THE PCBANTON TEIBUNE SfATUHDAY MOANING APRIL 20. 1895.'
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Of '-and About
Makers
RECENT ESSAYS.
"Things of the Mind" Is the name
which Bishop Spalding of Peoria has
afflkea to a series of thoughtful essays
on the three general themes of educa
tion, religion and patriotism, which are
gathered Into a neat volume by A. C.
JttcClurg & Co., Chlcugo. The first three
chapters present the author's views of
education, which contemplate a com
prehensive development of the mind,
soul and body, and not simply,, as under
our present free school system, a fur
bishing of the intellect at the expense
of the sensibilities. We note In glanc
ing through this portion of the bishop's
book that he, too, has his fault to pick
with the newspapers, for he Bays: "The
worst consequences of the newspaper
habit may be seen In the young, for
whom each morning, like a dally meal,
accounts of vice and crime are served
up, to make them Incapable of admira
tion, reverence and awe. what father
employs burglars, murderers and adult
erers, or quacks, liars and sophists, as
tutors for his children? A man's dully
reading, like his habitual conversation,
is a symbol of his life and character."
Following these chapters on general
education is one concerning profes
sional education, which is In the main
a plea for a higher standard of dignity,
learning and character among profes
sional men. "Whoever belongs to a
learned profession," the bishop re
marks. In a passage which sounds the
key note of his chapter, "should have
more than professional knowledge and
skill. He should be a representative of
the science and culture of his age.
Where the standard of education for
the liberal professions is low, the life
of the nation cannot be high."
In a chapter devoted to culture and
religion, the author considers from
many standpoints the tendency of cul
ture to make men selfish und of religion
to make them unselfish. He does not
fail to recognize the obvious truth that
intellectual development tends to .weak'
en faith, and we close his chapter not
much the wiser touching what he
would offer as the ground of harmony
which culture and religion must occupy
if both are to survive. We note In this
chapter the following passage, which to
us appears significant: "We are living
in the epoch of transition. The decay
of faith In the Protestant sects Is ac
celerated by the consciousness that
their existence is a contradiction of the
fundamental principle of Protestant
ism; and among Catholics a wldo
spread indifference and new modes of
thought created by the scientific (level
opments of the age, have cooled the
zeal and weakened the faith of many.
The wavering of religious belief has
unsettled all other things, so that noth
Ing seems any longer, to rest upon a.
firm and Inmovable brjsis." There Is
something almost hesitant. It seems to
us. In the short conclusion which Bishop
Spalding reaches after several pages
full of talk like the foregoing. "That
la the end," he says, "and after never
bo much science and theory, the per-
lann will tie made only tne more evi
-dent Is in no way doubtful." But our
eyes deceive" us if the bishop does not
himself at times get very near the Bhore
line of doubt with respect to this final
conquest.. Else why so much pertur
bation? From the same publishers comes, in
neat gold-on-linen covers, another vol
ume . of essays nay, the word Is too
formal; let us rather say observations
called "In Maiden Meditation," which
Is, "as its unknown writer tells us, a
"record of the flying thoughts that have
come In the midst of dinlngs and
dances." There is not a little drollery
commingled with a dash of daring In
this conceit of a feminine Eplctetus
rushing from her place let us Imagine
at the front of the german to a conven
ient cahlnet to jot down, ere It escapes
her, a flying thought. But upon ac
quaintance we rather like this trait;
for we soon discover, upon dipping into
tho book Itself, that the writer of it,
albeit dealing wlrh thoughts on the
wing, has cunningly arranged them so
as to Invest even the lightest of them
with some Bpell of a clever, woman's
cleverness. Thus In the chapter headed
"After the Ball" but not thii3 cap
tioned, we will go bond. In moan allu
sion to the abominable current lyric
we read, apropos of the sight of a dis
carded gown: "It is exquisitely ab
surd t tell a girl that beauty is of no
value, dress of no use. Her whole pros
pect and happiness In life may depend
upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet;
and if she has five grains of common
sense she will find out that love Itself
will hardly survive a winter hat worn
after Easter. Men may pretend to like
intellectual women, but they can par
don anything .better than an ill-fitting
gown. Better-a thousand times be
frivolous than badly dressed. Moral
ists may continue to Impress upon the
world that beauty Is a delusion, faces
are masks; but it remains an axiom of
life that a charming face can make a
man campaign and fight and slay like
a demon, can make a coward of him,
can fill him with ambition to win the
world, and can tame him Into tho do
mesticity of a dining-room cat." Call
this Thackerayesque If you will; It
remains undeniably clever.
