Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 August 1898 — Page 3

She § ike (fount g § rmocrat ' M. M«C. STOOPS. Editor and Proprietor, ePETERSBURG. : INDIANA. - BARBAROUS SPANIARDS. Fashionable Ladles at Manila See and Gajrljr Applaud Wholesale Executions. The deadly work at Manila was generally performed in the cool of the morning. That these events were fully appreciated was shown by the presence -on the Lunetta of thousands of people. Hundreds of fashionably dressed ladies and gentlemen “graced” the occasion with their presence. For the most part these fashionable* came in their equip, ages. These ladies w'ould stand in their vehicles, determined not If miss any part of the ghastly show. The signal from the commanding lieutenant that the victims were dead was the signal for these delighted lady spectators t<y wave their handkerchiefs or parasols as evidence of their satisfaction. Ah a general thing these were frightfully grewsome affairs. There was a firing squad of five for each unfortunate. This squad of executioners would be stationed about ten paces immediately to the rear of their human target. In most instances the soldiers constituting the firing squad were natives. They were secretly in favor of the relwllion, and no member of the •quad eared to fire the fatal shot. Coltsequently, each man would aim for the arm or leg. This, of course, only added to the horror of the affair. There was -one occasion when 13 leading members of the secret revolutionary society, the Catapunan were executed. There was not a single instance at this execution where the unfortunate was killed by the first volley. In a majority of cases three or four volleys were required, and in one instance five volleys were fired before the surgeon declared the man dead. The announcement that all were dead was the signal for music by the band—gay. triumphal music.—-Review of Reviews.

POPULATION IN MANILA. It Is Made Ip Ursrlr of Cilia ear and Spaniard*. Hut Germans and Swiss Are Aameroas. It is difficult to make even an ajv proximate estimate to-day of the numerical population of Manila, but it probably consists of from 270.000 to 300,000 souls. The largest proportion of these, excepting the natives themselves, is composed of Chinese and so-called Chinese natives, exceeding even that of the Spaniards. There is a large colony of Germans and Swiss, ' who. according to rumor, are mainly responsible for the present and recent uprisings, and also a handful of Scotch-Knglishmen; not too small a handful, however, to maintain an “English Club** in the suburbs and a Tiffin club” down town. The saying goes in the far east that if an Englishman. a Spaniard and an American were to be left upon a desert island, the first would organize a club, the second build a church, and the third start a newspaper. Half a dozen Americans are all that •remain in Manila now. in sad contrast to the “old days.” when two great American business houses flourished only to go down almost together with a crash that was heard around the •world. What is now the English clubhouse was built by one of these great houses for its “junior men;” and on Its back veranda white—very whitemen “lie off” on Sundays and holidays, and watch the cocoanut rafts drift by from the “enchanted lake,” and read six-weeks-old papers and dreamof New England pines and Scotch heather, 10.•000 weary miles away.—Frank Leslie*# Popular Monthly. ^ ? _ \a» al Cadets. The number of naval cadets is lim* Ited according to the following rule: Each member of the house of representatives is entitled to name one candidate to represent his district until he graduates, resigns or is discharged. In addition the president has the privilege of appointing one and ten annually at large. Two examinations for admission are held each year, one in May and ! the other in September. The requirements of each candidate are: He must i be between 13 and 19 years of age; ha ] must be physically sound and able to pass a creditable examination in English grammar. United States history, j geography, arithmetic and algebra as far ns the theory of quadratic equations and theia practice. The pay o£ a naval c«drtf is $300 a year, beginning with the date of admission.—Chicago Chron-. *ele. __ The qalnlae ladastry la Cirraaajr. j During the ten years 1SS7-1S96 Germany imported cinchona bark to the value of 33.300.000 marks, while her exports thereof were only 2.000.000 marks. Her exports, however, in quinine and I quinine salts reached the enormoua total of 3S.000.000 marks, of which the greater part was to *.he United States. Russia. Italy and Holland absorb large •quantities also. The imported quinine • i ;> totalled, during the decade in queetion. 2.100.000 marks.—Suddeutsche 4potheker SSeitnng.

