Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-14

to send the newspaper correspondent,
Nellie BLY,, around the world in seventy
five days. She starts to-day at
$3.50, with instructions to report at
the World office In the morning ofJanuary
q. Miss bly, is said to have received only
four days notice. For this thirty thousand
mile trip she takes only small hand bag
and package Of wraps. She will carry
twenty -four hour watch which VIII be
set to correct standard time here, and will
be kept going as she travels, but will Of
course fail more and moro behind as sho
passes eastward. "lier own watch will
be kept catching mp with tho various local
times as she goes on her way, but the
twenty four hour watch will get more
and more out Of time nominally, until
when IL IL twenty-four hours late
Miss Bly, and the watch will be back in
New York and the time will be entirely
correct as compared with the clocks and
watches. A day somew where somehow will
lie Topped out of Miss Bly's life, and she
will be nomnally one day different in age
than she would have been had she remained
at home In New York"
This rivalry of the hero of Jules Nernes
Round the World in Eighty Days" will
he fine advertisement for the paper, but
others will dispute its claim that il has not
been tried before. There has been at
least one successful journey of the kind.
Strange to say she does not start on the
fastest of ocean racers but on the Augusta
Victoria, of the Hamburg line. Tickets
| were bought in New York for the whole
| trip. a. She will call on no extra help, no
| chartered locomotives or special boat will
wait her with steam up TO make extra fast
| time. She will take her luck as a first
| class passenger, using the facilities which
are now demanded by Travellers"
Gov. .-clect Boies Tells why Tie Won.
| From his speech at the Waterloo uowaj Cee-
bration, Saturday night.
Our present law on that subject tprohibi-
| tom in its inception was a cruel viola
| tion of the most sacred of all political
| sons and property. Under the pretense OF
comforting upon our people great blessing
| the Republican party In the enactment OF
| our prohibitory laws struck ut the tounda-
| tons of civil liberty and established pre-
| cedent that in its legitimate consequences
would lead to tho most disastrous results.
Neither property rights nor personal
| liberty was regarded in framing laws that
| were to royolutionize the habits of vast
| numbers of our people and compel sub
mission To moral ideas foreign to the minds
| of the great masses of the civilized world.
| The practical workings Of a law founded on
| such inexcusable wrong was easily fore
| seen. IL was sure to meet with deter
| mined and unceasing opposition, and sure
| to wholly fail TO accomplish its purpose in
| all the cities ofour state. Experience has de-
| monstratel the truth of that which SCENE
! to be apparent to thoughtful people from
the start. In the light of this experience
| conservative men of all political parties
have joined hands with us to to wipe out
u law whose birth was a political crime
and whose whole existence has been
fraught with disaster to the best interests
of large sections OF our state, in both 8
moral and financial sense
The position of our advcrsaries that the
people of the agricultural states of the Wes
are benefited by a tariff which adds one
half to the cost of all the necessaries be.
cause 1t makes another class rich and
| thereby enables but does not compel it tC
pay better prices for labor and the products
of the soil, is gradually becoming under
stood, and as fast as understood it become.
an exploded theory. Catching its inspira
ton from n great leader it was an easy
matter for the Democratic party of Iowa tl
present an unbroken front upon this grea
question, while many thinking men from
other political organizations came to its aC
on this issue of the campaign.