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The t'onstituiiou lias no criticism n>
Ui.ike of the tin:iDci:il plan
that the president is said io lie foriuu-
Itiiiiig. Wbcu the plan is pn*sented we
will stieak of it as it deserves, if it is
for the lielielit of the |t**t»pl«*. we will
say so ami urge its adoption: if it is in
the interest of any class of |***ople, and.
llmref'*;•**. detrimental to other classes,
we shall not hesitate to criticise it as it
’I h-.- simple fact that Hie president lias
Ist-i. aroused to consider the fact that
our present liiianrial system is very
harmful to the prws|»eriiy of the country
s in itself craiifyhm. We certainly
aave !»••*■,t emphasizing this idea for two
rears sietulily. We would much prefer
to luivo the merdiers of ••otiar<—s realize
th>s. however, and Is* aldo to annoiim*e
that they had gott** to work Io formu
late M.me plan f«»r the relief of the peo
ple on tin* * financial <|tt< stiou. They
•ave always, heretofore, lievii ••liarg*'*!
with this duty. In fact, the framers of
ihe constitution put the mailer almost
n in h in their hands, and it would lie
I letter o have Ik" ti:iin<-ial plan *"*»nie
fn-m eoimre-s: bitt, as the president lias
taken charge of tin* matter in advance,
let ns h<> e lha» any plan lie formulates
will be in tits* interest of Ihe fieople.
la*t us give him lite lienefit of any doubt
that we may have as to what he will do
on this very importani qitesli«>n.
We prim the news al»*ut this as we
do aliout everything that the |s-ople are
intere-ted in. If certain news facts
prini«sl in The <*unsfilntlon are unpala
table to ihe pn*sid<*ut and his friends,
we cannot help it. We do not make the
news we print. We wish we cotthl; we
would certainly make it more eh«*erful
we ure son.etin:*"* coiii|M*ll<*d to
pjß It will afford The Constitution
S *,« ind’.cate a pur|s»se «n
tlJwk -of the pn-sident to give to Ihe
p. this «•• aniry a plan for litian-
ci;®* relief that will relieve the great
i rvs-ure that new hangs over this
<•» tn’ry. embarrassing the luisiiwss men
eT«s‘Pt a few favor**,! ones th*' manu
facturers, the m*'chani*'s ami the farm
ers ami afflicting th*' is*<*r. If Ihe news
is disa|»m»int:iig ami shows that the
president is trying to fon*stall any
lion **f eei:gr*'-s (•Miking t<» the kind of
relief the | eoph* waul and have a right
to x|H*ei. w*- shall print it all the same:
luit «.•» far as any criticism we have to
make of his plan, we will wait and s*«e
what it is.
Th** p«"»|»!e have *-lamore*l loudly for
tn* im i il relief sim-e tin* dem*»craiic par
ti came iuto pow--r. This «*m* question
is nt the r****t of all our pres**nt lr*»ubl«*s,
nml w • mii.-i express . nr regret that no
n*eml»er of c«»ngrvss lias, during th*'
past two year* of dcinoiTatie siiprmn
m\v. I**"«n «stual to the emergency to
d**vel«*p some plan io change our linan
cial sysietn so as <» give reli»*f.
It is jiossiLle that <'oiigri»ss is em
barrassed by the fait that I’n-sident
I'leveL-iml has all along taken charge of
ih*s m itt-.T. b.tt it is *»f such great im
|M*rtanee that we n-»w urge our many
I 'aib'rs io lake up th*' subject ami at
em-<* formula!*- some plan that could Im
m ide milling point in tin* event that
the pr>--.dei;i*s plan is disap|MHliilng
v. hen an ioum-* , «l.
We mo>. «-arm-s!ly eni«*r our protest
against the itditnaUoii of some *>f tin*
til. .*i il >1111)-nits I** let this subjis-l go
over, w i iiotii aciiott. to a republican
* ••iigre-s. I* would Is* a ph'.t of guilty
to he charge that lite democratic party
i- in. ,)|«.-ti.|e of handling this very im
|s»riniii question. That th** <h*m<H-ratie
I i*t - in th" present congress iiave not
l«a:i .<• •! is as leaders should, uca-otmts to
s-uiie extent forth" fact that so many
*.f our |h «»ph* w<*r»* gnttilh'd al tin* *»v««r
wii* lining defeat «*f inati.v mem
bers of that Imml.v. Tin' defeat
that came was certainly very
litiimliattiig to democrats ail over
,i>e <-wtiiiiry. Wc do n«»l lielieve. how
* ver. riant the verdict r*-iidi-r***l in the
X.»v*'m!s r ehx lion was against d**tm»-
* rati** prineiph*s. Im’ against tin* failure
**f lb*- |K'.r;y t*» make good the promises
it t:.ad-* wiu*n put in jiuwer.
