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HEIM RT.M ENT STORES.
A GREAT EVIL OF MODERN BUSI
NESS—AN OCTOPUS OF CREED.
(Should I i<‘ Condemned by vii i«eht
I hi liking People Throughout t in#
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«• f f .>rrlfrn Origin »i»r1 » Monopoly.
A city is something more than merely
a large collection of houses.
A city should be a scene of busy,
hustling activity, where are erected
many homes, when are employed
many laboring people in factories,
stores, workshops and mills. It is :>p
parent that the farmer whose land lies
nearest a prosperous city is in beti.ei
shape than his fellow-farmer whose
possessions are not so favorably situ
ated.
In order to succeed a city must have
stores of every kind, and many of them
for the sake of competition it nothing
else. The more stores in a city the
more families to be maintained and the
more labor connected therewith, hence
the greater demand for farmers’ pro¬
duce of every kind. This being the
ease, Imagine a city in which the mer¬
cantile business of a city is all con¬
ducted under one roof! The result
would be that a hydra-headed monop¬
oly of the worst form would be in con¬
trol, and in course of time every in¬
terest. of Die city would pasp under its
direction. There would lie no such a
tiling as competition. That city would
be ruined, Ichabod would he written
all over its every industry, and it. would
eventually become a monument to
man’s avaricious greed as represented
by that modern devil fish of business
life, known as the department store.
The practices of tin- modern depart¬
ment store are those that we might eall
“cut-throat games.” Its competition is
illegitimate, such that no business man
of principle can endorse. For instance,
“bait" is thrown out. to laggard buyers.
Twenty-six pounds of granulated sugar
is offered for a dollar. Any man ac¬
quainted with the price of this com¬
modity knows that no department store
can secure sugar any cheaper than the
legitimate dealers, however large the
quantity they purchase may he. Then
who meets this loss more than 25 cents
on every dollar’s worth sold? This
“bait" is thus thrown out that the pub¬
lic may enter and the loss on sugar will
be made up on other articles the public
may be Induced to buy, the. price of
which they are not so familiar with an
they are with the price of sugar. I :
tills he not tin’ proper solution of this
problem then what is? Surely the
managers are not. so magnanimous as
to absolutely give away money! tin
inanity is not built that way.
As we have said before, the average
department store should be opposed by
every right-thinking person.
Because it is a monopoly.
Because it encourages cheap labor.
Because it encourages the manufac¬
ture of shoddy goods.
• Hoy autsc it .s ilSi pit unate competition.
Because it la an Institution of foreign
origin that ought not to lie counte¬
nanced on American soil.
These are some of our reasons for
opposing the department store.
The department store the world
over is a monopoly, or seeks to be¬
come such, hence they advertise to "re¬
tail everything.” it is just ns censur¬
able for a few men to control the retail
business of a city as it is for Jim Hill to
control the two great northern railways
across this continent, which attempt has
caused such a stir in the judicial and
business circles of ibis state, and the
condemnation of everybody except the
monopolists.
It is a fact susceptible of the clearest
demonstration that coming to this
country from Egypt, and from the va¬
rious cities of continental Europe, ev¬
ery week, are ship-loads after ship¬
loads of rags, the cast-off clothing of
the poor of those countries, whose wear
ers, in many cases, died of small-pox
and other contagious and loathsome dis
eases. These rags furnish, in a gre at
measure, the raw material that keeps
the shoddy mills at work preparing the
elotli for the manufacture of garments
to be sold “cheap." thus coming in com
petition with wool growers of the
north, and the cotton growers of the
south, and whose principal customers
arc the sweat-shops of the great cities.
and factories whose output is sold to
managers of department stores. We
have it upon the authority of expert
mieroscopists that even after this shod
dy material is soaked in hot water and
subjected to other treatment it receives
before being “made up.” that the cuticle
of the skin of the original wearers is
still retained in the fibre of the cloth,
and that the disease germs still lurk
therein! Is it not unreasonable to ask
dealers in legitimate goods to compete
with dealers in these disease-lurking
articles?
What has been said of this shoddy
cloth may with equal force he said of
nearly all the wares for sale by depart
nient stores. Products of sweat shops,
of penitentiaries. 1: is strange that
public sentiment does not speedily mass
itself against an institution so fraught
with danger and disaster as that disor
ganlzer of business principles, km wn
as the department store, but which
should more properly and correct I
speaking, be called the big racket store.
