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- ay County Reformer
S. It. WEAVER, Editor.
VOLUME 1.
OUR NATIONAL CRISIS
AND ITS REMEDY. J
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No one need bo t >Id now that our
It at ion is in a crisis. Society bo Is
like a tcrapcMt to sed 6'-a. Millions <»f
Inen and women “bunging on the
ragged edge of staivutiou. « i Millious
Iramping through the country
glng for labor, to earn broad. V. itl«
the multitude it is a dosperato strug
gle to live, wh lo a few revel in luxury;
“clothed in pu plo and flno linen,”
possessing fabulous w aUh.
\\ hy is it that this groat in quality
exists in a republic.' In a gove
formed expr -ssly to secure i quality,
Why this upheavalW hy this
Hal commotion? What, is the cause,
»n 1 what tho remedy? i hero
i»e a cause, and if wo can find it,
emody will .su gest i s If: for if
a use is removed, the effect will
appear.
Ronic men think that the
system under which society now
R-roauK, it the best po"dbh> system
tiod pity their ignorance.
thmk that a chance in our tariff
law won't! bring i">uco and quiet the
country. thiuk th at
liuuiiKi .itioii has • aiihed al our trouble
Anotlie «-lass think that tlu*
tax. a tax on land only, would be
rem.dy. Tiny sc., no monopoly
anything except hind. Their
Is nb Ush laud monopoly and all
well 1 hese, and many other
arc put forth ns the cause of our
tional unrest. They are theories,
only theories. \\ liat we need in
investigation is facts. It is a
that within the memory of the
(ami he is not the oldest inhabitant)
theve has con e on tho stage of
duction more 1 t bor saving machinery
than ever existed in our world before.
Not less than s,*, or '.hi per eent of
labor of lho world is performed
labor-saving machinery, making
demuud for wage labor less and less.
And every day nearly some new
saving device Is added. On the
hand, the army of wage-workers
larger ^ , making a
for work more ami TOhe imperative.
TbtJt, it is soon at a glance that
great gulf letweon Dives and
rn--grown wider, deeper uud
every day.
What are we go^ng to do about
There it is. This great army
wage-workers is growing larger
day. They must cat. In order to
they must work. If it is
to get work, then what? They
l>e forced to starve, or steal or
And are they not dolug a little
each now? Must this state of
continue? If It does It must
worse because tho army of
workers must grow larger.
What Is the eauso of this war
tween capital and labor, and what
the remedy? Tho eauso is this:
competitive syst in of
founded on usury, has made a class
iron called capitalists. This
Own and appropriate to
all the labor-saving machinery of
world and all the l cue fits
from them. This small class
capitalists, using only a part of
army of wage-workers in
with labor-saving machinery, can
produce a'l that society needs,
ing tho balance of the army of
workers to staive in idleness.
The Remedy.
The remedy Is to institute a
in which and by which all ti c
bers of society will share
tionately in tho benefits of labor-sav¬
ing machinery. This is tho only
remedy. If this was the case now,
one need work more than two
three hours a day, because labor sav¬
ing machinery performs
of the labor now. If we can’t 1
range a system in which all will
in the benefits of labor-saving
chinery, it would lie better if no labor
saving machinery had been
ior under our present system it is
curse to wage workers. This
system is co-operation or socialism.
What the world needs, must and
have. Is the system of
laugh* by Jesus Christ and
bv the early church. The world
been under the competitive system
for t,(l0Oyean It has wrecked
government nearly; those that
left standing to-day are on the
of violent revolution — standing
rumbling volcanoes.
Competition at its ffi'st is social
war. When it matures and comes
perfection it ends in civil war. It
individualism. It is every man
himself, if tlie devil does get the
ermost It is hatred. There is
love in its makeup, it practically
pudiates the fact that man is
brother’s keeper. It Ignores the
that an injury to any one is tho
earn. Qf all. It is division and
tfegration. It divides, separates
produce* Inequality. Founded
, selfishness it cultivates the baser
of man’s nntu-e, and fills society
•nvy and jealousy. It
the commerce of the world to
tianity. It pervades every fiber
society. From tho huckster on
*ner to the great
:ar111 Ha deadly work is
and It is the most
»t con d be devised,
s ihf lidlfMkiM world W it lid Is
are crushed under this wheel of juger
naut by the thousand from week to
week. It gloats in financial wrecks.
