4 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO, P. ,olumbtHtt. ESTABLISHED 1868. Uttc (frtumfcla Jcmorrat, ISrBulHHKD 1M7. CONSOLIDATED PCBLISHR.) "tVKKV Tlll'USDAV MUKMNU riloorasbur?, the County stai ol Columbia Couoijri I'onus.v lvimla. GEO. B. K I. WELL Kditoh. 1). J. TAHKKK, Local Kditor. UKU. C. HOAN, KOKKMAN. TtRM: InMdetnpooui.ty H.OOayearln ed- arioo; $1.S0 If not paid In nnvar.i-t. Outside county, a yi'ar, ntrliMlv In advance. All communications sliould be adilit-Hm d to Til it COLI'MBIAN. BlooniHbiii'K. Pa THURSDAY, JANUARY iS, 1900. Democratic Candidates. FOR REPRESENTATIVE, (North Side) GEORGE W. STERNER, of Hemlock Twp. That the people of the United States appreciate and reward the bravery of American heroes is amply evidenced in tne expansion of the Lawton fund, which has reached the $90,000 mark with prospects of a further increase. This manifestation of gratefullness on the part of the people is indeed gratifying. The recent opinion of Judge Mc Pherson, which is to the effect that clubs which contain side-boards bars or cafes are liable to pay the government tax of twenty-five dollars a year will no doubt create consternation in the various socia organizations of this kind through out the state. If this opinion stands, the money to be recovered bv tin government will aggregate a large amount. We observe that the Commis sioner, at Washington, has decided that ordinary judgment notes wil hereafter be taxed fiftv cents each, and will be considered the same as bonds. If the note contains a power of attorney clause, it must. of necessity, bear the added stamp, worth twenty-five cents. Hereto fore internal revenue collectors and business men have been look iug at judgment notes as an ordi nary promissory note, carrying as tax a stamp worth two cents for ev ery $100 of its face value. In the proposition to introduce 1 bill in Congress requiring West Point cadets to take oath on enter ing that they will abstain ironi haz ing lies a potent suggestion to col lege and university authorities throughout the country. If every college and educational institution exacted as one of its prerequisites to matriculation a written pledge on the honor of the student to re frain from hazing, or similar dan gerous and foolish horse-play, there would be no occasion for the more or less frequent and pertinent news paper denunciations of the offense. Senator Cochran has just re turned from Florida, where he transacted business. While there the Senator put in several days quail shooting. On one of these occasions he was on one knee bend ing over the fire alone, with a cup on the end of a stick, cooking his coffee. Another hunter, a stran ger, unknown to the Senator, snapped him in that position with a kodak. The two then journeved back to Jacksonville together and the snap-shot proved to be a good one. The Senator speaks highly of the Florida shooting and says he got up some coveys with forty birds in them. wtlhamsport Sun. Mr. Bryan Explains W. J. Bryan, on being asked about his views on expansion, ex pressed himself as follows : "I have for one year been discus sing imperialism, aud I have tried to distinguish between such an ex tension ot the Nation's limit as would not change the character of the government aud an expansion which converts a homogeneous republic into a heterogeneous em pire. When the annexation of any given territory is under considera tion the question is first whether the people want to come in, aud second wnetner tne people are capable of sharing . in the govern ment and destiny of this nation. I believe that all people are capable ot governing themselves ; that the Filipinos should be allowed to govern themselves ; but I don t think that they are sufficiently ad vanced to share with us the govern ment of the Nation. If the Philip pine Islands are annexed the people there must either become citizens or subjects. I am not willing to admit them as citizens, and do not believe that a republic can have subjects ; therefore, I want this country to give- them independence and then protect them from outside interfer ence. Each proposed annexation must be considered upon its own merit, but I consider in these merits the condition of all the people should position or commercial advantage." "THE CHIEF OBJECTION WILL BE THE MAN." Kditor Columbian : The above title heads a leading editorial in the Philadelphia Record of January 13. Observes the Record, " Few well informed persons will agree with Mr. Bryan that free coinage and ' Anti-Iniprrialism ' are likely to enlist popular enthusiasm in the next campaign, and it is also doubt ful whether the proposed crusade against the trusts would be a vote winner if it should assume the ap pearance of a war on capital and on the industrial prosperity of the country. Nobody, except a few interested individuals, favors trusts; but the remedy lies in tariff revis ion. and