A -A again, crying down the theory
thftforiauty, however pleasant. Is every
th'.?.lif, our fair essayist charms us with
-this passage that carries with It the
flavor at one of Thackeray and George
Eliot; "I have a friend or two whose
class of features Is such that the Apollo
curl on the summit of their brows
would be decidedly trying; yet, to my
certain knowledge, tender hearts have
beaten for them, and their miniatures,
flattering but still not lovely, are kissed
in secret . bja loving lips. I have seen
many an excellent matron who could
never In her best days have been
handsome, and yet she has a package
of love-letters in a private drawer, and
sweet children ehower kisses on her
sallow cheeks. Aad I believe there
have been plenty of young heroes of
middle stature and feeble beard, who
have felt quite sure they could never
love anything less magnificent than a
Diana, yet have found themselves
happily settled in middle life with a
wife who waddles."
But our meditative maiden Is not al
way attuned to' the happiness of life.
Sometimes, in ths book before us, Bhe
sounds a rnlnor chord, as when,- physi
cally weary, the fire of the spirit, too,
burns low and she tells us (has not the
mood come to all of us?): "Then I stop
and think how poor the incentives and
objects of life; for few of us risk our
salvation to. win kingdoms and. prov
inces, but waste what is ; best and
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5ome of 'the Latest Volumes
To Issue from the Press.
noblest in us by teasing anxieties and
petty vambltlons, for results not worth
the striving for," scarcely worth the
having when gained. Immortal beings
though we are, our dally problems, our
crying necessities, chiefly concern the
question what we shall eat, drink, and
wear, above all, how shall we answer
our neighbor's expectations of ub and
put a good foot forward. ' What a
feverish contest It Is! Never ending Is
this wild procession. "Day and night
can be heard the quick tramp of
myriads of feet, some running, some
walking, some 'halt and lame, but all
hastening, all eager In the feverish
race; all straining life and limb and
heart, and soul to reach the ever reced
ing horizon of success. Their speed
never slackens, their race never ends.
There Is no wayside rest, no halt by
cooling fountains, no pouw li-iu-atli
green shades. On, on, on,' on. through
the heat and the crowd And the dust;
on, or they will be trampled down' and
lost; on, with throbbing brains and
trembling limbs; on, till the heart grows
sick and the eye grows blurred, and a
gurgling groan tells those behind they
may close up another space."
The touches In this book are deft and
true and the range of It fitted to minds
that like vivid imagery and swiftly
varying moods. i
Mr. Edwin L. Shuman, an editorial
writer for the Chicago Journul, has
seen fit, through the medium of a
handy book of some 200 pages called
"Steps Into Journalism," to lift the veil
which screens from public view the
inner workings of the sanctum sanc
torum. He shows us successively the
munaging editor, supreme over the en
tire hive of coatless editors, copyfead
crs, reporters and correspondents, and
in turn subordlnate.' lf the paper have
such a luxury, to the editor-ln-chlef, or,
if not, to Its' proprietor or Its proprie
tors; the news editor, whose eagle eye,
rebuking Solomon, . daily scans the
horizon for symptoms of something
new; the city editor, upon whose
shoulders devolves the task of pleasing
at once a staff of critically disposed re-
porters, the several thousand fellow
citizens of his "town who generously
make it part of their business to ex
press approval (rarely) or disapproval
(almost invariably) of the paper's local
news, and likewise the editor-in-chief,
the proprietors and If he have suoh a
thing his own conscience; and the
various other fortunate or unfortunate
individuals who devote a greater por
tion of both day and night, for general
ly meager compensation, to the task
of getting out a daily paper full of "hot
stuff" and "scoops." . We had at first
Intended to follow Mr. Shuman through
these chapters; but since what he says
Is not new to us and also since those Jo
whom It Is new can buy the book for i
dollar, or thereabouts, we shall content
ourselves at present with, considering
his concluding chapter, the "mission of
the press." It is written in what to the
prosaic mind will seem like almost a
hysterical key; and it thwacks the
press vigorously for its abundant scan
dal, Its pitchforkfuls of fermenting
crime, us impertinence, Its superficial
ity and Its Irreverence. But It also al.
