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AN UNFINISHED PARALLEL.

The similarity of the conditions at
tending the administrations of Van
Buren, and Cleveland is striking. The
entrance of each into official life was
Immediately followed by a financial
panic that paralyzed all the indus
tries of the nation. In each case
the cause was a previous Whirl of
mad speculation, aggravated by vi
chievous currency system was the
point that pricked the bubble. Each
found the government associated
with a banking system, and each
sought a divorce. Van Buren, was
successful in accomplishing his pur-
pose in the establishment of the
to this day the mutations of parties
and policies, and is a monument
to the craftsmanship of man just
now, tardily, coming to be appre-
ciated. Cleveland, less fortunate in
his party support in congress, failed
in his suit for a divorce of the treas
ury from a bastard banking policy,
that imposes on the treasury all the
disadvantages, without the compen-
sating advantages, of a bank of is
sue.
Van Buren, met the treasury deficit
caused by the panic, the bank fail
ures and the effect of Jackson's order
requiring land payments to be made
in gold and silver, by an issue of
$10,000,O00 treasury notes, bearing
interest, receivable for taxes, but not
a legal tender; while Cleveland was
obliged to meet a deficit, caused by
the action of his predecessors ad-
ministration in reducing revenue
and expanding expenditure, by bond
issues. But the most striking SIM
ilarity is in the conditions immedi-
ately preceding the point where the
parallel ends. There was, in Van
Buren's day, no national currency
except gold and silver. The United
States bank, divorced from the
treasury by Jackson and crippled
badly, had continued under a Penn,
sylvania, charter, and was the lead
ing note-issuing bank of the coun-
try. The panic had subsidized by
1889. The banks of the Eastern states
had resumed specie payment. Bust
ness was reviving slowly under the
restoration of confidence The cleo
tions Of 81 and '38 had gone heavily
against the administration, but those
of 80 showed a strong reaction set
ting in. Van Buren, met congress
in the fast-named year with-congrat-
| ulations on the Improvement and
comparison of the rapid recovery as
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
NJ. BESSINGER.
Reminiscent and Coincident.

Seattle Intelligencer
a strange story in which Seattle has
an interest has come to light in con-
nectlon with the battle of the Wilder
ness, through the desire of a small boy
to get hold of a birds nest. Henry F.
LoWpenny, corporal in the Thirty
second Indiana volunteers, lost his
right arm at the elbow during the bat
tie by the explosion of a shell. Since
then Lowpenny has died, but his wild
ow resides in this city with a married
daughter. Bradley Johnson, a cousin
OF Lowpenny and also ex-state chan
cellor of Missouri, now resides on the
scene of the battle, and a few weeks
ago his little son, while birds nesting.
discovered a nest built in a skeleton
hand in the fork of a large maple tree.
On one Of the bony fingers was found
a seal ring, which was recognized by
Mr.. Johnson as having belonged to
LOWpenny
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
A FUTILE PRDIECT

The report of the three negroes
who have returned from Liberia
probably contains much exaggera-
ton, yet we can think of nothing
more hopeless than project to de-
port the colored people of the South
and establish them comfortably in
African homes. These men say they
found themselves landed in a for
eign country without resources and
without any opportunity even to sup
port themselves by labor. They
told horrible story of suffering
from the climate and privation.
Whether investigation shall deter
mine it to be true or false, it is GER
tain that the project in which they
were engaged is not feasible or hui
name one.
There are many persons who have
recognized the unfavorable circum-
stances of the Southern negro, and
have INDUCED the theory that his
future would be most fortunately di-
rected if he could be returned to his
native cline, and there put into eff
feet the ideas and habits acquired
during his life in the United States
by contact with high civilization.
Such persons probably are firmly of
the opinion that race separation is
necessary, and believe that the white
and the black would move forward
with greater freedom and success to
their appointed destinies if the con-
f1ict which their associat ton has en-
gendered could be ended. They pro-
coed, however, from false or INSULT
cient premises. They forget that
Africa is not the native country of
the Southern negro. His ancestors
came from there, but he himself has
lost the qualities which fitted them
to live there, and has acquired 9TH
erS which make his removal vir-
tual repatriation. He is even unable
to stand the African climate It is
reported by these men that their as
sociates persisted from climatic fever.
He does not return to the dark con-
tinent as to the home of his fathers,
but it is to him strange and hos
tile land. 1t would be possible, per-
haps, for an extensive organization
of capitalists to acquire land in
Africa and fit it for colonization by
the freedmen, but to send negroes
to that country without such prepa-
ration and without careful super
vision is sheer cruelty.
has not the spirit which makes the
conquest Of the wilderness a delight
to the Anglo-Saxon race. The I'M
happy fortune that he has inherited
from his ancestors requires that he
shall be assisted on the way of de-
velopment by those who have CEN
turtles of independence and progress,
instead of centuries of submission
and misfortune, behind them. If all
the negroes in the United States
We're to be set down today in some
wild country to work out their own
future without other resources, it
would not be difficult to foreteH the
result. Nor could any experiment be
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
JUSTICE FOR THE INDIANS.
Outrages by White Settlers Must
Be Punished.

