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The L'Anse Sentinel. GEO. C JACKIA5, Editor aid Pabllsher. L'ANSE, i t v i MICHIGAN. THE WEB WE ARE WEAVING. 0 Ood. what li the pattern I mum weave? Ia thla a pattern drawn, dear Lord, by Thee? 3Vhat will I do with broken threads I leave? Can ever they again be tied by me? How can the tangled, tangled web of life Be made a pleasing, lovely thing for Thee? Can there come good to ua through worldly strife? Can we make warp and woof from tangles free? Slow swiftly files the shuttle to and fro, With careless hands we speed it on its way, ffhy pattern marring by the sudden throw; The shuttle, then, on loom we sadly lay. '.Amazed to tee how poor our work for Thee, Could we our web of life but weave again. Itt'lth clearer vision wt our work might see. Dear Lord, we feel we weave almost in vain. D Ood! thin tangled, tangled web of ours, Except Thou take and mend It through and through, IWe cannot weave It through the earthly hours: Except Thou mend the threads it will not do. Emmallne Peckham, In Christian Work. Terradelphia, the Lost Wreck of Philanthropist's Aim to llelp Hoboes. OUT inQiat used to be the swamp, beyond the railroad, on East Car roll street, Trenton, X. J., one of the biggest and handsomest fac tories stands four Btories high among surroundings of grimy coal yards and the accumulated refuse of railroad junk. Throughout the day the bu.z of its industry sounds in the ears of a man who sits in a little shanty back of one of the coal yards pouring over his ledger with but one dominant thought that runs through all his labor; how he may once more come into possession of the big factory that he built and owned and lost and snake it a home for the thousands of its former lodgers now scattered over the length and breadth of the continent. The man is Thomas M. Terradell, and the factory building with its surround ings was formerly a community which was to prove to the world the indus trial worth of the so-called worthless ami all but succeeded. Fifteen years ago, Terradell, then a man of 32, was nn engineer on the Pennsylvania railroad. He had already Been life in many phases. As a school boy in Trenton he had blacked boots and sold papers to pay for his books nnd clothes. Thereafter he had been an iron molder. a jockey, n circus man. a minstrel and a jack-of-all-trades. wandering from place to place and constantly thrown in with the floating population of trampdom. When he went into the employ of therailrond. ns a fireman first, nnd then ns an en gineer, he found himself still in n posi tion to see much of tramp life, nnd a certain fellowship which he had always felt for the knights of the high rond. developed into n strong desire to be of pome lasting benefit to them. In his years of experience and association with the trnmp fraternity he came to the conclusion that the hobo, as n class, was not a cumbcrer of the earth, but an unfortunate misfit, who. under the proper conditions, might be made of use to himself and the community. How to establish the proper condi tions was the problem which Terradel'. net himself to solve. The tramps them selves gnve him little aid; their ideas were vague beyond the firm conviction that rt permanent settlement foraged and wornout tramps, where beds and food could be always .found ready Would be a grand thing for all con cerned. This wasn't precisely Terrn clell'sf'Jdeft. He had no mind to set up a home for the idle. What he wanted to do wns to make the tramp work and feel satisfaction in his work. While he wns still deliberating on the matter he himself wns incapcitated for work by one of the nccidents incident to his business. His locomotive plunged off an (embankment one day. and when they got the engineer out from under the wreckage there wasn't much left of him thnt wns In place and unbroken. For months he wns In bed. and after he Was able to be up his health wns so shattered that it wart impossible for him to return to his old occupation, and he supported himself by odd jobs. All this time' the scheme for the re demption of the ho1w was growing and solidifying in his mind, nnd fo the idea of making something of this life for the tramp was added the hope of pre paring him for the next, for Terradell had joined the church, and had thrown himself into religion with the fervor characteristic of the man in whatever he did. Though without reg ular employment, he contrived to get together a few dollars nnd. with the foith which afterward enabled him fo achieve such amazing results, set out to build a tramps' home. For a site he selected a bit of swamp land near the railroad nnd the canal, partly be causu it was along these thoroughfare that hi experience taught him the tramp would travel; partly because the land Mas so worthless that nobody cared to claim the ownership of It at thnt time. To. build ,some sort of a shelter was hp next consideration. Lumber wns beyond Terradell's means. He waited for something to turn up. It turned up in the river in the shape