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Tecumseh Leader.
N. S. MOUNTS, Tublleher.
TECUMSEH.
OKLAHOMA
Cy Warman, author of "Sweet Marie,"
says he shall in the future write only
for his own pleasure. That, alas! ia
what he did before.
Horses hfve taken to going crazy
whenever they see a woman in bloom-
ers. Not without reason is the horse
called man's best friend.
Chicago is trying to stop basebaTl
playing on Sunday, and New Yorkers
say they intend to seal up every saloon
on Sunday. Such is reform.
Chicago papers claim that efficient
police work has caused half the crimi-
nals to leave the city. Unless she is
careful Chicago will get below the two
million limit in population.
It is now charged that a dying man
was put out of a hospital in Chicago
because he could not hand over the $10
demanded for a week's lodging. Thank
goodness none of them has yet got to
the state where it is accused of throw-
ing out the corpses that fail to hand
over a fee for embalming. That seems
to be coming, however.
The people residing in the vicinity of
Curtis, Neb., have formally repudiated
the appeals for further assistance for
them on account of the drouth of last
year. The real drouth sufferers are too
busy with their promising new crops
this year to pay any attention to
the misleading statements which a few
professional beggars are circulating.
The convicts in Sing Sing prison are
"laying for" McLaughlin, the New York
police inspector sent up for extortion.
It appears that a good many of them
were sent up under McLaughlin s re-
gime, and they have sworn to get even,
if they have to lynch the unhappy in-
spector in the prison to do it. The
threats are so numerous and so de-
termined that the prison authorities
have taken the matter up with a view
to the proper protection of the ex-in-
spector.
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An average of three Ilritish seamen
lose their lives every day by drawn in#,
and 300 British steamers and sailing
vessels are lost yearly at sea.
Parker's Ginger Tonic U popular
fo- its good work. Suffering, tired, «leepics*, ner?*
ou§ women linil nothing so Eoctblng and reviving.
California raises some big* and nota-
ble crops other than peaches and pears.
A hundred carloads of red unions, each
car containing 24,000 pounds, have late-
ly been shipped from Stockton alone at
the rate of ten or a dozen car loads o
day.
THE BANKER'S IDEA OF A "SOUND" SILVER DOLLAR.
HISTOKY REPEATED.
DRED SCOTT AND INCOME TAX
CASES ARE ANALOGOUS.
The Decision In the* Former Case De-
lighted the Holders of the Black
Slaves—The White Slaves Now the
Victims.
The old settlers of Portage County,
Wisconsin, had a reunion at Plover a
few days ago. Among those present
was Benjamin Ellis, now 82 years old,
who was a passenger on the first train
of cars run in the United States, be-
tween Boston and Lowell, sixty years
ago. Mr. Ellis was born in the State
of Main, and was in Boston when the
first experiment in railroading was
made. A track was laid around Fan-
eull Hall and a car placed on it. The
power was applied by men who turned
a crank, and he was one of them. This
was six years before the railroad from
Boston to Lowell was built.
At a recent, meeing of the French
Senate Committee on the Colonies M.
Chautemps, the Minister of Marine, be-
gan to read a bulky report on the pres-
ent condition of the colonies. At the
very first words several senators
showed signs of restlessness, and finally
one of them, bolder than the reast, said:
"Pardon me, M. le Ministre, but you
are reading an old report with which
we are well acquainted, as it was read
to us by one of your predecessoors."
Several numbers of the committee be-
gan to smile. M. Chautemps muttered
an apology and, folding up his papers,
bowed himself out.
The decision of the United States Su-
preme court, in the Dred Scott case in
1857, elated the slave holders of the
south no less than the recent decision
of the Supreme court on the income tax,
elate the plutocratic bondholders of the
east and the north.
The decision in the Dred Scott case
followed a great national political vic-
tory by the democratic party—a party
which had been the friend and advo-
cate of the doctrine of slavery.
The income tax decision follows the
political victory of the republican party
—a party which has been the friend and
advocate of plutocracy and class legis-
lation.
The advocates of slavery regarded the
decision of this high court as a final
settlement of a question which had two
sides to it.
But the decision did not settle the
question. It aroused indignation and
cemented opposition. The people dis-
trusted the patriotism and honesty of
j the members of the court—a four years'
war destroyed slavery and amended the
constitution.
The millionaires and bondholders of
the north and east may regard the in-
come tax decision as a final settlement
of the question of the protected classes
against the unprotected masses. But
it has not settled it and will not set-
tle It.
The doctrine that those who have
money derived from the renting of real
estate, or from the leasing or using of
tangible personal property, or who own
invested personal property, have tax
privileges that cannot be accorded to
those who have money derived from
the labor of their hands, the sweat of
their brow or the exercise of their skill,
is a doctrine that' cannot stand in
America.
Justice Harlan in his dissenting
opinion put the case mildly when he
said "are those in whose behalf argu-
ments are made that rest upon favorit-
"third," or minority, political party in-
to power and control of the govern-
ment.
