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Show THE WOLCOTT FIASCO. NO SHOW FOR INTERNATIONAL BIMETALLISM. the Republican ftrij Hut Row Meet Democracy and Defend the Obnoxious Brltleh Gold Standard Feople Fooled Lony Enough. The reply of Premier Salisbury of the British government to the proposals of the bimetallic commissioners sent abroad by the federal administration the of for purpose to the fooling people, . seems be very much in the nature of the action of that little bird which once was In danger of being caught through the process of throwing aalt on its tail. It is quite possible, at least so far as we are able to Judge, it is quite possible, that the salt has been thrown and the throwers have been in a position to watch results. But throwing salt on tails is not an approved manner of capturing birds in this day and age, and so it seems that the bimetallic commissioners and the federal administration they represent are in pretty much the same position us a bird catcher who confined himself to the use of salt, and the upshot of the matter is that the proposal of the federal administration looking toward another international conference has left matters just where they were when the present federal administration went into power. The truth is that this whole affair has been one stupendous sham. There has been a pretense of honest effort. But there is little sense in running up against a stone wall, no matter how honest may be the intenGreat Britain tions of the runnej;. gave no promise of favoring another conference, even if It were to be granted that another International conference would amount to any more than the previous conferences have amounted to. There has been no hope at any time that the commissioners could acAlt that they complish anything. have been able to do at the roost has been to raise a disturbance when the Bank of England was mentioned as giving a slight promise of doing under Impossible circumstances what it Is expected by authority of its charter to do at all times. The long drawn out negotiation may or may not have been the result of diplomatic delays. The fact is, that defeat faced the commissioners when they were appointed, and It has been facing them ever alnco. If defeat had taken its eyes off of them for a moment their lack of authority and general uncertainty . of object would Immediately have drawn the eyes back. It is no wonder, therefore, that the matter has turned out as it has, her only wonder In the matter being in the patience of the American n people in the face of this game. The gullibility of the American public Is great, but it is almost too much to believe that it has been misled into the belief that the present national administration means to do anything for the rehabilitation of silver. The present administration Cara to do nothing In this line. The McKinley following sold itself body and soul to the Piatt faction, dominated by the gold standard extremists at the St. Louis convention last year, and it dare not now call its soul its own. It is , forting in all this to know that this commission sham is now a thing of the past, and that the real policy of the administration will now soon be brought to light in the proposition of Secretary Gage to retire the Greenbacks, run the nation into the hands of the banks through bank currency and .bind the nation for generations yet to come by a bond issue ad libitum. . wide-ope- flim-fla- m " -- Is a Red Rsig. Whatever may be the real opinion Of the British press as to silver and practical bimetallism, it is quite certain thst the very mention of the subject has the same effect as that of a red rag upon a bull. The present course of the British ministry in maintaining secrecy with respect to its course toward the representatives of the United States commission of supplication for the granting of charitable relief from the present monetary ills Is the object of most violent attacks from British newspapers, and the least mention of anything in the nature of a movement toward an international agreement seems to be as exasperating to them as a personal insult. This great show of indignation Is quite useless in its way, for there is every reason in the world to believe that nothing will come from this pretended movement on the part of the administration of government in these United States. At the same time it is perhaps only reasonable to believe that the coming of practical bimetallism is now so. near that even the newspapers of the United Kingdom can see its approach. They already are commencing the fight they must make for the preservation of the gold standard, If It lt to be preserved. . Cominerra and Indemtrjr Department. The officers and members of the executive committee of the National Business league have sent a petition to President McKinley asking him to call attention in his forthcoming message to th matter of She creation tf an executive department to b called the department of commerce and IndusThey suggest that the departtry." ment should include, am onother things, "matters relative ta the gathering of Information with a view to the systematic extension of o:ir commerce with the South and Central American States and other foreign ftrantrlex and the collecting and tabulating of statistics as to the various industries of th's country with reports and recommenil-ation- s as to the same si a basis of intelligent action In the interest of such industries and the employes therein" That is all well enough bo far, provided agriculture is included ns one ftf he industries. Agriculture is as truly an Industry as the production of iron or woolen cloth. It is a vicious trick of the crafty protectionist to Include manufacturing and some few other pursuits among the industries and leave agriculture out, as though it was not an industry. It would be a still more vicious practice for congress to establish an executive department separate and apart from the department of agriculture, as though there was some radical difference