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.Two thousand colored farmers ate
tended the seventh annual Negro con
ference at Tuskegee, Ala. Resolutions
were adopted urging training in agri
culture along with the other education
of the race. The purchase of laud is
also urged.
EIGHT of the most remarkable mar
riages on record took place within a
few weeks in the parish of St. Marie,
Quebec. Two neighbors named Morin
and llheaume have each eight children,
four sons and four daughters. Rhea
ume's four sons have married Morin's
four daughters, and Morin's four sons
-havv married the daughters of Kb ca
nine.
BARKK, Vt., lias just secured a inodt-l
for a statue of Robert Hums, to be
erected on the park of the Spaulding
academy. The model, which is the
work of J. Massey Rhind, an Edin
burgh sculptor, represents the pot
coming home from the field after the
day's work, his coat over one arm
and a roll of manuscript in his right
hand.
THE appointment of ex-King Milan
as general-in-chief of the Servian army
is assigned to a curious cause. King
Alexander's mother, ex-Queen Natalie,
it seems, set such a pace in dress and
court festivities that the Belgrade hus
bands could not stand it. They remon
strated with the king, and, as the sur
est way to keep Natalie out of the cap
ital, her spendthrift husband was in
vited back.
THE reg-ular army of China is said to
consist of 323,000 men. Resides this,
the emperor's army, there is a national
one dollar a month. Hut in considera
tion of tliis munificence are required
to feed themselves. The cavalry re
ceives a month, feed their own
horses, and, if they are lost or killed,
are required to replace them out of the
pay given by the government.
A HOARD the Vizcaya there is an
English speaking midshipman, San
chez l'arragut by name, who is dis
tantly related to the gr.-at American
Adm. Farragut. He is proud of his
American relative, and so announced
in the pr senee of his commanding
officer. liis grandfather was an Amer
ican and closely related to Adm. Far
ragut. It is from his mother that the
young middy gets his Spanish blood.
Drmxo the civil war the confederate
cruisers captured or destroyed 80 ships,
4(5 brigs. 07 schooners and eight other
vessels Hying the American flag. The
number of men withdrawn from indus
try to take part in the civil war on the
union side was 2,772.408, while the con
federates enlisted over (>OO.OOO. The
expense of the war department in 186J
was $394,000,000; in 1883, 8500.000,000; in
1804, $000,000,000; in 18(55, 81,031,000,000.
THERE has been considerable discus
sion as to the proper pronunciation of
Vizcaya. Captain Eulate—pronuonced
"Ay-00-lah-tay," with the first two
syllables run together a little, the
third accented and the fourth very
short—pronounces his ship's name
"Vith-kye-ah," or as near that as an
English tongue can get it. The sec
ond syllable rhymes with "rye," and is
really two syllables, but the two vow
el sounds are run close together.
SINCE the overwhelming defeat of
home rule for Ireland, when the Glad
stone party went to the wall, several
years ago, little has been heard of the
subject, but the Salisbury ministry has
prepared and will doubtless pass a bill
which will establish a system of local
governing boards to have control of
taxes, expenditures, poor relief and all
other matters not properly in the
jurisdiction of the courts. These coun
ty councils are to be elected by the
peopie.
CONSIDKKI.NO that the United States
army now numbers only 2(5,955 officers
and enlisted men, the addition of two
new regiments of artillery is a consid
erable one. At present there are five
artillery regiments, with 292 officers
end 3.800 men, so that the proposed ad
dition will increase that branch of the
service 40 per cent. The increase is
made necessary by the large increase in
the number of batteries for coast de
fense already made or about to be
made, which have to be manned.
GERMAN analysis say that the apple
contains a larger proportion of phos
phorous than any other fruit or vege
table adapted for renewing the essen
tial nervous matter of the brain and
spinal cord. Scandinavian traditions
represent the apple as the food of the
gods, who, when they felt themselves
growing old and feeble, resorted to
this fruit for renewing their powers of
mind and body. A modern maxim
teaches us "to tat an apple before go
ing to bed, the doctor then will beg his
bread.''
ADDRESSES OF FREE SILVERITES
Appcnln fur Sn|>|>»rt of Itotfi-n Money
fa mlltl tiff*.
