Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 42, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 October 1899 — Page 7

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"but then sits He w ho knows. Mini had stayed late to talk the man who soles shoes, and she ;,; him reAtottvel) under her , kc brows. - " the nid. calmly, uui See folded her small, tea-colored and leant d against the vail of house. The two queues, braided istically with blue mid white euni, rerj lunny. Standing out from , round head in an inquiring r of mind. , i he shadows are of pink utd arkiu ss is of silver has your mothpeace tu her," said Hip. disI hi -ubject. I it would ! a very nice piaco . 1 think." urged Almoin: lilossom, i at'nr.'ly. Sot ,ii haste; not in haste." anred the aged trnn, with a thrust of iv, ! Into the leather before him. Sow .,. they go?" asked fcutn. DM you not see the red chariot am. r the sen :i in in tr of the flutes'.'" -. Itiss Sum bad seen as much, i bad see the red and white bits

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then fallen asleep ami known no

S mi Sec got up quiil i and ran awa v. 1 . ii . he hail asked all she could about 1 mother, and in the morning she I tu the joss house alone witli an f of su very primy litt le wooden - and a dish of papier macho ducks ' I See had broup lit her one day. She i -limbed the dusty stairs labori- . and the door wiis open into the ii kin room of the joss bouse (which hi tli ( biiiese temple), and she entered 01 Ismaycd lO consult the ina . who pi i sides there. EHk found Iii in in, seated upon his ' ' v leps and suiilinp very kind) at "Hosj do you do?" said Sum Sec in El - Mi. The joss smiled harder than ever, nl ich WM natural, as he Mas made a., of wood and painted dark brown. I he odor of slowly djlBSJ punk and I ids wood appealed to Almond BtOS w ith a sense of mystical sidoinnity. 'Hi brass urns, with the sandal dust, Shi put her Anger into, luxuriating in 1' soft, filmy sweet-smelling stuff. Il i mother had come hi re fur praxers that Sum Sec knexx. but she had nevef been allowed to come along, i she looked about Interestedly. Above her shone the long line of plane1 i" ariike emblems that the priests carried in the dmgon parade. She ' Otlld handle them without a jirotest. for here at the smiling personage xaith a look of koft milirmnl

'lie kfarine. sg who then rnl oui and shut the door and locked it. It as ihc elate of the grcgl offerini; week, Bi.i the BftflnerOOai that Aliiioi. i BlOSSjUSJ WO! m KOS not to beop-ieo foe se i ral daj s, .Vi mo i ii I EllobSOSi bad 1 raw led int.i the prayer kilo afters kitten, sad she earn out dusty and uismaxcil not to haw found it, fur it had soran)btsd BWlt of the smoke hole and got hastily to the roof of the bouse in a dash. The watts watt batag xxith strlis of paper, in jrellou and red, and Mm Sum

liked the orderly era) they were aria x ad, "Tell me." she said to the jess, "' wish to go to iin Land of Ceaseless Shine and Diamond stars do you know Ike wayV The kindly joss only r.udled, of course. "Ah, you are dumb!" said um. 'Poor thing! I haxea neighbor box. a dwarf, who is deaf and dumb. You are lise him." Again the joss eaaUedl happily, so Sum knew that she had not ollendcd him. Presently she xxent over to the door by Which she had eOtttC in and found it locked. She had. indeed, started on the way to the Land of Silver Shadows, and there wa no 1 Urning back. Sum See sighed and turned away. There was the window yet. But Use window opened out on a balcony of -tune eight feet xx ide; and she could not see the street from there; only the tops of the other bouses in the Chinas quarter and a row of black chimneys. "ihat must lie Ihe CJtJT of ihe Cross and Envious .Serpents'.'" said Sum. que etlontngly. it xvas the war to the land where her parents had gone. Hi had told her so. "If I am still and say nothing n nybi we shall traxel there in tl.i- shrt-ur place," said sum to herself resutsur iiiL'ly. It was pleasant at first, for there Were the dolls on the shrine the hsaei fodl and Sum could play with 1 hem

