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The Job department of the PHESS IS complete and affords facilities for doing the best class of WORK PMITK-ULAB ATTLKUUN PAIDTO LAW PRINTING. ~ No paper will be discontinued until arrear- Kes are paid, except at the option of the pub her. . . ~ I'apers sent out of the county must be paid lor in advance. It was a generous Swede who, 5u consideration of getting a good ■wife, was willing to ii<l<l to the fn in"the law allowed for per forming the marriage ceremony, ac cording to the Xew York Press. "A young Swede called on a minister in a western state with a blonil sweetheart in tow and asked to be married. '1 he minister performed the ceremony. 'llow much do you charge for him?' the Swede asked. 'Do'.lar?' 'I don t charge for it.' the minister explained, 'but the law allows me a dollar and a half.' Ole took a silver half dollar from bis pocket, handed it to the minister and remarked: 'Ay Umk she mck you two dollar.'" The immense collection of fossil fish ?s acquired from Ohio fields In Dr. Wil liam Clark, of Berea. ().. has just been purchased by the British museum. The t hole collect ion weighed over three tons, embracing many rare genera and spe cies that may never be duplicated, and as a whole were the most complete set of these interesting fossils in the world. Or. Clark, who has a world-wide repu tation as a geologist, has been develop ing the Ohio fields since 1884. and al ready has many new genera placed to his credit. T.ucy Havens, hailing from (lalien, Mich., and weighing about lioii pounds, became a public charge at the county poorheiise, Laporte, Ind. Dr. Deeters, of L uion City, Ind., offered to marry her and agreed to deposit SIOO as a guaranty of good faith. Arrange ments for the wedding were begun, but meantime a showman caine along and persuaded Miss Havens to travel and be exhibited. She signed a con tract to do so, and now Dr. Deeters has sued the showman, asking $5,000 damages for causing Miss Havens to break her promise. A severe wind and hailstorm struck Tunnelton, Md., a few nights ago just sifter Charles Cozad and his family had gone to bed. The storm lifted the whole house except the lower floor from its foundation and carried the walls and roof up into the air, depositing the house right side up and complete, except for the floor, nearly 100 yards away. The family, awoke to find themselves sleeping in the open air, the house having been literally blown over their heads. Not one of them was injured. Judge A. Gay, of Arcadia, Ind.. is framing a bill which will be intro duced in the legislature next winter providing for the establishment of a whipping post in Indiana to punish wifebeaters. He thinks the same pun ishment should be meted out 1o ha bitual drunkards, to men who insult women on the streets and in other public places and to petty thieves who under the present law cannot be sent to the penitentiary. Four boys were swimming in a pool when a thunderstorm came. They were on a plank, poised for a dive, when lightning struck the plank and ran its full length. Kvery boy was stunned, fortunately only slightly, and the fall into the water revived them. But every one was blue as if bruised, from the knees down, and it was a week before the effects passed away. It is estimated that the agricultu ral department experts have saved at least $5,000,000 worth of cattle dur ing the past year by the distribution of their black leir vtu'eine. During the year just closed the government sent out about 2,500.000 doses of the vac oil e mixture, which went to cattle raisers in all parts of the country. The only person heard of thus far who has returned with a treasure from ( ape Nome is a Kansan, who had a bad case of dyspepsia when he went away. Me has returned home with an appetite and digestion like a saw mill. He gathered in good health, which is Lvtter than gold. An lonia (Mich.) woman has insert ed all ad\ertisemcnt in the local pa pers warning people against trusting Jicr husband, as she will not be re sponsible for the payment of any d<ibts of hii contracting. TRUTHS PLAINLY STATED. The Price* on Man; Ciimniodltlei Have Been Kedweed l»> Indus trial Combination*. They were jogging along home in the wagon, after xi«'iii!iiig the day in town, and hearing a prominent democratic spellbinder roast the administration, and inveigh against the trusts and im perialism, ana the younger man was giving his hearty approval to all that had been said. The other, whose head was well sprinkled with white, finally interrupted, and after cursory discus sion of the question remarked: "There is one thing about it that I can't, for the life of me get straight. 