Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 35, Jasper, Dubois County, 5 May 1899 — Page 7

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Wind at Kirks-

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Tille and Newtown, Mo., and at Other Points.

FEARFUL LISTS OF DEAD AND WOUMDEO. ,

Harry J ume, i will die.

I sol- ' Kirk. mir.

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tin- lUtr f r 1 1 1 1 i ;isi. la.. sav h-f

ritK- windstorm, followed by niln und l.u.l, swept the Soldier vallej ha) : : r ht, leaving death und ruin in its path. Over m in-li f mia dl. Rai u hay hail storm hi t . t m Bdaatea, l.c-iie Purin-, year ' Iii. MM ill Ciorge I'm in-, wm killed, and Um tat

hw ing wirr Injured:

George Fume, frightfully bruited v. ill recover. Mi-. George 1'iiriif. Inilll Of lH'd and M splinter driven through thigh; nay

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M'KINLEY IS PROFITABLE.

The Monetary Problem

ABRAHAM LfNCOLN. I ,m Ut Daage Is ihr fmln uf VSI in Ii 1 mi I I .! of . a I III.

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M , . Mo.. April -'7.--T1IO sky 1 . i .: '- ---- ,

i- :.irv in u gigaum .,..1-. h.rk-ville, ut :-u o'clock towh. u the eat side of the town wiped fron the ""P- A bn-ad,

..iL, nearly a quarter of a. mile - through the town as BBWiOlR . .. . praMfc probably 4M h a i attcrrd as fragment:, MMM - ..Mud the town iu Moodlaad i... pruii it. , probable i lnindn d penal, men .. The known Bst at S OOloek ....... , ;;i. A thousand wore injur d I will M hng -iftrr daylight before v adrgttatf a tepthw of the de ! life OU M bad. rts coming in from the country T. Ts state that many farmers have r i severely, and that sen ral liws bca lost outside of Kirksvillc. . home f Jluiry Lowe, three . north of town, was demolished, Mr. Low and !' en drea v ore .ii to death, other neaben . f : uiiily escaped. Other fatalities . rted ItWRI tlM country, but no .1.1 - are given. . m heavy rain follow in-,' the cyihe Uilanee of the people v. ho iv ed the calamity have turned out

: .. the injur, d and hunt out Hoof The dead, and the surgeon-. ts. uM'ruting .-tatT and -tu- - men aad women, of the Aiiuri- - !.. . 1 i i Olid i .ith. together wi:h dru' il.K-tors resident iu the have formed rescue and ho-.mt.il . .-. ttud iu the darkuess ntul rain tatlntf out the unfortunate-, to i.i- tured boaaa, bnadMjr Um lace--and ae the pain of anguUbad -. IkM work is being siix rin.1 by Mayor HOWH and Dr. - Ii. Still, Dr. Wm. Smith. Dr. .!. ard. Dr. David LiUiejuhn and Dr. taaf II alter. From every locality the cry comes ; - nd surgeons. 'I'here are Iiletl, Women and ehtldlt !l . agony, .u.d the n -ming corps are ifting nv fs and Marching busementa if hou-es all alof- the edge of the ath track. iiotentii !y d mo! isheil. f I r rnui of the bleeding, dying and deal. labs, express wagons, private coiii. jauecs and atretcbera arc nil in ric'. yet the aupply ia wholly inadite, and many needy ones are ping out of the wreckage and maktheir way as banl Ihtjf CM to asyiialf a dozen wrecked dwellings

tire imine.liat. Iv after the cyclone i ns-ed. The tire liells rang out a

. for help to Kirksxille'- aecdj, but . w. re none w ith I im to itop

. isolated tires. Tl.ey were left IO r own resoiirc-s. I.urid Qghta from

Umtires now illuminate death e. and is helping the rescuers to irrj on their errand of BWSey. Kcnts'

'aking establishment is Im i g

is the ehamel hoBMj ami a weoti

. . ..: are t..n there, sou.- et

unidentined. The QtalMM t wlwn.

