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ARE ARTS OF PEACE LESS IM-
PORTANT THAN WAR.
AH Argument! Adfwwwl on Behalf of
the Gold Standard Are Built On
Prophecy — Senator Jones on the
Stand.
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Senator John P. Jones, In summing
up bis grand plea for bimetallism at
tbe Brussels conference, said:
"All the arguments advanced on be-
half of tbe gold standard are built on
prophecy, those on behalf of tbe double
itandard on achievement
"The advocates of tbe gold standard
rely on what they suppose may happen:
"Those of the double standard rely
on the facts of history."
The facts and achievements he had
amply elucidated in that great address
which the Belgian delegate so praised
by saying immediately after Its close:
"Gentlemen, after the remarkable
speech which you hare just heard lit-
tle remains to be said. • • • It Is
oot only a monetary treatise. It is a
itudy of social economy."
Senator Jones' words may well be
heeded by many very earnest, very hon-
est friends of bimetallism, who halt
and doubt and block the way to suc-
cessful American action by their fears
that we cannot succeed independently.
Some of them actually advocated tbe
teBtructive policy of trying to force con-
current action upon foreign nations by
cheating sheer distress and making tt
so universal as to compel action. To
such the idea of our being even tempo-
rarily placed upon a silver basis was to
relegate our country to the social, eco-
nomic, and moral level of Mexico and
China, ss though the prosperity of a
great poaple depends upon the color of
the monsy they use. But they Ignore
the facts of history and of current
events. Mexico to-day affords the most
promising field for the investment of
money among all nations, according to
reports, and upon a pure silver basis.
France pursues serenely her course
unaffected by panics, weighted down as
she is by the greatest national debt and
by her vast naval and military arma-
ment, and able to assist her powerful
neighbor across the way by a loan of
gold to help avert a monetary panic Im-
minent when the Barings failed. The
panic-breeding system adopted by the
United Kingdom has time and again
exposed its weakness, while the
strength of the French system is mani-
fested, for it provides money Instead
of wind upon which the Industry and
commerce of that great people secure-
ly rests. France honors all her money
and provides a sufficiency, and her
funded debt is so wisely distributed as
to become a basis of emergency credit
among the common people.
No man can demand an exchange of
one kind of money for another, for their
Idea of parity Is unlike that of our
thimble-rigging American financiers,
who might wisely study the money
question In its social and economlo as-
pects, instead of by ways that are dark
and tricks that are vain making its
acquisition the sole object of their
lives.
The recent history of our own coun-
try in the civil war, where the might-
iest creative and destructive energies
ever recorded were developed by a
creation of a great Instrument—money
—in sufficient quantities to promote all
the activities of a great people without
gold and without silver, all appear to
be forgotten.
In returning to specie payments,
what kind of strange delusion was ex-
tended over the brains of such a peo-
ple as to tolerate for a single year after
Its discovery in 1875-'6 the nature of the
fraud of 1873?
With the knowledge of the mighty
power of sovereignty exercised to main-
tain the union of the state, why should
they doubt as to the power of that sov-
ereignty to save and preserve as equal-
ly great as to subjugate and destroy?
Are the arts of peace of any less Im-
portance than the arts of war? Are
the powers of our government greater
for the conduct of war than for the
conservation of the peace and prosper-
ity of the people? Is political indepen-
dence of foreign power more important
than financial Independence?
Our claim Is that the United States
can alone act, with greater credit, with
greater success, than with concurrent
action of other nations, and we have
abundant evidence to justify this faith,
The remarkable admissions of the Sta-
tist (London) recently, and those of the
Financial News (London) a year ago,
and such able men as Mr. Henry Hucks
Olbbs, and Mr. Morton Frewen, all go
to sustain us in this view. But the
facts of history prove It.
Why, were we to adopt the money at
"Ideal excellence," as Mr. W. P. St
John calls properly made national pa-
per money, and properly guard its is-
sue and discard gold, the republic
would soon outstrip the world in its
onward march, and International ex-
changes could be settled by our prod-
ucts enhanced In value and created in
a volume sufficient to do it with our un-
used gold. But the absurdity of being
upon a specie basis with one-half of the
specie dishonored necessitates a revi-
sion of th« Idea possessed by too many,
that governments are ordained for the
benefit *f fund-holders exclusively.
