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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-23

"Have tried Others, but liko Ayers
best" is the statement made over and
over again by those who testify to the
benefit derived from the use OF Ayers
sarsaparilla. Disease never had "a greater
enemy than this powerful blood purifier.
II makes the weak strong.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-23

Geneva, n. Y, July g. - Professor
William II. Brooks. director OF tho Smith
Observatory, was observing the moon.
when he saw dark round object pass
across the moon In horizontal dlrec-
tion. Professor Brooks believes IL to
have been a meteor, too far removed
from the earths atmosphere to become
ignited. The observation is entirely
new In Astronomical annals.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-23
Dangerous Floods In Switzerland.

Rerne, July 23.-Serious floods have
occurred In the Bernese Alps. the Jura
and the Canton OF Vaud. and
the tower Valais. Bridges have been
carried away. roads destroyed and fall
Wav travel interrupted
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-23
Antonio n, Very Much ALIVE.

Habana, July 23.--All news received
here confirms the report shat Antonio
Maceo Is encamped in the mountains of
Rub, in Pinar del Rio, and that he In
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-07-23
A Case OF Cholera in London.

LONDON, July GA doctor reports a
case OF cholera in Wslworth road, South
London. The officials are examining into
the facts of the case,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
BARE FEET on WET GRASS.

Scores of people with real or imaginary
ailments, desir ous of trying what they con-
ceive to be the Kneipp cure, go to Central
Park, in New York, early every morning
and walk on the grass for half an hour or
so in their bare feet. After a few morn
ings' experience many profess themselves
greatly benefited, and nearly all claim to
see an improvement in their physical con-
d'tion. According to accounts of the Kneipp
cure, it is practiced at the home of the
originator in Germany going about with
tare feet is only an incident in the process
of cure, careful dieting, bathing, rest and
other hygienic features common TO all san
itorums being part of the treatment. This
being the most unusual and striking fea-
ture, it is seized upon by easily deluded
people seeking for what is new, as the
great essential, and quickly becomes a fad.
1t is no doubt true that these people are
honest when they assert that their health
improves under practice of the barefoot
remedy. If they have a genuine faith in it
it operates like any other faith cure and
affects their physical systems favorably.
And it is also probable that a certain real
benefit comes from freeing the feet from
their close covering of stockings and ILL
shaped shoes and letting them enjoy the
comfort of perfect freedom. Nothing SO
quickly affects the nerves or so wearies the
whole body as the constant pressure upon
the feet of stiff, badly fitting or tight shoes,
and it is easily conceivable that even tenn
porary relief should have soothing influ-
ence. But that going barefooted in the
dewy grass is a positive cure for any ac-
tual i'll whatever is utter nonsense. Imag-
NATIVE pee pie will take it up; it will be the
craze of a season like the blue glass cure
of few years ago, and then it will give
PLACE to some other equally efficacious pam
acea But it is a harmless fad, aud to
those who look on is amusing, so since peo-
pie insist upon being gulied, it is worth
while to encourage "a fancy of this pic
turesque sort rather than to criticise or
condemn it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
M'KINLEY TO EDITORS.
Concluded from First Pmgeo

ciples out of sight in view of the national
danger from these notorious proposals. but
we cannot if would. The government is
without revenue for its current expenses.
1t must raise more if it would not go into
bankruptcy Our way of raising it is by
tariff, and there is no other way except by
direct taxation or by more borrowing.
Would the men who beg us to let the tar
if alone favor either? And yet the tariff
tariff Mr.. Cleveland considered so discredit-
able that he would not sign it. We cannot
seek the suffrages of the American people
under any DISCUSSES The patriotic Demo-
Gratis who rise above party in this ma tional
peril, as they did in 1861 ought not to
ask us to lower flag on the eve of
battle because they going to bring us
some reinforcements. They could not re-
spect us if we did. and what is more. thou
sands of the voters we now have would de-
Sert us.
Forgive these crude hints about our ed
itoria work in this campaign. You know
/ should not have ventured upon them, ex-
cept at your renewed request, and that
certainly should not have addressed them
to you, who need them so little. The cam
paiSn you are already making gives as
surance of the happy result in November.
And yet, neither the editors nor the great
orators of the party are making this CAM
paign. The plain people in their homes are
thinking it out for themselves. Even the
best speeches are not those made on the
of a little two-story cottage in Canton
and they make US proud, in this crisis, of
our leader are of cause.
with fraternal salutations and congratu-
lationS to the Ohio editors. / am, very tru-
~ yours, WHITELAW REID.
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Let them beware of surrendering a politi-
cal power which they already possess, and
which, If surrendered will surely be used
to close the door of advancement against
such as they, and to fix new taxes and
burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall
be lost.
Taken as whole, the portion of Mr..
Lincoln's message quoted is appeal to
the people North and South not to yield to
the Southern leaders who were making
war against the Union in order to set up
an empire of which human slavery and
degradation of labor shall be the corner
stone. AS garbled by the Popocratic cam
didate and his Populistic forerunners. the
words of the greatest American used
to array labor against capital at the pres
ent time and deceive the masses by making
them believe that Lincoln had reference to
the present and desired to warn the eIn-
ployed against employers. Could anything
be more outrageous and wicked than this
garbling of Abraham Lincoln's patriotic
words in order to array labor against CAPT
tai simply to get votes?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION.

