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TEMPERATURES.
place. Tem.lPlace. Tern.
St. Paul 20,Minnedosa 8
Duluth S Winnipeg 4
Huron 'SI
Bismarck r ( Buffalo 2S-34
Wllliston :;o Boston 30-32
Havre 30 Cheyenne 28-36
Helena 36 Chicago 22-24
Bank-ford X Cincinnati 36-40
Prince Albert (Montreal 24-30
Calßury 28' New Orleans .. ..44-44
Medicine Hat i'l.Vpw York 32-34
Swift Current 2fijPittsburg 32-36
Qu'Appelle 6l
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer, W. 12; mean temperature, 20; rel
ative humidity, 80; wind at 8 p. m., north
west; weather, clear; maximum temperature,
26; minimum temperature, 14; daily range, 12;
amount of precipitation in last twenty-four
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Xote— Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer.
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
Mr. John Kelly, in a communication
published in another column, makes
some very sensible comments on the
currency question. His most valuable
ar.<l pertinent suggestion Is that the
silver side of the difTlculty be solved
by calling in all silver certificates and
ordering their redemption In silver
dollars as rapidly as presented. We are
amazed at the obtuseness of Secretary
Cage, whose propositions submitted to
congress threaten to create a situation
far more serious than that which they
promise to relievo. Heretofore the
only question presented to the Ameri
can people as expressing danger, and
the only <iiie that has really menaced
the financial solvency oC the govern
ment, Is the existence of the greenback
demanding redemption in gold. It is
this which constitutes the "endless
chain," whose operation must be stop
ped if we are not to have periodical
raids upon the treasury, exhaustion of
gold reserve and bond sales to replen
ish it.
But, while Mr. Gage is considering
means of retiring the greenbacks and
treasury notes, he includes with these
the silver dollars and silver certificates,
and thus doubles his task. To suggest
to the minds of the people the practi
cability of using the silver certificates
for the same purpose for which the
greenbacks were used— that is, to pull
gold out of the treasury — was a most
unfortunate action, and one unworthy
of a financier. Mr. Gage, by the prom
inence given to this possibility, here
tofore dormant, will undo all that he
might accomplish In other directions.
It will be a sufficiently difficult task
to persuade congress to arrange for the
retirement and redemption of the
strictly fiat money known as green
backs. If the idea is fixed in the pub
lic mind that silver certificates must
also be redeemed in gold, and that to
have monetary reform we must pro
vide for their retirement or have a
treasury reserve equal to the task of
redeeming them also in gold on de
mand, we might as well give up all
currency reform.
Mr. Kelly's suggestion is an excel
lent and sensible one. He urges that
paper meney issued against silver be
retired, and the silver put out in its
stead. This is what ought to have
been done at the outset. The silver
certificates should never have been "is-
Eiifd. Tf there is such a demand and
Biich an opening for the use of silver
coinage in this country as the advo
cates of that metal claim, then the
people will take and use all the silver
dollars now in existence. The silver
certificate was not issued in response
to a popular demand, but for the pur
pose of trying to force out of the
treasury and into circulation by its
paper representative the actual coin
which the people refused to take. The
time has now come to stop this costly
fooling. The silver certificates are re
deemable specifically on their face in
silver dollars. Let them be so redeem
ed. The silver dollar is already a full
legal tender in the payment of debts.
If it were still being coined, so that
the aggregate volume of these dollars,
whose bullion value Is so far below^
their face, were increasing and likely
to expand Indefinitely, they would cer
tainly depreciate. "With the volume
limited, with coinage stopped, and with
no prospect of its resumption, we be
lieve that the people of the country
•will accept and can use all the dollars
now coined to advantage in the small
transactions of daily business life.
If this plan were followed, the ques
tion of redeeming silver certificates in
gold would not and could not arise.
The treasury would be relieved from
the possibility of having to hold a re
serve equal to the redemption of the I
enormous bulk of silver and paper
based upon the silver now outstanding,
and the way to a sound and stable
currency system would be fairly open
ed. Moreover, as we have said already,
the sul stltution of silver coin for paper
n * ney to a large extent would
tow the people of the Knst
to- its use as fraely as it is
employed in the West, and place
our silver money where it belongs —
as a currency actually subsidiary, be
cause its metallic value is so far be
low its face, but readily absorbed and
used by our people. It is in this way
that France is able to keep out so
large a volume of silver money, and
we can use all that we ftave in domes
tic transactions. This plan is feasible
if the redemption of silver money in
gold is not discussed or projected.
Should Mr. Gage's idea on this matter
be carried out, the process of main
taining the parity and redeeming our
obligations is an almost impossible one.
Another suggestion of Mr. Kelly,
that the government use paper money
Issued as a mere promise to
pay, and not legal tender, bas
ed on tax receipts, and that
it set apart a portion of the receipts
from imports yearly to redeem this
money, is not so practical. It could
be done if this were a business gov
ernment, instead of one controlled by
political considerations. In the first
place, nobody probably could induce
congress to put out paper money with
out giving it the legal tender quality.
In the next place, we have in effect a
tariff act that assures a yearly defi
cit. Using all our revenue for ordinary
expenditures, there is not enough
money to pay the expenses of the gov
ernment. The first duty of congress is
to do what the Republican party as
severated so loudly that it was going
to do, but what it has failed to ac
complish, namely, to assure an ade
quate revenue. With a tariff properly
laid to produce revenue, instead of to
slaughter it by prohibitory taxes, and
with a proper cutting down of expendi
tures, we could easily have a surplus;
and, in that case, a portion of this
surplus might be devoted annually to
the redemption of the greenbacks by
the process that Mr. Kelly advises.
