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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-06-24
The Wanamaker Idea.

Brother Wanamaker's great idea of
free postal delivery in the rural districts
gets conspicuous place in the miscella.
neous department or bargain counter
of the Republican platform. Curiously
enough it is coupled with reaffirmation
of the pledge Of 1888 to reduce letter
postage to one cent at the earliest posi-
BILE moment. But the practical effect of
Brother Wanamaker's rural free deliv-
cry is to increase to two cents the post.
age on drop letters on which the rural
inhabitant has been paying one cent
New York Sun.
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PlATT AND NEW.
The Kew York Worlds Opinion of Them
as Newsgatherers.


as Newsgatherers.
We are obliged to Mr.. Platt for let
ting the public know through Th,
World what he thought he wished the
people to think he thought about the
situation at Minneapolis. But we are
compelled to say that, sorry as we arr
for Mr.. Platt's impending retiremen,
from politics, the reputation he has
earned for accurate reporting will no,
secure him a permanent job on The
World.
Our compliments to Mr.. New for his
very accurate work in reporting for The
World the situation at Minneapolis
News newspaper training has stood
him in good stead. Should he wish tc
retire from the consular service or from
partisan politics he can obtain steady
job in the news department of The
World.-New York World.
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Harrison Is Handicapped.

Harrison is handicapped with the
faults Of a personal administration; with
the scandals he has drawn upon himself
through the Wanamakers, the Porters
the Raums and others of his associates
with his advocacy of force bill, and
with the secret if not the open enmity OF
some of the most active political man.
ayers in his party:-New York Evening
World N
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Sectional Politics.

The Republican platform denounces
"the continued inhuman outrages per-
petrated upon American citizens for po
litical reasons in certain southern states
of the Union But not word abou,
Port Jeryis. The thirty-six electoral
votes which Mr.. Harrison expects to re-
ceive from New York should not have
restrained the platform makers from
expressing an honest protest agains,
lynching either in New York or Texas
New York Advertiser
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Flapdoodle.

The platform is mostly pure buncombe
mere hapdoodle, The most impudent
thing in the whole structure is four
line resolution commanding the spirit
and evidence of reform in the civil SER
vice." This in convention dominated
by 200 Office holders, in behalf of an ad-
ministration that looted the public SER
vice for spoils quicker and cleaner than
the job was ever before done in the his
tory of the government.-New Yorl,
World.
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Depew's ChildIike Optimism.

MIR. Depew told the convention in his
speech that this years political battle
will be won or lost upon the policy,
foreign and domestic. the industrial
measures and the administrative acts Of
the administration of Benjamin Harri-
son." That is true, and Mr.. Depew's
optimism was never more sharply en-
phasized than in the cheerful way in
which he contemplated such prospect
for his party.-New York World.
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Reward the Shenardi

Why doesn't President Harrison thrill
the country by appointing Colonel Shep-
ard to the vacant secretaryship of state?
The colonel would then have chance
to demonstrate from the Office files that
Harrison, and not Blaine, actually filed
the Office Of secretary and impaired to
it the luster which has even dazzled the
eyes of far Cathay.-New York Adver-
tisar
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And He VIII he the Last.

Benjamin Harrison is the first presi-
dent who ever secured denomination
by an open and unblushing use of the
power and patronage of his great Office.
New York World.
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platt's Forte.

Evidence accumulates that Mr.. Platt's
forte is the express business. AS a news
paper correspondent he is deception,
and as a political leader he is a calamity.
New York Advertiser
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For English Consumption.

The argument put forward in defense
of the Mckinley tariff by Andrew Car
negie that lit possesses free trade fca-
lures to n greater extent than protective
ones is intended for English use only.
On this side Of the water thastarif is
defended for other reasons. .-N6w YORK
World
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individual Disappointment" have
not controlled the Republican conven-
ton But they may have considerable
to do with the election. York
World
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Don't Give Him Another Chance.
Benjamin Harrison signed the billion
dollar appropriations that squandered
the surplus. York World
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I;nck l. ed by Otficehoiders,

A president with $50, 900 officehoiders
at his back is a pretty hard man to beat
in convention. New York Advertiser.
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Played Out PIumes.

For Sale-A number Of white plumes
somewhat damaged by smoke. Inquire
of T. e. P, dealer in secondhand goods.
Evening World.
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Blaine Not I'm 1t.

