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The Question of Silver.
We desire to «ill ’!•»• i»articular atten
tion of our render* to the financial
d< *«laraiiuu of the republicans'«»f New
York. While the republicans in other
st.-n.*-*, in deference to a growing publie
aenthnent. have mule a prvtet •• of ad
v.. Hing silver a< a part **f the standard
immey of the ruitntry. the New York re
publicans reaffirm the views of John
Nl. rmau with’ill imxlifu ation. I hey
•ay:
We f. ver an honest dollar and oppose any
s' tl. ahetlwr In the n-peal of th- tux on
r l. »Mi»k ■ -u•< or the free coinage of sil
x t>. lower our •■urr-n..» standard, and
v • f«v«*. an international agreement which
s alt r* ■ ult in th- **• •• of both Jtold and Sil
veras a circulating medium.
Tli --.- wti » take auj particular Inter
est in denii- mile principles or who an*
in favor of pmnmiinu democratic puli
cii-s .xttinol fail to mne that this republi
can de. I.,ration is nut different either
in ■■-.n- or in sulraauw from the |a*i
j y :!.lv « it> d in Georgia by a few men
and a few newspajiers who continue to
call themselves democratic. The line
hetwe-n the repnidic.-ins who detnonu
tixed silver and the democratic who are
pledged t<» r> -ton* it ought to Im very
clearly drawn. It is. ind'-ed. so clearly
enough drawn in the stale platform
that no one ran imssibly Im dereivml:
ami yet. when prominent *!<*nt«wr:iis go
about the state advocating republican
tinaucial dortrhies, and when ••••rtain
fci-w-tiaiers adopt bmliiy the republican
arguments against the restoration of
silver, the average voter is likely to be
thrown into a state of confusion.
The democratic party of Georgia can
not be fish ut one end ami fowl at the
Other. What is good republican doc
n New York c.iunpt b.v any |a*ssi
l ility Im* good democratic dm trine in
Georgia. It is not undemocratic to fa
v r international bimetallism, but it is
neitln r democratic nor sensible to main
t. u that an international agreement is
al.- lately nee. ssary liefore silver can
b- restored as a part of the primary
money of the I nited States.
But what Isssmies of tin* arguments
In favor of intermiiional bimetallism >
when we . *• men who call themselves
democrats and uvwspa|M*n» pretending
t>. I;.* anxious f.»r democratic sue«*ess.
claiming that gold has not increased in
value, ami that there is no m*t*d of any
further cx|Kinsit»n of the volume of our ;
standard money? If all this In* true— 1
if ii»*re is plenty of gold on hand if
fall ng prices tend to prusqterity then
titer- is no nc's-ssity for international or
any other kind of bimetallism.
But let us see how near we are to in-
Urmtlional bimetallism. It is admit
ted by all .In* continental nations that if
England will take the initial step an in
ternational agreement can Im* arriv<*d at
v, itirilwr delay But how long
v i| it Is- In-fore England will take the
initiative? What incentive have her
business men to restore silver as a part
of the primary money of the world? In
oih-r words, what interest has Great
Britain in increasing the value of sil
ver and thereby increasing the prie»-s of
the staple commodities us the world, the
larger p -rtion of w! ch she is cumin-lied
to buy?
Let us examine into the matter a lit
tle. Let us we what interest England
has in remonetizing silver ami making
T more valuable. Tin* trouble Ix-gan in
ls7o. wln-n sliver was demonetized in
the I’nlted Stat«*s. but as that seemz to
Im- a date remote, we need go no further
ba -k than 18W. To bring the matter
b <me to the comprehension of all. we
will take the cotton crop of that year.
It weighed out when brought to mar
ket ::.«E.’>*.Uoo.<O» irnunds. and sold for
Jtptl.WMt.OOO. tin- average price Iw-ing
11.07 cents a innind. The cotton crop of
ISM weiglnsl out 11.7 |s.imk».»MM pounds
•ml sold for the average
price being 7.70 cents a pound.