1t is not the scarcity of money that is
worrying workngmen. but the scarcity of
jobs to earn it.-Goshen Times.
The people fiocking in train loads to
see Mckinley and Bryan is focking in a
palace car to see the people.-Shebyvile
Republican.
This country will never be made to be-
licve that it is right TO pay for 100 cents
worth of labor with 50 cents worth of sill
YER falsely called one dollar.-New Albany
Tribune.
To urge that crime was committed in
1873 is equivalent to saying that all of our
national legislatures-and the President
and his Cabinet may be included-Were
fools or Observation-Disclosures Nidette.
The insoent abuse and epithets being
hurled at the sound-money Democrats by
the Bryan wing are in keeping with the
anarchistic features of the platform
which Mr.. BRYAN is seeking oftice--Steu-
ben Republican.
Bryan admits that the introduction of
free-silver legislation would produce a pam
ic and then urges that panic is what we
want. Most people think We have had
enough of that sort of thing already.-Sey-
nlour Republican.
No truar prediction than that free trade
would cheaper labor and the man perform
ing it was ever made. 1t has come TO pass.
and if the dollar in which the man is paid
can be cheapened. our measure of bitter
ness will be illed.-Muncie Times.
Mr.. Bryan fiippantly says that our gold
will not leave US in the event that his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

When Mr.. Bryan was invited to address
an assemblage of workingmen on Labor
day at Chicago his first thought should
have been, Now, here is a chance to dis
embrace every opportunity to make dem
agogic appeals to workingmen and that l
am trying to array labor against capital
/ will show them that l can talk to work.
ingmen in a way that will not sustain
that charge" There were many lines of
thought he might have adopted that would
have enabled him to talk interestingly to
an audience OF workingmen without Civ
ing any ground for the charges alluded to.
He might have talked about the superiori-
ty of our free institutions which enable the
poorest man and the one of humblest birth
to aspire TO the highest office in the land :;
he might have cited the careers of hun
dreds of public men in proof of this-as
Andrew Jackson, the farmers boy; Tom
Corwin, the "wagoner's boy" Thomas Ew-
ing the daily laberer and salt boiler:
Abraham Lincoln, fatboatman and rail
splitter: Grant. the tanner; Andrew john
son. tailor: James A. Garfield, canalhcat
driver. and a host OF Others He might
have drawn an instructive lesson from
these careers to show how wide open the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

doors are to merit in this country. Among
successful professional and business men
he might have found thousands of other
instances to enforce the same lesson. He
might have urged the duty of self-cuture
and of every to make the most of
himself. He might have told his hearers
that many, if not most, of the successful
manufacturers and large employers of la
Dor in this country were once wage earn
ers and that they became capitalists
through industry, economy. sobriety and
superior workmanship, aided always by a
high ideal and a knowledge of the true
methods of getting in the world He
might have assured his hearers. and ought
to have done so, that capital is as neces-
sary labor, that one is the natural ally
and auxiliary Of the other, and that 80
far from being enemies. they should be the
best of friends. He might have coIIgratu-
lated them on the great progress chat has
been made in recent years in legislation
for the protection and elevation of labor,
and the prospect of further legislation in
the same direction. incidentally, ne might
have got in a word for honest workman
ship. He might have told his hearers that
skilled labor should always be honest labor,
and that if honest man is the noblest
work of God, an honest job is the nobest
work of man.
These only a few of the lines of
thought Mr. Bryan might have followed.
Instead of that he avoided them all and
preached the gospel of discomfort. The
whole drift of his address was 20 convince
his hearers that labor is at a great disad-
vantage in the United States; that work.
ingnen are a down rodden prosecuted
class; that the laws are made by capital
lists for capitalists; that our boosted re-
publican government is really a ''putoc-
racy; that capital is the natural enemy
of labor: that employees should always
distrust their employers, and if they could
find out how their employers were going to
vote they would be safe in voting the other
way This not Mr.. Bryan's language,
but it was the undertone of his speech
Few men possess in a greater degree than
he the art of insinuating ideas and argu-
ments without putting them boldly for
ward, and in this regard Mr.. Bryan's adj
dress on Labor day was one of the most
artful he has made He is an incurable
demagogue
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
THE BRYAN CROWDS.
Drawn Together by Curiosity Rather
than Parts Loyalty.


