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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-07-23


therefore be made to depend entirely upon
the confidence which, with prudent organ
ization and careful management, the State
banks may be enabled to create for them
selves in the communities in which they
are located. But however great that con-
fidence may be, it is not at all likely that
such banks can be brought into hurtful
| eompstitjQp with the national banks, and
there is every reason to suppose that they
would work tremendously together in the
effort to supply the needs Of local and inter-
state trade.
The great objection urged against the
old State-bapk circulation that it was not
suitable for interstate commerce and often
times subjected the holder to o damaging
discount, is not one that can be success
fully maintained in the present condition
of the currency. From the adoption of
the Constitution to the imposition of the
tax on the State banks, the paper money
of the State banks, with the exception of
the notes issued by the Bank Of the United
States, was the only currency or circulating
medium, except gold and silver, left to tae
States. The legal tenders issued in the
pane of the United States and the national
bank potes nog in circulation greatly re-
lieve the force of the objection to the State
bank circulation by supplying the necessary
medium for interstate commerce and also
in producing a direct tendency to restrain
the State bank circulation within the limits
of the State from which it has obtained
its chartered privileges. Such result,
believe, could be reasonably expected to
| follow the re-establishment of the State
banks upon equal terms with the national
| banks.
In this opinion / am fully sustained by
Mr.. Webster, who in a speech delivered at
the Merchants meeting in Wall street,
New York, on the 18th of September.
1910, said
.'My opinion is that currency emanating
partly from national authority as broad in
its origin as the whole country, and partly
| from local circulation, is better currency
for the whole people than ever before existed
in the world. Each Of these classes of insti-
tutions, and each of these kinds of currency
has its own proper use and value"
If this be true, where are we TO look for
the remedy? The answer can be found
! in the opinion of Chief Justice Chase, in
the case twice heretofore referred to, the
Veazic Bank VS.. Fenno, in which, almost
in terms of apology, he finds himself con-
strained to say that
SIT is insisted, however, that the tax in the
] case before us is excessive, and so excessive
as to indicate purpose on the part Of Con-
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13

The TINES dosn't fill it's columns
with boastngs of what it has done,
or will do. We never bragg on our
selves. But we cannot help but feel
highly erdtified at the success of
both the Decoration Day and
Fourth of July celebrations. The
TINES claims the credit of having
suggested them both and credit for
the immense crowd that was here
on both Of those days. This was
the only advertising medium in the
County and it proves that the peo-
pie do read the paper. We do not
claim any of the credit for the exer-
cises on the Fourth, nor for the ad-
mirable way in which they were
carried out. The success of this
part Of the day is due entirely to
the untiring energy and zeal of the
citizens of the town, but we claim
credit for the suggestion and the
large crowd. Now is the time to
advertise
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
The Business Situation,

THE year ending with June takes
rank as the greatest in our history
in the lines of manufacture, exports,
domestic trade and railway earnings,
while the bankruptcies were the least
for five years in number and magni-
tude. Money has been unprecedent-
edly abundant and cheap, giving a
stimulus toward overproduction in
all lines of action. Collections in
every nook and corner of the count
ry were made with greatest ease.
In some respects the situation just
now is overhung by clouds. The
opinion had become general on both
sides of the Atlantic that the export
of gold was about over for the season
under the operation ofthe unwritten
laws of trade. 1t remains to be seen
whether the passage ofa free coin
age bill by the Senate will not be
followed by such lack of confidence
in Europe in our currency basis as
to lead to large orders for gold.
The iron trade is demorilized by
strikes of workmen Of the closing of
mills by theil owners, until 400
large concerns lie idle, and will so
remain until compromises can be
effected in the scale of wages. The
stock of cotton in sight is still enor-
nous, and prices declined for the
week the merest fraction. Then
there is the uncertainty prevailing
as to all crops except wheat. Corn
is several weeks late, and is still
menaced by cold and wet weather.
An investigation of the clearing
house reports show great gains in the
volume of business at the second
class towns along the Mississippi and
Missouri Rivers, and large decreases
at Nashville, New Orleans, Calves
ton, and Dallas. The gains at Hall
fax and Montreal are much greater
than at any city on this side of the
line. Inter Ocean.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13

