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NATIONAL.
President-WILI.JAMKIXI.EY.
Viee-Presldent-UAKIIKT A. HuUART.
STATK.
Congressmen - nt - Large GAU'SHA A.
GROW. BA.Ml'lOL, A. DAVKXI'UHT.
Ol N'TV.
Congress WILLIAM CON SELL.
Commlsslnners-S. V. lloBKKTS. GILES
KOBKHTS, , ,
Audltors-A. E. K1F.FEH, FRED L.
WARD.
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Senate, 21st M'trict-COL. W. .1. SCOTT.
Hepresntutlve, 1st Plstrlet JOHN R.
PARK: I'd District A. T. CONNKLL:
3d District lK. N. C. M.U'KKV; -tli
District John p. ri:ynolus.
It Is announced that if Uryan at
tempts to make a speaking: tour of In
diana ficneral Harrison will follow him.
Uryan had better take warning- In time.
Court Costs.
The work of the last grand jury was
especially praiseworthy in Its refusal
to saddle the county with costs In ig
nored assault nnd buttery hills. Of the
MS lilll.s which this prand jury threw
out of court more than !I0 per cent, rep
resented simply petty spites and the
jury properly declined to make the
county a partner in the expense of air
ing private Ill-will.
Hut whut can be said of the commlt
tins magistrates who send before the
prand jury nt each quarter session such
n raft of trivial litigation? How Is
their acquiescence to be excused? To
be sure. It is money in their pocket
and under our beautiful petty magis
terial system a premium seems to be
put on the manufacture of law suits
with a view to the festive fee. Accord
ing to this view the public Itself may
be the flnul claimants tr the blame:
nut until It can realize its own delin
quency In tacitly acquiescing In such
an obsolete and Inefllclent system, there
Is some measure of satisfaction in vent
ing one's disgust on the ietty magis
trates themselves.
P.Iennially, just about election time,
we are accustomed to hear from am
bitious lenlslators, who take pains to
inform the community of their Inten
tion of framing legislation for the re
duction of excessive court costs. This
year this customary declaration of in
tentions Is missing. Has the task been
given up as un Impossibility?
The report thai there will be no fu
ture lowering of the price of standurd
high-grade bicycles should be told to
the marines.
No Compulsory floney.
Where compulsion supersedes consent,
security doc not lie; where security noes
nut i!i', society as represented by govern
ment loses lis purpose; anil Individual um
l.ltlon nnd emulation will stop their ef
forts. Prom a Hook Called "The Way
Out."
Here we have In few words a crys
tallization of the whole argument
ngnlnst fiat money of whatever kind.
That money Is sound money which does
not need the "thou shall" of statutory
law to compel It3 acceptance by the
creditor. That money Is unsound
money which forces Itself Into reluctant
hands by virtue of a legal tender act.
No American citizen, be his political
beliefs what they may, hesitates to ac
cept gidd money or Its equivalent in
discharge of a debt. Altgeld, Sewall,
Stewart, all the prominent advocates of
fifty-cent unlimited silver dollar coin
age, require by contract that those who
owe them shall make paympnt In gold.
Their leases without exception have the
gold clause. The bonds which they
purchase In business transactions are
Invariably gold bonds. They demand
gold simply because they know that
when they get It they get a form of
nio-iey which will not lose value by
sudden fluctuation In public confidence.
Jfo one has ever hpard or read of a
sane man expressing distrust of gold
money. There Is no record of a man
going from one country to another with
gold In his pocket and finding at his
journey's end that his money In the
meantime had fallen so low In public
estimation as to be shorn of Its pur
chasing or debt-paying value. With
gold, compulsion does not supersede
consent; there is no need of compulsion
at all. The gold as bullion will do quite
as well as a medium of exchange as
the gold stamped by government Into
coin.
But how Is It with flat money? The
old state bank scrip was Hat money,
and Its value used to vary between the
rising and the setting of the sun. Con
federate notes were flat money, and at
one time It took $100,000 In those notes
to buy a suit of clothes. The silver
dollar of Mexico Is In part flat money,
and while legal compulsion makes it
pay a dollar's worth of debt In Mexico,
the moment It crosses the Rio Grande,
It becomes worth in American gold
standard money only the commercial
value of Its smelted bullion. Even In
Mexico prices have risen to meet the
dollar's fall, so that If tomorrow sliver
should fall fifty per cent., It would
take twice as many Mexican dollars to
buy an article of commerce after the
fall as were required before. This
leaves nobody better off;- It ' simply
makes for uncertainty and Insecurity
In business. . .
