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THE HOI K.
NEED OF
FIRST PAUSE AFTER NINETEEN
CENTURIES
ndlng CncU
Out
PROPORTION
PRODUCED
PROPORTIO.- nv
5S^ BY
LABOR
ANNUALLY/
| kansas oil AND the trust.
Toi-tent lour* Omens of an
—Oh! for a Lincoln to
the I.nnd of Bondage
of (iolden Light mid Hopeful l'i
By E. II. Belden.—In Webster's lm-
inortal reply to Hayno, tho opening
paragraph reads a® follows:
"Mr. President- Wben the marlneP
has been tossed for many days and In
thick weather and on an unkown sea,
Jie naturally avails himself of the lirst
pause in the storm, the earliest glance
at tho sun, to take his latitude ^uul as-
certain how far the elements haye driv-
en him from his true course. Let us Im-
itate his prudence and before we float
further refer to the poin£ from which
we departc#, that we may at least be
able to conjecture where we are now."'
From this extract let us see if there is
any comparison to the present condi-
tion of our own times, and whether
there are any lines of prudence marked
out that would be well ror us to fol-
o low.
Like the mariner, the great army of
round-shouldered bread winners, hav-
ing been tossed for, yea, these many
years, are Slowly but surely awakening
from the deep slumber of ignorance
that has prevented them from knowing
their rights, %r realizing tho depth of
slavery from which their generation*
• have gono down to early and unhal-
lowed, yet acceptable, graves. After
njnoteen centuries, difttng this the first
forced pause in the storm of dog-eat-
dog policy that has swept the world's
surface throughout the cycles of ini-
quity, they aro catching n glimpse of
the golden light of hope that is break-
ing through tho veil above them, and
are pausing to find their latitude, and
to learn, if possible, how far they have
been driven from tho course marked out
by their God, in which all men could
reap the first fruits of honest toll. lie-
ware! The lion Is awakening in its lair.
His voice is penetrating the farthest
recesses ftf the Jungle. Unbrowned and
effeminate aristocracy stands aghast
with fear. The combined power of tho
world's brawn and muscle is being unit-
ed to grapple jvith casto and cunning
in one grand effort to restore tho long-
est diadem, the equality#and brother-
hood of man.
p A million rivulets of thought and ac-
tion are being turned into one mighty
stream, whose swelled tide is carrying
away the flood-wood of prejudice and
superstition that has been built tip
through tho dagt ages of federal
knight-errantry and barricaded
throughout succeeding centuries by the
prestige of musty statutes and standing
armies, that have been as leeches upon
' the labor of helpless humanity, en-
slaved thereby. The very atmosphere
is surcharged with tho electricity of
portentious omens for the future. All
men are awake to the impending crisis.
Savants aro searching tho vocabularies
Oof ancient and modern literature to find
soothing phrases to calm the thirst for
I economic investigates. From the es-
thetic literature of the most exclusl
magazines to the one-cent dailies, we
find exclusive articles on tho great
movement, while the caricatures of the
illustrated press represent the contest
in its lurid forms. Strong men walk
us I#treading tho crown of a volcano,
while mothers, clasping their infants
to their bosoms, look out into the dim
future, wondering if the impending con-
test will remove the present maniacs
of Unequal opportunities in the race of
lifo before her (farlings aro grown, or
will they in their tender years havo to
go out t>n this frozen sea of corpora^
greed to be permanently dwarfed uppn
the trci*l wheels of unrequited toil?
In this hour of expectance, of anxiety,
of hope and fear, oh! for a Lincoln to
lead us out of the land of bondage into
the land of light and promise. Without
such a leader to pilot the way, many
weary and wornout toilers will go down
as their feet sink into the cold sanls of
theoJordan that separate;; us from the
land of our inheritance.
As Moses raised tip tho brazen serpent
In the wilderness that all who'had been
bitten by poisonous reptiles might be-
hold and live, so millions are praying
that the leader may be raised up whom
all may follow that are perishing tinder
the bite of the poison of corporate op-
pression.
Not with bullets, but with ballots, wo
trust the citadel of plutocracy's host
must be destroyed. The calling of tho
ditcher, of the hostler and the hod car-
rier are called ignoble, but each forms a
rung in the ladder up which all indus-
try a^l progress must climb, and the
ballots of these will count as much as
those whose gilded chariots spatter the
SCIENTIFIC MONEY.
THE IDEA OF "INTRINSIC"
VALUE IS A MYTH.
