Noble County Sentinel. (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1899 Page: 3 of 8
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THE FOUNDLING.
"Auntie," said pretty Elsie May?
wood, "Arthur has something to ask
you, and I hope you will be pleased."
"Very well, darling," said her aunt,
"go and tell him I will be there in a
few minutes. But you will not be
offended, dear, if I ask you something
first. Elsie, do you love him?"
"Of course I love him, auntie. Do
you think I would marry him i£ I did
not?"
"Then, if you are still of the same
mind after you have heard what 1 have
to tell you, I shall give my consent."
She then entered the parlor.
Arthur Glidden, the young man who'
was waiting there, was the son of the
richest man in the place. His face,
though not handsome,hau .1 look which
made one trust him. He had suc-
ceeded in winning the love of Elsie,
and now he had come to ask Miss
Maywood to give her consent to their
marriage. He was a noble young fel-
low and stated his case most eloquent-
ly. Indeed, it would have taken a
harder-hearted person than Miss May-
wood to refuse him. When he had
finished she said:
"If you are still of the same mind
after hearing what I have to say to-
night, I will give my consent gladly."
Going to the door, she called Elsie,
who had been vaguely wondering what
ier aunt's words meant.
"Auntie can't be feeling well," she
was saying to herself, "or she would
never talk so."
Just then she heard her aunt call
her, so she entered the parlor.
"Elsie, sit here by me, dear," said
Arthur.
"Yes, do, Elsie," said her aunt, "for
I have a long story to tell you, and
you would get tired standing. ' ^0
Blsie Bat down beside Arthur on the
sofa, and Miss Maywood commenced:
"In the first place, children," she said,
"let me tell you that Elsie is not my
niece at all, but "
Elsie Jumped from the sofa. "Aun-
tie!" she exclaimed.
"I know, dear," said Miss Maywood.
"No doubt you think me crazy, but I
assure you I am perfectly sane."
Elsie sank back on her sofa, and
Miss Maywood continued: "It was a
dark, stormy night, just eighteen years
ago; I was sitting before the fire
thinking. My thoughts were not
pleasant ones, for just three years ago
that night was to have been my wed-
ding night. But again the same old
story; we quarreled over a trifle and
parted for life. The wind seemed to
sympathize with me, for it howled and
moaned in such a dismal manner that
I could not help feeling thankful that
I had a roof over my head this dreary
night, and hoped there was no one out
in the storm. As if in answer to my
thoughts, the door bell rang, and as
Jane was in bed I answered It myself.
On opening the door I saw before me a
the lining, but in dSing so a scrap of
paper tucHed up under the rim caught
her eye. She pulled it out and glanced
over the contents.
It was the other half of the note that
bad been found in the basket the night
it was brought. The note was from
Miss Maywood's former lover, saying
that the child was his and asking iier
to care for it for the old love's sake, as
he was dying and had no relatives to
send it to.
So the mystery w'as solved, and you
will not find a happier couple than Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Glidden.—Boston
Post.
THE DUTIES OF A WHIP.
OLD-TIME DOCTORS.
The Dutch West India company,
which colonized the island of Manhat-
tan, enjoined upon the colonists to
support a minister and a schoolmas-
ter. and also to appoint Zleckentroos-
ters (comforters of the sick). Some-
times the offices of pedagogue and
"comforter" were united in one per-
son, he being "pious, well qualified and
diligent." Usually the comforter of
the sick was a safer attendant than
the doctor in those days, whose con-
ception of disease and remedies was a
confused theory of humors, sympathet-
ica and antagonistlcs.
"The whole ground of physic," says
a medical authority of 1657, "is com-
prehended in these two words, sym-
pathy and antipathy, 'lhc one cures
by strengthening the parts of the body
affected, the other by resisting the
malady afflicting."