\aval Lr»»o»» of thf War. German experts hold that the developments of the Hispano-American war have confirmed the judgment of the framers of the recent German navy In the matter of the prominence given to thickly armored battleships. They have also shown, it is contended, that torpedo boats are only capable of being? used at night and that even then they must be of a certain si*e if they 4U* to' be operated ? independently. Above all, it is pointed out, ho navy can hope for success unless it has nleaty of coaling stations.—Chicago Intar Ocean.

MONEY-MAD MORTALS. Rev. Dr. Talmage on the Ruinous Modes of Acquiring Wealth. Bribery in Politic, and Bmtn««-Thc Abac* of Tract Vanda—Men Should Know Where Th*tr Wank Point* Am. Rew. T. DoWitt Talmage, in tbs following sermon, arraigns the various methods resorted for the acquisition of other people’s money, and shows the triumph of fair dealing. The test is: They that will be rich tall into temptation ud a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.—!. Timothy. yL, a That is the Niagara Falls over which rush a multitude of souls, namely the determination to have the money anyhow, right or wrong. Tell me how a man gets his money and what he does with it, and 1 will tell yon his character and what will be his destiny in j'this world and the nest. I propose to * speak to-day about the ruinous modes | of getting money. In all our city, stata and national elections large sums of money are used in bribery. Politics, from being the ' science of good government, has often been bedraggled into the synonym for | truculency and tnrpitude. A monster | sin. plausible, potent, pestiferous, has | gone forth to do its dreadful work in I all ages. Its two hands are rotten with leprosy. It keeps its right hand hidden in a deep pocket. The left hand is clenched, and with its ichorous I knuckle it taps at the uoor of the court | room, the legislative hall, the congress ' and the parliament. The door swings | open and the monster enters and glides through the isle of the council chamj her as softly as a slippered page, and then it takes its right hand from its deep pocket and offers it in salutation j1 to juge or legislator. If that hand be takeu, and the palm of the Intruder cross the jmlm of the official, the lepI rosy crosses from palm to palm in a round blotch, round as a gold eagle, and the virus spreads, and the doom is 6xed, and victim perishes. Let bribery, accursed of God and man, stand up for trial. ► The Bible arraigns it again and again. Samuel says of his two sons, who became judges: “They took bribes and perverted judgment.” David says of some of his pursuers: “Their right hand is full of bribes.” Amos says of some men in his day: “They take a bribe and turn aside the poor in the gate.” Elipbaz foretells the crushing blows of God’s indignation,

declaring: “Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.” It is no light temptation. The mightiest have fallen under it. Lord Bacon, lord cli&ncellor, of Eugland, founder of our modern jieience, author of “Xovum Orgauum.^ and a whole library of books, the leading thinker of his*century, so precocious that when asked by Queen Elizabeth, “How old are you?" he responded: “I am two years younger than your majesty's happy reign;” of whose oratory Ben Jonson wrote: “The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end;” haring an income which you would suppose would have put him beyond the temptation of bribery —836.000 a year, and Twickenham court, a gift, and princely estates in Hertfordshire—yet under this temptation to bribery, falling flat into ruin, and on bis confession of taking bribes giving as excuse that all his predecessors took them; he was fined $200.000— or what corresponds with our 8200,000 —and imprisoned in London tower. The black chapter in English, Irish, French and American politics is the chapter of bribery. Some of you remember the Pacific Mail subsidies. Most of you remember the awful tragedy of the Credit Mobilier. Under the temptation to bribery Benedict Arnold sold the fort in the- highlands for 831.575. For this sin Gorgey betrayed Hungary. Ahithopel forsook David, and Judas kissed Christ. When 1 see so many of the illustrious going down under this temptation, it makes me think of the redjdragon spoken of in revelation, with keren heads and ten horns and seven"' crowns, drawing a third part of the stars of Heaven down after him. The lobbies of the legislatures of this country control the country. The land is drunk with bribery! “Oh.” says some one. “there's no need of talking against bribery by promise or by dollars, because every man has his price.” 1 do not believe it. Even heathenism and the Dark Ages have furnished specimens of incorruptibility. A cadi of Smyrna had a case brought before him on trial. A man gave him 500 ducats in bribery. The case came on. The briber had many witnesses. The poor man on the other side hsd no witnesses. At the close of the case the cadi said: “This poor man has no wit - nesses, he thinks. 1 shall produce in his behalf 500 witnesses against the other side.” Then pulling out the bag of ducats from uuder the ottoman, he dashed it down at the feet of the briber, saying: “I give my decision against you.” Epaminondas. offered a bribe, said: “1 will do this thing if it be right, and if it be wrong all your goods can not persuade me.” The president of the American congress during the American revolution, Gen. Reed, was offered 10,000 guineas

