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_ THE DAILY GLOBE, . t " =- IS PUBLISHED EVERY DAY At the Globe ll uildinsr. COR. FOURTH AND CEDAR STS. . SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Payable In Advance. Daily and Sunday, per month .50 Daily and Sunday, G months, f 2.75 Daily and Sunday, one year...ss.oU Daily only, per month. ..... .40 Daily only, six months f>~. -.""> Daily only, one year. ...... $4.00 Sunday- only, one year. ..... .91.50 Weekly, one year 91.00 Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE. St. Paul. Minn. —ASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 517. TEMPLE COURT BUILD ING. NEW YORK. WASHINGTON BUREAU. 1403 F ST. N. W. . Complete files or the Glo b c always kept on hand for reference. •**■**———■ TODAY'S WEATHER. WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.— Forecast for Friday: For Minnesota— fair; slightly cooler in the afternoon in southeast portions; variable winds. For Wisconsin— Showers, clearing in the afternoon; slightly cooler in West ern portion; variable winds. For North and South Dakota— variable winds. For lowa— Generally fair; cooler in central and Northwest portions; vari ble winds. For Montana— Fair; cooler in East ern portion; variable winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agri culture, Weather Bureau, Washing ton, Aug. 22, 6:48 p. m. Local Time, i p. m. 75th Meridian Observa tions taken at the same moment ot time at all stations. TEMPERATURES. Place. Ther. | Place. Ther. St. Paul 78 | Helena 70 Duluth 72- Edmonton 60 La Crosse 84 Battleford 62 Huron 78 Prince Albert ..58 Pierre 78 Calgary 60 Moorhead 7" Medicine Hat ...7i St. Vincent 6-- Swift Current... .6o Bismarck 74 Qu'Appelle 70 Wllliston 78 Minnedosa 66 Havre 72 Winnipeg 6S Miles City 84 Port Arthur ....61 DAILY MEANS. Barometer, 29.92; thermometer, 78; relative humidity, 63; wind, west; weather, fair; maximum thermometer, 90; minimum thermometer, 66; daily range, 24; amount of rainfall in last twenty-four hours, .03. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Gauge Danger Height of Reading. Line. Water. Change. St. Paul 1.8 —0.2 La Crosse 2.3 0.1 Davenport 0.6 — St. Louis 7.2 *0.7 ♦Rise. —Fall. Note— Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation. P. F. LYONS, Observer. «— s A MAIL CAR WANTED. it might be in order to suggest that a popular subscription be taken an these two cities to enable the government to hire a car to carry ■their mail in from La Crosse. As far as our postal interests are con cerned, the department seems to con sider that it has discharged its whole duty when it pays for running the so-called fast mail train out of Chi cago for the sole purpose of carrying the Chicago newspapers into the Northwest. Recent proposed changes in the service have given absolute demonstration of what was freely asserted before, that .this train serv ice has no relation whatever to the business interests of these two cities. They are left out in the cold. The Chicago papers must be distrib uted by the United States govern ment as quickly as they issue from the press. Compared with that ne cessity the carriage of business mail is an unconsidered trifle. We repeat that this assertion, freely made and denied by interested parties hereto fore, is proved conclusively by the latest developments. Some of the lesser lights in the government mail service were actu ally weak enough to maintain that it is of some importance to bring business letters from the Bast to these two cities in time to be of value to the receivers. Acting on * this extraordinary assumption, that the duty of postal authorities is to transmit mails as promptly as possible without regard to local in terests, they arranged to have the Eastern mail for the Northwest transferred in New York city from the New York Central to the Penn sylvania railroad, so that it might arrive in Chicago in time to leave by the late Milwaukee train. This would give us our Eastern mail, or a large portion of it, at noon instead of in the middle of the afternoon. It now appears that the difficulty in this arrangement is that there is no . through mail car on that train from La Crosse in which the matter can be arranged for local distribution. It does not require a complete mail equipment. Almost any old car would do. A combined baggage and -mail coach would answer all pur pose.-*. But the Milwaukee road is naturally disinclined to furnish extra facilities without compensation, and the government is considering how it can compel the road to supply a car under its contract. So the situation seems to be that the people of these two cities are not to have an early and satisfactory through mall service until this dif ference can be arranged. The United States postal department can afford to hire an entire train to run from Chicago .to St. Paul for no purpose on earth save to deliver the Chicago morning newspapers. It cannot af ford to hire a single car for a run of a few hours to assist in the delivery of business mail in St. Paul and Min neapolis. The injustice which these two cities suffer it is almost worth while to bear in order to exhibit, as thin situation does, the atrocious fla vorJtiKm by which a subsidy is paid from the federal treasury to enable fti* Chinngo "■papers to circulate Pltfj&tit at tiifiir legitimate territory. $,yr fa $)&■*. ih<> worst of it. In addi £*<*<#■ *-v Is-* PMitt'fy which the people 9S»y fwtb* prftmotUtn Ot this private i-rft^'-*"*- I.*1 .* t*H*f km ■■-.■■ >■•-•■. to forego &6s&f. tWXfI '.f'.'