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THE CRIME OF 1873
HOW ACT DEMONETIZING SIL¬
VER WAS PASSED.
If TV* * Rrtahed ThroiicU Confront With¬
out IttiiiK Read uud Debate \Vj*« Shut
Off by the I'revioni QaMtion — People
Ne*er Hoard of It.
Arkansas Gazette: It has been often
rehearsed, so often indeed that one
would think every citizen of the ooun-
try was familiar with the faet3, but
they are not, or if they read about it
they have forgotten the facts.
The act demonetizing eilver was
smuggled through congress. Less than
a half dozen members knew of it.
President Grant, who signed the bill,
was utterly ignorant of it. Judge
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, the chairman
of the committee on coinage, weights
and measures at the time, when
charged with having advocated the de¬
monetization of silver, said in a speech
In the house: “In connection with the
charge that I advocated the bill which
demonetized the standard silvor dol¬
lar. I say that, though chairman of the
committee on coinage, I was as ignor-
ant of the fact that it would demone-
tize the silver dollar, or of its drop-
ping the silver dollar from our system
of coins, as were those distinguished
senators, Messrs. Blaine and Voorhc-es,
who were then members of the house,
and each of whom, a few days since,
interrogated the other: ‘Did you know
it was dropped when the bill passed?’
'No.* said Mr. Blaine, ‘did you?’ ‘No,’
said Mr. Voorhees.. T do not think
there were three members in the house
tbat knew it. I doubt whether Mr.
Hooper, who, in my absence from the
committee on coinage and attendance
on the committee on ways und means,
managed the bill, knew it.. I say
>n justice to him.” This statement was
made in the Forty-fifth congress.
In the Forty-sixth congress the mat-
ter was again brought to the attention
of the house bv Judge Kellv, who said:
“All that I can say Is that the commit-
iw! on coinage, weights and measures.
who reported the original bill, were
faUliful and able, and scanned its pro-
visions closely; (hat as their organ I
reported it: THAT IT CONTAINED
PROVISIONS FOR BOTH THE
STANDARD SILVER DOLLAR AND
THE TRADE DOLLAR. Never having
heard until a long time after iis enact¬
ment into law of the substitution in the
Kf*nuto of the section which dropped
the standard silver dollar, J profess to
know nothing of its history, but 1 am
prepared to say that in the legislation
of this country there i*3 no mystery
pqual ro the demonetization of the sil¬
ver dollar of the United States. 1 have
never met a man who could tell jr ,t
how it came about or why. The bill
was passed without any allusion in de¬
bate to the question of the retention
or the abandonment of the standard sil¬
ver dollar.”
Evidently the crime was committed
alter it had left the hands of the com¬
mittee. and before it was voted on in
the house. How it passed that body is j
thus Tennessee: described by Congressman Bright j
of “It passed by fraud in
the house, never having been printed
in advance, being a substitute for the
printed bill: never having been read at
the clerk's desk, the reading having
been dispensed with by an impression
that the bill made no alteration in the
coinage laws: it was passed without
discussion, debate being cut off by
operation of the previous question. It
was passed, to my certain informa¬
tion, under such circumstances that
the fraud escaped the attention of
donip of the most watchful, as well as
the ablest statesmen in congress at the
time/’
Senator Allison said in reference to
tin subject: “When the secret history
of this bill of 1873 comes to be told, it
will disclose the fact that the house of
representatives intended to coin both
gold and silver, and intended to place
both metals upon the French relation
instead of on our own. which was the
true scientific position with reference
to this subject in 1873. but that the
bill afterward was doctored.”
Senator Beck said: “The bill never
was understood by either house of eon-
gTef*.“ Senator Thurman said: “There
is not a single man in the senate, un¬
less a member of the committee from
which the bill came, who had the
slightest idea that it was even a squint
toward demonetization.”
Mr. Holman, in the house, said “the
measure and the methods of its pass¬
age was a colossal swindle. It does
not possess the moral force of law.”
Representative Cannon, of Illinois,
says the bill was not discussed and
neither members of congress nor the
people understood the scope of the
legislation.
Senator Hereford, of West Virginia,
in a speech in the senate, said “the bill
never was read, never was discussed,
and the chairman of the committee
said to Mr. Holman, when asked the
question, that it did not affect the
coinage in any way whatever.”
Who was benefits by this crime?