Be Punished.
NEW YORK, July 31.-Rev. Secre-
tary Ryder, of the Indian department
of the American Missionary associa-
ton, has been in correspondence with
the interior department concerning
the Bannock uprising. AS a result of
his investigation of the matter he says:
eff ever in the history of our coun-
try a protest ought to be raised by
Christian people against the slaughter
of the Indians, it is now. The Ban
nocks under the laws of the govern
ment are allowed to hunt. The game
laws Of Wyoming forbid this. A party
of Bannocks killed a lot of game in Wy
oming territory. They were arrested,
and while being taken to Jail sixteen
of the seventeen were shot down in
their tracks, unarmed. Those of US
who know of the brutal character of
many of the white men that live in
this section and Western territory,
and their intense hostility to the In
dams, have grave suspicion that this
was planned in order to kill the In
dams. Gen. Miles has given his testi-
mony that the Bannocks are among
the most peaceful and on the whole
one of the best tribes on the prairie.
Gov. Richards, of Wyoming, should
at once enforce the laws against the
white men that were the first aggress-
ors, and then bring the legal matter
into the courts. If the slayers of In
dams are promptly arrested, and the
Bannocks know that they will be i'm
partially tried and severely punished
if found guilty, the uprising will at
once be at an end
Secretary Ryder says he has received
assurances from the department of
the interior that his opinion is cor
rect as to the lawless outrage upon
the Indians, and that this being the
case, there need be no apprehension
that the troops there will use harsh
measures against the Indians No
means within the reach of the depart
ment of the interior, he says, will be
spared to bring the guilty parties to
justice.
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No More Russian Thistle

JAMESTOWN, N. D., July 31-The
executive relief board, established for
the destruction of the Russian thistle
and French weed, has made a report
OF a recent trip through the cactus
region in the south central part of the
state. This report says: 1.-The COM
missioners feel that there is every rea-
son to be encouraged, and that the
only way that we can expect to get
rid of the pest is to arouse the people
of the whole state to realization of
the great danger there is in allowing
the weed to get a foothold. and the
necessity of immediate and united &C
ton. If the people take hold and work
together it is a question of only
short time before the thistle, as a pest,
will be a thing of the past
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
SheIdon,s Little Ruse,

HURON, S. D., July S1.-The sheriff
of Brookings county served a restrain
ing order to the board of regents last
night, restraining them from perform
ing any duties pending the contest
over Regent Shannon's seat. 1t ap-
pears that the governor appointed C.
D.. Mead to succeed J.. w. Shannon,
removed, and gave it out that Collier
was appointed SO as to throw Shan
mons attorneys off the track and re-
strain Collier and not Mead; but the
order restraining the whole board
which is returnable Aug. Il, took the
governor by surprise, and the ruse did
not work. Shannon's case will be ar
gped in the supreme court the Sth inst
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compared with that following the