of ft raft of old telegraph poles which had broken loose from its moorings and wns floating down stream to the great grief of the owner, who cursed his luck and wondered what he wan ver going to do with it. Great wag hi astonishment when Terradell, who had heard of the arrival, appeared on the scene and offered him a price for the outfit. It was not such a price as the owner would have wished to ask, but it was better than he expected un der .the circumstances, and it involved no transportation, so the deal was con cluded, and, with what little money he had remaining after paying for the old poles, Terradell hired help to take them over to the swamp and there plant them. The corner stone of the es tablishment, if a corner stone can be made of wood, was laid when the first pole was firmly planted upright on the edge of the swamp. A circle of poles was formed, and in the middle Terra dell set a barrel and a seat. That was the office, and the hotel was declared formally open. The next thing was to find lodgers. The founder went out to the railroad truck, And sat down to wait. He didn't huve long to wait. Three tramps pres ently appeared, and one of them was recognized by Terradell, who pos sessed that quality Invaluable' in an organizer a tenacious and accurate memory. lie hailed his former ac quaintance. "Hello, Hardy! Don't you remember me? I gave you a lift from Bristol once when you were padding on a bum stump." (Walking with an injured leg.) "It's the engineer," said the tramp. "Lost your job? Are you on the pad, too? Come along with us. I mnde a good touch back on the path and I'll stake you to half my pile." "You come along with me," said the other; "you and your friends, nnd I'll put you up for the night. I've started a lodging for the boys." "What's the hold-up?" asked one of the trio. VJ 4i "Nothing unless you want to. BuVI want a little help. "Come nlong. boys," said ITardy. "He's on the level," so the party set out for the swamp. With some old nails which Terradell had picked up and stones for hammers the four soon had a sort of shelter built across a small segment of the circle in Which they slept that night.C Two of the tramps took the road again early in the morn ing, promising to tell any of the guild whom they might meet of the new hos telry. Hardy stayed several days help ing Terradell about the place, and when he left he contributed a pair of good secondhand blankets which he had bought in town. It wasn't long" be fore the hotel was known on every high road in this part of the country, and lodgers enme in rapidly. None was turned away-by the proprietor, but each man who was able was expected to do an hour or two of work about the place, with the result that it was soon completed nnd a stranger-looking building was probably never raised since the daj- when every man was his own architect. The place was orderly, for the pro prietor, while liberal In his allowances for 1ioIm nature would tolerate no riot ousness. He wns an unwise hobo who attempted to disregard orders, for Ter radell had too many friends among the tramps who were ready nt any minute to take up his cause. A case in point is that of a tramp who was found unconscious beside a roadway near Rahway several years ago. The police thought they had a murder mystery on their hands, but the man recovered after a long stay in the hospital and finally left, refusing to tell how he came by his injuries. Two years later a vagrant who was jailed revealed the secret. The injured man had fallen in with some of his fellow hoboes and, being drunk, hnd boasted of having robbed Terradell's till of half a dollar, whereupon the whole party set upon him and beat him into insensibility. That was the only time the till was ever robbed; indeed, most of the time it would not have paid onyone to rob it. Work wns found for Terrndell's tramps when they wanted it. He set up a wood-cutting industry and mnde a little money that way which he used in Improving his place. Trenton peo ple, who had become interested In the experiment, found jobs for the lodg ers, nnd though by far the greatest part of the hotel's clientage was of the strictly transient order, some few from time to time would express a desire to stay and make a regular living. Unremitting, toil and devotion brought about, in the course of years, the wonderful transformation wrought by the penniless nnd unemployed Ter radell. In the swam) land where his curious structure of telegraph poles and boards had sheltered his hobo friends rose the four-story building of vitrified brick with brownstone trim mings, nnd around it small cottages were put up. 27 in all, for such families as might join the new community. Where nnd how did Terradell get the money for such nn establishment? People asked this question with won der, but nobody ever answered it. Doubtless there were rich men who. believing in Terradell and his project, gave liberally to help him, for not only wns his building costly, but the land which before was regarded as so much waste