We feel authorized to state that MIR
Blaine will not be in Mr.. Harrison's
next cabinet. New York Advertiser.
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Some Of the Blaine shouters are COM
ing home with their bridges burned be-
hind Philadelphia Record.
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The Niger In the WoOdDIle.

The Republican platform conceals a
purpose to revive the force bill with
undisputed truisms about "a free and
honest ballot. New York World.
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Lost in New uampshire's Woods.

Among all the blooms" at Minneapo.
lie, it is strange that nothing was heard
of the ex-senator Blair boom. "-phila-
delphia Record.
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DO you Wan. More Of Harrison?

The convention was in favor of sec-
ond term. Now 70 hear from the coun-
try.-Nev Y~k Advertiser
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An Ualucky Ticket.
viii the Friday ticket be hung up by
the peoplea-Bvening World.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-16

this anterior proportion Of production
that the relative value Of the metals had
adjusted itself, and had been substan-
italy steady for two centuries prior to
the discovery Of the great gold feds Of
California and A dstralia.
ITO be e0lnnued.)
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-16
EXPORTS.
IMPORTS.

This leaves a net export of $204, ,083, ITO,
which being deducted from the amount
produced, would leave as still remaining
in the country $S5,77O,757.
During this period the consumption
of silver through the abrasion and loss
of coin was trifling, as no coin OF any
description was in circulation except for
a short time during that period, it hav-
ing been expelled by legal tender paper.
The consumption, therefore, must have
been in plate and in the arts, and the
data for computing it are
Flrst-The excess, $S5, 5,770,757, of the
production against the net export.
Second-The diminution in the stock
of silver coins and bullion between 1860
and 1876. The stock now, outside OF
s3O,OO0,0OO in subsidiary coinage, is es-
timated by the director Of the
mint at s3,O00,0OO. To January /,
1860, there had been minted $4l,-
487,2O7 OF underweighted silver coins,
under the act Of February 81, 1853,
designed exclusively for domestic use
The mint value Of this coinage being
above it's bullion value, it could not be
exported proftably, and consequently all
or nearly all of it continued in domestic
use until specie payments were sus-
pended in 1862 There was also, in 1860,
a considerable quantity of full tender
American silver coin in use, and a still
larger quantity Of foreign silver cola,
especially Mexican dollars and French
five-franc pieces.
Third-The quantity Of the foreign
silver coin, not entered at the custom
houses, brought in by the 5O8,S52 inn
migrants that arrived in this country
during the seventeen years referred to.
The New York commissioners Of emf.
grafton December Is, 1854 say:
German immigrants have, for the past
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-16

they use up more than that, as Francs
has now not only the double STANDARD
legally, but has actually in circulation q
large amount Of silver, approximately
$500, ,000 900, beyond what merely sub
sidiary coinage would require
The silver used by the Paris manufac'
turers is estimated at 100000 francs
per week, or $10OOO,OO0 per annum. A
part Of this manufacture is undoh btedly
not consumed in France, but exported
or sold to the wealthy foreigners with
whom Paris is always thronged. 1t is
not possible to explain the excess of
French imports Of silver over exports,
except by assuming large French man.
ufacture OF silver. This excess for the
eight years ending with 1875 was $262,-
4l5,OOO. of which only $14O,000,0O0 is ac-
counted for as being either in coins or as
having been sent to the mints to be
coined, and $80,0O0,OO0 as consumed by
the Paris manufacturers. The remainder,
being $42,4l5,OOO. or s5,3Ol 375 annually,
may be accounted for as used by French
manufacturers outside of Paris, or by
supposiDg that there may be inaccura.
Cies in the custom house returns.
In the first eleven months OF 1876 the
excess Of French silver imports over ex-
ports was s24, 500, ,259, Of which $9,717,-
08O was minted, leaving $l4, ,873, ,179 unac-
counted for.
Taking the estimates of the commits
sloner Of mining and OF the director OF
the mint, the total silver production Of
the United States in seventeen years,
from 1860 to 1875, both inclusive, was
s2s9, 9,S54,527.
During the same period the exports
and imports of silver were as follows:
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-16
MONETARY COMM1S1ON.

