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VOLUME LXXIX.-NO. 13.
JUDGE THURMANDEAD
Close of the Career of the
Noted Statesman of
Ohio.
PASSED AWAY IN PEACE.
Universal Expressions of Sorrow
Among the Residents of
Columbus.
MADE A DISTINGUISHED RECORD
Many Political Honors and Places of
Trust Held by the "Old
Roman."
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 12.— Ex-Senator
Thurman died at his residence here at 1:30
o'clock this afternoon from the general
debility of old age, ending in collapse. He
had been dangerously ill only since yester
day. Since his fall about a month ago, he
had been apparently in his usual health,
THE LATE EXSENATOR ALLFN G. THIRMAN.
but to the experienced eye of his physi
cian it was plain that his powers were rap
idly failing.
Until yesterday morning he was able to
sit up the greater part of the time and at
times showed keen interest in public
affairs. On his eighty-second birthday,
November 13. he was able to dictate a letter
to the Thurman Club of this city in reply
to resolutions of sympathy with his suffer
ings resulting from the fall. Yesterday
morning he was sitting in his library read
ing, when he began to complain of feeling
ill and shortly grew so much worse that
Dr. Whittaker, his physician, was called.
He saw that it was the beginning of the
end and so informed the family.
In the afternoon Judge Thurman lost
consciousness, and never fnlly recovered
it again. When Dr. Whittaker called in
the- afternoon he found the patient appar
ently sinking, and pave it as hi 3 opinion
that he could not survive more than a few
hours. Last night, however, he was better,
but with the morning hours he began to
6ink, and when Dr. Whittaker called at
10 o'clock this morning he stated to Alien
W. Thurman that death was a question of
but a few hours. Death came peacefully
and painlessly. It seemed that he passed
Irora sleep into death.
At the bedside were Mrs. Governor Mac-
Cormack of New York and Allen W. Thur
man and members of his family. His
other child, Mary Thurman, is in Cali
fornia. Outside of the immediate family
it was not known that Judge Thurman
was dangerously ill until the announce
ment of his death came like a snock.
There was universal expression of sorrow,
for Judge Thurman had been looked upon
for years as the foremast citizen of Colum
bus, and soon the flags were at half staff
upon all the city and State buildings.
Mrs. Thurman died a little over two
years ago.
OHIO'S G ICE AT LOSS.
Tribute Paid by Governor McKinley in a
J'roclatnation.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 12.— The fol
lowing proclamation on the death of
Allen G. Thurman was made to-night by
Governor McKiniey:
Ohio has lost one of its noblest citizens.
Allen Ci. Thurman died at 1 o'clock to-day at
his home in the city of Columbus, at the ripe
age of 82. He was a statesman whose sturdy
integrity and exalted abilities were recog
nized not only in his own State, but In every
part of the United States. As a Judge of the
Supreme Court of the State he was a learned
and incorruptible interpreter of tne law. As
United States Senator he faithfully and with
exceptional honor reoresented the State in the
United States Senate.
He was a distinguished party leader and
Btood in the front rank with the great men
who were his contemporaries. After being the
recipient of many honors at the hands ol his
party and his countrymen, he retired to pri
vate life with the universal respect and esteem
of the citizens of the Republic and the love of
all who had the honor of knowing him. His
illustrious career is a conspicuous example ot
the possibilities of American citizenship, and
Is worthy the study of the youth of our fctate.
The neople of Ohio, regardless of party, will
be mourners at his bier. Out of respect to his
memory it is hereby ordered that the nag be
displayed at halfmast over the State Capitol
until after the obsequies.
CAREER OF THE STATESMAN.
Alim G. Thurman Was Honored With
Important Trusts.
Allen G. Thurman was born at Lynch
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burg, Virginia, November 13, 1813. His
father was a Baptist minister who, through
conscientious principles, liberated all his
slaves. In 1818 the family and young
Thurman removed to Ohio. The entire
family erfects were transported in a huge
six-horse wagon, which was dragged over
the mountains by the united efforts of
negroes and horses. He was a nephew of
Hon. William Allen, who for many years
represented Ohio in the United States
Senate and later was elected Governor
over General Noyes. Under his mother's
supervision he soon became a thorough
mathematician and also an excellent
French scholar. At the age of 21 he was
offered the private secretaryship of the
Governor of Ohio, which he filled with
great satisfaction. At the same time he
studied law under the direction of
Judge Swayne. He was admitted to
the bar in 1835, and went at once
to Chillicotne. Being admitted into
partnership with his uncle, William
Allen, he soon found himself in possession
of one of the best practices in the State.