Vo we want a currency In the United
States which has to be forced oh people
by government flat? j Must compulsion
supersede, consent? Does the man who
works for a living want the law to put
Into his employer's hands fifty cents'
worth of silver with fiat power to pay a
dollar In wages? Is not it the right
plan in a government of freemen to
have money so good that everybody will
be glad to take It at what its stamp
says It Is worth?
. Republican newspapers will not
make much capital trying to spread
the Idea that Bryan has been discourt
eous to the clergy. When a clergy
man goes Into politics he must ex
pect to receive blows as well as to
give them. No clergyman when outside
the pulpit ought to interpose his cloth
as a shield against a reasonable criti
cism of his controversial utterances on
secular topics.
This Year's Lake Traffic.
Some facts in relation to this year's,
lake traffic have been collated which
will Interest all persons who take pride
In the development of Inland com
merce, and especially those who have
made the voyage by water from r.uffa
lo to Uuluth. A careful estimate com
putes the lake tonnage of 1X96 at S.OOO,-
000 tons In excess of last year's ship
ments, which were In that year far In
excess of the average. L,ake Superior's
share alone of this Immense tratllc,
from the opening of navigation to Sept.
1 was 10.67S.859 tons. 2.000,000 tons larger
than for the similar period last year
and 4,000,000 tons larger than on Sept,
1, 1S'J4. The footings for the other
lakes are not yet given, but it seems fair
to assume that the ratio of Increase was
general.
More vessels pass through the St.
Clair ship canal during the eight
months of lnke navigation than float on
the Thames at London during the
twelve months of the year. An aver
age of one vessel every seven minutes,
day and night. Is the record nt this
arterial point in the chain of lakes. The
new American lock at the "Soo," which
cost $5,000,000, Is 500 feet long by 60 wide,
and which lifts or lowers the largest
vessels from one lake level to the oth
er In twelve minutes, was thrown open
to traffic In August and is expected to
be a mighty developing force In the di
lectlon of augmented tonnage.
The government Is wisely expending
liberal sums of money In deepening the
chnnnels of the St. Mary's and St. Clair
rivers and In widening the approaches
to Important dorks. Hut the need of
redoubled ' energy along' this line Is
made apparent to every traveler by
boat through the shallow pluces be
tween the main parts of the great lakes.
It perhaps Is significant In this con
nection that most of the freighters now
ailoat between Huffalo and Uuluth fly
McKlnley streamers anil carry Republi
can crews; for under Kepubllcqn ad
ministrations the federal revenues are
nut In the habit of sinking so low as to
necessitate the abandonment of im
portant dredging operations and the
postponement of other channel Improve
ments that the character of lake navi
gation Imperatively demands.
Tne New York Sun gives currency
to a story that liryan Is mentally dis
eased. This Is carrying- opposition too
far. We can differ from the other fel
lows without necessarily reaching the
conclusion that they are crazy.
An English Opinion.
It Is a well-known fact that the worst
ed Interests of Bradford, Eng., bene
fitted decidedly by the lower duties of
the Wilson bill. To them Its enact
ment came as a regular godsend, caus
ing Immediate revival where there had
since the enactment of the McKlnley
tariff been stagnation and even dis
tress. Perhaps many who read this
will recall how viciously the Bradford
papers assailed McKlnleylsm four
years ago. They were more violent In
the expression of denunciatory opinion
than the press of any other English
city, a fact which lends added interest
to a paragraph which we shall repro
duce from an editorial published In the
Bradford Daily Argus of Sept. 5. The
editorial contrasted the financial views
of the Republican party In the present
American campaign with those advo
cated by Bryan and went on to say con
cerning the tariff Issue as represented
by McKlnley:
Had any one predicted four years ago
that it would be possible for the Bradford
worsted industry us a whole, depending as
It does so largely for Its prosperity un u
free entry to American ports, to bo found
arrayed on the side of McKlnley and high
protection, there would have been rea
sonable ground to express douhta us to his
sanity. But Impossible us such a change
of sentiment would have appeared four
years, or even a twelve-month ago, It has
actually occurred. Bradford wishes no
evil, to the United States, and Hrudford
lans would prefer to seea perpetual reign
of McKlnleylsm especially the McKlnley
lsm as Interpreted by the recent letter of
the Republican candidate and the recent
declarations of Republican newspapers
rather than see a people united to this
country by so many ties of blood, tradi
tion, and commerce, plunged Into tho
whirlpool of national disaster and nutlonul
dlsgraco which would Infallibly be Its futo
if the people were foolish enough to adopt
the policy of Mr. Bryan, a policy as Im
possible of realization as It is crude and
shallow in the theories on which It Is
based.