/'l;-'l',ru*. Thus ■*"*'■ WMM vtrvlw, of the Northwest is limited - and deter mined by the commands of the Chi cago publishing interest. These facts fully wan a suggestion that a popular subscription should be taken in these two cities, to raise a puree to be sent on to Washington for the hiring of a car to deliver, our busi ness mail. We think it would even be possible to raise money enough here to pay for the entire cost of a prompt and adequate Northwestern mail service at private expense, leav ing the government to the enjoyment of a partnership in tlie Chicago news paper business, which seems to be its sole concern in connection with the postal service in the Northwest. RETIRE THE GREENBACKS. The Globe publishes a letter from Mr. A. T. Ankeny, of Minneapolis, which deals thoughtfully and ably with the present condition of the country's monetary system. He is entirely right in assuming that the first thing to be done is to retire the greenbacks. There is no solu tion of the money question, we may say that there is no safety for the country from the threat of perpetual panic, until this shall have been done. The speculators have at last discovered the fatally weak spot in our financial system. We wonder that they did not fix upon it long before. But for the future we may depend upon it that, whenever it is to the interest of any manipulator of the market to create distrust and disturbance, ■ there will be a raid upon the gold reserve: We must put an end to that by destroying the purpose for which this reserve is re quired to be maintained. There is, as Mr. Ankeny observes, but one way in which to end this standing menace, and that is by the retirement of the greenbacks. To the $346,000,000 of those which the law requires to be kept outstanding should be added about $150,000,000 of treasury notes issued under the pro visions of the Sherman act. The bullion purchased with those notes, which are also redeemable in gold, should be sold by the government. An issue of $350,000,000 to $400,000,000 of bonds would serve both purposes, after the gold reserve and the pro ceeds of the silver bullion sale should be applied to the retirement of such notes. These bonds would, as he says, be taken by the people as fast as offered, if issued in low denom inations and bearing 2% per cent in terest. Then fill the place of this currency with money issued, as money should be issued, by the banks. The suggestion of Mr. Ankeny, that the tax on circulation be repealed, and any bank organized under state laws be permitted to take out notes to the face value of bonds deposited, is worthy of careful consideration. That such currency would be per fectly safe no one can deny. We be lieve that the money of this country in the future will be issued by the banks, under federal supervision, on the lines of the plan proposed by Secretary Carlisle last winter. But an instant readjustment of the cur rency could be made in the way here outlined, without the danger of los ing a dollar, and with absolute se curity to the noteholder. It would be well worth while to do this at once, leaving the .question of the currency of the future to be deter mined at leisure. The main thing is to stop the great leak in the treas ury, to do away with the necessity for continual gold redemptions, and to allay distrust. This would relieve all forms of business and take the currency question out of politics. Is there intelligence and patriotism enough in public life to carry out the plan? We have no doubt that the administration stands ready to do its part. Whether a Republican congress can be brought to co-oper ate in such a scheme for sound finance we have ' reason to doubt. But none the less should the neces sity of it be urged unceasingly upon the people. SUBSIDY GRABBERS READY. One of the first projects to come up in the next congress will be the proposition to have the United States grant an annual subsidy of a quar ter of a million dollars to aid in the construction and maintenance of a submarine cable between the United States and Hawaii. The enterpris ing gentlemen who contemplate this raid on Uncle Sam's purse have be gun well by securing a contract with the Hawaiian government. Under this they have an exclusive fran chise for twenty years, and the Ha waiian government is to pay an annual subsidy of $40,000. The whole enterprise is dependent upon getting the United States to bear the lion's share of its cost. Three years are al lowed for completing the line; after which the contract, if unfulfilled, will lapse. This is simply the old scheme of persuading the United States to guarantee the cost and losses of a private business. There is no pos sible benefit in sight for us in the construction of a cable between San Francisco and Honolulu which would warrant us in engaging to pay a total of $5,000,000 on its account. If there exists any commercial neces sity for such a line, capital for the purpose will be forthcoming. If it is desirable for national purposes, then the proper course is for the gov ernment to lay the cable, pay all the expenses, and own and operate, the line. . ..VV'; No excuse and no defense can be offered for a proposition which amounts simply to a government guarantee of a private enterprise against failure. The success of the Nicaraguan canal jobbers has stim ulated, naturally, a lot of other schemes of similar import. This is the foremost of them all. Taking advantage of the sentiment existing in some quarters for the annexa tion of Hawaii, the cable promoters have fixed up another job out of which they hope to turn a pretty j penny for themselves. It is probable Xros SAINT PALI/ DAILY QLOJbK: ' FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 23, 1895 that a Republican congress, - nat urally in sympathy with schem ers of this sort, will lend a willing ear to their proposal. We do not believe that it can obtain the approval or the consent of a Demo cratic administration. It should be the unwavering policy of the Demo cratic party to make a stand against subsidies of every kind. The Ha waiian cable concern is the least worthy of all petitioners for sub sistence upon the nation's bounty. When the subsidy hunters show their heads at Washington next winter, every Democrat should be ready to hit them hard. -S— l LET US HAVE ACTION. While the Globeis no jingo, and has no sympathy with the jingo pol