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THE SCDANTON TEIBUNB-SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 20, 1895.
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BCRANTON, AP1UL 20, 1895.
C- - - - --
THE SCRANTON OF TODAY.
Come and Inspect our city.
Elevation above the tide, 740 feet.
Extremely healthy.
Estimated population, 1893, 103,000.
lteglstered voters, 20,599.
Vulue of school property, $900,000
Number of school children. 12.000.
Average amount of bank deposits, $10,
KW,000.
It's the metropolis of northeastern Penn
vlvanla.
Can produce electrlo power cheaper than
Niagara.
No better point In the United States at
Which to establish new Industrie.
See how we irrow:
Population In 110 9.223
Population In 1870 35.000
Population In 1880 .S50
Population In 1S90 ft.SH
Population In 1894 (estimated) 103,000
And the end is not yet.
A Btate 'tax of 24 cents per barrel on
beer is now suggested us a school-fund
revenue-raiser. If revenue can be
raised in no other way sufficient to
meet the expense of free schools, let us
have a beer tax. It would probably
not materially affect the consumer.
flore Income Tax Kinks.
The decision that royalties from coal
leases are not taxable whllt profits
from the mining: and sale of coal are,
newly illustrates the haphazard char
acter of the Popullstic Income tax.
Thus, the owner of. land who con
tributes nothing but perhaps the acci
dent of ownership to the coal industry,
escapes scot free, whereas the operator,
who risks his time, his money and his
onergies, besides giving employment to
hundreds of workmen and adding ma
terially to the general welfare, is made
to pay a direct tax upon his enterprise
and thrift. There are many owners of
coal lands who are also producers of
coal; but in the main It is probably true
that the holder of a coal lease does
little else than to draw his rentals, and
gives back to the community little in
way of reciprocated benefits beyond his
household expenditures.
The difference between this type of
lease-holder and the active coal opera
tor is precisely the difference between
the drone and the busy bee. The drone
floes little or nothing to quicken enter
prise or multiply opportunities for the
employment of labor; yet under the
beautiful adjustment of Mr. Cleveland's
pet Income tax, the drone Is encouraged
In his Inactivity and the busy bee is
"held up" and made to deliver a per
centage of tils lately meager profits. To
be sure, In, almost any other business
than the coal business, the operator
could" get back the amount of his In
come tax by marking up the retail price
of his commodity and thus putting the
tax directly on the shoulder of the con
sumer. And even in the coal business,
should Tt soon reach a normal condition,
this Is probably what would occur, to
the Infinite confounding of those who
have argued that the Income tax was a
direct tax on wealth.
As a matter of fact, the Inc6me tax
would have been a final tax oh wealth
only In the case of the very persons
whom the Supreme court has liberated
that Is, the owners of tenements and
the holders of leases. For obvious
reasons, these could with difficulty
charge back the amount of their tax
upon their tenants. Nearly all other
persons falling within the tax's scope
can, and no doubt will, charge their tax
back in this way. Thus the Income tax,
bo far as It has any vitality remaining
In It, will become in practical effect a
direct tax utterly contrary to the spirit
of democratic Institutions, and explic
able only on the basis of gross Ignor
ance or malice on the part of those who
enacted It.
Having mulcted them with the In
come tax, Mr. Cleveland Is shrewd In
trying to compensate . the so-called
"gold bugs" by means of a single gold
Standard. '
The Indianapolis Journal, to which
General Harrison often contributes
editorials, says that both the ex-president
and Governor McKlnley "are In
telligent and consistent blmetalltsts.
They both 'believe that the commercial
world should make both, metals full
money at a fixed coinage ratio which
they believe will make the coin unit of
one metal as valuable as that of the
other. It Is probable that both are op
posed to the free and unlimited coin
age of silver by the United States alone,
because they are convinced that, upon
a ratio of 16 to 1, the American silver
dollar will not have the purchasing
power In the necessaries of life which
the gold dollar has, and that as a result
X this not only would, no more gold
i
be coined In this country, but the $5G5.
