THE . SCHANTOX TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1896.
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Letter of Acceptance
Paterson. N. X. Sept. 10; 1596. '
Hon. Charles V. Fairbanks and others of
the Notliicatlon Committee of the Re
publican National Convention:
Ountlemen: I have already. In accepting
the nomination tor the otlioe of the vcc
presidency tendered mo ly the Nat.on.U
Republican convention, expressed my i
provul of the platform adopted by that
Body as the party bants of ilbctrlne. In a
coraance with accepted usage I beg now to
upplement that -brief statement of my
views, by some additional reflections upon
the questions which are In debate before
the American people.
The platform declarations In reference to
the money question express clearly iiid
unmistakably the attitude of the Itepub.
lican party as to tills supremely Important
ubjec-t. We stand unqualifiedly for hon
esty In finance, and the permanent adjust
ment of our monetary system In the mul
tifarious activities of trade and commerce,
to the existing gold standard of value.
We hold that every dollar of currency Is
sued by the United Btates. whether of told,
silver or paper, must be worth a dollar
In gold, whether In the pocket of the man
who tolls for his dally bread, in the vault
of the savings bank which holds his de
posits, ur in the exchanges of the world.
The money standard of a great nation
hould be us lived and permanent as the
nation Itself. To secure and retain the
best should be the desire of every right
minded citizen. Kerning on stable founda
tions, continuous and unvarying certain
ty of value should be Its distinguishing
characteristic. Thu experience of all his
tory confirms the truth that every coin,
niado under any law. howsoever that ruin
may be stamped, will linally command ill
the markets of the world the exact value
of the mutertals which compose It. The
dollar of our country, whether of gold or
silver, should be of the full value of one
hundred cents, and buy so much as any
dollar Is worth less thun this in thu mar
ket, by precisely that sum will some one
be defrauded.
The necessity of a certain and llxed
money value between nations as well ns
individuals has grown out of the Inter
change of commodities, the trade and bus
iness relationships which have urisen
among the peonies of the world with the
enlargement of human wants and the
broadening of human Interests. This ne
cessity hus made gold the tinal standard
of all enlightened nations. Other metals.
Including silver, liuve it recognized com
mercial value, and silver, especially, hus
a value of great importance for subsidiary
coinage. In view of a sedulous effort by
the advocates of free coinage to create a
contrary impression, it ciimuit be too
trongly emphasized that the Republican
party In Us platform alHrms this value in
silver, und favors the largest possible use
of this metal as actual money tnat can be
maintained with safety. Nut only this, It
will not antagonize, but will gladly ussist
in promoting a double standard when ever
it can be secured by agreement and co
operation among the nations. The bimet
allic currency, involving the free use of
silver, which we now have, is cordially
approved by Republicans. Hut a stund-'
aid and a currency ure vastly different
things.
NO MOR JUUQLIXU.
If we are to continue to hold our place
among the great commercial nations we
must cease Juggling with this question,
and moke our honesty of purpose clear to
the world. No room should be left 'or
misconception us to the meaning of the
language used in the bonds of the govern
ment not yet muturcd. It should nut be
possible for any party or Indlvlducl to
raise a question as to the purpose of the
country to pay ull Its obligations in the
best form of money recognized by the
commercial world. Any nation which is
worthy of credit of confidence can afford
to say explicitly, on a question so vital to
every Interest, what it means, when such
meaning Is challenged or doubted. It Is
desirable that we should make It known
at once and authoritatively, that an "hon
est djllur" means any dollar equivalent to
n gold dollar of the present iniidni'd of
weight und Oneness. The world should
likewise be ossuied that the standard dol
lar of America is as Indexible a quantity
as the French Napoleon, the British sov
ereign, or the German twenty m.irk piece.
Tho free colmiKe of silver at the ratio of
slxteent lo one, is n policy which no tuition
bus over before proposed, and it Is not to
day permitted in any mint In thu world
not even In Mexico. It Is purposed to make
the coinage unlimited, at an absolutely
fictitious ratio, llxed with no reference to
intrinsic value or pledge of ultimate re
riemptlon. With silver at its present price
of Its sthan seventy cents ner ounce In the
market, such a policy menus an immcili ite
prom to the seller of silver for which
mere is no return now or nereatter to the
people or the government. It means that
lor each dollar's worth of silver bullion
delivered at the mint practically two dol
lars of stomped coin will be given In ex
change. For one hundred dollars' worth
of bullion nearly two hundred sliver dol
lars will be delivered.
Let It also be remembered that the con
sequences of such an act would probably
be Emulative in their effects. The crop
of silver unlike that of hay, or wheat, or
corn which being of yearly production
can De regulated by tne law or ileinan-i
and supply Is fixed once for all. The sil
ver Which has not yet been gathered Is all
In the ground. Dearth of other accident
of the elements cannot augment or di
minish It. Is It not more than probable
that with the enormous premium offered
for Its mining the cupidity of man would
make an over-supply continuous, with
the necessary result of a steady deprecia
tion as long as the sliver dollar could be
kept In circulation at all? I'nder the laws
of ti nance, which are as fixed as those of
any other science, the inevitable result
would finally be a currency ull and abso
lutely flat. There Is no difference In prin
ciple between a dollar half Hat mid one all
flat. The latter, as the cheapest, under
tho logic of "cheap money" would sure
ly drive the other out.
AN IMMORAL ACT.
Any attempt on tho part of the govern
ment to create by Its flat, money of a fic
titious value would dishonor us In tho
eyes of other peoples, and bring Infinite
reproach upon the national character.
The business and financial consequences
of such an Immoral act would be world
wide, because our commercial relations
ore world wide. A'l our settlements with
other lands must be made not with tho
money which may he legally current In
our own country but In gold, the standard
of all nations with which our relations are
most cordial and extensive, and no leg
islative enactment can free us from that
Inevitable necessity. It is a known fact
that more than eighty per cent, of the
commerce of the world Is settled In gold
or on a gold basis.
