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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1900.
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SaitANTON, OCTOHEII 21, 1000.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
National.
.'rcsldcnt-WILMAM McKIKM'V.
Vlcc-t'rcsidcnt-Tlli:ODOnE UOOSI'.VIXT.
Btate.
ConBrcs.nirn-at-I..irRe (UMJSHA A. CHOW,
nonKiiT ii. Focnnr.itKii. ,
Auditor Oencral-K. H. IIAUM'.MII'.RCIII.
County.
Conirrcw-WII.MAM COSNTXI..
Judgr-nCORflK M. WATSOV.
bhcrlff-JOII.V II. ITM.OWS.
Treasurer J. A. SCItANTON.
District Atorntr-WIM.IAM R. I.BWIS.
rntllonot.lr.v-.IOII rOPHLAND.
Clerk of Courts-TIIOMAS r. DAS1KI.S.
Iteccrder of Iwdi KMHj BONN.
RfKliIrr of Willi W. K. HIXIC. ,.
Jury Commissioner HOWARD D. STUiUJFA
Legislature.
First DMrlrt THOMAS .1. HKVNOI,TS.
Second DWrlet .tOHN SCIIKUr.R, JR.
Third District i:ilWAItn JAMCS, .lit.
Fourth District-P. A. PIIIUllN.
"If there Is any one who believes
the gold standard is n good thing,
or that it must be maintained, I
warn him not to cast his vote for
me, because I promise him it will
not be maintained in this country
longer than I am able to get rid of
it." William Jennings Bryan in n
Speech at Knoxville, Tenn., Deliv
ered Sept. 16, 1806.
"The party stands where it did in
1806 on the money question." Will
iam Jennings Bryan, Zanesville, O.,
September 4, 1900.
Captain and Crew.
TIJK REPUBLICAN who ex
pects lo vote for McKinley
and Itoosevel: because In
favor of the principles they
stand for, but who for one reason or
another of local nature Is Inclined to
take a fall out of the Republican nomi
nee for congress, is Invited to consider
these facts:
(1.) There is not n principle of rov
ermuent represented by the head of
the Republican national ticket which
is not also represented by the Repub
lican nominee for congress. The pres
ident executes but ho does not make
the laws. 'He suggests but he does
not frame legislation, lie plans but
it is congress which votes the money
nnd authority necessary to put those
plans Into effect.
(?.) There is not a principle of gov
ernment repiesonted by McKinley
which is not opposed by the Demo
cratic nominee for congress in this
district and a vote for C'onry Is thcte
fore a vote directly against McKin
ley. Nolo the inconsistency between a
vote for McKinley electors and a vote
for Conry for congress. McKinley is
for Protection. C'onry is for free
trade. McKinley Is for s.nuud money.
Corry is for free silver. McKinley is
for law nnd order both at home and
In the new dependencies. Conry is for
Agtdnaldo and bandit rule In the
Philippines and he is not very definite
us to what lie is for In domestic af
fairs except that he is for Conry for
conejitvs.
Tf McKinley Is re-elected ho should
have a Republican majority In con
gress lo back him up: otherwise his
re-elect Ion would lm without meaning
and without benellt. The voter who
chooses him lo captain the ship of
stale s-houlil also choose a crew that
will not mutiny the moment the order
is given to lilt anchor lor progress.
The Times dared us lo name one
sureos.sfiil independent tin plate mill.
We named lliree. Now the times Is
angry. Prosperity always has that ef
fect on a professional calamity howler.
Bryan's Deceptive Remedies.
IN W15ST VIRGINIA, on Monday,
Mr. liryan offered speclflo lem
edies for trusts. We use the lan
guage accredited to him In the
published report of his v speech at
Charleston:
We t.iy, lii.-t, put on the flic lUt llic t rn-t-limle
niiliUs, anil thin the coiior.ition . i II
nut he Infilled to u.iiibliif l,i thU iimi.tiy In
tuit. prkes lieu- ulillf they nil nhrond in um
iclillun with Hie win Id. That will stop olor.
tic ii. nnd no in.iii i.ui defend u iiinli'Ulvc IJillf
lor tin; hoiKfll ni a Hint that combines In lull
I lm AlimliJll iuilc. lint we du nut t Hum',
Wu my, ni'U, pioildr by law th.il lieloie any
(iirpoi.ithm (iigniilril In liny nl.ilc docs liii-liPnj
outnlilc of Hie stun- it fch.ill tile out n lin-rw
Iruiii tin fidir.il KoM'iunit'iit uud liefoiu It mil
the ljcea-'i' it glial) ohmy that thcic is no water
in tfio Jtoik of the ioror.illon. iy should
joiwillow i cnri'iuiilliiii to watir its ttueltV
farmcranjntlato the .jluc of hU farm; no la.