without fear, because of the smile ol

tue main functionary. Tli' Q l!.i re Were the toy banners tc sway in the scented air. now so beavj and doj ing xxith the dj log sandal flame ihat Sum vxas glad it was charring to a finish. The room leelcd xv ith these serpents of smoke ii.'.' ring out through the crannies of the room and windov to the Stti ct and the sky SDOVt. Sum noticed alter i cxcial hours txxo liiim.'s Daaseiy, that their room had not got beyond the chimney pots, am. that ln xx.is xcry hungry. She had bad a small boxvl of rice and pork that noon in her oxx n home, but QOW it was ct1ing dark outside, and h knew that tin x xxere getting- into the Laid of Silxer Shades and Star Beams. o she sat still and wondered win -be could not get out and what sinshoald eat for dinner. And then she Went around and consulted the joss There he sat. a if made of ch .colate cicams, and smiled, llclovv him wni a covered board, and Almond lUossoni lifted the end of the cloth that wa-

draped over it. ami there found duck roasted, jars of potted fish and sweet cakes all hi r lav. : itc i iln Sin knew then ili.it she x:. in Maui' Land, and sin - mill . baefc at the brown man and ate ravenously. The night pasted by, Alsaoad Hlos sum .-! j 1 1-ir profnnndly in the soft robes of the Exalted I", xx. and then, re placing them In tin morning, she begun another day of weary wafting foi the o oiling of the temple doot. t Alasaejd Blossom's hosae yon oaB understand the excitement. Thej mourned her as dead, and ihoiight the angry devil- had spirited hT away. I hey gaxe up searching for her afto: i while, ami xx hen the fourth day came her tea sets and wooden dolls were put RWay and the farnilx shiine lit with -i reo tapers, for her years. The Welcome Cat xa- n nooved from the boapitahle door, and the mourned. Aside from the mere loneliness of the situation Sum See vxas fari. gwell. No royal daughter of the Light Houses 'and better in a lifetime. She ate of the glased brown pork nimbly and feasted xxith Ihc freedom of a rat in s conn r cupboard. She and the friendly jn-s looked solemnly at each other over the xiatuis and -aid SOthtl g. It xa- so high to tie shelf that it seemed like standing up to a lunch counter to eat, but Sum soon found a

way of retiring to the tiocrwith nor bites and there enjoying herself. And when the fifth dux onine they found her there when the jovs house a- opened for airing and w, . ship of the smiling man vx ho sat there. They Would haxe beer. ioffrihSd at the familiarity of Sum See with Bia Great net! if they could have known, but she -aid nothing of her conclaves xxith the Kuler of the Destinies of the Faithful Followers, and as she looked fat and xvell tiny said nothing. The food for the departed spirit had disappeared, and it xxas well that the religious miracle should be told of. They did not know that Sum Sec had eaten it all. and that she had burned the kSSVingt in a pan in the oven xxhere -In had first scon the cat. Her restoration to her fond family x:i- taken as another part of the miracle, and no iue-tioi;- were aiked, and Almoin! Itlossom did not explain. All she knew xvas that -he had had all the duck she exi r wanted in her life,

A DISGRACEFUL WAR.

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twinkling her black eyes around tin A ' loom and smiling back toxxard tin 1 "I image, l e touched the stiff varnished brV cades, the noli shed newter urns, tin

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ami that she had been rather happv in

He said nothinc. but then silence is ihe mink scaied silence of thediniam!

den, niiised Almond HlossonS, ' painted interim- of the joss house. And

no one exor knev t lint the frienilly gid had smiled upon her eating the funeral baked meats for her oxx n mother. Thus did the spirit of Li ( urn watek over her daughter in the Land of SÜ-

I luttering papers with Ihe gilt rib- ver Shades and Forked Sunbeams, and

bos tloxvinj; from their sides, fine hs she and the joss had SO conspired that bait on White chid. And then Miss the lonely girl should not starve no fe iin '.n uoxxn. matter if the sacred viands that vxrre She xxas v interested in the prayer f sp. sd Si hum on her way were conox r tnej place xxhere they burned the Mimed in the process. Offering! ihat she did not notice the And, of course, the frien lly joss nevei I hlaataaa who aanat In, looked round mentioned any of the fscta. Cbicaga the room to see If tkers were ssi at litrakt.

