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- ay County Reformer S. It. WEAVER, Editor. VOLUME 1. OUR NATIONAL CRISIS AND ITS REMEDY. J uv UKv. i>. oor.Kgnv. 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. WSTEB STKTE.3. OhGLPvGD. ' d ICC J- O. 4 | / &GL.D. Y \ 1§ mL. f ( SILVER. 1 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 i« wHiifat im §uy ••oeryeoifi NUMBER 11 WASHINGTON NOTES r 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 Bkttfifi r