The foreign and New York bondhold¬
ers. Who paid for it? Let the follow¬
ing affidavit explain. It was made by
Mr. Frederick A. Luckenbach, a for¬
mer member of the New York Stock
Exchange, but a resident of Denver for
several years. The present editor of
‘The Gazette” met Mr. Luckenbach
often in Denver and heard him re¬
hearse the matter, substantially as
given in this statement:
In 1865 1 visited London, England,
for the purpose of placing there Penn¬
sylvania oil properties in which I was
interested. I took with me letters of
introduction to many gentlemen in
London, among them one Mr. Ernest
Seyd, from Robert M. Faust, ex-treas-
urci* of Philadelphia. I became well
acquainted with Mr. Seyd and with his
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brother, Richard Seyd, who, I under-
stand, is yet living. I visited.London
thereafter every year, and with each
Y*sit renewed my acquaintance with
Mr. Seyd. In February, 18<4, while on
one of these visits, and while his guest
at dinner, I, among other things, allud-
cd to rumors afloat of parliamentary
corruption, and expressed astonish-
ment that such corruption Should ex¬
1st. In reply to this he told me he
could relate facts about the corruption
of the American congress that would
place it far ahead of the English par-
lament in that line. After dinner he
invited me into another room, where
resumed the* conversation about
legislative corruption. He said, “If
Y° u wil1 Pledge me your honor os a
gentleman not to divulge what I am
about to tell you while I live. I will
con '^ nce that what l said about the
corruption of the American congiess
true. I gave him my piomise, and
lle thon continued: “I went to Ameri-
ca Jn 18<2-73, authorized to secure, if
1 could, the passage of a bill demonetiz-
in *' silver - 11 WHS to the * ntere8t of
those whom T represented-the govern¬
ors of the Bank of England—to have it
done. I took with me $500,000, vith
instructions if that was not sufficient
to accomplish the object, to draw for
.another $500,000. or as much more as
was necessary. I saw the committees
of the house and senate and paid the
money and stayed in America until I
knew the measure was safe. Your peo-
pie will not now comprehend the far-
reaching extent of that measure, but
they will In after years. Whatever you
may think of corruption in the English
parliament, I assure you I would not
have dared to make such an attempt
here as I did in your country.”
Such, in brief, is the crime of 1873,
the crime which the people of the
United States are clamoring to have
undone; a crime which, in the language
of Mr. Carlisle, “would ultimately en¬
tail more misery upon the human race
than all the wars, pestilences and fam¬
ines that ever occurred in the history
of the world.”
A Lurnbeririff Lie Nailed.
The New Berne (N. C.) Chronicle in
its first, issue denies that American
lumber has been affected by tariff
change, and says:
“Since the tariff was removed less
lumber has been shipped from Canada
than for any like period when lumber
was protected. * * * The demand
is too slight, the supply too great—•
consequence, slump in the lumber in¬
dustries. * * * Lumber, like all
other things manufactured in 1he
United States, has fallen in price be¬
cause of underconsumption. Give the
consumers their just deserts—an hon-
eat currency—and not only the saw-
mills but all the mills and factories
will resume work, for the consumers
will have tile means with which to buy
homes. Under our present gold stan¬
dard-having at least one-half less
than money enough with which to do
the business of the nation—may ex¬
pect a continuation of hard times and
closing factories; and just at this time,
when the powers of Wall street are
strenuously exerting themselves to
frighten the American people into sell¬
ing their birthright for a mess of
Hannaism. we may expect fairly a p y-
rotechnic display of ‘object lesson.’ ”
Polttlcal Pointer*.
West Virginia is full of woods end
the woods are full of democrats.—
Register, Point Pleasant, W. Va.
Will Brother Hanna kindly arise and
lead the Republican Glee club in sing¬
ing. “Ark, from the Tombs a Doleful
Sound,” etc?
“The cold refrigerated fact remains
that here in silver-cursed Mexico we
have the money to pay our bills."—
Mexican Herald.
If free silver is going to make gold
worth so much more than now, what
is the gold owner kicking about?—
Harrisburg. Pa., Patriot,
Wall and Lombard streets are bit¬
terly opposed to Bryan—all the more
reason why-those who earn their own
living should support him.—Bidde-
ford, Me., Times.
A silver dollar in the hands of the
people i6 worth to them considerable
more than two gold dollars in the
pockets of a Wall street capitalist.—
Gazette, Asheville, N. C.
We do not know where Miss Pollard
is but it will be news to her to learn
that Col. W. C. P. B. has discovered
and recovered his conscience.—Wil¬
mington, (N. C.) Star.
