Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 43, Number 8, Jasper, Dubois County, 26 October 1900 — Page 7

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COMING HOME. here's valley In tin- neat world, and river rtapMna tr I w, Unftad Ml innlllhl 11 hurries to the i tiili.k of it with luiigln. I NMMHMI it with tears, j i tjM t li" ,,f Ml Wusle brings nie buck the . 1. ti .1 yearn. Inf ny soiK. O running rlv. r! 1 am coming home to tllee. To the Vatiay In the weit world where you wuii h and wait for me; j'jvt aa rushing wind eati lr!r ig ma and a hin cun cross the Mt, Ü m river In the west world' I am coming homa to thee. feaf'l cottage In the west world, with lt Jaxmlne-hlddeti dour Ever open, aa If wultltig for my step to come once more. I can aea It In my dreaming, though I'm far across the foam; j,r the heart finds many dwellings, but there's, only one Is ttOBMl Open wide, dear cottage doorway! I am , omlng home to tin a, To a threshold in the west world that la waiting yet for me 1 i -t as rushing winds can bring me and a , lilp ran cross the aea, j m COttaJN In the west world! I am i ..niing home to thee. Tlwn'l a true heart In the weit world that Is beating still for me. I r praying In the twilight once again mv face to aee. Oh! the world Is good and gladsome, with Its love both east find West, Bui there's ever one love only that Is atlll t h firs' and beat ! Pr to! me, true heart and loving; I am i inilng home tn the. To my old home In the west world, and the pla,C that waits for me; t us rushing winds an bring mo and a ship ran crota the aea, l my true heart In the west world! I nm coming home to th I -Clifton Ulngham, In Chambers' Journal. ; Snrprise Between CoYers j "M KS. JOBSON," said Mr. Jobson, retting ui from his easy wick er cliiiir on Sunday afternoon last and striding up and down the length of the domicile, while Mrs. Jobson sat by a window reading a book, "you're what might be called a pretty good church member, are you not V" Well." replied Mrs. Jobson, smiling, "1 am not exactly " do to church every Sunday of your lift, rain, or shine, storm or calm, don't yottf broke in Mr. Jobson. Mrs. Jobson nodded. "Belong to a guild or what d'y e-call-It. and a missionary society, und make flannel Illings for t lie benighted folks thai live ill the CongO, whi te the tcniji. rnture's 115 in the shade the year B round, don't you?" Well, 1 am a member of" "And you've been looking down upon me for a good many years past because 1 haven't had the time to follow JOB along in your church affairs, haveal you?" ' Vow, you know tHat " " .-ry well," paid Mr. Jobson, rleari'. z Iiis throat judicially, "this ull bring true, let me beg to inquire of you how you can reconcile it with your science to poison your mind on a Sundny by rending such literature as thai which you have in your hand, nnd hieb you hare beon t. ronring for precisely two liours and 1.1 minutes by the watch?" And Mr. Jobeon pulled I! HANI) D HIM TDK HOK out hil tiinepi. ee and gned al it scarehIngiy as if be were trying to get a line on the speed of a flj in" met bona. "Why," said lira. JobeoB, looking up urprisedty, "thi bonk is not "Oh, I guess I know it isn't," interrupted Mr. Jobeon. "it's perfectly linrmleaa ami Inocuoua and innocent, nd all that, of course. All of the lluahy novels that you read are all thai is exalted and high-grade), and Bp lift ino;, and Improving, and all sorts of things, of course. That is, to hear yo tell it. The point is- one of the (mints isn't there some other sort of thing that you could lind to occupy yotir mind on a Sunday, much lesson I week day, than to rend such stutT ss that which you hold in your hand?" Mut," Mrs. Jobson started to, sny, "'Iiis work is " h. it's a 'work,' is It?" cut in Mr. Jobson, sardonically. "You call those things 'works,' now, do you? Well, they're, 'works,' all right, in the sense that they work yon and a good many other millions of women in this country with good homes to look niter n.to wasting a heap of their valuable lime upon them. 'Work,' hey? In hat chapter, if I might ask. does he billionaire young ow iicr of t he New I nglnnd cotton works in that book gol hit py oti the poor but limn st and beautiful young female operativ env oyed in his plant, and Imploff lier '" ' Li ii, and marry her in the rest church in BOBtOtt, and carry her olT OB a trip of the world on his yiioht?" There is nothing like that in this book,"eaM Mrs. .lobsoa, ami ling. "It'a n entirely dif M