between agriculture and other branches of industry. Such a proceeding wouli tend to create and foment antagonism where there ought to be harmony. Agriculture io by far the most important of the industries, and it lies at the very foundation of moBt others. That fact may be accepted as a sufficient reason for establishing an agricultural department first. But there is no good reason why another department should be created and all other industries assigned to It, ag though there was a natural and radical difference between the chief industry and every other. - SOLON CHASE TALKS. CURING HARD TIMES BREAD FAMINE. A1 BY LORD BEACONSFIELD. ity would return, and everything would How has this go on swimmingly. The Oral Engllah OUtMmia oa the pledge been fulfilled? During the leu Single Standard. than eight mouths of McKinley's adA speecch of Lord Beaconsfleld's oa ministration more foreign capital has -: been withdrawn from investment in the subject is very noticeable. Speak28.' whole of ing in the House of Lords on March American securities than a 1879, in discussion on the depressed The Mm Who One Carried Main for our immense wheat crop amounts to. state of agriculture and trade, hia and Finance GreenbackUia DUeum lordship said: Silver and All Will Prices Give LABORS POWER. Notwithstanding an increase of Da Well. Tha Whole Federated Trades of Amarlra population which alone always requires a large increase of gold curAre for Mtmetslllniw The gold that is now coming here for The affiliation of the various organ- rency to carry on its transactions the our wheat will cause a rise In gold ized bodies of railroad amount every year has diminished,, employes In a abroad, and the gold gamblers who are central federation is a natural out- and is diminishing, until a state of afnow operating in the wheat pit will come of conditions that have grown fairs has been brought about by the find profit iu starting the endless gold discoveries exactly the reverse of up within recent years. Within tho chain, but the vitalized silver dollar last decade railroad trainmen, conduc- what they produced at first. Gold is would choke the endless chain. day appreciating in value, and switchmen and telegraphers have every as it appreciates in value the lower If our mints were open to silver and tors, succeeded in vastly strengthening become prices. This, I think. Is one gold frozen out of the business of the their There have been organizations. and country as our single gold standard occasions when these newer organiza- cause (of the depression) may lead to consequences which may friends contend, what would be the comtions and the older brotherhoods, be of a very serious character harm? posed of engineers and firemen, have it is not ImpoFsible that as affairs deIn If there was no demand for gold had Interests so palpably in common velop the the internal commerce of this country that country may require that they have acted in unison. The some formal investigation may he gold would be plentier in other counbirth of a new federation of railroad made by the causes which are affecttries; that is, gold prices would rise employrs affilithe world over. The farmers would ation of simply means that the al- ing the prices of the precious metals organizations separate and the effect which the change in the get more gold for a bushel of wheat in at last in ready practice existing value of the precious metals has upon in is a commodity Liverpool if gold formal. the industry of tho country and upon this country, and on Bale in terms of these But which the lesson tho continual fall of prices. supreme silver, the same as paper, hogs, and railroad men have the general These are very atriklag words when taught standIs alone the if wheat, than gold world of organized labor is that a di- read in the light of recent events. The ard of value. When you take from vided house lacka real power in times appointment of the gold and silver gold alone the power to redeem the of emergency. They have taken a leaf commission in 1886, and the holding money of the United States and pay from the book of capital and have of several international monetary conthe debts of the people you diminish themselves learned that the power of ferences, as well as the holding of sevthe value of gold the world over. a united force Is practically irresisti- eral Inquiries into trade depression The American cities and railroads ble when cause its is Just The victo- and into agricultural depression, all that have issued gold bonds did not ries of over capital organized labor, called for by the fall In prices. Is a write in the contract that the United States should maintain the single gold taking the history of the leading significant commentary on Lord sagacity In foreseeing the standard. The United States govern- strikes of the last decade as a crite( have to been due effects of the enormous organrion, superior ment paid coin bonds in gold when aud when to these victories monetary changes which were then ization, as In no this cut money gold figure there has been added crushing tyranny country easier than when gold alone it has been Kama Kobbarv usually because labor has was the standard of value. Before The Republican administration canbeen demoralized and disorganized. Gold Mon and tho Farmers. to of values the down settled level the not clear its reputation by compromisOne of the many evidences of the Victories over of labor oppressive of ing with the railroad pool and allow- single gold standard the payment organizations of capital are rarer than perturbed state of mind of our gold the and President debt public stopped, to a of be $12,000,000 perpeing (teal the other kind, but when they do occur frlendB is the eagerness with whicl of Cleveland bonds issued $260,000,000 trated n the Kansas Pacific matter. it is not solely due to moral force or they seize upon the temporarily inThere appears to be little reason to be- to maintain the single gold standard. sentiment It is because labor creased price for the