Tho drummer system used bv com¬
petition costs the consumers of our
country as much as the expense of
running tho government. "Then add
to this the system of advertising.
Every newspaper is filled with them,
Bills, books, cards—even the f^ices
on tho highways and the walls of
barns are decorated by linming adver
tise'ments. Tho cost is all charged up
to the consumer. Governments com
pe to with each other. This whole
tariff business is the fruit of com
petition. One government levies a
tariff; the Ethers retaliate. The only
effect is, it raises the price of goods to
consumers, and makes offices for men
that are too lazy to labor for a living.
The toiling millions must pay the bills
of erecting custom houses and sup
porting revenue collectors; whether
the collector collects anything or not.
Then governments competing with
each other under tho show of main
, taining the balance of power, main
tain large standing armies. Europe
is oaded down with armies number
j n g millions in time of peace. These
useless masses, organized for murder
on u gigantic scale, must be supported
ol y tho i ubor of lho toiling masses. -
Then add the expense of war ships,
forts uud arsenals, guns i;nd amtnu
nit on, military schools, etc,, etc.
\\ hixi a burlesque to parade these
agencies of death, of murder, of blood,
w ttU all their glitter and call this
( Christian civilization. It is vastly
( more devulish than Christian. Tlio
expense saddled on the poor is slav
'
ery.
The world must be emancipated
f rom tliis system of competition in
ordor to be free. Wo must substitute
love for hatred.
Socialism applied to tho money
question would emancipate labor
forthwith. Every idle man in the
Enitcd St ites might be put to useful
labor in a week. Let the people de¬
mand it at the ballot box.
There will never be a settled state of
society in our country, nor no where
else in tho world until govo rnments
adopt and act on the foregoing lines.
I Justice demands that governments
secure to all its citizens cquil oppor¬
tunities Socialism applied will do
this Competition prevents it
This cry against socialism is heard
everywhere. We hear it in the pross,
on tho s ump, and in the halls of con¬
gress. This--cry of the- hypocriti¬
cal class about “paternalism,” is tho
“stop thief" cry to cover up their own
meanness. They control the govern¬
ment and operate it in their own in¬
terest.
It reminds us of the cry “abolition¬
ism,” and “nigger equality” that
filled tho air just before Mr. Lincoln’s
first election. The enemies of free¬
dom worked it for all its worth. Now
the same cry of paternalism is raised
against social equality tor the same
reason. It demonstrated the ignor¬
ance or meanness, or both, of those
who make it
All evil is perverted good. We have
had s< cialism perverted to oppress the
masses for ages. Governments have
been used in that way.
Every trust, every combine, every
corporation, is socialism for the bene¬
fit of a class. It is perverted social¬
ism. It is this class of socialists who
cry out against true socialism. True
socialism, the kind that the world
needs, is government socialism, or
socialism of all society instead of
classes in society. Let the govern¬
ment. all its citizens, be the only
capitalist Individualism will still
have nniplo scope for operating,
limited only by not being permitted
to levy tribute on society.
True socialism is coming. We might
as well undertake to make the Missis¬
sippi river run toward the north pole
as to try to stop its coming.
For six thousand years, nearly, the
wcrld has been “groaning and travail¬
ing in pain” under the grinding law
of competition. Now tha seventh
thousand year period, which is to be
God’s millennium is at the door and
the world is goingto be “born again”.
Wc arc in tho thioes of the new birth
now. In that new era civil law will
he In harmony with divine law. As
R is now human law- is elevated above
diviue law, .
j This is tne disturbing element which
distracts society all over the world,
; Our definition of usury elevates man's
j law above God’s law. Our land tenure
; laws do the same thing. Out of these
1 two errors have come all the strife
and commotion which vex and
agitate society. In the millen¬
nial period which is being
ushered in, civil governments or
law will l»e just, and in harmony with
divine law. That is all the millennium
means. There will be no monopolies
and trusts then “They shall build
houses and occupy them, plant vine
yards and eat tho fruit They shall
not build and another occupy; they
shall not plant and another eat,” etc.
