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Clay County Reformer
( .0. M.lXDKItYILLK, Editor.
VOLUMfc I.
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
mV BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject “The Sick General.“
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heaven than other jicb.-J i,i!.i
throuirh their n,.i.,a \ P \ ’•
them uei 1 - >r m, 1 > it if i 1 Y t
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words ft! wk of the cnloir “ uni'* , '-ti'* , ...'T “ , P<J , **1
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with G, 1 \ _ m ° ri> sympathetic
Nii'.S 1 ,nm in^ .7x1 1 „ U n ‘n 0, " er P® r *
son hri‘C»; ! , wif I v fi .u.iV°iS suffering W J ,n F'
osn do to alleviate her husband’s
kauSTthe d.SoJfliniio roya| U ‘staff*ifave
met. and they have shaken their heads ns
much ns to sav, “No cure, had'all 1 'no fohLl cure ” «V£ I think k
that the efflec seekers r
Z^oTZ employes w?J?th£kC
had dropped their*work an S
Of look ,11 * for so lie other !»
shall muJ now become of n .r k Naaman s wife?
Khe hrt l Stfll n - ,n ^ In
tl£f^a^Elam^gS d, snair nh li her lith hou^’VillK; nf h l\l i
•he tells the who’e store ,
SSS^iltfohSS? V^iT'T*
*
W bat a seem* it .. was- one of the grandest .
women la all Syria In cabinet council with a
U* «“i{lTv J!: u', , ; , U tC h ?» l, .“ °I
,‘, v lor generd H r I ‘ “1 K DOV Tf v . v
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” as .
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ill r iih\i h * U ' S medical
liVnt U n7 «n n'.!..7 I«n "if'vAiir'ofi 1
1 o’*1 ' JrvautTirl * i>. Tifi ” B... mLmom S« « w 1 ^ *’ r , 0 ''°! ,
L .n ?h! r2hf ol ' ori 'Erection. 7r P Ji She Vd might Til
thL* ,If HI, i?h, * * “ Ilfu- i'.t l .‘V H fW 'W\° f) dU X \ f
.1 tifh,r [ , ant ,fH « l_i l2L‘,A , I, 0t b t i ,h *ruli h h«iS ’ , TI '*™ E. auJ my 11
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ImoehilJish Good indignation .or them. I m she glad might Naaman have s
got the U-prt»y. 1 wish all the Syrians had
j So - PT°, aal
eorrowoi, she sympatnixes with the suffering
o» her master nnd commends him to the
famous Hebrew prophet.
"** L i.^ilf iT 9 lt ,* a * ,at r' *' ct e ? oa fl n * S* ia r tb0 ot
u1f lt 1 I>r» , a < fn n’fthl 1 }- 0 ' 1 ' h0 7 1 ^“?
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.kT* 13 my . V* " °J ^ ro< ^ °F
b / . .! on knees and
U P ™y
looked , into m> un « and asked me why I
Hme^tmkinw llmo stroking mj cheek, so nnd ‘r I “ could
? 1id j«T.. i. 1 in t have u Kry ’ family i n8 7 0d prayers. upon ^? no ^ There in,^ wh are y
V!?, ;‘A , i**r ,;lV0 ,ndch .**?•?, * lI reQ " r °u«M .T ber to ®
*
are . hundreds oft hristian mothers who had
ihvlr attention first called to Jesus by their
little children. How did you got rid ofthe
tepr.sy of sin i How did you find your way
to the Diyiue rhysician? “Oh," you say,
my child, my dying child, with wan
Wasted finger, pointed that way.
Oo. 1 never shad forget,” you say, “that
sc nv at the cradle nnd the crib that awful
lua” Wn * bar *I» hai>t, very bard, but it
ilttte one on its dying bed had not
^pbde l bsve n.e to got Chr.at rid ol 1 my don’t leprosy.” think Go I ever into
tne BabbothHk’hool ttuyBunday, and you will
find hundreds of little lingers pointing in the
»ame dirett on, toward Jeeus Christ and to
ward heaven.
