PCONVEiITS GOLDBUGS
BRYAN'S GREAT SPEECH CON
VINCES THEM.
Four licstnn Papers Tliat Opposed Ilim
in 1800 See the Force of Ills Argu
ment —Tliey Have Grown In iVLxioiu
in Four Years.
Following are extracts from four
of the leading newspapers of Massa
chusetts in reference to Bryan's great
speech at Indianapolis. One of these
journals has a larger circulation than
any other paper in New England. We
believe that every one of these papers
opposed Mr. Bryan in 1896.
A Revelation.
Mr. Bryan's speech of acceptance at
i Indianapolis is as great a revelation to
I his opponents as it is a source of joy
to his friends. It is unquestionably the
most statesmanlike address that has
been made in recent years by a presi
dential candidate. It is devoted in its
entirety to a discussion of imperial
ism, which by the very force of this
speech would be made the issue of this
campaign if it had not already been
such. The tremendous subject is pur
sued to its utmost ramifications and
the argument and its deductions are in
every respect sound and logical.
There is no resort to invective and
little reliance is placed upon mere ora
torial effect. The speech is that of a
man thoroughly in earnest and sincer
ity shines in every sentence. We be
lieve that the arguments advanced
against the imperialistic policy of the
Republican party cannot be so con
troverted as to carry conviction to any
unbiased mind. Mr. Bryan has taken
up Republican claims one after another
and with calm but earnest reasoning
has torn them into shreds and flung
them, valueless, behind him.
No adequate idea of the strength and
compass of the masterly address can
be given in editorial limits. It is one
of the greatest and most statesmanlike
utterances of our history. It estab
lishes the paramount issue of the cam
paign and proves that Americans today
stand at the parting of the ways. We
must either cling to the honored tradi
tions of our forefathers, to the consti
tution and the Declaration of Indepen
dence, or we must follow the imperi
alistic policy to its inevitable conclu
sion—to militarism and high taxation
at home and to dominating oppression
abroad. There is no alternative. —Bos-
ton Traveler.
Calm and Patriotic.
Mr. Bryan was introduced to the
country four years ago in a single
burst of popular oratory. He has in
augurated his second campaign at In
dianapolis with an address which must
merit and receive permanent distinc
tion for the calmness of Its tone and
closeness and sobrioty of its reasoning,
and for its breadth of statesmanship.
The contrast marks and epitomizes
the growth of the man.
No one ever before nominated for
the presidency was so little known to
the nation at large as Mr. Bryan was
in 189G, but since that day in Chicago
there has been a continuous unfolding
of a remarkable character under a sun
light as fierce as any that ever beat
upon a throne. His rigorous honesty,
his constant frankness, his unfailing
courtesy, his undaunted optimism,his
intense patriotism have availed to pen
etrate the clouds of partisan and fac
tional prejudice until these qualities
are conceded by his antagonists and
become the reliance of his followers.
While the Indianapolis speech of ac
ceptance is not lacking in skill and
elegance, the reader will search It in
vain for idle symbols or mere flowers
I of rhetoric. He will find instead an
unbroken thread of earnestness and
candor running through it, with no dis
gressive appeals to Irrelevant passions.
In It Mr. Bryan has not planted him
self upon an epithet but upon a prin
ciple. Call the course of Mr. McKinley
in the Philippines imperialism or be
nevolent assimilation, as you please,
the Democratic candidate takes hts po
sition squarely and boldly in opposi
tion of it. —Boston Globe.
Hold and Aggressive.
The presidential campaign of 1900
was opened boldly and aggressively by
Mr. Bryan in his speech of acceptanco
of the Democratic nomination at In
dianapolis yesterday. The occasion
i was one of much Interest, not only by
reason of the impressive formalities of
the proceedings, and the great enthu
siasm of the large assemblage, but be
\ cause the utterances of the candidate
fixed definitely the paramount issue of
the campaign which the party in power
has done its best to belittle and cover
up.
, Mr. Bryan makes his stand squarely
Lpn the issue of republic or empire. In
Miis speech of acceptance the minor and
contingent questions of public policy
with which this election is concerned
do not receive consideration. The sol
/ernn duty of the people in the preser
vation of the principles of our govern
ment overshadows everything else at
this crisis. It is a question of national
life or national decadence, and on this
line the great struggle is to be waged.
Mr. McKinley has taken up, with hfs
party, the position of defense. Mr.
Bryan opens the attack with vigor.