We come here again to the intimate
connection between revenue legislation
and the currency, and we are confront
ed with one of the greatest difficulties
of the situation, which is the complete
failure of the Republican party to so
administer the government, either on
the side of taxation or on that of ap
propriation, as to make both ends
meet. It requires no great study to
see that the currency question is a
"problem" not so much because of any
inherent abstruseness, as because a
sane and sound treatment of it is in
consistent with the selfishness and am
bition of the politicians. Let our sil
ver money stand on its own base, oc
cupying the position that it now does
in our currency, provide adequate rev
enue, cut down expenses and retire
the greenbacks, either by the Issue of
low-rate bonds convertible Into cur
rency on demand or by the application
of a portion of the annual surplus from
taxes, and present difficulties will be
cleared away and the country ready
for the coming discussion of free bank
ing and local note issues. That is the
way a business man would look at it.
That is not the way in which it is
likely to be treated or considered by
the people at Washington.
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"WHERE OATS, PEAS, BEANS AND
BARLEY GROW."
Rather where the packages of their
seeds come from that the esteemed
rural constituents of the eminent
statesmen who gather annually in
Washington will receive in the next
month or two and which, when the
advancing sun shall have banished
winter's frosts, they will proceed to
plant, while their less favored brothers
will drop their dimes into the country
merchants' tills in exchange for pack
ages of seeds supplied by the private
enterprise of seedsmen. We are in re
ceipt of a copy of a Toledo paper de
scribing the process of handling the
seeds bought and being prepared for
that gratuitous distribution by the seed
house to whom was awarded the con
tract this year, and the award of which
to that particular house, our readers
will recall, Mr. Hanna assured the sec
retary of agriculture "means much to
me."
The arrival in Toledo of Gen. Brig
ham, assistant secretary of agriculture,
to inspect the work of putting up the
seeds is the occasion of the article.
Very correctly the paper says that
"few, if any, have any conception of
the enormity of the undertaking," al
though we can believe that the word
"enormity" was used in its innocent
and not its sinister sense. Thirteen
million distinct packets must be filled,
each with its exact modicum of the
precious seed, properly labeled with di
rections how to sow or plant, and an
assortment of the packets gathered
into a larger package and an address
label pasted on it. It will take four
months to do all this, from the as
sembling of the seeds to their being
sent off by the carload. There will
be thirty carloads to come into the
warehouse, and there will be forty
carloads to go out, the ten carloads
representing the volume of the paper
packages. Of the seed, there will be
four cars each of peas, beans and
sweet corn. Most of the seed is home
grown, but flower seeds come from
foreign parts, and Egypt is drawn on
for cotton seed.
Time was when girls and boys sat
at tables and filled all these little pack
ets with seeds measured by spoons,
but home industry is encouraged to do
something else or nothing now; and a
few little machines automatically re
ceive the seeds from the apartments
of the great hopper into which they
are dumped in bulk, accurately weigh
Into each packet the portion of seed
assigned each variety, and paste the
flap down to prevent spilling of the
precious contents. Then thirty girls sit
before an endless cloth belt or carrier
onto which the machines drop the
packets, and the first girl takes one
of the larger sacks and slips one seed
package into it, the next girl slips in
another of a different variety, and so
on until the first five girls have filled
a sack. The next five are doing the
same thing to the packages that come
their way, and so on down the line.
Pasters take the sacks and seal them
and put on the address label for the
congressman or his secretary or some
government clerk to write on the name
of the loyal and influential constituent.
The sacks then drop into mail bags
aiid go to the postoflice, to make the
THE SAINT PAUL GLOBS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1897.
clerks grunt over work that pays the
office nothing 1 for its trouble, for all
this carrying is done deadhead.
We are confident that every reader
of the Globe who will get one of
these sacks of peas, beans, cabbage
and turnip seeds next spring will be
pleased to learn the processes each
went through, and we are equally cer
tain that the vastly larger number
who are not influential and favored
and, consequently, get none of these
benefactions of our paternal govern
ment, will be no less interested in this
brief summary of the manner in which
the seeds they help pay for are put up
for the benefit of those of their fellows
who bask in the sunshine of a con
gressman's favor.
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THE SEW NORTHWEST.
In the January issue of Harper's
Magazine appears an interesting and
valuable article on "The New North
west," by Mr. J. A. Wheelock, editor
of the Pioneer Press. Mr. Wheelock's
familiarity with the facts and process
es of the wonderful growth of this
section fits him to treat the subject
with breadth, and with the intelligent
enthusiasm of the man who has played
his own part in the progress of great
events. He sketches the early history
of the country covered by the some
what vague term "Northwest," and
its development and settlement as a
consequence of the invention of the
locomotive and the building of rail
roads. This involves, necessarily, a his
tory of railway construction, including
the building of two transcontinental
roads, the tale of which is well told.
