Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1893 — Page 6

TALKING POLITICS.

Da*. Talmage Speaks About Candidates and Characters. • Th« Ton ComaitUidmentH the Trite To*t of FitnoM for Official Position. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Text—Exodus xx, 18: •‘And alUthe -people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking. ” He said: On the eve of elections in the sixty counties of this State, and in all «ountie» of most of the .United. States, while there are many hundreds of nominees to office, it’ is appropriate and important that I .preach this before election sermon. My text informs you that the ‘lightnings and earthquakes united their forces to wreck a mountain of Arabia Petraea in olden time, and -travelers today find heaps of porphyry and greenstone rocks, bowlder against bowlder, the remains of •the first law library, written, not on parchment or papyrus, but on shattered slabs of granite. The cornerstones of all morality, of all wise law, of all righteous jurisprudence, of all good government are the two tablets of stone on which are written the ten commandments. All Roman law, all French law, ■all English law, all American law that is worth anything, all common taw, civil law, criminal, martial law, law of all nations were rocked in the •cradle of the twentieth chapter of Exodus. And it would be well in these times of great political agitation if the newspapers would print the decalogue some day in place of the able editorial. The fact is that some people suppose that the law has passed out of existence, and some are not aware of some of the passages of that law, and others say this or that is of the more importance, when no one has any right to make such an assertion. These laws are the pillars of society, and if you remove one pillar you damage the whole structure. Many questions are before the people in the coming elections all over the land, but I shall try to show you that the most important thing to be settled about all these candidates is their personal, moral character. The decalogue forbids idolatry, image making, profanity, maltreatment of parents, Sabbath desecration, murder, theft, incontinence, lying and covetousness. That is the decalogue by which you and I will have to be tried, and by the same decalogue you and I must try candidates for office. Most certainly are we not to take the statement of red hot partisanship as to the real character of any man. From nearly all the great cities of this land I receive daily or weekly newspapers, sent to me regularly and in compliment, so I see both sides—l see all sides—and it is most entertaining and my regular amusement to read the opposite •statements. The one statement says the man is an angel and the other says he is a devil; and I split the difference and I find him half way between.

I warn you also against the mistake which many are making and always do make of applying a different standard of character for those in prominent position from the standard they’ apply for ordinary persons. However much a man may • have or however high the position he gets, he has no special liberty given him in the interpretation of the ten commandments. A great siuner Is no more to be excused than » small sinner. Do not charge illustrious defection to eccentricity or ehop off the. ten commandments to suit especial cases. The right is everlastingly right and the wrong is everlastingly wrong. If any man nominated for any office in this city or State differs from the decalogue do not fix up the decalogue but fix him up. The law must stand whatever else must fall. I call your attention also to the fact that you are all aware of—that the breaking of any one commandment makes it the more easy to break all of them—and the philosophy is plain. Any kind of sin weakens the conscience, and if the conscience is weakened that opens the door for all kinds of transgression. If, for instance, a man go into this political campaign wielding scurrility as his chief weapon and he believes everything bad about a ma? and believes nothing good, how long before that man himself will get over the moral depression? Neither in time nor eternity. And then, when you investigate a man on such subjects, you must go to the whole length of investigation and find out whether or not he has repented. He may have been on his knees before God and implored the divine forgiveness, and he may have implored the forgiveness of society and the forgiveness of the world. Although if a man commit that sin at thirty or thirty-five years of age, there is not one case out of a thousand where he ever repents. You must in our investigation see if it is possible that the one case investigated may not have been the exception. But do not chop off the seventh commandment to suit the case. Do not change Fairbank’s scale to suit what you are weighing with it. Do not cut off a yardstick to suit the dry goods you are measuring. Let the law stand and never tamper with it. Above* all, I charge you do not join in the cry that I have heard—for fifteen, twenty years I have hoard U. If you make that charge, you are a foul mouthed scaudaler of