space had acquired n value and nearly $50,000 was laid out on land alone. Terradell himself worked with the builders, spurring them on by his example, and when the big industrial building, as he called it, was finished he was the proudest man in America. There was a $50,000 mortgage on the place, but he had perfect faith that the worst of his work was over and that success was close at hand. To support the institution, Terra dell looked to the workshops, which took up all the industrial building ex cept the dormitory space ond the eat ing rooms and office. There wns a shop for broom and brush making nnd one for the manufacture of crates and packing .boxes, and in one or the Other of these any man who was honest and would work could find employment no matter how little experience he had had. If he didn't know the trade some work would be found for him until he could learn it. Men out of employ ment flocked to him and many of his former hobo friends came and took regular employment to his great joy, though he never felt sure of them, for they would work through, a winter faithfully, but the first sounds and scents of spring would set them back on the road again. The irreclaimable hobo, who had no intention of doing regular work, could find shelter there for two days and nights conditional upon his doing a certain amount of work in cutting wood or cleaning up about the place. Three meals of coffee and bread were given to him each day while he was there. If a sick' tramp came there he was cared for and med icine that the establishment could ill afford was given to him until he was able to proceed or had qualified for hospital treatment. Terradell held religious services and tried, with vary ing success, to convert his associates. The 27 cottages were rented at low. rates. Regarding his community as a city of itself TerradelJ decided to name it. A geographically learned hobo sug gested "Terradell Fuego" as appropri ate. The founder accepted part of the suggestion and named his community "Terradelphia." For a time Terradel phia flourished. Merchants and man ufacturers who were interested in Ter radell gave him orders and the output of the place found good sales. The cottages were filled and apparently the community flourished. Terradell pro jected another factory building, and the future of the community Beemed assured, when hard times began to be felt in '94. A year later there was no question about extending Terradel- prua; tne question was wnemer u cquld maintain itself. Workmen out of employment poured in, but there was no market in the stagnation of '95 for the products of the factory. The cottages ceased to pay rent, for Terradell had not the heart to turn the occupants out. Sometimes he went hungry himself that others might have food, and throughout he worked with undeviating courage and faith. Noth ing else could have carried Terradel phia through that year and into 1890. Hut it was a hoprless fight. The friends of the institution snw that it must go under. The mortgage was foreclosed and "Glad Hand Tom," as Terradell had come to be known by the hobo fraternity, took up his hat and went out into the world again. At first he intended to lecture here and abroad in the hope of raising funds for n new Terradelphia, but found no encouragement. . An agency in the lumber business wns open to him and he took it, fixing his office in a little wooden structure almost under the walls of the main building of Ter radelphia. There he sits, an eager, restless man, bowed with sickness and hard work, but bright of eye and still possessed of that strenuous energy and enthusiasm for the one devotion of his life, characteristic of the man whom we cnll a crank or a genius ac cording to the measure of his success. Occasionally some hobo who has Wen out of the tide-drift of tramp life for a long time, in jail, or hospital, or for eign parts, nnd has lost track of the news of hobodom. applies at the fac tory for a night's lodging. They direct him to Terradell, and "(J lad Hand Tom" gives him greeting and help if he needs it, and Godspeed, and tells him that some day there will be built n new Terradelphia 'with bed and food and work and play for all. For despite the wreck and ruin of his great project Terradell believes still, with a death less faith, in. his mission to prove the worth of those who have been branded as worthless, nnd their right to a place in the economic world. N. Y. Sun. GAME IN GIPPSLAND. There Are Many Queer Ulrds and Ileasta In the Wilds of Australia. The knngnroo, wallaroo and walla by are to be found in every district. Hears are in all cool regions. The wild boar is common on the Murray, nnd on most of the other large rivers of New South Wales. Deer are plen tiful in South Gippsland, in Birre gurra ami Cook's river. The opos sum Is as ubiquitous as he is funny, and the dingo, pure or mongrel, which is found on the confines of all settled districts, will repay the hunter for any pains endured while chasing him. In the steppe country of South nnd