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4 THE BfllLY GLOBE ]S PUBLISHED EVERY DAY AT NEWSPAPER HOW, COR. FOURTH AND MIXIVESOTA STS. OFFICIAL I'AI'ER OK ST. PAUL,. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Puynbl; lv Ailvuucc. Daily nuil Sunday, i;cr Month .50 Daily and Sunday, Six Moutbi - $*_.75 Daily uuil Sunday. One Year - $5.00 Dally Only, per Month .40 Daily Only, six Mouths $*_.U5 Daily Only, One Year $4.'H> Sunday Ouly, One tear -- - - f1.50 Weekly, One Year $1.00 Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE, St. Paul. Minn. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE, LOOM <01. TEMPLE COURT BUILDING, NEW YORK. WASHINGTON BUREAU. 1405 F ST. N. *W. Complete files of the Globe alv.ays kepi on hand for reference \VK ATHER FOR TODAY*. WASHINGTON. Sept. 2. — Forecast for Thursday: Minnesota—Generally fair; north erly winds becoming variable; cooler in south east and warmer in northwest portion. Wisconsin — Fair, preceded In the early morning by ■bowers, in Eastern portions; fresh northerly winds; cooler in southern por tion. The Dakotas—Fair; warmer; winds shifting to southerly. Montana—Fair: warmer; westerly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agriculture. Weather Bureau. Washington, Sept. 2, 6:48 p. m. Local Time, 8 p. m. 75th Meridian Time. Observations taken at the same mo ment of time at all stations. TEMPERATURES, Place. Tern. (Place. Tern. St. Paul i'2|Win*ilpeg 52 Duluth 87 Huron 60! Buffalo ..68-70 Bismarck M Boston 62-72 Wiiiiston tii! Bismarck 64-70 Havre 64 Cheyenne 58-66 Helena 64 Chicago 84-84 Edmonton 64 Cincinnati 80-86 I'.attlei'ord 66 Helena 64-64 Prince Albert 54 Montreal 60-64 Calgary 70 New Orleans 74-84 Medicine Hat 70 New York 66-70 Swift Current 61 Pittsburg 76-8* Qu'Appelle 58 Winnipeg 52-72 Mlnnedosa 50 DAILY MEANS. Barometer 29.90; thermometer, 66; relative humidity, 78; wind, northwest; weather, cloudy; maximum thermometer, 70; minimum thermometer, 63; daily range, 7; amount of rainfall in last twenty-four hours, .01. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Gauge Danger Height of Reading. Line. Water. Change. St. Paul 14 1.8 —0.3 La Crosse 10 1.2 0.0 Davenport 15 2.1 *0.8 St. Louis 30 8.5 —0.4 —Rise. *Fall. N.ee—Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer. _ .^m*. A STRAW. ■Vermont Is a Republican state. No body questions that, and nobody ex pects it to go Democratic in this or any other year. At the same time the vote in any state, whatever be its ac customed political faith, acts to some extent as an indicator and recorder of public opinion by its departure from the normal. When, for instance, the Republican majority in a state like Pennsylvania rises to a hundred thou sand votes above the average, we can be very sure that the tide is setting toward the Republican or against the Democratic party in other states of th* Union. No such vast discrepancy is possible except when there are general causes at work to weaken one side and -strengthen the other all over the coun try. It is from this point of view that the result of the state election held in Vermont on Tuesday becomes impor tant and significant. It shows, as we expected it to show, the **ise of the Democratic revolt against the action of the Chicago convention. The largest Republican majority hitherto recorded in Vermont is about 28,000. The major ity this year rises 11,000 above that banner figure This does not probably measure the full extent of Democratic defection, because it was an election for the choice of state officers, and no doubt there were many Democrats who voted for the candidates supposed to be of their party, although standing on r platform which they could not ac cept, because they might naturally hold that the free silver issue has no rela tion to state politics, and so they could support a state ticket where they could not vote for Mr. Bryan and the Chl cago platform. The result of this elec tion is, therefore, the best that could be expected for the Democrats, and their showing in November can hardly be as good. As a straw it shows that the wind is blowing with cyclonic vio lence against the strange men and stranger doctrines that found favor in the eyes of the delegates at Chicago. How, indeed, could it be otherwise? There is no Democrat in the United States with a prouder record of hon orable service, and there are few of greater ability than Mr. E. J. Phelps, of the Green Mountain state. Yet this leader, wjio was one of our most credit able representatives abroad during the first administration of Mr. Cleveland, came out boldly in "a letter to his fel low Democrats, announcing that he could not and would not advocate the election of the Democratic ticket or vote for it at the polls. It will avail .nothing to attempt to disguise or min ify the truth. That truth is that hosts Of Democrats are in open revolt against the action at Chicago, and that their numbers are great enough to produce just such results in other states as have been shown in Vermont. It is common to talk about "bolters" end "traitors" and to call names, but when we find gathered at Indian apolis such men as Palmer and Vilas and Morton and Tracey and Eckels and Bynum and Fellows and Caffery ar.d Ei >prg and hundreds of others who tes tify to their Democracy through long and honorable lives, and who can find no place for old-fashioned Democrats in this campaign, except by the nomina tion of a third ticket, then we can B«a how serious this matter has become far the Democratic candidates, and can estimate the force of the avalanche that is ready to descend in November und bury forever the cause of currency de'nasement, the scaling down of just debts, the propagation of class hatred, and the encouragement of lawlessness to rise superior to the rule of law. It is a strange delusion which has taker. possession of many of our fellow citi ■ens, that the Americaa people are to be persuaded to