LIVE QUESTIONS.
A Series of Article Contributed by
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EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY.
Whj Shonld Not AH 11 Treated Alike Po
litically? I bclleva that tho ministers of thn
United Stated hare done more than any
fiber ono clans to haoten the progrcM of
the woman movement, I know that
btany of our reformers hold a contrary
rkw, and perhaps I am not an impar
tial witness, as I come of a long line of
ministers and my only brother was a
member of that guild, bnt we most not
forget that the woman question can on
ly prosper in time of peace, and that as
a class the Christian ministry has, more
than any other, proolaimed peace on
earth and good will to men. The teach
ings of the pulpit hare inculcated those
principles under which women oan be
orrworkara with men iu every line of
Ufa It is only under the influence of
the principles of Christ that the inhab
itants of a nation become sufficiently co
ordinated in their nttitucTo toward gov
ernment and commerce, literature and
labor, art and life, to appreciate the
characters and qualities of women as
ooworkera in all the enterprises by
which men forge forward toward better
oonditions for themselves and families.
It is also truo that ministers have been
a well nigh determining factor in the
boards of trustees of those higher edu
cational institutions to which we have
been admitted, and without such edu
cation we could never have held our
own in the comradeship of good work
now so largely recognized among men
and women. All my life I have found
more encouragement and holp from
Christian ministers than from any other
class uf men, and I believe that the ma
jority of our reformers would bear the
some testimony. As a rule the pulpits of
ull ohurches, except thoso in which
sacerdotalism forbids, have been opened
to us. When I went to the south, it was,
as a rule,, ministers and their wives who
fdhned the bone and sinew of the early,
as they do of the later, temperance
movement, and as they do of every other
reform, because they are the represent
atives of the Divine Reformer.
These facta furnish a background be
fore whioh a few ministers have dis
ported themselves in an unenviable
light for instance, when an excellent
bishop says to a class of "sweet girl
graduates" that when women vote they
will soli thoir ballots as they now sell
themselves. When the gifted Dr.
of Georgia declares that "tho woman
who rides the bicycle is the victim of a
fkangt.se. -willard.
personal devil," he shows himself to
be out of sympathy with this great
, question of equal rights.
The brethren have modo for them
' selves unenviable fame, and their atti
tude toward women who are trying to
ameliorate the sorrows of humanity will
not, I dare affirm, be quoted by their
descendants, but will be consigned by
thum, aud, let us hope, by the women
who will then be invested with all tho
powers and dignities of citizenship in
church and state, to a charitable obliv
ion. I do not soy that these are not
good men, but they are certainly whim
sloal and grotesque in their attitude to
ward one of the greatest reforms of
their time. Nor will those other good
men who are doing their best to prevent
the admission of women to the counsels
of different branches of tho church of
ChriHt desire to have this fact empha
sized when thoir pout mortem eulogies
are written. It is the ill fortune of some
men and women in every epoch of ad
vance to find their emblem in the bowl
der on the track rather than the arrowy
current of the refreshing, forward rush
ing stream of that public sentiment
which is the final factor iu all those rev
olutions by which humanity comes
nearer to good will and God. The sul
tan and the czar may order the words
"liberty, equality, fraternity, " eliminat
ed from all published documents with
in the area of the autocracy they ropre
leut, but the fatuous prohibitions of
despots, whether on a large or a small
icale, are but another form of pergonal
dcuth warrant autobiogruphieally given.
Readers of Benjamin Kidd's "Booial
Evolution" must have been often struck
by the phrase "equality of opportunity. "
la these words is the quintessence of a
high and noble socialism, for at the
bottom "bf all our sooiul discontent it is
not a quarrel with parentage, birth and
gifts of nnture that disturbs us, nor even
to much with environments as with that
maladjustment of opportunity whioh we
feel instinctively is not natural, but
oomes of human meddling with nature
and ntter disregard of God's place in the
world he has made.
And the present social perturbations
and scarcely suppressed upheavals what
are they but attempts to bring about not
equality in wealth, equality in position,
bqt equality in opportunity for every
human creature? The mode of attempt
may not always be wise or well adapted
to the end sought, but the end and aim
are, good. It is this aim to secure equal
ity of opportunity that has given such
Impetus to the caoso of publio education
luring the last few years, for it recog
nises in all classes of society that no
power raises a man so quickly to the
level of the world's best accomplishment
as the education and development of his
Intellect. Nothing gives him such noble
companionship and sets him as a peer in
the society of mlud, nothing has so ralw d
man as man and distributed its gifts so
widely save Christianity as taught by
Christ himself.
Fkancks E. Willard.
Evanston, Ills.
IMPROVED BANKING METHODS.
A Congrwm.n Who Gives Borne Atten
tion to the Will of Rla ConntltuenUi.
Our representatives should bo more
scrupulous In getting tho will of the peo
ple, and when they do not represent this
will they should resign otherwise they
become misrepresentatives.
