before. The time is not rapidly npproaching. The real ratio in the production of the two metals has not been materially changed, nor is .t likely tobe. Any variation noted in one decade is likely a be reversed in the next. Just now the increased production of gold and the decreased production of sliver isagn'ln bringing the metals together, nfter an enforced estrangement, due to discriminative legmlation. Some day the mints will be opened to the freedom of ench on equal terms, when the parity will no lonjjer dist urb governments or Individuals. We may do much to hasten the day. We have not the power to indefinitely postpone it. Eos Angelrs ITcrald.

Aastrla-llui.UM ry 'm Mnmlnrd. The financier h;nc in the last fewyears been making a great effort to establish a piM standard. They have not succeeded, and are not likely to succeed. They have loaded the nation with gold bonds but have not been able to effect any substantial chance in tho currency standard. The goernment had collected iu W.ifi about $11,000,000 of gold, but none of this is In circulation. The actual currency Is: B'lver .M,n.n.-.i Think and stale paper IsVUW.eOu All fufl b gal tender, none of It redeemable In gold alone.

WORTH ONE HUNDRED CENTS I'ronperlt Depends on a Stable. Honest Money This Means RentorIna the Donble Standard.

The republicans tell us that gold has a fixed stal le vaiue because -1. gra ins arc never worth lessthanone hundred cents. While that Is simply sn ine that 2.'. 8 grains of gold is worth 25. s trains of gold because 25. s grains of gold cam be coined freely- into n dollar, nnd i In that sense true. It Is also equally true that for the M years we had bimetallism the free coinape of both silver und gold at an established ratio of 15 or 10 to 1 there never was a day nor an hour during the 0 years when eit her metal dollar was worth less tli an 100 cents. Senator Cullrm and John Sherman claim that bimetallism was a failure because at 15 to 1 gold was at a premium of one or two percent., nnd at 10 to one silver went to two or threei per cent, premium. Hut neither was ever worth less than 100 cents, and from one to three per cent, premium is certainly more stable than the 100 percent, premium which gold hnsgone to when sompared with cotton, corn, oats, wheat or other products. If we want prosperity w e must pet it by stable, honest money, nnd that can only come by restoring the double standard or tnkinr nn average of the leadinp necessaries of life. We must therefore defc.v Mills for congress, and all other tools of money lenders nnd bondholders. Illinois State Ib'g-Istcr.

The Situation In Itnanla. The money standard of IJussia is technically i double tenderd nt the French ratio of fifteen and a half to one. There no gold in circulation. The currency amounting to about OOrt.nfto.'iOo, consists of sliver roubles nnd paper roubles based on sliver, none of which is redeemable In fold.

HO del in fortnaal. Silver is not legal tender In Tortupnl. Gold is lejrnl tender, but there I none in circulation. The only money in use is flii.ooo.ooo of paper, full legal tender and not redeemable In eilher cold or iilvi t, that i technically as well ns practically flat money. 1 ho rntrnl nesl!on. The central question of the new imperialem, ns of the old, Isl Shall the Rothschilds and other bondholders use their bonds to manufacture, issue and control the money supplT f the United States?