The pala ami amaeuient of the M - Klnleyltea at the fad Ihat aatybody should be base enough to desire tu mak- party capital out of their gigantic bluudeiing in the Philippines, is potting to be such that they can no longer contain themselves. Tliex iinbeginning to explode with IndigSatlOH und hon or. While trying to wist fotea for you fellows out of the mistakes we fell ixxs hare made! Merciful heavens, vxas seer such political turpitude heard of before? Col. Hay was aghast at the thought, iu his letter to the Ohio repuhl.cans. It is true that his horror and i!i L'u-t were n trifle too plainlv theatric; his starts and gasps nml stares xxere eloary stnpey; you all i lung saw thai lm would be perfectly willing to go off and take a drink with the villains when the play was uxor: hut he already has many imitators a ml we shall hear much more of the unspeakable conduct of party opponents in holding a republican administration to account fort be oloaaal failure of Its Philippine policy. Bear In mind, however, that the objection is not to making party capital out of the Philiimiiies. as such. It is

only to making democratic party capital. The) trntii is. McKinley and Hanna had Intended all the poUtlcal capital that could be made out of the Philippines strictly for themselves. For the democrats to interfere and claltA any of it is :i purs perversion of a sacred fund, and the courts should intervene An injunction would, wo think, be praft. j by any fi deral judge, restraining Brydu and other democratic orators from so much ss mentioning the word Philippines. The president has an exclusive prop rty riidit to nil the party capital Which the Philippines can be made to yield, and what are we eomlnsT to if outsiders ean break in end

take ft away from hlmf Weknowwhat Ids adulators would bare said if hi plans had not gone so grievously wrong, if Agulnaldo hud groveled at his feetj if the Filipino- had hastened to submit to his usurpation and illegal proclamation, xxhat a powerful argument the republicans would have seen

la it all forneledlng the lt. at. strong, binexiblc, far-seeing, Infallible man. who spake end it xxas done, who commanded and it stood fast! To demand xotis for success in foreign complications is legitimate; but to say thai ro't s should be withheld mi account of the humiliating failun why. that is imply monstrous! Men who would do that WOUkl botanize upon a mother's grave and traffic in their country's shame. This is republican, e McKinley, war. if it si oils, li'it if it L'oes m fn tn one disgrace to another it is n national war. for Which all an- responsible, ami to support which all citfaeena are bound to stund together. N. Y. Post. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. The t-u-ts nte not worried oxer ir.y conferences that may be held in Chicago st. Louis or anywhere else so one as they have command of the si tuition at WnshlagtoBv Peoria Herald rranscriot.

Administration organs nro still larptng away on Gen. Otis" illeged In mmpetence, without having the coots ige or candor to admit that McKinley . ; responsible for otis. oist ss be is for very other feature of Ihe war of oun-auest.-Columbus Press-Post. s,.rntor If anna ean see no evil In the trusts. Why should be? Isn't he depending entirely upon the contributions from the trusts tn arry him safely through this fall's . lection ? Hanna ht for the trusts and the trusts arc for Banna. Canton (0.) Democrat. "Another evidence of prosperity." says a Joumoliatic aeigbbor, 'Ms round in a big demand for diamonds." There has not boon a time when the plutocrat! and trust beneficiaries haxe not boon able to buy diamonds. In the hardest of times those xx ho ha vc plenty nf money do not have to give up any 1 the luxuries of life. The poor man incver able to bi:y diamonds. Cincinnati Enquirer. Tin- repul lican party managers ire slriving had to deckle upon the nio-t ax ailabl vice presidential candidate for next year. Their evident inxiety Ihat Mr. McKinley -ball have a.t exceptionally strong running mate is significant. It me.ius that they nro scare if the waning popularity of the

president- The great desideratum is tome arrangement by means of which Mr. McKinley can bo placed at the head of the ticket again and still be kept as much as posslMs in the background during the campaign. - Mi n ncspolls