Congressman Brosius of Pennsylvania
set his fellows a good example recently
by writing to H. C. Baird, the able
economist, to indicato what changes he
would make in the banking and money
system of the country. Among other
things Mr. Baird said:
"First, in regard to our banking sys
tem. That system is based upon the
same great fallacy as the wickedness of
Lord Overstone's bank act of 1844,
known as 'Peel's bank act' This fal
lacy is that of attempting to regulato
the bank operations through the cur
rency instead of acting directly upon the
bank itself. The currency belongs to
tho whole people, and if tho British gov
ernment or the United States govern
ment abdicates tho right of furnishing
the ourrency it should not permit tho
bank or banks to tamper with it or to
regulate their loans by the amount of
currency in, their possession on a given
day. As for back as 1888 Carey, in
'The Credit System In France, Great
Britain and the United States, ' demon
strated conclusively that tho test of safe,
banking was to be found iu tho relation
whioh tho capital of a byik .'r to the
amount which it hail due it its debt
ors. The proper way to regulato tho na
tional banks of this country would there
fore be a provision of law by which no
bank could loan moro than 100 or 150
per cent over and above its capital and
surplus.
"But if the Overstone law is still to
be fixed upon the peoplo of the United
States, then tho reserves of tho banks
should be kept at home and not in the
banks of New York, there to stimulate
speculation, to centralize business and
create panics, as the present quack sys
tem docs, placing the whole country at
the mercy of Wall street
"Now we come to the much larger
question of tho ourrency. ' I would cease
absorbing myself with tho one idea of
the standard and what it should be,
and devote myself to putting in opera
tion, in full vigor, the great function of
association which money fulfills. In a
word, I would have gold if we could
get enough of it. I would add silver,
too, if that would be enough, and if
not, paper until we had enough. Gold
is utterly unfit for the currency of a
country, because it is always liable to
export, giving you one day a feast and
another day a famine. If we could have
a large .volume of silver which was
overvalued in the ooinago, that would
be au immense advantage, as only tho
bullion and not tho coin would bo ex
ported. The attempt at a gigantic sueri
fieo (tens of thousands of millions of
dollars) during the la6t 81 years to
give us a currency 'at par all over the
world' is one of tho most mischievous
results aimed at by any legislators in
the world What is wanted is an inex
portable currency which by its contin
ual presence will give to tho whole body
of the people the ability, promptly and
vigorously, to associate and combine,
to exchange services, commodities and
ideas among their several selves. What
you and Mr. Walker, tho chairman of
your committee, would do would be to
make enormous sacrifices to tho end
that the peoplo should wake up ono day
and find almost the entire basis upon
which their power to associate rested
fleeing across tho Atlantio ocean. This,
permit mo to soy, is not states manship.
It does not load to prosperity, to busi
ness, to virtue, to civilization, but it
leads to the waste of labor power, the
most perishable of all commodities, to
poverty, to demoralization, to crime
and to barbarism.
"If you will once recognize in its full
forco that great truth enuuoiated by
Carey, that tho greatest need of man is
that of association with his fellow men,
aud that money is the instrument of
that association, you will then prepare
yourself to leave the company of the
men who aro now driving these people
to desperation, and you .will join "the
silver men, who would rescue them
from destruction. "
HERBERT SPENCER ON FREE LAND.
Given a race of beings having like
claims to pursue the objects of thoir do
sires, a world into which such beings
are similarly born, and it unavoidably
follows that they havo equal rights to
the use of this world. For if eaoh of
them has freedom to do all that he
wttls, provided He infringes not tho
equal freedom of any other, then each
of them is free to use the earth for tho
satisfaction of his wants, provided he al
lows all others tho same liberty. And
conversely it is manifest that no one or
part of them may use the earth in such
a way as to prevent the rest from sim
ilarly using it, seeing that to do this is
to assume greater freedom than the rest.
Equity does not therefore permit prop
erty in land. For if one portion of the
earth's surface may Justly become tho
possession of an individual and may bo
held by him for his sole use and benefit
as a tiling to which he has an exclu
sive right, then other portions of the
earth may bo so held, and eventually
the whole of tho earth's surface may bo
so held. Observe now the dilemma to
which this leads. Supposing the whole
hubitable globe to be so inclosed, it fol
lows thut if landowners have a valid
right to its surface, all who aro not
landowners have no right at all to its
surface and exist only by sufforanoe.
They are all trespassers. Save by the
permission ot tho lords of the soil they
can havo no room for the soles of their
feet. Herbert Spencer.
THE COLUMBIAN,
Education the Test of Immigration-
The immigjation committees of the
Senate and the House of Representa
tives have both reported favorably a
bill to restrict immigration according
to an educational test. Both bill are
quite similar, and the reports unani
mous hence there seems to be a fair
prospect of enacting such a measure
before the close of the present session.
