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The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20

OF so tariff for revenue only" was SUBJ
atituted.
Now there may be or may not be any
thing in this coincidence; but as Mr..
Weller would observe, the coincidence is
as striking as was the sudden disappear
ance Of the puppies and the no less sud-
den appearance Of the "weal pies"
One fact is quite we'll established in
history, and that is that the English
Government, for six centuries back, has
adopted two methods Of acquiring in
fuence in foreign countries and extending
the trade Of English merchants, and they
were by the English sword and by English
money. All through those centuries the
English ministers subsidized influential
statesmen in the various countries OF
Europe. Where the sword could not find
its way the gold went, accomplishing the
came result These facts have been clearly
demonstrated by the diaries and secret
records Of the time.
England has tried to use the sword on
this country twice. She was beaten; and
while the progress of civilization and the
patriotism of other countries have barred
the Government itself from the exercise
of this corrupting influence, the Golden
Club has been trying to do what the Gov
eminent could not do in its official capaci.
ty. Indeed it is no secret that the Golden
Club was organized for that very purpose
1t is an organization Of English manu-
facturcrs and merchants, and no one
will maintain that it would scruple tt
carry out what was for long period
settled policy Of Governmental action.
To what extent the Golden Club has
gone in this direction, We do not know
but if it's secret records are to be exposed
we may look out for startling disclosures
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
At the Steel Plate BANQUET.
From Mckinley, Chattanooga Speech

A'"." -h~ih'h'ey SHoltauOOR" opecCu}.
''Sow, my fellow citizens, do not know of
any reason, after this admission of what you
can do in the manufacture of basic steel and
basic iron, why YOU should not make tin plate
here in Chattanooga; do you, Col. Shook?"
Cot: Shook-"None whatever unless because
Of adverse tariff legislation"
Maj. Mckinley-"None whatever; gentle
men, that tells the whole story; we will make
tin plate all over this country for the Ameri-
can people, unless, as Col. Shook SAYS, there
is adverse Legislation, and YOU know where
that adverse legislation will come from, if it
comes at all. lApplausc.l And it is within
your power, if YOU don't want it, to prevent it.
Why, al! there is in making tin plate is to dip
your sheet iron into molten tin. Now YOU
make the sheet iron, why in Gods world don't
You 60 to work aud battle that sheet iron in
molten tin and make tin plate?
"The tin consumed in this country requires
the labor OF 1880 men for 800 days every
year; now, would like to have Chattanooga
have part of that labor here"
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
Friday, March 20. 1891.
Louisville Merchants.

The l.. & n. R. r. has laid its track to
within three miles Of Big Stone Gap.
This new line will make accessible TO the
trade of Louisville en- extensive and rap
idly growing section with which the mer-
chants Of that city should hasten to estab-
lish business relations. This can not be
more easily, more effectively or more
cheaply done than by advertising
their wares in the BIC STONE Posi-. The
merchants Of Cincinnati have already
commenced to insert their advertisements
in our columns, and the same railroad line
will bring them in close and sharp compe-
tition with the merchants of Louisville,
who should not be lacking in enterprise
and foresight. The first city that estab-
fishes trade with this section will get the
bulk Of it.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
THE Gladeville Sun asks this question:

THE Gladeville Sun asks this question:
Has Gladeville got over her little fright about the
removal Of the county seat and concluded that the
Court House will always remain! here, whether she
does anything or not!
1t is absurd to think of keeping the county
seat at Gladeville, and the sooner it is moved
to some accessible point the better. The delay,
cost and inconvenience Of reaching Gladevile
remove it from the field of competition.
AS soon as the railroads meet at Norton, some
point on the line will be selected for the Court
House, but steps looking to this result should
be taken as early as possible. There will be
wranglc over the location and the sooner
the matter is settled the sooner lawyers and
litigants who must attend the courts will be
relieved of trudging over almost impossible
roads,
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
purified man like the writer of Airy Tongues
can stand anything of the kind.