the Iter nai> race You are • a ieper. Make room for that leper! When a ma*, By pea or type or tongue, utters suA a slander on tbe human race that there is such thiqg as purity, I know right away that that man himself is a walking lazaretto, a reeking ulcer, and is-fit for no society better than that of devils damned. We may enlarge our charities in such a case, but in no such case let us shave off the ten commandments. Let them stand as the everlasting defense of society aud of the chiirch of God. The .committing of one sin opens the door for the commission of other sins. You see it every day. Those embezzlers, those bank cashiers absebaefing as soon as they -.arebrought to justice, develop the fact that they are in all kinds of sin. No exception to the rule. They all kept baa company, they nearly all gambled, they all' went' to places where they ought not. Why? The commission of the one sin opened the gate for all the other sins. Sins go in flocks, in droves and in herds. You open the door for one sin, that invites in-all the miserable segregation. Some o' the campaign orators this autumn —some of them —.bombarding the suffering candidates all the week, will think no wrong in Sabbath breaking. All week hurling the eighth commandment at one candidate, the seventh commandment at another candidate and the ninth commandment at still another,' what are they doing with the fourth commandment, “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy?” Breaking it. Is not the fourth commandment as important as the eighth, as the seventh, as the ninth? Some of these political campaign orators, as I have seen them reported in other years, and as. I have heard it in regard to them, bombarding the suffering candidates all the week, yet tossing the name of God from their lips recklessly, guilty of profanity—what are they doing with the third commandment? Is not the third commandment, which says, “Thou shalt not take tho name of the Lord thy Gpd in vain, for th§ Lord will riot iiold him thall taketh his name in vain” —is not the third commandment as important as the other seven? Oh, yes, we find in all departments men are hurling their indignation against sins perhaps to which they are not particularly tempted —hurling it against iniquity toward which they are not particularly drawn. I have this book for my authority when I say that the man who swears or the man who breaks the Sabbath is as culpable before God as those candidates who break other com--mandmentsj What right have- you and I to select which commandments we will keep aud which we will break? Better not try to measure the thunderbolts of the Almighty, saying this has less blaze, this has less momentum. Better not handle the guns, better not experiment much with the divine ammunition.

I bring'-up the ctftididaaes for ward and township, and city and State office. I bring them # up, and I try them by this decalogue. Of course they are imperfect. We are all imperfect. We say things we ought not to say; we do things we ought not to do. We have all been wrong; we have all done wrong. But I shall find out one of the candidates who comes, in my estimation, nearest to obedience of the ten commandments, and 1 will vote for him, and you will vote for him unless you love God less than your party —then you will not.

Herodotus said that, Nitoeris, the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar, was so fascinated with her beautiful village of Aadoricca that she had the river above Babylon changed so it wound this way and wound that, and curved this way and curved that, and though you sailed on it for three days every day you would be in sight of that exquisite village. Now, Ido not care which way you sail in morals or which way you sail in life if you only sail in sight of this beautiful group of divine commandments. Although they may sometimes seem to be a little angular, I do not care which way you sail, if you sail in sight of them you will never run aground, and you will never be shipwrecked. Society needs toning up on all these subjects. Let not ladies and gentlemen in this nineteenth century revise the ten commandments, but let them in society and at the polls put to the front those who come the nearest to this God-lifted standard. On the first Tuesday morning of November read the twentieth chapter of Exodus at family prayers. The moral or immoral character of the officers elected will add 75 per cent, unto or subtract 75 per cent, from the public morals. You and I can not afford to have bad officials. The young men of this country can not afford to have bad officials. The commercial, the moral, the artistic, the agricultural, the manufacturing, the religious interests of this counury can not afford to have bad officials and if you, on looking over the whole field, can not find men who in your estimation come within reasonable distance of obedience of the decalogue stay at home and do not vote all. ' As near as I can tell the most important thing now to be done is to have about forty million copies of the Sinaitic decalogue printed and scattered throughout the land. It was a terrible waste when the Alexandrian library was destroyed, and the books were taken to heat 4,000 baths for the citizens of Alexandria. It was very expensive heat. But without any harm to the decalogue you could with it heat 100,000 baths

r .. ' ' ' of moral purification for the American people. I say we want a tonic—a. mighty tonic, a corrective, an all powerful corrective—and Moses in tbe text, with steady hand, notwithstanding the jarring monntums,. and the full •orchestra of the tempest, and the blazing of the air, pours out ten drops—no more notess—which our Dfcople need to take for their moral convalescence. ' .