must cover the entire ground. Mr..
Bland may attempt to crawfsh and
evad,' the force Of his own criti-
cism; there is no depying that the
bill would compel the use of the
actual silver and the retirement of
the certificates. Pending this re-
tirment would they be a legal ten
der? Probablyrot, but it d.es not
follow, as Bland supposed, that this
was an inadvertence. Stewart wants
the actual silver, now stored in the
treasury vaults, forced into circula-
ton. and the paper money now out
standing, issued in payment for it,
retired. Those certificates now cir
culate at par and are as good as gold.
Thstis what disturbs Stewart and
his associates. They want a great
gulf dug and maintained. between
the gold dollar and the silver dollar.
Those certificates are bridge span
ming the chasm. Tear it down. Mr..
Bland did not appreciate the full
significance of the silver movement
in its bottom purpose.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
The GroWning Folly,

WE wonder if the Democratic par
ty thinks the old people of this
country have no memories and that
the young voters know nothing
about history. Such is the natural
inference from the outrageous de-
mand of the Chicago platform that
the 10 per cent tax on the State
bank notes be repealed. In the
days of State bank notes the work
ing-man who received them as wag-
es was at the mercy of his employer.
They might be good or they might
not, according as the State bank
that issued them was strong or Wild
cat. Too often the poor man had to
take what was offered him or 90
without his pay, and then found that
his wildcat bank notes were not
worth anything like 100 cents per
dollar of face value.
If a convention of lunatics or
cranks had passed such resolution
nobody would have thought much
about it, but It is really alarming to
find one of the two great national
parties of the country seriously de-
claring in favor of such financial
idiocy as the State wildcat currency
system VIGOROUSLY was. A party
that has so little sense as that has
not sense enough to be trusted with
the government of Timbuctoo, let
alone that of the greatest nation in
the world. N. Y. Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13

works for a siege and brought
armed men at a very large cost tt
take care of his idle property. This
of course, does not justify the labor
leaders who caused tie striking
wOrkmen to fire on the PinkertOn
men, who had been hired to 60 to
Homestead for the protection OF
the works, but the fact that these
men had firearms for tpe purpose
of firing on the strikers will give
all the sympathy to the strikers,
and justly SO. The great majority
of these strikers felt that they were
fighting for their homes and fam
lilies, and in one sense they were.
Carnegie, on the other hand, had
simply brought these armed watch.
men to protect his property, which
was only in danger because he in
sisted on An arbitrary reduction of
wages. The cases are widely diff
erent, and human sympathy will
go out 10 the family in the laborer's
hut, while the palace in Scotland
will be in receipt of only indignant
remOnstrances.
1t Is pity and shame that any
of this should have occurred. 1t is
a pity because Of the suffering that
must follow in the fam lilies of these
strikers, and a shame because it
stirs up and vitalizes the latent
animosity between capital and
labor that endangers the peace and
happiness Of the Republic. Had
Mr.. Carnegie been a true American
"a man who loved his country and
his fellow men rs real patriots do
the tragic occurrences at Home.
stead would never have had a place
In current history. There is wrong
probably on both sides, but that
taere is certainly ineXcusable
wrong on the part of Mr.. Carnegie
all the world will agree.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
The Bland and the Stewart Bill.

The Bland and the Stewart Bill.
The Stewart silver bill, while it
agrees with the Bland bill in provid-
ing for the free and unlimited coin
age of silver, differs from it in some
important respects. At first Mr..
Bland and his friends insisted that
the measure would have to be
amended before it could reach a
vote in the House, but caucus was
held Tuesday at which it was de-
cided to swallow the Stewart bill
whole. 1t would hardly be possible
to pass any bill if the committee on
coinage stopped to tinker up this
one. In an interview a few days
ago Mr.. Bland said:
1t seems to me that by repeating
the act of 1890 this bill deprives the
eighty-odd million of silver certif-
Gates of their legal-tender quality.
This would admit ola veto by the
President, without reference to the
question of silver coinage, upon the
ground that the act repudiated the
certificates as lawful money. The
legal tender quality given these cer-
tifcates when they were issued must
be preserved, and if this act, by an
inadvertence, deprives them of that
quality, it must be amended before
it is passed by the House. OF
course there was no intention on the
part of the gentleman proposing the
bill to destroy the legal tender char
acter Of those certificates, and it may
be that they have looked into the
matter and discovered that it is all
right, but it seems to me that there
has been an oversight which must
be corrected.
Should the bill pass it might be
vetoed by the President on account
of the certificate clause, and without
going into the merits of the bill in
the main provision. The President
cannot sign part of the bill and veto
part. His approval or rejection
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
Physical, or Mental and Moral?