Speaking Of decollcte costumes reminds me
of the fashions Of Persia. There it is con-
sdered very improper for lady to expose her
arms. shoulders, neck and-neck, but she may
wear her skirts above the knee. Here it is
lust dreadful for girls over fifteen to wear
skirts above the knee, but even grown ladies
may expose the upper third OF their bodies.
Now suppose by treaty between the fashion
able ladies Of this country and the fashionable
ladies of Persia, it should be agreed that each
country will add the fashion of the other. The
result would be shocking; but the cost OF
lady's wardrobe would be greatly reduced.
A ward of ribbon would then make silk dress.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
Expected Revelations.

The following dispatch, which appeared
in the ST. Louis Republic, strong DEM
ocratic newspaper, is causing some con-
sternation among certain tree trade jour
nails:
LONDON, February "a curious libel case has just
been before the Law courts in Sweden 1t appears that
Swedish newspaper named Aotalaposten accused GER
tain persons OF high social position, of these be-
Ing the late General Director OF Customs and another
the present Lord Lieutenant Of the county Of Stock
holm, with having received subsidies from the Golden
Club amounting to Gl20,000 for carrying free
trade agitation in their country The court dismissed
the LIBEL the writer pleading that all the statements
were true, claiming that Prince Bismarck had been
able through the German Embassy in London, to OBJ
tain copy of the Clubs secret accounts, and these
accounts fully bore out the statements that had been
made. The writer OF the article received his nforma-
ton in such way that there could DO no question
about It's authenticity, and he further alleged that
these secret accounts would bcvery soou published in
Serlin.
There has been much talk in this tone
for years. Suspicious that certain news
papers and public men in this country
we're subsidized by the Golden Club Of
England were more generally aroused by
curious coincidence. The London Times
published u statement that an agent of
the Golden Club had visited this country
and had accomplished important re-
sults." simultaneously with this visit,
four leading newspapers, the Boston
Herald, the New York Times, the Chicago
Tribune and the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal-thrce in the North and one in the
Soath-came out loudly for free-trade or
what amounted to about the same thing.
at thepame time certain prominent states
men in Congress conceived holy horror of
Q protective tariff. Their FIRST cry was to
"abolish war taxes" Then when propo-
sition was made to abolish the internal
revenue exaction, which was the most OPP
presslye fSal! the war taxes, realizing
that the passage of snch measure would
necessitate the continuance of high
tariff, they opposed it, though the Demo-
cratic party from the time Of Jefferson
TO the time Of Buchanan had uniformity
and vigorously denounced an internal rev.
snue tax Indeed after the war began and
when such 8 tax was necessary for its
prcsecution. measure imposing it vas
opposed in Congress by nearly every
psmssrstin both houses, Johnc G. Breck-
inriags, Who was then still in the Sem
ste isading the opposition. Finding the
cry 81 abolish var take" to be q two
edged swofds |. was dropped, and the CRY
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
The New Orleans UpheaveI.

The tragedy at New Orleans is nothing
more than what might have been expect
ed after the verdict Of o corrupt jury and
the collision of certain officers Of the
law by which the assassins of the Ia
mented Hennessy were about to escape
punishment.
The terrible retribution was but an act
of self defense on the part of the commu-
nifty. Had these assassins been set free,
life in New Orleans would have been in
tolerable. The Malta, an Infamous secret
organization of Italian origin, would have
acquired new courage and added to its
already long list of revolving crimes.
Secret societies Of the kind have been
the curse of Italy for ten centuries. Under
the Republican states, in which the coun-
try was at one time divided, they perhaps
reached their rankest maturity and per-
petrated their most horrible crimes and
crueltiea. For several centuries the his
tory Of Italy was but the bloody record Of
these secret bands of assassins.
The Malta dates back one hundred years
or more. It is believed to have branches
in all the large cities of this country, and
whenever person offends its influential
members Or, in anyway, incurs its hostility
his assassination is decreed and carried
out. Like the Clan-na-Gael, it never ac-
quaints the victim Of the charges, nor
does it afford him the opportunity of a
hearing. In conclavo the executive COM
, mittee of each organization sits and passes
the sentence Of death, without trial and
without warning.
That such tribunals should be tolerated
in free country is incomprehensible.
Yet they have their centers and hold their
conclayes in every important city in the
United States. With q large corruption
fund, exacted from sympathetic idiots who
wish to further "the Irish cause" or "help
the Italian poor" they bride juries, sub
orn witnesses and acquire such control
over the machinery Of the courts that
conviction is next to an impossibility.
Now if Italy wishes to raise row over
the matter let her do it,
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
You Have Him Down Right.