Sucti free coinage legislation, if ever
consummated, would discriminate against
every producer of wheat, cotton, corn or
rf.?;who, "J10"1'1 ln Justice be equally en
titled, with the silver owner, to sell his
products to the United States treasury, at
Profit fixed by the government and
against all producers of Iron, steel, zinc or
copper, who might properly claim to have
their metals made into current coin It
would, as well, be a fraud upon all persons
forced to accept a currency thus stimu
lated and at the same time degraded
In every aspect tho proposed policy Is
partial and onesided, because It Is only
when a profit can be mnde by a mine own
er or dealer, that he takes his silver to the
mint for coinage. The government Is al
ways at tho losing end. Stamp such fic
titious value upon silver ore, and a dis
honest and unjust discrimination will be
mndo against every other form of Indus
try. When silver bullion, worth a little
more than SO cents. Is made into a legal
tender dollar, driving out one having a
purchasing and debt-paying power of 100
cents. It will clearly be done at the ex
I'ense and Injury of every class of the com.
munity.
Those who contend for the free and un
limited coinage of silver may believe In
II honesty that while the present ratio of
silver to gold is as thirty to one (not six
teen to one), silver will rise above the ex
isting market value. If It does so rise tht
effect will be to make the loss to all the
people so much less, but such an opinion is
nut 4 hazardous conjecture at best, and
Is not Justified by experience. Within the
last twenty years this government lias
. bought about 460 millions of ounces of sil
ver from which It has coined approx
imately 430 millions or silver dollars and
Issued 130 millions of dollars In silver cer
tificates, and the price of the metal has
steadily declined from $1.15 per ounce to
68 cents per ounce. What will be the de
cline when the supply is augumcnted by
the offerings of all the world? The loss
upon these silver purchases to the people
of. this country ha now been nearly 150
millions of dollars.
THE DOLLAR OP OLD.
The dollar of our fathers, about which
so much is said, was an honest dollar,
silver maintaining a full parity of Intrin
sic value with gold. Tho fathers would
have spurned and ridiculed a proposition
to make a silver dollar worth only 53 cents,
atand of equal value with a gold one worth
hundred cents. The experience of all
nations prove that any depreciation, how
aver alight, of another standard. Iron th
parity with gold, has driven the more val
uable one out or circulation, and such ex
perience In a matter of this kind Is worth
much more than mere Interested specula
tive opinion. .The fact that few gold coins
ure seen In ordinary circulation for dom
estic uses is no proof at ull that the metal
is not performing a most Important func
tion in business affairs. The foundation of
the house Is not always In sight, but the
bouse would not stand an hour If there
were no foundation. The great enginery
that moves the ocean steamship Is not al
ways ln view of the. passenger, but it is, .all
the same, the profiling force of the ves
sel, without which It would soon become a
worthless derelict.
It may be Instructive to consider a mo
ment how the free and unlimited coinage
of silver would affect a few great Interests,
and I mention only enough to demon
strate what a calamity may He before us
If the platform formulated at Chicago is
permitted to be carried out.
There are now on deposit In the savings
banks of thirty-three states and terri
tories of this Union, the vast sum of
litmO.OOO.WO. These are the savings of
almost 5.IW.UU0 depositors. In many
cases they represent the labor and econo
mies of years. Any depreciation ln the
value of the dollar would defraud every
man, woman and child to whom these
savings belong. Kvery dollar of their
earnings when deposited was worth
liio cents In gold of the present standard of
weight and fineness. Are they not entitled
to receive in full, with Interest, all they
have so deposited? Any legislation that
would reduce It by the value of a single
dime would be an Intolerable wrong to
each depositor. Every bank or banker who
has accepted the earnings of these mil
lions of dollars to the credit of our citi
zens must be required to pay them buck
ln money not one whit less valuable than
that which these banks und bankers re
ceived In trust. . . . .
There are, In this country, nearly !,M0
building und loan associations, with share,
holders to the number of l.liOO.lKW: nnd with
assets amounting- to more than JSimmhui,!""'.
Their average of holdings is nearly fK) per
capita, nnd in many cases tney represent
the savings of men and women who have
oVntcd themselves the comforts of life In
the hope or being uhlo to accumulate
enough to buy or build homes of their own.
Thev have aided In the erection of over a
million of houses which are now afford
ing comfort Und shelter for 5.000,000 of our
thrifty people.
MEANS CONFISCATION.
Free coinage at the arbitrary rate pf
sixteen ounces of silver to one of gold
would be equivalent to the conltsuatlon of
nearly half the savings that these peo
ple have Invested. It would be tanta
mount to a war upon American home
makers. It would be an Invasion of "tho
homes of the provident," and tend direct
ly to "destroy the stimulus to endeavor
and the compensation of honest toll." Ev
ery one of the shareholders of these as
sociations Is entitled to be repaid In money
of the same vulue which he deposltd by
weekly payments or otherwise in these
companies. No one of them should be
mude homeless because a political party
demands a change In the money standard
of our country, us an experiment, or as a
concession to sellishncss or greed.
The magnitude of the disaster which
would overtake these and connate Inter
ests becomes ihe more strikingly apnur
ent when considered in the aggregate.
Stated broadly, the savings banks, life in
surance and assessment companies, nnd
building loan associations of the country
hold In trust tl.3u!l.T11.3S1. The debase
ment of the currency to u silver basis, ns
proponed by the Chicago platform, would
wipe out at one blow, approximately J7.WI,
fiid.ST,!! of this aggregate. According to the
report of the department of agriculture,
the total value of the main cereal crops In
Ihfs country In IblH was $!IM,4:K,1"7. So that
the total sum belonging lo the people,
and held In trust In these Institutions,
which would be obliterated by the triumph
of free und unlimited silver coinage, would
ho Bevcn and one. half times the total
value of the annual cereal crop of the
United Stales. The total value of the
manufactured products of the country for
the census year of 1S1I0 was J!i,372,r.;r7.2.i3.
The establishment of a silver basis of
value, us now proposed, would entail a
loss to these three Interests alone enor
mous output of all Ihe manufacturing in
dustries of the Union, and would affect
directly nearly one-third of Its whole pop
ulation. AS TO TENSIONS.
One hundred ami forty millions of dol
lars per annum are due to pensioners of
the late war. That sum represents hlood
spilled nnd sufferings endured In order
to preserve this nation from disintegra
tion. In many eases the sums so paid ln
pensions are exceedingly small; ln few.
