Show SENATOR JOHN SHERMAN Tho Croat Ohio Financier Talks to Our Corrospondont at His Mansflold Homo Jw Sherman Look Ml and lives In Hit Seventieth tar1I11 lMli and and 111 lining 1ltlIt Distune Silver and the Coming Session Na Jbule Hal He May Have hard Ttmei Farming and He llg Crtfi Silver in India and llhr He Metal 1sisThe Palace of binge I and ItaitMe Smith and I Hi entian Kefeati Tke Tariff lYttfttlt J > liltt ai a rrotll on for arms ImOur Great fortune and It 1 here They Came Iran Our South American Tiade etc I frrtifl CtTT jrf i ff tin NKWS I I MANSFIELD July 25 883lltolled I oil here on my way to Chicago to haven I have-n talk with Senator John Sherman He l Is again the leading figure In the financial ky of the union nnd the repeal of the clause of the silver act called by his name Is what Is bringing Congress together Senator Sherman I lives here at Mansfield l lie came here ass boy from Lancaster and studied law under his brother Charles Sherman Sher-man lie mailrcd here the daughter of Judge Stewart who was one of the famous lawyers of Ohio years ago and he nudo his first race for Congress from this district way bade In the fifties When he came to Mansfield he was so old citizens tell me a till gaunt young fellow with a big head sparkling blue eyes and a rather reserved and aristocratic air lie had no money to peak of but his brother had a good practice and think I he took John Into partnership Their business was largely made up of collections for New York and other eastern firms nod thin grew rapidly after the future senators admission admis-sion to the bar The result was that John Sherman began to make money He not only made It but he rated and Invested It and at the time of his marriage he had already a start lie began housekeeping In a comfortable home on what Is now known ns lark avenue west about a quarter of a mile from the court house and lived there u Se bought his present estate a hu stile further up the tame street I Vinsfield cleclrlc street cars now post it and what was a farm on i outskirts of the town when Sherman Sher-man bought It Is I now surrounded by fine homes and his beyond it some of the best residences ol the clly Apart 1011 meat A-part of the estate has been lLup Into town lots nnd sold Koma oTfl has been given 1 by l Senator j i1 t Ir h Sherman ass park to the city and the remainder about twenty acres constitutes con-stitutes the lawns and r jnco of Senator Shcrmana home It is a beautiful place filled l with old l forest trees sod beautiful 1 shrubs It 1 lies high up abate the surrounding country and the senator has a summer house Just back ol his residence where you get a stew of miles of the rich rolling Ohio country IKK IENATOKI IIOUSK Is one of many rooms nil large airy fnmi snlfn mi nYII and even In these trot July days deliciously cool There nre many windows and these give magnllicent views Mansfield has neither mosnul toes nor malaria and ns I wandered about under the trees I could appreciate appre-ciate the senators disgust at having to return to the soil asphalt ol Wash ingtons parboiled streets and ID the boxed up rooms of the white stone palacfl on Franklin park Here nt rel lnhi nNkboJfe Mansfield he can wander about In the lightest attire Ho wears nn old straw hat light pantaloons a black sack coat ansi I loot ns cool lo as I eb center seed r ol the trtJlllonil cucumber lie rises early eats a light breakfast and then nits down in his big library on the I ground floor In his slippers and loosely made clothes and dictates answers to his 1 mail I He gets n large number of letters daily but he Is I used to 1 dictation anil 1 he disposes of them rapidly Ills prit ate secretary writes a hand almost Identically the same as his and when n letter has been transcribed by him from his shorthand notes and signed by the senator jou would 1 not suppose but that the senator had written the whole with his own hand After he has finished his correspondence he walked about the place and after lunch usually goes down town sometimes In his carriage car-riage and not unfrequently In the I cars Mansfield was one ol the first towns In the United States to put III an electric car line and It has now one of the best In the country In the evening the senator usuilly drives out with Mrs I Sherman nnd Ills daughter Miss Mary and altogether his home life I al Mans field Is a delightful one SENATOR HERMAN IN 1893 I found the senator In his library when I called byappoinlment yesterday morn ng He I was answering his mall and shlri3 jl wile ho finished his dictation I spent he time in stuil > lng him unit his cur oundings Ills library Is that of n man of culture Hum of our greatest stAle ncn Webster Clay and Washington looked down upon us from abate the black natnut book cases and familiar volumes of fiction nnd poetry at well is of history and political 1 I science I