Kansaa t itv. Mo.. April.'-. A spenai

the Journal from t'hillicothe. U.

tornado, probably the ant on

I swept o er Kirks', die, struck Newa small towu iu Sullivan cocn-

i.ist n'iL'hf. ami atiM-d terribh ! -

NMioa, It is r'p-Tted that IS pM

r.- killed in the citv. anil lianv

btn in the country mar then

xr. til tniinlx r of buildings wer.

vrn ilnwn. Heavy rain followed

t. ado. adding gnatiy to tin image.

A I hicairo. Milwaukee & St. Paul

. i i dge is said to hare been shed out. 1 i ... a partial "list of the caaualtii s obtained: The tSftOB au' ttt i hicngo. Milwaukee A St. I'au! at N. wtown reports the killed . uniled as follow .-.: Klllr.l. - en in UejH ar. wife and three chil-

I.ewi I.arro, hired man on PttrM place, -kin torn fron teoe, mum htiMl act kea; will recover. Arm Avundaon, cut about baad, anW la i- boa ami SM b g hrwl-.' n; will die. Peter Pete an. Ml years okt, one i.-g broken, .-ealp torn and hl.ull erttahed lajuriea fatal. The atom was the pjont taten at tin home of lhc I' "Urnen. The family had gone to bed M tla v were aw A. tied by n terrilie Boiae. TM In ne was rai-eil bodily anil ilasle-d to pu i s. The Isiy, 1-eslii , was found dead ; feet iiwuv. Bfttrjrthiag M 'he plaee was wrecked. The tornado lirst made its appear Race t the farm ted Oeorga Swen-.m, in Monroe rouiity. ami wrecked evi ry-

I ttlng. The family escaped by taking

to the cellar. The storm tin i eros- d , over into ( raw fon 1 county, ami fit ' atfojwd biuhiiiij.'s and weh on the 1 fatiiin of Ib v. H. J. Hjorehain. Ant. n

Hi i -"i, Arnt Amuml on, . W. Pryden. George Kurne and Luraley Petera, . en thing la the path of the atorm w.i- wiped off the face of the earth, tn - being torn up by the roots, and buildings scattered to the four wind of In . IV n.

DOMi.lM. BTORM l siosi. Ill)- U hull' Mat llelnueil l(eM,ri uf ii. n ii - ii n r i mill DaaMHirea fr. Ill Mit Ii See I Ollis. Milwaukee. April W. A h avy rain fell throughout the slate la.-t night, bi ports from different parts of the stjite show a ery heavy fall in some sections, with damaging result. Antto reports a cloud-hur.st which la.-tcd about 4 .j minutes. The wind 'vvhicli

reompanled the rain leveled two rjnoheätaeha of the Anturo roller mi'.U.

At Madison the storm was in the M m. a

nature of s Cloiul-liurst. accouipanu i bv a tornado from the s..uthwest. and Beree electrical -torm. A bolt of lihtBing struck the st:eile of the fo inu.l

Lutheran church, shattering it. A

eiii-s of children belonging to the p.i-

rish aehjool were In the basement, but

leaped injury.

A telephoi able fell aero tue

street car trolley wire, blocking tratbo anil hundreds of telephones were rendered Daelee.

At Wau-au the storm was sever--. A

hcu-e was atruek by lightning and

1 l.1 1.. .1. flTid telephone service wan

badly crippled.

t Dart ton! Charles Thra-hers big m

store, in process oi consiruciion. was

hh w n down, and much damage M

portf d in the country.

PAYMASTER DODGE'S DETAIL.

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fm i uin t Dtafceraa die MMItea Petto e te lira ill... ii Si, Idler.