Whercver aggressive capital, may
hope to be amply rewarded department
stores are being established. Admit¬
ting that they are a success, then what
of the future? 1 nder our present s.vs
tern a young man maj enter a store as
a chore bo>. t•■*-n. - s h*s ..’ifities ar<
recognized. ... ...... a 1 ” ' As tr
saves bis mo ”' • • U - > in-- ■; 5
there is a possio.iitj ot oi.gaglug it:
business on h:> > u .. .1*,, .t. r. nuv
nally developes st ui is a fit.;
bility before a young m n to-day : t
fact, it is the history ot many a mer-
chant’s experience, hence the Incentive
lo excellency on the part of young men
as they first enter the employ of the
merchant under existing conditions.
How is it in the department store? Over
the front door the young man entering
and ambitious to establish a business
for hmiself may see. if he scans close
ly, these fateful words: "Abandon
hop* . all ye who enter here." Depart
meii. lore;, with alJ their glare, tinsel
and elaborateness, require a great deal
cl capita) such as no business man nan
accumulate in a life time. Generally
speaking, these stores are established
on the money of eastern capitalists. For
instance, Armour, who has accumulat
f .,| j,j S millions by questionable meth
0 ,j 8j 8 , Jch ag> jn the wheat anrt
combine, is now investing his millions
jn department stores. It is impossi
i,i e f or a y 0ur) g man j uat: beginning life
as a clerk ever to become the owner ol
a department store.
In the event of the success of the de¬
partment stores, what must become of
the thousands of small merchants and
the large army of clerks? There is but
one opening for them to enter the
channel of productive industry, and
that avenue, with the Hood gates of im¬
migration wide open, is already filled
with more men now than can be profit -
uhy employes).
This question of the department store
is an important one, and it behooves
every person interested in the success
of city, state and nation to carefully
consider, and promptly discourage.
Shut it off’ before it becomes a power in
• he land. Let every one realize at once
the great danger of this insidious ene¬
my to business and industrial life.—
Mankato (Minn.) Journal.
WILL DO SAME IN OTHER STATES
Wliai the People’ll Party llai Acroin
pU»hed in TSeVtraakn.
A people’s party handbook, issued by
the campaign committee of Nebraska,
tells what Hie people’s party lias done
for that state. The same results will
follow the election of the people’s party
ticket in other states. The reforms en¬
acted by a people’s party administra¬
tion in Nebraska are ns follows:
H enacted a maximum freight law.
but republican courts suspended its op¬
eration.
It cut down extravagant appropria¬
tions, but a republican legislature
brought them back.
it brought to light the corruption ex¬
isting in state institutions.
It made possible the passage of the
Australian ballot law.
It enacted a law requiring state and
county treasurers to make all banks
give bond that handle public money,
and to collect interest for the use of
snob money and turn it into the public
fund. The last republican legislature
sought to repeal this, but the governor
sustained it.
It enacted a law requiring intersect¬
ing railroads to build transfer switches,
and, by moans of such transfer switches,
ship all freight the shortest distance to
destination, but a republican board of
transportation has nullified it.
It repealed the special bounty given
to sugar refineries, which was re-enact¬
ed by the last republican legislature.
It enacted the eight-hour law.
It gave the state a warehouse law.
It was instrumental in securing the
passage of a law to have the books of
all county treasurers examined at least
once every two years.
It secured the passage of an anti¬
trust law.
It secured the passage of an anti
Pinkerton law.
It was instrumental in having passed
many other good measures.
It elected the ablest United States
senator that ever represented Nebraska.
it elected the ablest and cleanest gov¬
ernor who ever occupied the executive
office of the state. Under his adminis¬
tration it saved the state money by the
veto of several useless and extrava¬
gant appropriations.
Unit Si ri'ft Hint a Thiril Term.
The Tribune puts the whole question
in a nutshell when it says "the business
men of Wall street are not unfriendly
lo the idea of a third term for Mr. Cleve
land," This is all there is to the Cleve
land third-term movement,
Business men of Wall street would
be ninth-power ingrates if they did not
remain loyal to Mr. Cleveland. For
'hem he repudiated his party’s solemn
declarations of faith; for them he broke
his party's solemn pledges to the peo
p!e of the United States; for them he
filched the public treasury of millions
of dollars.
