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A FOLD CONSPIRACY
PLAN OF BANKERS TO DESTROY
GREENBACKS.
Rank Notes T hat Draw a Double Kate
of Interest I* the Kvit»<t of Souml
Money Miyiock Wants — Boycott Tlicir
Not 4 *H. • ‘a
The New York Voice, Aug. 15.
Lillie by little it becomes apparent
that the a-socialed hankers of thi.
country arc gathering their forces for
a mighty struggle during the next ses
sion of congress.
No public proclamation has been Is¬
sued and no brass bands are being em¬
ployed; hut unless all Indications are
misleading there is on foot a definite,
concerted movement that is likely to
change the whole line of battle on the
currency question.
The piirpoM* of the bankers is this:
To Kir Ike with all their power for a
law linit shall put out of existence once
for all the entire issue of United States
notes known as greenbacks.
Tiic pica which they will make will
be the highly patriotic plea that this
action is necessary to rescue the treas¬
ury from its perilous position and 08 -
tablish the nation's finances on a firm
basis.
The plea will be a false one, the pat¬
riotic professions will be delusive, and
the result of the action proposed will
be a far-reaching disaster whose ulti¬
mate consequences are incalculable.
Here are the facts. There are in
circulation to-day about $340,000,000 of
greenbacks. Those greenbacks repre¬
sent a policy In direct antagonism to
the policy underlying the national
bank system, and they have from the
beginning been regarded by the bank¬
ers with hostile eyes. They insisted on
their retirement as part of the plan of
resumption twenty years ago, and this
retirement was actually begun. So im¬
mediate and stern was the popular pro¬
test, however, that that provision of the
law was repealed and the greenbacks
preserved as a part of the national cur¬
rency. From that, day to this the bank¬
ers have sulkily watched for their op¬
portunity and they think they have It
now. Whether they have it or not they
cannot safely wait any longer, The
national bankers’ convention held a few
weeks ago took steps to urge upon con¬
gress the retirement of the greenbacks.
The journals that best represent the
thought of the organization ltave been
for six months with infinite tact and
«kill, testing the public temper on the
subject. The public lins not taken
alarm. The time seems auspicious,
The plans have been consummated,
The bill is already bring prepared for
effecting the desired end.
What is the motive behind all this?
The ostensible motive is this: The
greenbacks areexchangeableondemand
at the United States treasury for gold.
They are the vehicle by means of which
the gold reserve has been taken out of
tlte treasury.. Gil the .face oljpaffAk *
they are to blame for the treasury's re¬
cent troubles. What more plausible,
therefore, than to Bay, as the bankers
do, that the real remedy is to retire
these greenbacks as fast as redeemed,
destroying them at once instead of re¬
issuing them and thus putting a stop
to tho “endless chain of buckets” that
is carrying away our gold?
This is the argument. It is plausible,
1s it sound or sincere?
No. On the contrary it is impossible,
when one Is acquainted with the facts,
either to believe that die proposed ac
lion will remedy matters or to believe
that the bankers believe it will.
In the first place the greenbacks have
not caused the treasury’s troubles, for
they have circulated for twenty years
wiihout trouble of any kind, and eondi
lions, so far as they are concerned, are
the same now as heretofore. The gold
drawn from the treasury has been
drawn for export. Destroying the green
backs would not destroy the demand for
gohl ,, for . export . render . it ..
nor any more
difficult , to obtain It. .. „„ The situation .
would ' ,, be , ns Matthew ,, ... Marshall, ,, , ,, . t e
financial , . writer .. of , the Sun, says t
’
"If the legal , . tenders , were retired , all ,,
debts , , including , , bank deposits would ,,
, become really ,, payable in gold, thougn '
nominally in silver also. The exporter
of . gold ,, would demand it from f the ... banks ,
and ... the . banks , would have either ... , t0
pay it or to refuse to pay it. lf they
paid it the country , would ,, lose , ,, the gold
just , . the same as it is losing it ,, now, and ,
if they refused to pay it we „ should , ,, come
to the suspension of gold payments, to
avoid which we have for the last two
rears made such strenuous efforts.”
'
The treasurer now re-issues the
greenbacks in payment of govern
mental expenses. If he is. instead of
that, to destroy them, he must par
those expenses in some other way. If
he must receive greenbacks but can
not any longer pay out greenbacks, it
is as evident as that two and two
make four, that the treasury instead
of being relieved will be still more
greatly embarrassed, and more in
need of help than ever.