Washington. April L". Maj. I'rancis

S. Doib'i . pav master, has been ordered

to proceed from New York to Havana,

( i ha. with the necessary funds for the

payment of the troop1- la the dirlsi m

of uba. The coiiuminding general, de

partnaenl f the east, will fnrnlah a -uitable eeCOrt for the funds, (in arrival at Havana, Maj. DodgC will turn over th f i. mis t. the chi. f nayamster, diriaiOB of ( uba. and will then report to the eoiiilnanditig irelielld of that dihnoa to reih n Maj. Oaorg 15. Badth, pay master, of his duties in Charg of lit pavment of the $.1.o00.00u to the Cuban army on completion of this data Maj. Dodge will return to this

"Yes. we may -m... i atiilatc oursclvea that this erael warii Bearing He close It h; h i.. t a vast amount of treasure

iiiid 'iiooij. i ue oe-t uiood oi tee sower of tbfl American youth has been freely offered umu out- country' altar that the nation might live. Jt has imlei 1 ban a trying hour Cor the republic, but I see in tie1 near future a crisis approaebbig that unnerri s me and cause BM to tumble lor the safety --f my country. As a result of the war COT poration hare been eathroaed, aad an era of BOrruption in high places will follow, uml the money power of the country will ondearof to peoioag its reign by working upon the prejudices of the p.oplc until all wealth I ag

gregated in a few hands and lhc republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of the country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my BUspicioa may prore groundless." Abraham Ltneola. This extract 1 eathealic ami was written in I8i i by Abrahaai Iineolo to Mr. I'.lkins. of Illinois, it was published many years ago in n bonk entitled: "Collection of Liaooia'f Sayings." by Jesae Hooper, of Daarille, Hi., and the

book, though old. is readily obtain- j al de. The tdeatity or name of the author of this statement is of little conseipn nee compared with the pra.ity of it- terrible fulfillment. We nnr now dealing with the reallaitioa of the unerring judgment of Abraham Lincoln: and the ii. an who i- bothering his head about the name of him who predicted it is not m titnllv eapa Wie of distinguishing the inati rial from the immati rial or the essential from the BOB. essential, lb: may be a man who is su riiieing his honor on the altar of Mammon, and so long ns he is able to rake in the blood money of usury from the unfortunate debtor class thinks that present conditions are extremely Rati factory. It may 1m well to bcif By state a few facta concerning the trend of pretest events. Every on. din t of industry except is nowcontrolled by u trusi that regulates to a greater or lea extent the amount of production and the pricea of the product. Since William McKinley was inaugurated ten limes more tru-ts have b.en formed than .'it any other period

of the same time in the history of the

country. A capitalization of 11.1100,000,-

000 ha gone into busineaaon the trust

plan sin ' the era of prosperity of 1he

gold standard type male it- appear

ance. While competition is b. lag throt

tied and the aggregate i - of capital

lire eoaeaded to le menacing the life of this republic, some who are temjwvrarilv reaping a special 1 tit from the gold standard KM cavilling orcr the name of the prophet who first foresaw present conditions. The present national administration is an aider and abetter of trusts. The national- platform of the republican party of 18M was süent on the subject of trusts. The p'atform of the same party in 1892 contained a declaration BgatSBl trusts. The ISM platform wis dictated by

trnsts and declared for the gold standard, until international bimetallism was brought about, which the money power knew to be impossible, but which was simply throw n in to fool the people. The platform of l Ott, which declared against trust nlsodeclnred for bimetallism. In ju-t four vi arsthe nmncy power wallowed the republican party. N'ovv triists are daily forming and the partyis committed to the gold standard. Trusts and lhc fold standard are the handmaidens of industrial stagnation.

The usurer and tin coupon clipper are

of its existi nee, the big pawnbroker, just like the little pawnbroker of today, threw up his hands and told Lincoln, in efta U thai if the government was all th security be hud to offer, they WOUld haw to IllHlge 1- pat OMt. interest. Lincoln's eye- were the opened to the fa t that Sh.vl.n k had bul oiiet,od, and that was Mammon. He turned

away from tin- uaarer, a be ooald i . r - tow only on pawnbrokers terms, and issued $00,0ihi,(ii)u of one-interest bearing BBoney, a nil it proved us good money us any in the World. It was then that the same banker- came to lhc governBteat and said: "Dnn't makfany more money; w will let yon have all you want at the lowest rates." Lincoln's experience with the money power had taught bin) 'hat it was conscienceless,

ah aftrf ' " '''" uofi Not iu friere nl ' Ii lite TruiU.