Some of the business men of Wall
street, our contemporary says, "think
she objection to a third term is purely
a sentimental one. Others do not, but
seem to have a feeling that with Mr.
Cleveland in the white house there
could not be any tampering with the
money standard.”
With the money standard of Wall
street, the Tribune means, the money
standard which debases the value of
one-half the metal money of the coun¬
try and appreciates the value of the
other half. The patriotic business men
of Wall street have no fear that Mr.
Cleveland will tamper with their gold
money standard.
It is with the money standard of the
constitution that Mr. Cleveland tamp
ers. That standard is the silver dollar
enjoying all the rights of gold. It recog
mz.es tin' demands of a!l sorts and con
ditions of men Instead of just the round
bellied greed of the business sharks of
Wall street. In tampering with this
standard Mr. Cleveland violates his
oal h 0 f office and slaps in the face a
, 0 i_ v tradition of the democratic party
j n doing he fosters his third-term
:uov , : v. on. > y Si: irk’s street an,,
k ij ls p i n the test of the country.—
Chicago Daily Press.
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We must have the Referendum.
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CIAL PROSTITUTES.
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A Striking Example of This Oftl< hi' 1
J’rosti! utton to the Money Power 1
Found In »ho speech of
Carlisle at Boston.
The history of the world could
scarcely afford a more humiliating
prostitution of the corrupt Influence
of any age than that which charactc
izes the acts and utterances of
States officials in these degenerate days,
A striking example of this official pros
t itution to the money power is found i:
a speech of Secretary Carlisle at a din
ner of the Massachusetts Reform club
in Die city of Boston on Saturday, Oct.
12. in this speech Mr. Carlisle said: *
“The first great mistake in our curt
rency legislation was made in the ac';
of March 17, 1862, which authorized th
secretarv of the treasury to issue Unit
ed States notes to the amount of $150,
000,000. This was a radical and danger
ous departure from true financial prin
ciples, if not a serious infraction of the
United States. T y. -
legislation of the U
depreciated paper, of course, expelled
specie from circulation, but as the gov
ernment had not promised to redeem
it at any particular time, it subject*’
the treasury department to no sertom
responsibility or inconvenience.”
The above statements are not e- 1
at variance with the recorded tact..
history, but there are hundreds of thou¬
sands of men and women still living to
whom those facts are familiar recol¬
lections. Mr. Carlisle deliberately
states that the depreciated paper Issued
by authority of the act of March 17,
1SG2, expelled specie from circulation.
The fact is specie payments were sus¬
pended by all of the banks Decem¬
ber 30, 1801. over three months before
the act of authorizing the issue of treas¬
ury’ notes was passed, and there was no
specie in circulation from that time
until after resumption which took place
nominally in 1879. Mr. Carlisle is not
ignorant of this fact. When he made
the statement that the depreciated
treasury notes drove specie from circu¬
lation he deliberately stated that which
he knew to be false.
There are a few facts bearing upon
the financiering of the times that may
be appropriately recited in this connec¬
tion. Mr. Casca St. John Cole has col
lated these facts and published them in
so concise a form in his little pam¬
phlet. “Cold Facts,” that we shall sim¬
ply quote and accredit to him. He
say’s:
In the Bankers’ Magazine, January,
1876, George S. Coe, president of the
American Exchange Bank of New Y T ork,
tells of the meeting, August 9, 1861, of
those who "were supposed to possess or
control capital” with Mr. Chase at the
house of John J. Cisco, the assistant
treasurer of the Y’nited States in New
York. The result of the meeting was
the appointment of a committee con¬
sisting of ten bank officers to make ar¬
rangements to make the loan. Mr. Coe
says:
"It was unanimously agreed that the
associated banks of the three cities
would take $50,000,000 of 7 3-10 notes at
par. with the privilege of an additional
$50,000,000 in sixty days, and a further
amount of $50,00(1,000 in sixty days
more, making $150,000,000 in all.”
The following figures also show that
the financial condition of the banks at
this time was one of great strength:
Liabilities.
Banks.
Peposits. Circut’t’n in coin,
York..... * 92.ii46.S0N s S.52L42S $49.73ts.9So
Boston Philadelphia ........ .. i3.t35.sj8 !o“:sk
Totals .....$125,917,20* *16.1154.749 $6 3,165,63 1
“Total liabilities $112,581,956. against
$63,165,030 coin on hand, equal to 45
per cent of liabilities. Surely such con
ditlons as these, with judicious admin
istration, were adequate to the work re
quired.”
