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Clay County Reformer.
H. R. WEAVEl!) Editor.
VOLUME I.
IMPURE DEMOCRACY
following the trail of the
CONSPIRATORS.
TIIK HANK KltS AtiltEK TO HKI.P
CT.KVKI.ANO AND CARLISLE
, WVK THIS COUNTRY AN
OBJECT LESSON.
Cleveland Calls Congress Together, and
Tells It What to Do—T w«m%-SIx
S outhern Democrats Acc«uto to tlio i
Bankers’ Demands. -M- *
Congress on My Hands.
”1 expect to have n session of con
(rreBH on my hands at tnat time”—
Cleveland’s letter of June 25, 1 hu:i, ac¬
cepting an invitation to attend Wili¬
ams c ollegc.
Will Ul«e the Country an Object Lesson.
“No. I shall not call an extra ses¬
sion of congress. My only object in
convening that body would be to re¬
peal the silver purchasing act, and
that can not be effected this year.
is my opinion that we shall experi¬
ence close times in money
during tho year, and when congress
gets together next December it will
be more reasonable, more tractable.
It sometimes takes hard times to bring
n people to rcalizo their condition.
When the squeeze comes the mon
stand in tho way of legislation
tended to j reserve public
will lose sight of local theories and
sentiment and will bo willing to
the majority and general
of those who know best what should
be done. I propose to give tho coun¬
try an object lesson.”—Grover Cleve¬
land, Thnes-Star interview, March 11,
1893.
KvhloiiCng tlio ( o.>N|ilrary.
“Secretary Carlisle this
A number of bankers at tho resi¬
dence of George L. Williams,
president of tho Chemical bank. The
conference lasted over an hour
There was the utmost good feeling
displayed and the secretary said he
was there to make a frank open state¬
ment of what he believed to bo tho
financial policy of tho government
■ Thero is a determina¬
tion also to show tlio miners of silver
the evils of the Nliermau 1 iw on their
fortunes. President Cleveland’s ad
risers have told him that the only
way to induce tho western and south¬
western e.^MBrrcssinon and senators to
consent to a repeal of the Sherman
law is to demonstrate to their con¬
stituents that they are losing every
day this law remains in effect. This
work in that direction has been started
by a number of tho bankers in tho
solid communities of the east|| They
are daily refusing credits to the south,
southwest and west M ho Chicago
banks, it is said, are carrying out the
same lino of policy.
“Secretary Carllslo, in his talk with
the bankers, niado his stand very
clear. It is to bo heroic treatment all
the way through of the Sherman law,
and possibly by the next session
of congress the silver mine owners and
adherents of silver in tho senate and
house will be ready to consent to a re¬
peal of the law. The bank presidents,
replying to Secretary Carlisle, cor
d ally informed him that they would
be ready at all times to eo-operato
with him. Everybody shook hands
and there was harmony all round.
There was perhaps no organized con¬
spiracy against tho west in the great
financial centers of the east, but there
so a general understanding all along
the\ine that the west should be forced
into ftim to help the east accomplish
v „ hat it it had i, 0 .i long desired. * * * * *
Polities and finance were combined in
the scheme The great money powers
of the eA'-t had secured the election of
Mr. Cleve'aml. They first spent a
large sum to secure his nomination,
and seeoni?. a much larger sum to se
cure his election. They knew he was
in . full . sympathy .. with ..• their views and ,
they felt that now, if ever, they must
&*%ke the fight for gold raouometal
lUm. Knowing; that Cleveland was
lMMUrtily . . ... w ... t i them, .. they .. desired , . ,
to ereate such ; public sentiment
as would make his triumph with con
gross easy. First they were to press
the west for a settlement of indebted
ne&s, and next they were to start the
•care over the export of gold. The
movement in gold began early in the
year. It was undoubtedly accelor
Ated, and every effort made to mag
nify its importance by New York
financiers The telegraph wires were
•ail, u,dea. not merely with the
various amounts that were going
abroad, but with interviews with New
York men as to what the effect would
be, and as to what was the cause,
•to.”-—N. Y. Sun il>«m.) April 27.
Tlie Proclamation.
Executive Mansion, 1
Washington, D. C , June 30, ’93.
