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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1895.
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October 21, 1895.
PROGRESS AND TRIUMPHS OF
STATESMANSHIP.
School children are taxed from 2 to 12
cents each in London. Doors, windows
and all other openings that 1ft in either
light or air are taxed in France. Dancers
are taxed 72 cents a hop in Germany.
Every written document, including even an
ordinary receipt for monej\ pays a tax in
Austria-Hungary. In every city, town or
village in Spain a "consumus" duty is col-
lected upon everything the people eat,
drink or burn. A day laborer who earns
only 70 cents a day in Switzerland pays a
tax of $4.19 a year. After all the South
Carolina constitutional convention decided
that a provision under which dogs might
be taxed was absolutely necessary. In ar-
guing for the dog tax a member urged his
hearers "not to take any step backward in
this matter." If he meant that the list of
taxable articles or privileges should never
be shortened his argument was certainly in
line with the settled policy of all kinds of
human government. The hot hunt for
something more to tax has been continuous
' since ambitious men first devised a plan
to buy their way into lucrative offices with
public money. The demand for more and
more money to spend grows naturally and
under the pressure of official show and ex-
travagance the growth is always rapid. To
meet this demand holes in the wall or in
the ground, 'bicycles, congestive chills and
gravestones have been assessed for taxa-
tion. The latest discovery of other fields
to conquer has been made recently in Italy.
The Italian government is loaded down to
the guards with Indebtedness. A tax on
everything has been found insufficient to
supply the great men with the means need-
ed by them in their business. It was
feared some months ago that the city of
Rome would have to be sold in order to
pay Italy out of the hole. While this sad
exigency was being considered a great
statesman came forward with a plan to
save Home and to put Italy on her feet.
His plan is to tax beards. He holds that
whiskers are a luxury and that they
should be forced to bear their share of the
burden of government. In order to raise
the tax sufficiently high to meet the re-
quirements the father of this new plan has
declaimed eloquently against the badge of
vanity and manhood. He makes the telling
point that no person with a piece of prop-
erty of this kind can dodge the assessor.
Of course the youth with the original fur
on his lip should be taxed lightly. Nothing
should be done to discourage him in his
efforts to grow a profitable crop of tax-
able property. Side whiskers should come
high because they are not popular with the
masses. Piccadilly weepers and Imperial
twists should be forced to contribute lib-
erally, and Peffers should be taxed by the
running yard. There is nothing like states-
manship, and statesmanship is after all
largely the art of collecting and appro-
priating public money. If the whisker
money does not help Italy out the next
scheme will probably be to tax moles and
warts. In the meantime American states-
men without whiskers will doubtless seri-
ously consider this n^w Italian method of
raising revenue.
MORE SAND AN J) MORE ROPE.
In line with arguments submitted from
time to time by The News the Memphis
Cwrnneroial Appeal says:
The Galveston-Dallas News, quoting at
length a recent article of the Commercial
Appeal on the brutalities of mob violence,
contrasts the activity displayed in prevent-
ing a prize tight between trained athlete*
with the aupineness of rhe authorities in
the presence of the horrible brutalities
practiced by mobs. It does, Indeed, s.-fm
that we are straining at gnats ami swal-
lowing camels when .we put the whole mili-
tary power of the state in motion to put
down a fist tight and allow human beings
to be chopped to pieces like -butcher's meat
and perpetrators of such ghastly crimes io
go free. The News says truly that the
remedy for this state of things must come
with a regular, orderly and infallible exe-
cution of the lavs, making respect for law
a settled habit with the people, and that
to accomplish this the leaders, teachers
and favorites of the people must waste
less time and energy over trivial matters
ami devote themselves fearlessly to the
weightier matters of the law. uur public-
men owe It to the people to make a brave
stand against an evil which is threatening
to devote our society and civilization to
worse than Indian savagery. There are—
/there can be—no more imoortant uuestions
nsideratkm If they be really
e public welfare. The law can
not divide dominion with the mob. Sav-
agery and civilization can not flourish in
The same communities a ltd under the same
government. The one or the other must
he supreme. The simple question is. Shall
this be a land of law and civilization or ot'
viol, nee and barbarism? It is tmte for att
patriots to take sides.
It is certainly fair to say for the re-
spectable press of rhe country that It has
been faithful and fearless In its dealings
with this question. A pitiful exception may
be noted here and there, but as «a rule the
newspapers of the country have shown
themselves strong enough to condemn
butchery even when com mi Med within their
own states, of course the lawless and
criminal element and its accessory ele-
ments of mole-eyed grovelers and blinking
politicians who pretend to care so much for
the good name of their state, but who are
afraid to say or to do anything to make
the state's reputation better, lift their
hands and voices in theatrical horror at
any plain statement of the dally list of the
killed and wounded by which the readers
of the papers are regaled every morning.
The law-abiding people of Texas and of
other states in which the gunners have
grown infinitely too spry need more sand
and more rope. Attention is called to the
long list of victims who have fallen in this
state within the present year at the crack
of the pistol. Men of courage and common
sense should look the truth in the face and
unite in an effort to punish murderers and
to hold up the good name of their state.
Let the leaders, teachers and favorites of
the people who dare to tell the truth and
to condemn crime speak right out. The dis-
ease can not be cured with sedatives.
The head of Oliver Cromwell has just
been found in the possession of the Wllkt-
son family of Seal Chart, England.
Secretary Olney contends that the bound-
ary dispute between England and Venez-
uela must be settled by arbitration.
A train on the Lake Shore railroad has
broken the world's long distance record by
running 510,1 miles in 481 minutes, over C31^
miles an hour.
Congressman Pendleton says he will not
seek and will not accept a nomination for
re-election.
Ward, -the Memphis defaulter, has landed
safely in Honduras.
