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Evils oFAPrELIC DEDr.

30 sophistry can disguise the stern, cold
fact that any debt, public or private, is a
burden and a misfortune to the debtor, and
that the highest energies should be devoted
to Its removal
1t is true that during the troublous
financial times that followed the crushing of
the rebellion, some writers grayely argued
that public debt is public blessing"
and pointed out how prosperous England
and France have been since they shouldered
the enormous loads piled upon their tax
payers by inoessant warning. The names OF
these writers have been deservedIy forgot
ten, and their theories are only laughed at
now by all sound-thinking men.
England and France-it seems absurd to
have to say it-were not prosperous because
Of their enormous Indebtedness, but in de-
spite oft. To say the contrary is as pre-.
posterOus as tosay of man who manages
To get about well on one leg that his loss O
a leg has made him unusually active
Every English and French writer and pub
licist viii say that there is scarcely any othet
evil influence in their countries quite SO bat
in its effects as that of public debt II
begin with, it builds up class of drone
who toll not, neither do they spin, but wea
fine linen and fare sumptuously every day Oh
the proceeds of the taxes drawn from th
people. The effect of this upon the charac
ter, commerce and business of the Who'll
people is inconceivably bad The bond
holders form an iron-clad aristocracy
which assumes that in some wa
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, D. c. FEBRUARY D, 1883
ARTICLES FORTHCOMING.

MRS SUSAN SETT0N; or, Tie Yankee
Soldiers WIFE. By James K. Magic, 18Th
III.
MATAGORDA BAY.-7Ee Thirteenth Corps
IN Teras in 1868. By E. B. L1JLia Co. f.
18Th he, Yield, lie.
IN THE VALLEY-THe Shenandoah Cam
paign Of 1862. By Gen. Henry Capeaart,
Fargo, OAK.
ON TO RICHHOND.-4 Graphic NagTGtiUe
Of Capture aad Capticity. By George B.
Crawford Co. G, Isl IT. Ia, H-etEs5Rrg, ". Ia.
HAWKIEgS ZOUA EES-7He First BqyO-
act Charge. By J. Il. T. Whitney, Sergeant,
Co. Z, 9Th n T., Eelg York Oity.
Port HUDSON Spirited account Of
this Important Siege and Battle. By HiIber
r. HIebba, Lampasas, Ter.
PICK AND Campaigning acih
the Engineers. By Walter H. Parcels, Co.
D, 50fA n. y Eng, Le1Distoa, Pa
CAHABA PRIS0E.-Life and Death IN this
Place Of Confinement. By G. J Treaazaan
LEWIsBUBG.-Campaigaing and Fighting
an West Virginia. By JOHN z. Booth, Ser
ceqnt. Co. G, 36H Ohio, Hqvtl5elL, o.
DURAET'S MILL part Of the Peach
Tree Greek series Of battles IN the atlanta
campaign By John Algoe, Adjutaat, 1OH
Mfck.
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WHAr WE po Nor WANT.

We do not want foreign capital in this
country so much as we want our own I'M
locked and applied to the development of
our magnificent resources.
We do not want foreigners to own our
farms, mills, mines and railroads. and to get
the profits and increase of the same, but our
own people.
We do not want a serviIe imitation of the
corrupt and corrupting bondholding class of
England and France built up in this coun-
try, but we want, as Ear as possible, every
man and woman in the country directly
connected with and dependent upon the
great interests upon which we all depend.
The first step to bring this about is to
commence paying of the bonds, and so re-
lease our capital for its legitimate employ
ment in the development of the country.
DO not tinker iuith the revenue. Use The
Surplus to pay of the Ueteran8 and the bond,
| holders
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TRIBUNETS.

We arc very anxious to have John L. Sulli-
van run across some slugger who will knock
him into that undiscovered bourne known as
the middle of next week" but We are still
more anxious that the job shall not be done
until after John has polished off Mr.. Jem Smith,
and every other bruiser under the British flag,
and returns home In other words, ne want to
spank our own children.
The scientists say that the ancient glaciers
moved at the rate of about a quarter of mile
year. About the best modern representatives
we have of that leisurely movement seems to
be among the mail distributors west of the
Mississippi.
Senator ingalls, says that he would rather be
q John L. Sullivan than Daniel Webster.
Some of his brother Senators, who have had
the ill-luck to tackle him in debate, wish that
he were John L. Sullivan instead of John J..
Ingalls,.
Horse stealing has ceased to be the worst
crime man can commit out in Dakota They
string q man the quickest and highest for say
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THIS WEEKS PAPER.