Ixtok at the figures! The cotton crop
of I>sn> was pounds less than
that of l*tH, but it sold for SIH.OUO,OOO
more. What is the result of
this slump in cotton, apart from
the loss that the farmers and the
busim-sS men of tin* south sustained?
buitply this, that the country has been
Compelled «o .—-nd much more cotton to
Europe—and mainly to England—to pay
th<- same amount of debt. Now is this
a good thing for England or is it a bad
thing? Is it a bad thing for the people
of this country or a g<Mxi tiling? It is
a question of plain figuring. Is England
hurt by the fart that she receiver a
constantly increasing amount of cotton
f<.r tin- sitm- debt? If she is helped,
rather than hurt by it, what motive
have her rulers for entering into an in
ternational agreement the first result of
which would be to utterly destroy the
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; ATLANTA, GA, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 24.1894.
advantages and profits that are now
hers? As with cotton, so .with wheat —
so with all the staple products on which
our foreign trade is based.
Our business men seem to look at this
matter askance. They appear to have
an idea that a little small talk about,
“sound money” and “parity” is all that
is need<-d to set things even. They do
not appear to realize the fact that cheap
cotton in the south makes jtoor business
in the south. The price of cotton here
is the basis of business because cotton
is our staple product.
There is one fact that both the farm
ers and business men of the south
should tako into consideration —namely,
that although this country has estab
lished the single gold standard, we con
tinue to sell our crops and our staple
commodities for silver prices. In other
word*, an ounce of silver will buy no
less cotton now than it bought in 1873
no less wheat, no less calico, no less
iron. But it will buy only half as much
gold. This ought to open the eyes of
sensible business men as to the increase
in tin* value of gold, but they do not
seem to reganl it in that light.
But then* are other facts to which
they can hardly close their eyes. As
the value of silver is increased, Great
Britain and Europe will have to pay an
increast-d price for our staph* commodi
ties. An ounce of silver would buy a
bushel ami ten pounds of cotton in 1873.
It will buy a bushel of wheal ami teu
pounds of cotton now. T'he price of
these <*omm<Mlities is fixed in London
or Liverpool. In whatever proportion
I the value of silver is raists). in that
| proportion the prh-e of our commodities
lis raised. If silver is fid <-ents an ounce.
England will have to pay '.hi cents for
a bushel of wheat and fi cents a jioiiml
for cotton. If silver is worth sl.2fi
an ounce. Euro|M* will have to pay sl.2fi
a bushel for wheat ami 12.0!i cents a
I |H*und for <-otton.
That is the interest the peopl * of this
country have in the silver question, ft
is sjH*cial and important—it is pressing!
- —O-
The Georgia gohlbugs say the Ohio demo
crats will be soundly thrashed this fall. And
no doubt the Georgia gotdbugs think the
Ohio democrats deserve their late.
Flve-Cent Cotton.
Thn-e or four months ago Tin* Con
stitution, tfisetissing tin* probable as
well as the visible effects of Ibe re-es
tablishim-nt ami ratification of tin* sin
gle gold standard by the refusal of
congress to substitute <leino<*rafie legis
lation for th** Sherman act. inquired
Whether the fanners of the south woiihi
Im* com|M-lh*d by the constantly increas
ing value of money, based on gold, to
sell their cotton crop for 5 cents a p*iuml.
'fin* inquiry app«-ai(-d to worry some
of our goldbug coup nqMmtries. They
protested against stt.lt suggestions.
The Charleston News aiul Courier de
clared that the Idea ofwive <*t*nt. cotton
was pr«*|Histerous. and it math* other
remarks characteristic of the profound
ignorance that the average goldbug
brings to l»ear on the discussion of the
money question. But the farmers of
Georgia w<*ke up yesterday morning to
tliscover that tive-<*ent cotton was in
plain view. They woke up to discover
that th** crop on which they place their
main <h*|M-mienee has fallen in th** last,
four y**ars nearly G cents a pound.
M<*anwhile w** have what th*- gohlbugs
call ’•sound money” and everything is all
serene for those who get their incomes
from Itomls or from fixe*! salari«*s.