There Is nothing narrow about Texas.
The republican national committee has
been called to meet December 10. It la
understood that influential leaders want the
republican national convention to meet in
either Chicago or Pittsburg about June
10.
The spry citizens with guns continue to
get in their lead.
If the trains connect Hon, W. J. Bryan
of Nebraska will speak at Terrell October
81.
The last of the negro colonists quaran-
tined near Eagle Pass have departed for
Alabama. The final result shows 411 ne-
groes received at the quarantine, 1G7 had
small pox, 57 died of that disease and U of
other diseases.
The Texas Baptist Standard has changed
its form and dressed up.
Beware of the professional temporizer.
The popular loan Idea Is growing in popu-
larity.
The denizens of the forests are playing
hull-gull with acorns and nuts.
Whenever a professional politician tackles
a live issue it is because he fancies that it
will land him Into office.
The remains of young Mackay who was
thrown frofen his horse and killed near
Paris have been shipped across the Atlantic
and across the continent to San Francisco
for interment.
A young man of St. Cloud and a belle of
Oshkosh have just been married by wire.
The daily or nightly popping of the pis-
tol In Texas must cease.
A committee appointed to Investigate the
growing expense of the Chicago public
schools has reported In favor o«f a gener-
ous lopping off in the, matter of drawing,
German, music and biology. The Chicago
News referring to the report says: "Biolo-
gy as now taught in the Chicago public
schools might be entirely eliminated with-
out any harm coming -to the rising genera-
tion. The exigencies of modern life are
such that a large number of children in a
great city like Chicago can attend school
only about two years. Such children should
certainly be given an opportunity during
that short time to study only such mat-
ters as will be of practical value to them
in their life struggles." The course In
public schools of Texas extends over a
period of eleven years. .
How is it that men appointed on equal-
ization boards almost always find It to
their interest to raise the taxes?
Entirely too many citizens stand aside
and leave the law to take its course. Good
citizenship demands that every lawabiding
man should help the law to take its course.
The New York police court took Marl-
borough in a few weeks to soon. He has
no stuff now.
The School Herald is a new monthly
published at MarysvHle by W. H. Brim-
berry. _____________
SNAP SHOTS.
The football slugger ought to succeed In
raising boys. m
Sarah Bernhardt disapproves heartily of
bicycles for women. Peastlcks!
Every leaf is a lung.
The hen-pecked husband is the one who
does not talk too much.
The arms of man were not made merely
for eloquence.
Go out Into the forest if you wish to
hear something drop.
The female spider is much larger than
the male and eats the latter when she gets
hungry.
A constitution that never gets In the way
is useless.
To one man a trifle Is a mountain, while
to another a mountain Is a trifle.
Some gay riders seem to take the earth
for a flying-mare.
The fashionable woman now has hum-
ming birds after her.
Do not run all to pigeon holes.
The wallflower is sometimes a daisy.
Do not let your hobbyhorse run away
wlrh you, $
It will probably be some time before the
bloomers get into the society columns.
Good nature is about the only kind that
can be imposed upon with impunity.
The boom Is a great explosive,
Take cold patiently.
With many people earning a living is a
lost art.
A delinquent subscriber shot at an Ar-
kansas editor with a flint-lock bear gun
because the latter published a notice warn-
ing all delinquents to settle up.
CROMWELL'S HEAD.
Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 25.~T«he statement
was recent.y cabled from London that the
Liverpool Poit to <have discovered
he 'head of Oliver "Cromwell In po^sess on
f the Wilkeeon family of Seal Chart, Kent,
ing.and. Colonel Samuel 'H. Church, au-
hor of the "Life of Cromwell," in an dn-
erview -here. says the existence of th'js
iead has Wen known for a full -hundred
ears and competent judges believe it to
>e genuine. When in London last summer
V.ortel r.hurch suggested to the editor of
he Chroivc'e the appointment o€ a com-
i>!ttee of thre«- experts on the Cromwell
poch to examine the head, and if they find
io reasonable doubt of .is authenticity it
>hould he given sepulture under the Crom-
vell monument.
PUBLIC UTTERANCES.
OLD SUBSCRIBERS OF THE NEWS.
Mr. W. H. Randolph a Constant Reader of
The News for Forty-five Years.
Austin. Tex., Sept. 13.—To The News:
As you request the names of old readers
of The News I commenced at HuntsviMe,
Tex., In 1K51 and was a eonstant reader
for twenty-flve years at that place and
h- re at Austin in 1S% will be twenty years
here, in all forty-five years and will con-
tinue as long ais life lasts, and after I
leave you can send a copy to the other
world—if you can get my postofrtce.
\Y. H. RANDOLPH.
Austin, Tex., Sept. 26. -To The News:
W H. Randolph was born June 7. 1834, in
Malison county, Alabama. .My father. Jeie
Randolph, was born in Tennessee, also his
father, Nathan Kandoiph, and his father
w William Randolph, a native of Vir-
ginia and a stvvnd cousin to the talented
and ec en trie John Randolph of Roanoke.
My father moved from Madison county,
Uttama to Jefferson county, same state.
He wa. a member of the state senate and
house with the Hon. W. L. Yancey and
Jere Clemens. He, with his family, set fled
In Walker county. Texas, In 1851. and was
a member of the house from Walker coun-
ty In 1SG3. After the death of my father
and mother 1 settled in Austin after living
in Walker county twenty-five years. Have
lived here nineteen years. After reading
your valuable paper for over forty years
regret that 1 have done so little good in
this world. But 1 have lived a busy life
being employed as clerk and merchandising.
I never held state or bounty office, except
in 1854, that of county treasurer of Walker
county.