The issue of imperialism is discussed
jn Mr. Bryan's speech thoroughly, with
entire fairness, with great force and in
a spirit of high patriotism. It is a re
markable address, ranking perhaps
higher than any of its author's pre
vious efforts, in that rhetoric is held
throughout subordinate to logic, and
brilliancy of effect to convincing
strength of statement. It is an address
which defies condensation, so compact
I Is Its argument, so close knit its prem-
Jms and conclusions. It Is a speech that
carries conviction and that Impresses j
the reader, as It manifestly impressed
those who heard it, with the entire sin
cerity of the man.—Boston Post.
The Popular Idol.
The people's candidate for president •
has delivered a noble speech, solely
devoted to the supreme question. Quar
rel with him as we may on other is
sues, criticise as we may his past treat
ment of this issue, the fact remains
that he rather than McKinley places
the paramount issue where it belongs
—at the forefront of the discussion.
Whatever the past, Mr. Bryan rather
than Mr. McKinley has ranged himself
and the. great party behind him on the
right side of the debate. Ho throws
the whole organized power of the De
mocracy into the fight against the im
perialist program.—From the Spring
field (Mass.) Republican-Independent.
WHY HE CHANCED.
This Is the simple story of how John
Smith came to change his party. His
father was a Republican. His grand
father was a Whig. John himself had
always voted just as his father did.
From his early youth he had always
evinced an interest in politics, but it
was a quiet interest. He didn't go j
much on getting into arguments. He
was always content to believe that the
Republicans were more right than the
Democrats, so he voted a straight Re
publican ticket every time.
John keeps small store in the sub
urbs of a large city. He sells grocer
ies, oil, candies, stationery for the
school children and deals a little In
meat, especially in the winter time
when it is easier to keep meat than
in the summer.
John has noticed of late that his
profits amount practically to nothing,
still he does a fair amount of business;
he is steady and does not spend his
money extravagantly, tries to buy
pretty good things for his store, al
though he never buys very much and
he keeps things neat and clean about
his place.
A few months ago John got hold ol
a newspaper witn some interesting
articles regarding the growth and de
structiveness of the trusts. His busi
ness was quiet, he had nothing else to
read, so he glanced over the article.
Very soon he became interested and
read them very carefully. As a result
he is in a predicament, is worried con-1
siderably. He can no longer accept I
the presentment of the Republican |
side of the case as he used to. The I
other day he read in a paper about the I
great prosperity throughout the coun
try, about the enormous amount ol j
goods shipped and bought by Uncle j
Sam, of the increased amount of bust- j
ness being done and of the increase in i
the amount of money in circulation, j
He does something now that he nevet j
did before. He questions the truth ol j
these statements. For instance, he j
wants to know where the money goes, j
He is not making any; his friends In
business tell him that they are not j
making any money. Some years ago j
they used to make money and they j
used to spend it liberally, too, but now j
they are forced to play close to the \
cushion.
John is doing a little figuring now
all by himself and is doing consider-1
able thinking. He wonders why it is
that he and his old friends, those he
knows in town, are not making any
money. He figures that there are j
more people around town than there j
were in the days when business was j
good. He figures that they should eat I
as much as ever, in fact should spend
about as much money as ever. But
do they? He answers himself by say- i
ing that he does not spend as much I
money as he used to spend; ho doesn't \
get hold of it to spend. He figures j
that what is true of him is true ol
other peoplo. The question, who gets \
the money? is what he is trying to j
figure out. He looks about the store I
at his small supply of goods ana re-!
calls from whom he buys them. Near
ly everything he has in stock is handl
ed by trusts. There is no competition.
He must buy from that one party or
not buy at all. They bull the price.
He has to pay a large sum for the
goods, but he cannot always charge a
large price, because the people won't
pay it, for what is equally as bad, they
can't pay it! What is the result? The
result is that the trusts make the mon
ey. The merchant is forced to buy his
stock from concerns that tolerate no
competition. He is forced to sell his
goods in competition with his fellow
merchants, owing to the combines that
are formed, the profits of the whole
sale houses are never cut. If the
prices of the goods are raised to the
small merchants, it simply follows
that its profits are diminished. The
merchant's loss is the combine's gain.
And it is equally true that the com
bine's gain is not only the merchant's
loss, but the public's as well. This
is the fact which John Smith has dis
covered and about which he is ener
getically telling his friends and neigh
bors. And as a result of having at j
last seen the light upon the trust ques- j
tion he has decided to vote against j
them by casting a ballot for Bryan.