000,000 of gold now In the United States
would either go abroad or cease to be
money because of the premium It would
command a change which the best In
formed believe would paralyze the bus!
ness and Industry of the country."
There is considerable difference be
tween this position and Mr. Cleveland's
stand for gold monometallism.
The Philadelphia Record thinks that
"honest 'blmetalltsts of the sort who be
lieve in putting a dollar's worth of sli
ver Into a silver dollar are as scarce as
hen's teeth." If the Record will wait
until one year. from next November, we
hope to be able to show it a clear ma
jority of such blmetalllsts In the United
States.
Colonel Hitchcock's Letter.
We present, on another pnge, an In
teresting defense of gold monometall
ism by Colonel F. L. Hitchcock, of this
city. It Is well worthy of perusal by all
who wish to gain information upon a
subject of growing public Interest. The
monetary problem Is before the house.
The people, we believe, are eager to be
Instructed. We Bhull gladly give space
to any reasonable expression of opinion
concerning this question.
So far as the colonel's questions are
concerned, if he will permit us to nn
swer them by asking other questions,
we shall ask if he thinks there is sufllc
lent gold In nil the world to perform
the money function of the world? That,
really, it seems to us, is the funda
mentul question. Is it desirable to
liuvi', as a single standard, a money
which the few men in our great mone
tary centers can "corner," and thus
give to it, from time to time, an arti
ficial value? Under the policies per
petrated by our gold standard presi
dent, exports have fallen, imports have
grown, and where we used to have gold
flowing Into our country, we now have
it flowing out again; or held here by the
payment of fujt subsidies to foreign syn
dicates. Is that desirable?
If not, then one of three possible poll
cies will have to be adopted In hope of
bettering our present condition. The
first is to go to a gold standard en
tirely, thus doing away with our pres
ent silver money except In subsidiary
coinage. This is the Cleveland policy.
The second is to wait for an interna
tional agreement which shall tlx a ratio
between gold and sliver and thus ren
der expedient the coinage of both met
als.'to be used interchangeably. This
is the policy of many Republicans. The
third plan Is to shut foreign silver out
by a tariff and coin our own sliver at
an established ratio toward gold. This
Is the much-abused Cameron plan. "We
do not believe the fourth alternative of
silver monometallism tobe either de
sirable or likely.
Mr. Cleveland's notion is that all who
dissent from his single standard idea
are enemies of the public welfare. Yet
It was Mr. Cleveland and his party who
created nine-tenths of the mischief from
which our country Is now suffering. It
was he and his party who started the
recent hue and cry against silver until
a silver standard dollar, once good the
world over, is now more or less dis
credited; who sacrificed our balance of
trade; who, by their reckless handling
of the government revenues, snared
business and caused money to become
"tight;" and who, with gold flowing out
of the country in' consequence of their
legislative blundering, now try to dam
the efflux by subsidizing foreign bank
era not to draw more gold out. The Re
publican party, having once frankly de
clared for bimetallism, will now, we
should fancy, hardly go to Grover
Cleveland for Instruction In finance.
Neat and natty as a new Easter bon
net, our clever pictorial contemporary,
Scranton Life, this morning makes its
Initial bow, in an issue full of bright
ness from the dainty Illuminated front
covet to the last word on the final page.
Life announces that it will not give way
to personal Innuendoes nor malicious
gossip, but will Instead simply aim to
entertain and please. Upon such a
basis, and under Its present skilful
management Life ought to live long and
prosper.
Opening Foreign Markets.
Democracy, It will be remembered,
promised that It would give to Ameri
cans "the markets of the world" in ex
change for Its scheme of lowered tariff
duties. Mr. E. J. Gibson, In the Phila
delphia Press, shows how rapidly we
are at present capturing the "markets
of the world." Our exports for March,
he says, aggregated $64,875,007. For the
corresponding month last year the ag
gregate was $70,007,500, showing a loss
of 5,732,493 in exports for that one
month under the Wilson bill as com
pared with the conditions that existed
a year ago. For the nine months of the
fiscal year the exports were ?86,5G7,1G0
less than for the corresponding period
In the last fiscal year. That Is the way
the Wilson 'bill Is 'opening foreign
markets."
