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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
WHAT ARE WE COMING TOP

We NAV not be able to hail cable
car nor stop bread wagon, but we are
alive and in fairly good health, and that
is a good deal in these hard times. AS
for the rest of humanity, with the
hanks vet tumbling around their ears,
and strikers sore and surly on every
hand. the outlook is not pleasant, to say
the least. What the future will bring
forth is a weighty and momentous
question to nine tenths of America TO-
dav. With a financial crisis pending,
beside which the experience OF the past
two years would be but an introduce
tory chord, and with labor and capt.
tai at swords points on every hand
we'll may men pause and say, "What
next?" When England demonetlzed
silver in India she aimed a. deadly, pre-
meditated blow at our very vitals.
And the worst Of it is, we have ever
since played directly into her hands.
Instead of holding our own las we could
have done) and totally ignoring this
envious Briton, we have botcheu
and congested our finances so that
it will need more than mere Sc
rum to restore us our normal activity
And matters are growing no better. "A
democratic congress, and democratic
president, cannot agree; and it will not
be at all singular if republican con
gress and democratic president Will
not agree. DAHHi'
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
,TILLWATER, MINNESOTA, JANUARY 7, 1895.

IF the Methodist Church in its Confer
ence of 1888, may now fairly be said to
represent the opinion of the most en-
lightened and religiously earnest por-
tons of Christendom at large, so that
in citing it here we summarize scores
of equivalent declarations from other
religious bodies: "The liquor traffic
can never be legalized without sin.
License, high or low, is vicious in prln-
ciple and powerless as remedy" 1t
is gross inconsistency for church mem
bers to vote for License and then ex-
clude licensed rum sellers from church
memberships
If church members would act indie
pendently and vote outside the churches
on this topic of the liquor traffic, as
thew do on the inside, there is no polltl
cal party that they might not bring te
terms. When the path to polltlca
preferment leads them through the gin
mills, free government is farce, an(
its future is likely to be tragedy. NJ
political party in the United States Cal
be permanently preserved in whisky
Encvclopedia of Temperance an
Prohibition. Funk and Wagnalls. 1881
Article by Joseph Cook on Llcens1
See also the very able volume by n: :.
Wheeler. entitled "Prohibition, tn
Principle, the Policy and the Party'
Funk & Wagnalls' Standard Library.
(TO BE CONTINUED
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
NEAI DOW'S WATCHWORDS
FOR THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY
AN GRAFTON, BY JOSEPH COOK, DE-
LIVERED AT PROHIBITION PARK,
STATEN ISLAND, JUNE3, 1894, l.
AT THE CELEBRATION OF
NEAL BOWS NINETI-
ETH BIRTHDAY.
CHAPTER vi.

License always implies the legaliza-
ton of portion of the liquor tratflc*.
1t aims also to repress portion OF that
traffic. 1t contains thus both sanction
and a condemnation of the saloon. 1t
is a statutory authorization of part
of the traffic 1t is also in theory statu-
tory limitation of another part OF the
traffic. 1t is this double character OF
License which causes, even among In
telligent voters so much confusion OF
thought concerning it. But it is highly
important to emphasize the fact that
License represses one portion OF the
traffic only at the expense OF sanctlonlng
another portion of it..
This simple analysis of the definition
oflicense answers most of the arguments
in defense of it. The question is asked
whether ten saloons are not better than
fifteen. The reply is they are not, IT
the fifteen can be reduced to ten only
bv definitely giving the sanction OF
Government to the ten. Are not ten
murders better than twenty? NO, II
the twenty can be reduced to ten only
by statutory authorization of the ten.
Is not half a loaf better than no bread
No if the half loaf can be had only on
condition that it be first saturated with
poison, and this by the authority OF the
whole community. Did not Moses
licence polygamy and so attempt tc
limit it's range? Yes, but not at the
expense of assuming that the DIVINE
sanction was given to polygamy within
the actual range to which it was limited
OF two evils, must not we choose tn
less? No, if in choosing the less w
are required to do evil ourselves. y
two evils, choose neither.
License makes the community itsel
rum seller. 1t has now become dis
*Bouvier, in his Law Dictionary, az
fines license as "a right given by som
competent authority to do an act Whlcl
without such authority, would be !
legal" The text of the document gl'
ing a license usually reads: License
hereby given by authority OF the CT
of-to A. B. to keep saloon and
SELL" etc., All this shows that licen
means legalization of portion OF IL
liouOr traffic A tax, on the contrar
confers no authority on him who pa
Il Bouvier defines tax as a "cO
tribution imposed by Government
individuals for the service of the STATE
IT is futile. therefore, to contend tn
license is simply tax upon the tra1
and only limitation OF 1t, ana not
authorization of portion of it.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
GIVING.