AS for Mr.; Bryan the past week has
brought to him continued applause and as
inceSSant discontinue. gentleman of
great political etcumen asked me yesterday:
What is the meaning of these crowds that
flock to see Bryan To this inquiry | re-
piled that | had travelled East with Bryan
during his invasion of the enemy's coun-
try" | had carefully observed the crowds
at all the smaller towns en- route ana that
without prejudice l could not escape the
conviction that the vast majority of these
people had Hooked together to behold a cI-
possible to detect in the mass of these peo-
pie any personal enthusiasm. This answer
was confirmed by another careful observer
of the same phenomenon. Still another
to the fact that the presence of Ii Hung
Chang at the display of the New York fire
department, in Union Square this week
had gathered a crowd which was absolutely
beyond the control of the police, and which
kept ambulanceS flying to carry the victims
of the crush to the hospitals, and this Incl
dent recalled statement made by ex-Gov
Campbell, of Ohio, who said to the writer
that once he spoke at Columbus before the
largest political meeting ever seen in that
city, where numbers were beyond exact es-
innate and where enthusiasm seemed I'M
bounded, and yet two weeks later he was
tremendously defeated a the polls by Mai
Mckinley. So that. inn tine eyes of those
VINO nave for years observed demonstrate
crowds and the real meaning of their pres
ence. it would appear that the tumuItuous
gatherings which Bryan has attracted dur
ing his journey Westward have no more
meaning than did the jocose. curious scoff-
ing crowds which never failed to come TO
look at his Hyperion locks and his smooth
shaVen Ienderloin countenahce during his
ride INTO the East in a Pullman car In
short, the tradition about what the snorv-
nous King of France did with his men
after they had marched up the hill seems
aptly to apply to Bryan's invasion of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

theory of bimetallsm is applied in nation
al finances, but he discreetly does not at
tempt TO explain how we may successfully
defy natural laws.-Wabash Plain Dealer
Mr.. Bryan is a frst-class attraction for
one tour. but nobody is asking for return
dates. His speeches are all pitched in a
demagogc key and he subordinates argu-
ment to railing against capital with all
Lafayette Courier.
Plenty of work, at good wages, paid for
in good money. makes greater demand
for farm and other products. Greater de-
mand for farm and other products makes
better prices, paid for in good money
sound money. These conditions make a
nation rosperous.-Corydon Republican.
Mr.. Bryan's speeches, with their iteration
and reiteration of commonplace generali-
ties, are becoming tiresome. They add
nothing TO the public information, and they
frequently lack the carefulness ana dignity
which candidate for the presidency
should exhibit in his public addresses
Rising Sun Local.
The free-coinage agitation, the Wilson
German tariff bill and the hog cholera are
working dire distress upon the farmers of
Morgan county just now. The first has
destroyed confidence. the second has de-
stroyed business and prices and the last
is taking almost all of the money-inakinS
stock off the farm. - MartinSville Repub-
lican.
AS the campaign advances Republicans
find occasion to continually rejoice over
the exceptionally strong way in which the
sound-money arguments are presented to
the country by leading men. Never before
there a campaign like this and never
before was there such effective talking and
writing by prominent men. = Frankfort
News.
Ridpath. the Populist-Democratic candl-
date for Congress, who has been writing
communica lions to the newspapers about
the crime of 1873, did not refer to that
crime in his history and did not THINK there
had been a crime until after the political
hubbub was raised about 1t, ana ne con-
tracted desire to enter pontcs.-Madlson
Courier
Free silver is a snare and delusion any
way you can fix it, and benefits 70 one
but the silver-mine. owners who are back
of it all. But it can ruin and destroy every
business in the country, take work from
the wage-earner, take away his ability to
buy farm products and ruin the farmer
who has a debt of any kind.-Logansport
Journal
What we want is a sound policy, hnan-
cal and industrial, which will give courage
and confidence to all, for under such a
policy the money now employed, because
of fear for the future ana lack of conf
dence in investment, will quickly appear in
the channels of trade. The trouble is not
with the character of the money we have,
but with the threat to debaSe lt.-Oakland
City Enterprise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
The Convention Hall.
Philadelphia Telegraph.