lows as a stand-off .that the press, in
the main, is improving, that it Is a
growing power for good, and that with
out it civilization could no longer ad
Just Itself to happy conditions. Hence
If it works some evil, it works more
good; and the preponderance of the
good over tho evil is, its claim to con
tinued life and strength and develop
ment. V.
AMONG THE MAGAZINES,
The leading feature In Chap-Book for
Aprino is si.i article by Edmund Gosfe
on "The Popularity tf T Htry," in
which the author cautions the modern
victim of the divine afflatus to sing his
song and dream his dream without
thought of vulgar gain. Thereby he
will not be disappointed. Ella W. Peat
tie In this number contributes an alle
gory the point to which, stripped of fine
verbiage, Is that It is the woman who
sins and suffers who is really the love
able woman. One wonders It Mrs.
Peattle would Instruct her daughters
that way. Chap-Book, by the way,
waxes quite Indignant' at being called
the provocative of "Chips," "The Bi
belot," "Moods," etc.. and lustilv as
serts its own Independence. Chan-
Book, we are told, circulates 16,000 co
pies and the end is not yet. Well, It is
neat, new and daring. It deserves suc
cess.
We turn naturally from Chap-Book
to The Bookman, the third, number of
which lies before us. The Booking in
this number has no single piece de re
sistant bjit. Its numerous short arti
cles are uncommonly Interesting and Its
literary notes are crisp- and really in
forming. An Illustration and two-page
sketch of Dr. Max Simon Nordau. who
has so ponderously larruped this fin de
slecle period In his new book, "Degen
eration," Is perhaps the 'most timely
feature,, unless we,, accord priority to
Critic Saintsbury's capital larruping of
Nordau himself. Two . unpublished
drawings by Aubrey- Beardsley are
given In the-text of an article defending
that peculiar genius . from contem
porary criticism, and they are wonder
ful concoctions of outline and color.
These features are but adrop1 In the
bucket; those who. like, bucketfuls had
better purchase The Bookman for April
and read It through.
, .'..;
Success seems to be attending the ex
periment of devoting a pretentious
monthly publication to "occulf,' philo
sophic and scientific research;" at all
events, the Metaphysical Magazine for
April, In which the experiment reaches
its fourth number,- Is lllled With con
tents admirably suited to minds that
think. Among nine principal articles
each fraught with study and ideas we
can notice 'at .present only It. p. Ab-
Dott's discussion of the modern clvl -
zatlon and its relation to.' flesh diet.
Perhaps at first glance, one will be puz
zled to know JUBt. what connection mod
ern civilization-can-have-with the eat
ing of flesh; but Mr. Abbott soon as
sures us that there Is a Very. .decided
connection between the twa Flesh
eating, he strenuously insists; develops
coarse, beefy and sensual peoples;
whereas a vegetable dietary has a ten
dency to promote reflned and well
rounded physiques. 'Since1 he holds that
the soul or psychic ' man 'develops in
unison with the physical man,' he nat
urally wants. .the coming generation to
discard flesh-eating and take to leaves,
tubers, fruits and roots, ; We shall 'at
another time presenthls argument at
greater length, ." : ." . '
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From the. Apple tons'" press we have
received advance sheets of the preface
to a booklet: soon t" be issued, by Her
bert Spencer on "The Land Question."