Whereas, The distrust and appre¬
hension concerning the financial sit¬
uation which pervade all the business
circles have already caused great loss
and damage to our peop’e, and
threaten to cripple our merchants,
stop the wheels of manufacture, bring
distress aud privation to one farmers,
and withhold from our workmen the
wage of labor, and
Whereaa, The present perilous con¬
dition is largely the result of a finan¬
cial policy which the executive branch
^fjfre government finds embodied in
unwise laws which must be executed
until repealed by congress.
Now, therefore, I, Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States, in per¬
formance of a constitutional duty, do
by this proclamation declare that an
extraordinary occasion requires the
convening of both houses of the con¬
gress of the United States at the capi
tol in the city of Washington, on the
7th day of August next, at 12 o’clock
noon, to the end that the people may
be relieved through legislation from
present and impending danger and
distress. All those entitled to act as
members of the Fifty-third congress
aro required to -take notice of this
proclamation and attend at the time
and place above stated.
Given under my hand and seal of
the United States, at the city of Wash¬
ington, on the 30th day of June, in
the year of our Lord 1893, and of the
independence of the United States the
117th.
[BEAL.] Gkovkb Cleveland.
By the 1'resident.
Alvey A. A DEE,
Acting Secretary of State.
The Montage to the Kxtra Beaslon
'To the Uongro-s of tho United
States: The exi.-deuce of an alarming,
an extraordinary business situation,
involving the welfare and prosperity
of all our people, has constrained me
to call together m extra session the
people end s representatives in congress to
the that through a wise and pa¬
triotic ox rcise of the legislative duty
with which they are solely charged,
present evils may be mitigated and
dangers threatening the luture may
be averted.
Our unfortunate financial plight is
not the result of untoward events or
of conditions related to our national
resourct s; nor is it traceable to any of
the afflictions which frequently check
national growth and prosperity. With
plenteous crops, withabuudant prom¬
ise of remunerative production and
manufacture, with unusual invitation
to safe investment and with satisfac¬
tory assurance to business enterprise,
sudden financial distrust and fear
have sprung up on every side. Nu¬
merous moneyed institutions have
suspended because abundant assets
were the not demands immediately available to
meet of frightened de¬
positors, surviving corporations and
individuals are content to keep in
hand the money they are usually anx¬
ious to loan, and those engaged in
legitimate business are surprised to
find that the securities they offer for
loans, though heretofore satisfactory,
aro no longer accepted. Values sup¬
posed to be fixed are fast becoming
conjectural and loss and failure have
invaded every branch of business.
The Sherman Aet the Cause.
I believe these things aro principally
chargeable to congressional legisla¬
tion touching the purchase and coin¬
age of silver by the general govern¬
ment. This legislation is embodied
in a statute passed on the 14th day of
.Inly, 1890, which was the culmination
of much agitation of the subject in¬
volved and which may be considered a
truce after the long struggle between
the advocates of free silver coinage
and those intending to be more con¬
servative.
Undoubtedly the monthly pur¬
chases by the government of 4,500,00,9
ounces of silver, forced under that
statute, were regarded by those inter¬
ested in silver production as a certain
guarantee of its increase in price. The
result, however, has been entirely dif¬
ferent, for immediately following a
spa modic and slight rise the price of
silver began to fall after the passage
of the act and has since reached the
lowest, point ever known. This dis¬
appointing result has led to renewed
and free persistent silver effort in the direction
of coinage.
Meanwhile, not only are the evil
effects of the operation of the present
law constantly accumulating but the
result to which its execution must in¬
evitably lead, is becoming palpable to
all who give the least heed to finan¬
cial subjects.
Effefct* of the Law.
This law provides that in payment
for tho 4,500,Out) ounces of silver
bullion which the secretary of the
treasury is commanded to purchase
monthly, there shall be issued treas
ury notes redeemable on demand in
gold or silver coin, at the discretion
of the secretary of the treasury, aud
that the said notes may be reissued.
It is, however, declared in the act to
lu , “the established policy of the
United .States to maintain the two
metails upon a parity with each other
u P<? n the P r e se »t legal ratio or such
ratio as may be provided bv law.”