In 1839 he visited Washington, and while
there was introduced to the distinguished
Senator Caluoun. He was again in Wash
ington in 1842.
In 1844 he was nominated for Congress,
and elected over John J. Van Meter. In
1851 he was elected a Judge of the Supreme
Court of Ohio, and was Chief Justice from
1854 to 1856. In 1867 he was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, but
was defeated. In 18(58 he was chosen a
Senator in Congress from that State for
the term commencing in 18G9 and ending
in 1870, serving on the committees on the
judiciary and postofllcesand postroads. He
was re-elected in 1874. his second term ex
piring in 1880. In 1876 he was prominently
mentioned as a candidate for President,
but the Tilden wave engulfed him with
the others. In the Democratic National
conventions of 1876, 1880 and 1884 he re
ceived votes lor the Presidency, and in
1888 was nominated for the Vice-Presi
dency, but defeated. Since that time he
had little to do with politics.
Such, in brief, is a sketch of the career
of Allen G. Thurman. Of his home-life,
however, some very pretty things have
been written. From Columbus, Ohio, re
cently a correspondent wrote:
In the roomy library of an unostentatious
stone house on one of the handsomer residence
streets of this city an old Roman sits and with
dim eyes watches the boys who gather at play
on the lawn near by. At times his grand
daughter reads to him, and together they talk
of the past. The members of his own family
cheer him with their company and watch over
his feeble steps with loving care. They assist
him to his feet when he wishes to pass from
room to room, ana support him again when he
desires to sit down.
The sunset of Allen G. Thurman's life is
pleasant though lonely. The lost rays of sun
light find the same sturdy spirit there that
won a nation's admiration at noonday. He is
almost the last of his generation. The faithful
and beloved wife has y)receded him. Only
three or four of the men he met in his vigor
and in whose friendship he rejoiced remain
with him in his old age. The others have all
gone. His greatest amusement in the hours
when there is no one to talk with or read to
him is watching the boys playing on the lawn
that lies before his library windows. Manly
sports were always a delight to him, and to
day, broken in health and old, he rinds no dis
comfort in the noise and happy shoutings of his
grandsons and their boy friends, playing ball
or tennis hard by.
The room, in which he loves to sit is nearly
square, large and rather old-fashioned. Book
cases line its walls. In the place of honor,
where the old statesman's eye often fails upon
it, is a large Dhotograph of the late Judge
Rufus P. Ranney, his associate on the Supreme
bench ot Ohio in the fifties, and one of his
closest friends. In the early days of the pres
ent constitution, these two eminent jurists
established precedents that have proved of in
incalculable value to the State for more than
forty years. Those were the days to which the
lawyers of the State still refer with pride, when
a decision of the Ohio Supreme Court had a
high standing in all the North.
The admiration these two men entertained
for each other was one that only death could
end. Both were old school Democrats and
wore in sympanthy in many of their views of
public questions. It is doubtful if any public
man stood quite as high in the esteem of the
"Old Roman" through all the years of their
friendship as the able lawyer who served with
him on the State Supreme bench. To-day
Judge Thurman refers to Judge Ranney with
the tenderest feeling, and takes pleasure in
pronouncing his one of the finest judicial
minds he has ever known. Other pictures and
photographs hang about the room, the last to
be given a place of honor there being that of
Grover Cleveland.
Judge Thurman's character Is admirable as
much for the downright integrity that marked
his intercourse with his fellow-men as for the
ability that made him conspicuous on the
bench and in the Senate. His highest enco
mium upon any man was the terse judgment,
"He is an honest man." In all his public ca
reer and private life honesty was the first title
to his esteem. The highest compliment that
could be paid him was to believe in his thor
ough honesty of purpose and action.
Looking back upon his Ion? life, he said,
in tones that broken health made tremulous,
to one of his lifelong friends the other day: "I
never intentionally wronged a human being
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SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1895.
WEDDED IN SPLENDOR
Emma Rockefeller Became
the Bride of Dr.
McAlpin.
MILLIONS WERE UNITED.
