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The advocate., 1894-02-07

OPhAu Anu OEeeCe' anu RB III TEOVluS0CS
intended to reveal in the cleareSt manner
possible the influence Of this mighty
agent in human affairs, the restoration
Of mankind from the ruin this cause
had produced was owing to the directly
opposite set of agencies being put in
operation. Columbus led the way in
the career Of renovation; when he spread
bis sails to Cross the Atlantic he bore
mankind and it's fortunes in his bark.
The annual supply Of the precious met
sls-of money-for the use Of the globe
was trebled; before century had passed
the price Of every species Of produce was
quadrupled. The weight Of debt and
taxation insensibly wore off under the
influence Of that prodigious increase; in
the renovation Of industry society was
changed, the weight Of fsudSlism cast
of, and the rights Of man established, "
The next great drama in European
financial history followed the suspension
of specie payments in England during
the great NspoleoniC wars, and resulted
from the contraction preparatory to the
resumption Of such payments in 1924 1t
is thus described by an old chroniCler
who was a personal witness Of the con-
dition Of things previous to and after
the contraction had taken place. Who
can describe London before and after
that scourgs had fell upon herr Then,
so great was the demand for room that
even the splendid gardens that had done
duty for centuries in supplying her with
flowers, ETC., were sold for building pur-
poses, and covered with workers laying
out streets and squares, leveling hills,
filling up hOllows, erecting houses and
digging fountains. Employers, carpeh.
ters, bricklsyerS, hodmen, mssons and
lsborers of every kind and degree were
as busy as bees; and every other depart
ment of industry was equally alive and
active. Really the city was such a type
Of wealth and prosperity that an ordinary
observer would imagine thst she would
doule her census in ten years, and that
no power on earth could arrest her in
her onward career.
But now, what fall. General stag.
nation has taken the place Of energy and
activity; the operatives are all ruined,
the workers idle, huge heaps Of lime,
sand and mortar lay here and there un-
used, foundations Abandoned, thousands
OF houses left unfinished and given up
by their insolvsnt owners to the tax
gatherers and the poor masters.
In short, London represents, since
that calamity, rather a city sacked by
Goths and vsndsls than q place occu-
pied by civilized people Even In the
Strand and Fleet street, the busiest
msrts OF trade, are scores Of shops closed
and labeled to let and for sale; and
dwellings by thousands are deserted and
falling into decay, mechanics and Ia
borers having fed for employment to
happier countries.
The above is but feeble picture Of
the cslamitieS brought upon us by our
rulers; and all In the name Of specie pay
ments, altogether unnecessary and un-
called for by the masses Of the people,
but as a superstitious sacrifice to the
god of gold, purely for the benefit and
advantage Of the bondholding and aris-
tOorRtlo class who run the empire. For
The advocate., 1894-02-07

NdurUD VI Vn0 4V@mO4 oS4~ V~V @V@AOJ
Necessary to Restore the Latter to the
Country,
EDITOR ADVOCATE: - There are two
schools Of financial thought, or rather
action, in this country az in Europe,
representing two distinct theories Of
money and finance. One Of them holds
that the normal condition Of the masses
is that Of tOilers, working for just enough
to keep Dody and soul together and
being content Herewith. The other in
sists that it is the right Of labor to thrive
and lay up something for a rainy day
and for old age, and TO educate its chill
drer. In o word, TO elevate itself to 9
higher plane in society, to q familiarity
with books and pictures; and ultimately
to become exempted from continuous
toll and enjoy the benefits Of ito early
industry in uninterrupted leisure and
repoge. The former may be called the
hard pan school since they are ever
exertinR themselves to thrust the To-
borer and producer down to the lowest
depths Of existence, and 80 engineering
things as to keep them there. Every
now and then you hear one Of them do.
clare with the wisdom and authority Of
Solomon, "Oh, there's no sense In in
croaslng the currency. That would only
afford a fictitious prosperity. We would
have TO got down to hard pan sometime"
This 10 Che doctrine of the gold mOngerS
and Of capital against labor and produc-
tion. II assumes that the normal and
natural condition Of labor is that Of
hardship, pFivstion and suffering, and
that this condition is not only proper
but absolutely necessary and unSvoid-
able, viz: tho bedrock and hard pan OF
low wages, scant work and consequent
continuous poverty and privstion. As
though the hard times from 1878 to 1893
IN this country were more natural and
reasonable than the flush times from
the close OF the war down to 1872 inClu-
sive. And one OF the devices they have
worked, for the accompaniment Of their
purpose, both in this country and in
Europe, has been the reduction Of the
money volume from q fair per capita
supply to o minimum, thus Of course,
enhancing the value OF what remained
in the hands Of the shyloCks, who pos
aessed it, and forcing the value OF labor
and its productions to point inadequate
for It's support and the education OF its
children. And thus combinations and
trusts are better enabled to monopolize
and control the necessRries OF life, still
further completing the subjugation and
Beredom of the masses of Gods poor
children.
As opposed to this hard pan doctrine
10 that which advocates generous
supply Of money for the business world,
and holds it as indispensable as gener-
GUS supply Of blood for the human body.
And Of this school are, and have been,
all true sympathizsrs with "the plain
people," az Mr.. Lincoln denominsted
them; "wlth man as man, without regard
to his condition in life or his surround
ings," as Mr. Jefferson referred to them.
And Mr.. Jefferson and DR.. Franklin
were advocates of q large circulating
medium; as they had Witnessed its effects
in reviving the dropping energies of the
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The advocate., 1894-02-07