Times. Mr. Hanna made a "break" as soon na he opened his mouth to the Interviewers in New York. "My obssfvattons af EngtsndL" ho said, "are that it ia a country xx it h a food political system. It is fully as good as ours." If Mr. Henna's Ohio opponents are Sharp, they xx ill observe the implications of this remark. It means that, in his opinion, a monarchical form of Coxcrnniont is just ns pood as a republic. Some of Mr. Banna's critics think that monarchy hi what ha is kod lag us to. Springfield Republican. It is necessary ÜTSt that wo ihould remoxe from the indepi mb it peoples of the new world the fear 1 1 a t we art intending as soon as possible to "gobble them Up" in the course of our destiny." Wo ouirht not to haxv the hostility of American republics, but rather their loyal friendship, It is important to them its to us that the Mm. roe doctrine should be upheld, a ml if it he a fact ihat there Is to the south of us n growing suspicion of us. or hostilii x toward us, the statesmanship and the press of the Fnitcd State ought to fo out of the xvay to remove such a sentiment at ones.- Houston (Tex.) Post.

Mr. Mark lianun i- zealous for the reputation of Admiral Pcxxev. lledisUkea 1" hear politicians 011 itted at his ear Bttggrl tint: to hint that "Glsnsis thou art and C iwdof and shall bs king htra after." That doea nut sail lluanu's iroiraaSBM. The king hereafter is to bo of his OWS selection. SJM Ai mind is already made upas to the identity of that pen tit man. it i very wrong to suggest 10 the admiral that BS should po into politics. Politics would be Ihe ruin of him. Be occupies the highest position in tlM navy, and surely it Is 1 Iiis inter est to be contort xxith that. It appear also to be to the Interest Of Mr. Hanna that be bo content xxith tin t. Hanna does not choose to remember that (irant bad the highest position ir. the army nor to suggest that In- should hava been oontent therewith, lie was doubtless aiming t ho-e x ho onion raged the idea that Grant should bejiresidi i t. hut since he Is quite sure that Dowry will rise superior to all temptation and offer no impediment to the major why does Hanna SO seriously apprehend the possibility that he may yield? It ll a good oid proverb: "Lei the cobbler stick to his la-t," and if Dewey tswisa he will act upon it. If In du s not ho must take his chances, even of offending the po tent political figure Of this country, his monitor, Mark llama. Mr. Hanna ina recent Interview mid : "i do not know anything about the PhilIpplnes; the only fight l am watching hi the one in Ohio." These statements will be readily accepted by his eoantrymets. Mr. Hanna doei not knoxv and never did know enythlag about the riiilipiiinea, lie is not watching the fight ontt thero, ami apparently nelth r is anybody else, -ax,- to condemn it ss ntterlj discreditable to the republic. As to the fight in Ohio, of eonr hfr. Hanna will watch

that xery carefully. It involves his political fortunes end hi.- personal pocket hook. Chicago Chronicle. MORE LOSS THAN PROFIT. Espeaae of Inaperlallsssi te dir Pee ill- nf tat- i a I ted 1 1 atea.

Winn the administration gets ready to make n report to tin people as ta ihe profit and loiof the policy of imperial lam, li xx xvill the account stand V Certainly not la favor of a policy which burdens the nation with taxca and gives no sdeOjUSte return. fn 19M the national receipts xxere 1403,080,983 and the expenditures 1318,040,710, and thenriuv and navx -ost the

gi x crnmenl 6sSSfvi4 1. How does the account stand for the present tsoal year) The met ip:. xx. re $5is,ooo,ft20 ssd the expenditures 60S07S,170, f which . ".' 3,785, 380 xxent for the army and navy. While McKloley'i sdmlnlitratles baa increased taxes and. raised Iba revenue in every possible xvay, ti d fielt ibis year amounts to 189,111,559. Taxes have been Increased t? percent, by the re publican administration, and the ejrpenditttre has doubled sittce 1800, Not only Ibis, but the interest-bearing

tebt of 1 he government hat growra from

: . in. .1 to $t.1-..HMT,ii.