Thus ends the simple story of John
Smith.
Republican ex-President Harrison, '
ex-Speaker Reed and ex-Senator Ed- !
munds, having also put themselves on |
record against criminal aggression, are ]
dismissed with an epithet—'They are
'has beens.'"
Republican Senators Hoar, Welling
ton and Mason, having denounced the
colonial policy of the administration,
are contemptuously dismissed by Mark
Hanna with the remark: "Let them
sulk."
1 TALES OF PLUCK
I m ADVENTURE. f!
Mixed Up With a Waterspout.
£ ~r T swayed and zigzagged over
I the ocean like the staggering
I gait of a drunken man, then
"J" swept with a roar just under
our stern and carried away the spin
naker boom with It."
That was the way Captain Rice de
scribed the encounter his vessel, the
schooner Metha Nelson, had with a
waterspout about thirty miles north
west of Point Reyes, while she was
making for San Francisco. The
schooner was bound from Makawell,
Hawaiian Islands, with a cargo of su
gar. |>he_liad fair weather during all
the voyage until the capes which
mark the entrance to the harbor were
almost in sight, when the wind be
gan to freshen and come in fitful
guests. ••>.-••• :■
The schooner was holding well up
to the northeast to get a good slant
of wind for the port after taking
bearings from the Farallone Light.
The wind, which had been pretty
brisk at the break of day, kept in
creasing and a few hours after the
sun broke through the banks of fog
clouds in the eastward it was almost
blowing a hurricane from the north
west.
When nearly abreast of Point Reyes
the vessel's course was changed and
she was bowling in toward the harbor,
with the wind almost astern.
Suddenly and almost directly ahead
of the vessel there arose a, groat, tall
column of water.
For a moment it stood almost di
rectly in the track of the schooner
and only a few yards in advance of
its jlbboom. Just as the vessel seemed
about to pierce it, it moved slowly
from the schooner, then swung off
to starboard. Captain Rice ordered
the hard helm over, to 'pass port of
the column, and at the same time
jumped down from the poop deck to
give the men a hand in hauling up
the sheets.
The work was hardly half done and
the jibs and mainsails were flapping
in the wind, when the great column
of water changed its course and came
swirling back toward the schooner
as if to strike it almost amidships.
This time it came racing over the
ocean with a roar and with the speed
of an express train. The sailors
dropped the ropes on which they were
hauling and sought the protection of
the heavy beams of the forecastle head
from the spars of the rigging, that
they expected the next moment would
bo torn from the vessel and come tum
bling down, a mass of wreckage, on
the deck.
Almost before the men could reach
the shelter the vessel was caught in
the vortex of air which accompanied
tlie mighty twisting column of water,
and she spun around like a top, lurch
ing her port side under the water as
she went The vessel's stern swung
into the twirling base of the water
spout and it was lifted high in the
air while the bow sunk down into the
waves and the water rushed in on
the sailors over the bulwarks forward.
It was only for an Instant, but in
that instant there was a cracking of
timbers, and the little heavily laden
vessel groaned as though the life were
being choked out of her. There was
a loud report of smashing timbers in
the midst of it all. Then the vessel's
bow rose, nnd with a quick roll to
starboard that put her almost on her
beam eud, the vessel sprung around,
the waterspout traveling almost par
allel to her inclined decks. The point
of the jibboom all but poked into .the
twisting column as the schooner
twirled around.
Slowly the schooner righted, and
when she came to an even keel the
waterspout Was just off to starboard
of the vessel and traveling rapidly
away. All danger to the vessel was
past, and the greatest surprise to the
crew was the little damage that had
been done.
A Meeting With a Sllver-Tlp.
"Speaking of bear," said the mining
expert, as lie leaned back comfortably
in the corner, "there's nothing nastier
to meet out tlma an old, dirty-faced
silver-tip. He's a cross between a
grizzly and a brown, and, like crosses
generally, lie Inherits all the mean
ness of both sides of the family. Old
Dirty Face is always ugly about some
thing, and he goes around fairly spoil
ing for a fight.
"Any one ever meet him? Well, I
had a scrap with one out in the Buf
falo Hump Country last year and I
sha'n't forget it in a hurry. I was
out there looking for some mines, and
one day I took a little stroll all alone
to see what I could find. We wore
right in the midst of the big moun
tains, a hundred miles from anywhere,
and the finest game country on the
continent. Bear and deer and goats—
you took your choice without any
trouble at all. I had my Springfield
with me, although I wasn't caring for
game just then. But sometimes game
hunts you, and tlieu you've got to
fight, ellinb, or run.