If any, are they excessive. The spirit
that would deplete these to the extent of
a farthing Is the same that would organ
ize sedition, destroy the peace and securi
ty of the country, punish, rather than
reward our veterun soldiers, and is un
worthy of the countenance, by thought
or vote, or any patriotic citizen of what
ever political faith. No party, until that
which met In convention at Chicago, has
ever ventured to Insult the honored sur
vivors of our struggle for the national
life by proposing to scale their pensions
horizontally, and to pay them hereafter
In depreciated dollars worth only 63 cents
each.
The amounts due, In addition to the
Interests already named, to depositors
and trust companies In national, state
and private banks, to holders of fire and
accidental insurance policies, to holders of
Industrial Insurance, where the money
deposited or the premiums have been
paid In gold or its equivalent, are so
enormous, together with the sums due,
nnd to become due, for state, municipal,
county, or other corporate debts, that If
paid In depreciated silver or Its equivalent,
H would not only entail upon our fellow
countrymen a loss In money which has not
been equalled in n similar experience since
the world began, hut It would, nl the same
time, bring n disgrace lo our country such
ns has never befallen nny other nation
which ind the ability to pay Its honest
debts, ln our condition, and consider
ing our magnificent capacity for raising
revenue, such wholesale repudiation Is
without necessity or extsisc. No nolitlcal
expediency or party exigency, however
pressing, couia jusury so monstrous an
art.
All these deposits nnd debts must, under
the platform of the Republican party, be
met ami uijusren m ine nest currency tne
world knows, and measured by the same
standard In which the debts have been
contracted or the deposits or payments
have been made.
OUR PRESENT WEALTH.
Htlll dealing sparingly with figures, of
which there Is an enormous mass to sus
tain the position of the advocates of the
gold standard of value, I cite one moro
fact, which Is officially established, pre
mised by the truism that there Is no bet
ter test of the growth of a country's pros
perity than Its Increase In the per cuplta
holdings of Us population. In the de
cade uctwen isw and during which
we had our existing gold standard nnd
were under the conditions that superved
from the net of IMS. the oer ranlta own.
Ings of this country Increased from $S7rt
to JI.iuh. in tnoe ten years the aggregate
was i,;e'.i.u"ii,ii, Deing to per cent. In ex
cess of the Increase for anv nrevinun tan
years since lSTiO, and at the amazing rate
oi over two innusana minions or dollars
a year. The framers of the Chicago Plat
form In the face of this fart, and of the
enormous Increase over Great Britain.
during this same gold stnndard decade, of
our country's foreign trade and Its produc
tion of Iron, coal nnd other great symbols
of national strength nnd progress, asserts
that our monetary standard is "not onlv
nn-AmericHn nut ami-American," and
that It has brought us "Into financial ser
vitude to London." It Is Impossible to
Imagine an assertion more reckless and ln-
lerensmie.
The Proposition for free and unllmltpd
sliver coinage, .carried to Its logical con
clusion, onu dui one is possible, means,
an before Intimated, legislative warrant
for the repudiation of all existing IndAt
edness. public and private, to the extlnt
of nearly GO per cent, of the face of all
such Indebtedness. It demands an un
limited volume of flat currency, Irredeem
able, and therefore without any stnndard
value ln tho markets of the world. Every
consideration of public interst and. public
honor demands that this proposition
should . be rejected by the American peo
ple. This country cannot afford to give Its
sanction to wholesale spoliation. It must
hold fast to Its Integrity. ' It must still
encourage thrift In all proper ways. It
must not only educate its children to
honor and resuect the Flag, but It should
Inculcate fidelity to the obligations of
personal and national honor as well
lloth these great principles should here
after be taught ln the common schools of
tne iana. ann tne lesson impressed upon
those Who are tho voters nf tnnnv and
those who are to become the Inheritors of
soverelcu power In this republic, that It
Is neither wise, patriotic, nor safe to
make polltiraNplatforms the mediums of
assault upon property, the peace of so-
"V uin civilisation lisen.
Until these lessons have been learned
by our children, and by those who have
reached tho voting age. It can only be
surmised what enlightened statesmen and
political economists will record, as to the
action of a parly convention which offers
an inducement to national dlshonesly by
a premium of 47 cents for every S3 cents'
worth of silver that can be extracted from
the bowels of the whole eurth, with a cor
dial invitation to ull to produce It at our
mints and accept for It a full silver legal
tender dollar of 1(H) cents rated value, to be
coined free of charge and unlimited In
quantity for private account,
A MENACE TO THE NATION.
Hut vastly more than a mere assertion
of a purpose to reconstruct the national
currency Is suggested by the Chicago
platform. It assumes, In fact, the form
of a revolutionary propaganda. It em
bodies a menace of national disintegra
tion and destruction. This spirit manifest
ed Itself In a deliberate proposition to re
pudiate tho plighted public faith, to im
pair the sanctity of the obligation of pri
vate contracts, to cripple tho credit of
the nation by stripping the government
of the power to borrow money as the ur
gent exigencies of the treasury may rc
quiro. and, in a word, to overthrow all the
foundations of financial and industrial
stability.
Nor Is this all. Not content with a pro
position to thus debauch the currency and
to unsettle all conditions of trade and
commerce, the party responsible for this
plHtform denies the competency of the
government to protect the lives and prop
erty of Its citizens against Internal disor
der and violence.
It assails the judicial muniments reared
by the constitution for the defence of In
dividual rights and the public welfare,
nsd It even threatens to destroy the In
tegrity and Independence of the supremo
court, which has been considered the last
refuge of the citizen against every form
of outrage and Injustice.
In the face of the Ferlous peril which
these propositions embody, It would seem
that there could be but one sentiment
among right-thinking citizens, as to the
duty of the hour. All men, of whatever
party, who believe In law, and have some
regain lor tne sacrccinexs or inmvuiuai
and Institutional rights, must unite In
defence of the endangered Interests of the
nation,
THE TARIFF ISSUE.