Now. xxhat has McKlnleyto show foi this enormooi Increase la debt and taxes? The war with Spain ended more than a year ago. This nation is supposed to

be at peace with all other nations, yet

xxar expenses go on at an Increased scale. It Will be difficult for McKinley to make his protit and loss account balance. The people of the Tinted States ire pstriotic, but they are not imperialist and they xvill not long SppfOVC of a policy which costs much more than it comes to. CaJeogo Democrat.

The Monetary Problem.

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NOT ON A GOLD STANDARD.

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SSe erl n Matrxnnn. We are Upon graxe times. Great nrw issues have arisen, noxx questions of supreme Importance have some Into view, even since Mr. McKinleys nomination little more than three years SgO. While crediting him xvi t h hum sty of intent ion, there is a f oe's'ng anuuur a VSSf aumbcr of people that a jirosidont is needed more thoroughly equipped In itatea mnnship, more v igorous In determine t ion a., d action. less dependent upon the promptings of advisers in his personal circle, lo.-s subject to bo swayed by popular clamor from conscientious COBvle lion. We belieVt that xxith an abler leader the democratic party will carry the election BCXt nur. for 1li mass of the people are s. ill and exor xx ill bo true to the principles Upon Which oiirci.untry xvas founded and for more than a century maintained; and, although at times in n limbers misled, or influenced for the maintenuscc af some appealing issue to sacrifice other-, there is no doubt that tliex understand the present eOSsdltlon Weu, They knoxv that the now era upon which the nation has eat teMd Calls for the Ii IS lUSI Sf master mind and a stout heart. Buffalo Cottf ier.

We an- constantly being told that lbs l sited Matt is now under the gold standard by hux. One of the regular ooriespondtiuts of the Inter Ocean, Mr. Thomas Hitchcock, who writes oxer the name of hfathSW Marshall, sax I in a recent letter: "I hc cold Standard is now established by law and ;tn be DUtSthrOWn only by noxx laxv, but its pcrinanonce rests on the public opinion." wa anderatand that Mr. llitelicoch is one of the millionaires of Sew York and is an able and interesting correspondent, vet be la constantly mah 1 ng assertions Just as erroneous us tin- one just quoted. Illis not an advocate for the destruction of the paper money boned by the go eminent, but wants It redeemsble hi gold only, Tin- standard is an Important matter, so let us examine und stand by the facts in the case, ta IS79H waaenactedby the United Btatea lew thai the gold dollar of grains of standard gold ".-ball be the unit of xalue." The quoted words are as the law stands in an official COpy. That laxv has never been repealed, but la 1878 we partial v re monetised our silver dollar and made provision tor fi""- coinagft. That law of w-. ia speaking of our standard silver dollar, says"xxbioh coins together vxiili all silver dollars heretofore coined by the United states, of like weight and fineness hall be a legal tender at their nominal values, for all debts snd dure, public ami private, except where otherwhjeempresAly stipulated in the contract." This part of the laxv of 1 -7S still standnnrepesled. Up to .Tunc 30, IS9t we have c oined 880,657,231 sib er dollars under this laxv of 1ST, and xxe arc compelled by a later enactment to con

tinue coining them :.t the rate Offlv, 000.060 per ear. We hax e all of these Mixer dollars at the command of the government of our people ss full legal ti oder money, "except xx berc otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. " As the full legal tetidt r or the stiver dollar xxas restored ui 1878, tainted, however, xxith the exceptional lause just quoted, yet perfectly regardlsas of the gold dollar being named astha unit ol xalue." This law of IsTsvir- .. ... U I. ,...

tualiy annuueo iu.s ann oi vatva phrase. Ihe legal tender function of money is the special attribute ihat makes a selected commodity money. alter it is coined. We behexe in holding firmly to the doctrine that gold and silver money, at oar existing coinage ratio of sixteen to one, is xxise and equitable, Thar position i- not eatasj oniatic to the wisdom of the government iswuings large aanount t paper money, all redeemable In hl or silver money at the demand of the holder, but at the option of the government as to whichever metal may be most east venlent to the government lor its re-demption.