In this .preface he modifies certain
Itfws relative 'to the ownership of land
originally expressed in Justice and So
cial - StatlcB. As will no doubt be
readily recalled, Mr. Spencer originally
contended that land' could not right
fully become individual property but
should be the property of the commun
ity. This opinion has been eagerly ex
ploited by economists of Mho Henry
George school in support of their prin
ciple Of a single tax. Mr. Spencer
now, after longer study of actual condi
tions, while adhering to his former
opinions In relation to their abstract
Justice, questions whether resumption
of the land by the community would,
after Its cost had been paid, leave a
balance of benefit to the community.
Upon this point he says: "it Is clear
that If I had thought that the change,
though equitable, would entail a loss
on the community, I should not have
held that th community ought- to
bring this loss upon Itself, but should
have held that thnugh, a's a matter of
abstract equity, It might properly re
take possession of the land, It would
be Impolitic to do this if the burden
of compensation would outweigh the
benefit of possession. Hut of late years,
on thinking over the matter, It has be
come cli'ur to me that the burden of
compensation would outweigh the ben
efit of possession, If the compensation
were anything like equitable in amount.
Hence I have come to the conclusion
that the change of tenure from private
to public would be Impolitic."
' Jj. S. It
AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS:
"ford's Literary Shop" is in its second
edition.
Five French dramatists are at present
engaged on plays dealing: with "Louis
XVII" Sardou, Pierre Decourcelle, Henri
Ceard, Henri de Welndel and Charles
Buet.
The Scotch school of Action has caused
the English worm to turn at last. W. K.
Henley's "New Review" contains a slush
ing attack upon "The Literature of the
Jatlyard." . - . t
A paper on "Tammany" In the May
number of McClure's Magazine will de
scribe the high-handed rule of Marshal
Ilynders nnd the Bowery "Plug-uglies" In
New York city fifty years ago., It will be
fully Illustrated.
S. R. Crockett's new book, "Bog-Myrtle
and Peat," Is suld to contuin many of the
best and most characteristic stories the
author ever wrote, the first collection of
tales by Mr. Crockett which has appeared
since his "Stlcklt Minister."
"Plain Tales From tho Hills" Is In its
twenty-sixth thousund; "The Light That
Failed" in Its fifteenth: "Life's Hundleap"
In Its twentieth. "The Jungle Book"
should outstrip them all. It is the best
thing Kipling has ever done.
Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, the com
poser of "Pinafore" and "The Mikado," Is
now D3 years old. Spohr and Rossini both
hailed the young musician wlien "he first
came Into notice through his overture,
"The Light of the Harem," and the Inci
dental music for Shakespeare's "Tem
pest." The smallest English dictionary In the
world is the "Mite Dictionary," published
by Frederick A. Stokes company, New
York. It contains SS4 pages. 15,000 words,
weighs 44 grains, and the print Is c-o
small that it cannot be read without the
aid of a microscope. An edition of this
dictionary has also been published In Eng
land, where It has an Immense popularity,
fcil.OOO copies of It having been sold within
the lust year. -
READY-MADE LIBRARIES.
Gotham Fathers Save Trouble by Buying
Hooks tn Iluli;. "
From the Commerclul-Advertlser.
It appears that one may get, "while
he waltB," not only a new cover for his
umbrella, a patch to his shoe, a tooth
drawn, and so on; may get ready-made
not only whole suits of clothing, and
ready-furnished flats, Including linen
and silver, but he may also get his
library, ready-made. In the. case of;
village libraries, perhaps a better as
sortment of books, based on the experi
ence of other libraries, can.be bought
ready made than from lists made out
In the village, but It Is hideous to think
that the fathers of young men send to
New York, as they do, for ready-made
libraries of from 100 'to 500 volumes for
the use of the sons. There are books
of which It has been said "without
which no library Is complete." This is
misleading, except In. the case of. the
universal Shakespeare. It depends al
together on the purpose of the posses
sor of a llbary as to whether a particu
lar book Is needed to complete It.