I Hiring the last four years cotton has
’ fallen from 11 cents a pound to less than
G. Tin- goldbug prof*-ssors and apolo
gists di*elare that the fall in pri<*es is
<lue to improved machinery, but we
should be glad for some of them to send
us photographs of the improv***! machin
ery employ***! in the production of cot
ton that will justify the reduction of
nearly s3d on <*very live-hundred-pound
bale sent 1o market. The farmers can
prodm-** cotton at no less cost now than
they could in 18SM. and they can pro
*luce it at very little less cost than they
did in 1873. But tweuty-om*‘years ago
a farm*-r could pay a debt of .Vloo with
a live humlr«**l-|Hiuml bale of cotton, but
now he is <*oiu|h-ll**<l to prodm-e m-arly
four bales to pay the sum** debt, or the
same amount of taxes.
Ami yet we are told that the farmer
is lM*tter off now than ever I he
has “sound money.” This is th** con
solation that ail the |»eople get when
they protest against th** robbery that is
going on under th*- operations of the
singh- gold standard. They are warned
to hold up their hands and make no
outcry b*-«-aus** the roblM*ry is going on
in the name of "sound money.” It is
as if a train robln-r should quote from
the New Testament while taking the
purs**s of th*- pass«-ng**rs.
Th** discovery will presently be made that
the business men in the south are as much
Interest***! in fair prices for cotton as the
farmers themselves.
Where (’urn Is King.
The big «-oru crop tins year in Geor
gia and other southern states is a sign
of promise. •
In the regions when- corn is king the
jM-ople are independent and prosperous.
No other cereal counts for so much as
a symbol of progress in this country.
A field of corn is tho best expr*-ssi*>n of
the American spirit of enterprise.
' Where corn grows, everything that con
tributes io human comfort is sure to
follow. When corn leads th*- way, farms
multiply, ami new communities are
' founded. As an t-loquent champion of
t this great staple has well said, the
( soldierly maize in tassel, carrying the
scabbard*-*! ears «ni either side, lias
made possibh* all the glorious victories
that have b**«-n gained for th** material,
1 moral and political profit of the millions
f whose homes are in the once silent and
> waste pla**«*s of the continent.
[ Like cotton, corn is also a king. The
stalk that lifts its yellow kernel higher
and higher toward the skies bears
greater wealth and more res*»urces of
human happiness than all our mines and
treasure-laden ships. Just think of what
a crop of 2.000.000,000 bushels will do
for labor, transportation and business!
t Our corn states are the greatest In
the union. In politics, commerce and
material development they stand in the
front rank. A writer in The St. Louis
Globe-Democrat says:
It Is well known that the corn states
have produced some of the leading mili
tary and political celebrities ot the country;
and they may confidently be expected to
do even better in the future, at least, so
far as the proportion of great men Is con
cerned. It is useless to deny that the west,
instead of the east, is now the section from
which strong and triumphant characters
are most likely to come. This is apparent
in the general drift of events. The newer
states are furnishing men who attract most
attention, and have most influence in poli
tics. We may be sure that this is not ac
cidental. It is due to definite and logical
causes, and signifies the development of
an intellectual capacity that is
peculiar to the region with which
it is associated. There was a time
When the western statesmen were
rated as amateurs and imitators, and
treated In a patronizing way b.v the eastern
observers, but that time has gone by, never
to return. The same is true as to the other
kinds of ability, and in other lines of ser
vice. We have daily evidences in this re
spect that are not to be refuted or misun
derstood. The west is constantly asserting
its supremacy, and becoming mure and
more the seat of power in the republic, not
only because of its numerical potency, but
also on account of its increased and ver
satile intelligence.
lu tin- good old times th*- south pro
duced till the corn that her people need
<**l. 'rh*>n, pros|)**rity n-igned, .Hid th**
farmers instead of going in debt and
borrowing from ye.-ir to year had money
to 1* nd. It is a good sign when our
people go back to the old policy*-which
made them rich mor** than a generation
ago. Our increasing output of corn will
be our salvation. It will enable us to
live at home, and it .will keep millions
of dollars in our pockets. We would
not dispute the kingship of cotton, but
if w*- an* wise, corn will In- allowed to
share its dominion. There is r«»<»in
enough here for two such sovereigns as
cotton and corn.
Alix has broken the record because she (?)
or he (?) was sired by Atlanta.
