Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — Page 3

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M’KINLEY and pensions.

Tlie President Has AlVvays Been the Karnest Friend of (lid Soldiers. In an interview, Hon. D. I. Murphy, former Comijiiusiouer of Pensions, states that President McKinley, on the morning of Sept. 4, 1899* said to the National Committee on Pensions, G. A. R.: "There is no use denying the fact, gentlemen, that the money power of the country is against any further expansion of tiie pension roll.” The undersigned members, only, of the Pension Committee, called on the President by appointment that morning and in the interest of justice we desire to say that this statement is not true. The President' did not on that occasion, nor at any other time, rngke use of any such words, nor did he make any such suggestion then or at any other time, and we were present at all the conferences between the President and the National Committee on Pensions from July, 1899, until the passage of the bill amending the act of June 27, 1890, in May, 1900.. At each conference he unreservedly approved the amendments proposed by the committee and unanimously adopted by the Philadelphia encampment. More than this, the President freely gave to the committee and the soldiers and sailors and their dependent ones whom we represented his personal aid in securing the passage of the bill. Having satisfied himself of the absolute justice of the measure, he did not hesitate to declare in favor of the amendment of the act of 1890 and the liberal administration of all the pension laws. The President is the earnest and practical friend of the soldiers and sailors of this country. From the very beginning of liis public career he has given expression to a sincere regard for his comrades of the war, and on all proper occasions he has not failed to declare himself earnestly In favor of a liberal administration of the pension laws. In his official capacity as a member of Congress and as the chief executive of the nation, he has evinced the utmost concern for liberalized pension legislation and administration. It is a cruel aud wicked wrong fit) put into the mouth of the President the words ascribed to him in this interview. He does not entertain such sentiments. The chief exefcutlve executes the laws as enacted by Congress, and no President in the history of this republic has performed his duty ipore faithfully iu this regard than our comrade, William McKinley. He was and is in thorough accord with the sentiments of the Grand Army as expressed at Philadelphia and Chicago, in the administration of the pension laws, and of this fact the National Pension Committee has full knowledge. „ It. B. BROWIfI, Chairman, Zanesville, Ohio. JNO. PALMER, Ex-Secretary State of the State of New York; Past Commander in Chief G. A. R., 1892.

J. W. BURST,

Fatterlee and His Hogs. > Ben Satterlee, one of the prosperous farmers of Seminary township, in Fayette County, Illinois, arrived in Vandalia recently with thirteen wagon loads of hogs, making a procession of no mean Tills was the surplus of Mr. SatterlAe’s hog raising. At the scales he found the weight to bo 13,500 pounds. He sold the hogs to Fred Morrison of Ramsey at 5 cents per pound. Mr. Satterlee netted $075 from the sale. The' St. Louis market reports for the months of May and Including September, 189(1, show tne average price of hogs in the St. Louis market to have been $2.75 per 100 pounds, and the average market price for hogs in the same market on Aug. 22, 1900, was $5.47. The difference between the average price for 1896 and the market price on Aug. 24 of this year was $2.72 per 100 pounds, which, multiplied by the weight, gives Mr. Satterlee $367.20 more for his bogs than he cpuld have got in 1896—another contrast In the prices of farm products between 1896 and 1900, demonstrating that McKinley was the “advance agent of prosperity” in 1896. When Mr. Satterlee presented his check at the bank, he was paid in Mr. Bryan’s 200-eent dollars, and the cashier handed him the money In gold. L. W. Russell, a neighbor, was present exclaimed: “By gosh! Ben! Five cents for hogs, paid in gold, is good enough for us." The facts related apply Just as well iu any Western State a a In Illinois.

'• A- Word to Young Men. It is doubtless within the momory of hundreds of thousands of young men In this country that less .than ten years ago—six or seven years ago, to be more exact—the business world suffe/ed a stagnation and disaster the like of which had never before been seen among us. The panic of ’93 was especially hard upon young men. The elderly, who had made their successes in life fairly secure, those whose natural caution enabled them to look forward to such a terrible consummation and to prepare for It, suffered less. The younger men, having in some cases the enthusiasm of their youth, having in many others, the well-matured plans of middle age before them, found that their best-laid plans, their most loyally superhuman efforts, were insufficient to stem the tide against them. Many failed. Many who did not fail fought on, almost losing heart, but bravely keeping up the struggle, hardly knowing why. Those who failed are mostly on their feet again. Those who did not/ are “doing well enough”, again. All—and we repeat, there are hundreds of thousands of them, take it the country over—have cause to remember the beginning, and, let us hope, the end, of a financial and political policy, or lack of policy,which literally doomed tens of thousands of them to bankruptcy, tens of thousands of others to despair, and ceaseless effort to recover themselves, and yet tens of thousands more to beggery—not hopeless, for that is a word unknown to, the younger business generation. We do not believe that there is a single self-respecting business man of the rising generation who- is going to permit, or whoMs going to help to permit, any such disaster to happen again. It would mean dollars, hi many cases thousands of dollars, out of his pocket. It would mean in many s cases that he conld never recover his financial standing: for it is not always that a man can stand more than one of these attacks. The younger generation, we believe, learned its lesson thoroughly. It will do better this time.

