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W. ■ • '■:.'- Complete files of the GLOBE always kept on hand for . reference. • Patrons and friends are cordially invited to visit and avail themselves of the facili ties of our Eastern office when in New York and Washington. - TODAY'S WEATHER. WASHINGTON, April 29. — Indica tions: For 'Minnesota: Fair; cooler In extreme southern portion; north easterly winds. For Wisconsin: Showers in south ern, fair in. northern portion; cooler in central and ; southern portions; northeasterly winds. For North Dakota: Cloudy; variable winds. For South Dakota: Cloudy; cooler; northerly winds. For Montana: Cloudy; variable winds. For Iowa: Showers; cooler; easterly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agri culture, Weather Bureau, Washing ton, April 29, 6:48 p. m. -Local Time. 8 p. m. 75th Meridian Time.—Observa tions taken at the same moment of time at all stations. Place. Ther. Place. Ther.. fit. Paul 58 Calgary 50 Duluth 4":. Medicine Hat 50 La 1 Crosse 74 Swift Current... Huron 6S Qu'Appelle G-» Pierre 66 M.innt".-!osa 1 62 Moorhead . . . :. 50, Winnipeg 60 St. Vincent.... ::6">j Port Arthur 41 Bismarck ...'.'. .'.'.30 , WilHston ........ 56J Cheyenne 56-66 Havre .'„... 62 'Chicago 54-64 Miles City .:."*. '.58 Cincinnati ....76-80 Helena ..-.',.58 Montreal 60-68 Edmonton ....._; New Orleans. .76-86 Battleford 68 New York 48-50 Prince A1bert. ...66 Pittsburg 62-72 P. F. LYONS. Local Forecast Officer. aasa-s* Nicaragua has reached the point where sympathy counts for much less than firearms.".,:, • — *****"* England has expressed no dislike for the Monroe doctrine, but has an exasperating habit of ignoring it. aSBSi It will take a lot of ice this summer to keep some of the presidential booms from getting unfit for publication. Thirteen enumerators will count the people of Minneapolis." The Flour City ought to see to it that the list be en larged to fourteen. - V i- WV?y-v>*y Light is breaking over the pastors of New York. 'One of their leaders on Sundey declared from his pulpit: in favor of Sunday-papers. C"| .•^Ssat»»»- Crude oil has- reached the point where the burners of the midnight oil are using swear words which are not so crude as emphatic. The counting ; in of Turney as gov ernor of Tennessee does v not necessar ily mean that Evans will become a prominent candidate for president. The French are trying to make use of the bicycle in street . cleaning, but they haven't gone far enough to clean a street. This is very much the same kind of work: the Keely motor is doing. ,c* ~\ '; '"- • If ex-Chairman Michener, of the Ohio Democratic state, committee, con sciously passed counterfeit gold coins, under charge of which he is in arrest, he was but applying to the yellow metal what a section of his state party propose to have applied to the white. Ohio Democracy has been notoriously unsound on the money question ever since George H. Pen dleton gave birth to the "Ohio idea" of a rag baby currency, and It is not surprising that it has demoralized the ex-chairman's ideas of honest money. '■> -yd^ ,yY- -$ ~ -yyy : 'y The enterprising newspapers which are now firing A. C. Clausen from the chief inspectorship of the grain de partment and putting George Moulton in his place, all by the act of his aceidency, the governor, may yet learn that Mr. Clausen holds his ap pointment under a law that places it with -the railway commission and not with the governor. When this dawns on them and they realize that the bill putting that department under civil service rules was prepared by the commission ;* they will possibly permit Mr. Clausen to continue in the place he has so -ably and con scientiously filled for so many years. Gov. Clough's veto of the bill put ting the grain department under civil service rules was simply a gratuitous expression of his - hostility to any such an innovation. oh the political methods in which he has had his training. The department for years, with the hearty co-operation of the railway commission and Mr. Clausen, has - been operated on ' civil service methods, appointments being made after examinations as to qualifica tions, and promotions made on merits. The bill proposed simply to put into the law what has been and will con tinue to be the policy of the commis sion as long as it retains its present membership. THE TRIBUNE'S BRACING UP. The. Kohlsaating of the Times-Her ald from undented Democracy to rank Republicanism leaves ? the Chicago Tribune free, if, indeed, it does not impel.it to resume the discussion of economic matters from that sane, sen sible and solid ground on which De mocracy finds its eternal and im movable foundations. ... Possibly the repudiation of the interpretation put on the interchange of views had be tween the Vetera editor of that paper and, the versatile candidate from Ohio . at . Thomasville, on . which i. we made some comment at the : time, is also an . . inciting cause of this return of the Tribune to its former, sanity. - ". However this may 7 be — and an * in- , auiry into motives, ■ if natural, ' is' not SB. ■•■a^^^iya | s^afjp|[||3yfSjTßSJ^p|BjJSs||j as always profitable or proper — the une is laying down some fundamental doctrine from which every Democrat starts to measure public .affairs and legislation affecting them. In the Sunday issue it says: ""'-.'' At all times and in all ; places men seek to gratify their desires . by, the least effort, to attain success along the lines of least resistance. In obedience to this lawl they always try to buy at a low price and sell at a high one, whether the thing be a commodity; service or money. Out' of this great benefits Row; statutes cannot improve on this law, and if they fail to recog nize it they can only operate to modify or cancel its benefits, i A legislator may object that this is a selfish law, or no law at all, or that he could make a better law himself. But that simply proves his own ignorance. It does not alter the fact that so long as humanity is selfish, then within the proper limits of political economy men must gratify their . desires by the least effort, and they have jno choice in the matter. ' This -is .but a correct application to 'the actions and motives of men of that physical law that "motion runs on the lines of least resistance," and is