by foreign commissioners if he would betray this country. He replied: “Gentlemen, 1 am a eery poor man, but tell your king he is not rich enough to buy me." Hut why go so far, when von and I. if we move in honorable society, know men and women who by all the forces of earth and hell could not be bribed. They would no more be bribed than you would think of tempting an angel of light to exchange Heaven for the pit. To offer a bribe is villainy, but it is a very poor compliment to the man to whom it is offered. 1 have not much faith in those people who go about bragging how much ther could get if they would only sell out. Those women who complain that they are Terr often insulted need to undnr

stand that there is something in their carriage to invite insult. There are men at Albany, and at Harrisburg, and at Washington, who would no more be approached by a bribe than a pirati boat with a few cutlasses would dare to attack a British man-of-war with two banks of guns on each side loaded to the touch-hole. They are incorruptible men, and they are the few men who are to save the city and save the land. Meanwhile, my advice is, keep out of politics unless yon are invulnerable to this style of temptation. Indeed, if even you are naturally strong, you need religious buttressing. Nothing but the grace of God can sustain our public men, and make them what we wish. I wish that there might come an old-fashioned revival of religion, that it might break out in congress and the legislatures, and bring many of the leading republicans and democrats down on the anxious seat of repentance. That day will come, or something better, for the Bible declares that kiDgs and queens shall become nursing fathers and mothers to the church, and if the greater in authority, then certainly the less. My charge also to parents is, remember that this evil of bribery often begins in the home circle, and in the nursery. Do not bribe your children. Teach them to do that which is right, and not because of the ten cents or the orange which you will give them. There is a great difference between rewarding virtue and making the profits thereof the impelling move. That man who is honest merely because “honesty is the beat policy” is already a moral bankrupt. My charge is to you, in all departments of life, steer clear of bribery all of you. Every man and woman at