| compared with that following the
| panic of 1914.
But if confidence was being re-
stored at home, it was not among
the holders of our obligations
abroad. The English holders of the
securities Of the Bank of the United
States pressed for payment, and the
bank was compelled to dishonor it's
paper Following it's suspension
came the failure of the other Penn
sylvania and the Western banks.
There was a reaction; the returning
wave of the panic, less violent, less
destructive, still turning timid con-
fidence to despair. Hopefulness
gave way to dependency, and the
tide was turned back in a current
that carried Harrison into the White
house the following year.
The conditions that confronted the
opening of Cleveland's second year
We're similar The panic of '93 had
spent its force, The elections had
gone overwhelmingly against the
| administration. The mischievous
silver-purchase act was repealed,
but the vicious monetary system re-
manned, with an irresOlute congress
to delay the restoration of conf
dence. Free silverism was rampant
and threatening The deficits
had been met with two issues
of bonds whose proceeds were alb
sorbed, almost as fast as gained, ;.
by the endless-chain quality of the
prevailing paper money. The con-
d1tions were as ripe for a return of
the panic of '93 in the early part
of 1895 as they were for the return
in 80 of the panic of 81. The de-
pietion of the gold reserve threat
ened the solvency of our currency
and the securities payable in it. Gold
went abroad to pay for securities
sent home for sale. Rising conf
dence was again shaken. The En-
glish and German investors were
again doing for our national cur
rency what their predecessors did
for the bank currency Of 80.
Here the parallel ends. Van Buren,
had no resource at command to stay
the recurrent panic. Cleveland had.
He made the famous syndicate loan,
one of the conditions of which, at
first not understood, was the agree
ment to keep foreign exchange at
such rate as to prevent gold ex-
ports. Bitterly condemned as it was
at the time by the opposition, re-
celved with apprehension as it was
by the friends of the administration.
1t is now seen that it was a piece
of financiering without it's parallel
Tor magnitude or beneficent results
in the entire history of the country.
1t stayed the inevitable panic; it re-
stored full confidence Immediately;
it started again the wheels of in
dustry, and the exchanges of the
land took on their wonted activity,
Prices recovered from their abnor-
NAL depression, and wages rebound
ed. The political effect will follow,
reversing the experience of Van
Buren,. The panic-stricken, unreal
son1ng throng that visited on the
Democratic party their wrath at
panic, of which that party was but
the unfortunate legatee of it's pre-
decessor, will recover their sense and
reason and return to power the party
that has restored prosperity and dis
pelled depression. The parallel be-,
tween the two Democratic adminis-,
trations ends with their second.
years. =
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

Chicago yesterday witnessed an
other of those novel performances
for which it has become so famous.
A young woman horsewhipped a
young married man on a public
street because the latter's wife had
accused the young woman of unbe-
coming conduct, the latter admitting
that the man had done her no wrong;
in fact, that he was not acquainted
with her.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
Zardetti Did Resign.

ST. CLOUD, Mimi, July 31.-The re-
port, that Archbishop Zardetti had re-
signed at Bucharest, Roumania, al
though subsequently denied, now
proves to be correct. Bishop Marty,
of st. Cloud. has received a paper, pub
liShed at Bucharest, which contains
the official announcement of the resig-
nation, which was placed in the hands
of the holy see some months ago. At
9he request of the pope, however, Arch
bishop Zardetti remained in charge for
some time after. The resignation was
due to the limited revenues of the
archbishopric see, and purely on ac-
count of financial reasons. The holy
see has named Zardetti titular arch
bishop of Mozesso, Asia Minor.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

success or failure of either of them
could not be said to have been caused
by that issue. In the second place,
as we have already noted, it is de-
sirable to call attention to the uni
form attitude of the free silver men.
They begin their fight within one
party or the other. They are pre-
pared to end it without. They de-
cline to be bound by the principle
of majority rule, unless they happen
to be the majority. 1t is a question
which every party should consider
whether it should, in justice to itself,
make terms with men who are for
free silver first and party afterward,
regardless of platforms, candidates
or party misfortune.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
Dishonest Postmnster.