1 suppose everybody is opposed to trusts, and ought to be, but I remember w hen we had to pay 15 cents a box for matches, or two for a quarter; and they organized a match trust, and now we get them for ten cents a dozen boxes. Then coal oil. I used to pay 40 cents a gallon for it before the Stand ard Oil company gobbled up the small fellows and suppressed all competition, and now I get a better quality at ten cents a gallon. And there's sugar; we used to have to pay a dollar for six and seven pounds of brown sugar, and the poorer folks got a very dark ugar. al most black, for nine pounds to the dol lar. Somebody come along and organ ized the sugar trust, and it wen" down cntil I got ~l) pounds of the best grade jjl' granulated sugar for a dollar in '.' T. and now you can get 1G and pounds for a dollar. Then that fellow talked about railroads bleeding the people. NVhy, 1 remember when it cost five cents a mile straight to ride on the rail roads; and now they have got fare down to two cents a mile, and instead of the old. shackley ears, and corduroy roads, that shook a man until it loosed his teeth, they have the finest kind of cars, and road beds that are as smooth as a parlor floor." "And, as far as that imperialism busi ness goes, 1 have got a boy out in Ma nila somewhere, and dern my hide, I am with him to the end, and I ain't afraid of him and the other boys with him doing anything but their duty and Handing by the old flag. "I don't see, either, but what Me- Kinley has done what he ought to have done, and lam going to say to you right now. Jim, I am fer him, it don't matter what Bryan or anybody else says. He is for the American sol- diers. and my boy is ow of them. It may be rank treason to the democratic party, but I am for America and tin old (lag tirst and the democratic party after that." And the younger man was not so cer tain of his position, for his older broth er had tried to climb San Juan hill. PIANOS PLAY PROSPERITY. CliiffiKO Mniiufnetnrer* (iite Evi dence «>f tlic (iootl Time* Among Far mem. Manufacturers of pianos in Chicago ore enjoying 1 a great wave of prosper ity. Every firm in the city complains of its inability to keep up with daily orders, for it is only when business is nourishing that people indulge in such luxuries as pianos and organs. The farmer has good crops, good prices, and money to spare, and he is able to beau tify his home. His demands upon the city mean steady and profitable em ployment for all classes of workmen. This state of affairs has crowded the makers of pianos with more orders than they can fill in several months. Here are snap shots taken by Wabash avenue manufacturers: P. S. Ilealy (Lyon & Healy)-—We are face to face with a proposition of (lis- posing 1 of more instruments than we can manufacture. E. S. Con way (W. W. Kimball com pany) —There is an immediate market for every piano which is made, and tin trade is increasing with a growing per cent from year to year. \V. I!. I'rice (Cable I'ianocompany) —- We have been forced to open a new fac tory at St. Charles. 111., so that we might come somewhere near supplying the demand. Our business at the pres ent time is unprecedented. John Church (John Church Com pany)—We are further back in our or ders than we have been ever before, and can account for it only through the fact that people seem to have more money than usual. Frank Story (Story & Clark) —We are utterly unable to supply the trade, which has been steadily increasing since 1 think 1 am conservative when 1 figure a third increase, and it would not surprise, me if it amounted to one-half mor£ than last year. \V. <>. Bacon (Estey A- Camp) —He- hind in orders for two years, and it will be some time before we can catch up. (ieorge I'. Kent Far behind in or ders. and have bought ground for an extension of plant. l*orto Itlco I*roH|M»rinsc. Commerce between the Cnited States and Porto Uico has greatly developed since the new law has been in exist ence. In the months of May. June and July of 1111)0 the exports were valued at $2,117,207. as against $873,453 in the same months of .1599, $-15.">.27.8 in tlie same months of l-!) 7, and $3!13.225 in JS'JO. The law lias proved a great bene fit to ihe islanders and to the people of the United States. Xot for finiii or \UK m nil I nicnl. "The cause of humanity has been triumphant, and that cause commit ted to our hands will not suffer. Wherever we have raised our flap", we have d it. not for conquest, not for territorial aggrandizement, not forna tional gain, but for civilization and hu manity. And let those lower it who w ill!"