We would like to have some Dem
ocratic "force bill" shrieker point
out, if he can, what there is that is
sectional" about this clause of the
Constition of the United States or
the calm and conservative demand
for its enforcement to be found in
the Minneapolis platform:
The right of the citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States, or by any State, on account
of race, color or previous condition
of servitude.
1t is admitted, and defended as a
social necessity, that in a certain
section of the country the rights of
citizens of the United States to vote
are denied or abridged on account Of
race, color and the prejudices grow
ing out of previous condition of SER
vervitude. They are not so denied
or abridged by the United States,
but by certain States individually,
or the people thereof. Congress is
endowed by the section following the
one quoted above with the power to
enforce that article by appropriate
legislation. But it is expected that
the States shall observe it and enfor-
ce it themselves. The constitution
is built on faith in the wisdom and
justice of the people organized into
States, and if the violation of the
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above section has taken the shape of
State laws, the natural and obvious
way to stop that violation is for the
offending States to repeal their un-
constitutional laws. Ours is a gov
ernment of system and order, and
its Constitution is marvellous in har-
mony with the truth Of science that
the greatest progress is made by fol-
lowing the line of least resistance.
We deny that the emphatic and
uncompromising mandate of the con-
stitution, quoted above, cannot be
enforced except by methods that
tend to produce anarchy. The ac-
cidents of "race, color and previous
condition of servitude" have no more
relation to moral and intellectual
fitness for the duty of voting than
any other physical circumstances of
a citizens life, such as a mans loss
Of his arm or the color of his hair or
his poverty. Moral and intellectual
fitness for the suffrage is to be pro-
noted, not by the application Of
physical tests, but by moral and in
tellectual tests. Ifitis a social ne
cessity to restrict the exercise of
moral and intellectual act, such as
voting is, the qualifications of the
vote should be moral and intellectu-
al.
That is all that the Republican
platform demands of the Southern
States, and it is no more than it de-
mands of the Eastern States, or the
Middle States, or the Western
States. One would think that if
there ever was political party that
had shown the sincerity of its devo-
ton to a principle, the Republican
party has shown it to the principle
of the equal right of white and
black to vote, subject to the same
conditions, whatever conditions it
might be wise for the States to apply
exingencies of selfgovernment. The
party is now grossly misrepresented
by its opponents for reatfirming this
principle.
Any candid mind can see that the
cry of "force bill" and sectional
ISM is wholly lodging of the is,
sue. The Democratic party is the
party of force, when it makes the
qualifications ofyoting physical. The
Republican party is the party of civ
ilization and progress when it de-
mands that, by the usual machinery
of the ordinary law making in unit
the State, qualifications of voting
be made only intellectual and NOR
al.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
Tobacco Frauds.

There are honest cigar dealers who al.
NIT that it is now impossible for then 10.
certify to the genuineness of all their
stock. 1T has lately been found Qua %
said one Of them, "that Chinese tobacco
raised in China Is shipped to Cuba, wbes,.
it is made into cigars that are exported.
and sold as genuine Havanas, made tsvzss.
the Cuban leaf. In Cuba there are so, as,
Cinnamon, and many Of them are i'm the
cigar business, getting invoices of Chinese
tobacco from Hong Kong, which is mar
Seted as the product Of Cuba. The.
Chinese stuff is cheap, but it sells Esgts
when made into cigars branded ehasoe.
Havana. The business is new one, beat.
It is growing .end any quantity of Chines.e
leaf, tainted sith opium, can be gs
from Hong Kong by the counterfeittzs.
We ought to be able to raise in shs-
Southern States of this country, withsas
speaking of Connecticut and Pennsylv,s--
MIA, plenty of good American tobacco T.x
american cigar smokers,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
PITTsBURG authorities

