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The advocate., 1892-06-08
REFORM AND RADICALISM.
To the Editor Of THE ADVOCATE.

%, appeared an article on Independence
in Political Action" which merits the at.
tentlon and approval Of all persons Of
progressive ideas, who believe In the
teachings and would emulate the exam
pie of the first great Republican execu-
tive. The aggressive spirit Of lndepend-
ence and the unswervlng devotion to
justice which were characteristic of orig
inal Republicanism invite the attention
and challenge the admiration of all hon
est men. With perhaps q few exceptions,
the only legislative achievements in the
Republican dynasty, are the radical, pro-
gressive measures which adorn the ad
mlnistration Of the greatest American.
Yet the zephyrs are laden with the false
cry Of "too radical"
Prominent men of all political affilia-
tions advocate reform, but they would
accomplish it by conservative methods
"a compromise with the devil, cove
nant with hell" Radicalism is defined
"from the root" extreme in it's appli-
cation to modern politics. Reform, ''to
amend that which is evil, corrupt, vi
cious." The words reform and evil can
not be associated; they are as antago-
nlstic as fire and water. If evil results
from attempts to reform there is no re-
form, and upon this hypothesis allreform
is radical, q triumph Of good over evil.
Sherman, ignoring military precedent,
cut loose from his base Of supplies and
split the confederscy in twain. A master
ly movement which astonished the
world. Radicalism swings from the base
of dead issues and ungodly preCedents;
raises the standard of advanced thought
and with the songs of new civilization,
sweeps ca to higher life and more per
feet manhood, trRmpllng beneath It's feet
the bRrbarous customs and deadly here
sizes of past centuries. Conservatism,
glued to tradition and daddy ism, wrapt
in th. msntle of sanctified perfection,
points back with exultation to hell born
comproI tses which enslave humanity.
Conservatism plans great campaigns, ex-
ecutes IT, In imagination, while vast
armies fatten and national debts mount
skyWA, Radicallsm demands "uncon-
ditto. al surrender" and proclaims de-
termi alton "to move Immediately on the
work. conquers and disbands its armies
to engage in peaceful vOcations. Con-
serVatisr and compromise go hand in
hand They have cursed every clviliza-
ton on record. They have held In bond
age the entire Drawn and much OF the
best brs'-g of the human family. They
have held civilization in check, continu-
ously blocked the wheels of progress, and
dragged down even the church Of God,
into the miry slough Of Phariaism,
erected shrines to msmmon and cannon
lied disrspntable Williams. The exceptions
are few bright spots on the blackened
pages Of history, which simmer and
CLEAN like FURNISHED gold, silent, yet
eloquent precedents beckoning on TO
greater achievements, a grsnder clvllizA-
ton and. .dst government
Our constitution was built upon COM
promise foundation. Men Of radical,
progressive ideas stood long and plead
loudly for eternal justice and unrestrlct-
ed liberty for all Gods human creatures.
The advocate., 1892-06-08
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.
To the Eaitor of THE ADVOCATE:

ence their votes at the polls. But the
goou work must not stop until the vote
is cast and counted. To insure an hon
est election no law is more helpful than
tn, Australian ballot, so-called, which in
some form has been adopted in three
quarters of the states in the Union. The
Australian ballot is an improved method
of surrounding the ballot box with se-
crecy. Under Its provision, the individ-
ual voter is compelled to decide his vote
by himself, free from influence Of any
kind. Hemay have made q bargain as
to how he shall vote, but no one but him
self can know whether it Is carried out
or not, since he must vote in secret.
Corruption at the ballot box is the
greatest danger any nation has to fear,
and any legal enactment that makes 1t
difficult to control the individual vote
tends to purify elections. Word comes
through the associated press that both
the old parties are planning during the
coming election to spend more money
than ever before, but their money will
not be so potent as hitherto in buying
votes, for the goods cannot be delivered
with certainty under the Australian bal
lot. With secret ballot, agitation and
investigation Is worth more than money,
and under the leadership of intelligent
discussion, the Peoples party can sue
cessfully cope with the money bags OF
Democrats and Republicans combined.
Three. quarters Of the states will cast
their votes next November under some
form Of the Australian ballot. This num-
Der includes the New England states,
the middle states, and all the western
and northwestern states except four.
These four are Kansas, Iowa, Idaho and
Nevada. Even Arkansas, Mississippi,
West Virginia and Tennessee have this
year thrown this safeguard around the
ballot box.
The result cannot but be helpful. The
law must tend to prevent the buying Of
votes, and every law that lessons the in
fluence of money is boon for good gov
ernment, in that manipulators Of votes
are thwarted thereby. All the so-csFled
doubtful states will thus vote this fall.
God sneed the day everywhere when
buyers of votes cannot follow their vic
Tins to the ballot box to see that the un-
righteous bargain Is carried out. A fall
ing off In the manipulated vote will help
t.. Peoples party, for it will mean free
dom to express individual choice. The
Australian ballot means an advance Of
moral issues and the side tracking of
mere party influence. Without the in
fluence of money, both the old parties
will lose large vote. The people are in
the middle of the road and intend to stay
there.
Under the perfected form of the Aus
tralian ballot, as adopted by Massachu-
sets, all ballots are printed by the state,
at state expense, and all names of csndi-
dates are printed on one ballot, with the
name of the party opposite the name Of
the candidate. A Cross indicates the
name Of the person voted for. At every
voting place booths or stalls are provided
with pencils and shelves to write on, and
on entering the enclosure surrounding
the ballot box each voters name Is check
ed as he receives ballot and no one can
approach him or speak to him until he
The advocate., 1892-06-08

