Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-28


 Speaking of the industrial prospects of the country, Mr. Depew said:
 q passed through Ohio, New York, Kentucky and Tennessee during my trip Everywhere l found prospects Of great crops This coupled with restored con fidence and a sound money system, Will give to this country for the next two years an era of unknown prosperity.
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 Spain had in Cuba when the insurrec- tion broke out force of fully 10000 men, although on paper it was twice as large In the last three months from 25O00 to 3O GOO men have been landed in Cuba. Marshal Campos now asks for as many more fn,tlhe autumn in order to crush tho rebellion In spite of the forces at ms command it has speedily spread. The negroes are rising all over the island un7 der white and negro leadership and
 Spain has before it a long, difficult ana costly war. All this comes on a country which has a floating debt of $4O,pOODoD and which for last year and previous years for a long period has had annual deficits of from s5,000.000 to $l0,OOO0Oo "Congressman Bryan is a great ora tor" says a free coinage contemporary
 He may be a. great speaker, but certainty not a great orator. An orator must con vince the people, and he cannot do that
 unless he has the truth on his side Ihs is the essential element that is lacking in Bryan's speech. An orator is the ad- vocate of truth. No man can be great
 orator who advocates error. It was the truth that gave convincing power to
 Burke's oratery in the trial of Warren
 Hastings, that lent fire 10 the philippines of Cicero, and that gave supernatural
 force to the eloquence of Paul before Agrippa.
 The coal operators of the Birmingham
 district don't seem to be able to set to-
 gether and agree upon uniform price
 as the iron men have. A large coal op-
 orator thinks that if such an agreement could be reached it would add 10 per
 cent to the value of coal properties Tn this district It would work to the ad-
 vantage of the miners giving them larger and more permanent wages. IL would allay all trouble among the oper- ators It would be to the advantage or consumers, for they could obtain reg
 ular supply at a uniform price. and
 would have a permanent basis upon which to make their contracts. The Herald asserted that the silver | heresy is sectional and that no sectional | party or movement has ever succeeded | A free coinage contemporary takes issue with us. and gives the abolition move ment as an instance of the success of a sectional movement. Of course we did not have in contemplation resort to
 arms. The abolition movement was car nt11 fir coinage contemporary propose a similar
 method of forcing on the country the free coinage of silver? Does it indorse the military arm of the Populist party, the Industrial Legion.
 Thus spoke Kentucky on Wednesday; | '"We reaffirm without qualification the | principles and politics declared by the 1 National Democratic platform of 1852, | and declare that our present National Democratic administration is entitled to | the thanks of the party for its honest, | courageous and statesmanlil1e manage ment of public affairs; and we express | our undiminished confidence in the De-
 mocracy and patriotism of Grover Cleve- | land and his distinguished oo-adviser and
 secretary of the treasury. J. G. Carlisle | of Kentucky"
 The free coinage organs were hard put | to it to find a suitable head for the pro- | ceedings of the Kentucky convention. | One of them uses the heading, Rather | Fishy" That's as good heading as | any In a scientific view all conventions
 are fishy for scientists tell us that men
 were originally fishes. But the fish in
 that Kentucky convention knew better
 than to snap at the free silver bait In | fact, a large majority of them were gold | fish.
 When the Democratic party declared l itself in favor of silver in the past. it | did not mean coinage at a ratio double 1 the market value of bullion. If the Dem | ocratic party declares for free coinage l now. to be consistent, it must indorse 1 the ratio of 32 to l. The Democratic l party has declared for a sound and safe 1 currency, and it must maintain that at
 all hazards.
 1 The official records show that the banks l of the silver States-Colorado. Montana, 1 California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah
 and Nevada-held on May ', 1895, nine | times as much gold as silver. All told,
 they held less than S1,00O,000 in silver. | The people of those States like well
 enough 10 talk about silver, but they pre- 1 fer to hold gold.
 1 A trade journal says that Jefferson
 county, in Alabama, has during this | year turned out more coal than the l whole State of Alabama did in the year
 1894" This is not strictly true, and vet
 it is approximately correct. The amount
 of coal now being turned out is much l greater than last year.
 The Ohio Supreme Court has decided | that where the land surface and minerals
 below are owned by different parties
 they may be taxed separately. Two 1 nnnl cnrnnanies in the State tried 10 eS-