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The advocate., 1894-07-25

IL uOuO OVB4 III Uur uL&A SOuVVASO WAADA
are the acme of the country district
school, the Crowning glory, the ambition
OK the country boy and girl. They are
having military science taught in some
OF the country schools, and in some Of
our public schools here in the capital Of
the American republic / have seen the
boys go out and drill on the public
streets. More than that, even IA our
Sunday schools there is military air.
II is time that this military idea, the
idea Of quslling every little disturbance
by force, should cease, and that brings
me to the vital point In this whole ContrO-
versy. What sre you going to do when
disputes arise between employers and
employees? Keep your hands off, MIR.
President. That iS my advice. just
keep your hands away from them. The
parties in interest will settle the matter
themselves, and they will do 1t without
bloOdBhed. They will do it without
using the torch; they will do it without
getting angry; they will do it justly,
safely, wisely, promptly. But the in
stant that you begin to call out the mil
itary arm in order to protect one side
and send the other to prison, just that
soon you arouse q spirit Of animosity
which can not be quelled by force.
That was tried about two years ago
on the 9th day Of this month. Pinksr-
tonism died an inglorlous death in it's
own blood on the battlefield Of Home.
stead. Some day there will be monu-
ment erected to those brave men who,
standing upon the shores Of the MOnon-
Rahsla, defended their right to work in
shat great structure which their hands
had builded. In the face Of danger the
man who will not speak words Of warn.
ing to his friends is q coward, and our
young party isnOt cowRrdIy.
[ have offered these resolutions, and |
aB you will observe there is not q sug-
Restion Of detail about any OF them.
But you will find that they involve the
fundamental idea at the bottom Of this
great trouble. A little more than thirty
years ago we passed homestead law
when there were countless millions Of
acres Of public land, TO be saved for the
peoples homes, and now it is worth
mans life, aye it is worth even a
woman's life, to get a home when an
Indian reservation is open to settlement.
In only thirty years have our public
lands been EquandeFed. Many Of them
are owned by corporations in immense
tracts, and others are owned by syndi-
oates and individuals Of wealth.
The public lands have gone in that
way. The last one OF the propositions In
theresolutions is intended to cover the
land case, or, IL you please, the land mo-
nopoly. The POpullst, like the early
republican, wants to save the public
lands for homes for the people.
The second proposition includes gov
ernment charge, government control,
government supervision, government
surveillance Of the railroads; the very
thing we are now doing with bSyonets,
by writ and processes Of court, served
under an escort Of deputy mRrshals at
immense expense. Just turn this whole
business over to the peaceable agencies
Of the people. represented by their law
fully constituted agents.
There is nothing in the resolution
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the last congress went out Of existence.
/ offered q resolution requesting some
information to be furnished by the COM
mittee on interstate commerce, Of which
the senior senator from Illinois (Mr.
Cullom) was then chairmsn.
Among other items Of information
asked for was this ONE: Is it practica-
bic to consolidate all the railways Of the
country under present ownership into
one great national system, with the
diffsrentisls to be settled at one Office,
ana to establish q uniform rate Of
charges for the transportation Of passen-
gers and freight in all parts Of the
country? / remember the interest that
my smisbls neighbor, the senior senator
from New Hampshire (Mr. Chandler),
took in the resolution, 90 no does in q
good many Of the acts that / perform in
this body. He suggested in his suave
manner that without any formal pro.
Ceeding whatever the resolution might
be submitted to the committee on inter
state commerce, and he had no doubt it
would be acted upon quite as readily
and quite as promptly as il there were
no formal proceedings.
The senator from Illinois very kindly
arose and seconded the suggestion and
courteously took charge Of the resolu-
tion. That Is the last I have ever heard
from it. That was about two years ago.
That is Che way that all such things in
the past have been treated.
Now, we are face to face with the
problem; it is forced upon US, and we
send military officers to take charge Of
the railroads. The Popullsts do not