"The New Northwest" is defined tech
nically as applying particularly to the
chain of states stretching from the head
of the great lakes to the Pacific ocean,
and it Is their fortunes that furnish
the theme of the remainder of the
article. Their resources are described in
detail, and the history of their sudden
and enormous growth, their reaction
under temporary adversity, their pres
ent prosperity and the golden outlook
of their future are given with the
graphic pen of an eye witness, and
with the confidence of one who relies
upon visible facts and is happily free
from the? too agile fancy that so often
makes such descriptions descend to the
level uf a palpable attempt to boom a
state or section. The article Is full of
statistics which are both informing
and convincing, and of the reasonable
prophecies of the future which we of
the Northwest know to be based upon
certainties. The people and the indus
tries of the Northwest can ask no bet
ter fortune than to have their circum
stances given to the public accurately,
soberly and intelligently, and this ser
vice Mr. Wheelock has performed for
them with excellent judgment and
ability.
DING LEY AS AN ESTIMATOIt.
Tco much reliance, we regret to be
obliged to say, cannot be placed upon
the accuracy of the statements of Mr.
Dingley— the statesman upon whose
shoulders was cast the onerous burden
of providing the treasury with that
revenue that the president In his in
augural declared to be the immediate,
urgent need— as to the working of the
measure he. with the invaluable as
sistance of our own Chicory Jim, evolv
ed from the Innermost recesses of their
intellects and the hearings given our
manufacturing weaklings. When, on
March 24, he spoke of his perfected
measure in the house, he stated the
problem the party had to solve to be
"to provide adequate revenue from
duties on imports to carry on the gov
ernment," that is, to make the income
equal, at least, the outgo.
Then he proceeded to elucidate his
solution. He went on to tell just where
all the revenue was to come from. He
took schedule by schedule and stated
how much each was expected to yield.
And he assured the country that, "on
the basis of last year's importations*,
the bill will increase the revenue $112,
--000,000." But he knew he could not
take that basis because he had framed
his bill to diminish importations. So
he stated his allowances for that and
also for anticipatory imports. Ho
scaled the increase of income from
wool from $17,500,000 to $11,000,000; from
woolens from $27,000,000 to $14,000,000.
He let sugar stand at $20,000,000, and
from the increase on tobacco of $7,000,
--000 he left $4,000,000. The other sched
ules he slated to increase revenue $31,
--000,000. Finally, as a sort of general
round-up of results, he felt he had
hedged enough to permit him to safely
promise an increase in 1898 over the
revenues of 1896 of from $70,000,000 to
$75,000,000, and of $100,000,000 or more In
1899. As the revenues from customs
In 1896 were $160,021,750, his estimate
called for $235,000,000 for 1898, a sum
never before realized, and neared only
in 1890, when $229,000,000 were thus col
lected. As the first four months of
the working of his revenue producer
have produced a deficit of $46,000,000, It
is quite evident that the customs will
have to work very lively during the
remaining eight months to come up to
Mr. Dingley's mark. This becomes ap
parent by a comparison of the receipts
from customs during the same months
in other years, and, to make the com
parison the fairer, we take those when
that "tariff for deficits only," the Wil
son-Gorman act, was collecting taxes.
The receipts for customs were as fol
lows in the months of:
1895. 1896. ISO 7.
AuRUSt $10.G39.(H7 $12,329,495 $6.557,702
September ... 14,653,907 11,374,116 7,943,100
October 13,773,055 11.105,493 9,713,491
November .... 11,455,314 9,930,385 9,830,025
Totals ....$55,521,383 $44,739,489 $34,471,321
As there were deficiences of revenue
in the months of the two years when
customs produced very much more
than they have in the Dingley months,
and as the spending is somewhat
greater now, it is difficult to see the
ground for his recently expressed hope
fulness that his bill is "all right," that
"it is doing all that was expected or
it," or that it is yielding the increases
his imagination pictured nine months
ago. If the act is to give us $235,000,000
by next July, it is quite evident from
the above statement o£ the receipta
in Its first four months that it will
have to "milk" imports of $200,000,000
in the coming eight months, or at the
rate of $25,000,000 a month. In view of
the utter impossibility of this, and con
templating the comparison above made
of the revenue-getting qualities of the
two measures, we must decline here
after to pin any faith- whatever on Mr.
Dingley's estimates. As an estimator
he is a dismal failure.
WHY THIS DISCRIMINATION f
The decision of Assistant Secretary
Davis, of the interior department, In
the case of the application of Mary
Ann, widow of ' Daniel Spetz, once a
member of a Pennsylvania regiment,
for a widow's pension, calls attention
to a singular discrimination in the de
pendent pension act of 1890. The appli
cation is denied because it is not shown
that the provision made in the ex-sol
dier's will is not equivalent to the rat
ing of $8 a month allowed widows in
that act, and that, therefore, the pre
sumption is that she has "other means
of support than her daily labor." The
act of 1890 grants a pension of $8 a
month to the widow of any deceased
officer or enlisted man who Is
"without other means of support than
her daily labor." If she has such that
Is "commensurate to $8 a month," she
can have no pension under this ruling.
The decision is warranted by the let
ter of the law, but the question rises
why this discrimination between the
widow and the soldier?
It was not originally so intended
when the dependent pension act was
proposed. The purpose of the act was
to provide support for destitute soldiers
whom disease had incapacitated for the
performance of daily labor. As report
ed by Senator Davis in March, 1890,
the bill added to that incapacity the
provision additional "and who are de
pendent upon their daily labor or the
contributions of others not legally
bound thereto for their support." Two
conditions were essential to relief, men
tal or physical incapacity for labor,
without regard to its nature, and lack
of other means of support than daily
labor. So strongly did the justice of
the bill thus appeal to the senate that
it passed with but twelve opposing
votes. The opposition to It was mainly
based on apprehension that its spirit
and letter would be avoided and the
modest estimate of the increase of the
roll through It, made by Senator Davis,
would prove fallacious.