a stricter enforcement of common law safeguards. Should the Democratic party nominate Mr. Bryan for the Presidency this year, it would make 110 great difference what issues might be emphasized as the keynotes of the campaign. The vital objection would be the man. The country knows just what he represents, and thinking people dis trust him." Thus the Record's treacherous twaddle goes on, as though the Democratic party owed its existence and successful perpetuity' and lead ership to such hypocritical sheets, like the Philadelphia Record, Times and New York World. This is no tice to the Democratic party not to nominate Bryan, upon pain of an other flunk of Gold Democrats, in 1900, like that of 1S96. Tariff re vision was tried under Cleveland, and re-tried under McKinley, and the two revisions look so much like twins that there is 110 distinction of color, neither being black nor white. Both were failures as reve nue producers, but both were amply sufficient for monopolization of cap ital into syndicates and trusts. So far as the essential difference be tween Gold Democrats and Gold Republicans are concerned, or so far as the gold standard affects the country, the monev power feels just as safe in the hands of the one as of the other, and y 1119;pc far just as badly under the administra- - - uon 01 me one as ot the other. Clevelandism, McKinleyism and John Bullism go hand in hand, heart in heart, and are a triumvi rrte hailed and worshipped by all the money kings of the earth ; while the common people are seek ing to extricate themselves from their grasp and power. Of course, " thinking people dis trust Bryan." But " the thinking people" in question are the money sharks of the world. Yes, " you bet." they distrust him. History informs us that they also distrusted Jackson. Bui do the plain people distrust Bryan ? Did they distrust Jackson ? Of course, Jackson was downed the first round, but he and the people got on top at last. Here, the money power, like King George III,"might profit by the example." Xo matter what principles may be enunciated in the Democratic platform, with Bryan as a Presi dential candidate, or what " issues may be emphasized as keynotes of the campaign," observes the Record, will be "vote winners." No, Mark Hanna's corruption fund will be relied upon as vote winners, ir respective ot principles enumerated in platforms as winners. The banks and the money power rely upon the almighty dollar for vole winners. It is no longer a ques tion of principles in a rprUmfnn of rights, but it is a question of the power 01 money among the cor ruptible and purchasable element in the government to such an ex tent that monev shall rnntrni nil thA affairs of government, and thereby suence tne wui ot the people. We have no confidence, neither do we take stock in the political treachery Ot the Record, limes nnH 11nrlA creatures, which obey the behests of king gold, and prey upon the rights of the people. There is just as milch true IVmnrraru in tVi - . ta teachings of the Philadelphia In quirer, j-ress, ana tne rxew Yorlc Tribune and Sun. as in tho ohmm professed Democratic (hypocritical) 1 . if & The reason why 1900 is not a leap year, although it is divisible by four, is that according to the Gregorian sys tem on which our calendar is based, the closing year of a century is never a leap year unless it is exactly divisi ble by 400. The next leap year will be in 1904, the last having been in lioo. Ever since 1600 the leap years at the end of a century have been separated by a gap of eight years, but the year 2000 will interrupt the series. The department of public instruc tion at Harrisburg is receiving returns from the various school districts of the state for the determination of the amount of the appropriation for each district Under the act of 1875 the appropriation is made upon the basis of one-third the number of children between the ages of six and sixteen, one third the number ot teachers em ployed and one-third the number of taxables. Actions of the Just Smell Sweet." The fragrance of life is 'vigor and strength, neither of which can be found in a per son whose blood is impure, and whose every breath speaks of internal troubles. Hood's Sarsapcrilla purifies, vitalizes and enriches the blood, gives a good appetite and makes the weak strong. Run Down "ATy husband was tun down in hcAlth And aII Urtd out. Those excellent medicines, Hood's Pills AndStrsA prilU, buiti him up AgAfn." Mrs. H. L. Movrv, TooAnda. Pa. tflOodS SaUafjalith HikxI'i Hlllt rur lirtr llliMlie nnn-lrrltiitliiK nd only citlii'rtlc'to Uk wltlPlloocVtariiirHli" 'How Can a Safe and Elastio Currency Be Secured?" In a letter to the New York Tribune, Mr. Theodore Gilmore endeavors to answer the question : "How Can a Safe and Klastic Cur rency be Secured ?" in the lollow ing manner. Incorporate our clearing houses under a Federal law, and give to one in