equally obeyed whether it is water seeking a level or a man using . a cant-hook to roll a log. It 'is the ap preciation of this that puts the edge on the chisel. It determines the gradient of the railway as well as the circling paths of the cattle graz ing on the siteep hillside. It was back of the telegraph, and supports it now. It takes men across lots in stead of around the base and perpen ! dicular of the triangle. It is the stimulant to the inventor, ever in tent on devising ways of production at the least expenditure of exertion. It is true that the Tribune applies its generalization to \" the pending question of money, where it is as true and as forceful as everywhere else, but it is also equally, true in the field of political economy devot ed to a consideration of the efforts of men to gain a livelihood and a competence. We have some doubts whether the Tribune would not fol low its own logic into the field of trade, but, if It did not, it would be because business or political consid erations, and not faith in its logic, would deter it. But whether.it would ! or not, it is the truth that this law lies at the base of trade, which is, after all, but the desire of men to get that which they want with the least expenditure of effort. An obstruction placed between them and their object but increases the quantity, of effort needed to at tain it. It is immaterial what form this assumes, whether it is mere dis tance, Whether it is a mountain range to be crossed, or whether it is a custom house with its hindrances and exactions. The cost of carriage, in the two instances, as well as the increase of cost in the 'last, necessi tates the use of greater effort to at tain the end. For whatever purpose the customs tax is laid, whether for revenue or protection; . it increases resistance and diminishes the ef fectiveness of human effort. Some day men will come to realize this as a violation of natural 'law, attended, as all such infringements are, With mischief only, and then these crea tures we call statesmen will be as "luick to remove the obstructions as they now are to increase them. ANCHORED TO COMMON SENSE. Editor Matthews, of the Benson Monitor, is in no danger of being blown away by this silver gale if he keeps as well anchored to com mon sense as he now is. Evidently the babel has disturbed him and made him think that there may possi bly be something in it and that the. old things may be passing away and a new era dawning, where what was is hot, and what is never was, and all things are to be spick, span new. And in this he is like thousands of other men who are refusing, to let go their common sense, and refusing to be lieve that it has suddenly become non sense. - ■''■ These things which we call laws because, in the experience of men, it has been found that certain results follow certain actions, and that cer tain actions can always be predicated under certain conditions, are but the common sense of the people, that keep them immune from the microbes o* sophistry. The pioneer out on the Dakota prairies strings a rope or wire from his house to the**"stable, and, when the blizzard conies, with its blinding, confusing snow, he traverses the path to and from the barn in safety by keeping his hand on the guiding wire. So in such times as these, when monetary crazes are epi demic, men keep their heads by hold ing fast to the experiences of the race, which have taught them that some things are true and immutable. To others who feel that they are losing their bearings in this mone tary tornado we commend the fol lowing communings of Editor Matth- * ews, with his common sensse. He makes his Monitor say u^. r ' £-:~- If we were convinced that free and unlimited coinage of silver would-be of the greatest good to this nation, then we would heartily support that proposi tion. But as yet we have never been quite able to see the connection be tween silver and all other marketable products, although it is claimed that this connection exists. . Silver advo cates claim that free coinage would in crease the amount of money in circula tion, and, there being more money, it would get into the hands of the people, and the natural result would be that good times would follow. But we can not understand how this money would get into circulation among*'the people without their giving value received for it, either in labor or in products. A man cannot take nothing and trade it for a dollar, if the dollar is 'worth a hundred cents. You can't get some thing for nothing, and when a person attempts to do so he generally runs up against a confidence game! ; "> "v. , ; . • "" HOBDS RAISES HOB. ~'% And now it is the wall paper trust that invites a court to kick it-out of its presence. It has obtained a pre liminary injunction enjoining one Hobbs from engaging in the business of making or dealing in wall paper. Mr. Hobbs retorts that the plaintiff is a trust, organized •to monopolize the wall paper trade, arid' proceeds to tell how it forced him into its embrace. For twenty years he had' been engaged in making 'and selling the paper that relieves the walls of our homes of their bareness and cul tivates the aesthetic in the inmates by its "artistic designs and coloring. He had' prospered so that his capital waxed . fat and rose to $100,000, re turning to him. 4o per cent annually. Then, in 1892— McKinley's year of maximum prosperity— there came to t |* him out of : Chicago ' the 'Schemer/: the" j> promoter,, the tempter, with, a lure !■ in one hand and a a threat*. .in.- 'th*? j other,- and- promised; him.-'if he would I join \ the - trust, increase -of profits*/ and, if he would not;, threatened Mm: 1 with a* 'competition". that would ruin" I him'-. So perforce he made r 's\iri : eß^ "'•'*.'* '-" ■;"--'-' --->.---. r -. --j_^ «. iIP.-.N THE SAINT PAULO DA-HOT COLOBE: TUESDAY MORNING, APRII, 30, 1895, I_J_^_^_ - - — .-J *: .* ■ Zy^—~2~ — --l-^-—^~— i_^L__ . ; — :_: — _^^_ 1- - - »-...>.-«•*• -■--.-•-. a. ■ ti-,-. -.