These united minted banks had
specie enough on hand to pay 45 cents
on the dollar of their liabilities; yet
they agreed to loan the government
$150,000,000 in specie and had $63,165,039
to do it with. They oyo.i 55 per cent
more than they could pay in specie. It
would certainlv require “judicious man
e
r, r at of a common man to make 45 cents !
nts and then be able to loan
1:, cents, wouldn't U?
Well, the associated banks claimed
to have loaned the “associated people’’
—the government — $150,000,000 in
specie and Mr. Coe further says:
“After taking the third amount of
$50,000,000 by the associated hanks,
those in New York, who had at that
time paid in of their proportion over
$80,000,000 in all, found themselves in
this position:—Their aggregate coin,
which on the 17th of August, before the
first payment into the treasury, was
$49,733,990, was on Dec. 7, $42,318,010,
a reduction of only $7,415,380, and the
other two cities in like proportion
* * Tt ma >' ,Je confidently affirmed
that had the banks been permitted to
exercise their own methods, they could
have continued their advances in sums
of $50,000,000 for an indefinite period.”
Great Caesar’s ghost! Just think of
it; the banks of New York had loaned
the'government over $80,000,000 in
specie, out of a stock of $49,733,990, and
had reduced their stock of specie $7,415
380. They had loaned nearly twice as
much «P ecie . as <* ey P° ssess f’ , ™d , had . „,
the governments bonds for nearly
^ven times as much money as they
had lost in coin And, had the banks
been permitted to exercise to o
me °‘ Ulf,> c ou ‘ ll vo
their . advances in . sums of $o0,000,000
for an indefinite period.”
The explanation , of their . meth- .,
own
oils” by which they were enabled to
perform these acts of legerdemain may
be found m the following extract Irom
a speech of Thaddeus Stevens in the
Wr >use of representatives, February *o,
JA. r*r.ir
“Before the banks had paid much of
the last loan they broke down under it,
and suspended specie payments. They
have continued to pay that loan, not in
coin, but in demand notes of the gov¬
ernment.”
In another speech February 20, 1862,
Mr. Stevens said:
“The banks took $50,000,000 of 6 per
cent bonds, and shaved the government
$58,000,000 on them. They paid for the
$50^006,000 in demand notes, not specie.”
Query: If the demand notes were
not good money’ for the banks were they
good money for the banks to loan to
the government at this trying period
of its existence?
Was it a mistake to issue treasury’
notes to meet the vast expenditures of
the government under such circum¬
stances? There was a mistake, or
something worse than a mistake com¬
mitted, but it was not of the character
indicated by Mr. Carlisle. The govern¬
ment should have issued United States
currency in sufficient amount to meet
all the requirements of that trying
period. This currency, instead of being
a promise to pay, should have been re¬
deemable only in receipt for taxes and
public dues, It should have been a
full legal tender for all debts both pub¬
lic and private, and no provision should
have been made for its conversion into
interest-bearing bonds. Such a cur
rency would have been gladly received
by the people for food, clothing and
munitions of war, and by’ the army and
navy for military and naval service.
It would have saved thousands of mil¬
lions of dollars that have been plun¬
dered from the people by the associated
banks under the system of brigandage
that was provided for instead, and to¬
day we should be free from public debt
and from thralldom to AN all street
pirates.—Topeka Advocate.
the passing show.
\ rm snap shots at an Endless l*ro
cession.
Of course the recent elections have
attracted more attention than any
thing else in the grand circus parade
we are engaged in watching. The
populists were not particularly con
cerned ag to which 0 ld party won
since one is as bad as the other,
an j worse. We are interested in edu
eating the people upon certain prin¬
ciples, but what the boys out of school
do W e are not responsible for. Let
the play go on as it will. The Popu
u s ts are busy educating and organiz
; B g for the coming revolution at the
ballot-box in 1S96.
* * *
“Government by injunction” is
j n g improved upon. The Great North
ern railroad, which is raising a private
» r mv of thugs and ex-policemen to
'
mak e waT on Us employes, ordered the
coart to issue an injunction, which
was of course immediately issued
but .he peculiar urgency of the case
caused this injunction to be hastily
telegraphed to the deputies by the rail¬
road company for execution. “Injunc¬
tions to order, by telegraph” is the lat¬
est form of judicial tyranny.
