The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-03-10

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experiments have been made, but
no Nation was ever yet enriched by
this style of imitation. Nevertheless
there are always theorists with us
who cannot comprehend why any
one should want for money when it
is so easy to manufacture it. The
Government, by running its print
ing presses an hour or two longer,
could fairly bedazzIe the eyesof the
people with flood of crisp green
backs and handsome treasury notes
or by investing $65,000,000 in sill
yer bullion could give the country
a hundred million silver dollars.
When the arguments of the infla-
tionists are stripped of veneering
and sophistry and confusing cir
cumlocution, they rest upon faith
in the ability of the government to
create something out of nothing. 1t
occurs to us that the matured judg-
ment of the world is to be relied
rather than these theories, which
have never been successfully put
into operation anywhere.
When Mr.. Cleveland was serv-
ing his first term in the presidency
he appointed Alexander Russell
Webb consul to Manila, and that
gentleman seems to have devoted
himself, in addition to attending to
duties, to study of Mohammedan-
ism and to have become a convert
to that faith. Mr.. Webb has a per-
feet right to L is opinion in the mat
ter of religious belief. But he is
not content with that. He proposes
to seek converts in this country and
has already begun his mission in
New York, where he is endeavoring
20 demonstrate the superiority of
the Moslem to any other religion.
The ex-consul, it is said, is backed
up by plenty of money contributed
by wealthy Moslems in India. The
first step in this peculiar missionary
scheme will be to start a high class
weekly journal in English, to be de-
voted to an exposition of Islam and
the writings of distinguished Mus
sulmans. Then a Mohammedan
publishing house is to be estab-
lished, whose chief business will be
to print and distribute in unlimited
numbers an English translation of
the Koran. Finally, when enough
converts are obtained to guarantee
sufficient support mosque will be
built. So far as we can see the
only sufferers from Mr. NNebb,s
missionary work will be the men
who are putting up the money. We
don't entertain for a moment any
idea that ex-Consul Webb will Sc
cure any converts, because no en-
lightened race will subscribe to the
teachings of the Koran; one of the
most pronounced is that women
have no souls. A religion which
gives man a sure mortgage on
Paradise and relegates woman to
eternal nothingness, can gain no
foothold even in this country of
myriad beliefs.
-California's beef sugar produc-
ton rose from 100000 pounds in
1891 to 100000 pounds in '92,
under the stimulus of the sugar
bounty. Yet that State gave it's
electoral vote to party whose first
move will undoubtedly be the aboli-
ton of the bounty system.
-Canada's cool suggestion that
the tolls imposed on her vessels on
the 500 canal, in retaliation for dis
elimination against American ton
mage on the Welland, be refunded
is hardly likely to find favor with
the new Administration. Our Ca
madam friends are liable to discover
before many days have gone that
Judge Gresham isn't Mr.. Bayard.
The car coupler bill, for the
purpose of protecting the lives and
limbs of railroad brakemen, has
passed the House with the Senate
amendments. The passage of this
measure of justice and humanity
was obstinately resisted by large
number of the Democratic Repre-
sentatives, in spite of the fact that
the Chicago platform demanded its
anaotmant The farms of thiS