lioriir;"i'iTaii cm inlialc the value of lili labor
no merchant rm inflate the value of the rowIi
un Jiu shelf; but a loiporatton can Issue watered
stock ami iIkii, by ineam of monopoly, ran col
lect, dividend on money ncur Unrated; Itut
u dotlre not only to muce.o the water out of
the, stock livfoie the license is kIhti, but nIo
to iiofldo th it Lcloro the coiporuflon chrobcs
in Interstate commerce it shall thow that it hat
not tried to mci;u.Q)ize any branch of lmsinea
or the production of any nrliile of nienlan.
ills. Why ilioulil n rorporatlon bo permitted to
encasi in inteiblate commerce for any puipnse
cxtptabcueflcial one, and what haiiii or In.
Jiute ii doiii) hy I'onipellltuj the corpoiatlon
tn fhow that It Ii solni; Into Interstate com
nierco for the benellt of the publlo? If you will
da that and then proWde that the license will
bo forfeited the moment a corpoiatlon attempts'
to monopolize onv branch of business un run
thut the corporation up In ono state and take
fortyJuur states away from It until It shows
tint 11 Is a legitimate enterprise,
If tlio trusts can outsell their foreign
conipotttors on foreign soil, what good
would It do to put their products on
tha free, list? Would It not discourage
competition at home? Besides many
articles made by the so-called trusts
already are on tha free list and the
absence of a tariff may have uffectcd
the national revenue, but It has not
prevented the combination' or "trust."
Kn'pland, with no protective tariff, lu
. W.btd fit trusts. A commission to
Bryan to revise the tariff would bo
likely to result In free trade altogether.
To remedy a few evils lie wpttld upset
the whole rubric of homo Industry,
Thai was what he did In 1S91.
Hryun's second remedy requiring
federal license for corporations neces
sitates a constitutional amendment
giving congress power over corpora
tions, Yet the Democrats In congress
only last Juno refused to vote for that.
Urynn could not count on his own par
ly following him In his second remedy
for trusts, unless It Is willing to re
verso Itself.
As to the third proposition In the
Nebraska candidate's anti-trust plat
form It Is sufficient to note that Its
application would undo every patent
In thn country, cancel every copyright
and take away every property value
now arising from control of special
production. In n specific sense It
would prevent Mr. liryan from writing
a book on his "Second Lost IJattle"
and pocketing $r0,000 In royalties.
In only one Item Is his trust cure
sound. To prevent stock watering Is
highly Important; but It would hardly
pay to do that by scaring enterprise
altogether, which Is what Uryanlstn
Implies.
Mr. Bryan has appealed to the ne
groes of tho South to vote to relieve
their brown brethren from oppression
In tho Philippines. In tho vicinity In
which this last exhibition of dema
gogism was made the majority of tho
black men will not be allowed to vote
at all. Verily, tho Nebraska orator Is
becoming positively school-boyish as
tho cumpalgn drags along. .
American "Imperialism.''
AFOUKCAST of the yccr's work
of General Leonaid Wood in
Cuba as It will bo explained
In dcttfil In his annual report
has appeared in print. It is very In
teresting as a sample of American "im
perialism," which some of our fellow
citizens profess to dread as applied by
Judge Toft, General McArthur and
their colleagues in the rhlllpplnes.
Here, for example, arc some of tho
things which American occupation has
accomplished In Cuba:
It has provided every town of con
sequence with a well-equipped hospital,
something unknown before.
It has established numerous tempor
ary asylums for orphan children and
has plans laid for four permanent ones
on a generous scale, two for boys and
two for girls.
IL has overhauled and modernized
the prison system, released many hun
dreds of prisoners who had been held
beyond reason in confinement while
awaiting trial and put a prod to tardy
justice.
It lias overhauled the major courts
and established numerous petty or cor
rectional courts where the trial Is oral
and summary, with privilege of appea-1
as In our justices' courts. It will on
December 1 proclaim the writ of habeas
corpus.
It has established 3,000 additional
public schools, employing 3,600 teachers
and attended by ITiO.OOO children, which
number, ere the year is out, is expected
to equal 230,000.
Public buildings throughout the Isl
and have undergone extensive repairs.