EXPANSION'S COST.

It ii I ii 1 1 1 a M

Into III III to 1 1 tM UaMBia Co. fo I loll lite fwlttaeaaea,

ruthless and cruel. I berefor his prediction of the effects of its enthroneincut in this country was not a mere gueaa, lie know. The people lent their heat frieod and the money power its greatest foe in the death Of Abraham Lincoln. OfUCTTgi ALL MONEY IS SOVEREIGN.

Xo DtaerlMtneltea Bfceelal a AIIewel Btweea our VirltM kihUb of XI one .

ein and report in persOB to the pay

master general of the army, for duty . . enthroned and point with deri

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I i. ,n Evaa and two daughter. William Hays, wife and child. H.-rionlv InjuriMl. I I re,- Hays children. LI la Krans. M .1. .Jones, wife and tvro children. Mgbeaj ijur.-.i. Mr Mry (iregorj ami daughter. Mr-. Pi. rce and sister. Mr. i'lairg. Mr -hi i-iuan Wilson. Mr-. Limbiny. Dav .sinifn-d. vifp and three chil-dr-n. Met jnisfon and wife. uy iiion and wife. Mr. John Johnson. AlrltKiri WIND. TORM r Prnns KlllrS and Many Injared nil Immrmar Dtmilir Hour I l'rnirrt,

aha. AijmI -a. A special lo liiooklv n.

in his otHee. M i i. Ueor.-- W. Mose, ml

ditional paymaster. V. S. V., has been n lii ved from further duty in this city and xvill accompany Maj. Dodev to Cuba, and a--it in paying ,n'' t ub.in at my. STEPHEN J. FIELDS' ESTATE, fae xiii IHasestsm el n I'roione i BMaatea eieelaj i ingsaeweiBeles, Wa-hington. April fcS- The will of the late Stephen J. Pichl, formerly associale JastkM Of the I'nited States su- 1 prcine court, was liied for probate yer terday. It Ut dated May U, IStT. Mrs. Field, widow of the testator, and ! Si, tah I oadit Smith, his sister-in-law, j are aaaavd as aecatora. JuathM Licul s real -täte and most of his pameaal property an- baueathed to Mrs. Field. Iteqof it of

Hsiatiagl and iMMiks are made to Mra. Emilia K. Aslibum. of San Francisco, a niece; to Associate Justice David J. Brewer of the United States supreme court, a nephew ; to Stephen Field Chritey, a grand nephew, and to Da id Dudley Field, a grand nephew. To Wm. Joice. who was aaasager to Justice Field for 19 ft ars, $jlMl is left. SOME NAVAL SHII$riNGS. Ilrar-ilmlrnl ehle Wnlminl as tee Wombat al ! '- Urea llunril-iMln-r Imune. Washington, April We Meir'AaV miral Howell lias been relieved a senior aJnW Of the naval retiring board. He will lie succeeded by Admiral Schh y, heretofore a foetnlier of the naval examining board, t'apt. look, foraterty commeBder of the Bnwklyn. and who was recalled to this country by the recent death of his wife, has ban ordered to duty as a niotnlwr of the naval rxa nining hoard. I omniaiiili r W. W, Mead has been ordered lo tin i Dim d nl the

sion to a populist (who df Boaada stable money), nnd at the same time deliver enlogle Un Lincoln, the founder of th. ir party. The country Bead a Lincoln to star the assassinating band of