- .'zz. - -' " •----. • der, and ■'■ the wall paper trust < ab- ! sorbed Hobbs and all the others and i reigned supreme." ; Then',"" "he : -avers, : it advanced the prices until they average two cen'Cs a roM j more ) than when Hobbs was" making : his 40 per" . cent profit, .and there is a sixth. less in quantity made, and wages have, been reduced 10 per cent, and the jobber is shelved and the traveling salesmen roam the land no more vending 'the adorning rolls of paper. Presumably, Hobbs grew restive! under this close monopoly and sighed for his freedom once more. Possibly his artistic taste, cultivated and highly developed during his years of business on his own hook, rebelled: at the plainness, the positive ' ugli ness, of the patterns used by the trust, indifferent, now Chat competi tion was removed; anyway, the trust feared .that Hobbs was going to re sume and disturb the beautiful har mony that prevailed under its be nign rule, and so it asks a court ,to make Hobbs obey his contract to forever desist and refrain from mak ing, vending, or in any way dealing in wall paper in consideration of the purchase by the trust of his estab lishment. We apprehend that when the court shall have heard Hobbs' plaintive story and digested the fact that the plaintiff is a trade octopus, it will say' to the plaintiff that he 'who seeks the intervention of a court of equity must come to it with clean hands, and that the hands of the plaintiff are slimy with greed, and bid it depart and go wash itself. BsssasS* A QUARREL WITH FACTS. Just to illustrate the dementia that follows an attack of the silver craze, we reprint this from an editorial in the Atlanta Constitution: The period from 1865 to 1879, taken as a whole, was a period of abounding prosperity. In 1873 there was a panic brought about by the sudden fall in sil ver that occurred when the demonetiza tion act was passed, but, bad as that panic was, the people were not reduced to such straits of distress and poverty as they have been during the past two years under the single gold standard. During that period the irredeemable - greenback was the standard and meas ure of value, and the people prospered I as they have not prospered since. But during all that time the banks, the money sharks and the Wall street usurers were arranging their plans and developing their programme to make the unit of account more valuable. How the fellow plays football with facts. The period from 1865 to 1868 was one of abounding speculation, causing a fictitious prosperity, result ing from the inflation of prices caused by the depreciation of the greenback. Wheat touched the top notch at $3.25 a bushel. Mess pork reached its summit at $26 a barrel. Mess beef was $24.75 a barrel. Cotton was 35 cents a pound. The craze had 'run its course. In 1869 values began to shrink all along the .line. The pre monitory symptoms of the unequaled panic of 1873 began to appear. The spurt in iron, that sent pig from $26 to $56 a ton in 1872, flooded the mar ket with imports, and the crash that followed precipitated the panic that crushed all industries. • There was no "sudden fall" in silver in 1873. The commercial ratio that year was 15.92 to 1. It fell to 16.17 in 187.4, a drop of 25 points, but this was after the panic stroke of paralysis had. fallen. Who that experienced it does not recall the six long, dreary years' of depression that followed? The West "swarmed with tramps from the Eastern mills, seeking work and food. The Pittsburg riot of 1877 was but one incident of the Consti tution's "abounding prosperity." During that time the greenback was ; not the standard and 'measure of values; it was but the fluctuating medium of making exchanges. Gold was then as it had been for forty years, and as it has ever since been, I the standard by which values were ; measured. "During that time values were expressed in terms of paper ! money, and prices rose or fell, as the ; confidence in the redemption in gold of the greenback rose or subsided. What can these fellows hope to gain by ft their audacious falsifications of i the. facts of a history yet fresh in the memories of the men who lived ; when it was made? ;." PRICES THEN AND NOW. i The Chicago Tribune meets the as* sertion of "Coin" that the farmer who gave a mortgage of $1,000 ten years ago .-must now raise $2,000 worth of produce to pay what $1,000 would then, because silver has dragged down farm values with it, by quoting prices in 1885 and now. The following is the comparison it makes: . . . . . „,,_ yi y- 1885. Now. Wheat $ 83% $ 61 Corn '.......*.'".. .... 42% .'" 48 Oats.... .. 28% 29 Flax .:.... 1.28 ' 1.41% Cattle .... 4% 5*4 Hogs 4% . 4% Sheep 314 . 3% Not content with this, it goes back to the prices of 1873, when the green back was at a discount of 14 per cent, and shows that except as to wheat, sheep and flax, the prices are lower now than then. Silver is 50 per cent lower, while wheat is 25 per cent, and this decrease can be traced* to an Increase of product and a de creased cost of production. . If- our gold and silver extremists would only stop their clamor for a while and get together and compare notes they would find that each is after, precisely the same thing, "the restoration of silver to its position prior. to 1873." As that . position was one of avoidance of the mints," the gold men will be contented if it is re stored, and.it will satisfy the silver ites, because all they . demand is the restoration. YY'Y:' ; Yyi<Y^' •***"*• — *■ Y:Y:h NOT A TRUSTWORTHY GLIDE. ! Ex-Speaker Crisp— and it is one of the minor compensations of the de feats of '94 that one can write it "ex speaker"—takes the country needless ly into his confidence and imparts to it his belief that the Democratic party must go farther in the path of protection than he helped send it, and give to the silver miner 100 per cent protection on his product; in other "words, declare for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen ounces of silver to one of gold. He modestly ignores the suggestion recently made that he. be the party's candidate for the presidency, and generously waives any claim he may have in favor of some Western man. • It was this ex-speaker who, in the Fifty-second congress,: was put for ward by the protectionist element for speaker, against . 