X**w let it< hav** a well digested plan
in lite interest of all class«*s; let all
hamls help io make il th*' law of the
land, .imi we will Is* abb* to go liefore
the cwutitry two y**ars hence with th**
!i**|m* .*f vict**ry again. If we disappoint
the |H*ople. it will m*t only injure the
t*arty. but it will destroy it ami damage
th** country.
Nr. Cleveland and State Bank*.
A c*»rresponde!it semis us a I* iter th**
gist of vvi:i« h is *his: "1 «■*• th** staie
m**nt iiind** that Mr. t’h-vrland is in fa
vor • ‘ the r* jH-a! of til*' 10 |m*f cent tax
•m s..*t.' iKtnks. Won't y*»u endorse
him on that line?*’
M**u Inanily. Th*' t’hicago platform
recommends th** re|*eul «-f ihe 10 per
**-nt tax and The I'onstituiion would
lw glad i*» see Mr. Cleveland re*-ognize
the platform *»f his party even to that
extent. The idea that The Constitution
■ i.-is .-..me special animus against Mr.
Cleveland has ln-eu sedulously cultivated
by the Hui** cuckoos in this region who
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA*. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 26, IS9L
have been striving to convince tin* peo
ple that th** democratic party is wrong
and Mr. Cleveland right. These little
fellows would say that black was white
if they thought il would please Mr.
Cleveland. But Tin* Constitution be
li*'ves that th** highest duty a party jour
nal ow**s to the public is to judge al!
party men by the party gang** ami
measure.
We have seen the siatenu'tit inention
*sl by our <*orr**spondcnt. We do not
know whether it is true or not. hut we
sincerely hope it is true, for it is om* of
th*' imasuu's o f financial reli*'f which
the party gave the (Msiple to umlerstaml
it would adopt. Should Mr. Cleveland
declare himself in favor of th** r**peal
of this unconstitutional tax. he would
have the heartiest ami most enthusias
tic supfiort of those who lielieve that
th** Chicago platform stands f*»r demo
cratic doctrine.
lie might go farther than this ami
urge congress to restore silver to its obi
pla.-e as tin* unit of vain**, ami th** sup
]x»rt Im* would r***-*'iv«* from true demo
crats .would be as enthusiastic as he
could desire.
So far as state banks arc concern***!,
we an* **f the opinion that they should
Im* surround***! by no embarrassing con- j
ditions or treasury entanglements. They ;
shotthl Im* precisely what they stand I
for. banks regulated by th** star**, ami
their notes bus***! on th*' assets of the
bank itself and on th*' **r»**lit and char
acter «»f th** men who invest their cap
ital. Thi'i'** is no mon* reason why the
government should farm out its er«*dit
to individuals who go into the banking
business than to individuals who go into
th** fa*-t«iry or the grocery business. On
th** other hand, th,* government has no
right to say to individuals or firms that
they shall pay a prohibitive tax if they
undertake to issm* lheir hills of er,slit.
■ ■■ o
Too Great a Strain.
Ii is io Is* hopt'd that the commercial 1
agencies ar,' not mistaken in lheir re- '
p**rts of improving business ami their
pr«*dictions of a s|M***dy n-v'val of pros- I
|H*riiy.
A prolongation of th** hard times pe
riod would surely try ihe patiem-,* of
our people, ami many of tiiem would be
unable to stand the strain. Within ihe
past two years we have had mor" mur
ders. suicidi-s. defalcations and roblier
i«*s than wen* ,'ver known before in th*'
sum** length of time. Th" Americans
an* not built t,» withstand th,' pn*sstir**
of hard times. A long linaneial depres
sion throws them off their lialanee. Tin*
Inhhls of religion ami society are loos
ened. ami all over th,' country we see
men butchering their families, cutting
their own throats, holding up trains, en
gaging in highway roblwry. io say noth
ing of their forgeri**s. einliezzlements
and onlinary thefts.
It is pleasant to think that th,* w*>r<t
of it is over, ami liiat tln-r,* will soon be
a return of gmsl tim«*s. Another y*-*r
or two of sear,',' money, low prices and
stagnant industries would till the coun
try with ,'ranks, anarchists am! robliers.
Hard times make men li-ir,l h,*.-irt<-d.
Th**j- tmn a deaf car to th,* np|M*als of
th** weak ami kelple-s. ami think only
of their own interests. They yield to
th,* instinct of self-preservation, ami look
out for themselves, regardless of th,' fate
of others.
A foreign war. or even civil strife,
would not lest our <'hri<tianity and «>ur
civilization more severely than .'>**,•,-nt
wheat. -,***nt ,•otton. fore,**! idleness and
starvation. Th,' wonder is that we hav,*
m»t had mon* serious trouble in Hie
sh i|M* ,ts lawlessness ait,l violem-e.
But all is well that , inis well. We
hav,* Irid our object lesson, ami this
gen,-ration will never see another set of
men plac'd in power who ar,* on tin* side
of monopoly am! currency contraction—
win* favor til,- enrichment of the few
and th,* im|>ov<*risiim, tit of tin* masses.