This weeks issue of THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE is an unusually valuable and in
teresting paper. In addition to the Gus
tomary array of entertaining, instructive
and historical matter which is presented
from week to week, it has some new and spe-
cial features of exceptional merit.
First, it is the commencement of beauti-
full German love story of medieval times
translated especially for THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE by Mrs Caroline Bartram Kelley,
wife of the Hon. William D. Kelley, the dis
tinguished Pennsylvania. Mrs. Kelley is
a woman of rare talents and accomplish
ments. From her girlhoOd she has been
noted as a musician an artist, and a writer
of peculiarly graceful and fascinating litera-
ture. Even now, at an age when most
women have lost all interest in such mat
tiers, she finds time, in the midst of her ex-
acting social duties, and the valuable as
sistance she gives her husband in his Off
cial labors, to do much musical, artistic and
literary work of the highest merit Our
readers will see the fine character of the lat
ter in the singularly pure and flowing Eng
lish into which she has rendered sweet
old German story.
The article ON Seal Fishing is from the
80, 20 TT w I7II;o44 &c 4l,o I,,~,;,, T,
stituti0n. Prof. Elliott, who has devoted
much of his life to the study of the seal, and
has written several valuable works on it and
the people and country of Alaska, is regarded
as the highest authority in the world on al
that pertains to this singularly interesting
denizen of the mighty deep.
| The clear and concise description of the
malady of the Crown Prince of Germany
was written by gentleman who is recog
nized by the medical profession as grea
specialist ON tumors, and what he says o
the subject is regarded by them as author
/ ity. As he holds high Office under tn,
Government, and the Grown Prince is higI
officer of the German Government, officia
etiquet might be violated by the signatnr,
of his name to the article, so it is withheld
In pursuance of our design to make TIL
NATIONAL TRIBUNE the most valuable ant
interesting family paper in the country, w
shall present in its columns, from time T.
time, articles ON all subjects of general in
terest from men of eminence in their spe
cialties.
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" OUR FLAG
AND
ITS HIS TORY"
A BEAUTIFUL HISTORICAL CHART.

This is an elegant as well as valuable his
torical production. il is a large-sizcd sheet
Of heavy paper. embeIlished with brilliantly
cOlored representations Of all the flags used
by the Colonies in tie Revolutionary and
prior Waits. They show how the Star
Spangled Banner was finally evolved out OF
these. There is also Oh the chart pictures
OF the old Independence Han n Philadel-
phia. and the residence Of the lady who
made the first Star spangled Banner. In
the center OF The chart is a great white
star, with the words OF The Star Spangled
Banner printed ca It's face Around II are
pictorial reproductions Of the various en-
blems which it was proposed to put On the
flag. The whole iE an admirable ornament
for the Post room, or a parlor or sitting.
room. We viii send one Of these inclosed
In a strong pasteboard tube 10 any addres:
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gear.
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they have acquired a divine right to
live upon the earnings of other people. All
the pushing, aspiring people are desperately
anxious to force their way into this charmed
circle, which gives social distinction second
only to that of the landed nobility. They
are anxious to maintain the debt as it is,
and if possible to extend it. The highest
consideration is not given, as it should be, to
those who are conducting the great business
enterprises which make the country wealthy
and furnish employment and bread to the
people, but to the men and women who are
able to live without doing anything useful.
To be in trade" no matter how extensive
or honorable, is to be scorned by society u;
the pOssessor of little bunch of " Consols"
in London or of "Rentes" in Paris is gen
tleman," while the builder of a great railway
or the head of an immense factory is merely
"parYenue" and 4" tradesman." The bond
holders, exempt from the cares and response
bilities of business life, set vicious and
profigate standard, which is infinitely cor
rupting.
1t is precisely such an aristocracy that the
maintenance of the public debt viii build
up in this country. It viii make class of
nobility more odious in every way than
those which exist in Europe, and whose sole
title to superiority will be the possession of
enough United States bonds to enable them
to lead lives of corrupt luxury. They viii
not have particle of interest in the mines.
farms, railroads, plantations, banks and other
things of essential importance to International
welfare. Whether crops fail or are abundant
whether factories flourish or the operators
starve; whether there are thousand miles
of new railroad built, or those already con-
structed rust out in idleness, viii be of SUI
preme Indifference to them. Whatever
happens, there will be enough money col
lected to pay them their interest, and they
NS'A4 al biOlCo VI
Europe as representatives of American
aristocracy."
The way to prevent this is to pay off the
bonds as rapidly as possible. The money
that is now in them will not be sent out Of
the country, but be invested at home. Il
denied the secure and profitable investment
in Government securities the bondholders
will be forced to put their money into some
other shape to earn them incomes. With il
they will develop mines, construct railroads
build and operate factories, and so enrich tht
whole country by making one thousand
millions of idle capital an active force in the
development of its magnificent resources.
Do not tinker with the revenue. Use til,
surplus to pay of the veterans and the bond
holders.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-02-23