'Mills,' . whose position . every . one knew and the ele ; ment referred -to abhorred, and it was he who, as speaker, made up the com mittees to suit : those who *■ made: him speaker;; and,*, as . a member of ? the • committee on rules, put the tariff " • question on the sidetrack, and gave r to the silver. question, with Bland in the 'cab,. the right of way. He showed : his : loyalty « to. ■ the- protectionists "- who '■ • made him speaker by refusing Mills ' his rightful place at the head of the ways ' and . means committee, • and put there a man whose ideas of tariff re form were of 'the caliber of pop-guns. • With such a record -. for disloyalty Jto the one . cause, devotion to which - brought the party -but of a long min ority, he must excuse us from follow ing him . or ; accepting him as an : au thority on "Democratic principles or policy. ; ■ ;:, J ' CLOUGH'S BAD BREAK, j' i Mankato Review (Dem.). : " The attempt of the legislature tjo place the wheat inspection department on a civil service basis has ailed, bv the refusal of the governor to sigh the bill. He | does not believe In sin gling out one department for civil ser vice regulation, which, of .course, is a pretext. The wheat department is a' rich plum for party rewards, and the governor does not want to give it up. j Mankato Free Press (Rep.). ; Six bills were vetoed; among these was one placing the grain inspect!© i department under civil service rules. .From what we have noticed of the bill, we j believe it was a good one . and should have become a law. The grain inspection service is one which poli tics should have nothing to do with, and the Free Press believes that the governor, in vetoing it, has made a mistake. ..:-■" V-'*'V Campaign of Education. Graceville Enterprise. Democrats admire courage, and no Democrat. will think less of Mr. Cleve land for having the courage to stand up for what he believes to be right, re gardless of whether it be popular or unpopular with the party at large. He Invites a contest within the ranks of the party, and is confident that when all the arguments which can be pre sented on both sides have been heard that an. overwhelming majority of the party will indorse his views. He may be wrong. Other Democrats have been wrong; but when he asks that the Democrats come together and discuss this question in all its bearings before committing the party «"he is not un reasonable. A campaign of education I is ' never one-sided. Let every Demo crat hear what both sides have to say . In : coming . discussions of the silver question, weigh the arguments as we would the evidence if we were sitting on a jury, and then decide which will be best for the country. Up to this time most of the talking has been done by one side. ■ ■•— sssa Will the Jingoes- Please Answer, Philadelphia Record. . Does the Union claim to be the pro tector, in the modern sense, of Span ish and Portuguese America or does • it regard all the powers within those limits as' its dependent allies? In eith er case, does it acknowledge itself to be in any sense answerable for their conduct?— London Economist. These are pertinent questions. If the bellicose American statesmen who so lustily cry "Hands " off:*' whenever some European power may happen to have a difficulty with a defaulting re public of this continent really mean s what they say, they must be prepared to accept the responsibilities as well as the rights of protectorships. If the nations of the Western hemisphere be, Indeed, under, our protection, we must be prepared to keep our proteges In order and to answer for their offenses against other powers. Primary Election Law Commended Morris Sun. One of the most important measures enacted during the j present session *is the primary election law, which, If it proves all that its friends claim for it, will do much to remedy, the rotten system- now ; in vogue; The Australian ballot law did away with much of i the bribery, bulldozing and corruption at the polls, but it served to make the primaries of more importance to the unscrupulous politician, as the caucus was under no legal control, the voter under no restraint, and there was op portunity to resort to packing, ballot box stuffing," bribery and intimidation without fear of consequences. • asasa . — - ; ';;", Chairman McDermott's Sentiment. St. Peter Journal. Hon. T. F. McDermott came up from St. Paul Saturday on legal business. He favored us with a call, but refused to state anything definitely regarding the presidential campaign or local poli tics. He believes, . however, that the state, regardless of party, will never be able to put up a cleaner or better man than George L. Becker, the Demo cratic martyr. Mr. "McDermott says that if he had the power he Would wipe every Republican federal office-holder . off the earth. Moral Convulsions. Two Harbors Iron News. There has been a moral convulsion on. the Mesaba range. "Virginia has cast out its gamblers and Blwablk had a blind pig sticking.- Grand Rapids, over on the. western end, gave its sporty element their passports and read the saloons the riot act. On the train the other day one. of the banished re marked that "that whole country had gone plum to hell," but the people up there appear to like the change, and, possibly the party was off on his geog raphy. " : Y'Yy..y: y T.'Y'y-y Advice to Davis. Rush 'City T6st.yYYYYY-ly. -~y The tooting may be sweet music, to Senator Davis' ears, but we vent the opinion "that C. K. stands about as good a show to get the nomination for president as some obscure editor of a. country newspaper. "List not to* the sweet ' voic3 of the siren, lor it bodes you evil... Merriam, Nelson, Clough and others are responsible for the alluring song. : !*'-.'.-"■ . ' A Calamity Candidate. -X YY'Y Kansas City Timrp. ." /:'*^ It may be predicted, however, that McKinley's contest will break down before the meeting of the convention, and without the adverse Influence of a combination. ... With prosperity com pletely restored, wages advanced to the standard of three years ago and work -plenty, there is little reason for a calamity candidate, and McKinlr-y's nomination would mean that and noth ing more. . As Cnnnel Jones Sees It.' ' St. Louis Post-Dispatch. v : r-r The change of front means more than defeat. It means a bolt from the party The desertion of the polls is in effect; a bolt, and is the preparatory step to a formal and general bolt of gold mono metallists in the event of the control of the national convention by the friends of free silver coinage. ' "Y — ~ — "'*■ — : — Our Turn Is Coming. St. Louis Republic. . ' ; ' '"] : "' Republicans are : welcome to all the fun they. can get out of the Democratic shindy over silver. : There's a pot boil ing for them, and it will be bubbling long after our little .