While the financial Issue which has been
thus considered, und which has come, as
tho result of the agitation of recent years,
to occupy a peculiar conspicuousness, Is
admittedly or prlmury Importance, there
is another question which must command
careful and serious attention. Our finan
cial and business condition is at this mo
ment one of almost unprecedented de
pression. Our great Industrial system Is
seriously paralyzed. Production In many
Important branches of manufacture has
altogether ceased. Capital Is without re
munerative employment. Labor is Idle.
The revenues of the government are in
sufficient to meet Its ordinary and neces
sary expenses. These conditions are not
the result of accident. They are the out
come of a mistaken economic policy de
liberately enacted und npplied. It would
not be difficult, and would not Involve
any violent disturbance of our existing
commercial system, to enact necessary
tariff modifications along the lines of ex
perience. For Ihe first two fiscal years of
tne so-cnueii M'Kimey Turin, tne receipts
from customs were $3SO,8il7.!SO. At this
writing the Wilson Tariff Act has been in
force for nearly two full fiscal years; but
the total receipts. HCtutil und estimated,
cannot exceed ia2,l41,HI7. A steady de-P;-it,
constantly depleting the resources
of the government and trenching even
upon Us gold reserve, has brought about
public distrust and business disaster. It
has, too, necessitated the Bale of $2ii2,000,
dot) of bonds, thereby Increasing to that
extent the national debt. It will be re
membered that In no year of the moro
than a quarter of a century of continuous
Republican udniinstraton succeeding the
Civil War, when our industries were dis
integrated and all the conditions of busi
ness were more or less disturbed, was the
national debt increased by a single dol
lar; it was on the contrary, steadily and
rapidly diminished. In such a condition of
affairs ns this, it Is idle to argue against
tho necessity of some sort of u change In
our fiscal luws. Tho Democratic party
declares for a remedy by direct taxation
upon u selected class of citizens. It op
poses any application of the protective
principle.
Our party holds that by a wise adjust
ment of the tariff, conceived In modera
tion and with a view to Htubilily, we may
secure all needed revenue, and It declares
that III the event of its restoralion to
power. It will seek to accomplish that re
sult. It holds, too, thut Is the duty of
the government to protect and encourage
ln all practicable ways the development of
domestic Industries, the elevation of
borne labor, and the enlargement of the
prosperity of the people. It does not favor
any form of legislation which would lodge
In the government power to do what the
people ought to do for themselves, hut It
believes that it Is both wise and patriotic
to discriminate In favor of our own ma
terial resources, and the utilization, under
the best attainable conditions, or our own
capital and our own available skill and
Industry.
PROTECTION NECESSARY.
Tho words of the Republican national
platform on this subject are at once
temperate and emphatic. It says of the
policy of protection: "In Its reasonable
application It Is Just, fair and Impartial,
equally opposed to foreign control und
domestic monopoly, to sectional discrim
ination und Individual favoritism."
"We demand such an suitable
tariff on foreign imports which come Into
competition with American products as
will not only furnish adequate revenue for
the necessury expenses of the govern
ment, but will protect American labor
from degradation to the wage level of
other lands. We are not pledged to any
particular schedules. The question of rates
Is a practical question to be governed by
the conditions of the time nnd of produc
tion; the ruling and uncompromising prin
ciple is the protection and development of
American labor and Industry. The coun
try demands a right settlement, and then
it wants rest."
The Republican party, ln Us first suc
cessful national contest, under Abraham
Lincoln declared in favor "of that policy
of national exchanges which secures to
the workingmun living wages, to agricul
ture remunerative prices, to mechanics
and manufacturers an adequate reward
for their skill, labor nnd enterprise, and
to the nation commercial prosperity and
Independence." Tho principle thus cnun-cintc-d
has never been abandoned. In the
crisis now upon us, It must be tenaciously
adhered to. While we must Insist that our
monetary standard shall be maintained in
harmony with that of the civilized world,
that our currency shall be sound und hon
est; we must also remember that unless
we make it possible for capital to find em
ployment and for labor to earn ample and
remunerative wages, It will be Impossible
to attain that degree of prosperity which
with a sound monetary policy buttressed
by a sound tariff policy, will be assured. .
In 18112. when bv universal consent w
touched the high water mark of our na
tional prosperity, we were under the same
financial system that we have today. Gold
was then the sole standard, and silver
and paper were freely used as the com
mon currency. We had a tariff framed by
iicuum-uii nanus uuuer tne direction or
the great statesman who now logically
leads the contest for a restoration of tho
policy whose reversal brought paralysis
to so many of our industries nnd distress
upon so large a body of our people We
were under the policy of reciprocity, for
mulatej by another Illustrious statesman
of tho genuine American type. We may,
If we choose to do so. return to the pros
perous conditions which existed before the
present ndmlnlstrntlon came Into power.
My sincere conviction is that my coun
trymen will prove wiso enough to under
stand the Issues that confront them, and
patriotic enough to apply safe and sure
remedies for the evils that oppress us.
They will not, I am sure, accept again at
their face value, the promises of a party
which, under desperate and perverted
leadership has so recently dishonored its
solemn pledges, which has repudiated the
principles and policies which have given
it a historic past, and the success of whicn,
as now constituted, would endanger at
home private security and the public safe
ty, and disastrously affect abroad both
our credit and good name. And foremost
among those who will decline to follow
where the new Democracy leads will be
thousands of mn, Democrats aforetime
and Democrat today who count country
more than party, and are unwilling even
by Indirection to contribute to results so
disastrous to our most sacred Interests.
, OTHER QUESTIONS.
The platform of the Republican national
convention states the party position con
cerning othor questions than those herein
referred to. These, while at tho present
time of subordinate lmportrnce, should not
be overlooked. The Republican party a as
always been the defender of the rights of
American altlzensblp, a against all ng.
gresslons whatever, whether at home or
abroad. It has, to the extent of It power,
defended those rights, and hedged them
about with law. Regarding the ballot as
the expression and embodiment of the sov
ereignty to safe-guard it against assault,
and to preserve Its purity and Integrity.
In our foreign relations it has labored to
secure to every man entitled to the shel
ter of our flag the fullest exercise of his
rights consistent with International obli
gation. If it should be restored to ruler
ship, it would infuse needed vigor into
manifested contempt anil disregard, not
only of American cltizenshp, but of hu
manity Itself.