Tlio Hole Power of Money Must float. In
11m Heine m Legal M"(inure of Values
■—Ilnaed on Natlonul t'rlnclple —Power
of Congress.
toiler in rags.
The battle-scarred veterans of toil,
awake to your opportunity and vote
only for those to make your laws whose
calloused hands are a living Witness
that they live not from flio fruits of
others' toil.
Ilnnk« In Polities.
Ignatius Donnelly.- The banks are
running the country and running it into
the ground. You cannot pick up a
newspaper but you will read of a meet-
ing of bankers, here or ii ere to dictate4
to congress or ^>f President Blank of
the Blank National Hank, drawing a
series of resolutions, to Instruct mem-
bers of tho house or senate. Are tho
bankers philanthropists? No; their
business is to lend money and collect
business upon It. As a class they have
a particle of connection with the
people, except to suck the substance
out of them. Are they looking out for
the welfare of the masses? a\ , th.
are dimply trying to concentrate the
I wealth ot tho masses in their own
pockets. You can't blame them. That
is their business. But to govern a re-
public so that the many will bo pros-
perous and the greed of the few be re-
strained—Bah! You might just as well
expect a Bengal tiger to establlsh'an
orphan asylum He might furnish the
orphans, but not the asylum. Now, we
are not objecting to bankers per so.
Many of them are excellent gentlemen;
but when it comes to a money-lending
class controlling the legislation of this
gTeat republic we protest with all the
emphasis we are capable of. All our
disasters are due to them coming out
from behind their counters to dominate
the politics of the country. Let them
stick to their legitimate business of
money grabbing.
Nothing but the very insanity of self-
deception could prevent people from
realizing that our present troubles aro
tho result of a conspiracy.
Many years ago, lending republicans,
as well as democrats, defended tho
principles which are now contended ftjr
by Populists. In 1868 Hon. George II.
Pendleton said: "If the greenback is
good enough for tho farmer and me-
chanic who pay taxes, It is good enough
for tho bondholder who pays no taxes."
Shortly after that date, Hon. G. S.
Orth, Gen. Butler, Hon. John A. Logan
and oilier prominent men of bqjh poli-
tical parties, boldly advocated this doc-
trin«, but a subtle power soon silenced
most of them. Few were cognizant
of tho character of that power then,
but wo now fully realize that it was tho
great money octopus, which now boldly
assumes to dictate our financial poli-
cies.
Mr. Fawcett, In his great work,
"Gold and Debt," says: "It js a trick
of capital in all countries to persuade
the people that their honor is at stake,
In the payment of war debts jtt the
highest valuation that the avarice of
their holders may set on them."
This shows the animus of English
capitalists in demonetizing silver in
1816, Germany's act in 1871, and the
Joint conspiracy of OGngllsh and Ger-
man capitalists to procure demonetiz-
ation itfi the United States in 1873. It
was to carry out this "trick," men-
tioned by Mr. Fawcett.
Tho present nge has adopted and,
applied scientific principles in tho pro-
duction of nil kinds of %e^jth, but
the masses still lend a willing ear to
the "John Jaspers" of finance.
Tho only hope of future prosperity
for America lies in tho adoption of a
scientific medium of exchange.
The United States Supreme court
clearly mapped out this Idea of money,
in its legal tender decision of 1871, by
showing that the only truo valuo of
money rested In its legal value.
After declaring that congress wgs
supreme in its power to create money,
and showing that a contract to pay a
debt of $1,000, made before t^o year
1834, could be paid With 100 eagles
coined after that year, although they
wero worth only 94 eagles coined at
the time the contract was made, and
this solely because of their legal value,
the court said: "Hero wo might Btop
but we will notice briefly an argument
presented in support of the position
•that the unit of money valuo must pos
sess intrinsic value. The argument Is
derived from assimilating the constltu
tf&nal provision respecting a standard
of weights and measures, to that cou
ferring the power to coin money and
regulate Its value. It Is said there can
be no standard eft weights* without
weight, or of measure, without length
or space, and we are asked how any-
thing can be made a standard of value
which has Itself no value. It is hardly
correct to speak of a standard of value
The constitution does not sp£ak of it.
It contemplates a standard for (hat
#rhlch has gravity, or extension; but
valuo is an ideal thing. The colnagt
acts fix its unit as a dollar; but the
gold or silver thing we call a dollar is
in no senso a standard of a dollar; it
is only a representative of it."