But I shall not leave you. under tbe discouragement of the ten. commandments. because we have all offended. There is another mountain in sight, and while one mountain thunders the other answers in. thunder, and while Mount Sinai with lightnmg-.writes doom, the l other, mountain with lightning writes mercy. The only way" you will ever spike the guns of the decalogue is by the spikes of the cross. The Only rock that will ever step the Sinai tic upheavals is the Rock 6f Ages. Mount Calvary is higher than Mount Sinai.

Moultrie s silenced’ Sumter, and against the mountain of the- law I put th e mountain bTthe cross. “The soul that sinneth, it shall die,” booms one until the earth jars under thte cannonade. “Save them from going down to the pit. I have found a ransom,” pleads the other, until earth and heaven and hell tremble under the reverbation. And MoseS, who commands the one, surrenders to Christ, who commands the other. Aristotle " says that Mount Etna erupted one day aud poured torrents of scoria upon the villages at the base, but that the mountain divided its flame and made a lane of safety for all those who came to rescue their aged parents. And this volcanic Sinai divides its fury for all those whom Christ has come to rescue from the red ruin on both sides. Standing as I do to-day, half-way between the two mountains the mountain of the Exodus and the mountain of the nineteenth of John —all my terror comes into supernatural calm, for the uproar of the one mountain subsides into quiet and comes down into so deep a silence that Icanhear the other mountain speak— $ye, I can hear it Whisper. “The blood, the blood, the blood that cleanseth from all sin.” " -

Oh, if you could see that boat of gospel rescue coming this day you would feel as John Gilmore in his book, “The Storm Warriors,” says that a ship’s crew felt on the Kentish Knock sands.off the coast of England, when they were being beaten to pieces and they all felt they must die! They had given up all' hope, and every moment washed off another plank from the wreck, and they said, “We must die; we must die!” But after they saw a Ramsgate lifeboat coming through tbe breakers for them, and the man standing highest up on the wreck said: ‘ ‘Can it be? It is, itis. it is,it is! Thank God! It is aßamsgate lifeboat! It is, it is, it is, it is!”

And the old Jack Tar, describing that lifeboat to his comrades after he got ashore, said, “Oh. my lads, what a beauty it did seem coming through the breakers that awful day!” My God. through the mercy of Jesus Christ, take us all off the miserable wreck of our sin into the beautiful lifeboat of the gospel!