The Republican party ha always stood
for tho protection of the American homo.
It has aimed to secure It ln tho enjoyment
of all the blessings of remunerated, Indus,
try, of moral culture, and of favorable
physical environment. It was tho party
which Intituled the policy of free home
steads, and which holds now, that this
policy should bo re-established, and that
the public lands yot vacant and subject :o
entry In any part of our national terri
tory, should be preserved against corpor
ate aggression as homes for the people
It realizes that the safety of the state lies
In the multiplication of households, and
the strengthening of that sentiment of
which the virtuous home In the best and
the truest embodiment; and It will aim to
dignify and enlarge by all proper legisla
tion this element of security.
If elected to the position for which I
have been nominated, it will be my earn
est and constant endeavor, under Divine
guidance, in the sphere of duty assigned
to me, to serve the people loyally along
tho line of the principles and policies of
the party which has honored mo with
its preference.
I am, gentlemen of the committee,
Very truly yours,
GARRET A. HOBART.
CURRENT MAGAZINES.
An exceedingly interesting- "human
document" In the Century this month
Is Richard Burton's admirable -study of
the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin.",
Another timely article In the same
magazine Is Isaac B. Potter's philo
sophic consideration of "The Bicycle
Outlook." Hut the Century is all read
able. 11 II
we venture to guess that few of the
young folk who begin Noah Brooks'
serial "Story of Marco Polo" which is
running In St. Nicholas will be satis
fled to let go until they shall have read
the whole of It.
II II II
"The Wonderful New Eye of Science,"
described by Camlllo Flammarlon in the
Cosmopolitan for September Is not Pro
fessor Cole's electric eye, but It Is worth
reading about. So, also, is Mr. Chat-flcdd-Taylor's
Impression of Granada
and the Alhambra.
II II II
McClure's this month restores Lin
coln's "lost speech" (the one which he
delivered at Hlnomington, III., May 29,
1?U8, at the first state convention of the
Republican paity. and which so charm
ed the reporters t'-iat they forgot to re
port It); prints an Interesting study of
James McNeil Whistler nnd has Its
usual quota of good short stories.
II II II
Every admirer of Ian Maelaren will
be pleased with the photographic views
of Drumtochty life and character that
appear In the current Bookman. And
It Isn't possible to conceive how any
bookish man could fall to be charmed
with the Increasing excellence of this
Journal's miscellaneous literary news
and gossip.
II II II
In the Looker-On for September Fro
fessor Halluck and Dr. Muckey resume
their Joint study of voice production
and analysis. Introducing several dia
grams and other explanatory cuts
which add to the value of this highly
Interesting series of papers. The Looker-On,
by the way, continues to be the
best high-class magazine printed for
music-lovers.
II II II
The central feature of the September
Issue of Ondey's Is a sketch of Ann n;ila
Carroll, "the woman thut saved the
union." The chances nre thatTfew per
sons today remember anything about
Ann Ella Carroll. Those who I don't
ought ln Justice to themselves to read
the article in Gotley's.
II II II
"Nor King Nor Country," by Gilbert
Parker, holds the premier place In the
current Pocket Magazine, but there are
other good stories In It, notably ones by
H. O. Wells, Stephen Crane and Clinton
I toss.
II II II
Another excellent number of the
Home Magazine has appeared and it
will continue to force this advancing
periodical to the front. This number
has a large variety of Interesting con
tents, nearly every one of which Is fit
for us to recommend, but we have time
to mention only A. Bogardus' paper
giving his experiences covering "Forty
Tears Behind a Camera" and Elbert
Hubbard's characteristic description of
a balloon ride in Paris.
II II II
Number second of The Hypnotic
Magazine (which comes from the Psy
chic Pub. Co., 56 Fifth ave., Chicago)
betokens careful editorial supervision
and a keen appreciation of the public's
Interest In hypnotic Investigations. To
persons who care at all for light on this
none too well known subject this new
publication ought to be most welcome.
II II II
Theologians and others capable of in
terest In vital religious problems will
find food for thought In Charles S. Nor
ton's paper ln trie current Metaphysi
cal magazine on "The Fall of Man."
Mr. Norton's Idea of the significance of
the Kdcnlc story Is thoroughly Interest
ing. II II II
This month's Issue ., of Gunton's
magazine Is called a campaign num
ber. It handles the fallacies of the
bifurcated Democracy without gloves.
II II II
A two-page article on Glrard college,
describing both the institution itself
and Its unique founder. Is a note
worthy feature ln the Home Quefn
this month. The Home Queen, by the
way, is a monthly publication on the
order of the Ladles' Home Journal,
Only cheaper, and Is published by the
Balfour company, Philadelphia.
II II II
Among the magnzlnelets Chap-Book
of course takes first place. And
that reminds us that an ex
ceedingly interesting series of
articles Is running ln Chap-Book:
just now, being Alice Morsa
Earle's spirited description of "Cur
ious Punishments of Bygone Days."
This is a capital feature but as usual,
there are others.
II II III
The Lotus (now become a monthly
and fallen Into the editorial hands of
Walter Blackburn Harte) Is gaining
steadily in grace and it won't surprise
us a bit if it should soon shove the
other creatures of Its class to one side.
Editor Harte, though, is black death on
his esteemed contemporary, Elbert
Hubbard, and maybe the literary fur
won't fly this winter!
II II II
And that brings us naturally to tho
Philistine, which has somehow es
caped notice of late. It still wags, ln
proof whereof we have before us what
it calls tts European number, com
pounded of equal parts of Canon
Farrar and El Hubbard. We like Hub
bard best.
ii ii' it' :
By the bye, t-t might fit In here to
remark that Hubbard la about to put-
llsh a novel,
get square!
Maybe then Harte won't
II II II -
Finally, the Lark continues it queer
est Of antica and It most incorrigible
of burlesques just as If It hadn't tons;
ago laughed the decadents out of court.
TOBY WITH A MORAL.
'Billy" Mnton Tell One That Ha a
Pertinent Application.
From a Speech by Congressman w. r.