Sanitary work of great importance has
been carried on from one end of Cuba
to the other. The two eastern prov
inces In tho Island of Cuba for the first
time have passed through a summer
without a case of yellow fever, and in
Eeneral there hns been a great Im
provement In health throushout the
Island. Plans in detail are now ready
for advertisement for paving and sew
ering In a thoroughly first-class and
modern manner the city of Havana and
Its suburbs, and there Is every reason
to believe that In a few yeais yellow
fever in Cuba can be got under the
same control as now exists in Jamaica.
All of the larger cities have under
gone extensive street improvements.
Travelers can go from one end ot
Cuba to tho other -without being so
licited by beggars and hunger Is ab
solutely a thing of the past.
A thoroughly efTiclent mail service
lias been established. Public works
Involving millions of dollars have been
taken up nnd completed. Between COO
anil 700 miles of first-class roads have
been built and many hundreds ot
miles have been put in repair and
made passable. Bridges have been re
built from one end of the island to
the other, nnd roads have been re
paired and reconstructed.
Old lighthouses have been repaired,
new ones built and new ones contract,
ed for, and a complete lighthouse es
tablishment has been organized.
A (.'oniplete overland telegraph has
been established throughout the Is
luud. A most etlliient emttoms service has
been established. T1k- old Spnnlsh
service has been reorganized and each
port supplied with boats nnd launches
A revenue cutter service of six ships,
five, of them being of steel construc
tion, has been established. Knch
principal port has a captain of tho
port and harbor police, and the quar
antine service Is thoroughly equipped
and rigidly enforced, A largo number
of the ollicers are Cubans.
Many Industries have been taken up
nnd are growing dally,
Many modifications have been made
In taxation, all with the purposo of
beneuttlng tho taxpayer npd hastening
tho reconstruction of the country,
Immigration, especially from Spain,
Is heavy. It Is probable that C0.000
will havo entered Cuba during tho
present year,
The flnanclul condition of tho coun
try Is excellent, Tho government is
entirely self-supporting nnd tho trens
ury has an unencumbered balance of
$1,600,000. Municipalities are gradually
assuming their financial obligations
and responsibilities, and relieving tho
State of the earo and expense for
police, sanitation, etc., which will re.
suit In moro money being nvnllablo
fop public works of general utility.
The tobacco crop of last year was
an Immense one. This year tho sugar
crop will bo between C50.000 and 600,000
tons, and If tho present prices con
tinue, tho money obtained by the
planters will equal tho amount re
ceived by the planters for their great
crop of a million tons. The value of
this year's crop of sugar and tfu
coming tobacco crop will bo conscrvn
lively $100,000,000. This docs not In
clude tho very large production of
cocoa, of coffee nnd various vegetables
and fruits, nor docs It Include any of
tho proceeds from mining and tho
many other Industries.
It wo can do this much for tho Cu
bans In an Island we nie to yield up,
what barrier Is thorp, when order Is
restored, to equal or greater achieve
ment In the Philippines, which are
American for nit time?
According to aenernl Wood, the
Cubnns, ns a rule, are extremely grate
ful rmd friendly to the United States.
It seems that In Cuba, as In the United
States, tho handful of malcontents who
find fault with tho government have
been malting tho most noise.
Do You Want It? .
DO YOU wnnt to continue the
present good business condi
tions, which give employ
ment to nil and bettor wages
than ever before paid? If so, vote for
McKinley, for under his administra
tion, the protective tariff and sound
money principles for which the Repub
lican party legislated, tho depression,
tile Idleness and want of 1S93-9G have
vanished.
Tho country Is now more prosperous,
labor Is better, employed, wages are
higher than ever before. It Is reason
able to expect that with a continua
tion of McKlnley's policy, prosperity
and employment would also continue.
Just aa everybody was beginning to
think that he had concluded to keep
quiet, Hobson has again broken out In
a defense of Admiral Sampson, which
has aroused the old controversy In a
way to make the admiral appear
ridiculous. A mistake has evidently
been made In allowing Hobson to re
turn to the talking belt.
Senator Tillman die of the pitchfork
and shotgun for Southern negioes who
attempt to vote the Republican ticket
say.s that the Democratic senators were
bribed to vote for the ratification of
tho Paris treaty. As Bryan was busy
lobbying for the ratification of that in
strument, the charge suggests a host
of speculations.
.
Control ot tho next congress by tho
Republicans Is very Important. See to
It that your ballot Is cast in the right
way to help elect a Republican con
gressman and a Republican senator.