take the side of a cause like that. The increase of the majority in Vermont above the nor mal is the answer, and shows what is to be expected in every part of this United States when the people come to pass upon the cause of Populism. That result is going to be a good deal of a surprise party. A GREAT DAY. Yesterday was a day of days for St. Paul. All circumstances combined to lend attraction to the great feature of the encampment, and it was an un conditional success. For more than three hours the procession of veterans filed past the various reviewing stands j along the route, and thousands upon thousands of eager and enthusiastic i spectators were there to welcome them. St. Paul weather was on its good be- i havior, and the menace of the early morning yielded to a cool cloudiness ! that made it an ideal day for march lag. Down the great avenue and be tween the triumphal pillars came the seemingly endless ranks of the sur vivors of the struggle that marks the second crisis of our existence. Everywhere there was such a recep tion as stirred the very soul of the most careless onlooker, and moved to deep feeling and even to tears these rugged relics of many a fierce and bloody field. Children strewed flowers in their path, emblematic of the beau ty and sweetness of patriotic self-sac rifice. Two thousand other children, formed into the semblance of a na tional flag and constituting one of the most unique and inspiring spectacles possible to imagine, sent up from childish throats the old war songs, and gray heads were bared as the moving column passed the splendid spectacle. Everywhere youth and innocence were made the symbol of all that these men struggled and suffered to preserve; ev erywhere the contrast between the fresh fruits of what they won for us and their own lives, passing so swiftly into the sere and yellow leaf, was em phasized. Nor was the earnestness of the day confined to those who participated ac tively in its celebration. It was a privilege and a lesson in patriotism to move about the streets while the great procession passed; to see the moisture rise to eyes that are wont to know only the keen vision of the business chance; to see how all minor and meaner thoughts were sunk for the time in the great wave of feeling that swept over this community as it re called the daring, the valor, the suffer ing and the victory of the days gone by. This will be the greatest success of a day of which we all feel proud; if from it we may date a new rever ence for our country; a new sense of duty owed to her; a new realization of our common destiny; a new devotion to the unity, the glory and perpetuity of the republic; a new dawning in our own hearts of the noble sentiment put into words of beauty long ago: "Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori." THE PRICE THEY PAID. It was a heavy price those men paid who marched In the grand parade i t veterans down Sixth street yesteiday for the right to be there. We are ac customed to think of that price as one measured by hardships, wounds, health permanently impaired and lives shortened by the strain and stress of the service. These, indeed, were fac tors in the total cost, but they are not all, hardly the greatest. Young men nowadays, in the struggles of our in dustrial life, overwork and break down and fall out of the ranks, be come prematurely old, or sacrifice health to the demands of business .and their ambition to keep at the head. But these are serving themselves, and the recompense ia the stimulus and the end, while they served their country without recompense or thought of it, for no one regarded then, nor would regard now the pittance of pay re ceived in depreciated money as being compensation for the services rendered. To measure all the factors of the price they paid, one of this generation must think what it would mean to the young men, the youth of today, should they leave their occupations and give three or four years to work that was temporary, to be abandoned when ac complished, and the life of the civilian resumed. What are the average boys of eighteen now doing? They are in schools, colleges, in offices working their way up into business life, in the j shops, learning the trades that are to j be their life work. More than that they are at the age when character is de veloping and forming, and when what the future man will be is being rapidly j made. That is where these men were ! thirty-five years ago. Their enlistment ! meant the abandonment for an indefi- | nite term of all their pursuits. If they | were students it meant the permanent j suspension of their studies, the stop- j page of the education of the schools, j for the period of such drill had passed ! when they laid down the musket, I doffed the blue and resumed the civil- j ian's garb. To thousands and thou- j sands of them it meant a return to the work of civil life with educations incomplete and with the necessity of ' getting into harness and working for I a livelihood pressing sharply on them. They came back to the vocations of peace, obliged to enter them with the loss of the three or four years that the youth of our day are giving to preparation. The young men from the farm and the shops shared the sacrifices of the students. They, too, had to enter the industrial army without the instruc tion that would have been gained in the years that they were in tho army. They had to begin where they had left off, continuing an apprenticeship at an age when they should have been mas ters of their calling, and going to the learning with habits formed during their service that did not dispose them to be studious. None of these ever came to feel that assurance, that self confidence that is the staff of the man whose course of education in his art or craft has been uninterruptedly fol lowed. They were always sensible of the deficiencies caused by the hiatus of the war. Then, too, there must be reckoned into the