Th,' jioliry under which we have sttffer
•**l all Hu* calamities of th,* past two
years is dead, and it will m-ver be re
vived so long as it )S possible fol' th"
majority to assert, their will tl.rough th*-
ballot liox.
Silver the leading Issue.
A ,',»rr**spoit*h'nl of The Minm-apoiis
Journal claims to In* reliably informed
that th*' lea*ling men of th** silv«*r states
of th*' west will make an emphatic ,I*'
man,l for an unqualified fr,',- silver coili
ng,* plank in the republican platform of
I**!**, am! if they fail to get it a m-w
party will lie org.iniz*-,! with a two-plank
platform declaring for protm'tiun and
fr*-** ,-,»iiiag<*. Th*- ,-,>rrestHimienl says:
Th- management of th** movement Is
largely in the hands of Senators .lonet*.
Stewart and Pettigrew, and they are look
ing to S nator Cameron as a -pr* sidential
•-an*ii<lat*- in the event of the birth of th*'
m-w party.
Tii,' results of the went election have
given th*- leaders renew,•*! eontidence, ns
they now bdieve they will be able to ab
sorb the r**mnants of tin- populists and s> -
cun* through the protection plank the ad
hes’on of th* lat>>r vote of the east.
Thus they hope to centralize the entire
fr**" silver strength and much of the labor
vote of th,- country. Aly informant is
]>ositive in th*- declaration that the repub
lican party will be fore* <1 , itlier to adopt
th,' silt r plank or I**- destroyed, au-i this
intention *.> rule *>r ruin is a fundamental
tenet of th*- movement. It is even .--aid
that Senator t'am.ron has already cvn
seiitt'*! to head the i*‘Volt.
i-'oliou.ilig tilts auoililccmelti. Tlie Chi
cago Inter Ocean has a slgniiicant edi
torial «*oiitaiiting th,' following suggesi
ive paragraphs:
Th*' latest market report front London
announces that Chin:, and India are in tne
market to buy silver, anti that a move
ment is on foot to corner silver in Amer
ica . «
The war in the far east cannot fail to
create a demand for silver. Both China
and Japan, the belligerents, are silver
using nations. Naturally silver is looking
up. and at least showing signs of recovery
from the i -<lr, m- depression of th-' last
year or two.
But b*-tt, r than th** war in the orient is
th*- assurance that th*- democratic party
is to be retired from th,' cares of state.
That t*arty played a gigantic eontidence
game upon the .'■'liver interest. » » • ,«?!
international agriement as to the parity
of th*- tw*» metals is surely very de;-.lra*>l«,
but if it cannot be reached, thee the
republican p-nty. when it returns to p «** r.
will have to act independently and re
store silver to its rightful place in Hie
monetary system of the I nit»-d Stat**.-.
.'•*l'.cr wit: not down, il is ib,» mom'.v
,*f tlic p,s*plc. :ii*d the masses of every
s*s tiuit ami every party demand it. Th,'
democrat." won their victor.* two y*»ars
ago by declaring for ir«'e sib. r coin
age, ami their only hope in isnti is to
put a still atroiiger silver plank in their
I>l.nform ami nominate candidates wh,»
■ can Im* relied upon to n-deem Hie
pledges »f Hie party. The inter Ocean
points otii Hie drift of things when it
, says tli.it if an international agreement
I as io parity cannot be reached, the re
publicans “will act imleitendently and re
store silver to its rightful place in the
mom*tary system of th*' United States.”
This is th*' position of the free silver
i democrats, ami it is the legitimate out-
■ com,' of the Chicago platform.
Shall we allow Hie republicans to cap
l ture th,* winning issue and rob the dem
oer its of Hi" only plank that is abso
lutely certain to give us the victory two
years hen,'*'? \V<* must send the gold
monometallists in our party to Hie rear
and push our silver leaders to the front.
If we allow otirsi'lves to lie switch,',! off
from free silver the republicans will re
gain power simply ami solely because
they are now determined to make a tight
! for It.
Over iii Alabama.
Colonel Keiibeti I-'. Kolb’s manifesto
; summoning his friet.ids from all parts of
| Alabama to meet him in Montgomery on
I tin* Ist of Ihs'cmlM-r and peaei'full.v aid
him in taking |tossession of the govern
or’s otlice might under some ,-ircum
. stances lead to serious trouble. 'Uh,* Al
! abamians. however, are a sensibh' peo
j pl,*, ami it is not. liki'ly that they will
I set up two state governments or resort
-to viol,'tic** to settle the claims of
Messrs. < tales and Kolb io the gov,'rimr
s.hip.
Itttal slate governments were attempt
ed in reeonsiruction times in more than
j one southern state, but Ihe results were
by no means satisfai 'ory. As far back
as is|2 Thomas Wilson Dorr claimed
j that he had been elected governor of
i Rhode island. Governor King refused
io give way. and called on I’resident Ty
ler f>,r troops, but the president replied
that he would wait until they were act-
■ ually necessary.
