Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 21 July 1899 — Page 7

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GRANDFATHERS DREAM.

.n-'fathte Ml In hl big armchair Pant un1 i i wrlnkl' i tli i'. rat over his VII o d facs VA'i re f ui COS 'J d p : Ii i well of h I. ml huiiK fiom Hi I In k ..iii i hin. litt a (lit (all Inn snow the lud Pass hol In. I. ird. Irnwn In- ds w re n, ! al.ove Hit nikiiiK staff ;

Inirlud to slim

was read to go to lleavi :it any tin . she li t., in ver hai an-. I a l.ving i reature.

or world gladly fi, Hm in -f In r urea. I euee,1 ami mare mating talk like tinwhich did nothing to uvul liebcci ,iHlfl in ;ul. Aa a matb r of tm I, Ike old ltdy held I onto Uff with u n iiai iou grasp and i

lived five more years ol In , . . s n,

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we uw a Mali on hi parted llpt Bpri . 1 o'i r In- in., .i rlpjiU' r .i ree4Utl ItSt From tt st Ii in pi.n n uessed wit.' WtHon tkt long ago Hai anchon ii tt ap .i o'.il man's sou. is .Inf! ii now ThrouKh his sit i l.

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Of all hi i a ply p!ayIr,K rounda Th. r- his lap? wax It a Winding orc hard path In the twilight dim, , n I hit Child ' n's mot hi r, a Irl ..rain, Walking w :tn Inn 1' rhapg) tlirounh time's hSS telephtSS, Ha h .id a . m i felt a baby' hand on his ehttk. As IM HM J to do f we wi i sonn ra il mr Joy Ha h id mi t aemi wh ra

ome to vtalt tio- old man '.here Atlttp in his hair. i I s t. Is dropped from h..s staff And droop (l his head! tn ose who r.i ma aid went that day Talk, i of Uk dead.

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t ilked only of pearly paths

In a sumin r lund, Hh'T" his children's mother walk d with )nm. Hand In hand.

T"nr ' ow we ha w h. r SSfftl face lad In th.- gl. am Of a goldT. city awaiting him. Was grar.iifatba r's In am. Alfnd Ellison, in Chicago Dally Record

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Happy at Last

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RLHECCA STOXEH mnu regarded aa tin- typical old maid of Kingstown, '..-..pic said .-he had "toured on the v. .in!."' ami. assuredly, judging from the sharp, bitter remarki which of tea 1 seil her lip , nae would not Imagine t. at the foilliii the HOrld full of teeti ami licht. Tin Kingstown people v . ;li have jienil their ees wiüf mid they have aeen the old maid one winter evening when, having returned from a walk, ahe threw hcraell on har roach ami shed a Hood of tears. i an I never forget him. or learn to aVapiae the man who apurned mj ime'.'" he tnurnnred, '"Ali, Dkdc, Diekl l nc it will ri use to line um!" SniUlen1 she rose ami rtaahed away her team a bittet, mocking andie played ..lit hear llpa, "There is BO n an in the wide WorM Worth a tear bol he h .- st of all." she aaid, fiercely; "and I will never tkink of 1 tn agalnt" Awe. poor Rebecca! gba äneW ton Well bow little she COtlM keep i : protaiae to h raelf, for the erj i .it of Diek Waidron, whitekaired a: d atuoped though be waa, waa enongk t. t iier haari atringa t" tingling. Her story one not UncOtUBlOti in

Ne England village life. When ptepona were going on for her marriage to l.'i l.an, iValdron. ßebeeeaa n other, I o -. aa a widow, tell ill. Rickard, w ho had bei n waiting a Inni: time for lebei , Inalated upon the marriage beperformed without delay, for, aa

Validism. seltish to the lust.