No; the associated bankers are not
proposing this action for the relief of
the treasury or the relief of the eoun
try. Their ostensible motive is not
their real motive, It is impossible to
believe that It is.
What then Is their real motive?
Listen.
With the greenbacks out of the
there will be no longer any reason for
the treasury’s keeping a gold reserve.
It will, as a matter of course, gradually
disappear as the greenbacks are re
tired. When that event occurs, the
banks will be the only place to which
any one can go to get gold.
The entire circulation of the country
will lx wM d upon gold, but the banks
will have a complete monopoly in the
matter of supplying gold, barring alone
the slow production of the mines Th
government itself will have to look to
the bank# whan It wants gold with
which to pay the interest on its bonds.
This is part of the reason for the pro¬
ject of the bankers.
Another and similar reason is that
the greenbacks are a constant object
lesson to the people that the govern¬
ment itself can supply a safe, sound,
and convenient currency as well as the
banks. The greenback is a constant
threat to the bank-note, And now,
when the bonds on which the batik
note issue is bated are near maturity,
<hc whole bank-note system Is near an
f nd. unlf f. . th° $.140,000,000 of green
hacks can be forced out of existence,
leaving a vacuum that must be filled
by something else. This is why the
banks cannot wait any longer. This
is why they have seized the present
pretext so promptly. This is why, as
we more than suspect, they propose to
keep us on the ragged edge of another
financial panic until congress is fright
f ' necl int0 the retirement of greenbacks.
>’’or it must not be overlooked that if
the Belmont-Morgan-Rothschilds syn¬
dicate lias been able, as so eulogistic
ally described by the editor of Brad
street's in the current issue of the Re¬
view of Reviews, “to suspend the opera
lion or the laws of trade,” to compel
“financial interests of other govern¬
ments” “to await on the requirements
of the treasury of the United States,”
to force the ordinary broker into "re¬
fusing to export gold when such a
transaction offers him a profit,”—if it
lias been able to do that in one case
it can do it in another, and if this year
ft brings the tide of gold one way be¬
cause paid to do so, the next year it can
turn the tide the other way if it wants
to force action by congress that will
complete the money monopoly of the
banks.
The financial crisis that will soon
confront us is whether the entire con¬
trol of the currency system of the na¬
tion shall be handed over to a small
and select class. The crisis is urgent,
the importance of the principles in¬
volved, tremendous.
CURRENCY QUESTION DEAD.
Ohio Iof tl»o Two Old Parties
Will Make Olflrw tlm Only iMHiie.
it is thought that the contest be¬
tween these old leaders in Ohio will
overshadow the currency question and
other issues. There is so little differ¬
ence between the republican and demo¬
cratic platforms on silver that the cur¬
rency question is now believed to be
disposed of in Ohio, but the tariff will
lie kept prominent, ns the parties dif
fer widely on that issue, and Governor
Campbell is expected to arraign the
republican stalo administration of ihe
past four years as severely as he did in
the previous campaigns.—-Press I)is
patch.
It's nothing but a question of which
of the Ohio "leaders” shall have the
offices. Their platforms are the same.
Neither of them has any principles ex¬
cept. what John Sherman can indorse.
Had to make the platforms the same,
> that they could swap easier.
It is Brice’s turn to be elected to the
senate, and the republicans will sup¬
port him to get the support of his
party ior a republican governor.
Even swap and nobody cheated but
the people who don’t know the differ¬
ence between party and principle.
But the currency question is not set
tied i u Ohio. Coxey is going to have a
hand in that scuffle and don’t you for
get it.
The only thing a sensible and patrl
otic silver democrat or republican of
(hat slate can do to help the cause lie
advocates is to vote the populist ticket,
and help defeat both old parties.
whv r it'easy
lf mnn lh inks work to
flRht !lRalnsl b , B 0lld8 , to obJect against
R , ,, c wronR . dolng . t0 .. k j ck -
in8t oW ., )arty corruption, to attack
a tllnc ,_ honoml system 0 f injustice, let
hjm , „ awhlle
Some 0 ___ of „ our , easy-going, , don , t-be-in- ,
a-hurry, , can ,, t-do-much , . populist friends . . ,
seem , to ,, think , . ,, that , .. the writing of . a page
°
of ,, reform , editorial ... . , is . phre fun, and . a
job ■ . that can be finished . , almost . , any
morning before breakfast.