WHEN the Society of the Army of the
Potomac meets at Gettysburg this year on
the anniversary of that great battle, the
First Corps will erect a grand stand where
Gen. Reynolds fell the first day, for the ex-
ercises which will be held in oOmmemora-
ton of the Generals memory, and the stub
born fight made there by the veterans of the
Corps under Doubleday. There viii be sew
eral regimental monuments put up then.
The ID, 9th and 7th Wisconsin's will be
dedicated on the 3Oth of June, while the
10th N. Y and Goth Pennsylvania will be
on the 1st of July.
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is perfect little library in itself 1t is inval-
liable for school-children, for it answers all
their innumerable questions at once and accu-
rately giving them information that they
might have 10 hunt through volumes before
finding il is Of equal value 10 al classes Of
readers for il explains who people, countries
and thisgs are who are constantly alluded 10 in
the papers, magazines and books one reads The
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THE TAX ON SUGAR.


Most people, who have not thought of the
subject, viii say, at first blush, that if
there is any reason for reducing our tariff
duties, the reduction should begin with the
duty on sugar, for the reason that that arti-
Gle enters more largely into the everyday
wants of the common people than any other
that we import.
But there are important considerations
which do not appear at first sight. The first
of these is that if we took the tax off it would
not make sugar or molasses a particle cheaper
to our people. The reason is that whatever
reduction was made in the import duty by
us would be Immediately followed by a cor
responding increase in the export duty levied
in Cuba and Porto Rico. If we took the
whole duty off it would simply mean that
we would deprive our Treasury of about
$52,000000 a year, which would go to fur
ther enrich the palace ring at Madrid, which
milIls Cuba and Porto Rico of every dollar
possible.
We tried that experiment with coffee and
tea When we took the import duty off the
other countries clapped an export duty on.
We lost the revenue that we had formerly
collected our peoples breakfast tables
were not benefited while the countries
| which exported these articles were enriched
to the amount that we lost.
The next consideration is that it is the
poorest possible political economy to permit
to go on unchecked the enormous drain of
ready money out of the country, to pay for
the sugar and molasses that we buy abroad.
We pay out nearly $10O,OO0,OOO every year
for sweets, which is about one-eighth of the
total amount of our imports. This vast
sum of money should be paid to our farm
ers, and so kept at home. The experiments
which have been made with new processes
for sorghum and sugar-cane give every
hope that we can raise our sugar at home
cheaper than we can import it. If these do
not, in practical operation, result as well as
they now promise, we must initiate the ma
tions of Europe, and get our sugar from
beets grown on our own soil. When France
began making sugar from beets it cost her
about $3.50 pound. When they got the
cost down to 80 cents they thought they
had achieved a wonderful success, but to-day
France not only produces all her own sugar,
but Germany, Italy, Austro- Hungary, Rus
STA, Belgium, and even Denmark do the
same. The only great civilized nations that
still buy sugar abroad are England, Hol-
land, Spain and Portugal, which have sugar
producing colonies. If we could put the
S100,00O,000 which we now feed every year
to few creoles and negroes in Cuba and
Porto Rico and the palace ring at Madrid
into the pockets of our own farmers, il
would change for the better the whole as
pect of our agricultural interests, and the
Nation would be vastly richer. We must
do it. We cannot stand such an enormous
drain of our ready money, none of which
comes back to us, for the negroes and pow
erty-stricken creoles who make up the great
bulk of the population of Cuba and Porto
Rico buy very little of our products.
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THE way to make money plentiful in the
pockets of all the people is to pay off the
veterans and the bOndhoIders Let $780,
100000 year be distributed in payment of
arrears of pensions, equalization of bounties,
increased pensions to the disabled veterans
and their orphans and in taking up United
States bonds, and all fears of "hard times "
will be at an end. This money viii go
straight into the hands of the people as a
mass, and make better times in every section
of the country.
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A MAN with 81 Ooo. COS in bonds need n