Tear* aro Ihe astronomers calculated that
Ibvre must U* a world hanging at a certain
point In the heavens, and a large prize was
offered for some one who conltMiscover that
world. The telescopes from the great ob
sorvatortee were pointed in vain, but a girl
ol Nantucket, Maas., fashioned a telwscope,
and looking through it discovered that star
and won the prut * and the admiration of all
th* astronomical world, that stood amazed
at her genius. Aud io it is often the case
that grewu people cauuot see the light,
while some little child beholds the star of
pardon, the star of hope, the star of eonso
istloh, jr»Uf. the star of Bethlehem, the morning
sur of “Not tUHny mighty men. uot
tunny wise M *rg called, but Oud hath
chosen the w<ak things of tbs world 10 con*
found the mighty and base things sod things
tbst srs not to bring to nsagfht thing* that
Ooil «nd Christ ifcySS, hrnvcn. £-C‘X,:
nnd You s*>eihi
way yourehlld is pointing. Will you tnkothst
pointing or wait until, in the wrench of sorn*
awful bereavement, God shall lift that chi!
to ts nother world, and then It*will Reckon
yo Z upward? Will you take that pointinp
or will you wait for the beckon I dr? JiVsse
be God that The little Hebrew captive point¬
ed In the right direction. Blessed be Go :
for the saving mlnlstrvof Christian children.
No wonder the advice of this little He
fcrewrt. P tlr» threw all Naaman’s mansion
"<»d Ben-hndtilt’s pthim into cxcltem-m.
Naam.an ! With face scan fie l and
ridged an -1 inflamed bv the pestilence and
aided ».y those Who supported him on either
Mde. he singers out to the chariot. Hold
'««the fiery coursers of the royal stable
svi|il ” ,h< ’ P * or > "* a lids his swollen
,,0> HndTMin SIM A lltn’w into the vehie e.
"‘ r »' ,m «P ^ pilaws and let him
take „ linuerlng look at h.s bright up in
ment. for perhaps the Hebr, w rntp.ive m ;y
"* mistaken, an t the te xt time Nariman
eornes to that place lie may * e a dead weight
on th- shoulders of those who carry him, an
' U'lreJ chieftain seeking sepulture amid th»
lament a: ions of an adm'ring nation. Good-'
b >*. Naaman ! Let the charioteer drive gen
Invalid. Here goes tho bravest man
f ‘ll* ,l19 H c «I»* iv « of » horrible disease,
A * » **>« ambulance Wiuds through the streets
° f the tears and prayers of all the
people lVrlmps go after the worl d reno wned Invalid,
you Louse have had an Invalid go out
ffom >'«»r on a health excursion. You
8 'tiow how the neighbors stool around aud
' Oh, It was a solemn moment. I tell
Wh ™, J"P«lO,»u,l
°'! VV, ‘" 1 ,n, ° l ' ,H room ,0 make the bud,
md to remove the medicine vials from the
and to throw open the shutters, so
' E‘^r^n* ‘ ^ '° Q "
him^' nnd Th^ itilit U in tho IftCH Ol TlKtl' til*' llttlH
H,,br,;w ««P»lvf, who sp'Sxrtfizd&t is sure he will gel
sts; sEifja°js
w n ir,: n ^kroT , ard th 9 uvr 1< ;?Ad ttden uni
vv,,v - ,hu t,ills ' A Naphtnlla and Ephraim
look down on the procession, and the r<
i,UM «'»■' s r, ^' ht I*»« tho battlefields where
lathe days of his health used to
rjill.v !° I ,roo hi, '' tromi, S! ‘ lo » S "'I ,„r W t.arl.l «"d reeliubs awhile ,in,l the,, in
r'l Geniral Vov\°' Naaman ol,vo so sick, , . aut so very, o!uanlor very ’ sick «“ • !
