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10 TI-IH3 DVOOilTE, NOVEMBER IT, Public Opinion. Atlanta Journal: The Georgia Legis lature should by all means, at Its present session, pass a bill to prohibit football matches In this State. New York Evening Post: The Repub lican party Is an essential element In the peculiar reglmo which reigns In this city. Tammany could not have succeeded wlthlu the last thirty years without It. Atlanta Constitution: Whatever may have been the faults of the great Chi cago millionaire, It Is certain that he has left behind him In his last will and testa ment a monument for wisdom, Justice and benevolence which will perpetuate his name in grateful remembrance. New York Mall and Express: It Is bad enough of those bold Missouri rascals to issue counterfeit silver dollars, but their offense Is rendered sill wickeder by the fact that their coins contain more and finer silver than those turned out by the government mints. Uncle Sam can never contend against ruinous competi tion like that. Chicago Chronicle: We do things bet ter in this country than they do in China. Since its establishment 1.800 editors of the Pekin Gazette, the official organ of the Emperor, have lost their heads. With us one editor has been known to lose his head 1,800 times, which is a great saving of raw material as compared with the Chinese system. Philadelphia Record: The Union Pa cific subsidy was roundly condemned once as extravagant. It would have been justified by national advantages gained if nothing had been repaid. As 11 is, the government has got back prin cipal at G per cent. How many other private Investments of thirty years ago have done better? Atlanta Chronicle: Governor Atkin son is emphatically right In urging that what are called "county convicts" should be put under State control as fully as the penitentiary convict. They are all State convicts, differing only In the grade of the offense, and there should be no more trafilc.in the blood and misery of the one than in that of the other. Detroit Journal: Too much money is expended in municipal campaigns. Thou sands of dollars are spent for halls, lit erature, and Incidentals, that ought not to bo spent. Both parties are too lavish with money. The effect of their prodi gality is demoralizing. A stop must be put to It, or else we shall soon devolute back to the recklessness that marked our campaigns when voting was done on the free-for-all principle. New York Commercial Advertiser: If tho Jews can do our business and man age our newspapers better than others, let them. There are things which the more imaginative Christian can do better than the practical Jew. Let him turn his hand where it can do the most. Besides, It is always well to remember that if there is any real danger from the racial feeling of the Jews, the most effective -way of increasing that danger Is to In sist upon it. New York Journal: The people have voted against sham reform, but not against true reform. They are anxious for good government, with all that im plies, as the most superior member of the Cltiens' Union. They want clean streets and the honest expenditure of public money, and they expect to get these things from the Democracy. New York Is once more a Democratic city the first Democratic city In America the impregnable stronghold of Democ racy In the Union. Springfield Republican: Ono of the Il linois courts has decided that under the Australian ballot system a voter can not be compelled to disclose for whom he voted. It is stated that this principle of law holds good even when the legal ity of an election is questioned in court proceedings and when knowledge of how certain voters cast their ballots is neces sary to determine the issue. This is no more than saying that when the law cre ates a secret ballot the law Intends that the ballot shall indeed be secret. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The State of Washington is not behind any other in its aspirations for a higher condition of mankind. It Is a very progressive State, and it admires progress in others. It is interested In watching the experi ments made by sister communities, and will therefore look with very friendly so licitude upon the experience the State of Tennessee shall have with Debs' Social Democracy. Indeed, the only objection we ever had to Debs trying the experi ment was his locating It in this State. Silver Knight: Secretary Gage baa pulled off the mask from the face of the McKlnley administration. Senator Wol cott had no sooner walked the gang plank of a returning European steamer than the monometallic scheme which prevailed In the last Presldentlan elec tion Is given to the public as a proposi tion by Secretary Gage, which was by him laid before the Cabinet meeting on Friday last. The plan leaves nothing to bo desired by the most remorseless usurer, and nothing to be hoped for by those who are in debt. St. Louis Republic: Viewed from every aspect, it is obvious that the Re publicans will be on the defensive from the opening to the close. of the forthcom ing session of Congress. They will have so many shortcomings and disappoint ments of party policy and administra tion to explain that on no proposition of general Interest can they be aggressive. Cuba and the currency will be the ques tions around which the debates will rage with greatest fury, without immediate hope of settlement on any basis satisfac tory to the national will or conscience. Pittsburg Times: America, crowding closely after Great Britain in the growth of the cotton manufacturing Industry, has added more spindles In the last ten years than the English