When at l..st M , , lt Va.s frer ahc bealtated aboat raoaUing Dick wkoai bin- .-till finally loved. What it In bad married aitlCS be hud left I, er; im n were iliconslniit b nature, sin argued, Vet tk remerabranca of EHck'a fue and Iiis wokIs as he bole bet good-by

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" .--..ii.il I . , I Ml, lulu I'baaged during ii- year' attendance; in the lick room, and bad loot much of her girtiah charm; perhapn be wouid Lot . ati' for her. Finally her love eoi.ipieted. und t.hc wrote him u bitct arbick would buve brougkl him, a happy, eager lover, to her aide. Hut in some unaccountabki waj the letter was lost Intmnalt. INek never received the message calling kin bach to Bebeeea, and ke Buppoaed.ai he did not return, tkat i.e apurned tin love 'he off. red. .Nit u I ally she was uimoet heartbroken, kwl her faith In tnaa and never w rote again. He. ti hi- part, receiving no word after the death of Mi-. Montr, Bttppoeed Bebacca! lo had cooled, und railed at the incontam of woman, But he never wrote even to Upbraid ber. Years patted un. be bnally returned to live in bis obi home, but, though be und fetbOTf I pataed eack other daily, there waa nevei ipeech between them. They were now middle-aged und each lived alone. One night Hebeoea in a restlesDBOOd Matted out for a walk. She bud L'one us far as Dick Wtldron't cotta'i when the t nought she heart a jiroun She stopped then, with last beatin

heart, ran up to the door and listened i in groan waa repeated, ami. heaitat' tag no longer, she puabed open the dooi and entered. Almot! on gäe threakold -he stumbled over bis prostrate, form. In u moment she vas on her Knees and lifted his bead Upon ber hnuaV HPick, my darling, are you hurt?" sin- wl.ispcrcd.passioiiai. l v kitting kll ( dosed eyet ami robbing hit "id hai dt Arm, -eil by her word-, he trogglcd tu ri-e. but fell back. Hut In- knew her "Ah. Bebeeea, you have been ffucl to me." be mumVired. I ben, almost under hi- breath, be said: "When pain ami anguitfa Wring th brow, a mlnlatering angel thou.H T feil ami broke mt leg and crawled : to the door for help." be kx pan to ex- ! plain, but fainted avvav. When Bkshard IValdron reemered COnacioutneta he found the lindor be- i side him instead of Rebecca, "Mi-s gtoner Bared your life, 1 hrmiy believe,' the doctor said. "1 know the dil," echoed Dick. Hut he meant aometbing the doctor eouki not understand. The atari day Rebecca tc-eived nt argent note from her old lover begging ' her to come to him. She could lied refuse, for. a- she told herself, be migkt be dj ing, When ahe -aw him, pale and

Buffet i nkr. bi t amlling gladly becanae I

PR1CLS STILL t ALL

We s e in the fall prices and the

accompany inp danger to business the true i. in...... i the world wide movement. bo confounding to free traders, for trust- ami for what WO ikftttM OOCC have called inordinate protective tariffs. These pbetion na mat k the precise period, since 1-; '. during which money bat been Swelling in value and poods toting in value. New South Wai. - itiii l-'Jl ever the fne trader's fingt Standby) succumbs to this drift. The reason of it is perfectly obvious. Product ion now is estra-kacardoua sad neefis shelter, w ken prices threaten r bagtu to lall. wh u stock depreciates upon manufacturer.-' hands. they inevitably strup'le to avert these results. vcionsning any resouree tkat ean aid. Enable to compass their ends otherwise, tin v apitate for hiirh tariffs. I unhesitatingly avow the OOOViction that bad prices since the war been stationary or only slowly advancing, the rise In United States tariff rates culminating in the McKinley law would never have been so much us thought of. Hih protection! ts would huvc bean perfectly satisfied without any rise and even with Ome reduction. The McKinley rate bac been lowered tomewhat, and. If tlx change bad been peeeeded by proper monetary reform, tLe reduction might be permanent and parkapa in a little tlise, with the approval of all. made greater ttlU, But l fear that it cannot be permanent. Unlets monetary reform Comet soon, the tariff which the democrate have been at stu b ereat pain.- to pive us. w ill speedily be ripped in ph , and rate of duty be Imposed higher than those of the McKinlcj act. A low tariff p illey can never be establish! d in these United States no long as gold alone continues the basis of our currency. Hy no meant all tkote crying for highest protection, whether here or iu Europe, believe iu protection aa a general policy. Many tuck, in theory, favor a tariff for revenue only; i. e.. they would advocate such a tariff were prices stable or ri.-inp. W'illinjrneaa to subject your country's industries to normal foreign competition is one thing; quite another to do no when y our competitors are helped to beat y ou by a kottM bonus on evjiortation. as is the ease v Itk m arly all exporters from silver gnd paper lands t-day. In Trance these "opportunitist" protectionists arc a powerful and growing party. Their logic is as yet imperfectly understood in this country : but men are mattering it more and more, and it will insure to the protectionist ranks armies of n oruits in eviry cono-re.-.--ional ami pretidentlnt election till general prices . rase falling,