Mr. Bryan declines to credit honesty
to those voters who decline to support
him. He prefers to believe that the
country will go to the polls and Indulge
In an avalanche of ulterior motives.
There will be no anxiety In this
country on any of the Anglo nlllances
upon tho Chinese question, so long as
the open door programme prepared at
AVashington is carried out.
Tho fact that It is his farewell tfp
poarance doubtless has something to
do with nerving Mr. Brynn to the
effort of twenty speeches a day.
The announcement that the Ice trust
had declared a quarterly dividend may
partially explain where Croker got so
much money to bet with.
In view of recent reports from China
them seems to be little excuse for al
lowing tho empress dowager to die of
old age.
Democratic orators are willing that
everything should enter the anti-trust
arguments save ice and cotton.
)
It Is to the credit of Spain that
General Weyler is still the mostV un
popular man in the kingdom.
You voted for prosperity and got it.
Will you now vote against It?
Do you want to swap horses while
crossing Prosperity's stream?
Keep the mills open.
MAKE YOUR CHOICE.
I'lie ltipuliliuiii caudi. ;Tli! Deiuocialle laudi-
dale stand tor: date stands for:
1. l'ro-peilty. 1. Calamity.
2. I'alilolNin. 'J. Plait fiuling.
!l. Duly. , .t. Experiments.
I. i:pauMon. , a.. Contraction.
5. Sumiil money, . fl, l'ieo sllicr.
II. Pioplit'Mee fulfilled. I (1. l'alse prophediH.
7. I'ruinl-es Kept. I 7. PiomUea made,
S. Jlore niarU'K I . Fewer inarl.ft,
i. Payment of debts, j I). Cieatlou of debts.
111. J.mur Inl.'ii'.it. iin. Higher Interest.
1), Mole woilc. 11. Less woik,
12 Protection. I.'. I'ue trade,
AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST'S REMARKS.
Tlir.RK'.s a ireinhle and a shbrr, and a dark,
portentous miller, that has side-stepped
IIiioiikIi I lie . Itala ot these gieat United
Slabs. 1'nr wc'ie up against a crUls, if
(heir's truth In our adilces, and we see,
athwart the future, (onus of haughty uoteu.
tales.
VMS, sir! Dancer, irilm and nuirliy, like an axe
abnio a tiukey, bilks Just on the dim
hoibon, ami Its tluilmv will not down.
And unless we (top our fooling, alter
while we'll Know the ruling ot the cruel,
nally monarch who Is topped oft with a
ciown,
TWOl'1,1) bo cay to arranso It. and we'd never
hao to ihango it, once the grasplnB hand
of mIu mors held our country In its dulch,
for the minute we suggested that ue felt
thai wc hud tested Miirs and queens and
wished to btop it, they would smile and
6a); "Not much!"
WON'T you fee? If they'd abolish congiess, with.
Us stately polish, and should overturn the
statutes that control our feible laud, and
I sliber when I pen It they should bounce
the solemn senate, then the touutry'd feel
the power ot the reckless rojol hand.
Tlir.X, by some wild resolution they lould down
the Constitution, and could oust each IiIkIi
ollUlal In the states we rail our own.
Then they'd hate m, and thej'd boss us,
with a Klip on our piobosels, and beneath
imperialism we would sicli and slave and
groan,
THUS, we know not the occasion when we'll sec
the dire invasion of our rights ss frrc'boin
people, be we white or black on brown,
l'eiiups I, or joii, my neighbor, may be
tailed to toil and labor with the scepter
and the signet and the heavy golden crown.
I'M opposed to sudi an outcome, but, should
any vexing doubt come as to who should
bear the burdens as the ruler ot the states
well, should royal lightning hit me, any
rojal lohc would fit me, and a crown to
Kt right easy should be six-and-scttii-eighths
I
Josh Wink, in Baltimore American.
Expert Contrast
of the Nominees
By President John II, Harrows, of Oliciltn Cob
lege.
TUP. TIHUMl'IIAXT re-eleitlon of I'rc'lileiit
McKinley Is demanded on grounds of pa
triotism, good sense, national honor, 1
ngree heartily with Dr. Albert Shn that
Mr. MiKlnlty Is (he best equipped man In
America for the presidency of the ltepuhlle.
lie has galnul in public estimation, nnd grown
in wisdom much after the manner ot Abraham
Lincoln. tils temper is very much like that
ot Lincoln, and the criticisms which lie has
homo are precisely those which were made
against our martyred president.