want that. We want the people in their
majesty to arrange the matter through
their constituted authorities.
Sometimes hear 1t suggested in this
body In such way thStit would appear,
Il one did not know that the gentleman
the words were intelligent men,
That the government is some great
power distinct and apart from the peO-
pie. The government is simply. the
agent Of the people, made for their bene-
&c and for their protection and to secure
aud preserve their safety and happiness.
One Of the immortal doctrines Of the
Declaration Of Independence was that
whenever the government ceases to be
effective in these respects it is not only
the right but the duty Of the people to
abolish it and institute anoth or in it's
place.
/ shall not detsin the senate any
longer except to make the suggestion |
that no matter what senators may think |
about the ideas that have been suggested |
In connection with this resolution, no
matter what they may think about So
oialism, Rnarchism, PopuliSm, or any
other ism connected with the situation,
have submitted the matter for the con-
liberation Of the senate and the country. |
| have not been direlicit in my duty.
The very frst bill / introduced in this
body was one to restrict immigration |
within reasons bic limits in the interest
Il American labor, and the first resOlu.
ion presented upon the day that that
,ill was introduced was one asking the
on finance to inquire into the
'ost Of lending money, very simple
natter, 30 simple indeed that about
hree months afterwards q member Of
1
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to reach. What does il cost to lend
money! Last year, while we were
sweating and sWeltering in this chamber,
trying to repeal the purchasing clause
Of the Sherman law, the banks needed
q little investigation in the city Of New
York. The banks we're paying out Cer-
tificates instead Of money. They were
refusing to pay their depositors. A
simple resolution Of inquiry was treated
in the same contemptuous way.
Still later, about year ago, through
q resolution / asked to have the COM
mittee on interstate commerce devise
some plan to take care Of railway trains,
30 that the property and persons of
people travelling from place to place
over the country might be protected.
That was treated with equal attention,
with equal courtesy. Nothing has ever
been heard Of it nor Of any of the other
resolutions. Last fall or winter / in
troduced a bill to furnish money to
states and cities to take care OF the poor.
That was buried like the rest. Again,
during the present year we found that
from Boston, from Chicago, from San
Francisco, from El Psso, and from a
number OF other places in the country
there were men, calling themselves
members Of an industrial army, coming
up to Washington.
proposed q resolution for the Rp-
pointment OF q committee without any
expense attending it all, providing that
the places for it's meetings should be sp-
pointed by the sergesnt.Rt-Rrms without
expense. There was no trouble required
except to put the necessary furniture
into the room, iG it was not already there,
and there was an abundance Of rooms
which could have been used without q
single dime Of expense for any purpose
whatever, not even for stenographic
work, for there are a number Of gentle.
men and ladies very much accomplished
in that art who could spend q little time
just as we'll as not in that way. The
committee was to be appointed in
order to receive petitions and hear re-
either delivered orally or
in writing, from delegations which might
come to the city, not specifying any dele
CATION. While very good vote, much
larger vote than / expected, was given
for the resolution, it did not pass.
The next novel am speaking now
about my own conduct in the matter
was the introduction Of q bill to provide
work for the unemployed in the District
Of Columbia, but in Q little while that
was disposed Of by proposition to issue
bonds so that some money changers
might reap profit out of che interest |
paid by the people. Next came q reso-
luton to appoint a committee to con-
slider the present situation with refer
ence to the business depression and the
large numbers Of unemployed people.
am glad to know that that committee
was appointed, and the distinguished
senator from Wisconsin (Mr. VilRs) is at
its head. What the committee has done,
or what they are doing, or what they
expect to do, / know not, but that much
good at least has come out Of the lRbors
which I have been pleased to perform in
this body.
Mr.. President, while no other senator
has yet suggested even subjects for
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-05
lee strike SITUATION.

