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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1895)
THE ADYOGATE-DEMOGRAT CRAWFOUDVILLR, GA. Bead on the Ash Heap. From The People's Party Paper. Don’t you recall, with a shiver, the bitter cold of last Thursday night? Do yon remember how hard it was to keep warm around the blazing hearth, inside your snug and cosy dwelling? Do you forget how you shivered, even between the blankets, in your Vied, all through tho cruel hours of the night? Driven to it by sheer force of humanity, did you not go from stall to stall in the barn, to see that the dumb brutes in your keeping had as complete protection from the pitiless wind and rain, as it was in your power to give? Tho dog scratched at the door: you let him in. The cat complained from the piazza, and you took her to the rug on tho hearth. Even the flowers in the pit had your anxious care, and a cover was spread over treacherous chinks. And as the furious squadrons of l the wind drove down from the ■North, every lance in the chill luig ftidc* tipped with ice, didn’t you, with motionless lips but swelling heart, pray God to pity the wrolch who might In* homeless and shelterless on such a night? And didn’t your infinite sympa¬ thies go out to the mariners who might Ik* reefing frozen sails, away off in the bleak field* of the trackless Mia? And ob, did it once occur to you that on such a night ,—auch a night! il could bo in the heart of any human being to turn another human licing away from shelter and fire, and drive him'forth to the mur¬ der of the stonn ? Yet read this: “IMhI ttnnn Ash U>»*p Iw.w f , nn.Ai>*5M*nJA. <» l)ueomber2». - Last night a supposed tramp entered Canal Hover rolling niUl in an almost frozen oondltkn Ho was ejected morning by On- night watchman. In the |]i,'re was found u white haired man. ^^ntrcnliy d< iitii »t*ly y»'un "I Bge. 'T. lying K. . - i.i-d in tragedy telo kajier in the J crowded i^^Pwies ? you couldn't (ire alioE In any given direction wilh I out sprinkling an officer of tlio law. I Civilization ? Yes, we are loaded ■flown with aii the paraphernalia of ■ ho most] complete civilization the world ever knew. Yet our brothers die at our hands a calculated, sytematin, and soulless ferocity which would ahamo a dog? Why ? Simply because, under our horrible system, property has be¬ come more snored than life. In tho theory preached in every church, Christ, the homeless vagrant, ia tho God of our worship, and the Good Samaritan is the type of man we emulate. In the system we really practice, Dives is the God wo serve, and Char¬ ity is the crumb which fal.'s after the The blizzard of Thursday did not freeze the rolling mill '(’anal Dover, nor the which owned it, nor the watchman who guarded it. The property came through the tempest without tho loss of a cent. Howl a* they might, charge as they would, shake the rattling gate* ■with a giant’s force a* they could, tb. cohort: of the wintry storm wreaked no vengeance thert. When the morning came and tin frosty sun looked forth over a U ■ numbed world, the rolling mill of Canal Dover wa? fresh as a for treas, secure and i u urt. Man built it, and around S' was the j charmed circle of the law, and of human care. ' los p near by lay the image of God frozen stark and •till; with the w hite hair of age ,1.1 whipped about the worn * . , I, , , . , * 0, . a '- tae sight.esi eye •taring in the mute horror of death, As we said, the mill was safe and souud : thi watchman hsd defended il from the uncouth invasion;—but the of the old homeless r eher there, had gone La arus; and up ra ant pathway of some star the I nri-t wfi on this earth had col where to 1 QlftJ have KhJ immortal o«U of bis* f, lllow outcast, « t cloud and bevoud the i beu you rear your son s; I mothers, when you kin* the rosy feet of your babes, do you ever dream end the ash- ! that the journey will at heap , ? And yet nothing Is more certain than that as ye ftrfw, ye shall reap; and ye are sowing the laws which inevitably lead to just such a harvest as “Dead on the ash-heap.” Money. The buying power of money de¬ pends upon the number of dollars in circulation. Daring the Rebellion there were $50 but now we have less than $23—some argue as low as $10 per capita in circulation. Plenty of money means high prices; scarcity, low prices. Prices were high during the war when money was plenty, and are iow now w hile money is scarce. The wages of the laborer go up and down with the rise and fall of prices. The labor of a man is bought and sold the same as pota¬ toes are bought and sold. If money !