each State the power to issue circulating notes to their bank mem bers to the par of their capital, on pledge of banking assets at 75 per cent, of their appraised value, the notes to be receivable by all banks for all dues to them. This method would provide a safe and elastic bank note currency, based on gold values, with a margin of 33 1-3 per cent., which would circulate at par over the Wiiole country. It would expand when occasion demands and contract when the tcrvice required has been rendered. Such a system would follow closely the practice ot the N ev York Clearing House in the issue of clearing house certifi cates, which are a currency between banks. Such a currency would expand when needed, and the loan com mittee, acting under the stimulus of a contingent liability, would enforce contraction when the currency had done its work. Professor Joseph French Johnson, of the University of Pennsylvania, a recognized au thority 011 finance, has said that "such a system would tend to ren der impossible such panics as the business of the country passed through in 1873 and 1893." It would be a dismal prospect for our country if there is to be no relief from the perpetually recurring panics which have become almost the yearly experience of our com mercial life. We have, lying ueg lecied close at baud, a means for se curing monetary stability which has been proved in many panics to be safe and efficient. Are our busi ness men so wedded to antiquated ideas that one or two more panics are needed, as some think, to con vert them to modern methods ? UOiN'3 MEW E0CK. Willis J. Abbot, Chief of the Demo cratic National Committee s Lit erary Bureau, Reviews "Coin on Money, Trusts and Imperialism." About four years ago a little book issued modestly without any great heralding or any of the putfery through the literary press which is en joyed by writers of romantic fiction or doubtful verse, so seized upon the minds of the American people that it became perhaps the most widely known book of the decade anJ un questionably the one which more than all others influenced men in their po litical action. "Coin's Financial School " was the outgrowth of a series of articles written by Mr. W. H. Har vey for his little paper Coin, and was pushed by the Chicago Inter Ocean at the time when that paper had not discovered that in order to be Repub lican it must necessarily also be the servitor of the bankers. It is hardly necessary now to recount the tre mendous success of the book, or to estimate the share it had in awaken ing the people of the United States to a just comprehension of the import ance of the money question in poli tics. After four years, during which per iod he has at all limes been laboring with voice and pen and organizing ability to fulfill the mission of '96, Mr. Harvey comes before the people on the eve of the new presidential cam paign with a new book in the famil iar style of his former one, but treat ing of the later though not more important issues which have sprung up since the time that Mr. Bryan was defrauded of his election. "Coin 011 Monev, Trusts and Imperialism" treats of at least one issue imperial ism which had not raised its threat ening head in '96. puring that struggle, too.the trusts, though already offering a certain menace to the well-being of the people, had not de- 44 1 1 1 STAR 3 3 Mid-Winter Sale of Clothing ! PREVIOUS TO STOCK TAKING. During this month we will offer BIG UmU il WllTil CLOTHING ! Must be sold to make room for spring goods. coses mmmj to babgaiss AT TWNSENIJ'S TAR CLOTHING veloped into such startling proportions as they now present. To these issues Coin, in his new series of lectures, devotes much of his attention, but the old issue the issue that will arise perennially until out of (he hands ot a favortd class shall betaken the price less privilege of issuing and controling the money of the people engages his attention in the opening chapters of this book. I do not think that Mr. Harvey his ever done anything so well as his dissection of the privileges enjoyed and the further ones demand ed by the national bankers. In a clear and simple style, using as here tofore the dialogue form, he discusses the demand ot the banking class that it shall be permitted to control the money of the people and shows con clusively by figures, the authenticity of which cannot b; disputed, how enormous are the profits they now de rive and hope to continue to draw from monopoly. The profit of the dealer in money is the "unearned increment" no less certainly than is the profit of the speculator in land who has contributed nothing to the productive forces of the nation. Mr. Harvey demonstrates this, though he does not use this particular compar ison, and I believe that his logic will prove as irrefutable as his language is simple and direct. To the qnestions of trusts and im perialism, questions which cannot fail to