But that Is not all. Hear this:
We may go even further than this and
say that Bradford manufacturers as a
whole approve on principle of the .McKln
ley policy, as It has been interpreted by
its author and some of the leading Journals
attached to his cause. That principle as
recently explained does not embody tho
imposition or prohibitive duties, but such
a tariff as will place producers In America
on a fair footing with their competitors
here, having regard to the higher rate of
pay which prevails for most descriptions
of labor on the other side of the Atlantic.
It Is to be n duty which will hundlcap Bri
tish manufacturers to the extent of de
stroying any advantage which they may
possess through cheaper lahor, but not
such a will Interfere with "keen and
healthy competition" between the native
and the Imported goods, McKlnley also
recognises in full the principle of reci
procity. We not only fall to see any Just
argument which can be urged against a
policy honestly carried out on these lines,
but It Is such a policy as has often been
advocated In these columns for the United
Kingdom, and for the Kmplre at largo
under the proposed Imperial Trade Feder
ation. It is a sensible policy of encourage
ment to native Industries, where such en
couragement can be given without dispro
portionate cost to the nation at large, of
equal play to native and foreign Industrial
skill nnd enterprise, and of selling the right
of trading in native markets to. those
competitors who are willing to give an
equal consideration In return to native
traders In their markets. It Is n common
sense policy, If carried out on reasonable
lines. It Is, Indeed, the only common
sense policy. And It Is one which tha
Bradford manufacturers and the Bradford
workers would like to sen adopted In this
country, although they lack the courage,
wr It may b only the leaders, to sdvocata
publicly opinions which are freely ex
pressed In private on all hands.
We do not imagine that It makes any
particular difference so far as the peo
ple of the United States are concerned
what the manufacturers of Bradford.
Eng., "think of American politics so
long as they keep hands off of our cam
paigns. But the foregoing expressions
are certainly Interesting as Indicative
of a rapid change In English opinion
on the tariff question. When Joseph
Chamberlain made that recent speech
of his declaring with surprising frank
ness that Great Britain might yet have
to return to a Protective tariff If she
would lireserve her Industries, he evi
dently spoke by the card.
One year ago Rensselaer county. New
York, had 250.000 surplus money In Its
treasury. Today It has only $200. The
loss of the difference Is explained by the
fact that the county treasurer, George
H. Morrison, one of Troy's foremost
citizens, Is In Jail on a charge of em
bezzlement. Morrison had been In of
fice only one year. In completeness his
crime pales even that of John Bardsley.
The Tariff Not Sidetracked.
Because the Republican press has
lately devoted much attention to the
free coinage fallacy It Is not to be In
ferred that It has forgotten the tariff
Issue. In due time that will resume
Its proper place as the leading issue
between the parties, and the country
which In IS92 rejected Protection by
overwhelming pluralities will In 1806
re-adopt it by pluralities still more
striking. It will do this because It will
have learned by experience on which
side Its bread la buttered. A brief re
view of Home interesting statistical
facts based In the main upon official
reports will serve to put this matter
In a clearer light.
Since the election of Cleveland In 1S92
on an antl-Proteetlon plutform the ag
gregate business of our clearing houses
has sustained a total shrinkage of from
$40,000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000; our for
eign commerce has diminished by
nearly $1,000,000,000; our agricultural
products have suffered a depreciation
In value of over $1,000,000,000, to which
mils-be added also nearly $1,000,000,000
depreciation In the value of our live
stock, $60,000,000 in the value of our
sheep and more than $46,000,000 In the
value of he wool crop. The number
of new railroads being built has been
reduced about two-thirds; the number
of passengera carried has decreased al
most 32,000,000 In three years; there has
been a decrease of over $31,000,000 in the
net earnings, $50,000,000 In the net re
ceipts, $31,000,000 In the receipts from
passengers and $12,000,000 In the div
idends. There has been a decrease of
4,079,983 In the number of messages sent
by telegraph, and an Increase of one
cent In the cost per message. Our ex
ports of agricultural products have de
creased $290,780,000. Unfortunately, we
have not the statistics to show how
disastrous has been tho effect upon our
manufacturing Industries; we know,
however, that In many Industries the
production and prices have decreased
almost one-half.
