SCHURZ ANSWERS GAGE.
The Ex-Cabinet Olllelnl Invokes the
Deadly Parallel In an
Effective Way.
Carl Schurz has witten, under date of
Sept. 10, a second open letter to Sec
retary of the Treasury Guge in rejoin
der to the latter's reply to Mr. Schurz's
first letter. In it Mr. Schurz remarks
that the Gage letter "only shows bo
what lengths partisan zeal will go in
the attempt to frighten the people into
the belief that only Mr. McKinley's re
election can save them from general
ruin."
To Mr. Gage's remark that the Re
publican congress and administration
would "probably" find it difficult, owing
to possible obstructive tactics of the
minority, to use its power before the
inauguration of Bryan to make it im-.
possible for him to put the finances on
a silver basis, Mr. Schurz answers:
"There will be no trouble about this
if the Republican majority is willing
to do it. * * * The Republican major
ity in congress not only can, but, if
only for its own moral salvation, will
do this thing in case of necessity, and
you, Mr. Secretary, then relieved of
your partisan campaign service, will, as
a good citizen, be one of the first to
urge it to be done, if you sincerely
think the currency law to be as defec
tive as in your recent threat of disas
ter you represent it to be."
Mr.j Schurz also quotes Mr. Gage's
declaration in an interview on July 15
an answer to the apprehension ex
pressed by him six week's later. "I be
lieve," said Mr. Gage on July 15, "that
silver will never drop below par In
gold. The crux of the proposition is
that adequate measures have been
taken by the new law to prevent such
a contingency. * * ♦ In the- event
of Mr. Bryan's election I think the gold
standard would be resolutely main
tained so long aB the law remained on
the statute book."
Mr. Schurz declares that the secre
tary of the treasury's letter of Aug. 25
"is an attempt to terrorize the Amer
ican people with a threat of business
disaster, that they may be deterred
from considering any other question
and from casting a vote which would
amount to a condemnation of Mr. Mc-
Kinley's imperialistic policy. I, for
one, refuse to be terrorized. * * * I
am convinced that the battle for sound
money Is substantially won, and that
whatever apparent danger to the gold
standard may still arise it must and
can be overcome without the people
subjecting themselves to a moral thral
dom keeping them from independent
and conscientious action upon public
questions of equal ana even superior
importance."
A United Democracy.
More than ever before In the history
of the Democratic party all factions
have been merged under the peerless
leadership of William Jennings Bryan
for a vigorous and righteous campaign
against the un-American and vicious
policies of imperialism, militarism, pro
tection of the trusts and the other cry
ing evils which the Republican party
is pledged to maintain and extend.
Four years ago the party was divided
upon the issue of a financial policy,
and today the Democracy is once more
firmly united and is standing shoulder
to shoulder In the support of an issue
of higher and more immediate import
ance, because it involves the very foun
dation principles upon which this coun
try is established.
Everywhere throughout the country
come assurances that many prominent
men who left their party ranks in 1896
will this year march under Bryan's
banner for the maintenance of those
fundamental policies of government
which have fostered our growth into
a nation, which can rightfully boast
of her prominent position among the
peoples of the world. The Republican
party has criminally committed itself
to the policy of land grabbing, which
has ever been foreign to the principles
of a republic such as this, and it has
become the duty of the Democratic
party to protect the nation against the
foes within, ever the most insidious
and powerful.
The Republican party cannot with
any degree of truth assert that only
a portion of the Democratic party is
holding up the hands of its standard
bearer in this campaign. It is not one
section of the country aione or one
section of the country more than an
other that is represented in the Demo
cratic party for this campaign. In
every state of the Union, including
even the recognized Republican states,
there is a marked and ever increasing
abhorrence of the evils which go to
make up McKinleyism, which will draw
thousands of Republican votes to the
party which pledges itself to halt the
government of the United States and
drag it back from the perilous course
on which the preseut administration
has launched It.
In view of the expose which even the
Republican newspapers have made of
the starvation wages paid the coal
miners of this state the campaign cry
of "full dinner pail" seems something
worse than a hollow mockery and a
sham.