the oligarchy of wealth that threatens the republic's life. H may le Well to cive some gidd Stauda! ndvoCMM '' Opportunity to read what Lincoln said on the currency question, as follows: "Fluctuations in the value of currency are always Injurious, ami to reduce these fluctuations to the lowest fmssihle point will always be a lending purpose in w i-e legislation." The gold standard has bu n. tad is now doing, just what Lincoln dcprccat.d in the following words: "Wheo H ,000 or OWN of the eircul.it ion we now have, shall ! w ithdrawn, who can contemplate. Wlthoejl terror, the fllllTM. ruin, bankruptey Mi beggary the must follow? The man who has pi.cetiased an art'u le say n hor-e on credit, nt 1100, WMflt 1MM are jen.noniOO circulating In the country, if the quantity be reduced to $100.000,000, by the arrival of pay day will father conditions remaining the süme)

lind th horse but KUflicicnt to pay half the debt, and the oilu r half mtlst be itlu r naid out of his oilier means and

thereby liecnmc n dear loss to him. or eo unpaid, and thereby become a clear loa to his creditor. What I have here -aid Of a tingle case of debt existing nt the tune a reduction in the quantity occurs, will hold good In every case of d. bt, BO mutter by whomsoever nnd for whatKH ret the currency mar have been contracted." No one knew better than I ine.dn the type of patriotism possessed by the pawnbroker nml usurers. His dealings with them during the early pari of tM WW had eonuncnl him how thoroughly their love of couutrr was subservient to their loveof money. When that great commoner Bppoalcd to them in the name of our common country toeotM to It financial relief at that try inghour

All mnnev should stand on mi aCJTUVt

I footing and be interchangeable at par, ' and BO i BCl n v enie nee will ever be ex- 1 periedced by the gorerameat in bus- I ' tairiing such a custom if we hare honest laws hone.-tly enforei d. The first

demand notes or greenbacks issued

by the governiii' nt in 1801-62 kept pace

with the .rice of coin and never depre-

ciatoii in vaiui Because iney were

made receivable for ail public dues, the Fame as gold. They were not even j

legal tender." but they kept company 1

with gold through all the period of the lowest depreciation of legal tender , greenbacks. In March. 1803, when de-

preelatMa reached its average, goi'i brought lftS1 .. in legal fnderiiotes.atid

demand notes brought I.V.. nnr. this

practical parity between the two kinds Of money wa- sustained throughout. Legal tender preen backs depreciated because, and only 1 cause, they were by special net of congress excluded from payment Of dilti. on imports and interest on government bonds and BOtCS. Tnis act w.i- forced through congress by the influence of the bomb bolder and the agents of the BothSChilds. It was MVagely attacked in a pt ech by Thaddens Stevens, delivered in the house of representative m the 10th of February. Ignt, Among other things. Mr. Stevens said: "1 have n melancholy foreboding that we are aliout ti consummate a cunningly devised scheme, which will carry gnat

injury i-nd h-- to all classes of people throughout the union, except one. It (the legal tender act ) makes two cla-ses of money one for the banks and brokers and another for the people. It discriminates Ik 'tween the rights of different das-. - uf creditors, allowing the rich capitalist to demand gold and eomtn Hing the ordinary lend

er of money on individual security to

receive notes which the government had nnrposely depreciated. Put now comes the main clause. All classes of people shall take these notes at par for ev ery article of trade or contract, unless thev have money enough to buy United States lx.tids. and then they shall be paid in gold. Who are this favored class? The banks and brokers and BObody else." K-n at that early date the Botha Childs had their grip OB the throat of our government, and they were strong enough to force their measure- through congress. As a result of this seoundrelism and national robbery, the people of the Tinted Stale- paid, in gros profits to the aatloBal banks. Between lSCrt and 1099, a period of 37 years, the alnio.-i fabulous sum of t.Gäu, or 1490,130.474 more than thcentireci st of the civil war: and they are still pay- . . . , .. .....

ing on tue same bccouot, wnia mc banks have meanwhile doubled their holdings by means of the gigant ic crime of '73. Mississippi Valley Pemoerat.