In the house there were several sub
stitutes proposed, and one was adopted
pensioning at $8 a month all soldiers
suffering from mental or physical dis
ability which was equivalent to the
grade established by the pension office
for that rating. In conference the house
substitute was dropped and the senate
bill accepted with the very material
modification of the omission of the re
quirement that the applicants should
"be dependent upon their labor or on
the contributions of others not legally
bound thereto, for their support." It
merely required that they be "incapac
itated from the performance of manual
labor." But the provision as to the
widow remained unchanged, and she
must show that she has "no other
means of support."
Under the act as passed, and its lib
eral construction, men who have abun
dant means of support, but who can
show that they cannot perform "man
ual labor" because of mental or phy
sical disability, are the recipients of
this "dependent" bounty, but their
widows cannot get a continuance of the
pension if they have "other means of
support" equivalent to an income of $8
a month. The reason for this discrim
ination Is not readily comprehended. If
a soldier is entitled to k dependent pen
sion regardless of his-./'other means of
support," why should' not his widow
also be? Was it that the soldier had a
vote and the widow none? And why
was the eminently proper provision of
dependence upon- daily labor for sup
port, the one thing that Justified the
act, dropped out" v between the house
and the senate? .
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It la not alone fhfe Democratic press that
is making protest agMast the theft of Hawaii.
As the gross swindle is exposed, and the down
right immorality of the whole scheme, from
its inceiptlon in the lust of the sons cf mis
sionaries to the consummation in the annexa
tion "treaty," begins to dawn upon the mind
of the public, protests come from the press
of the party responsible for the shame!os3
scheme. Among Republican papers in this
state that find themselves unable to go with
the administration is the Morris Sun. It
says:
As soon as it was evident that It was the
purpose of the combine, who are engineering
the Hawaiian grab, to secure by precipitate
action In congress the passage of the an
nexation treaty, the real sentiment of the
country, despite the effort to conceal It, has
found expression and as it is seen that in
fluential public opinion is against the meas
ure, a formidable opposition has appeared in
congress and there is a question as to
whether the designs of the annexation scheme
have not been frustrated. It is to be hoped
that a quietus will be put upon the designs
of a gigantic monled combine whoso inordi
nate greed leads them to covet possessions
that will ensure for their monopoly of certain
pro-ducts a world wide control.
The Globe hates a pensioner with such
honest vim that we aro almost persuadad to
the confession thait it Is a Democrat.—Dis
patch.
Better suppress that confession; if made it
would jeopardize yimr reputation as "the
lying littla Dispatcfy." £
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SenatCT Davis secured the passage of a bill
protecting the seals' ln th* senate on Wed
nesday. — Hastings Gazette.
That 13 the only place tfhere his bill will
protect seals, but why protect them only on
Wednesdays?
r^--t —
A large numiber <of frlsnds gathered to
gether at the home of Re*-. Abel Anderson
Monday evening.— Mpn'tevicteo Commercial.
And, may we be -permitted to ask, when
they separated did tfhey gather apart?
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Fatal ChrLMniiis Bonting.
ELMIRA. N. Y. ' Dec. '^6.— Rudolph Boe
rlcke, aged 33 years? son of Dr. Boericke, of
Philadelphia, and his bwther Edward, of
Chicago, were rowing on Keuku lake, three
miles from Hammondsport, Christmas night,
when the boat was upset by their dog. Both
rcen were taken from the water alive, but Ru
dolph died almost immediately afcer he was
brought ashore.
Ex-Consul Dead.
WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 26.— James W.
Allen, of the- banking firm of Winslow &
Allen, dird in this city today of pneumonia, !
agrd 37 years. He wad United States consul j
at Zanzibar from 1892 to 18&5. I
TO EXGHAjIGI IDEAS
PROFESSORS, TEACHERS AND
STATE EDUCATORS BEGIN TO
ASSEMBLE TODAY
FOR ASSOCIATION MEETING.
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS' SEC
TION BEGINS THE WORK WITH
A SESSION TONIGHT.
GENERAL, RECEPTION ARRANGED.
Officers and Club Presidents off Stnte
Federation of Clubs to
Give It.
The Minnesota Educational associa
tion holds the boards for the next four
days. The several branches of the as
sociation will not get down to work
until tomorrow, but today the teachers
will begin to arrive and there are a
number of preliminary meetings sched
uled for today.
The county superintendents' section,
wtich will meet in the senate chamber
of the capitol, holds its first session to
night. The programme for tonight is:
Informal reception.
President's Address— "Some Things That
Are and Some Things That Ought to Be,"
Supt. George W. Scherer.
Round Table Talk — "Records, How and
"What to Keep," Supt C. A. Boston, Assist
ant State Superintendent C. W. O. Hyde,
"Compulsory Attendance" — Supt. Flora J.
Frost, Supt. D. Robertson.
The general discussions of the super
intendents are along the line of subjects
pertaining to rural schools, how to
build them, some of the problems of
the present, etc.