Such i- the diagnosis of our present

tat hail come, ine anarp eyes toftened ; industrial di--: so. Jn my b i; f a ti n.

and tat ban! in,. - about her mouth j cause of morbid condltiona in the bodv

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BW home vv uid be WitkiU siirht toner place, Bebeeea could stbi th her mntha mmA

" ÄUI mother selfishly obJected. "!;. ;...w tkat Bekü eea would " ' -am, to ber after marring, ; o one ebe rould nurse ber as well, und "ouldn'i b is their way long, .she go gladly na soon as she was Culled up hijrhrp etr Bebeeea, -ick at heart, but not a -. .1. a- she bad been, to resist I ' ' , ithority, offered Hick his ri - ilom. Hi Rtormed angrily at tir-1. but. ec- -' I" I pain ami iliktr.sv nl l.io ...l.l

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-..,.... ii I. i; I I I i rear, by your mistaken notion " ' Aty, but I must submit. Hut VOU are free you have only to ' to tne for I cannot stay here ' U me hack. When, v. I vou send ' ". for I will never HTVS RBj hul vou. and will i. mltklul ti. si ways, II ndgkt have gn,. well had it not that Mrs, Stoner nirain si ltisblv in- ' : "lieb. ccu and Dick must m.t ;" tosaah other; it would only keep 'S mind in tumult, und tkt Juvititaml iu Ihdrvuniur,,,

teemed to disappear, and b r In an beat with a wild hope that after all a sen day of happiness wa.- about to daw n for her. All that bud seemed ao incompre

hensible to tin m wa- HOW . b ared up. although the missing letter was never traced, and the village ieijile were shocked the aest day to learn that He- 1 becea had married Dick Waidron w hen he w a- so k in bed. "Took ad v a Dtagt Ol his helpless situation." some opt nlv declared. Others derided, but some ay mpatkixed, Bebeeea heard this statement, but she did not care. Dick had begged her to marry him at once, si d she f it -he owed it 10 klm- -as well as to tu rself to comply, and so she nur d bitn back ,

to life and the ha ppim -. In y came so near missing, and it Wat -till sweet, alI hough it came so late, t hicago Times-Herald.

HOW FORTUNE SMILED.

ihr Ha SS! Chase Whteh ii ii -1 n . ii ii ,i ( i. ;n i .. 1 1 atrtpltaa Lawyi i

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When this incident oc aired, aa

latcd by a Detroit lawyer. In waa W year- younger than lie Is bow: "I bad all I c. uld do to pay for rh( Bp boarding and the rent of a little office w kick also served, as lodging spsrtment, The best I had in a business WSJ was a lOUgk lot of collection- and a few inslgi ificant cases In juatires court, "Tkla i- the way in which the tide of fortune was turned. A big burglary had beep committed and a man seriously wounded in trying to defend hia prop ertr, Arret- were madear.d the whole