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"I'ntinU different sort of thine. hey?" Interrupted air. Jobeon. "Weht hae I u DOOM to the part yet wbt r He young chuck lehend of u drngoei ia the queen's boenvtfcokl bunch, who looks like i aro or three digi rem brandi of iri ah god, who drinJn I gallona o4 brundt and eodn everj night nnd waatai If Mlf morning uteiuanl without o much us a bail tuste iii the mouth, mid who ran bent every professlonnl atcepleobnee jo.-key in Qront Britnia ariding hands down have you BMM to the part yet where he gets into a wrestllag match with the ehamplee pugilist ,f the globe, and burls tin champion 17 f,vt through ne of flu wails of the tapestried drnwfugrooni where the contest takes place and " "Oh," said Mrs. Jobson, still smiling, "there is nolhing of that kind either, in this" "Ain't. Ley?" sniffed Mr. Jobmon "Well, have you reached the ohaptei yet where the young woman who hai been sent to a girls' school in the citj from u farm returns, after live years to the farm md is made weary by tin eight of the wrinkles on her paw's

neck, and the clabber-covered apron: worn by her poor old mother, ami tin hired men in harvest time devotirint pies for breakfast, and where tin young woman, full of the Inspirntioi of the higher and nobler and the in fluenee of alien environment, decide that she will shnke down the coin hit in the crock on top of the pantry ou flee to tin- great i t y . where she aril study to become a sculptress and inak St. Ontldena and Canova and Thor waldsen and a few other cheap figure makers like that look like "Rut this work," Interrupted Mrs Jobson again, "is really utterly dif ferent from what you " "Still different, eh?' said Mr. Job son. "We!!, thin, I tuppose i has tc do with the scapegrace son of thi enormously rich fSngllah Ironmnatei who, after having engaged himself t the fourteenth daughter of one of tin poorer jukes of the realm, sees at American girl at the running f th Derby and straightway pets to moon ing so about her so thet he can't sleet o' nights, and finally musters enongl nerve to go and tell the juke about it and is spitted cn the and of a rapiei at dawn in the juke's trusty right hand for his eaddiahneaa, and then ' "No. I fear yon have not ye! " "Haven't hit the motif of that fin. bit of Sunday reading you've beet poring over yet, hey?" went on Mr Johann, still striding up and down th room. "Well, it's probably one of t boat hasheesh colonial stories, then, when one George Washington, one lim president of tli2 I'nited States, is ina.li to figure in a whole lot of idiotic ad ventures, or where some huge fOOB cub from one of the American ooloniei goes over to England on a ship and gets captured by pirates four or tiv times on the way, which makes it possible for him to have fricaseeil pr rate for breakfast every morning o! the Voyage for quite a long stretch ol weeks, and when he gets to Knglant' he makes such a hit with the court anil with himself that all of the y oung Mayfair bucks and Helgravia bladei become jealous of i.itn. and " "Again," said Mrs. Jobson. "I fern yon have quite failed to puess just ' "Have, eh?" said Mr JobBOB. "Al' right. It's probably ne of these 'mar nnd wife," sooini study affnln whcr the wife, after carefully thinking il over, eomea to the conclusion that hei husband, who is the proprietor of a large and prosperous soap factory that yields him an income of M3,0M pef annum, most of which be spends on her where this wife. I say. COmCB tf the conclusion thai her huabaad don i know enough about the esoteric and the oeCfllt, much lern the Delsarte system and the acleBCC of repose, ant that the gradually thickening roll ol fat on the bnc k of