The general meetings of the associa
tion will be held in the audience room
of the Central Presbyterian church,
Exchange and Cedar streets. The first
session will be held tomorrow morning
at 9:30 o'clock, the programme for the
opening session being:
Prayer— Rev. Andrew B. Meldrum. D. D. t
pastor Central Presbyterian church, St. Paul.
Address of the president.
"The School Library"— President L. C.
Lord, Moorhead.
Discussion— Principal C. L. Sawyer, Minne
apolis; Prof. C. F. Koehler, Mankato.
Music by a chorus of pupils from the pub
lic schools of St. Paul, under the direction, of
C. H. Congdon, St. Paul.
"The Duty of the State to Its Youth Who
Are Drifting Beyond the Good Influences of
Society."
a. "A General Summary"— Secretary H. H.
Hart. St. Paul.
b. "What Is Done for Them In the Kinder
garten?"— Miss Katharine E. Hancke, St
Paul.
c. "What Is Done for Them In Our School
System?"— Supt. R. E. Denfleld, Duluth.
d. A general discussion by tho association,
led by Supt. V. G. Curtis, St. Paul.
The high school section meets in the
house of representatives. Its first ses
sion will open tomorrow afternoon at
2:30 o'clock, the programme being:
President's Address— "Environment an Im
portant Factor in Education," Lafayette
Bliss. Waseca.
Discussion — "Place of Art in Secondary Ed
ucation," Jessie Spencer, Mankato.
"Picture Projection In School Work," Judge
Frank T. Wilson, Stillwater.
Discussion — "Literature and Character,"
Katherine Gill, Moorhead normal school.
Wednesday afternoon a number of
round table sessions are arranged for,
ta include: English round table, Latin
round table, history and civics round
table and science round table.
The first session, of the elementary
section, which meets in the audience
loom of the Central Presbyterian
church, is scheduled for 2:30 tomorrow
afternoon.
The Child Study association meets at
the same hour in the school room of
the Central Presbyterian church.
Wednesday afternoon there will be a
joint meeting of the child study and
elementary section.
The college section meets in Room 16,
Central high school building, at 2:30
tomorrow afternoon. The programme:
Opening Address— By the president. Prof.
L. H. Batchelder, of Hamllne university.
Paper— "Place and Value of Examinations
in College Education," Prof. George Hunt
lngton, of Carleton college.
Discussion— Prof. W. W. Folwell, of tho
state university.
The graded schools section convenes
in Room 19, Central High school, to
morrow afternoon, and the music sec
tion meets at the same time in the as
sembly hall of the Central High school
building.
Tuesday evening the Minnesota
Academy of Natural Sciences has a
meeting in the hall of the houie of
representatives, when Dr. H. T. Eddy,
of the University of Minnesotn, will
deliver an address on "Recent Conclu
sions Respecting Sirlus, the Sun and
Their Congeners."
All the city and village superintend
ents are requested to meet in the par-
Icrs of the Windsor hotel on Monday, i
Dec. 27, at 4:30 and also at 8 o'clock p.
m. This is an important call and a full
attendance at this meeting is urged
upon the superintendents of the state.
There will be a reunion of the grad
uates of the St. Cloud normal school on
Tuesday evening, Dec. 28, from 8 to 10
o'clock, in the parlors of the Windsor
hotel.
The Twin City Carleton club will have
a reunion and banquet on Tuesday
evening, Dec. 29, at the Commercial
club.
On Wednesday evening of this week
tho general officers and club presidents
of the State Federation of Clubs will
give a reception in the parlors of the
C( ntral Presbyterian church to the
state association of teachers. They will
be assisted by the regents of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
and cordially invite all members of the j
federated clubs to be present. The ad
dress of welcome will be made by Miss
Evans, and the response by Prof. San
fcrd. of the state university. Follow
ing this will be a few remarks by Dr.
Bissell on "Mothers' Clubs," and the
concluding address by Bishop Gilbert.
Miss Hope's Mandolin orchestra will
give several numbers.
RUIZ A MAJOR ANDRE.
Correspondent's View of the Cuban
Affair.
To the Editor of the Globe.
I regret to see that you Join in the denun
ciation of the Cuban patriots on account of
the Ruiz affair. How does the case of Ruiz
differ from that of Ma]. Andre? Dr. I3aac
Arnold who, by the by, is no way related
to Benedict informs us that Beverly Robin
son called on the latter with the king's offer
to America of autonomy, under a parliament
in two chambers, whose members were all
to be native Americans. Washington and
other patriot leaders, including Arnold him
self, if he would assist to "end desolation and
bloodshed, etc.," were to be the new peers.