The Sheep War in Colorado.
A peeuli.ir warfare has been going on
in w*-slern Colorado for more than a
year.
It seems that the ranehnnn in this
part of th*- state object, to th** presen***
of th** sh«*ep men, but th** latter for
some years past hav*- been steadily
marching into tin- beautiful Platte coun
try with their (locks of sheep which de
stroy vi'getation and pollute the moun
tain streams. Last Tm-sday a number
*>f ranchmen surrounded two flocks of
sheep. They drove one over ,-t high cliff
and slaughtered th** other flock in a
corral, killing alt«>g**ther about 5.(100
animals, and mortally wounding one of
th** herders.
Tin- sheep men have armed themselves
and ar** now guarding th** outli-ts of
th** valley intending to attack the ranch
men if they return to commit further
outragi-s. There is no prospect of an
amicable settlement, ami it is likely
that a si-ries of bloody tights will take
pl.-tc** before pen*-** is restored.
Colorado has been especially unfor
tunate during tin* past two years, ami
the friends of law and Order feel dis
le'.irteneil. Most of th*- trouble is dm- to
tile fact that th*- state is under populist
rut*- ami Governor Waite has eneour
aged th*- anarchists b.v his extreme
methods ami intemperate talk. Cap
ital and enterprise ar** leaving, immi
grants shim th*- state, and tin- best citi
zens fear that they will be plunged into
a guerrilla warfare if th*- governor ami
th** jmpulists remain in power much
longer. H may bo that martial law will
hav** to Im* proclaimed in the interests
of peaet*.
Governor l-'lower concluded tu utilize Ihe
fire escape.
Conflicting Views.
Professor Taussig admits that in this
country prices hav*- fallen since the tie
monetization <>f silver in 1873. but he
claims that this decline has advam-t-d
our prosperity.
On the other hand, Mr. Edward At
kinson, of Boston, challenges anybody
to name anything that lias fallen in
price bt-cause of the demonetization of
silver.
Eorttmately, an English paper happily
winds up the wrangle by characterizing
Mr. Atkinson as “a gentleman who can
get wrong on any subject with a facility
quite without parallel.”
Some of our British cousins ar*- mighty
sharp fellows.
John Sherman will tell you himself that
he has always been a consistent bimetal
list.
Our Old Friend, the Clow n.
The fall season opens with a touch of
unaccustomed liveliness, as ii it intend
ed, with*»iit mor*- a*l*>. io try conclusions
with what is elemental anti permanent.
A wonderful downpour of rain has
washed the sumtm-r away in this region,
and th** early morning air is charged
with suggestions of frost.
After the rain came th** circus, and it
had hanlly come ami g**ne before the
bill boards ami waste places of the
town began to whisper ol another cir
cus to come, and all in adjectives ten
feet long ami ex*-lamation points lift*-*'n
feet high. Be lite season summer or
fall, the small boy is very much in it
when the circus comes to town, ami
when on** circus is followed by another
that loudly threatens to lay all other
shows in the shade, his happiness ought
to be complete.
It used to be so in the old times, and
those who were small boys long ago,
and who have had the good sense not
to permit the passing y**ars to make
them anything but big boys, have as
keen a relish for the circus now as they
ever bad. And ye*t th** small boy of the
present day lacks one element of enjoy
ment that was very important to the
small boy a generation ago. He sees a
great deal more. The modern circus is
a brilliant ami bewildering mass of all
that is marvelous, but xvheu the old
boys go, (expectation on edge and an
ticipation with its bristles up) they find
something missing. A programme, all
spangle and glitter, passes before them,
a tangled mass of color, a splendid pa
geant of modern invention. The wild
sweet cornet overbears tin- pulsations of
the trond»one as well as the clamor of
the kettle drum. The riders come and
go in throe rings, the tumblers whirl
and the dancers flit about; but there is
something lacking. The old boys look
<
in vain for a familiar face and form;
they listen for a mirth-provoking voice
that they hoar no more.
What has become of our old friend,
the clown, who was so dear to the
hearts of the boys and girls of the past
generation? Did his tribe, beginning
away back in the past when monarchs
kept their wise and witty fools always
within call, die out with the inimitable
Johnny Lolow, who died in south
Georgia a few years ago?