>e plenty the average price of wheat and potatoes will be high, so will labor be high. Debts are are difficult to pay when prices are low. Debts made when money is plenty break a man up to pay when money is scarce, Our war debt was made when prices were high and mon cy plenty. We are now paying ft off with low prices and little money. All debts made under higher prices are now being paid at lower prices; hence an unjustice is being done people fail in debt. prices Business mon whu arc continually falliug. A man market.” cannot make money on a “falling “fall¬ Making market,” money scarcer tho causes lew a ing because money, the lower will be prices. Prices have fallen since 1878 when monied men began to oppose the use of silver. It is to the advantage of a monied man to have a scarcity of money in circulation, for then his money will buy more more land, more wheat, more i anything. C. W. Corbin in Coming Nation. Sturtllng (Question*. What was Jesus Christ killed for and who killed him? He tramped all the way from Nazareth to Cal vary. He was born in a borrowed barn. lie led his disciples through another man's corn-field, These re speetablo sinners ho culled whited sepulchre*. He walked into a tem¬ ple he didn’t own and drove out money changers he was not UC quaieted with. Ho was notan under shot iff. The proper thing would have been to have gone to the mayor of Jerusalem and said: “There arc a lot of fellows over ther« selling oxen und doves. Have ani officer go .......... .... “* ..... •hem.'’ . x;: rr .5 .;, and if you please, an anarchist? * he Declaration o Inde pondenou . was not moro timely than the Omaha platform. I don t need to go around anything m it. It suits me. I, comes at the light time. It coup's before the day of serfdom. If these abuM-s arc not s opped now they rant <c stopped. * * * , .....v.....i-,r"r • S' trz , '“ l " ! '"I 1 ......‘“"li*." .t'.rh.J yo.r. Il»t, bom' ' 1 -MHit Mure 1 Iihii rro|ieri), I have a file of tho New York Tribune for 1859. In that year John Brown was hanged for an assault on Harper’s Ferry, with tho purpose to liberate, if he might, when the time should come, 4,000, 000 slaves. 1 read the Thanksgiv¬ ing sermons, and but one minister saw be anything coming; there would no war. At the meeting ad¬ dressed by Everett, and presided over by t •’Connor, a law yer, he said we co uld not afford to interfere with our southern customer*. My God, my friends, man is more than properly. He makes property, is for him. Read the statutes. The laws were ....a, lb, j.,,. hum. England takes her laws from j Rome. So far as amended, they • h ive i»ei*n ainvntlet! by the noble and the lord. \\ e borrow our law s from j England. 1 eu know how our I .ws ! arc made. There isn’t a session of of the legislature but the first day is some fhe members are touched w hether 1 * 1 ’ >v ! or not ' " kind of ■* w dv> you expect from a senate where every senator except four ane* corporation attorneys? What kind > f » job from a man you pay #5,000 ^u'doing vour busines> and who lake- • ',000 for doing his own.**— Rev. Marion W. Reed in Coming Nation. Ob forty rente Berth. A. ' ■ p. micai r , ^economy : A . M,i Ut c 0 cora lor which he get* 40 cent*. The buyer 11 • Is s four gallons of whiskv out of which he retails for sixteen dollars. Of this sum tlii? cove ituent gets $$ ms me >a 7 ; ^ro^hf .51 ,, poc j sM; th« . railroads taka #1 . i ' I the consumer get thirty days in the cooler and costs and the judge and policemen get their fees and salary for sending him there. And all from forty cents’ worth of corn.