In politics, I think, the time honored
•principles -of de-moc/racy constitute the
foundation of our government—the best
government on earth. President Cleveland
has settled the fact that the people of the
United States intend from this day hence-
forth and forever to 'have a president
that will protect life, liberty and property,
an'd in favor of good money and good
government.
The most remarkable a'ct of my life Is
In writing a. prediction of the finaroutcome
of the war in 1863. In the oresence of J.
Carroll Smith, now of Ennte, Tex., and B.
W. Walker, now of Belton, Tex., I wrote:
Huntsville, Tex., June 15, 1863.—The south
will lose the fight. President Lineoln will
lose his life, but not in battle. But still,
the south will do well.
W. H. RANDOLPH.
Witness: J. CARROLL SMITH,
B. W. WALKER.
Judge Geo. tt. A Id red ge of Dallas wild be
the next governor of rhe state of Texas.
W. H. RA N DOLPH.
ROTHSCHILD'S EXULTATION.
Says He Turned the Beams of the Sun of
Prosperity This Way.
For The News.
Much astonishment is expressed by New
York financiers at the simplicity of the
London financiers who insisted that Mexi-
can bonds be guaranteed by the United
States before being placed In Europe. This
crude theory of the Monroe doctrine is still
clung to by the European financier. Our
brokers have had
great difficulty for
thirty years past in
making London and
Paris bankers believe
thut our government
only guarantees its
own indebtedness,
even in the matter of
Pacific bonds. The
Idea in Europe is that
we should guarantee
the bonds of every
republic on the conti-
nent simply because
w e m-a 1 n t a-in t h e Won -
roe doctrine. The
Rothschilds, at least, should be better in-
formed. Their favorite method of "turn-
ing down" South American bonds is to de-
cline them until our government guaran-
tees them. The Rothschilds now deem
themselves the financial protectors of the
United States, Baron Meyer saying that
he turned the beams of the sun of pros-
perity upon our land. He was not a little
surprised to learn that he is far from a
popular character In these parts. He thinks
we ought to look upon him as a sort of
national benefactor because he took up our
bonds so readily when the syndicate
shipped them abroad.
S.CniH.iffHXOU
IDEA.
TLX AS NEWSPAPER COMMENT.
Brenham Banner: It Is reported that N.
W. Cuney contemplates an early removal
of his residence to Washington city.
Laredo News: The Irrigation convention
to b" held In San Antonio on the ]2th of
next November is non-political and should
be well attended.
Victoria Times: The I^ower Rio Grande
asserts in all seriousness that the mouth
of that historic old stream offers the best
and only feasible deep water scheme In
south Texas.
El Campo Eagle: South Texas will pre-
sent Frlench Simpson for lieutenant gov-
ernor. He is the man par excellence for
tile position, and really now the coast
country is entitled to something.
Hempstead News: Twenty-one feet eight
inches is what Major Miller, the engineer
in charge at Galveston, found on the bar
last Thursday, Who will say now that
Texas has not a deep water? port
Yoakum Times: The Carmer who has a
few bales of 8-cent cotton on hand, plenty
of fine eorn in his crib and fat hogs squeal-
ing In the pen, should be the most happy
and contented man on earth—the king of
men in fa»'t—for he is truly Independent of
•'Very body.
Temple Tribune: S. Ti. Cooper, congress-
man of the Second district, is in Nacog-
doches shaking hands with his constitu-
ents and incidentally laying his fences for
the dark-skinned future. One thing about
Cooper we like is that there Is no humming
and hawing about his candidacy next year,
for he has come out with both feet for re-
election.
Cameron He-raid: The question of invest-
ing the permanent sehool fund In railroad
bonds is again to the front. We thought,
when the subject was recommended by-
Governor Hogg that the plan was a gooil
one, and we think so yet. The security Is
good, and it would help In railway con-
struction in Texas.
Burnett Bulletin: The Farmers' con-
gress adopted an idea that the writer has
entertained for some time, but he doubts
if the congress borrowed it of him. It is
in case, under free coinage of silver, the
bullion Is dumped here In too great quan-
tities from other countries, to tax It. The
only trouble about the suggestion of the
congress is Its obscurity,
Henderson Times: In a few years the
permanent school fund will begin to accu-
mulate in the state vaults by the millions
of dollar* unless some provision is made
for its investment. With the largest per-
manent school fund in the world and a tax
rate of 20 cents on the $100, our schools can
only lun four months in the year. Com-
mon sense and business tact would suggest
that enough of our permanent fund be
transferred to the available fund to run
the schools at least six months in the year.
MR. W. H. RANDOLPH
What Prominent Men in Public Life
Have Said in the Past on
Present Live Questions.
SHORT, CRISP EXTRACTS
Edited by Raymond E. Dodge From Clippings
Furnished by Burrelle's Press Clipping
Bureau ot New York City.
"I don't know, 'but my firm conviction Is
Phat the next candidate (republican), will
be Stnator Allison of Iowa. ... I don't
believe the republicans are going to New
England for a presidential candidate at the
next election. I don't believe there will-be
a choice in 1896, but -that the ^ectidn will
go into the house af the Fifty-fourth con-
gress and taeh state will have just one
vote. In that event Colorado will have
just as much to say as New York and Ne-
vada will be equal wlrh Pennsylvania."—
Congressman Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsyl-
vania in Oh k ago Inter Ocean interview,
October 3, lsi»5.