West Australia wild horses afford some fast work to the sportsman who drives them into snares, while the slow-coach can take his fill of pleas ant musings waiting nt some drink-ing-hole for his big game to come in. liutTnlo are now to be met with in large numbers In West Australia. Wombats give excellent night aport; and flying foxes, squirrels and bats of immense size afford interest to those who are able to bring them down by the light of the moon. Pad dymeloiiH, kangaroo rats, bandicoots, tiger-cats, rabbits and hares abound in all the southern colonies, and stalk ing them affords easy, pleasant sport for those who do not care for the rough labor which bigger game en tails. Wild fowl abound in splendid vari ety. Pelicans, spoonbills, herons, cranes, ducka and black swans aro scattered over well-nigh every sheet of water or river. In New South Wales. South Australia, and Queens land, "native companions" and emus afford splendid rides. Cassowaries are found in Queensland and on the is lands near the mainland. The lowan is interesting to the sportsman who has a taste for subtleties In nest building and doesn't mind being fooled occasionally by a bird smart er than himself. The lyre-bird is another pretty rascal given to tricks which cannot fall to exasperate. Na tional Review, J OUli NEW COLONIES. Senator Depew Says the Philippines Must Be Held. Aran meats of Anti-Expansionists Ably Answered The American Vlmg Will Not Come Down. Chauncey M. Depew delivered a ring ing speech before the senate, Febru ary 27, on the question of national expansion, addressing himself par ticularly to the resolution proposed by Mr. Beverldge declaratory of a pol icy of the United States toward the Philippine islands. The New. York senator was never in better form, his voice never clearer nor his admirable command of English and forceful ar gument better evidenced. The galleries were crowded in an ticipation of listening to an oration of high merit on a subject to which it is known Senator Depew has given close study for months past. When rising in his seat to address the dis tinguished audience it was quite evi dent that Mr. Depew appreciated the power at his command and the effect which his declarations might have on the country at large. He proved him self to be master of his subject, fa miliar with all the Intricacies of the eastern question and a student of that constitutional law of the nation which justifies the past and present attitude of the administration toward our new acquisitions. . lie addressed himself at once to the questions raised by the anti-imperialists, declared that they were with few exceptions purely academfePand sig nificantly added: "We are In the Philippines; we are there to stay by conquest and by treaty rights. All which precedes the ratification of the treaty by the senate of the United States is an academic question." Carefnl Review of the Case. Carefully reviewing the operations of Admiral Dewey in Manila bay, the destruction of the Spanish fleet, the operations of our. army against the Spaniards and then the revolt of the insurgents from American rule, Sen ator Depew said: "I think It will bo admitted that there was In the far east no one who could bind our government to treaty obligation. There has been read here a mass of serenade speeches and banquet addresses and letters from consular agents of this country In China and the Philippines. A consul has no diplomatic authority. His commission covers only commercial ques tions in the port where he resides. In the Imperfections, which are still many, In our consular service these positions are held la many places by foreigners who do rot understand our Institutions, who receive no salary that would tempt an American to take the place, and yet who occupy and administer Important functions as the commercial agents of the repub'lc. Treaties involving; recognition of governments end cession of territories are not made by un authorized persons in the enthusiasm of moonlight serenades or In the fervor of banquet addresses. No Fromlses to Aarnlnaldo. "Only tho president of the United States could bind the country, and he only with the subsequent assent of the senate. Only when war is progressing can the com mander In chief of the army or the admiral of the navy make a committal which the president would be bound In any form to consider or respect. Admiral Dewey alone had that power, and he most emphatically denies any committal whatever to Aguln aldo for the independence of his so-called government. President Schurman also em phatically denies any committal on the sub ject on the part of the Philippine commis sion. The various generals of the army mado no committals on their part. All the consuls concerned positively denied huvlr.g made any such suggestions. Tho Instant that there was brought to the notice of the president and the state department a state ment that unauthorized persons, holding commissions from the United States for an other purpose, had made any such sugges tions they were