• affair -.has been amicably arranged. "■.:*■'.* ". ■?" p"; ; They Assert, Not, Explain. S; Courier- Journal. *.y'r} -/-■■■-' .No free silver man -has - ever : ex plained why it is, if free coinage of sil ver \ would give us more good ' money, ; that the -money Y6t the free silver coun tries is less per capita and less in pur chasing power than that of i the i gold standard countries. -^'-. '. '.-. V ■;. . . -_-. AT THE THEATERS. * William Morris and his ' capably company played to another good "aud ience at . the Metropolitan * opera J house last night. ". The play la a very , strong one ' and ably * presented, apparently pleasing everybody. Mr. Morris' en gagement is for • all * this week. " There will be a matinee tomorrow at popular prices, 1 which ': will doubtless be . well patronized. - " • . • *<;* * ". -Y+ , -{Orhe- fact that ■ melodrama Is losing none of Its popularity with the masses was again in evidence at the Grand last night. The second performance of ■ tiJßda Lee Bascom's- "A Bowery Girl" drew a large audience, and, to judge by the frequent applause, a well pleased one. There will be a matinee performance of "A Bowery Girl" to morrow. • * • t i*;>"rhe Glffen and Neill company will Inaugurate the third week of the stock season at the Grand Sunday night with a production of C. Haddon Cham (' "iters' powerful play, "Captain Swift." **a*he piece -is one of absorbing interest, and, 'as presented by this company, should serve to draw audiences • com mensurate with its merits. Mr.Litt is sparing no expense either in the selec tion of plays, which means big royal ties, or in the method of putting them on, and he ought to be encouraged by . hearty support. '•'-.'■''• ■"!'■ CRITICISMS OF LAWGIVERS. A Fearful Possibility. St. Peter Journal. Tacitus says when the state is most corrupt then the laws are most multi plied. Wonder if that could be applied to our state. / ; ." " Rough' Terms, These. Princeton Union. ■ Tuesday noon saw the expiring throes of the legislature, "Shysters, counter hoppers, mossbacks, pill peddlers and sky pilots have ceased to receive pay from the state, and have gone back , to the obscurity from which, . for a brief time, they sprang." A Few Good Ones. Montgomery Messenger. The state . legislature passed a few good bills. Among them might, be mentioned ' the primary election law, the bill placing the express companies under the control of the railroad com mission, prohibiting pool selling on horse racing. : .. . - Let "Em Down Easy. Albert Lea Standard.:^.'"- •-•*.-"" The legislature during the last two weeks has certainly done much to re deem itself, and its. action in several important respects is so commendable that what should not have been done and what is left undone will be more easily forgiven and forgotten.! "Wanted MeilleUe's Bill Passed. Heron Lake News. Some one has asked us what Jackson county got out of the recent session of the state legislature. So far as we have been able to learn, we got a just ! measure defeated, I and nothing more. ', ...The law granting a bonus of one j cent per pound on sugar produced in | Minnesota is a great joke. \y. ! ' <3 '! Perplex! Laws. J "Winnebago City Press-News. ■* V-■ j Of the several, hundred bills Intro ! diced, nearly 300 have become laws. j Moist of these are simply intended to I cause litigation and perplex people j who already have- a surfeit of laws. j In. {fact,* it puzzles the bright lawyers | of the state to keep run of the statutes, I so thoroughly are. they overhauled by ;| the legislature every two years. The cost of the session was $150,000. ' .'**-> j•• Good Thing: to Push. ". Lakefleld Standard: --...We believe the state legislature has done a wise thing in asking the people j to vote. on the question of calling a j convention to revise, the constitution.. Our present constitution is thirty-eight ! years old, and is loaded- down with | forty-one amendments, making the original constitution a very heterogene ous affair, little suited to the present wants of the state. YyY'y .■"-■■ ■ "*-.'* ' sssss " ' '; — '~-y''Yy A Menace to the British. New York World. The chief danger about - the British occupation of the custom house at Corinto is that the unusual experience of; an orderly and responsible govern ment in charge of their affairs may have a pernicious influence on the Nicaraguans and prompt them to ask that the occupation may be continued indefinitely. A system of government' under which the lives, possessions and rights -of the citizens-are thoroughly safeguarded Is far from being the rule : in Central America. ~: • y<"> "■'■ i""'' ... ■» ' .... .:-.'' ' :;- . » Telephone War In Ohio. -'yi ' FORT WAYNE. Lid., April 29.— is ; learned here that G. Beers left today for Columbus,' 0., to : join with all the Ohio telephone plants to make war against the Central Union and Bell Telephone companies. This will have ; the effect of a concentrated attack upon the old companies, 'which are now suffering in all the smaller cities and towns, in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois by reason of opposition of new companies. Mr., Beers will represent five companies In the combination. yf'izr. B"» j POPULISM IN RHYME. i As a specimen of Populist poetry, > the. following rhymes will be Interest ing. They were printed in the Cotton .wood County Citizen, under . the cap tion .of "Songs of ; Samyewel," and • signed "A.": .... . , ?:■•.-; rok a by farmer hi up a gum tree gold dollars get bigger when silvur , ain't free z-'iy'y & prises kum tumblin & never wunse c I I stop - - til i the sheriff - skoops In the farm & i live stok ■ ' ; ..-,•. f • butt ,<evry thins luvly & awl thets - rek ■but .evrythins luvly & awl thets rek ! I r-1 wired . ..-..., '-• iz.kQnfidanse gawl & a mind thets awl | **, .fired 16' pay off them bils & setter the rent & keep in good standln with old 10 per -, j cent - ' •. - bo toll away farmer & don't never stop ll! pus_.,werk like the dikens saw wood & "*: a then chop ..