Every family will own a home of their
own, across ilie thre.shhold of which
no officer of the law can cross with
writs of ejectment for non-payment of
rents or taxes, for interest and rents
will be no more, end every man shall
“sit under his own vine and tig tree
and none to molest or make him
afraid.* Oh, happy day! Oh, glorious
era! The Lord hoateft It on.
“The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.”
FORT GAINES, GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1894.
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By Ik Hital Kcftn Pres tezblw
QUESTION
Why Ho Tin-Headed Self-Styled Economist*' Insist That tlio United States Mast
Mainatlu a Gold Standard When It Is Self-Evident that We Have Not Got
Enough Gold to Maintain It? The Above Pictures Present the Case
in a Forcible Manner. Let Us Have Silver Money and Plenty of it.
HE SCORES HIM.
TOM WATSON GETS AFTER
THE CONSTITUTION MAN.
He Knocks Him Out In One Round
(People's Party Paper.)
You say that when Mr. Watson dis¬
cusses tariff and finance, the demo¬
cratic masses go as far as he does
All right. That shows the people
are with him, or he with the people—
whichever you like.
But how are j'our democratic masses
going to navigate in the democratic
party?
Their tariff views have been mocked;
their financial demands insulted and
trampled upon.
Harrison did not dare to issue bonds.
Cleveland did—and your party, in
its every county convention, is pulling
the stuffing out of the vocabulary
get words strong enough to praise his
“courage, honesty, patriotism, fidelity
and statesmanship.”
The republicans did not dare
shut the mints to silver.
Cleveland did it; and had tho help
of the very cuckoos who were elected
as rampart free silverites, and who
are now being “endorsed” by every
court house crowd in their respective
districts.
The republicans did not dare to
give to the Rothschild syndicate the
“option” between gold' and silver,
which the law said should belong to
the government.
But Cleveland did it; and
opened ilie way by which silver pur¬
chase notes can be used to rake gold
out of the treasury—thus forcing
bond issue to get bacic that identical
gold.
Imbecility, corruption and venal
favoritism never reached such a cli¬
max! The Wall-streeter takes a
note; demands gold for it; gets
gold when the law said lie might be
pa’d in silver. The government then
wants the gold back, and issues a
bond and sells it for the gold. Net
result: the Wall-streeter has used sil¬
ver, or greenbacks, to get a gold bond
which is not to bo taxed and which
brings him a guaranteed slice of the
taxes of all the balance of ns.
The republicans did not dare tostop
purchasing silver while the law of
1800 stood on the books.
Mr. Cleveland did.
Now there is the record. Who dis¬
putes it? Nobody. Who endorses it?
Democrats.
Except in McDuffie county, there
has not been, so far as we can recall,
a stngle clean cut “repudiation” of
Grover Cleveland’s schame to republi
eanizc the democratic party,
With the exception named, there
has been a straddling of convictions,
a shaving of expressions, a juggling
with words; but nowhere has there
been an honest, manly condemnation
of the republican tendencies of Cleve¬
land and the cuckoos.
Now why parley with such condi¬
tions?
Why hope for the hopeless?
The Constitution says we must send
new men.
Who else says so? Their districts
are not saying so. The very men who
voted to shut the mints to silver have
already been endorsed id county con¬
ventions.
'1 he Atlanta Journal, the adminis¬
tration organ in Georgia (baviagmade
its own record the first victim of its
gastric jcice) is now prepared to fur
nish proof that “free silver”
was a part of your platform.
Tell us, therefore, what the masses
have to hope, when the democratic
machinery is being run in this man
ner?
Are they always to elect a supply
of new men as they did in if 9) and
1892, and then have to indorse those
men when they violate the pledges?
Are they always to be bound oy a
national convention of your party in
which the north and east controls?
Is the south always to furnish the
votes which elect the Puesident, while
the north and east controls his policy
after election?
Is the south (being for free silver,
lew taxes and the income tax) always
to furn sh 156 of the 223 votes in the
•lectoraL college, which make a mi*
jority-th* north and east furnishing
Bolt wktefe can V# relied oo—while
in the national convention, where the
north and east outvote her, she must
take her candidate and her platform
from their dictation?
