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Show FIEST PRINCIPLES. FROM OUR FIELD MARSHAL. RED HOT EDITORIALS. A Junta of Mark Hannas Populist reconcentradoes are keeping themselves busy trying to break up tbe triple alliance. They are just now industriously circulating stories to the effect that Chairman Jones once Introduced s bill with the purpose of retiring the greenbacks. At the same time they neglect to state that Mr. Jones' bill, as written by himself, replaced the greenbacks with a form of paper money wholly free from the exception clause that has of late years made greenbacks a bankers money Instead of peoples money. Summed up, Senator Jones bill, had it been passed, would have given us free silver coinage, free gold coinage and a paper money that would exchange for either at the option of the government, clearly a paper mo.ey that would circulate for eternity without redemption and at the same time would put an end to bond issues of any kind. No measure ever met with such solid opposition from Wall street. Simultaneously it has been endorsed alike by Populists and by Democrats and by Silver Republicans. If there 1b anything needed to cement the triple alliance we know of nothing that will do the work to better advantage than agitation over self-styl- ed TWO GREAT HISTORIANS MONETARY SCIENCE. ON That tba Quantity Price What of Money Control They Said of Contraction and Ex- - Him and Allaoa Knew the great historians and philosophers, David Hume and Sir and Archibald Alison, is world-wid- e will be familiar to the people as long The fame of as any record of modern civilization remains. They were both distinguished writers on political economy as well as great, truthful and philosophic historians. Hume said more than a century ago: We find that in every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new face; labor and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more beenterprising; the manufacturer comes more diligent and skillful; even the farmer follows his plow with greater alacrity and attention. A nation whose money decreases is, at times, weaker and more miserable than another nation which possesses no more money, but is on the increasing hand. Falling prices and misery and destruction are inseparable companions. The disasters of the dark ages were caused 'by decreasing money and falling prices. With the increase of money, labor and industry gather new life. Sir Archibald Alison had been engaged for many years on a history of Europe, when in 1815 falling prices ocn casioned by the wars, which cut off the supply of gold and silver from Mexico and South America, caused him to suspend his historical labors, says the Silver He then devoted himself for thirty-fiv- e years to the discussion of the tariff, banking, and every other economic device to which the genius of man resorts to avert the inevitable calamities which always follow a shrinking volume of the legal tender money. In 1853 after the gold from California and Australia had relieved the universal distress which a shrinking volume of money had produced and substituted hope, prosperity and progress for despair, want and misery, he renewed his historical labors to record the phenomena which the gold from California and Australia produced. In the full glare of the wonderful light which was shed upon economic questions by such a change of monetary conditions as was produced by the new discoveries, Sir Archibald Alison, as a philosopher and historian said: "The two greatest events that have occurred in the history of mankind have been directly brought about by a contraction and, on the other hand, an expansion of the circulating medium of society. "The fall of the Roman Empire, so long ascribed, in ignorance, to slavery, egotlBm, and moral corruption, was, in reality, brought about by a decline in the silver and gold mines of Spain and Greece. And, as if Providence had intended to reveal, in the clearest manner, the Influence of this mighty agent on human affairs, the resurrection of mankind from the ruin which those causes had produced was owing to a directly opposite set of agencies being put in operation. Columbus led the way In the career of renovation. When he spread his sails across the Atlantic, he bore mankind and its fortunes in his bark. The annual supply of the precious metals for the use of the globe was tripled. Before a century had expired, the price of every species of produce was quadrupled. The weight of debt and taxes insensibly wore off under the Influence of that prodigious Increase. In the renovation of industry, the relations of society were changed, the weight of feudalism cast off, the rights of man established. Among the many concurrent causes which conspired to bring about this mighty consummation, the most important, though hitherto the least observed, was the discovery of Mexico and Peru. "If the circulating medium of the globe had remained stationary, or declining, as it was from 1815 to 1849, from the effects of the South American revolution and English legislation, the fate which crushed Rome in ancient, and has all but crushed Great Britain in modern, times, would have been that of the whole family of mankind. All these evils have been entirely obviated, and an opposite set of blessings Introduced, by the opening of the great