The income tax decision sets at
naught all precedents of law; denounces
the legislative branch of the govern-
ment as a set of demagogues and nin-
compoops; violates public sentiment
and attempts to establish a monied
autocracy.
The further fact of the equal division
of the bench upon this question when
it was first argued, and the subsequent
change of opinion by Justic Shiras, by
which the majority of one was obtained
against the law, will not impede the
possibility of history repeating itself.
—People's Party Paper.
MORGAN ON SILVER.
Whala e.i«e or relief It is to know
!liat you have no more corn,. lilndcrcorn.« remove,
tbem and very comforting It is. ijc, at Druggist'
A young woman in Hardin county
(Ia.) has entered into a contract with
the government to oarry the mails be-
tween Cottage and Iowa Falls, twenty
miles, three times every week. Her
name is Minnie Whiting.
papers, nine of which are printed in
Chinese, one in French and the other
;n English.
In one summer it is possible for the
descendants of a single fly to grow to
2,080.320.
The average expenses of the students
at Yale College, according to the senior
class book, are $912 for the freshman
year. |943 for the sophomore. $912 each
for the junior and senior years. There
are many students whose expenses ate j jSm by the law making power aware
much less than these amounts, but ^ that they are provoking a contest which,
there are many others whose expenses j |n some countries, has swept away in
are much more, to raise the average to I
more than the earning capacity of the j
average graduate for several years at i
least after he leaves college. These
figures would require an earning ca-
pacity of from $18 to $20 a week, or
more than $3 a day for the six working
days of the week. How many college j
graduates can secure positions where
they will earn $20 a week?
The English Liberals are still assert-
ing that they were turned out of power
by a "snap vote." As It is evident that
the whole question of the political com-
plexion of Parliament will shortly be
settled by an appeal to the country, It
might be the wiser part for the Lib-
erals to strive to show cause why they
should be restored to power rather
than to waste time in whimpering over
the way in which they were deprived
of it. At this distance it does not seem
that the late Liberal regime in Parlia-
ment has produced any tangible re-
sults. None of the reforms promised
has been effected. Under Gladstone, as
under Rosebery, the Liberals were im-
potent to overcome the inertia of ex-
isting conditions. A Conservative Par-
liament. if it were to assume a reac-
tionary policy, may accomplish more
lor real Liberalism in England than
has the Liberal party as it has been
constituted of late years.
a tempest of frenzy and passion, exist-
ing social organizations, and put in
peril all that was dear to the friends
of law and order?"
Thomas Jefferson understood and
feared the power of a corrupt judiciary
when he wrote Mr. Coray as follows:
"At the establishment of our consti-
tution the judicial bodies were supposed
to be the most helpless and harness
members of the government. Experi-
ence, however, soon showed in what
way they were to become the most
dangerous—that the insufficiency of
the means provided for their removal
gave them a freehold and irresponsi-
bility in office; that their decisions,
seeming to concern individual suitors
only, pass silent and unheeded by the
public at large; that these decisions,
nevertheless, become law by prece -
dent, sapping little by little the foun-
dations of the constitution and work-
ing its change by construction before
any one has perceived that that Invisi-
ble worm has been busily employed in
consuming its substance."
Has not subsequent history conferred
upon the utterance of Jefferson the dig-
nity of prophecy?
The Dred Scott decision seemed "to
concern individual suitors only," but
being contrary to the public sentiment
existing at the time of its rendering
It took on national and sectional Im-
portance and resulted in installing the
Tire Free Silver Fly Invited Into the
(iolii St&rnriard Spider's Parlor.
At the session of the silver conven-
tion in Memphis, a letter from Senator
John T. Morgan, of Alabama, was pre-
sented, but was not read, on account
of the press business before the con-
vention. In it the senator said: "This
convention at Memphis is the natural,
if not necessary, result of the popular
meeting held there under the patron-
age and approval of our Democratic
administration, and it will be a pro-
test against the platform adopted un-
der such auspices in hostility to the
established creed of the Democratic
party.
"They have appealed against the
judgment of the party so often pro-
nounced in support of the equal rights
of gold and silver .at the mints, and
they demand that this appeal shall be
heard and decided outside the counsels
of the Democratic party by a general
muster of all the enemies of silver
money to be found in eveVy political
organization. We invite all the friends
of money that was 'sound' until silver
was struck below the fifth rib by its
jealous brother, and. having survived
the assassin, is still 'sound,' to come
into the Democratic camp, and to aid
us in healing the wounds of this faith-
ful servant of the people and the gov-
ernment. Under the Bland act and
the Sherman act we paid all the bonds
in reach of the government, and now we
are issuing bonds at the rate of $4,-
200,000,000 a year, and are sending our
assistant secretary to I onuon to sign
thme and deliver them to the Roths-
childs.
"Under the Bland-Allison act we had
a surplus of $100,000,000 at the end of
Mr. Cleveland's first term, and now we
have a deficit of $100,000,000 in the
midst of Mr. Cleveland's second term.