SPRINGFIELD ILL.,, July 31.-A dep
uty United States marshal today ar
rested Robert E. Whitlock, postmaster
at Roodhouse, ILL.,, on a charge of APP
propriating government funds to his
account. Whitlock is behind $1,000 in
his remittances, in addition to $3.50, of
which he claims the office was robbed
some time ago. but which the federal
offic:Ls think he also appropriated. He
confessed his shortage.
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county jail to the city hall in the
sheriffs private buggy, Durrant was
today conveyed in the ordinary prison
van, with less notable prisoners. He
still continues to be the subject of
much hero worship. AS he was enter
ing the court room, a we'll dressed and
handsome woman rushed toward him
with endearing words and attempted
to embrace him. The sheriff protected
Durrant from the admirer. He also
refuses to deliver the quantities of
ffeWers sent to Durrant's cell by
strangers.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

The New York Sun has made no
end of fun Of the name of the Hon.
Dink Bolts, of Dahlonega, Ga. It
might find in the name of an inde-
pendent candidate for mayor of
Rochester, in it's own state, a cheer
full reminder of Tammany days. He
rejoices in the gamey name of
Breachloder.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
VICTIMS OF LAKE STORMS.
Three Bodies From n Vessel
Wrecked Last Fall.

RACINE, Wis, July 31.-The tug
Mollie Spencer, Capt. Roach, came into
port for coal today and received tele-
gram from Chicago to watch out for
wreckage of the tug Calumet, supposed
to be lost. No signs of wreckage have
been seen here. Tugs have gone out
to search for her. The body of Capt.
Long, of the schooner Kelly, which
foundered off North Point last fall.
was picked up off Kenosha this morn
ing. The body was identified by the
captains son. One floater was picked
up here yesterday and two more bodies
were recovered today All are sup
posed to be of the crew of the Inflated
Kelly.
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Cut for Miners.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July 31.-The
coal operators have advices that no.
where in the state after tonight will
bituminous miners be paid 60 cents, the
price for mining. This is to prevent
the delegates in the convention here
on Friday having an argument in favor
of the 60 cents price. Sullivan county
operators, whd agree to pay the miners
60 cents and begin operating their
mines, have Withdrawn the offer, and
all the men are out. Both operators
and miners expect to see a general
strike by tomorrow night.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
Ioeuls for the Great Northern.

ST. CLOUD, Mimi, July s1.-The
Great Northern has now on the road
from the Brooks Locomotive works, at
Dunkirk, N. Y, seventeen new freight
engines. The new engines have been
ordered in anticipation of a large in
crease in freight traffic this fall. Be
sides the large amount of wheat to
be hauled a general picking up of
traffic is looked for. The Eastern Min
nesota will also increase its rolling
stock by adding seven new engines.
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-rLrs.-
Some Silver in 1T.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 31-Chairman
Leland and Secretary Bristow have is
sued call for meeting of the Re-
publican state central committee here
Aug. for the purpose of CONSIDERING
method of nominating a candidate
Tor chief justice Of the state supreme
court Certain Republicans favor that
method of nomination, so that there
may be an expression of the party's
stand on the silver question.
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TRIED TO KISS DURRANT.
Well Dressed Woman Makes an
! Effort to Embrace Him

SAN FRANCISCO, July 31.-Two ad-
ditional jurors were secured today to
try Theodore Durrant for the murder
of Blanche Lamont. The third panel
of seventy-five names having been ex-
hausted, an order was issued for
venire Of 150 new names. Four jurors
in all have so far been secured. Coun-
sci for both the prosecution and de-
Tense are pleased at the character of
the men thus far chosen. Instead of
being driven, as heretofore, from the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
sPANIARDs PROTEST,
A Kick Against Paying the Mora
Clnirn

MADRID, July 31.-Republican and
Carl1st senators and deputies have ad-
dressed protest to the government
against the payment of the Mora
claim without the sanction of the
cortes. The protest declares that the
governments precipitancy in settling
the claim of the United States is I'M
constitutional and humiliating upon
Spain, and that the conduct of the
United States in taking advantage of
the Cuban instruction to press the
claim Is an exhibition of an unfriendIy
disposition. The government has de-
cided to pay the Mora claim in three
installments. 1t is the intention after
wards to induce the United States to
recognize Spanish claims for damages
to property in Florida, of citizens of
this country, which were incurred dur
ing the civil war in America.
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ONE QUESTION SETTLED.