Wu have already expanded! the nation Is
nut of Us ahell. Wc must adapt oursehes to
new responsibilities. 1 agree heartily with
thoo who regard imperialism as a false lue,
n bneaboo, a ghost, a meanlnglesn phantom.
America Ins destroyed Imperialism In the East
and West Indies. The talk about militarism Is,
of course, the- sheerest nonsense, nnd known
lo lie such by those wdio arc guilty of such
reckless speech. Every sensible man knows
that Mr. McKinley is a peare lover and peace
maker, and not a dictator. He has none ot the
qualities or ambitions of a Caesar. The New
York Times has well said: "The man on horse
back cannot keep his ear to the ground."
I am In hearty sympathy with the rry, "Kour
more years of the' full dinncr-pall," It was
sold, "Man does not live by bread alone." Itut
he must have bread or he cannot live, desus
Christ made bread lot the multitudes. When
the contest Is between a full dinner-pail for the
working man and an empty or half-filled dinner
pall, such as the Democratic administration
helped to provide a fow years ago, every bene
volent nnd sensible man should prefer the full
dinncr-pall. I am persuaded that an empty
dlnner-pall Is utterly unnecessary In America, nnd
that the most emphatic condemnation should be
pronunced upon those policies which heretofore
have storked disaster to the worklfig men. A
full dlnner-pall means much phj-slcal well-being.
It means tho possibility ol comfort and happi
ness at home, It means education. It means the
preparation for higher and better things.
I have had a warm ndmlrallon for the cour
a no nnd many intellectual powers of Mr. Brian.
He is a man that has kindled generous enthu
sunns and no one has regretted moro deeply
than that his great powers aro given to I lie Fir
vice ot fabe and misleading theories. I have also
regretted that dining the present campaign he
has alowed himself lo Indulge In much clip-trap,
which mav and does capture tho crowd, but
which makes the ji.dicleiH grieve. few men
In the country seem to me so poorly qualified
for tho preslilcnry of the great Republic as Mr.
nrjan. lis has wrong ideas, he lacks balance,
and good judgment, he couches his lance ngainst
almost every windmill. 1 do not believe the
nation is to suffer the mispoal.able calamity and
dishonor of his election
America has never been so proud a name to
my mind and heart as during the 1at few years.
The path of national greatness and honor Is
marked out plainly before us. We must con
tinue tho policies which have given us prosperity
nl home and have made our name a symbol of
enlightenment nnd liberty to the nation of the
earth. The paramount Issue is not the bogus
im of imperialism. To me and to most others
vilio have followed closely the facts In regard
to American occupation nf the Philippines, the
anti-imperialistic pamphlets belong to the tie
pnrlment of comic liteiature.
The veal and paramount Issue Is "Shill the
ncpuhlic be deceived by false leaders, or con
tinue In the presnt path of national greatness
and honor?"
IN REPLY TO THE TIMES.
Kdilor of The Tiibunc
Sir: The editor of the Scianfon Times lias
something to say about a gentleman who pur
porls to speak for the commeicial tiavelers,
whom The Tribune dubs as "an able biisinrss
man." 1 v.lll waiie The TiUninc's adjective. Mr.
IMItor, I grant .von tint word able Is a mistake,
nnd I will make this plain statement of fact. I
am a business man, also :i eommcrital traveler.
I am not a politician nor am I paid by any
pcliticians or office seekers to express an opinion.
I stated the situation just as 1 have found ic to
be. 1 did not have u woid to say about trusts
eicept indirectly, hut ns the editor of the
Times has inteipreted my statements into an
endorsement ot them I will say a vvotd on this
Interesting subject. 1 wish to state must em
phatically thatI nm not a defender of trusts',
nor do 1 meet many men who are rithei among
the merchants or conimeicl.il traveleis. In fail
the cummciiial travelers strongly denounce
them but somehow, Mr. l.'ditor, the gieat inn
joiity of men I nitet do not belieic that Ml.
Hi, van's election and Ibu success of the Demo
cratic p.uty would lui.ig about their overthrow.