Certain simples and compounds,witn
a few mineral remedies, were made
up into unguents, plasters, liniments,
pills, boluses and decoctions. Armed
with these, and with herbs garnered at
certain phases of the moon or conjunc-
tions of the planets, and above all with
the lancet, the seventeenth century
doctors waged war with disease, i ney
had no intelligent conception of the
causes or processes of disease, nor
of the true action of drugs; yet they
thought they cured disease. No won-
der the Dutch of New York appointed
"comforters of the sick!'
The author of an essay entitled "The
Doctor in Old New York, published in
the "Half-Moon Papers," himself a
physician, says that the remedies of
the most eminent physician of his time
in Europe, whose patients were Henry
IV. and Louis XIII. of France, and
James I. and Charles I. of England,
were calomel, sugar of lead, pulver-
ized human bones, raspings of an un-
buried human skull and a balsam of
bat3.
We sneer at the remedies of Chinese
doctors, whose error is that they stop-
ped learning three hundred years ago,
whereas their English brethren went
on from one medical discovery to an-
other, and often set aside the teach-
ings which were twenty years old as
obsolete.
Doubtless the personality of these
•loctors had much more to do with
lieir success, whatever it was, than
their practice had. They sought to
make themselves impressive; they
carried gold headed canes and wore
wigs with two or three pigtails—so
elaborately dressed that they went
hatless to call on their patients.
A silk coat and stociungs, sliver
buckles and a muff were essential to
a well-dressed doctor of the seven-
teenth century. "Up to the days of
Charles II. he made hi3 visits on horse-
back, riding sideways, after the fash-
ion of women; but after that time he
rode in his coach, drawn by two, and
sometimes four, or even six hor&es.
Youth's Companion.
IT WAS THE OTHER HALF OF THE
NOTE.
man with a large basket on his arm.
He sat the basket down inside the door
and said: "l'he letter will explain ev-
erything, ma'am.' He then turned
quickly, ran down the steps and- was
lost to sight in the darkness.
"It all happened in less time than it
takes to tell, and I was so surprised I
hardly knew what to do. I picked up
the basket, which was rather heavy,
carried it into the dining room and
set it on the table. As 1 did so there
issued from it a feeble wail, like that
of an infant. I ran for Jane to come,
and open it, for 1 would not dare, as
my nerves were all unstrung. She
came, and together we opened the bas-
ket. There, nestling cozily, was the
sweetest little baby of perhaps six
months. She opened her big blue eyes
and smiled up at me. ."rom that mo-
ment I loved the child and decided to
Veep her. In the bottom of the basket
we found a scrap of paper with the
words: 'You will not be expected to
keep the child for nothing, for a re-
mittance will be sent you every
month.' We searched the basket for
the letter that the man had spoken
about, but we could not find it, and
concluded he must have meant the
note, though that did not explain much
to be sure. That child was you, Elsie,
and my only regret is that I do not
know who your parents were. I
knew your name was Elsie, because it
was worked in all your clothes and—"
"Have you changed your mind. Ar-
thur?" It was Elsie who had spoken.
All during the time her aunt.wa3 talk-
ing she had been as one stricken
dumb, and now she turned to Arthur
with a sarcastic look on her fine face.
"Changed my mind?" he echoed. "No;
a thousand times, no. If anything,
Elsie, I love you more."
"Thank God,' she murmured, as he
clasped her In his arms. . • •
One day, about a year afler Arthur
and Elsie were married, Elsie, who
was exploring the attic, came across
an old market basket. Thinking It
was wMthleis, she started to tear out
Power of tli«* Madstone.
An American surgeon, Mr. C. F.
Turner, of Sniekersville, has just
bought for over $500 a madstone that
appears to possess some remarkable
qualities. The stone was brought from
Europe—probably England—136 years
ago. It is about the size of a shilling,
and has the appearance of a sandstone,
but is smoother and somewhat porous.