Beautiful Services Held at the
Country Palace at Tarrytown,
on the Hudson,
THIRD MARRIAGE IN A MONTH.
But the Present Affair Surpassed the
Two Preceding Events in
the Family.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 12.— 1n the
music-room of her father's country palace,
Rockwood Hall. Tarry town-c£»the-Hud
son, Miss Emma Rockefeller was wedded
at noon to-day to Dr. D. H. Hunter McAl
pin Jr., son of D. Hunter McAipin of
New York City. It was tne third nuotial
celebration in the Rockefeller family
within a month, and in part of brilliancy
surpassed the two preceding events.
Rockwood Hall, a beautiful country
mansion situated directly on the banns of
the picturesque Hudson, was chosen for
the scene of to-day's wedding because of
its advantages for a grand hymeneal cere
mony. It was in the floral decorations
and sumptuous surroundings that the
wedding excelled. There were many
charming novelties in the decorative art
which added to the effect of the occasion
and delighted the assembled throng. The
bridal room was a dream of floral beauty.
The most conspicuous piece of horticul
tural work was the Gothic canopy, made
of asparaeus vine, bridesmaids roses and
lilies of the valley.
The breakfast-room was also profusely
decorated. The gown worn by the bride —
a rich ivory satin— was made in princess
fashion, and was resplendent with ex
quisite Venetian lace. The veil was long,
almost covering the train, and "was
fastened with a tiara of diamonds.
The Rev. Dr. Thomas Armitage of St.
Bartholomew's Church, New York, as
sisted by the Rev. Dr. Harris of Yonkers,
performed the ceremony.
At the conclusion of the service Mendeli
sohn's wedding march from "Midsummer
Night's Dream" was rendered by the choir
and orchestra. A buffet breakfast was
served in the main dining-room, over 400
people participating.
Miss Emma Rockefeller is the eldest
daughter of William Rockefeller, who is
reputed to be worth $65,000,000. She is 24
years of age, highly accomplished and
considered one of America's greatest
young heiresses.
Dr. McAlpin is 33 years of age, a son of :
D. H. McAlpin, the million aire tobacco !
manufacturer. He is a practicing pysi
cian of New York City, a professor of
Bellevue College and an '85 Princeton
MIIILLO'S " ST. FR ASCIS OF ASSISI," THE PATRON SAINT OF OUR CITY, SAN FRANCISCO.
[This rare and valuable painting, the property ot Collis P. Huntinoton, is now on exhibition at Hopkinai^rt Institute.]
graduate. The young couple received hun
dreds of beautiful and costly presents.
MARSIED AT HIGH XOOX.
Miss Jfichols Becomes the Wife of the
Marquis de Chatnbrun.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 12.— The mar
riage of Miss Margaret Rives Nichols,
daugh ter of Mrs. Bellamy Storer,to the Mar
quis de Chanibrun of the French Legation at
Washington was solemnized at high noon
to-day at the Roman Catholic Church of
the Holy Angels in the presence of a large
and fashionable congregation. There were
no bridesmaids, Miss Clara Longworth
acting as her attendant, while H. de
Schonen, a cousin of the groom, was the
best man. The mother and cousin of the
groom were also present.
The ushers were: Frederick Coudert of
New York, Nicholas Longworth and Jos
eph Nichols of this city, Horace "Wiley of
Washington and Horace Binney of Phila
delphia. After the ceremony the recep
tion, lasting two hours, was held at the
Storer mansion on Grandin road. The
bride is one of the heirs of the Longworth
estate, the richest landed property in Cin
cinnati.
CLETELASn'S DVCK HUXT.
Bad Weather Makes It Impossible to Do
Any Shooting.
NORFOLK, YA.,Dec. 12.— The Presiden
tial party occupied their blinds to-day for
the third time on the present trip, rain
and high winds having made it impossible
to shoot the ducks in the early part of the
weel£. The report to-day indicates that
the day's sport was fairly successful. To
morrow the Violet will leave Hatteras on
the horaev. ard trip. It is possible that the
vessel will have a stormy passage up the
sound, as high winds are reported to
night. .
EXPEDITION ASSOCIATION
Plans to Introduce Wares in
Every Country on the
Globe.
Ships to Be Built and Loaded With
Products for the Enlightenment
of the World.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 12.— Mayor
Caldwell received a letter this morning
from what is known as the American Ex
pedition Association, with headquarters
in New York City. The communication is
a personal one from E. A. Keeling, secre
tary of the association, and states that the
object of the expedition is to introduce the
wares and eoods of the United States in
every country on the globe.