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Ireland is larger than Scotland by 1,200 square miles. There are ten distinct parliaments in the British Empire. Princess College may institute a medical school this year. A locomotive requires fuel and labor to the value of $3,000 iu the course of a year. A pear that weighs over thirty ounces is on exhibition at a drug store in Atlanta, Ga. A public library and literary resort exclusively for the blind has been opened in Chicago. Last year 580 persons visited Carlyle’s birthplace, Ecclefechan. Two of the number were Chinese. At the present rate of increase there will be 190,000,000 people in the United States in fifty years. German soldiers now carry shelter tents that, in case of necessity, can be used as boats in crossing deep streams. The Union Pacific railroad has fifteen long and a great number of short tunnels, the aggregate length being 0,600 feet. A sign in front of a store at Georgetown, Md., bears this inscription: “Born with a brain within a brain i can kure enny kind of misery in a short time with only the best erbs to be used.” Recently two physicians advertised in New York for a man who would submit to a surgical operation which might possibly be fatal, in consideration of $5,000. Thev received 142 replies, the greater number of which were bona fide. How the bicycle interest has spread among women is evidenced by a recent announcement in the advertisement of a Brooklyn dry-goods firm, that a rack is provided for bicycles, and “wheels may be checked while ladies make their piuvhases." Chamois skin is one of too many things seldom met with save by proxy. Nearly all of the chamois skin in tho market is male from sheep skin or goat skin from England and France. A dealer in these substitutes declares that a single importing house could us,, in one year all the true chamois skin that Switzerland produces in ten years. The genuine article fetches three times the price of the substitutes.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Pittsburg had a big fine, Friday. Lose, 8350,000. Michael Davftt has Been refused a certificate in bankruptcy. have sailed for Europe. -Said that there are 209 pension spie* working about the country.. A negro woman has at Littlg Rock at the age of 120 years. Clarksville, Tenn., confederate monument dedicated, Wednesday. Ninteen indictments were returned in the Roanoke, Va., riot cases. Senator D. B. Hill enthused the Brooklyn Democrats, Monday night. The Georgia Legislature met Thursday. It will remata fn segtion fifty, day*. Two negroes, suspected’ of being hog thieves, were hanged by * mob ad Kdoxport, La R. S. McDonald, of Ft. Wayne, was arrested in New York, Tuesday , on-a charge of forgery. A movement is on foot to consolidate all the sewer pipe manufacturing c-oarerm of the upper Ohio valley. 6 The Rev. Mr. Haddaway, chaplain of the House of Representatives, died at Washington. Thursday.. There is already great suffering in the Cherokee Strip on account of the cold weather and general dsstltution. Jas. D. Hutchinson/ and Lute Zickler, of Waukegan, 111., were married at the top of the Ferris wheel at Jackson Park, Tuesday. From all points erf the northern and eastern States great crowds of unem-.. ployed* workingmen are hastening to San Francisco.

Henry Menzle, white playing “ghost” in the graveyard at Egg Harbor. N. J., •Thursday night, was shot and dangerously injured. Burglars carried off 88,000 worth of silver and precious stones from the Idaho exhibit in tbe Mining Building at Jackson Park, Sundaynight. - 6One hundred thousand dollars is to be deposited with the sub-treasury at St. Louis to bind the purchase of Cherokee bonds by the English syndicate. The Vanderbilts have gained control of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway. Got 40,000 shares, Monday- biggest deal over made in Wall Streep. Mrs. James Trammel killed Mrs. Doc. Trammel, at Orlando, Kas., because_the latter made defamatory remarks about her, While dying Mrs, Doc. gave birth to twins. Tho big Pittsburg fire of Friday was caused by the explosion of a barrel of whisky in the warehouse of the Chautauqua Lake Ice Company. Eight persons were seriously injured. The City of New York, outward bound for China and Japan, left San Francisco at" 3:30 p. m., Thursday, and an hour later ran upon the rocks in the Golden Gate under a full head of steam. She will probably be a total loss. All hands escaped. Mrs. L. D. Burt, of Sioux Falls, S. D., recently found buried in tho sand in a street of that place, diamonds and gems which investigation has proved to be worth at leastßloo,ooo. Repeated advertisements for the owner to call and prove property and take possession have failed to reach tho proper person, although frequent attempts have been made by parties to establish a claim to tho “treasure trove.” Tho latest theory as to the matter is that the gems .have been stolen in foreign lands and were buried by the thieves, who now fear to come forward and claim their ill-gotten wealth for fear of arrest. Mrs Burt has deposited tho jewels in a safe deposit vault in Chicago.

FOREIGN.