Another Areument Exploded. The United Commercial Travelers’ Association of America has 12,176 rffembers in 1900, and it had 9,533 in 1896, an increase of 28 per cent. , The Travelers’ Protective Association of America has 16,262 members in 1900, and had 11,090 in 1896, a gain of 47 per cent. The Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Accident Association of New York has a membership of 20,860, compared with 16,166 in 1896, a gain of 29 per cent. More travelers are on tlie road to-day than ever before-, despite the calamity howl to the contrary.

Many new factories, supplied with modern machinery, are being erected in Porto Rico. Tobacco culture has Increased immensely, and the demand from the United States is booming the cigar trade. The coffee plantations suffered from the hurricane,.and many of the planters were too poor to immediately repair the damage, but nature has helped, and in localities where a few iponths ago it was estimated that the yield would not exceed 10 per cent of normal. It is now conceded that favorable conditions give a prospect of 40, 50 or 60 per cent.

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Olney and the Trusts. Ex-Secfetqry Olney was the man who advised President Cleveland to use Federal troops against the strikers in Chicago during the term of the last Democratic administration. What did ex-Secretary Olney do when he was Attorney General to check the growth of trusts and monopolies? Nothing. But he made an excuse for doing nothing. He said, when Attorney General. the trusts could not be controlled by Federal laws, but that they were under the jurisdiction of State laws and must be proceeded against by State officials. The Fire in the Rear. Standing by the grave of Henry W. Lawton, I appeal to the patriotic millions of my countrymen without regard to politics, to put an end to the pestilent fire in the rear, which for nearly two years has followed our army in the Philippines, filling the hearts of our own soldiers with despair, and the hearts of their enemy with xsomfort and good cheer.—Jonathan P. Dolliver, In the House of Representatives, Feb. 27, 1900. r - ~

Prosperity in Porto Rico.

TRUTH OR FALSEHOOD?

Records on tlie Trust Question Which Will Trouble Mr. Bryan to Fxplaiu. In his letter of acceptance Mr. Bryan asserts that the Republican party has done nothing, attempted nothing, and can be expected to do nothing to protect the people from trust monopolies. If this is the truth, it is an important truth: if it is a lie, It Is a reckless, atrocious lie which should forever discredit the than who uttered it. Let us see. A few months ago, speaking at the Chicago anti trust conference, Mr. Bryan said: “I believe Congress has, or should have, the power to place restrictions and limitations, even to the point of prohibition, upon any corporation organized in one State that wants to do business outside of the State. * * * I am in favor of an amendment to the Constitution that will give to Congress power to destroy every trust in the country.” At tlie first session of tlie Fifty-sixth Congress the Republican majority of the House Judiciary Committee reported a constitutional amendment exactly in- line with Mr. Bryan’s plan of dealing with trusts, as follows: “To lodge in Congress the power to define, regulate, control, prohibit or dissolve trusts, monopolies or combinations.” On the roll call on the question of submitting this constitutional amendment for ratification by the various States of the Union tlie vote was as follows: Republicans—For, 149;agaiust, 2. Democrats aud Populists—For, 5: against, 129. In tlie light of this record, did the Popocrat candidate state truth or falsehood when in his letter of acceptance he asserted that the Republican party has done nothing, attempted nothing, and can be expected to do nothing to protect tlie people from trust monopolies?