I i torr, whose followers are eailed "pojiu
i lists" in Johnsons <'yclopedi.-i. organized
his government at Provid,-nc*'. while
j Governor King remained helpless at
I Newport. The president then sent fed
eral troops into the state. Dorr fail*',l
to capture the Providence arsenal and
tied from th,' state. He soon reiurned.
and with his little army threw up breast
works mar Providence. A week later the
for,-,' sent t<> attack the entrenchments
found Dial they had been abandoned.
Dorr’s government collapse,l ami Dorr
himself was convict*'d of treason ami
sentenced io imprisonment for lift*. In
is he v. as partlottcd.
The insurgents disbanded in June, and
in Hi,' following Kept,milier a stale con
vention adopied :t stat,* const itiition
which ,'inhodied nearl.v every provision
that had been adopted by Dorr ami his
followers.
Now. *t goes without saying that the
people of \labama do not want a repe
tition of this chapter of history. They
do not want civil strife. Business is a
bigger thing than politics, ami in these
hard tim, s men are not going to leave
their farms .--.nd lheir bnsi less to follow
the fortunes of any man who claims tiie
governor's chair.
Mr. Til<!< n aeted wisely in discourag
ing those who desir<'d l-» fot',|l>lv sea t
him in the proideni's chair. lie be
Ih'ved that the p '.ace of the country was
more important than ih>- presidency, and
we feel confident that the pi i.pl*' of Ala
bama will fee! the same way about the
governorship.
’f Colom-1 K*>!l»’s friends assemble in
M-migomery it is io be h>>p>'*l that they
will be peaceful and orderly and that
ill,' supp rt,rs of Governor Gales will
lie in the same frame of mind. These
d’-puted questions in polities should be
settled by Cotti Is or legi-latitres, and not
by mass meetings.
Mr. Carlisle’s Silver Record.
We have never seen a more pitiable
di- .lav of pettifogging than that which
is contained in Mr. Carlisle’s recent let
ter .iddrrssed to :t correspondent in Vir
ginia. Ordaiarily -n, h exhibitions ex
cite iiidignution in honest minds, but in
this iit.-t.in,',' the position in which Mi.
Curbs!" has plac'd himselt can only ex
cite ’he titty of those who have watched
Hi" cabinet career ot Mr. < levelands
-eeretary *>f Hie treasury.
Mr. < ’.-p-bslc complains with some de
! gree of bitterness that garbled extracts
from his speech hav,* been made. He
I’y s. para tin r r few sentences from their
■ context, ami iiiogieally assuming that be
cause i was op|»osed t*» the absomte de
strut-lion o’.' silver as money I must be in
favor of P.-’ fr**' coinage, the advocates of
; i ,j .*■.-. <• tied currency and their synipa-
> ' ten t bl
imposing upon tin- -oiiiid.-nee of the people
in many p...ts of tin "try. 1 haw never
nia'!-' u :-!••• '-Ii or written a line in tavur
liver, nor have I
i in favor of th ti uelitNi
i <>f siher as a money metal.
ii >.i,i O' oils,-r*cd that Mr. Carlisle
do- -u’i say Hutt he never voted for the
free coinage of silver, but the whole
t,'iideney of his letter is to create the
impression ih.'tl he voted against it. The
tuisuspecting reader w ill be sure to con
clude th.ii a man who lias never made
a spe,'ch nor wriiten in favor of th,- free
coinage of silver would of course oppose
it by his vote. A more pitiable display
of pettifogging would be hard to tilid.
Mr. Carlisle became a member of the
forty tilth congress and took his seat
March I. IS*7. On the sth of November
Mr. niaml moved to suspend Hie rules
and pass a bill entitled "an act to au
thorize the free coinage of the standard
silver dollar ami to restore its legal ten
der <-hara.,.-ler.” The rules were sus
pended and the bill passed by a vote of
’ PH to 31. MR. CARLISLE VOTED
; YEA!
’l’his bill was sent to the senate, whore
it was amended by (lie republicans until
it to -l< lit,' form of what was afterwards
l.imwn as the Bland Allison act. The
i detimerats were compelled to accept this
I .-imended bill. The Imus,' passed it and
it was vetoed by Hayes. The house
p-iss-d it over the veto I','bruary 2S.
IS7S. CARLISLE VOTED YEA!
{ It was in the debate on that bill that
Mr. Carlisle uttered the protest against
i the demonetization of silver which he
■ complains has been garbled so as to mis
represem him. Acts speak louder than
words. Mr. Carlisle voted for th,* free
and m-limiled coinage of silver in ls*7.
and his speech in Hie spring of IS7S was
an eloquent protest against the demone
tizatiop. of that metal. It will stand to
his ere.lit in spile of th,' fact that he has
surrendered his convictions in order to
retain a ctibinot position. In ihe forty
eighth. forty-ninth and fiftieth con
gresses Mr. Carlisle was speaker and
there was no ne<-essity for his voting.