The goldbug argument is becoming
reduced to the statement that “the
silver craze is dying out.” It is al¬
mighty lively to be on its deathbed.—
Gazette. Fheonix, Ariz.
HUNTINCTON'S SCHEME.
Wants the Government to Wait TOO
Years Longer.
The case of the Central Pacific rail¬
road is one that justifies the govern¬
ment control of railroads. The rela¬
tion of the Central Pacific and the
government is thus stated by the
Twentieth Century:
“The Central Pacific railroad com¬
pany is bankrupt. Its immense in¬
debtedness includes a round $80,000,-
000 to the United States government.
This sum represents principal and in¬
terest of 6 per cent bonds, payable in
thirty years from date, issued by the
government to the builders of the Cen¬
tral Pacific road at different times be¬
tween 1SC5 and 1S72. The original
sum total of them all aggregated about
$28,000,000. The first of these bonds
became payable in January, 1895, and
the interest during all those years, not
compounded, came to 180 per cent of
the face value of the bonds, The re-
maining bonds fall due at intervals un-
til 1902. Now, the sole survivor of the
four men who built the road is C. P.
Huntington, and he is responsible for
the bills that turn up so persistently
in congress.
Mr. Huntington wishes congress to
decree that the railroad be granted
100 yeans longer in which to pay this
debt. Interest he says should be* 2 per
cent, and the United States govern-
ment should become responsible for
both principal and interest of these
new 100 year bonds, The bonds now
existing are to be cancelled when the
new bonds make their appearance, and
the railroad itself shall be freed from
its present indebtedness altogether.
The railroad proposes to pay principal
and interest of the new bonds in in¬
stallments, the last one falling due in
1997.
That is a very interesting scheme.
If it succeeds Mr. Huntington wall be
the most famous money maker that
ever lived. For these reasons:
The Central Pacific railroad exists
under California laws. It is not in¬
corporated under the national govern-
ment. Its charter expires in 1911.
Its affairs must be wound up then.
Should it pay its debts it may rein-
corporate. If not, it goes into a re¬
ceiver s hands. I nder the laws of
California the four estates of Messrs.
Huntington, Stanford, Crocker and
Hopkins (the men who pushed the
road through) are liable for the in¬
debtedness. But when the govern¬
ment sued the Stanford estate, Mr.
Cleveland’s attorney general failed to
carry the case to the courts on its
merits, and lost before the supreme
court of the United States. No jus¬
tice changed his mind on this occa¬
sion. The corporation disappears in
1911. Suppose the government took
possession of the road. It would get
“two streaks of rust and a right of
way.” Huntington’s scheme, defeated
in the last democratic congress, and
revived in the last republican one,
grants him immunity from all liabil¬
ity. Uncle Sam hands over his secur-
ity to Huntington, who gives him back
a valise. Uncle Sam s security repre¬
sents $65,000,000, plus $75,000,000 prin¬
cipal and interest respectively on the
entire Pacific debt, plus $20,000,000 of
sinking fund, plus millions more for
costs and interest. Huntington’s valise
represents a corporation that disap¬
pears in 1911, and two streaks of rust
and a right of way.
Huntington pursues this game of
his by means of bills introduced into
congress from time to time. The en¬
tire business of the house of represen-
tatives has been blocked by these
measures.”
Foraker * 111 under.
(St. Louis Republic, Silver Democrat.)
YV hen Senator Foraker blundered in¬
to the statement that the reason silver
dollars were maintained at a par with
gold is because silver dollars and every
other form of United States money are
redeemable in gold he did a high ser-
vice for the Democratic campaign. The
letter of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasurer Curtis to Congressman Mc¬
Rae, stating that the government does
not redeem either silver dollars or sil¬
ver certificates in gold, disposes of this
campaign fraud. Neither the ignorant
nor the lying orator can now dupe the
voters into believing that the present
silver dollars and certificates are good
because they are redeemable in gold.
I»lm*r Isn’t.
It is said that Palmer was a Demo¬
crat before Bryan was born. But Bryan
is a Democrat.—San Francisco Ex-
aminer.
Talk about “strong men”—there’s
Bryan carrying me oumry!
WHAT IS MONEY?
THE power TO CREATE VESTED
IN CONGRESS ALONE.
The Value of Money I® Legal and Not
Material—Iron and Steel Intrinsically
Worth More Than SllTcr or Gold—
Some Sound Reasoning.
