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The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

Cold Facts That Republicans Would DO
Well 20 Explain.

WHh ~ A4AFAAAAs
Certain conditions have been develop
ing in this country since the repub-
lican party came into power which are
interesting more and more deeply the
great mass of the people.
If these conditions are the result Of
republican financial legislation it is
time that the people should know it.
If they are the result of republican
tariff legislation all the forces of pro-
test should be concentrated upon that.
If they are the result of both combined,
then the whole general policy of the
party is a legitimate subject Of dis.
cussiou.
The conditions are these, and they
have never been disputed: When the
republican party came into power the
producing classes in this nation owned,
controlled and enjoyed about sixty
three per cent. of the national wealth.
The non-producing classes---that is,
those not engaged in active industry,
but living upon speculative invest
ments-comprised the remaining thirty
seven per cent.
Now, after some twenty-eight years
of republican legislation, the statistics
show that the producing classes own
but about twenty per cent. of the ma
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
INTERNATIONAL ooNFERENCE.

The President Trying to Secure One on the
Silver Question-GOssip In Regard to BIZ
metallism.
WASHINGTON, April 98.-While it is
an open secret that the president is en-
deavoring to secure an international
conference on the silver question, the
closest reticence in regard to the whole
subject is maintained at the White
house and the treasury department.
S. Dana Horton, who, as a confiden-
tial representative of this government,
spent q year or more among the finan-
cial officers of the government of Great
Britain, France, Prussia, Austria and
Italy for the purpose of ascertaining
their views on the subject of a bi-metallic
standard, and who has made elaborate
private reports of the results of his mis-
sion, is now in Washington and is fire.
quent visitor to the state and treasury
department Since his return from
Europe the correspondence on this sub
ject has been wholly with United States
ministers at the foreign capitals.
1t is said that the reports received
from different countries have satisfied
the president of the advisability of an
international conference and that he
has practically decided to take the
initiative in the matter. 1t is understood
that he will soon send special mes
sage to congress transmitting the cor
respondence on the subject.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
nAn ouIet on the Potomac.,

KINeFIsHER, Ok, April 2S.-After
hearing from every portion of the terri
tory Gov. Seay sent the following tele-
gram to Secretary Noble:
Hon. J. W. Noble Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, d. C.
KINGFIsHER Ok, April 22.-An quiet on the
Potomac. Not riot not gunshot wound in
all this country. Churches are already build
ing in the new towns. All the officers, civil and
military, SO far as known have done their whole
duty. No complaint has reached me from any
section. A. j. SEAY, Governor
The excitement at the United States
land Office is unabated. Thousands of
boomers are crowded around to file
claims.
Many boomers are still coming and
hotels are crowded more than ever,
while many are returning home.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
re TARIEE lssuE.
It Now Remains for Democracy to settle
This.


With the disappearance of the silver
issue from the canvass of this year tariff
reform will resume the Importance that
It had in the elections Of 1890, and that
really belongs to it. It is true that the
silver issue has not been completely or
permanently banished. 1t cannot be
that until the law of 1890, with its great
hazards and its conflicting provisions,
shall have been repealed. It is also
barely possible that the desperate fac
ton that has failed to fasten free coin
age upon the party by the action of the
majority in the house may show sufi-
cient strength or sufficient ugliness at
Chicago to force into the platform some
equivocal expression that may cause
embarrassment and confusion. But the
chances all are now that the interest in
the silver question will steadily wane,
and that when the two parties shall
have spoken in their respective conven-
tions neither of them will be so wholly
right or so wholly wrong in regard to
this question as to give it much influ-
ence in the canvass! Some it will have,
and there will be certain number of
voters who will feel, and not unjustly,
that on the whole the republican party
is likely to be safer than the democratic
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