NOAaAVANANa AHOA WAAAA ANoSOA vAhD 0AAnO
of an angry God. Compromise erected
a charter of liberty, dedicated 1t to God
and humanity, and 1t has stood for over
one hundred years, propped up monu-
ment to living lie.
Point to a chief executive since the
days Of Lincoln who has not hagrsntly
violated It's requirements. Point to a
cabinet, a congress, who have not ruth
lessly trampled 1t beneath their feet, and
l will point to holy devil. (Now raise
your hands In righteous horror) Truth
Is radical and is crushed to earth by con-
servatsm. Listen to the words of the
great martyr: "Our republican robe
has been soiled and trailed in the dust.
Let us wash 1t in the spirit il not In the
blood Of the revolution. Let us return
It to the place our fore-fsthers gave It,"
Under the sway Of his mastery qualities
1t was done, and the shackles which COM
promise had welded on the wrists Of Gods
people were buried forever. Triumph
ant conservatism ceased awhile, and
hope began to smile. But the smile was
spasmodlc, and "freedom shrieked"
when honest Lincoln fell.
The zephyrs of our country are con-
ia minated with the ungodly breath Of
conservatism. "You radicals WANT the
earth. "Thst's what" but for the present
the United States of America will satlate
cur desires. These we must have, and
to quote Tom WATSON, "by the splendor
of God," we will have them. 1t Is house
cleaning time and the great mansion Of
the people is reeking with corruption.
Set the sulphur pots Of radicallsm burn
Ing and fumigate every crevice from
basement to cupola. A new broom
sweeps clean. Brush down the cobwebs
of conservatism and compromise; open
the windows and doors that the oxygen
ated cyclones Of radlcRliSm may wait
the deadly germs of plutocratic anarchy
into the boundless dominions Of oblivion
Having renovated and prepared the
prOstrate skeleton Of liberty for the new
life, let us have q TRANSMISSION of healthy
vitalizing fluid. Tap the distended veins
of patriotism and craftsmanship, ,proffered
by such radical reformers as Powderly,
Polk, Pomeroy, Bellamy, Donnelly, Pef-
fer, Kyle, KEN, Watson, Simpson, Lease,
Todd, Diggs, and last, but not least In
the galaxy Of radicals, that grand, old
champion of unrestricted liberty and
immaculate justice, James B. Weaver.
Let the absolute apostles of crystallzed
lndivlduallsm, Blaine, Reed, Quay, Cleve-
land, Hoar, Harrison, Horr and He'll, and
that double distilled arch traitor, John
Sherman, be relegated to the galleries,
where, wrapt in the mantle of "vested
rights" they can chew the cud of reflec-
ton, while clodhoppers give them les
SONS in the science Of government based
upon business principles.
The bloodhounds Of new epoch, the
Watsons and Simpsons, have opened up
on the trail Of conservatism. They are
of radical extraction, strong quartered
and deep chested. They never tire; they
never compromise; they die game; their
resonant tones are borne to long listen
ing ears; they reach from hill TO hill,
from sea to sea. Industry its droop-
ing head and weeps tears OF Joy. The
American eagle, awakened from his long
aI,,Oohow ao,aa,no ooo;r aVd y,l,,,,ao HE
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