PITTsBURG authorities know
what to do with anarchists. Herr
Most has been laboring in the vicin-
ity of that city to excite riots for
four weeks and was advertised to
speak at a hall at one of the suburbs.
The police interfered and notified
Most that if he was found in the
limits of the city again he would be
sent to the workhouse as a suspic-
ious character.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
THE NOMINATION OF
CLEVELAND
THE

Hoping against hope, the veter.
ans had anticipated that possibly
the Chicago Convention might give
the country a candidate less posi-
lively Obnoxious---to them than
Mr.. Cleveland. Any of the other
possible nominees would have been
more acceptable; no other could
possibly have been SO distasteful
The convention was aware of the
feelings of the comrades-since it
is only fonr years since votes of the
eX. X.sOldiers, without regard to par
ty, pronounced an emphatic con-
demnation upon Mr.. Cleveland at
the polls, and deprived him Of the
honor of being his own successor
Nothing has occurred since to i'm
prove their opinion of him, but
many of his most ardent supporters
and eulogists have been the rank
est maligners of the eX-soldiers of
the Union, while the friends of the
veterans in that party have been
the men and the papers who sup.
ported other candidates for the
nomination. Therefore, the eX-sol-
diers cannot help feeling that the
denomination of Mr.. Cleveland was
a direct personal affrOnt to them,
and an intimation that their votes
and support are not desired in the
campaign which has been formally
opened.
The comrades cannot remember
the four years of Mr.. Cleveland's
Administration except with feel
ings of anger and humiliation. 1t
was a long period of bitterness for
them. In Washington and through
out the country they were turned
out of Office by thousands, that their
places might be had for mere polit-
ical heelers and ex-rebels. Ardent
ly-desired general pension legisla-
tion, which had been urged for
years by the National Encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the
Republic and by the Department
Encampm ents aud Posts, and
which had been petitioned for by
hundreds of thousands of ex-sol-
diers as an act of National justice
was embarrassed and retarded by
the most frivolous and aggravating
pretexts, and finally vetoed by Mr..
Cleveland in a message that pro-
voked even the indignation of
many of his political supporters in
the house of Representatives. The
Committee on Invalid Pensions, a
majority of whom were Democrats,
in scathing reply exposed the CHI
canery of the Presidents alleged
reasons for this veto, saying that
"the refinement of a chemical ex-
pertinent is exceeded in an effort to
do away with the plan of provisions
of the BILL" "We regard the
strained Interpretation put upon
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-07-13
The Cottage VS.. the Palace.

The Cottage vs. the Palace.
There is great excitement at
Homestead, Pa. A number of men
have already been killed, and a much
larger number wounded, all ON sc-
count Of two exacting, selfish and
dogmatic forces. There may have
been justice on the side of Mr..
Carnegie when he declined to pay
the prices demanded for labor by
the Amalgamated Association, but
the manner in which he brought the
crisis about, ignoring entirely the
principle of arbitration, and the
foolish and tantalizing way in which
he prepared to defend his works
against any possible attack of the
strikers and their friends, will carry
the sympathy of all Americans
agaiFt him and emphasize the pref
udices of wage earnefs against en-
ployers and capitalists.
Mr.. Carnegie is one of the few men
who within the last thirty years have
grown from comparative indigence
to very great wealth, being worth
from twenty-five to forty million.
He was born in Scotland, and, We
understand, spends most of his time
in a palatial home which he has in
his native country, but erected with
money earned in America. He is
an American by naturalization, but
not by instinct or feeling. He has
made some wise benefciences in
this country, but in such way as to
have left it questionable whether
they were suggested by the love of
mankind or to add to the glory Of
the Carnegie name.
A great attempt is made by some
papers to use this bloody difference as
an excuse for denouncing the Amer
lean system of protection, and from
appearances Carnegie is very willing
to have such differences made.
He would doubtless prefer to
have his steel works in England,
where he would run them on cheap
labor and have a better control of
this human portion of the machin-
cry if only the protective barrier
against English productions could
be removed from America. He is
much more nearly an Englishman
than an American in thoughts and
feelings, and has no love for our
system of protection. Certainly if
he had intended to strike that sys-
tenn a severe blow he could not
have acted any more efficiently
than he has done in provoking this
outbreak.
There is no doubt but every man
has right to decide what wages
he can afford to pay for labor, and
when the results of his business
show that he cannot afford to pay
the wages demanded he has the
right to close his business, but
when he controls such extensive
works, the stoppage of which means
poverty and suffering to thousands,
he has no right to close them down
until he has exhausted every reas-
enable and honorable method to
secure such a readjustment of
prices as will enable him to keep
them active. This, 1t seems, Carne-
gle has not done; on the other
hand, it is claimed that he has un-
necessarily antagonized his work
ing people, and that he further ir-
ritated them by preparing his great
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$500 A YEAR