icy -of calling on the administration to declare war in all four quarters of the globe, with or without cause, ,it does believe that the time has come for this country to act quickly and peremptorily in at least two di rections. The case of Waller, im prisoned unjustly, we believe, by the French government, is one. All . investigations which have been made thus far lead to the conclusion that the punishment inflicted upon Mr. Waller is indefensible. It is now stated from Washington that his release will be se cured, and that he will be indemni fied for his imprisonment and for the sacrifice of his property rights. This is all right as an end, but the means by which it is to be secured are open to criticism. Waller, an American citizen, is an inmate of a French prison, and is said to be dying of consumption. It is the part of this government to demand his immediate and unconditional re lease. All the nations are less prompt in protecting their citizens than they were in earlier days. War has be come a game so terrible and so cost ly that no one wishes to play at it ex cept in the last extremity. At the same time we cannot afford to sac rifice the proud security of the flag. The time has been when citizenship was everywhere a guarantee of safe ty. The announcement that who ever assailed a French sentry struck a blow at France ' gave her more prestige and power than the winning of many battles. That has been in the past, and it still should be our attitude. Every nation in the world should insist that to lay hands un justly on one of its citizens is the equivalent of a cannon shot. We have been, perhaps, more generous and patient in our dealings with France," a sister republic, than we might have been with a monarchy; but the time for toleration has gone by. The American people are not satisfied with securing the release of Waller by the slow processes of di plomacy. They demand that the pro tection of the flag shall be a real thing. It is time that the govern ment at Washington should stop ne gotiating and begin to act. The same is true in a much greater degree of the situation of affairs in China. Another outrage is reported in which a mission has been demol ished, and the American residents barely escaped with their lives. All over China the rabble are rising and parading the streets of the cities with the familiar cry, "Drive out the foreign devils." It matters not now whether the Chinese government does not give protection because it cannot or because it will not. We should cease to look to the Chinese government at all. The situation in that disorganized empire is such that each nation who has citizens resid ing there and exposed to the im- I minent dangers of the times should act for their protection. The only safeguard against further massacres is the actual presence of the strong arm of American power. The gov ernment should take whatever steps are necessary, extending to the dis patch of men-of-war, the landing of marines and the occupation of towns, to secure our people from outrage and massacre. It is for such purposes that gov ernments exist. Nothing could do more to establish our supremacy abroad, nothing could more power fully unite our own people in en thusiastic support of this adminis tration, than a vigorous foreign pol icy in these two directions. If it is ignoble for a powerful nation to go filibustering over the world in search of needless quarrels, it is das tardly for it to fail in the protection that it owes to its own. There should be no spot on the face of the globe today where American citizens may not feel secure against any foe. It is time that we have done with diplo macy and negotiations and all the red tape in which departments of for eign affairs take such delight, and return to the old first principles of government? These demand absolute protection by the American govern j ment to every citizen, wherever he I may be, against injustice or oppres | sion. That doctrine which made us | a nation and brought us to the first ! rank among the powers of the world ' needs reassertion today. The Amer i ican people can get along comfort | ably with a smaller amount of state- I craft, and an ampler and more in stant guarantee to every citizen that the whole power of the United States stands behind him as the I security of his rights. ii ii V' IS DEFENDER DEFECTIVE? From such accounts as have ap peared of the construction of the yachts which will probably sail against each other for the America's cup, the only danger of defeat for the American champion lies in the lightness of her fittings and equip ment. A standing difference between the English and the -American meth ods of construction, from a pi-tc'ifork to a locomotive or a yacht, is the solidity and heaviness that are nat ural to John Bull, and the graceful adaptation of utility to beauty and convenience that are distinctly j American.. It is these qualities that i have , given to American machinery • •'- ■ ..: .--... ......-.•.„.-, . its superiority over British competi- ■ tors. This may be carried, however, to an extreme, and it possibly k has been in the building of the yacht Defender. Those who have exam ined her spars and rigging are; of. the opinion that, in the struggle <ta< save weight and material, ne cessary strength has been sac rificed. Their idea seems to have been borne out by YthS experience of Defender in some of the preliminary races. In her last trial with Vigilant she was obEgefi to withdraw from the contest on ad"/ count of a stiffening breeze. One of her sails was blown to shreds, and it was apparent that if she continued to stand up' to the wind, as was' necessary to win the race, some of her rigging would probably go by the board. Time and again, in'ber c experimental runs, some part of the"' fittings has given way and had to be renewed. This will not do at all if it occurs in the championship race. Valkyrie 111. has not* only been constructed according to the-Britisfh