Is the south always to o’ect the
President and never to control him?
Is she always to be a footstool, a
paekhorse, a serving man, for the
democratic millionaires of New Eng¬
land and New York, and for the un¬
principled boodlera of Taiutnany hall?
Can the south ever succeed in
ting relief except by the help of the
west?
Can the west ever unite with the
south as long as tho west is republi¬
can and the south is democratic?
Can you ever get the two sections
to harmonize unless both drop their
old parties and meet in a new one?
Can you hope any concerted action
from the democratic party when it
has no test of membership, no unity
of action, no harmony of creed, no
acknowledged purpose, no accepted
faith, no unquestioned leader?
Can’t a man believe anything and
be a democrat?
Can’t he vote any way and be a dem¬
ocrat?
Can’t he violate your platform and
be a democrat?
Can’t he herd with republicans
be a democrat?
Don’t you know that in the east
democrat is one thing and in the
quite another?
Don’t you know that in the north
democrat is one thing and in the
south quite another?
How can you hope for such a party?
IIow can it live? IIow can it do any¬
thing for the people?
If the good book is right when
says a “house divided against
must fall”—then the days of your
party are numbered.
Yes, we admit that the Atlanta Con¬
stitution has made a brave and mighty
fight against the republican tide
which has swamped the democratic
party—but it has failed.
Now let it be equally brave.
Let it join the People's party and
help us save the republic.
’.Ve have a creed—and only one.
We have a purpose—and it is the
same in all sections.
In the cast our creed decides w r ho is
with us—and no other test do we
have, west or north or south.
We unite the west and the south by
giving tbem Jeffersonian principles
and a common ground upon which to
stand.
In the national convention the west
and the south, both being for one creed
and one. party, will control.
In the electoral college the west and
the south will control.
And the west and the south having
made the platform and named the can
didate, and accomplished his election,
will control him!
This we can do because in the Peo¬
ple’s party the west and the south can
unite in one party, with a common in¬
terest, with the same creed and the
same purpose.
It can not be done in the democratic
party, because the west is republican
where the south is democratic; and
while corrupt leaders may juggle frsm
ea ™P ot cr, the rank and
file of honest republicans will never
join the democratic party, any more
than the rank and file of honest
democrats will join the republican
P art y
THE FRAUD EXPOSED
More of the Tariff Sham—A Battle
Oxer Nothing.
LThe Representative.]
The republicans are tickled over the
way Senator Hoar goes for the high
protection of the democrats. It is
Satan rebuking sin— nay more ridicul
ing sin. Hoar said, speaking of the
pending democratic tariff bill:
“It represents no principle. The
free trader does not approve it. The
protectionist does not approve it. The
wage-earner does not approve it The
employer does not approve It- It does
not help capital. It does not help
labor. It does not keep any pledge. It
does not conform to any political plat¬
form. The committee that reported
it do not approve it. The democrats
on that committee do not approve it.
The house does not approve it. The
senate does not approve it. The men
who are to vote for it, moet of them,
are to violate their oaths to support
tb« constitution, they «nd«maad
te, when **»t lh«tr vat#*’’
Mr, Gray (dera. Delaware)—Do I
understand the senator to say that tho
persons who vote for tho bill will vio¬
late their oaths?
Mr. Hoar—I do.
Mr. Gray—That is a very remarlcablo
charge for the senator from Massa¬
chusetts to mako agalust his col¬
leagues in tho senate.
Mr. Hoar— It is a very remarkable
thing to do.
Mr. Gray—I repel that charge ai
unworthy of the senator from Massa¬
chusetts, and as unworthy of a sena¬
tor in this place. That is what 1 say.
Mr. lloar—Then we will go a little
further.