Undoubtedly the business depression
of the past three years has been mater
ially aggravated by the doubt which
the free silver agitation has cast upon
the future soundness of our currency;
but it Is to be remembered thut this
agitation did not take on proportions
of seriousness until the revolutionary
tariff policy of the Cleveland admin
istration had shaken public confidence,
brought on general panto and afforded
a fertile field for the propogatlon of
new heresies. Had Protection not been
assailed we question whether Bryan
would ever have got the chance to
roam about the country preaching the
gospel of class antagonisms and striv
ing to set labor and capital nt each
other's throats. The time is coming
when the American people will see these
things.
To be sure, Thacher got a lot of ad
vertising out of It, but it cannot be
called free, for it was purchased at the
cost of his reputation,
A Parallel.
Major Handy doesn't take a great
deal of stock In the current assertion
that Bryan's large audiences menace
McKlnley. He remembers a parallel to
Bryan's cnmpalgn In the candidacy of
Clement L. Vallandlghnm for governor
of Ohio.
"In the midst of war," he writes,
"Vallandlgham was a peace candidate.
When nominated he was a fugitive in
Canada with a price on his head. Nev
er was there a more, audacious stroke
in politics, and Its audacity challenged
admiration and staggered opposition.
There was a widespread belief through
out the country and even In Ohio that
Vallandlgham might win. Fear stirred
the Republicans to unprecedented ex
ertion, but do what they would the
Democrats seemed to make tho moat
noise and their meetings were terrify
ing in size. John Sherman in his mem
oirs recalls that on the eve of the elec
tion Brough, who was the candidate
against Vallandlgham, was so im
pressed with the. magnitude of the
Democratic demonstrations that he re
duced his estimate of the Republican
majority In the state to 6,000 a figure
recognized tn such a vote to be the
danger line. But when the votes came
to be counted Vallandlgham was found
beaten by 100,000, the Republican ma
jority being the largest ever known.
So much for noise and big meetings
as signs of how an election Is going."
There la this difference, though be
tween Vallandlgham's campaign nnd
Bryan's. Bryan Isn't scaring a soul.
AN ANXIOUS INQUIRY.
Oh, William, Sweet William (we call no
last name),
Will your kindness In April continue tho
same
As It was when September made golden
the wood.
While you sought to find out where tho
populace stood?
Will you still have the smiles that you
lavishly strew?
Will you shake every hand that's extended
to you?
Oh, William, Sweet William (and no one
shall see
If the next word begins with an "M" or a
"B"),
Will you think of the generous promises
tossed
To the crowd when the year became Bilver
with frost?
Will you still have the graess that mov
- us to sing?
Will you blossom as sweetly, Sweet Wil
liam, in spring?
Washington Star.
Plea for Cotirfesy
in Political Debate
The editor of The New Unity, a Chica
go denominational journal, recently at
tended a political rally in (country town.
'The appaicer." he writes, "was heralded
by tlamlng posters which pronounced him
tne 'Urlliiunt orator from New York.'
He came with the Indorsement and under
the appointment of the 'Central Commit
tee." The meeting was under the auspices
of the local Club.' Venerable men. repre
senting the solid citizens, cat upon the
platform. A public-spirited physician of
the village acted as chairman and pre
Rented the speaker with courteous words.
Through rain and mud the farmer people
for six miles and ten miles around hud
come; a goodly representation of women
wore present; school teachers, students,
the best that an intelligent country com
munity could yield were In attendance.
All parties were represented. An intel
lectual, oratorical treat was expected by
ail, enlightenment on a dark subject by a
few. It was a literary event In that
countryside looked forward to. Children
In large proportion, boys and girls, came to
hear. They came not with blare of trum
pet or bung of drum. There was no un
easy demonstration, no lawless expression
of a rowdy element. The audience
dropped in quietly, soberly us to a Sun.
day meeting. There was no rudeness, no
profanity, no coarseness. The men took
off their huts like gentlemen and sat with
their wives and daughters.