Immediately and authori tatively repudiated. Pretest for a Government. The government set up by Aguinal do was denounced ns llimsy and his history as a traitor to the best inter ests of his own people was scathingly reviewed. There was no paragraph of the history of America-advances in the Philippines nor of American over tures to the insurgents ignored. Hut when these hnel been presented in their logical order the senator said: "Territorially, constitutionally and by the decisions of the-supreme court tho United States have been expanding for nearly a century. Constitutional objection and indiscriminate abuse preceded, attend ed and followed each of these acquisitions. The grim specter of the ruined republic was each time dragged out from the stage properties of the spectacular drama of de spair, only to be laughed back Into Its crypt by prospe-rlty, population, thriving Industrie, mutual benefits to the old and new states, and the blessings of American law and liberty Impressing the people with the wisdom of the expansion. There have been tyrants and usurpers. If President McKlnley Is one, doing these same things In the past ns he has done, and they are Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, James K. Polk and Franklin Pierce." Deflnes Ileal CI t Isrnslilp. Senator Depew passed on to broad consideration of what citizenship un der the constitution oflhc United States means and how the term should be considered in connection with tho Filipinos. He declared: "Citizen Is a broad generalization. In one sense It Includes all the inhabitants of every age and ex under the Jurisdiction of the United States, and to all of them are guaranteed protection for life, liberty, property and rollglon. In another and larger way It means those who, In addition to these rights, are emitted to the suffrage, to trial by Jury and to every privilege and protection under the constitution and laws of the United States. The right to vote and participate In the government has been treated with lingular freedom. Property qualification or tax, or both, as a prerequis ite to vote were common la all thentatos until 1821 nnd In Rhode Island until IS 8. "Our friends In South Carolina, Missis sippi and Louisiana who stand shivering with fear lest the Filipinos, by becoming citizens, will have the constitutional right to vote, or by being deprived of that voto will become the victims of a despotism more autocratic than Russia, have found no difficulty in excluding from the ballot a large number of their citizens. Plenty of Examples. "South Carolina, by the new constitu tion of the state, makes the requisite for voting the abHIty to read understandlngly the constitution of the United States, and the possession of $300 worth of property. If this test were imposed on the Philippine It would effectually deprive the whole na tive population of the suffrage. They make for their denial of the consent of tho gov erned the Ingenious plea that neither by the declaration of Independence nor the con stitution did tho negroes acquire rights or recognition; that the fathers never intent to Include them. "Certainly, If this be true, It applies with greater force to the alien races who la habit the Philippine Islands, whose exist ence was unknown to the signers of the declaration, the fraraers of tho constitu tion, or. In the language of that Instru ment, to 'We, the people of the United States,' who 'to secure the blessings of lib erty to ourselves end to our posterity do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America.' "By uniform legislation from tho forma tion of the republic and by repeated and clear decisions of the supreme court these principles are established. First, that the constitution thus formed was meant for the states In the union a they severally adopted It. Second, that It becomes opera tive upon every state subsequently admit ted Into the union. Third, that It does not extend by Its own force over territory ac quired after the adoption of the constitu tion, but that congress has ttie power to grant so much of its. provision as it deems wise. . Speech Warmly Applnnded. His peroration, containing his decla ration of what the future policy of the United States would be, won for Senator Depew the warmest congratu lations when at its end hl desk was surrounded by his colleagues. In this final statement he said: "The fears dally expressed by senators of disastrous consequences to ourselves from the productions and Industries of these Is lands have no Justification In the Ion ex perience of other nations. Great Britain has found her best markets In her colonies. and no Invasion of her Industries from I them. The same is true of the crowded, highly organized and sensitive Industrial Interests of Holland. The people of the temperate zones govern all troplcaj coun tries outside the Americas. The northern races are the migrators, the colonizers,. the rulers and the organizers of the productive energies of the world. There Is a closeness and contact between all