—Willia in Me Kin ley. \o lin lie rialiMin I'oKMiltle . "There can be no imperialism. Those who fear it are against it. Those who have faith in the republic are against It."—William McKinley. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1900. THE GREAT SHAM ISSUE. Tralli h; n GrorKlon About Hit- llry unite llottey of Impe rialism. Since Mr. Bryan has been telling people everywhere that our country paid S2.! H) a head for Filipinos I have not expected much in the shape of a solid or candid argument from him. Only a few days since, in his own town of Lincoln, he made in a speech a statement which he had made be fore, and which he had had time to repent of, as follows: "The republican party, which was not willing that a black man should be, sold for SI,OOO, now claims that a Filipino can be bought for $2.50. 'the principle is exactly the same." That statement of Mr. Bryan's was based on the payment of $20.000,000 to Spain for the Philippine islands by the treaty of Paris. He further said: "This nation had no more right, as a nation, to claim ownership of 8,000,- 000 Filipinos than one man has a right to claim ownership of another man." This argument of his means that sov ereignty, or the right to maintain law and order, carries with it owner ship of the persons for whom laws are made and enforced. Ilence it fol lows, all people subject to government are slaves. Mr. Bryan knows that the treaty of Paris was nol a party meas ure. for it was favored by two-thirds of the senate, and he admits he ad vised its ratification. The policy of this government in dealing with its new dependency is the outcou*e of the trtaty of Paris. That treaty is BEHIND THE SCENES. CROKER: "For Heaven's sake, Clark, don't goon with that ice. Bryar is just talking about trusts.' 1 the law of the land, and to enforce law is the duty of the American peo ple, regardless of party. Opposition to it now means nothing less than dis credit to American honor and encour agement of resistance to American effort to restore order and establish law in legally acquired American ter ritory territory acquired by treaty, the ratification of which Mr. Bryan went out of his way to advise. For my part, I do not intend to agree, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that the American peo ple, or even any respectable political party in America, is capable of mak ing vassals and slaves of the Filipinos, or that the American people or any respectable political party in my coun try are aiders or abettors in any scheme ol' conquest. I am not apolo gizing for the republican party. The Philippine policy is not the policy of the republican party alone; Mr. Bryan does that party entirely too much honor in giving it so nittcli credit. Yet, on the strength of what has been done, and well done, and on what is about to be done, and ought to have been done in the Philippines, Mr. llryati bases his speech of acceptance, contending that the whole thing means conquest, and that this coun try is bent on a deliberate scheme tending inevitably toward imperial ism. Mr. Bryan ignores such men as Sen ator Morgan, and pays so little re spect to the intelligent public as. to presume that they will join him in an unceasing tirade against expan sion, and that he can denominate as the "paramount" question the effort of America to restore order in its le gally acquired possessions by sup pressing the most groundless insur rection known to history. lie says the democratic platform authorizes him to make this the paramount question. Yes, but it must be remem bered that since Is'.lti there has been but one democratic candidate for president who from the- outset has been making speeches assuming that this country was on the high road to imperialism. The masses were indif ferent. and did not take this as a se rious matter, for they knew that the tendenev all over flic world, even in monarchies, is more liberty for the people. In our country, where they vole and make our laws and shape our policy, they are not troubled about imperialism. So the whole tiling went by default at Kansas Citv. and imperialism, the bogy hatched from the mare's nest discov ered by Bryan, was putin the plat form and is now gravely held up by Mm as a Villus' "112 terror to frlgliten the American people as so many cred ulous children. Any democrat lias a right- to protest against this sense less issue being thrust on a great his toric party