The stone is oval-shaped and has a
dark-brown color. It is claimed by
those who have witnessed the power
of the madstone that it is a certain
cure for all bites of mad dogs and
poisonous reptiles, and It is positively
asserted that It has never yet failed
to perform its functions if the patient
reaches it in time. One well-authen-
ticated case is given where two people
were bitten about the same time by
the same dog. One of the victims was
a firm believer In the efficacy of the
stone, had it applied to the wound, and
never thereafter suffered any evil ef-
fects. The other, having no faith in
the stone ' and its much-talked-of
power, refused- to go to it, and soon
afterward died in agony from hydro-
phobia.
11U Influence Is Greater Thtln That of
Most Ctthtnct Ministers.
There is nothing more curious in
English politics than the position of a
successful whip, says the London Spec-
tator. He is as completely unrecog-
nized by the constitution as the cab-
inet is and is usually paid either as
"patronage secretary to the treasury
or through some sinecure office, but he
Is, when efficient, one of the most im-
portant wheels in the political ma-
chine. He writes no reports; he ex-
ercises 110 patronage of any moment,
he is responsible for no measure, and
he is rarely one of the speakers re-
lied on by the government. The pub-,
lie seldom knows anything about him,
and he is, as a rule, only criticised in
the newspapers when be has made a
blunder; but he has more influence In
shaping the internal policy of the
country than any cabinet minister
outside the two or three who really
rule. He is the true "power behind
the throne," anil many a project has
been baffled, many a grand programme
drawn up, because a whip has shaken
his head or has urged that on such and
such a matter "something must be
done."
His business is no* merely, as the
public imagines, to warn members of
important divisions, and so keep the
party together and enable business to
get on, or even, as Sir William Hay-
ter once defined It, to conciliate the
real masters by persuasive words,
small concessions, pleasant arrange-
ments, or whispered promises of polit-
ical or social advancement. He per-
forms those functions, it is true, and is
lucky if in performing them he does
not become something of a cynic, and
doubtful of the perfectibility of hu-
man nature; but he has a higher func-
tion than that. It is his business to
gather up in intimate conversations
the true sense of the house of com-
mons, and especially of his own party
in it, to understand why a.proposal
will not "go down," to detect the half-
formulated wish of a majority, to pen-
etrate, in fact,to tnat inner wall which
so often controls the conscious will,
and which is possessed not only by
most strong Individuals, but by all
great corporations. He confides his
opinion to the cabinet, and especially
to the premier, and unless the head of
her majesty's government is a man of
very resolute and impendent judg-
ment, or the cabinet possesses within
itself a born whip, his report has a
greater weight than almost any speech
or even vote. The first contingency,
which practically reduces the use of
the whip to the smaller business of
legislation, is not, however, so com-
mon as one would expect, the strong
premier being often aware that he is
a little out of touch with the average
members, and sometimes distrusting
his own social knowledge. Both
Sir Robert Peel and Lord John
Russell are gald to have felt a cer-
tain deficiency In this latter respect,
akin, perhaps, to Lord Melbourne's,
who, man of the world as he was,
could not comprehend why members
cared so much about the things they
asked for. The second contingency is
less frequent, but it occurs. Lord
Palmerston, for example, always put
in the cabinet, if he could, Mr. Ver-
non Smith, a man whom the public,
and in a lesser degree the house, con-
sidered a well-dressed fribble. He was
not a fribble, by any means, but a
cool-headed, observant man of the
world, with a weak will, but possessed
of a power which Lord Palmerston,
who understood men, had early de-
tected. He had some faculty in him,
probably based on sympathy with the
average political mind, which enabled
him to tell almost unerringly what
the house of commons was thinking
and would think, and his chief trusted,
and, after his manner, nobly repaid,
his friend's acumen. In the absence
of such a man within the cabinet, a
good whip who can be trusted to know
in a crisis what the majority think,
what Is wanted, possible or impossible
—the house at this moment wants im-
possible, because contradictory, things
in China—is invaluable, and wields a
secret authority which has often seri-
ous effects upon the course of events.
CRIME OF CHIMES.