The Imports tell a still worse story.
For the month of -March there was an
Increase In Imports over the same
month a year ago of $3,739,182, and for
the nine months of the fiscal year the
Imports have. Increased $54,655,443. Thus
the Wilson bill has opened our markets
to foreigners to the extent of $54,655,443,
and has at the same time closed for
eign markets to our products to the ex
tent of $86,567,166, making a total loss
to the United States In its foreign trade
of $141,222,609 In less than nine months.
The excess of exports for the month of
March a year ago was $5,151,875, while
this year there is an excess of Imports
of $4,419,800. In February the excess of
Imports was $3,086,531. In March this
Increased to $4,419,800, showing an. In
crease In the excess of Imports over ex
ports of over $1,500,000 for March as
compared with February. This, In Mr.
Glbsun's opinion, demonstrates that a
steady increase in the adverse balance
of trade, such as took place under the
Walker tariff bill, must be expected un
der the Wilson act. And sooner or
later he suspects that this must be met
with an exportation of gold, or else by
the further sale abroad of bonds.
And yet it is the same president who
forced this condition upon the country
that now assumes to declare. In direct
violation of his party's platform, that
a single gold standard constitutes the
only "honest" money. .Have the Ameri
can people not yet paid sufficiently for
the pleasure of having Mr. Stephen
Grover Cleveland pilot them Into
economic bogs?
The point Is opportunely made by ex
Congressmun Flood in the May Chau
tauquan that no Important legislation
affecting money or tariff can be ex
pected of the Fifty-fourth congress.
The house will be Republican, the con
trol of the senate Popullstic and the
president, so far as classified, will
probably still bo a Democrat. There
fore little partisan legislation need be
feared, and business will have three
years of Test and recuperation. In the
interval, therefore, we perceive a good
time for the people to discuss the cur
rency (mention, fully and fairly, so as
to be ready by the time the Fifty-fifth
congress assembles to move intelligent
ly toward some definite legislation.
Let them study it, however, before
passing judgment upon It. The great
trouble, at any rate with some eastern
people, Is that they have made up their
minds In advance of hearing the evi
dence, which Is not quite fair to the
other side.
The Philadelphia Record, after say
ing that the hope of an international
bimetallic agreement Is all moonshine,
proceeds to remark: "There is no ques
tion that this country has a strong In
terest In the appreciation of sliver,
which Is so Important a product of its
mines; but it is certain that this
country alone cannot change the exist
ing relations between the two metals."
If this country "alone cannot change the
elstlng relatlops between the two
metals" and the other nations will not
does the Record mean that they will
not be changed at all?
Mrs. J. Hewitt Broaddus, of Ewlng,
Neb., who Is Indorsed by the best citi
zens of her home community, has
caused to be circulated In the east an
other earnest appeal for assistance In
behalf of the starving families of
Ewing and Its vicinity. They literally
lack, she says, the barest necessaries of
life and see no hope of Improvement
until next summer's crops are harvest
ed. This appeal ought to receive a
substantial answer; and we believe,
from what we know of Scrantonlans,
that so far as this city is concerned, It
will.
CLEVELAND A FALSE PROPHET
From the Irish World.
Whether dealing with the tariff or the
financial question, Cleveland always as
sume the role of the prophet, and, look
ing into the dim vista of the future, tails
us what dire calamities will result If his
views are not adopted. His money-lending
friends, Morgan, Rothschild, etc., have
told him that the best possible thing for
the country would be the demonetization
of sliver. With the white metal out of the
way, every gold dollar would have Its pur
chasing power increased, and as a conse
quence, every producer of wealth, whether
he Ib a farmer on his farm or wage worker
In workshop, mill or factory, will have to
give more of the results of his labor for
the dollar, which would be enhanced In
value by the adoption of the financial sys
tem advocated by Grover Cleveland. The
loss entailed by the producers would be the
exact measure of the gains made by the
class who live on Interest and the clever
manipulating of money.