This declaration so controls the
actions of the secretary of the
treasury as to prevent his ex
excising the discretion nominally
vested in him if by such action
the parity between gold and silver
may be disturbed. Manifestly, a re
fusal by the secretary to pay these
treasury notes in gold if demanded
would neecssarily result in their dis¬
credit and depreciation, as obligations
payable only in silver, and would de
stroy the parity between the two
metals by establishing a discrimina
J Up to the 15th day of July, 1893,
these notes had been issued in pav
ment of silver bullion purchased to
^ amo " n l t of mor6 than $17 4.000,00o.
without usefulness in the treasury,
many of the cotes given in its pur
? base have been paid in go d. This is
illustrated by the statement that le
tween the 1st day of May, 1892, and
the 13th day of July, 1893, the notes of
this kind issued in payment for silver
bullion amounted to a little more
than $54,000,000, and that during the
same period about $49,000,000 were
paid by the treasury in gold for the
redemption of such notes.
D«pi«tion of the Gold Koterv®.
The policy necessarily adopted of
paying these notes in gold has not
spared the gold reserve of 8100,000,000,
long ago set aside by the government
for the redemption of other notes, for
this fund has already been subjected
to the payment of new obligations
amounting to about $150,000,000 on
account of silver purchases, and has
as a consequence, for the first time
since its creation, been encroached
upon. •
We have thus made the depletion
ol our gold easy and have tempted
“The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.”
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“See • got fat on them and only left enough to keep the “scratclier” alive.
other and more appreciative nations
to add it to their stock. That the
opi been ortumty we have offered lias not
neglected is shown by the large
amounts of gold which have been re
cently drawn from our treasury and
foreign nations^^'he^ exces^of^'ex
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bill 1 inn in <?, Jreasury dccreased ,
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Si^hUM Apparent r 1
is that
law now a ‘n°force UarUinthe SirecUou
of the entire substitution of silver for
and g t°hat ISis'mu?tTe7o
‘TTh1, e r. C g eto>dandail,er m n, t
part company and established the government
must fail in its policy to
maintain the two metals on a parity 1 J
with each other.
Hungers of Depreciated Currency.
Given over to the exclusive ,use of
currency ing the greatly depreciated, accord¬
to standard of the commercial
world, we could no longer claim a
place among the nations of the first
class, nor could our government claim
a performance of its obligation, so far
as such an obligation has been im¬
posed upon it, to provide for the use
of i|tfie people the best and safest
monoy. If, as many of its friends
claim, silver ought to occupy a large
place in our currency and the currency,
of the world through general inter¬
national co-operation and agreement,
it is obvious that the United Slates
will not be in a position to gain a
hearing in favor of such an arrange¬
ment so long as we are willing to con¬
tinue our attempt to accomplish the
result single handed.
The knowledge in business circles
among our oivn people that our gov¬
ernment can not make its fiat equiva¬
lent to intrinsic values nor keep in¬
ferior money on a parity with superior
efforts, money has by its own independent
resulted in sueli a lack of
confidence at home in the stability of
currency values that capital refuses
its aid to new enterprises, while mill¬
ions are actually withdrawn from tho
channels of trade and commerce to be¬
come idle and unproductive in the
hands of timid owners Foreign in¬
vestors. equally alert, not only decline
to purchase American securities, but
make baste to sacrifice those which
they already have.
Sound and Stable Currency Wanted.
It does not meet the situation to say
that apprehension in regard to the
future of our finances is groundless
and that there is no reason for lack
of confidence in the purposes or power
of the government in the premises.
The very existence of this apprehen¬
sion and lack of confidence, however
caused, is a menace which ought not
for a moment to be disregarded.
Possibly if the undertaking we have
in hand were the maintenance of a
specific known quantity of silver at a
parity with gold, our ability to do so
might be estimated and guaged, and
perhaps, in view of our unparalleled
growth and resources, might be favor¬
ably passed upon. But when our
avowed endeavor is to maintain such
parity in regard to an amount of
silver increasing at the rate of £ 50 ,
000,000 yearly, with no fixed termina¬
tion to such increase, it can hardly be
said that a problem is presented whose
solution is free from doubt.