C1pl9 Oh bQ4D ECROOiS VINO IbuOESu HHSl1u-
ously day in and day out in the senate
TO secure O larger circulating medium,
and demonstrated to that body and to
the country that the results must be
woeful indeed IL it was not accomplished.
Nearly his last words in the senate were
that "the bondholders and mOneylenders
gave deCresd that nothing shall be done
which can operate to make the burden
Of the people lighter by increasing the
volume Of the currency or even by pre-
venting further contraction" A presi-
dent Of the United States in recent
message to congress, decants upon "the
vices Of q redundant or plentiful cur
renCy as tending to keep up prices to the
detriment Of trade" ETC., and this at q
time when there 10 no money aAost in
the land and prices are literally crushed
out. When did the country ever enjoy
better times or have 9 larger trade than
from 1866 to 1873, and in corresponding
periods in English financial history. Let
us refer TO those periods as well as the
darker ones resulting from an opposite
financial policy, and let them speak for
themselves. All history records the fact
cited by lady correspondent of the AD-
vocATE some time since, that "In the
fifteenth century, previous to the dis
COvery of the New World, there was only
el86, 100000 OF money in the world-one-
third gold, and one-third silver, but both
90 scarce as TO be unseen by the common
people; civilization was at stsndstill,
business parslyzsd and famine and dis
tress ruled the land. The colonists,
seeking liberty, found only it's empty
shell, for they learned as man has ever
learned, that there is no slavery so hope
less as that Of poverty. The world has
never known O serfdom or system Of
slavery which wealth could not emanci-
pate. But there was little choice be-
tween the poverty Of the colonies and
that Of the old country, so with the new
semblRnce Of liberty they were content;
making, in the absence Of authorized
money, legal tender Of dried fish, COON
skins, tobacco, and other articles Of pro-
duotion. On account Of its universal de-
mand and the greater convenience,
tobacco, after q time, became the chief
medium Of exchange, and was accepted
Rs legal tender, not only in the colonies,
but by imperial England who sought it
eagerly, but now demands gold, and gold
only"
Now, o picture Of the other side, and
the result Of an opposite policy; from
the same correspondent:
ain the early part Of the sixteenth
century, when gold and silver were
poured into the Old World from the
new continent, free coinage OF both gold
and silver made money 30 plenty that
land, labor and the products Of labor
rose almost instantaneously on an aver
age of about 200 per cent, and the world
laughed with such prosperity and plenty
as it had never known before, Nor has it
known since"
Sir Archibald Allison, the historian Of
Europe, pictures the transition from
death to life leo to speal) that followed
the introduction Of an increased circula-
tion Of money into Europe as a result Of
the discovery Of the mines Of the New
World as follows. He has been often
The advocate., 1894-02-07

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DutsOu House. Topeka. KAs Il.s5-slSO Osr day
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VOORHEES, EXPLAINS.
The Republicans Are Told That
Democrats Can't Agree.
Each House Insists on Having
Its Own Bill Adopted.
DIFFERENCES.
Democrats Intended No Dis
courtesy to Republicans.