treasures of nature in California and Australia. Spanish-America- . Knight-Watchma- n. Two Hot of a Kind. There will be no war. Mark Hanna. This organized money 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 awn wishes. Tbe forms of your government might for a time remain, but Its living spirit would depart from it. Andrew Jackson. Straight My daughter has been very carefully brought up. Col Blunt But, notwithstanding, madam, I find her a very Interesting companion. Mrs. Philadelphia North American. THE a Ff That 1 Fnlqu Editorial at Dally Faper of Among th lire Thi Fra guluUlag Em Talk That TalL The following are editorials from recent issues of the New York Daily Journal, with an alleged circulation of half a million. They would be quite appropriate in the editorial page of any country Populist paper, but there is no other metropolitan daily in which they could ever by any possibility be found. Read the following: The men of Pennsylvania who shot a lot of workingmen in the back have been declared Innocent of any wrong doing. The cowardly hired newspapers that have not dared all through the trial to speak in defence of the killers now come out bravely and cheer the verdict. These newspapers are well paid, but they do their employers a sorry service.' The Lattlmer free killing bee must be paid for in this country. It will be paid for by men such as those who hire the venal newspapers of New York. The man who knows that he can be safely murdered is not a pleasant man to deal with when trouble cornea The gentlemen in Fifth avenue who have built high steel railings around theli houses know how foolish it is to make workmen feel the hoplessness of an appeal to law against money. But these men with the steel railings misunderstand the American workingmans idea No railings are needed, unless they can be put around the ballot box. That particular institution will avenge the Lattlmer murders. The Judge who set free withoht bail a body of men Indicted for murder will learn, before he goes under ground to sicken all decent worms, that he has that he tried to hurt the pocket-book- s serve. New York Journal. ' this same bill. Populists, Democrats and Silver Republicans, through the good offices of the chairmen of the respective national committees, have agreed on fusion in Oregon. Populist party name goes on the official ballot Democrats and Silver Republicans will vote the ticket straight Ample representation is given men of all parties as to places to be contested for. Chairman Jones of the Democratic national committee, has Issued a special address, clearly showing why such fusion is necessary. The more we read this address the more we are convinced that a square deal is going to be the order all along the line from now on till 1900. The people of the United States will hear the first gun lired by the triple alliance In Oregon in June next YORK JOURNAL SPEAKS RIGHT OUT. NEW , The average British review is as insular as a St. Giles cockney and as ponderous as a witticism in Punch, but while the current Fortnightly is not without these characteristics it almost pays to plod through it in order to reach the instructively frank explanation by one writer of the way in which England really subjugates the world. He is discussing the problem of financing the proposed Chinese loan and the danger that it may be taken by a POINTS FROM THE PRESS. The railroads in Michigan have placed a boycott on all papers that print anything favorable to Plngree. No passes, no usual favors for the papers that print anything he says. The railroads want a free press, you know. They believe in free speech! They do not want to control what the people read, of course not! Appeal to Reason. syndicate. Franco-Russia- n It is dear, says the contributor, who, by the way, is one of the best equipped English writers on interna- In England the ordinary British person has reminded the powers so often of his presence, sometimes by cutting off a king's head, sometimes in other playful ways, tl at he is considered quite a serious quantity. The American locomotive engineers, at their last strike, managed to make it clear that they are not to be trifled with; the men of Pittsburg made themselves felt, and incidentally defeated a Republican candidate for the presidency. These are indications that the American ordinary man is gradually establishing himself as an animal with rights. The progress is slow, but it is sure. Constant use of the ballot, with something more drastic on occasions when hired Pinkertons appear to shoot, is bound. in the long run to frighten even the Carnegies who hire the Pinkertons and then run away to Europe. New York Journal. Lord Salisbury got, in the London City Council election recently, a response to the direful warnings which he uttered last November anent the awful consequences of popular government In New York. The whole power of the Tory Ministry, backed by the landlorders and bondholders and the titled nobs and snobs of the West End, was exerted to get control of the council with a view to carrying out the Salisbury scheme of depriving the people of London of the measure of home rule that they hare succeeded in getting, The scheme was further supported by the monopolies which not only control the transit system of London, such as it is, nnd the gas supply, but