The people of the United States are
entitled to a sound and stable cur¬
rency and to money recognized as
such on every exchange and in every
market of the world. Their govern¬
ment has no right to injure them by
financial experiments opposed to the
policy and practice of other civilized
states. Nor is it justified in permit¬
ting an exaggerated and unreasonable
reliance on our national strength and
ability to jeopardize the soundness of
the people's money, This matter
rises above the plane of party politics.
It vitally concerns every business and
calling and enters every household in
the land.
Th® Wage Earner Suffers Most.
There is one important aspect of the
subject which especially should never
be overlooked. At times like the pres¬
ent, when the evils of unsound fiuance
threaten us, the speculator may an¬
ticipate a harvest gathered from the
misfortunes of others: the capitalist
may protect himself by boarding or
may even find profit in the fluctuation
of values: but the wage earner, the
first to be injured by a depreciated
currency and the last to receive the
benefit of its correction, is practically
defenseless. He relies for work upon
the ventures of confident and con¬
tented capital. This failing him, his
condition is without alleviation, for
he can neither prey upon the misfor
tions of others nor hoard his labor.
One of the greatest statesmen our
country has known, speakiDg more
than fifty years ago, when a derange
ment of the currency had caused com
mercial distress, said: “The very man
of all others who has the deepest in
terest in sound currency and who
suffers by mischievous legislation in
monetary matters is the man who
earns his words daily bread by hisd&ily toiL”
These are as pertinent now as
on the day they w«*e uttered and
ought to impressively in remind us that
a failure the discharge of our duty
at this time must especially injure
those of our countrymen who labor
and who because of their number and
condition are entitled to the most
watchful care of their government.
Speedy Belief Desired.
It is of the utmost importance that
ca Vlef ”u may be^’ true* that *the^em
barrassments from which the country
is6utreri arise ag nuch from evils
apprehended as f o t those actually
existing. We „r.J hop too, that calm
l counts Win that neither
the capitalists nor ? wage earners
1 Their
£ ^ pJtbR.™ ^7pHnein”a?’‘"a^sea°of' the tb^
r
W*• »•« - to expect from
congress, they may certainly demand
T S con< ^. ned b y the
°rdeal of ib three years’ disastrous f ex
perience shall be removed from the
statute books as soon as their repre¬
sentatives can legitimately deal
with it.
Tariff Revision Must Walt.
It was my purpose to summon con¬
gress in special session early in the
coining September that we might
enter promptly upon the work of
tariff reform, which the true interests
of the country clearly demand, which
so large a majority of the people, as
shown by their suffrages, desire and
expect, and to the accomplishment of
which every effort of the present ad¬
ministration is pledged. But while
tariff reform has lost nothing of its
immediate and permanent importance,
and must in the near future engage
the attention of congress, it has
seemed to me that the financial con¬
dition of the country should at once
and before all other subjects be con¬
sidered by your honorable body.
Immediate Repeal Recommended.
I earnestly recommend the prompt
repeal of the provisions of the act
passed July 14. 1890, authorizing tho
purchase of silver bullion, and that
other legislative action may put be¬
yond all doubt or mistake the inten¬
tion and the ability of the government
to fu'fill its pecuniary obligations in
money civilized universally recognized by all
countries.
Grover Cleveland,
F.xecutive Mansion, Aug. 7, 1891.
“We commend the patriotism, in¬
tegrity, ability and courage of Grover
Cleveland.”—Missouri State Demo¬
cratic Convention.
Vote On Repeal.
The vote on unconditional repeal as
recommended by C.eveland and the
banks tvas as follows:
For unconditional repeal........ 239
Against unconditional repeal.... 108
Democrats for repeal.... 139
Democrats against repeal 74
Republicans for repeal.... loo
Republicans against repeal 23
Populists for repeal....... none
Populists against repeal... 10
The southern democrats who voted
for unconditional repeal, and to carry
out the conspiracy of Cleveland and
the banks Were:
Anderson, W. Va. Caruth, Ky.
Berry, Ky. Patchings, Miss.
Black, Ga. Clarke, Ala.
Brattan, Md. Compton, Md.
Brawley, S. C. Cooper, Fla.
Breckinridge, Ark. Crain, Texas.
Breckinridge, Ky. Davey, La.
Bunn, N. C. Edmonds, Va.
Cabauiss, Ga. Gresham, Texas.
Wise, Va. Lawson, Ga.
Lester, Ga. Marshall, Va.