Mr. Carlisle was ,'lecled to the senate
and took his’seat in that body May 2G.
IS«Mt. The house passed the silver bul
lion bill June 7. IXttn, ami sent it to the
sitmite. On June 17l:h the senate, in com
mit tee of the wlmle. voted on the amend
ments offered. Senator Plumb off,'!',',! a
free coinage amendment and it passed
--43 yeas to 21 nays. CARLISLE
VOTED YEA!
So the record stands thus: Mr. Car
lisle figured before his constituents as
a. free coinage democrat. Not one of
them silspeeted that he was opposed to
the free ami uulimiied coinage of sil
ver. He imw says he never was in fa
vol' of it and never made a speech nor
wrote a line in favor of it.
And yet all the facts, and Mr. Car
lisle’s own acts, go to show* that he was
heartily in favor of the free coinage of
silver until he surrendered to the pow
erful will of Mr. Cleveland. We know
of no more pitiable display of pettifog
ging than that wliich is to be found in
Mr. Carlisle’s effort to make his record
as a representative of the people tally
with his record as a representaiive of
gold buggery.
The position it* which Mr. Carlisle has
placed himself carries its own moral.
Commeni is unnecesary.
The Lightning of the Eyes.
Mario Pro,-co, the fatuous artist, who
is now in prison in Rome, charged with
murder, is too dangerous a man to be
at large, if the Italian papers are to be
believed.
As the story goes, and there is a col
umn ami a quarter of it in a Roman
newspaper, the artist killed Anna de
Luigi. Hie daughter of a noble and
wealthy family, by merely looking at
her.
The prisoner, while painting Anna’s
potarait. was c.-iptivated by her beauty
and fell in love with her. The lady pre
tended to return his affection, but turned
out :o be an unmitigated coquette.
Pro,-co became suspicious and one day
found his sweetheart bathing in the surf
with his rival.
The artist had studied hypnotism, ami
had even practiced it upon the fair An
na. So. wlh'ii lie saw her kissing her
lover he directed at her a eoneentrated
and powerful gaze. He threw his whole
strength into that glance, and at the
same time he willed that the woman
should be drowned. In a few secotuls
she fell over into th,' waler ami expired.
This is a most ast noshing narrative,
but Proeco himself admits that it is time.
And now Ihe Roman .'iulhoriti<*s are
wot (let'ing Imw limy shall punish this
monster. Possibly his deadly glance will
dispose of judge, jury and executioner.
Evidently he is not a man to !„* trifled
with, and it may be that extraordinary
methods will, have to be resorted to in
otd>‘t' to get rid of him. Os course no
bofly doubts his story.
The Japanese as They Are.
I‘ -ar Admiral Belknap, retired, in his
ret.-nt letter to ihe New York Sun coti
ectming the Japanese, pays their martial
spirit a splendid tribute.
Hi* says that itie annals of Japan for
the past Loon years show as much per
sonal valor, strategic ability, and horoie
incident as can be found in the history
of Great Britain *r of att.x olin-r Euro
poan power during that period. Niti
taku. In,' emperor who ruled some
time in the foil' 11, <'c ttu was as w se
a prince as the great Alfred, ami did
as much for his nt'. j! *. The reign of
it > Empress Sukio. two centuries later,
was as good f,»r her subie.-ts as was
til'll of Gite, n Elizabeth for Englishmen
nearly 1.<»oo yeai's all,'!'. William the
Conqueror "'as more than equaled as
a soldier ami :ts a statesman by Yori
tonm. while mint's whose names are
easily recalled, were tile equals of the
B! lek Prim >*. Richard Cocur de Lion.
Maribot oiigh. Clive ttnd Wellington.
As hand to hand fighters n > European
taco ever surpassed the Japanese, am!
if Clive had invaded their country he
would hav" been driv. n into the sea.
Since Comm More P<-rr.v visited Japan
in 1X53. Iter progress has ben more
rapid than that of any other country in
the world. After IXdS feudalism was
:it,o| shed and the Japanese soon leaped
into the front rank of nations. Their
army is tmw the equal of the British
army in organization ami equipment,
ttnd superior to it in homogeneity, mo
bility and discipline. Their navy is pat
terned after British and American lines,
ami is one that any nation might envy.
’l'he Jtipanese statesmen have watched
•he land-grabbing policy of England,
and they tire determined that she shall
not play any tricks with Japan. It is
their avowed intention to make their
country the England of the Pacific, and
that is her status today.
Admiral Belknap calls attention to
the speedy collapse of China in the war
now being waged, and pronounces Ping
Yang ami Y.alti among the most momen
tous land and sea lights of modern times.