"Along toward evening, as I was
starting back for camp, I heard some
thing following on my trail, and,
looking back, X saw Mr. Dirty Face
ambling along a couple of hundred
yards behind me nml taking more in
terest in me than I liked. I didn't
need any bear particularly, as there
were 110 good trees handy, only a few
little dead ones that didn't count.
"In the canon below me was a good
sized stream, and I made for that,
thinking I could throw the bear off,
down by the water. Wben I came to
the bank I found a mountain torrent
thirty or forty yards wide and deep
and ugly-looking. I skirted up the
bank pretty fast for some time, and
then I saw a rock well out from shore
that X thought I could reach. I round
ed a big boulder, struck it above, and,
by hard work, reached the rock all
right X didn't believe Mr. Bear would
tackle me there, but there was where
X didn't know him. Eight up my trail
ho went, rounded the boulder, sniffed
once or twice, sighted mo on the rock
and promptly struck in.
"He had to swim and the current
was so swift that he missed the rock
a few yards and so gave me a good
shot. I let him have the best I had,
and I made him kick, but lie reached
the shore all right, and now his dan
der was up in earnest. I plugged
at him again, but it didn't seem to
count. On he came, higher up this
time, amj sighted better for the rock.
I waited for liim and when he heaved
his big, ugly paws on my rock, I let
him have ft in the throat, and that
fixed him. He swept by, fairly mak
ing the Water foam. It's the last time,
gentlemen, that I want to be treed
on a rock by a bald-faced bear."—
New York Sun.
In tlio Plf.l
11. Phelps Whltmarsh, who tells
some of his sliver mining experiences
in Australia, says that long custom in
going down a shaft and preparing a
blast makes one careless of the attend
ant danger, first the hole must be
drilled. Then the detonating cap is
fitted on the end of the fuse, and both
are firmly pushed into the stick of
explosive. Fuse, cap and dynamlta
being thus connected, they are low
ered into the hole, only the end a(
the fuse remaining visible.
Instead of directly igniting the ent
of the fuse a careful miner beudt
it over, and places a small piece of
lighted candle under the blight. This
economizes fuse, and also gives more
time for the man below to ascend
safely.
We were down about forty foot
when, one noontime, Sam, having put
iu three good charges, pulled himself
up the shaft by a rope, while I re
mained below to put the finishing
touches to the fuse.
A shout from above assured me that
all was ready. Placing one foot in
the bowline, or loop, at the end of the
hoist rope, I arranged my throe can
dle-ends uudor their respective fuses,
and sung out to be pulled up.
The line tautened instantly and I
went up toward the sunlight, think
ing about a fox terrior I wanted to
buy.
For a few yards the slant of the
shaft caused my feet to drag, and
when I reached the perpendicular part
I began to swing violently from sido
to side.
Holding to the rope with one hand,
I tried to steady myself with the
other. But It was useless. About
half-way up, my head struck against
the hanging wall with such force that
I lost consciousness for an instant,
and dropped.
I landed on the foot-wall and rolled
downward, tearing my hands on tho
sharp rock edges in a vain effort to
stop myself. Within a few feet of
the lighted mine my clothes caught
on a jutting piece of rock, and there
I hung, yelling with might and main
for the rOpe, and expecting each mo
ment to be blown to atoms. I forgot,
in my terror, tlint because of tho slant
at the lower part of the shaft the
rope could not reach me.
The starting fizz of a fuse brought
me to my senses. Madly tearing my
self loose, I leaped to the bottom,
drew off tho detonators and—fainted.
Tho last tiling I remember was the
sight of Sam's legs. The brave fel
low had slid down to my aid.
Girl Goes U|> a Hi a Chimney.
Miss Dine Polyot, a pretty girl of
French desconflperformcd the remark
able feat of climbing to the top of
an iron chimney 120 feet high at the
pulp mill of the Eastern Manufactur
ing Company, at South Brewer, Me.
The girl made the ascent by means of
a small iron ladder which runs up the
chimney, and, after reaching the top
slio seated herself on the edge and
waved her handkerchief to the gaping
crowd below. Only one man in this
town over dared to climb to the top
of the stack, although many have
been up half way, and Miss I'olyot is,
consequently, tho heroine of this and
the neighboring towns.