bis neck is heconv ing wearisome to her, anyhow, not tr. speak of the obvioua enjoyment with which he drinks buttermilk, and where she innkes a proposition to him thai they draw up separation articles, whereby he is to continue bnndittg het over 40000 per annum of the $4.1. (KIC that lie earns, and that site i to be alkrwed to" "No." said Mrs. Jobson, "thi book doesn't relate particularly to the modem Conjugal state, nor does it "Doesn't, eh?" said Mr. .lobson "Well, it's loo much like work to furBlah gneaaee as to what it doei relate to. considering the amount ol nalnd pcAaontng rubbish that yon contrive to get through In the progress of a year. Bnl it's n good wnger that, if it hnnn't to do With any of the theme I have touched upon, it is in every respect just as idiotic as any or nil of them, nnd 1 can't understand how a woman of ordinary Intelligence, who sankei inch a great to-do about heT church work, nnd who sort o' glares nt me when I go to the front door to boy the papers on Sunday morninp. can square it with her ideu of the fitness of things when she finds herself betiding all day Sunday over a piece of Aoneenaica fiction that any mumbling schoolboy knows is about as true to life as" Mr. Jobson. still smiling, roue soft ly from her chair by the window, and, going over to where Mr. Jobson was ornting in front of the sitting-room mantel, handed him the book she had been reading, without a word. The book was Hutler's "Analogy of Religion." Mr. Jobson looked at the title, grew red. then scowled, and SRid to Mrs. JobBOB : "This isn't the book you were rending. You got rid of that nnd snrnked this one out of the bookcase while my back wns turned!"--Washington Star fld milled. q on know," said his BOBfldentlel clerk. Breaking it to him as delicntev an he could, "that soma peoplo accuse you of lending a double life?" "Hv George, I exclaimed Mr. gpotcaah, the eminent merchant. "I work tnriee aa hard ns nny mtu In my employ." Chicago Tribuaa

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Lesson for the People in the Piratical Methods of the Coal Trust. MEANING OF M'KIHLEY'S REELECTION. Haulm's Hand In the settlement of fhr COB! Miner' Strike KBTurta of Itrpubllran tu Mlalrnd Volera some Facts Kruardlnc Trail Leglslalloa. Special Corres poti'lence Mark HannB. in bis recent Chicago sjei-h, confirmed the democratic contention that the ten per cent, advance in wages offered to t he ; oal miners was a repsbllcan enmpnsgn scheme. With his usual crass stupidity, he assumed that the starving miners would jump at the bait and fail to see the trap which it concealed. Hunna hastened to tnke the credit of the offer to himself before he knew the result of the employes' conference. How disappointed be must have been when he found that the miners had detached the cheese from the hook and refused to walk into the trap. If the strike is prolonged until it causes suffering to poor people unable to pay advanced prices, the responsibility of such expense and inconvenience to the public rests solely with the coal combine. The miners waived recognition of their union, and merely asked that t he ten percent, advance be guaranteed to them for six months, until April 1, 11)01. They offered to leave the other grievances to arbitration and abide by the decision. Nothing could be fairer than thai. As a matter of fact, tbeoprators could afford to guarantee the i x months' advance in waes purely as a campaign investment if they had any idea of the popular resentment that is growing against their piratical procedure and- the protection anil encouragement which it receives from the McKinley administration. There are. various reasons why the ooal combine has not been too anxious to end the strike at once. They are pwely business considerations, and these weigh more heavily with the trust than any political advantage, even of the party which stand for its agpressions. While the conl operators and the railroad combine have reaped a profit of more than $8.000,000 while the strike has been in progress, this is not because there has been any scarcity of coal. On