This was the temptation to which Arnold
yielded, the bargain which Andre came to
consummate. His countrymen made the
same outcry about his execution which the
Spaniards and their America.-, agents are
now making about that of Ruiz. American
jurists admit that the case was somewhat
novel. But they judiciously add that every
argument to show that Andre was not a spy
in the ordinary sense has the unlucky effect
of showing that he wa3 something more in
si(Ji?us and dangerous. So was Ruiz. Al
ready the Cuban leaders have had to shoot
over seventy deserters seduced by just such
prepositions as he brought. It is in the very
alphabet of international law that a herald
cannot addres3 soldiers, except through their
officers, and that the rank of the officer he
must address depends on the authority ac
ceptance of his proposition requires. No less
authority than the provisional government
had a right to hear propositions like those of
either Andre or Ruiz. A Cuban general who
accepted autonomy on his own account, for j
himself and his command, would have been |
just as much a traitor as Arnold. Does any
cue doubt that if Arnold had been faithful |
he would have forbidden Robinson and Andra |
to visit him as soon as he knew what they
were coming for; or that if they persisted,
aftsr that, in bringing proposals insulting to
himself and adapted to corrupt his subordi
nates, he would have treated them as
spies? The plain truth is that our govern
ment, while rapaciously reaching after Ha
waii, Is not doing its duty by our smaller
American neighbors. It has allowed Flayti
to be coerced in an arbitrable matter, against
our protest. It is assisting Spain to perpet
uate monarchy in Cuba. According to Spain
the Cubans are not belligerents. If noi, our
people have a right to trade with them, and
our government to demand reparation for all
damage by the insurrection. But all this our
government is too much Europeanized in
its associations and policy to attempt. It
had rather ape England and other European
powers by acquiring territory in Corea and
Oceanica. It is time for us to resume, the
policy of Washington. Monroe and Cleveland,
who believed in protecting all America and
letting trtner continents alone. But first we
need a revival of the old American spirit,
which held independence manifest, destiny,
and revolutionary governments aiming at it
under peculiar obligations to exact all the
rights which it implies. — C. L. James.
Eau Claire, Wis., Dec. 24.
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AT THE THEATERS.
"Lost, Strayed or Stolen?" The interroga
tion point belongs right after the title of the
musicaJ melange that was presented at the
Metropolitan opera house last night. The pro
gramme should be amended in this respect.
A period, while it ends most discussions,
cannot do duty for tha eloquent question
mark.
Thera are moment 3ln "Lost, Strayed or
Stolen," as presented last night, that are not
dull. They happen in the second act, when
a quartette of soldiers, led by Bert Thayer,
who carries tho solo verses with a musical
tenor-baritone, sing "I've Married Your Red-
Haired Daughter," and sing it well, and in
the fourth act, when Corporal Bridoux (A. M.
Holbrook) and one of his privates meet three
nurse girls in the park and contributs a
quartette that furnishes the third nur39 girl
with inspiration for a pas soul. T!i2ra wag
a tete-a-tete duet in the third act between
Miss Anna O'Keefe and Mr. Thayer that
merited tho applauso it did not receive, for
the audience by this time had become- t-kepti
cal and could not trust its own ears or eyes.
Tha programme bear 3la bold-faced type the
name of Harry Clay Blaney. Naturally, one
expects something or Mr. Blaney that will
distinguish him from the rest of the cast
In this "one" is not disappointed. Mr. Blaney
is a comic acrobat. Not a single member of
the company can dispute his title to the dis
tinction. The inextricable confusion In which
he becomes involved: with the rounds of a
ladder in Act 111. establishes his right to be
starred. It is absolutely the funniest thing in
the play.
"Lost, Strayed or Stolen"— it Is never
clear which is tUe ease— is a skeleton of possi
bilities. The possibilities are not realized by
the company at the Metropolitan. Mr. Blaney,
the star. Is called upon to sing and speak
lines. This is manifestly too much, and Mr.
Blaney turns a pirouette on his head to
square himself.
Miss Anna O'Keefe, whose attractive per
sonality is undeniable. Is restricted to one act,
which is a ehort-alghted piece of economy'
Bert Thayer'a voice is not heard as often as
It ought to be. Less horse play and more
music could be tolerated. The last act di
vested of the quintette specialty between the
soldiers and nurses, would appear to be with
out excuse.
The pleasing feature of the company ex
pressed itself through the medium of an at
tractive aggregation of young women, who
displayed a maze of lingerie upon the slight
est provocation. When they danced one
"wished them a wave o' the sea," that they
might always bo thus. When they read novels
on the park benches, their lingerie was still
lv evidence.
• • •
Mr. Hoyt has never been accused of writ
ing much of tho Puritanism of his New En
gland home into his farces, and "A Black
Sheep" i 3 not the most serious of his many
efforts. In Its original days it was not
straight-laced, and now that it has been
aaapted to the standard of a popular audience
it cannot be called austere. In the change
the farco has lost rather than gained, but
It is still funny, after Mr. Iloyfa clever'fash
ion, and the people who packed the Grand
last evening found much to admire and ap
plaud. They liked Edward Garvie, who haa
succeeded Otis Harlan, and they laughed moat
of the time w'uen he was on the stage. A
clever little colored boy. Introduced aa Master
Mason, was a hit, and tho house found dif
ficulty in letting him go. "For Fame and
Victory," by Mr. Deagon and the company,
the best musical ensemble of the evening,
was given a double encore, and the specialty
by Miss Thompson, "The Gay Parisienne,"
found unlimited favor.
The company. In fairness, should not be
compared with that which presented the farce
at higher prices, and the same thing is true
■J "I* specialties, and yet such a comparison
would not be so odious as might be ex
pected. The farce is presented with spirit
and go, and the specialties average well.