notion of strength, but it was neces sary to seek solidity in order to make a yacht' that would stand the rough passage across the Atlantic. She is, therefore, to be relied upon in all weathers. In a light breeze there is reason to believe, from her perform ances, that Defender can outsail any thing afloat. She was built with spe cial reference to "that, and her de signers have succeeded in their pur pose. But the race is just as likely to be sailed mi a strong breeze, rising to half a gale, as in ordinary weather. If such should be the case and anything gives way, the race is lost. It would seem to be the part of caution and good sense for the owners of Defender to sacrifice ex treme lightness and facility of hand ling by adding enough to the strength of the parts most severely tested to make sure that these will not yield at the critical moment and cost us the cup. WHAT IS "SOUND MONEY?** The Globe took the occasion of the declaration of Col. Morrison that he was "in favor of sound money" to regret that he had not told what sound money is in his judgment. This is not because there is any doubt as to what it is; but because the head of the interstate commerce commission had wished that the pres ident, in his Chicago letter, had ex plained the term, after having made an explanation superfluous by his public statements. lii his December, message the president discussed the currency question fully, and said that the secretary of ' the treasury had prepared a measure which, if accepted, would, in his opinion, give the country sound money. An evening contemporary takes the comments of the G1 o b con Mr. Morrison's reticence for the basis of some remarks which' betray sur prising ignorance or forge tfulness on its part of current history. *It says that Mr. Cleveland '.'has not condescended ; to disclose :to it— the 1 country— what "he regards as 'sound money;' " and it is kind enough to say that "the Globe will confer an inestimable benefit on the public" if it "smokes out" "Cleveland, Carlisle, Gorman, and the rest of the Demo cratic sound money crowd." This be trays an ignorance of the public events of the last session of the Fif ty-third congress, of the message of the president, of the two bills pre pared by the secretary and of the debates, that is unpardonable in any newspaper. That any explanation of what is sound money would be, as our con temporay admits, "an inestimable favor," is so merely because the j party in which it is such a brilliant luminary of the evening sky has, in - its experimenting for a sound mon ey, given the country the crazy-quilt' patchwork, the commingling of sound and unsound money that now afflicts it. Contemplating it one can appreciate the desire of that party to have some one tell it what a really sound currency is. That any explan ation should be asked for from any quarter, or that there should be any doubt about it, is probably due to the fact that the evolutionary de velopment of money is not known to the querists, quite as much as it is to the error prevailing in other quarters that money is a creation of governments. Much of the fog would be dispelled if it were remembered that money antedated governments; that these do not create it; that it accompanied the evolution of com merce and has differentiated as com merce expanded and became more and more diverse; adapting itself, I or - being adapted, to the ever-ex- j panding conditions. Where govern- j ments have recognized this natural* growth and confined themselves to their proper function of supervising- J and aiding" there has always been" ! ' sound money. Where governments', have been possessed of the idea now . prevalent in this nation in localities,'- - that they could create money and : make it what they willed, there haft, ' uniformly been unsound money. ov/ : It is quite probable that the final stage in the development of money' has not been attained. It yet has, national limits, while serving a com-- i merce that is world wide. It is prob able that slowly, as such things al ways grow, there will develop, a* . money suited to the wide purposes of trade. What it will be, what shape it will take, what basis it will have, whether metallic or credit or both, is a matter of conjecture merely. The development of the past and ! the present inadequate methods are foundation for the belief that . the evolutionary process will go on to effect the needed end. But for the present, and the purpose for which '■ this is written, it is sufficient to re- '■ fer our contemporary to the records j of the third session of j the Fifty- | third congress for a full explana tion of what the president and his financial secretary mean when they {' use the term "sound money." - :. " — - — «__-- — - -. it's a cole day : when J. 'sterling-! Morton Isn't out with one of his al literative letters. And we do prayer fully wish, these sultry days, that he would" write less.— York Tribune. Why, pray? You do not have to read them if they oppress you. You need - not read them however they affect you. They are not addressed to you, anyway. But what is the connection between these letters and these sultry days? They are not peppery enough to add to the sultri ness, nor are they, sultry in them selves. On the other side, they are regarded as particularly cool and refreshing; especially . suited, one would think, to the temperature that rages in such offices as the Tribune during these doleful days of Dem ocratic prosperity. Possibly, though, it is , the pith and point of the let ters, their strong common sense and their bristling Democracy, that irri tate our contemporary, and con nect the letters in its mind with the sultriness of the days. On the whole, this seems to be the correct con jecture; and, really, we do not won der that the letters prove annoying to the Tribune. Possibly they are intended to. . A year ago, in the Ohio state con vention of the Democratic party, a free coinage plank was adopted