the contrary, there was more than a million tons piled up at various polntfl In N w J t sey in anticipation of this strike. It gave a splendid excuse to reap an extra profit from the helpless consuming public. Mark llanna may persuade the oper ators to accede to the very moderate demands of the miners, and settle the strike, but the country bas hail itslesson. It has seen how unlimited is trust dominion In the COO fields, and BOW the trusts oppress and degrade the workmen on one hand and rob the connmlng public on the other. The voters have already tnnde op their minds that this piratical method of doing ltisinv.ss is dangerous to the liberties of the people. The reelection of McKinley means the extension of coal I msi methods to every industry in the country eontrolhd by trusts nnd Ahcy already number 40 and over. Restratal f Trn, The republicans are taking much pains to confuse and mislead the voters on the tmsl issue. Hrvan is held np as the bugaboo who will interfere with legitimate business when he brings the guerrllln trusts under the opt ml Iob of legal romedioa. No terson bhould be in doubt ns to ihe renlt of trust restraint. In individual cases the arresting and punishment of a thief means more security for all honest men. In the business world the same principle applies, The arrest and punishment of lawless trusts and combinations means morv security and better opportunlttea for nil aorta of honenl md legitimate bualm m, To permit the trusts to go unpunished and unrestrained, as they are doing now. i to introduce a condition of anarchy and disregard of law wherein noeitfnen w ill feel sure of employment tr of being able to cast a free vote. Hepiihllenn TriiJit l.estlslntltm. RooneetU grows more ipiiet as he progress! s eastward. Ity Ihe time he struck Hinoil he had exchanged vituperation of the democrats for barefaeed misrepresentation. In relation to trusts he made several untrue nnd misleading statements. One M as to this effect: "It was the democrnts who refused to vote for the constitutional amendment proposed by our party during the Inst Fession, thus they made it impossible f r the republican majority to apply an effective remedy." It is true that the democrnts refused to join with the republicans and give the necessary two-thirds' vote to pnsa the amendment in Ihe house. Hut why? Bern II the real status of the case: The proponed amendment Would never have restrained trusts nor interfered with them in any wny. even if it hnd pnserl and received thesnndion of the nececmur; number Of states. It was not mti nded to apply totrusts. It was Intended to crush out nil BflgUjdSB" lion among fei'iuera nnd laborera, it proposed to piOaeCUte them out of exI :i nee under the general head of "combim Hons." No less nn authority on practical economics tlnn Pnsident Samuel C.ontpors, of the American Federation of i,nbor. decl.n i i thai lh anv Bdmeni proposed by the republicans wns the moat dangrerouB to organized labor of

any piece of legislation ever offered la noagranm The republicsns pretended that ihe amendment would not apply to asso oiations of farmers and lalnirers, but Ho y absolutely refused to accept a section exempting su-1i organizations from the operation of the trust amendment. That was one of the reasons why the democrat voted against the amendment. The democratic party proposes to assist the farmer and the workinginan to prot ei their interest, not to fasten hostile legislation upon them in addition to the many unjust burdens which they already bear. The republicans propose to crush industrial associations' was again seen clearly when the amendments to the so-culled Sherman antitrust law were brought in. The democrats insisted that the