smiled I 1 jI lt Ir it us out of their well ttorn binding on the shelves There were I Judge about 5000 volumes In the library I noted I hat these were In all the modern languages lan-guages and I am told lint the senator t rta fe tine Trench I and German ai well ns the English lie Is I a nun of wide culture and his whole lire has been devoted to work and study I doubt whelhel wo have ever had a statesman with the exception perhaps of John Qiilncy Adams who I has sated Lie In I lellccluil pennies no conscientiously John Sherman lie once told me that the I making ol books was so rapid und along such foolish lines that It IJ hardly paid one to rend n book before It was nt lent n tear old and lliU the much reading of newspapers i was injurious to ones intellectual health Senator Sherman Sher-man rending of fiction Is largely 1 confined con-fined to the classics of our literature and his favorite he once told me was Walter Scott lie keeps himself abreast of nil the best magatino literature and not Infrequently contributes an article lo the North sluiettcan Keitea or the 0rarn Senator Sherman II has been throughout through-out his life as careful of IS his 1 I physical F as Intellectual health and his condilloir today Is tint of n mall In his 11111I0 nl Aeellly Ills beard Is now IIhhe and grisaly but his eyes are bright I situ his I hl oJrsaeYte step is as frrnr as it was thirty years ago lie has never dissipated and hit oilly vice Is In IIIIOkllll which Is confined 10 inrce or four cigars a day lie I never drinks oiithlng to speak of unit his table has always been a plain and simple sim-ple one lIe I takes a limited amount of exercise and is In short still phsically Intellectually sound His surroundings surround-ings here are such as tend tu proton life and ns he concluded his mail I asked him how he liked the Idea of sing back to Washington In the dog days A HOT BIMION Senator Sherman said I dont like It but iris a necessity and we have togo to-go You can see how Inconvenient It is I have my family moved ln out lcl rAnd r-and am fixed for the summer It Is the same with the others of the Congress and we have our political work to doan do-an well as other matters to attend to Now we are compelled lo go to Washington Wash-ington The city is I hot and I think rather unhealthy during the months of August and September It Is certainly cer-tainly worse then than at any other time during the summer 1 cnnt take my family with me and I will I have to t 1 is lull oW lhf er keep bachelors hall and go out for my meals mealsWhat What will Congress Boat this extra session How long will it last No one knows It Is I a Democratic Congress It may last four weeks and it may lait four months If Urn Memo crate decide to confine Its work lo the repeal of the clause of the act of 1890 authorizing Inr purchase of Jtnooao ounces of silver a month Ie It could finish its wotk In n few weeks but It will irobably try lo enact oilier financial cglslation and when we will get through no one can tell The sev Ion It going to be an enduing one and here will be much discussion and many speeches At the special DCS Ions with which I have been connected luring the war und since the work has been confined to certain tIlt I hope > nothing outside of the financial I lucstlon will lie allemited nt this TIIK all UIAIi CLAt H Should the Sherman clause be repealed re-pealed Senator nnd what will be the fled uf such action on the time nod he country think I the purchasing clause of the act of 1800 commonly known as the Sherman act should l lie promptly re Irolllully lenled replied the Senator lint this IVd heWe will depend on the action ol r the Democratic Demo-cratic party and it will 1 presume give rise to long debate The Democrats ore by no means In a happy condition The great majority of them have committed com-mitted themselves I In the put to the r ree coinage I ol silver which President I Cleveland Is anxious to hate Ihcm abandon II they do so the respon sibihty will rest upon them of determining deter-mining whether silver should cease to be a standard of value and gold alone be the basis of our coinage and currency cur-rency Tlielr present position of OpJII illlon to the purchase ol silver while upporting the free coinage of silver Is ft1 I sll nf f I a ridiculous and untenable one It it In short n piece of hypocrisy which r li laugh I rey would make a horse laugh They must do one or two things they must either adopt free silver or suspend the purchase pur-chase ol silver The expedient adopted adopt-ed In the net of iSo has demonstrated the Impossibility of maintaining the market value of silver and free coinage means simply the adoption 1 of the silver II standard 1 and the reduction of the purchasing pur-chasing power of the dollar to sixty cents1 TUB INDIA SILVER QUESTION UNSET TLKU How i about the action of India as lo silver