Olney on the Duties of Citizenship. If one citizen may properly withhold his* vote, logically all.ferny, and all the wheels of government be stopped. To decline voting because practically assured that others will vote is but to give the latter an undue share of political power and to forfeit the right to complain of any abuse of it. The obligations of citizenship are avoided, not performed, by standing neutral in an election. The voting power is a trust which calls for use and is violated by the neglect to use. —From His Letter of Aug. 14. * v An Advertiser reporter called at the office of the Election Commissioners yesterday to ascertain if Mr. Olney had himself done the duty he so eloquently prescribed for others. This was the result: v Mr. Olney is not yet on the voting list of 1900. Mr. Olney was not on the voting list of 1899. Mr. Olney was not on the voting list of 1898. Mr. Olney was not on the voting list of 1897. Mr. Olney was not on the general voting list of 1890. Back of this the Commissioners did not have time to go, and research would be accompanied by investigation of musty volumes in the assessor’s department—but there is a suspicion that Mr. Olney voted for Cleveland in 1892. —From the Boston Daily Advertiser of Sept. 7. ' Farewell to Bryan. (Air: Johnny Comes Marching Home.) We’ll never forget “Sixteen to One.” Oh, no; oh. no! We’ll never forgive your “Scuttle and Run.” Oh, no! Oh, no! We’ve got no use for your croaking cry: “Oh, don’t you fear the miiitari?” So fare you well; we’re all McKinley men. So fare you well; we’re all McKinley men. We’ll never desert the dear old flag. Oh, no! Oh, no! We don’t admire that “fraud and brag, EMILIO! We’ll never believe in prophets sent To preach the gospel of discontent. So fare you well; we’re all prosperity men. So fare you well; we’re all McKinley men. We’re rallying up ten million men. Oh, yes! Oh. yes! To vote McKinley in again. Oh, yes! Oh, yes! No danger lurks behind the flag But the man who works the silver gag. So fare you well; we’re none of us silver men. So fare you_ well; we’re all McKinley men. —William Edwin Anderson.

The Army and Local Troubles. The army has never been called upon but twice in the history of the country to interfere with rioting that followed strikes, and tlien only after th*e resources of the local authorities to prevent trouble had becomd exhausted. Grover Cleveland, a Democrat, sent troops to Chicago in 1894, after the local authorities had shown their inability to cope with rioting and John I’. Altgeld, then Governor, had refused to call out the State troops. Governor Steurenberg (Fusionist) of Idaho called on the Government for aid to suppress rioting in Idaho. That is the record, and there Is not. as Mr. Bryan says, a growing practice of calling iu the army to settle lal>or troubles.’’ Significant Contrast*. In August, 1896. after two years of free trade, and with fear pf Bryanlsm, the failures were 1,175 in number, with liabilities amounting to $26,110,36*1. In August, 1900, after three years of protection and with confidence, in the re-election of McKinley, the number of failures was 706, with liabilities amounting to S6J2Sft,O92. ’

JOHN SHERMAN DEAD

VETERAN STATESMAN PASSES AWAY IN WASHINGTON. Was Seventy-eight Years of Ag;, and for Forty-two of Those Years He Served the Public in a Great Many High Places. John Sherman, former Representative in the House, for a long term a member of the Senate and twice holding cabinet positions, died at his residence in Washington Monday morning, in the 78th year of his age. His, death had been expected for some days and loving friends gave him their unremitting care ami attention to the end. The immediate cause of death was described-as brain exhanstion, incident to extreme weakness due to old age and to several attacks of sickness from which he had suffered for the last year and a half. Mr. Sherman had not Bern in robust health for considerably over a year. In March, 1899, while on a pleasure trip te the French and Spanish West Indies in company with a relative, Frank Wiborg, he suffered a severe attack of pneumonia which almost proved fatal. The ship on which they were traveling touched at Santiago, from which place reports came to the United States that the wellknown statesman had succumbed to the disease. He rallied, however, and the family accepted the offer ofc the United States government- to bring him back to the United States on the cruiser Chicago, then in the vicinity of Santiago, and he was safely landed at Fort Monroe and brought to his home in Washington. Here he gained strength and was strong enough by summer time to visit his home in Ohio. His remarkable vitality brought him through a relapse, which lie suffered during the heated term, and by autumn he had again regained much of his strength and seemed to be in good spirits. He passed last winter at ins home in Washington, enjoying fairly good health. The family went early in the summer to the old homestead at Mansfield, Ohio. They tv ore there but a short tilde when Mrs. Sherman, whose health had been very frail, died. This was a severe blow to the secretary, from which he never fully recovered. Ho remained at Mansfield until the middle of September, when he returned to Washington He was much broken in health and spirits, but for a time he was able to move ahout in the open air and to take short rides around the city. For the last three weeks or more, however, he had been confined to his bed