Nobody, not even a father, can tell
what are the best 100 books for the
reading of another person. One must
grow into his reading and must deter
mine for himself, volume at a time,
what books should make up his library.
To a young man who Intends to begin
reading seriously and with a purpose
it is folly to name a hundred or a score
of books which he should read. It Is
Impossible that anybody should know,
that he should himself know, what di
rection his readingwill take. With the
rule that he shall read only the book In
which he can feel an Interest, his li
brary will form Itself. The possession
of a library ready-made is likely to dis
courage him or else divert his reading
from Its natural course. If he reads
what Is pleasurable, provided it' does
nut belong to the category of the stupid
and inane or the vicious, he, will, grow
Into what Is for him the best reading.
One book, or at most two, at a time, one
line of study only at a time. Any young
man who is In earnest will always And
Ills way to the best. Nobody can direct
him so entirely as to prescribe a. hun
dred books for him. . .. . --
THE MOTH AND THE WORM
Tls an old allegorical saying.
Which hope In all ages has spread,
Thut the soul, like a bloomy-winged miller,
Unfolds from a chrysalis dead. -
Ah, fain would I yield to this fancy,,.
This miracle sequence of birth;
For I hold that the soul's dearpst treasure
Will be Its remembrance of earth,
And oh, there's' a doubt that assails me,
Whatever my priest may, affirm;
Does the butterfly, think you, remember
The days when It crawled as a worm?
What Is life but a season for loving, '
What 1b self but the essence of years
Distilled from the blossoms of pleasure,
Infused In a moisture of tears? . .
What avail to inherit the ages
With naught of the struggle before,
To know that my love) shall not perish,
Yet I shall behold her no mors?
What avail, were this fretting and striving
If memory vanish with breath,
When Love Is the priest of the living.
And Hope the apostle or Death?
What matter a far away morning . 1
If memory end with today?
'Twere as well to face death' everlasting
As a past to De mottea away-. .
You may prate of an infinite future, ,.
You may dream of those eons of bliss.
But the "home of the soul" were a failure
Without recollection of this. "
I am selfish because I am human,
I want not a part but the whole! '. ; r
And I tell you that only a tyrant
Could blot out the past from the soul! ,
,r" r-New York Sun .
BER LI N 'S DA R I KG COUNTESS.
She nidos in the Pork Clad -lit Somewhat
.Masenllne Style.
The-'Hievy woman" is rampant in con
servative. Berlin. The. Countess Fritz
Hobenau . is the leader of the set, and,
as she happens to be also a society wo
man, it seems likely that the "new wo
man" may flourish. The countess is a
cousin of the emperor by a morganatic
marriage, and she Is a young woman of
athletic proclivities. Her latest freak
has been to discard the feminine riding
habit.
She wears a frock coat of soft and
clinging material, that has even longer
talis than those affected by the great
Wilton Lackaye and the still greater
Berry Wall. Around the waist Is a light
leather girdle. The countess' corduroy
knickerbockers, very wide, reach over
the knees, where they meet with black
silk sot-kings. Tho latter are hidden
from vulgar gaze by leather leggings of
the same color as the girdle. Russet
or patent-leather boots, a black velvet
Jockey cap or a blue sailor cap com
plete the costume, which is very becom
ing and far from being suggestive.
The Berlin park police view the In
novation with much favor. One of the
mounted "runaway catchers" said that
since ladles had ceased to frighten their
own horses by tholr black skirts flutter
lug In the wind, the horses showed
much leBs tendency to part company
with their riders. "The Indies," con
tinued the man, "ride now without fear
of getting entangled In branches of
trees and the underwood. They gal
lop along In quite reckless fashion, but
keep their seats as well as the men."
MERIT THE PROPER TEST.
Theodore Roosevelt Outlines in n Con
dcnsctl Fashion Ills Relief in Genuine
Civil Servlso Hcforin.