amendment be defined so that they should not apply to labor organizations. The house republicans very re luctantly accepted the amendment, passed the bill, and saw to it that their colleague in the senate buried the measure beyond hope of resurrection. Hoosevelt is treading on dangerous ground when he refers to the record of the recent congress in relation to trust legislation. That record will insure a democratic majority in the next house. RoOBCVelt might know, if he were well informed, that the only application the Sherman trust law has ever had in the District of Columbia has been for the purpose of indicting sven members of the Carriage Workers' union because they called the attention of the public to the fact that a certain carriage making firm was not employing union labor, (treat are the uses of alleged trust legislation under a republican administration. ADOLPH PATTERSON. CLEVELAND NOT DRAWN OUT. Former President's Recent Communication Does ot Worrr Drnincrata. A Kentucky admirer of Grover Cleveland attempted to draw him out on the subject of the present political campaign. He did not proceed directly. He only asked the former democratic president if he had changed his financial views since the publication of his letter on that subject to a number of Chicago business men written in 1S95. In reply to the attempt to draw him out Mr. Cleveland Raid that his opinions had not changed. He had not seen the letter of 1895 published in that year, ing over It now he had amend it in any way. That is all there, is fdne it was but on lookno reason to of it in anv way. It is not a political sensation. A great many men who four or five years ago expressed views similar to those of Mr. Cleveland at the time are as firm as he is in their old beliefs. They are honest money men still. There are hundreds of this class in Chicago. Their names appear on the recent registration lists in every ward. This year they are supporting the national democratic candidates. Th ir principles have not changed. They believe that the dangers to be apprehended through the reelection of ?fr. McKinley are greater than any poaatble danger Which could come through the election of Mr. P.rvan. The fact is that ex-President Cleve'and's letter does not distress democrats half as mnCB a s ex-President Harrison's half hearted deliverance distresses republicans. Chicago Chronicle. THE SULU QUESTION. Secretary MlklJa)Baa llryan Kn0.s Ihe ttnentlon. Teller Ileal to "Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn, s;i i a Washington dispatch, "has written to Mr. Bryan" denying the truth of the latter's statement that the Mc Kinley administration has recognized slavery in the Sulu islands. Mr. Miklejohn "calls Hr. Krywn's attention," the dispatch goes on to say. "to the fact that the president approved den Hates.' agreement with the Sulu sultan w ith the understanding and tenet vation that this agreement was not tc be decflrsd In sny emj to authorize or give the consent of the I'nited States to the existence of slavery in the Sulu archipelago, I thing made impossible by the thirteenth amendment t the constitution of the I'niled States." That is nil very well. Secretary Meiklejohn. Hut the sultan and dolos of Sulu continue to hold their slaves and keep their hnTOtBI just the same. And the I'nited States authorities in the Philippines acting under the orders of President McKinley have made not the b ast attempt to interfere with either of these practices. The constitution declares that slavery "shall not exist in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States." It does e-xist In the Stilus in direct violation of the const itution. nnd Secretary Meiklejohn well knows, too, that President McKinley, despite his paper disapproval which may or may not have been communicated to the polygamous slave-driving sultan has made no attempt to suppress it. It is provided in the thirteenth amendment to the constitution of the I'nited Slates that 'neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall hirve been duly convicted, shnll exist within the I'nited States or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Pocs slavery exist 1n the Bttle archipelago? Is the Su'u archipelago subject to the jurisdiction 0l the United St ites? The first question 11 , u -1 bi answered, nr. a matter of fact, r. The sen nt! also is answered, as n matter of diplomatic agrcnmeBt, fes. Then what has become of IBB const itutlou? Philadelphia Tluicn.