as a paramount issue merely because Mr. Itryan, at the ex pense of the greatest and most glar ing personal inconsistency, wishes it done. Can it be willfulness in Mr. Itryan or is it due to defective reasoning in hiln to ignore all evidence and reason and contend that his country has un worthy purposes to make conquest of islands and vassals of their people'.' In a nightmare of apprehension he cries out: "I am not willing that this nation'shall cast aside the omnipotent weapon of physical warfare!" The way to find out the.truth as. to whether this country is seizing the weapon of physical warfare in the Philippines is to ascertain what wit nesses who have investigated the, facts and know them say about it. The most reliable witnesses are the members of the ' Philippine commis sion. That commission was composed of democrats as well as republicans, and some of its members were against expansion. They were all men of high character, acting under oath and on honor, and of this war they said: "Deplorable as war is, the one in which we are now engaged was un avoidable by us. We were attacked by a bold, adventurous and enthusi astic army. Xo alternative was left us except ignominious retreat." This statement is their verdict, and goes into history as the truth, and ought not to be ignored by Mr. Bryan who discourses so loudly about the "omnipotent weapon of truth." A man having the ear of the people as Mr. Hryan lias should respect what Washington Irving' said: "Knowledge is power, and truth is knowledge; whoever, therefore, knowingly propa gates a prejudice willfully saps the foundation of his country's strength." Jonesboro, Ga. JOHN J. HUNT. Atlanta Constitution (l)etn.). THE PENDULUM OF TRADE. Ileuiu rknlilo IJcmonntriitlon of th< SoiilMlncM.l of the Kepult lleaii l'olley. The influence of free trade in de pressing the industries of the coun try and in lowering the export busi ne-s are shown in the statistics of ex ports for the past 30 years. The state ment is a most remarkable demon stration of the soundness of the re publican policy that the stimulation of home industry stimulates the ex port trade. Hxports for Five Administration*. Dem Dec. Rep. Inc Garfield and , Arthur ...$3,217,276,614 Cleveland.. 2.5.13.852.303 $383,424,311 Harrison... 3,f»14,959,017 $651,136,7P Cleveland.. 3,429,950,869 85,038,148 McKinleyiS yrs. only) 3,509,499,188 79,548,31! The bank clearings tell the same story. The record is below: Dem. Dec. Rep. Inc Garfield and Arthur: $109.603,866,9119 ('leveland: 124,362,009.051 $45,141,857.91S Harrison: 142,290,755,707 $17,928,746,651 < 'leveland: 11ti.2;;ti,800,248 26.023.955,409 M' Kinley (3 years): 12K, 559,505,667 12,292,705,41'. There has been over $12.u00,<'.00.00C more business done in the United States in the three years of the Mc- Kinley administration than during the free trade era of Cleveland. Wliat All Want. "What you want, what we all want, iy business prosperity. When you have that you have something to do. When you have it not you are itlle." — William Mc Kinley. llreads!alTs Co Abroad. The export of breadstuff* in the fls -1,-al1,-alI,-al year ending June 30, I'.MX). were valued at $202.7.'14.';;2<i. In IS'Jj they were valued at $114.(504,750. t 'Mr. Bourlce Cock ran will also lie !at a great disadvantage. The cam paign will not be long enough to give | him a chance tei explain why he is for j Urvan this time when he was for Mc- Kinley last time. Chicago Inter ! Octan. 11 ANN A HITS BRYAN. Takes the Democrat's Letter of Ac ceptance for His Text. The Oil 1 o Senator ~ii»L «• * Telling S|H*«M*II to < hlriiKouiiK—Demo cratic < it IMI i;]n t<**» I'oKltion \L»L> \*HII J !«•<!. Senator Mark A. llaima. at the Mc- Kinley Commercial club. Chicago, on Tuesday. September I*. made a vigor ous address upon Bryan's letter of ac ceptance, in which he said: "I take for my text Mr. Bryan's views on the minor issues of the campaign as set forth in his letter of acceptance published to-day. Just before the democratic con vention at Kansas City many pilgrimages were made to Lincoln. Neb., by democratic missionaries at the urgent call of Mr. Bry an. This was for the purpose of putting Bryan's pet scheme of free siivtc* in the platform. "But, if you remember correctly that is sue was only placed in the platform by a majority of one vote of the committee. Now Bryan has relegated the silver Issue to the rear, and brings out imperialism as the chief issue. Bryan gained this issue when the treaty was made with Spain in which the Philippine islands were pur chased. He went to Washington