• * •
"I think that Kansas and Missouri—-re-
publican Kansas and democratic 'Missouri
—are becoming thoroughly non-partisa-n on
-the silver question. 1 have no doubt that
in any contest which may be waged in
tho.ee states on the financial issue, any par-
ty advocating the free coinage of silver
can defeat the republican party in Kansas
and the democratic party in Missouri. In
Kansas the republican machine has so far
been wholly noncommittal upon rhe ques-
tion. Still a very 'large proportion of the
•mass of the party Is ready to go for free
silver coinage whenever it may be offered
them. What is left of the democratic par-
ty in Kansas, outsi'de of the few who must
support the administration, are solidly for
free silver. I believe it is safe to say that
the populist party In Kansas is willing to
unite with all financial reforms from the
democratic to the republican party. The
financial question is the all important is-
3ue."—-Judge S. S. Kirng of Kansas City,
Kan., in Chicago Inter Ocean interview,
September -H. 1895.
• • •
"They tell us t'hat we can not hope for
the support of the New York delegates for
any candidate except one in favor of the
single standard, but I say we will let them
have New York. What of that? There are
eight Pacific states on the Pa-cific cous«t
that will not consider for one moment the
nomination of any man wlio is not ouit-
sopen for free coinage of silver. The south
is normally in favor of free silver and the
only thing that keeps it from being avow-
edly so by a unanimous demand Is the 'in-
fluence of federal patronage. But in 1896
there will 'be no 'fear of federal patronage
•there, and the south wil'l be where it al-
ways 'has been, in flavor of free coinage of
silver. The south and the eight Pacific
states I have spoken of WiM give us just
thirty-eight less than a majority of -the
delegates to the national convention in fa-
vor of free silver. We 'have Illinois. Ohio,
Indiana, Iowa and ot'her western states to
look to for these thirty-eight delegates.
We will gvt them, you may be sure, and a
free silver candidate will receive the dem-
ocratic nomination for the presidency."—
Senator Joseph S. C. Blackburn, Washing-
ton Interview, October 4, 1895.
• • •
"A year from now the silver states will
nominate a presidential candidate. It wiill
probably be -Senator Teller. He will carry
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Cal-
ifornia, Utah, Nevada, Colorado and Texas,
and at -least a couple of other southern
states. He wil'l carry enough to throw the
election into the 'house. Mr. Cleveland's
bond syndic-ate has at least $3,000,000 of its
Ml gotten gains set as-ide as a corruption
fund to defeat silver. They will use that
without shame or scruple. They will buy
every journalist, newspaper, stump orator,
or time server who is fror sale or -to let.
Their leverage is so great that they will
proba'bly win. But it Will be a physical
victory. It will be the beginning of the
end. It is simply a question of whether
the people or money bags rule the world;
whether the sons of toll are robbed of the
frui'ts of their sweat and labor or a -selfish
class is allowed to yoke -humanity to its
grinding chairot. I have echoed here the
views o-f Butte's and Montana's ablest
men."—P. A. FVarrell, Butte City, Mont.,
letter in Chicago Inter Ocean, September
28, 1895.
EXCISE.
"It Is comic to hear of the sympathy of
the millionaire brewer for the poor man,
when every one knows that the poor man
is having the bread taken from his mouth
by the saloon."—Theodore Roosevelt,
speech, October 3, 1895. . .1;>
• * •
"Some of us have thought this question
could be settled by the actions of political
conventions; most of us now believe that
it requires more than political resolutions
in party platforms. The party relegated
this question to the legislative districts, af-
firming the American doctrine of local self
government. ... I am wholly satisfied
with such relegation to the senatorial and
representative districts, the law making
power of the state, and I see no reason
why the will of the people, properly and
fairly expressed through their chosen rep-
resentatives, should be ignored or set
aside."—Francis M. Drake, republican can-
didate for governor of Iowa, speech, Orange
City, la., October 1, 1895.
TARIFF.
"I believe in a reasonable tariff—a pro-
tective tariff sufficient to raise revenues to
carry on the government and secure to
their workingmen good wages—but you
can't have monometallism and a protective
tariff, for the very reason that there is not
gold enough now to keep the treasury sur-
plus of $fuo.000,000 intact, and with $1,400,-
000,000 gold bearing obligations to pay inter-
est on you have to pay in products, and to
do this you must 4et down the bars an I
produce and manufacture as Cheaply as
other nations. The maintenance of a pro-
tective tariff under gold monometallism is
an impossibility, anQ 1 defy Mr. McKinley
to show it otherwise."—Congressman Jo-
seph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania, interview,
October 3, 1895, Chicago Inter-Ocean.
• * •
"High wages earned and judiciously and
economically expended by wage workers
are essential to the prosperity and happi-
ness of any people. To build up a great
and prosperous country we must provide
and maintain such conditions as will ena-
ble the industrious workingman to provide
comfortably for himself and family; to
make home life attractive and elevating,
and to provide well for the education of his
children and their advancement in society.
Cheap labor, it has been well said, is a na-
tional curse; it is barbarism."—Francis M.
Drake, speech, Orange City, la., October 1,
1895.
AGGRESSIVE REMARKS.
"I am a democrat, ©s Andrew Jackson,
Thomas Jefferson, Madison and Abraham
Lincoln were democrats; but I am not the
kind of democrat that President Cleveland
and John G. Carlisle are. I am a Baptist,
and if the association which has charge of
the affairs of the church decides to strike
out the ten commandments . . . from
the creed of the church, I would simply
stay with the ten commandments and let
it'he Church go. That is the way 1 feel
about the political situation. I am a demo-
crat such as was Jefferson, and I will stay
by the principles, even If the party does
leave them."— Congressman Joseph C Sib-
ley of Pennsylvania, Chicago Inier-Ocean
interview, October 3, 1895.
* • t
"The silver cause in Kentucky is con-
stantly increasing and the only thing that
prevents the situation being stated in its
true light more widely is that the news-
papers of our largest cities are the hire-
lings ot the money power. I tell them that
they have their tags on like so many dogs,
and that they vUre not do otherwise Uma
w*ar their tags and bark in accordance
with instructions. I a>;k no quarter from
them, expect none and propose to give
none. The black flag is up between us
and it can stay there."—Senator Joseph C.