Tito instant mobilization of the Japa
nt so army, with its eomplele preparation
for every detail of foreign service, con
trasts favorably with the delay and
blundering of the British during the
Crimean war. and the readiness of the
Japanese navy makes a superior show
ing over the British navy in the same
war.
When the present conflict ends Japan
will take her place as on** of the con
quering nations of the century, and she
will not stand any nonsense from any
power. With her army ami navy. Krupp
gnus, strong forts and heavy batteries,
she will be prepared to drive off or
destr*>y any hostile fleet. Admiral Bel
knap concludes as follows.
T have seen In recent years the officers
and crews of English and Japanese ships
of war under various circumstances. I
have seen an English admiral handle a
tone of ten ships in Japanese waters
and a Japanese admiral maneuver a fleet
of twenty-two shit's, ami I do not hesitate
to express the opinion that were English
and Japanese fleets of about equal stiength
to meet in battle the chances would be ns
favorable to the Japanese as to the Eng
lish. The Japanese will tight; let there be
no mistake about that. The sun does not
shin<> on a more determined or more h>-
tni>id race than that of Japan. The mar
tial spirit of Japan antedates that, of Brit
ain: and hereafter, whether on land or
sea, the arch robber of the universe will
tind all she cares to meet if she comes into
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hostile contact with the forces of DM
Nippon.
The growing strength of the British naxy >
is a menanee to the rest of the world; it <
is intended to be, and as such it ought to
be crushed. The sun tlag of Japan may yet
humble the proud flag ot Britain. Such
may be the distinction reserved to that
newcomer among the nations.
This esiunate ol ihe new power in
the east will surprise some of om - read
. ers, but i! is the ileliberat,' opinion, of
j one of our ablest naval otli*'ers who has
’ made a spi'eial study of the subject.
A False Statement.
i A *'orr,>spon>lent writes: "Sim-e she
; late elections, i have been running ,*ver
. the silver and the anti-silver arguments
in my mind, and it occurs to me that I
haw never heard any explanation ot
the statement made on the stump by
at least two speakers in Hie slate cam
paign that only SX.ihiii.imhi iu silver iiad
been coined up to IX7.”*. That statement
s« eins to be important if it is true. How
about il?”
Just this about it: it is untrue in fact t
i and untrue in intention, if the staie
; men! was to th,* effect that only Xx.immi.
imh* in silver was coim d up to 1x73. \ it
was untrue in fact. If it was to the
effect that only XS.ihni.ihio in silver had
i been coined up to 1x73. il was untrue
I in intention.
I l’p to 1X73. as may be seen by the
oilicial figures primed elsewhere on this
■ page. betwei'U SSiI.tMHI.IMMI and XftO.OOO.-
ihh» of full legal tender silver had been
j coined at the mints. Os this amount.
! of full legal tender silver Ss.oilo.niH! was
liu th,* shape of silver dollars. As all
the silver coins were legal tender to any
amount, the owners of bullion preferred
to receive in exchange for it at th,* mint
dimes, quarti'rs and half dollars. But
I the mints had coined up to 1x73 nearly
, SHHi.MHUMMt of full legal lender silver.
In the few weeks of 1X73, before ihe
, minis were shut against silver, nearly
i a million of standard silver dollars were
coin,',l.
This amount of silver was supple
monied by a large volume of foreign
‘ silver coin, which was. by law. full
legal tender until 1X57. The lowest es
timate that we have s,‘ei< from any trust
worthy sour*'*' places the amount of
foreign legal temler silver al -SliXt.oo,!.-
iMMt. It was certainly not less, and was
probably a great ileal mor,', for Hie bulk
j of specie handled by the people liefore
■ the war was foreign coin.
I Om- correspondent may take tip every
, argument against the free coinage of
I silver, and when lie has run it down by
i means of fact and logic he will invaria
i bly find that it is either a false state
. meat, like ihe one we hav,' disposed
i of. or that it is based on a bald assump- !
j tivn.
A Delicate Subject.
The New York World thinks that the
populist co!igressmati elect. Howard, of j
, Alabama, indulges in preposterous talk i
when he says that Mr. Glevciaitd has ,
made .s4.im«i.immi out of monopolies be
tween ih'.' cud of his first presidential
I, rm and the b,'ginning of his present
i term, but it cannot forbear this com
i ment:
Still, the personal attiliaUons of a presi
dent and the associations -md ambitions of
an ex-pr'sid"”t who has not done with
public life ought to bo scrupulously guard
ed. It is dangerous for such a personage .
to have Beuedicts about him. The atmos
phere of "tips" and speculation, of "corn
ers” and combinations for making money
rapidly is not wholesome for a plain demo- 1
cratic servant and oracle of the people.