—The Populist Tribune, Butte, Montana, WHEAT 1» CENTS. . Why the Farmers A*k the Railroads to he Merciful. (iarfield. Wash., Enterprise, Sept. 2X. Wheat selling for 19 cents . bushel! Think of it! The main¬ stay of mankind’s existence, that from which comes the staff of life, selling for the paltry sum of 19 cents a bushel! It is almost beyond be¬ lief. To the Palouse county it is a ter¬ rible calamity. To our financial in¬ terests it is almost as bad as a total loss of the crop. At this price the cost of harvesting will consume the entire The average cost of harvesting a 25 bushel to the acre crop is 18 cents per bushel. Six cents to cut it, 5£ cents to thresh it, 4 cents to sack it, and 2$ cents to haul it to market, making a total of 18 cents, to say nothing of warehouse charges. Where is the farmer’s pay for the long, hard days spent in seeding? And where is his tax and interest money and store bills to come from? A rise in the market is hoped turned for, but at present all eyes arc toward the railroad companies for relief. They are now getting almost as much for hauling the wheat to market—14J cents—as the farmer gets for raising it. It may be that the profits are not so large as that, hut it is royal remuneration com¬ pared with what the fanner gets for raising it. Ed ward Bellamy, the author of “Looinng Backward,” is to tell in tbo next issue of the Ladies’ Home Journal what ho believes a “Christ mas in the Year 2000” will be like. tf The Truth About the Railroads. From tho New York Outlook, a model family magazine, we clip the following comment on the Congress¬ ional discussion of the Bill to allow about tho whole debate was the frequent and ................ a* sumption that the railroads are not paying a normal rate of interest on their cost. If this were true, there would he reason for exempting the railroads from tho laws of competi tion under which all farms stores and factories are conducted. But the facts contradict tho assumption. The most recent railroad authority —Van <Wk ‘American Railroads as Investments’—says upon this point (pages 138 and 189): “ ‘The mere fact that American trr srjjr Hence American bond, return of (1.50 now actually an average upon the real investment. . . . The above rul(lt( „ oll | y ^ bonds, but we will show that the same conclusion must be arrived at concerning shares. shares, according to‘Poor's Manual,’ now pay 1.80 per cent, on the aver ago-apparently no high figure. • now ill existence, the original mves- *...........-......... Mr. V.n Oat .ri.„, ,.ol .. . Wc.l.rn .,,ii l.„t », of the methods by which American the general public. llase Tsurpatton of Office. .. ...... . ’ v»<. , 11 nor aviMBson utras to Have been prompted by no higher in ecu live than to pay a political debt. Mr. Worry is the son of a weaithv SS banker ,1 of N'cwnan “kinVonTSmSfcrn • he contributed a to fund, lie N said to be a nice young man spent a year at school in New fork raveled a year inspecting the art galleries of Europe and, on one or “evasions, has been in the oun house m Atlanta, whore he NowR at bmly the Geor requisite* "‘e governor in thinking the above of sufficient couut to entitle “ u * r ' ; a Jb’rry ‘ ermine, to fK» clothed 8", marshaled with the jn- by Senator \ enable, of button, the ^uumUee had the nerve to reject ’ * p udi , g " enior s unworthy pet, for . w “ * 11 * 1 al| 3 a great how i of indiguation is being ,41s< ' ‘ few of the “ me too’*,' *"° ‘‘ave no convictions save those actnated by hope* of rewxird or fear of punishment. Govern©! .Ukitw>n has no right W his p. ducal debts by thrusting incompetent friends upon me people, and such wn.s as have taken place in Georgia's capital recently, the ac counts of which have been given oat through the press, are not likely to place any fresh laurels around the brow of the chief ex eeutive. j I he i sines-Recorder _ i - is in . favor of Aii l» of •rgta thanks, extending the senate a vote or at least that por- ! ot tb * 1 honi>r * l>! « l «x*r who W T <?n00 S h ** powers of the governor m j 1 their manly alte S pt H- thwart 3 in in bis unholy an "O usshwful usu Sr a tion of executive (Dem.jJ «nto,5rity.—Times Recorder . . Cum ac| dffrtn. In other word™ p<j r the two plans, (that «f the off Ifnptroller the and of the secretary this government i tfdled upon to guarantee these banks fin the case of national banks at least) forty-two millions annually for nothing. In still other word*, thi- govern merit is called upon to give a bonus of forty-two million* per annum lending to whomsoever is in wte money business, all oUwhrth forty-two mil lions per annum is to come out of the pockets of the peop'o and their in¬ dustries, and for no good whatever, as a gift outright wilhout compensa tion of what preserved to our people and t their in dustries. The above word {’shameful” does not cover a case li e this; it is a recommendation ,i out-and-out robbery! d. said in the Then, as The Iu case of the comptroller ’ swcommendation, the very