Mason, of Chicago.
i InCA T vol told that In the great fight
down by Vlcksburg the rebels were
wr here and the boys In blue over
there; very near each other; but each
man kept his head below the Drcasi
works. Our band played "Hail, Colum
bia" ami thev nlnved "The Bony B..'
Flug;" but everybody kept down. One
Irishman stuck his finger up ana gen a
bullet through the wrist. His captain
aid: "What are you doing?" He said:
'I i-ai flohinir for a. furlough, sir. but I
think I got a discharge." (Laughter.)
But no man put his ueaa aoove tne
breastworks. It was a dangerous
place. They played "Dixie" and we
played "Yankee Doodle." Finally one
of the bands struck up the tune that
the boys up here played so beautifully
hora tnnlirht. "Home. Sweet Home."
Then the guns went Into the trenches;
then the men stood up on the breast
works and faced each other with tears
In their eyes, with their caps In the air.
They had lost all sense of danger in the
memory of the music ot nome.
Yes, this is a fight for my home, for
vnnrn. T Hn not want to fEO out of mv
J
house every morning and have good
men meet me ana say, -f or uoa s sake
get me a few days' work, that I may
pay my rent. i ao not want to see
1 r.nO man sdoenlnff- fin the floor of the
city hall of Chicago; not tramps, but
most of them willing to work; and I
say to you, if I had the power of fire
I would ask you to let this be burnt Into
your hearts: f or uods sake let us
havo a. tariff tn thin cnuntrv thnt will
give the labor of America to the labor
ing people ot America,
"STAND AHI" ILLUSTRATED.
From the Times-Herald.
There never has been, there never can
be, a community In which people will ac
cept eighteen Inches and thirty-six Inches
indifferently aa a yard. ,
Either thirty-six inches will be demand
ed by everyone, or that standard will pass
out of uso and eighteen Inches will be the
universal standard or measure of a yard.
There never hn been and there will
never be a community in which 100 cents
and M cents will be accepted indifferently
for the same commodity.
Either the commodity will sell every
where for ltw cents or It will sell every
where for 50 cents.
Thero has never been and there will
nver be a community In which gold and
silver coined without limit will circulate
as equals that is at par. The 100 cents
gold will How out to 'be more profitably
employed leaving the Held to 50 cents
silver. As a measure or standard of value gold
stands for 100 cents amd silver for TO
cents ln the actual relation of the metals
that Is, In their purchasing power.
Wo can have cither standard alone. We
cannot hnve the two standards at the
same time for the same reason that you
cannot maintain a yard measure thirty
six Inches long at the same time as a yard
measure clihteen Inches long.
We are now on the yard Btandard or
measure of -thirty-six Inches s-old. What
Is to be gained by pn'.nt to tho eighteen
Inches yard measure or standard silver?
Is it better to hnve CO cents' worth of a
good thing than lno cents' worth of It?
FAlUUNtl NEGLECTED.
Susquehanna Transcript.
A citizen of HiiHiiuehanna observed the
other day that coal was the only cheap '
commodity In Carbondale. At 11. W a ton
people don't seem nblo to subifist on It.
He added thut farming In that vicinity is
sjiamufully neglected; that most of the
farms nre ln possession of sons by Inher
lianee, who unfortunately, have not In
herited a tendency to labor; consequently
provisions are scarce and living high In
Carbondale, where the reverse would or
should be true If tho farmers would im
proy their lot by steady Industry,
Directory of Wholesale and Retail
CITY AND SUBURBAN
REPRESENTATIVE BUSINESS HOUSES,
ART STt DIO.
F. Bantee 538 Spruce.
ATHI.KTIC AND DAILY PAPERS.
Relsman ft Solomon, 103 Wyoming ave.
ATMI.iniC GOODS AND IlICYCLKS.
C. M. Florey, 222 Wyoming ave.
AWNINGS AND Rl'BBER GOODS.
J. J. Crosby, 15 Lackawanna ave.
BANKS.
Lackawanna Trust and Safe Teposlt Co,
Merchants' and Mechanics'. 429 Lacka.
Traders' Natlonul, cor. Wyoming and
Spruce.
West Side Hank, 109 N. Main.
Scranton Savings, 122 Wyoming.
BrUDlNG. CAHfKT CLEANING. ETC.
The Scranton Bedding Co., Lackawanna.
BREWERS.
, Robinson, R. Sons. 433 N. Seventh.
Itobinson, Mlna, Cedar, cor. Alder.
BICYCLES Gl N.S. ETC.
Parker, E. It., 321 Spruce.
BICYCLE LIVERY.
City Bicycle Livery, 120 Franklin.
BICYCLE REPAIRS. ETC.
Bittenbender & Co., 313'i Spruce street.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Goldsmith Bros. 301 Lackawanna.
Goodman' Shoe Store, 432 Lackawanna,
BROKER AND JEWELER.
Radin Tiros., 123 Penn.
CANDY MANI I ACiritER.
Scranton Candy Co., 22 Lackawanna.
CAHPE1S AND WAI L PAPER.
Ingalls, J. Scott, 419 Lackawanna.
CAKUIAGf.S AND HARNESS.
Slmwell. V. A., 515 Linden.
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY.
Blume, Wm. & Son. 522 Spruce.
CATERER.
Huntington, J. C, 308 N. Washington.
CHINA AND GLASSWARE,
Rupprecht, Louis, 221 Penn ave.
CIGAR M A Nl' E ACTl' KEH.
J. P. Fivel, 223 Spruce street.
CONFECTIONERY AND TOYS,
Williams, J. D. ft Bros., 314 Lacka.
CONTRACTOR AND MILDER.
Snook; S. M., Olyphant.
CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE.
Harding, J. L., 215 Lackawanna.
DINING RO'IM.
Caryl's Dining Room, E05 Linden.
DRY GOODS.
The Fashion. 308 LacKnwanna avenue.
Kelly & Healey, 20 Lackawanna.
Flnley, Pi B., 510 Lackawanna.
DRY GOODS. SHOES? HARDWARE, ETC.