total of the price they paid the effect on character of their THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1896. changed environment. Every person becomes the product of the develop ment of the germ character under the influences of the environment in which it is developed. The thoughtful parent understands this, and seeks to provide for the child those surroundings that will develop the better traits and check the bad ones. But in the army life all the ordinary restraints of home and social life were removed. The environ ment was never that calculated to bring out the very best traits of char acter, aside from courage, fortitude and self-reliance. The temptations to evil courses, that find their restraint in home and society, were there met only by the sense of self-respect, and that weakened by the force of the ex ample of others. It is impossible that such surroundings should have failed to have had their effect on the young characters developing with great ra pidity under them, and whatever ef fect they had for evil that became per manent is another item to be placed in the column of total cost paid for the right to march in the grand parade of the national encampment. TWO QUERIES ANSWERED. To the Editor of the Globe. A bet was made here yesterday about the exchange of the American and Mexican silver dollars; one party claiming an American silver dollar in Mexico would only bring one Mex ican silver dollar, and the other party that the American silver dollar would bring two Mexican silver dollars. Which one is right? Again, if I hold United States silver money, either dollars or certificates, cannot they be exchanged for gold. coin if desirable? If they cannot, what is the reason they are kept on par with gold? —Owen Wangensteen. Lake Park, Minn., Aug. 31, 1896. The party who claims that the Ameri can silver dollar will exchange for two Mexican silver dollars, either in the United States or in Mexico, is right. That is the fact of the case, although the Mexican dollar is a full legal ten der in Mexico, while the American dol lar is not. The Mexican dollar contains mere grains of silver than the American coin, and the vast disparity in their exchange value represents the differ ence between a dollar issued on the gold, and one issued on the silver basis. The holder of American standard sil ver dollars, or of silver certificates, can not demand gold in exchange for them at the United States treasury. These forms of money remain on a par with gold because the government has now standing in its laws two solemn and ex plicit declarations that it will maintain the metals at a parity, s.nd because the number of such silver coins and certi ficates now in circulation is not sub ject to further increase, and is so limit ed that the people know that the gov ernment will be able to make good its promise. It is exactly the same case as that of an individual who can issue a certain number of promises to pay and have them honored, while If he attempted to put out an indefinite num ber of them, they would be worth no more than waste paper. Under free coinage, the number of dollars being subject to indefinite increase, they would circulate only at their bullion value, whatever that might be. That the silver dollar and the silver certifi cate would not circulate in this country at an equal purchasing power with gold on their own merits and without regard to the gold standard Is proved by the fact stated just above, that a similar coin in Mexico which contains actually more silver bullion' circulates side by side with the American dollar at only one-half of its value. HISTORY OF DEMONETIZATION. To the Editor of the Globe. I should like very much to have a concise statement, for use in this campaign, of the causes that led up to the demonetization of silver by France, Germany, the Latin Union and the United States. It would include of course, the production and price of silver at the time and ihe part that they played in it "iou would oblige —Sound Money. St. Paul, Aug. 2S, 1896. The answer to these questions would involve a long story, including both po litical and financial history for a term of years in the three countries men tioned. We can scarcely give space to publish this at the present time, and any such summary would necessarily be more or less unsatisfactory. If our correspondent will obtain "Money and Banking." by Horace White, he will find in it an admirable statement of exactly what he wants to know. The whole history and experience of the different countries leading up to their adoption of the gold standard is given, together with ample statistics. This | book can be obtained from the pub- I lishers, Ginn & Co., of Boston, New I York or Chicago, or may be ordered I through any bookseller. A contemporary, attempting to en j lighten the frequent "anxious in quirer," who wanted to know what | the "par cf exchange" means, tells j him that "the value of the sovereign, lor pound sterling, is $4.86 2-3. By add l ing the cost of transferring the coin j or bullion, which includes freight, In | sura nee and commission, we arrive at j the "par of exchange." Our contempo | rary arrived at the "par of exchange" I before it added the incidental cost of i transmission. It is precisely $4.8665. i The cost of transmission added makes the "rate" of exchange. The actual ! business rate at which gold can be exported to London without loss, on regular business account, is $4.88 for bars and $4.89 for coin. It can be Im ported without loss at $4,835. tl is well to be accurate even In small matters. What is there about percentage that muddles the brains of people so? Here j is the artist of the Chicago Times- Herald delineating a merchant stand ing in front of his price bulletin mark | ing up prices to the silver ! asis. The legend rund: "All prices marked up 50 per cent on a free silver basis." Then follow the items, butter with "19 cents a pound" erased