parts of the lands and peoples which are under one general i government. "Though Oreat Britain has no greater commercial advantages with her colonies than other and competing countries, yet she furnishes 46 per cent, of their Imports, and If analyzed so as to select only the articles Bhe produces the proportion would bo greater. The rapid development of wants and the ability to gratify them created by civilization and stable govern ment will enormously Increase the con sumption and purchasing power of the in habitants of our island possessions. Mast Find New Markets. "America and Europe are the bene ficiaries and the victims of the marvelous development of the nineteenth century. Electricity, steam and invention have stimulated production beyond living limits, unless new markets can be discovered. The great migrations of ancient and mod ern times appear insignificant when com pared with the exodus from Europe In the last 75 years. The figures reach tho enor mous volume of 17,000,000 of human beings whose exile from home and country has been mainly enforced by congestion from overproduction and revolution in employ ments by Inventions and development In the arts and Industries. Our fertile lands have attracted most of them, but they are practically exhausted, and now the world's prob'.em of markets for the surplus of farms and factories, or low wages, want of employment, Idleness and want Is ntar our own doors. "This Is not a sordid view, nor can any right apprehension of our Philippine pol icy or our relations to our island colonics be sordid or purely commercial. In spite of ourselves we have colonial possessions. We have no policy to declare, no glittering resolutions or proclamations to make and in the future to embarrass' us. We will etamp out the Insurrection and establish a stable government. We will organize local government. We will constitute courts. We will Insure with the whole of the United States security for life and property, freedom of religion and the equal und Just administration of the law. .ntlvra Will Soon Learn. "Tho kindergarten of liberty, under com petent Instructors, rnpidly develops Its pu pils for turgor responsibilities for citizen rhlp, respect for law, for Judicial duties and for a constantly increasing Hhure in their local and general assemblies. "One year of rule by the United States In Culm Is a convincing object lesson. P.rigands) have become farmers and revo lutionists conservative citizens. Order has taken the place of anarchy, und law of li cense. Tho Cubans are developing their industries and rapidly acquiring habits of self-government. "So tho uplifting of the people of tho Philippines to the comprehension und prac tice of orderly Industry, respect for Indi vidual rights, confidence nnd then partici pation in government will add enormously to the-ir hupplness and reciprocally to tho strength, prosperity and power of our country, THE PORTO RICO TARIFF. As Part of the I'nlted States the. Ia. land, Should Share In Advan tageous Legislation. The proposal to establish a tariff for Porto Rico similar to that of the Unit ed States, but with a reduction of 75 per cent, on both sides in commerce with the United States, is condemned in some quarters as unjust, oppressive nnd inhuman treatment of that island. Just why it would be so does not ap pear. We assume that all legitimate de mands would be met if the United States were to put Porto Pico in n de cidedly more favorable fiscal condition than it was 'when under Spanish rule. At that time the island was fairly pros perous and nt-ked commercially noth ing more than reciprocity with th? United States to make it entirely happy. One might suppose from what is now said that it had then no tariff. The act is that it had a particularly elaborate tariff, w 1th high rates high er, in general, than it is likely to have under the proposed legislation. And assuredly the 75 percent, "horizontal reduction" proposed will bo more ad vantageous to it than any reciprocity which it ever enjoyed. Beyond doubt Porto Pico is now in urgent need of fiscal relief. Beyond dotibf, too, the United States is bound in the most imperative manner to give it to the island at the earliest possible moment. But let there be exercised some discretion and sense of propor tion in the matter. If we give Porto Rico a better fiscal system and greater commercial nnd industrial prosperity than it ever had before, shall we not be doing justly and even generously? Whether the proposed legislation will do that Is the only pertinent question. If it will do it. the legislation is all that can reasonably be asked. N. Y. Tribune. SAFE GOLD STANDARD. The Line Between Itepnbllcaaa aae Democrats Is Definite ly Drawn. When the United States senate passed the bill providing that the gold dollar should be the standard unit of value, the gold standard was made legally safe. The house bill differs ia some respects from that of the senate, but both are alike in the vital pro- vision, which formally establishes tne gold