Mr. GLADSTONE has written a PAM
phlet on the question of female suffrage
in which he gives his reasons for oppos-
ing the Acknowledgement of women. He
considers that the question ought to be
further discussed by the press and ON
the platform and that the time is not
vet ripe for legislative interference.
He notes as an objection that the wom-
an suffrage bill excludes married wom-
en-, equally or better qualified to exer-
else the franchise. He further contends
that the sex largely opposes the FRO
posed reform, which would open She
question of the right of women to fill
public Office. He does not fear taat
woman would encroach upon the power
of man, but he does fear lest we UNI
willingly invite her to trespass the
purity, the delicacy and elevation of
her own nature"
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

RALEIGH, N. c., April 2S.-William
Buttner, one of the delegates from Surry
county to the republican convention in
this city, has an interesting history.
He is the son of Chang, one of the Siam
ese twins, of worldwide fame. After
Eng and Chang retired from the show
business, they settled in Surry county,
N, c., and lived there until the time of
their joint death. Mr.. Buttner is an In
telligent man, in personal appearance
not differing from his fellows He is a
strong and active republican, and man
not without influence in the county
which he, in part, represented at the
state pppYentioa here,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

party in it's action on the currency. But
the issue will not be very definite and
will not be at all dominant.
1t is well for the. country that the
tariff will be again brought forward
and that it will be the controlling issue.
1t is now nearly half century since,
with the exception of the elections OF
1883 and 1890, the commercial policy of
the nation can be said to have been
passed upon fairly by popular vote.
McKlnleyism is but the ripened product
of the protective system growing out of
the war. But that system as protec-
tive one dates from the repeal of the in
ternal revenue taxes between 1866 and
1872. 1t was not originally protective
in any extreme sense, and the excess of
duties on imports over the compensat-
ing internal revenue taxes would now
be regarded as free trade, and pretty
rank free trade at that. The Mills bill
was very far from a return to the
Morrill, bill less internal taxation.
Shortly after the war, as soon as the
real effect of the repeal of the internal
taxes began to be obvious, the move
| ment for tariff reform began, and it has
been advancing steadily ever since.
But until 1888 the people never had an
opportunity to vote directly on it. 1t
was always presented to them compli-
Gated with and obscured by some other
question of great popular interest. At
most the vote for tariff reform was ten
tative and but partially effectual.
Sometimes the interference was from
the southern question, sometimes it was
the currency question, and on one occa-
sion at least-1S76-it was both. Mr..
Tilden was the first democratic candi-
date who succeeded in largely reducing
the Importance and influence of the
southern question. No one really
doubted his loyalty or feared that any
of the ''fruits of the war" would be
lost under him, or thatthe national dig
nifty or stability would be compromised
by him or with his assent. But there
was deep-seated suspicion as to the
financial soundness of the party and his
capacity to control his party on quos-
tions involving the currency. He stood
on platform that demanded the repeal
of the resumption act of 1875. 1t is, per-
haps, not too much to say that without
this source of weakness Mr.. Tilden
might have been indisputably elected.
However that may be, it is clear that
in 1876 the tariff was not a controlling
issue. 1t was more nearly SO in 1880,
but even then it was the southern ques-
ton, artfully revived, that decided the
vote of the northwest and kept that sec
tion from the path it would otherwise
have taken In 1884 the tariff was OBJ
scured by the personal element brought
into the canvass by the nomination OF
Mr. Blaine. In 1855 the issue was more
plain, and the popular vote was in favol
of reform, but its fruit was lost through
the treachery of Hill. In 1890 there
was no doubt as to the issue or the re
suit. The harvest was at last ripe, anC
it was gathered so far as it could be. L
only remains to complete the task thi
year and to start the country fairly OF
a career of steadily-growing prosperity
in comparison with which even the won
derful past will seem tame.-N. Y
Times.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
aTIsCELLANEous.