Theodore Roosevelt, civil service com
missioner, is delighted with civil ser
vice reform. "I want," says he, "to Bee
the civil service system become uni
versal, In the first place, because the
ofllces ought to be out of politics, and
the service would be Improved If they
were, but in the second place, and chief
ly, because) I wish to take out of public
life the utterly demoralizing and de
grading Influence of the spoils system,
It has been on the whole the most fruit
ful of the causes which tend to the
degradation of American politics, and
In no way can we so strengthen the
forces which tend to the elevation of
our political life as to utterly destroy
the spoils system. Every civilized coun
try in Europe refuses to treat post
olllces as political spoil, and It may be
of interest to these foolish members of
our own body politic who rail against
the reform because In England there Is
also civil service reform to know that
In England the reform pnly came in
with thegrowthof the democratic spirit
and -that the reform has reached Its
most perfect manifestation in the fed
eral republic of Switzerland.
Politics at a Discount.
"Switzerland Is genuinely governed
by the people, for the people, and no
public servant whose duties are non
polltlcal Is ever appointed or turned out
for political reasons. In England post
masters are appointed by promotion
within the ranks, excepting in the low
est grade, where they are appointed
directly from the outside. They are
never removed for political reasons.
In our country It would, perhaps, be
difficult to allow of a system of transfer
from office, to office throughout the na
tion at large; but such transfer could
be made within the borders of a state,
and the postmasters in the big cities at
the largest ofllces Should be appointed
whenever a vacancy occurs from with
in the ranks of the postal service of
that state.
"The people have been as well satis
fled by one administration of the offices
as by the other. As a matter of fact,
ninety-nine out of every 100 of them
have not known and have not cared a
rap what the views of the postmasters
were as to the annexation of Hawaii or
the Nlcaraguan Canal, so long as their
letters wfre delivered speedily and
without blunder. In Charleston, S C
the Democratic postmaster was con
tinued all through Mr. Harrison's term
of service, Just as In New York the Re
publican postmaster was continued nil
through Mr. Cleveland's first term, and
In neither case a single individual, out
side of the class of professional poli
ticians who wanted a Job for their
henchmen, complained.,
It is a f oolish Practice.
"Our people want to get It Into their
heads firmly that there Is no more need
of changing a postmaster thun there is
for changing the head of an express
company or the agents or managers of
that express company in the different
cities, or the superintendents of the
telegraph olllces In the different cities.
The work of the express company, of
the telegraph ofllce and of the postofllce
Is very much the same In all cases. It
happens with us that the postofllce Is
administered by the government, while
the telegraph lines and express com
panies are left to individual ownership.
In many cases the government admin
isters all. We have the sAme Interest
as private cltlzenB In the delivery of a
letter that we have In the delivery of a
telegram or a package of goods. : .We
want It to go as quickly and as surely
as possible, and It is not any more the
concern of the public what the post
master thinks about the tariff than It
Is what the .manager of the express
company or the superintendent of the
telegraph station thinks. It Is Just as
absurd to turn out a letter carrier be
cause he voted the wrong ticket as it
would be to, refuse goods delivered by
an express man who Is out of sympa
thy with the dominant party on some
question of finance, or to say that you
would not give your message to a tele
graph clerk who did not think just as
you did on the tariff.
. Only Want Efficient Service. '
"The present railway mall service,
for Instance, Is In exactly the same
hands and Is being administered pre
cisely as It was ihree years ago under
Harrison. Democrats and Republicans
go in to the service alike and as a mat
ter of fact are pretty evenly represent
ed In It. Nobody cares anything about
their politics and nobody knows. The
readers of this Interview, for Instance,
.cannot tell the policy of the railway
clerks who handled the newspapers in
which It appears or of the letter car
riers who. have delivered that news
paper, and really the politics of these
letter carriers and railway mall clerks
concerns them no more than the politics
of the reporter who has taken the in
terview or of the conductors and brake
men on the train in which the news
papers of the original Interview were
carried. If the reader will look at the
next mall train that comes along he
may try to think out for himself why
there should be any possible reason for
changing one class of people aboard
that train, the railway mail clerks, for
political reasons, and paying no heed
whatever to the politics of all the other
employes who are oh the train."