The national committees of the demo
cratic, populist and silver republican
organizations have just issued ad
dresses. Tlicy are In substance appeals
to all to »-r>om they are addressed to
unite at approaching elections in the
support of rotten money candidates.
Democrats, populists and silver repub
licans are urged to disregard all minor
issues on which they may disagree and
look on the financial question as the
paramount issue.
These addresses are filled with de
nunciations of the gold standard, which
is held up as the cause of all the ills
that flesh is heir to. Chairman Jones,
of the democratic national committee,
informs a prospering country, whose
farmers are paying off their debts
hand over fist and whose wage-work
ers can find employment whenever
they want to, thnt "work is harder
to get; the weight of debt is doubled;
and the value of land and other prop
erty is reduced one-half or more."
This Arkansas pessimist also predicts
that unless the gold standard is thrown
overboard—
"The continued rise In the value of gold,
or, which is the same thing, the continued
fall of prices, must inevitably transfer the
property of all those engaged In active
business, the actual creators of wealth,
whether by hand, brain, or capital, to
those who, avoiding the risk and effort of
active business, only draw Interest."
But all the men in tlie United States
who are engaged in active business and
who may be assumed to understand
what is good for them as well as .Tones,
the backwoods "lawyer, are supporters
of the gold standard. They are not
afraid of being swallowed up by the
men who "draw interest." They could
not have such fears when they see the
steady decline in the interest rates.
The populist address declares tear
fully thnt—
"All of those of whatever party wlio
favor the conspiracy of gold and monopoly,
who favor industrial slavery, widespread
poverty, and national destruction, should
be on one side; and all of those of whatever
party who oppose this deadly design, who
love truth and right, who love their coun
try, who love their home-sand llresides, and
who believe in 'the sacred principles de
clared by Jefferson and reasserted by
Jackson and Lincoln, should be on the
other side."
But there is no attempt to explain
why industrial slavery, poverty and na
tional destruction should be incidents
of the gold standard when England has
prospered so greatly under it for over
80 years and when Germany has made
such progress under it during the last
quarter of a century.
Those who wish to have the mono
metallic silver standard substituted for
the gold standard are described as lov
ers of"truth and right"and as believers
in the "sacred principles" of Jefferson,
Jackson and Lincoln.
But how can it be "right" to make a
«. uunui ..f,... i, niiri, i«> je used
retroactively in the payment of debts
contracted on a 100-cent dollar basis?
How can it be "right" to cheat several
millions of people, the majority of them
wage workers, who can ill afford to lose
more than half their savings?
When did Jefferson, or Jackson, or
Lincoln anounce it as a "sacred prin
ciple" that the government should de
base the currency in order that knavish
debtors might be enabled to defraud
their creditors legally? The authors of
th«* itJdresa should have quoted the
language those eminent men used when
tliey expressed themselves —as tlicy are
accused of having clone—in favor of rot
ten money and public and private dis
honesty.
These addresses explain nothing.
They do not point out wherein any
class of the community would be bene
fited by 44-eent silver dollars. They do
not attempt to justify the wholesale de
struction of values which the retroactive
use of such dollars would entail. They
contain simply the old and often
answered attacks on the geld standard.
Their only novel feature is the failure
to use anywhere those familiar words,
"the free coinage of silver at the ratio of
sixteen to one." That ratio, according
to Bryan, is the very heart and core of
the silver movement. It is a little
strange that men like Jones, who have
been saying "sixteen to one" several
times a day for some years, should for
get. to use those sacred words now.
Does this mean that the free silverites
nrc preparing to shift their ground a
little? Some of the eastern democrats
have urged that "sixteen to one" be
dropped ajul the fight be made on the
naked issue of the free coinage of silver.
Can it lie that their advice is to be
taken?— Chicago Tribune.
An Ahxtiril Alliance.
The more or less substantial organi
zations known as the democratic, popu
listic and silver republican parties have
broken out again. This timet! breach
of the pea' e is in the form of addresses
published by the national committees
of the parties. The address mie;lit as
well have been prepared in triplicate,
for the burden of the song is the same
in each case, and there is little differ
ence in the notes. There are three
mouths, but one voice. The parties
mentioned are recommitted to the
craze which submerged them from
sight at the last general election.