Henry Watterson never mailed the now
famous dill letter; neither did he mail the
"much more impcrtinent one" written to Cleye-
land year ago. This information is cleaned
by the..Sew York World. The most charitable
conclusion is that Watersom is losing his mem
tai grip. man who poses as the writer of
impairment letters to be mailed in the waste
basket and resurrected for his own ADVERTISE
ment is crank. Watterson ia now claimed
to be eorsrtly booming w. R. Morrison for the
presidency - Is
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20

A New York Sun interviewer has been try
ing to find out the kind of paper that would
suit everybody. He talked with Mr.. Peagrecn.
81 would like" said Mr.. Peagreen, "to see
new daily paper started in New York, and |
might take it if it suited me. 1t must leave
out the sporting page, which is frivolty; it
must cut off the political articles, which arc
mere wrangling; it should not be stuffed with
Wall street speculations, which interest very
few people; it should give us rest from crime,
which is disgusting; it should give short space
to the stuff called news, which is of no account;
it should let people alone, and not abuse them"
"But what would you print in it, Mr.. Pea
green" at should give US essays on nature
and virtue, sketches of life and society, ac
counts of eminent public characters, and 9th.
er like material supplied by scholarly writer's.
If you will start such paper and sell it for
cent, will try it for day, and take it after
were published to suit Mr. Peagreen exactly,
the chances are he would send his advertise
ments to paper that didn't suit him. If he
lived in Blisstown he would not put his ad. in
the Brisstown Post, but would send it to the
Badtown Bungler. Itmight be trife incon-
vcnient to dc so, but what is Inconvenience
when an opportunity is offered to divert
patronage from home paper and bestow it
upon another? If any doubt existed in Mr..
Peagrecn's mind on the subject, the matter
would be quickly settled against his home pa
per should Mr.. Peagrecn recall the fact that
all his property is in his home town and that
he had received various favors from his home
paper. But it is not unlikely that the home
paper would ultimately get even with Mr..
Peagreen.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20

The latter, in its efforts to extend it's busi-e
ness, has been n disturbing factor liz the.
steel trade, aud hence the consultations
Negotiations for this deal have been go7
ing on for some time. Judging from the
smiles and good temper displayed at the
Lackawanna Office, the steel men are
happy over the improved outlook for the
trade
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
The BIG STONE POST, FRIDAY, MARCH 49, 1891

Posr advocates mob violence in the matter
which no man of intelligence who has read the
paper will maintain. 1t IL now too late in the
season perhaps, to blow out these dams, but
these gentlemen should understand that the
nuisances will be abolished and that the city
will not pay them four times the value Of their
property either. Mr.. Longini says our sewers
should be run down below the confluence of
the two forks OF the river. We presume the
sewers from East Big Stone Gap should be ex-
tended two or three miles down the river too.
Otherwise, all the filth from tina. growing town
must pass the dam or be stopped By it. In
other words the citizens of the two places must
spend one or two hundred thousand dollars to
save a one thousand dollar mill dam and still
be cursed with the nuisance. The dams
should have been blown out long ago. They
benefit no one in this community except the
doctors and the drug stores. Their removal
has been needlessly deferred; but the public
will be able to locate the responsibility for
whatever sickness results from the delay.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
a TALK WITH CARNEGIE.
What the Great Manufacturer has to sa,
About Coke and the business Sltu-
alton in Europe.