A nu.vber of prominent, but mi faraa party iwutrol K"cn uninllucntial republicans ure promoting ii movement toward electing some nominee of the. i

party, other than McKinUy, for president in It0 Nunc ' back number" republicans Mich a "Pill" Mason and "loin" Band labor under the delusion that intellectually, oratorical gifts, BOaJ for the public welfare a . cord mg to t heir liph t, nnd such old-fashioned -tatesmanship till constitute I valid claim for leadership in the republican party. X0 the i t. ut that Mason. Peed und kindred politicians revolt from the "Hannaisin" of their party, und hope to defeat Sanaa' representative, thej will encounter certain disappointment. Tie position of the republican party is . . . . M X M I ..

ci. arly defined ami us nun is hmj taken. It is the party of cent raliotion of commerce, wealth ami government powers. It is the pari i.-an of t ru-ts and the natron of large aggregations of

Wealth that are dependent upon the noninterference of the government with their procecaea of plundering the people. The republican party of to-day pn -anta the largest, closest and strongest compact betWOea "business men" that the world has ever know n. Py "business men" is not meant the legitimate merchants ami manufact ui . i s, but thai das of men whose BÜnda aad souls are wholly swayed by insatiable greed for money, and adso are endowed with alinost siiperhuman genius for gaining money through unscrupulous methods. Now her. i Ise on earth are so many of mho men to be found as in this count ry . Never before has there been a country with such enormous wealth open to

plunder. Bat little consideration is necessary to make it perfectly obvious that M -Kinh v I the most "profitable," which to he real republican leaders means that be is the only available candidate of their party iu 1" In marketing their securities, the trust BJaaagers confidently promise immunity from government interference during McKinley 's tenure of oflice. As the events of the recent War tended toward crowning McKinley with factitious glory, and suggesting his reelection, trusts multiplied and their stocks were easily floated. It may be noted that the damaging disclosures brought out by the board of inquiry and the recent slump of pi n es Of "industrial" stocks were coincident. If these slock- are so sensitive to a slight waning of McKinley s prospeet ! for reelection, it is easy to foresee the panic in such stocks that would follow McKinley 's defeat, involv ing as it would

the confession that "Hannaism nao lost its grip on the government. There arc fully two hi Hions of dollars of "trust" stocks, und the estimate is conservative that these stocks would decline in value from II to 10 percent. in the event of McKinley defeat. From the view point of the "trusts" . "the business interests" of the count ry demand McKinley "s renoinination. The trust managers rely upon the fact that this nation has expanded" to siicee inquiry abOBf the disgraceful executive lllieillMf f IBrnl thai bas accompanied this expansion. They hope to get McKinley before the people, with ' some kind of a "crown of glory" I Jammed dow n over his head. They w ill then rely OS their peerle-s capacity for UsiiiL' money where it will attract the j nio-t votes to insure his election. McKinley is the ideal candidate for i the tru-ts. If he wer subjected to the j 'X"-ray. im object would be seen except the ignre of Reaaa. The trusts

have absolute control of the republican party and McKinley is its inevitable nominee In 100. -Chicago lemocrnt.

In a recent speech nt Philadelphia Carl Schur, iu denouncing i in periulisui ami inXUtarUm, Mlled attention iu thehj enormous cost.

"py honest and strenuous effort , he said, "w have paid off tSe bulk of th hry national debt left by the OfVU WSV, arid :. . a v ry proud "f t h ' ... I v. ue e We an new III 1 1 w..v of ! .'.! : w mitlonal debt, of w hich, If w o on Sita trm lnw policy, nobody can lon te.l lo what flBun i it wUI rise." Few persons have ciinsideieil the matter from this point of view. They have s i s..nie of the aosta of expansion in the injury done to American lastitn ti..iis and jirinciplcs and the developBeat of Aigerism, Paganism and corruption, but tin y have not fully appreciated the fact that a brilliant military career is expensive, and 'lie people will have iu tax thciu-ches tocarry it out.