mills, and only awaits a favorable chance until Great Britain will be served the same trick with American cotton as with American Iron. The British worker Is hastening the time by Inaugurating a general strike of cotton mill operatives, which threat ens to Involve 200,000 hands. One of the causes for the trouble In England is the erection of cotton mills In the Southern American States. Savannah News: In Kentucky the other day a preacher declared In his pul pit that there was no devil. Now, the people of that particular section hap pened to set great store by Old Nick. It Is a source of comfort to them to know that there is such a personage, with hoofs and forked tall; hence when the preacher declared his disbelief there was an uproar. Some of the warm members took the doubting brother by the collar and the trousers and rushed him out of the church, and as he was going they gave him some assorted kicks and fired a fow bullets over his head. The preacher Is now probably convinced that he was mistaken. Galveston News: Long ago the News pointed out that the object of Cuban sjmpathlzers in the United States Is the eventual annexation of the Island. Now, that It seems the rebellion is nearing the end with at least a prospect for Cuban independence, the annexation sentiment is no longer disguised, and It is not impossible that Cuban annexation will be a political Issue at an early day, but the annexationists are by no means helping Cuba by the avowal of such in tentions. Whatever Influence the Fed eral government may finally be able to exert toward ending the war unques tionably can be only retarded by an ex hibition of the annexation spirit. Chicago Evening Post: The depart ment store in all Its modern features is a natural evolution from the general store that since before the Revolution has flourished In all American villages and at almost every American crossroads. In all its ramifications it is the simple re sult of the law of supply and demand. It Is the direct answer of mercantile en terprise to the convenience of consum ers. If the department stores did not afford to the purchaser the best and most economical opportunity to buy what he needs there would be no departmental stores. It Is simply the survival of the fittest means of supplying the varied wonts of the residents In a great city. IiOuisvllle Courier Journal: A distin guished Kentucky statesman made the remark last fall that more and more to the worklngmen of the cities and towns the future legislation of the State and nation would be left. The rapid growth of the urban population during the de cades since the war has resulted in the transfer of much of the best blood and Intelligence of the farm to the laboring classes of the city. These men,, coming as they do from the best yeoman stock, must -necessarily take a prominent part in every electoral movement. More and more the great political parties feel the necessity of seeking their support; more and more the importance of the fran chise they wield is coming to be under stood. Chicago Times-Herald: We do not hesitate to say that the republic is In greater danger from such men as Piatt and Croker than from all the crazy Pop ulists between St. Louis and Waco. The Populist is poor and honest. Generally ho is a misguided patriot. In his foolish way he thinks he Is laboring for the preservation of our liberties a3 a na tion. But no such thought enters the mind of the "boss." He lias no concep tion of a patriotism that does not mean money or offices to him. He is for sound money because the people around him especially the people of wealth are for scund money. He would be for free sil ver If free sliver strengthened his clutch on the offices or his profits from the cor porations. Nashville American: It is said that a bill to establish a national board of health will be Introduced at the next ses sion of Congress. IMs a very desirable measure, and should' become a law. It Is the only means by which the impor tation of epidemic diseases can be effec tually prevented, and would afford the best method of preventing the spread of such diseases after they have been intro duced into this country. The history of the present epidemic of yellow fever now prevailing In the South shows clearly the need of national control and regulation of the quarantine system. Such regula tion would have prevented the In troduction of the fever in the first Instance, and probably would have con fined It to the small town on the Missis sippi coast where it first appeared if it had escaped the watch by sea. Hon. John C. Bell, M. C: The Popu lists demand the coinage of all the gold and the silver that may come to our mints at the ratio of 16 to 1, and the issu ance of paper certificates thereon, in or der that it may not be necessary to circu late the metal In specie. If this fur nishes a sufficient volume of currency, then we shall have no paper money not based on coin. If there is not sufficient metallic money to meet the demands of trade and there never has been then we demand that sufficient paper money be Issued by the government, receivable by it for all dues and a full legal tender for all debts, public or private, which may thereafter be incurred. This paper money shall not be subjected to a forced redemption In coin or in any redemption except as the output of the mines auto matically supplant it with gold or silver coin. Philadelphia Bulletin: A committee of the Board of Education yesterday elected thirty men and five women at $2 a day to go about the town as truant catchers and run Into the schools all children between 8 and 13 years of age who are not now in