Mulley, Ambrose, triple store. Providence,
mm
ii mu sin ii sin mil ii in sim
His Protracted Illness Which, it was Feared. Would
End in Death, is now a Thing of the Past-He
Speaks to a Reporter About it, and
'About to make His Reappearance
Behind the Footlights.
JVom in Olob,
Georgv A. MeCirthT, of 801 Broadway,
South Boston, who is known to the theatre
going public of New England a George A.
(Banger, the actor and theatrical manager,
but who has not been seen on the stag for
nearly two yean on account of serious ill
ness, is about to make bis appearance again
behind the footlights. He is s son of Wm.
McCarthy, the well-known dealer in antique
furniture and novelties, at 267 and S21 Tre
mont Street. But there is a very interesting
story connected with Mr. McCarthy' re-appearance.
He told a reporter th story of hi
experience a follows :
" It i now nearly two year since I had to
rye op the (tacfe. but I am glad to say that
shall soon be back on the board again.
It was a year ago last summer that I gave
up the business. I had been playing through
Maine, and my last appearance was at Bar
Harbor. I was taking two parts, and on.
included a song and dance turn.
' For nun week before I had felt myself
failing in ttrnctli. until at Bar Harbor I
had to give op on account of shortness of
Drentn. ine somersault which 1 used to
make so easily I could do only with the
Ecatest diirlculty, and toward the last I
nded on my feet completely daied, and for
tome moments would be unable to collect
my senses. It was no use trying to hold out
any longer, so I gavo it up and became
manager of a company which was also mak
ing the Maine circuit. I carried this along
a little while, but my health kept failing.
I couldn't run up stairs, nor run for a car.
and 'if I walked rapidly . I could afterward
peak only two or three words st a time.
" I could hardly sleep at night, and never
in the morning did I awake Ti least bit re
freshed. I wo tired all the time, and was
lauiruld. palo and weak. I knew I was fail
ing, yet 1 wouldn't give up, and kept hoping
mat l woum ne nine to turow on tne leeitng
of lethargy which was on me. One day in
Rockland I fell fainting, and then I was
forced to give up business altogether and
come home. After two weeks at horn, and
under a doctor's treatment, I was no bet
ter. In fact I seemed to be getting worse.
I would have fearful sharp pains in nir back,
near the kidnevs. Later these Dain ex
tended to my head, and it seemed that the
top would be cut off, the pain were so sharp
anil strong.
"I was getting discouraged. I hod hardly
any strength left. Any silent enort ex
hausted me. ami I talked with difficulty. I
put myself in the hands of my doctor, with
the instructions for hitn to do anything he
would with me to tnnko ine well. For a
whole month I dosed and drugged myself
with prescriptions. The month passed and
I was in a worse condition. Then a friend
told me of a remedy, a home-made remedy,
which was largely made of elderberry wine,
and which had cured another young fellow
who had been in a condition similar to my
own. My friend was sure that it would cure
1 .1J I. A.ltUA.llu u-.l I. Mrtolo-lw
for the following month, but it failed to have
any beneficial effect upon me.
" I consulted two separate doctors here in
South Boston. One said 1 had consumption
of the blood, and could live but two years at
the longest. Both treated me, however, but
the result was a failure on their part. Then
I went back to my own doctor, ana stayed un
der his treatment for fnnr months. All this
time I had been crowing worse, and my trou
ble had assumed a new form. It was a sort of
paralysis. I had ftiur separate attacks of this.
One night I awoke to find myself unable to
move hand or foot. I was perfeetlv conscious.
ret for the time being I had lost control of
nyseir. ana couiu move ucuuer uuiu ur
DRY GOODS. FANCY GOODS,
Kresky, E. H. A Co., 114 8. Main.
DBIGGISTS.
MoGarrah & Thomas, 209 Lackawanna.
Lorentz. C, 418 Lacka.; Linden ft Waah.
Davis, O. W., Main and Market.
Woes, W. 8., Peckvllle.
Davlcg, John J., 1H6 S. Main.
ENGINE AND BOILERS.
Dickson Manufacturing Co.
FINE MERCUANT TAILORING.
J. W. Roberts. 126 N Main ave.
W. J. Davis, 21S Lackawanna.
Eric Audren, 119 S. Main ave.
FLORAL DESIGNS.
Clark, O. R. ft Co.,
201 Washington.
I LOUR. IIL'TTER, EGOS, ETC.
The T. H. Watts Co., Ltd.. 72S W. Lacka.
Babcock O. J. ft Co.. 116 Franklin.
FLOCK, FEED AND GRAIN.
Matthews C. P. Sons & Co., 34 Lacks.
The Weston Mill Co., 47-49 Lackawanna.
FRt'ITS AND PRODUCE.
Dale ft Stevens, 27 Lackawanna.
Cleveland, A. 8., 17 Lackawanna.
FURNISHED ROOMS.
Union House, 215 Lackawanna,
FURNITURE.
Hill & Connell, 132 Washington.
Barbour's Home Credit House, 425 Lack.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.
Osterhout. N. P.. 110 W. Market.
Jordan. James, Olyphant.
Bechtold. K. J Olyphant.
GROCERS.
Kelly, T. J. ft Co.. 14 Lackawanna.
McKargcl ft Connell, Franklin avenue.
Porter, John T., 2S and 2H Lackawanna.
Rice, Levy Co., 30 Lackawanna.
Pirle, J. J.. 427 Lackawanna.
HARDWARE.
Connell. W. P. A Sons, 118 Penn.
Foote ft Shear Co., llfl N. Washington.
Hunt & Connell Co., 434 Lackawanna.
HARDWARE AND PLUMBING,
Ounster ft Forsyth. 327 Penn.
Cowlrs, W. C. 1307 N. Main ave.
HARNESS AND SADDLERY HARDWARE.
Fritz, O. W., 410 Lackawanna.
Keller ft Harris, 117 Penn.
HARNESS, THINKS. BUGGIES.
Krlc Andrew, 119 South Main ave.
HOTELS.
Arlington, Crimes & Flannery, Spruce
and Franklin.
Scranton House, near depot.
HOUSE. SIGN AND FRESCO PAINTER.
Wm. Hay. 112 Linden.
HUMAN HAIR AND HAIR DRESSING.