We need a recurrence to tbe fundamen-
tal principle "that government Is, or
ought to be, instituted for tbe com-
mon benefit, protection and security of
the people," as enunciated by the fath
ers of the republic. If It becomes a
contest between the powerful few and
the mass of the American people as to
which shall control the destinies of this
republic, who can doubt the final re-
sult when American manhood asserts
itself?—J. W. Porter, In The American.
A Just Rebuke.
Miss Kate Field in her Washington
speaks of the populists as the "dis-
gruntled tailings" of both political par-
ties." We are very sure Miss Field haB
read history, and that she has noted
the fact that, springing in protest out
of the present which has been nour-
ished by the past, has come every re-
form and all reformers. Using her synl-
clsm we could mock every noble effort
of humanity to make better Its condl
tlons. We could even sneer at thq
great Oalileean who was pre-eminently
"disgruntled" with the two old sects;
those scribes and pharisees. The cul-'
tured editor of the Washington caq
not be excused for her contemptuous}
treatment of ths reformers of today'
Her vision is too broad, her historic
sense is too keen, to charge her with'
lgnorantly reviling the two million
men who demand a more complete as-t
cendancy of ethics in our civilization;
Her offense consists In yielding to the
rule of the popular of this culminat-
ing age. She Is foolishly weak In this
particular, and by so yielding sh^
weaves the shroud of oblivion for her-
self and her paper. Just so did thosq
Boston editors who reviled William!
Lloyd Garrison In the fifties. William.
Lloyd Garrison's cause triumphed,'
however. He Is today one of the few
immortals yet given to American his-,
tory. Those fastidious journalists and)
publicists who regarded him as al
despicable "tailing" died when their1
their hearts stopped pumping, and
Garrison lives growing greater with,
each generation. We remember well,
years ago, how all that Miss Field
wrote and spoke had the elemental
strength of reform In it. Her love for
humanity was apparent in every para-i
graph. How much we regret the grad->
ual hardening of her heart we cannot
tell. Inevitable petrifaction must follow,
if revulsion to the snobbery of th«i
national capital does not take place in
her. She Is young enough to see the
"disgruntled tailings" In possession of
every state legislature In the republic,
and even in possession of the executive
mansion at Washington. She ought t<^
know this. She would know, if she
had not been blinded by the glamour
of a corrupt capital and the flattery
of a frivolous and flippant "four hun-
dred" who have no more real life and
love than the vegetables of our fields.
The "disgruntled tailings"Indeed! Such
an invidious metaphor is beneath a
woman of such general strength of
character.—Progressive Age.
Tbe Theory of Overproduction.
An attempt has been made to account
for the fall of prices upon the theory
that there is overproduction. It Is un-
reasonable to ask us to believe that
there has been an overproduction all
along the line for twenty years, and the
fact that millions of men have not
enough food or clothing Is sufficient to
demonstrate that the theory is absurd.
Take wheat for example. The belief is
general that this country constantly
expands Its wheat growing area. In
truth, we had 2,000,000 acres less In
wheat in 1890 than we had in 1880. The
wheat crops of the world are not ex-
cessive. They do not Increase as fast as
the requirements of the population de-
mand. Here are the figures for ten
years:
1884 2,060,077,697
1885 2,063,502,925
1886 2,193,997,000
1887 2,227,415,000
188 8 2,212,843,000
1889 2,085,505,000
1890 2,170,123,000
1891 2,359,294,000
1892 2,392,727,000
1893 2,359,636,000
It is urged that Russia and India are
pouring out wheat in extraordinary
quantities. In truth, the exports of
Russian wheat, last year, were less than
in 1890 and 1891. India began to export
wheat only after 1873. She does so
because her great annual tribute U
England, like ours, is paid in commodi-
ties; and as prices fall, a greater quan.
tity is required to pay tbe same amount
of debt. India and Russia are famine
countries. The people have no surplus
food for export. When they do export
food, they do so because they must, not
at all because they have more than
they can oat.