S. Blackburn, Washington interview, Oc-
tober 4. 1895.
• • •
"No man can be greater than George
Washington or the other leaders who re-
fused a third term, and I appeal to the
friends of Mr. Cleveland., In who^e admira-
tion I yield to no man, to spare placing
him in such a position; and I speak this
with no disrespect to him, the gr«?atest
president since >the war."—Jeremiah T.
O'Sulltvan. Massachusetts democratic con-
vention, October 2, 1895.
• • •
"You can't make gold monometallism ef-
fective without first repealing ac least
three of the ten commandments. First,
thou shait not lie. which means that the
newspapers must stop misleading the peo-
ple; second, thou shall not steal, because
monometallism being in operation would
take and filch from the hands of industry
and transfer the honestly earned wealth
to the coffers of the absorbers of wealth;
and third, thou shalt lo\e thy neighbor as
•thyself, and you caji't keep that command-
ment where gold monometallism is opera-
tive."—Congressman Jo-eph C. Sibley of
Pennsylvania. Chicago Inter Ocean inter-
view, October 8, 189>.
• « •
"I am going to put in a great deal of
my time to secure for Governor Campbell
a vote that will surprise everybody. I want
to see him elected and by such a ma>orlty
a j to make him foremost in the race for
the next presidential campaign. 1 want
to see Campbell nominated for the presi-
dency. * * * Campbell is my choice for
the next president of the United Siatea and
thf campaign in Ohio will determine
whether he will be an important factor in
•the owing democratic national conven-
tion. -Senator Calvin S. Brice, Cincinnati
Southwest interview, September 27, 1895.
"Let us pause to think of the humiliat-
ing spectacle. Think of placing this great
aud prosperous nation in the hands of a
receivership. Think of turning over to a
syndicate of international money lenders
the finance and credit of the country,
while the president goes fishing and his
secretary of the treasury goes Into Ken-
tucky to secure an Indorsement for the
administration. During four years of war,
when a million of men were arrayed
against the government and millions of
dollars were consumed daily, we were not
reduced to such a state of affairs."—Fran-
cis M. Drake, speech at Orange City, la.,
October 1, 1895.
CURRENCY.
*'I do not appeal to any low or selfish
motives in you when I urge you to place
yourselves on the winning side of this
question, but I do urge upon you as dem-
ocrats, whatever may be your individual
opinions as to the advisability of erecting
a free silver law, to range yourselves with
the controlling sentiment of the people of
the United States, which must and will
dominate the next administration of our
government. You may divide and destroy
the prospects In this coming campuign of
our grand old party; you may be Instru-
mental in putting the republicans again In
power, but you can not force free silver
upon the people of the United States."—
Speech of Secretary Hilary A. Herbert,
Montgomery, Ala., October 4, 1895.
• • •
"This financial question, should be settled
and this agltattyn stopped, and I believe
tt will be In 1890. It the monometalllsts
win In 1896 that means the positive retire-
ment of the Kreenbat'ks and- treasury
notes, whk'h will demand an Issue of $500.'-
000,000 of gold Interest bearing bonds. Add
ta- this ,the present Issue of gold bearing
bonds and you will have $1,300,000,000 to $1,-
400,000,000 of gold bearing bonds. With this
obligation payable in gold, no matter how
evident may lie our mlslake of changing
to monometallism, there would be no
means of rectifying It, To do so would
be an absolute repudiation of Indebtedness.
At present we have an option between gold
and silver, but then this option will have
been removed, and there can not be enough
gold procured to pay such an Indebted-
ness,"— Congressman Joseph C. Sibley of
Pennsylvania. Chicago Inter Ocean inter-
view, October 3, 1895.
• • •
"Why do not the enthusiastic blmetaQllsts
attack the motives, the selfishness and
greed of the people who have stricken
down gold? I have never yet as much as
heard a. syllable against the silver stand-
ard countries for their attempt to 'destroy
one-half the metal money of the world.' Is
It not as wicked to refuse to gold the right
to be treated as the money of final pay-
ment as It Is to refuse the same right to
sliver? If nol, why not?"—Koswell G.
Horr, September 14, 1895. Editorial article.
* • •
"Is It not apparent. If the semblance of
Justice was to have been done when con-
gress demonetized silver and took away
one-half the available means of the coun-
try, it should have cut in twain the quan-
tity of gold to make a dollar? The only
way uut of the trouble Is to return to the
money of the constitution."—Ex-Governor
Horace Boles, speech, Waterloo, la., Sep-
tember 21, 1895.
ft ft ft
"I can not but ask myself why should
they not in the east be as favorable or
more favorable to the remonetlzatlon of
silver than we In the west. 1 am satisfied
that the masses of the people in the north
Atlantic states have suffered fully as much
from evil financial legislation as we In the
west. While we speak of the eastern states
as being the abodes of wealth it Is only
the few who have been able to monopolize
the finances of the country that have been
benefited there by the financial legislation
of the i>iLst twenty-five years. I find that
New York, while the richest state In the
union, presents the interesting paradox of
being inhabited by largest proportion of
the poor people, and from what I have been
able to observe the people of those north
Atlantic states are becoming aroused on
the financial question as fully as they are
in the west."—Judge S. S. King of Kansas
City, Kan., Chicago Inter Ocean Interview.
September 29, 159.J.