What news there is this morning
from the strike centres Of the country
does not give much hope Of a speedy
settlement Of the trouble. The strikers
in some places have again resOrted to
violence, which is the best way in the
world not only to get themselves into
trouble but to proIong the strike inded-
ntely.
BY stopping aud wrscking trains,
blowing up mines and destroying prop
erty In other ways, what do the strikers
accomplish except the qualification Of a
senseIess spirit Of revenge? What do
theyhops 20 accomplish? Tt certainly
discs not soften the EN- plOyers, and
while lt does shift their side Of the fight
onto the shoulders Of the law, the State
and the taxpayers must foot the not in
considerable bill in the end. And the
end is always the same, the utter de-
feat OF the lawless element and their
cause.
BUTT apparently does no good TO re-
peat warnings and point out the truth,
though the latter be plain as day. They
must work out their own salvation in
thelr own way and purchase common
sense and judgment in the school Of
experience common with poverty and
want, for teachers.
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WOMAN's NEW TYRANNY.
The Girl on . BicyIe Makes Nan More
Helpless still.
Courier-JournaI.

Courier Journal
There Is a new Terror in town.
1t goeth forth like lion, seeking
whom il may run down.
1t is more to be dreaded than a car Of
Juggernaut, because it can speed round
the square while Juggernaut is turning
the corner.
1t is more terrible than an army with
banners; yea, than an army OF nurses
with baby-buggies.
1t is-what need to say?-the Woman
on a Bicycle.
Pedestrians have some slight protec-
ton against the Man on Bicycle when
he goes on o rampage. They can scurry
ont into the gutter and kick mud at him.
They can scramble upon the fence and
hurl hard hunks OF language at him.
They can subsidiZe a teamster and sick
a coal cart on him. They can lug around
baseball bat.walking.ca and knock
him out on the fly now and then. They
can even carry their guns at half cock,
and bring him down on the wing II quick
enough on the trigger. But the Woman
on a Bicycle is another thing altogeth-
or. The public has long since recog-
nized the fact that it is at the mercy Of
the Woman on Pavement, es-
pecially il she walk double
or triple file, and more especially
if,she carry an umbrella. Put her on a
bicycle, and she is simply Devastation
on Wheels. With face set as gently as
Fate's, with eyes as unseeing as the
SphinX's, with pedals as relentless as
the jaws which clamp her tolu, she
swoops down the street, and when she
does let the beasts hunt their holes,
the fowls their roosts, and men and
children hurry to the second stories, if
second stories be in reach.
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rHAr Ice soHEDULE

Now and then one strikes a Republi-
can paper that is honest enough to re-
fuse to take part in the hypocritical
cant of the howless who are doing all
they can to misrepreseut aud smbarrass
tbe men in charge Of the tariff bill. The
Plttsburs Dispatch comes forth as one OF
these in the matter Of the alleged sugar
scandal
"The theory recently developed by
some OF our esteemed contemporaries, "
savs the Dispatch, that it is within the
bounds OF newspaper privilege TO make
the most grave accusations against pub
lie men, and when called upon TO make
good the assertion, 10 take refuge in the
plsa that the information was received
in confidence, was sufficiently shallow,
butit is even more shallow TO claim, as
some of the same journals are doing, that
Secretary CARLISLE, in his testimony
before the Senate Investigating Com
mittee, corroborate the charge against
him" 1t adds:
The accusation made against Secretary
Carlisle was that he supported high duty
for the Sugar Trust as compensation Tor
fts contributions 20 the Democratic cam
paign fund. A speech was quoted as es-
sentially what the Secretary Of the Treas
frv said 10 the Committee on Finance
which included the assertion that 10 would
bs Infamous after having taken the
Sugar Trusts money 70 reduce its protec-
ZION, This was accompanied BY the further
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Lub SbutLB duJUuIuCUs
WILL RESIST EXTENDED SESSIONS.
NHF o.,,~-o,o.- n n Tupa A-Snnq-
win Be Acted On o-Day.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 4.-The
final vote on the State bank question
will be taken at 4 o'clock Wednesday
afternoon. This conclusion was reach
ed after a conference in CrIsp's room
to-day. A rule was thereupon drawn
by the rules committee providing for q
continuance oisdebate Thursday, debate
under the fve-minuts rule Wednesday
and a vote at o'clock. The rule will
be preeented to the House tomorrow
and there is little doubt of its adoption.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-05
ruE sUaAR INVESTIGATION
DauiaIs OF ,he Most specific Character
Filed bv ConCrsssmSn.