Our ... republican „ ... and , democratic ,
iriends doubtless wonder , what . . in . the ,
world ,, can possess men who , persist 1 . . m
a political ‘ , course that .... . lias neither
office, popularity . nor big pocket . money
in p
i he fact , . , is we . hate . wrong; we hate ,
injustice; ... we . hate . cruelty; „ we . hate . op
pression; . we liate , .. the tyranny of „ the ,
nu ’” e>
" 0 P ropose t0 Uu ' w ™ n g so
, lonc as we l ' nn u ' ,llft , » hami " e h °P e
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t0 have c ° urage ’ l!a - v after da >'- t0 strike
i:0 !' tlmial,y at the foes of l he l,e0I,1 °-
11 “ av be " b, f, ness ' , u 1!la v not
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even t0 do such , work - but U is
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Somoho ' v wo clin f t0 ,he idea that
!t . orth whi,e to b the ri ht
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• om «‘ People d°n t think so.
~ director,
l et Them Dare.
Let the Cleveland gang dare issue
more bonds and there will be a revo¬
lution sure enough. The patient ass
;U length bends with his burden, the
tlnal leather breaks the camel's back.
and the hunted hind goes to the water
once too often. The people of this
country are long suffering and wonder
fully complacent under misgoverament
that would cause war anywhere else
but there surely is a point where they
will rebel, Certainly they will draw
the line somewhere and the resale ol
this already disgraced country to the
greedy Jew syndicate will certainly
prove the jumping-off place. If not
if our people are so debauched, so lost
to all sense of shame, to say nothing
of open robbery of their resources, then
indeed have they sunk to the level oi
Asiatic serfs and become fit food for
tyrant* to feed on.—Nonconformist.
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FARMED OUT TO A SYNDICATE
OF BANKERS.
A Case of the Wolves Guarding the
I.amljs—And They Talk of Cleveland
for a Third Term—From^a Gold Pa
per. i
Fellow countrymen, read the follow¬
ing. It comes from the editorial col¬
umns of the San Francisco Chronicle:
Wall street, the money power as an
organized influence, if not, indeed, an
organic body, is aiming at nothing short
of the absolute domination and control
of the finances of the national govern¬
ment. If anything were needed to con¬
vince the country of this fact the stu¬
died efforts that are now being made to
defend and justify the infamous con¬
tract with the Rothschilds-Morgan syn¬
dicate and to laud the money kings who
compose the syndicate as national ben¬
efactors, the fulsome articles and state¬
ments that are now appearing simultan¬
eously in the magazines and papers' of
the country ought to satisfy any intel¬
ligent American that the Shyloeks who
hold the governments of Europe in
their hands are seeking to get a firm
grasp upon the United States.
There is certainly something signifi¬
cant in the sudden aotivij^ of the pen
servants of the syntftfcai la the Re¬
view of Reviews for July there is an ar¬
ticle by the editor of Bradstreet's writ¬
ten for the confessed purpose of show¬
ing that if it had not been for the gold
purchase contract the credit of the gov¬
ernment would have been wrecked, and
that the American people are, therefore,
beholden to the syndicate for having
“protected the treasury.” Protected the
treasury from what, from whom? Why,
it was these same money sharks and
their associates who were draining the
treasury of gold for the very purpose
of forcing another issue of bonds.
The portraits of the American mem¬
bers of the syndicate are given in the
article and they are spoken of, as al¬
ready said, as national benefactors.
There is also the picture of Lawyer
Stetson of New York, the former law
partner of the president, “who drew up
the contract.” But there is no mention
in the article of the onerous and in¬
famous terms and conditions of the deal
which netted the syndicate some $10,
000,000. Protectors of the treasury!
Benefactors of the nation! Why, the
members of this syndicate are the mon¬
umental Shyloeks of the age.
It will only be a few months when
congress will meet and when the out¬
rageous affair will be or should be in¬
vestigated to the bottom. It is more
than likely that the articles that are
now appearing, of which the one just
mentioned is only an example, are put
forth for the purpose of forestalling the
action of congress.
A. B. Hepburn, a New York banker
who served in some capacity under the
first Cleveland administration and who
is always at the front in defense of the
gold ring, has an article in the Forum
for August entitled "The Bond Syndi¬
cate: Its Excellent Work.” He also
goes to the fullest extent in sustaining
the expediency and honesty of the con¬
tract. Then again here is the latest
weekly “special” circular from the
banking house of Henry Clews & Co.