A number of what are to be known as
the "expedition ships" are being built in
New York City. As soon as a ship is com
pleted, it will be fitted up with products
of the United States only. When the fleet
is ready, it will be headed by a palatial
yacht called "The Palace of Neptune,"
and which will carry as passengers all
governors, mayors and presidents of com
mercial or social bodies who can go. Thus
fitted out and equipped, the fleet, which is
intended to be an exposition on water, like
those of Philadelphia, Chicago and At
lanta, as near as possible, will steam to all
the countries of the globe, including South
America, Asia and Africa, as well as Eu
rope. The gigantic scheme is to introduce
the products of the United States in every
nation of the earth.
CIVIL SERVICE EVILS
Annual Meeting of the
League for National
Reform.
CARL SCHURZ TALKED.
Necessity of Functions of the Gov
ernment Being Adminis
tered With Honesty.
ABUSE OF PUBLIC PATRONAGE.
Corrupting Influences Brought to
Bear in the Pursuit of
Office.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12.-There
was an important gathering in this city of
prominent men from various parts of the
country to-day, the occasion being the
annual meeting of the National Civil Ser
vice Reform League, which will last
through until to-morrow evening. Many
pleasant social features will be combined
with the business meeting of the organiza
tion.
The meeting to-day wan called to order
by John Joy Edson, president of the Dis
trict League. Many distinguished dele
gates are present, including Carl Schurz,
who heads the New York delegation. The
special business session will be held to
morrow, when the president and vice
president will be elected and much other
routine business transacted.
At the executive meeting of the league
this morning George McAneny was elected
secretary and J. F. Schiefflin was elected
treasurer. Two new organizations were
admitted to membership in the league,
the Civil Service Reform associations of
St. Paul and Princeton College. Tne dele
gate from the former is C. P. Noyes, and
j from the latter Professor William M.
1 Sloane. All the members of the executive
j committee were re-elected.
At the evening session the principal
event of the proceedings was an able speech
by Hon. Carl Schurz, president or the
league, who, upon being introduced by
John Joy Edson, made an address of an
hour and a half duration. Schurz, who
was listened to with great attention, and
who received a most courteous welcome
from many old friends prominent in Wash
ington circles, said in part:
•'lt is with a feelinc of peculiar satisfac
tion that I greet the fifteenth annual meet
ing, of the National Civil Service League
at the seat of the National Government—
the place where the necessity for the re
form we advocate has been most conspicu
ously demonstrated and where also its
most conspicuous and fruitful successes
have been achieved."
He traced the history of the country,
which, in a century, from a thin string of
agricultural settlements on the Atlantic
Coast, had expanded into a vast empire,
spanning a continent and excelling in
wealth and material power every other
nation on the globe.
"We cannot close our eyes to the fact
that in some important respects we are ap
proaching the social conditions of the
Old World and that in the near future the
greater part of our population will be gath
ered in the large towns.
"As functions of government grow in
extent, importance and complexity the
necessity grows of their being* adminis
tered not only with honesty but also with
trained ability and knowledge. AVhile
every sane man accepts this proposition
as self-evident in theory, it may be said
that every opponent of civil service reform
desires it in practice. The danger is not
in a sudden, grand and startling collapse,
but the gradual decay of those elements
essential to vitality."
He extolled .democratic government as
detined by Lincoln: "Of the people, by the
people and for the people," but as the
offices are used to serve ends other than
the public benefit, or are entrusted to per
sons not apt to give to the people the best
attainable service, in that measure demo
cratic government fails. He said he had
no particular objection to the doctrine
that democratic government is a govern
ment through political parties.
'"But," he added, "whenever they seek
to divert the public offices instituted solely
for the service and benefit of people from
their true purpose in order to use them for
their own service and benefit, to this ex
tent turning the Government ihrough po
litical parties into a government for politi
cal parties, they strike at one of the vital
principles of democratic government."