and "38" substi tuted; "eggs, 16 cents a dozen," made to be "32 cents," and po on down the list, doubling the price, increasing it 100 per cent instead of the "50 per cent" bulletined. This is quite as bad as Hansbrough's decrease of 300 per cent in the sheep of Dakota, and far less excusable. The British have cor-ce{v#d a violent dislike for Consuelo Vanderbilt, possi bly because she has more money with which to buy diamonds than they. They speak of her as a walking jewelry shop, and say she causes amusement among the friends of the Marlborough family. Suppose she should get an gry, get a divorce from the duke and take an American husband. FEW BUT FORGEFUIi SUCH ARE THE ARMY CHAPLAINS "WHO MET IN CONFERENCE YESTERDAY. THEY ELECT NEW OFFICERS. REV. S C. IL.IFF. OF UTAH, IS CHOSEN AS THE PRESI DENT. GREETINGS TO THE COMRADES. The Apostle* oi" Peace Send Word of Good Cheer to Men of. •War. A body of men who, during the war, rendered service entailing much hard ship and suffering, and who never com plained, . never shirked, was the Na tional Association of Army chaplains. The association is now in the city, and although not conspicuous, is the re cipient of no little attention. There are a very few surviving army chaplains in the country, fewer prob ably than in any branch of the war service. The reason for this was that when the chaplians went into the service, they were men of middle age even, while the men to whom they gave their attention were young men. Most of the regular soldiers of the army were very young men. The chaplains who do service are all very elderly, although many of them are very hearty. The association held its annual meet ing at the House of Hope church yes terday afternoon after the close of the great procession. There were present among others, President Rev. T. H. Haggerty, of St. Louis; Rev. George K. Hoover, of Chicago, national secretary of the association; S. C. Iliff, of Salt Lake, chaplain-in-chief of the Grand Army; Rev. H. H. Hart, of St. Paul; the Rt. Rev. Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago; Rev. J. F. Mclntyre, of Spencer, S. D.; Rev. E. M Cravarth, of Nashville, and others. One of the terms of the by-laws of the order is that the retiring chaplain in-chief of the G. A. R. becomes presi dent of the national association of chaplains upon stepping down out of the former office. In this line of suc cession, Rev. S. C. Iliff, whose term of office as chaplain-in-chief of the G. A. R. ceases with this week, became pres ident of the association at the meeting yesterday, and was formally installed He succeeds Rev. T. H. Haggerty, whose term of president expired yes terday. The new president is one of the most noted chaplains in the coun try, although during the war he was not an ordained minister of the gospel. He enlisted in an Ohio regiment as a private and served during the rebel lion, acting as chaplain at different times. At the close of the year he studied theology, and for many years was superintendent of the Methodist mission at Salt Lake City. Rev. George K. Hoover was contin ued as the official secretary of the order. The meeting passed a set of resolutions addressed to the G. A. R. and the same will be formally present ed at the opening of the encampment at the auditorium this morning. The resolutions are as follows: To the Thirtieth, .National Encampment of the G. A. R.—The National Chaplains' Asso ciat on come to you in this your thirtieth an nual gathering with words of cheer and good fellowship to you In your effort in bind'ng together in closer bonds of union the old de fenders of the republic. We are with you in all your laudable endeavors to bring Into closer bonds these brave defenders of the land of our fathers. We, as an association, have striven during the year to do what we could to aid you in ail the grand work of your various organiza tions. We wish to assure you that we are with you to the end of the war. We are vividly conscious that time Is doing what le aen hail and glittering steel failed to do in Ore war, mustering men out. Soon all will be gone, but as time passes we are desirous of aiding you all we can, to cheer up these men, keep them in the line of all high and useful living, guarding them from that which hurts body or soul and soils the bright record of the memorable past. Comrades, please count on us all for the services we are able to render to you in car ing for those heroic men. Please give us your confidence in the future as in the past and may our days be many and full of all that is ennobling to us as veter ans and as citizens of a happy and prosperous country. . T. H. Hagerty, President, m, Geo* X*K* Ho<-ver, Secretary, ihe session then adjourned until next year. HAD A BLOODY RECORD. The Third lowa Has Bnt a Pew Left. The Third regiment of lowa infantry held an informal reunion at the court house yesterday afternoon, in Court Room No. 1. There are about fifty members of the regiment attending the encampment and all but five or six were present at the reunion. The Third lowa had one of the most re markable histories of the war. When the first call for troops was made lowa's quota was three regiments. The First enlisted for three months and did not re-enlist as a regiment. The Second and Third enlisted for three years. The Third numbered one thous and men to start, and about hun dred additional were enlisted from time to time to take the places of those who were killed and wounded, making a total of 1,800 men who first and last | served in the regiment. Of these only i about 225 now survive, and most of ! those bear the scars of battle. The | regiment was mustered into service at ! Keokuk, and almost from the start j was in the fight, and its history was i a continued record of fighting up to i the battle of Atlanta—the regiment j belonging to the army of the Tennes ; see. The first engagement was at Blue Mills, Mo., Sept. 17, 1861. This i battle does not