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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-02

&owelps American Newspaper Direo-
,ary for 1891 puts the circulation OF THE
ROANOKE TIMES above that OF any
sther paper In Southwest Virginia, and at
haore than that OF all the other papero of
Nosnoke combined.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-06-02
W. F. BARBOUR, ROANOKE, VA

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TIE TINES is delivered in Roanoke, Salem and
V!nton every morning oylcarriers for 90 cents per
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OLD papers, is cents per hundred. for
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TELEPHONE NUMBER 1874.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
INsoIENT ARROGANCE.

The Daily Indicator is an organ of
Wall street. Il gives expression to
sentiments prevailing there. What it has
to saw of the relations of ''the street" to
the country is, therefore. interesting, if
not important. In a recent issue it
says:
Besides. while the secretary may take ad-
vice from a Southern or Western banker and
ignore the fnancier of Wall street, he will
eventually come to Wall street for help. He
NAV plunge all business relations into chaos
before that, but he will none the less come to
Wall street, as Wall street alone has the abil-
ity to give the help when necessary. Why,
he could not sell bond in Europe if Wall
street opposed it.
If there are any other words than in
solent arrogance which will fifty char
acterize the above, the GLOBE will be
Obliged for them. One begins to sense,
in reading them, the root of that intense
bitterness with which the Populist uses
the word ''gold-bugs." We begin to
feel a glow of sympathy with that feel
ing of helpless dependence on calculat-
ing greed which finds expression in de-
nuneiations of Wall street in the har-
argues of Populist orators.
The sting of the article lies in its
truth. Humiliating as it may be, it is a
fact that il the treasury of this great
nation must be replenished by loans it
must go on its knees to Wall street; it
must accept the terms it sees fit to i'm
pose. 1t will dictate the conditions. and
the treasury must accept them. Even
now it refuses to give the treasury the
gold it needs because Secretary CAR
Isle has not come to it asking for it.
Itrefuses to give it on short time bond
because it wants long time bond for
investment. 1t may be even true that
the United States could not negotiate
loan abroad without the permission of
Wall street.
In Its insolence the Indicator may
have rendered the country a service.
1t has called attention to a condition
that is unbearable, and invited an ex-
animation into the causes Of the cord
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
HOME TO ROOST.

If the present tendency continues, the
financial chickens which the farmers of
the West have been raising will come
home to them to roost. 1t is they who
are largely responsible Tor the present
shaky condition. They have been the
noisy stool-pigeOns of the scheming sill
yer miners, and have shouted for free
coinage. The SHERMAN law was an i'll
advised concession to them and their
demands for cheap money. With a
blindness that is inconceivable, the very
men of ali others who should want and
demand the very best money attainable
for their hard-earned produce insist on
being given something poorer than the
best; how much poorer they may soon
learn if the statements of the Chicago
Herald as to the movements of currency
are correct
The character Of the money paid into
the SubtreasurY i'll exchange for gold
has been undergoing a marked change,
it states, since the furry began. There
has been a remarkable increase in the
legal tenders and national bank notes,
and a corresponding decrease in silver
certificates and the 1890 treasury notes
1t discovers in this fact indications that
the New York bankers are preparing
for the time when the present cOndi-
lions will result in the payment of the
silver notes in silver. When that time
comes it will be found that the banks
hold the obligations payable in gold,
while those payable IN silver at the OPP
ton of the secretary are all held i'll the
West. The disappearance OF the silver
notes III the East means that they have
been sent West, and when the time
comes, if it come, that the silver notes
are cheaper than the gold notes they
will be very largely in the hands OF the
men who have been clamoring for
cheap money.
1t is always the case that derange-
ments in the currency hurt first and
most all except the bankers and the men
of business. The farmer has no more
show in the game of finance with these
men than blacksmith would have i'll a
contest with artists. They are the first
to discover tendencies ana to prepare
against contingencies. When the storm
breaks it finds them with their canvas
snugly reefed and all anchors out under
a lee shore. They suffer, of course-all
debut the ruin is for those who are
caught out in the open sea. These in
financial storms are the farmers, the
artisans and the small traders.
This storm may not come; let us all
hope it may not. But if it come it will
be because mainly the farmers of the
West have raised it, and they will have
TO breast and bear its fury. Their
chickens will all come home to roost.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
TOTE FAIR, NEIGHBoR.