While everybody—and most par-
ticularly those who have the least of
—are talking about money and dis¬
cussing the money question, especially
gold and silver money, it might be
well for them, in order to better in¬
form themselves, to stop and ask
themselves the sober question in the
above caption—“What Is Money?”
The child will tell you that it is what
you buy candy with, Some men,
who pass for great statesmen, will tell
> ou that it is gold and silver and
bank paper based on gold and silver,
with nickel and copper for currency.
This is true. But these metals have
not always been money, neither are
they necessarily the only substance
out of which money may be made.
Money is a creation of law. The
constitution of the United States says
that Congress shall have power to
coin money and regulate the value
thereof and it does not specify any
particular substance out of which
such money shall be coined. At dif-
ferent periods in the w’orld’s history
nearly everything has been used as
money. Probably the earliest money
in general use to any great extent
were sheep and cattle. In ancient
Britain slaves were used as money
and were called “living money.” In
Sparta, during the reign of Lycur-
gus, iron w r as the medium of cx-
change. Rome first used gold for
fioney about two centuries before the
Christian era. Carthage used leather
bearing the stamp of government.
Cathay used as money the inner bark
of a certain tree, cut into circle and
bearing the imprint of the king. It
was a full legal tender, and to coun-
terfeit it or depreciate it or attempt
to depreciate it by refusing to accept
it in payment for debts was death.
Glass coin W’as at one time the cur-
rency of Arabia, and codfish wms
Used as money' in Newfoundland. At
?ne time in Massachusetts musket
balls were used as money’, In 1732
tobacco was legal tender in Mary¬
land, and nails w r ere used for small
change in Scotland as late as 1776.
George W. Childs stated in his paper,
the Ledger, that turnips circulated in
Philadelphia in the place of copper
cents as late as 1865. A hundred
9ther instances could be mentioned.
Money is a representative of value;
simply a medium of exchange, and a
creature of law. We will quote a little
irom high authority:
“Money is a value created by’ law.
Its value is legal and not material. It
Is, perhaps, not easy to convince one
that the value of metallic money is
created by law. It is, how'ever, a
fact.”—Henri Cernunchi.
“To coin money and regulate its
value as an act of sovereignty in¬
volves the right to determine what
shall be taken and received as money;
at what measure or price it shall be
taken; and what shall be its effect
when passed or tendered in payment
or satisfaction of legal obligations.
Government can give to its stamp
upon leather the same money’ value
as if put upon gold or silver, or any
other material.”—Judge Tiffany', in
‘Constitution Law,” page 221.
“Metallic money, while acting as
coin, is identical with paper money in
respect to its being destitute of in¬
trinsic value.”—North British Re¬
view’.
“Money is a medium of exchange.
Whatever performs this function,
loes the work, is money, no matter
what it is made of.”—Walker’s Po¬
litical Economy.
“Gold and silver are not intrinsically
Df the equal value of iron. No meth-
»ds have been hitherto formed to es-
tablish a medium of trade equal in all
idvantages to its bills of credit made
legal tender.”—Benjamin Franklin.
The first legal tender established by
Massachusetts was the beads of the
[ndians, and though insufficient in
quantity, it answ'ered the purpose of
money quite as v/ell as English gold
ar Spanish silver. Later the infant
colony issued paper to pay soldiers
sent on an expedition against Canada.
The issue was for five thousand
pounds in notes from five shillings to
five pounds, and was redeemable in
taxes. This money w’as not made a
legal tender. It w’as not stamped as
money by which private debts could
be paid; but in 1692 it was ordered that
they should be received at the treas-
ury at five per cent over metal money,
This “fiat” brought them at once to
par with gold, and they stayed at par
with that metal for tw’enty years, un¬
til taken up in the revenues of the
colony.
In 1776 Virginia put out her notes
to sustain the war of that period* and
guaranteed their redemption in
specific tax. To make their success
loubly sure, these notes bore interest
it six per cent. Thomas Jefferson af¬
terward wrote in his history of the
colonial money: “Not a bill of this
“mission was found in circulation. It
was locked up in the chests of execu-
tore, guardians, widows, farmers.”
Why? Because it was good money. !
It wrould not have been hoarded if it
was not. Jefferson further says: ‘We
then issued bills bottomed on a re¬
deeming tax, but bearing no interest.
These were received, and never de¬
preciated a single farthing.”
This is populist money. The money
that the men w’ho are ridiculed and
reused and called cranks advocate.
Money bottomed or taxes—backed by
that which is nov- back of the gold
interest-bearing bonds of the United
States; the wealth of the entire coup-
try; the credit and the honor of the
government. While studying the “sU-
ver question.” don’t forget the money
question.