tb#! cotinirymen gaped as the proces
mil stood aghast at the clank or his war
“"J, ^ , '.Jol mau l 1 - *
Q,m{ »«»•“«« wak« up from a restless
1,1 th ” and he says to the
M.rioteer, -How long before we shall reach
* h « ‘’wphe* EIIsIimV The charioteer says to
1 waysider. -How far is it to Elisha’s
itous"?’’ Then‘they He sav^ “Two miles ” “Two
nil.-H?" whip up the lathered
u,li '“b’-h d ot.t horses. I’ll! whole procession
'Huhtcns up at the prospect of speedy nr
•*'<*'• They drive I.arioleers up to the door of the
prophet. The < shout “Whoa” to
^ grandest ««r company that ever came to your s
house has come to it now. No stir inside
* The fact the Lord had
lifforuied was,
Eii.tvs that theetek rapiuiu
coming aud hovtiVrmt him. Indeed, when,
you are sick and the Lord Tvadts you to get
wHI ’ Ht ' a'w«y« tells the doctor how to treat
you, and the reason wo liavo so man
bungling doctors is because they depen
upon their own strength aud instructions
» nrt uot oa *“« Lord God, and that always
ntt'end to ‘yCuVbuTincs^ “,j. 01 " 0 ° lU ’ Eli ' ha ’ " nd
aud^SSt v" wait«Mt .^‘"T an 1 waited, a I' 13 ., 1 retini ue J fact ,> Wrtiio,i was,
Naaman ha l two diseases—pride an 1
hou ^^Totlr 1 «*o« °ElK “itX'Xln out. Tfti? awhlt to
“ a *" m.t go
W “° U llB l,,,n k3 hftS tu,s P roa l
man ’ , ,u ’ s '»y st t o 11 servant, “Go out an I teii
General Naaman to bathe seven times in the
river Jordan, out yonder live miles, and he
w ‘" K«‘t entirely well.” The message comes
° V,t ’ “ Whut! ” 9ilvs tl»eeommander-in-ohiet
ofthe S >’ riau forw9 . »»•» eye kindling with
/s
0f lsi‘t he* ug^o ‘ *t cf sm/ineV
! coin I ut
some enigmatical passes over mv wounds.
w», v ’ 1 ,« on - t ~ he knows who h*
a „, i sl c t llo a out? Why, w! P
'
th0 Shunamite woman came to him. he
rushed out and orletl: ‘Is it well with thee?
19 11 won with thy husband? Is it well with
f jk
dan—the monotonous Jordnu ! I wouldn’t
l >« seen washing in such a river as that.
Wh 7. %vo watered our horses in a better r.vcr
than that on our way here—the beautiful
Hver.the jaspar J ‘, paved ' river of Pharpar. Be-
8lde# tba t w hH V0 in our COU ntrv another
Damwoene river, Abana, with foiiaged bank
and torrent ever swift aud ever clear, uu-ler
thp flickering shadows of sycamore aud ole
Ruder. Are not Abana and Pharpar. rivers
JL2S5f* wUtt,r,h “ *“ »'
j 8uppf)8(J NHttmaQ telt vory much ne
Americans would feel if, by Way of medical
prescription, some ote should tell us to go
wash fn the Danube or the Rhine. We
would answer, “Are not the Connecticut an i
the Hudson just as good?” Or as an Eug
lishman would feel if he were told, by wav
of medical prescription, he must go" and
wash in the Mississippi or the St. Law
"nee. Ho would cry out. “Are not the
Thames and the Shannon just a? well?”
The fact was thal h * u « h 4V Naaman needed
to learn what every Englishman aud every
American needs to learn—that when God
Id* 9 Y ou t0 A° a lEIug you must go and do
It,whether you understand the reason or not.
Take the prescription.whether vou like it or
not. One thing is certain. Unless haughtv
Naaman does as Elisha commands him. he
will die of his awful sickness. And unless
y 0U do as Christ commands you you will b*
seized upon by an everlasting Wiistiug away.
Obey and live; disobey and die. Thrilliul*.
overarching, nndergtrdfng, stupendous
alternative!
Well. General Naaman could not stand the
tost. The charioteer gives a jerk to the right
Hue until the bit sn ips inthw horse’s mouth,
and the whir of the wheels and the flying o’
the dust show tho indignation of tho great
commander. “He turned aud went away in
a rage.” So They people vituperate now otten against get ministers, mad at
religion. ChrUtiau people.
against churches, against
One would think from their irate behavior
that God had been studying how*to annoy
and exasperate and demolish them. What
has He been doing? Only trying to cure
their death dealing leprosy. That is all.