How far the country has already trav
eled toward financial ruin, through the
adoption of the financial policy Cleveland
champions, will be shown by a little fig
uring. Two of the greatest staples by
which our foreign obligations are dis
charged are cotton and wheat. The prices
of both have steadily gone down ever
since silver was practically demonetized
In 1873. How this fact has affected the
debt-paying power of the nation is shown
by the following comparison between the
amount of cotton, and wheat It would have
taken to discharge the national debt in
1806 and the amount it would take to do
It now. The national debt in 1806 was $2,-
000,000,000; paid principal, Interest and
premium, $4,350,000,000; 1894, balance due in
dollars, about $900,000,000; 1800, could have
been paid In cotton, 14,184,000 bales; paid,
principal. Interest, etc., In cotton, 91,
090,000 bales, 1894, balance due In cotton, at
cents, 51,000,000 bales; 1860, could have
been paid In wheat, 1,007,000,000 bushels:
paid principal, Interest, etc., in wheat,
2,054,000,000 bushels.
Thus, after paying In cotton nearly seven
times the original amount of the national
debt, the American people still owe In cot
ton, nearly four times the original debt. It
would take twice as much whea t to pay off
the national debt today as It would have
taken the year after the war closed, al
though In the intervening twenty-nine
yearn we have paid in principal and inter
est four times the amount of wheat which
would have been sufficient to liquidate the
national debt twelve months after Lee
surrendered- to Grant. As In the last
analysis, it Is the great staples like cotton,
wheat and other farm products which pay
our foreign debts, we can readily see how
this country has been robbed by falling
prices, due to the demonetization of sil
ver. Our loss has been Europe's gain.
England, for Instance, obtained her raw
materials and food supplies at much
cheaper rates than she would have to pay
If the purchasing power of gold had not
been Increased through thc-flnunclal policy
which Grover Cleveland would like to in
perpetuated.
We Need a Stuhlo Dollar.
From the Rochester Post-Express.
An example will Illustrate the difference
between monometallism and our Bystem as
It stpnds. The treasury of the United
States is run on a monometallic basis;
and In little over a year it had to borrow
gold on $162,000,000 In bonds, in order to
keep from bankruptcy. The business of
the country is run or our. composite sys
tem of gold, silver and legal tender paper,
and there Is no difficulty beyond the gen
eral business depression from which we are
rapidly recovering. If the business of the
country had been put on a monometallic
basis, a thing for which certain people
wore scheming, gold would have been
simply unattainable except at a ruinous
premium, and there would have been a
general smash. There is danger in every
change of currency of cheating somebody
and no change should be made which. In
volves an obvious swindle of this kind.
The dollar may be too cheap; and It may be
too dear. It Is a pet phrase that "no dol
lar can be too good for the working1 man;"
but any dollar Is altogether too "good"
for him that costs mora labor than he can
afford to give for It.
Protect the Witness.
From the Philadelphia Times.
A court Is the sanctuary of justice, and
next to the sanctuary of God It should be
the most sacred of all places in any com
munity. It should be a place where every
honest man and woman can appear as a
witness with perfect assurance of respect
and of absolute freedom from affront
and every lawyer, as a Bworn officer of the
court, should aid, or bo compelled to aid, in
making the court room a place where
justice Is judicially administered. There
should be no cause for hesitation on the
part of any self-respecting man or woman
to enter the court as a witness.
TOLD BY THE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Ajacchus, The
i Tribune Astrologer.
Astrolabo cast: 1.47 a m. tor Saturday,
April 20, 1895.
3f
Moon rises 3.37 a. m.
A child born this day will observe that
the most successful minister often has dif
ficulty In keeping the devil out of his choir.