With all their sneering at the
phrase, "the consent of the governed,"
the Republican party managers will
find that It is as firmly embedded
in the issues of this campaign as it is
in the constitution of the United States,
THE FLEXICON MOVEMENT.
NeiT rrrm-li Way of Mart-bin* l>
Old to the Amerlcnu Ilcd Men.
Anybody wlio knowß anything at all
about modern fighting knows that the
North American Indian Is' the man
who sets the pace. First the American
frontiersmen studied his ways and
ndopted his tactics, and the soldiery
took It up. Baden-Powell, so the
plucky little South Aflcan general con
fesses, first read about American
scouts and then took lessons from their
teachers, the Indians themselves. But
now there Is n slip in the chain and
Franco Is studying the Indian without
going to the trouble of first ascertain
ing what the best scout iu the world,
the American soldier, thinks about It.
France Is trying the "fiexlcon march."
"Never get the leg straight," are the
French instructions. "Keep the back
straight, but bent forward. Do not
throw the shoulders either back or up."
That Is about the way au Indian
walks, so Captain Ullne of the Twen
tieth infantry confesses, but, he goes
on, he never heard of the trick being
tried by military.
"I cannot discuss the merits of the
'fiexlcon,'" the captain said, "because
I am not familiar with it. From the
description It is just about the way an
Indian walks. Ills knee Is never
•locked' or thrust back, so as to have
the leg quite straight. The Indian
never uses the heel to the exclusion of
the ball of the foot, but puts the sole
down all at once. Not all Indians are
footmen. I could name half a dozen
tribes which, to my personal knowl
edge, go mounted always and almost
everywhere, even about their camp.
"The flexicon movement the Frefieh
experimentalists are said to be tinker
ing with and copying from our Indians
is about the movement a soldier gets
when he is fatigued. I am not pre
pared to criticise it."
An English army officer, a subaltern,
here with the horse buyers, said con
cerning the new movement:
"The French are the greatest bun
glers in the world. They get the wildest
notions, 'fads' I ought to call them, In
their pates. I remember once they de
cided to dress every man iu Madagas
car iu red flannel underclothing. Every
man iu the place got skin disease.
Then they went iu for natural wool,
and the men got worse. They admit
ted red irritated the skin and then
found that natural wool, being already
charged with oil, could take tip 110
more, so was worthless for absorbing
perspiration. Now they are fiddling
with the fiexlcon movement, evidently
trying to step nhead of the United
States in overlooking the Indian, and,
overlooking the work the Indian docs
when lie goes on what we call his 'dog
trot' scouting, they propose to imitate
his walk.
"It is my observation that a soldier
requires this fiexlcon movement after
he has gone about four miles loaded
down with his equipment. The French
may teach him to always walk tired
to death, but I do not think we shall
ever see the British or these American
soldiers at It.
"Coming home to oneself, one
would not like to start to his work In
the morning with the tired out look and
movement that he goes home witli If
he has earned his salt. It Is a matter
of pride to pull oneself together for
the day."—Kansas City Journal.
An Others See I n.
The vagaries of American journalism
Is a favorite theme with the transat
lantic editor. It Is possible that now
and then we on this side of the water
do allow Imagination to trespass upon
the domain of fact, but never surely
have we eclipsed the performance of
our contemporary. In a representation
of the scene of the Itohokcn fire pub
lished in one of the leading English il
lustrated weeklies the Hudson rivet-
Is shown to be spanned by two colossal
bridges, one at Twenty-third street and
the other at Fifty-ninth street. Where
the Imagination of the artist received
its stimulus we cannot tell, though we
might hazard a guess, but certainly
this view was not drawn "upon the
spot" or even "front a photograph."
The two structures referred to exist
only upon paper. That at Twenty-third
street was designed some dozen years
ago by tiustav Lillentlial. The Fifty
ninth street bridge bears a slight re
semblance to the design drawn up by
an army board of engineers for a 3,000
foot cnntalever with a view to estimat
ing Its cost In comparison with the cost
of a 3.0(H) foot suspension bridge. Bad
ly as these two bridges are needed, the
cost is prohibitive, for not even the
most sanguine promoter dares to assert
that their revenues would cover the in
terest 011 the initial outlay of from
$110,000,000 to $140,000,000 for bridges,
real estate and terminals.—Scientific
American.