Some one has truly said that, "life is
TO each one of us what one puts into 1t
of ones SELF We cannot question it..
To some people life stretches from
earth up to heaven like the glittering
ladder of Jacobs vision, each duty a
round upon which angels may descend
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07
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FAILURE.

49, D the white wall the shadows steal apace;
OIL Fast slips the day. the day that promised
JS1e At morn rose with flushed and eager
face
And to the hillside turned to toll my share;
But at the gate paused and pulled rose,
Then idled where the goldfish glance and CLEAN;
And Lise and Lettuce called me from the
slope. , so,,
And so with laugh and jest the morning Sped
"And WHY now? Stay yet awhile they said
Tomorrow toll today is all too sOOn.'
Thus with my life: A youth that promised fair
The worlds broad highway for my eagar feet;
But pleasure wOOed me from the MONDAY glare
And old age finds me with no task cOmplete!
MAURICE GORDON,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-02-07

Keep your heart full OF sunsnlne'
and God will soon give you a 1ace ~
match it.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
A DEADLY

The Ne1cs and Observer tries hard to
have a "duck fit" over the Quarantine
Station affair below Wilmington. 1t
says:
sit is disgraceful piece of business
to turn over an important and far
reaching matter of protection from
contagion to a set of miserable peanut
politicians, as the Legislature tried to
do. The whole State is taxed to keep
up the station, and legislators who
would turn it over to men of the Fred
Rice calibre, would invite contagion in
order to get a job for a henchman."
DR.. A. A. Maynard, an excellent
physician and citizen, of Arson county,
has been selected to take the place of
DR.. Curtis, who has been Quaratine
officer for fifteen years. DR.. Maynard
stands as high in every way as any
man connected with the NeUS and Oh
serUer, or any other paper. Why at
tack him2 The sole objection to him is
that he is a Populist, and will displace
a Democrat who has held an Office
for fifteen years, that is, if the courts
decide that DR.. Curtis can be removed.
My, but the Democrats do die hard.
The next legislature should not be half
as liberal in dealing with them as the
last one was. The next n ought to
put in fifty of the sixty days putting
through carefully prepared lawsto dis
place every Democrat who holds any
sort of and Office and then legalize
vigilance committees to see that all
give up the Offices, for that seems to
be the only way to get them out.
Talk about changing the Quaratine
officer placing the people of the State
at the mercy of contagions!. Well! If
DIR. Maynard can't manage a contagion
we don't know who can. There is a
general belief that democracy of the
modern stripe is nothing short of a
deadly miasma itself. At any rate a
few contagious diseases would be a
change. and not entirely an unwelcome
one.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
A FEW SOUND MONEY" Mpr