Senator Tile financial policy of India In this respect Is not fully settled replied the Senator It Is by no means certain but they will purchase the same amount of sliver as before but at market prices Instead coining all that Is offered as now It would not surprise me If they should resort to the same expedient I adopted by us in the act fe 1890 and buy silver at a market value and maintain main-tain It at some fixed ratio with gold The silver question Is a pressing question ques-tion in India That country has vastly more Illver than we hate Hlndostan lone contains 350000 00 people and these luvo all been doing business with silver ma CROPS AND GOOD rxosrFcrs Are you not apprehensive as to the times and the condition of the country coun-try I asked 1 du nucwlsli to bo Interviewed as to the business Mutation I but I wl4t say that the country ought lo be In a good condition Tine train arc phenomenal ly large t am gelling more hay off my lfvtI lind I here than ever before and I etpccl lo have at toast twenty tons The hay crop this year will be l enormous and hundreds ol thousands > of tons will be exporter There Is I a sort of a hay famine In Europe this ear and hay In Prance Is bringing forty dollars n Ion The wheat lb crop Is also large 1 but the prices are lower than I have ever know n them There Is I no money In raising wheat at the present wages for farm labor and doubt 1 In fact If any profitable pro-fitable I farming can be done at the I present pres-ent wanes lhe I wheat I raised I here will i not more Ihon pay the wages of the labor required to sow and hartcst TIIK Entree or scours Are not wages Increasing In the United States tight I along They have been replied Senator Sherman but whether they can continue con-tinue to do to Is botibtful Labor commands com-mands today more than it produce In m t profit to the employer and there Is n IJ II r ytl 13 n deposition over the country lo avoid Its demands tiy the closing of f tclotles and tine I stopping of various enterprises I When I was n boy ten dollars n month was good wages and the average dally wages was nvtenlyfite t cents a day Today you cnn hire I I no one under ft IJo Tale I thosemen out there who are raising rais-ing the track of that street railroad I fdI lhe senator I at he pointed I iII the street they get joaday It Is little enough bull 1 doubt whether the business can aford lo pay it What will be the effect of the action of Congress as to silver on wages I asked That depends on what the action of Congress Is 1 replied Senator Sherman wr the socalled r Sherman I clause I of the law of 1890 Is I repealed without further legislation 1 being enacted It will put us on mine gold basis and wages will ho C llo be worth all they are now lrfCI the I purchasing power of the dollar Is concerned con-cerned ft I free coinage I I ol Id I sliver should I be addo red wages would not adtancc I nominally but their purchasing power would fall to sl > ty t cents In gold al over the 1 country and the price of all 1 other tt articles would rise Ir l think the labor situation Is a serious one and wage nl eAfi r Ee earners are always among the first to be affected by hard times boo IU stoa6 rANtn s Do you apprehend a panic No I do not was the reply The nactmcnt of the resumption Uw did way with the danger of panics In this country As to the times howctcr I I do not care to speak I dont feel that tleI I 1 could better t ro prospects by talking I of them and I assuredly would not do anything to nuke limn worse The United States Is by no means a poor country and our resources are great How l about the Worlds TalrF Wilt It not have an Inllucnce to make times better It will bring n great deal of money Into circulation 1 doubt that Its effect 1 will be appreciably appre-ciably felt replied Senator Sherman This Is a big country and we deal In millions Tim amount brought out by thin hue will be no mot than a drop In the biirlrrt KIIAEX VIIISIS OrilKR MKTAU What do you think of the appeal he miners of Colorado as to free coinage coin-age agclIt Is the strongest presentation tint has yet been made to the Democratic tatty III favor of It replied Senator fherman What they say Is true If we should refuse to purchase their tilter til-ter they would hive a limited market fur Hand the Indmtry would I for a time I be crippled or suspended The truth of the nutter Is Senator Sherman went on silver has fallen In value like most other metals with the improved methods of production We used to hate to pay l floo n ton for Iron rails now they can be produced for fat a ton Aluminum used lo bo worth manly as much as gold by the present nethods we can produce It from y cents to a dollar a pound Nickel Inns I alien 1 In value and silver can be mined cheaper and reduced at less expense than It could In the past The processes pro-cesses smelling 51 It with lead ore are