*tn tiie oilier hand. Tiie , iiiciniiati :
Tribiine’s Washing,,m .'orrespomleiit
; say.-, that people closely connect,**l with I
Wall street estimale the president’s
I wealth al Sti.otMi.iMMi. Th,* correspondent
{ says:
It is known that he has been singularly
successful in real estate since he cam*' here,
his little transaction at Re I Top alone .
netting him Sllt'.ti,**. The bulk of the rest |
of his wealth is supposed to have come ,
front successful speculation in Wall street. ,
lie has not speculated in his own name. ■
so far as is known, but, according to re- j
ports, has permitted his friends to do so
for him.
This may or may not account for certain
of his friends knowing of Cleveland’s in
tention to issue another .s.>«•."W'.'" 1 " of bonds
before the secretary of o,e treasury v. is
aware of it. It is not hinted that President
(’leveland has mad*' an improper us.' of his
! position. It is simply thought that he has
I taken at its tide the flood which leads to
fortune. Whatever the truth of the mat
ter. this much is regarded everywhere as
certain: No other man t ver entered puldie
life so poor as did Grover Cleveland and
acquired a fortune of such great propor
tions as is now said to be owned by him
in so short a time.
We prefer to l,elieve that Mr. t'leve
l.'tmi’s wealth has been very much ex
aggerat***!. It it* not pleasant to see the
newspapers filled with surmises and in
sinuations in reganl i«» the specula lions (
of tne highest oilicial of tin' r,'public.
Very likely all this talk will die out in a
short time, but we fully agre,* with The
World that it is dangerous for Mr. Cleve
land to hav,* BeiHMlicts about him—dan
gerous for him to live in an atmosphere
of "tips” ami "corners."
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The cuckoos arc roosting on a very low
limb now. They syem to bejnotiit.ng.
People will learn with surprise and re
gret that the president has been suffering
with gout.
It is a torry spectacle that Mr. * arlisl*’
makes of hhns. If in trying to besmear his (
silver record.
Please don’t forget the fact that the !
bankers are in business for profit and not i
for pleasure. This is im>>ortant.
Tiie Japs wrote a very mat letter to Mr.
Gresham'. It is said they sleep with their
eyes op, n an I stub pens in their tian.is.
If Mr. Cleveland is for state banks we
are with him. But we are afraid that
rumors to that effect are too good to be
true. _
Foor Mr. Carttale! If 1"' has never been
in favor of th,' free coinage of silver why
did he commit a rape on his conscience
by voting for it?
i bll ORIA L COMMENT.
Irene Redmond, of Trenton, N. J., is to 1
' have her sanity investigated because she
1 has married eight men. The majority of |
I li, r husbands ure dead, but several ate still t
living.
A correspondent of The Chicago News
! says that Mr. Cleveland treats three mem- ;
I bers ot’ his cabinet, Olney, Gresham and .
! Bissell, with great consideration, bv.t he [
j turns down all the others in short order,
j Colonel Breckinridge says he will eat his I
i Thanksgiving dinner with his daughter in
Staunton, Va.. and after spending a few’
days there will go to Washington and at- |
tend congress, lie has mate anothei con- ;
tract, however, which will come in the ua- 1
titre of a surprise to those who know that ;
i rn-arlv all the theater , makeup in the
, .-ounuy have Refused *iaierf WMadeline
Pollard. The colonel is goinS on the 1-
! ture platform under the management of
(’ D. Hess, who has made such a
with General Basil Duke, the eb.ef lieu
tenant of the notorious conf^d ® rate
Gen ral Morgan. As Colonel Breckinridge
was also in General Gordan’s command he
.•an paint battle scenes and give
, ernes of the war which will attra^,“ t ,!:
tion everywhere. The colonel > ould
nothing about his lecturing tom leaving
all the talking to be done by Mr. He...
Says Tire New York Sun: ’’There Is tlan
"•er to the southern cotton planters in < -
dueing the acreage of that staple for the
purpose of raising its price, as recommend
ed once again by the cotton states conven
tion in session at Montgomery, Ala. tne
competition of Egypt and India with ns
country in the cotton markets of the world
is steadily growing closer, and is acuter
than ever this year. If they can furnish
the article at the low prices which nave
lately rule*! our planters must either < o
the same thing oi retire from competition
with them in every consuming .-oun.ty
other than our own. Europe is far less
dependent uj>on our southern states for its
cotton than it was a half century ago. or
even ten years ago. We must retain out
place against all comers, so far as we can.
or run the risk of losing it altogether. The
Montgomery convention does well in urging
the planters to diversify their crops; yet
they must never lose sight of the valuable
staple upon which the fortunes of the cot
ton states are so largely dependent.
President Cleveland has a new word.
When any one comes to see him on a mat
ter of business now he says: "Well, now.
lets ‘spute* about it.” He got the word
from a story Professor Proctor, the civil
service commissioner, told him of an old
negro down in Kentucky who was very
powerful in theological controversy, and
was looked up to by the colored people of
that section as the ablest exponent of the
scriptures, white or I,lack, they had ever
known. The old gentleman had worsted all
debaters, and like Alexander, sighed for r,ew
worlds to conquer. Professor Proctor, with
a party of friends, happened to visit the
plantation upon which he lived, and while
they were sitting on the piazza one morn
ing the great controversalist appeared with
a pair of horn-famed spectacles on his nose
and a big Bible under his arm. Shuffling
up to the steps lie look off his hat, made a
low bow, and in a most dignified and re
spectful manner, said:
"Good mawning, good mawning. I done
coni" up ter see il any of you all white gen
nennens ud like to ’spute erbout tier holy
scriptures dis mawning."