The First National Bank at Par.
Iowa, is closed. E. R. CasselI i,
president, lost $14, 900 gambling, And
the bank couldn't stand the preesrs
Cassell has since cut his throat, but i
not dead.
One of Cleveland's Sound mopev,
postmasters, at Breckenridge, Texas !,
short 81, 900. The money that he stole
is not good in "Yurrup," either.
G.. L. Woodbridge & Co, importr
of dress goods, trimmings, etc., New
York, have failed, owing $90O.OM
They probably understand by this time
that money that is good in "YurruD'
don't make business hum-unless tber
is plenty of it.
The Stevens cotton Mills, Lancaster
Pa, have failed owing about 800, Oo.
Single standard dollars don't go very
far in the struggle for business exist
ence.
Chas. w. Gryne, ''sound money"
dude and all round sport, left Rich.
mond, Va a few days ago by the Light
of the moon, after o~verdrawing bis
bank account to the tune of $500.
The Milford, N. H, Savings bank
has suspended payments. 1t cIaimsb
have about 5000, 900 in deposits, but
cannot realize on securities to par
pressing demands. There it is. s.
cWrities are so low. Well, didn't you
goldbugs make 'em low! Now sweat
Hard times and ''sound money" has
made Birmingham. Ala, too poor 70
pay the interest on her city bonds.
J. M. Heffner, agent for Adams El
press Company and @. B. & @ R, R,
at Rock Island, ILL.,, has gone with
50, 500 dollars good in Yurrup.
W. ". Taylor, the ''sound mOng'
Treasurer of South Dakota, who ran
away with 1857, 900 State money Oh
the 9TH Of last January, has voluH
tarily returned and will be tried. He
has turned over all his property tobh
bondsmen. The State offered a reward
of 800, 900 for his arrest, but detectives
failed to locate him.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
LAWS FOR A NEW STATE.

One of the sections of the constitu-
ton proposed for the new state of
Utah provides that the states indebt-
edness shall never exceed 500, 900.
Another forbids the giving or loaning
of state, county, city or borough credit
to any business enterprise. Another
fixes the salary of the government at
50, 900 a year. Another provides that
trial juries shall consist of eight per-
sons, and that in civil cases the con-
currence of six out of the eight shall
be sufficient for a legal verdict.
We believe that the clause relative
to the States indebtedness, and the
other forbidding the giving or loaning
of state bonds to any business enter
prise, are eminently wise. But the
Governors salary is rather small,
though not out of proportion to the
times. Perhaps the jury of eight per
sons will be all right. Eight men
ought to have as much sense as twelve.
The concurrence of six out of eight
being sufficient for a legal verdict is a
real bright idea, and there ought to be
some such provision in all jury sys-
TENS. Then one fool who may be op
posed to capital punishment, can't
hang a jury. Neither can one bought
iuryman obstruct the avenue to JUS
Gice. The Mormons may be away off
in regard to the number of wives a
man ought to have and lots of other
things, but they know how to heW out
a State constitution.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
MAKES 1T PLAIN.

Gov. W. J. Mcconnell, Of Idaho.
writes Mr.. Austin P. Lowery, of Iowa,
on the silver question:
DEAR SIR: I have your favor of
May 18th, and in reply to your query
as to the average cost of the production
OF silver in the present silver dollar. so
far as it relate s to its ccst of production
from the mines of this State, I beg
leave to say that an observation of
thirty five years in a gold and silver
mining country has led me to believe
that every dollar of silver produced
from u mines has cost on an r
In human toll and money expended
more than the face value of the metal.
1 also believe the same may be said OF
gold. While a few mines have in all
ages and in all countries proven profit
able, yet in writing them UP nothing
has been said of the thousands OF
miners who go forth from time to time
and suffer the hardships of climbing
mountains, wading through snow, of.
ten hungry, sleeping in wet blankets.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
AN EDUCATION IS A NEcpce@,

Parents with children to educot.
do well to read carefully the scboo,TQ
college advertisements which D';m Sad
pear in u columns DURING H. SP
three months. Educational instit,,u e<t
in North Carolina and other StetaSO
awakening to the lamentable foot ~
there r thousands of worthy S'
ladies and young men all ovs, 1pss
country wanting an education wbo w
to an extent debarred from gettiOs ae
by poverty, and the high rates u
tuition and board charged in W "
schools. ~'
Recognizing this fact, MANY NJ ~.
schools and colleges ere making ev.sS
endeavor to place educational advs,
tages in the reach of the poorest ~,
by reading their inducements set to,@
in their advertisements, you NAV A.
an opportunity to place your child ~
good school; and at a cost within vor'
means.
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER will ~.
advertise a school or college that lana,
first class in every particular, and von
need have no fear about placing vn'
child under the ARE of the principsIm
any of them. Read our ads. Send,
catalogues. Educate your Children
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
WHEN DEMOCRATS FALL OUT.