Mr. Schurz alluded to the fact that well
known men and women have lately fallen
in love with the splendor of monarchial
courts, but he was convinced that the
chief danger did not spring from this
source so much as the possibility of the
ultimate appearance of a strong man, the
chief of an organization looking for plun
der. He declared that there had actually
been such a monarchy on a small scale
among us, and detailed the career of
"Tweed, who was not called a king, but
its equivalent, a boss." From this
he argued that there were other
"bosses," State "bosses," who protected
and fostered one another, and he com
pared them with the Electors of Germany
and the rulers of Europe generally, who
stood side by side with one another. This
was all due to the existence of the spoils
system, which allows that which belongs
to the public, especially the public of
fices, to be diverted from public to private
use. Without that system bossism would
not be possible.
Civil service reform twenty years ago,
struggling apparently in vain, has raar
velously risen in popular interest because
tne popular intellect, disgusted with ex
isting abuses ana apprehensive of worse
things to come, saw in civil service reform
the only effective method to destroy the
spoils system. And everyday the popular
demand grows more general and more
energetic for its extension over wider
fields. The merit system has stood the
test of practical experience so triumphant
ly that the vociferous objections and re
vilings of it in which the spoils politicians
used to delight have sunk to a mournful
mutter.
The problem remains how to secure
what we have won by further conquest,
for the result will not be entirely safe un
til the spoils system is totally abolished.
He appealed for legislative reform in this
matter. Executives were generally safe,
but the opponents of civil service invaria
bly want to Congresses and Legislatures to
thwart the will of the people.
The speaker detailed at great length the
perplexities, embarrassments and debase
ments of the newly elected Congressman
which the spoils system imposes upon
him, and as a eegislator himself told how
he had been almost forced to recommend
for office men he knew to be unfit and
others of whom he knew nothing whatever.
"The use of patronage by members of
Congress," he continued, "is essentially
corrupt and corrupting. It is not the
gross form of corruption which consists in
passing bribe money from hand to hand,
but i? is that more dangerous and demoral
izing because more insinuating corruption
which wraps itself in the garb of party
zeal, of gratitude, of generous sympathy,
and in this disguise is received and coun
tenanced among respectable people."
Mr. Schurz complimented the President
and heads of departments for their recent
recommendations for the extension of the
civil service reform rules to all ths depart
ments of 'he Government.
Schurz closed by hoping for the repeal
c! the four-year term of office and compli
mented the State of New York in particu
lar upon the reform system as having
made the most progress.
"With such successes as these," he said,
"we may indeed hope to see the day when
our party warfare will be contests of
opinion free from the demoralizing and
repulsive interference of the plunder
chase; when a change of party in the
National administration will no longer
present the barbarous spectacle of a spoils
debauch,, torturing the nostrils of our own
people and^disgracing the Republic in the
eyes of civilized mankind."
RECTOR AllL WA It TALKED.
Eggs Were Thrown and There ] Wat a
Great Uproar- .
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. Rector
Ahlwardt, the anti-Semite, spoke at
Cooper Union this evening on "The Es
sence of the Modern Judaism." Only a
handful of people gathered to hear the
famous ''Jew baiter." , There were just
about as many policemen in uniform in
the hall as there were spectators. There
were a few Jews present.
A young man directly in front of Ahl
wardt rose in his seat and threw two mis
siles at him. They both missed, but a 9
they struck the stage it was evident that
they were eggs. In a minute the place
was m an uproar, a dozen policemen
swooped down on the offender and he was
hustled out.
TWO CARS JUMPED THE RAILS.
Passenger* on the JVUfiamaport Express
- Xarrowly Escaped Death.
NORRISTOWN, Pa., Dec. 12.— The Wil
liamsport" express, on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad, was wrecked to
night just after entering the borough.
Two cars jumped the tracks and toppled
over and were dragged a considerable dis
tance. About thirty passengers who were
in the cars had a narrow escape from
death, many of them reaching ; safety by
crawling through the.car. windows. V
■".' The : injured: . Colonel James 5 Boyd of
Xorristown, a director of the Reading Rail
road, believed to be seriously hurt; Miss
Anna Keely of Phrßnixyille, spine injured;
Jacob S. Clymer of Philadelphia, hurt in
ternally ; W. F. ; Jacoby of Philadelphia,
cut by broEen glass. "
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
STARTED BY MR. GROW
First Gun in the Tariff
Fight Fired by the Ex-
Speaker.
SCORED THE PRESIDENT.
Better Ways of Increasing the
Revenues Than Retiring the
Greenbacks.
LESSONS FROM THE ELECTIONS*
Cleveland Failed to Give Congress In*
formation on the System of
Revenues.