STORY DEMONETIZATION
OF SILVER.
Told by I*. llcnjiimln Andrews—ft
stantlatos All Claims That Have
Been Made—Criminals May Y«
Brought to tliv Bar of Public J'
8ub-
Kvtr
dealt with it—how It was palmed upon
congress, the subject has been fre-
quently dealt with already. The dupes
who afterwards attempted to defend it.
utterly failed and are dead; the men
who worked the trick are some of them
still living and may yet be named and
impeached.
E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS.
BATTLE HYMN OF THE EMPIRE.
F. 111 ployeH of the Kataer.
There are 1.500 people upon the Ger-
man emperor's list of employes, in-
cluding 350 women cervants, who are
engaged in looking after the twenty-
two royal palaces and castles that be-
long to the crown. Their wages are
small. The women receive not more
than $12.50 per month, and the men-
servants from $15 to $25 a month.
Europe'* Wars.
Turkey has been engaged In war 38
years of the present century—consid-
erably more than Sine-third of the
time. Spain comes next, with 31 years
of war; France has had 27 years; Rus-
sia. 24; Italy, 23; Great Britain, 21;
Austria, 17; Holland, 14; Germany, 13;
Sweden. 10; Portugal, 10, and Den-
mark, 9.
Ilow rekln
The outer great
about twenty-seven miles in circum- j
ference. It was built centuries ago of
mud and bricks. Each brick is as big
as a family Bible, and the interstices j
are filled up with mud and stones. The j
whole lias long settled into a solid
cement. Save for some damage done
in one or two quarters by recent floods,
this great wall is still, intact. The
gates number thirteen. They are in-
significant, though finely arched, being
only twenty feet high. At night they
are closed with great doors sheathed
with iron, and no one can pass in or
out.
* ood Souvenir.
It Is a matter for congratulation that
the Reina Mercedes, formerly of the
Spanish navy, has reached this coun-
try in safety. She will be an interest-
ing, ornamental and useful souvenir
of certain stirring events.
Kept Moving*
Agulnaido may have wept
didn't stop to do it
When the civil war ended, the federal
debt was $2,800,000,000; the debts of
the various suites, townships and mu-
nicipalities about $1,400,000,000; of rail-
ways and canals about $11,500,000,000,
and of other corporations about $300,-
000,000; together about $7,000,000,000.
Between a fourth and a third of this
sum was owing to investors in Europe,
who had lent or advanced it, in paper
dollars, which cost them on the aver-
age about half a dollar each in gold or
silver coins. An equal proportion had
been advanced by American capitalists
on similar terms. The balance was ad-
vanced before the war, or else before
the paper currency depreciated, and
was therefore lent in coins, or their
equivalent. Leaving this portion of the
dtebt out of view, it is probably near the
mark to say that at the close of the
civil war there were owing nearly
$5,000,000,000, which cost the lenders
(Europeans and Americans), about half
that sum in coins. The whole of this
debt was payable, under the act of
February 25, 1862, in greenbacks; the
Interest on.a portion of it was payable
in coins of gold or silver. The first
move of the lenders after the war
closed was to open a newspaper war
upon the paper money which they had
themselves lent to the government.
The greenbacks, it was contended, were
"dishonest" dollars; indeed, not really
dollars at all, only worthless, disrep-
utable rags, a disgrace to civilization,
disseminators of fraud and disease, etc.
This question was fought in the presi-
dential campaign of 1868, in which, by
referring to the newspapers of the day.
it will be seen that the undersigned
bore no inactive part. As the election
day approached every sign indicated
the triumph of Mr. Seymour, the cham-
pion of greenbacks, and the defeat of
General Grant, the champion of coins.