McCreary. Ky. M C:\aiyr, Md.
McMillin, 'lean. Meredith, Va.
Meyer, La. Montgomery, Ky.
Oates, Ala. O’Ferrall, Va.
Paschal, Texas. Patterson, Tenn.
Paynter, Ky. Pendleton, Texas
Pendleton, W. Va. Rayner. McL
Settle, N. C. Stone, Ky.
Swanson, Va. Talbot, Md.
Tucker, Va. Turner, Ga
Turpin, Ala. Tyler, Va.
Washington,Tenn. Wilson, W. Va.—46.
“Tell it not in Gath ncr publish
it in the streets of Askelon’.” Fortv
six southern democrats voted with the
republicins to let go before they got
another hold,and now they are wring¬
ing their hands because they can’t
This vote is taken from the Congres.
sional Record, Vol. 25, No, 19, pages
801 and 802, for the extra session of
congress.
Keep the records before the people!
More to come! Just got started! “Let
no guilty man escape.”
It is said that J. Sterling Morton,
Mr. Cleveland’s secretary ' of agricult
ure *’ in view f of f thp th d de P re sin£r con pnn *
di of . the , larmcrs, hasrecommend
‘ion
ed that farmers who keep bees cross
them with the common lightning bufc
they can work at night Bright
idea thi^of Mr. Morton’s.—People *
Advocate.
PURE DEMOCRACY.
WHAT THOMAS JEFFERSON
SAYS OF PAPER MONEY
AND OF BANKS.
The Stone Which the Modern Demo¬
cratic Builders Rejected Ha* Been
Made the Bead of the Corner by the
1’opntlsta—Compare This with Impure
Democracy.
We give below some extracts from
Thomas Jefferson’s writings winch
may prove instructive to our demo¬
cratic friends, and show them that
the Populists of to-day stand where
the founder of their party stood nearly
a century ago.
Jefferson on Money.
The following are some of the many
declarations of Mr. Jefferson on the
question of money:
,,a nd the na,inn mow ^ continue tn
issue its bills as far as its wants re¬
quire and the limit of its circulation
will admit. Those limits understood
to extend with us at present to $200,
WhiCh f0Vernment
could command with certainty, the
states have unfortunately fooled away,
Day, corruptly alienated to swindlers
and shavers, under the cover of private
banks. Say. too, as an additional evil,
that the disposable funds of individuals
to this great amount have thus been
withdrawn from improvement and use¬
ful enterprise, and employed in the
useless, usurious, and demoralizing
practices of bank directors and their
accomplices. In the war of 1755 our
state availed itself of this fund by is¬
suing a paper money bottomed on a
specific tax for its redemption, and to
insure its credit, bearing an
of 5 per cent. Within a very short
time not a bill of this emission was to
be found in circulation. It was locked
up in the chests of executors, guard¬
ians, widows, farmers, etc. We then
issued bills bottomed on a redeeming
tax, but bearing no interest. These
were readily received and never de¬
preciated a single farthing.”—Opinions
of Thomas Jefferson in 1813, his let¬
ters to John W. Epps, June 24, 1813;
Jefferson’s Works, volume 6, pages
139, 140.
“The question will be asked, and
ought to be looked at, what is to be
the course if loans cannot be obtained?
There is but one—‘Carthago delenda
est.’ Bank paper must be suppressed,
and the circulating medium must be
restored to the nation to whom it be¬
longs. It is the only fund on which
they can rely for loans; it is the only
recourse which can never fail them,
and it is an abundant one for every
necessary purpose, Treasury bills,
bottomed on taxei, bearing or not
bearing interest, as may be found
necessary, thrown into circulation
will take the place of so much gold
and silver, which last, when crowded,
will find an efflux into other countries,
and thus keep the quantum of medium
at its salutary level. Let the banks
continue, if they please, but let them
discount for cash alone or for treasury
notes.”—Letter Sept. 11, 1813, Vol. 0,
page 194.
Jefferson on Banks.
“I have ever opposed money of
banks; not of those discounting for
cash, but of those foisting their own
paper in circulation, and thus banish¬
ing our cash. My zeal against those
institutions was so warm and open at
the establishment of the bank of the
United States that I was derided as a
maniac by the tribe of bank mongers
who were seeking to filch from the
public, thus swindling on barren
grains. But the errors of that day
can not be recalled. The evils they
have engendered are now upon us,
and how are we to get out of them?