some time wiu De temptea to ao wrong for compensation. The bribe may not be offered in money. It may be offered in social position. Let us remember that there is a day coming when the most secret transactions of private life, and of publie life, will come up for public, reprehension. We can not bribe death, we can not bribe sickness, we can not bribe the grave, we can not bribe the judgments of that. God who thunders against this sin. ‘‘Fie!** said Cardinal Beaufort, “fie!” Can’t death be bribed? Is money nothing? Must I die, add so rich? If the owning of the whole realm would save toe, I could get it by policy or by purchase—by money,** No, death would not be bribed then; he yrili not be bribed now. Men of the world often regret that they haTe to leave their money here when they go away from the world. You can tell from what they say in their last hours that one of their chief sorrows is that they have to leave their money. I break that delusion. I tell that bribetaker that he will take his money with him. God will wrap it up in your shroud, or put it in the palm of your hand in resurrection, and. there it will lie, not the cool, bright, shining gold as it was on the day when you sold your vote and your, moral principle, but there it will lie, a hot metal, burning and consuming your hand forever. Or, if there be enough of it for a chain, then it will fall over the wrist, clanking the fetters of an eternal captivity. The bribe is an everlastiug possession. You take it for time, you take it for eternity. Some day in the next world, when you are longing for sympathy, you wiH feel on your cheek a kiss. Looking up, you will find it to be Judas, who took thirty pieces of silver as a bribe, and finished the bargain by putting an infamous kiss on the pure cheek of his Divine Master. Another wrong use of money is seen in.the abuse of trust funds. Nearly every man during the course of his life, on a larger or smaller scale, has the property of others committed to his keeping. He is, so far, a safety deposit, he is an administrator, and holds in bis hand the interest of the family of a deceased friend. Or he is an at-, toruey, and through his custody goes the payment from door to creditor, or he is the collector for a business house, whieh compensates him for the responsibility; or he is treasurer for a charitable institution, and he holds alms contributed for the suffering; or he is an official of the city or the state or the nation, and taxes and subsidies and salaries and supplies are in his keeping. It is as solemn a trust as God can make it. It is concentrated and multiplied confidences. On that man depends the support of a bereft household, or the morals of dependents, or the right movement of a thousand wheels of social mechanism. A man may do what he will with his own, but he who abuses trust funds, in that one act commits theft, falsehood, perjury, and becomes, in all the intensity of the world, a miscreant. How many widows and orphans there are with nothing between them and starvation, but a sewing machine, or held up out of the vortex of destruction simply by the thread of a needle, red with their own heart’s blood, who a little while ago had, by father and husband, left theto a competency! IV hat is the matter? The administrators or the executors have sacrificed it—running risks with it that they would not have dared to encounter in their own private

BOBtrS. How often it is that a man will earn a livelihood by the sweat of his brow,! and then die, and within a few months all the estate goes into the stock-gum* bliug rapids of Wall street! How often it is that yon have known the man to ■ whom trust funds were committed, ! taking them out of the savings bank ! and from trust companies and admin* i istrators, turning old homesteads into | hard cash, and then putting the entire j estate into the vortex of specula- j tion. Embezzlement is an easy! word to pronounce, but it hasj 10,000 ramifications, (There is not j a city that has not suffered from the abuse of trust funds. Where is the courthouse, or the city hall, or the jail, or the post office, or the hoe* pital, that in the building of it has not had a political job? Long before the new courthouse in New York city was

completed it cost over $13,000,000. Fife million six hundred end sixty-three thousand dollars for furniture! For plastering and repairs, *3,370,000. For plumbing and gas works, *1,331,817. For awnings, *33,553. The bill for three months coming to the nice little sum of *13,151,193.39. There was not' an honest brick, or stone, or lath, or nail, or foot of plumbing, or inch of* plastering, or inkstand, or door-knob in the whole establishment. That bad example was followed in many of the cities, which did not steal quite so much because there was not so much to steal. There ought to be a closer inspection, and there ought to be less opportunity for embezzlement. Lest a man shall take a five-cent piece that does not belong to him, the conductor of the eity horse-car must sound his bell at every payment; and we are very cautious about small offenses, but give plenty of opportunities for sinners on a large scale to escape. For a | boy who steals a loaf of bread from a , corner grocer to keep his mother from

starving to death, a prison; bat for defrauders who abscond with half a million dollars, a castle on the Rhine, or, waiting until the offense is forgotten, a castle on the Hudson! Oh! is it not high time that we preach the morals of the Gospel? Mr. Froude, the celebrated historian, has written of his own country these remarkable words: “ From the great house in the city of London to the Tillage grocer, the commercial life of England haa been saturated with fraud. So deep has it gone that a strictly honest tradesman can hardly hold his ground against competition. You can no longer trust that any article you >buy is the thing which it pretends to be. We hare false weights, false measures, cheating and shoddy every w here. And yet the clergy hare seen all this grow up in absolute indifference. Many hundreds of sermons have I heard in England on the Divine mission of the clergy, of bishops, and on justification, and the theory of good Works, and verbal inspiration, and the efficacy of the sacraments; but, during all these 30 wonderful years, never one that I can recollect on common honesty.” Now, that may be an exaggerated statement of things in England, but I tm very certain that in all parts of the earth we need to preach the moralities of the Gospel right along beside the faith of the GospeL My hearer, what are you doing with that fraudulent document in your pocket? My other hearer, how are you getting along with that wicked scheme you have now on foot? Is that a “pool ticket” you have in your pocket? Why, O young man, were you last night practicing in copying your employer’s signature? Where were you last night? Are your habits as good as when you left your father’s house? You had a Christian ancestry, and you have had too many prayers spent on you to go overboard. Dr. Livingstone, the famous explorer, was descended from the Highlanders, and he said that one of his ancestors, one of the Highlanders, one day called his family around him. The highlander was dying; he had his children around his deathbed. He said: “Now, my lads, I have looked all through our history as far back, as Ican find it, and 1 have never found a dishonest man in all the line, and I want you to understand you inherit good blood. You have no excuse for