GREAT destitution is reported in the
counties of Starr, Hidalgo, Encinal
zapata and Duval in southwest Texas,
owing to severe drought.
THE American government has re-
fused to reduce the transportation
charges on New Zealand mail by the
way of San Francisco, on the ground
that it already pays out more than tire
ceives.
CALIFORNIA experienced three earth
quake shocks within a week.
JAMES COCHRAN, of Des Moines, Ia,
shot and killed his divorced wife and
w. T. Davis, her lover. He then COM
,nitted suicide.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

The celebration of marriage, partly
in churches and partly outside them,
was first ordered by Pope Innocent III.
in 1199. All the ancient missals direct
that toward the conclusion of the serv-
ice the parties shall enter the church as
far as thestep of the altar. The great
er portion of the ceremony was thus
performed in the south porch, still often
called in country districts the wedding
door" 1t was only in the reign of
Edward VI. that the whole of the cere-
mony was allowed to be performed in
the middle of the church.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

DR.. LIVINGSTONE once said he had
walked for weeks through region in
Africa where lake ought to be, ac-
cording to the maps. Joseph Thomp-
son reported when he returned to En-
gland awhile ago, that, if the maps
were accurate, he had been sleeping in
the middle of Lake Bangweolo; and
now Mr.. Fortin writes that there is
something wrong with the big island
mapped in the Gulf of Paria, on the
northeast coast of Venezuela, for he
has walked all over it, and is unable to
find where it is detached from the main
land
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
EXPERIMENTS in instantaneous pho

EXPERIMENTS in instantaneous pho
Biography have proved that the shots
not only spread out, comet-lil1e, as they
fly, but they string out one behind the
other to a greater distance than they
spread. Thus, with cylinder gun,
when the first shot of a charge reaches
a target that is forty yards away the
last shot is tagging along ten yards be-
hind. Even with the choke bore gun
some of the shot will lag behind eight
yards in forty.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

IN the month of March the collection
of st. Peters pence for the vatican was
notably increased, the amount having
been upwards of $50, 900, while the aver
age monthly collections heretofore have
not exceeded $50, 900. Before the public
declaration by the vatican of its policy
favorable to the French republic,
France usually headed the list in the
amount collected, but since that time
it has sunk to the eighth place, the
United States standing second.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
Four Nerroes Lynched.

JAcKsoNvLLE, Fla, April S1.-Four
negroes were hanged at Inverness Mon
day night for the murder of Stephenson
and Payne. A mob surrounded the Jail,
overpowered the sheriff and hanged the
men to trees near by. They confessed
aud implicated two other negroes
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

THE wife of w. G. Oal1nan, who sue
ceeded Mr.. Inman as president of the
Richmond terminal system, is a daugh-
ter of~-the late Roscoe Conkling. Mr..
Oakman, who was only a division super
intendent at the time of his marriage,
has since risen rapidly in his profession.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
Presidential Nominations.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The president
yesterday sent to the senate the follow
ing nominations: United States consul,
Dwight Moore, now yice-consul at Alden,
Arabia; George T. Lincoln, of Connect
icut, at Antwerp; Joseph A. Jones. of
Massachusetts, now consul at Alden,
Arabia, at Zanzibar; Richard P. Hudson,
of New Mexico, Indian agent at the
Mescaloosa agency, New Mexico.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

An italian publisher got the opinions
of 100 writer's and scholars as to who
are the best authors The replies
placed Darwin at the head of foreign
writers, Shakespeare next, with Schiller,
Goethe and Humboldt following.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

THE only town in Africa that has the
hoRerot being named from an American
president is Monrovia of Liberia. 1t
was founded in 1922 during the presi-
dency of James Monroe and was named
in his honor.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
Labor orders to right.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. April 2l.--An even
ing paper is authority for the statement
that within a very short period there
will be inaugurated a fight which means
the survival Of the fittest" in SO far as
the American Federation of Labor and
the Knights of Labor are concerned.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

BLACK snow lately fell in the Canton
of Geneva, Switzerland-a phenomenon
which was once thought to presage the
black plague and other calamities, but
is now known to be due to a fungus in
the snow
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

FILES are now sharpened by elec.
tricity. They are immersed in liquid
and the current turned on for twenty
minutes, at the end of which time they
come out as good as new.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

AMoNe English people dark-brown
hair is more than twice as common rs
hair of any other shade.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

FRENCH reporters now take notes
at night by the light of tiny incan-
descent lamp attached to the pencil.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

QUEEN VICTORIA has book which is
eighteen inches thick and weighs sixty
three pounds 1t contains the "Jubi-
lee" speeches and addresses
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