after a severe contest in the committee on platform, and carried on the floor of the convention, by a vote of 468.4 for to 319.6 against it. This. year, after twelve months of agitation of the question, and when the whole contest was centered on the point after an eruption of pamphlets such as no other question ever elicited, the proposition was defeated by a vote of 270 yeas to 525 nays. If any further evidence of the subsidence in the party of this latest frenzy were wanting this would supply it, mm THE RIGHT OF MIGHT. How a. Colored Man Put the Se cession Idea. Senator Manderson, in his argument for the sugar bounty before Comp troller Bowler, told the following inci dent of the days just preceding the war, when Greeley was urging peace ful separation and the question of the constitutional right of coercion was a topic of general discussion. "In Phila delphia," the senator said, "I met a col ored barber, one of the most intelligent 'men with whom I have ever been ac quainted, and who has since died,leav ing a large fortune. He asked me at once whether I had been at Washing ton; I replied . that I had just come from the city." "Was there any talk about the con constitutional right of coercion was a "Was there any talk about the con stitutional right of the government to coerce seceding states?" he asked. "There was nothing else talked about," I replied. "What is your opinion as a lawyer on the subject, Mr. Manderson?" he said. I replied that I had not settled my mind myself upon the question, and queried in turn: "What do you think about it?" "Well, Mr. Manderson," he said, "I know nothing about law, but it looks to me just like this: Supposing that you and I were just now on the Schuylkill river in a boat of such pe culiar construction and so evenly bal anced that should one of us leave it the boat would be overturned and drown the other. I do not question your right to jump overboard if you want to, nor do you probably question my right, but I just as little question your -right, if I attempted to jump overboard, to grab me around the waist and hold me,, in order. that both of us might be preserved." -.;> — -********»i NOT GUILTY. The Globe Is in No Way to Blame. Duluth Herald. --', •'.'*. The SJt. Paul Globe, which very properly denounced the Duluth "news fakers," has been guilty of a similar offense because in its issue of Aug. 17 we find the following "Special to the Globe" dated at Rainy Lake City.Aug. 16: "There is no truth in the item about the Rainy Lake City bank which was sent out today. The bank is doing business, and the publication will do the bank injury* The circular is undoubtedly false." Inasmuch as there is no telegraph line" to Rainy Lake City, the Globe should ex plain how its "special" was received or stand convicted of faking. The Rainy Lake item quoted above was sent out by the correspondent of . the Associated Press at Duluth. The Duluth fakers ought therefore to be in a position to settle the little matter of authenticity among them selves.— Why the Third Term Tall— Courier- Journal. • But the dog days, and the dullness thereof, are upon us. Not merely the hoys in the city editor's room must live, but their big brothers on the staff must have something to keep them awake. Thus the midsummer fad of a third-term— thus and only thus— nishing a ready, easy-going, unexcit ing text for the enforced garrulity of the professional scribe — "For sure as come the postman and the sun. The indefatigable ink must run." " Another «Local Issue."" Courier-Journal. The nefarious scheme for the de bourbonization of Kentucky liquor is right before us, and ought to be grap pled with at once. It makes no differ ence whether it Is the drug-store ratio of 2 to 1 or the Cincinnati ratio; it is .an issue . that we have all got to j meet. And these remarks apply to j Hopkinsville and Bowling Green as j well as to Elizabethtown and Glasgow. ■ Shake silver, and go in for the pro tection of the bonny liquor of the ' Bluegrass and Pennyrile. "- Watterson on the Interviewer. -,o . • '•■ —.■■•'•'• -'.'-,-'.' - - Courier-Journal. . ■.*:.':-.'•■ -.lt was of the newspaper, and Its legionaries, of whom Minerva delivered lier maternal injunction to the first of her progeny, who, like Mr. Whitney, descended upon terra lirma: 'Beware- the jabberwock. my son . The jaws that bite, the claws that ?.. catch: ...:■_, Beware the jub-jub bird, and shun The fruminous bandersnatch!"' n ■— *■ ,'! -.':" Another Lie Relinked. Pittsburg Dispatch (Rep.). '■'There is a compensation for this, however, in the evidence that free j coinage men are allowed to keep their I positions in the department. . The as- ! sertion has been made that the admin- | istration was throwing aside civil serv- ; ice reform in its endeavor to wipe out | the free coinage heresy. But so long t as the free silver men. are left in their • positions it is evident that civil serv ice reform is a living force. — ■ SJ. i» Correct, Josiah. but Who? Boston Herald. '. As to Secretary Olney'.-? boom, Mr. i .0.-i.ih Quincy remarks with some force ' that, if -"he Da_coratic party cannot j elect . its presidential candidate upon ; tire record of this administration, it i cannot elect him at all. He, therefore, ! thinks it a serious question for con- ! sideravion whether it is riot best to ' nominate some member of the present j cabinet. _ .-- ; , v:,". *sss*- Or Than Sixteen to One. St. Louis Republic. - M-'- Corn and iron are building up credit, ! faster, than gold' exports could -tear it town if they were thrice what they can possibly amount : to. With our ' ability to produce, and at a profit, the cheapest " food, the cheapest iron . and I the chap- 1 lumber in the world,, our conquest cf trade is as certain as our | s-afety against any " possible ccmbina-- i -tion of enemies is war.' -—-'-" : ."■; :* .