The GLOBE is not inclined to be
finicky or captiOuS in its CRITICS ms of
any action of the governor; it is willing
TO accord him all the credit for melitori-
Gus action that he IS entitled to. We do
not think he wants any that he is not
entitled to.
This leads up to the remark that the
GLOBE doesn't think that Gov. NELSON
will be heartily well pleased with the
editorial in the Pioneer Press which
credits him with cutting down the ap-
preparations 1921, 919, and extols him for
it. He will doubtless say that the man
who wrote the leader did not know what
he was writing about. He might add
that the writer had not even read the
files of the paper he serves, for that
contained memorandum made by the
governor of the reasons why he cut out
the various items from the omnibus bill.
Had he turned back to the news col
umnS of the 22d inst, he would have
found In his own paDer-perhaps it is
safer TO say he should have found-that
the governor cut out the appropriation
of $4,000 for the summer training
schools because it was covered by bill
already signed. The item of S25, 600 for
current university expenses was vetoed
for the same reason. $1,000 for vista
ton Of high schools was also duplicat-
ed item; and the $4,000 for the Third
insane asylum was disallowed for the
same cause.
Here is total of S95, 900 of the $751;
919 which the Pioneer Press credits the
governor With saving the treasury,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
Is THIS REFORM?

In defeating the CULLEN resolution to
complete the examination of the books
of ex-Treasurer REFS, the Republican
members of the board of aldermen
have placed themselves in strange
light. City Treasurer MILLER boldly
charges that mis- predecessor, by favor
itism in collecting assessments for pub
lie improvements, has left the city So
900 short of the money it should have
received. The public examiner has
looked through REFS books four and
one-half years back, and claims to have
found an aggregate shortage of about
$4,000. The amount set apart by the
charter for investigations by the public
examiner is 5000 year. The 5000 tor
this year is nearly exhausted, ana the
Republican aldermen having announced
all intention to stop the investigation
when this sum is gone, Aid. CULLEN
stepped to the front with a resolution
TO continue the Investigation to the end,
having for the remainder of the work
out of the $4,000 allowed annually by
the charter for events and general incl
dentals for the city's welfare.
MI, CULLEN said that he presented
the resolution in good faith, and argued
that if the shortage is $4,000 with the
work half-completed, it was matter OF
the utmost Importance that the work be
finished, so that suit may be instituted
against REFS and his bOndsmen for the
alleged $4,000 The interests of the
taxpayers demanded that the SO, 200 be
covered into the treasury as soon as
possible, and the $4,000 fund could not
be more wisely used. But the Repub-
licans rallied around the point that the
principles Of reform demand that only
the 5000 should be expended. and they
voted to a man against the resolution,
leaving CULLEN with only the p ort
of his Democratic confreres.
Every fair-minded citizen will see at
glance that the Democrats have de-
cidedly the best OF the case. The Re
publican attitude has a strong faint OF
petty partisanship. Itjustifies the sus-
picion that the chief purpose of the in
vestigation is to manufacture Republic
an thunder. The work has gone far
enough to show a shortage, as alleged,
of S26, 600; and the Republicans can go
before the people with the assertion
that they have proved that the city was
defrauded out of thousands of dollars
through the eonnivance of the Demo-
cratic city treasurer. In other words,
these politicians have vastly more inter
est in showing that there is a shortage
than they have in recovering the money.
But they will learn full soon that the
taxpayers have great deal less interest
in their political welfare than they have
in the recovery of every dollar the city
| is left short.
1t should be distinctly borne in mind
that REFS is not charged with appropri-
ating funds to his own use; he is ac-
cused of canceling the accrued interest
on the assessments of favorites.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26