even purvey water for tbe inhabitants of moBt of the British metropolis. The efforts of officialdom and swelldom were especially directed against the labor candidates and the Socialist candidates for the governing body in which alone the popular power is exerted. ' Of course, Socialist was exploited as a term of opprobrium, freighted with grave menace to good order, but it really applied to men who seek to have the public interests controlled by public agencies for the public benefit, instead of by private monopolies for private profit The result of all the scheming and manipulation of Salisbury and Chamberlain. who carried national politics into municipal affairs with all their might, and of the vigorous and skillful electioneering of landlords and property owners, which included some enticing blandishments of noble ladles, there was a notable triumph of the radicals and progressives. More labor men and Socialists were returned than before, and those against whom the sharpest fight was made had increased majorities. This is simply another step toward a government of London by its people instead of by the occupants of its palatial mansions and the holders of places In the imperial service. It means gradual progress toward a home rule in which those who toll and live in the metropolis all the year, and not those who pass the season and collect their rents and their Interest and annuities there, shall control the administration of affairs. It works toward a government In which the people and their rights and interests, and not property, will be the chief object of public care. The Tory effort to stem this progressive movement, with all the power at the command of the Imperial Cabinet, suffered a signal . defeat. New York state-guarante- ed loan-mon-gerl- ng OOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. SOME Flotsam nod JcUam of th Bast Coml Paper Terror of th Klondike Harder Than Perpetual Motion ed Illua-trat- A Comacnraflv Patriot, A ConrvatlT Patriot, I don't heed half th ravin 'Bout war, with thunder dread; ' . But th ol flag Jest An' ripplin' down lta red I An' folk that talk of flshtln Muat be keerful how they tread. Per we'a ready when the wont comes In tha momln'l I V 1 dont heed half the bluster , I don't keer for the brag; But we're ready here ter muster An' rally roun the flag! An folk that talk of flghtln Should set on their nag, Per we's readysteady when the worst comes 7 , In tbe mornln! Ain't marchln or Aint dodgin' roun the stump; I keep my faith abldln 7 . Till I see the rabbit humpl An' then I take my rifle, An' I make that rabbit humpl Per we' ready when the wont comes -i In the mornln! . - . tional relations, that if our immense Interests in China are to be adequately protected we must not allow the empire to be the exclusive vassal of any foreign power or group of powers, and this Is what must occur in a thinly disguised form if we abstain from competing with the The Call is not clear why the reof Russia and France at Pekin. sult was different this year with the We can safely and even profitLoud bill, defeated by 162 to 119, from ably lend the money without rendering its passage by the house last year by an increase of the burdens on trade 144 to 104. We are clear ; it was benecessary, and since the loan would be cause they heard something drop." calculated to strengthen our Interests Star. at Pekin, and thus advance our interests in the far East, it was manifestly Half a million peacable peasants our duty to undertake it. The debtor is the abject vassal the have been cruelly murdered, and Journal. Americans have been tortured and world over. Man or nation, it is the is debt the owes the he who the same; Maine, butchered, or massacred in V Son of Toll, Arll has added in order that trust profits should not serf of its holder. Interest to Ye British of Toil, arise! Sons the much as almost territory be disturbed. Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. British won the And the God of Day; ever was as by greet empire WashMcKinley are both godly men! exclusive vas- See, where His banners deck the skies; tbe is sword. Egypt ington Times. He bids you to the fray. sal of Britain, because Egypt fell into street money Lombard of the hands Municipal ownership of public utililenders. China will go the same way, Ye Sons of Toil, arise! ties, such as gas, water, electric lightYour bonds are bonds of straw. unless her rulers make the unimporing, street railways, etc., is having an tant choice of preferring the Roth- Like Peter's chains they fall apart. excellent ventilation in the press and schilds that dominate French finance Walk forth in solemn awe. periodical literature, as well as in pub- to the branch of the same family which lic discussions. In a few years we will rules Lombard street. Let not despondent hearts wonder how we managed to worry Your holy zeal assuage, By the way, how great a proportion along without it Danbury (Conn.) of United States bonds, national, state Stretch forth your hands, or corporation, are held in England? American Freeman. And seize your heritage. And how far Is discernible the purpose f If this country had given due notice of Great Britain to use her rights as Got notes the sparrows fall. Yet Hes a God of Might; to Spain that the strife in Cuba must a creditor to strengthen her