WHEN Rev. Robert Collyer was in
this country, several years ago, lectur-
ing upon religious subjects, the Republi-
can papers pronounced him the greatest
OF all modern lecturers. They said he
united the dainty English of Addison to
the humor OF Thackeray and the burn
ing eloquence of spurgeon. Now that
the very same Mr.. Collyer has written
an article in the London News, in which
he shows the condition of English work
ingmen to be better than it was forty
years ago, the same papers are calling
him an Anglo-maniac. 1t makes great
difference whose bull cores the tariff
devcuring OK.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

THE old and thread bare dodge of nat
uralizing Chinese up yonder in British
Columbia, is being worked again, but to
10 purpose, as our celestial friends will
fnd out. We pass an act to exclude the
Chinese, and the naturaliziug this side
OF Halifax will not make anything but
Chinese of them. British Columbia has
played double game in this matter
from the very first. She began by i'm
posing higher penalties in her exclusion
act than we had ever contemplated, and
has not got down to the dignity of a
wholesale manufacturer of opium paste
and dealer in slave labor.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24
THE HERALD has shown clearly that

THE HERALD has shown clearly that
Mr.. Ward prostitutes his public position
to give out the printing of the great reg
ieter to & partisan newspaper at the
maximum price per name fixed by the
board of supervisors, without inviting
competitive bids. In doing this he used
his Office for his own personal advantage,
in utter disregard of tie public interests.
Printers stoed ready to bid for the job,
and he knew it. But he gave them no
chance to do so, The county has lost
about $4,000 by bis action, and he is be-
fore it for reelection. 1t is for the tax
payers to say whether they will again
place him in a position OF public trust
that he has already abused, or elect him
to stay at home where he can do the
most good for the public, if not for him
self and iavorites.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

THEY are beginning to celebrate the
worli's fair in advance by offering pho
tographs OF Columbus for sale. No two
pictures OF him, that we have so far
seen, lCol1 alike. One looks like q
second-rate Massachusetts, militia gen.
eral; second represents him looking
like the captain of an eight boiler, high
pressure Mississippi steamboat; and
the third, evidently painted by a Ken
tucky artist, represents him riding up
and down the road on etud-horse and
defying the world to come along and
play poker with him.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

Great Republic was the largest, and
carried about 1900 soldiers and 500
horses on each trip. She landed in
three trips 4400 men. The other ships
were smaller, but there were over $4,000
British soldiers carried in American
vessels alone, to the vicinity of Ssbss-
topol. Instead of our carrying their
troops for them, because we could do it
as safely and good deal faster. now
English ships carry all our freight for
us to the United Kingdom. Give US
cheap iron and we can build iron ships
as good, if not better, than the City of
Paris and Majestic, every day in the
xuaaE
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

not one of mud Singing. 1t is merely
one OF official records. Ii candidate
is not willing to stand by the record that
he has already made in an official posi-
ton, by what are the voters to judge
him? The Democracy submits its can
didates. Ii anything can be said against
them, the HERALD will be the first pub
lie journal to make the announcement.
Thev are before the people upon their
records. II there is anything wrong
with them let the presentation be made
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

THE HERALD, in this campaign, has
endeavored to be fair. This paper has
only thus lar presented to the considera-
tion OF its readers the official records to
sustain its arraignments and criticiems.
II there has been any misinterpretation
of these records, it is willing to be i'm
peaehed. Let the representation be
made. But in the meantime this paper
had the common decency to yesterday
send reporter to Mr.. 7. ii. Ward, the
Republican nominee for county clerk.
The representative of the paper asked
Mr.. Ward if he had, az the custodian,
the records of Mr.. Cline's office. He
said that he had not, and that
be did not know where they were.
This campaign with the Democracy is
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24
LOOK ON THAT PICTURE-THBN ON THIS

John P. Irish, in his speech last
Wednesday night, referred to the palmy
days of American ship building, and
cited the great Boston-built ship, Great
Republic, the largest wooden sailing yes.
sci ever built (although her tonnage was
lees than those OF the Pacific Mail
Steamship company's big side-wheelers,
of the early days in the China tradel,
as an example of American maritime
power in his boyhood's days; and then
went on to show how American iron
ship-building had been strangled in the
cradle by the iron traffic which benefits
the state of Pennsylvania alone. He
said when he was 10 years old, he went
aboard the Great Republic, then load
ing at New York for San Francisco; and
the whole harbor WAS a forest of masts
carrying the American flag. The only
British vessel in sight was red.stacked
Cunard steamer lying at the dock in
Jersey City.
"Last year." said Mr.. Irish, "the
President of the United States visited
San Francisco, and was given a ride
around the bay by Governor Perkins in
one of the steamships of his line. After
seeing a man-of-war launched at the
Union works, we went about the bay
and steamed down towards the Head.
In the course of our short voyage we met
five iron British ships, five of them coal
laden, and coming in from Sydney and
Newcastle to discharge their coal and
take grain cargoes for England. Another
vessel hove in sight, an American bark
laden with lumber; and on her decks
were six people, one of whom was the
cook. There was the decadence of Amer
lean commerce, shown in nutshell, the
result of thirty years of American pro-
tective legislation"
Bad as is the showing made by the
gifted orator aforementioned, the case
is even worse than Mr.. Irish put it. He
could have said that, during the Crime
an war, no less than nine American
ships were chartered by the British
government to carry troops from Ply
mouth to the Black sea. OF these, the
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24
REPORTS FROM ABROAD.