• • •
"This Is a serious question. It Is an es-
tablished fact that to double the volume
of money you may double prices. All polit-
ical economists agree to this. When Gro-
vel- Cleveland In his letter to the Sound
Alone.v club of Chic ago said 'I fear that
the dollar will depreciate' he might just as
well have said what is equivalent, 'I fear
that the products of human toil and values
of property will go up.' They are the same,
fur when the dollar depreciates values ap-
preciate. Why, gold Is at in the Ar-
gentine Republic. And, don't you know-
that it doesn't take a bushel more wheat
to get a dollar In that country than here
r.s bath are regulated In the world's mar-
kets in Liverpool and London."—Congress-
man Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania,
Chicago Inter Ocean interview, Ocitober 3.
1895.
• ft ft
"I don't believe that there Is a democrat
In the state (Illinois) who desires a silver
dollar to be worth less than a gold dollar.
I confess that 1 don't want to see such a
condition o'' affairs. We can not get along
well without gold and silver as money, and
they should be equal in value for purposes
of trade and commerce and the payment of
debts. I don't want to see either metal lose
Its value as an article of exchange for com-
mercial purposes, but the absolute equality
of the dollar unit should be maintained at
all hazards. I want to see a broader basts
for actual money than that which would
be furnished by either one of the metals.
One metal alone will not be sufficient
William It. Morrison, Springfield, III., Chi-
cago Timea-Herald interview, September
26," 1895.
• ft ft
"The republican party has always be-
lieved In and has maintained the use of
three kinds of money—gold, silver and
paper—the only conditions being that alt
shall be of equal value and equal purchas-
ing power. The paper, to be good, must
be national In character. The nation stand-
ing behind it regulates its issues and keejjs
them within the limits of perfect solvency.
The gold and silver should be maintained
oil a parity with each other, otherwise
trouble must corne and disaster must fol-
low. This Is no simple problem. The woods
are full or men who can tell you exactly
what ought to be done, but that does not
solve the question."—Francis M. Drake,
speech, Orange City, la., October 1, 1895.
ft • ft
"Ought we to flee from the fear that we
will drive gold out of circulation,
when we know that we will not drive it
out of exi^tenQe, and know, too, that if we
make it cheaper it will cost every one
obliged to obtain it less than it costs now,
and will be worth just as much to those
who own it a® it wad before w* inflated iu»
value by unjust legislation."
Joseph C. Sibley, Thieago In
terview, October 3, l»»f>.
-Congressman
ter Ocean in-
CURRENT COMMENT.
"I believe that the republican party. I
which has given this country thirty years j
of sound money and plenty of it, will meet
and settle the financial questions In the in- j
terest of all the people. I believe that the j
wisdom of its leaders will be sufficient for I
these problems, and judging of the future j
by the past. I would rather trust the party
for which I speak than any other that time
has evolved."—Franris M. Drake, republi-
can candidate for governor, speech, Orange
City, la., October 1. lsifi.
• • •
"Why should we borrow gold when the
vault* of the national treaiury are literally
swollen With the accumulation of hiin-
dreds upon hundreds of tons of silver out
of which It is just as lawful, and jusf as
right, under the constitution of this Ra-
tion, to make money as it is to make it of
gold?"—Ex-Governor Holes' speech, Spen-
cer. Ia.„ September 25, 1!85.
• • •
"Let us put away our fears; let this
great nation assert its manhood; let is per-
form its plain duty of enabling its subjects
to supply themselves with the money for
which its constitution provides: let It right
a great wrong as speedily and effectually
as it is possible for it to do, and no man
need tremble for the consequence."—Ex-
Governor Horace Holes' speech, Spencer,
la., September 25, 1SN5.
• • •
"We are informed that the syndicate had
none except patriotic motives. What a
sudden manifestation of patriotism in the
bosoms of the Rothschilds! It took some-
thing to be patriotic at $13 a month stand-
ing in front of a row of loaded muskets
in battle line, or at the mouth of the can-
non, but when $15,000,000 is realized by a
syndicate in one deal on a single bond is-
sue I am afraid there was something more
than patriotism concerned."—Francis M.
Drake, tepublU an candidate for governor,
speech, Orange City, la., October 1, 1895.
THE HUNT FOR SOUVENIRS.
Odds and Ends of the Yachts Much Sought
After.
• _____
New York Herald.
The souvenir hunter is following the
track of the yacht races, and if he has his
way there would not be enough left of the
Valkyrie III and the Defender to take them
decently out of commission. He hires small
boats and goes up to the side of the yachts
and asks plaintively for some shred of rope
to bear witness to the fact that he has
been in close touch with the yachting
world.
The hunter of souvenirs haunted' the
yards of the Herretfhoffs at Bristol and
surreptitiously or openly bore away large
quantities of borings and filings from the
aluminum plates of the Defender. Then
some shrewd Yankee bought up all the
stray bits of metal from the Herresihoffs,
melted them down and cast them Into little
blocks. These he sold by the gross, and
each and every box Is accompanied by a
certificate that It was the genuine article.
When the Defender's sails were made
there were, of course, some bits of canvas
left over. Some of these, having been duly
authenticated, were sold by sundry sail-
makers. When the canvas of the yacht
was overhauled In Mr. Iselin's barn at New
Rochelle several young men bore away por-
tions of the canvas cut from the jib and
forestaysall and inscribed upon them the
legend: "Stolen from the sailmakers of the
Defender." They had a few bits of ordin-
ary canvas and a large square of the fa-
mous ramie cloth.
Some way or other little skeins of cord,
strands of the wire stays cut off in splic-
ing, a pulley block or two and several
reef polrits all duly authenticated as be-
longing to the Defender, have found their
way Into the homes df enthusiastic souv-
enir hunters. One man has a watch chain
carefully woven from a piece of rope Some-
body got from the Defender. Even a crack-
er box or a sardine can, which at one time
or other was aboard the craft, is acceptable
to some enthusiastic hunters.