* *
Here you are. An Associate Press
dispatch just after election says:
“Since it has been demonstrated
that the Democratic party is so badly
divided everywhere, especially on the
currency question in the south, Dem¬
ocratic leaders in Alabama, where the
State campaign, which will culminate
in the State election next August, is
on the eve of opening, are seriously
considering the advisability of stop¬
ping all discussion inside the party of
currency and turning their attention
to reuniting the Democratic party for
the coming contest.”
This dispatch was from Alabama,
and referred to a conference held be¬
tween Senators Morgan and Pugh and
other prominent silver Democrats of
the south who have been making a
vigorous campaign for free silver. But
like many other pretended silver men
in the party they regard principle as
a subordinate matter.
★ *
Democratic silver men must either
pull down their signs or get out of the
party. The wholesale defeat of the
Democratic party renders all talk of
reform “inside the party” useless.
Even if the party were not
divided against itself there would
be no hope of its carrying
out any measure at all. The
peopl*. have lost all ftsnfidence in Its
professions and woul d not give it an
other chance though it declared by all
the angels in heaven that It stood
solidly jn favor of free silver and all
other great national reform principles.
The gold-bugs of the east prefer the
Republican party, and the true silver
men are thoroughly disgusted with
Democracy. The Democratic party
has been driven from the field in con¬
fusion. Neither gold-bugs nor silver
men can endorse its vacillating, uncer¬
tain, cowardly policy. East, west, north
and south the Democratic party is a
wreck. One kind of a Democrat can¬
not be distinguished from another in
the general mass of obliteration. The
very name Democrat has become a dis¬
grace in the eyes of the people. Come
out from among them, if you wish to
stand up for principle. Do not call
yourself a Democrat any longer, unless
you wish to take chances of being
buried alive in the same grave with
the dead.
* * *
The prostitute press dispatches and
machine editorial writers made a great
noise about the “Farmers’ Congress” at
Atlanta declaring against silver. While
it would not have been surprising for
the “farmers by appointment” who
composed that congress to have taken
such action, the fact of the matter is
that they did not make any such decla¬
ration as was announced by the tele¬
graphic news liars’ association. The
following resolution was adopted:
“Resolved, That we favor the free and
unlimited coinage of both silver and
gold at an agreed ratio guarded by an
import duty upon foreign bullion and
foreign coin equal to the difference be¬
tween the bullion value and the coinage
value of the metal at the date of im¬
portation. whenever the bullion value
of the metal is less than its coin value.”
It is true that this resolution is almost
absolutely meaningless—but it is not a
declaration in favor of a single gold
standard any more than it is a declara¬
tion in favor of anything else.
The misunderstanding between
Chairman Taubeneck and Col. Norton,
appears now to be satisfactorily settled,
as far as they are concerned. In a let¬
ter to Col. Norton. Mr. Taubeneck says:
"Many good people have been misled
in not knowing that you had severed
your connection with the ‘Weekly
Sentinel.’ It is due to the public as
well as to you and myself that I make
this explanation.
"I desire for all to know that 1 here
by retract every unkind, uncompliment¬
ary word used against you in this dis
cussion and also apo'.ogize for the
language used and exonorate you from
;in y unfair or any unmanly dealing.
-Honing that this explanation will.
much as Dossible remain unio *he •
.. u0De . 3 ou ‘ I “ as rter ’ ”
* - !e discussion in wh*^h they were
originally engaged will probably be
continued without personalities.
a hypocrite
PUBLICLY ADVERTISES HIS HY¬
POCRISY AT ATLANTA.
One Public Act of the President
ilaa Been Conspicuous A* Tending
Toward Promoting the General Wel
fare—Wholly a Servant of Monopoly.
President. Cleveland said in his
speech at Atlanta. Ga.:
“We shall walk in the path of pa¬
triotic duty If, remembering that our
free institutions were established to
promote the general welfare, we strive
for those things which benefit all our
people and each of us is content to re¬
ceive from a common fund his share of
the prosperity thus contributed. We
shall miss our duty and forfeit our heri¬
tage if, in narrow selfishness, we are
heedless of the general welfare and
struggle to wrest from the government
private advantages which can only he
gained at the expense of our fellow
countrymen.”