The Cunard Line Stops Traffic in Steer
age Passengers.
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. % In conse-
quence of orders from the United States
government, that no second.class pas
sengers would be allowed to land in
America unless they could show they
are American citizens, or have resi-
dence in America, the Cunard line
steamer Cephalonia, from Liver
pool for Boston, put 40 passengers ashore
at Liverpool, who were neither citizens
nor residents of the United States.
Thirty-three others who had never been
in the United States we're landed at
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

NATIONAL banks have been in ex-
istence since 1868, but although there
are over 5000 of them in the United
States, there are but 302 whose surplus
exceeds their capital. 1t is claimed
that the cause of this failure to advance
is the national banking law, which de-
mauds personal security only, and for
bids the loaning of money, by these
banks, upon real property.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

TIE cost of furnishing the new court
house amounts to the enormous total OF
$97, 1897 S5. There were $50, 900 worth Of
bonds set apart and sold for that pur-
pose. Where have the authorities gone
to find the other fifty thousand dol
lars? II they have not taken it from
other funds, where did they get it?
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

WHO was it-Now don't all speak at
once--who said the Democratic party
was 'the organized ignorance of the
country?" Admitting it to be so. how
is it that the Australian ballot law, a
weapon only to be handled by men who
can read and write, has increased the
Democratic vote and reduced the Re-
publican vote wherever it has been
tried 2
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET

LIEUTENANT PEARY is new departure
among Arctic explorers, for it wasn't
necessary to send an expedition in
search Of him. He came home OF his
own accord.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

A New YoRK paper speaks of Queen
Victoria's new bonnet, and, from all
accounts, it is the feminine gender of
Senator Evarte' shocking bad hat.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

Queenstown by the same vessel. All
these persons will be returned to their
homes by the Cunard, company.
THE PLAGUE IN PARIS.
PARIS, Sept. 23.-Dumay, member
of the chamber of deputies, and his wife
and child, have all been attacked with a
choleraic disorder. 1t is feared it is
Asiatic cholera.
Eight new cases and two deaths from
cholera occurred at Havre yesterday, an
increase of four cases and decrease of
one death.
In the city and suburbs today 2S new
cases of cholera and six deaths, were re-
ported.
REPORTS FROM RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 23.-There were
"a new cases of cholera here yesterday,
and nine deaths. This is an increase OF
two new cases and three deaths over the
previous day. The government has sent
doctors to Saratoff, where cholera is still
raging.
FATAL CASES IN AUSTRIA.
CRAcow, Sept. 23.-Since cholera ap-
peared in Podgoritza, across the Vistula
river, there have been only four cases,
but all have been fatal. In Cracow there
have been II cases and two deaths, and
four cases and two deaths at Volovice.
FIGURES FROM HAMBURG.
HAMBURG, Sept. 23.-The official fig
ures for yesterday show ia new cases
and 40 deaths from cholera. The official
figures are far below those given by news
paper correspondents here.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24
Until To-Day

1t is admitted that more of
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Extracts than any other ex-
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steadily grown in popularity
until to-day they are used by
every intelligent housewife
for truthfully reproducing the
flavor of the fruit in creams,
cakes, puddings, etc.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-09-24

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER "a, 1909.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-08
Just What Is Wantrd.

Business is alive to a great coming event,
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A copy of this exceptionally fine produc-
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Charles A. Vogeler Company. Baltimore,
Md.
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His Rondsmen Take No Chances.

Charles Norris, the Treasurer of a colored
church out Penn avenue who was arrested
on charge of embezzlement as he was
about to board train at the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad station last Saturday
evening, was surrendered by his bondsmen
yesterday afternoon and is now In jail
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-08

Assistant Station Master Joseph Johns
ton, of the Union station, is home from
Chicago He SAYS the Chicago transporta-
tion facilities for the Worlds Fair are in
adequate
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ALL leading Pennsylvania rye whiskies,
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