The Brazilian insurgents aro said to be on their lastlegs. Peixoto is rapidly getting the upper hand in tho contest. Herr Mayer, editor of a newspaper at Manheim, called the Pfalzgdu Echo, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for libeling the Duke of Baden. The municipality of Paris, in order to marK their appreciation of the visit of the Russian sailors to the capital of France, propose to erect a statue in honor of Russia near the Arc de Triompbe. The Ulster Parliament of 603 members met at Belfast, Ireland, "Tuesday, and passed resolutions against home rule and declaring allegiance to tho United Kingdom. Prairie fires have been committing great havoc in the Winnipegdistrictfor the past few days. Many farmers have lost their crops. Two children wero burned to death. The Russian fleet was given a great reception by the French at Marseilles, Thursday. After the reception the party entered carriages and were driven to the prefecture. The Russians expressed in enthusiastic terms their admiration of the beautiful elms that line the boulevard through which they were driven. The route followed was the "Boulevard du Nord, Boulevard du Gommier, tho Conrs Lietrud, Boulevard de Romo and Boulevard du Muye. An immense crowd lined the entire distance, and tho scenes that marked the trirmphal progress of tho Russians were similar to those enacted at the recent fetes in Paris and Lyons.

SUMMITTVILLE'S SENSATION.

Duel In the Dark Between u Officer and • Burglar, Six weeks ago George Stroud secured a position as night watchman at Summittville. Ten days ago he notified the merchants that he had discovered that there would be an organized attempt at wholesale burglary on Tuesday night, October 34, and named the store that would first be entered. Accordingly Deputy Sheriff Coburn and a force of armed men were located in the store, and at 3 o’clock in the morning Dick Goodman, ono of the gang,, appeared at a side window near the rear of tne building. He raised the window and went in. At the order to throw up his hands he commenced to shobt. Coburn responded, and Hanan and Fennimore also Joined in the fusllade. Tom May. another member of the gang, appeared at the window and took part in the affray. Goodman, directly facing Coburn in a room eighteen feet wide, emptied his revolver. and Coburn emptied his. Goodman received a shot in the abdomen, from which he cannot recover, but succeeded In backing out of the window and running several squares from the build-

ing, when'he fell, to be eaptared and taken to jail at Anderson. Coburn received a trifling wound tn the side. Just back of where be stood, in a space of six feet, are nine bullet holes. Over twenty shots were fired in the room, most of them at a distance of less than the width of the room. May, the companion of Goodman, was captured by members of the Swmmitville Horse-thief Detective Associartdon, who had been patrolling the streets. Before his capture, however, over seventy shots were fired. The other members of the gang escaped. The organization of plunderers is believed to number a dozen- men. Stroud, the night watchman, has been admitted to the inner councils for some time. There are fears that members of the gang still at large will try to avenge their betrayal, and Stroud is naturally somewhat uneasy;. A determined effort,wiH be made, to ran down tbe rest of the villains.

WILL NOT COMPROMISE.

Provident Cleveland Said to Have- Set Dowa oa the Proposition. -■ A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Record, Tuesday, says: At no time in ths last sixty days of the silver struggle has the condition of affairs been more chaotic than it is to-day. President Cleveland has destroyed the last vestige of hope for a compromise by his authoratative statement that unconditional repeal is the only settlement of the question which will be satisfactory to him. This, coming at the very moment when the compromisers had framed a bill and had flamboyantly given it to the country as a .compromise acceptable to the administration, has demoralized all calculations and has aroused new animosities. One of the Senators repeated to a cor respondent the substance of the President’s views,.and then stated the following as the exact words of Mr. Cleveland: “The financial question has ceased to be the great one before the United States Senate. The paramount question now is whether the majority of the Senate shall be permitted to legislate or whether a minority will compel the majority to abdicate Its functions. This is a vital issue involving a fundamental principle of our government, and it must be settled before unconditional repeal, tariff or any other subject to which the majority wishes to address itself can be considered.” The Senators came away satisfied that no compromise giving the slightest concession or modification from unconditional repeal .would be considered for a moment by the President," He said that he looked upon tho least modification of what the majority wanted as an admission that the majority no lohgerrules in the American Congress, and such a principle was too dangerous to be permitted to find lodgment in our institutions.

INDIANA WOMEN.