Mr. Clews is a very inconsistent finan¬
cier, and there are strong indications in
his circular that he has not been forgot¬
ten by the syndicate. He, too, speaks
of the incalculably valuable services
rendered by the syndicate in “protect
lng”the treasury. He even suggests that
“the members of the syndicate will yet
find the means of guarding the treas¬
ury by some permanent form of protec
tion.”
It is difficult to find words to express
the sense of shame that should fill the
minds of patriotic Americans who read
such language. Not only that, but
thoughtful men ought to feel anxiety
for the future when such assertions are
made and are not reproved on all sides,
Has it come to pass that the credit of
the United States is dependent upon a
particular ring of monev lenders, mort
ev sharks?
The “editor of Bradstreet’s” is fol¬
lowing up his service to the syndicate
by his weekly articles. A week ago he
asserted in a long editorial that there
is no doubt that the syndicate will
“maintain” the treasury gold reserve,
and in the issue of last Saturday, as
telegraphed to the financial columns of
the Chronicle, the paper asserted with
much vehemence that nothing had oc¬
curred, particularly in the recent ship¬
ments of gold, to “shake confidence in
the ability of the Belmont-Morgan syn¬
dicate to protect the treasury.”
It is high time that the American peo¬
ple should wake up to the danger and
the disgrace of the state of affairs indi¬
cated by the line of defense marked out
by the syndicate in anticipation of the
meeting of congress.
ANARCHY AND SOCIALISM.
Are Not the Same, but Exact Opposites
of Each Other.
The populists are indiscriminately
called “socialists” and “anarchists,” as
if those terms meant the same and were
both terms of reproach. We give the
definitions in parallel:
WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY, 1893.
SOCIALISM — A ANARCHY—Ab
theory or system of sence of govern
pocial reform which ment; the state of
fontempl ates a society where there
complete recon- is no law or su
Struetion of society, preme power; a
fvith a more just state of lawless
and equitable dis-ness; political con¬
tribution of prop- fusion,
prty and labor.
Populists are all directly opposed to
anarchy.
And as to socialism, in its ideal condi¬
tion, it would be a realization of the
millennium.
We are not opposed to socialism—yet
as a practical solution of present day
problems, concerning a people who av¬
erage considerably lower than the an¬
gels, we are somewhat inclined to pro¬
nounce socialism too far in the future.
There are many bold practical prob¬
lems that will have to be settled under
our present system for the benefit of the
people now on earth.
The reforms of this age may help the
next generation to attempt greater ones.
But something has got to be done
right now.
As our illustrious (or notorious) pres¬
ident has said, “It is a condition and not
a theory” confronting the American
people.
We must deal with actual people and
practical questions until the ideal peo¬
ple are created and the theories of so¬
cialism become practical.
The Declaration of Independence and
the Omaha platform contain probably
as much socialism as will be realized
within the next hundred years.
However, if the whole world should
be converted to practical Christianity
sooner than that, thus rendering so¬
cialism possible, so much the better.
“Indlrektly Direkt.”
A feller out in Pencilvany haz rit me
a long leter wantin’ to kno what I
think uv the inkum tacks decishun uv
the Supreem Kort. This iz a politikel
questshun and I don’t mutch like to un
dertaik to anser it. But I will thro mi
overkote around mi kontempt, so the
kort won’t notis it, and anser it tu the
best of mi nollege and ability, It
semes that the tacks wuz nocked out
becos It wuz direkt. Uv korse enny
boddy knoze that haint so, but to saiv
miself frum goin’ tu jail fur kontempt
uv kort, I am willin’ tu acknolledj that
it ma be indircktly direkt, and this iz
no doubt what the kort ment when it
sed it wuz direkt. Or it mite hav bin
direktly indirekt. We kant sa whitch
wa the kort intended tu deside. Agin,
the law as it stood wuz aimed direktly
at the men whoo maid the most munny.
Purhaps this wuz the “direkt” whitch
sustaned the kort in its desishun. Agin,
it got after the direktors ov trusts and
ralerode korporashuns an’ sich like.
In this it wuz a littel direkt. Then
agin it maid the ritch men pa tackses
direkt intu the treshury. and tha had
tu du it Girektly, not after a while,
Then tha had to go direkt to thair
pocketbooks tu git the munny tu du it.