Don't Like the Maflons,
Monsignore Boeglin, director of the
Nouveau Moniteur de Rome, recently
suppressed for an attack on the gov-
ernment, has been sentenced to two
years' Imprisonment and a fine of 2,000
francs on account of an article In tha#
paper against the Freemasons.
WRITING TO NEWSPAPERS.
One Good Deed*
Mrs. De Ruffle—If you ever did any
good in this wide world, I'd like to
know what it is.
Mr. De Ruffle—Well, for one thing,
I saved you from dying an old maid.
Down 'with all kinds of monopoly.
"Aunt Roxani" Few Word* of
Commiseration on the Aothors.
Aunt Roxaoa Sheldon laid down the
monthly periodical which she had been
perusing, and looked over her specta-
cles at her niece, who sat crocheting
In the other window. "Vandeely," she
said, "where do you suppose the folks
that send these questions to the house-
keeper's columns in this paper was
brought up?"
"I don't kno*. I'm sure. Aunt Roxy,"
replied the niece, with a slight blush.
"Vandeely," said Miss Sheldon, after
another keen glance over her specta-
cles, "hev you ever sent dny sech ques-
tions to one o' them papers?"
"Once I did," admitted Vandelia,
meekly; "when I was first married, an'
mother had died. But the answers
didn't do me much good. I couldn't
get the things I was told to where we
lived."
"I presume to say not," said Miss
Sheldon, somewhat modified. "You
ought to have writ to me, but you wa'nt
well acquainted with your husband's
folks then, an' I s'pose you didn't feel
to. Cyrus orter have told you to send
right on to me. Why, there's a woman
here wants to know what'U kill ants,
an' keep 'em out of her sugar bucket
an' so on; an' they've give her a re-
ceipt that'd take me a good long spell
to study out, what with 'lie' of one
thing an' 'sperlts' of another; an' I
mistrust 'twould be a useless mess
.•when 'twas put together. I've a notion
■to write to that poor creatur myself,
only I don't know who she is, exceptin'
that she's signed her name 'Clover X.'
I ain't ever met with many names be-
gin with X outside of the dictionary,
but it seems she's got one of 'em. An'
don't know how to get rid of ants!"
"I had considerable trouble with ants
myself," said Vandelia, as Miss Shel-
don once more turned her searching
gaze upon her. "That was what I
wrote about."
"An' you didn't know that a little
piece o* yaller sulphur stick—or pow-
der, either, for the matter o' that,
would send every one o' them little
plagues out into the sand agin!" ejac-
ulated Miss Sheldon. "An* like as not
you didn't know that dough would
ketch rats that wouldn't pay no atten-
tion to cheese nor meat. An' I pre-
sume to say you never heerd that a
teaspoonful o' cornstarch in a box o'
salt would keep it from cakin' up in
lumps. An' fSore'n likely you—But
there!" Miss Sheldon broke off ab-
ruptly, "you're a real well-meanin'
girl, an' I shall feel to be easier on the
folks that ask them questions after
this, seein' as my own niece by mar-
riage has been one of 'em. But I don't
see what Cyrus was thlnkln' of—-not
but what you're a good girl—but I
don't see what he was thinkin' of when
he offered himself. But then," con-
cluded Miss Sheldon, "men's minds are
made up in se^ch a queer way that the
real important 'things, like ants an'
rats an' so cq, don't seem to weigh
with 'em hardly a mite when they come
to gettin' married; an' Cyrus was jest
like all the rest, I presume to say."