The Monetary Problem, j

WHAT MONEY IS. Seid Moaosaetarilsas Hests on a False Theory ol Money aa a Measure o( Yala. The sophistical argument that "to bo a measure of value, money itself must possess value," was mercilessly exposed, says a writsr in the National Watchman, by Ricardo, MacCulloch and other economists of the last century, but we venture to think by none more convincingly than Uy Alexander Del Mar, in his "Science of Money." Mr. Del Mar writes as follows (chapter 9, on "Money and Other Measures"): "A money is used to determine a numerical relation between itself and all other things, including other moneys, simultaneously. Contrariwise, a yardstick is used to determine a numerical relation between itself and one other thing at a time. The former is a com plex measure; the latter a unital o: simple measure. Money cannot measure one thing without at the same time measuring all things; a yardstick maymeasure one thing without measuring any other. The length of one object does not depend upon, the length of other objects; the price of one object does depend upon the price of other objects, "Money is used to determine akinetic and variable relation; other measures to determine a statical and fixed one. Value varies with time and place; it also varies with the frequency of exchanges in time. Hence value is a variable relation, and it is this variable relation which money has to determine; whilst that which a yardstick determines is an invariable and fixed relation. The determination of a yardstick will last forever, whilst a determination of money in price is only valid for a given time and place. "A measure of value can only be useful in the social state; a measure of length may be useful in the isolated state. This arises from the fact that length is an inherent and intrinsic attribute of matter; it is inseparably connected with it, and has no tendency to vary; whilst value is extrinsic and relative, and continually tends to vary. Length can be determined by comparison; while value can only be definitely measured by sale or exchange. "From the Focial function, of moneyarises its relation to intellect nnd equity. There can be no such thing aa an equitable or inequitable length; there may be an equitable and inequitable price. Length does not vary w ith the intellectual attainments. the know ledge, information, sppoffiunli b s. virtues, and power of men; value dots. When these advantages and attributes are unequal, the determination of value by meansof money cannot be equitable; one party is certain to obtain an undue advantage over the other. Win ft they are equal, value becomes an equitable relation. Whether the determination of value be equitable or inequitable, its measure should be constat t j for in the case of an otherwise equitable exchange an inconstant, measure will make it inequitable; and in the case of an ituquitable one an inconstant measure will only add one inequity to another, as is the eBBC now with all exchang s. "I. Bgth and every otlit r at t ribute of matter which is susceptible of numer ical expression varies directly vrtiB numbers. Value is a niimericnl relation which varies inversely with numbi r. Hence two jrardatlcka cannot nt the same time and collectively measure one relation of length; while two moneys may at the same time, that is to say collectively, measure one relation of value. Two moneys used collectively become instantly rncrg- d into one another, and thus hi conn one money; two yardsticks cannot be merged into one another. They cannot be made one. They will always remain two. Therefore they cannot be used Collectively to perform the same office; ns two moneys can. "The most, important difference between money and other measures arises from ihe fact that the latterare only used for comparison, w bile the former is used for exchange. When cloth is measured by means of a yardstick. the latter is not given in ex change for the Cloth, When cloth is measured by means of money, one is BBchaasrcd for the other. The winde principle of the measurement is different. In using the y ardstick, the cloth is nol measured by some unlike substance, but by an attribute of itself. In using money for valuing cloth, the cloth is measured against all other commodities. Now, what attribute of money is it thnt measures the relation of cloth tonll other l oinmoditiesand to all kinds of services? Is it cost of proauction? Clearly not. because experiment has proved that overvalued coins, irredeemable paper notes, or even a Bxcd sum of credits, are capable of correcting measuring value. Is it effort? For the same reason, no. Paper money which costs but little effort to produce will measure value as accurately ahat gold for which we labor so st Tenuously and commit so many crimes. It ii number'., and numbers only. There is no natural common denominator for the varied services nnd commodities Ahich make up the exchanges of a civItned eonamonlty. Hence men nnw inrented an artificial one, which must laoeeenrilj be arithmetical. It consists of nn absolutely (or relatixely) fixed set of numbers, n pn m ntnl by palpable and poniiei able sy n.bols suitthle for transfer from hand to hand, Puit ''t of symbols is money, nnd o far as theory goes, to far a- IBtctMN s concerned, it BBBkea no difference of what material these vn bo'.s are made, whether of guid, ailvtr, paper