rommunity wns up in ara s. I never wa- -o surprised in my life as when I wa- employed, at & ridiculously -mail figure, to d ft ad the prisoners, exi . ;-t when they were acquitted, Tin re wann organised gang of thene fellows at the time, and the sipiint-cyed, sharp-fa'-ed leader afterward, told me bow 1 i BfnC to get t h case. "'We Met,' -aid he. 'after the b.va wns pinched, and a motion wa- made byone of the blok - to hire two of the bi st aid highest-priced lawyers in the city if it took every cent we had salted. I give 'em rope wkih they qntrrehtd over who the lawyers should be. and then I done lay patterin', I told 'cm what a lot of jays they was to blow their stuff in on l.iir Wdgl what charged a dollar fur every Word tiny spoke. My plait was to buy witness. -, and then any fo'.l

of a law ver would do us. That's bow

VOU got the case, and it saved us n pile." ' "I didn t feel Raftered, bOl it boomen me rigkt into a good business that a

mail, me cumfortable. VrcBS.

Industrial has been laid hare. The ctrnslon of silver from service a- full money greatly reduced the amount of the world'- money available for ultimate liipjidati iti reduced it absolutely, snd reduced it far more relatively to those needs for fundamental money which rise trom the . r Wth "f population snd business. A distressing sp prcciation of money per ut.it has ensue.!, meaning a tremendous drop in prices. This disastrously handicapall production, it docs not entirely prevent production. Nothing short of KiiliriL' off ti e race could do that. Hut it renders production Indefinit lyfet kts compared with what it would lie but for tin knndieap: The worM seedaau addition to its funds t . atal money; not more bank Botes, not more token coin- ; ge, not more full legal tender tob..like our silver dollar- am', the Trench ecus, but more of tin sort of money that can do everything ffcfi any money ean do. We need, 1 sny, .. greater bulk of mmey that is exportable, good in ultimate settlements, suit a Me tor berfc and government reserves, A stop mutt be put lo men's ubiquitous rusk and clutch foe gold. The pas-ion f ir boarding mi -t be cured. This can be done only by abolishing the legal primacy of p ild. 'II,:.. .- the prt pei prescript ion for our patient. The only quettlott is w hether h- an be indu ft d to try the : in iue. My belief i- t' tt the n babiUtattoa of sliver fuB money by n law

. tin- great commercial states of the worid would instantly bring health. It so that course it most d irabkh U. Denjsmin Andrews.

THE SHERMAN LAW.

Dt, K . lie n j ii in I ii Vnilrevva or. Ihr I'l. e ll I Uoiloil iiiollliiia ,.f

in,' Inttotielnl iiuu.

So tu r I bins: VIm.uI ihr lllrinil to ii 1 1 ii.n i ttss atlvat vi. ...ii res lisr, Vau.