WAsHISeToN, July IS = The first
formal conference on the tariff bill,
with all the senate and house mem
bers, both Democratic and Republi-
can, present, was neld yesterday and
continued only about an hour.
The proceedings of the full confer
ence consisted IN an effort on the part
of the Democratic members to en-
tighten their Republican colleagues
upon the elements Of disagreement
between the Democratic mem bers of
the two houses without revealing the
methods by which they have sought
to yet together or the details
Of the proceedings Of the Dem
Ocratic conferences 1t had been
expected the Repn blican conferrees
would, at the outset, indulge in some
criticism on having been kept out OF
the conference during its initial
stages, but the Republicans had little
to say beyond formal greetings, and
waited until Senator Voorhees,, as
head of the Democratic conferreess
made a somewhat formal and full
statement of the situation.
He said no discourtesy to the Re-
publicans had been intended The
meetings had not been conference
meetings, but had been confined to an
effort to bring about some settled
policy among the Democratic confer
rees- Senator Voorhees, added he was
frank to confess that the efforts toward
agreement had not proved successful
The features of the disagreement
were then gone into at cOnsidera-
bic length by Mr.. Voorhees, and his
associates. The result is the coal
sugar, wool and cotton schedules had
been the chief bone of contention,
but he did not give particulars in any
case except that of sugar, with refer
ence to which it was stated the house
mem bers had Indicated a Willingness
to grant some duty on that article,
but had objected to the differential
duty on refined sugar.
On the other articles which had
been the basis of disagreement, Sem
atOr Voorhees, and other Democrat tic
members of the confere nee cOntented
themselves with saying the Demo
cratic conferees of the two houses
had contended each side for its own
bill. In the e. eral discussion the
Re publican conferees gathered that
sugar. iron ore, coal, the wooden
schedule, cotton schedule and silver
lead bearing ores we're the chief
questions Of disagree ment-
The question finally arose as to
what would be done now that the full
conference had Assem- bled- 1t was
suggested by Senator Aldrich that the
bill should be taken up item by item
and be cOnsid cred by Republicans
and Democrats but the point was
raised that this appeared to be hardly
worth while in view Of what the
Democrats had just disclosed-that
there was no prospect Of agreement
on the main question
There was no further proposition
submitted and no programme outlined
sand the conference adjourned until 2
o'clock to-day, the Democratic con-
ferrees agreeing to meet prior to that
hour to further consider the course to
he pursued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-18
WAR GROWS WORSE.
Dynamite and Fire in the Pond
Creek Trouble.
a Secret Order Heads the Work
Against Rock Island.
LIFE is NOT SAFE.
Life and Property Are Threat
ened by the Organization.

GUrHRIE, Ok, July ls.-The war
between the people of Enid and
Round Pond and the Rock Island
railway grows worse hourly At an
early hour yesterday morning another
bridge was blown up. putting a stop
to all travel on the road Later a
long section of track was torn up
south of Round Pond and at noon a
bridge was fred, but was partly saved
by the soldiers and guards. All sec
ton men living in that vicinity have
been warned to stop helping the rail-
way under penalty of death to them
selves and the destruction of their
homes by fire. Several of the Rock
Island guards were assaulted by the
mob and badly injured. At Round
Pond, County Attorney Asher was
driven out of town by an armed mob
and the Intervention of a few con-
servative citizens alone saved his life
The work of destruction is being
carried on by secret organization
composed of men who will stop at
nothing, and it is stated upon good
authority that they have been paid
Sc. 600 to carry on the guerrilla
warfare, and, if necessary, burn
every bridge in the Cherokee
strip, tear up the track and
wreck trains until the railway
company recognizes the two towns.
A veritable reign Of terror exists in
the two counties, and no man knows
what will happen next The troops
and deputies are wholly unable to
cope with the mob, who care nothing
for them One man yesterday openly
threw a dynamite bomb under a train
carrying soldiers. The railway COM
panv and the better citizens are tele-
graphing for more troops, but it seems
to be impossible to make the authori-
ties at Washington understand the
gravity OF the situation
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UNUSUAL PROGRESS.
The Senate Passes Ten of the Fourteen
Appropriation Bills in Week.