AS STATESMAN AND POLITIC', AN, Twice in the Cabinet and Three Times Mentioned far Pre <ident. John Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio, May 10, 1823. When he was 0 years old his father died, leaving a widow and eleven children, with only the homestead and an income of S4OO if year for support. The family was broken up, and most of the children went to live with relatives and friends. John remained witlThis motli<»\ He went to school flua year or two. and in 1831 his father’s cousin, John Sherman, a merchant of Mount Vernon, took him to his home and offered to prepare the boy for Kenyon College. He stayed there for four years, but at the end of that time- gave up his school and began work as a rojlnnm in the improvements then being made by the State in the Muskingum river. In 1840 he went to Mansfield, where he made his itorne the remainder of his life, and began the study of law. He was admitted to the bar on his twenty-first birthday, and soon made a success. In 1848 he married Margaret 'Stewart. Mr. Sherman cast his first vote and made his first speech for Clay in 1844. In 1848 he was a delegate to the Whig convention in Philadelphia which nominated President Taylor. Sherman was nominated and elected one of the secretaries. and took the stump. The fight over slavery had just been made an issue, and on this Sherman was nominated and elected to Congress. In 1855 he presided over the first Republican convention ever held in the State of Ohio. Mr. Sherman made his first speech in Congress in 185(5, and from that time on took a prominent part hi the affairs of the House. His first financial speech was made in 185 S. In 1858 he was re-elected, and again in 18(H), and had every prospect of being elected Speaker, but resigned to go to the Senate in 18(51 in place of Salmon P. Chase, who resigned to fill a place in Lincoln’s cabinet. When the war came on Mr. Sherman went to Ohio to encourage enlistments, and for a time served as n volunteer without pay on the staff of Gen. Patterson.

The congressional problems of the next four years were banking and currency questions, and in the debates on these Mr. Sherman took a prominent part. During the stormy period of the reconstruction, he a%tod as peacemaker between President Johnson and the Senate, but after the veto of the civil rights bill and other reconstruction measures lie acted heartily with the majority of his party. Senator Sherman’s greatest financial achievements were in connection with the resumption of specie payments in 1873. After a long light he secured the passage of a bill providing for the resumption of specie payments on Jan. 1, 1879. As Secretary of the Treasury in the cabinet of President Hayes, Mr. Sherman was able to see the bill become a fact. Mr. Sherman returned to the Senate at the end of his service as Secretary of the Treasury, and remained an active member of that body until he was called to fill the position of .Secretary of State, the most important' position in President McKinley’s cabinet. This he resigned in April, 1898. <»n account of age nnd ill health, nnd since that time had,taken little part in public affairs. , Secretary Sherman’s death occurred in the handsome home on K street, which he had erected eight years ago. The secretary was a large holder of real estate in Washington, having invested extensively in that line from time to time. Conservative estimates of his wealth place it at a round million dollars, most of which is believed to consist of Washington real estate. Other investments consist of securities nnd it is stated tnat tta* old family home at Mansfield, Ohio, remained iu his possession, notwithstanding reports that he had disp led of It prior to bis return to Washington

Bora May 10, 1823. — JOHN SHERMAN. —Died Oct . 22, 1900.

CABINET SHIES AT WEYLER.

Spanish Officials Resign as a Result of His Promotion. Owing to the appointment of Gen. Weyler as captain general of Madrid Senor Dato, minister of the interior, and Senor Gasset, minister of agriculture and public works, resigned, whereupon the entire cabinet tendered their resignations. The Queen Regent summoned Gen. Azcarraga, former minister of war, to form a new ministry. The new war minister, Gen. Linares, appointed Gen. Weyler without consult-

GENERAL WEYLER.

ing his colleagues. The captain generalship has hitherto been regarded as a political position. Gen. Linares, however, wished complete independence in military affairs, and selected Gen. Weyler because he deemed it necessary to have a man of energy in Madrid to cope with certain political demonstrations. The members of the cabinet and a majority off the press opposed the appointment as creating a sort of i>ersonal government. I’rirne Minister Silvela’s efforts to keep the cabinet together having failed, he submitted their resignations.

CRAZY CRIMINALS IN REVOLT.

Attack Keepers at Mattenwan Hospital and Seven Escape. One of the most daring escapes in the annals of New York State occurred at the Matteawan State hospital for insane criminals Sunday evening, when a large body of insane criminals made a dash for liberty. With crockery, chairs and such other missih-s as they could lay hands on, they overpowered the keepers, took from them the keys, and, after unlocking doors, fought their way to the yard, overpowering keepers all along the line. Then they pulled down a heavy iron door, and, sealing a high wall, endeavored to make their way to the outside world. Seven of the madmen succeeded in making their escape, while the others were finally repulsed, after being beaten with clubs while scaling the walls. In the melee several of the keepers were injured, two very seriously. The men who got away are desperate, but the officials are confident that they will ultimately catch them.

