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Show STATE COAL AS AN MIXES. EXPERIMENT IN TEN- WIXSIOW IS AVENGED POINTS FROM THE PRESS. Dooms are past, bonds present and future, Ban Francisco Star. POURS COLD WILMINGTON STEEL INTO CARDENAS The money question is not going to be lost iu the war shuffle. War alone A Brief Kerord of aa Object LdMon la overshadows the money question, but the fabllo Owerlilp and licretlou even that cannot answer the demand of Natural Monopolies The riutucrai of the people for a proper money volAre Hurprleml by the Siipi-e- . ume to carry on war. Carson Appeal Scratch a (loldbag and Rea, Scratch an energetic goldbug and you uncover an apologUt for trusts and every other sort of thieving rascality by which the many may be robbed by the few in such a manner as to escape the penitentiary. If you do not think so. Just mention the iron trust, or the Standard Oil octopus to one of them and see how quick he will begin to talk of the benefits derived by the people from such great concerns, in the reduced (?) price at which we get tholr products. The Advance. Would Compel Bond Imum. This organized power, from its secret conclave would dictate the choice of your highest officers, and compel you to make war or peace as best suits their own wishes. The forms of your government might for a time remain, but its living spirit would depart from tt. Andrew Jackson. four-inc- Cla-ca- NESSEE. In the history of the state coal mines of Tennessee, and the state salt springs of New York, the advocates of public ownership may lind prolific sources of ery useful information. The Onondaga salt springs reservation, which has been owned and operated by the commonwealth for more than a century, benefiting the state treasury to the extent of many millions of dollars, have finally been allowed to rass into possession of the salt trust. The citizens of the Empire State may well hang their heads in shame when the history of the bartering away of that splendid property is related, and yet It may fairly be said that the property was stolen from them, virtually without their knowledge or consent. Now, since the people of the state of Tennessee have wisely determined to compel the coal trust to share with the Inhabitants of that commonwealth, and to some extent at least, the people of the entire nation, the benefits of ownership in the rich coal fields which lie beneath the soil, all patriotic and Intelligent people should watch the result with keen Interest. In 1894 the state of Tennessee purchased for 880,000 a tract of 9,000 acres of land in Morgan county, twenty miles northeast of Ilarrlman, on which very Alvaluable coal fields are located. of coal combined the ready meetings operators of the country have been had to take measures to gain possession of these valuable coal mines. At one of these conference meetings, one R. A. McFerrin of Oliver Springs, Tenn., said to be an experienced coal operator, declared that the coal lands recently purchased by the state of Tennessee for the sum of 880,000 have (been carefully examined and are,wlth-ou- t any doubt, fully worth $500,000. Notwithstanding the high estimate Mr. McFerrin placed on the value of the mines, which is said to have astonished his hearers, there is ample reason to believe that his estimate was decidedly From the official reconservative. ports of the manager of the mines, and the commissioner of labor and inspector of mines of the state of Tennessee, we learn that the product of the mines Increased from 25,697 tons in 1895 to 148.862 tons In 1896, and the capacity of the mines Is now easily 1,000 tons per day, or say 800,000 tons per year. .The cost of mining 132,812 tons is reported to be $33,067.48, or lees than forty cents per ton, which can hardly fall to be materially reduced with the Improvement of equipment which comd with experience. If the mines are worked with economy, it appears to be officially demonstrated that coal can be mined to the extent of at least three hundred thousand tons per year, and if sold at $1.40 cents per ton, yield a profit to the state of $300,000 per year, being ten per cent on three million dollars, or just six times the value which Mr. McFerrin stated the property to be worth. The mines are operated under the general direction of the board of state prison commissioners, the labor being performed by the prison convicts. During 1896, a total of 303 men were employed In and about the mines, 223 of whom were engaged in mining proper. It may be an open question whether or not the employment of state convicts is jhe best method that can be conceived of to work the coal mines considering the fact that there are so many Idle men not yet convicted of crime, yet suffering for an opportunity for useful employment. I Incline very much to the opinion that the bill introduced in the New York legislature in 1897, providing for a business like and economical operation of the state salt springs, is applicable to the state coal mines of Tennessee. That bill provided that the salt springs should bs operated by officials who were to be paid according to the product of the reservation; that subordinate laborers should be well paid, and that the product should be sold at a very small margin over the cost of production. L. S. LEWIS. other matter, howvvcr, when the Wil- WORLD'S BEST GOVERNED CITY h mington, with Us oulit guns Sun-in the Managaiueut ol and secondary liaiv.