-■-._ . bo' Hitch up the mewl teem & draw' brnsum water . i iiingt.whissel & danse if you ain't werth ;, r water •/;>" . >> ; s-j . but javoid all reformers & tend 2 the , i .ijffarm . . . ; keej^ votin old tikkets & spark the ;| . i ' „skool mann . ; - i then " smell them red herrins this wun \ "*'iz free trade ' thecothers pretekshen billy mukinleys T" ■ : old jade • . • &If it gets tuff er each year as you "■ farm it, _ ■■ dont ever yew say it wus pollytlcs ' .darn.it . ... fer everythlns luvly & awl thets re • .*"*"* ' ' kwlred : - : ■ ».- - -■ liz faith 2 pay store bills & rent— & get -..* ■:; fired . -' '.-..; ■-; '.-;. r : . & when that big note 2 old shilok kums '■'}"■' dew just say 2 him shilok yew no it is trew :it iz faith thet : pays " notes vln ' thees ■ • glorious times - ,'...-■-.:.?,— ..... (his reply wood look well In . respektu - .■; ble rimes) :-; now let uz ajern 2 sum' fonagrafs farm & ' the "•■ hi graded; mewls,; thet puzzess ■ ". • i^ > such *. a -charm- " -.->,..--, --..... fen , gold bases fewels & also faith ,'*' ; kewrists; \7Y~'YY~ .2 ,''.."■ . Yyy .y ; **ti|'thaysi""ldenly find. thay are' hevenly .'...' Y-.z -..;.:■■■ YY. .'V ". .: . ■' . -"" - "--Sl^l VOICE OFVOORHEES Is Added to the Clamor of the Bimetallisms for Free Coinage. ", TALKS OF ASSASSINATION Of Silver When the White Metal Was Demonetized in 1873. HAS NO FEAR OF HARMONY In the Democratic Party When the Question Comes to Issue. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 29.— Senator Voorhees, in a talk today with the Sentinel Washington cor respondent, made the following state ments of his views in regard to the free coinage of silver: "I do not re gret the agitation of the silver ques tion. Sooner or later it had to be definitely settled. Whether the labor producing people of this country can be bullied out of one-half of their debt-paying money, or that they will ; stand up like free men and protect and defend the money named and I provided In the constitution— : and silver, or both— not one of the ! precious metals alone, but both, and j on terms and conditions as to coin- j age and use of absolute equality. ! That is the question immediately be- j fore us, and no better time than now | will ever be found for its settlement. j "The tariff will not return to plague us again for years to come. It has , been so wisely and equitably ad- ' justed that no attempt at any gen- I revision is now in contempla- I tion in any quarter. There is no ! longer any issue in regard to federal | election laws and .the threat of the j bayonet at the ballot box. No great j national question is at this time in j •the way of a full, free, fair discus- ! cussion of money, currency, precious j metals, ratios, standards of values, I units of account and payment, and the bearings all these have on the ! general welfare of the great body of the American people. y- THE SILVER QUESTION is plainer to view and less obscured by the craft of its enemies than at ; any time since the assassination of silver money took place in 1873. There are no legislative switches now in ex istence to lead the .people away from the main track. No cowardly make shifts or insincere shams can any longer darken discussion or betray honest counsels. The Sherman act, which was conceived in rancorous hostility to silver and brought forth into a law by an iniquitous betrayal of silver's free coinage, has been bur ied in an unhono red grave, over which no lament will ever be heard. I have never been . willing to admit that our : system- of currency should be dictated by England ' and other foreign coun tries, and I repel that idea now. The REAL AND VITAL ISSUE ■ now presented to the American people is the elimination of silver from our currency, its total overthrow and destruction as a money metal and the use of gold alone. This is what is now meant by the movement against the free coinage of silver, whatever disclaimers may be made to the contrary. This movement means the destruction of one-half of the debt-paying money of the United* States of the world. If it should be successful it will double the bur dens of every debtor and multiply the gains and income of every creditor . wherever the sun shines. "The debts of the American people at this time, both public and private, are appalling in amount. They have been contracted on a bimetallic basis, and it is now proposed to make them payable on the basis- of gold alone.' The two metals also constitute the | specie basis for such paper currency as may be put in circulation. If silver money is destroyed paper circulation must be contracted in that proportion." Every form and kind of money must become that much scarcer and harder to get in exchange for labor and the products of labor. Such a policy is to my mind simply horrible. I have not a particle of doubt as to the result of the contest now going on. The enemies of silver will be driven to the wall. Sil- I ver money will not only survive, but i it will be fully restored to its old place j as a leading and controlling factor in ! the development and the progress of i the country. "Nor have. I any fear for the future STRENGTH AND HARMONY of the Democratic party. Some men may discard its principles and abandon its organization, but others will take their places. I. have been in favor of I the free coinage of silver at the rate ; fixed by Jefferson all my life, and ] whatever others may do, I shall here- i after neither abandon my principles J nor my party. I am not unmindful of j the vague cry now raised about 'sound j money, honest money,' and it causes me to glance back over the "career of : silver in American history. I discover, that Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, - John Marshall and Monroe indorsed silver money as sound and honest, and that the same views were entertained throughout the most im- portant epochs of our country's trials, growth and glory by Jackson, Clay ; and Webster, Calhoun, Silas Wright, i Marcy, Horatio Seymour, Benton, j Chase, Douglas, Hendricks, Morton and Abraham Lincoln, "The truth is that danger from the coinage and use of silver as money in this country never occurred to a sane mind until greed, avarice, unholy spec ulation, reared its serpent head and : aimed a vicious, deadly blow at the honored dollar of the fathers, in 1873. Since that time we Have had nothing but financial vexation, distrust, busi ness depression and ruinous panics. The five years which immediately followed the demonetization of silver In 1873 were freighted with more calamity and suf fering on the part of laboring and pro ducing people than was ever before ' known in this continent in Its life time. A wave of confiscation swept over the ; country, annihilating values, depriving . labor as I its reward, de stroying all market prices for property, except - such a3 were bid at . sheriff's | *frd*yxd£j*x!