weaknegfP^ exjMw; president conditions de¬ of plores in the the nation’s financier, their not per¬ government mitting an easy mooed redemption in gold of coin, the still exists—b&Qn aggravate'fdegrees, (Afar more in dan¬ the gerously recommends bank money he to re¬ place it. u If the government finds difficulty in maintaining gold payments payments and and endeavors endeavors to to put nut tfiat t» responsibility upon the shoulders of private banks, how can these latte!' with their lesser resources and credit, do what tho government finds mT much difficulty in doing? today the with The fact is, as case national bank paper money, not a dollar of this proposed bank paper money would be redeemable in gold coin. doc, the gold b„i. reccommendation w—we say it re gretfully and with sorrow-but a few, a very few degrees removed * * undoubtedly, either ha which lgn orantly or advipdly, it is.-Phil adelphia 1 Item. -—- Trying the Name Old Tactics. All appearances indicate that the p [i, reH ident is favorite* gotlihg ready to of bring co* bear hli tactics ercion antl bribery on congress in or( j er t0 f orce passage of the cieveland-Carlisle currency bill. A ^q W York dcrqncratie newspaper yesterday printed » dispatch Washington from its special oorrespomkjnt in lnilking the folf g statement: ^ _ a-1 b lddil m in^ o7dw^that thev^v y * S t akem t," ca o of hv hi .hl n ” a.v nro^nt from hia P “ Junk im et ' ; , , wrcck ^ ck thc tb «‘".anual financiil credit credit of of the Z na- n l nffistries He wRlInd Tlmwlrv tiata with him w ?v„ jKSSf S f il^ K l offices at his disposal to secure sun The press has shown that the Cieveland-Carlisle bill, with its pro rr banking w“ svaUnuti. SShilitt bio to tho nnaacial 4al jggbihty «f of the , I "Red btates. -Tl he M$spiont>Ie and di *henest tactics to which the admin mtrVion JovaTiwIb^n i# ^ ^ P™paring to ' h ?n ^ “J“J mjLSe haiJdT¥he nTc«si v MMrew of reck* de ' 8 l aU b *** rds - f®°“ , , . C!llm j n theUousfc ll it steta fo the *»***--*«..... that body, armed with the power of ' - _ Since free coinage waa suipended in Jane, 1893, India has* beem unable to export enough product to pay her gold interest, but haa been compelled to borrow #50,000,000 to pav inter ,.*t on her gold obligations during the last year, and she must continue to borrow and increase her debts : under the gold stamlaixl. The United I States baa been coinpelled to borrow 1 $58,000,000 by the sale of $50,000, j 000 5 per cent bonds and has $50, 000,000 less in the treasury than she had a year ago under the same tariff laws that were formerly in force. It i* impossible for the United Slates to export enough product at gold prices to pay interest on either foreign or domestic debts. There ia no wav of debtednesa avoiding a continuous increase of in but by the free coiuagi of silver, and that can oniy be had through party.—William the efforts H. of the'populist Stewart. The failure of large business firms AUanU are indications of the “better times” pronged. ► “ ■ OBli to TION ANB M CONSUMPTION. The Cold Standard Has Knined Prices Beyond Measure. a careful analysis of the statistics of wheat production, as furnished by the department of agriculture and other reliable sources, dees not show an increase in the world’s per capita production, while in the United States there has been a great falling off. The following chart, No. 0, is an object lesson in wheat production which will bear careful study. From the reports of the secretary of agriculture and other official sources showing the total product, acreage, price and amount exported, and the world’s production for the years named, has there been over production ? V>ar Price Bus Price average. Bush ( ^r Acr'af^per^ pej^ rsw-78 *u» io list ml hi*’:* l m>> m io \7i K 3 &£$ c S3 EXPORTATION OF WHEAT ANT> FLOCK. liushds wheat Value sills .............. mjasym $1 46,270.«G7.OO .... ..........io8.i8i.aifl 1HO,632,640.GO .................:3{,fl«&,Hl2 .................233,284, !£8 J 4 4,023,804.70 ...............300,222,804 lOd, 118,076.12 WHKAT PRODUCTION IN INDIA. The following figures are derived from the “Final Memoranda on the Wheat Crop of India,” issued by the “Revenue and Agricultural Depart¬ ment” of India: Fean. Area Product. acres. Bush, of «*0 11 m?. 1881 R# . . . . 87,(00,228 290,158,684 1885-88 . . . . 27,407,742 258,317,82 i 1HK* K7 . . . . 28,8:15,484 208,685,047 ISH7 88 . , , . 