Mr. Gray—We will go further. 1
will go as far as the senator will,
Mr. Hoar—Mr. President, the demo
cratic party acquired tlie confidence
of this country in 18'J2, by a p’atform
which declared that protection was a
robbery and a fraud, and was a viola¬
tion of the constitution, and they have
got a bill now crowded with protec¬
tion. They have put in it new pro¬
tective duties. They have put a duty
on sugar, which they are going to in.
crease for protection, aud for nothing
else. * * *
“No man who believes as the demo
cratic convention declared at Chicago,
that the constitution of the United
States prohibits the imposition of a
duty for protection, and who has taken
a solemn oath that he will support
that constitution m the office of sena¬
tor, on which ha was about to enter,
and that that principle shall be the
guide and law for all his official COQ
duct, can cast his vote for a bill con¬
taining a new duty, containing an in¬
creased duty, rataining or maintain¬
ing and reaffirming an o’.d duty, for
the purpose of protecting an industry
south or north. * * * Opinions
and desires may be compromised.
But principles, oaths, honor, pledges,
duties, can not be compromised with¬
out very seriously compromising the
man who undertakes to do it.”
Hoar is a compound of literateur
preacher, politician and nutmeg-ped¬
dler. If he bad been a statesman in¬
stead of making the foregoing speech
be would have said:
“Mr. Presidcnt—our democratic
brethren and ourselves have been
humbugging the people of this coun¬
try for half a century, with the pre¬
tence that there were two sides to the
question of duties on imports from
foreign countries. We have made the
voters believe that we represented
protection and that the democrats ad¬
vocated the abolition of protection.
The democrats are nowin power;
have prepared a bill which represents
their ideas; and every one can see that
there is no free trade in it; that, in
fact, it is more protective than the re¬
publican tariff act, now on the statute
books. Consequently the principle of
protection is not in danger from any
quarter in these United States; conse¬
quently it will be a fraud oil the peo¬
ple to seek to make it again an issue
in our politics; for the only differences
between the two parties, in regard to
it, are as to matters of petty detail, as
to little things, pins, hoop-skirts and
crockery; which are rather matters for
the consideration of legislative com
mittees, in a non-partisan spirit, than
questions of a great principle to agi¬
tate the minds of 70,00 ),000.people.
t ( But we have seen the people,under
the protection of the highest protec¬
tive tariff ever known in this country,
brought to such depths of poverty and
wretchedness that our very institu¬
tions are trembling in the balance.
We must be honest with those who
sent us here. We must address our
selves to the giant questions of
finance; we must liberate the people
from the bondage of the money lend¬
ers; we must give honest industry
prosperity, by furnishing it with an
adequate supply of currency for the
business of the country. To attempt
aay longer to deceive the people about
pretended differences on the question
of protection, where none really exists,
would be a shameful and unworthy
trick, and a damnable crime against
God and man. While we are fighting
this sham battle the republic is ad¬
vancing through the gates of univer
sal distress to the hell of anarchy—oi
to the greater perdition of an aristo¬
cratic, absolute despotism.”
But Hoar thinks too much of his
nutmegs to make any such speech as
that. The conception of it would
crack his skull. He is simply expos¬
ing the democratic fraud for the pur¬
pose of maintaining the republican
fraud. It is a clamorous contention
between cheats. It is thieves fighting
over their booty. It is dirty-faced
gamins crying “you’re another.”
Mankind has no interest in the. dis
putations of such creature*. But the
cyclone gathers—bigger and bigger,
blacker and blacker; and ere long its
huge arm will reach down into the
desecrated arena and sweep these
contending, chattering monkeys into
the abyss. I. D.
We are in the beginning of a revo
lution that will strain all existing re¬
ligions and political institutions, and
test the. wisdom and heroism of earth’s
purest and. bravest souls. It will not
do to say that the . revolution is not
coming, or pronounce it of the deviL
Revolutions, even in their wildest
forms, are the impulses of God mov¬
ing in tides of fire through the life of
man.—Rev. Geo. D. Herroht
ie it no* itt order for some one to soy
tho Fittr |ei!| io
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
THE CLIMAX NEAR.
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE IN
SUPPORT OF CLAIM
That This Government Is Rapidly Grav¬
itating Toward a Dread¬
ful Crists.
[The Comrade. 1
Evidence that this government is
rapidly gravitating toward a point of
decay aud final dissolution is over¬
whelming.
In every avocation in life, save that
of stock jobbery and thievery, the
wanton hand of “business depres¬
sion,” accompanied by all its blight¬
ing influences, has left visible traces
of its unsolicited and unappreciated
visit.