If tho above is not sufficiently clear,
let us further illustrate it: *
• If, by some great catastrophe of
ture. the entire human race was de-
stroyed, tho law of gravitation, or
weight would still remain a fixed real-
ity. Hence, in order to measure gravi-
tation, wo must have units of tveight
fixed and permanent. If the entire
human race was destroyed, the di-
mensions of space or extension would
still remain as before, because a per-
manent law of physical nature. Hence,
lntheir measurement, fixed units of
space aro necessary.
Now comes the decisive question: If
the entiro human race was suddenly de-
stroyed, would value remain as a fixed
and permanent fact in nature?
Certainly not, because* as stated by
tho Supreme court. "viSue is an ideal*
thing," and its only standard is the
desirability for objects of utility exist-
ing in tho human mind, and belongs
exclusively to the human mind. The
qualities of things which make them
valuable would still exist if the race
should perish, but a property, or qual-
ity, is not value.
Therefore, tho Idea of "intrinsic"
value is a barbaric myth, arising from
the failure to discriminate between the
properties of things, and the desiro for
them. Seeing this, Mr. McLeod, the
English writer on flnspce. says; *
"Tlia most perfect fortn of currency
is that which has no intrinsic value,
*uch as paper; and it is only when na-
tions shall reach a high degree of civi-
lization, that they will adopt this per-
fect form. It is the vislblo symbol of
transferable power which gives money
iSs power, and distinguishes a coin
from a medal."
The possession by money of desirable
qualities *or other uses will always
subject It to commd-clal laws and cause
it to fluctuate; • thing that true money
should never do. •
The wl^lo commercial world would
be reduced to chaos if tho yard and
pound should bo subjected to manipu-
lations which would cause them to
vary from day to day. And the present
chaos of tho financial world Is the re-
sult of basing the unit of value upon a
scarce and fluctuating commodity,
which Is subject to the control and
manipulation of designing men, who
seek to control all natural sources of
wealth, nnd all labor, through such
manipulation.
Tho law of finance, like the law of
weight8 and measures, must bo based
upon a natural principle before har-
mony and prosperity can be realized.
Until the people are educated to this,
let us, by all means, have all the gold,
and all the silver we can get, supple-*
mented by a paper money equal In
debt paying power to the others. But
tho final outcome of this education will
be a money whose sole power will abide
limits being a legal unit for thf measur-
ment of value, (j#st as the gallon Is a
legal unit for the measurement of li-
quids) composed of a material which
shall have no quality which will make
it the object of desire for other uses.
This will b%"the survival of the fittest,"
in finance. •
C. W. STEWART.
THE "PARITV*' OF
SUGAR.
Monopoly
The Sugar Trust a Monstroui
of World-Wide l'ower. ,
Congressman DeWitt Warner's Re-
form club pamphlet on the sugar trust
Is one of the best pieces of political
writing #een in many years. He sums
up the ^situation of the trust nnd the
people thus:
"With the Spreckels in control of
Hawaii and the Havemeyers extend-
ing tiiOr plantations in Cuba, ths
trust dictates to every branch of sugar
production and distribution in the
United States, taking under it^ wlug
every #one concerned—except those
who consume sugar. From its office
117 Wall street, cable messages fly
daily to its agents in (fcba, fixing the
price of raw sugar there; to San Fran-
cisco announcing Cuba's parity, at
which arriving in Hawaii sugars are
tojje valued, telling her planters what
in view .of Cuban and Hawaiian
prices—the trust condescends to of-
fer for American sugar; and to its
representatives all over the world, glv-
ilg the limit—based on Cuban parity
-at*whlch they can pick up Austrian,
Javan, Philllplne, Brazilian and oth-
er sugars, when these are temporarily
depressed in prices. In an adjoining
joom the quotations at or above which
the subservient dealers throughout the
country are permitted to sell sugars
are dally settled, and through ite four
great sugar brokers who stand nearest
the throne theso are passed to forty
others who await the sugar trust's nod
at aNew York and telegraphed to the
waiting hundreds in other cities in the
land. These ki turn so promptly noti-
fy their patrons, "the thousands of
wholesale grocers of the country#that
before their doors are opened all dan-
ger of any purchaser getting his sugar
below trust prices is over for the day.
By discount from his bill or periodical
remittance, as the case may be, each
faithful wholesale is promptly ami
liberally paid for his loyalty, and
whenever in the crisis of legislation
one hears ftie bug^e call of the trust
he instantly steps into line, ready to
bombard his congressman with tele-
grams or fight hint with ballots at
short r^nge untll^he sugar trust cause
is triumphant.