2«,«H,8K2 260,882,112 18SS80 . . . . 25,011,700 237,522, 133 18X0 00 . , 26 , 778,000 228,602,000 1800 01 . , 20.424,000 203,108,000 233,134,007 1*02 . . world’?* PRODUCT FROM DOnNBrSCIl’H, Year. Quarters. 1H1*1 . . . . . 230,310,000 1KM1 . . . . . 250,000,000 1SK2 . . . . . 2-40,234,000 lSlfil . . . . . 235,600,000 It will be seen that in 1880, with a ‘“deS, "t K“.b d 9 '!5.7"pe* b c“ h ' 1 o, A, a f inou,lt Ir ‘ ^ 0 ^ Reduced eve , r , known the , largest ,n ‘$ „ e , . r P™ duced - T he world 9 ^ was hirge yet f we got Ht ce ts a bushel on the average, or $12.86 per ^re, a loss of 11 cents a bushel since 1890, but a larger price per acre on Contrast^thhTwUh 1893* with over onp third ^ less tu/euSTapiU production A iiTX yield United States ‘ and a decreased world’s f .J A’ , j vet the mice has fallen ■ bushel the value nt8 a and L , , 6 a fall 31 percents r bushel and $6.70 per acre in two • the rule of asTcause Surely overpro Auction offallmc prices dilator of 1. out our ports of wheat show a marked in crease. There is a falling off in due probably to the short crop and the under consumption in Eu rope on account of the hard times which prevail there also. Yet our exportation J in 1893 reached no m an fi if „ ure of 200,000,000 bushels 189o! which nearly twice that of has been an enormous increase in the izislz: ^ ^ ^”irc,l2 “ 7 by“E " *•« mwoMUlhl <wpm. oamp.igD "hewing the wheat production of In d,d Pacing less wheat whc today “ w he than at she was , , £eed their wheat to stock because there is no demand for it.” IIow do account 0 for rt that'* * 0n tko sa ™ e Pj' . ,n ? 1 P le 'hat , we ao CO, ! n f ° r the closing of the nulls f their* 3 OoMboII products, tlmy would not sLnl dowu ' II 13 because is no market that the wheels 0 f industry have ceased to move. There is no market, not because there is no demand for products, not etc., and are anxious to buy. The from Ihoice that the farmer surround himself with home com forts aud educate his children in the same schools and colleges as dot's the banker and security-holder, but from sheer necessity. On the same rule, it is not from choice that the workingmen patron ate soup-houses, and go half-starved, They would be only too glad to buy anil consume more of the products of the farm, in both cases the lack of money with which to buy the I products of the other compels both ; to under-consume. It is not production which has made trade stagnant, but under-consumption. The per capita consumption of wheat in this country, according to the treasure statistics, was 591 bushels m 1893, and 485 bushels in 1892. Here is a decrease of 1.06 bushels id one decrease year; multiply the per capita by population, 67,000,000, and we have 71,550,000 less bushels of wheat consumed bv our own peo pie. As the hard times also prevail in all countries which have adopted the gold standard, it is natural to suppose the same ratio of under* consumption will prevail abroad. The per capita consumption of i n was 30.33 bushels, and i n ig 9 3j 23.66. bushels. The de crease is 6.67 bushels per capita, or 550,225,000 for the whole people, if we put a value of 50 cents a bushel on the wheat and 55 cents a bushel on the corn, we have $45,- 775,000 worth of wheat and $202,- 601,250 worth of corn taken from the home market of American farm era by the lowering of wages and shutting down of mills. The farmers of America have lost more than $238,000,000 from their home mar ket by under-consumption. Add to this the great fall in prices, and is it any wonder times are hard? The same effect has been felt in the two great staples imported into this country. The treasury statis tics show that the per capita congun[1 p t i on 0 f sugar was G3.5 pounds in 1S92 and 63.4 in 1893. The reduction was one-tenth pound per capita, or 6,750,000 pounds, val¬ ued at $339,500 . The per capita consumption of coffee was 9.53 pounds in 1892 and 8.25 in 1893. The reduction w as 1.38 pounds per capita, or 93,150,000 for the Ameri¬ can people, and this was valued at $287,500. Taking the two great do¬ mestic staples and the two great im¬ ported staples ia America, and $263,918,250 worth of food product was taken from our American con¬ sumption in one year. The statistics for 1894, when com¬ piled, will no doubt make as bad, if not worse, showing when compared with 1892. There has been less work and greater