and by his own influence forced certain democrat ic senators to adopt the treaty, in order that the democratic party might fight against it in the coming campaign. That proves that Bryan has not the courage to stand by his own convictions. "Bryan's letter speaks of trusts. Yet he does not mention the ice trust or the cotton bale trust. In the* latter Senator Jones is heavily interested. Every one knows the story of the ice trust. As Bryan declares that the trust is one of the main issues of this campaign, I can say that we are ready to meet him on that proposition as well as on any other. Iluiina** ItelationM with Labor. "Bryan also makes much ado concerning the conflict between capital and organized labor. For myself, I have this to say: 1 was the first man in Ohio to recognize or ganized labor. It was in 1871, when 1 was in the coal business in Cleveland, O. John Seaney and John James, president and sec retary of the first bituminous coal miners' organization in the United States, called upon me and stated that the miners had organized into a union. "As I was a leading coal operator, the two gentlemen urged me to use my influence in organizing the operators. That was my lirst experience with a trust. I organized the operators in the district in which I was interested, and during my entire experi ence there we never had a strike or trouble of any kind. "I want to make this statement here, once and for all, in reply to all these charges and insinuations with reference to my aspect toward labor: If any man in the United States of America can bring into my pres ence a man who has ever worked for me and truthfully state and substantiate that 1 have refused to meet at any time and anywhere any man in my employ, that I have ever intentionally done any man a harm, that I have ever insisted on lower ing wages to any man who works for me, or who can truthfully say that I have done evil to him, I will resign from the United States senate to-morrow. (Great applause.) J made the proposition in 1897: i have found no takers, and it is still open. (Laughter and applause.) Itepnhiicn it I'nrty AgniiiMt Trust*. "Now, then, about this trust question, a few words more. I would like to have Mr. Bryan or any other di moerat tell me what | a trust is. 1 don't believe there is a trust | in the United States, for every state law and national law will destroy any trust that comes within its jurisdiction; and the only laws, state and national, that have ever been put upon statute books were en acted by the republican party. (A Voice: Never enforced.) Yes, they are enforced. (Voices: But him out.) No, don't put him out. I don't want to put anybody out. (A Voice. He is a good democrat; he shoots in the rear.) "We have no objections to the democratic party being opposed to trusts, but they have got ho patent on it. (Laughter.) Jlryuii's Policy lor Philippine*. "Now then, one word more with refer ence to the position of Mr. Bryan upon this Philippine question—and it has been so thoroughly exploded that I won't men tion It except in passing. 1 recited to you the part that he took in the execution of that treaty, and the authority thu he used with his party to ratify the treaty, and 1 think 1 have convinced a great many of my hearers that his purpose and motive was not patriotic. He tells the people of the United States what he will do it' he is elected president of the United States. His lirst act would be to haul down the Amer ican tiag in the Philippines. (A Voice: 'He never could do it.') "Then he would establish a stable gov ernment—he doesn't say republican gov ernment—and probably put Aguinaldo at the head of it. Then he said that he would establish a jirotectorate by the United States, pull down the American flag, with draw our soldiers from the soil, and leave our buried dead there under the super vis-ion of Aguinaldo, renounce every vestige of power, which has come to us legally and lawfully, and then establish a protectorate —which means what? It means that the government of the United States would be obliged to protect the government of Aguinaldo from all foreign foes and inter ference. And what would be the result ? "Judging the future by the past, the next actions of Aguinaldo would be such as to shock the civilized world; and, if for no other reason, the nations would interfere in tile interests of humanity as we did in Cuba. Hut if for seliish reasons any Eu ropean people should make up their minds that they wanted a foothold in that archi pelago, and propose to take il. what would be the duty ot the