fIed by Congressman
WASHINGTON, d. C., June 4.-Senator
Gray, as Chairman Of the Sugar Com
mittee, to-day submitted to the Senate
the second batch OF testimony taken be-
fore that committee concerning the eX-
animation OF all the Democratic MEM
bsrs OF the Finance Committee, includ-
ing Voorhees,, Jones, Harris, Vest, Nc
Pherson, Mills aud Secretary Carlisle,
and Hon. John Dewitt Warner, Of the
House Of Representatives.
The testimony OF Secretary Carlisle
was the same 10 substance as has been
printed in the REGISTER, and that Of
she others denied in toto the charges
made by the correspondents upon hear
say aud assam ption.
Senator Mcpherson stated that while
he kept an office in Wall street, and the
had been In the habit for the past seven
or eight years Of buying stocks as in
vestment and selling them, he had not
considered himself an operator in the
usual acceptation of the term. He said
that In addition 20 the purchases OF
sugar stock made by mis- son in Febru-
airy, he had purchased some sugar stock
lu AEAuUHA nnA 4NONNAAhNA NA1 AeAA 9pae
il In December when Congress con-
vened.
Questions put by Senators Allen and
Davis developed the fact that Senator
McPherson's son had made profit OF
about 81 900 on the stock bought on the
22d and sold on the Goth OF February.
Closely questioned by Senator Allen,
OF Nebraska, Senator Mcpherson stated
that II was 10 favor of the Sugar Trust
to put 10 or down the price Of its stock
and he knew this before his son bought
the stock. He also knew that putting
a tariff on sugar would tend to increase
the value OF the stock. He did not
think it right to speculate in stocks az
fected By legislation and never had done
so.
In the course of his examination,
Senator Mcpherson stated that it had
been very definitely decided between
himself and his son that the Geographic
order for sugar stock of February %
was not to be sent, and that his son
went to New York the night it was
written. He thought the order had
been carelessly left on the desk and
had been inadvertently sent by a SER
want.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-05
GOODWIN TO THE RESCUE.
How He Helped Gene Field Before 3
New Orleans Audiences.
Chicago Tunes.

OfttCuyO Ad'cos
Comedian Nat Goodwin has just con-
Guided a successful engagement in New
Orleans. 1t was his first visit to that
southern city since he has been a star,
and while the people there had heard
good deal OF him, they were under the
impression that be was In the class with
the usual run Of farce-comedy stars, and
they did not see why he should charge
the same price as Joseph Jefferson. His
made an instantaneous hit, however,
and before the week was over he was
packing the house and laying the foun-
datiun for a great future business in
New Orleans. One night Eugene Field,
the Chicago poet and writer, who, by
the way, Is one of Mats best friends,
gave a reading from his own works at a
hall in New Orleans, and after the
second act Of THE Nominee" Goodwin
Jumped into a cab and was whirled over
to the hall in question. Hastily entering
by back door the comedian rushed on
the stage and confronted the astonished
Field as he was recitng Little Boy
Blue"
Hello, Gene" cried Nat. while the
audience looked on In wonder. 'CDeer
up, old mau. I heard over at the thea
ire that you were giving reading here
tonight, and ! feared you were not
equal to the task of entertaining these
people, 80 l left my own audience to
come over and help you out"
Field was speechless, but the aud
fence caught on" and cheeredGoodwn
enthusiastically Leading Field to a
chair the comedian babe him be seated,
and then he advanced and recited a
poem or two in inimitable style, gave
his laughable imitation OF Stuart Rob-
son, sang Kipling's Danny DeeVer,"
bowed to the hilarious audience, shook
hands with the dazed poet, and rushed
out to his cab to be wbIrled back to his
theater in time to go on for the third
act OF THE Nominee" He was never
missed, and the episode doomed both
the poet and comedian in New Orleans.
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PARKEEsBURG BADLY ANNOYED
By the Actions of Frey's COmmo AwoAlsrs

By the Actions OF Frey'B Commc AWsalsrs'
Begging from House TO Flouse.
speekaf 9slseyaB 20 ms Rsotsis=
PARKERsBURG, w. VA, June A
Frey's Commonweal Army did not leave
this morning ovef the/ North western
turnpike, as they stated yesterday they
would.
When che 0'Connel landed at the
wharf Sunday, The army was given a
large quantity Of provisions on condition
that they would not land in this county,
but four miles from the city they disem-
barked, marching around the city to the
Northwestern turnpike, where they
'campedI
4, They have been allowed TO do as they
please aud have sWarmed into the city
begging from house TO house. Several
we're arrested but they only laughed al
the officers.
Lieutenant Williams, Of the army,
stated to-day that the men diu not relish
the idea OF walking across the noun
tains and intended securing a train from
the b. &c o., ito carry them to Washing
ton. II they attempt TO capture a train,
for from present indications that seems
TO be their object, there will surely be
trOuhla
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REvIvING OBSOLETE LAWS.
Statutes That Ought to Apply to CO1ey's
Sturdy BoggarS