He will be of the opinion that but for
the words there would be no sacred music.
A new spring bonnet will often neutral
ize many glaring vocal defects in an of
fertory solo.
The first straw hat to appear upon our
streets this season reclined upon the
brow of a man from Mtnooka. What's
the matter with the fashion leaders it
Green Ridge?
Ajacchus' Advice.
Do not allow the current discussion of
the financial question to cause Insomniu.
Be cheerful and glad on this bright spring
time day.
Nor waste your time mourning for lost
"Schedule A."
Just Imagine, ye hopeful, how sad you
would feel
To find yourself "queered" by the hay
market deal!
pAINT cracks. It
A often costs more to prepare a
house for repainting that has been
painted in the first place with cheap
ready-mixed paints, than it would
to have painted it twice with strict
ly pure white lead, ground in pure
linseed oil.
Strictly Pure
White Lead
forms a permanent base for repaint
ing and never has to be burned or
scraped off on account of scaling
or cracking. It is always smooth
and clean. To be sure of getting
strictly pure white lead, purchase
any of the following brands:
"Atlantic," "Beymer-Bauman,"
"Jewett," "Davis-Chambers,"
" Fahnestock," " Armstrong & MoKelvy."
For Colors. National 'Lead Co.'s Pure
White Lead Tinting Colors, a one-pound can
to a 35-pound keg of Lead and mix your own
paints. Saves time and annoyance in matching
shades, and insures the best paint that it is pos
sible to put on wood.
Send us a postal card and get our book on
paints und color-card, free; it will probably save
you a good many dollars.
NATIONAL LEAD CO., New York.
Parlor
Furniture
Our Stock of Fine, Up-to-Date
Parlor Furniture
Is simply immense and prices
at which a parlor can now be
furnished by us are remarka
bly low
Think of it-A fine, highly
polished Suit, covered in good
Silk Tapestry, at
$25
fiSfOur entire stock of this
spring's Baby Carriages at cost.
Hill &
Connell,
131 AND
WASHINGTON IVL
v We Have Just Opened Our
First Import Order of
. HAV1LAND & CO.
FRENCH CHINA
If you want a nice Dinner
or Tea Set we have it. If
you expect to buy a
BABY CARRIAGE
See our line before you pur
chase. We can save you
money.
THE
I lblivi.ll, w llll.bbbl VVf
LIMITED.
422 LACKAWANNA AVENUE
THE
WEBER
PIANO
GUERNSEY BROS.
224 WYOMING AVE. '
GOLDSMITH'S
WHY THEY FAIL
On reading the statistics on business, the fact is learned that 98 per cent, of merchants fail. WHY t
"One oauae of many failures,
(You need not look for more),
Is the LOW prloe In trie windows,
And the HIGH prloe In the store.""
Just to show that the moral of the above does not apply to us, we will say-and our language is
plain that whenever vou find anything outside our place that we cannot duplicate inside, just take the
store, we will have no further use for it. Special for '
ONE WEEK
UNLESS SOONER SOLD OUT.
AT SILK COUNTER.""
LOT 1. Best quality Washable Kai-Kal Silks, not the kind that you can sift peas
through. 29 CENTS.
LOT 2. Single Warp Surah Silks, all shades, regular 50c quality, only
35 CENTS.
LOT 3. Best Double Warp Yarn Dyed Twilled Silks, over 25 shades, regular 75
cent quality, only 50 CENTS.
LOT 4. Satin Glace Stripes in the White Ground, a lovely fabric for Waists and
Children's Dresses, washable, 49 CENTS.
LOT 5. Special Designs of Printed 24-inch Habitues Silks, of extra weight and
quality, made expressly for us; every design a work of art; only
63 CENTS.
LOT 6. 23 pieces of 24-inch Fancy Figured Talleta Silks from the E. S. Jaifray
receivers saie;
DO
YOU
WANT
A
BOY
TO LOOK HIS BEST?