"Such is the grandest trade organ-
ization the world has ever seen.
Tho sugar trust dictates tho trib-
ute that shall be rendered It by the
American people. #
"The wholesale grocer is rewarded
by whatever largess tho trust thinks
necessary to insure their loyalty.
"And the public? 'The public bo
damned'—and it is."
Condition* That Are a Result of Gen-
eral Cussedneas.
The only thing that prevents the
j 'holes in the ground" about Neodesha
•rom being veritable units of wealth
I 'or landowners and the oil Is the lack
of a liufrket. This lack Is occasioned
almost wholly by unjust discrimina-
tions against Industries by the present
freight pooling arrangements. "Build
a refinery then," says some one. But
that wouldn't alter the discriminations
on freight rates. The same fate would
befall our locally refined oil that be-
falls the locally crude oil. For instance:
The operators here shipped a few bar-
rels of oil into Oklahoma the other
day. The freight was $3.10 per barrel.
The Siandard Oil company was ship-
ping the same quality of oil from the
Eastern fields through" Chicago and
Kansas Clt^ to the same point In Ok-
lahoma and selling It for $3 a barrel.
Just think of It! And when you think
of it cease wondering why there is no
market for oil here.
Nearly 50,000 barrels of crude petro-
leum is above the surface of the
ground here at Neodesha, and untold
millions of barrels are below the sur-
face, upon which not one dollar can
be realized owing to the situation In-
dicated above. Although Neodesha is
within 165 miles of Kansas City and
the nearest Eastern oil fields is over*
600 miles from that point, the producer
of oil at Neodesha would have to give
the Kansas City consumers the oil
and the barrel and pay him. G cents
in money in order to meet.the prices at
which the Standard Oil company sells
the Eastern product in Kansas City.—
Neodesha Register.
And here we are in Wichit#, selling
bonds and thereby mortgaging poster-
ity, to get "honest money" to dig holes
In tho ground for oil, and when we get
it, whafr good will it be to us? Just
to run ^way and ruin the productive-
ness of tli^ soil as it does at Neodesha,
that is all, and be a damage rather than
a blessing.
We see no way of doing away.with
discrimination in freight rates, except
In government ownership of railways.
Then we can send a barrel of oil Or
salt as cheaply as Vanderbilt or Rock-
efeller.
The postoflice is in tho hands of the
government and the humblest citizen
cai, get a letter to its destination just
as cheaply as the Standard Oil com-
pany. The postoffice Is the most In-
tricate and gigantic business in all
America; yet the system is managed
with the least possible friction and
gives the people the cheapest and most
reliable service in existence.
Wo can see no reasons why the gov-
ernment should not be the common-
carrying business of the nation.
It is nonsense to talk about Wichita
or any other interior city, ever being
built by establishing remunerative in-
dustries of any kind, so long as these
industries aro at the mercies of rail-
road corporations that dictate the terms
upon which*wo are to trade with the
outside world.
The railroad corporations in this
country build up or destroy cities at
will, and whenever it suits their pur-
pose, they do not hesitate to kill, muti-
late or destroy.
The only way to prosperity in Kan-
sas Ilea in government ownership of
railroads.—Commoner.
Buying a Title.
Jay Gould's daughter Is going to buy
herself a French count. Ho comes high
but she must have him. She can afford
to pay $15,000,000 for a title, although
her French count is higher priced than
P. Huntington's daughter's German
prince, who only cost $10,000,000. Poor
girls, their riches are often their mis-
fortune, for instead of marrying honest
men who love them for themselves
those girls get caught by fortune hunt-
ers with titles, and the happiness that
^en the poorest peasants enjoy are
denied the women of millions whose
wealth is spent in purchasing and main-
taining some titled rakes, and cruelty
and misery brings years of misery to
the women who fold them««lves.—Tho
Age. Chicago.
shy lor k vs. Saphead.
Shylock—Say, Sappy, let me suggest
to you a business proposition. Suppose
you give yourself no uneasiness in the
future about what you are going to eat,
and whatever you produce you turn
over to me. Then, whenever you want
anything to fill your stomach you will
know where you can get it.
Sappy I dunno. Will I git anything
for what I Jet you have?
Shy.—Oh. I expect you will liavO to
have something for it—enough, prob-
ably, to cover the oxpense (ft cartage
and wear and tear. 9
Sap.—What good will it do me to do
that?