Munv of us see dnnger lurking aader sow

the issue of ui redeemable paper monej by the government, but xm- think it would bo eery far preferable to the Issue i f paper moncj ander the auspices oi our nations banks secured by their assi ts end controlled by their human selfishness or whims. Then is mi necessity of adopting either one of ihe methods, as the gowrasneat can sal and Wisely should issue a much lnrger snsosmt of paper money than it nvx docs, nade redeemable in gold or silxer as long a- the government holds the option as to the hind of ineial it should use for its redemption.

Bttl nftir the bargain or exchange ii made, then statute law slops in. if the bargain or exchange is made in teims

of money, and the law sei forth pre risely what is legal money lit to settle

tin e di its. Statute I i ., i name mid does name, under our laxxs, SSVSfSj kinds of legal teniler money, and the

debtor max take his choice. The de btor

can gay: "1 may CrjlOOSS ither one or the 'other us my standard to pax this debt." Thun ws had the gold dollar and the silxer dollar, whichever the debtor might choose to MS as hi.- standard or gl nt by xx bich he mii;ht. at his option, settle all bis money debts under ihe United Mates laxxs from the Organization of our mint ia JT'.C, up to lsT .-74. The thne phrases, purchasing power, purchasing value, or the SXohsOgC able xalue of these two dollars, mean the same thing, hut it xas constantly changing) and xxith either dollar a citizen of the United Stan - could slwsys settle debts named in dollars under our Sag, This function is fixed b statute iax, hence, ws had two standsrds of payment or txxo agents i f payment for B x ears. This function xxas taken away from silxer in IS7.'l-74. by laxv, and only partially restored to silxer in Ks. Ilea SC note that tliis important legal function of gold has never bn'ii tampered x it it under onr laws. This tsm peting w ii li the legal tender function ol silxc r is the main cause of our silver trouble to-dsy. We have n great many lllvi r dollars, but most unfortunately tin y are not money, but only legal subtit nt es for money, and xxill thus remain snd tend to cause gold to appreciate in exchssgesble value, until all taint, cither by stat ute laxv or bx usage as in their full legal tcadSI power, shall In rem ix d by slat utc laxv. The silver franc is the monetary unit under the French laxv. The French people do not chatter as we do about the lllver standard or the gold standard, simply beCUUSe both silVl r and gold under tln ir laxxs are absolutely on a par as debt liavers, slthouffh the i-ilxi r

franc- is ilieir legal monetary unit. More thsa this, France hss furnished her people xxiiii an abundance "f both these kii ds of coins;, but she is not free from flnsncial difficultii s. Following our vicious example, n July I T3, (iermany adopted the gold standaid. but that great empire has never dared, even to this day, tO doimmetize about 100y009000 silxer thalers. yet in existence in their country, ibsoltttely OB a par with gold as debt pa x its. There are a great many geld advocates, who knoxv, and are most openly -ax ing. xxe are not on n gold standard bj laxx. Their efforts are being cone i.tratc d to have cougr ss pot BS on a gold I tan dsn) by law. This move xve denounce as one of the mo-1 mischievous pieces of unjust and revolutionary leg illation, Owe laawdal difficulties hsvs been, sad arc still, bad enough for die producers or worklngmen of America, 'nit this proposed financial revolution would stake them far worse, it is your question, think It over seriously. Esch individual has a certain amount of influences one it. This is nil you can use

xou cannot utilize your ballots

generally before the fall of 1900. Without precise information and the use of ill the faculties vc can command xve ate liable to got nientallv confused on this momentous and complex issue, .lohn A. tirior. in National ilural. BETTER USE FAPER.

l ull, ill I In;: Yaluiililc n in, SllVSf for n olnlilr- cToln.

Mrlal

If enneross pass' s a law putting us

iquarel on the iold standard as the National Hank association demands.