Cleveland and Carlisle.
The telegram of Mr. Cleveland to the
bondocrats of Louisville on the OC-
easion of the notification of the bolters
that they had been nominated, was
most natural. Mr. Cleveland during
his last administration has been so
busy in bond deals that it is natural
he should mistake bondocrats for dem¬
ocrats. But it is a Pttle odd that Mr.
Carlisle in his communication should
call the goldbug bondocrats “the old-
fashioned democrats,” when he de¬
clared in 1S7S that this bondocratic
"conspiracy which seems to have been
formed here and in Europe to destroy
by legislation and otherwise from
three-sevenths to one-half of the met¬
allic money of the w’orld is the most
gigantic crime of this or any other
age.” Will Carlisle have the same
faith in Cleveland after the 4th of
March as he now has if he does not
get a fat place in New York for his
services as secretary? It is to be
hoped that the Morgans and the Bel¬
monts will retain both Cleveland and
Carlisle as long as they live for their
faithful service to them.
Why Manufacturer* Intimidate
The editor of this paper has been
canvassing in Maryland. New York,
and New England for the past two
weeks, and asserts without fear of con-
tradiction that if the people eould
cast their ballots without-fraud and
corruption on the part of the gold-
bugs and without intimidation on the
part of employers of labor, Bryan
would carry every section which the
editor visited by a majority of more
than two to one. The people appear to
be all one way, the banks and the
employers of labor all the other way.
It seems that the London banks di¬
rect the policy of the New York tanks,
the New’ York banks control the coun-
try banks, and the country banks have
got manufacturers and all other busi¬
ness men by r the throat, and they dare
not either think or act for themselves.
And that explains W’liy the employers
of labor are issuing circulars and mak¬
ing threats against their employes if
they do not vote for the perpetuation
of the gold standard.
Porfirlo Diaz on Mexico.
Much has been said about the dis¬
astrous effects of the free coinage in
Mexico. Porfirio Diaz, the president
of Mexico, tells us just what the effect
of the use of silver is in his country,
and how the difference of exchange
benefits Mexico. His statement is
published elsewhere in this issue.
Notwithstanding the undisputed evi¬
dence that the silver standard coun¬
tries have a tariff against the United
States in the difference of exchange
which is a bounty on exports and a
tax .on imports, the republican party,
claiming to be the party of protection
for the United States, insists that
China and Japan shall be first pro¬
tected. That protection against the
United States is just as much a car¬
dinal doctrine of the republican party
in this campaign as protection for the
United States has ever been, is now
well established.
Cuba.
The people of the United States,
happy in the enjoyment of the bless¬
ings of free government, feel a gener¬
ous sympathy toward all who are en¬
deavoring to secure like blessings for
themselves. This sympathy, while re¬
specting all treaty obligations, is espe¬
cially active and earnest when excited
by the struggles of neighboring peo¬
ples, who, like the Cubans, are near
enough to observe the w'orkings of a
government which derives all its au¬
thority from the consent of the gov¬
erned.—W. J. Bryan.
Railroads.
The right of the United States gov¬
ernment to regulate interstate com¬
merce cannot be questioned and the
necessity for the vigorous exercise of
that right is becoming more and more
imperative. The interests of the whole
people require such an enlargement
of the pow'ers of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission as will enable it to
prevent discrimination between per¬
sons and places and protect patrons
from unreasonable chargee.—W. J.
Brj’an.
Pacific Railroad*.
The government cannot afford to dis-
criminate between its debtors, and
must therefore prosecute its legal
claims against the Pacific railroads,
Such a policy is necessary for the pro-
tection of the rights of patrons as well
as for the interests of the government.
—W. J. Bryan.
Mr. StrTonion Will Preside.
Vice-President Stevenson has in-
formed Secretary Gardner of the Asso-
ciation of Bryan Clubs that he will ac¬
cept the association’s invitation to pre¬
side at the club convent : on at St. Loul3
on Oct. 3. The club officials now count
upon an attendance of 10,000 delegates.
Nothin? Rut Money,
Mr. Hanna is now’ using money and
oratory in the west and oratory and
money in the east—and principally
money—Nashville Sun.
Brier: 01>ject«.
Detroit Tribune: That is to say, Gen.
declines to be left alone w’ith
other private in the ranks.
Gold democrats have ta’ked a good
; eal about “Pieserring the Ark of the
•ovenant.” Did they hear from it Mon-
ty?