Indemnity for Murdered Italians.

The President will recommend to Congress the payment of an indemnity to the families of the four Italians who were the victims of a mob at Tallaluh, La., about two years ago. A report from a special agent of the Department of Justice clearly established the fact that the men were killed by the mob nnd that none of the perpetrators of the crime was ever punished by the StatA.authorities, notwithstanding the representations of the national government. The Governor of Louisiana caused an investigation to be made, ami there were some proceedings before a grand jury, but the result was that the national government found itself bound to make some sort of reimration in unswer to’the Italian government's representation, and they will take the form of an indemnity for each of the persorts killed # Who were Italian citizens at the time of their death.

The miners at Leavenworth. Kan.. who have been on a strike for six weeks, have returned to work at 84 cents a torij eight hours to constitute a day’s work. This is a victory for the men. A Cincinnati car crashed into a ’ims loaded with women and children, throwing the vehicle into ri gully and injuring every one. but nolle fatally. Henry Floy of New York succeeded at St. Paul, Minn., in transmitting 30,200 volts of electricity through a cabl* three miles long.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL

New York—Although rates for in one/ have shown little change this week, th# tone of the market has been somewbaßs easier and fears of a stringency seem t«| have died out. The indications are tha'|| the height of the demand for currency* for crop-moving purposes has been pawfl ed, and with gold flowing to New York! in large volume from both tho and Europe, the outlook appears favor**! ble for another period of easy moitey ■ before long. There has been some' dhi-i of loans on account of the rise” in rates, but it has been less than In for- - mer years, and the effect on the situation as a whole has been inconsequential. The stock market has shown a more eonfident feeling. Trading throughout the week has been active and there has been an important change in sentiment. Outsiders appear to be once more coming i into the market. There have been no new developments in the trade situation. Re-f ports indicate that a good volume of business is moving, although it appears ter be J mostly for immediate delivery, and therefore of a hand-to-inouth character. Chicago—Most of the commodities speculatively dealt in on the Board of Trade show declines since last week. Oats was an exception. Friday’s dosing price being a trifle higher; flaxseed is not included in the general statement, that article being governed by exceptional circumstances that have no connection with the grainy markets. The latter ruled extremely , strong, chiefly because of mnch of this ; season’s production having suffered sert- , ous deterioration in quality from the heavy rain that prevailed in*the Northwest after the grain was cut, thus diminishing flip supply of the speculative grade. Decline in price of wheat was not | due to any marked change in the generftjf; market surroundings but to the working out of previously existing conditions. Stocks in commercial hands kept increasing, and the rate of farmers’ dp-, liveries was not promising for any immediate amelioration of that discouragement • to Lull speculation. - ‘ Weather was favorable to an early movement of new corn, which is already being used largely for feeding in the ter-> ritory of its growth. Speculation had air ready been driven out of the deliveries of corn for this and next month by the j knowledge of a concentration in hands of the available contract gradfl and the improbability of much of the crop being in condition to fill cantrSßys for delivery this side of December. Mpket for hog products has been in eon a , worse condition than that of corn rtWfivM as concerned the manipulative tncttgs fH the leaders in the trade. Daily flue*|Brl tions and general trend of the nslpit have been largely independent of fly usual governing influences, so that - outsiders who made attempts at trading had to guess blindly at the intentions at this or that leader in the speculative ji^rket.

SIX KILLED IN A TORNADO.

A Texas storm Carrie* Everything Before It. A tornado struck about half a cine \ west of Lodi. Texas, Sunday evening. The path of the tornado was 200 yards wide and the wind swept everything l>efore it. One house in the center of its , path, occupied by colored people, was de- > strayed, six persons being killed outright. and three Others arc missing who arc iinpposed to be dead. The cyclone traveled from the southwest to the northwest, crossing the Texas and Pacific railroad at Campbellsvillo Spur, a lumber-loading station two miles north of Lodi. The lumber was carried in ail directions. It is feared further loss of life has resulted out in the country.

Indians Starving to Heath.

A report from Agassiz. B. C\, says that 200 Indians are in a Starving condition at. , Hiimberton Meadows, 150 miles north, of Agassiz. An Indian rider brought the news that fifty Indian families nre ing and that it is doubtful if supplies ran \ be sent to them quickly enough to wave ‘ their lives. Supplies are being rushed , from Vancouver to the relief of the starring Indians. —. •* v M Watson Eurwood, Columbus, Ohio. } found dead with head crushed. Had been drinking.