United States govern ment under Air. Uryan's ideas? We would have to say: 'No, hands off.' rent of Intellectual Acrobat. "Mr. Bryan has performed a wonderful feat, an acrobat Isn't In it, when he con veys the Monroe doctrine to Asiatic waters. Who ever heard of such a thing? The Mon roe doctrine is founded purely and simply in the determination on the part of the gov ernment of the United States that no for eign country should interfere in tile west ern hemisphere. Mr. Bryan would do what? Spread it all over the world and w> would stand behind and defend it. What do >ou call that if it isn't imperialism? As a result of that procedure we would find ourselves involved in all kinds of foreign wars. <-\ Voice: That is right.) That is true—and yet Mr. Bryan is lor peace. lie was for peace when he resigned from the army and he has been fcr peace ever since. I am for peace. I'm a Quaker. I am lor peace, but not peace at any price. I am not lor peace, and I know that the majority of the people of this country are not for peace, with that brigand Aguinaldo as long as he is hiding in the bushes and shooting down lrom ambush our boys in blue. (Ap plause.) "lint Mr. Bryan has already been driven from I'iH position on imperialism. He knows now what many of us knew in the beginning- that it was only one rooster tli it he was going to putin t lie pit, ard he would fight it as long as he could. Now he has got his last gamecock. Trust, and that goes into the pit for the next :to days, and the republican party will be prepared to meet him on all such questions, and if I hail the time and voice and opportunity I would like to speak to every laboring man In the United Slates upon that question: because in warning the laboring people of this country against this huge monster, the trusts, in the same breath he says that lb« Dingley bill is tlie incubator of trusts. "Now. we Are pitting to know where w« stand with the laboring people when we conif to the tariff, and wt won't allow him to evade the Issue that he has made on the bald proposition that the pr'»*vetive tariff principle goes hand in hand with trusts. We keep the protective tariff principle tin re and we will furnish our own defini tion for trusts. 1 say we are at home on that proposition because we have at the head of our national ticket that Kreat advo cate of protection. William McKinley; be cause in him we have the best friend of la bor that ever stood before the people of the I'nited States, and there isn't a laboring* man in the city of ''hicago, or in the state of Illinois, or in the I'nited States, who knows anything about public affairs, who knows anything about the career of Pre si don I McKinley, that does not know from actual proof the fact that during his whole public life he is> the only man that the work - ingmcn of this country always felt at lib erty to call upon to support tin ir interests, and he never failed them. Anel he is just as mueh their friend to-day as he was 15 years ago. IIry !iit ii ii(l the I.n boring Men. "And now let me ask what has W. J. Bryan done for the workingmen of this country? (A Voice: "Nothing." Another Voice: "Yes, he charged us half a dollar to hear him talk.") Not a thing. "Came near saying damn. Not a thing. His career In public life is available to every man. His short service was marked and made conspicuous by his opposition to the tariff bill. And what has in* done since to show any particular interest in the work ing people of this country? He tells them what he would elo. He is prolific in prom ises, rosy in painting the picture as to what would be the result of his administration, but I charge you, workingmen, turn away from that picture and look upon the other; and the other is McKinley. "Do not let us take any promise from any candidate or any man whose whole record has shown that his owerawing ambition is to be president of the* I'nited States. He will ride any issue, he will climb onto any platform that is made for him. he will preach any doctrine, hew ill even abuse me to be president of the I'nited States. Mont Important Innuch. "Now, bringing these issues home to each anil every individual, I want to bring them there because 1 expect and I know that every man who goes to the polls on elec tion day having heard the arguments in the case, having considered how the de cision of these issues will bear upon ids personal interests and those of his family, will cast that ballot intelligently in his own interest and not in Mr. Bryan's. But there is a further responsibility which comes to every man and to every woman who can in— iiucnee a man. "i say that the importance of the issues in tlals campaign at this time and under these conditions is greater than ever before in the history of our country. 