On the hole we kin see now that the
kort wuz rite in its desishun. hecoz it
wuz tu direkt aul round, and we don t
think we ort tu be fined fur expressin -
our opinvun.—Tobe Spilkins in Mor
gan’s Buzz Saw.
The bankers in this country steal $25,
<300,000 a year unlawfully: yet they have
the gall to raise the cry that their notes
are honest.
PENNSYLVANIA REPUBLICANS.
Declare Themselves Opposed to Free
Coinage of Silver.
In the Pennsylvania republican con¬
vention Congressman Dalzell, discuss¬
ing the money plank in the platform,
said: “There is not an industry that
does not demand the maintenance of
sound money, and by sound money I
mean money good at par in any market
in the civilized world. An impression
has gone abroad that there is a free
silver party in Pennsylvania, and that
that party is republican. Hence, in
my judgment, there is a crying neces¬
sity for the republican party in Penn¬
sylvania in this convention assembled
to declare itself unequivocally against
the free and unlimited coinage of sil¬
ver at any other ratio than that fixed
by international agreement, There
are thousands of republicans west of
the Mississippi who claim that the re¬
publican platform as adopted at Min¬
neapolis means the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. I want to get rid of
that impression. In order that there
may be no straddling, and in order that
no man can stand up and say Pennsyl¬
vania republicans are seeking to catch
votes by straddling the free silver ques¬
tion, add to your platform that the re¬
publican party of Pennsylvania de¬
clares it is opposed to the free and un¬
limited coinage of silver in any other
ratio than that fixed by internatonal
agreement.” Daft
The convention complied with
zell’s command by adding to it meaning¬
less jumble of tangled relative and
parenthetical phrases the declaration
of its “opposition to the debasement of
the national currency by the admis¬
sion of silver to free and unlimited
coinage at the arbitrary ratio of 16
to 1.”
The first part of the money plank
adopted is the same old double-back
action flip-flap Grover Cleveland has
been performing: “We accept unre
servedly the determination enunciated
by the republican national convention
of 1892 that we demand the use of both
gold and silver money with such re
strictions and under such provisions to
be determined by legislation as will se
cure the maintenance of the parity of
values of the two metals so that the
purchasing and debt-paying power of
the dollar whether of silver, gold or
paper shall at all times he equally
faithful to the republican party.”
They want money that is “faithful to
the republican party.”
Money is what controls the republic¬
an party—and it wouldn’t be good pol¬
itics to have money in this country’
that was faithful to all the people.
Sounds funny, don’t it?
The Globe-Democrat, leading west
ern republican paper, says: “The
money’ plank shows that the Pennsy’l
vania republicans are in line with their
party all over the country on that is
sue »
They are in line with the party, in
line with Cleveland and Sherman, in
line with England and Wall street.
Of course money will be “faithful to
the republican party.”
SU J P Keir‘ Hardle,* who com^ over
here from London to teach socialism,
is the kind of man who should be wel¬
comed with hospitable hands to a real¬
ization of the fact that his room is
more desirable than his company’.—
Globe-Democrat.
Suppose it were the Prince of Wales
coming over to cut a swell in society
and teach Anglo-mania to the cane¬
sucking apes of the “Four Hundred.”
Then such cringing, sycophantic, yel
low-dog papers as the Globe would pub¬
lish long columns of gush about how
the prince trimmed his finger nails,
how his clothes fit, where he had his
washing done, what time he got up of
mornings, and what time he went to
bed. They would describe the elegant
suite of rooms where he slept, give pic¬
tures of them “by our special artist,”
furnish a diagram of the table at which
he dined as an “honored guest” of
Money King So-and-So, showing where
the prince sat, and detail the babbling
.
0 e W!E - soa e wors ipers o roy
alt - v in response to such toasts as
“Long live the queen.
Scat!
The plutocrats are heaping coals of
fire on their own heads.
“CIRCLE OF TRUTH.”
"POVERTY CAUSES INTEMPER¬
ANCE” SAYS MISS WILLARD.
Opinion of the Great Temperance Ad¬
vocate— Miss Willard Recoffolzing the
Root of the Great Evil of Drunken¬
ness at East.