A Trade Secret.
technical paper is authority for
the statement that, though the knowl-
edge of the mtln or essential process in
manufacturing "steel tapes" is treated
still as a trade secret, the folio-wing
particulars, which are of a more gen-
eral mechanical character, pertain to
the operation: After the rolled ribbons
have been tempered and ground, in
quantities from one to two dozen at a
time, they are laid upon an iron table
fifty feet long which has a standard
on each side, the standards being of
government length at 62 degrees Fah.;
on this table the ribbons are placed in
lines parallel to the standards, being
made fast at one end, and a strain of
twelve pounds under a spring balance
aplled at the other; they are then print-
ed with a wash or varnish not affected
by acid, and finally etched in a diluted
nitric acid bath, the graduation as cov-
ered by the wax being left In the orig-
inal surface of the tape.
Dependent on Railways.
Very few people understand the
enormous scope of the operations of a
modern railway company. There are
now probably nearly 900,000 persons
employed directly by the railways of
the United States, and if any account
is taken of the families dependent up-
on many of these employes it will be
seen that poslbly 2,000,000 of the resi-
dents of this country derive their sup-
port from these companies.
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Red Phosphorus.
Red phosphorous combines with
chlorate of potash to make an explo-
sive of great violence. The London
Lancet thinks that If this fact of chem-
istry had been more generally known
It might have saved the disagreeable
consequences which recently followed
when a man who had not studied chem-
istry put his safety matches Into the
same pocket with his throat lozenges.
The Oronnd Wan Thick.
Little Willowdean, walking with her
mether, stumbled several time3 over
the rough pavement Her mother
said: "What is the matter, daugh-
ter?" "Nothing's the matter with
me," she indignantly replied, "it's the
ground is too thick in places."
How Time File*.
He—My! It's time lo go. She—No.
It's nearly time to come again—Bos-
ton Courier.
Women Only Know
How rouoh they suffer when nervous,
weak and tired.
Nervous prostration is a lingering,
racking, living death to those afflicted,
though wholly incomprehensible to
others. The cause of this condition is
impure and insufficient Blood.
Make the blood pure, give it vitality
and it will properly feed the nerves and
make them strong. Hood's Sarsapanlla
cures nervousness because it acts di-
rectly upon the blood, making it rich
and pure and endowing it with vitality
and strength-giving power. No other
medicine has such a record of cures.
Thousands write that they suffered in-
tensely with nervousness and were cured
by this great medicine. The building-
up powers of Hood's Sarsaparilla are
wonderful. Even a few doses are suffi-
cient to create an appetite, and from
that time on its healing, purifying,
strengthening effects are plainly felt.
The nerves become stronger, the sleep
becomes natural and refreshing, the
hands and limbs become steady, and
soon " life seems to go on without ef-
fort,"and perfect health is restored. Such
is the work which Hood's Sarsaparilla
is doing for hundreds of women today.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Makes Pure Blood.
A Snap Shot Story.
A kodak fiend has returned from
Jamaica. He says he Induced a
group of native girls to pose for him.
After arranging them to his satibfac-
tlon, he prevailed upon one of the
other girls to take a peep through
the camera. What she saw quite as-
tonished her, and she lost no time in
imparting to the posers tbe fact that
she had seen them all standing on
their beads. When tbe photograph
was taken it revealed each maiden
frantically clutching her skirts about
her knees, while a look of great dis-
tress appeared upon each black coun-
tenance.
Eflfoot of Tonittng.
The process of toasting is said to
induce a peculiar chemical change in
the bread, giving it a more appetiz-
ing flavor, as well as certain valuable
properties.
A Sad Hong.
Not a sparrow falls to the ground
unnoticed, nor grubs a worm unre-
warded. It is Bald that among the
many phrases discovered in the famil-
iar song of the white throated spar-
row is, "O Lord! pity me, pity me,
pity me,1' and the words are peculiar-
ly in keeping with the plaintive notes
of the bird, more like the cry of a lost
soul than the joyous expression of a
bird's happiness. Heard in the silence
of the Adirondacks, this bird's cry is
peculiarly plaintive.
Four Hundred to One.
During the Franco-Prussian war
the Germans fired 30,000,000 rifle
cartridges and 363,000 charges of ar-
tillery, killing or mortally wounding
77,000 Frenchmen, showing that 400
shots were required to kill or mortal-
ly wound one man.
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