such that I the lead sometimes dl toys the I cost of reduction and silver has fallen In value It will If the Shinnati act Ira repealed continue to fall and ctenlually will stand al lu market value In the same way that Iron and IIUIII precluus mculs stand Till PHIHAL or Till PBN1IONII I low I about the cutting down of the pension list senator I asked IheDmocrats are arousing much Indignation among the soldiers uv their construction of thepenslon Uw replied benitorSlierman and the reexaml nation and repeal of pensions that have been granted I look for n great change In the soldiers tote rs lIf bout cant tell as to the effect of ouch legislation I legis-lation The pension list Is very large Nu country has ever been so liocral ns this tolls defenders and fiOooooonon ear Is an enormous mild You must also remember that It Is almost n lull generation since the war Nearly all Ire ider nnrg to Hie voters under filly were too young to hate been engaged in the war or lo hate been Impregnated with Its splilt sate that they have gotten It r from their I IIIfr parents These people I are among I I those whom the Democrats arc trying to gain I by their wholesale repeal of pensions TIIK KHITnLICANS ttlll LARKY Till rnru e v How about the election this fall think lite country will undoubtedly go Republican was the reply We will l carry Ohio I by a Urge majority and other slates ol the north likewise This Is always the rule In elections following 1 I presidential elections The patty flctrc fails i usually carries the country Urn following year It will be n1hrScaeA more so than ever this > car as the Democrats are so divided l among themselves them-selves and the financial situation Is I blamed upon them How about the tariff Will tine Democrats reduce IU hey will attempt to do to The have promised I and they will try tocatrv vil out their promises I What they will really do the Lord only knows POLITICS AND YOUNO sums The tvnverra l ion here drafted off 10 general subjects At one point asked hits senator Mmiclhlnjr as to pollllcs AS A profession for young men lie reo Iliedl I dont think young men should ngage In politics with the l idea of mowing I It 1 their life woik Our condi lions are such that we do not have 1 irofesslon of politics as England here Is no lIryoll In politics nnd the sung man who engages In them with a view to a livelihood makes a great mistake The average life of the poll clan Is short Think nf the changes that lake place In enemy Congress The only two men now In the Senate nllo have spent a great part of their lives there are Senator Morrill and myself TIIK KICII AND THE rooK another point In the talk I spoke I I of line growing number of very rich men In this country and asked Senator i Sherman If I he did not think we might 1 eventually have a rll rich and a party of poor illi replied Our laws against I entail are such that great fortune can not last In the I United Slates They arc divided at the death of their owners among their children and are soon dissipated Only the fewest fortunes t toast half a century cen-tury The majority are divided long 111 1miJ lyba IIIlvi before that 1 cw banking businesses line more than twenty years And the Uw of fortune Is change The great firtune of today you will see ll you took at them have all been caused by I new Inventions s and modern Improvements Improve-ments in satisfying hunan wants The railroad the telegraph the telephone and nearly enemy oilier one of the great wealth producers I have been renlcnnher i during my lifetime I can remember when we had only n few miles ot rail road i in the I United State When there was a short strip running from rm nlh Ig f on 1 Hilllmotc on to Cumberland and when we hail here In Ohio but one road running from Sandtisky to Newark and Zancsville All such Institutions have produced great fortunes and other I things su of the kind 1 may do likewise like-wise Ilut I apprehend no party of rich against the poor and believe tint human wants and the natural tendencies tenden-cies of the human race will equalito us more and more as time goes on SOUTH AMKKICA How about tine foreign trader Will II e ever control the business of South AtnrrlriV That Is a question that only time can decide Tho chances It leans to me are against us If toil will take a took at the globe you will see that nearly all of the South American continent lies eat of f New York nnd that It Is not mach further from their leading I ports to rW 1 London than to New York England competes with us as to the trade of Klo Jantero on very nearly equal terms at regards distance and It has many ailvanlages I over us al In other respects The Nicaraugut canal will make tome difference ufu have no doubt al It will i bn eventually completed and lint It will result In as vast an Increase of trade as the Sues canal did when It was completed com-pleted TKAMIC C CAN |