The Senate Passes Ten of the Fourteen
pprOpriation Bills in Week
WASHINGTON. July Is. The fact
that the senate has made such rapid
progress with the appropriat alton bills
since they were taken up has led
many to believe that their dispatch is
a part of the general scheme of the
senate to force the house to a more
speedy agreement on the senate tariff
bill. Ten of the fourteen appropria-
ton bills were passed by the senate in
little more than weeks time, which
is unprecedented progress, and the in
Cica ions are that the bills remaining
Enacted on will be disposed of with
equal rapidity when reached.
With all the appropriation bills
passed by the senate there will be
nothing but the conference reports on
these bills and the tariff between con-
gress and adjournment There are
many senators who count upon the
earerness of the mem bers Of the
house to get home, in view Of the
necessity Of looking after their po-
litical fences, to help materially in
bringing the house to accept the sen
ate's terms on the tariff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-18
CLIPPER cHEsINuIs.

To q woman there is no more unInker-
esting object than q man In Iove-wi5h
somebody else.-Tit-B
Countryman Ito dentist)-I wouIdn't
out If 1t does hurt. Dentist-You are
plucky, sir Let me see the tooth Coun-
tryman-Oh, faint me that's got the
toothache; it's my wife. She'll be here In
a Waterbury,.
Directions for hanging q hammock are
being printed in many papers now, but
one important direction is omitted When
there is a pretty girl in the family, she
usually wants the hammock hung in some
secluded nook behind the vines where
the neighbors cannot see.-Somervil1s
journal.
1t is never a proper thing to correct an
other in public; it may give the person
corrected opportunity to answer in public.
Boston Transcript
A good many Of the fellows on for Eu-
rope are not only good sailors, but first
class kippers.-Attleboro Sun.
''De man, p said Uncle Eben, ''dat laiks
ter hyah hisse'f talk doan' allus mex
frien's, but he kin hab mob fun on less
capital dan anybody else on earf. Wash
ington Star.
what would you want first if you had
a great big fortune2'' Greedley-A bigger
one--ChicagO Inter Ocean
beg pardon said the missionary,
''but will you translate his majesty re-
marks again? Did he tell his daughter
that he was to have guests to dinner or
for dinnery indianapolis Journal
81 suppose Grasper will never marry
unless he's sure he's getting the flower Of
the 1ock?' Great Scott, mol It's the dust
of the family he's AfUerl''-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A boy never saw al Of circus He
firmly believes that only half of it is there,
the half that is the bills being in some
other town.-Atchison Globe
The New Cook-Ahi this is a SPLEEN
did kitchen. Why, there's room here for
a whole regimenti-Nya Presse.
Bicycle Teacher-Now, all you need is
confidence, don & you see? The Student of
tho Wheel-Oh, yes tumble.-Phila-
delphia Record
Look out for the young woman who
frankly declares that she is bound to die
an old maid. Before you are aware Of it
she viii be wearing your name together
with broad gold ring on the third finger
Of her left hand--Boston Transcript
''Have you heard the s-year-old German
boy volinist?'' ''Oh, yes Twelve years ago
in Berlfni'-Tit- Bits.
A serpentine dancer in London music
hall twirls around with so much rapidity
that the clocks in her stockings get all
wound up.-King's Jester.
AS with others, the ''hum of industry
also means work with the Jersey mos
quito.-Philadelphia Times.
Tier heart is as hard as glass; can't
make any impression on it, Have you
tried a diamond?'-Kate Fields Wash
ington.
The weather is undoubtedly seasonable
but the seasoning Is a little high--W ash
ington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-18

FLOWERS FOR BRECK.
Women OF DoneraiI, KY, PeIt the Silver
Tongued with Bouquets.