Ephraim is joined to his idols, and they
are made ol silver of a debased quality
and a low market value. This bourbon
ism. that learns nothing and forgets
nothing, is characteristic of the party
that for years after the war ended op
posed the measures of reconstruction,
as it had opposed the suppression of re
bellion and, before that, the abolition
of human sir very. The resurrection of
the free silver absurdity, with its
triple moulh. is such a puerile reitera
tion that the joint silver republican,
populistic and democratic elements de
serve to be called the Silly Rcpopocrats.
—Troy Times.
tTSnme of the democratic papers are
trying to gather the remnants of their
party together on a bimetallist plat
form in the congressional elections.—
(ova Stale Register.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1898.
j THE OLD RATIO BEING DROPPED
I)t niocrntN Wenkenln;? on the Six
teen to One ItuKin.
Sixteen to one as the democratic war
cry is not as vociferous M it was.
Symptoms of weakness arc developing.
Some old democrats are asking why,
if the ratio was changed in Jackson's
time from fifteen to one, there is any
thing particularly sacred about sixteen
to one, or any other rigid figures. Jt
is stated that certain democratic sen
ators and representatives are planning
a movement to declare for silver, leav
ing the ratio blank, and that several
well-known leaders, not including Mr.
Bryan, are encouraging the scheme.
In the first place, they argue, sixteen
to one has been passed upon by the
people. It was defeated, and would be
defeated again by a larger majority, for
the world since 1896 has been steadily
drifting away from the silver standard.
Every democrat knows that his party
is divided on the silver plank. In the
interest of harmony it is proposed to
declare for the free coinage of silver,
leaving the ratio to be determined by
circumstances—that is to say, by the
current views of a majority of con
gress, with the approval of the presi
dent.
Signs come from other parts of the
country than Washington that there
are democrats ready to let the old ratio
go by the board. Some silver men
nominally not democrats take a sim
ilar view. In his recent speech review
ing the experiences in Europe of the
latest bimetallic commission Senator
W olcott suggested that something pos
sibly might be done abroad by chang
ing the ratio to twenty or twenty-two
to one. Ex-Gov. lioies, of lowa, has
just published his plan to send all gold
and silver at the market price to the
government vaults to serve as security
and basis tcr the redemption of gov
ernment paper issues. A Washington
correspondent reports one of the cham
pions of the new scheme to have said:
"The ratio may be twenty to one or
twenty-five to one, or even thirty to
one. No matter. The point is that
by this means the democratic party
will regain control of itself and of the
country, and be. able to restore silver
to its proper place as a money metal.
This is the principle at stake; the ratio
is a mere detail."
llut that is not the principle at- stake
by a good deal. This government has
never surrendered the principle that
the gold dollar and the silver dollar
shall be on a parity at the world's mar
ket price. In fact, the government ex
isted nearly 100 years before this poli
cy was looked upon in any other light
than as a matter of course. The JK-O
ple cannot accept an uncovered 04-cent
silver dollar or an 84-eent silver dollar
without giving tip the long existing
parity between the gold dollar and sil
ver dollar, each representing 100 cents.
Thn.. - r- •* v«_«no of silver
now as a doliar only because the gov
ernment protects it with 100 cents in
gold. The democrats might ns well
stick to the old ratio if they propose
anything less than parity with gold.
Their new scheme is a shuffle and a
fraud, and will lose them the support
of those whom they ding-donged into
the belief that all the world's financial
and industrial fabric rested unalterably
upon sixteen to one.—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
Dmcrtine the Fallacy.
The Wyoming republicans, who have
long tried to be republicans and free
silverites too, have given up the effort
to continue to be of two minds on otie
question, and at a late meeting of their
state committee it was decided that the
party organization should come out
fairly and squarely for the gold stand
ard in the coming campaign. Free sil
ver will be left where it belongs, with
the Bryanites. This action marks a
decided change in public opinion in
what is a silver mining camp state, foi
it has been the custom for years foi
the Wyoming republicans to indors
free coinage of silver as "a local issue.