figure very prominent [ ly in history, but it was a sharp con- I flict, and the Third received an awful ; baptism of blood, the loss being ex ; ceedingly heavy. One company, I, > which went into the fight with forty eight men, lost in killed just half the number. Of those twenty-four who survived, ten were at yesterday's re union. Aftftr thj*-* fight there was a constant suflcess&n of skirmishes and less important engagements, up to the battle of SJ-jihohjr The regiment was in both day#' fights at that place, and during both- days was constantly in the thickest of the fight. The per centage of lqss w^s the greatest of any regiment in r the fight, except only the Ninth Illinois. After Shil#h. the next important en gagement ins whicfc the regiment partic ipated was the battle of the Hatchee, and then came Vicksburg. Shortly after the Capture of Vicksburg oc curred a fearful Jess at Jackson, Miss. This was July 12, 1863, Vicksburg hav ing surrendered July 4. At Jackson there occurred one of those fatal errors of judgment whic-h officers sometimes display. A brigade of which the Third ■was a part was- ordered to storm a line of strong earthworks, behind which were a whole division of the enemy. They obeyed the order, like the famous Light Brigade at Balak iava, but the carnage was fearful— vastly greater than that of the Light Brigade. In this charge at Jackson there were 800 men who started when the order to advance was given, and only 300 ever came back. The Third started with 240 men. and after the contest was over there were only 94 to stack their muskets. After Jack son the regiment was ordered to Mem phis, and did not rejoin the portion of the army of the Tennessee which went to Chattanooga, until after the battles about that place were over. It ar rived, however, in- time to take part ir, the battle of Rome, and the other engagements leading up to Atlanta. During all this time the regiment had been kept up by constant recruiting to make up for its severe losses. But the culmination came at Atlanta. In that battle the regiment literally fought itself out of existence, there being but twenty-six men left after the battle. The regiment was then consolidated with the Second lowa, and although its members, who were able to fight, stayed in till the close of the war, the Third regiment was not longer known. Since the war the survivors of the regiment have kept up a separate or ganization, and meet once in two years. There are some notable cir- cumstances connected with individuals of the Third. Among those present at yesterday's reunion were A. B. Ecker and John Eoker, brothers. Two more brothers were also in the regiment. All four were in service during the whole war, taking part in every battle in which the regiment engaged, and not one of them was ever wounded. Another remarkable instance is that of S. J. MeKinley, another member. If it cannot be said of him that he was not born to die, it may truly be said that he was not born to die in battle. He was wounded eleven times, and severely wounded, too. He was present at yesterday's reunion, and, although he carries a crutch and a cane, he does not show any signs of immediate dissolution. He exhibited a bullet which he carried in his body twenty-six years and twenty-four days, and which was taken out seven teen inches from where it went in. He had three bullets through his left leg, but the leg is still with him. A shell struck him In the head and broke his jaw and cracked his skull from a point just above and in front of his ear, entirely across to the other side of the head, in three directions. These are some of the eleven wounds Mr. MeKinley received, but his cime had not come, and he is still with his com rades on earth. Mr. MeKinley has a brother living at Osage, Becker county, in this state, who was also a member of the Third. » Quite a number of the survivors have attained more than ordinary success in civil life since the war. Among the number are ex-Gov. Stone, of Iowa; Judge Thompson, of St. Louis, the author of several noted law books; Ex-Congressman Lacey, of Iowa; Sever Ellingson, of Hennepin county, Minn., who represented his district two times in the legislature; Maj. Crossby, of Webster City, 10., served six years as warden of the lowa state penitentiary; Lieut. Col. Wright, of Denison, Io.; Adjt. Sessions, of Cedar Falls, and many others. J. G. Johnson, one of the Republican nominees from Henne pin county for the legislature this year, was a member. Although other regiments fought as heroically as the Third, there is some thing remarkable in its history of losses, and this fact tends to draw the bands of comradeship very close among those who escaped the slaugh ter which overtook their comrades. SPORTS ON THE RIVER, The Races Were Witnessed by a Crowd ot Enthusiasts. The Minnesota Boat club held a club re gatta yesterday afternoon on the river course off Raspberry island. A good crowd watched the races, largely composed of club mem bers and their friends, with numerous out side visitors among the G. A. R. The crack band from Duluth, the Duluth City band, were in attendance and furnished a pleasing musical programme before the racing events, and at the finish of each race struck up a stirring air as -the shells sped swiftly toward the line. The races were interesting, and though the contesting crews were made up entirely of club members, the results were uncertain and two good finishes were witnessed. Coach John Kennedy acted as starter and Charles Gordon as judge. The first race was the single sculls. William Whidden, T. Griggs, J. Sabin and William Rjornstad were the contestants. Griggs amused the crowd by tipping over as he rowed for the start, but emptied his scull and competed, never theless. Bjornstad rowed in fine form and won easily, with Sabin three lengths back. Whidden was third and Griggs last, this being his maiden event with the single sculls. The four-oared