The war is on. 1t promises to be a
long and bloody scrap. The following
tilt between the Charlotte Observer
and Wilkesboro Chronicle foreshadows
the terrific struggle between the gold
bugs avowed and the goldbugs who
are silver men between campaigns only
The Charlotte Observer says the
Wilkesboro Chronicle has ''more zeal
than knowledge" because of its shUrt
editorial about editor Caldwell last
week; and adds:
"When nobody was saying anything
when heaven was all tranquility, your
State Executive Committee got up a
racket and now you want to charge
it to those whom, while they we're as
quiet as lambs, the committee sought
TO dragon. AS for working for But,
ler's aud Pritchardis party who is it
that is dickering with Butler now9and
who are they who are going into silver
meetings with Wilson, Aver & Co. In
form yourself first and talk after
wards"
It is kind to be told that one is igno
rant and should inform himself, but it
would be still more kind for the mogul
and fountain-head of information to
drop a few crumbs that the ignorant
may pick them up. With fear and
trembling and ''zeaP'-we had rather
be guilty of the crime of having more
zeal" for time-honored Democracy,
than knowledge" in promoting dissen-
sions within the party-we bow at the
feet of Gamaliel, and beg for informa-
ton:
l.. We have been taught from our
youth UP by Democratic speakers and
Democratic papers, including Cald-
wells Landmark, that Democracy
favored the coinage of silver and gold
upon an equality. Did they all lieG
2. We were raised up to the present
time to believe that N. @. Democracy
is in favor of silver. Even in the last
platform of the national Democracy it
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
ADMITS THAT CONSISTENCY IS
A JEWEL.

Our Raleigh correspondent sent us
last night a very interesting interview
with Senator Butler. We agree with
that gentleman that the recent meet
ings at Raleigh and Memphis mark the
advance of the Populist party and con-
graduate him upon the fact. He is
standing his ground courageously, in
side his own party, for the financial
principle that he and it have stood for
from the beginning, and he is to be
commended for it. He and his party
are where they have been all the time.
and we have no sympathy with those
who are trying to steal the platform
from under them.-CharIotte Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25

speaks of the coinage of gold and silver
upon an equality, without charge for
mintage." Anything without charge
seems to be "free." The State conven-
ton, with editor Caldwell as chairman
Of the platform committee, adopted a
free silver" plank.
Were they just fooling and running
after ''silver vagaries7"
8. AS to getting up dissensions,
"when heaven was all tranquility, the
committee reiterated the Democratic
platform and still all was tranquility"
till Paul Belligerant Means, assisted by
the Observer. attacked the committee,
and this raised the racket. Is it best
for the success of Democracy to raise a
disturbance because it's committee
unadvisedly, perhaps-stuck to Demo
cratic principles?
4. What other paper outside of the
Observer so thoroughly famed and
created the Ransom Vance breach,
which resulted in the defeat of Democ-
racy in the State at last election9
5. We have heard a great deal about
your dogmatic diction, abuse and
ridicule running such men as Linney,
York and others out of the party and
that you will succeed in bouncing
Chambers Smith, Oct. Coke and all
who believe in silver, if possible if not
possible, you will advocate a "gold
party" under the plan of the Richmond
Times, which you printed and favor
ably commented upon. We do not
think this can be true, but is it9
6. Upon what food hath Charlotte
fed thee that thou hast grown above
thy former Democratic principles the
old doctrine of the ''plain people, OF
silver money!
z. Would it not be better for the sue.
cess of Democracy to stand together
for the old Democratic principles and
not always be getting up dissension9
Until your fund of information con,
vinces us to the contrary, we are for
true old pure Democracy and it's sue
cess.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
HUMBUGS.
cess.