"Mr. Carnegie, what is the outlook in
coke?
"The coke business is a thing by itself
For years coke was sold for less than cost
1t is curious business, as long as poor
operators can get enough of cash for their
coke to pay their labor they will sell
rather than blow out ovens. They take
no account of the coal and the fact that
they are c1hausting it, none of the
total loss of plant which comes when coal
is exhausted, they are like drowning men,
and will sacrifice everything to keep ahoat
for the time. This state OF affairs rem
dered the coke business ruinous.'
"Mr. Carnegie, do yon think the prices
at which coke has sold for in the past any
criterion ms to what it may sell for in the
future?'
every far from being a criterion. No
business will he conducted very long
that does not yield fair profit Now, 1t
was matter of life or death with US either
to get the coke business Oh Il better basis
or to continue sacrificing our property
until we had driven out the others, and SO
far had losses gone that We were able
to purchase many of the properties of our
competitors. Instead of continuing the
ruinous policy, we have tried to reap
profit from the business, but the
Connelsvillc coke at prices lower than
community has been spoiled by getting
it could be made The value of coal
lands has more than trcbled in recent
years. Coal that we formerly had for
800 an acre, now we have to pay $500
for Labor has risen, and at present pr-
ccs Of coke the concern that makes fair
margin is doing very well. For my part,
l should vote rather to let our coal re-
main in the ground than to sell 1t under
the present prices.
THE SITUATION ABROAD.
"Whcn YOU were abroad Mr. Carnegie,
what did you iind?'
"The situation is very much as it exists
here and the cause is the same. The
world is so closely interviewer, one part
with another, that nothing very serious
can happen in Europe which cannot affect
us here, and rice rfrsd. The financial
trouble that eliminated in the Barring
disaster is not yet healed. The load has
been taken upon the shoulders of the
leading financial houses, but it remains
there. You see from the morning papers
that several other houses are in trouble
and even one of the guarantors of the
Barring deficiency shows signs ofwayering
If one wthdraws the heavy load may affect
the others 1t is very serious situation.
Even if it all is quietly settled without
any explosion, we cannot look for further
railway extensions in any of the Southern
American States for good while to come.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20

1t il easy to say the fallen deserved no bet
ter. Did he deserve better when on the crest
of tho wave; when adulation was showered up
on him; when he WAS social hero and when
the funkys threw up their caps and cried out
"Glamis and Cawdor that art and king that
is to be-" Nothing but failure has been added
to Carley's otfenscs, and had success been SUBJ
stitutcd, there are few who would not haze
said GALL hail." even with his sins bossomcd
thick upon him. Defeat is all forms Of crime
in one; success is all forms Of virtue i'll enc.
IT'S the fashion. These be the standards of
good and evil, except in some CONFUSION like
our civil war when the heroic in the masses as
serts itself and lifts mankind to the higher
moral peaks where the gods dwell and judge
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20

WE give Dir, Longini the benefit of another
card about the dams. We have also received
. longer one from Messrs. C. II. Lewis and
Benz. SHARPE based on the assumption that the
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20
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IS It Her Fault or TIISp
fA,chisop Globc.)

sascuSoHp looc,
There Is one thing cynical neishbors never Tail to
notice. and that Is how con bride stops coming ou.
10 the gats to meet her husband.
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20

A capitalist, who was in New York during
the panic, told NE the other day that few peo-
pie understood the depth and breadth of it.
at was the most pcrous financial crisis this
country ever experienced" said he, "and
the money centers have not yet recovered from
it. The strain became almost unbcarablc.
The nerves of the coolest and strongest men
were taxed beyond endurance. Deep lucs
werO cut by care in the features Of men. There
were sunkcn cheeks, wild eyes, quivcrng and
husky voices. An awful shadow hung over
Wall street, and men walked and talked as if
the black plague was desolating every office and
every tireside. Their overStraincd nerves
have not yet regained their wonted firmncss,
and may not during the present generation.
That is why capital is slow in moving South.
Money is indeed plentiful. Bankers will beg
you to take it at low rates of interest, but one
must put up Government bonds or give them
a gold horse to hold They dread to put it in
anything on which they can not realize on
moments notice. 1t all seems now like
frightful nightmare, land few can form an
idea of the condition in which ones nervous sys-
tenn is left after going through it."
The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-03-20