ton. 1t is a rude shock, which will
awaken the country to its true position
and make possible its escape from pres
ent conditions.
Why is the nation dependent on Wall
street? Simply and solely because the
nation has been brought to think that it
is the function of government to make
the money its people use. The first
false step was taken when, in 1878.
that eminent financier, JOHN SHER-
MAN, was HAYES secretary of the
treasury, the sound policy inaugu-
rated by MCCULLoCH, his predecessor,
OF retiring the. war issues of legal ten
der and the discOntinuance of the issue
of notes by the government, was stopped
by the act prohibiting their further re-
tirement and compelling their reissue.
1t committed the government to the
false policy of supplying a currency.
To maintain these notes at par the
policy of holding a gold reserve was
adopted.
Then came the silver fanatics, fol-
lowing with logical step, and Obligiug
the treasury to buy the bullion and issue
certificates and notes for 1t, redeemable
in gold also-redeemabl in fact, if not
in theory. Then the owners of gold
were allowed TO make the government
the bailee of their bullion, or coin, it
issuing certificates of deposit for it.
The net result of all this financial bal
looming is that the government has its
obligations out, redemption of which is
demanded in gold. and the supply Is in
sufficient. The government feels bound
in honor TO redeem in gold, and the
holders of silver obligations are abusing
that sense of honor.
What is the lesson? Stop the condi-
tons which have brought us into this
abiect submission to Wall street. Stop
this "financiering." and get back to
simple, honest methods. Stop issuing
gold certificates. Repeal the SHERMAN
act and stop buying silver. Repeal the
act of 1878 and retire the greenbacks.
Then let the government go out of the
business of banking and of making
money, and resume its only function of
deciding and certifying to what money
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
PHALEN PARK.
Interested Parties Make State
ments Regarding 1t.

Z. G. Rogers and Judge Cornish were
before the board of public works yeSter-
day morning on the Phalen park mat
ter. The board. having heard all the
testimony they desired on the value of
the land to be taken for the park, are
now determining as to the district to be
assessed. Both the gentlemen men
toned presented arguments as to the
power of the board in laying the assess
ment over any greater territory than
would be specially benefited.
Mr.. Rogers stated that the supreme
court had held that no assessment was
valid in which the property assessed
was not benefited by the improvement
fully as much as the amount assessed.
In this case, he said, some of the prop
erty to be assessed, if the district men-
toned by the board was selected, was
miles away from the park and could not
be legally assessed owing to it not being
specially benefited. He also argued that
the law under which the park board was
working was unconstitutional from the
fact that it gave the commissioners I'M
limited right to purchase parks for the
city. and yet, after the city had pur-
chased the same, assessments were to
be levied to pay for them.
Judge Cornish followed in about the
same line of argument, and both attor-
noys read cOpiOuS extracts from law
books and supreme court decisions. The
board. after listening to the arguments,
adjourned further hearing to May 2.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
A CHANGE OF CHIEFTAINs.

The Democratic state central commit
tee met yesterday to receive the resig-
nation of its chairman, LEWIS BAKER,
necessitated by his appointment as
minister to Nicaragua, and to select
his successor. The resignation was ten
dered with words of thanks for the SUD-
port the retiring chairman had had from
the members of the committee, and was
accepted with an acknowledgment by
the committee of his zeal, energy and
efficiency.
The committee unanimously chose F.
W. NJ. CUTCHEoN to fill the place va
Gated by Mr.. BAKER. The new chair
man was a member of the executive
committee during the campaign, and
acted during portion of the time as
treasurer of the committee, rendering
efficient and valuable service in counsel
and on the stump. While Mr.. CUTCH-
EoN is not as widely known over the
state as are his predecessors in the chair
manship, the GLOBE is glad 10 assure
the Democracy of the state that
the new chairman is in every
way worthy OF the position &C
corded him by the committee. He is
able. honorable, clean and high-minded.
He is a Democrat because he knows
what Democracy is and believes in it.
This means much when we see so many
nominal Democrats giving their sup
port to undemocratic measures and pol
icies. He belongs to and is good type
of that younger Democracy which is
coming into control of the party and
bringing to it higher aims, better meth
DDS and greater fidelity to principles.
The GLOBE takes pleasure in presenting
and commencing to the Democrats OF
Minnesota their new chairman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
"A TEST OF SINCERITY.