- " r GAY WEEK FOR BOSTON. Elaborate Plans to Entertain the Knis-hts Templars. - V'^.V BOSTON, Mass., Aug. Prepar ations for the triennial conclave of Knights Templar of the United States are being made. Observation stands are appearing by the score along the line of the great parade and hundreds of decorators are en gaged in hanging bunting, flags and emblems on buildings and residences. The electrical display . will out-do anything of the kind ever seen in New England. The floral decora tions in the public gardens will be one of the features of the city's dec oration. Here . two handsome floral arches are being erected, and a hundred Masonic emblems in flowers and plants are being arranged. Tuesday, the day of "the great pa rade, in which it is. estimated near ly 30,000 knights will participate, will be the great day of the week, and if the weather is fair it is believed over 300,000 visitors will be in the city. Excursions from all parts of New England will be run to Boston, • and banks, public offices and most of the large business houses will close for the day. Places of vantage along the line of march are being taken rapidly at from $2 to $40. The som ; mittee arranging for the parade pre dicts it will be one of the grandest pageants ever seen. There will be over 800 horses in line, 100 bands will participate, and scores of unique features are promised by knights from different parts of the country. There will be only a few business sessions of the conclave, and the week will be given up mainly to pleasure. Excursions and recep tions almost without number have been arranged, and it is estimated that Boston will spend over $500,000 in entertaining her guests. ','-— --SOUND FINANCE. Mr. A. T. Ankeny Makes Some Valuable Sngrg-estlons for Cur ■ rency Reform. To the Editor of the Globe. I have read with much interest your late articles urging the early retirement of the $346,000,000 of green backs. There can be no question that this is now a most important matter for discussion and one which demands an early solution. Just as long as this relic of the war and its necessities shall remain, so long will the government have failed to perform a grave duty. The greenback should long ago have been retired by the issue of bonds. That this has not been done we must at tribute, largely to the fear of a some what too severe contraction of the currency; and the times through which we have passed would have made it not an easy matter. In ad dition to this positive duty of retire ment there are also the grave diffi culties from their remaining which you have so clearly portrayed. As long as the stock jobbers and gamb lers of Wall street are allowed to daily raid the treasury, by present ing greenbacks for redemption in gold, there will be a scarcity of gold, with all the bad effects to the busi ness interests of the country. I de sire to say that I heartily concur with (the Globe in its effort to get rid of the greenback. The question, however, as to how this shall be brought about is one equally important. In my judgment something like the following course will have to be pursued: First— congress at its next ses sion provide for a new bond issue for this purpose*, to the extent, say of two hundred and fifty millions; the bonds to bear a rate of interest of two, two and one-half or three per cent, and to be in small denominations, say as low as ten dollars. Let there then be a fair division of the amount among the several states; the loan to be emphatically a popular loan. Does any. man doubt for a moment that such a loan would be taken up by the people within ninety days? The one hundred millions now held as a reserve would take up that amount of greenbacks, for only a very small reserve would . then be necessary. Such a plan suc cessfully carried out would be worth millions to our people in teaching them that we are not obliged to depend on the Rothschilds or any other banking syndicate in Europe. Second— This done, there should then be provided additional currency to take the place of the retired greenback. How shall this be done? I answer by removing the tax on circulation. Al low any one who has obtained a char ter under state banking laws to de posit with the government his bonds and in return receive the face value in currency issued by the government. In this way the government will have nothing to do with the banking busi ness except to provide and regulate the circulation. This, of course, would require a complete reconstruction of the national banking system, and the substitution of a better one, and one not nearly so obnoxious to the people. These two things, as it appears to me, are essentially necessary before we can reach any satisfactory adjust ment of the money question. Then by a rigid adherence to the platform of the National Democratic convention of 1592, and just now reaffirmed iby the Democratic convention of I Ohio', the Democratic party could i restore prosperity and procure thereby jan indefinite lease of power. That j platform, as we all know, recognizes j "both gold and silver as the standard money of the country," and upon equal firms both of coinage and debt-paying power. The "paper issued to be re deemable in such coin." "Such a line of procedure scrupulously ' followed, all factions and diversities of Interest in the party could stand together and the result would be an overwhelming victory for Democracy in 18S5. -'..-•'" '-;'*.. A. T. ANKENY. Minneapolis, Aug. 22, 1893. FRENCH CAUSE ALARM. Danger of Their Descending: on Newfoundland. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Aug. 22.— The expected stoppage of the- railway by French warships causes great ex citement here. It is felt that this is a crucial point, wihere England must make a determined stand against French aggression or else sacrifice Newfoundland's prosperity, which chiefly depends on the development of internal resources, made available by the completion of the railway. Premier Wfc iteway bag started for Bay of Islands, where trouble is ex pected to arise. The British gun boat Buzzard leaves tomorrow to re inforce the flagship Cleopatra, now near the disputed coast. Consider- | able conespondenee is taking place between tlie local ministry and the 1 Salisbury government relating to the matter. England's course is watched with anxiety. -■•- — — ":'..