WeHmiRStsr Gazette.
The extraordinary prosecution that
took place. at Blackburn on Friday,
whereby three young men were sum-
moned by the Board Of Guardians under
the old and utterly-forgotten statute of
Gorge Ill for having neglected their
health and thrown themselves on the
rates for treatment, the defendants be-
ing let OF with a mltigated penalty OF
fourteen days hard labor, has created
widespread astonishment.
Obsolete aud fogotten laws have,
however, frequently been exhumed ere
now by ingenious people. Mr.. Lecky
gives some curious instances, from
which we select the following: In 1851
we find lady tried at Westminster TO
recover a penalty of $50, under q law Of
Elizabeth, because she had not attended
any authorized place of worship for a
mouth previously, and acquitted by a
jury on the ground Of i'll health.
In 1772 vicar was fined 10 pounds
and his curate pounds for not having
read in church an old act against ours
ing and swearing. The vicar, it ap-
pears, had dismissed his curate, and the
sons of the latter. having discovered the
existence OF this long-forgotten law,
brought the action in revenge, not
knowing that their father would be in
volved in the condemnation.
Two statutes Of Charles II. requiring
that the dead should De buried in WOOL
on and imposing q penalty Of e5 on
clergymen who neglected TO certify to
the church wardens any instances in
which the act was not complied with,
were only repealed in 1914, on account
of a number of actions being brought
by common informer to recover the
Denalties.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-05
REEDS SILVER IDEAS.

An Effort to be Made TO Introduce Them
in ohio with . View OF Reducing Mo-
Kinisy's Power.
Cpeeial TsieorGfa 70 tAs Register.
COLUMBUS, o., June An attempt
will be made to have inserted in the
platform OF the Republican State con-
yention, which meets here tomorrow,
an endorsement Of ex-Speaker Reeds
reciprocity" silver coinage PROPOSE
ton. Congressman Grosvenor, Who is
an avowed candidate fer Governor to
succeed Mckinley, is urging 1t. Gov
ernor Mckinley is committed to Johp
A. Caldwell for Governor, and Greg
yenor hopes by Introducing the coin1ge
question in State politics to dwarf the
protective idea, which has been over
riding everything else and giving Gov
ernor Mckinley great power in party
affairs.
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STILL TALKING SUGAR
The senate ReAches an Agreement to
Vote on All Amendments Tomorrow.


The senate ReAches an Agreement to
Vote on All Amendments Tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, June 4.-Thirteen
Senators, six Democrats and seven Re-
publicaus were in the chamber to-day
when the Senate entered upon the
tenth week Of the tariff debate. Sena-
tor Hoar suggested the absence OF a
quorum and twenty minutes we're
spent waiting the presence Of the 4S
business. A resolution providing for
the payment of the expenses OF the
bribery and other investigating CON-
mittees out of the contingent fund was
adopted.
AT 1920 the tariff bill was taken up.
the sugar schedule pending. Senator
Vest took the floor and made a short
explanation concerning the controvert-
ed point In last Saturdays debate as to
the existence Of the sugar trust in 1890.
Senators Aldrlch and Sherman had con-
tended that the present trust was not
In existence and that its stock was not
listed on the New York stock board.
Senator Vest produced some authorities
show that S, 926, 900 shares or the STOCK
of the Sugar Refining Company were
sold in the market In New York in 1890,
which at SI0O per share represented
over $500, 600, 600. He had as much right
to insinuate that the sugar trust die
tated the sugar schedule in the Mckin-
ley bill as Senators on the other side
to impugn the majority in the present
Congress.
Messrs. Allison, Jones, Hoar, Platt,
and others spoke on the sugar schedule,
and at 6:2O, after an agreement by
which all the amendments to the sugar
schedule are TO be voted on tomorrow,
the Senate adjourned.
WILL RESIST EXTENDED SESSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 4.-Sena-
tor Aldrich said to-day that the Repuo-
licans will resist the extension OF the
session into the night. "From. ten
o'clock until six each day is long
enough" he says. The other side
will have TO keep forty-three Senators
here If they intend to carry on the SEES,
sion." Iii expected, however, that
several Republicans will assist the
Democrats in maintaining q quorum.