The circus magnates of these later
days, misled by what is deemed to la
the popular craze for the spectacular,
can tiud no place on their hug** pro
grammes for the genuine clown. They
are trying vainly to keep up the tradi
tion by cheap imitations, whose chief
ollie** is to drive a donkey wagon in the
street parade or to sing a silly ballad
betw«'en acts. But the old clown, with
an abundanc** of mother-wit and a vast
fund of humor, is no more.
And it is a pity! Much better could
the public adapt itself to some costlier
feature of the passing show. In the old
days, the clown was the show. He was
among the first in the ring, and always
the last to leave it. lb* cam** in with
every act. and follow***! even th** spe
cialists into th*' ring. ll** trotted after
the trick horses, accompanied th** p* ir
forining dogs, and gave zest to every
part of lhe entertainment.
We presum** the small boys of the
present generation do not know what
they have missed, but a circus, no mat
ter how grand and costly, no matter
how vast ami brilliant, is not a circus
to those who enjoyed the humor of Dau
Rice, Dau Costello, Hiram Marks, and,
last and best of all, Johnny Lolow.
These men w«'r** artists in the best
sense of the .word. They knew men,
they knew human nature, ami by word
and action they punctured its follies.
Lolow was a man of considerable
gifts, ami. in his particular line, was a
genius. He never uttered a word in the
ring nor made a gesture in pantomime
that did not burlesque saint' folly of hu
manity. It. is said of him that, when
Death, the great, ring master, cracked
his whip, Lolow smiled ami said, as of
old: “Here I am. like a tl*-a in a tnr
bucket!” Peace to his ashes!
His art died with him, and the man
agers of circuses have refits***! to resur
rect it. Straining after spectacles, they
have negh-eted to afford that most in
nocent ami delightful of all entertain
ments—the humors of a wise man wear
ing tin* motley garments of th*- old-time
circus clown.
It ret-ms to be about as easy for some
in*-n tu get rid of their democracy as It is
to throw away a chew of tobacco.
-*»
I’mler the McKinley Tariff.
The claim that th** McKinley tariff
protected our industries and our wag**-
workers has been thoroughly explode*!.
I’mler that tariff, half of our factories
had to shut down and wages declined
to a very low figure.
11 is a well known fact that our typ**-
writi-r manufa*-turers have been selling
their macltiues to foreigners 25 p*-r*'ent
lower than to American citizens. Tin*
American last year had to pay 25 per
cent more than customers in foreign
countries Were charged. A commission
merchant, writes to 'l'lie New Nork
Journal of Commerce as follows:
My wife recently purchased a sewing ma
chine for SSO. It was a good machine and
we did not complain of the price; but short
ly aft*-r, a friend of ours, who lives in San
l»omingo, < ame to visit us, and seeing my
wife's machine concluded to get one like it.
I went to tli** salesrooms with him and was
surprised to find that he could purchase a
machine similar to my wife’s for $22.50. The
seller would nut deliver the machine tu us,
but had it bused, addressed and shipped on
board the steamer. This, J understand, was
done to prevent Americans from coming
into the store, buying machines at the ex
port discount, on th • explanation that they
were foreigners, and then keeping the ma
chines for use in this country.
These cases are common. Cut ton
goods and machinery are sold uu the
same plan, and it is the same way with
bicycles. Oflic** desks sold at S4O in
New York art* sold to foreign customers
for S2B, and $7 clocks ar** sent abroad
for $3,50.
It will in* seen from these figures that
a hrgli tariff means high prices for the
bom** market. Our peoph* are discrimi
nated against, ami the foreigners get all
the benefit. With these facts before us,
th** democratic programme of a low
tariff should be hailed with delight by
every American citizen.
No doubt the free coinage m* n in the
next wngrtsu will have a working ma
jority.
The Value of Gold.
If th** statistics furnished by our treas
ury ar** reliable, there is only $3,000,000,-
000 of gold coin in ihe world.