Shy.—Why, you will have the assur-
ance that*your rations are on a solid
basis. I will conduct a commissary and
you can go out of the business.
Sap.—What will it cost mfi?
Shy.—Not Tery much. I will loan
you whatever you want and charge you
10 per cent and you can pay me In
conynoditles as fast as you produce
them.
Sap.—1 don't see anything in i^ for
me.
Shy.—You don't. Why, man, don't
you believe In elasticity? Just see!
Whenever you have a surplus I will
call it in and whenever there is a scar-
city I will put it out. I Just believe It
will be the making of you. It has the
indorsement of all t!fe best financiers.
It is called the "Baltimore plan."
Sap.—Let me see. I loan to you in the
first place for about nothing and bor-
row back for 10 per cent.. That's a los-
ing game, hain't it?
Shy.—Oh. no. 1 •will have to pay
taxes; besides. I will add stability to the
business. 1 will deal with you as I deal
with evgrybody else, and you*certain!y
ought to he willing to allow me some-
thing for serving as a public brtiefac-
tor; for carrying the burdens and re-
sponsibilities of distribution and for
serving as a check agalnsj a dearth or
a redundancy of food supplies. •
Sap.^-lt sounds pretyy nice, ! believe
I will do ft. (Exit Saphead).
II.
Sap.—1 don't like the way this thing
is workln'. •
Shy.—Why so?
Sap. Well, It's this ww. I draw out
so much but 1 have to takfl back more'n
I draw out. There's more going back
than ever comes out.
Shy.—Well, what of it? •
Sap.—Why, it's only a question of
time when you'll clean me up.
Shy.—I guess not. You must econ-
omize and work harder and produce
more. Even If it's as bad as you say,
you don't expect nip to furnish you pro-
visions for nothing. That's anarchy.
Sap.- But I want out of this. I want
to handle my own stuff.
Shy.—Why, Sappy, I am surprised at
you. I had supposed you would be con-
tented when you had nothing to both-
er your head about but work. But here
you are with a lot of wild and visionary
notions that are absolutely impractic-
able. The idea of producing and Issu-
ing to yourself and controlling your
own victuals is preposterous. Look at
Argentine! 1 am a philanthropist and
a public necessity. The fact that you
patronize me proves that. You ought
to rejoice that you know whore to go
when you are hungry. I should have
absolute control of your "chuck" in or-
der to ke«p it at a parity with all other
"chuck." You are not so much inter-
ested in quantity as you are in quality.
You should not desire to possess so
much as to make it worthless. The
value of your feed should be equal to all
other feed, pie, sorghum and squash
always convertible into each other. By
any other system there would be danger
of a slump to a basis of degraded and
debased material that would leave a
bad taste in your mouth.
Sap.-^lt may be. I'fl try It again.
I^et jno have some more of that sow-
belly and another sack of meal.
Shy.—I can't do it. *
Sap.—You can't? •
Shy.—No. We have retired part of
our circulation. I have orders from
headquarters to draw up on the puck-
ering strings till confidence is restored.
That isn't all; you are eating too much
meal—so much that there Is danger of
driving all the doughnuts and fried
cakes out of circulation.
Sap.—Well, I don't know what to do.
Shy.—I can tell you. Hard work Is
the* best cure for hard times. Just
dig right into It and never look up.
Don't bother your head about questions
that should be left to those who have
made them a study. You are not com-
petent. You hare nothing to show for
the success of your Mieories. I have.
(Exit ifhppy).
IJI.
Shy.—What's the matter, Sappy?
Sap.—I ^ would like to know what
hain't the matter. In the first place I
am suffering for something to eat, and
I have declared war on this "Baltimore
plan." I want to abolish It. I believe
you said it was elastic, like*"inje" rub*
ber; that it would give and stretch and
then dry up—stretch when you want to"
stuff a man and draw up when you want
t<5 take ofT his feed. Now, it hain't
working that way. So far, I have done
all the stretching and I believe I am
tho only one where the dfawing-up
business is gettin' in its work. Their
hain't any elastlcism in it. Hash is too
scarce. There is got to be more of it in
circulation. t
Shy.—It isn't scarce. We have got
dead Loads of it, and if you#*will ji-st
hold up a bit and not frighten capital
with your appetite you will get an op-
portunity to fill up.
Sap.—But I must have something
now.
Shy.—I see that we will have to in-
crease the United States army. There
is no reasoning with j'ou.