attendance at some school. Just when they will begin their work, if the board should confirm their selection, is not yet known; and it is Btlll more uncertain what they will do with the youngsters when they catch them. If the city really contains so many children not going to schools that a corps of thirty-five men and women must be employed to gather them in, where will room be found to put them all? Better first look after the many who are not now properly cared for In the schools than to crowd them with those whom the city must pay Its truant catchers $2 a day to force into the class rooms. Chicago Inter Ocean: There are many and strong arguments to be presented in favor of the addition of a department of commerce and industry to the adminis trative branch of the government. But when the "National Business League" demands that a "tariff bureau or commis sion" shall be part of the department of commerce and industry it makes a very Impertinent demand. Tariffs are not framed for the exclusive benefit of those who are known as "business men." They are framed for the benefit of the whole body of people, and therefore it is, as we have said, impertinent to ask that a small body, representing only one sec tion of society, shall be constituted a "commission or bureau" to regulate tar iffs. The proper commission for such work is the Congress of the United States, which once in every two years receives direct Instructions from the peo ple concerning their needs. New York World: Never for states man or soldier was there so remarkable a demonstration of popular feeling as that which the people of Greater New York made yesterday at the funeral of Henry George. At least 100.000 passed before his bier and another 100,000 were prevented from doing do only by the im possibility of getting near It. But the significance of the great outpouring was not in the mere numbers. It was In its character. Rich and poor, great and small, high and low, aristocrat and dem ocrat, thinkers and tollers, those who had loved him and those who had reviled him, women, children and all, bent in sorrow and sincere respect before the coffin of this plain, simple citizen. Un consciously they vindicated over his dead body the truth of the great idea to which his life was devoted, the brother hood of man. AH his life he had con tended for Justice, equality and frater nity for all mankind, he had regarded all men as his kin, and when he lay dead all men thronged to do him honor as a friend and brother. Indianapolis Journal: A paper read at the recent meeting of American cotton manufacturers in Philadelphia contains some interesting statistics as to the cot ton goods trade of the world. It is prac tically In the hands of four countries and divided about as follows: Great . Britain, $332,331,000; Germany, $47,742, 000; France, $28,757,000; United States,. $19,840,000. The surprising thing about these figures is that Great Britain, with out a pound of native raw cotton, should spin and weave over 77 per cent, of the cotton goods purchased by other na tions, while the United States, which produces over one-half of all the cotton grown in the world, supplies less than 5 per cent, of the manufactures of cotton which other countries buy. Over 95 per cent, of the world's trade in cotton goods is In the hands of Great Britain, Ger many land iFrance, neitner of which raises a pound of cotton at home, and all of which are dependent on the United States for their raw fiber. Such facts as these should incite American manufac turers to great efforts to extend their foreign trade. Something to remember, if you're a weak and ailing woman that, there's only one medicine so sure to help you that, it was for years sold under a posi tive guarantee. It's Doctor Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription. In building up over worked, feeble, delicate women, or In any "female complaint" or weakness, it never fails to benefit or cure. It's an in vigorating, restorative tonic, a soothing and strengthening nervine, or nerve food, and a safe and certain remedy for woman's ill3 and ailments. It regulates and promotes all the proper functions, Improves digestion, enriches the blood, dispel aches and pains, brings refreshing sleep, and restores health and strength. The New York Tribune says an en thusiastic church member of Philadel phia has just contributed $1 to the church on his birthday, pledging him self to double the amount on each anni versary of his birth for tho rest of his life. If he keeps this pledge and lives long enough the church will have plenty of money, for the amount of his offering on his birthday twenty-five years hence will ibe something over $16,000,000. What costive people need Is a natural laxative like Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel lets which are powerful without being violent. They move the bowels gradu ally and comfortably but surely. You can regulate the dose one, two or three "Pellets" exactly what you need. They strengthen the intestines to do their own work, so that after their movements be come regular they keep on naturally of themselves. If you have any Breldenthal scrip send it in for the Advocate. It Is still good at this office. You will do the Advocate a favor if.' when writing our advertisers, you mention this paper. WANTED A salesman in each county to sail oar new peoUl varieties of apple trees and strawberry plants. We are originators of the earliest known varieties. Wages paid each week In cash. Address The Western Nursery Co., Lawrence National Bank Bldg., Lawrence, Kansas. LUc W.iUit Li Lit tv,..i j Boat Coutfi Syrop. TOoihI. UbO I