Chrnp Puiiers 111 I.onilott.
Halfpenny Journalism In London is
not the good thing it looks. Arthur
Pearson, whose Daily Express is LOll
- latest halfpenny journal, has re
cently Informed the public Hint he is
losing $1,250 a day 011 his paper, tliat
the cost of the plant and preliminary
work made the first issue worth $500,-
000, that to establish The Express will
cost $1,250,000 and two years' very
hard work and that the next person
who wants to establish a dully paper
In London must spend s2,soo,ooo.—Ar
gonaut.
MfiKnetinm In Option.
It has tfecu discovered that the crys
talline lens of the human eye 1H slightly
diamagnctlc, or subject to magnetic re
pulsion. As astigmatism, the com.x-on
est cause of defective vision and the
most frequent excuse for spectacles, Is
merely a slight distortion of this
It has been suggested that treatment
with a powerful magnet properly ap
plied may result in forcing the lens In
to proper shape or at least in greatly
remedying the distortion.—New York
Bun.
OPERATORS
ARE DIVIDED
Continued from First Page.
At the present time the miners are
masters of the situation and there is not
tho slightest probability that they
go back to work until they got the word
from a convention of the Unitod Mine
Workers.
YESTERDAY'S CONFERENCE.
The individual operators have sent a
committee to New York to seek a reduc
tion in freight charges, as they say that
otherwise they cannot meet the proposed
wage advance.
The New York Times this morning is
authority for the statement that at
yesterday's conference John Markle and
a number of the independent coal opera
tors asked the railroads not to make
any more concessions to the strikers.
Vice President Sayre, of the Lehigh
Valley Company, said that he met John
Markle and talked with him briefly.
"We are now waiting for the men,"
said Mr. Sayre. "It will take them
some time to understand our oiTer, but
they will ho all right in a few days."
Mr. Sayre added that lie had not con
sidered what should be done if the men
refused to accept the offer.
A number of the railroad officials who
are directly interested in the negotia
tions for a settlement of the strike talk
ed over the situation and one of the
officials described the situation as "criti
cal in the extreme."
PARADE AT WILKESIIARRK.
The parade and mass meeting of the
miners at Wilkosbarro yesterday was
the greatest labor demonstration over
held in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The parade, led by President Mitchell
and the officers of the national execu
tive board, started a little after 2 o'clock,
and it required an hour and twenty
minutes to pass a given point. It is
estimated that there were fully 15,000
men and broakor hoys in line. Music
was furnished by about forty hands and
drum corps.
Many banners and transparencies
were carried. The men from Pittston
had a iloat with four men representing
"Coal Harons." They were drinking
what purported to bo champagne.
Directly following was a float with
miners dining on bread and water. A
stretcher was carried containing a
dummy representing a miner who had
just lost his life in a mine.
President Mitchell reviewed the great
army of marchers on the river common.
He was loudly applauded by the march
ers.
It was after 4 o'clock when the last of
the marchers swept past President Mit
chell. Then he and his colleagues were
driven to West Sldo park, whore the
big mass meeting was held. For several
hours a crowd had hoen gathering there,
and it was estimated that nearly 20,000
persons were massed in front of the
stand when the union president began
to speak.
The national president was followed
by Fred Dilcher, Benjamin James and
"Mother" Jones.
President Mitchell's address did not
outline any future movo on the part of
the labor leaders.
I.OOAB STRIKE NOTES.
There Is no particular change in the
condition of affairs here. The number
of cars hoisted where work isbeingdono
is daily decreasing, showing that the
strikers aro gaining recruits.
Upwards of 100 young men of Free
land and Vicinity marched to Wilkes
harre yesterday. They left here about
2 a. m. and inarched hack again after
taking part In the Mine Workers'
parade.
Frank Hess, who hails from Blooms
hurg, a deputy stationed at Shaft 40, of
the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, went
to sleep to his sorrow Monday night.