Ever since the tall chimney was
erected there has been- a standing re
ward of 93 to any one who would
go to the top. That a girl could do
tho trick was never dreamed of. Miss
Dine, or "Dada," as she is known
among her acquaintances, practiced
ou the ladder yesterday afternoon,
and as soon as tho wind fell at sun
set went up nimbly. The descent did
not fluster her a hit, and as soon as
she alighted she received 93. and with
it the assurance that she was the
grittiest girl in South Brewer.
Doloiulto it A Money.
According to the bulletin of tho
Field Columbian Museum pieces of
dolomite are used as money by the In
dians in Lake County, Cal. The stone
tokens are shaped in cylindrical forms
and burned, which brings out reddish
streaks in the oxidation of the iron,
and then polished and perforated. In
this form they are highly valued by
the natives.
I'ropoßed Hallway In Uondnrn*..
There is a plan to build a railroad
from Truxillo up the Roman River to
Jutipalga in Olaxcho State. This Will
open up a large valley, said to bo un
surpassed for the cultivation of ba
nanas. It will also touch large ma
hogany forests and the mineral lauds
of the interior of Honduras. This
railroad, when completed, would be a
blessing to the whole country.
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SLAVERY IN NEW YORK.
In Early Days the City Engaged in the Traffic
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The greatest impetus was given to the
slave trade by the act of parliament of
1684, which legalized slavery in the
North American colonies. This does
not mean that slavery was unknown in
what is now the United States before
that time, because, as early as 1620, a
Dutch man-of-war landed and sold JO
African negroes at Jamestown, Va. In
1626 the West India Company imported
slaves from the West Indies to New-
York city—then New Amsterdam. The
city itself owned shares in a slave ship,
advanced money for its fitting out and
shared in the profits of its voyages.
This recognition and encouragement
may account for the astounding fact
that in 1750 slaves formed one-sixth of
the entire population of New York.
The general prevalence of slavery is
shown by the fact that, at this time,
there were 67 slaves in New York's
small suburb of Brooklyn, and that in
London itself there were resident 20,0'xj
slaves. Slaves were at that time pub
licly dealt in on the London Exchange.
No wonder the traffic in human flesh
was a recognized commerce, and that,
in 1771. the English alone sent to Africa
192 ships equipped for the trade and
with a carrying capacity of 47,146 slaves
per trip.—Pearson's Magazine.
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GAME LAWS IN FRANCE.
Rights of the Farmer Are Considered and
His Interests Protected.
In France the protection of crops and
farm stock is among the chief objects
of the game laws, so much so indeed
that a French landowner is not only
, prohibited from encouraging 011 his es
tate such noxious animals as the fox,
badger, otter, boar, roebuck and rabbit,
, but is even compelled to organize for
the suppression of such scheduled "ver
min" by periodic drives; and neglect of
either obligation is likely to land him
in costly claims for agricultural damage.
All manner of interesting legal quib
bles .arc common whenever the question
crops up of practical application of the
laws. Thus, whereas in French law
the prohibition of "night" shooting cov
ers only the period of darkness, a similar
restriction applied to fishing applies to
the entire period between sunset and
sunrise, a very different matter in the
summer months.
Again, a very proper consideration of
1 the extent to which intense cold may
deprive birds of their wild instincts anil
their powers of Right has prompted a
prohibition in France of shooting in
the snow; but here again, before a pros
ecution can be established, it must be
, shown that the snow was thick enough
at the time of the offense to enable any
one to follow the footprints of the beast
or bird.—London Express.
London Has a Dead Man's Curve.
In London, although street accidents
arc of much rarer occurrence than in
the metropolis of the United States, we
yet have danger spots which annually
claim their appointed tale of victims.
According to a high police official,
London's "dead man's curve" is Chat
ham place, situated to the north of
Blackfriars bridge and at the junction
of the Embankment. Bridge street and
Queen Victoria street. This, notwith
standing opinions to the contrary, is
by far the most dangerous crossing in
London.—London Daily Mail.
I Auctions in Japan are quietly con
! ducted. The bidding is secret and si
j lent, each person writing his bid on a
■ slip of paper and dropping it into a Im>x.
When it appears that all the bids an* hi
the box is opened and the highest lrttP
j der is named.
! Laborers arc so scarce in Switzerland
that they have to be imported not onb.
ironi Italy, but Bohemia and Silesia.
Alaskan travelers say that th mos
quitoes there have driven men to sui
cide.