The president was very much amused by
the story and has clung to the won!, which
he now uses freely at cabinet meetings
and in social us well as official conver
sations.
•
JI ALES ANb TALKS.
It is said that Canada lias never had a
general panic. *
. 1
The London banks have 51.159,000,000
locked up at the present time.
The Japanese soldiers pay for all private
property taken in their inarch and treat
their prisoners well. The Chinese frequent
ly slaughter the captured Japanese.
A New York woman is charged with
training her twenty months old baby to
toddle into the rooms of a large boarding
house and steal money and jewelry.
“From all 1 can learn Georgia will get
1 her full share of the immigrants that are
i coming to the south this winter,” said Mr.
Sam Hardwick, assistant passenger agent
of the Southern railway, yesterday. "Gov
ernor Northen is doing some good work
for the south at his bureau in the Equit
j able building and I am sure that good re
sults will spring from what has already
been done.”
"The most tragis duel that ever occurred
at old Sandbar ferry,” said a listener to
the conversation. "was that which took
: place a good many years ago when a hand-
I seme young Irish fellow from Baltimore
shot and killed another combatant there,
it was a question of love, and the young
men met to light it out. I have never known
what the real issue was. The handsome
i young Irishman displayed the coolest nerve.
■ He went out to the ferry from Augusta in
| a carriage with his second, and as they
’ passed the residence of his sweetheart, who
had caused the trouble, he went in to see
! her and talk with her just a moment. She
begged him not to go, but he would, and
after a few moments w*th her he returned
i to the carriage and was prompt upon the
| scene of action. The other fellow was
| there, and they faced each other fcr the
, light. They both shot all the loads iu lheir
' pistols and both were killed, the Irish swain
■ dying after a few days’ suffering.”
"The one spot of all others in the south
that is by right the birthplace of fiction Olid
romance is famous old Sandbar ferry on
the Savannah river, the historic dueling
grounds.” said a well-known Augusta man
yesterday as he lighted a cigar at the Kim
ball house cigar stand and whiffed the fra
grant smoke as it went upward in the great
corridors. "There is the place that invites
the bookwriter. Then- is the place that calls
for old-time southern literary talent. So
rich and bounteous would be the harvest, 1
should think any writer in the south today
might spend a week locking into the history
of this famed spot of earth
"The first duel that was ever fought there
was between two old time knights of the
south, who, in their flushed impulse of
youth, had quit a ballroom about six mlies
away in South Carolina and silently stolen
away to meet at the point now known as
Sandbar ferry, on the Savannah- It was
I about a beautiful young woman at the ball
they became so angered tnat the duel was
resorted to. and they secured a physician
and galloiied off with their seconds quietly
from the scene of gayety to tight. The pret
ty young belle of the evening suspected
something of the kind and summoning her
servants followed close in their pursuit. She
reached the scene just in time to throw
herself between the two combatants and
prevent the shooting. The woman in the
ease was a distinguished South Carolina
woman and was a direct ancestor of Colonel
John Miiledge, of this city.”
~"I’ think it would be interesting to the
members of the Georgia legislature to go
over to Athens and spend a day on the
I campus of the State university,” said Mr.
j John Winder, general manager of the Sea
! board Air-Line
"I have thought of it several times and
■ have been inclined to negotiate with the
proper parties about it to see if the legis-
. lators wolldn’t like to go over and view
the state’s college. There is always more
or less legislation about the university,
and the members, in order to get a perfect
knowledge of the situation, would find it
both profitable and pleasant, I should
think, to visit the state’s cherished insti
tution. The committee that are sometimes
. sent have no means of conveying to the
minds of the individual members of the
general assembly just how they found the
condition of the buildings. It is a matter
that would have to be looked into by the
men themselves, if they sought to gain
perfe"t knowledge of the situation.
"I woulu be willing to give the lawmakers
the trip and run a special train for them.
I if they wanted to go over to Athens and
> inspect the buildings and the grounds in
' a body. It may be that they would care tt»
■ go over to Athens some Sunday, thus los
, ing no time from their duties in the assem J
I bly. They could go and return the same
i day. There may be some of the members
• who have never seen the state university
' and who would like to see it just f° r that
i interest that every members of'the general
assembly feels in the state’s puWie insula
tions. There are others who would find
the trip particularly tigreafble by reason
i Os the fact that U:ey are oT the
I college and would like G visit
oi ce mor*- wh< n wlthm nw reach ot It this
j way.” »'