On the tth of Mai c. p-'. Hie sd ministration f President Harrison bc'uB. All ov. r the country t? te waa a very general complaint of duB tnnea, Bnd, K sept in the etreine east, s strong d. inaiid for silver Isglslation. Wb.-n tb I'ifty-lirst congress uS-:i.-liU-il on the first Monday in Iieonilur, 1-- . there is no doubt thut a clear nsujority of both hoii.-cs v.. re iu favor of free coina!.'e. H it the ndUsksiatratJcUtj -leaker Heed and a ma uity of tkt republicans iu both houses were opposed to 6uch a measure, lam senate promptly passed a fre coinage bill, ami sent it to the house. Hut the administration bad it pet scheme known as the "Windom i ill." The anti-silver republicans, I- in control of the house, blocked - I ver legislation until Bufftofoafl pressure had been brought to bear iiK)ii the less determined silver men in the republican parts to induce tbein to accept the Wimloin bill as u substitute f,.r free coinage. 'Ibaf ineasure passed the house by about 1 1 majority, the pronoun. d fr. coinage men voting agsinsl it. The bill provided for the jwri has. ,.f four und onehalf million Olinom Of silver bullion each mouth, to le jiaid for in treasury notes created for the impost, Theae notes were to be legal tender except w!.-re otherwise stipulated in the eontract, und were made redeemable in gold, at tkt option of the government, in silver dollars, or in silver bullion, at the option of the bolder of the notes. Before pnsting, it and, however, been am. -nib d so as to ada.it of free coinage when the bullion was at par that ia. worth UtO per ounce. Tke IsnportnnsM of this amendment was overlooked by many people at the time. The senate refused to concur, und the matter went to a conference committee. There the four urn one-half million dollars was stricken out ami the tame number of "otinci s" substituted; the provision for free coinage when parity was reached was Biso dropped, and the notes were made rede liable simply iu coin" which, of course, n cans either gold or silver. In the latter form tkt bill passed both houses and became a law. It merited the name of "the Sherman law,1 from the rconsstance tkat Bern.tor Sherman was a prominent menier of the conference committee. If the free ccioage l.mse had Iwen retair ed ami the law had been fairly executed, it is not unrea-onabb- to lelieve that it might have settl.il the silver ip:. -ion. 1 nder its operation, as it was. s her rose to $l.-u per ounce. With free coinage in prospect, the owners of tke bullion would natura oy have In !d it back, hoping thereby to raise

the BBSrkel price to glJM, wkea free coinage would have taken effect, nnd la nil probability held it at that point. BUt the gold IlM li opposed it for the -aine reason. Professing a desire to rai-e silver to a parity with gold, they wire afraid of having the markt t "bulled." And yet almost every market quotation of anytking in Wail street is tke result of the manipulations of the ' bulls" and the "uearV MODERNIZING JAPAN. OowtUtstnta fffceee iii ortfti iiiuatai mi sMfcee Paid stausatseal I B n I r i

Ban, :i nu r llc'lli . The Ckicaga Record recently printed what seemed to be an i utln ntie interview with ton. A. J, Warner, president of the American Bimetallic union, in which that gentleman was made to say that silver would ! a secondary is-ne in Uw Campaign next year. TldsOen, Warner has denied. "1 have." he declares. Ineeer said t anybody tkat tiher is a eecoadary issue. I have said that Innaaaueb as the next congress was almost certain to pas a currency bilk the currency phase st the money ipieation was likely for the time being to attract n large shnTS of public attention (whether the government or the banks shall issue our currency. Tb.- money quest loa has lost none of its importanc e, and I do not think any backward step on this qWSStktB) WiB bu taken by the democrats in Ifta). There will, b wever. be other prominent Issues the trti-ts ami Imperialism.'

trn l ReaWtatt Prices. Tnttin-ic vttuc docs not regulnta price. Air possesses more Intrinsic slue t' ar. a: .. Dtker tkiflg kttoWP, but It tias no prlr . The Intrinsic value f

UeUoit t ret s kusksl of wheat ucv r changrs. but

tu prici doea.

Tbc modernizing of J.-. pan. which hsa been progressing so rapidly during the last fi w years, closely membktstke Rotkscfulditing the rest f ;bc Srotid has been undergoing, and is iindoubtt illy the ant tidng under another name. I'c, v Atdt a, in the Outlook, thus !cscribrs tin Japan f to-day, aa hi sees it. in contrast with the Japan of form, r timet, as he saw it: "A m ry undesirable change hasc .-i ovir the life of the working people. Tke factory chimney, omiuou- baebingtrol the in. iu-trial icvoiution, risen gaunt and bare from the kfaltOUt brick buii.ing which at'-ms to U' the mcesnsrysc

eompaniment of wealth-prod net ion on a Urge scale. Tbc wor-t evils of th-

factory sy stem are creeping in every

where, the ru-h for walth ia taking

possession Of the people; the limit, d llsbiUty company is already in the field : fort ii;,. are l ing made bv a fi w .