"The speaker was evidently a man cf
considerable mentul truinlng. The How of
his language was easy, the swing of his
sentences rhythmical, his pronunciation
accurate and his grammar proper. To the
thoughtful It was a momentous occasion,
looked at In its psychical and ethical sig
nltlcnnce. The village hall was tilled with
four or five hundred representative minds,
many of them honestly perplexed In the
presence of a problem which they con
fessed to be too Intricate for their solu
tion. Here was nn occasion which might
be made protltuble to nil, memorable to
some. The present writer recalled some
of the flattering things that Emerson and
others have suld of the American toAn
meeting and mnde mental comparison be
tween this orderly meeting of the repre
sentatives of both parties coming to hear
one side, with the slouching, noisy, pro
fane, hat-wearing and cigar-smoking
word meetlna in Chicago, with which ho
wns familiar both as speuker and auditor.
Hut the speaker began with a much wo.-n,
irrelevant nnd somewhat coarse Btory nnd
proceeded to characterize the opposing
party as apes, monkeys, fools, 'thorn
chaps,' cranks, demagogues and similar
rhetorical epithets. Scripture was quote.)
with Insolvent levity; Bible texts made to
enforce fur fetched Jokes and partisan re.
torts. The devil, hell, damnation and
other theological stage properties were
freely handled. The address was not with
out argument, and some important ques
tions did not go without recognition, but
the arguments were presented In such a
confident and dogmatic way, with the com.
plucent nlr of one who knew It all, and
knowing It, It was so easy and plain that
It appealed only to child intelligence. For
two long and weary hours this 'orutor'
from the city, a man who had, according
to his showing, hob-nobbed with the great,
traveled extensively, was familiar with
people of culture and rellnement, Insulted
tho Intelligence, brutalized the sensibili
ties and blunted the sense of fairness of
that audience. To the credit of the audi
ence let It be said that they did not laugh
at many Jokes, and but slightly responded
to his oratorical climaxes.
"This "polished orutor' of the handbill
closed his address with an elaborate de
scription of a mnd dog Intercepted on his
way to eat up a lot of women and children
on the picnic ground, by a giant .athlete,
who choked 111 in to death, which athleto
was made to represent the presidential
candidate In the Interest of whom he
spoke, of course the mad dog which this
candidate Is to choke is the other party.
It Is not necessary to inquire Into the party
limitations of this orator. We had every
reason to believe that he Is too typical
a character. His like is to be found on
both sides und It is all the more humlllut
ing to contemplate this spectacle when be
speii ks In the Interest of what seems to '.he
writer or the listener the right side, Tho
saddest humiliations of a political ram
puign are the humiliations of Felix Holt,
when he found 'right opinions sustained by
wrong methods.' The political friends cf
this orator, and not his political foes, had
cause to hung their heads und to pass out
disappointed.
"We have dwelt thus long on this pic
ture, not because it is nn exceptional one,
bue because It Is a common one. It Is true,
the speaker had depreciated the Intellec
tual and moral currency In that communi
ty. He had lowered the standard of cour
tesy, had blurred he fine reverences, nil
of which Is very sad; but the saddest
thing Is that he did this, not In response
to the local call of the countryside, but
under the sanction of the polished gentle
men of the 'Central Committee.' Ho rep
resented the strategic methods of the Held
marshals. In point- of spiritual dignity,
ethical and aesthetic standards, this
speech was no far nbove the cartoons ex
ploited by our metropolitan dailies nnd
thrust by them Into our homes every
morning. Indeed, a minister in a out-runt
magazine article, pleads for the cartoon
and the epigram as the needed help to
advance the right cause. With such ho
would strike the popular mind nnd save
the country from n catastrophe. Uod help
the country saved In that way. The Amer
ican people are not to be swayed by a
Joke or moved by slang and vulgarity.
Fortunately there are presented for iho
suffrage of the American people In this
campaign men of clean lives, gentlemen
with honorable record nnd nt least pas
sable ability. They represent honorable
constituencies nnd Issues that plow deep
Into the anxieties of the American heart
today. That the Issues are grave and that
much depends upon the result of the cam
paign, right-minded men on all sides agree.