When ho awakened next morning he
discovered he was minus his revolver
and a fine gold watch and chain.—Sen
tinel.
John McElwee, whose discharge from
the omploy of the Drffton companios by
Superintendent Kudllch was noted on
Monday, has boon reinstated.
With both opera houses open last
evening—a political rally at the Grand
and a Slavonian ball at Yannes'—the
town gave but little indication of being
the centre of a great strike.
"Admiral Dewey" Slicml* III* Toetli.
Admiral Dewey, the little Java mon
key that was on the flagship Olympia
during the battle of Manila with the
admiral, after whom he was named, is
an inmate of the hospital at Lincolu
park, Chicago.
lie no longer eats philopenas with
the children visitors, as peanuts are
now barred from his regular diet.
Head Animal Keeper McCurren Is now
feeding Idm gruel with a spoon on ac
count of the loss of the little fellow's
teeth.
As the admiral Is now < years old,
and as at this age monkeys shed their
teeth, he is "gumming" it, awaiting the
growth of his new molars. Admiral
Is an Intelligent little fellow, and was
presented to the park by Major Thomp
son, who was the Olympla's surgeon,
lie has been a resident of the park
since October, 181)0, and Is a great
favorite of the visiting public.
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ROUND THE REGION.
11. B. Howells, charged with forging
the trade mark and labels of the Peruna
Medicine Company, of Ohio, and selling
a substitute medicine of his own for the
genuine, pleaded guilty at Wllkesbarre.
lie was lined SSOO.
This Is the season when mothers are
alarmed on account of croup. It is
quickly cured by One Minute Cough
Cure, which children like to take.
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Peter McAndrews, of Rappahanock,
was run over by a Philadelphia and
Reading passenger train near Girard
ville on Monday and was instantly killed.
It is thought that he sat down on the
track while on his way home late at
night and went to sleep.
Torturing skin eruptions, burns and
sores are soothed at once and promptly
healed by applying DoYVitt's Witch
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piles. Beware of worthless counter
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While Mrs. Patrick Gallagher was
gathering coal from an abandoned strip
ping of the Lehigh Valloy Coal Com
pany, in the southern part of Ilazleton,
Monday afternoon, a huge piece of rock
became loosened and fell upon her head,
killing her.
Feelings of safety pervade the house
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The following have announced their
Intention of becoming independent can
didates in Lackawanna county and are
circulating nomination papers for sig
natures: Congress, Frank M. Spencer;
judge, Cornelius Smith; sheriff, George
Lothier.
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Counterfeits may bo offered you. See
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Hazel Salve. Grover's City drug store.
The 700 employes of the Reading Iron
Company at Danvillo have decided to
accept the 25 per cent reduction in their
wages, which went into effect on Sep
tember 10, and against which they
struck.
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The following priests were the guests
of Rev. Father Phillips at dinner yester
day: Fathers Burgr&af, White Haven;
Brchony, Eckley; Malloy, McAdoo;
Mack and Fallihee, Freeland; Dover,
Beaver Meadow; Bunco, Mauch Chunk;
and Peruzzie and Marcella, Ilazleton. —
Plain Speaker.
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John Lapp, street commissioner of
Ilazleton, died this morning at the ago
of 57 years.
A. 11. Stroll has been appointed post
master at Christopher, and R. A. Floyd
at Plains, both in this county.
The Shamokin Milling Company's mil)
and storehouses were destroyed yester
day morning. Loss, $50,000.
Shickshinny's new national bank
opened for business on Monday.
The Woodpecker.
There was once an old woman who
lived in a little house. She wore a
rend cap on her head, a black dress and
a white dress and a white apron with
the strings tied behind.
One day St. Peter called on the old
woman and he was very hungry. The
old woman was baking cakes on a
griddle. The good saint asked her for
a cake. She looked at the cake she
was baking and thought it was too
large to give him. so she baked another
one. She thought this one was also
too large, and kept on baking cakes
which kept getting smaller.
St. Peter became angry and told her
to fly up the chimney and peck for
her living.—Josephine Yosburg In Phil
adelphia Press. •
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