Sap.—An empty stomach has no rea-
son and it don't know Vhatefcar is..
Look out!
Press dispatch: Last night, about
dark, Shylock was raided by one Sap
head, who socmed to be thirsting for
carnage, and at this writing the doctor?
have not been able to find all tho olcccs,
Saphead is known as a desperate an-
archist.—Leroy Miller, in Farmer's
Tribune.
FANNY DAVENPORT.
WRITES OF SARDOU'S LOVE-
TORTURED HEROINE.
Never, HU Says, In the History of the
flay, lias Such n Many-Sided Character
a% Ulsmonda Ileen Flaced on the
Stage.
misses a league meeting when he can
find time to attend one. A league meetr
lng is a positive feast for Mr. Hoyt. The
best feature about him. In this respect,
Is his inimitable manner of telling fun-
ny stories about old-time players In
Charleston, N. If. Recently he almost
persuaded Gus Schmelz, .of Washing-
ton, Into signing an amateur. Dlgby
Bell and De Wolf Hopper are known in
every base ball grand stand on the cir-
cu't* The giants are their pets, but
they can enjoy a game no matter where
played or by whom. They are earnest
"rooters" and applaud vigorously, but
In a* dignified manner. Their friends
among base ball folks include every
prominent man In that line. Bell and
Hopper never forget to ring In a "gag"
about their favorite sport when on the
stage. Louis Harrison, Dlxey and Ed-
die Foy are mild cranks. Richard Mans-s
.field goes to see a game now and then,
btpt he prefers cricket ot foot ball, con-
sidering the last mentioned as the most
manly of the three sports. There ar#
many prominent member? of the pro-
fession who dearly love a good prize
fight, when it is to a finish, but who
would not care to be as well advertised
as lovers of "scraps" as they do in the
matter of base ball. .
DOROTHY SH£RROD.
A C lev
iff Ingenue With a Wealth
of Accomplishments.
One of the brightest ingenues of the
stage of to-day is Miss Dorothy Sher-
rod, of the Murphy-Canfield company.
In "Alimony." Miss Sherrod Is a com-
DECLARE THE MO NEY ISSUE
Populist Leaders iNsue an Appeal
1'lck l-'p the (iauntlet.
The Populist members of the senate
and house have Issued the following
address to the members of the Peo-
ple's party:
"As early as 1865-60 a conspiracy
was entered into between the gold
gamblers of Europe and America to
accomplish the following purposes:
"To fasten upon the people of the
United States the burdens of perpetual
debt; to destroy the greenbacks which
had brought us safely through the per-
ils of war; to strike down silver as a
money metal; to deny to the people the
use of federal paper and silver, the
two independent sources of money
supply guaranteed by the constitution;
to fasten upon the country the single
gold standard T f Great Britain, and
to delegate to thousands of banking
corporations, organized for private
gain, the sovereign control for all
time over the issue and volume of all
supplemental paper currency. Thus
thoy doubled the demands for gold,
forced upon the country an appreciat-
ing gold standard, entailing an indefi-
nite period of falling prices} robbed
enterprise of its just profits, con-
demned labor to Idleness? and confis-
cated the property of debtors.
For nearly thirty years these con-
spiracies have #kept the people quar-
reling over less important matters,
while they have pursued with unre-
lenting zeal their one central purpose.
At the present moment every device
.of treachery, every resource of state-
craft, and ev%ry artifice known to the
secret cabals oP the International gold
ring are being made use of to deal a
death b'low to the prosperity of the
country and the financial and commer-
cial independence of* this country.
They seek to accomplish ^eir fell pur-
pose before the blow can be averted
through the ballot. Their plans have
been long matured and their line of ac-
tion is fully chosen. They address
themselves to the one subject—the*
money question—In all its breadth
and magnitude. This brings the people
•fa£e to face with a perilous issue,
which calls for immediate ami untied
action on tho part of the people.
Every behest of patriotism requires
that we shall at once meet the Issue
and accept the challenge so defiantly
offered. •
"To falter now is to invite disastfous
failure. We earnestly urge the Pop-*
uysts throughout the country to con-
centrate their entire force and energy
upon the tremendous contest presented
and thus meet the enemy upon his
chosen line#of battle. Invito the aid
and co-operatioi of all persons who
favor tho immediate ^ree coin rife e of
silver at the ratio of 16 to 1; the issue
of all paper money by the general gov-
ernment without the Intervention of
banks of Issue, and who are opposed
to the issue of Interest-bearing gov-
ernment bontfe in time of peace. In a
word, to extend the hand of fellowship
to all who agree with you upon tho
money question, which is certainly the
mightiest and most fundamental con-
troversy evolved during the present
century."