There is a fallacy lurking under the j leaving nothing but gold as a legal

f xalue" or "standard of tender, it will reduce all oilier prop-

'unit

phrase

value which is verv mischievous, inu erty out gout to a mere nominal vuiSM

and put the ahali! country under their absolute eontrol. 1 in t ibis is not xvhat xe started to sav noxx . We wished

It xx as not aatil the McRlnlej tarilT act became Operative 1 bnt tiermany in ;rnn to legiiuite agsit.st imports from t merles, and believing the United state.- would ut materially modify its t:rr:tT schedule (ierin.'in merchants started in to make commercial oonqoesti In South America, .Mexico and Africa. The xontiire has bSesj xxondcrfully successful, so much ho, indeed, thai the sentinsent is growinsy II over fjermaay thai trade Interchange xxith the Tinted BUtea is BOt as essential :is i xvas thought tobe, fternaaty should ha our best customer next to Qremi Britain, and xve aheukl be seavvy buyers in Qennan markets, and s.;oh trade conditions xvill undoubtedly obtain when xxe ir:int to (iermany the sains commercial rights in our markets thef we are demsadlng In he? marketa.--Kansns ( it v Time.

WOrd fallacy has often 1 ti pointed out iu a Very clearway by some of the most scholarly and scute financial tkiakers. A stsadard for measnring either weight or distance must haxe from its very nanu- sonsethlag i redsdy Ixed astoits OWn xxoi-'ht or dimensions. Thus WS haxe our legal raid. M is ROt the length

of a certain metallic yardstick at all temperatures, but at one temperature only, xxbich temperature is precisely named by StStute law, A sta'idard ya i d

then is not a piece of met Si of a certain length at all temperatures, but is the distance between two point- measured by a piece ofinotulat a given teiupciatnre. From the Verj nature of thh -the exchangeable xalue of a e.Ttaiti quaatlty of gold or siix or xx ill slwsys be subjcel to tin rigid economic laxv of supply and demand, and their xchaageabls value xxill niter la obedience to this natural law. A- thCM eoinmodlties nro subject to a constant change in exchangeable value, strictly ipeaking, neither can he a Ii x-cl Standard of exchangeable value. We have no quality like temperst are ihat ean be applied to thrm ami stake them permanent or fixed as standards of exchangeable xalue. I most deddedly prefer to use the phrase "agents of valuation," rather than "standard of value," as limre an else or scii'titiHc. "Standards of value" is a convenient phrase for HS 1 HM, like the phrase "currents of electricity." Every elcctricisn speaki of currents of lectrlclty, yet in the same breath t ln xx ill tell you electricity i- not a ihinc. like wnter or steam, but ti natural force ns mysterious as gmv Ity, The exchanges bit value of money or nay other commodity iSlways subject to that personal force, lentiment af do-ire. The Individual settles ill in- OWi mind, through this subtle force, sentiment or desire, what he xxill accept Ot xxhnt he will pay in exchsagS fo services or commodities v'ithout " aubttct to ststutr law.

to suggest that if this is done it xxill be Wisdom to sell all our coined and pig silver and SCCCr oata more. It xxill be xcrx foolish to use any metal oxen so valuable as silver xvill still remain when completely demon ct bud, ssrepn -optative of Bjaamj : better OM paper, which practically costs nothing. When silver Stunt be redeemed in gold, it becomes just as worthless as currency

si paper nml something of less market

value must bo used if xve Bare for economy. The bankers talked of still UMtur silver; but thov should nt least allow us the benefit of what it xvill

brine: la the market and let the proceeds of Its sale he inrned into the

treasury. Port Madison ia.) Demo erat.

Oenaiiina f n Treat, A trust is ii monopoly possessed ot de-poiie power in the matter of reg ulating the supply of a oommodity. fixing its price nml determining t xvhat extent it will teCCC the people. Its object is gain. The foundation Of a plutocracy hass already been laid thiwagb the mult i plica t ion of trusts. The republican party lias started its defense of trusts by contending that there nrf good trusts und admitting; that there are bad ones. They xvill defend the good trusts and fall to discover nn.v that are had. Their position reminds na of the Kansas man xxho said there xvas a difference in whiskies, but ther was no such thip; as hud whisky. If the hankers aueeeed in seeurinyths passage of n bill to make cold the sole monetary standard nnd to enable them to oegsatas their paper money tru-t they xxill soon hsrc all Ihe othef truats. ns well aa the peopl'of tin country, a their mercy.