The Empress Eugenie paid 1000
francs (s2O0) per ounce for braid of
hair that exactly matched her own.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

A COPY of the original edition of ''Picl1-
wick, given by Dickens to Macready,
has been sold from the late James Nc
Henry's library for 26 guineas.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

To be perfectly proportioned it is said
that a man should weigh twenty-eight
pounds for every foot of his height.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

BUTLER COUNTY, Pa, has genius
who dreams the correct location of oil
wells.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

AT the present day sacred pigs roam
inviolate about the Buddhist monas-
teries of Canton and elsewhere in China
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

CATS die at an elevation of sixteen
thousand feet, but dogs and men can
climb the greatest known natural ele-
vatfons,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

The daughter of the once famous
artist Thorpe-Mrs. Thorpe LOTUS
who was herself once editor of the Do
nestle Magazine, is defendant in pro-
ceedings brought by her daughter and
son-in-law, who wish her declared in-
sane,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

If the democratic cheap clothing
bill becomes a law it will save the peo-
pie at least four hundred million dollars
a year and give them much better cloth
ing for their money than the Mckinley
article, st, Louis Republic,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

NEAR-sIeHT is hereditary, but larger
percentage prevails among blondes than
brunettes.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30
CURRENT COMMENT.

TIE British museum has thirteen
miles of bookshelves all filed.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-07-14

the convention rising In their chairs.
cheering, swinging coats, which had
been taken of on account of the heat,
waving hats and fans, and throwing
things in the air. Several delegates
seized Branch, of Georgia, Chairman,
and trOtted him up and down the main
aisle on their shoulders. A number of
delegates seized the uprights used to
hold placards designating State delega-
tiOns, and rushed with tht nj to the plat
form. Banners were also borne there.
Shout succeeded shout, while eccentric
devices were used to prolOng the DEM
onstration.
Suddenly Taubeneck of Illinois sprang
upon a chair and wildly waved a tele-
gram above his head. 1t dawned upon
the delegates that it might be from
Gresham and an uproar ensued. The
telegram was from DR.. Hauser of Indi-
ana and was to tho effect that Gresham
would accept if nominated unanimously.
Tho effect Of this telegram was cleo
trical. Thousands of people sprang in
stantly to their feet and thousands of
voices cheered again and again for
Gresham. There seemed no doubt that
among those wildly cheering enthusiasts s
were majority Of the delegates, wheth-
er their enthusiasm was IN evidence of
/ their enthusiasm for Gresham or not.
Mr.. Brown of Massachusetts wanted
special privileges to none given by the
! convention. Any one would take the
nomination il 1t were rendered unani-
mously. He assailed tie galleries for
three Gresham cheers. and scene of
/, wild confusion followed.
! vanderv0ort Of Nebraska moved to ad-
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!. ". HAYES, New Jersey: for Asslxtant