All of a sudden, and without a note of
warning, the then trusted organ of the
Democratic party, to-wlt, the New York
World, edited by Manton Marble, but
owned, a-j it was commonly believed,
by August Belmont, hauled down Its
llag, deserted the ticket on the eve of
the election, and left nearly two mil-
lion voters to the effects of treachery,
panic and disorder. The first fruit of
this nefarious transaction was the
passage of a so-called 'Credit Strength-
ening Act," dieted March 18, 1869, by
which the United States government
pledged itself to pay the principal, as
well as the interest, of its paper debt,
in gold or silver coins. In other words,
without any consideration whatever, it
undertook to pay for every paper dol-
lar which it had borrowed, a gold or
silver dollar, of the long established
weight and fineness, and by this and
its subsequent action, it compelled all
indebted persons and corporations to
do the like. Having by these means se-
cured the payment of a whole metal
dollar for each half of a metal dollar
advanced to the government, thus
clearing cent-per-cent profit at a sin-
gle bound, the conspirators next at-
tempted to double the value or pur-
chasing power of such metal dollars,
by means of destroying one-half of
thi m, to-wit, the silver ones. The fol-
lowing is a brief account of their op-
erations: At that time and for several
years previously a government com-
mission had been occupied in the work
of revising and codifying the statutes
of the United States. The revision
commissioners being lawyers and not
financiers, merchants not metallur-
gists, were not familiar with the tech-
nical branches of administration;
therefore they made it a practice to
visit the executive departments and
consult with the principal officers con-
cerning the practical interpretation
and administration of tho laws. When
they reached the mint bureau Its prin-
cipal officer had already in his hands a
wall of"pekin is I proposed codification of the coinage
laws, the model for which had been
forwarded to liini by certain friends or
agents of tho Bank of Kngland in Don-
don. This new American mint code
apparently embodied alj the existing
laws on the subject; nay, it even pur-
ported to follow their very language,
and to blend them all into, an harmo-
nious whole; but such appearance was
deceptive. This deception is not
charged upon the director of the mint
(since dead), but upon the men who
prepared and placed the codification in
his hands, some of whom are still liv-
ing and who will doubtless take pleas-
ure in reading this communication.
The law (not the proposed codification)
made it the duty of the director of the
mint to receive deposits of either gold
or sliver; to coin such metal into dol-
lars—the silver ones to contain exactly
sixteen times as much metal as the
gold ones—and to return the same to
the depositor; and it declared all such
dollars to be money of the United
States and legal tenders for all'purposes
and to any amount. The public debt
was made payable under the net of
March IS, 1869, in such dollars, whether
ti silver or gold. The proposed codi-
fication (not the law) dropped the sil-
ver dollar. It did not demonetize it,
but by omitting to include It in the
various coins which tho mint director
was authorized to strike, It was ren-
dered unlawful and impracticable for
him to strike any more of them. As
to the means by which this codification
was palmed upon the director of the
mint, and afterwards—that Is to say,
Veforo the codification commissioners
("The conqueror rides glorious In
his iron car, round which submissive
hosts flow like a mighty sea."—Asiatic
E'llc.)
Mine eyes have seen the "glory of the
empire that has come; ,
I've heard its mail hosannas in the
trusts' marauding hum;
I've seen Its golden standard flaunt
above Its sullen drum.
Its might is marching on.
Chorus:
Power and glory to the empire!
(Hearken to it's hungry roar!)
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Power and glory evermore!
I've seen it in the watch fires of the
sable soldiers' camps;
I've heard it from high altars 'neath a
thousand magic lamps;
I've seen its subtle suction in the
graves of tropic swamps.
Its might is marching on.
I've
beheld its red libations and its
serried ranks of steel;
I've heard its voice of menace whilst
submissive millions kneel;
It has seized their wealth us ransom,
chained them captive to Its
wheel.
Its might is marching on.
MY NAME IS MORTGAGE.
I am the finishing touch to the home;
I am the last requirement on the farm;
You may V 'lid ever so grandly,
You may furnish ever so richly,
You may construct ever so homely,
You may live ever so poorly,
I abide with like composure with each.
Wealth does not embarrass me;
Poverty does not discourage me.