gresS August 10, 1875,
NO. Xxx.
Estimates of consumption Of Sfl0er IN III
arts, and By the abrasion and LOsS
cOins.
In the eight years ending with 1877
the imports Of silver into Great Britain
exceeded the exports by $44,370, ,5O(
making a. annual average excess OF i'm
ports OF $5,547,437. The British silye
commission assume that this sum o
95,547 ,437 represents the annual silve
consumption of Great Britain, but the,
overlook the fact that there should b.
added to this excess Of imports over OK
ports the amount OF silver taken from itl
own mines, and also the much larger ant
very considerable amount extracted IL
England annually from imported argen
tiferous ores and lead. Sir Hector Hay
In his testimo y before the British com
mission, estimates the value of the last
amount at 9l, 100000, or s5,000,000; but
1t is only recently, and in consequence oi
improved methods Of extracting silver
from lead, that it can have reached &c
large figure In 1865 1t was estimated at
less than one.6fth as much. Ernest Seyd,
quoting r. Hunts Mineral Statistics,
estimates the annual production OF the
British silver mines at 9l40000 to el60,-
600, or from 100000 to 100000, and
says that the annual aggregate of this
production, together with that of the
British metal refnerles, is not less than
Rl,OOO,0OO.
Assuming that they had only S5,547,-
4S7 to account for, the British commls-
sion set down two-ffths Of it to the ac-
count OF keeping up the silver coinage
and three fifths Of il to the account Of
use in plate and the arts. II this last
estimate is not too low, Jacobs esti-
mate, made in 1881, or nearly fifty years
ago, that Great Britain used IN plate
and the arts 9S20,521, or 100000, must
have been too high. But If the annual
silver consumption of Great Britain is
really no more than S5 547, ,437, Germany,
France and the United States, with a
population three and three fourths times
greater than that OF Great Britain,
must, at the same rate, consume S20,-
602,8S9.
To assume the same ratio of con-
sumption in France, Germany and the
United States as in Great Britain, is far
inside OF the probabilities. So far as
waste in the coinage is concerned, it is
very much larger at the present time,
because they use very much greater
quantity of silver coin The United
States use less, but France uses four
times as much, and Germany uses more,
and will do 80 until it's silver demoneti-
Eation is completed.
As to the future, making the supposi-
tions most unfavorable to silver, that
France sbandons the double standard,
that the United States do not restore it,
and that Germany perseveres in it's gold
policy, all those countries must have as
large subsidiary silver coinage per
capita as Great Britain. AS to use in
plate and the arts, the evidence is that
Germany and France use at least as
much per capita as Great Britain. In
this country, where the inability to in
dulge in Injuries is vastly more diffused
and general, this use is unquestionably
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-16
WEAVER IN KANSAS.
His Reception Not Surpassed by Anything
in Kansas History,

Those people IN Kansas who compre-
hend the political situation are loyal to
their principles and they honor the man
or woman who represents those princi-
pies. No man has met with such mag
niicent reception from the plain people
as has James B. Weaver during the last
week.
General Weaver arrived in the state
on November 3, and met his first audi
ence in Topeka on that day. The day
was dark and gloomy, yet the streets
were thronged with people before noon,
and q long procession of people made
their way to the fair grounds where the
afternoon meeting was held. This pa
rade was headed by Marshall's band and
extended from the Rock Islan1 depot to
the fair grounds. Cartoons and banners
OF the most appropriate sentiments were
numerous through the column. General
Weaver spoke at the fair grounds to
large crowd and again at the Grand
opera house in the evening At both
places he was followed by other speak
erS, and both meetings were larger than
any that lad been held previously dur
ing the campaign. J. 81. Atwood, Mrs.
Lease and Senator PETER spoke at the
meeting in the opera house, and Jno. A.
Eaton addressed an overflow meeting of
1900 on the outside. The Topeka fam
beau club gave fireworks display, and
the only thing to disturb the night dem
onstration was the throwing of stones
and eggs into the procession.
At Mcpherson on the 4th, Weaver met
with greater multitude. It seemed
that all the people from that and the ad-
joining counties had come to meet their
standard bearer and encourage him. The
general himself described this as the
most enthusiastic reception he had been
given, and the crowd had not been
equalled in size except in the larger
cities.
Cowley county wanted to welcome
Weaver, and the people Of that, Sumner,
Chautsuqua, Elk and Butler counties
greeted him at Arkansas City on the 9th.
Here 10000 people assembled in RIVER
view park in the afternoon 1t could
truly be said of this crowd that the
woods were full of them" Men got
ladders and took their positions in the
branches Of trees which were numerous
about the speakers stand, and hundreds
who could not get within hearing dis
tance OF Weaver were content to stand
at q seeing distance and view him
through glasses. The republicans had
rival meeting at this place, but it did not
weaken tie enthusiasm of the Populists
particle. 1t was noted as the largest
crowd ever assembled in the city.
The closing rally of Weavers' Kansas
tour was held at Parsons on the 7th.
Here he met with another opposition
rally, the chief attractions Of which were
Senator Ingalls, and Mr.. Humphrey. Mrs.
Lease was also at this great gathering,
sdd the size of the crowd was almost
equal to that at Arkansas City.
The ovations given to Gen. Weaver on
this tour will certainly be remember by
him during the remainder of bis life,
and the people of Kansas win look back
with pride TO the day when they well
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-16