farmers wheat public lieve that the great robbery of $20,000,-00- 0 The gold standard is not maintained in has been equipped to enforce its Just to argue that the farmer must now he honeBt this to the country people give would hav.j been prevented had labor prosperous and happy; that ha no demands. When not the Democratic press of the United money" but to increase the value of makeB unreasonable organized usuIt demands longer looks for the restoration of silStates shown the iniquity of the plot gold, and likewise Increase the burden leadver as a necessary means of maintainfails and to them its enforce ally and in unmistakable terms denounced of all debts. ers have from learned experiing the price of farm products. They equity If silver should drive gold to the the plotters from the head of the hail the apparent Improvement of the to ence. be muBt Labor be equitable as out the of the country ailon down to the smallest earth or farmers condition as the forerunner to and worlds thanks the successful, man la the robber syndicate. The greenback did we should consume less of coming prosperity for all. Howevof labor standard the progress of foreign goods and four times as general New York Journal charges the adwe must remind them that this Is ever before. Iu the er, than genhigher we much of made and home ministration with complicity In the goods, our contention "that to the exverifies Bocial of trend conditions eral upward propertied looting of the treasury, and would then have American money for tent the claim who will is the theorists it agriculturists prosper so may only among ether strong statements says: Americans and American markets for we expect the country generally to of love between the that day brotherly comAmerlcuns. 'Today ijie country knows that a Up to this hour, however, It was elsjmed until last year that capital and labor is already here. Mu- prosper." edy was played for its deception, with has not it been two between the tual usual, in these parts at understandings Mr. McKinley as the star and the synvery few pfrjple in the United States dicate the supporting company. The favored fr-- coinage of silver, but the worlds are becoming more easily least, to see farmers driving In coach and nor do they, as a rule, wear bid for the Union Pacific hat been vote for Hsan was an in reached, but It is folly to attempt to silk four, hats or tanned shoes. They feel like fact the the that, military disguise raised $8,000,000, and the Bale wf ill take two continents. The money kings know that' without the aid of the Unit- ridden nations of Europe, organized and look just as they have felt and place on Nov. 2, according to tt e origiIt Is nal program. Postponement Ik asked ed States the single gold standard will capital and organized labor win their looked for many years past true the failure of the wheat crop in disa victories bloodless for only in the case of the K areas Paby greatest loose its grip. They hall with delight other countries has, for the time becific, which, except as a part of the the bread famine that causes wideplay of reserve force and power. ing, strengthened the wheat market, Is if Union Pacific, is of comparatively spread distress in latent Labors supreme power foreign lands, and and Just now our farmers are getting insmall value. When the Union Pacific gives a rise In food of and wisdom conservatism its the products In this a price for their wheat just about sufhas been taken possession of by the country which they hope will throw telligent leaders do not falter when to pay the cost of its producficient reas Nov. be on most. will United States In it needed the 2, conspirators, our people off their guard, while they R. tion. P. Bland in North American the Kansas Paolflc will be In tte mar- rivet the chain that fastens the single public, where the ballot makes every Review. ket. It owes about $13,000,000 to the voter a sovereign, the kings of labor gold standard to this country. government, and the govemmint will was said dollar wheat have within their grasp the national Lait it year be allowed to keep It, unless !t shall Contrait Fall of Saggostloit, would cut in halves the poor mans destiny. They have also by wise orconsent to sell on the rings terms." New York Journal: The New York dollar. Now they say a bread famine ganization and federation of Interests This is the situation as it stands toAbroad it the keystone of the arch of a latent power that tyranrous capital and Philadelphia Traction Company day, and unless the adminl it ration can never overthrow. The great fed- invaded the township of Bridgewater, Dollar wheat will lower prosperity. heeds the warnings of the Democratic the standard of living of the masses in eration stands for free coinage of sil- New Jersey, with an army of 1,000 press, the stigma of a gigantic steal the famine stricken men, prepared for battle. Without a nations, and dim- ver. will atlll be placed upon the Republicfranchise, and in defiance of a Judicial inish the demand for all of our prodan party. President McKinley cannot Injunction; It tore up a road, built a ucts food A in except rise products. Tariff Tu Fiends. afford to go down in history as tha trolley line and ran a car. It defied We have In America a school of poli- the sheriff of the first chief magistrate of the United toe cost of living without a compencounty, and drove In rise other products will make ticians who assert that all tariff taxes States who allowed the people to be satory away his deputies by force of arms. e times for harder of our tl peomany are paid by foreign manufacturers, not Its representatives pocketed the writ robbed of $12,000,000, but he may be forced into that disgraceful position ple by American consumers, yet we pay of the court with a laugh, and ordered Prosperity built on famine will he but $50,000 a year to our president, the work to by the powerful Influence of the trusts. proceed. Here was every short lived and delusive. Prosperity whereas if the effete monarchies of Eu- feature