N. T. Lisk. 223 Lackawanna.
LEATHER AND FINDINGS.
Williams, Samuel, 221 Spruce.
LIME, CEMENT SEW FR PIPE.
Keller. Luther, 811 Lackawanna,
arms
SoMoh, Mat
foot, neither eonld I rise, Ii H musbA
the doctor said, by stagattioa of th blood.
" I had spent a good deal ef money for
doctor and medicines by this time, and at
the end of more than six month of constant
doctoring I could look back and see that th
oours had been (lowly but steadily down
ward, go i gave np my doctor, who had been
so expensive but helpless. I be ran to take
arsaparUlaa. I took a number of tonic. I
trn-a in turn hair a dozen preparations tor
the heart, the kidneys, the blood, th nerve,
and when I had got through with them I was
till a wreck of a man, physically, and I
eeraed to have exhausted every knows
means of cure.
"One day when I wa In frther't store a
fellow cam. in who work in Beck' auction
room. He had been sick a short tint before
with rheumatism, and he hud been cured by
using I. Williams' Pink Pill for Pail
People. lie recommended them to me, and
the next time he saw me be gave me a doien
of them. I took them, one after each meal,
and pretty soon began to feel their effect.
The first few were hardly noticeable, but
soon I found that I could walk with less tx.
ertion. That was the first effect, I was get.
ting strength. Then my bowels, which
never performed their duty nnles I took a
cathartic, began to do their work.
t bought a box or the pun and began to
take them regularly. Gradually I round
my strength coming back. That fearful
tired feeling began to disappear, although
very (lowly. I had had it lor more than a
year, and now I was beginning to get rid oi
It, My flesh, which had been so soft that to
even rest my hand on the corner of a table,
lor instance, ten tne impress or it on my
hand, began to crow firm. I could so to th
city two days in succession without feeling
lick because of it. It cost me lens to walk
np (tain, my breathing became easier. Tb.
pain in my bark and nead were lesi sever
and recurred with les frequency.
" I found the pills were doing me so much
rxi that as soon a my first box was used np
bought another. I continued to improv
until 1 became well. Now that means a
good deal to me. It looked for a long time
as though I would never be well acaiu. Now
1 can walk np stairs as well as the next man.
I eat and sleep and feel well, and am well,
" It took about four boxes of pills to make
me a well man, and thut after I had treated
for nearly fight months under doctors, and.
with some of the highest patent medicines.
" I still take the pills occaxionally in ordet
iokeep me in condition. I am rehearsing
now for the stage again, nnd ln June I ex.
pect to npprnr again. I can torn asomer.
tan It Benin with rate.
"I nnve many friends to whom I have
recommended the pills, for they did me,
good, and I know they will do good to
others. I consider thnt I certainly ow
mv health and, possibly my life, to Dr.
Williams' Tiuk Pills."
Signed. Grotto e A. MrCABTnT.
Sworn to before me, March 7, VPM.
f. ... 4, s. ...... .... .... r ,,.
ui'rr.rii v. vutr.r.i.r.i, notary Jttonc.
Pr. Williams' Pink Pills contain. In a con.
densed form, all the elements necessary to civc
new life and richness to the blood and restore
shattered nerve. They are an unfailing spe
rific lor such diseases as locomotor ataxia, pari
tial pit ni lysis, St. Vitns' dance, sciatica, nem
rnlgia, rheumntium, nervous headache, the;
afler effect of la prippe, palpitation of th
heart, rale and sallow complexion, all forinq
of weakness either in mule or female. Pinli
Pills ore mid by all dealers, or will be sent
post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box ot
six Iwxes for 2.50 (they are never told In bulk
or by the KKl), by addressing Dr. Williams'
Medicine Company, Schenectady. N.-Y.
MILK, CREAM. BUTTER. ETC.
Scranton Dairy Co., Penn and Linden.
Stone Bros., 308 Spruce.
MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING.
Mrs. Bradley, 20$ Adams, opp. Court
House.
MILLINERY AND FURNISHING GOODS.
Brown' Bee Hive, 224 Lackawanna.
MINE AND MILL SUPPLIES.
Scranton Supply and Mach. Co., 131 Wyo.
MODISTE AND DRESSMAKER.
Mr. K. Walsh, 311 Spruce street.
MONUMENTAL WORKS.
' Owens Bros., 218 Adam ave.
PANTS.
Great Atlantic $3 Pant Co., 319 Lacka
wana ave.
PAINTS AND SUPPLIES.
Jlencke ft McKee, 308 Spruce street.
PAINTS AND WALL PAPER.
Winke, J. C. 315 Penn.
PAWNBROKER.
Green, Joseph, 107 Lackawanna.
PIANOS AND OHGANS.
Stelle. J. Lawrence. 306 Spruce.
PHOTOGRAPHER.
H. S. Cramer, 311 Lackawanna ave.
PLUMBING AND HEATING.
Howley, P. F. ft M. P.. 231 Wyoming ave.
REAL ESTATE.
Horatio N. Patrick. 326 Washington.
RUBBER STAMPS STENCILS, ETC.
Scranton Rubber Stamp Co., 53S Spruce
street.
HOOFING.
National Roofing Co., 3.11 Washington.
SANITARY PLUMBING
W. A. Wlldcbruck, 234 Washington ave.
STEAMSHIP TICKETS.
J. A. Barron, 215 Lackawanna and
Prlceburg.
STEREORELIEF DECORATIONS AND
PAINTING.
S. II. Morris, 247 Wyoming ave.
TEA, COFFEE AND SPICE.
Grand I'nl.on Tea Co., 103 S. Main.
TRUSS FS, BATTERIES, Rl'BBER GOODS
Benjamin ft Benjamin, Franklin and
spruce.
UNDERTAKER AND LIVERY.
Raub, A. R., 425 Spruce.
WALL PAPFR, ETC.
Ford, W. M.. 120 Penn.
WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER.
Rogers, A. E., 215 Lackawanna.
WINES AND lIOt OHS.
Walsh, Edward J., 32 Lackawanna,
WIRE AND WIRE ROPE.
Washburn ft Moea V c. jj franklin
ave.