I get into correspondence
With my environments,
And composedly put In my time.
Patience is iny principal virtue;
Waiting creates my wages.
1 am the invisable man
Put Into lie house to collect.
Those who w.'ne aijd dine as guests
Do not auspcet my presence;
But I chalk my dally balance all tho
same.
I am great on the farm.
Abundant crops do not excite tile"
Nor poor ones discourage me.
1 am more industrious than the farmer,
Though he rises at dawn
And labors until night,
For l neither slumber not sleep.
No matter how poorly the farmer fares,
I always farm at a profit.
If harvests are good, 1 have my share;
If crops fall, 1 live on the land.
1 go deeper than drouth;
Hot winds do not blow me away;
Cyclones cannot uproot me;
Grasshoppers do not eat my substance,
Or chinch bugs suck out my vitality.
1 lay in the bank and laugh at the
farmer's
Calamity.
And when the appointed time comes
1 arouse myself and go forth,
Armed with the power of the law,
And swip > from the farmer his
House, liis land, his hope.
—David B. Page.
It has sounded forth a trumpet call
that meaneth no retreat;
It is sifting out its victims 'fore its
dread injunction seat.
Oh, be swift, my soul, to cheer It on;
be jubilant my feet!
Its might is marching on.
I've felt it in the thousand hints that
words cannot explain;
I've scanned it in the billowing smoke
of far Manila's plain;
I've felt it in that demon deed, the mys-
tery of the Maine.
Its might is marching on.
In the stable of .ludea Christ was born
beyond the sea,
But imperial law and judgment nailed
Him high upon a tree.
Thus "woe unto the vanquished" is
taught to you and me.
Its might is marching on.
Oh, mine eyes have seen the terror of
the empire of the "lord";
He Is auctioning off the vintage where
the treasury bonds are stored;
In his grasp are navies and armies and
a scientific, sword.
His might is marching on.
—Richard Thorland, Lb. D.
POINTS FROM THE PRESS,
With a great deal of patience and
perseverence a hog has been taught to
play seven-up, and even to turn the
knave from the bottom of the deck.
So why despair of teaching llie people
how to vote?—Southern Mercury.
There's a new tale of Kansas pros-
perity to unfurl this week, gents. The
crime of April 29 consisted in the trust
closing a linseed oil mill at Topeka,
Kan., and tossing a number of work-
ing mules out on their uppers. This
crime pressing so closely upon the heels
of Hie pleasing function of closing the
Topeka starch mill must certainly give
the "business men" of Topeka a bad
quarter of an hour. Cheer up, work-
ers and business men of Topeka!
Aguinaldo is about to surrender, and
It is reported that Mexico is going to
the gold basis. And what more could
you ask for than that? It's what you
vote for.—Appeal to Reason.
Guarded.
Deserted.
"I am wedded to art," said Parley,
■Well," said Crltlcufl, gazing at Par-
ley's picture, "I'd get a divorce if I
were you. She has deserted you."—
Tit-Bits."
She NllK* Him.
"It appears that Tompkins married
a tartar. rhat's a horse on Tomp-
kins." "It's certainly a steady nag."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
but he
American imperialists have chosen
for themselves a remarkably appro-
priate name. They want to be called
"loyalists." By all means let them be
gratified. Tho same designation was
assumed during the American revolu-
tion by the torles.—1The Public.
The administration thinks Atkinson
is a traitor, but It is not going to do
anything about it. The administration
has troops in the field proceeding
against the Western Federation mi-
ners. It is a greater crime in the eyes
of McKlnloy to be a union man than
a traitor.—Appeal to Reason.
I n J nit leu of Fulling I' rill'*.
Palling prices work outrageous in-
justice. Appalling is the moral wrong
which the fall of prices since 1873 has
.wrought. Think of all those time con-
tracts, which form so prominent a
feature of modern business. Probably
70 per cent of the world's commercial
transactions are based on some sort of
deferred payment or credit. It is esti-
mated that a trillion and a half dollars'
worth of these deferred payments are
outstanding at this time. Appreciat-
ing money is occasioning injustice in
case of every one of these obligations.