It is only by a miracle that Sandy, the
Defender's masco»t, has escaped with his
coat of hair, for only the other day 1 heard
a young woman sighing for just a lock or
two. If one of the big ma'lnsails of the
Defender's wardrobe were cut Into 'bits
there would be a bargain counter rush for
every fragment.
A sailor sat astride the steel boom of the
Defender one day when she was in the
dry dock fitting a wooden cap to it. He had
to gouge out a few silvers. These he caught
and threw to the crowd, who struggled for
them, and several women were almost cast
Into the water before the final question of
ownership was decided.
MRS. ASTOR'S INFLUENCE.
Young John Jacob Astor's Success as a
Novel Writer.
For The News.
The Astor family thorn asserted its ex-
istence recently when the Drayton divorce
case was called in court. It had been for-
gotten for a time. Young John Jacob As-
tor has been eo gratified by the success of
his Imaginative novel that he is now en-
gaged in the production of another one.
It is understood to be a weird romance of
the south pole. His other book sold won-
derfully. The French translation Is now
in Its fourteenth thousand and some 30,000
Copies were disposed of In this country. Al-
together Astor has cleared several thous-
and dollars by the venture, and he gave
the money to the New York library. This
generation of Astor's is decidedly literary.
Mrs. J. J. Astor is as pleased as can be
with her husband's success. The new book
may be out this winter, perhaps anony-
mously, although the young man's wife
will not hear of it. He desired to issue the
other work without his name on the title
page, but Mrs. Astoir wo,uld not hear of it.
There has 1 een some amusement in New
York at the expense of this young couple,
owing to the gentleman's deference to the
lady. Mr. J. J. Astor is said to be hen-
pecked. His wife certainly has a will of
her own aud she manages to assert it very
successfully.
NO APPLAUSE.
St. Louis Republic.
E. B. Jack, Roland Reed's manager, is
telling this story:
"Our show played at Hot Springs last
season to a large audience, but at the end
ot' the first act, which Is chuck full of fun
and specialties, there had not been a
sound of applause, either by hand or foot.
I was knoeked out. and 1 went to the man-
ager of the house and said:
" 'Well, they don't appear to like us.'
" 'Oh, yes, they dp.' was the reply. 'Your
show has made a hit.'
" 'Then, why don't they demonstrate it?'
I asked, 'by giving the actors some en-
couragement in the way of applause?'
" 'They've all got rheumatism,' said he."
TOTAL ECLIPSES OF THE SUN.
There were two total eclipses of the sun
in the year 1712 and two in 1889. This rare
phenomenon will not happen again until
the year 2057.
ISTHIM US OF DARItBN.
Here once t'he fleets of (Morgan sailed,
With 'homeless corsaiirs from atlas,
Fair oities o'er disaster walled,
They rued relentless hand o.f war.
Paut all the shores of Co.on's land
The rover came In queet of gold;
To ravage coast or castle old.
To plunder with remorseless hand.
His fleets oif 'war, hid pomps, are past.
He fills a naimeless grave at last
His empire wide has ceased to be;
He lives in story, wild romance,
In annals of strange feats of chance;
Where once he roved the seas are fr£e,
A common corsair men abhor,
But when he wears a Caesar's crown,
And slays mankind in useless war,
And 'hurls the t'hrones of rivals down,
Despoils the world at one fell sweep,
iAnd ruin .leaves to after times,
The wra-th of heaven seems to sleep,
And adulation gilds ihis crimes.
The scenes have changed—ok sunny main
No buccaneers explore for gain;
Those knCghta of fortune sail no more;
The haughty Spaniard's reigri Is past,
No clouds cuf war the seas o'er cast,
Where casM-e rose t'he forest wavee,
And where wealth's halls were splashed
with gore.
Where Mars moved with his mien pf yore,
Now Venu3 rules her sylvan slaves.
-nH, C. Farkhurst.
Springfield Republican: It seems to be tn
open question whether the sultan ha* sur-
rendered to the powers anything of im-
portance in the Armenian matter. Whether
he has accepted all the reforms insisted on
by the allies, or only made a pretense of
doing so. while really conceding very little.
is what no one In Europe seems to know.
• • •
Kansas City Star: In a speech at Topeka
ex-Governor Waite said he had a stormy
time while In office and didn't want any
more of it. Mr. Waite's desire for privacy
and quietude will be enthusiastically re-
spected by the people of Colorado. It is a
case in which both sides have had enough.
• • •
Kansas City Journal: The cordial recep-
tion President Cleveland is receiving in ths
south is highly gratifying. It will be a
sorry day for the republic when citizens
refuse to honor the official head of their
government by friendly greetings when he
travels through the country, no matter
what they may think of him as a man or
as a statesman.
• • 9
Philadelphia Times: Judging from ex-
tracts published from advance sheets of
Senator Sherman's book, it seems evident
to the intelligent and dispassionate mind
that he has blundered in oneifeature of his
important historical work. He should not
have trusted himself to discuss his failure
to attuln the presidential nomination of
his party in 1880 arid in 1888. The task of
presenting that chapter of historv to the
nation should have been left to nis biog-
rapher.
St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald: The recognition
of the belligerency of the Cubans by the
United States Is not to be decided on ordi-
nary grounds of International obligation,
but on the score of humanity. SpalnTs cru-
elty to her subjects as evidenced oy deport-
ing them to the coasts of Africa makes
her unworthy of consideration as a re-
spectable power.
• • •
Nashville Banner: It is a right rule of
journalism to allow any candidate or other
citizen space in a newspaper to make prop-
er reply to any objectionable statement or
comment concerning him published In the
newspaper, and it is also a right and just
rule to refuse one candidate free space to
initiate an attack upon a rival candidate,
under guise of replying to the newspaper's
statements and comments, or to seek in a
covert way to hold a competing candidate
unjustly responsible for the newspaper's
statements.