reduction in wages and necessarily more economy in living. mischief is di¬ The whole of this rectly chargeable to gold monomet¬ allism, which compels the producer to pay his debts and support the gov¬ ernment on a gold basis, while sell¬ ing his products on a silver basis. It is only countries wriiich have adopted the gold basis which are thus suffering, except as their mar¬ kets may be shut off by the inability of the people in gold standard coun¬ tries to buy their products. Countries on a silver basis, like Mexico, India (until the recent action of Britain in closing her mints to the coinage,) China, and other Asiatic and South American "countries, get just as much for their silver products measured by the silver standard as they did twenty years ago much Silver also will buy just as of the products of labor in the mar¬ kets of the world. It has not depre¬ ciated in purchasing power, but in debt-paying power only, in countries which have made gold the unit of value, or measure of price. It is not silver which has depreciated, but gold which has appreciated. The purchasing power of gold and all money, debts and securities based on it have doubled.—J. W. Wilson, in iutfin. Field^and Fireside. Veiled President. Down anyd the brackish water and marshy shores of the Carolina swamps President Cleveland is rest¬ ing from the effects of his elephan¬ tine message. What he is doing there will never be knowD, for no one is allowed to speak to him. The mayor of Charleston with a delega¬ tion of prominent citizens went out to bid him welcome to the state and to extend to him the freedom of their city. But when they reached the light house tender which the President is using contrary to law and precedent they were met by the fiery Captain Evans with the an* nouncement that could not even board the vessel. So they handed over the gunwale a large horse shoe of white camellias which they had brought to the president, and de¬ parted a sadder and a wiser delega¬ tion. Xo eye must look upon Gro¬ ver Cleveland in his present trip. The place of his retreat has been carefully selected. It is among the overhanging trees where neither sun nor moon can look upon the face of the consecrated one. It is under¬ stood that his companions upon this trip, Dr. O’Reilly and Captain Evans, are when compelled to wear green glasses in his and that the bird dogs are fitted out with blinders. Even the face of the clock in his stateroom it* covered, and potatoes are barred from the bill of fare, be¬ cause potatoes have eyes. When Mr. Cleveland goes up on deck it is an elaborate ceremony, for lines of scouts are thrown out to scour the neighborhood When and arrest all intruders. he fishes the fish have to be blindfolded before they can be taken into the boat and the birds of the air wear hoods. \\ hat he is doing can only be con¬ jectured. Perhaps he is reading over that old message of his about the and dangers of a treasury give thinking how much he would if he had that same surplus he was bothering over six or seven ycars ago. Perhaps he is wondering ' s sa ^ e 80 near presence of Senator-elect Ben Tillman. But it haa been at least two weeks since be has taken a vacation, and he needs the r ^t.—Ex. Railways Made Money. A preliminary report of the Inter state Commerce Commission on the expenditures and income of railways in the United States for the year has been issued. ' past The report contains the returns from 570 operating companies whose reports were tiled on or before No vember operations “3, 1894. and covers the j : of 149,559.21 miles of line, or about 85 per cent of the total operated mileage in the United .States. The trross operations of the 149,559.21 miles of line represented were $949,639,075, of which $309,- 137,142 were from passenger ser¬ vice, $617,958,498 were from freight service, and $22,420,298 were other earnings from operation, covering receipts from telegraph, use of cars, switching charges, etc. The operat¬ ing expenses were $643,428,331, leaving net earnings of $306,210,744. Reduced to a mileage basis, the earnings from passenger service were $2,067 per mile of line; from freight service, $4,132 ; total gross earning, $6,350 ; operating expenses, $4,302, and net earning $2,048. A compari¬ son of these items with similar re¬ sults from the complete report of the previous year shows a decrease per mile of line in earning from