but pauperism ia on the increase. A native writer sayst Lnnd is betagrtupIdly changed from the ownership of small prop rth - to 'he handtof rtcker men." Tke amass r of those wi poo s. -- tin lrai.cl.is. pav ing 15 yen in taxes, have gone up 41 percent., but the cost of Ii ii I. a ; in. l . a-cl ' t cent. Under tke heavy strain of these great changes the temper of the people is

gradually deteriorating, t out 1 r-sy and gentle manners are yielding to hard snd stereotyped sresten waya Intssma j Competition is developing .-e'.fisbncaa J

and erui Ity. Ilms tn.t tkat dnrk deacriptton fit every other country under the gold dandard, tru-t and monopoly system of the Rothschild disM-nsa.ion; the produeera and consumers of tke land are bled nt both ends by the syndicates and tkt gold trust. W ith the Increase of production the producer of food, clot king and shelter is forced to pay tribute m tin monopolist, and there ia an accompanying incn ae in the number f hungry ragt. 1 and homeless men. Such were unknown in Japan until p ci ntiy and la the I'mtetl States f s pen. ration ago. When we have Baaken kaaes t.ie graan of usurious er. i d upon our twditicnl ;&ititutlons eraaned prndnalksa wüi mean mors good things fr.r the mattes, inatead of famine for the mult it udes and luxury for tht few alone. Illinois State Register

THE Bio THRLL

Slarsvs of ( oaanlra. Iu Ihr War mnaawsnamt tur Psittssstl I'ruUi.

There ia no douiit that the cdmims-tratiou-meaning oy that tin primdeut, the aaorataaty of war and the secretary of the navy entered n the i feasant of the war with Sjiam de- ; riini.ed tnat no army nor naval hero houid be developed who migl ' become a popular favoilte and receive a preaidentlal nomination Ul 1000, ibe OOMpimcy wts directed against the fc Idlers und sailors of both polltkml parties with a view that uo commander by sea or land, gaining victor. et and acquiring the opularity with which American i row n tbvir heroes, üould ntsname a candidate for president iu apposition to McKinley m-xt year. '1 his Lne of p dn y has prevailed thSugh jUt in those dt part menu of the ad minis tratn.n by which the movements of

ibe war were directed.

At the commencement of the war McKinley and the gang of oliticians by w I... in I.. - ii.:. r. -ts are served fearsd ... in ral Miles more than tin y feored anybody else, the Spaniard iuoluded. As the commanding officer of tkt army if be wus in rmitted to conduct the campaigns iu the field he would be given tke ere...: o: uii the v ictori. s gained by our troops. The Ami:., an p.opn inevitably reward their successful gvtierals with presidential nominations. Washington. Jackson, Taylor and Grant were elected to the presidency because they wire military hemes. Scott and Mcllellan were nominated for president on their war records. Even Hayes who was nominated for pr. -ident. but not elected, though he held the office, having been counted in w as supported on the few lines of his history as one of the mob of brigadier general? whose names were on the pay rob- during the rivil war. t.artield and McKinley are claimed to have won military renown. Americans are a martial people and venerate their war heroes. The president and his secretaries appctclatsd this fact when the war op. m d and o i.eral Miles, with a good military record, was

the officer of highest rank in the army . That is the reason why : imoriant command, except that of the Porte Rico expedition, was given to Q r.eral Miles. It is the reason why bis services in Porto liico were cut short and lciittld, while the campaign on that island, without - rio bloodshed, wa the most successful and fruitful of tbt war. It it the na-on why he was assailed with contumely snd insult when he deaonneed the sales of "embalmed lieef" for the rations of our troops. His destruction at t soldier insure.', the absence of nt least one probable competitor with McKinley for the republican presidential nomination in 1CJ0. 1 Democratic soldiers were suppressed in the same way. It was feared the ' prominence of some dennerat in a successful campaign would develop a dangerous opponent for McKinley at the presidential election. They appear to have feared General Kitzhugh Lee the most. He was the liest man on earth to have Iwt ii placed in military and i ,; command in aba. Hut there was the possibility of a demm ratic pre tide nt in the sound of his name. lit was kept in obscure commands, was hidden under the higher rank of men in every way his inferiors and left to mst out for fear his labors in a prominent iosition would clothe him with an irrefutable popularity before the people. Other instauet s might be cited. The war on Admiral Sei, by was inspired by tpprehen-ions that, as the victorious commander in the grcatct sea relit since metal essels were employed in warfare, the people would iusist on electing him to the presidency . Dewey would have Im en "turned down" in the same way bad it iiern possible. The history of the Spanish war is a history of low-down politics on the part of the