Succeiiful Competitor* for Prlxea at tho Fair, The following awards were made at the World’s Fair, Thursday, to Indiana women, for displays in the Womens’ Building: Miss Jo Williamson, Indianapolis, table cloth; Miss Frank Cavan, Lafayette, table cloth; S. Frances Major, Shelbyville, table cloth; Amanda Williamson, Indianapolis, table cloth; May Wright Zewald, Lafayette, complete linen covers; Mrs. Laura Blackstock, Lafayette, tea cloth; Mrs. Franklin Reeves, Richmond, curtain; Mrs. H. W. McKane, Jeffersonville, chamois cover; Mrs. J. F. Alexander, Lafayette, table covers; Miss Mary Heron, Indianapolis, centerpiece; M. A. Williamson, Indianapolis, table cloth art embroideries; Mrs. Clem Studebaker, South Bend, bed room furnishings; Mrs, William T. Brown, Indianapolis, piano covers.

AN ARAB TOWN BOMBARDED.

A dispatch to the London Times from Zanzibar says that a lieutenant attached to the Italian steamer, St. Affeta, was recently stabbed and killed at Merkah, a seaport town off east Africa, situated for-ty-five miles from Magadoxo. Merkah was founded by Arab traders, belongs to Zanzibar and is built of stone. It has a population of three thousand, including a number of European merchants. The death of the Italian lieutenant was immediately avenged by bombardment of Merkah. during which a number of the Zomolls were killed and considerable damage done to the town. Merkah is now said to be quiet, and no further trouble is anticipated, especially as all those in the town have been disarmed.

LORENA PROCLAIMED PRESIDENT.

Tl», Brazilian Inaurgeut, Set Up a President of Their Own. The New York Herald’s Montevidio dispatch, Tuesday, says: News has been received from Rio Janeiro that Frederlco "Cuilherme de Lorena has been proclaimed provisional President of Brazil by Admiral Mello, in command of the insurgent fleet. Lorena is the captain of a rebel warship, and his government was established some days ago at Destcrro, which is the capital city of the State of Santa Catharina.

MINISTER ISAAC P. GRAY.

Isaac P. Gray, United States Minister to Mexico, arrived at Chicago. Wednesday. After viewing the. Fair Mr. Gray will visit in Indiana for three weeks, after which he will return to his post of duty The distinguished ex-Governor is quite ill, but was able to tell a reporter his views on the silver question. He says a silver basis has ruined the business of the Mexican Republic, and thinks the United States could not maintain free coinage if it should make tho attempt Mr. Gray favors unconditional repeal of the Sherman law.

TOO MUCH GRAIN AT BUFFALO.

Enormous receipts of grain at Buffalo for tho past ten days have resulted in congestion. Tho elevators and tho harbor uro crowded with boats unable to got un loaded. The grain could not be sent out as fast as it came in, partly because there was a scarcity of canal boats and the railroads allowed their cars to be scattered when comparatively few of them were needed during the summer. There is quite a fleet of canal boats making that way and a good supply of cars will also be available soon.

HE WAS TOO FRESH

Admiral Stanton Promptly It amoved Frew Command at Bt edv Janelroi Tbe peremptory removal of Commodore and acting Bear Admiral Stanton, sta--tioned at Eiode Janeiro, Brazil, frona th* eonraand of the South Atlantic station, wasoM of the most startling surprises ever experienced in Washington officially, and for a time it has almost obscured th* Interest in the silver fight. President Cleveland took action after a long conferance with the Secretaries *f State and th* Navy, and when pnt In possession of all the facts, and of such further information as Senhor Mendonca, the Brazilian' minister in Washington, was able to furnish. The official order was briefly made public by Secretary Herbert in the following memorandum: “The Navy Department learned by authority late Wednesday, by telegram from Rear Admiral Stanton, in command of the United State* naval forces at Rio de Janeiro, that this officer had saluted tho flag of Admiral Mello, commanding the insurgent fleet. This salute was unathorized by any instructions the Admiral had received. It was an unfriendly act toward a friendly power, and tbe Secretary of .th* Navy, after consulting with the President and Secretary of State, issued ah order detaching Admiral Stanton from the command of his squadron and turning ft over to Captain Picking, the next in rank. This was in reply to a telegram,of inquiry.” In tho State and Navy Departments officials were incredulous as to the possibility of there<being any truth in -the-report published in the Berlin Nord Deutsch Zeitung, and cabled to America, Tuesday. Commodore Stanton had been specially selected for this post of duty because he was considered to possess in a pre-eminent degree those qualifications of coolness and discretion which fitted him to deal with tho revolutionary conditions prevailing in tho various countries to which his assignment would naturally call him. Naval officers who know Commodore Stanton are utterly at a iocs to understand how he came to make so serious a mistake, if such it can be called. Secretary Herbert expresses his surprise that an officer of Stanton’s experience and standing should commit such a blunder, tnd his prompt action is taken with the purpose of announcing to the world that the United States has taken no steps to refuse recognition to the legally constituted Brazilian Government.