Shall we build an altar to the old
paper money of the revolution, which
ruined individuals but saved the re¬
public, and burn on that all the bank
charters, present and future, and their
notes with them? For these are to
ruin both republic and individuals.”.
Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Presi
dent Adams, Jan. 24, 1834
In a letter to John Taylor, May 28,
1816, he said (Jefferson’s Works, vol¬
ume 6, pages 605-9):
“The system of banking we have
both equally and ever reprobated. I
contemplate it as a blot left in all
our constitutions, which if not sev¬
ered, will end in their destructions,
which is already hit by the gamblers
in corporation, ond is sweeping away
in its progress the fortunes and mor
als of our citizens Funding. I con-
8 »der, as limited rightfully to a re
demption of the debt within the lives
a majority of the generation con
tracting it; every generation coming
equally by the laws of.the Creator of
the world to the free possession of
the earth he made for their subsist
enee, unencumbered by their prede¬
cessors. And I sincerely believe,
with you, that banking institutions
are more dangerous than standing
armies, and that the principle of
spending money to be paid by pos¬
terity under the name of funding, but
swindling futurity on a large scale.”
Mr. Jefferson further said:
“Let us found a government where
there shall be no extremely rich men
and no abjectly poor ones. Let us
found a government upon the intelli¬
gence of the people and the equitable
distribution of property. Let os make
ONE DOLLAR PER
where there shall he no govern¬
partnership with favored
Let us protect all, in life,
and property, and then say to
American citizen, with the gift.
God has given you, your brain
brawn and energy, work out 3 vour
fortunes , . under , just . government
a
an equal jurisprudence.”
As far back as Dee. 15, I80 3, he wrote
Albert Gallatin (Jefferson's Works,
4, pages 515-520):
term- l nis institution • (national / a, , , bank) , is
of the most deadly hostilities ex
against the principle, and form
our constitution. * * * Ought
we then to give further growth to an
nstitution so powerful, so hostile?
safety of our constitution to bring
this powerful enemy 3 to a Derfect perit ci su sub
ordination .... under its , authorities.
The
first measure would be to reduce them
to to an an n„„„i equal footing with ... other banks, , ,
as to the favors of the government.
11 The bank, have diacontinued them
selves. We are now without auy me
dium, and necessity as well as 1 na
triotism and „„ , confidence „ ,,, will ... make , us
all eager to receive treasury notes if
founded iounded on on specific snenifio towac taxes. n Congress
may now borrow of the public, and
without interest, all the money 3 tliev ine y
iay want. ,
I t Providence seems, indeed by a
special for dispensation, Without to have pn't down
us a struggle, that very
paper enemy, which the interest of
our citizens long since required our
selves to put down at whatever risk.
1 he work is done. The moment is
pregnant with futurity, and if not at
once by congress I know not on what
shoal our bark is next to be stranded.”
—Jefferson’s Works, volume G, page
382; letter to Thomas Cooper, Sept.
10, 1814.
OUR EXCHANGES.
John Sherman has about gone demo¬
cratic and David 11. Hill has almost
gone republican, but Grover Cleve¬
land still covers the whole nest.—
Thornton Monitor.
How many dollars have you in your
pocket? Oh, but “it’s an awful good
dollar!” You bet, but it takes most
people a long time to get one.—Harvey
(Kan.) News.
It is a little difficult for this editor
to understand why protection, as the
republicans call the tariff, needs so
much assistance from the militia.—
David City (Neb.) JBannor.
The difference between the republi¬
cans and democrats, the republicans
advertise their shortcomings while the
democrats try to cover theirs.—Arkan¬
sas Farmer.
If you are not satisfied with the
promises already made and broken by
the old parties, just hold on a little;
they’ve got plenty more as good as
those already broken.—Ozark (Ark.)
Farmer.
While republican papers are charg¬
ing that the Populists are a danger¬
ous element, we should like to know
what these people were before they
became Populists.—Mapleton (Iowa)
Advocate.