WASHINGTON, D. C.Dec. 12.-The first
gun in the tariff fight in the Fifty-fourth
Congress was fired to-day in the House by
the venerable ex-Speaker Grow, Repre*
sentative-at-large from the State of Penn
sylvania.
At his request the House went into com
mittee of the whole on the state of the
Union, and for nearly an hour he com
pared the working of the protective tariff
as it existed from l?til to 18U4 with the re- '
suits achieved by the present law, assert
ing that the latter had not proved much,
of a success. He proposed instead of the
retirement of the greenbacks in exchange
for bonds, as recommended by the Presi
dent, that National banks be permitted to
deposit them and the silver certificates as
well in exchange for circulating notes, re
ceiving $110 for every $100 so deposited,
the greenbacks and certificates when de
posited to be canceled.
The gold reserve, he contended, would
always prove a source of weakness when
ever and as long as the Government was
compelled to borrow money to meet its
expenditures. He read the following para
graph from the President's message as a
text for his speech :
By command of the people a customs revenue
system, designed for the protection and benefit
of favored classes at the expense of the great
mass of our countrymen, and which, while in
efficient for the purpose of revenue, curtailed
our trade relations and impeded our entrance
to the markets of the world, has been super
seded by a tariff policy which in principle is
based upon a denial of the right of the Govern
ment to obstruct the avenues to our people's
cheap living, or lessen their comfort, and con
tentment, for the sake of acco.iing especial
advantages to favoiites, and which, while en
couraging our intercourse and trade with other
nations, recognizes the fact that American self
reliance, thrift «nd ingenuity can build up our
country's industries and develop its resources
more surely than enervating paternalism.
The President, Grow said, had failed to
give Congress any information as to the
working and results of the new customs
revenue system, which he extolled. He
had disregarded the custom of presenting
the receipts and expenditures of the treas
ury, leaving Congress to learn of the finan
cial condition of the Government as best it
might. Figures furnished by the Treasury
Department, Grow said, showed that from
July 1, 1894 — the date at which the neve
bill went into effect— to December 10, 1895,
the deficit in the revenues of the Govern
ment amounted to $131,354,204, besides the
amounts which may be included in defi
ciency bills covering the part of the fiscal
year prior to December 10. In the same
time the bonded indebtedness had been in
creased $162.315,4000. The new system of
customs revenue did not seem to have
been a success.
The speaker reviewed tne operations of
the old system denounced by the Presi
dent and compared it with those of the
present. The tariff had been changed in
1867, in 1883 and in 1890, bat throughout, he
said, it had b^een a continuance of the
system inaugurated by the Morrell act of
February. 1861. Mr. Buchanan had closed
his administration having experienced a
deficit in every year of it, the total amount
being $75,000,000. This was met by the
issue of bonds. That was the last Demo
cratic administration until the present,
and this one seemed to have begun where
that one left off, by the sale of bonds.
[Laughter and applause.]
He asserted that no markets were of any
consequence to any people unless they
could put articles in them at a less labor
cost than they could be there produced.
The United States sold agricultural prod
ucts abroad because its vast area pro
duced a surplus over home consumption.
Other articles, he said, could not go
abroad unless the laborers of America
were willing to reduce their wages to a
point at which they would compete with
those of the countries into which their
productions were to be sent. There would
be, he said, no advantage in going into %
market that does not pay the producer
living wages.
"And the President things the old sys
tem blocks tne way to cheap living, 1 ' con
tinued Grow. "According to his theory
the poorhouse would be the ideal place of
existence. People live cheaper there than
anywhere else." [Laughter.]
Grow then reverted to the financial por
tion of the message, saying that the only
recommendation the Presiueut made was
to change five or six hundred millions of
non-interest bearing debt into interest
bearing obligations in the shape of long
time loans.
In lieu of the President's proposition,
Grow presented a plan to authorize the
issue of National bank-notes, in the ratio of
$110 for every $100 deposited, in exchange
for treasury notes and silver certificates,
the latter to be canceled as fast as they
were so deposited. This, he said, would
give elasticity to the volume of currency
without restricting it in any degree, and
without increasing by a dollar the inter
est-bearing obligations of the Governmont-
This would wind up the "endless chain,"
of which so much has been said, and pro
tect the gold reserve.
"After two years of experience with this
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