You see, Mr. IMitnr, they are not as cicduinus
ns the Times editor appears to be. 'I hey look
upon Mr. llijan a- a man who has a very glib
ti'i guo and a fan.Uul Imagination; one who
talks mole than be thinks and piouifses more
than he would lie able lo perforin. 'Ihey re
number some of his asseitions four jears ugo
when lie thought he possrsacd the gift of
pmplieiy nnd piophe-ied all manner of diic
eiU that would befall the country if certain
policies tli.1t he outlined were not carried out,
lie piovcd to be a fabc piophet then and among
n great, many thinking men there is an aversion
to trust him now,
There are a gieat many men, Mr. IMitnr,
who do not put the lesponslhilfly of the tiusls
upon Piesiilent .McKinley, or eien on Mr. Haiuia,
Thev may tell you lliat most of the successful
tiusts were organized picWous to .McKlnley's
election. Some of thee men will even quote
facts nnd figures to piovo this. They -vlll tell
.vim that the Stauiuiil Oil company was organ
bed in 1SS2; the chessed beef combination in
J8S5; the Aineilcan Tobacco company In 1800,
the American Sugar Refining company and the
National Tube compiny in lilt, the National
Wall 1'apir company and the Consolidated Steel
and Wiiu company in lb02. These men "w ill
nl-o tell you that when the Republicans at
tempted to legislate against trust the Democrats
fui'trnted their efforts, nnd occasional- I meet
a man who has something to say about the ice
trusts.
These are feme of tho reasons, Sir. Udllor, why
men who do not believe In trusts Inien't a
puficle of faith In Mr, Hiyau's assertions that
he, if elected, vvoyld eiadicate these evils. And
Isn't it possible that even so able a ginlleman
ss the editor ot the Times may be mistaken?
Arthur L. Collins.
Scianton, Oct. S.1.
AN ANSWER FOR MR. BRYAN.
From the New Yoik Sun,
"Do any of jou laboring men sale anything
ot your earnings!" asked Mr. Ilrvan the other
day.
The comptroller of the cuncr.ey can give the
Ingenuous questioner sonic information mi lids
point. He has been looking at the Ogiues of
the savings banks, mutual and stock, the great
majority, how mi, being of the former claw.
A little nosegay of statistics for the Paramount;
J!KJ. JWX),
Total savings de
posits $l,0O7,15i),277 about ,100,000,000
Number of deposi
tors 6,00.), 401 ,0,7,518
Average deposit. JJ70.M ijaif.MJ
The bulk of the deposits is In the purely
mutual savings banks, width hold in 000
&2,13U7t,i:iU and which held In lSflU, $.!,,.
11)0,00.1. lleie is a little "appaicnt" picpcrity
of neatly $150,000,000, a gain ot almost S3 pel
cult, under the iniquitous gold standaid.
As illustrating Mr, lliyan's theory (hat the
poor are growing pooler, it may be said that
in IPS! the number of savings bank edpcultois
was '.',670,133. It has almost doubled blnce
then.
Two billion, four bundled million! There
Is aggregated wealth for ou, Mr, ilrjaii. There
is plutocracy and there aro the plutocrats, "go
ing on" six millions of them; ami millions
luoie are on the road. And now, perhips, joii
know whether the laboring man saves an thing
or not.
FACTS ABOUT A MUCH ABUSES
OCTOPUS.
From u Paper by Profcsor George Cunton.
When tho Standard Oil company was organ,
ind in 1871, tho prico ol very poor oil was
217-10 cents per gallon. Under the Standard
Oil liubt, whkh was disbanded a little over a
,ear ago, the price was reduced from 217-10
vents a gallon to 7 cents, and the quality was
infinitely improved as all consumers know. This
of courco was tho result of Immense Improve
ments, resulting from unlimited scientific ex.
pcrimenU in the process of handling and trans-
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AN OBJECT LESSON.
Tho books of the great Baldwin Locomotive Works tell i Btory of
prosperity which needs no comment. The following is an official
stntement of operations for nine years, tho periods of national depres
sion and national prosperity
Year. 'Total, No. Percent. Wages Account. No. of Men
1892 731 127 17.37 82,737,871.49 4040
1803 732 182 20.08 2,722,007.80 4301
1804 313 132 42.17 1,075,913.40 21B0
1805 401 161 37.00 1,500,137.32 2551
1800 547 280 52.83 2,077,623.88 3550 t
1807 501 205 40.91 1,887,180.47 3191 ,
1808 750 348 46.00 3,033,800.89 4888 '
1800 901 375 41.02 3,061,305.10 0330
ttann ionn nop an t n ORn nnn.nn noun
0 Partly estimated.
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porting oil, all of which would have been im
possible without Imenso aggregation ol capital.
The pipe line njntcni Itself could not have been
developed by Individual ffort, nothing short of
colossal corporation made that possible.
The great competitor ot the Standard Oil
company Is Russia. Since 1870, the. oil Indus
try has undergone Immense development In
Russia, all American methods having been
copied. Tho product of the Russian Holds Is
nnwr nearly seventy million barrels a year.