Either the Wyoming republicans have
notheard from Senator .lones of Arkan
sas that the gold standni'd has worked
such hardship on the toiling millions
that the lives of our people are "made
bitter with bondage," or else they have
heard it and do not believe it.. Senator
.Tone will find other people than those
of Wyoming equally disinclined to ac
cept his assertion that the inhabitants
of the United States are in such a state
of suffering that relief can be obtained
only by overthrowing the gold stand
ard. Nor will Senator Jones find it an
easy task to demonstrate his proposi
tion that "the crime of 1873" was a
"cruel confiscation of the lives and lib
erty of the laboring millions of this
country." The people heard all about
the crime of 187.'i from Mr. I?rvan in
1800, and then went and elected Mr. Mc-
Kinley.—Boston Transcript.
Sound Money RcpnhllcnnM.
There can be no doubt of the attitude
of the republican party on tin* proposi
tion to pay the obligations of the nation
in depreciated currency. Not only did
the republicans in the senate vote
against the proposition, but the repub
lican house made short work of the
measure, rejecting it by a majority of
50 with the promptness which empha
sized the vigorous disapprobation
which republicans of that body exer
cised with reference to this proposition.
In addition to this, the president him
self took occasion to express his disap
proval of the measure in his New York
speech, saying: ".Nothing should ever
tempt us—nothing will ever tempt us—
to scale down the debt of the nation
through a legal technicality. What
ever may be the language of the eon
tract. the United States will discharge
all of its obligations in the currency
recognized as the best throughout the
world at the times of payment. Nor
will wt» ever consent that the wages of
labor or its frugal savings shall be
sealed down by permitting payment in
dollars of less value than the dol
lars accepted as the best in e' pry
enlightened nation of the earth." —Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune
WAS A CHANCE REMARK.
Misconstruction Placed on Words
of Socretary L.on^.
lie Fubllcly t'Xpliilnn Thnt It ftai
Nut an Olllc-lul I Mrrani'e— VI x
caifi ltenche* llh vn iia—'l iie
Court of Ln\julr>.
Washington, March 2.—The main in
terest of the day in connection with the
Maine inquiry centered in a statement
by Secretary Long, following the cabi
net meeting, that in his personal opin
ion any official participation by the
Spanish government in the blowing up
of the Maine was now practically elimi
nated from the situation.' This state
ment was not of a formal or official
character, and was made by Mr. bong
ns he walked away from the white
house. As usual the various cabinet of
ficers were besieged with inquiries as
to the questions before the meeting,
and in response to these importunities
the secretary rather casually summed
up the situation in a few words, stating
that most of the time had been given
to the outrages on colored postmasters
in the south. Naturally the Cuban
situation had been gone over, he said,
but there were no actual developments
nnd he felt that public excitement over
the subject had materially abated.
Then he added the statement, in the
same passing way, that any participa-
AT_THEL RFAkCfc.
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HOLLAND SUBMARINE BOAT. WHICH CAN PI-AY HIDE AND SEEK WITH
AN ENEMY.
The Holland Is about 60 feel long and cigar-shaped. A single screw, propelled by
a gas motor, enables it to make tight knots an hour, either on the surface ur under
Waier. Its rudders are on pivots. Under waler they lake a horizontal position and
steer Just as well as on the surface.
The ship is steered by a man in a little conning tower fitted with plate-glass win
dows. Air is supplied from reservoirs Mr. Holland says the boat can remain un<!er
water four hours at a time. It can go 7" feet below the surface, where a shell hurled
at 11 could not reach it. The boat carries three dynamite guns, each with a range un
der water of hUO yards.
tion by the Spanish government in the
blowing up of the Maine was practically
eliminated, in his judgment. This last
remark was speedily given wide circula
tion apart from the quieting references
which had accompanied it. It im
mediately started much comment tflid
discussion, and when Mr. Long returned
to the navy department after lunch he
found that what he had intended to
convey was being given the force of nn
official declaration that Spain's respon
sibility for the disaster had been
eliminated. In order to make clear his
meaning, ns a personal expression of
opinion. Mr. Long dictated the following
statement:
"The main things we talked about In
cabinet were the outrages on postmasters,
one a white man In Georgia and one a
colored nfan In South Carolina.