-iand a nest of BATTERIES. Ia DUrrctnla All Hunger Aie Left In th Ituli.. l uml of Dying Signal and Station, Miikkad fort. Railroad companies charge the same rates of fare now as they did thirty years ago, although they purchase all lf their supplier and equipments at less than then. Why have not fares fallen like other things? Columbus iost. W Affair. machine guns In Us formidable fightcir-e- d The lea.oig and most commend-aoer the smooth ing top, slowly tint management of sea which gave Us gunners a platform as steady as solid ritek. It was no public i.n airs is the principle of the which Is applied lo every longer target practice, hut a spectacle. sinking which the It was dea'li in the spurting flame and minvii.-lu.,iurss Whatever a the only miK.h pr.'ity is imeivsu-d- . envelopiur smoke respite cam-- when tlio pw.ating gun- debts it has are mi the. suit a ml safe ners pausc-- to let the smoke fog drift road to liquid .timi by the uiiinmatia device. away. operation of the Riiilimg-fan.The commander of the Wilmington Ily this m ana the c'.ty cf Glasgow will. hailed ub next morning and reported Inside of fifty jc.rs. furnish five water into no local elec- tersely thr he had thrown nearly 200 party poDties t Muiiit-ipa- l M e i .1 . 1 On Thursday morning, M.y 12, the ingunboat Wilmington steal ,i to the coast and keys uli :U- mwn of Cardenas, Cuba. Its gun ct v, s were at i.n board, their stations and every from Captain Todd to tlio s'giial boy, had but one burning idea, Awuge the Winslow. The watchword along t;ie crowded decks and in the heated tnglno room, where the blackened giants tolled stripped to the waist, was Remember the Winslow," and "Damn a pacific blockade. Within range of the powerful four-incbroadsides were the Spanish gunboats which had decoyed the Winslow up to the masked batteries and had dealt out sudden death, ami near the forts lay two schooners at anchor. Reports of mines planted in the entrance to the channels were disregarded. The Wilmington was no longer a block&der. It had become a destroyer, and for an hour a hurricane of exploding projectiles bellowed and shrieked Into the harbor of Cardenas, not against the town, but against the ships and defenses, and the Spanish troops and Bailors. The gunners of the Wilmington do not waste ammunition, and the execution was remarkable. and Nearly 300 four-incshells screamed shoreward like a steel cataract, and afloat and ashore signal stations, masked batteries, and forts were knocked to pieces and the Spanish had to flee like rats from a sinking ship. They left behind many dead and dying. It was the most destructive bombardment yet attempted on the Cuban coast. In the harbor two Spanish gunboats without steam up were riddled and sunk, their crews having fled to the shore In small boats. They had no time to offer a show of fighting their guns. The two schooners at anchor were sunk where they lay, and one block house caught fire from an explod-lushell and flamed out like a war beacon. The Wilmington was not touched by the few shells flung at It. The attack was sudden and superbly effective. The Wilmington in an hour wept Cardenas bare of defenses as one would brush crumbs from a table cloth. The town of Cardenas la three miles back from the gulf entrance to the harbor, so that probably suffered but slightly. Of course, it Is Impossible to know the Spanish losses, because no landing was made, but for the last two weeks troops have been massing in front of Cardenas in anticipation of a possible choice of this point for an invasion as the base of supplies by the American forces. Hundreds of men were working on earthworks and block houses overlooking the harbor, and masked batteries n-- one-ha- - Direct legislation is no longer merely desirable; it has become essential to the safety, if not the continued existence, of the republic. A few years ago the representative system was in decay now it is dead and stlnketh. N. Y. Journal. McKinley is the foxieBt man who has held the presidency Blnce Van Buren. And like Van Buren, he will prove too small for his job. Equity. It takes twelve bushels more corn to buy a thousand feet cf lumber than it took a year ago. That may be prosperity to the lumber trust but how is it with the farmer? The Teller. There are no dishonest dollars. There are not dishonest metals. Dishonest men use metal dollars by which to deceive qnd rob fools of their earnings. Therefore a great many fools have come to the conclusion that it is the dollar that is dishonest West Plains Quill h, ir.f-r- one-inc- h, six-pou- Why would it not he a good solution of the railroad problem to have the state build a road from the center of the grain districts to tide water? From Pullman or Colfax to Olympia, for Instance. Olympia (Wash.) State Journal. The only way to purify the law making body is to adopt direct legislation. By this means the people will rule and the legislator will become the servant and not the master of those who elect him. Tacoma Sun. Jesus was a carpenter. He formed a union of those desiring their rights, and cordially invited everybody to Join. He struck against injustice, boycotted the monopolists, was betrayed by a traitor in the camp, and crucified by the classes enjoying special privileges, and their flunkies, for his pains. But his spirit (Influence or Idea) could not be killed. It rose from the