doing wrong. My lads, be honest. Ah, my friends, be honest before I God, be honest before your fellow men, ! be honest before yoor soul. If there be j those who hare wandered away, come j back, come home, come now, one and ' all, come into the kingdom of God. I am glad some one has set to music ! that3 scene in August, 183 1, when a young girl saved from death a whole [ rail train of passengers. Some of you ! remember that out west in that year j on a stormy night a hurricane blew j down part of a railroad bridge. A { freight train came along, and it crashed into the ruin, and the j engineer and conductor, perished. The was a girl living in her father’s cabin, near the disaster, and she heard the crash of the freight train, and she knew that in a few moments an express was due. She • lighted a lantern and clambered up on the one beams of the wrecked bridge on to the main bridge, which was trestlework, and started to eioss amid the thunder and the lightning of the tempest, and the raging of the torrent be- j neath. One misstep and it wouldj have been death. Amid all that i horror the lanterns went out. i Crawling sometimes, and sometimes I walking over the slippery rails, and over the trestle work, she came to the other side of the river. She wanted to get to the telegraph station, where the express train did not stop, where the danger might be telegraphed to the station where the train did stop. The train was due in a few minutes. She was one mile off from the telegraph station but fortunately the tram was late. With’ cut and bruised feet she flew like the wind. Coming up to the telegraph station, panting with almost deadly exhaustion, she had only strength to shout: ’’The bridge is down!” when she dropped unconscious, and could hardly be resuscitated. The message was sent from that station to the next station, and the train was halted, and that night that brave girl saved the lives of hundreds of passengers, and saved many homes from desolation. Hut every street is a track, and every style of business is a track, and every day is a track, and every night is a track, and multitudes under the power of temptation come sweeping on and sweeping down toward perils raging and terrific. God help us to go out and stop the train! Let us throw some signal. Let us give some warning. By the throne of God let us flash some influence to stop the downward progress. Beware! Beware! The bridge is down, the chasm is deep, and the lightnings of God set all tbe night of sin on Are with this warning: ’’He that, being often reproved, hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.”

OUR RATIONAL CREDIT. to«« Slgmifeut Fact* Brought Oat by the So-Called Poyalar lew "The government Is borrowing 1200.000,000 with which to prosecute the war. This means an interest charge of only *,000,000 a year—& mere bagatelle to a nation so 4rtCh as this republic la. All this money Is offered to the government five times over. The people offer practically all of it In small subscriptions of *00 or less. Banks offer it on any terms that the government may make, and one New York bank has offered to take It and distribute it among the people without any fee oy reward of any kind. There never was a more splendid national credit than this. And when we ask why. the answer is ready. At the end of the civil war the nation owed nearly *,000,000,000, and had a terribly depreciated currency. It has since enormously reduced taxation, and yet tt has made Its currency sound and has so rapidly paid its obligations that its bonded debt on November 1, 1897. was only $8-17,SS, 580. Once in all those years was there a thought of increasing the bonded Indebtedness without a war necessity, yet even with that increase of S202.000.000 during Cleveland’s time, the interest-bearing debt of the country has been reduced to one-third of what it was. It is the man who pays his debts that enjoys abundant credit. It is precisely the same with the nations.”—N. Y. World. The foregoing sounds well and tickles the vanity of the thoughtless, but it will not stand a careful analysis. The fact that the people are almost breakingtheirnecksin a mad scramble to secure government bonds at three per cent, is very far from being a circumstance of congratulation. It proves conclusively one of two things: Either general business must be extremely bad, affording poor op