tney themselves are overwhelmed in
it's ruins.
ONE QUESTION SETTLED.
The most interesting feature of the
campaign in New York city for
Sunday observance is not the moral,
but the practical side of it. The
police commissioners have succeed
ed in demonstrating one fact about
which endless controversy has
ragged in the past; namely, that such
laws can be enforced. The wisdom
or unwisdom of the law in itself
is not now under consideration. But
in every city in the country, when
ever the question of regulation of
the liquor traffic and the enforce
ment of laws relating to it has been
raised, the common reply has been
that no matter whether it might be
desirable or otherwise, such laws
could not be enforced. Behind this
excuse mayors and police admins
refuge. Some of them believed such
laws to be unwise and unjust; some
of them were afraid of the unpop-
ularity and political loss of an at
tempt to put them into effect; some
simply loved to take their ease and
let matters run along as they found
ton, they We're all equally of the
opinion that Sunday closing could
not be effected in any large city
in this country. They have asserted
that it could be done only by a sys-
tenn of espionage which would re-
quire the enlistment of pretty much
the whole population as deputy po-
licemen.
The experience of the police COM
this statement. There is no city in
the country where the enforcement
of system of such laws would be
more difficult or more stoutly resist
ed. For years beyond memory these
particular laws have been disregard
ed at pleasure by those who found
it to their interest to do so, with
little fear of police interference.
They therefore came to regard their
Sunday business as much a part
of their public rights as the business
of any other day in the week. There
is a stronger sentiment in their favor
in the metropolis than in almost
any other city in the country. All
of the newspapers are outspoken
against the law and many of them
against an attempt to enforce it.
Yet with these thousands of places
to be watched, with this strong pub
lie opinion in opposition, and with
police force which is still subject to
the old traditions and persuasive in
f1uenceS, the commissioners have &C
tually succeeded in establishing a
dry Sunday in New York.
What will come of this is in no
way uncertain. The Sunday closing
law will be repealed or modified so
as to permit sales within reasonable
hours, as quickly as the representa-
tives of the people can get a chance
at it. But it is more important than
that, we think, to have demonstrate
ed in the chief city of the country,
and the one in which the enforce
ment of law presents the most diff
ficult problem, that the ordinary
agencies are quite adequate to the
task if they are applied with I'M
yielding determination, by conscien-
tious and fearless men. Their mo-
tives and the wisdom of their course
may be open to discussion. 1t can
not be denied, however, that they
have done service in forever re-
moving from the list of excuses Of
fered for non-enforcement of the law
the pitiful plea of official inability.
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action. The Liberal Unionists have
been a disturbing and demoralizing
force in British politics. Since they
have finally succeeded in pulling
down the temple of the Liberal
party, it is consoling to observe that
they themselves are overwhelmed in
its rims
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
Grand Stand COlIaDse.

PEORIA, ILL.,, July 31-A section of
the amphitheater at the new mile race
track collapsed yesterday with dis
astrous consequences, a number of per-
sons being injured. William Rosan-
berger fell a distance of forty feet
and received internal injuries that NAV
result in his death. Michael Sherer
was badly hurt, while a half-dozen
others We're slightly injured.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

Office buildings that do not want ito
store it claim that the bicycle is a
vehicle, and railroads that do not
want to carry it claim that it is not
baggage. Its legal status will need
to be determined in a great many
directions if it's general use is to
continue
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
Like Holmes

WICHITA, Kan, July 31-The Brit
ish vicd consul at Kansas City has ap-
pointed an agent named Mitchell in this
city to thoroughly investigate the
career of Frank Pratt, whose criminal
practices and movements bear a strik-
ing resemblance to those of H. H.
Holmes. 1t is believed by many here
that Holmes and Pratt are Identical.