&yx <-*^x*""?-bc"-<Jkv-^^ li - -^ * | U. S. Government officially reports ROYAL ||; ; # : 1- Baking Powder superior to #// others in leaven- .- t | ing Strength. i: S (Bulletin 13, Ag'l Dep't, p. 599.) ;l I I I a^*"*"*"-*"--'**^^ I sales. 5 Nor did this wretched condition of 'affairs' show any signs of improve ment until : the partial restoration of silver to its money functions took place in 1878. . "I am told on this question that sil ver bullion as a marketable commodity at this time commands a top price. My answer is that if gold had been con spired against.persistently assailed by I foul means as well as fair, . STABBED IN THE DARK and in the daylight, and in the back .and. under .the. fifth rib, and wherever else a dagger . could be planted for nearly a quarter of a century past, it would be in a far worse crippled con dition than silver. No other form of money on j the face of the earth could have withstood, as silver has done, such a malignant, unsparing crusade as the last twenty-two years have wit nessed in this, country. It still holds its place in the affections and confi dence of the people. Battered, bruised and tattered as it has been, yet it will buy today all that gold will buy and pay all the debts that gold will pay, unless a special contract has been made for gold. The American people will never give it up, and the sooner the minions of aggressive, insolent con solidated wealth and the arrogant apos tles of gold monometallism realize and act upon this fact, the better and safer it will be for them in the future of this country. In every state arid territory ! from the Western side of the Alle | gheny mountains to the Pacific coast silver has been known and indorsed by people for three-quarters of a cen tury, not merely as sound money, not merely as honest money, but as land office money besides. With it their homes were bought and paid for, and not much patience now remains with them or their descendants for those who stand and stigmatize the great white, metal which has done its work so well. "And the need of the white metal in the hands- of the people is even greater , now than ever before. There is scarce ; ly a speck of gold in sight of the labor i ing classes. In round numbers there are nearly four thousand millions of gold money in the world, and about the same amount "of silver. With sil ver demonetized. the plain people, the wage-workers, and those who raise and sell the produce of the soil will . handle specie money no more forever ! and will catch even a glimpse of it but | seldom. Gold .will be hoarded and hid i away in the. vaults of the great mag- I nates of wealth, and the people in their business will be put on their half rations of paper money, to which the shrinkages and ■ contraction from*% r basis of bimetallism to a basis of monometallism will* reduce them. "I WISH TO IMPUGN I the motives of no one and to avoid j hard words In discussion as far as | possible, but the time has come when ■ speech, though temperate, should be very plain. Party platforms from this time forward will not be framed to cheat on this subject, whatever may have been done heretofore. No dubi ous phraseology or straddling planks j on the question of silver will be toler- I ated in the next national conventions I that are to take place in this country. i Words will mean what they say, and : men will be nominated* whose lives and I records j will , constitute a guarantee j that the principles declared will be | carried out. Nor are the people to be | Imposed on any further by the ominous air with which- the money lords and ! money lenders prate about the terrors ! and disasters of being put on a silver basis by the free coinage of silver. "If the free and unlimited coinage of silver as full legal tender money and as a standard of statutes, and the unit of account and payment, without a word of International agreement on ! the subject, will put this country on a I silver basis, then we were on such a i basis every day and hour from the I passage of the first coinage act in April;' 1792, '■■' until the 'demonetization act; of • February, 1873, a period of eighty-one years, during which we rose from weakness to the foremost rank among the nations of the earth. I commend to all croakers In regard to a silver basis a careful reading of tho act of April 2, 1792, formulated by Hamilton and Jefferson and approved by_ Washington." '■'<%-. r AND STILL THEY COME. Further Silver Declarations From : :.t; ;;. Illinois Democrats). JACKSONVILLE, 111., April 29.-The Morgan county Democratic convention .today unanimously adopted a resolu tion, prepared by Chairman Hinrichscn, of the state cental committee, de manding the free and unlimited coinage of sliver at the ratio of 16 to 1, with- I out waiting for the permission or ac ! tion of any foreign government. Dele gates were selected to the state con vention, and it is understood that copies of the resolutions adopted have been sent to the chairman of every county central committee In the state, to bo presented to the various county con ventions when they meet. Further Silver Indorsement. LOUISVILLE, 111., April 29.— The Clay county Democratic convention today was composed of the best busi ness men and farmers of the party in this county, antl was harmonious and enthusiastic. Resolutions were unani mously adopted denouncing the de monetization of silver in 1873 as a crime and demanding its immediate restoration at the ratio of 1C to 1, and strongly endorsing the state com mittee's action in calling the state con vention. A Job for Col. Grant. . NEW YORK, April 29.— rumor is revived this afternoon that Col. Fred Grant would be appointed a police com missioner. It is said that on May 1 the mayor will . remove Commissioners Martin, "Murray and Kerwin. appoint ing in their places Andrew D. Parker, Democrat, and Theodore Roosevelt and Col. Grant, Republicans. Receiver Asked For. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 29.— The gun clubs which leased Horicon marsh at tho time of the sale have asked for the appointment of a receiver to take charge of the .marsh, to issue bonds to be declared preferred liens for the purpose of taking up tax certificates, and to look after the marsh generally. The application is to be heard by Judge Jenkins in the United States court. Furniture Plant Destroyed. ROCK WOOD, 111., April 29.-The For est City Furniture; plant was nearly destroyed by fire today. A workman by the name of Twald fell four stories from a fire escape and was fatally in jured. . The blaze is thought to have been of incendiary origin. Loss, 175,000, covered by insurance. V' : .'T*4~ Sale Postponed. ATLANTA Ga., April 29.— The sale Of the Atlanta \& Florida railroad which was to have taken place today, has been postponed by order of Judge Newman, of. the federal court, until June .3. . i L>- yY:'.-Y r \ \ "SV^ L . aflf a»* V /W? ■^YYYYyii mm stl "^g i MBSIWIO.-ITIOS Blß!Biaaalls2stfHrsllS«n. Mm 1 ' Mils 4^Cictis».Fi»iC Wm % I THE AMEniCAM TOEAuCO caH?XHY.SaCC£"iSOR. W I tin yohk u.sj>. \Zf H ABSOLUTELY PURE THE OLD RELIABLE S SWEET OAFORAL CIGARETTE I Hat stood the Test of Time | MORE SOLD THAN ALL OTHER I BRANDS COMBINED I Whttsstsb ""— — "a^M*********************M"MMMMj "MACEO ROUTED. Spanish Under Gen. Salcedo Win ii Victory. \ HAVANA. April 29.— Gen. Salcedo, commander of the Spanish troops, operating against Gen. Maceo, the in surgent leader, has won a great victory. He attacked Maceo's forces at Parra Huco. After a severe engagement dur ing which the Spanish soldiers, fought bravely, the forces of the government were victorious, completely routing the insurgents, who lost many killed and wounded. The survivors of Maceo's command were dispersed and have sought refuge in the mountains. The insurgent band commanded by Gen. Carzon has also been completely defeated with great lcs3 in killed, wounded and prisoners. Nearly all the survivors of this band surrendered themselves prisoners to the Spanish authorities. All orders given by Capt. Gen. Campos since he assumed command in Cuba would lead the ordinary observer to -believe that there has been great laxity in the administration of the war depart ment by Gen. Calleja, the captain gen eral whom he superseded and who is now on his way back to Spain. Even the sanitary service so essential in time of war seems to have suffered greatly from neglect. The national in terests were also apparently neglected in other directions. It is believed that Do Campos will discern that the rebell ion could have been prevented it' proper precautions had been taken in time. Happily, the activity of the new cap tain general in the direction of a gen eral plan of campaign against the in surgents will, it is confidently expect ed, produce a beneficiary result. . NEW RAILWAY RULE. Seniority in Service Must Make - Way for Efficiency. CLEVELAND. 0., April 29.— 1t Is rumored in railway circles that a new rule will shortly be put into force on the railroads in the Vanderbilt system which, in brief, is that hereafter, offi cials when making promotions among employes, will pay no attention to seniority of service, but will consider only, efficiency. It is said that if the rule Is adopted it will meet with stub born resistance by the men. It Is un derstood that the new plan will first ■ be put into operation on the Nickel Plate, as "a sort of a "feeler." Chief Arthur, of the Engineers' brotherhood, in discussing the matter, j said: "I should think the enforcement i of such a rule would be Injurious to the best interests of the company. Our contracts with the railroads expressly provide that when all things are equal the preference shall be given to men who have served the company longest. If such a rule Is put Into effect the engineers will, I think, use every hon orable means to combat it." ! President Caldwell, of every hon orable means to combat it." President Caldwell, of the Nickel Plate, asserted, when asked concern , ing the matter, that if such a rule was to be adopted he had not heard of it. > RATHER FLEE THAN FIGHT. Cuban Rebels Appear to Be Com pletely Demoralized. HAVANA, April 29.— A detachment of government troops' in Santa Cruz del Sur has dispersed the rebel band led by Medurico Mont jo". The insurgents left their dead behind them in their flight. The troops under the command of Gen. Salcedo are still in close pursuit of the survivors of Maceo's band of rebels. The rebels refuse to give battle to their pursuers, and it is thought that they are completely demoralized by the defeat Inflicted on them by Gen. Salcedo. A detachment of the fleeing band was overtaken and sur prised at Arroyo 'Hondo. They made a feeble attempt at resistance, but were put to flight. Nine of them were j killed and many wounded. The troops lost two killed and five wounded. The military governor of Puerto Principe reports that Lieut. Col. Salamanca has routed at Ciego Avila the rebel band led by Castillo. /. "*". "^ PITTSBURG HOLOCAUST. Father and Son and a Faithful Nurse Perish. PITTSBURG, April 29.-A frame dwelling occupied by Samuel Weaver and family burned last night. Weaver was very 111 with typhoid fever, and I perished in the fire, as also did one of his sons and a nurse named William j Mitchell. Mrs. Weaver is in a critical j condition from burns. The fire started I in an adjoining house and soon com | municated with the Weaver building. • Mrs. Weaver is the mother of a two days old baby, and. she and the child were rescued with great difficulty." ~BSa-s* — Mexican Volcano Active. GUADALJARA, Hex., April 29.— The Colima volcano Is again in a state of ' active eruption. People of the valley I have been forced to abandon their i homes and flee .for their lives. The | molten larva and ashes have destroyed j the growing crops and much valuable j property in that section. The fire-which Issues from the crater presents a mag nificent sight at night. Kicked by Females. ST. LOUIS, April 29.-Sunday night while, attempting to lock up In their cells in the" county jail a number of noisy colored prisoners, a quartette of the females assaulted Night Guard Barney Ruhr, kicking him severely i With the aid of detectives, Ruhr suc ceeded in locking up the obstreperous I women.