Hence the first duly of the 'Central Com
mittee,' as well as public speakers and
newspaper editors, Is to treat theso Issues
with becoming gravity.
"That there Is selfishness and baseness
on both sides goes without the saying;
that there Is an unconscious element of
egotism In both sides is unquestionably true.
We cannot expect to expurgate this spirit
from our politics while It remains su?h
nn Immense factor In our religion, but
that these nre the dominant forces that
will dictate the votes of next November,
we do not believe. We must have convl.;.
tlons. We must stand by them, If needs
be, tight for them. Hut let us take Into the
tight our courtesy, our fair mlndedness
and our ability. Better fall with rig'it
methods than win by false."
(illAM) JUUY'S GOOD WORK.
From tho Wllkes-Barre Record.
The grand Jury of Lackawanna county
adjourned on Saturday after having been
In session for two weeks, disposing of 33
bills. Some Idea can be formed of tho
Industry of the commltlng magistrates In
that county nnd also of the class of cases
they return. This particular grand Jury
must have been composed of the right
class of citizens. AV'e question If a similar
report has ever emanated from a grand
Jury In any other county in the state.
There were 1011 cases of assault and bat
tery, and In only three cases were true bills
found, while In the other hundred the
prosecutors were mulcted !n the costs. If
the authorities will sec to It that these
costs are collected there can be no donht
that It will have the effect of greatly dimin
ishing this class of petty litigation. v
The I.nckawanna grand jury, as It seems
to us, has rendered an Inestimable public
service In disposing of so large a portion
of these cases In the summary manner
indicnted. The costs Imposed upon the
prosecutors In these cases should be mer
cilessly collected except In cases where It
Is clearly shown that the grand Jury has
erred, or where exceptional hardship would
result. It must be apparent to any
thoughtful person who scans the grand
Jury reports nnd the trial lists In theso
two counties, from time to time, that somo
action Is necessary to diminish the voltttno
of lawlessness that Is constantly developed
among these foreign elements. We would
not Imply nor bs understood that there are
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And the fit that takes in the Merchant Tailoring business. The Price is
what takes in every business. Good reason for our great success. Our
stock is the Largest, and having a constant buyer in the market we show Styles
the Latest. Yours Truly,
GREAT EASTERN SUIT AND PANTS CO., a .125
Branch 4. 427 Lackawanna Avenue, Scranton. Branch 4.
not many orderly and reputable, peoplo
among the Hungarians, Poles, Russians
and Italians in theBe cool regions. Wo
nro well aware thut there are many such,
but as we have said, the nationalities
named contribute entirely too lurge a pro
portion to the lawlessness and to the crim
inal business that comes before our courts.
A halt must be called In some way, and
the sooner this Is done the better for the
fair fumo of this section of the state.
II' LINCOLN ,VKHE ALIVE.
From the Washington I'ost.
We think It Is stretching probabilities
somewhnt too far for the opponents of
national banks and bond Issues to Insist
that, If Lincoln wero ullve, ho wousf take
purt In their warfare upon what they de
nominate the "money power." It was
during Mr. Lincoln's administration, and,
of course, with his sanction, that tho
greuter part of un enormous bonded debt
was contracted. Is It reasonable to sup
pose thut he, ir living, would oppose tho
Issue of bonds to meet deficiencies In rev
enue? Is It reasonable to suppose that.
If he were president, and congress made
appropriations In excess of revenues, he
would decline to make up the deficit by
Issuing bonds? And what Is there in Lin
coln's record on which to base the belief
or assertion that, If he were president, he
would decline to strengthen a depleted
gold reserve In order to maintain the na
tional credit? Where, In all that survives
of the written or spoken words of Lincoln,
Is there a line or word that justllles the
claim that, if ho had heen president under
tho circumstances that surround the
second Cleveland administration when It
came In, he would have paid out sliver to
meet coin demands In violation of the
pledge to maintain the parity between
gold and silver coins? And whut did
Lincoln ever say, write, or do which Jus.
tlllea the claim that, it he were here now,
he would be In favor of the free, unlimited,
and Independent coinage of silver ut a
ratio almost a hundred per cent, above the
liullion value of silver? W have given
some attention to the life, character, tna
public services of Mr. Lincoln, but we have
not found anything In his record that in
duces us to believe or suspect that. If be
were participating in this campaign, he
would be against the party which achieved
Its first national victory by electing him
to the presidency.