be bitterly debated during the cam paign, th? author has brought a wealth of statistical material, re-enforced by a clear and logical comprehension of the problems they involve, and 1 think the strergth and value of his discus sion of these problems is derived largely from the fact that he ap proaches them not altogether from the standpoint of the cold and in sensate political economist, but rather Irom that of the man who puts into his political beliefs and into his writ ings that touch of heart, of human sympathy, which made much of the difference between Herbert Spencer and Henry George. I do not believe that a great book on economics or on any living and vital social problem can be written from the dry-as-dust point of view Adam Smith and Mill and J. Laurence Laughlin may be necessary for the progress of science, though in the case of the latter I some what doubt it, but it i: not their type of writin which accomplished great things which stirs the people, and which will be remembered outside of academic halls or musty libraries. In my opinion this new book of Mr. Harvey's notably better than "Coin's Financial School" by its thoroughly human treatment of the questions of the campaign, deserves and will attain a popularity and a circulation quite commensurate with his earlier one. It is, like that one, cleverly illustrated by drawings which enforce the teach ings of the text, and is given a certain up-to-date and .living interest by the employment of the names of well known men in the course of the dis cussion which it recounts. It is a book that will be read by the millions and will be a most potent weapon m the hands of the people for their defense against privileged classes. WILLIS J. ABBOT, Chief of Literary Bureau, Democratic National Committee. Centre countv industrial compa nies, though in the heart of a soft coal district, fear that their operations may be crippled by a fuel famine. WANTED. -SEVERAL BRIGHT AND HONEST persons to represent u as mana ger! in this and close by counties. Salary ijtqoo a year and expenses. Straight, bona fide, no more, no less salary. Position per manent. Our references, any bank, in any own. It is mainly omce work coqcmcieq at home. Reference. Enclose self-addressed tamped envelope. Tin Dominion Com panv, Dept. 3, Chicafio. 9-38-i6t CLOTHING F. P. PURSEL. The Promptings Of Prudence. Prudence should prompt you to read our store news, espec ially at this season. If there's virtue in economy, then our ad vertising columns plainly point the way by which "that virtue can be put into immediate practice. Let us again explain that our policy is opposed to carrying over any sort of merchandise from one season to another. Only one way to make this policy active, and that is by active price reductions. These reductions stand out on these of ferings so that there is no mistaking them. Garment Offerings. Money in the till is better than jackets on the racks. We'll get less money for them than we're justly entitled to, but that doesn't matter, so long as you save the difference. $12 00 and $10 00 jackets re duced to $7.49. $8 50 and $7 50 jackets re duced to $5 49. $5 00 jackets reduced to $3 79. A few heavy suits that were $1600, reduced to $1000, the $20 00 quality reduced to $12 50. These suits will not be fitted at these prices. You will find big reductions among our capes. Knitted Underwear. To summer it means camphor and cases, testing and lugging dead stock and dead money for six months. Isn't it clear to you why we're offering 10 per cent, discount on all our under wear for the next two weeks? F. P. HAPPY NEW Thankinc vou for heloinp' , . " ' A ? auu iiiusi jiuajjviuua )tais tu IUC UlSlOry Ol miS Store. We start the New Year to make you happy, by invinir vou from this day ' 3 Cut Prices on all Coats, Capes, Col larettes, Tailor-Made Suits, &c. Give us a call before the bargains are all. It will pay you to get what you need in this line now, as you will pay much more for goods of this kind one year from now. Dloomsburg Store Co., Limited. Corner Main and Centre. ALFRED McHENRY, Manager HOUSE HOUSE Furniture. The factories have made big a dvances on all kinds of furni ture, but what we have in stock we will sell at the old price dur ing January. Dress Goods. We have gone through our dress goods and picked out all odd pieces and put them in lots. We have not counted cost on them, but put a price on them to close them out. One lot at 25c, another lot at 36c, another at 44c. You can find big values in any of these lots. riuslin Underwear We sold many last week, but we have mors to sell. You will save money if you buy during this sale. Domestics. We are selling best blue prints at 5c; apron ginghams at 5c; 10 yds of good unbleached muslin at 50c; 10 yds of bleached muslin at 69c. Pursel YEAR! to mat iKnn nm nf !, u: . . - y V 1116 UlVtCSk
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