The millionaire sets his own limit
to the amount of taxes he pavs and
the government accepts it. The gov¬
ernment sets the amount for the poor
man and he must pay it.—Record,
Marshall, Mo. -
The Topeka Press says editorially:
"The proud crest of the republican
party of Kansas has fallen. Its spirit
is broken. Its ranks waver in the
face of certain defeat.”—Yates Center
(Kan.) Advocate.
The democrats of Henry county
have indorsed the entire ticket nom
inated by the Populist county conven
tion. The combination makes the
success of a part of the ticket almost
assured.—News, Princeton, Ill.
A “crank” ordinarily is the person
who has taken a step forward in the
onward march of evolution, and is
beckoning those who are standing in
the way of progress to come on.—Clay
Center (Kan.) Dispatch.
lhe Washington Post is authority
for the statement that the majority of
the senators are bald-headed. How¬
ever, as the Spanish proverb has it,
they are not so bald that we can see
their brains.—Denver News.
Living Issues asks if it is any more
paternalism for farmers to obtain
money from the government for the
purpose of farming than it is for
bankers to obtain money for the pur¬
pose of banking. If it is, why is it?
The democrats are looking for a
man that can write a platform that
be construed as denouncing Cleve¬
and indorsing him. In other
words, one that can give the eastern
h—1 in a harmonious way.
It is a fraternity of fiends that per¬
the starving of multitudes of
men, delicate women and help
children when foodissonbnndant
it will not bring to the producer
cost of production.—Garnet (Kan.)
Old Abe Lincoln republicanism and
democracy is what this
needs. The Pops favor those
The demo-reps oppose
Take your choice. Will you
the doctrines of the fathers,
will you go off and worship the
calf?—Farmer, Bloomfield, III
NUMBER 8.
RELIGIOUS READING.
now TO MARK THINGS KASV.
There a „ „ m „, tUl „ l0
hew axul old, and plenty of people to take
Jfiy nostrum anybody may set afloat, to gee
other things to bo easy. But wo foil in with one the
day, widely differing from most of the
counsels of our day on this point. Rutit pleased
Z^jSS2SS8&EX& thus:—“When I can find my heart in frame
and liberty for prayer, everything else is
comparatively easy.' 1 Some' people, who
have glanced at the heading of this article
nm - v llot us much for llshing up out of
thousand times fieyhJS'hSrh.W Uf!
hear something likely, and they wanted to
new.
H «,l han „, trM
Newton had, and found it a capital remedy
any afflicted let him pray,’ is a proscription
f iv ®“ to ,h ® ": , ' r,d without a fee, near upon
twenty centuries ago. And more people than
we have time to tell of have ased it, and it
bftS doll ° its work without a single failure,
Devout prayer makes the heart and con
science easy. These are (he principal wheels,
Get these right and keep them so, and the
without ?£ 2 j M “^Kh^ .Mj cSSy
d prayer—it is very hard to start them,
a ” when they go at all they are in danger
of breaking or arc sure to go creaking and
painfully Much on their way.
prayer put us at ease with God. It
is obediente to his will, it is the way of nc
C css to him. Wo then get under the shadow
Ids wiugs. We coino over to liis side, and
there K°t harmony of soul with him. And then
is such peace, joy in the heart, that it
takes a very stiff breeze of worldly adversity
to trouble us much; and when there is such a
of finding hSI? which tK
assurance that consolation,
th ° 80verest hurricanes of life can never
sweep away. itshould
And once more bo said, that pray¬
er makes one easy in circumstances most
liable of all others to produce uneasiness.
Thero is nothing that so effectually stirs tho
depths of the soul,and rouses hateful passions,
and makes the blood hot as the unprovoked
ill-treatment of others. It is hard for a man
to be easy when scoffed at, ridiculed, or not
tually injured for those about you. But wo
have an arrow for this mark. “Pray for
them that dlspitefuliy uso you and persecute
you.”
ters. Prayer is the oil cast upon the troubled wa¬
kind They cannot-rage and foam with this
ol pressure upon them. Prayer will
bring one so nigh the infinitely benevolent
God that it will make one ashamed to be seen
having any,such vile drapery about him as
any of the malignant passions. Nearness to
so kind a being as God, will cause such pas¬
sions to appear so hateful that tho soul will
turn them out of doors In the greatest haste
possiblo.