» • •
Pittsburg Dispatch: Great Britain may
think that because the United States did
not interfere in the Corlnto affair It can do
as it pleases with the Spanish-American
republics. But Great Britain should be
very careful to draw the distinction be-
tween damages claimed for the expulsion
of its diplomatic agent and an effort to
appropriate American soli. The Venezue-
lan question does not turn upon a diplo-
matic Insult. It is a question of the right-
ful ownership of property, and Uncle Sam
insists upon a fair settlement of the dis-
pute by arbitration befdre England tries to
take possession.
• i •
Nashville American: President Cleveland
will no doubt recommend to congress the
necessity of legislating concerning the de-
mand notes of the government, but It is
not likely that legislation retiring thehi will
be enacted by this congress. A presidential
election is near at hand and both parties
will go slow in regard to financial'legisla-
tion. Then Sherman has come out as a
strong defender of the expansive green-
back and he will hold the republican sena-
tors In line until after the election.
• « *
Baltimore Sun: The political condition in
one respect Is unusual. The national con-
vention la not more than nine months dis-
tant, and yet no man has come prominent-
ly before the public gaze as a candidate.
This is not an unhealthy sign. There Is an
abundance of material for a good nomina-
tion, and there Is no reason to suppose the
best will not be selected. Russell of Massa-
chusetts, Secretary Olney, Pattlaon of
Pennsylvania, Carlisle of Kentucky and
Whitney of New York have all been dis-
cussed. If Mr. CampbHl should carry Ohio
In November he may loom up as a con-
spicuous candidate.
TOOTHACHE CHARM.
Hog Tooth Keeping Pace With Rabbit Foot
and Buckeye.
Terrell, Tex., Oct. 24.—Major J. 3. G-rln-
nan of this city tells the following atory of
a toothache, and the major vouches for the
truth of It:
"Last Sunday morning I awoke with a
very .bad toothache and went to the den-Mat
to have eomethtng done for It. He treated
the tooth and went to church, as I did my-
self. The molar was not 'benefited by the
treatment, and I was suffering great pain
when I went down to the postofflce after
dinner. 1 told J. B. Kiddie of tihe. Incident,
and told h.im further that 1 was going to
■hunt up the dentls-t and have the trouble-
some mo'.ar extracted at once. He advised
me not to do it, and reached dO'Wn after hid
purne, drawing out a piece of 'hard »U'b-
stance which he Informed me was a certain,
numbered tootih In a hog's head, counting
from t-he back teeth. iHe told me that if I
would carry the tooth in -my right handi
pantaloons pocket I would not be troubled
with the toothache so long as 1 did so.
"1 took the charm and placed It as di-
rected, and, strange to say. In a lit-tie
while I had forgotten the toothache, the
p-a'in having entirely disappeared. I went to
Dallas and retired for the night, taking off
my pantaloons, as usual. I wan soon In the
land of dreanM and sleeping as sweetly aa
a babe, but I was not long to 'be left to
such enjoyment. About 3 o'clock In the
morning I was awakened by that trouble-
some tootih again. I lay in bed and suf-
fered for eome two hours, and at last real-
izing that I was not guarded as 1 should be
against the toothache, I arose and robed
myself Sn my usual 'habilimentis and, strange
to say, the tooth soon ceased aching.
''So It has been ever since Sunday, so long
an I am drassed with the hog's tootih In my
pocket I am free from pain, but >as soon <*■$
I take off the charm I am again tihe subject
of torture. I am now looking for Mr. R'.d-
d'le to find what .course to pursue when I
sleep, as 1 do not want to spend the balance
of my life sleeping In my pants; neither do
I desire such excruciating pain as the tooth
gives me when not protected by the charm."
WHICH ONE?
For The News.
I am thinking of John In the morning,
I am dreaming of Ben at night;
John's smile is a ripple of sunlight,
Ben's eyes are starry and bright.
Jiohn writes me such beautiful letter*,
1 read them and read them all day;
But Hen Is just as bewildering,
In -his own original way.
The o*iie—such a dear old fellow-
Is a regular West Point swell;
The other is awfully lovely,
Goes In for the book and the bell.
Ben has a horror of dancing.
Just 'thinks It is dreadful, you know;
John waltzes divinely—he kissed me
One ntg-ht when I told him so.
And I? Well, the music was playing,
We were just going out for awhile;
And there on the shaded veranda-
She saw him, I know—his best girl.
So I hung on his arm blushing nicely;
And looking up shyly, 1 said:
"You mustn't do that again, John dear-,"
The poor fellow quite lost his head.
Then came the sad hour of parting,
He was awfully cut up, you see;
O, I was In tears all the evening,
Poor John! he was so sweet on met
But when I got home In September,
Ben came, and I quite forgot John;
O, it wais too utterly fetching.
That beautiful tie he had on.
He was ever so manly and noble,
I listened entranced to his talk;
And really forgot for an hour,
The hero of "Flirtation Walk."
But then In the morning the postman
Brought such a sweet letter from Johnl
O, dear, I'm In. love, 1 just know It;
But how can I tell with which one?
*•••••* *« 4
Two years, and the girl Is a matron.
So busy and happy and bright—
In a dear little home; I took her there—
I think it was last Sunday night.
I knew she had married that winter
While I was in Europe; but then.
Somehow, I could never remember,
To which of the two It had been.
"Which one is it, Alice?" 1 whispered:
"It's Charlie. " she said, "he's a gem.
"The very first time that I saw him,
"I knew it was neither of them."
Oa,lv«»M>o.
—litory H-luUtttcOMtfe
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