Now, suppos** th,* leading nations
should demonetize gold as they demone
tized silver? Suppos,* they should de
clare that after October Ist gold should
cease to be a legal tender, ami that no
more should be coined at th** mints? A
writer in The New York Recorder says,
in answer to these questions;
Creditors would not ace* pt it as coin in
payment of debts. Governments would not
take it for customs dues or otherwise. As
bullion, the mints would not receive it for
coinage. What, then, would be the price of
gold? Bow would it be measured?
The answer.is plain. It would then have
commodity value, depending on the cost of
its production and the amount of demand
for it for use in the arts.
Not much over 3.U00.000 ounces of gold is
annually called for fur use in the arts.
Against this demand there would be the
entire existing gold coinage of the world—
-180,000,000 ounces. The supply from that
source alone—gold coin in stock, needing not
to be mined or produced at any cost, high
or low -would be equal to the entire demand
for sixty years to com**.
it is impossibh* io refute these con
clusions. All the talk almut th,* intrinsic
value of gold would amount to nothing
if it was demonetized.
These propositions are worth all lhe
study that the anti-silver men can give
them. It is impossible to consider them
without recognizing the influence and
the power of what some people call the
fiat of the government.
Allen W. Thurman is one of the coinage
men.
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Coining South.
'Uhe Florida Citizen has the following
suggestiv** editorial paragraph:
Wherever southern agents go tn the north
they find the people ready to listen to them
when they tell about the advantages of this
section as a place of residence. The general
passenger agent of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe railroad recently returned from a
three weeks’ trip, during which he visited
many points in Michigan, Illinois, lowa and
Nebraska, to fill engagements with various
persons with whom he had been in con*,
pondence. He reports that he "never saw
as much excitement and anxiety as there
is being worked up amongst people in these
states in reference to the south."
We can easily believe the statements
made by th** general passenger agent
who is her** quoted. A close reading of
our northern and western exchanges
convinces us that hundreds of thou
sands of peoph* in timse sections would
gladly com** south if they had some re
liable information alamt our advantages
and resources.
In the past we have had to contend
with many obstacles in the way of im
migration. Tht» northern people were
misinform***!, and our p**ople did not
car** to undeceive them. In fact many
leading southern**m were oppos,*d to
immigration.
But times chang** and men change
witl* them. Our best people ar** now in
favor of immigration, if it can be re
stricted to tile native American element.
We do not want to import hordes of
pauper for*'igners, but if the enterpris
ing and well-to do people of the north
ami west will come here they will re
ceive a cordial welcome, and nothing
will be left undone to make them feel
at home.
The agent of th,* Gulf, Colorado and
Sama Fe railroad is doubtless a man
of judgment, with some knowledge of
human nature. A few such men sent
ti* the proper localities would soon start
a rushing tide of immigration in this
direction. When we convince outsiders
of the truth of our representations in
regard to the south we can get al) the
population and capital that we have
r*»om for hen*.
Senator Voorliees, after using his knife
on silver, is now blubbering a good deal
over th** demonetization of the metal. It
is said that the bear who killed the wolf s
grandmother went to the funeral dressed
in deep mourning and wept heartily.
Japan and China.
'l'll*' newspapers of this country are
spending a go*al d**al of money on their
r**ports from the Japanes** ami Chinese
seat of war, but it is almost impossible
to get full and reliable information.
The trouble is that there is a censor
ship in both countries. Th** Japanese
have adopt,*d the policy ot silence, and
the Chinese ar** sending out the most
astounding lies that ever ran through a
cable.
It is a pretty tough situation from a
newspaper point of view. Here are the
Chines,* outlying Munchausen, while tlie
Japanese have not a word to say. 1 n
der tlie circumstances, the news col
lected and furnished b.v our press ser
vice will give our readers an idea, of
the resources of modern journalism. It
will cost liumlreds of thousands of dol
lars and lhe lives of many good men to
report this business even in lhe con
,lensed fashion seen in our tel,-graphic
columns. It is a. hard matter to get
the facts when one party talks too much
ami the other party will not talk at all.
Senator is a goldbug in Wash
ington and a free coinage man in In
diana.
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The Republican Programme.