It is a burning shame the way our
people are imposed upon by vendors OF
iron steel cooking ranges, lightning
rods and calendar clocks. They get
too poor, they say, to pay their quar-.
terage, to take the Advocate, almost
too poor to pay their taxes, but just
the same the range or rod man can
take a note binding az a mortgage
negotiable at the nearest bank. A
preacher in our Office last week said
they had sold about $I8, 600 worth of
ranges in one county and had escaped
without paying tax. In another coun-
ty a gentleman too poor to take the
Advocate, not satisfied with one range,
bought one for a prospective daughter
in-law, paying only $68 for it. We do
not sell stoves at all, but think we
could safely take a contract to furnish
one thousand at one half that figure
and supply a more durable and more
satisfactory grade of goods. They
will offer to put up lightning rods and
assure the purchaser that $15 or $50
will cover the cost, and then take a
note at Az cts. a foot for metal not
worth over 1 or 2 cts. a foot, and make
the note as binding as words will allow.
Another man comes, puts up the rods,
does the measuring, and renders a bill
for 800, sometimes more.
The man who sells clocks asks the
privilege of leaving n on the mantel
piece, takes what he calls a memoran-
dunn, but which is water tight obliga
ton to pay for said clock, which the
poor man, who allowed the clock to be
left, and who unwittingly signed the
note, has the privilege of doing in a
few weeks
But there isno use exposing these
swindlers in the columns of the AdUO
cate; the men who signed these notes
as a rule are too poor to take their
church paper, and will never see this
word of caution.
All we have said applies equally well
to patent medicine humbugs, seen on
nearly every court square two or three
tines a year. But people are so fond
OF impositions of this kind that they
r restless until some other man has
their cash. A few years ago it was
the patent churn, in n county the
people bought $25, 900 worth. The sell
Ter said the people in that county had
more money and less brains than any
people he had previously met. So mote
it beI-Nortb Carolina Christian Ad-
UOcate.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25

and enduring all the privations which
attach to a mountaineer M frontiers
man. returning bankrupt, broken IN
health and spirits. We only write the
bright side of the picture.
Regarding you third query, What
effect on the production OF Ene silver
mines in YOUR State, and the employ
ment of laboring men there did the
repeal of the coinage act haveG" /
wish I could use an illustration which
YOU and those to whom this letter may
be shown would understand. Take for
example, in your OWL country, two
parallel competing lines of railway, if
there be such; the carrying capacity
of both being taxed to almost if not
quite their full extent in removing the
product of your country, and carrying
passengers from place to place. Let
one of these lines be crippled or prac-
tically destroyed, what would be the
result to the community I believe all
will admit that the value of the contin-
uing line would be largely increased, if
not eventually doubled, and the people
who are its patrons would be obliged
to pay greater freights and fares. So
it was when silver which, jointly with
gold, had performed the functions of
money of final redemption, from the
beginning of our government and long
before, was destroyed by being refused
admission to our minis, gold being
called to perform doubly the duty
which it had formerly exercised, was
consequently doubled in value and its
power to purchase, either human labor
or the products of human labor was
equally enhanced, it naturally follows
that it now requires twice the amount
of labor, of wheat, of cotton, or, in fact,
of anything which we use in u civil
zation to procure each dollar of the
doubly precious metal than it did be-
fore silver was demonetized."
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-25
WOMEN AS EDITORS.

1.-THE ladies edition" of the daily pa
persis becoming very common. It is
also a common thing for the ladies to
change the financial policy of goldbug
papers on the day of publication. A
few days ago the Ladies' edition" of
the Columbia, Is. O. State, made its
appearance. The following is a clip
ping from an editorial under the cap
ton of "Politics Present and Past"
written by Mrs. Fl. W. Richardson,
the financial editress:
THE financial condition of a country
is influenced by its government. The
The money power too often controls
affairs, running the government in the
interest of few against the welfare of
the many. To this power is due the
demonstration of silver, the abolition
of state banks and the contraction of
the currency to supply of money too
meager to meet the demands of the
trade. This gives the few who control
the money the power to Cypress every
industry at will. The second trouble
is our political condition. In pros
perity the people are conservative,
content to let the existing state of a
country alone. AS adversely Expresses
them, they become restless and ready
for any change which gives promise of
better times"