tomb, and Is on earth today, ready to enter the mind of everybody sighing for equality. Omaha Labor Bulletin. Propaganda Methods, When you want to convert a neighbor to Populism, dont go up to him and shake your fist under his nose and gimlet-eyecall him a whopper-jawe- d son of sin. The average of all parties is an honest man. He believeB that he is right and that you are wrong. The best way to convince a Republican is to place Populist literature in his hands, and ask of him as a personal favor to yourself that he should open your eyes to the truth or falsity of your political principles, and when he comes to you after reading, and enters a protest do not then try to argue with him, let him have his say, but Just keep loading him up With the truth as you see it, and if he is not too narrow between the eyes you may expect results inside of a year. Your victim cannot get up a wordy war with a Populist paper; he may at first curse the Infernal rag as an anarchist publication, but right down in his gizzard he will he digesting the solid truths of Populism, against which he can bring no logical argument to prove their falsity. Just handle the convert gently, and he will soon become (according to his temperament) a holy white eyed terror to his former party associates. Exchange. lop-eare- d, d, shells Into Cardenas, Inflicting considerable damage. He was overmodeat. In reality be had caused a considerable measure of annihilation and absolutely so in particular instances of certain gunboats, batteries, small fortifications, and an unknown number of Spaniards. for Girt In Japan. Miss Ida Tigner Hodnett writes of "The Little Japanese at Home In May St Nicholas. Mias Hodnett says: There la no apodal In the native costume for girls. Indeed, the mode of dressing the hair would not admit of hats and bonnets such as ours. There la rivalry among Japanese girls as to whose hair shall he most becomingly and artistically arranged, whose girdle be most gracefully tied, and whose robe show the most harmonious effects; and they are quite equal to their western slaters In the taste for personal adornment The Japan- No Mead-Coveri- head-coveri- ng tric lights free; electric or water power at cost; allow them to ride on its electric road at the nominal fare of 2 cents for any distance and furnish to all free use of a magnificent public library. The city affairs are managed by business men with the same prudence with which they would manage their own affairs; the question of party politics enters Into no local election and it seems to be the object of the municipality to administer the citys finances In an economical way, to Improve the public health In Its physical and moral basis, and to give brightness and the possibility of happiness to civil life. Its success in all those has boen so marked as to command the admiration of the civilized world and to gain for Itelf the appellation of the best governed city on the face of the globe. Didn't Like Her Spoon, She was not much more than 2 yean Dear Money and Cheap Labor. What is the reason that a dollar la not Just as good for a money lender as wheat for the farmer. Two hundred cent dollars for the lender would be all right providing wheat and a days work were two hundred cents each. The trouble Is you cant raise the standard of the dollar without lowering the standard of labor and all property. No one denies that GUNNERS OF THE WILMINGTON POURING TIIE CONTENTS 07 a lump of gold will buy more anySPANIARDS AT CARDENAS. where In the world than it ever would while at same the before, time a lump of silver will buy just about as much.were being planted, one of which sur- eee parasol Is used aa a shelter from H. W. Hardy. prised and made sad havoc on the tor- the sun, and the European umbrella is pedo, boat Winslow. This death trap gaining favor. For going out In the Straight Forward. Where la there a breach In the walls was located by the Wilmington and rain there are rain coats and rain hats men and guns were blown high into made of oiled piper. of monopoly? air. the "The breach la in front of you an It was terrific punishment at close of me; Well Supplied with Kewspspers. Climb up, therefore, my brother, with range, this fierce onslaught of the WilThe republic of Uruguay haa more mington, and It was the first real demme and go In, in proportion to its populanewspapers Cardenas the SpanAnd the citadel will fall, even Into onstration against tion than country in the world. any indifferent had become who to ish, your hands and mine. American warships that were always For, If you will but look for it, The judge never Bits on the Jury, is a breach In the walls hovering outside, whllo only smaller Everywhere he frequently docs on the but fire dashhad and boats opened torpedo of unrighteousness. was It &n- shoreward. ed menacingly Ernest II. Crosby. 50-ce- nt 50-ce- nt - I REPEATING RIFLES INTO THE old, and she wbs having for the firs time a meal with the grown-u- p people It was a great occasion, and she wai consequently much elated. She sat u In her high chair with a kpgfe ant fork and napkin in front of her jus like the rest of the people. But what was mammas surprise tt see her little daughter, after examiii lng carefully the table utensila, taki np her fork and throw It across th table, her face all wrinkled np, ant the trars In her eyes, aa she cried: "I dont want a poon wlv silts fa it |