portunities for the profitable intestment of money, or there must be some peculiar or emotional advantages in a government bond as an investment. No man will loan to the government at three per cent, if he can do better and feel perfectly safe. Persons who are timid—who are afraid to assume any risks whatever iu business, may content themselves with what they consider a sure thing at three per cent. Now and then we find a person whose fear of losing is such that he will not invest his money at all, but will simply hide it away. These, however, are exceptional cases. When there is a grand rush to secure investments at rates so low, it should lead people to pause and inquire into the reason of it. A generally low rate of interest does not indicate either general prosperity, or an abundance of money. On the contrary, it shows that business is dull, that demand for money is slack, it cannot be profitably invested in productive enterprises, and consequently has become superabundant in certain places. In short, that money is plentiful in the hands of the lenders, but scarce everywhere else. This is one of the simplest principles in monetary science, and it is yet the most difficult for anyone to comprehend. Unquestionably the credit of the government is good. Why should it not be? The government is backed up and controls the entire wealth of the nation. A government bond is as safe as anything in human affairs can be. But that is not the only reason for the low rate, nor is it the chief one. The fact stated by the World that since the civil war two-thirds of our bonded debt has been paid is not the reason why the government can borrow money at three per cent. The English government can do the same and even better. although it makes no pretense of paying *he principal of its debt. Investors in bonds do not want the government to pay them, and the fact is well understood that bonds which have a long time to run are worth more than the same class of bonds which are payable sooner. A 20-year bond is worth more than a ten-year bond. At the present time four per cent. United States bonds maturing in 1925 are worth about 125, while the same sort of bonds coming due In 1907 are only worth 111. There are t wo reasons why the government can so easily float its three per cent, bonds, neither of which is touched upon or referred to by the World. First, under the gold standard, which the World so strongly favors, three per cent, is just about the same to the bondholder as six per cent, was 25 years ago, before the an

cient standard of Tame was tampered with. That is to say. It will buy about twice as much on an average of the necessaries of life. For the same reason the people who produce these necessaries and have to sell them for half price find it as difficult now to pay three per cent, interest as they formerly did six per cent. Nay, more, for in many cases the fall of price? has entirely destroyed their profits and left them unable to pay anything. The second is that, besides being exempt from taxes, the bonds can be used as a basis for the issuance of bank notes, which notes can also be loaned and bring the lender anywhere from six to twelve per cent, interest. This talk about “poor people** all rushing for bonds is bosh. Those who are attempting to justify the bond issue by pointing to the large number of small bids of $500 or less assume that every person who takes a small bond is neces^ sarily a person of small means. That is absurd. There is nothing to prevent a man worth $1,000,000 from buying a $500 bond. There is nothing to prevent him from getting numcious friends to buy bonds for him. That a very considerable number of the small bids recently made have been put in by wealthy men can admit of no leasonable doubt. As stated in another article, it is certain that no matter who buys them in the first instance the banks will ultimately own nearly all of them. Every person not densely ignorant must know that it is not the poor people who are constantly demanding bond issues. Who ever heard of an agricultural convention or a labor organization asking for an issue of bonds bearing interest? It is the great bankers and financiers who have especial interests to subserve, with a few special pleaders and now and then a “small fry** chap who thinks that it makes him look big to echo the cries of the “great financiers.** It is well un