The debt statement laaued By tn tree i ii ry departBusat for the month of March present - t his comparison: Int. r. -I it .ns; d. bt of the L'nltcd States ÄT:: ..mg ;?:hi::::::::::::::::::::::::: liar h a, Mil l,0a,TlJBI The war tax bill, although it added 50,000,000 a year to our revenue, has not sufficed to meet the demands imposed on us by expan-ion. Theeurtent deficits will BeeesSitSta further additions to our il- bt. There will not be the slightest trouble about BCgot iating the bonds our credit is so good -but increased indebtedness means greater interest to pas and an increase of taxation to the war basis of 1M1-6S, that will preV a heavy burden to the people. It was borne willingly enough then, although it was very hard OB the poorer classes: bat who to-day can point out in the Philippine war any proflt to the country, anv American principle nt stake that will justify the administration in piling up the bonded

debt and necessitating on increase of

taxation to pay the interest there.. n? We will pay a heavy bill out of the

pocket Of the people for what only a f vv syndicates will make anv thing out of. We are running into debt to allow Banna a Co. to exploit the Philippine and provide the inhabitants ef those islands with watered railroad and various trusts and combines. N. 0. Times-Democrat.

THE ISSUES OF iqoo.

lnc.ll.ini. Which Wilt lino s, nn d in th Real Pes Sea tie! Bleettea,

lo lie

A CRUEL BLOW FROM HANNA.

The

tepaBltean iii Raarea w hrn Vleiit loneil In i licet Ion villi lie. f.

Ihose who have the goad of the American people at heart arcnow considering the questions which will come up for discussion in the campaign of ! . I, There call be n doubt that the ( hi. ago platform will be readopted in

ill bv the next democratic national

.invention, and that the money plank

will be no less emphatic Put there

will be other questions of vast impor

tance upon which declarations will be mado new questions, suggested by

new conditions; and perhaps none will

be more actively discussed than that

Iating to trusts. The next denioratic platform, like the last one. will

be a powerful expression i .icner-

soaiaa doctrine and Will command approval.

On the subject of the issues in use

William J. Pry an. in a recent letter to

the New York Journal, say s:

Vlreumstaiiccs il.-termln. th- r lativ

Unport in. of nur . Möns, and no one Is able to s.iy .it this time IB what proportion tha

various I - - in h will i r.Krojs public attention. 1 have no dOttbt that the I'hlcaRO platform will be narhrmed. Pal the republican withdraw their demand for an in. re.iso in th StandlOg army, that qursti .ii aim will I under discussion. Thp lsnu. j .!!.-: ihr. .it of inn- i ... i-m

mav be settled before the campaign opens.

or it ni.iv occupy an important position In

the campaign. The anti-trust issue will

loub'.Uss hoM more prominent place in

!'( than In 1W. I . aus. tie ra.i ! ln r. ise

intie i imber of trusts lath lt two years

has .. .a-. . I th. pubUc i. r ahs.it ion of

th viilousmss of the trust principles.

This is doubt less as w ise a prognost i-

catioa sa could be made at the present

lav.- IBinoia Mate Pcgister.

MONETARY VIEWS. or the ew rrcaeh PveaMaat M. i.naet i M tedeal Rtaset" nlllsl. The following iuti resting paragraph aapeared recently in the Manchester Guardian from its Loudon con c-pond-eut I "An interesting fact about the new

Ufa 111 l at Of the French republic is that M. Loubet WM for some time president of the French Piinetallic league. He only resigned that position when elected president of the senate. M. Mi line succeeded M. Loubet as president of the league, and held that office tIB ho became prime minister. Poth statesmen, between whom exi-ts a warm peraoajsl

frieadahip, are still ardent aupporten of an intcrt.ational monetaiy arrangement, and M. Louhct's elevation to the jiresidency of the republic may have an important bearing upon the Indian currency question should the committee which Sir Henry Fowler presides over recommend Sir Forbes Adam's plan to our government as a satisfactory settlement. I hat plan is that the Indian mints should be reopened to silver, provided siinio other leading nat ion or nationwould open theirs to silv; r ns well ns gold at n ratio which would give a stable exchange value to the rupee at 1 shilling I pence, the English monetary system being left as nt pr"Pent. Many awBoamtslllst engaged In commerce, It is aitderstood, approve of this suggestion, bile bitnetnllists generally are atd la be prcuariug to ac quiescc in It."