Then you should visit our Children's Department, now on ground floor,
that has all the outfits that the word implies for Juvenile wear. Ask for any
thing that a boy should wear, and we will be able to please you in (It, make,
style and price. Careful attention to auy special orders.
if
TUP QAMTERQ"
I ill. Unlll I LllUf
ARE THE BEST COASTERS.
.&"Ptij take
"IRST PlAGE:
Consequently they must run easier
than any other wheel. Call
ana examine them.
C. M. FLO RE Y,
222 WYOMING AVENUE,
Y. Ifl. C. A. BUILDING.
AYLESWORTH'S
MEAT MARKET
The Finest in (be City.
The latest Improved furnish'
Ings and apparatus for keeping
meat, butter and eggs.
223 Wyoming Ave).
nr. PLEASANT
COAL
AT RETAIL.
Coal of the best quality for domestic
use. and of all sizes, delivered In any
part of the city at lowest price.
Orders left at my Office
NO. 118 WYOMING AVENUE,
Rear room, first floor, Third National
Bank, or aent by mall or telephone to the
nine, will receive prompt attention.
Special contract will be made for the
Mil and delivery of Buckwheat Coal.
WM. T. SMITH.
The secret is out Not only do they
say we do wahslng for a living, but
that we do it well. So keep It going.
Tell everybody you 6ce, but tell them
not to tell.
EUREKA .-. LAUNDRY,
332 Washington Ave.
SPALDINt;
usual S5c. quality; while they last 65 C E N TS.
square dealing clothiers,
HATTERS AND FURNISHERS,
GUARDIN' HOSE
A fact. Yon have to guard some hose so car.
fully that the task bucomos a burden. It rot
and falls to pitco after a little unn. Not so
ourt. The best that's made is the kind we Mil.
Stands any pressure your water can put on it.
Will last for years. Ferhsps your lawn needs
fertilizer. We have it, and seed and rake and
mower.
Washington Ave
Boston Hot House Cucuni
bers, Ripe Tomatoes, Aspur N,
agus, Mushrooms, Rhubarb,
Cuuliflower, Water Cress,
Brussels Sprouts.
Blue Point Oysters, Large,
Medium und Little Neck
Clams. Mussels, Scallops,
Prawn, Large Assortment of
Fresh Fish.
PIERCE'S . MARKET,
Penn Avenues.
DR. HILL & SON
ALBANY
DENTISTS.
Set teeth, $5.60; best aet, $8; for (told cape
and teeth without plates, called crown and
bridge work, call for prices and refer
ences. TONALG1A, for extracting- teetk
without pain. No ether. No gas.
OVER FIRST NATIONAL BANK..
ROOF TUNING AKD SOLDERING
All done away with by the use of HART
MAN'S PATENT PAiNT, which consist
of ingredients well-known to all. It can be
applied to tin, galvanised tin, sheet Iron
roofs, also to brick dwollngi, which will
firevent absolutely any crumbling, crack
ng or breaking of the brick. It will out
last tinning of any kind by many years,
and it's coat dons not exceed one-fifth that
of the cost of tinning. Is sold by the Job
or pound. Contracts taken by
ANTONIO HAKTMAKN. 627 Birch SC
l
AAR.
Roe
Stationery
Blank Books,
Office Supplies.
EDISON'S MIMEOGRAPH
And supplies,
TYPE WRITFRS' SIIPPI IF3
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES.
REYNOLDS BROS.,
Stationers and Engravers,
317 LACKAWANNA AVE.
April 19, 1393.
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Have Moved
to No. 121 North
Washington Avenue,
Next First
Presbyterian Church.
New Store,
New Styles,
New Prices,
and
We Want
You for a
New Customer.
DILL 1 81.
FURNITURE DEALERS.
Biom hg co- iw'p- Caiui,i.oo.
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or IWaI Mote for tl.to.
sold la all null stores for
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and if any ooe it lot eauanra
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widths O, D.E.kIa
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