1 Drawing the Lino.
From Street & Smith's Good News, .
Teacher What Is an agnostic?
' Observing Boy It's a man wot believes
in most everything except religion.
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. ' The Opinions of an Eminent -ScrantohJan
7. ';; ' Upon This Hooted Point. .
Apropos of an editorial In The Trib
une on Monday last, entitled "A D-ec-laratlon-of
Dependence," Colonel F. L.
.Hitchcock, of this city, favors us with
the appended questions:
"First If, as you argue, silver has
not depreciated,' but gold has appre
ciated, 1 e., silver at 50 cents is really
gold at $1.33, why does not the same
rule apply to the'present price of wheat,
coal, labor and other commodities
which are suffering from low prices;
and why-may we not put wheat, coal,
labor and these other articles of trade
back to 'the old values, by the same
system of legislation you are Invoking
In favor of silver?
"Second Five years ago aluminium
was worth somewhere about $5 per
pound, now It can be bought for 25
cents or thereabouts. Is the de.crense
in price due to the advance in grold, ns
In the case of sliver, and. If so, what Is
the relative price of gold? If not due
to the advance in gold, why not. If the
depreciation of silver is? Why the dif
ference? The same Inquiry applies
with equal force to nickel and copper;
and perhaps with greater force, for
both the latter metals are used aa coin
to a limited extent.
"Third You nsk 'Is It honest money
that grows more valuable day by day?'
'Is It honest money that records a debt
rtf inn huahala tf n.hnnt on.l
payment of twenty bushels?' Let mel
Inquire what about corn, hay, potatoes?
These crops have steadily advanced In
price under the same pressure upon
sliver which you would have us be
lieve has carried wheat down more
than fifty per cent. The corn crop Is
greater In value by some millions of
dollars at ordinary prices than wheat.
Let me turn the tables and ask, Is It
holiest money that records a debt of ton
bushels of corn and permits payment
with five bushels? Yet this ques
tion as truly represents the pres
ent situation as does yours. If
twenty bushels of wheat are
now required to pay a year old debt of
ten bushels, five bushels of corn will
now , more than pay a like debt
of ten bushels a year ago. What then?
Has the slaughter of the white metal
had the' curious effect of knocking
wheat down and corn up? Rather does
not this prove the unfairness of your
questions? Debts are not 'recorded' in
wheat or corn, but, Just as In the days
of Abraham, when he paid for tho burial
plot purchased of the sons f Heth
'and Abraham weighed to Ephron, the
silver ;' four hundred shekels of
sliver, current money with the mer
chants." (Gen. xxlil, 16.) they are re
corded In 'current money with the mer
chants.' Varying conditions may enable
'current money' to exchange for more
corn and less wheat and vice versa, but
the trouble Is not usually with the 'cur
rent money,' but with the article ex
changed for, as affected by the law of
supply and demand. Is not your ques
tion tinctured with the old Idea
of repudiation made familiar during
war times by those who howled for the
payment of the government war debt
bonds In greenbacks, worth thirty sents
on thedoljar? 'Flat money, good enough
for the farmer, and so forth, ergo, good
enough for the bloated bondholder?' .
"Fourth Can a money value be legis
lated into existence?
"Fifth What makes commercial
value?
Thinks It a Greenback Craze.
"An honest, thoughtful answer to a
few such questions, It seems to me will
show the ; fullacy of much of
the 'stuff' that is now- filling
the papers In the so-called inter
est of silver. -It is another form of
the old exploded greenback craze. If
you can.llx a value of silver or any
other commodity by a statute, you can
Just as well, by the same statute, fix a
value of paper money. And to the ex
tent of the Intrinsic commercial value
of the material used, one will be Just
as good as the other. 'Fiat' money, and
debased coin can be forced upon a peo
ple as a circulating medium, and for
a time they may appear to prosper
under It, but all history has proved that
it is ultimately a system of the most
delusive robbery, and In which the pro
ducer and laborer are In the end liter
ally ground beneath Its wheels.