GETTING GOOD BY DOING GZOD.
Benevolence is a fundamental law of our
moral being; and the man who labors for his.
fellow men secures thereby the gratification
of his most commanding principles of ac¬
tion ; but he who labors for himself alone,
stirs up against his own peace some of tho
most operative elements of nature. The
Deity knew well that a disposition to labor
for selfish ends is destruction of man’s true
interests; and that a disposition to labor for
common good, is the only sure way of secur
ing good for seif, therefore has he devolved
on us many acts of beneficence which He
might himself have performed as easily as
omitted.
He might speak aslngle word to the Hindoo
widow as she ascends tho funeral pile of her
husband,and she would go down again In her
right mind; but he chooses to set the spec¬
tacle before our own eyes, and to let us hear
the shrieks of the self-immolating woman, so
that our compassion may be moved and our
energies enlisted in her service. He calls us
to the banks of the Ganges and bids us look
upon the mother, forcing from her breast the
child that weeps and struggles to remain
with her, throwing it into the stream where
tho eager alligators aro garaobling for their
prev.
lie could easily robuko the frantic m other,
and she would press the loved one closer to
her bosom; but he chooses to touch our pity,
and appeal to our benevoience, aud to com¬
mand us, Bend my gospel into all the world,
that it may cast out the demons ol supersti¬
tion and may let the bond slaves of heathen¬
ism go free. Ho bid us walk in our imagina¬
tions over the dolorous way travelled by the
car of Jugeraaut, and walled on
either side with the bones of crushed Vic¬
tims; he sets before our eyes, hun¬
dreds and thousands of living men hanging
from transverse beams upon hooks
that have perforated their muscles, and
swinging round and round in torture; He
places all these barbarous scenes before the heart, our
vision,-so that the eye may affect
be roused to a holy purpose, and the purpose
may move us to pray for the conversion of
the Gentiles, and not only to pray; for how
shall they be converted unless they hear the
gospel, and how shall one preach except bo
be sent; and who shall send the missionary if
we remain supine?
For us to do the work is left; for our good
it is that we address ourselves to tho work in
earnest; for the highest benevolence good of our whole
character, philanthropy the good of developed, encour¬ spirit¬
aged, of of a
ual temper cherished and strengthened, a
good purchased at great expense, even the
miseries of our fellow-men, they suffering so
that we may be made more compassionate: a
good, therefore, which for left their unaccomplished. sakes and for
our sakes, must not be
—Professor Park.
PABTICUEAB jPBOVIDENCES.
The doctrine of a particular Providence la
a doctrine fraught with the greatest consola¬
tion to mankind, who are born to sorrow.
Not only is it that nothing can happen but
what God permits—nothing can happen shouffi but
what he enjoins. The notion of God
not be that he has lit up the sun. and given
the but winds rather power that his to roam through the world ;
glance is in e\*ry beam,
and his breath in every breeze.
The idea shall not be entertained,that after
giving life to men, God concerns himself no
more with his creatures but rather that
through his special interference is that
breath follows breath, and pulse succeeds
joy—in pulse; so that hope in every trouble and in every
every which rises to cheer,and in
every doubt which darkens, the hand of God
may be discerned, producing out of a thou¬
sand seeming file, and a thousand apparent
dividual discrepancies, not only a general, but an in¬
good.
And how much of consolation is there to a
heart when deeply stricken with sorrow, to
be able to feel that ail afflictions are sent for
a wise purpose, and that there is a bright
kingdom hereafter, where pain shall have no
entrance. It would go far to dry a mother’s
tears, which the death of herchild has caused
to flow, if she could be thus persuaded to re¬
gard the dealings of God.
It would lie to take half the bitterness from
sorrow, if she could be made to feel that in
allowing death to take herchild, God has
heart was innocent, and pain andT sorrow
Bcarcel y known,—Dr. Gregory.
THE MOTHER'S GIIT.
‘Tlacethis in your trunk, my son,” said a
pious mother to her boy, handing him a Bible,
as be was about leaving home for college;
“place this in your trunk v and when away
from the parental roof, read it, and doem it
precious; it Is the book; your mother has
tried it, and what she has found good to her
own soul, she would have her Francis also
know, tn his blessed experience,” ’
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