IIIKMAKCK'S LETTEK.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Prince Wsmnrck has written a letter as
sorting his belief In the desirability of In
ternational bimetallism, nnd Intimating
that us a means to that end Amenins
ought to Ivy the experiment of Independent
action. Shrewd old prince! Ills counsel
recalls Artemus Ward's willingness to
solve the slavery problem If it took nil his
wife's relations. Hismarck Is willing
enough to let other nutlons burn their fin
gers so long as the fatherland's hands
tire safe. Scranton Tribune.
This comment would be very much to
the point If it were based on an accurate
report of Hlsmarck's utterances. The vet
eran ex-chancellor did not intimate that
the I'nited States "ought" to tuke Inde
pendent action. He asserted that his In
dividual predcltetions were for bimetal
lism, anil expressed a belief that Interna
tional agreement might be promoted if the
people of the I'nited States should "find
It compatible with their Interests to take
Independent action In the direction of bi
metallism." This Is not a recommenda
tion; It Is merely n cautious suggestion.
However, the remarks of the Scranton
Tribune would come In very pal If anv
foreign statesman, whose own country nd.
Gft i f p,endid
Y Display..
rink sa"
(j TABLETS.
BE1DLEMAN. THE BOOKMAN
437 Sprues St., Opp.Tb Commonwealth.
MAKE-UP
heres to the gold standard, should have the
Impudence to tell the people of the United
States that they ought to go It alono
In adopting; the silver standard.
AFINESHOW
Of the latest in China and Silver
ware for wedding or other gifts.
Dinner Sets, Chamber Sets, Cut
Glasses, Silverware. Brie-a-Urac.
THE.
, Ri, OHEY
I'll UCKAWANM AVE.
No Charge for Alterations.
OF
Cloaks and Suits,
421 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton.
Corns and Examine Our Slock First.
Little money possesses a marvelous ca
pacity to do big things here now. Our
suit department Is now stocked "with
suits galore; prices that will please the
hurd-worklng girl and styles that will
please the most FASTIDIOUS. COMIC
und be convinced.
Drown Covert Cloth Suits, velvet
trimmed, silk lined, latest style; else,
where $S.(KI,
Our Price $5.98
Xew lot of handsome cloth Suits, wool
and mixtures, all colors, a4 lined with
tuffeta silk, tuilor made; elsewhere
Our Price $7.98
Very pretty Suits, box front, piped with
velvet, extra stiff Inter-lining, skirts
perfectly adjusted. Any color you
, wish; elsewhere VSf,
Our Price $9.99
In our Skirt Department we have 300
different styles of material. We begin
with
Plain Black Sicilian at II. r.
lllack Figured Mohair 1.49
Heavy Cloth, good for winter wear .... 1.98
Uood serviceable wide wale 2.49
Our assortment at :!.fe!i and $3.9H are
too numerous to mention.
Come and see them.
Our waist department Is well supplied
with Waists, Just the proper thlnf for
this season of the year. Norfolk flan
nel waists, In black, blue, brown and
green, cheap at $2.20,
Our Price $1.49
Our fancy Dresden silk waists have
been such an elegant success that we
have added to our stock a greater va
riety than ever. We are now prepared
to show the most beautiful of the sea
son at 13.98 and $4.98; your choice of
changeable silk waists at 13.49 and 14.49.
ZWEING ART, Proprietor.
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11TE .
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As your needs suegtsts anything In the
way of tim'croy, Eltnk l etVi or 019
Supplies, and when your list la full brln
It In and we will surprise yon with tha
novelties we receive daily. Wo also carry
a very neat lino of Calling Carda and Wed
ding Invitations at a moderate prioj.
1
Stationers and Engravers,
HOTEL JERMV.N BUILDINO.
John 3 S",m"
THE STETSON SOFT HAT.
NONE BETTER.
SELLS THEM AT 303 LACKA. AVE.
THIS IS THE MILLER STYLE
NONE NICER.
WOLF & WENZEL,
SJl Linden.. Opp. Court House,
PRACTICAL TINNERS and PLUMBERS
Bel Agaots for Richardson Boyntoat
Furnace and Baogia,
I
Conrad