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or porcelain. The choice of such material belongs not to the science, but to the politics of money n distinction that is not always observed by critica. I am not here advocating paper money, or any other sort of money. 1 am endeavoring to ei 'uin what monty is, what it does, and liow ,' does it neither of them such simple matters as if commonly supposed." SOME TERRIBLE CALAMITIES. Predicted br the Opponents of I ha Muuev of the Conslll ul Ion Specltteatluna Are WantlsaBrvan taust be a hobgoblin of the most frurhtiul mien judjfing by the terrific nature of thecalamities which are predicted in the wake of his election, (iov. Hoosevelt says iw will mean "miateriial disaster and moral disgrace, a violent panic in the business world, therefore widespread and prolonged misery among our peopla," "upsetting the courts," etc. Secretary Lyman J. age, also in chorus, strikes a falsetto note of calamity. Also Railway President MalvilLe E. Ingslla Bounds a -woeful trombone wail of tragedy, predicting a foreign war, should Bryan carry out the policy of giving liberty to the Filipinos, while Matthew Marshall, financial correspondent of the New York Sun. and Chicago Inter Ocean, gives a piccolo shriek of dire disaster, charginsj that the value of thousands of millions ot stock would be destroyed, and repeats that "they (bimetallisms) would rob us of our property, destroy our business, turn over to mob ruJe unrcstrainedrby courts of law, all our great railroads, mining- and manufacturing industries." Dear, dear, how dTeadful it will be, but they do not draw the picture strong enough. In the worda of the Scriptures, "the sun. will be darkened, the moon turned into blood, the stars withdraw their shining," the earth will be rent and the waters-of the ocean precipitated into the internal fires when this terrestrial globe will he blow n into snuit hereens. leaving not even one fl-ake of dust upon another, so dire and so dreadful will be the ca!a mity. "Oh. ye bankers! Oh. ye bondholders! Oh, ye monopolists! Do ye rallyto avert these dire dis-asters and of your shekels pay, pay, pay. The campaign fund is hungry and the demands many." How cheap is talk. Yet these calamity howls were effective in 1896, scaring many voters. Perhaps they wiildoso again. It is hard, however, to believe that the American people will be twice fooled by the same trick. The assertions are powerful but the specifications few. It is an easy matter to assert that the moon, is made of green fiheiae. hart it is qttUe different togive I reason for such a OOBCl usion. We imagine that it would bother some of these do! ef u! pes i mists to tell just why making the dollar the common working people have in their px-kets as good in law as the dollar the banker ia so careful to stow away in his vaulta, as is sought, would bring disgrace and disaster to our nation. Or why taking away the fat special privilege of note is.-ue which the banks are enjoying and sult ituting in cirdilation full legal tender treasury notes for such non-legal tender notea would bring calamity. Or providing a broader monetary sand for its BBtomavUc expansion to keep pace w ith the expansion of our industries as con Bieree so as To give grenter suability to the price level, which is all that is embodied in the much abused term free silver and'lfi to 1 would produce a violent panic and endanger our national credit, especially as when hitherto steps in these diteo'ions have been taken they have invariably produced only good and greater prosperity. Also it would teouble these conjurers of evil to tell why giving the Filipinos their liberty and stopping the wanton waste of blood and treasure now going on would bring foreign nations down upon us or would result otherwise than in p0ol ,0 our OM n people This war has cost the lives of nearly 3,XKkof our soldiers, besides the army of cripples and physical wreck with which its wake is strewed, and nenrb 9HKfiWfiOQ of money. Yet w ho can point to a single good thing that has been produced by this wanton waste? Let the people derrwind that those who are ao prolific in t heir predctiona of evil shnll come forward with specifications. The Rural believes and is able to givevi reason for its conclusion that the broader monetary basis, the substitution of full legal tender money for national bank notes, the stoppa i:e of war's waste with its stamp tax, which the people, not the corporations, pay, would result, in good and only good to the man who earns hia bread by honest Industry. National Rural. Nnn-I.raal Tender Money. There is no excuse or reason for iainlng non-legal tender money except that in n emergency it gives the credit or or money lender an advantage over the debtor. Ifgal tender money, regardless of what it is made, is basio p may. B limiting the quantity of basic money that which remains ia Made noire valuable, to ihe advantage Of the money lending and tixed income , while debts and tixed payin. n- become more burdensome, deBant ding more of tabor or its prodnotd in their payment. Only tue nation! government under the constitution c n issire ietral tender motOV. Nation al bank nu'es are rot and cannot legal tender. Mat. uuai Rural