"There can be no safe circulating
medium, which has not In Itself the
full Intrinsic value, commercially, which
It represents or the equivalent thereof.
The act of colnlng'the metal Is oif value
only as 'attesting its quality, weight,
and fineness, and putting it In conven
ient form for circulation with sufficient
alloy to give It lasting quality. This
was constantly Illustrated In the West
ern mining camps in the old days,-nd
still Is to some extent, where you seldom
saw money In coin, but all business
was dofie by welghlng out. the gold
or the silver, and both, were current at
their respective mint values in weight
for pure metal. Reduce tho gold dollar
and the silver dollar of today to bullion,
what value will you have left? Gold,
25 8-10 grs. equal $1., Including; alloy
value; silver, about forty-six cents.
Law of Supply and Demand,
"Is this difference in value to be
charged to the so-called demonetizing
act of 1873, and consequent apprecia
tion of gold? I think not. The same
law which has brought aluminium
down in price, hus reduced the price of
silver. Precisely 'the same law which
operates to raise and lower the price of
all other commodities, the law of sup
ply and demand. The Increased quan
tity of silver' which has been produced
and thrown upon the market during
the past' thirty years, and which Is
Increasing, rather thnn decreasing, to
gether with the multifarious unes in the
ornamental and mechanic arts. In
which nickel and other white metals
have taken the place of silver, cannot
help but cheapen It. Even the forced
purchases of our government under
the Sherman act could not stand the
flood of production, and hold up the
price, There would have been Just as
much propriety in the'eoal barons' Ret
ting congress to pass an act requiring
the government .to purchase five mil
lion's dollars worth of coal per month
and store it up for the benefits of tho
coal Interests, as ithere was in that
silver act. And they would have) lost
a good deal less money in doing it.
"The relative value of the . precious
metals has varied .greatly, many times
during the history of the world. In the
time of Solomon we are told sliver was
so plenty tt was 'thought little of.' Ami
during the halcyon days of the city of
Tyre, sliver was so plenty and so cheap
that her public buildings -were palaces
of marble and Bllver. Manifestly dur
ing these times It would have been a
poof standard of Value. Later, value
again changed,. and sliver approached
more nearly to gold. Still, the fluctua
tions of sliver have, in the long run,
been so great as to make it a dangerous
standard. If the commercial nations
of the world which practically means
all nations now, for we can no longer
ignore tho Asiatic nations nor the Latin
peoples shall agree upon silver as a
standard, at a specified ratio to gold,
such action will undoubtedly boom the
value of silver, and while the agree
ment Is kept by all of them. It will
nominally give it the designated value.
But what will such an agreement be
but a 'gigantic combine' or .'trust,' and
to be 'Jumped' by the nation that can
quickest get Into shape to make a good
spec out of It? How much, would you,
Mr. Editor, Invest in silver under such
a 'combine' for a permanent Income In
vestment? Finally, can the commer
cial lav of value, as regulated by the
commercial law of supply and demand,
be Ignored In fixing the standard of one
circulating medium?"
Another View of the (Question.
The same mall whk-h brought to us
the foregoing letter from Colonel Hitch
cock brought also the following com
munication from L'rle Townsend, of
this city:
"The present discussion of the finan
cial subject forcibly Illustrates the
truth of the saying of Lincoln:
'but you can't fool all the people all th'i
time.' The explanation for tho money
panics given out by 'financiers,' and
the remedies advocatod 'to restore con
dence,' while they are cornering and
fleecing the government fool us no i
longer. It's the business of tho 'finan- j
clers' to have a single gold standard, '
and a paying one at that, so It Is I
quite natural that they should advo- I
cate a policy thut Is advantageous tn
themselves. But how are the Interests
of thoseengaged In other pursuits thun
financiering affected? Wo will at least
have a fair and free discussion of the
subject, nnd the paper that has the
courage to present both sides need have
no fear for patronage."
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