Yet they whip up tbelr horses, they dig in
the spurs, aud they go away this iu a rag.-. health
So. after all. it seems that ox
cursion of General Naaman is to be a dead
failure. That little Hebrew captive might a
well have uot told him of the prophet, and
this long journey might as well not have
been takeu. Poor, sick, dying Naamau !
Are you going away iu high dudgeon ant
worse than when you earns? As his chariot
halts a moment hi» servants clamber up iu
It and coax him to do as Elisha said. They
say: “It’s easy. If the prophet had toll
youtowalkioramileousnarpspikesiuor- awful disease,
der to get rid of this you
would have dou* it. It is easy. Come, my
lord, just get do#n and wash to the Jordan
Vou take a bath every day anyhow, and iu
this oiimaie it is so hot that it wilt do you
good. Do it on our account, aud for th R
sskeof the army you command, mid forth ft
*’ The Voice of the People is tlie Voice of God.”
FORT GAINES, GA., FRIDAY NOVEMBER 23, 1894.
nation tnat admires you. Come, mr lorl’
just try this JorJanic bath." “Well,’
he says, “to please you I will
drive do to as the you brink say.” The _ mV retinue
and of the Jordan. The horses
prtw neifrli to get into the stream them¬
selves and cool their hot flanks. General
Naaman. assisted by his attendant?, ijets
down out of his chariot and paimullv co nn
to the brink *Mhe river and steps in until
the water counts to the ankle, an 1 goes oa
deeper until the water comes to the girdle,
and now standing so lar down in the stream
just a little inclination ot the head will
thoroughly into the immerse him. He bows oaci
flood and comes up and shakes th-*
water out of nostril and eye, and his attend¬
ants look at him nnd say, “Why, genera',
how much bettor you do look!”
And J= e bows a second time imo
the o nnd comes up, and t'> 9
wild stare is gone out of his eye. H 3
bows the third time into the flood, an 1 conies
up, and the shriveled skin has got smooth
acain. He bows a fourth time Into the flood
and comes up, and the hair that had fallen
on is Mi.-ioreu ; mere are tnica locks aga n
all over the head. H>* bows the fifth time
into the flood, and comes up, and thehonrse
n ss has gone out of his throat, He bows
the sixth time and comes tip, nnd all th**
soreness and anguish have gone otit of the
body. “Why,” he says, “lam almost well,
but I will make a complete cure, and so he
bows the seventh time into the flood nnd I 10
comes up, and not so much as a fester ora
sealo or an eruption as big as the head of a
pin is to bo seen on him.
He steps out ou the bank and says, “Is it
possible?” And the attendants look aud say,
“Is it possible?” And as with tho health of
an athlete he bounds back into tho chariot
and drives on there goes up from all his at¬
tendants a wild “Huzza, huzza ! ’ Of course
they ior go back to pay and thank the man of
God his counsel so fraught with wisdom.
When they lett the prophet’s house, they
went off mad. They have coma back glad.
People always think better of a minister af¬
ter they are converted than they do before
conversion. Now we are to them an intoler¬
able nuisance because we tell them to do
things that go ngaiust the grain, but some of
us have a grent many letters from those who
tell us that once they were angry at what wo
the preached, but afterward gladly received
gospel at our hand®. They once called
us fanatics or terrorists or enemies. Now
they call us friends. Yonder is a man who
said he would never eon.e into the church
again. He said 1 hat two years ago. He said,
such “My family shall newt come here again if
doctrines ns that are preached.” But
lie Ho cattio is Christian, again, and his family came again.
a his wile a Christian, all
his children Christian®, the whole house¬
hold Christians, and you shall dwell with
them iu the house of the Lord forever. Our
undying coadjutors are those who once
heard the gosp ;1 and “iveut away in a
rage."
Now, Naaman my hearers, you know that this Gen¬
eral did two things in order to get
well. The first was, he got out of his char¬
iot. Hi* might have staid there with his
swollen feet on the stuffed ottoman, seated
on that embroidered cushion, until nis last
gasp, ho would never have got any relief.