Women OF DonerafI, KY, PeIt the silver
Tongued with Bouquets.
LEXINGTON, Ky, July lafayette
county, the home of the two Ashland
district congressional opponents,
heard both yesterday, Colonel Breck-
inridge speaking at DoneraI1 and Mr..
Owens at Muir. There we're many
ladies present at both meetings. The
women near the rail threw
bouquets at Breckenridge by doz-
ems, and the pious ones were
shocked when he compared them to
women of old who sympa thized with
Stephen when stones were being cast
at him. Breckenridge left for Wash
inton last night after kissing his son
Desha good by in the presence of the
audience. Mr.. Owens handled Brock
inridge's congressional record with
out gloves. He said the reason the
colonel had done nothing for the
Kentucky river apprOpria ton was
because he was attorney for the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-18
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

Trains the Southern Pacific Running
with More Less Regularity.
SAN Francisco. July 1s--The South
ern Pacific continues to run passenger
trains with more or less regularity
during the hours of daylight, but all
night trains are still being abandoned.
For the present, but one west bound
and one east bound overland train
day will be run on the Ogden route.
Non-union train crews are not flock
ing to division headquarters and this
is pro bly, the reason why so few
freight trains are being moved. The
first fruit train dispatched for the
East since the strike was ordered by
Debs was sent out of Sacramento yes
terday.
At Sacramento, the only exciting in
cident of yesterday was the dispatch
ing of train bearing sixty United
States regulars to Dunsmuir, on the
Oregon branch The cOmpany's age Mt
at Dunsmuir reported that the strikers
there were becoming ugly.
The strik at Sacramento continue
active, however Monday several
hundred men who had Obeyed the or
der to strike returned to work in the
machine shops. Yesterday morning
most Of them remained away. The
men have been intimidated by the
strikers and feared violence at the
hands of the A R. u.
In Oakland as well as Sacramento
the railroad officials are meeting with
difficulty in getting enough men to
run their shops and man their trains.
The strikers have been pretty sue
cessful in intimidating the men who
otherwise might have stepped into
~. l.n..
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WRECKED By DYNAMITE.

Northern Pacific Train Damaged by a
Dynamite Cartridge on tho Track.
MIssoULA, Mont, July 1s.-An east
bound Northern Pacific train, the first
in sixteen days, was wrecked yester-
day at point about two miles east Of
here by a dynamite cartridge con-
ceased on the track The engine had
barely struck the spot when terrific
explosion was heard, the shock shat
tering the pilot and right cylinder
and piston rod. It also broke
the windows of the cab and
mail car. Had the engine gone fairly
over the cartridge the result would
have been more disastrous, as some
eight coaches constituted the train,
which was loaded with troops and
passengers The strikers denOunce
the outrage. There is consid erable
feeling here over the return to work
of some engineers and conductors,
and it is expected that some one in
sympathy with the strikers adopted
this method of lettering further
progress.
A trestle 100 feet long, three miles
west of here, and one $50 feet long on
the Occur d'Alene branch, were burned
last rriUbt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-18
NEWS IN BRIEF

Henry A. Taylor. . New York
banker, has been sued by his wife.
Elizabeth E Taylor, for separa ton,
on the ground Of cruelty and aban-
donment Two years ago they were
separated. 1t is said that Taylor Is
worth from 50, 900, 900 to So, 900, 600.
In Huntington, W. Va, the large
During the conhagration Miss Nora
Carter, q young lady visiting the
family, ran iuto a room to secure her
Jewels, and had to jump from the
second floor, receiving fatal injuries
In Toledo. Ohio, the city authori-
ties, after keeping the RydOwkowsxl
COMMONWEALTH in the city prison all
NIGHT, determined to ship them out OF
town Accordingly. they were fed,
marched to the depot. put on q train,
which dumped them just beyond the
easterly city limits.
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covEKNoR's FRooLAMArIoN.
Lowe Offers a Large Reward for the
Arrest of I.awbreaxers.


GUTHRIE. Ok, July 1s--Acting Gov
ernor Lowe has issued the following
proclamation: Whereas. it has been
made known to me that there is
lawless element operating on the
Rock Island and Pacific railway; that
evil disposed persons have been burn
ing bridges and using dynamite with
malicious design to injure and
burn the property of said company
within the territory; now, I, Thomas
b. Lowe, secretary and acting gov
ernor Of the territory Of Oklahoma.
by virtue Of the power vested in me
by the laws of said territory, do here
by offer a re ward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction Of any person or per
sons guilty of burning or attic pting
to burn any Of the bridges, trestles,
cattle guards, crossings, buildings,
cars or other property Of said rail
road company or the building or build
ings of any citizen of said territory,
and all good, law abiding citizens are
hereby requested to aid the officers
10y assistance or information in arrest
ing and bringing to justice parties
guilty.