The business friction proceeding from
this source I mention presently; here
I hold up to view the fraud of the sys-
tem, how increase In the value of mon-
ey robs debtors. It forces every one of
them to pey more than he covenanted
to pay not more dollars, but more
value, the given number of dollars
embodying greater value at date of
payment than at date of contract. In
these days debtors must struggle hard
to be ablo to pay what they honostly
owe; a syutem which makes them pay
from 10 to 50 per cent blood money lo
devilish indeod.—Andrews.
\m to l'lfttforms.
The Washington Post, while not
often a sinner In this respect, some-
times permits its logic to run to riot
and disorder. Our contemporary has
been engaged lately In discussing
Democratic prospects and. Incidentally,
the tests of Democracy. It has pursued
this subject gracefully and persistently,
even more persistently, in fact, than it
favored the free coinage of silver some
time ago. The Post says that ac-
ceptance or indorsement of the Chi-
cago platform Is the true tost of De-
mocracy. This is true; so true, indeed,
that we are pained and surprised that
so simple a matter should have to be
reiterated every time one of the anti-
Democrats cries aloud for harmony.
When pressed, lie w ill admit that har-
mony. so far as lie is concerned, Is not
available so long as Democratic prin-
ciples remain what they are. What he
wants is the kind of harmony that will
enable him to claim to be a Democrat
and still remain an anti-Democrat;
what he desires In that everybody else
shall surrender their convictions and
sacrifice their principles in order that
he may perpetuate the delusion that he
is a Democrat, says the Atlanta Con-
stitution. Well, the Post sees what the
true test Is and announces it, which •
would be well enough if the matter
were left there; but the editor, in order
to out-Herod Herod, demands that the
heads of all the prophets shall be
brought In on the Chicago charger.
The platform of 1892 marks the last
success of delegates from Republican
states in controlling Democratic con-
ventions. The Democrats of the South
and West supported that platform and
the candidates, but when eastern con-
trol developed into Clevelandism, the
end of the party's patience was
reached. The people took the matter in
hand in the Democratic primaries in
1896 and settled the whole matter so
far as the platform was concerned; so
that when the party's representatives
assembled at Chicago, they found their
duty so clearly outlined that they could
not afford to ignore it. An overwhelm-
ing majority of the very men who had
voted for Cleveland four years pre-
viously had taken occasion to serve no-
tice on the politicians that they
wanted a clear-cut declaration. And
they got it. I.ogic Is a good thing-
win n Us head Is not bitched where its
tail ought to be.
\ O monopoly of Loyalty.
No party has a monopoly of loyalty,
and any party claiming to have makes
itself ridiculous. It is a misfortune
that the word "loyalist" should have
been applied lo the party of national
expansion. In the interest of common
fairness it ought to be eliminated from
the controversy.—Chicago Journal.
Don't weaken at this late date. Go
right on with your old expansion show .
Continue to call us disloyalists because
we believe that all men are created
equal and are endowed by their Cre-
ator with certain inalienable rights,
among which are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. We don't mind
being called disloyal to you and your
kind. We consider It a compliment to
be thus designated, when you apply
the same name to so many of the best
and greatest men of the nation. You
are only doing as your fathers did.
They called Washington. Adams
Payne and Warren disloyalists. They
called Giddings, I.ovejoy, Chase and
Sumner disloyalists. It didn't hurt us.
Go on with your Imperial denunciation.
It makes you happy and we dou't
mind it.
Dispatches continue to announce that
the various trusts are closing down the
smaller plants. That explains why the
large establishments are busy. But It
doesn't explain how the workingtnen
who are laid off indefinitely are get-
ting along.—Commonwealth,
The "dangerous classes" are those
who belittle the social problem or see
none.—Melbourne Beacon.
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