The above is signed by Lafe Pence, O.
M. Kem, T. J. Hudson. William Baker,
W. A. McKeighan, William V. Allen,
John Davis, W. A. Harris, Jerry
Simpson, John C. Bell, James H. Kyle,
H. E. Boen. H. E. Taubeneck, J. H.
Turner and J. B. Weaver.
T IS PROBABLE
that Victorien Sar-
dou never sketched
i heroine of so
many moods and
passions as charac-
terize "Glsmonda."
^ With almost every,
turn of the kaleldo-
— gcope of her nature
i new phase Is pre-
lented—always im-
■perious, self-willed
and defiant—Just such a sovereign as
one miffht well Imagine adorned the
court of Athens, at thaP Medieval
period when it was a°plcturesque mlx
ture it feudal and Byzantine rule.
As the duchess, as the wpman, as the
distracted mother, as the lover,
as the avenger — In all these
phases *ls she marvelously por-
rayed. We first see her as the Duchess
of Athens, floating gracefully upon fite
wave of flattery and adulation; pleased
with herself, haughty and condescend-
ing. Then as the mother,almost crazed
with the seeming loss of her darling
child, and offering for his rescue what
to her is the greatest of all gifts—her-
self and her duchy. *
It is here that she appears proud to a
fault, permitting no one to differ with
her nor contradict her opinions. Fond
of her child. Fancy free, yet longing,
looking for a mate. A hero worshiper.
How eagerly she seeks to flnd in her
child's deliverer her girlhood's love,
Zaccarla.who has been reared in a Mos-
lem court, and how g^at the disap-
pointment when, with bated breath, she
si^p clasping her young heir to her
heart, asks that his deliverer be
brought before her and sees tfiat It is
not Zaccaria, but a bleeding, stagger-
#ing, rough hireling.
Instantly she resolves that to keep'
her vow Is impossible, but how to es-
cape It? The church shall free her as It
has others—it must. She, duchess of
Athens, nofc even heaven itself can op-
pose her will, and so she goes to a mon-
astic retreat to await the decision of his
holiness. Here she is humble In her
piety until she learns of the pope's re-
fusal to absolve her from her vow, be-
cause it was sworn on the cross, when
she is suddenly transformed from jf
saint into a demon, uttering passionate
curses upon the church, the bishop and
the world in general. Next, she is dis-
closed as a love-tortured being, un-
bridled in her passion, giving .even her
honor to save her name and rank j had, however, previously shown
when the offer of money,* jewels, titles ( marked clpverficss as Dixie Stiles in the
and her prettiest maid of honor are i same play. Bossy, however, was taking
spurned by this hireling. • He only re- j up the work of another,/or which a per-
plles, "No, no, no," but when face to son seldom receives full credit. In Dil-
face with him Glsmonda surveys the lie, in "Alimony." howevv, Miss Sher-
man and something whispers to her rod has a part entirely new—%ne which
that although he is a slave yet he ts she has created, and the one by which
different to others about her, frank, she will be remembered. Full of every-
gentle, unselfish, and, whils listening i thing that goes to make the popular In-
to his past love and worship for her genue, she has the ambition gf a dozen
she is deeply moved and when he tells j of the average comediennes. She is
her 'tis only the woman he wants, and | ceaseless in her studies oft* and un-
tiring in her work on the stage. In
every day life she Is Mrs. Tim Murphy.
A brother of Walter Sanger, the class
B star.William F., has decided to race
in* that division this season. At pres-
ent he is negotiating with a large firm
and will probably sign a contract with-
in a short time. •
THE DIAMOND.
Buck Ewing says be will surely play
on first for the reds this year.
Tony Mullnne Is looking for a chance
with a national or minor league team.
Patsy Flaherty, on third for Louis-
ville part of last season^has signed with
Memphis. •
Martin Duke and Billy Earle, who
played In the Southern league, will be
f the Minneapolis battery.
(I I The late "King" Kelly never had a
fine registered against liim at National
league headquarters.
Theodore Breitensteln, the auburn-
haired German twirler of the Browns,
says this will be his record-making year.
, Buckenberger says that he will keep
the sevfrr^ pitchers he has under con-*
.tract for St. Louis and give them all
fair trials.