In his recent speech at Olathe, Kan.,
ex Senator Ingalls said:
I want to say that T am a bimetallist, pure
anil simple, in favor of the free coinage of
American silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. and
1 believe that the republican party stands
on that platform; and I go further and say
that I believe that a good portion of the
industrial difficulties that surround us, the
depression us value, the toss of credit, the
stagnation of business, is due to the de
struction of the motley purchasing power,
and business will never be restored until
silver is replaced in the full exercise of Its
functions as one of the money metals of the
American people.
Senator Lameruu is on this line, and
Tom Reed lias intimated that he is dis
posed io become an advocate of bimetal
lism. The signs of the times indicate
that it is a part of the republican pro
gramme to make a vigorous light for
free silver.
It is evidently the winning issue, but
there is no reason why democrats should
stand back and let their opponents ride
into power on the most popular plank
of the Chicago platform. The bimetal
lists constitute the majority of the demo
cratic party. They have the platform
and all the argument on their side. All
that they have to do is to reaffirm their
allegiance to the platform, ami send
men to congress who will stand b.v it.
The national democracy has led the fight
for free silver, and it cannot afford to
give it up now and allow the republicans
to win a victory on the same issue. The
democratic policy should be summed up
in one phrase:
Stand by the platform!
editorial comment.
Lightning is most destructive in level,
open country. Cities, with their numerous
projections and wires, are comparatively
exempt.
A woman raised an umbrella at Irondale,
0., Saturday, several horses ran away,
and fifteen people were cither killed or se
riously injured. All of which but redem
onstrates the fact that a woman and an
umbrella form about the most deadly com
bination known to modern science.
It is estimated that the agricultural earn
ings of the United States are $3.190,000,000;
from manufactures. © 33O.000.000; iro n
mines. $480,000,000; from transportation. 51,-
155,000,000; ■fro'm commerce, 5160.000.000; from
shipping, sl6o,oand from banking, $200,-
OtIO.OOO.
Governor Flower took pains to talk about
the new tariff at the Binghamton. N. Y.,
cattle show Tuesday, and predicted that
it would satisfy the country as soon as it
got to working thoroughly. The free wool
experiment would prove so successi ul. lie
thought, that the people would clamor for
mon* of the free raw materials tonic. The
governor evidently expects to be renomin
ated, and as he has a rocky road to travel,
he has begun talking politics too soon.
The degrees of bachelor of medicine and
master in surgery have this year, for the
first time in the history of the Scottish uni
versities, been conferred on women. One
of these young women, who ranked third
in a class of aixty-one members, stood first
in her class of zoology, practical chemistry,
anatomy, history, physiology, surgery, med
icine, pathology and midwifery. Her clin
ical work was done in the Royal Hospital
for Sick Children, and in the Royal in
firmary. The other young woman who re
ceived a degree, and who has done excel
lent work during her seven years’ college
course, will act as medical assistant to
her father, who is a Glasgow physician.
Paris has become second only to London
in her devotion to cycling. The use of the
wheel is so general there that the French
Academy of Medicine has been seriously
discussing the habit this week. ? here are
more than 100,(XW bicycles in 1 ans and
they are ridden by young and old fat and
thin. A prominent physician drew the
attention of the academy to the death of
three persons from heart disease recently
while riding bicycles. He saia that not
less than 1 per cent of the riders are :suf
fering from cardiac affections and are in
danger of the same fate. He argued tha.
no one should use the machine without
submitting to medical tests.
In New York the other day another ex
ample of the danger of electricity trans
mitted bv water during ram was afforded
by the instant killing of a man in Eldridge
street through contact with a railing.
During every rainstorm every electric wire
becomes a constant menace to life. The
merest contact with any wet object may be
d* adiy because of some water connection
with a neighboring wire.
The amazing ignorance of the English peo
ple, as a whole, of American affairs, has
often been commented upon, and their lu
dicrous statements laughed at, but of every
manifestation of it hitherto brought to light
the following is easily the most extraordi
nary. it is taken from The Star of Beth
lehem, a religious paper published in Leeds:
"A big revolution is now going on m the
United States of America, and there is little
doubt that the government will be defeated.