OoImdu bubuOEIpt6BS DrOu9ub lnl
the country annually about $ll O00, ,OO'
| The amount OF money thus brought int
the country is incalculsble.
In 1856 these commissioners que,
toned all the immigrants, and foun
that, according to the answers, the actus
cash brought into the United States b
them averaged s68OS per capita of th
142342 arriving In that year.
| Superintendent Kennedy's report (Jar
uary, 1859 says:
While the table Of 1876 presents th
average amount of cash means at $68 O
per head, subsequent information shove,
that, had full admission been made O
the funds in possession, the averag
would have been at least double tn
amount reported.
1t cannot be known in what proper
tions this cash, amounting to more thai
$3OO,0OO,OO0, brought in by immigrant
in these seventeen years, consisted o
bankers drafts, gold or silver. Gold il
easier to carry, but, on the other hand
the German immigration bringing in th'
most money was from country having
for the greater part of the time no golt
currency.
A review of all the facts of the cas-
seems to justify conjecture, if not al
opinion, that the consumption of silvel
in the United States, in plate and in the
arts, during these seventeen years, aver
aged annually s10,000,0OO.
The populations OF Europe exclusive
Of France, Great Britain and Germany
Of America exclusive of the United
States), Of Africa and Of Australia are az
follows, respectively:
EurOp0.. ..s"".............. l9S,UO OO'
America. ..."......"'.......... 46 OOO 10
AtrIc@ 2O5.OOO OOl
AUSTRALIA. ....'............"........ 4bOO'W'
TOTAL. ..........,........... ....,. 445 800 O0'
Throwing out of this account alto
gether the barbarous portion, amounting
to l60,500, 600 Of the African population
it may be assumed that the remaining
2S5. 600, 600 consume per capita two-6ithE
as much silver as the people of Great
Britain, or $l9, ,762, ,732 annually. A small
group OF countries (Holland, Belgium
the English colonies, Switzerland and
the Scandinavian states), with popula.
ton of 26,500 600, consume quite as much
per capita as Great Britain. Austria
Italy and Russia, in Europe, with pop.
ulation of 132, 100000, have substantially
expelled silver by paper, and use very
little in coinages, but their wealth and
habits make them large consumers in
other forms. Northern Africa uses sill.
YER largely in both forms, and so does
Spain.
If the annual silver production Of the
world does not 60 above its present figure
of s74,0O0,0OO, and if the annual con-
sumption outside Of Asia continues al
$.,0O00,000, the total inadequacy of the
remaining s24,OOO,O00 to supply the
Asiatic demand is apparent. It's certain
that British India alone, containing only
one-fourth Of the population Of Asia,
consumed that quantity annually on the
average Of the forty years ending with
1875. Schem's Statistics gives 79S,0OO,-
600 as the total population OF Asia. This
estimate includes 1S2,OO0,OOO outside Of
India and China. Undoubtedly the con-
sumption OF silver in India is above the
average of Asiatic consumption, but it is
everywhere considerable, and in China is
conatantlv incraaainO and in nrohahlo
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-31
~GLEAN1NGs.