•. ■ i Bnshnell Pnts Up Wnsres. ' * SPRINGFIELD, O." Aug. 22.--C.-n. Bushnollhas ordered an advance of 10 TK-r --«»*- in the wa--e3 of the laborers in the Lasjonda shops. About -100 men -are afftecte- ";-""" *'■ "- GnjuPosflpmUHE DANGER OF SPAIN LOSING CUBA FAST BECOMING AP PARENT. QUICK ACTION NECESSARY. SOMETHING MUST BE CONCEDED IN THE DIRECTION OF AU • TONOMY. A CAMPAIGN OF DISASTERS. Movement for Annexation to the United States May Soon Be come Irresistible. LONDON, Aug. 22.— The Havana correspondent of the Times, writing of the gravity of the situation there, urges the necessity of large conces sions in the direction of autonomy, or else even loyal. Cubans will drift into disloyalty. "The only alterna tive is a costly campaign in men and money, followed by the occupation of the island by 60,000 men for a dec ade. Gen. Campos only opened his eyes, after the fight at Bayamo on July 12, to the fact that the insur gents were armed, disciplined, and provided with ammunition. With out the havoc which yellow fever and dysentery have played and will play with the troops arriving in this sickly region, the constant and aim less marching and countermarching of the last three months would itself have sufficed to invalid men by the wholesale, without help from epi demic disease. A remarkable char acteristic in the spread of the re bellion is the higher strata of so ciety now joining the insurgent ranks. Gen. Campos has tried to treat with the rebels and has failed; he has tried to suppress them, and has failed; he has tried to patch up a reconciliation, and has generally failed. The rebels have been quick to profit by his mistakes. A three years' campaign will cost Spain £30,000,000, which she cannot afford. Giving autonomy will be a bitter pill, but unless it is swallowed em bryo the movement for annexation to America may gather strength un til it becomes irresistible. I am un able authentically to discover the sources of the rebel funds. Very little is obtained in Cuba I am as sured from revolutionary sources that the Cuban colonies at Key West, Fla., subscribe $7,000 to $10,000 weekly to the revolutionary com mittee in New York, but I doubt whether it is paid with regularity." ' SUICIDAL FOLLY. In an editorial on the foregoing the Times says: "The failure of Campos to suppress the rebellion has caused bitter disappointment in Madrid. We sympathize heartily with Spain's pa triotic determination to hold Cuba at any sacrifice, and we admire her en ergy, however misdirected, in resist ing projects for further disintegration, and plots concocted In foreign coun tries to foment rebellion among her subjects. At the same time it is sui cidal folly for a nation obstinately to refuse to look facts in the face. Eng lishmen have no desire to see Cuba separated from Spain. The movement for annexation to America is opposed by most intelligent and independent Americans of all parties, and for ob vious political reasons annexation to America would be regarded with lit tle favor by British statesmen. We should be well pleased if Spain were able to arrive at a practical settlement with her rebellious subjects, but that demands a quality of statesmanship far higher than has yet been dis played, and if Gen. Campos is to gain a victory he mitst show greater energy and ingenuity than hitherto." i MISSOURI RECRUITS. Prominent Citizens Working* for Cuban Cause. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 22.— local paper prints the following: "Headquarters were opened in this city this afternoon looking toward the suc cess of an expedition already partially organized in behalf of the freedom of Cuba The nucleus of the expedition consist of 100 picked men, who arc ready to go at any time. The method of procedure is secret, but the lead ers, all of "whom are prominent, say there exists no doubt about the trans fer of the men to the island. * * * Orville Shelby, son of 'Fighting' Gen. Joe Shelby, is said to be at the head of the movement. He and a few of his closest friends, it is learned, held a meeting last night lasting until 3 o'clock this morning, at which plans for carrying out the expedition were earnestly discussed. The following named gentlemen are said to have been present and to have participated in the conference: Ex-Assistant Pros ecuting Attorney T. A. J. Mastin, B. G. Crosby, of Butler, Mo., son of Rear Admiral Crosby, U. S. N. ; J. R. Rus sell Lincoln, distantly related to the late president; C. Breckinridge, of Palmyra, Mo., related to the dis tinguished Confederate general of that name, and others. "Every effort was made to throw the cloak of secrecy about the meeting. Just what transpired could not be fully ascertained, but it is known that the organization scheme was fully matured. Diagrams and maps of the island, and telegrams and letters showing direct communication with Thomas Estrada Palma, who has Cuban headquarters fop this country in New York, were submitted." Orville Shelby, in a published inter view, admits that the expedition is being organized and says the party will soon leave for the seat of war. AMEER WANTS TO BE HEARD. He Insists on Having a. Personal Envoy in L. on do-. LONDON, Aug. —.-Although the greatest secrecy is observed on the subject in official circles, the Asso ciated Press has ascertained that the story which the Chronicle printed this morning, regarding the reason why j the Shahzada Nazrulla Khan, the sec- j ond son of the ameer of Afghanistan I does not return home is- virtually cor- *> ,*&* SiSSM TH£ PUREST a SMO^i '40$ is 4 ! W*S^ ....... — __ r ,1 y*- x '^ SATISFY«*B l_-__9_o-__l S_Ofi^_i_lQ r"° i - iii'" --"nS — — '1 *Hi4L 8 /.«*,! Jj- - •*- _ . '■"-" . .■■—--.