In support of the claim that the na¬
tion reels like a drunken man upon
the very verge of a threatening and
bloody revolution, aud that oblivion
yawns for the greatest republic in all
Christendom, we have only to refer to
the vacated farms, the closed work¬
shops, the shut down manufactories,
the bankrupt mercanti e establish¬
ments, tho “busted” bankers, the
millions of unemployed and unfed,
the millions of the broad and fertile
acres of the public domain owned by
foreigners, the scarcity of money, the
low prices of farm products, and the
persistence that the national congress
pursues the spiteful policy that has
reduced the people from the “most in¬
dependent” to tho “most dependent,”
possibly of any nationality under the
sun, natural resources and the rights
of suffrage being considered.
Surrounded by the environments
that fetter us to the system that
forced tho revolution, Jed to the adop¬
tion of .the Declaration of Independ¬
ence, scored a victory for freedom,
resulted in the federation of the states
into a Union where the rights of the
individual citizen was respected, the
future of the people of this once
glorious country is portentous of a
iark and stormy career.
To the student of industrial pro¬
gress and economic development is
clearly and hnmistakably seen the
trying orde.al through which the
people of the country must be sub¬
jected to, and through which, if suc¬
cessfully passed, and the glorious
splendors of a freeman’s government
realized, ideal as were the dreams of
our patriotic sires, of the futurity of
the natural and legitimate offspring
of their efforts, the rudder of the
grand old ship of state must be
manned and supported by the millions
of the brave and the courageous.
They realize with a vivid clearness,
that is simply startling, that the mo¬
mentum with which our government
is rushing heedlessly on to this dread*
ful crisis is almost irresistible. The
downward tendency is so great that it
will be next to impossible to resist it.
There are no less than fourteen
states in a state of insurrection now,
and the regular organized militia
“lying on arms” to protect the
“vested” rights of millionaire cor¬
porations.
This is only a surface indication of
what the interior contains, and who
can tell when the great volcanic out¬
burst will come? Who may dare
make a prophecy for fear of its fulfill¬
ment?
The future destiny of finis country
depends upon the immediate action of
the.great common j eople.
This class id all ages of the world
has been the only true supporters that
governments have ever found.no mat¬
ter whether they be monarchical or
republican in form, and i£ this gov¬
ernment is saved from death, and the
rights of the people restored to them,
•this same class will have i-t to do in
ihis case
It has been a long cherished hope
of the advance thinkers and writers
upon economies that the difference
between labor and capital could be
amicably and peacably adjusted
the ballet box, but at this time there
seems to be a preponderance of evid
dence supporting the theory that the
settlement will be made by the bayo¬
net.
Would to God that blood letting
could be averted, but humanity is
reeling under the intolerable burden
of oppression, and lier fetters must be
broken and her utmost freedom
secured, peaeably,if you can, forcibly,
if we must. The sooner this can be
accomp li s hrd, the smaller the loss
that will be sustained.
The people of the whole world are
to-day in a state of discontent, uncer¬
tainty and shifting ideas. The prin¬
ciples of Jesus Christ are working in
the hearts of men. He is now on
earth. His finger is on the pulse of
the whole world. The heart is march¬
ing on the head. God’s kingdom is
coming on earth. The throne is al¬
ready erected in millions of hearts.—
People’s Voice.
To thousands of young women in
our cities to-day there is only this
alternative: Starvation or dishonor.
Many of the largest mercantile estab¬
lishments of our cities are accessory
to these abominations; and from their
large establishments there are scores
of souls being pitched off in death
and their employers know it— Tal
ma go.
Ouuaxuw the Industrial leylok. II
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NUMBER 11
WASHINGTON NOTES
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NEWS CONCERNING THE VARI a
OUS DEPARTMENTS.
Sayings and Doings of the President
aud Members of the Cabinet.
Tlio senato Saturday confirmed the
nomination of John H. Martin, post¬
master at Ocala, Fla.
I)r. Irwin reports cholera at Mar¬
seilles, and Consul Hyatt cables intel¬
ligence of yellow fever 1 at Santiago,
Cuba.
The marine hospital service is in re¬
ceipt of a cablegram, from Consul
Reque, at Rotterdam, who reports one
case of cholera at that port on a for¬
eign vessel, bound for Germany.