During the recent assemblage of ministers
in Louisville the visiting clergymcn preached
in the various churches. One Of them ar
ranged to preach one sermon "to ladies only"
Quite gathering of the fair sex, many of
them being very high in the social scale,
greeted the speaker. When the church was
filled the doors were locked and The orator
commenced his harangue. He told them they
were responsible for the immortality of the
men. "You go to PARTIES said he, Shalt
clad, exposing much of your person, ex-
cite men; and when they leave your presence
they resort at once .tohouses ofill fame" The
ladies looked at each other, then scrutinized
the floors of the pews, toyed with their prayer
books, twisted their gloves about their fingers
and nervously waited for the reformer 70 let
up. But on he went, ripping them up the back
with every sentence. To say she sermon"
caused sensation, is to draw it mildly. 1t
went from mouth to mouth; and when Dan
O'Sullivan published full report of it in the
"Critic," the wrath of the female mind became
intense. Had not the orator left the city the
petticoat tribe might have mobbed him. That
the speaker had basis Of truth, there is no
doubt. But he put the case too plumply.
His language, the seyerest part of which l
omit because n preacher may say things in
public dare not say, shocked bis fair hearers.
Well shaped women unquestionably look hand
conner half clad than when their entire per-
sons are envelopsd in founces and farbelows,
Even the oyster appears to better advantage
on the half sheR. But that they break up a
man, rattle him, drive him to drink and heaven
knows where else, when they appear in very
decotlete costumes and allow him to take them
the dance, is often too true. Only suhlimated,
ala ETHEREAL and thoroughly spiritaalized and
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-05-26
THE HARBOR BAR.

We were unpIeasantly but very
practically reminded Thursday of
the urgent necessity for deepening
the entrance into the harbor. The
American ship Centennial from
New York while in tow of suit.
able tug and in the hands of a COM
petent pilot, and drawing about
twenty-one and a half feet of
water, stuck on the bar and re-
manned fast for several hours.
A twenty-one or twenty-five foot
entrance is no good for harbor of
any pretensiOns to Importance now
a-days. In March last, when every
hour was of Importance, a steamer
capable of carrying the largest
cargo that ever left this port had
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-05-26
NOTICE.

RIO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF
Il the Hilo and Hawaii Telephone and TcIe
graph Co. dividend Of one dollar per share
will be payable at the Office OF the Company On
MONDAY, May 18th, 1891. -
By order Of Board Of Directors.
e. 4. RICHARDS,
Secretary and Treasurer
Hilo, Hawaii, April 7sh, 1891. I375-zs
The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-05-26
INTERNATIONAL COURTESY.

An application was lately made
by an officer of the United States
army, Lieut.. p. II. Clarke, of the
cavalry service, to join the German
army, in order to acquire a prac-
teal knowledge of the superior
German cavalry service. The APP
plication was favorably received,
and Lieut.. Clarke has been detailed
to serve in the Westphalian Hussar
Regiment No. II, stationed at Dus-
seldorf: This is the first instance.
says the New York Herald, {" of a
United States army officer being
detailed to serve in a German regi-
ment, and the fact that he is per-
mitted to join the Westphalian
hussars shows the kindly feeling
OF the German government, and
that there is no jealousy on the
part of the military authorities
here. The American Minister
Phelps, residing at Berlin, has Off
cially thanked the German Minister
of war for this special favor, who
replied that it afforded HIM pleasure
to do anything to increase the
friendship and sympathy that had
always existed between the officers
OF the American army and those of
the German army"