Catcher Roblnsgn has signed for 1895
with the Baltimore club. He is the first
of the pennant winners to sign for this
; year. •
President Byrne has signed Pitcher
Daub and Outfielder Treadway. These
make thirteen out of a total of twenty-
one Brooklynites signed.
Paul Hines wants to begin life over
a^aln. He has made application for «-
MISS DOROTHY SHERftOD.
binatlon seldem found. A Southern girl,
she has all the coquetry of the South,
the get-up-and-get of the North, and the
chic of the French school. She has well
won her way to her present position.
Her first great success was as Bossy, in
"The Texas Steer," in which part She
succeeded the late Floqp Walsh. HJia
DAVENPORT AS GISMONDA.
«ho alone, GlsmomV* quick to see her ^ 'a' on F'ndlay, Ohio, team, a semi-
professlonal organization.
Old-time Ab Dalrymple is hanging on
tenaciously. Last season he was In tho
western league and this season he drops
back a peg to the Southern league.
Pitcher Fred LTnderwood, recently
released by the Brooklyns, has signed
hf^nce for release from a life with
nferlor, promises to pay his price for
ler freedom and tells him she will seek
This is one of the grandest scenes
">f human passion ever penned by Sar-
3ou, I think, a masterpiece. Behold
lismonda in a new role! Now she
omes as the avenger. Her own life Bockford, 111., team. It Is said
he will receive a fancy price for his
services*
founts as naught In her frenzy to
he hireling she has learned to adore,
itid. to av#nge the would-be murderer
f her child. She has loved this man
(ieulns With the rittshurgs.
and, as dawn is breaking, leaves his ^rank Genius, the St. Louis boy wty>
hut, her faithful nurse attending her. wear a Pittsburg uniform this sea-
vvhen voices and steps are heard below ®°n' is confident he will be able to hold
un the hill. Fearing to be seen she con- ,h's ,own, ,n N tlonal league company,
oeals herself and then /ollows a scene ®en'ns Is an outfielder, but In case of
of love, hate, vengeance, and at last an emergeney he can play an Infleld
rder, one crowding so quickly on the P°8jtlon •«« well as the tiext. He was
>t|* r that the audience hold their i U'llh Mftnager Watkins1 Sioux City
breath In expectation and suspense. c"amPions last season, and classed as
Gismcnda is now the tiger, and she one of the*hardest hitting and best
fiercely springs upon him whojias plot- outflelders In the Western league. Gsti-
ted against her child and lover. Zae- •' *
caria falls, and she standi an "aveng-
We will meet the enemy on our own
line of battle—not upon "his choson
line." We have forced the issue, and
will torce the light.
lng angel." Lastly, comes the woman 1
— lovlng,__trustlng,__sacrlflclng, hutnV
Ung herself to tl« dust. Such self:
abnegation I never before dreamed of—
a life of self-sacrlflce would be an easier
atonement, -for, after being lived
awhile, it would become as second j
nature. But for a haughty, proud, vain
woman to sacrifice all to save her title
and rank—making confessions, not to
her priest alone, but In the presence of
all the people, lovers, vassals, and
strangers should redeem her If sftc were
a devil, and Glsmonda, after all, ia
only a woman. This is perhaps the
greatest climax ever represented upon
the sta««\ and I await with the liveliest
anticipation the verdict of the American
public on this marvelous creation.
FANNY DAVENPORT.
ACTORS FOND OF BASEBALL.
Stage Lights Who Have Earned RepnU-
tlons as "Rootem" or "Cranks."
In no walk of life has base ball more
ardent friends and supporters than in
the theatrical business. Some of the
most noted ball cranks, outside Gen.
Dixon, "Jedge" Cullom and Edward
Everett Bell, are among the stage folks.
An Inveterate crank and base ball talk-
er Is "Charley" Hoyt, the writer of
farces. Hoyt makes a business of see-
ing a ball game whenever he can and
of fastening with avidity on any unfor-
tunate base ball man that comes his
way. He has a few theories which star-
tle the average "student." and never
FRANK GENINS.
Ins has wintered In St. Louis, and Is la
good shape for the coming season.
Clarke the Winner.
W . G. Clarke, of Altoona. proved the
winner of a sweepstake pigeon shoot
fifty birds each, 150 a corner, which
took place under the auspices of the
Herron Hill Gun Club, at Pittsburg,
Pa. He killed forty-nine birds. h. b!
Mohler and W. f.. King followed with
46 each, and A. H. King and Besslnasr
with 45 each.
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