standard. Conferences will soon harmonize the bills in their minor fea tures, ami men, wiiii vne nppruvui vi President McKlnley, the United States, by the explicit sanction of law, will take an Indisputable place among the gold standurd nations. The action is the more notable and gratifying because it came from a body which long hung like a weight on the neck of sound money, and which by palterings nnd makeshifts blocked the wuy tot lie simple and assuring declara tion made the other duy, and kept flnanciul affairs in a condition of in certitude. The vote drew the lino between the parties and showed where republicans and democrats stand on the question of purity of thecurrency. Every repub lican but one voted for the bill. Every democrat but two voted against tho bill, and those two are gold and Cleve land democrats who know that their political future in the democratic par ty is closed, because with their devo tion to honest money they could not be elected on the democratic ticket to the pettiest office in their states. The vote for 44 republicans and two democrats against 28 democrats and one republican determines the position of the parties on thafrnanciul issue for the national campaiin soon to open. The republican party is the party which insists upon the standard of valae recognized by the leading na tions of the world a standard which therefore Is necessary to commercial Intercourse and to financial stability, and never before so necessary as with the worldwide expansion which this nation is now enjoying. The democrat ic party insists upon championship of a cheap metal and bearing against the opposition of the world the hopeless burden of dignifying that metal be yonel its normal possibilities. The republican party insists upon the standard of valne which regulates the currency of the following coun tries: Great Britain. Germany, Russia, Austria-Ilungary, Norway anel Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Turkey, Japan, Finland, Egypt, British Ilondurns, Bra zil, Chill, Peru, Costa Rica, France, Italy, Ilollanel, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Venezuela and India. The democratic party insists upon the standartl of value of Mexico, except in commercial affairs; China, where silver goes by weight value f.. Servla and Roumania. anel a few states in Central and South America. The people chose in ISOft between the financial platforms of these par ties. The issue now is even more definitely made, anel the choice will be repeated by as much larger majority as four years of the experience of pros perity will suggest. Troy Times. DRIFT OF OPINION. FTICxpansion was not in the last re publican platform. Rut it was in the nation's destiny and republicans have lived up to it. St. Louis (i lobe-Demo-crat. tThe grentest Fourth of July fire cracker this year will be the Bryan ex pleision at Kansas City. It will be loud and noisy. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. tr-TGov. Nash says there are no fac tions in the republican party of Ohio. Surely things look more harmonious than they have before in years. Cleve land Leader. (TTlryan was entertnlned in New York by one of the richest men in that city. It should always be remembered however that Bryan is not opposed' to the rich except when they happen to be republicans. Chicago Times-Herald. rSe-nator llnnna snys that the two issues of the campaign this year will be prospirity''ahd expansion. Well, the people know all about prosperity, and they are willing to chance expan sion with the republicans in power. Cleveland Leader. KIn the end the Mocrum state ment will prove a benefit to the admin istration. It will clear up the wholo matter of this country's relations with Great Britain, anel destroy some capital out of which the demagogues expected to make much. Cedar Rapids Repub- lican. f ' tNo mention of silver or the cur rency Is found In the call of the demo cratic national committee. It invites those who are against "the empire" to come forward.1- No doubt the commit tee thought enough will be done for silver when its champion is nominated. St.. Louis Globe-Democrat. E7Tbe American Agriculturist esti mates that the total advance in the market value of farm stock since 1800 has been $700,000,000, the gain being In value rather than numbers. The rate of increase in value has been 37 per cent. The gain in value o flive stock many times exceeds the slight loss by lower prices for wheat and corn this year. All of which goes to show that the farm ers have enjoyed a good share of tho prosperity. Indianapolis Journal. KThe whole antl-imperlallst move ment is seen and summarized in thia account of the reading by Boston school children of certain essays for which prizes hnd been offered by At kinson, Bradford, Garrison and tho three or four other Massachusetts anti imperialists: "Their papers were heart ily npptauded by the few people pres ent." The few people present applaud', ed one another; that is the true effigy of the anti-imperialist meeting. N. Y Bun. - - 0