the Bill in The message as an exE1Se
rather than reason for returaIag z
it to the House, and we believe SRsF
we do no injustice 10 the Executive,
when eonsid ering the whole mes
sage, to say that if its provisions
had been palmer, and that no ques-
ton could have been raised as ,N
whether it included only those XII
able to Tabor, that he would have
yet interposed objections" T@e'
Committee also resented another
insult to the soldiers in these Marls:
Your committee does aof s!lsIYR
in the opinion 'ihat there EXISTS
"A widespread disregard 'i' sn7fh
and good faith"D the proSecutFln
of pension e.Ai,ns. Nor do we ha-
lieve That tEse OK. x.soklfrs Mae nYr, Ds
to commit fynDd, perjury orsuH1r-
nation of perjusy for that purpose
or any other.
Of The 30J votes in the Houvge
when the question came up, IzsS
were for passage over the veto Ant3
l25 against this rebuke of the Rrss5-
dent. FROM then until Mr. Clevs.-
land yielded Ais,oistse to his success
sor, he added veto to veto IL psn-
sion Nils of al kinds, untis shs-
number Of these diSapprovtt fay
exceeded the aoial of the ve,oes es
every nature Of ali the Presidents
who had proceeded him. DE sajsD
not c0nfine himself to giving rtA-
sons or alleged reasons for these
disapprova!s, bu, went out of his
way to sneer n, aud make eheag~
sarcasm, upon the unfortunate vet
erans, and the widows Of such
whom he robbed Of rhe Nations Jus
tice. His whole course was a pain--
ful reminder to the veterans OF
the malignancy of the fire-in-ihe-
rear Copperhead class to which Ae
belonged during the war, and sas,
strong survival Df this malignant
spirit for more than quarter 0s u
century after the close of the WAY
Not even the broader views aMA
great responsibilities of tlle CAi@s
Magistracy could eradicate Or ssefa
ameliorate the bitter feeling thar
he had enteytmintd decades befDrD
against the men who heroicly ytnN
to the deadly front, while he took,
his selfish OF Sc in the peaceful rear,
1t is difficult to understand hus
any eX-soldier Who honors hiDsel3
and his comrades for the part he
and they took in suppressing the
great rebellion and preserving thAs
National life can bring hiinsels .C,
view with any cDmplacency she,
restoration Of Mr.. Cleveland TO IA
position where he can renew his
insults and injuries to the veterans
and their dependant ones. We be-
lieve that even fewer veterans wna
vote for him this Fall than fo9AN
years ago, because they have
forgotten nothing and learAeCa
much since then as to his innate
hatred Of those who put him to-
shame in the years of his yoIing
manhood by doing their patriotic
duty in the days which tried mems
souls, while he stunned the tyiGls
and perils Of The camp and bat ils,-
| feld.--The National Tribune.
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GEN. GRESHAM knew to well the
"value of peace and happiness" to
become third party candidate for
the Presidency. He was pretty
badly shot to pieces during the late
unpleasantness, but it never effected
his head. Gresham's head is clear
of all muddiness.