The sentiment contained in the above
is good, very good, but Mr. Cleveland
has acted out the very opposite. What
act of Mr. Cleveland since his inaugura¬
tion has tended to “promote the general
welfare?”
Does the establishment of the gold
standard promote the “general wel¬
fare?” If so, robbing the masses and
fattening the classes is Mr. Cleveland’s
idea of serving the “general welfare.”
Did the negotiations with a foreign
bank syndicate to furnish gold to main¬
tain a useless gold reserve at a profit to
the syndicate of not less than $30,000,000
thereby in addition piling a gold prin¬
cipal and interest debt on future gen¬
erations, “promote the general welfare,”
or was it “wresting from the govern¬
ment private advantages?”
Was the act of ordering out the fed¬
eral army to shoot down laboring men
in the Chicago railroad strike inspired
by a desire to “promote the general
welfare” or the welfare of the railroad
corporations?
Not one public act of the present ex¬
ecutive has been conspicuous as tend¬
ing toward promoting the general wel¬
fare, but rather to promoting the wel¬
fare of trusts and combines, the banks
and money combinations.
The success of combinations of capi¬
tal must come from the depression of
the welfare of the people. When com¬
binations of capital are profitable that
profit must come from the ruin of some
other interest. Combines live from rob¬
bing the general welfare, and without,
robbery they could not exist a day.
Mr. Cleveland’s course has been wholly
devoted to promoting the welfare of the
combinations of capital, which neces¬
sarily results to the detriment of the
public welfare. It could not possibly be
otherwise.
After the record Mr. Cleveland has
made by his every public act, favoring
special welfares instead of'the public
welfare, it is not only cheeky, but
msut?to an intelligent people for him to
hypocritically proclaim his devotion to
the public welfare.
The people judge a man by his acts
rather than by his words. If Mr. Cleve¬
land had followed in the footsteps of the
immortal Jackson and seized the money
monster by the neck and choked the
life out of it, he then could consistently
call upon the people to sanction his ad¬
vocacy and practice of upholding the
public welfare. He has done the re¬
verse. He has rather choked the life
out of the public, laid waste the heritage
of the common people and aided plu¬
tocracy to enter into the homes of the
masses of wealth producers and confis¬
cate them to their use and profit. Then
to talk about “striving to do these
things which benefit all our people!”
Bosh! A man who will thus publicly
advertise his hypocrisy should have
been hissed from the stand, even though
he may, by some ill-fate to the people,
hold the office of chief executive. The
things that are Caesar’s should be ren¬
dered unto Caesar, but the things that
belong to the people they should de¬
mand and enjoy. If Caesar is not con¬
tent with the things that are his, but
seeks to rob, oppress and enslave the
people, then the sooner such a Caesaf
encounters a Brutus, the sooner the
people will enjoy their inalienable
rights.—Southern Mercury.
It is well that President Cleveland
issued his Thanksgiving proclama¬
tion before the election returns were in
—else he might not have been in a fit¬
ting frame of mind to have rendered
thanks to the “Giver of every good and
perfect gift for the bounteous returns
that have rewarded our labors in the
fields.” He asks the people to remem¬
ber the poor and needy, “and by deeds
of charity let us show the sincerity
of our gratitude.” Rank hyprocisy—
the whole proclamation. It is true that
God has bounteously bestowed His
good gifts upon the American people—
and for that we are thankful. But the
people who deserved them have not re¬
ceived the gifts—and Grover Cleveland
is one of the conspirators who has pre¬
vented God’s plans being carried out.
Why should he blaspheme God and in¬
sult the American people by assuming
gratitude to the one and fatherly care
over the other. The issuing of a
Thanksgiving proclamation is a mere
form and some clerk no doubt com
posed Mr. Cleveland's epistle after the
customary and regular form pre¬
scribed in the book of traditionary eti¬
quette for the guidance of presidents—
but the whole thing is a sham, a pre
tense, an empty formality. Real grati
tude to God needs no sealing-wax and
official signatures,
Say ’ y ® a f ti l0WS that TOted for the
democratlc j office-seekers and prosper
ity, don t you want to give your party
a ^ber chance? Come, now; don’t be
bashful, don t you want some more
prosperity—the same brand we bars
been having for two years?