passen¬ ger service of $53; in earnings from freight service of $774; in total gross earnings of $840 ; in operating expenses of $574, and in net earn¬ ings of $266. The number of passengers carried was 505,285,446; passengers carried one mile, 12,889,936,578. Xumber of tons carried was 571,955,942; tons carried one mile, 70,426,214,965. That there has been an increase in passenger traffic regardless of the commercial depression is due to the unusual amount of travel in July, August, September and October, 1893, on account of the World’s Columbian Exposition. The num¬ ber of tons carried one mile per mile of line was 470,893, as compared with 551,232 for 1893. These fig¬ ures show the decrease in the volume of freight traffic occasioned by the demoralization of business through¬ out the country. The net earnings available for the payment of fixed charges and divi¬ dends was $306,210,744, a3 against $350,766,607 for the same roads of of the previous year, a decrease of $44,555,863.—Xational Watchman. Xo New Party Needed. The People’s Advocate, of Ripley, Teun., talks sense on the matte)- of a new party. It says : “Talk about a new political party; such nonsense ! The people’s party, a child of necessity, is meeting every demand of an oppressed people. Two million American sovereigns are now marshalled beneath its ban¬ ner. It has broken the solid south, and forever riveted itself upon the agricultural west. It is the only party which has an outspoken posi¬ tion in favor of the free coinage of silver. It is the only party wdHf" denounces the unwarranted curt^B of national banks over our it seriously fact, it warning ia the only the party people whi^B agaS the corrupting influences of monq olies and the dangerous encroac] ments of concentrated wealth. 1 “To ask 2,000,000 voters to sun render their organization is presumpt uous! It means that a class of mei who have been convinced for quitej idel while that the people’s scheming party i were correct, are fgg wav, y. instead of their who con^ »"* r v ( * are men force lead,you know; and unless they can us to surrender our organiza¬ tion and deliver ourselves over td them, they will be deprived of can'* thi glory of leading. If such men come into our party ranks and <1 battle irom the trenches, let thdl stay out. Without their aid we hm organized we have succeeded a powerful in national estab^Bi} pjA our minds reform of the ideas laboring in the rnasseB he^HBf and now they they see otir powerful comrmSu THI seek to assume than “Nothing would please us more to see every free silver advo¬ cate in the land come boldly over to our but we this presumptuous demand that 2, 000,000 voters disband their organi¬ zation and deliver themselves up to a few politicians, who are too nnpo litic to face their duty and come over to the people’s party.” Constitutionality of Labor Laws. Judge Traux, in the chamber of the supreme court in New York, gave a decision Saturday loth inst., upholding the constitutionality of last! the; law passed by the legislature April providing that all stone, of any used in state or mcipal works within the state, or which is to be worked, dressed or carved for such use, shall be so worked, dressed, or carved upon the grounds where such works are being carried on, or within the boundaries of the municipality. He also upholds as valid another law passed by the last legislature, that none but citizens of the United States shall be employed by the state or any municipal corporations, or by persons contracting with the state or municipality, made and that every contract by the state or mu formance niciDality corporation for the per¬ of public works must com ply with the requirements of this law.—^ alley Record, Br. Parkhnrst aua Women. Hr. Parkhnrst has entered into a contract with The Ladies’ Home Journal by which he will practically become a regular editorial contribu to that magazine for some time. The great New Pork preacher save that he has for a long time past been des * roa f of saying some veryneces ®ary things to women, and he now “enounces that he will say them through these articles. He will take «P all the social, moral and equality 9 uf ' st ‘ ons which are so uppermost in l!ie of tl3e women today. Dr. Rarkhurst will begin this work at once ' first article appearing in the next issue of the Journal. tf this Get yonr^ghbor to subscribe for ° paper 4