The most lignlfleanl circumstance of the beef investigation that bas thus far appeared is the angry denial of Senator 1 la una of anv connection a hat ever with

the mi re base of the beef. He sent ihis

denial hot from his winter residence in

Thomssville, w here every thing was so

lovely a law days:

"! :i. s In the tn wsprip. r r ports that one

Maj Lee has attempted to drag tat naaM Into thp esse l.y questions which . oav ) 4 th. ImpreSsJOB that I wan pres. nt at BQBH

oo'if . r.'Uce vv h. r. 1'. - f contracts wi r di -

l ass. 1 1 vv i-ti to say thai I ne vi r had any

thing to do with any army contract, nor even exchanged a word Wtth any official

of thr vv .r ib p irtmi nt cn that sub.b ct.

wile th! statement In order that it may

have the same publicity as was Riven to the

conti rnptible Insinuations of this man I.e.

This is the most cruel blow thai Alger has received vet. It is the unconscious

admission that Mauna believes the bad

beef charges to be true, and it reveals

the secret opinion in Hannas heart

about the secretin v of war. Hanna isn't

u sensitive man. He is not so .scrupulous

I in his political acts as many other men

I lie would do thing's that the late J h.. in

ns F. Pa yard would scorn even to think

nf. Put the beef ssaiidal is too much

for llannn. When they mention his

name iu connection w ith Alger's beef In roars out a denial I hat shakes the moun

tains in Georgia. He doesn't want to

rest for a moment under t he imputation

that he would be guiltv of even know

ing what kuol of meat Alger was fur

nish ing to Hie soldiers. it ica observer

PRESS COMMENTS

Carl Schur miv that Lincoln and

Cleveland loom above Jefferson am

.la. I on and all the other presl PBl

Day, of Ohio, hai a different estimate ..

greatness from Carl of Sehurland. Hay says that, when it comes to blgUCM ni laf SMIlia Iiw1ll. generalship and sen-man-hip. McKinley, of Canton. WlpM the presidential bakery. Hark Banna, of Blttsbrundery, seconds Day's motion. Pt. Louis BeDublie

"Mark HXnn leads a strenuous life," says the boston blobe. Then are a great, many strenuous things connected with Mark's occupation. Chicago H l noc rat. When a stranger, looking like s-ecrctary Alger. BBBMH along tin-street iu an Amerfoaa city, the loik- shout "becfl" ut him. 1 his would indicate that the army meat ration is i mbaluied in the Anicman heart lünghamtou VN. Y. Leader Alger has declared more tbafll once that he. intends to stuy as long ua the administration stays, but it is clear from the tenor of all his declai ati uia to the cllcct Ihut he recognics the w8sibilily f R contingency aeccesltatlag his getting out. Perhaps a emit i ugeney uf that sore will arise, it would make u hit if it did. -Hinghamton (N. V.) Leader. Trusts are the direct and baleful outgrowth of the high protective system of custom house taxation, which ha- glutted the home market and shut us out from foreign markets that geographically belong to us, thus by urtilicuil process of contraction fon ing an artificial relief in combinations to limit prodMtion aad rahsnee prices, lo the end it will lad its solution in free trade come iu through the open door, l.ouisrille ( oui icr-.lournal. When the republicans went into power their platform promised the reform of the currency. W hat steps have been taken tO keep this promise.' Ill

what way has there been any reform? What has beeogat of ihis impulse, anyhow ? With war scandals to BBOlOgtM for nnd responsibility for the trusts to be ns-iitueil and broken promi-es to 1 explained it would seem Ihut the republicans have no easy sailing.-Mem-phi Conunci eia l-A ppen I.