He had to get down out of his chariot. And
you have got to get down out ot the chariot
of your prida If you ever become a Caris
lian. You cannot drive up to the cross with
a co tch aud four and bo saved among all
the Lord spangles. You seem to think that the
is going to be complimented by
your coming. Oh, no, you poor, mis¬
erable, scaly, leprous sinner, get down
out of that. Wo all come In the
same haughty way. We expect to ride
into the kingdom of God. Never
*»atil we get down ou our knees will we And
merex 'V an Lord Tins uduorsc' . us, ~iln
charioted us. Get down out ot your pride.
Get down out ot your sell righteousness and
your that. hypercritleism. Taat is the journey We have have all got to make to do
we
ouour knees. It is our internal pride ttiat
keeps us from getting rid ot the leprosy of
sin. Dear Lord, what have we to be proud
01 ? Proud.ofoursca.es? Prou 1 of our uu
cleanliuess? Proud of this killing infeetiou?
Bring us down at Thy feet, weeping, pray¬
ing, penitent, believiug suppliants. bleed,
For sinners, Lord, Thou earn’st to
And I’m a sinuer vile indeed.
Lord, I believe Thy grace is tree;
Oh, tnaguiiy that grace in me.
But he had not only to get down out of
his chariot, lie had to wash. “Oh,” you
s;iy, "I am very careful with my ablutions.
Every day 1 plunge into a bright and beauti
iuI bath.” Ah, my hearer, there is a flood
brighter than any that pours from these
liilis. It is the floo l that breaks from the
granite or the eternal hills. It is the flood
of pardon an 1 peace nnd life and heaven.
That floo 1 started iu the tears of Christ and
the sweat ot Gethsemane and rolled on, ac¬
cumulating flood, until all e irth an l heaven
could bathe in it. Zeehurinh called it the
“.ountaiu open for sin and uncleauuess.”
William Cowpjr called it the “fountain tilled
with bioo i." Your fathers and mothers
washed all their sms and sorrows away in
that fountain. Oh. mv hearers, do you not
feel like wading into it? Wade down now
into this glorious flood, deeper, dfeper,
deeper! Plunge once, iwic'e, thrice, lour It
times, live times, six times, seven times. soul.
will take as much as that to cure your
Oh, wash, wash and be clean!
1 suppose that was a great time at Damas¬
cus \vh n General Naaman got back. The
charioteers did not have to drive slowly any
longer, lest they jolt tho invalid, but as the
horses dashed through the streets of Damas¬
cus 1 think the people rushed out to hail
back their chieftain. Naaman’s wife hardly
recognized her husband. He was so won¬
derfully changed she had to’look at him two
or three times before she made out that it
was her restored husband. And the little cap¬
tive hands maid, and shoutiug: she rushed “Did out. he clapping you? Did her
cure
he cure you?” Theu music woke up the pal¬
ace, and the tapestry ot the windows was
drawn away, that the multitude outside
might mingle with the princely mirth inside,
aud the feet went up and down in the dance,
and all the streets of Damascus that night
echoed and re-echoed with the nows: “Nai¬
rn an's cured! Naaman’s cured!” But a
gladder time than that it would be if your
soul should get cured of its leprosy. The
swiftest white horses hitched to the King’s
chariot wmuld rush the news into the eternal
city. Our loved ones before the throne
would welcome the glad tidings. Your chil¬
dren on earth, with more emotion than the
little Hebrew captive, would notice the
change in your look and the change in your
manueranl would put their arms arouni
your neck and say : “Mother, I guess you
must have become a Christian. Father, I
think you have got rid of the leprosy.” O
Lord God of Elisha, have mercy on us!
Thf. AVestminster Gazette prints
the report of the labor correspondent
of the London Board of Trade on the
strikes and lockouts of 1892 in Great
Britain. The total number was G92.
Of these 34o were settled either by
mutual conciliation or by mediation
and ll> by arbitration. The remain¬
der were lost by the workingmen.