]. ". Hayes, New Jersey; for Asslstant
Secretaries, :. S. Hing of Kansas,
George Wilson Of Michigan. G. W. Dem
mark OF South Dakota. Following this
was also long list of Vice Chairmen,
each State being represented in the dis
tribution Of this honor. The report was
unanimously adopted.
1t was II picturesque spectacle when
Permanent Chairman Loucks, standing
firmly. on his one leg and swinging a
crutch at arms length, waved the great
assemblagc to order. His speech as it
progressed was surprise, and elected
cheers at every few words.
A new gavcl, announced as coming by
permission of the owner from timber on
the first homestead entry in the United
States, was at this moment presented to
the Chairman. He raped it vigorously
on the desk amid laughter caused by a
declaration that this gavel. unlike the
one used at a recent national conven-
ton, had not been stolen, and that the
Independent Party did not require 10
steal either its thunder or its noise
Gen. William J. Armstrong, Inspector
General Of Consuls under Grant, and
Mrs. Emery, of Michigan, each made
speeches of considerable length.
The Committee on Rules reported the
ncw-fangled method of voting for first
and second choic, S, but tho delegates
fell uIOn it almost to a man. Wander
WORT Of Nebraska finally moved that
the convention be allowed to vote fol
any man it chose 50 long as heremaincG
n candidate. 1t was seconded and car.
ried. A recess of twenty minutes was
taken to allow the delegates to inspect
the Omaha Fourth Of July parade. but
it was nearly an hour before the convcn'
ton again took up its work.
The members of the new Nationa
Committee We're sent to the stand, and
while they were being arranged Chair
man Branch threw the first bombshel
into the convention by referring in ;
resolution to the slight put upon tn.
Western delegates by the Union Pacific
Railroad Delegate Cannon wanted ;
hearing on this question and got it. II,
referred to the treatment accorded tn.
delegates to other conventions, ant
| brought the convhntion to its feet will
| a wild cheer when he reached his perO
| ration. Dean of New York grasped th'
| matter. There was an interstate com
| mission, and he moved that it be brough
| before that organization to see whethe
| the law permitted railroads TO discrim
| mate in favor of one national politic:,
i convention against another. The mo
| ton TO rake complaint to the commits
/ sion was carried.
| The Committee on Resolutions wa
still wrestling with the platform, an,
| on statement that it would be tw
| hours before it could report a reces
| until = p. m. was taken.
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scnting 10, ,O00 peo- M'EwEN. Chairman.
people. respectfully request that the
United States Senate in connection
with the House take such action as will
compel the commissioners of the Column
bian Exposition to close the gates ON
Sun lay. ami prohibit the sale Of intoxt-
eating liquors on the fair grounds.
History at the society.
The Young Peoples Society Of Chris-
tan Endeavor is one Of the most s.rik-
ing phenomena of the last quarter Of the
m, 81 rhel oncnal century Of human
history. 1t was horn i'm humble sur
roundings, amidst "thc common people"
as the result of the Su:ckening OF tho
spiritual life Of Congregati, ii Church
in Portland, Me. II was born OF neccs-
sity. The wEo'c theory OF the society
is that the Christian must be trained
into Christian manhood. 1t is the idea
for which the Industrial ira ming
school stands, which trach. IS apprentices
how to work by work 'ns, how to use
t,O.s by using them, how to eXerc q
hand, and foot, and eve, and brain in
order that these members may become
in the h CHEST degree efficient and SER
viceable in lifc's vocation. II was Feb.
2. 1881, that the Rev. Francis E. Clark,
tuc NOuuS HttStui " w f1iIo VII
Portland, Me-. called his young p opls
| together and presented 10 them the con-
stituticn of a society which it was pro-
| posed to organize AMI whi, h he de-
cided to name the Yong Peoples So
cicty of Christian Enieavor, and from
that the society has grown to its present
proportions.
The equipment of the organization is
simple. There are three special con-
mittecs, lookout, prayer meeting. and
social, and the lulk of the socicty's s
work is accomplished through these
| channels. As the founder Of tho
society had no idea of its great exten.
| sive power in its striking adap. ability.
| no special effort was IEade 10 fcufHl
branches. Gradually, however. the
fame Of the new organization spread
through the community and throus h
| New England. Before the close OF 1881
a second society was established Mt
| Ncwburvport, Mass, and little later a
thirI in another church in Portland.
Tho remai kabie growth Of the organ
izatiOn is illustrated by this official
table Of membership OF the united So
CO a.
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Character Makes the Man.

The man of character Is always the
man Of iron nerve; he may not be a
great statesman or politician: he may
bc humble i'm his associations and his
aspirations; but with all these excep-
tions, if he has character his heart is
right. his integrity is unshakcn. He
looks on truth with clear vision,
acting in accordance with its glorious
dictates: he does not fear nor shun
the face of his fcllow-man, for his
heart is white with integrity, and he
looks Eumbly and trUstingly up to
the source of truth, and his fellow
beings, in lower sense, look up to
him because he is trustworthy, and,
i'm short, has character-good and
staple character. Character is the
cornerstone Of individual greatness
the Doric and splendid column in
the majestic structure of the true
and dignified man, who is at once I,
subject and king.