administration, without a parallel in tke past of this or any other country. tl'hicago C hronicle.

Mrrr llluf. "We are going to fight the tni-t!" La iM-en shouted a time or two. The Ohio rrpssklknaa put it in their platform, although Ilanna explained that thy did it under a wave of excite mei.t" unrelleetively an l impulsively, its it were. Since then these republican tru-t t ;-!,-crs have heard fr un the sources from which they obtain their sinews of war and I ei n warned to "go slow." The tr.-'s lave j .. . tin v. rd to Ilanna. Ilanna has eommunj cited it to McKinley ar.d M Kinley in turn has let it lie known to the Washington correspondents of hi- nevvspaper mouthpieces. The tru-t- are to he f 0 i-ht but in a Plcfcwickiaa sense. They are not to be strangled by the republican party. The worthy ones auch, for instance, as the Standard Oil, of which Han aa lately expressed Inch praise, anil s few hundred more or b s are to be let alone. Iiecause it will be found by looking through the spectacles, of the republican leaders that the-e are "reasonable combinations of capital to enable American industries la compete witji industries abroad." St. Louit Republic.

The pSOpH are growing woefully weary of tke president's uncertain Philippine policy or certain lack of dloy iu this mutter, and a war none too popular, is lieeoming b"-- and lesa popular as it drags along. The unpopularity of the tear in tke Philippines, st at present conducted, is tke president's own unpopularity, and It Wl.toves him to hri'iff about a climax in that conflict that shall le I rcdi table to the country or his administrate u will soon be looked upon as a failure.- Minneapolis Tribune.

f TRUTH COMING TO LIGHT.

MeUlalr'. 1'hlllpplne folic, Im tw MM In at Sir ark lu ibr Nostrils ul the I'eoplr. Gradually the public are atlsn per mitted to know something of the truk regarding the situation iu the l'hilip pine-. J lie president is back at Wash ii.g'.on and there is no longer ai -m uss for k . ping the jeople in the dark as to the int. ntlont of the administration concern. t.g reinforcements for tjen Otis. It ia now given out th.it the IkjOOB men. wlm-h i. en. Otis ha, rejeatedly d represi med aa declaring to ba s lb. iint fur the pacification of tho Philippines, means an effective" force of 3u. k after all dcdusHlonS for sickle--and casualties have i,een made, (en. or.- a few days ago placed tba percentage of aiokntaa and disability at 12 kt cent., but the administration allowance is now 15 per cent., and it in admitted that this j'. rcentage will be increased aa the rainy season pro gressei, a:.d that there is small t hancn fur recuperation in typhoid cas.es as long as the patient remains in the Philippines. The work of recruiting and vending forward reenforcetm-nts is tt be vigorously pushed, although, it is explained, there will be no pressing ne.-d for n targe reeaforeeoseut until the iiose of the rainy season makes active campaigning again practicable. This explanation does not tally with previous administration atatements that campaigning is to be carried on actively all through the rainy season, the American soldiers b.-ing as well able to fight under its conditions as are the Filipinos. W hy not take the public into confld. Set and tell the exact tr ith concerning the situation around Manila? If tL.re is inching ' i n ' a - ant to reveal why the rigid censorship of all dispatches from there'.' If it isn'ee--ary to send out a large army to maintain the "sovereignty" of the United States, Istthss people of the Unites States know 11 that the army ntay be raised ami s.-nt without delay. It is nearly five months tu.vT since (it-n.Oti- "di-persed" the Filipino army and many weekt since the negotiations for its "surrender." and yet tl ? war is going on and the greater part of the territory captured by the general's forces has been abandoned to the insurgents for lack of troops to retain possession. There is a mystery abnut all this which the people cannot understand. If it is aSOteeery tn have a much larger force to effect the object wkltk the government has vndertaken. tl sooner the fsct ia admitted and the increased force dispatched the better. The ostrich policy of concealment ia a poor one. t level:. ml Plain Dealer.

POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Vtsa repel ücan organs nre still hat ging like l Til death to the old lie nbout trusts in ir e trade Kngland. It Is their only kOfM to save their system of benatle to the special Internta.ioux City Tribune.

So an ry ia Alger of denying false re-ignation rumors that latterly he simply xiiiits to the nail keg, and lets it goat that. Albany Argus. Alwiut all that can Im? said of tho treasury showing at Um and of the fiscal y ear is that it i- : t ipiite so bad as if might have been. Cincinnati Enipiircr. Th !' 1h y for the trusts baa let out the fact that the octopus simply winked the other ey e when it heard that Alger w.,sto light it out. Chicago Record i Ind.). If the president expects t lie people to have coafi lence in Ins administration he ought to have enough confidence in the people to let them know the truth. Kansas City Times. Of course. Secretary Alger cannot see any necessity for his retiring from the cabinet. His pa-t course shows that he would feel all right in tbt CSbinet if be had the smallpox. Indiana polis Sentinel. The renomiiKition of Mr. Ilobart for v ice pr -i.h fit d pt lids oil how well

the mat ; : - have the case of Mr. MeKlsJey in hand. If the rcnominat ion of tllS president eonies easy, it will In? .. -v to . arty Mr. Ilobart along; but if Mine of the states have to lie conciliated, look out for trouble. Cincinnati Enquirer. The republican organization i now the HMSst perfect political mneklM ever eonstrvctcd in tfcmcsruntry for national purp.., It hair-triggered and splendidly equipped. S well construct! d. so cltaely knit is it. that it ,v,'u tlo. s not i v -ei are t! e trained and exjiert band of a mit iciieele.-s nnd powerful ffnwtfS to ru:i it. It nM run itself. In fat. at this very moment it is in active i pern t ion. ev en though ita mighty In; . I i- -.. ' miles away ia Huix) pe. Wa-ti i i igt on Times. i Belying on the tariff duty for protection, tke tin pints trust has made exclusive contracts with the maniifuc turersof blac k platen (used for tinning) in order tS betsk down all Spponittatl from badepetident comjietitors who do not nsnafai tUI" black plates for themselves. Having monopolized tin- business, the trust now feels itself in a - it ion to deal as it may .-bo. -r with its workrntn. Though the prices of tin plate have been m arly doubled, when the workers ask for increased pay the dorrs of the factories are shut iu their

faces, snd they are told to go hang' -Philadelphia Heeord. Ohio will be the great liettl ground. The republican iiiBiir.-enta are a - numerous, as a.-tiv.- nnd determined there us in I'riiiisv lvaiiin. ami llam a is a- obnoxious an is lnny tothr I sttt r la-- of ' iticns. The "big ho' hni demonstrated that he owns th party, and those st If resjiecting rcpiitBatna who believe that tbt honoi of the state and tkt nation demands hm efbiccment are ready to supnrt tho deiMieratic ticket an the only means to tlSt end. Ibe pro-jie. ti n most promising one for tkt Mm d. f in-rac.V. asd it need not lie aarprieiUg if rrpublusn -feilt in the iiresidri own slate is n

re-alt of the c-nniing campaign.--"xl ( If, II I 1'eo; la sad l'atnoi.

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