Tho musical numbers are bright and catchy
and most of tho dancing capital. The com
pany in general is adequate, the costuming
is elaborate and effective, and. as tho per
formance has no other mission than to
amuse. It is perhaps best to overlook its
comparative weakness and indorse tho un
doubted verdict of those who witnessed it
last night and write It down a success. Spe
cialties are contributed to the programme by
Frank Latona, who, as Under Dog. was
funny, and whose musical "turn" was as
good aa anything of the evening; Drew Don
aldson. "The Queen of the Burlesque;" Jo- j
seph Natus, who snng two acceptable ballads;
Miss Ritchlo and the Sisters Clayton. "The
Red Soubrettes." "A Black She,;," w jh be
repeated at the Grand during the week.
with matinees Wednesday end Saturday.
Solution of the Currency Difficulty.
In his report and formulated bill, the r,ec- j
retary of the treasury only look 3at the side !
of this question In which his capabilities
havo been trained— to wit: the banking inter
ests.
The settlement cf this money question Is
very easy if reasoned out lexically. Tho
condition is that there i 3in circulation a
larger amount of promise to pay, cr paper 1
money, than there te of gold to redeem It. i
The evil arising out of thi3 condition is the !
rerl?mption In gold of paper money redeem- j
able In silver. The remedy for this evil is
either (1) to redeem in silver the paper money !
redeemable la sliver and to redeem in gold '<
the paper money redeemable in gold; or C 2) •
to call In all tho paper money redeemable
in silver and issue silver coin therefor. The
first plan has been repudiated on the ground
that to make this distinction would destroy i
the i>irity of tho two metals. To adopt the !
second plan would not lessen tho circulating i
medium, nor interfere with the parity of i
both metals, because It Is only substituting '.
the thing (the res) for the paper promise !
to pay It. and would abrogate th* unconsti
tutional and idiotic system of tho govern
meut acting as a warehouse and issuing ware
houso certificates, by storing the silver and
issuing paper promises to pay that Ellver
when demanded.
Logically statc-d, there is more paper money
than there is of gold reserve to redeem It
tho surplus being the paper redeemable hi
silver, which in the effort to maintain the
gold standard Is redeemable in gold; hence I
the remedy is to cut off this overplus; but !
as the circulating medium could not be thus '
contracted, the promises to pay in silver j
should be called In and the silver issued
in the place of the paper promises to pay.
because there I 3 no common sense in storing
the silver and then issuing promises to pay !
out that sliver when demanded, especially
when the promlso Is demandabie in gold,
though payable in silver.
The first step ia to call In and cancel all
the silver certificates by paying out tha sil
ver stored in the government warehouso for
its redemption, and then we are at the end I
of the ldtotic buslnrsa of storirg stiver for
tha redemption cf silver certificates, but re
deeming such certificates !n golrt.
The next step is to call ia a proportionate
amount monthly or yearly of the gold cer
tificates or the paper redeemable In gold,
and issue paper money or promises to pay,
bottomed on taxes (Import duties), and set
apart a portion of the Import duties yearly
or monthly for their redemption. This will
abrogate a gold reserve obtained by bonds
and ultimately redeem all paper money or
promises to pay.
Under the constitution, the government Is
limited to the power to coin gold and silver
end has no power to lusue paper money except
as a war measure; but can Issue premises to
pay without the legal tender clause; because
th» debates in tho constitutional convention
expressly assert a^d tha constitution was so
franic-d (1) that the government and no
state has the powor to issue paper money,
and (2) that tho government and no state
can make pa-per a legal tender, and (3) that j
the government, though limited to coining
gold and silver, can nevertheless issue prom
ises tj pay, but without the legal tender
clause. -John Ke!!y. .
SCOTT IS OUT Op IT
THOMAS n. RESIGNS THE riIKSI
DEKCT OF THE LIFE INSURANCE
CLEARING COMPANY.
HIS SUCCESSOR IS CHOSEN.
HAS ACCEPTED THE POSITION \M)
WILL TAKE HOLD VESRI
SHORTLY.
COMMISSIONER DEARTH'S REPORT,
It Will Probably lie Given Oat To
day—Said to Be a Plain Docu
ment.
The Life Insurance Clearing: com
pany has a new president. The (i lo b c
is not at liberty to give the name of
the gentleman this morning, but he is
a well-known insurance man, and his
identity will be made public in a day
or two. Thomas B. Scott, after the
first meeting of the directors, held the
middle of last week, concluded to rg*
sign from the presidency of the com
pany, and did so. His successor has
since been chosen and accepted the
position. It possibly saved a legal con
test, aa it was reported that the di
rectors considered that a change would
be in the best interests of the com
pany. It is expected that Commission
er Dearth will be advised today of
this action, together with such other
as may have been taken by the Clear
ing company directors, and that the
commissioner wi;i make public the re
port of the condition of the Clearing
company as learned by the recent in
vestigation. It is understood that the
report handles the matter in plain
English, and tells just what the books
of the concern disclosed. The conip^ny
will as soon as possible, If it has not
already done so, strengthen up the
capital stock to the amount it has
been found to have been impaired,
and it is expected the company will
continue to do an increasing and prof
itable business. It is said that, despite
the recent inattention the company has
received, its business is good, ami those
interested see no reason why it slnmld
not continue when its financial stand
ing has been put on a solid basis and
its affairs directed by a new manage
ment.
ONE lto.\l> TO VICTORY.
Louisville Courier-Journal Point* It
Out for 1800.