Mr.. LOwRY's attorney has put to the
test the sincerity of the aldermen who
have been blocking the way to an adj
iuStment of street railway matters. Mr..
LOWRY has devoted months to securing
an ordinance which would be satisfac-
tory to the board OF aldermen and place
the operation of the st. Paul lines on
living basis. An ordinance passed the
assembly which was satisfactory to him;
but two or three aldermen adroitly
worked in amendments which Mr..
LOWRY could not possibly accept. The
obStructing aldermen finally made 1t
quite clear that they were distinctly OPP
posed to giving up the interurban
through transfer, and all but FRANKLIN
indicated a willingness to vote for an
extension of time for building the Maria
and Stryker avenue lines. The great
bone of contention was the through
transfer.
AT the last meeting of the board the
attorney presented the draft of all ordl-
nance which made no change in the
through transfer provided for the Como
park line, but extended the time three
years for building such new lines as
must be worthless. Aid. COPELAND
offered to support the ordinance If the
extension of the time were cut down to
two wears. Aid. FRANKLIN was un-
willing to make any concessions, and
said he would not vote to grant any eX-
tension of time. Aid. ZIMMERMAN
wanted the Maria avenue line extended
to Earl street by July l. Aid. HICK-
MAN would vote for the ordinance if it
provided for the building at once of an
electric line from the loop to Merriam
Park.
1t is very evident that these aldermen
do not intend to make the adoption of
an ordinance possible. They are strug-
Cling only to throw the responsibility of
the matter upon Mr.. LOWRY, but they
are falling a long way short of doing so.
There is no prospect that we shall
have a Como park line this year, and
Lake Harriet will continue to rake i'll
the shekels of st. Paul people. The
business men and people generally will
make no mistake in the matter of plac-
ing the blame for this. The Obstructing
aldermen will be compelled to shoulder
it all.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
THE LEHIGH EMBARRASSED.
A Receiver and Accounting Asked
fnr in,

A Receiver and Accounting Asked
for in Chicago.
CHICAGO, April ga bill for an ac-
counting and receiver for the Lehigh
Coal and Iron company was filed in the
United Stated circuit court here by
James d. Hurd. Similar bills, it is
stated by the attorneys in the case, have
been filed in st. Paul. Minneapolis, Mil
waukee, Duluth, West Superior and
Madison. Wis, in all of which cities the
company has extensive interests. The
assets of the company are fixed at 81, $780,
600. and its liabilities S1.25O,O00. On
basis of these figures, 1t is stated that
the company is not inS0lvent. The
complaint sets out that the defendant
company is very largely involved by
promssOry notes, direct and cOntin-
gent. Its present liabilities for
bills payable are 1926. S35. The con-
tingent liabilities are S20S.537. The
holders of these notes are as follows:
Ohio Coal Exchage, s62,S24; the Cres-
GEM Coal company, 800; A. G. Yates,
OF New York, S23, 235; Lehigh q
Franklin Coal company, $40, 1856, and the
Rochester Transportation company, of
New York @balance Of liabilities. At
MilWduhCC ldoI lItSbt. IONl ll' DOlO VI
Chicago, was appointed receiver for the
company.
In st, Paul.
On the door of the Lehigh Coal and
Iron company, lis East Fourth street,
passers-bv will notice sign which
states that the business of the concern
is in the hands of l.. d. Doty, appointed
receiver for the creditors of the COM
pany. The office was open, as usual,
but there was a certain air of detection
among the clerks in the office, denoting
that something OF an unpleasant char
acter had TRANSFERRED.
1t was all explained by the Geographic
matter above. The business of the CON-
pany had been placed in the hands of
receiver for the purpose of protecting
the creditors, of which there are not
many in st. Paul, from the ravages of
those who would make the company
bankrupt. 1t was mere official form,
however, as thu business of the st. Paul
Office will be continued indefinitely in
the hands of the local manager, K. u.
Spencer, who lives at 2l2 Nelson avenue.
Mr.. Spencer was seen last evening by
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26