THE F. M. B. A.

Th* Farmers Benefit Association Adopts Resolutions. ." /Tho Farmers’.Mutual Benefit Association, of Indiana, has been in session at Inlianapolls during the week. Tuesday light they adopted a series of declarations is follows: . We hold that by law money Is created tnd that that law is vested in Congress by the constitution of the United States, which says: "Congress shall coin money and regulate the value thereof.” The Government Gone, then, can create money and this •'ower should bo exercised for the whole people and not given over to corporations to fatten upon by speculating upon the necessities of the people We fur ther de:lare that the present panic is the result >f a money famine rather than a lack of jonfidence. Therefore, be it Resolved, That we are opposed to the present financial system and declare our ipposition to Congress giving Jhe right to issue money to the banks and banking :orporations, enabling them to control the volumes of money, and, by controlling the circulating medium, to control labor tnd its products. We demand the free and unlimited colntge of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and that •he circulating medium of the country •hall bo Issued by the government direct to the people without the intervention of oanks, in sufficient volume to transact the business of the country on a cash basis tnd making all money a full legal tender lor tbe payment of all debts, public and private. It is demanded that the government establish postal savings banks for the safe iepositof the earnings of tho people; that the taxes of the National Government be levied-upon tho luxuries, and not upon the necessities of life, that there be a law passed prohibiting alien ownership of land; that the constitution be so amended to as to provide for the election of the President, Vice-President, Senators and Judges of the Supreme Court by the direct vote of tho people; that taxes be reduced, and that tho Australian ballot law In this State be so amended as to give all political parties a representation at the sountof the votes. The association also leclared its abhorrence of all trusts and favored good roads and a graduated insome tax.

THEY WERE DRY

Two Perishing Miner, Retcuad From the Arizona-California Deurt. News was received at San Diego, Cal., Wednesday, that John Pulser, a young miner, and Conrad Dlmorick. an old German, were rescued on the desert between here and Yuma on Oct. 10 by Joseph A. Allison and T. H. Silsbyat. of this city, after a frightful experience tn which the pair nearly died of thirst. Neither of the men was used to traveling, and took few of the precautions customary with old prospectors. When found Pulser had been without water throe days. He had dug a well six feet deep for water, but without success, ahd,crazed with delirium, he had lain down to die. His companion, whose strength failed some miles back, had crawled under a mosquito bush and recovered his strength sufficient so that he had next day gone back over the trail to a brackish pool, where he had remained In reach of water. The men are now at Allison’s ranch, on the border of the desert, where they are fast recovering.

MGR. SATOLLI’S HOME.

He Secures the Property Formerly Owned by Stephen A. Douglas. The question of a legation home sot Mgr. Satolli at Washington is now definitely and absolutely settled, the formal transfer of the old home of Stephen A. Douglas and the late Justice Bradley tc the papal legate having been mada Wednesday. The contract was closed whes the papers were signed, and the keys of the property turned over to the real estate dealer as the representative of the archbishop. The price paid was *35,000.