of a lawlessness that was lackbrllt on plenty and large consumption rope are supporting the republican ing at Hazleton. There was not mereTha Study of Finance. of the luxuries and necessities of life court why should we not lay It on pretly the fear that a mob might commit The October Forum brings an able Is what the world needs. some Illegal act; there was the actual ty thick? article by Edward Tuck In which he SOLON CHASE. It is true, as repeatedly asserted.that violation of law In flagrant progress. says: Chases Mills. Maine. the president of the United States la There was not merely a fear that the It is undoubtedly true that thq compensated less than the executive sheriffs posse might be overpowered; great majority of men, not having and IIItca McKinley of any first-clarepublic or the sov- there was an actual attack and an Btudied the carefully monetary quesstate of of consequence.hut actual rout of the forces of order. Cleveany In discussing the actions of ereign tion, Incline at first to the side of of is ample compen- But when we look for an account of $50,000 said: MaJ. the all land. salary McKinley This has bees, "During geld monometallism. the case with nearly all the great ad- his years at the head of the governsation, especially as it is coupled with the volleys from the Winchesters of vocates of bimetallism in Europe to- ment he was dishonoring one of our allowances for conservatories, house- the outraged guardians of the law, hold employes and other perquisites, with a list of dead and wounded railday. They have become converted to precious metals, one of our great prodthe bimetallic faith from observation ucts; discrediting silver and enhancing the whole amounting to nearly $100,-00- way magnates, we do not find it. We the price of gold. He was determined A thousand dollars a week la do not even find that the militia was of the consequences of the gold standard. and by careful, unbiased sesrch to contract the circulating medium. salary enough for any man under the called out On the contrary, the sherfor the cause. It Is only after studv Demonetize one of the coins of com- sun in whatever position he is placed. iff meekly surrendered, and the lawand reflection that the true bearings of merce and limit the volume of money All presidents of the United States breakers finished their work with Imtha silver question can be understood. among the people. Make money antedating Grant received but $25,000, punity. He would and were amply compensated. The opinion of the great mass of the scarce and thereby dear. It Is A Few Thieve. of have increased value the and not Improbable that if no compensation both classes of money and agricultural Europe These United States Senators are all America, supported by distinguished diminished the value of everything at all were attached to the office it economists sud statesmen in every elsS; money the master and everything would be struggled for as eagerly as owners of railroad shares, valued ah country, deserves a respectful bear In 5. else the servant. at any time in tho history of the re- the way from $100,000 to $3,000,000; "He was not thinking of the poor Hanna and Foraker, Ohio; Platt, New Those who wear the shoe know best public. a, where it pinches. .The agricultural then; he had left their side; he was York; Wetir.ore, Rhode Island; classes have in the past suffered mest not standing forth in their defense. Indiana; Hawley, Connecticut; Only Ontslde Market! Needed, from the shrinkage in prices brought Cheap coats, cheap labor and dear Morrill, 1 ermont; Hoar, MassachusKnoxville (Tenn.) Tribune: Informabout by the witless error of sundering money! The sponsor and promoter of ed etts; Qua? and Penrose, Pennsylvania. Englishmen admit that this country We presume that some members of silver from and subordinating it to those professing to stand guard over excelB England in the cheapness of are in a branch of gold. Even those who scoff at silver the poor and lowly! Was there ever and steel manufacturing and the other,si' uation. Nocongress iron more or bills to wonder similar reckless and hug their gold are glaring Inconsistency 'that the south has superior advantages virtually (Jve away to a syndicate Indeed, if they believe that they caa assumption? He believes that poverty over all other sections. The south or more of United States interpermanently prosper while the great is a blessing to be promoted and en- contains about 40 per cent of the total a and that couraged, shrinkage in coal area of this country and in less ests in tic Union Pacific can pass. producing classes are being impoverished. evetything but money is a national than two decades has Increased its Each of those thieves will of course benediction." get a slici. San Francisco Star. coal output from 14 to 24 per cent of Karmen , Fronts, the tffial production of American ' Unfulfilled Ufanji Cry and Little Wool Republican Pledge This has been a marvelous month mines. The coal and iron industries of With all the talk about $1 wheat, Atlanta Constitution: for the farmers. Farmer Charles Pills-bur- y During the the south need no tariff protection. Decereal that is, with the aid of the greathas made $500,000. Farmer D. B. campaign last year, the most distinct mand from outside markets will be of fifty years, but ' 12 est shortage were conFrancis has made $300,000. Farmer J pledges given by everybody worth more to them than all the tariffs than it was on this date certs higher Flerpont Morton has made $l,OOG,(iGft nected with the Republican party that that can he levied. there when was an abunda age, year There win be great doings at the if the people would elect McKinley and end a ant crop Comment big surplus. the In fairs this fall Chicago Republican party county place power The suicide rate in the German arm? confidence would he restored, prosper Is 65 per annum hi each 100,000 men. Is unnecessary. Great Falls News. - .- te l - bs-com-es d's u eye-open- er ss 0. Fair-Bank- short-right- ed $30,-000,0- 00 4 |