MIN W4lII I1VUV1OVV III IJULItIp 4INtu 4IUI
worry about the condition of the country.
He can eat, drink and be merry, though
strikes rage, wars desOlate and pestilenee
stalks at monday. If he had his million
in a railroad or factory he wonld take the
same active interest in these things as the
rest of his fellow-men. Pay him off and
give him a stake in the prosperity of the
country.
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FAG0Ts FR0H THE cAapFIRy

This most exciting book Of adventure is now
offered for the small sum Of 50 cents. or free for
club Of i've new yegrly Subscribers to The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE No soldier who reads
this book can fail to be deeply interested, as
the most thrilling adventures and hair-breadth
escapes are told in way 10 bring back wildly
% the mind The DAYS OF l6l-5
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THE two parties in the Senate were thor
oughly divided on the Blair Bill. Sixteen
Democrats and % Republicans voted for the
bill; and II Democrats and II Republicans
voted against it.
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CoMMoN-sENsE QUESTIONS.

Come, let us reason together:
The Nations debts will have to be paid
some time, will they not?
Is it likely that there will ever be bet
ter time than nowP
Is it likely that it will ever be easier to do
than it is now?
Is it likely that we win ever have more
money to spare for the purpose than now
Is it not always better to pay debt
when one has the money, than put it off to
some other time when he may not have it
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EVERY NAL BRINGS THEM.

1t was pretty difficult getting to the post
Office last week nearly all over the country,
but that did not prevent our friends from
doing their duty by THE NATIONAL TRIB-
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A PANIC can be best averted by filling
the pockets of the people-nOt by emptying
them. The best way to fill them is by dis
tributing the surplus revenue to them in
payment of the debts due the veterans who
saved the Nation.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-02-23

THAT Thousand billions of capital has
slept long enough in bonds. Take it outand
set it to work.
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Dickens's Works.
Fifteen Cl0th-B0und Books for So.

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the greatest Of modern nOyelists-Hhich we
viii offer to subscribers OF THE NATIONAL
TKBUEE very cheap. These contain the fol-
lowing novels aud sketches ceiuglele and una
bridged.
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Oliver Nisl- Bleak House
UnconDcreisl Trnvalcr. Our Mutual Friend
DAVID ..fsi .eIiIcld. Little Durrit.
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Nicli0las Eicklcby. Chiid's History OF Eng
Old Curiosity Shop. land
Miscellaneous Pieces
These volumes each contain about 600 pages
Of large, clear print, with illustrations by noted
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OF girl. II Il much The best cheap edition Of Dick
ems to BE- C5iG5Red GIlVHheFe.
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STILL the House Committee on Invalid
Pensions fingers. Why tarry, gentlemenP
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THE LOGAN MONUMENT.

The receipts of the Logan Monument fund
for the past week were:
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Prompt payment of the Nations debt is
Honesty,
Decency,
Gratitude,
Sound business policy, and
The surest way to avert panic.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-09-14
SCIENTIFIC SOUIBS.

The electric light station ut Bath, Me-, il
burning sawdust in the furnaces there with
satisfactory results
Flour of sui hur has proved to be an eff
cient preventive against the ravages of car
pet bugs or buffalo moths
Sweet oil and putty powder, followed by
soup and water, are efficient means for
Frightening brass and copper.
The progress of saccharine is becoming a
matter G. attention for the French govern
meut. A good quality of sugar is made in
France out of turnips.
Pyrodene is a new liquid which renders wood
textile fabrics, paper and other infammable
materials freproof. As paint for wood it
is special success, as it does not blister In
the sun.
Take a small quantity of a 2 per cent. car
bolic Geld solution and sprinkle sheets, cover
let, pillow and bolster, on both sides, the
edges of bed curtains and the wall next
the led. The ( ce and neck may also be
slightly wetted with the solution. Not a
single gnat or musquito will come near
In France very practical use Of photog-
raphy has recently been made Several per-
sons were imprisoned by the caving i'll Of a
we'll \ hole was bored, and down this a
tube with camera was slid The photo
graph showed the faces of some of the de
ceased, and demonstrated the use.essness Of
efforts at rescue
c. A. Pailard, Of Geneva, Switzerland,
after fourteen years Of experiment, has DE-
termined that the alloy Of palladium is non
magnetizable as used in watches, and is q
satisfactory substitute for the metals com
monty used. Only tie hair spring and com
pensation balance are made OF this metal.
and the cost of the watch is not increased