Nothing but Hie superior economy nnd large
capital and high developed management nf
the Standard Oil company has prevented
lttrala from supplying the American mar
ket, and thus taking the benefits of that In
dustry from American labor and capital. Re
sides supplying the American market the Stand
ard Oil company exports about one hundred mil
lion gallons of oil a year, which at the present
price brings over sixty millions of gold Into
the country.
Thus by the power of Its large capital, this
concern gives employment to nearly fnrly mil
lions of laborers, pays over one hundred thou
sand dollars a day in wages and brings sixty
millions of gold to the country a year, all ol
which would be lost to this country but for
the superior management and largo capital of
this company. Small oil producers, such ss ex.
isted before the Standard Oil company was or
ganized, could not hold the American market a
month against Russian competition.
MERELY A STRAW.
W. K. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
There is no barometer ot commercial activity
so accurate and reliable as the receipts at the
postofflre, "for people do not buy postage stamp?
and meney orders unless they i.eed them. Dull
ness Is always more or less disturbed by elec
tions. During the presidential campaign of K
it was almost paralyzed by the uncertainty that
lump; over tho financial Policy of the UnitcC
Stales. In 181)2 nnd 18P8 It was the tariff which
unsettled values and caused a suspension of con.
tracts. Rut this jear there is so little uncer
tainty ns to the results of the election In the
minds of business men that the leceipls of the
postofflce department not only keep up to the
nvcrage, but in most cases exceed it. Duiiug
the months of September nnd October in the
years vihen presidents are elected there Is always
a large falling off, but during last September
only fourteen of the fifty principal clti"s of the
country show- a decrease In receipts. The total
receipts for the fifty cities showed a net in
crease of $101,01:, or 5.4 per cent.
CHAMP CLARK'S CHANGE OF
TUNE.
Champ Clark, ot Missouri, who is now going
aiound Hie country berating McKinley and Mark
llanna and the cunsequenccs of the Spanish war,
loudly denounced them two years ago for trying
to avoid a war with Spain. Speaking In the
house of repicscntatives, on Jan. 20, 1898, lie
tailed forth loud applause on the Democratic
side with the following:
"In these days of McHannaism our foreign
policy is so feeble, so cringing, so cowardly,
that even old and decrepit Spain insults our flag,
maltreats our citizens and searches our ships
with perfect impunity; and President McKinley,
instead of sending men-of-war to protect our
lienor, rsert our supremacy nnd teach the inso
lent and impotent "Dons" a lesson (applause)
they would never forget, passes the hat around
nnd invites the American people to contribute
alms for the starving nnd djing Cubans." (Ap
plause.) Clark is a type of many.
LITERARY NOTES.
"The World's Work," the new- magazine edited
by Walter 11. Page, of 1'orum renown, and pub
lished by Doublcday. Page k Co., 84 Union
Square, l.'ast. New York, lias made its initial ap
pearance. It springs into the arena full fledged
and well equipped to create a prominent place
fro itself in public favor. In plan, size and gen
cial quality it is not unlike the Ameiicaniltevicw
of ltevicws, except that it i? larger, better print
ed, better illustiuled and edited upon somewhat
ill If ei put lines, with les scrapplness of informa
tion and moro cheerful phllosuphy,
When In the hands of a master even slang is
cnteitaining. This is doubly true when the
master has a natural sense of humor. t.'eorge
Ade is a mushr of slang nnd a imtuial humorist
and the consequence is that what he writes peo
ple read. Some months ago ho virote tor the
Chicago Itccord a series of modem fables that
caught the town nnd the country, ton. They
wcie afterward put into book form and sold most
readily. Ihc same pioeess is now repeated in
"More Fabcls in Slang," an attiacllie little
volume from the press of Heibcrt S, Stone &
Co., who announco the sale of 24,000 copies ere
the sheets were bound and who cvptt double or
treble this demand as soon ns the public awakens
to the fact that as a clever manipulator of (he
very latest slang Ade Is the premier genius of
the hour.
The tine story of a whole company of modern
Monte Chilstos is to be found In Douglas White's
"Yankee Millionaires in South America," a prom,
inenl article in Ainsloe's for November. Take
Geoige B. Cliace, "Chile's Silver King," for e
ample. After having failed In his hunt foi a
paving prospect In California, lie prospected In
Chllo for ten years in vain. One div on old
Spanish priest, a fiiend nf his, gave him a map
by which he traced a silver mfne that had been
lost for a bundled yoars. The mine pioved to
be a bonanza, and today Chace can iliaw on the
Hank of Kngland for five hundred thousand
pounds. Hesldes Cluie there am about ten more
Yankees who have piled lip millions In South
America, but their photographs, which illus
trate the tiyct, sho-v them to lie bald-headed
men ot business.