NOT AN EXPERIMENT.
Free Stl*»r Would R« Only g
Retarn to First Principles.^
(From Denver Times, Silver RepubM
can.)
One of the argumentst advanced by
‘he gold standard advocates Is that any
change in our monetary system would
create, disturbance in our own of country, values and a da |p
ous would
completely upset our business relations
with all foreign countries.
It might be supposed from their atti¬
tude on this question that we are en¬
joying a high degree of prosperity, an4
that this desirable state of existence
might be endangered by the proposed
change in the monetary system, in
view of the bankruptcy, poverty, and
distress of the people of the United
States to-day, are we not called upon
to try something, although the rem¬
edy we try may not be perfect? We
have tried the single gold standard for
over twenty years, and after so long
a trial we have reached business par¬
alysis. labor is unemployed and poverty
and want is upon every side, and we
have yet to hear of a prospect of im¬
provement under a continuation of tha
gold standard.
Bimetallism, however, is no experi¬
ment. History tells us that under this
system alone the world has been pros-
perous. To return to the bimetallic
standard is no new' order of things, and
to wait for an international agreement,
is to never return to bimetallism. It
is probable that an international agree¬
ment for the establishment of a ratio
between gold and silver will never be
made, even though all nations should
suddenly become bimetallists. The rea¬
son for this is that each nation makea
its own law-s concerning legal tender
money and banking.
An international agreement w’onld be
a treaty’ between nations, and treaties
are of no other binding effect than th«
willingness of the parties to them to
maintain them. It is the law of na¬
tions that any' nation may withdraw
front any treaty to which it is a party,
whenever that treaty operates perni¬
ciously upon its interests.
A change in our financial system,
however radical it might be, would not
prevent other countries from trading
with us. The United States could hot
build a wall high enough to prevent
John Bull from climbing over it to sell
us his goods, under whatever financial
system we choose to adopt. If any for¬
eign nation felt disposed to stop trad¬
ing with us because her people disliked
our financial system, we w’ould try and
get along without buying from them.
Commerce and trade do not depend
upon the uniformity of money in the
different countries. Gold itself is not
international money’. A little experi¬
menting by the United States would
not be out of place at the present time.
Under the gold standard we have been
steadily going from bad to worse, and
yet from year to .year the gold ; |fno-
metallists have insisted that trade
would soon be better and times would
improve—just hold on a little longer
and all would be well.
The American people have had
enough of the “prosperity” of the gold
standard system, and propose to re¬
turn to the financial system of pros¬
perous times, and in doing so the coun¬
try will be able to withstand the shock
of the alleged experiment.
P- S.—The single gold standard is an
experiment and the empty pooketbook*
of the people tell how costly’ it haa
proved.
What Bryan Said In 1893.
“You may think you have buried
the cause of bimetallism; you may
congratulate yourselves that you
have laid the free coinage of silver
away in a sepulcher, newly-made since
the election, and before the door rolled
the veto stone. But, sirs, if our cause
is just, as I believe it is, your labor
has been in vain; no tomb was ever
made so strong that it could imprison
a righteous cause, Silver will lay
aside its grave clothes and its shroud.
It. will yet rise, and its rising and
reign will bless mankind.”
In junction*.
The recent abuses which have grown
out of injunction proceedings have been
so emphatically condemned by public
opinion that the Senate bill providing
for trial by jury in certain contest cases
will meet with general approval.—W. J.
Bryan.
A New <Job.
Visitor—Where is your living skele¬
ton nowadays?
Museum Manager—Out working for
McKinley. He sits on the platform at
Republican speakings as a Mexican la¬
borer.
They All Love Sheehan Now.
The republican newspapers have beea
quick to perceive that all the political
sins they used to attribute to Hon.
William F. Sheehan have been laun¬
dered out of existence.
Ye God* * Hnr 1 ills.
With Hetty Green contributing to th»
campaign fund of the Texas republi¬
cans and Russell Sage worrying over
the laboring man, it would seem that
the country is safe.—Ex.
Needed Repair*.
Washington Post: Suppose Senator
Thurston did change his mind 09 the
financial question. Could the man be
expected to stick to his old mind when
it was out of repair?
Mii'hig<n Huiuixiw Chaser.
Don M. Eiekinecn predicts 50,000 ma-
ior McKinley in Michigan. Mr.
1 kir.son gained considerable notori-
he chief of the rainbow chaser*
t» 1S83-.