■■—-■*■•, ■ t rect. The Chronicle says: "It Is rumored from a good source that the ameer has forbidden the" Shahzada to return until he has secured Great Brit ain's consent that the ameer shall be diplomatically represented at Lon don. He desires to deal directly with the government, instead of! through the viceroy of India. This impossible demand is supposed to explain the Shahzada's long stay." According to information obtained a few weeks ago. the Shahzada visited the queen at Windsor castle and per sonally informed her majesty that it was the ameer's desire to be diplomat ically represented at London instead of dealing with the British govern ment through the viceroy of- India. The Shahzada expected. an immediate answer, but her majesty replied that she could not decide without consult ing her ministers. Last week the Shah zada received a definite refusal, and the situation now is unpleasant, if not serious, as the refusal amounts to a snub to the ameer and it is thought this may affect the relations between *F*t "*? rita - n -"- <- Afghanistan. The Shahzada, however, starts for home via Paris next week. A CHANCE FOR MRS. HAY-RICK. Sir Matthew Ridley Promises to Consider Her Case. LONDON, Aug. 22.-T. P. O'Connor referred in the commons today to tho case of Mrs. Florence Mabrick, who is serving a term of Imprisonment in prison for poisoning her husband and for whose pardon numerous petitions have been presented to the home secre tary, both from English and American sources. Mr .O'Connor said there was an intense feeling of dissatisfaction, both among American men and women, with the trial and conviction, and he believed that the lord chief justice shared this dissatisfaction. Ho thought the time had come when there should be a revision of the unfortunate woman's sentence. Sir Matthew White Ridley, secretary of state for the home department,- replied that, in view of the strong feeling which prevailed, ho would consider it his duty to inquire into the case. ':-'"'" '.' AGREEMENT IMPOSSIBLE. Balfour Declares Himself in Fa vor of One. LONDON, Aug. 22.— 1n the house of commons today the first lord of the treasury, Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, re plying to Sir John Long, Liberal mem ber for Dundee, who asked whether he would advise the government to in vite an international monetary con ference, said: "I have always been in favor of an international agreement, but I have not the right to pledge my colleagues, and I do not believe that an international agreement would re sult from an International conference." - Thousands Hurried to Death. YOKOHAMA, Since the out break of cholera in Japan there have been 25. COO cases and 16,003 deaths. Viscount Miura has been gazetted Jap anese minister to Ccrea, Gen. Takas sima has been gazetted vice governor of the island of Formosa and com mander of the Japanese army there. Coin Jlngrles. MADRID, Aug. 22.— A severe earth quake has shaken the town of Coin, in Andalusia, twenty-one miles west of Malaga. Serious damage has been done. Coin has a population of about Steamer Shattered by a Boiler. KIEFF, Aug. 22.— boiler of the steamer Tanan exploded while that vessel was at Kaneff. Several persons were drowned and forty people Injured. One of the latter will die. CLAMORED FOR &/.ONEY. Then Chinese Soldiers Murdered a Hundred People in Tien Tsin. LONDON, Aug. 22.— A special dis patch received from Shanghai says that the Chinese soldiers stationed at Tien Tsin revolted yesterday and assembled outside the gates of Li Hung Chang's yamen, clamoring for their arrears of pay. Later they at tacked a number of shops in the city and killed over a hundred per sons. SPOKE FOR PEACE. J. "W. Foster and AY. Lloyd Gar rison at the Congress. MYSTIC, Conn:, Aug. 22.— This was the third day of the annual conven tion of the Universal Peace associa tion. John W. Foster, ex-secretary of state, spoke of the work in behalf of the society in Peru and discussed the plan for the International Peace Arbitration union. William Lloyd Gar rison, of Boston, who made the ad dress of the day, deplored the grow ing military spirit of the nation and made exhaustive arguments for free trade and the single tax, which ho regarded as remedies for many great ills. Free trade, he said, was the in ternational law of Geo. Resolutions were adopted condemning the war de .partment in its treatment of the Ban nock Indians, against capital punish ment, and in favor of woman suffrage. QUEENSEERRY ACCEPTS HER. Lady Sholto Becomes a Member of the Noble's ' Family. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22.— After making an exhaustive examination of the antecedents of his California daughter-in-law, the Marquis of Queensberry has pronounced Lady Sholto Douglas fit to take her place in the ranks of English aristocracy. At the special request of the marquis, J. P. Wharton, an Englishman, who resides in Oakland, spent some time in looking up the family history of the Mooneys. He says he- has made his report to the Marquis of Queens berry, who has approved it and ex pressed his willingness to accept his son's wife as a member of his fam ily. '■■:'S^-~ „ *******' Frosty in New York. MIDDLETOWN, N. V., Aug. 22.—Re ports from the mountain districts of Sullivan and Delaware counties are to the effect that there was a heavy frost last night. In many localities buck wheat was killed, corn damaged and gardens blighted. The loss will be con siderable. .h, =- ; • Went With lite Diamonds. CLEVELAND, 0., Aug. When Mrs. Joseph Nirdlinger. the wife of a prominent hatter, arose this morning she found that her jewelry case, con taining diamonds worth $l,li;t), was missing. So was a nurse, who hart been employed to attend her through a recent illness. — — — — ■**—■>■ -i'H;i ■'• CROOKSTON, Minn., Aug. 22.— Charles and Fred Casey, arrested here for the theft of a team, buggy and harness, broke jail and escaped at 4 * o'clock this morning. Jones and Moore were fictitious names. .