REPUBLICAN
OBJECT LESSONS.
f Montana.
Peposllors,
f Hanks. JS9I. 1S09,
-f National D.705 ti.niS
f bints and Private 1,033 1,101
Total 7,:.03 1S.WI
s-. Inneaso In No. of deiosHois,, 3,818
sV Amount of Deposits,
f Hanks. 1811, lb'i!).
-- National f 3,21.,039 $ (1,437,-140
-f State and I'liiate 831,377 2,:U.I,1S1
Total $ 4,00.1,4311 t,,7fi0,S:M
-s- Increase in diposlls ,.........? 4,Cl7,-'IS7
f
-f Kansas,
s- Depositors,
-f Hanks. 1S9I, 1S-W.
National 28,720 48,410
-f Slate and Prlwto 21,007 4&.SS')
Saving 2,fll 8,5"3
Total 3-1,131 10n,u80
-f Increase In No. of depositors.. 4,77'J
4- Amount of Deposits,
f Hanks. 1891. Iblifl.
-f National 10,041,334 19.21S.474
btate and Private S,S1C,CJ7 1.1,4 ,CU
-f Savings ,,.. &J9,1C9 16,070
-f Total $ 17,11T,1W $33,C03.101
Increase la.deposits .,,,, $ 16,437,041
4.
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NUBS OF KNOWLEDGE.
New Zealand's education Is entirely secular and
free.
The life of an Australian nittvc rarely exceeds
60 years.
Of the 3,700 Chinese In New Zealand only ?0
ro females.
In 1SS0 there were 200 horses In Australia; in
1000 there are 2,000,000.
On a nursery nt Brisbane Water there are
nearly 100,000 e.iotie trees.
Scandinavians are numerous In New Zealand,
and Germans In South Australia.
The largest ocean-going vessels can vojagc up
the river St. Lawrence ns fir ns Montreal, over
1,000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
Westralla Is the only Australasian colony that
pays neither the members of the legislative
council nor those of the legislative assembly.
"British Columbia "tooth-picks" each about
.1 feet square and 00 feet long Is a name given
by Canadlin lumbermen to large timber baulks.
The total capaolty of the boiling down, chill
ing, frrezlng and meat-preserving works in New
South Wales Is estimated at 10,000,000 head of
sheep and cattle.
The Australians eat more than double the
amount of meat per head of population to that
consumed by any other people, except those of
the Tnlicd States.
The proportion of divorces to marriages i
Australia is very much higher than those i'l
other countries, except Denmark, Swltrerland
and the United States.
The principal llvcis and streams of Tnmini.i
have been stocked with the fry of I'nglish sa'
lnon, brown trout, salmon trout and Loch I.cir'
trout, bred in tho colony.
Scotsmen nhow most favor for New Zeal mil,
frlshmen nre moro attracted with (Jiieensland.
while Westralia has the, greatest percentage of
Ilnglish coin p. n oil with the other divisions of
the island continent.
ALWAYS BUSY.
Ladies know, alt admit they know, bow much
they save when they can buy Ecbvin C. Burt's
Shoes at -J3 50 per pair, in turns and welts,
patent leather and kid tips, button and lace.
Styles they all admire.
Lewifii&Reilly
Established 1S3S.
Shoes for all the walks ot life.
flercereatm
& Cpeeell
Now open for business at
our new store, 132 Wyo
ming avenue.
We are proud of our store
now, and feel justified in
doing a little talking, but we
prefer to have our friends do
the talking for us,
A cordial invitation is ex
tended to all to call and see us,
MERCIBEEAU & C0NN1ELL
Jewelers and Silversmiths.
Broker. I wish I could net hold of something that would
help this distress I feel after eatii.g.
Merchant. I think I have liere the very thing you want,
I keep a supply for my own use and for just such cases as yours.
Broker. What is it ?
Merchant, A Ripans Tabule. Swallow it with a mouth
fill of water, or without if you can.
Not tnornlnj the Broker reported himself as under a double obligation. Not only h4
hOt relief hinuclf, but a brother broker, lo whom he exhibited lik nupply bought at th
corner drug itore. had suffered from trouble of the same tort aud in bit cmo ilto it M
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