derstood that the class of men who ana most anxious to hare $500,000,000 inbonds issued for the retirement of greenbacks, were also the loudest shouters for “war bonds’* to the same* amount, not only before they were necessary but before there was any* thing in the situation to indicate that such a necessity %ould arise. But this is not all. These bonds are a permanent investment, calling for a certain number of dollars. During, the last quarter of a century “dollars” hare doubled their value, i. e., purchasing power. They will buy twice as much. Should the same process continue for the next 25 years, as under the gold standard it is quite likely to, a $500 bond will become in effect a $1,000 bond, and will require as much of the product of human labor to pay it as a $1,000 does now. Likely all other defenders of the gold standard is dazzled and their judgment blinded by the spectacle of the government borrowing money at low rates. Very naturally men will accept a low rate of interest if they are given advantages in other ways which more than compensate them. The interest rate is not the only thing to be considered, whether dealing with the mere loaning of money, or with the general businesa conditions. Suppose a man borrow $500 and agree to pay back $1,000 at the end of $5 years. Is the fact that he only pays tiree per cent, proof that he has made an advantageous contract? Certainly, according to the World, because it sees nothing but the interest rate. The creditor classes everywhere are in favor of the gold standard. Does anyone suppose that they argue for gold because it forces them to take a low rate of interest? Preposterous! Itisbecause they see, or think they see, an advantage in some other way. This can only come through a rise in the value of the money in which they are repaid.; The World ought to have told its readers that the $S4?,000,000 of bonded debt remaining, of which it speaks, represents about the same quantity of the staple products cf the

country, as the whole debt did when it Jps created. It should have been tated that the rebellion war debt wan mostly contracted under the “depreciated currency,” which then existed, ,and that every consideration of national honor would have been satisfied by its payment in the same kind of money that the government received. It should have also stated that the depreciation of the currency to which it refers, manifested itself simply ili a higher range of prices—something which every producer in the country is now longing for and praying for. Finally, it should have informed us that the period to which it refers, when we y- ere carrying that enormous debt, and were cursed by a depreciated currcncy^vwas the most prosperous that the American people every knew, that the tramp was an unknown quality in American social and industrial life, and that the people scarcely knew the meaning of the expression “hard times.” " v. I H. P. BARTINIS. DEMOCRATS WANTED WAR The Republican* Are Try In* to Make Political Capital Ont of the War. With magnificent inconsistency, the republican party asserts that the war against Spain is a republican war, occasionally an administration organ admits that the democrats forced McKinley to fight, but on the whole the republicans have decided to make political capital out of the war. With this fact in view, the people should read with care, and remember after reading the following plank in the democratic platform adopted by the state convention at Springfield: “We prononnee the present war with Spain justified by every consideration of justiee and sound national policy; congratulate the democratic minority in congress for their firm stand in demanding the vindication of national honor, indorse the declaration of war on Spain and demand its vigorous prosecution in the cause of human ity.” There is much history condensed in the paragraph quoted. Much that the republicans would like to ignore, much that Mark Hanna has already attacked; much that Grosvenor has attempted to falsify. But the statements are true in every respect, and will be accepted as true by men who know what they are talking about, and who are not prompted to lie in the interest of the republican politicians. Democrats favor the war with Spain. The democratic minority voted for war measures. Democratic generals and naval commanders are aiding to conquer Spain. Hence, the attempts of the administration to make this sffair a “republican war” will fail entirely to win political success for the republican

PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS -—The wrangle between Hon. John. R. Tanner and Hon. Russell A. Alger la another of those cases in which tho public will look on with perfect impartiality, confident that no matter how hard the combatants welt each other neither will get more than he deserves^ —Chicago Chronicle. -The exact status of our new possessions under the Dingley law is, of course, a question for the future, but evidently if they are to fully serve tho purpose of new markets the channels of trade to and from their ports must be as unobstructed as it is between tho states.—Philiadelphia Record. -The three per cent, bonds recently issued by the government are now quoted at 104. Investors are willing to give up more than a year’s interest to get them. The bond transaction Is a constant reminder of the scandalous disposition of the government credit in the Cleveland administration. Boi were sold then to rich syndicates: below the market prico for bonds already oqt; and the got the profit.—Cincinnati T