The treasury circulation statement
issued Thursday j'laces the per capita
circulation at $24.19, a doorcase of 14
cents per capita during, July, or of
$6,486,993.
The gold reserve in the treasury was
reduced Thursday to $52,482,000 by
the further engagement at New lork
for export Saturday of $1,250,000 in
gold for Europe and $50,000 lor ship¬
ment to Canada.
In response to a resolution offered
by Representative McCliea, of Arkan¬
sas, It. E. rrcstou, director of the
mint, submitted a statement to con¬
gress of the amount of silver which
had been coined during July. It
amounted to $430,000. The gold
coined during tlio same month was
$892,500.
Senator Walsh has had prepared by
the treasury department a statement
showing the average ad valorem rates
of duty of the Mills bill, the McKinley
law and the senate bill, and the per
centago of reduction made by tho son
nto. This tablo will be incorporated
in a few remarks Mr. Walsh will mako
in the next few days.
In spite of the veto of tho Bland
Beigniorage bill the signiorago in tho
treasury is being coined. The presi¬
dent said at the time of his veto that
a bill to that effect was not necessary,
but it was not thought then that tho
coinage of the seigniorage would be
considered obligatory. It has sinoo
been found that tho seigniorage was
needed and tho treasury has had to ro
sorfc to its coinage.
Acting under instructions from tlio
executive committee of the board of
foreign missions of tho Southern Pres¬
byterian church, tho Rev. Dr. J. W.
Bachman, its representative at Wash¬
ington, called on Secretary Gresham
and the ^Japanese charge to ask that
measures be taken to protect the mis¬
sionaries of the church in tho east.
Secretary Gresham told Mr. Bachman
that he did not think there was any
immediate danger to the missionaries,
but that they, would be protected.
Tho bill providing for a pension of
$50 a month for General James Long
street, the confederate commander, on
account of wounds received in tho
Mexican war whilo he was serving as a
major and paymaster in tho United
States army, was introduced in the
senate Wednesday. General Longstreet
receives a pension of $12 a month uu
der the general pension act for the re¬
lief of Mexican war voterans. Ho asks
that this bo increased, because of his
advanced age, wounds received and to¬
tal disability.
The most dangerous counterfeit of
United States money discovered for
years is announced from the treasury
department. Because it is so difficult
of detection from the genuine note,
the counterfeit is described in minute
detail by the secret service in order to
put the public on its guard. The
counterfeit is of tho $10 legal tender
note series of 1880, check letter B,
face plate number 2,250, back plate
number 2,292, signed by W. S. Rose
crans, register; James W. Hyatt,treas¬
urer, and bearing a portrait of Web¬
ster and a large, round, red seal.
May Involve European Nations.
It is believed at Washington by the
state department officials that if the
war between China and Japan drags
along for any length of time Russia
and Great Britain and possibly France,
may be drawn into it. All threo
.
countries have possessions in Asia.
France is not at all friendly to China,
and would probably side with the Jap¬
anese in the trouble. She would prob¬
ably be assisted by Russia, who even
now, state department officials believe,
has secretly assured Japan of her sup¬
port in the controversy. Great Brit¬
ain is on the most intimate terms with
China, and would probably side with
that empire, especially if Russia and
France were to assist her antagonist. A
European war would follow, and the
greatest diplomacy would have to be ex¬
ercised by the United Staaes in taking
care of its interests all over the world,
It is also believed that if Japan and
Russia have made any agreement in
regard to this matter it is that the lat¬
ter country be given a seaport in Co¬
rea, which could be made the terminus
of her transcontinental railroad. Rus¬
sia is extremely anxious to acquire a
port on the Pacific which would
closed by ice six months in the year,
as is tho present terminus of the road.
It is to her interest, therefore, to side
with Japan, and. it is believed that,
notwithstanding her repeated and
the same time ostentatious attempts
mediation, she is secretly
the mikado in the stand he has taken.
John Chinaman Thanks ’Germany.
The Chinese government has special¬
ly thanked Germany for the action
the Germafc warship litis in
150 Chinese who were struggling in
the water after the sinking of the Kow
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