It was the opinion of the editor of tho
Courier- Journal, and he lias not changed his
opinion, that the action of the Chicago con
vention of 1896 was not merely revolutionary,
and, therefore, binding upon no Democrat,
but dangerous to the country and ruinous to
the party. Being wholly Bincere In this be
lief, and having the courage of Its opinion,
the Courier-Journal Bought to meet the sit
uation with a counter movement, designed,
as It still further believed, to rescue tho
party from the hands of the extremists Into
which it had fallen. Touching this latter
movement It Is free to admit that it made
two mistakes; first, the movement did not
draw to It Democrats enough to lay the foun
dation for future party action, and.
if it had, it would havo accomplished tha
object it was designed to prevent, the suc
cess of the revolutionary ticket and platform
Vhich were set up by the Chicago convention.
Still further put to the test in Kentucky, thu
movement showed the same lack of vitality.
But. as far as the Courier-Journal wan and
is concerned, it was a Democratic movement
It had no other aim than the maintenance of
Democratic doctrines, no othi r purpose than
the vindication of Democratic policies. It
was distinctly an honest effort to stand be
tween two dangerous extremes, with the hops
of ultimately reclaiming the Democratic ex
treme from tho excesses threatened by the fu
sion with Populism and free silv< r Repub
licanism, and of thus restoring the party to
its better self as the apostle of the doctrines
Uuight by Jefferson and Jackson.
Herein tho editor <>r the Courier-Journal Is
not conscious of having gone our or come
back. lie is preaching now. aa be has always
preached, the gospel of home rule, free trade
uc.d honest money agairiKt centralization, pro
tection and tiatism. Whatever party embod
ies the gospel of borne rule, free trade and
honest money, thai party will be support.
In tho absence of any party organization em
bodying them pure and simple, that party
which cornea nearest to doing bo -.vill he sup
port. It is not the business of a newspaper
to call conventions, sit up candidates for
office and look after the carrying of • lections;
and about such concrete things the Courier-
Journal will never again concern Itself. It
has had enough of what is called practical
politics.
Hut. with deferent to our friend's su
perior Judgment, may we not ventui
opinion that. In planning for i: an exact
reproduction of tl ampalgn of 1896, lie fi>ro
e-ast.s another Democratic oVf.;it more sweep
ing that the last? On the lines of the latest
Chicago platform, with Mr. Bryan in the
lead, there -an be nothing less In store for
those who would put an end to the policy
of robbery and Jobbery, which U th<- direct
offspring of paternali.sm. The mainstay of
free silverlsin, as of fiatism, Is the notion
that wealth may be created by
That is also the mainstay of proti
Oura is of the foremost nations <,f Christen
dom. We cannot afford debs
sort. Wo cannot afford to degrade tho coin
age and relegate ourselves to the financial
company of Mexico. We cannot afford to is
sue irredeemable paper and drop Into fiscal
companloship with Italy. The South learned
during the days of the Confederacy exactly
wliat cheap money, and plenty of It. means.
The fusion effected at Chicago In !->!»6 wa3
certainly a promising fusion. Mr. I'ryan was
certainly an Ideal candidate for Hint fusion.
N'r ither the fusion movement nor it.s e an( ji_
date will ever be so strong again. Hven
their triumph In an election would not neces
sarily Imply free silver and flat money, bo
cause, every American being a ix.m finan
cier, the likelihood Is that success at the
jk>lls would be followed by :;u'h a Babel In
congress as to destroy the party brought
Into power at the end of a popular revolu
tion.
However, let us not rf> too fast. Many
things are likely to happen between this and
1900. It Is not wel! to ins!jt too strongly upon
any aspect of conditions which are shifting
so from time to time. To win In 1900, the
Democratic party must plant Itself upon high
and solid ground, and. In that centennial y ax,
seeking a thorough Jeffersonlan revival, It
must preach the gospel of Jefferson ami .li'-k
--son, in a Democracy unterrirled and unde
nted, true to the nation and the pi
That, In our judgment. Is the only cr.o
sure road to victory.— Courier-Journal.
STATE PRISOJS CKUELTY.
The Investigation of the Btillwoter prison
still goes on, and the St. Paul <; lo b •• is
likely to have exciting matter to print for
the ba'aace of the winter. La Crosse I'rrss.
• * *
Wouldn't it be a good idea to allow the
commission, appointed by Qov. Ciough, to
de'-idt; the prison Investigation question? No
doubt the gentlemen selected for that pur
pose are amply qualified.- Stlllwater <;
• • •
The commission to investgate the al I
cruelty of prisoners of Stlllwater penitentiary
has resumed Its work of drawing \u pay.
Some more evidence has be< ■ I n-t
much to the credit of Mr. Lemon, although
nothing very serious. About the
that will be accomplished by the ci mmisslon
is to investigate and draw pay. So will
Lemon.— Sleepy Bye It- raid.
• • •
Should the charges bo sustained, in wholo
or in part, the Globe has dnn« a ■
not only to the state, but to the m i
ment of the prison Itself. Should I
prove unfounded, the vindication
cus«--«l persons and of the ;
<ustlfies any expense- the i.
have cost.— St. Peter Journal.
I!nrir<iu!u v Toiul Wreck,
NASSAU, N. P-. Dec. 26.— Tha tcbocn r
Harlequin, wh:.:h, as prevl
went ashore on tho reef near Rumcay, Ha
hams. on the I:2th. became v total -033. The
crew and material veo\ The vessel
was owned in New York. The F.iiisr. man
of-war P ■ went t.) her > and
speut several hours with btr. TUt schoonor
wes in ballast.