It will, of course, be remembered,
says the Indianapolis Sentinel, that
conciliation and mediation are pre¬
liminaries to compulsory arbitration
as proposed by all intelligent advo¬
cates of that system. Notwithstand¬
ing the peaceable and satisfactory
settlement of so large a number of
these strikes, the cost of the remain¬
der was very heavy. The weekly loss
of wages is estimated at about $2,-
400,OoO. The ioss on use of capital
is placed at $95,000,000. The cost of
restarting works and resisting strikes
is estimated at $1,100,000. Il-**
known amount of aid voted by older
unions is $8o0,000, but this is only a
small furnished. proportion -of the aid actually
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By the National Reform Press Association.
IN WHICH BOX WILL THE VOTER OF ’96 PUT HIS BALLOT?
HIDING THEIR MONEY.
PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST
THE BANKS.
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Prof. Til on. IC. HIM Makes an Able Ar¬
gument for Government Banking—
Shows That It Would Create Confl¬
uence and Result in Prosperity.
Chicago Express.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are
continually hidden by the great mass
of common people in stockings, pock¬
ets, safes, safety depositories and else¬
where. and all this because they have
no confidence in the banks as they are
at present conducted. The}’ have very
distinctly in mind the remembrance of
a long line of bank failures, extend¬
ing as far back as they can recollect,
in which friends, neighbors and pos¬
sibly they themselves have thus lost
money. They do not need to look
back very far into the pas' It is a
little more than a year since when
over eight hundred banks tumbled to
pieces in the United States, and of
that number seventy-two nationa
banks failed during the thirty-one
days of July, 1893. and thirty-two of
these went down in the first seven
days of that month.
Hundreds of thousands, millions of
dollars thus lost by the common people
have never been recovered and never
will be. What wonder, therefore,
that the masses of the people are con¬
tinually secreting their money and
withholding it from circulation, mak¬
ing scarcity and the conditions which
enable the money lenders to get an
exorbitant interest on their loans?
It is seen from examination of the
situation that under present condi
tious of banking no means exist
whereby money can , be made ,
ever
permanently * , abundant. *. ... There
may
be times when confidence is so !
restored, temporarily, •1 that , business
men will freely '. place their money m .
the , , banks, , , hut let . t . v iere . be & tew . , bank .
failure- , and . out . of . sight . . x
mom y goes
as quieklv ... as a crowd a will mi disjierse j- on
tl:." arrival of a pt-rson artlittvd with a
contagious disease.
W hat follv - ,, to . talk of making con
tmual abundance of * ... circula- 1
money in 1
when people ■» *• lack 1 confidence n j .
non so m
banks thev will not trust them. Of
what avail to have the volume of
monev increased bvthe addition of
51.000.00*^.000 in g^nUcks bv !
or a.
, . « -i , ,,
people will not place it in the banks i
bv which it can come into circulation? i
The sitaation that confronts ’
US
steadily and sternly is perpetual
scarcity of money. It will be claimed
that there is an abundance of money
in the banks at the present time. But
this affords no relief in the rural dis¬
tricts. Has any onf heard of a reduc¬
tion of interests on farm loans? Has
any one hearu of , a« means by which
a farmer can borron Sl of a national
bank? Does any Site know of any |
farmer who borrows escaping '
money
....... the highest legal , infest . ., . and .
a com- ,
mission besides tt> looker who finds
the money? Does unf one know of a
person who is eons to borrow
money on chattels who escapes with
less interest than from 3 to f> per cent
a month?
And yet this excessive interest is eat.’
ing out the vitals of the nation. “Every
enterprise of every deseriotion is sup- :
pressed in consequence, and workmen
stand in idleness as the result. Iu a
steady strug-gde with drouth, grass¬
hoppers. winds and low prices, the
farmer has burdens enough to bear;
but when the additional weight of
lar je interest rests on his shoulders
the prospect of lifting the mortgage is
exceedingly slim. And so he lives on,
year after year, in the shanty Iiousm
while the workmen who should croM
for him a larger and more eommodiW
dwelling, lounge somewhere in i<«
ness.JH fartm^fl
What is true thus of the
true in every vocation With
competition in every line of^i
nml tii.- 111 ice -’t a ini m*- . \’.st'
future in linn: cc nnd . jO
.•ati-c of higlt
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Thus ,, there ^ Y
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crease m v
. banks. , Money
sible ... and could ah
,h , hav
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pci cent interest whether
be a resident of Massachuse^B
farmer - . Dakota. The short tiil^^B
in
posit ... the , . bank would ,, draw , in
f in no
*'’«*• . , . borrowers would pay 4
Pe ‘’ C,;nt - T 7* ten person,, each bor
and , depo»it,„ z dnr,n g the day,
? ““ dMr l >rofit to
the government. Hut better than all
' V<, "“ W the “ or ““ d rev,val of bosi
th e vast *«amnlation of
m0ne - T m the v hands oi the ““mon
people, through their savings in inter¬
est and the freedom from the payment
of high interest. Consider for a little
time the far reaching and beneficial in
finence resulting from government
ownership of banks.