The important clause in each bill pro
vides for the exclusion of "all male
persons between 16 and 60 years of
age, who cannot read and write the
English language or some other lan
guage." While the measure is aimed
to protect the interests of labor it
specially seeks to prevent the ingress
of illiteracy. The attempt to improve
the quality of citizenship, or to prevent
any accession of population that would
lower the present standard, is com
mendable, and some advantage would
be gained by the passage of the bill.
A Sog'i Long Tramp
Monday a little white dog went to
the door of John Knapp's house in
Lebanon and whined to be let in.
The dog was tired, dirty and half
famished.
David Dundore opened the door.
He is living in the Knapp house now.
When he saw the dog he exclaimed :
" Bless us, it's Jerry."
"Jerry" was John Knapp's dog.
He went to Martinsburg, W. Va.,
early last month when the Knapp
family moved there. It is believed
" Jerry " got tired of life in the Pan
handle state and footed it home,
something more than 100 miles. He
will be taken care of until he recovers
from his long tramp.
It is said that apples will keep for
two years when wrapped up in news
papers. Of course a great deal de
pends on the newspapers used. Now
some sheets are so foul that they
would pollute and decay fruit in a very
few moments.
Porch chairs and hammocks are
now being looked up and placed in
position for the summer.
No Cripe
When you take Ilood's Pills. The big, old-fnsh-loncd,
sugar-coated pills, which tour you nil to
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Hood's
and easy to operate, Is true
of Hood's rills, which are
up to date in every respect.
Safe, certain and sure. All
Pills
druggists. 2fic. C. I. Flood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only Fills to take with Ilood's Sarsaparllla.
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one sc. package of
tnis admixture
we'll be satisfied.
You'll buy more
for it will touch
the spot. Grocers
have SEELIG'S.
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(IP;!
s3 has added
r 1 little of Seel
to ordinary
coffee knows 0
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will please her husband. I
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ANY ONE run
I helped at once by
of Cod-liver Oil and
It possesses in a peculiar sense flesh-
making, strength-giving elements.
J There are plenty of cases where per-
t sons have gained a pound a day by
S taking an ounce of
yf &oc. and $1 at
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SHOES I
' Our Spring Styles of Slices
are nearly all in.
25 years experience in shoe buvincr nut us in ih imnf
rank of shoe dealers.
Comfort, style and durability are combined in our shoes.
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For the finest and best stoves, timvarp. rnnfino- ennntinrr
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Buildings heated bv steam, hot air or hot watpr in caricf-.
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1 nave tne exclusive control ol the 1 hatcher steam, hot
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SiT'T.nrge and convenient sample rooms
Hath rooms, hot and cold water, and al
modern conveniences. Bar stocked with bes
wines and liquors. First-class livery attached
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x uc uiuc&i csiauiisnea wooien miiiv
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Genuine Edward Harris
We bought entire stock of cloth
Made it in Clothing
Will sell at fifty cents on the dollar.
50 cents on the $1.00
Suits $7.75 to $20.00
Last opportunity to get this reliable make of cloth.
Notwithstanding the prices, we re paying
SAME AS EVER Railroad Fare on purchases of moderate
amount, as usual.
WANAMAKER & BROWN,
Sixth and Market Sts.
WJVL H. WANAMAKER,
Twelfth and Market St&
down, or emaciated
the use of
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Scott's Emulsion
all Angglttt. f
Cut Chewing Tobacco
following brands of Cigars-
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ln-s-.iy
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Carl Faulthn. JJirertor. .
rounded i n 1863 by -"VwffOV
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giving full information.
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Feet
i
wet again?
You'll die some day. licforei
long, too, if you don't take care
of those fect. Some of the J
newest, most dcsirahlc things ,
in wet weather shoes are here. )
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C0BB1CTID W1IILT. BIT1IL -RICH.
Butter per lb $ ,33
F.ggs per dozen t
Lard per lb... , .10
Ham per pound , . ,12
I'orK, wnoie, per pouna ,01
Beef, quarter, per pound .... .07
Wheat per bushel .80
Oats " " .8
Rye " " So
Wheat flour per bbl 4 00
Hay per ton 13 to $14
Potatoes per bushel, .35
Turnips " 35
Onions " " .40
Sweet potatoes per peck 33 to .30
Tallow per lb 4 J
Shoulder " " u
Side meat " " 07
Vinegar, per qt ,07
Dried apples per lb .05
Dried cherries, pitted .10
Raspberries ,13
Cow Hides per lb .i
Steer " " 05
CalfSkin 80
Sheep pelts .75
Shelled corn per bus .50
Corn meal, cwt .oo
Bran, " x,0o
Chop " 1. 00
Middlings " 1.00
Chickens per lb new ,13
'old 13
Turkeys " " tsi
Geese " " l0
Ducks " " o8
COAL.
No. 6, delivered 3.40
" 4 and s " 3.50
" 6 at yard 3.35
" 4 and s at yard. 3.35
There is fun in the
foam, and health in
the cup of HIRES
Rootbeer the great
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Bring the Babies.
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i
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ior good.
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