1 say so be cause I believe it, because I know that any reversing of the present policy of the ad ministration of this government, any change in that administration, would bring about a condition of things in the business and industrial interests of this country that would dwarf the Mood and storm at Galveston: it would mean a hurricane that would carry before it every interest, it would ben Hood that would engulf the prop erty and the material interests of every man, woman and child that enjoys the present prosperity. "There is 110 question where your inter est is, because every year, every month, and every day of the administration of William McKinley has been an object lf . - son. Every man who has an insurance on. his life for the benefit of his family, every man who has his deposits in a savings bank or a loan association where he lias gath ered together perhaps the savings of a lifetime, where he believes it is safe, and it is, although that money that he deposits in a savings bank is not there, for they don't keep the money In their vaults. What do they do with it? The/ invest it in secur ities, in bonds and mortgages, satisfying themselves that the property behind those securities is perfectly good for the loan made —and it Is under all normal condi tions. Bnt supposing that Mr. Bryan should be elected—God forbid. (A Voice: Amen!) Supposing he should be. Remem ber 1893. "Immediately capital is withdrawn from the avenues of business panic seizes and dethrones confidence and we find a condi tion of things that sends values down the toboggan slide until they are cut in two and quartered: and the property that is represented by the securities in the vaults of these banks covering your deposit is re duced in value. That is your property. It doesn't belong to the savings bank or the life insurance company, it is yours, you have put it in their custody for safe keep ing. They are doing their duty. They have builded vaults of deposit secure against the burglar axd the thief, they have em ployed men ij integrity and ability to in vest your money and protect your inter ests, and therefore 1 say they have done their duty. I'rue* All to Work for McKinley, "Now you do yours. Do yours by not only depositing your vote for McKinley, but get as many of your neighbors who are undecided upon these questions, perhaps for want of knowledge, as you can, to vote as you do; make it your business to secure one more vote for the president of the United States, and that small effort will put us on a perfectly safe basis. Won't you do that much for your family? Won't you do that much for the national good? Haven't you pride enough to do that much for the national honor, integrity, and tilt flag? (Voices: "Yes, yes.") All right, then do It. Good-by " When Senator Banna was through J.ieut. Moore, of the volunteer army, told of conditions in the Philippines, saying' the insurrection there would end with tlie defeat of l'ryan. Ilrynti's Discredited Prophecy. I In his speech at Ortonville, among other thing's Gov. Iloosevelt said: "Mr. Bryan prophesied again and again at Minneapolis, sit »'ew York, I where he addressed' that noble band I of reformers. Tammany Hall; and at I Indianapolis, again, again, and again, I lie said: 'lf you vole the republican j ticket times will be harder and I harder. 1 I "Again, If you vote for the gold I standard you vole for four years of hard times.' "And again: 'lf you vote for the gold standard the farmer will find that the prices of his products will grow steadily lover.' "Again: 'lf you vote for the gold standard the wage-worker will find that he stands idle more and more.' "Again: 'lf you vote the republican ! ticket tl»' business men will find I that the number of failures will in | crease an.*! the amount of bank de | posits will decrease.' "Now, I ask you not to take my word for it, but to think of your own experience, and compare how things actually were; how the con ditions were in your own state and in your own towns, with what Mr. ' Bryan propnesied. C'lf the McKinley administration can give California another dose of the kind of imperialism and expan sion which has added so much to its prosperity and prospects during the last two years the prayer of .every citizen should be: "More power to it."— Sun Francisco Chronicle.
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