Thob. E . Hill.
_
There are many eddies along the
shore of the mighty Niagar * that ^eem
1 0 carry the water backward, but the
mighty tide sweeps onward toward tEe
great ocean. There may be apparent
set b8ck3 to th „ nform mon miat, but
1U[e tho m , ght Niagara its'tmrrent
sweeps irresistibly on to inevitable
yjetory.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
SOME POLITICAL HASH
SERVED HOT AND COLDTOSUIT
OUR READERS.
W •]
It
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kiml. !* U
of politicians. A divin^H
is needed instead of a state
ness.”
We commend the above extraePH Si?
the prayerful consideration of
George and suggest that he might ease
an >' P an £ s of conscience which it may
produce by a generous and judicious
distribution of some more sleeping ear
passes.
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Wants to Know.
An exchange wants Grover Cleve
land to take the witness stand and en
lighten the public on : some
in " hicti It Is somewhat interested It
“Soon as Grover Cleveland has a lit*
time, we would like him to tall
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what he knows of the Dominion Coal
company of Nova Scotia, a corporation
authorized to issue shares to a total
face valueof $21,000,000, and this on the
promise that congress should this year
pass a bill which the President would
sign admitting coal from Nova Scotia
to this country free of duty and there¬
by giving it in the New York and New
England market about lifteen points
advantage over coal mined in West
Virginia or Pennsylvania* We would
also like to know if in this connection
$7,000,000 worth of these shares or a
larger number were set apart to be
used for the influencing of legislation
to this end, and which one of the mem¬
bers of the cabinet was agreed upon as
the one to do with these $7,000,000 of
shares as Oakes Ames did with his
money. ”
We haven't the remotest idea that
Grover will accommodate our inquir¬
ing friend, or that he would tell the
truth if he did take the stand, but one
thing is certain, the public will watch
with much interest this famous coal
syndicate and note any legislation
passed to foster it in any way.
* * *
■ .M>.» -A
Set Aside the tier.
It is against the regulations govern¬
ing the standing army to receive a gift
of any kind whatsoever from any per.
son. . The first, instance where this law
has been violated was a few days ago
when the regular troops that were en
gaged in suppressing the strike, in a
way that was itself a violation of the
constitution, were presented a stand of
colors by some of the wealthy citizens
of Chicago. The following dispatch
relates the transaction:
Fokt Sjirkidan, Ill., Oct. 19.—There
was a novel and unusual scene within
the army barracks this morning when,
for the first time in the history of this
country, a regiment of the regular
force was presented by civilians with
a stand of colors. The regulations of
the army on such matters are unusually
severe, presentations of any kind to
regiments or companies being abso¬
lutely forbidden. When, however,
the war department was advised that a
number of representative men of Chi
eago, including P. I). Armour, President
Marvin Hughitt of the Northwestern
road, General Manager Cable of the
Rock Island road, Cyrus II. McCor¬
mick, Potter Palmer, Lyman .T. Gage,
11. N. Higinbotham, <).ms
Herald, WiUiM|^^^ltf[
xv IT?
in the^shap^
bill.
The fact that times are worse now
than ever, shows that the remedies ap¬
plied by the democrats were not thosff
demanded By the disease,
Isn’t it time for the moss backs ip be¬
gin to consider the case from this
“MMlpotoW-;People's - Party Paper,
It is well enough to fight flit? with
fire, but perhaps one ought to stop a
little short of hell-fire.