Milwaukee Advance: At the great
St. Louis conference of labor and re¬
form organizations where the organiza¬
tion was affected that resulted in the
Omaha convention, Miss Frances Wil¬
lard was an honored guest and by
courtesy was made a member of the
committee on resolutions. This com
mittea was very large, having more
than 100 members, and a very strong
fight was made by Miss Willard and
other prohibitionists in favor of plac¬
ing a prohibition plank in the platform.
The light lasted from 11 o’clock p. m.
until about 3 o’clock in the morning,
and the principal contestants were Mi3S
Willard on one side and Robert Schill¬
ing on the other. The latter held that
prohibition was not only a violation of
personal liberty but impracticable and
that it could not be enforced as long
as poverty drove people to drink. His
argument was that people well fed and
well educated needed no prohibition
and that drunkenness was the result
of misery and destitution.
Miss Willard seems to have adopted
this view now. We find the following
sentence quoted in the Representative,
Ignatius Donnelly’s paper:
We used to say intemperance was the
cause of poverty. Now we have com¬
pleted the circle of truth by saying
poverty causes intemperauce, and the
under-paid, under-sheltered, wage¬
earning teetotaler deserves a thousand
times more credit than the teeetotaler
who is well paid, well fed and well
sheltered. In the slums they drink to
forget. We should make life some¬
thing they would gladly remember; so
would you. Our objects are the same.
Let us clasp hands in the unity of spirit
and the bond of peace.
All honor to Miss Willard. If every
one of our prohibition friends would
take the same position, a union of re¬
form forces would be easily accom¬
plished.
CLEVELAND AND HIS CUCKOOS.
Are Managing Democratic Conventions
This Year.
In an interview Gen. Thurman of
Ohio says:
“During Cleveland’s first administra¬
tion an order was issued forbidding fed¬
eral office-holders from taking part in
the convention, yet this year in Ken¬
tucky every revenue collector, every
postmaster and every whisky gauger
was turned loose on the state to help
Carlisle. Only last year Cleveland
worked tcoth and toe nail against Gor¬
man and Brice, yet now he turns about
and drums every federal office-holder
into the Brice ranks. The democratic
party gave these men their offices.”
And so it has been at all the demo¬
cratic conventions throughout the coun¬
try. The president orders his pie-eat¬
ers to go and work for an English finan¬
cial system under threat of being “sum¬
marily dealt with” unless they obey.
The democrats who have threatened to
leave the party fall in line from habit
and everything’s lovely.
A COMPARISON.
Money Is Money, No Difference Where
Yon Find It.
No railroad in Mexico has gone into
the hands of a receiver during the pan
ic, while one-third of American man
aged railroads are by the courts. Which
country has good money and which bad
money? Japan, which is on a silver
basis, is building more factories than
England and the United States put to¬
gether, and her commerce is being ex¬
tended over the globe, while every gold
standard country is diminishing in
wealth. Which has good money? Ja¬
pan or England? The goldites call
money good which makes hard times,
and they call money bad which makes
good times.—Silver Knight.
A Goldbuff Blunder.
The goldbug papers,in their suddenly
developed derision for the Horr-Har
vey debate, are charging that it was a
mere money-making scheme to sell
books for Mr. Harvey. Since they
challenged Harvey themselves and
went to New York after Horr and
brought him to Mr. Harvey’s home,
Chicago, it seems a little strange that
they should go so far out of their way
and do so much to further the sale of
Mr. Harvey’s books. And now, to cap
the climaX ’ COmes a p « bl ’’ cation ° £ an
assignment by Mr. Harvey of all prof¬
its from the sale of the book containing
the debate to the silver committee, to
be used iu promoting the cause. These
goldbugs had as well come down off
their perch and confess that they have
blundered and made a bad bargain.
Eternal Punishment.
Justice is not mathematical. A tramp
in Alameda county who stole twenty
five cents worth of property was sent
to jail for fifteen years. In that county
there is an office-holder who is $11,000
short, and this leads a man to figure
out that the said office-holder should
serve 22,000 years in jail.—Record.
Why not say for eternity and call the
jail by its proper name?
If you had a mule and it was balky
and would not serve you, what would
you do with it? Mould you keep It?
Of course you wouldn’t. You would get
rid of it as soon as possible. If you
had a neighbor that had lied to you
about the same things for twenty years,
would you believe him any longer? Of
course you wouldn’t. Well, why don't
you exercise the same amount of sens*
voting? Say, are you a political
chump?