Much credit is due the Sixth District
Citizens Association for the manner in
which they have agitated the new Wood
lawn school matter. "The association is
an excellent organization" said an ap-
p~reciative Woodlawn resident this morn
ing. ut has secured new gas lamps,
new side walks aud a new sewer for our
section, and 1t looks as though we are to
secure a new school house also. Presi-
dent Harvey is Il hustler, and the Wood
people appreciate his efforts"
ksNo effort Is being spared by Contractor
Condor to rush through the completion
OF the new Fifth precinct police station.
A large force of men are at work. The
foundation Is now laid and Mr.. Condor
expects To turn over the building. COM
pleted. to the coppers on December l.
At the last meeting or the G~reenville
Building and Loan Association five shares
of $500 each were sold at a premium of
sos per share. The Greenville Building
and Loan Association will hold an appro-
priation sale on Monday next.
The West Side Rent and Taxpayers
Association will meet this evening at the
Globe Hotel. The topics for discussion
are:-WestS Side sewers, rapid transit, fire
escapes on public school, broken side
Walks on Bergen avenue aud need of
street lamps on Warner venue
= The storek eepers in the vicinity of Dan-
forth and Oceau avenues became tired
waiting for the Street aud Water Cor.,
missioueIs to ill in the large holes .sn
Ocean avenue. between Dauforta and
Linden avenues, and yesterday they de-
citeo to do the work themSefves. Several
c srtloads Of stone and earth were be-
cured and dumped Into the holes. The
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-31
BUILDING In BAYONNE.
Numerous Dwellings Going Up
Who is this Drowned Man?

On Avenue e, between West Forty
fourth and West Forty-ffth streets, Bay
onne, a handsome residence is being
erected at a cost of So, 400 for Richard c..
Mead.
William Van Cleaf is erecting four
two-story and attic frame cottages on
East Forty-sixth street, near Avenue d,
at a cost of So. 900 each.
The body found IN New York Bay off
East Thirty-fourth street yesterday by
James Van Buskirk, is still lying in
Routn's Morgue, Bergen Point. awaiting
Identification. 1t is badly ~deconiposed
aud scarcely recognizable. The dead
man was about five feet. six inches tall
and bald. He wore no beard. His cloth
ing consists of gray and black checked
trousers. a blue striped tennis shirt.
Il dark sack coat and waistcoat,
striped cotton hose, gauze underclothes
and a black tie. In the pockets were SIS
in silver, tickets on the Saginaw Railway
and Detroit River Railway, ticket D 4 for
the Court Theatre for Angus 22, two con-
cert tickets, five tickets for Bay City fire
sufferers relief entertainment, and COM
mencement tickets for st. Andre WIS
Academy.
For Joseph Moorecraft a two-story and
attic frame cottage is being built at a cost
OF $1,000 on West Grand street, heal
Avenue G.
Charles N. DAILY. of West Eighth street
and Avenue Is, has returned from his
outing among the Thousand Islands.
Mrs. Henry Ricketts, of Avenue D is
entertaining Miss Mamie Carey of New
ara.
AT a cost of "a. 300 q handsome Queen
Anne villa is being erected for Attorney
Horace Robertson on West Eighth street,
near Avenue B.
A double two,story and attic frame
dwelling is nearing completion on Ave
hue E and East Thirty-ffth street for j.
j.. Bury. The structure will cost SIS, 500,
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard l.. Ferris of Will
mington. Del, are the guests of Mr.. aud
Mrs. Edward j. Andrews of Avenue E.
The family of George Carragan of East
Thirty-thild street will terminate their
sojourn of two months at Liberty, Sui
llvan county N. Y, on Saturday.
Bank Inspector P. H. Mooney of New
York and Miss M. H. Penny of Roudout,
N. Y, are visiting Mir. aud Mrs. Edward
O'Keefe Of No. 90 West Ninth street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-31

since August IL. At the Post Office
it is told there is no remedy. The
officials are too busy to do anything
about it.
This is the result of havingt the Post
Office run as a machine under a poll
tician like Van Colt with q chief like
Wanamaker. There is precisely the
same trouble here, a little less in de-
gree, merely. The Postofice goes as
it pleases and the political bosses of it
are too busy to give it any attention.
The expert evidence, proving that
there was no blood on either of the
hatehets in the Borden household,
finally disposes of the notion that
Lizzie Borden committed the murder,
herself; for, if she did, what did she
do with the weapon? This conclu-
sion is borne out by the absence of all
trace of blood upon her clothing.
But, as the case stands, the pre-
sumption is almost irresistible that
she knows who did it and was in some
way accessory to it.