race, being of three crews, was the best of the afternoon. The crew stroked by Ed Halbert won. They were H. P. Bend, bow; N. P. Langford Jr., two; A. Buffington, three, and Ed Halbert, stroke. The winners of second place were: G. E. Sengler, bow; C. G. Whidden, two; E. Boh land, three, and William Bjornstad, stroke. Bringing up the rear were: C. M. Bend, bow; H. E. Bjornstad, two; J. D. Denegre, three, and H. Blakely, stroke. Percy Houghton did not appear to take his place in the eight-oared crew, and George Langford rowed in his stead. Langford is a famous oar. He is a Yale man, and stroked the crew in the winning race with Harvard in June. He went to Henley for the world challenge regatta and pulled in the same position, but his crew was beaten by the winners of the grand challenge cup, the Leanders in a close race. The crews in the eight-oared shells made a pretty sight, aB they .pulled with regular strokes up the river. One crew, in white row ing shirts, were: L. Corning, W. Langford J. D. Denegre, E. Halbert, A. B. McCaughey, William Bjornstad, N. P. Lang ford and George Langford. C. W. Gordon was coxswain of that crew and steered them to victory. Both crews were abreast until 100 yards from the finish, when the rudder of J Schwartz's shell broke, and his crew, which were as follows, were out of the race: Theo Griegs, George Senkler, E. Bohland, A. BufflngtoS H- P. Bend, H. Blakeley, CM Bend C. G. Whidden. No timekeeper had been'appointed for the events, and there is no official time to announce. "SPARKED" THE SAME GIRL. Bnt They Bore >o IHaliee at Yester day's Meeting. Some members of the Fourth Wisconsin were talking together yesterday, when a fine hale, corpulent gentleman came up and said he belonged to the Wisconsin Fourth. "No man your size belonged to the Fourth, said one "Yes." said the gentleman but I was not so big than when 1 used to nfe the boys to their beans and coffee."Fifer Stoper' yelled three lusty voices, and they nearly dragged the arm out of the socket of Fifer Stoper, who fairly howled with pleasure, and moisture gathered in his merry gray eyes. "Did you know Isaac Stoper?" asked Com rade C. C. Coffey. "Yes; but he was no re lation of mine except, brother in arms." "Well, he and I were sparking the same girl," said Coffey. "And he went back and married her, saia Stoper. "Bully for him," cried Coffey, with en thusiasm. And so hundreds of similar stories could be recounted, and doubtless today at the re union to be held hundreds more can be heard. VETERANS OF MINNESOTA. Will Meet Today to Form * Com- pact Organization. A meeting of the various veteran organi zations of Minnesota is called to meet this morning at 10 o'clock on the east front of the caplol building. Cedar street, to perfect the organization of a Minnesota Veteran as sociation.- As full an attendance as can be had is asked of all the Minnesota veterans as can come. Signal CorpH Is Grateful. The U. S. Veteran Signal Corps association at its meeting in the court house, unani mously voted its hearty thanks to the citi zens' committee of St. Paul, to D. Moreland, aide-de-camp for their party in the parade; to S. W. Raudenbush & Co. for the use of a piano art the evening reunion, and to Judge Grier M. Orr, of the municipal court, and to the citizens of St. Paul in general for kind attentions shown and assistance given to make the annual meeting so successful and enjoyable. Special appreciation was ex pressed of the services of Capt. G. S. Dana, of the St. Paul executive committee of the U. S. Signal Corps, U. S. A., who was unan imously elected to be president of the asso ciation for the ensuing year. Illinois and lowa Together. Those survivors of the Sixth. Sevenh and Ninth Illinois cavalry will meet with the Second lowa cavalry at the senate chamber today at 9 o'clock. A Frond Bridegroom's Snicide. A boy bridegroom at Sialkote, India, ws_. to vexed at his being jestingly made to bend us knee to his little bride that he killed himself by jumping into a well. \\\y, (Copyrighted, 1896, by the Author.) l)/?\ All the heated discussion about the "crime of 1873," and the feeling that men were wronged by being shut out from the use of silver in paying in debtedness, have a foundation only in the idea that it would be today more just to pay in silver; and that sliver now buys the same goods as formerly, while gold has risen away from both goods and silver. It is held that to be obliged to pay in gold is to pay more goods than is just, since gold has risen relatively to goods, because it is scarce, or has been "cornered." This, of course, is a matter of fact, not of opinion. Therefore, it will be possible to calmly examine the facts in order to ascertain whether it is true that silver buys today the same amount of goods as in Is6o, or 1873, or 1879. If silver has kept its value rela tively to goods, it is more just to pay in silver, but if silver has moved up and down independently of goods, showing great Instability relatively to goods, and if silver buys far less goods today than formerly, then it would not be just to pay in silver. And if this last is true, then the" act of 1873 has not caused any wrong, and all talk about that "crime" is mistaken. For this purpose I present a table, dating from 1860, taken from official articles, Including all those of common consumption. In 1860 the prices of all these articles when added together were taken as the basis for compari son in other years, and are expressed by 100. As the same 223 articles, in the same quantities, sell for more or less in other years, the difference relatively to the total price of 1860 is expressed in figures greater or less than 100. It will be noted that the highest paper prices were in 1865; but in the next col umn in which these paper prices are reduced to their gold equivalents, the year of highest gold prices was 1866. In 1869 they were as low as in 1875. The year 1873 does not appear to be the year from which the decline in prices begins. The decline dates from 1866; and 1873 is only on the slope of the hill, not on top. If we are hunting for the cause of the decline, in the year in which the decline begins, then we must logically hunt for the "crime of 1866." Whatever the cause of the decline in American prices, it did not start from 1873, but from 1866. > _| S3 H S ****_ ra r* —a f» v_* ft*? s^ g°*2 M _ . o ■ "2 f "i Vpaf i fOO • CD 'i—.