"The people are growing weary of
this grind, and they feel it, and in all
their interests they have already
learned by experience the true situa-
tion, and they will not unlearn these
sad lessons In any new school that is
set up tt> conduct this campaign of ed-
ucation.
"Our duty as Democrats is a possible
one, and is to follow the old leaders and
look more closely to our political lead-
ers."
"It was not read on account of the
press of business." That's what the
papers stated. The real reason is be-
cause it too plainly disclosed the ob-
jects of the meeting, so far as the poli-
ticians were concerned. We have no
doubt but that many Democrats who
attended the Memphis silver conven-
tion were honest and sincere in their
motives. There is no doubt in our
minds but that the Populists wl>o at-
tended that convention were also hon-
est in their intentions. They, as well
as others, were invited there, believing
that it was to be a nonpartisan affair,
and that its real object was to make an
honest effort to have free coinage of
silver restored to the people. If the
above letter leaves any doubt that this
and all kindred conventions are fran-
tic efforts to prevent the disintegration
of the Democratic party in the South
and West, the following expressions
from two of the most prominent Demo-
crats, who were present, are certainly
sufficient to remove that doubt. It is
true that in opening the convention,
Senator Harris said: "It was strictly a
nonpartisan organization, composed of
Democrats, Republicans and Populists.
Its doors were open to every American
citizen, who honestly believed in the
propriety, the advisability and the ne-
cessity of the rehabilitation of silver."
Before the convention adjourned
Senators Harris, Turpie and Jones
were appointed a committee to select a
national committee, consisting of one
man from each State to work to ad-
vance the cause of silver.
This committee met, and Senator
Harris said:
"The league will be purely a Demo-
cratic organization formed for the pur
pose of securing a perfect organization
of the silver Democrats in the country
for the purpose of controlling the ut-
terances of the next national Democrat-
ic convention upon the financial ques-
tion. I have no doubt that the great
majority of the people are in favor cf
free coinage, but unless they organize it
will be impossible for them to make the
next platform."
"You clearly understand," put in
Senator Jones, "that this movement is
strictly within the lines of the Demo-
cratic party, and we want the country
to understand that. The organization
of silver advocates in an independent
body without partisan character can-
not have the effect of giving or gaining
strength to silver Democrats in a way
that will enable them to control the
sending of their delegates to the vari-
ous conventions. An organization
within the lines of the Democratic
party, like the proposed, is absolutely
essential to the success of the issue in
our next national convention."
A Texas paper, commenting on this
action, says:
"Senator Harris also emphasized the
fact that the National Bimetallic
League is to be a Democratic organiza-
tion.
"And a Democratic organization it is,
from eaclr State on the executive com-
mittee, with authority to call a conven-
tion for permanent organization, which
will be held in Chicago sometime in
July. The question is, what were the
Republicans and Populists invited to
Memphis fdr? And will any of them
be big enough fools to attend the sec-
ond meeting at Chicago?"
We have no criticisms for the Popu-
lists who attended that convention. We
believe that they did It in perfectly
good faith, and with the best of objects.
But the question might be asked, what
did we gain? If the masses controlled
the conventions, something might be
gained, for they are honest; but every
time we meet with the Democratic poli-
ticians our reputation will be smirched,
even if our objects are good. We all
know the story of old Tray. A man
who knows the baneful results of a gold
standard, and knows the record of the
Democratic and Republican parties on
that question, and who has not the mor-
al courage and< sterling honesty to get
out of the old rotten hulk that foisted
it on the country, will not do to trust,
no matter how many resolutions he
passes or silver conventions he favors.
Theso silver conventions are being held
for the purpose of deceiving the masses
into the belief that the Democratic par-
ty will restore free silver coinage, and
to prevent the voters from leaving the
party to the end that a few men can
be elected to office and enjoy the privi-
leges of no work and a big fat salary.
There is just one free silver party in
the country, and when a man is really
sincere in his advocacy of free silver,
he will most certainly vote with that
party in preference to either of the two
gold bug parties.
Tobacco Tattered and Torn.
Every day wo meet the man with shabby
clothes, sallow skin and shambling footsteps,
holding out a tobacco-palsied band for tho char-
ity quarter. Tobacco destroys manhood and
the happiness of perfect vitality. No-To-Bac is
guaranteed to cure just such cases, and it's
charity to mako them try. Sold under guarantee
to cure by Druggists everywhere. Hook free.
Ad. Sterling Keuiedy Co., New York City or
Chicago.
The new battleship Maine, now ap-
proaching completion, is the fifty-sixth
man of-war built at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard since 1817.
liegeman's Camphor lee with Glycerine.
The original anil only genuine. Cures Chapped Hands
and Face, Cold Sores, &c. C. (i. Clark Co., N. Haven, Ct.
Chicago proposes to build a steel
lower that will be 1.120 feet high.
"Hanson's Magio Corn Salve."
Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask you#
truggist for it. Trice 13 cents.
Gold leaf is now made by electrolysis,
superseding the gold-beater's art.
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is here that fermentation takes place
and the mout is converted into wine.
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