"In regard to the Cuban situation. I said
I thought things were growing quieter
every day and as far as my Judgment weni
I was Inclined to think that any official par
ticipation on the part of the Spanish gov
ernment in ihe disaster was now practical
ly eliminated."
Aside lrom this incident the dav
brought forth few developments of im
portance relating lo the Maine. No dis
patches of any character from Key
West, where the court of inquiry is sit
ting, were given out during the day, and
fas the rule of publicity is still in force
presumably nothing came from that
quarter. The vessel movements an
nouueed during the day were devoid of
significance.
While activity continues in the navy
yards, there is a display of war spirit
In all sections of the country. Among
others offering their services in case of
a conflict with Spain are the coal min
ers of the Pittsburgh district.
Xothlnu Netv In Known.
Key West, Fla., March 2.—The second
day's sessions ol the court of inquiry
are over, and nothing new is known re
garding the fate of the Maine, at all
events outside the members of the
court. Some who confidently declared
a week ago that the court had already
found that the was intentionally
blown up have modified this conviction,
and, for the most part, admit that such
reports must have been based largely
on speculation. Even naval officers are
apparently as much in the dark as tin
civilians as to what the court's opinion
is at the present moment. Excellent
progress has been made in the examina
tions, and the court will probably finish
its work here to-day, when its members
will be taken back to Havana cn the
Mangrove.
Funeral I'lnna.
Admiral Sicard has requested Dr. Mai
lonej', the mayor of Key West, to pre
vent a local demonstration when the
funeral of the Maine's dead occurs. lie
has asked that in the event of a parade
being formed by the residents only
American flags shall be displayed.
Mayor Malloney has promised to carry
out Admiral Sicard's wishes as far as
possible, but doubts whether the strong
Cuban nnd anti-Spanish sentiment can
be suppressed. All of the funeral ar
rangements will be under the direction
of Commander McCall, of the Marble
head. As now planned, small details
of marines will be landed from the ves
sels here and at the Tortugas, and the
artillery at barracks will join in paying
the last honors.
Vlicnyn Rrnrhpi Hnvnnn.
Havana, March 2.—The Spanish cruis
er Vizcaya arrived off Morro castle
at six o'clock Tuesday evening, after a
good voyage from New York. She was
met by scores of steam launches and
gayly dec-orated yachts with bands, and
! as she steamed to her moorings tuthu
j siastic welcomes were shouted from all
I the quays, which were lined with thou
sands of people. The streets and plazas
were gay with bunting, rockets were
discharged and there was continuous
cheering from all the boats. '
Keady, If Needed.
London, March 2.—A special dispatch
I from Shanghai suys: The United States
squadron is concentrated at Hong
I Kong, with a view of active operations
against Manila, Philippine islands, in
| the event of an out break of war between
\ the United States and Spain. The
! squadron, which is very powerful, in-
I eludes the cruisers Olyinpia, Boston,
j Kaleigh. Concord and Petrel.
An Antony of SiiNiieime.
Madrid, March 2.—Greater anxiety is
visible here in regard to the verdict
of the United States naval court of in
quiry into the loss of the battleship
Maine than was apparent a week ago
The constant rumors of possible hostil
ities are harassing and weakening the
government, anil they are also trying
the patience of the public. The "jingo
papers" publish exhaustive dispatches
from New York and Washington to the
effect that the relations between the
United States and Spain are hourly be
coming more strained, and attributing
to President MeKinley a series of anti-
Spanish declarations.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
Two Men Killed nnd Severn! Hurt at
Wet more, Mich.
Wetinore, Mich., March 2.—The boil
ers in Clark & Acker's shingle mill ex
ploded Tuesday evening, killiugtwo men
and seriously injuring several others.
Hugh Long, a teamster, was killed in
stantly. Peter Morris, ex-sheriff of
Alger county, was found lyingdead and
badly mangled near the boiler. George
Moore was seriously injured and will
probably die. Hiram Zantz and I'eter
| llrix also received serious injuries.
Several others were slightly injured
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