--.'*' *ear- .gis-'d : - : < :£_ o*« *** • 2 ' p p ■ >j-jt» •S. : o •** § : 3 ■ | :o • \lf. 100*0 100.0 15.29 $435 )IH 100-6 100.6 15.50 448 J!SS HH U4*9 15*35 334 l_l J«-« 102.4 15.37 595 }_i 190.5 122.5 15.37 669 1865 216.8 100.3 15.44 714 Jf^ 191.0 136.3 15.43 673 }f" 172-2 127.9 15.57 661 1868 150.5 115.9 15.59 680 1869 153.5 113.2 15.60 664 If? 142.3 117.3 15.57 675 1871 136.0 122.9 15.57 715 1872 138.8 127.2 15.63 738 1873 137.5 122.0 15.92 751 1874 133.0 119.4 16.17 776 1875 127.6 113.4 16.58 754 1876 118.2 104.8 17.87 727 1877 110.9 104.4 17.22 722 1878 101.3 99.9 17.94 729 1879 96.6 96.6 18.39 818 1880 106.9 .... 18.04 973 1881 105.7 .... 18.24 1,114 1882 108.5 .... 18.27 1,171 1883 106.0 .... 18.65 1,230 1884 99.4 .... 18.63 1,243 1885 93.0 .... 19.39 1,292 1886 91.9 .... 20.78 1,252 1887 92.6 .... 21.11 1,317 1888 94.2 .... 21.99 1,372 18S9 94.2 .... 22.10 1,380 1890 02.3 .... 19.77 1,429 1891 92.2 20.92 1,497 1892 23.68 1,601 1893 26.70 1,596 1894 32.58 1,660 1895 _. 31.57 1,601 In these same tables let us examine more directly whether silver and goods have varied in a like manner from gold. The column of gold prices show how goods varied relatively to gold; the ratios of silver to gold shows how silver varied relating to gold. Hence, if silver kept with goods—that is if the purchasing power of silver over goods remained the same—we cap. eas ily find it out. Take representative years, as follows: 1860. 1873. 1879. 1891. Prices of g00d5...100 122 96.6 92.2 to gold 15.29 15.92 18.39 20.92 Ratio of silver to Thus we find that by 1873 goods had risen relatively to gold by 22 per cent, while silver had fallen about 4 per cent. Silver and goods had been *.ep arated in 1873 by a difference of 26 per cent, as compared with 1860; that is, silver had lost 26 per cent of its purchasing power over goods. Both gold and silver had lost purchasing power over goods, but silver had lost 4 per cent more. Goods had gone up 22 per cent above gold, but silver had fallen 4 per cent below gold. By 1879 goods had fallen 3.4 per cent, relatively to gold, while silver had fallen about 16 per cent. Silver and goods were separated in 1879 by 12% per cent, as compared with 1860; that is, silver had lost only 12% per cent of ' its purchasing power over goods. Gold j had gained 3.4 per cent of purchasing ! power over goods by 1879; but silver was still 12% per cent away from goods. By 1891 (the last year of prices given by the Aldrich report) goods had fallen relatively to gold by 7.8 per cent, while silver had fallen relatively to gold by 26 per cent. By 1891 silver was sep arated from goods by 18.2 per cent. Gold had gained 7.8 per cent of pur chasing power over goods, as compared with 1860, but silver had lost 18.2 of purchasing power over goods. What is the net resultant of this examina tion? From the official figures, has gold kept nearer to goods in purchasing power, or has silver? In the years chosen, gold had varied in purchasing power "over goods, respectively by mi nus 22, plus 3.4 and plus 7.8; while sil ver had varied by minus 26, minus 12% and minus 18.2. Gold, therefore, has unmistakably varied relatively to goods in a less extreme way than sil ver in its relation to goods. The varia tions of gold have been on both sides, both losing and gaining purchasing power. That is, from 1860 to 1891, if debts had been paid in gold, justice would have been more nearly served than if debts had been paid in silver; for the good reason that gold provided to debtor and creditor at the end of the contract more nearly the same purchasing power over goods than w&s passed when the debt was contracted. The case for silver is stil worse as regards a just standard of payments, if we consider the really phenomenal and startling fall in the value of silver which has taken place since 1890. In August, 1890, tho average monthly ratio of silver to gold was 17.26:1. In March 1894. the ratio was 34.35:1. That is in just 3 years and .six months, silver lost exactly one-half its value as com pared with gold. Such a thing has never been equalled for its suddenness and extent: But it might be said that gold had gone up, and that this drop of silver relatively to gold, was not a diop relatively to goods. The Aldrici report ends with the year 1891, and ,we have absolutely no reliable data to indicate how much these 2_':' articles may have fallen since 1891. Owing to the depression consequent on the crises of 1893, it is probable that prices in g< neral are somewhat lower than in 1s:M; but that they have been halved since 1890 is quite imaginary and absurd. Therefore, the fall of silver since 1891 has boon another fall rela tively to goods. Even supposing prices to have fallen 20 per cent relatively to gold since 1891; yet. silver has fallen since 1891 over 60 per cent relatively to gold. So that silver has changed re latively to goods at least 40 per cent in the last few years. From absolutely reliable figures, taken from official sources, we may now conclude that sil ver has varied more and with greater extremes in purchasing power over goods than has gold. Sisce 1860, gold has gained only 7.8 per cent of purchasing power over goods, while silver has lost at least 40 or 50 per cent of purchas ing power over goods. If goods have fallen in price, silver has fallen so much mere as to carry it out of sight, as a just standard of payments. It may be objected, however, that comparison of prices should be made not with 1860, but with 1873, when