been fond OF setting up the claim that
with either Democrats or Republicans
in power the New York bankers would
control the administration of the treas
ury department. Although IN office
less than two months, Secretary Car
Isle has conclusively demonstrated that
the head OF the financial department of
the greatest government OH earth will
not be found running here and there or
making this or that move at the will of
the nabobs of Wall street.
This determination on the part of the
great Kentuckian demolishes the favor
lite argument OF the third party men,
and at the same time greatly gratifies
all the people save the bankers of New
York and Boston, in both Of which cities.
by the way, the bankers are provincial
to an extent that makes them ridiculous
TO the bright tinanciers Of the West.
Two months ago Secretary Carlisle WAS
being Landed to the skies by Wall street
as conservative, able financier; today
he is being denounced in the same
quarter. He has not changed. He is
still opposed to the dangerous and sui
cidal Sherman silver act, but he declines
to issue bonds when the New York
bankers want bonds, and it is needless
to say the whole country is with him in
tHio COHICol, anu llO IdCL tIldJ HC DdS
taken this stand will aid greatly in Sc
curing the repeal of the Sherman act
without the immediate perils of free
coinage.
Morton Reduces Expenses.
Secretary Morton is doing his share
toward lettering the financial condition
of the government by cutting off useless
and unnecessary employees in the sew
eral bureaus of the agricultural depart
ment. Already. without impairing the
service in the least. he has reduced eX.
penditures over 100000 per year. and
the end is not yet. Several efforts have
been made to soften the effect of the
reforms made by him, but in every case
they have failed. He works from early
morn till late at night, and has
already completely mastered the details
OF the department. Being a practical
farmer, he knows where to begin prun-
ing and where to stop, where to do the
needful prOpping, and what kind of
crop he desires to reap. Withal, he is
a most delightful example of the Jeffer-
snnian Democrat He abhOrS red tape,
and any one, whether of high or low
degree, can easily gain access to him.
He will be the most popular official in
the cabinet with the rank and file of the
party because it seems much more easy
for him to mingle with the average
Democrat.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
,rnnAN'S WEATHEII.

WASHINGTON, April 25.-For Minnesota:
Local showers il eastern portion; variable
winds ForWisconsin: Occasional local rains;
easterly winds For North Dakota and Mon
tana: Generally fair; slightlywarmer, except
in eastern portion of North Dakota; variable
winds Fer Iowa: Occasional local showers;
possibly snow in northwestern portion in
early morning; slightly cooler in western
portion; easterly, backing 10 northerly winds
For South Dakota: Clearing during the
morning; slight northwesterly winds; slight
ly colder in the eastern portion, warmer in
the northwestern portion.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULT-
uRE. WEATHER BUREAU, WASHINGTON. April
p, 6:4S p. N. Local Time, p. N. a. III Meri d
ian Time.-Obseryations taken al the same
momentof time a, all stations.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
Meeting In Secret.

ST. LOUIS, April 25.-The Tin, Shee
Iron and Corniceworkers' association
began their fifth annual session at Wal
halla nall at 10 o'clock this morning.
Mayor Walbridge delivered an address
of welcome, after which President
Sehwab, of Memphis, read his annual
report. The proceedings of the conyen-
ton are secret, but it is understood that
the revision of the constitution, the
anoption of a system of apprenticeship.
the eight-hour question, uniform wages
and other important matters will come
up for delibeI alton.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-26
Reunion of the "3O6."

PHILADELPHIA, April 25.-Stalwart
Republicanism was glorified and ex-
tolled and its brilliant leaders eulogized
tonight at reunion here of the 'old
guard" the remnant of the famous ''306'
whose unwavering lines withstoOd the
sheek of thirty-six ballots at the Chi
cago convention of 1850, and went down
with Grants banner floating defiantly
before their triumphant opponents.
Gray heads were IN the predominance
among the $50 who sat down to dinner.
The room and tables were decorated
with flower, nationals colors, aud there
were busts and portraits of Gen. Grant.