The dictator. Debs, has been driven from
his palace, and he and his mistress are
now hiding in the mountains The greatest
trouble has been experienced in the capital
of Chicago, where Grover Cleveland has
obtained complete control. The railroad
at that place has been torn up and thrown
into the Mississippi river, and the stock
yard has been razed to the ground.’
A New York special says: "The Goulds
have gone into trade again; this time the
staple article is not mouse traps, but
matches. Heretofore the Diamond Match
Company has controlled the entire trade of
this country and has offered powerful re
sistance to the importation of Sweden
matches, that can be sold here for half the
cost of the native product. This company
is more than a trust. It is a national monop
oly. It simply buys outright any competi
tor worth taking the slightest notice of.
It. is more powerful than a trust in suppress
ing competition and keeping up prices.
Reliable estimates place the capital of this
company at $20,000,000, liberally watered,
and the annual earnings at 10 per cent on
the capital. This has proved to be more
than the Goulds can stand. Edwin, the
younger son of his shrewd father, Jay
Gould, who Ist said to be literally a chip
of the old block, has organized a company
for the manuf’idure of matches. He has
incorporated his company over in New
Jersey, although the men interested in it
live in this city. It is called the Continental
Match Company.”
Says a London letter: “As far as short
stories are concerned, S6O a thousand words
is no unusual price. The Idier has paid
more than SIOO a thousand words for some
of the short stories it has published. The
Y'outh’s Companion, of Boston, paid Ten
nyson $5 a word for a poem, and it is an
open secret that an American paid Dr.
Doyle $l."0 a thousand words the other day
for a short story. But of course every au
thor does not get SSO a thousand words,
and a man must have a good deal of a
name to get even half that amount. The
prices which authors receive have been
greatly raised within the last few years
by the advent of new and enterprising mag
azines. Tlie Pall Mall Magazine is noted
fur its liberality to authors, and its suc
cess, both editorlallly and financially, la
more gratifying on that account. The big
American magazines have always been ex
ceedingly liberal in the price they paid for
matter, and the result justified the ex
penditure. The old-style magazine is cer
tainly doomed, and as several new maga
zines are to bo brought out during the
next few months, the chances are that the
prices paid, to well-known authors will rise
rather than lower.”
Senator PatrH fc Walslt Talks Silver.
Savannah, Ga., September !».—Sec
tor Walsh spoke at the theater
tonight to a crowed house. About eight
hundred people were gathered in the theater
to hear him. He was introduced to the au
dience by Hon. F. G. dußignon, chairman
of the democratic executive committee of
Chatham county.
Mr. Walsh took up first the matters
which he held were responsible for the
financial depression that has recently passed
over the country. He dwelt at length on
the tariff, show’ing that while thirty-seven
senators were ready to pass the Wilson
bill as Is came from the house, the opposi
tion of five made the senate compromise
the only possible measure that could be
carried. The income of the sugar trust, he
said, had been reduced, but it should be
wiped our. He took a strong stand in favor
of the income tax, for which he said the
people should be grateful to the democratio
party and that nut only JSU.tXW.uW, but SIOO,-
600,w0 us the government’s revenues should
be raised Irom such a tax. He announced
himself in favor of the free coinage of sil
ver, saying this government should have a
financial policy of its own and that the only
ratio*, and the established one, was 16 to 1.
Mr. Walsh was frequently applauded and
was wildly and enthusiastically congratu
lated at the conclusion of his remarks.
He leaves the city tomorrow morning for
Atlanta.
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dies was seated at her piano the other night
playing, when a toad hopped up the steps,
came into the parlor and sat motionless
until the music stopped. The little animal
then turned around and hopped away. Can
it be that the frogs loVS music.
Jackson Argus: John McCallum and Joe
V right are thinking of having a laughing
match at Jackson institute some time soon,
for the benefit of widows and orphans of
soldiers Who v. wnr”
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xi. J—.iftt, ivm give a con
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Swainsboro Friday evening next.
Gainesville Eagle: Uncle Jesse Cook made
another brilliant conquest the latter part
of last week. Ihis time he slew a rattle
snake four and a half feet in length, with
a diameter in proportion, sporting only
eighteen rattles. The next one will be one
size larger.
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