silver was "demonetized." My answer is that, in surveying, no engineer would think of getting the drainage level of a town Jay taking that of a neighboring hill. So with prices- the year 1873 showed the effect of a great rise; prices had gone up under specu lation following the civil war, and then the bubble burst in a panic. But even ??ioprl0 prl£es were higher In 1866 than In 18/3. But we do not take 1866 as a starting point. It was an abnormal and exceptional year. The year 1860 in justice, is the proper starting place! because it was a year in time of peace while we were on a gold basis. It Is impossible, however, to regard 1873 as a proper year by which to discover whether gold has varied from goods because no gold or silver were then in circulation. From 1862 to 1879 we were on a standard of inconvertible paper money. Mr. Bryan, in his speech of accept ance, Aug. 13th says: "A dollar which increases in purchasing power is Just as dishonest as a dollar which de creases in purchasing power." And then in order to show what is a just standard he quotes from my "History of Bimetallism in the United States " my belief that (under a multiple standard) "a long-time contract would thereby be paid at its maturity by the same purchasing power as was given in the beginning." Mr. Bryan is then committed to this view. Indeed, he said: "It can not be successfully claimed that monometallism or bi metallism, or any other system, gives an absolutely just standard of value." Exactly so, and inasmuch as free coin age of silver would result in the with drawal of gold, and the establishment of a single standard, the question for us as voters to decide is, whether in fact the existing gold standard has been, and is, more just to debtor and creditor, than a silver standard would be. It is not claimed that gold has always maintained the same and un changing purchasing power over goods. That would be impossible. But it is claimed as a fact that gold has varied less in its purchasing power over goods than has silver. Therefore, gold has proved itself in fact a more just stand ard for debtor or creditor than silver. This result is not founded upon any individual judgment, but upon the facts given in the table above,—facts which no one disputes. If it be said that since 1873 silver has been shut out from use as money, in reply that this statement is wholly untrue. More silver is today in circu lation in Europe and the United States than in 1873. It is rediculously untrue that one-half the metallic money of the word (i. c. silver) was thrown out of use in 1873. Oermanv still uses over $100,000,000 legal tender silver thalers; the Latin union increased their silver circulation after 1873, not closing their mints entirely until 1878; the United States, after 1878, has added about $600,000,000 of silver to its currency. And the director of the United States mint reports for 1895 that in the cur rencies of the world there is $4,070,500, --000 of silver in use, of which $3,440, --700,000 has unlimited legal tender power If $4,000,000,000 of silver are today used as money, what nonsense to talk of one half of the metallic money having been legislated out of existence in 1873. It ls a pure fable. Some writers, however, in order to show that silver has maintained the same level with goods, while gold has gone up from both, quote some state ments to show that prices have not gone up in silver-using countries Without multiplying evidence, note the hard condition in which wage-earn ers found therm-elves in» India under the- rise of silver prices. The civil ser vants of India presented a petition to the viceroy, Lord Landsdowne, Jan 31, 1893, and said: "This disastrous fall in the value of the currency in which the officers of the Indian government are paid has affected all branches of the service alike. Since 18^6, when th<** depreciation of silver becam? acute there has been a sharp rise in tho price of almost all articles produced in India, including food, in the wages of servents, and in house rent. In the same period, the retail price of goods imported from Europe, on which a por tion of our salaries is spent, has al3o risen largely from the same cause; and the prices paid for them increase with each successive fall in exchange." In deed the whole petition is a pathetic story of hardship because silver prices had risen, while the government had not raised wages and salaries. This is what other countries may ex pect when they go to the sliver stand ard. We have seen that while prices of goods have fallen, silver has fallen in dependently of goods, and not corre spondingly with the movement of goods. Silver goes up or down just as copper goes up or down. There is noth ing in silver which connects in with the movement of goods. Nor, as I have previously shown, have prices of goods fallen because of a scarcity of gold. —J Laurence Laughlin. LIND AND HIS RECORD. The fact that John Llnd has swallowed the Chicago platform with Its free trade, free silver, anarchism and ail the other "iams," ;s too much for many of his admirers, am" they have decided that they will »iav.j »o pirt company with him.—Dawson Sentinel. On five different occasions John Lind, whilst a member of congress, had a chance to voto on a free coinage bill; and each time he voted against. Now, has John Llnd changed or has the Republican party?—Lakeflcld Standard. The Populists are not satisfied with Lind for governor and will put a candidate of their own in the field. If this is done, and It now seems probable, Lind's defeat is a fore gone conclusion, as he cannot hope to win without the solid support of the Pops.—Roy alton Banner. Lind has a record of a life-time without a single blot upon it. In congress he was always on the side of the masses, and the laboring men of Minnesota will flock to his support and rebuke the open support give- Dave Clough by the large corporations who can use him.— Appleton Press.