Influence to she at as at hopes Washington, And been would have The it only cowards fear to die stopped. stop, our to control currency system Pekin, cause is just and right When course of and this cowardly wabbling and to dominate our politics? New country has been interpreted by Spain Ye Sons of Toil, arise! to mean that this country does not dare York Journal. Be sons of God Recorder. Cleveland fight Workingmen, in thinking of the LatA New Time dawns in eastern skies. tlmer murders, never to be officially And darkness flees away. If war should be declared against need not feel that the lives of avenged, Nellie M. Beardsley. ' see and the watch number the murdered men were entirely wastSpain Just of darn fools there are who did not ed. It is true that Justice has been outAn Inevitable Transfer. have courage enough to vote for their raged and that a certain score some The continued rise in the value of liberty, but will go anywhere to kill day to be wiped out is a little bigger, some other workingman because he is than it was. But some good has been gold, or, which is the same thing, the as unfortunate and as big a fool. done. It is not likely that such a continued fall In prices, must InevitWhile both will pay taxes for the privkilling will occur again for many days. ably transfer tbe property of all those ilege of doing so. Spokane Freemans It la probable that the next coward engaged in active business, the actual armed with a repeating rifle will hesi- creators of wealth, whether by hand, Journal. tate, fearing that murderer No. 2 may brain or capital, to those who, avoidwas bill framed not fare as well as No. 1. Public opin- ing the risk and effort of active busiThat the bankruptcy to benefit creditors, and not to relieve ion has crystallised about this Pennsyl- ness, only draw interest Napa ReMurder on a cash flector. debtors, was proved by Senator Butler vania murder affair. receive a basis will probably when he had in the senate last week, the verdict. read letters and petitions, cooked up by derpite Th Loire of Country. Of course, no such verdict could New England business houses and cirPatrick Henry, the arch traitor and been rendered In England or in have culated in the west and south by their France, where the rights of ordinnry agitator of tbe American Revolution, traveling men, asking for the passage men are now recognized. They were said To make men love their country, of the bill. Silver not recognized in France at one time. make the country ItBelf lovely." Iq But the most ordinary kind bf men got Philadelphia the rich are trying to Mrs. Figg Why cant you wash a sort of habit of cutting off heads instimulate patriotism by having the your face once In a while without my discriminately, and as it turned out children taught to revere the flag and having to tell you every time?" Tomthat the heads belonged to persons of let them starve while they are doing my Im afraid youd think Id been high degree, the memory of that affair 1L But it wont work. Appeal to in swimming. has stuck. People of all classes and parties have come to think that laws are constitutional or unconstitutional according ti their political significance and the political complexion of the courts. South Bend (Wash.) Pilot. OUR BUDGET OP FEN. - toll-wo- to-da- rn A Useful Mule. Tom; that old swaybacked mewl o youm ain't no good under a saddle, la he? ' Nope; too slow an klumsey." Ner in th buggy er waggin? Nope; too awkward fer that" ' Ner at pullin' ov the plow? Nope; wants to graze too much. Whut you keepln him fer, then? Wal, you see, we aint got no clock at our house, an that ole mewl brays right at dinner time Jest ez shore ex the yearth turns over. Yasser, Ive been called to dinner by that mewls bray fer the past five years, an I am alius yight plump on time. Atlanta Journal. Ou th Yukon. Panner I dont see how you stand the cold born in Minor the cold so well, you must have been a very cold climate. No. But I got hardened to in the states. Panner How did you do that? Minor I married a woman with, cold feet Up-to-Da-te. Unused to It. Ted was invited out to tea with his mother one day, and among other deliwas cacies a saucer of orange-gelatiset before him. It was a new dish to tbe little fellow,' and he eyed it disparagingly a minute, then said, very politely: If you please, um, thank you, I rather guess you can have it back it keeps waggin so. Pittsburg Bulletin. ne A Special Prlvlleg,' The chief smiled. "Yes, he said to the new missionary; Im going to do you a big favor. A few of us have organized a little company to handle a sure thing, and Im going to let you in on the Inside you know. The missionary paled. Two hours later he was inside all r. right Cleveland Plain-Deale- A Baaamblane. Between our greatest presidents This likeness we can see: Old Abe split rails for many years, And Georgia chopped the tree. Ufa. Harder Thau Perpetual Motion. y; 1 - set-bac- k, Visitor What was the trouble with this man? Attendant That is one of our most hopeless cases. It is an example of misdirected energy. The poor fellow imagines he has invented an absolutely original method for going to ths Klondike Up-to-Da-te. Knight-Watchma- n. n Wat Thar. Seen my boy, Tommy, anywhere, Mrs. Rook? Well, no, I haint seen !m, but theres a fight at the other end of the street Black and White. |