one of the most notable among the MANY
model features of the recent Indiana noiis
convention was the absence of the mob in
nuence in the galleries. This has lately be-
come one of the most disagreed BILE evils in
our American political life Years ago
these nominating conventions were DELHI
erative assemblies. as they were certainly
intended to be. and as they unquestiona bIy
should be. Recently. however another
method mas been in vogue. Trains filled
with heelers and whoopers and rooters ac
company the delegates. The greatest halls
in existence are leased. or if none large
enough are in existence new ones are built
to accommodate these hooting hordes and
a convention to nominate candidate for
the highest office in the Republic an
proacheS the character of the French con-
Vention at the time of the revolution A
man who Is now before the country as a
ed by the mob, not by the delegates acting
in deliberate way
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

While Mr.. Mckinley is presenting facts,
figures and statistics to show what pro-
lection and reciprocity did for the Ameri-
can people and the injury inflicted all
classes and interests by their repeal. here
is the way Mr.. Bryan treats the question.
At Aurora, H., some one in the audience
asked What's the matter with the tariff
question:" Mr.. Bryan replied
We going to regulate that by inter-
national agreement as we will bmetallism.
Then will call international confer
ence and adopt a foreign policy and at
last we will annex ourselves to some ma
ton big enough to take care of US and re-
lieve of the trouble.
Evidently this was intended for smart
ness, but serious-m minded people will call
it buffoonery
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

The Journal takes leave to dissent from
Chairman Ba bcocks statement relative to
the turn of the tide the silver QueS-
ton in this State. He says This has been
accomplished since the adjournment of
Congress- and attributes it TO the efforts
of the returned members and of the COM
mittee in circulating sound-money litera-
ture. AS matter of fact, the tide had
begun to turn before the adjournment of
Congress, and the Journal, assisted by the
Republican press of the State. disseminated
a great deal of sounG-money literature long
before the congressional committee began
it's campaign. The fight for sound money
N this State was begun by the Journal a
year and half ago and was kept up with
out cessa ton until the meeting of the Re
publican State convention which passed
the best sound-money resolution of this
year up to that time If the stemming of
the free-silver tide had been left till the
adjournment of Congress or to outside in
Huences it would not have been stemmed
at ALL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

The large Democratic majority in Arkan-
sas is neither surprising nor significant 1t
was foregone conclusion that the Demo-
Gratis would carry the State by large ma
jority, and the addition of few thousands
makes no difference. Arkansas is not a
representative State even in the South and
of course the result has no significance
whatever In relation to Northern States
In many of the larger counties the Re
publcsns were denied representation on
the election boards, and Democrats alone
counted the votes. There are sew
eral Southern States which are
far more advanced politically than
Arkansas. and in which the sound-money
sentiment is much stronger. Chairman
Jenes's statement that the result shows
what may reasonably be expected through
out the entire South and Vest is absurd
80 far az the West Is concerned The great
states OF the middle West and Northwest
which will decide the coming election are
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Kind o. Offer Hill should Make.

NHIcaSO OhrOnlcIe tDem.)
n. p Hill, former Republican United
states Senator from Colorado has offered
through a neWsDa per at Denver which he
owns to pay 50 cents each for 900 900
United States standard silver dollars deiiv-
ered in London within thirty days from
date. He kindly offers to repeat the bluff
a. his own option. 1t is evident that Mr..
His offer of 80 cents for United States Sill
yer dollars shows that he thinks they will
be kept at par through Bryan'S defeat
Let Mr.. Hill, if he has faith in Bryan
election, offer 80 cents. or even so cents.
or 40 cents, or go cents for Mexican dollars
which Bryan says will be as good as
United States dollars if the silver ticker iS
successful. "
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

Every word said from now on until cleo
ton day on either side of the great cur
rency issue will be mere repetition, for
every fact and argument have already been
advanced. However. so long az constant
readers continue to write to their favorte
newspapers asking to be told the meaning
of sixteen to one patient editors and
earnest speakers will not weary in their
educational work. 1t Is only by repetition
that truth is taught.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09

In the long list of subjects set down for
discussion at the trades union congress
of Great Britain, in session at Edin-
burgh, there is mention of silver of
bimetallism the money question in any
form. The workingmen of Great Britain
are satisfied with the gold standard, which
has prevailed there for more than three
quarters Of a century. and under which
their country has. all things considered,
the best money system in the world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Candid Club Reports.

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THE TNDJAYAPOLTs JOURNAL

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
VIII Have Fun. with Palmer.
Washington Special.

The Bryan Democrats are going to have
fun with Senator John Nj. Palmer They
are preparing TO give extensive circuIa-
ton to the speech he delivered in the Sen
ate July Z, 1892 on the Homestead riots on
winch occasion he denounced the authori-
ties for sending troops to the scene of the
disturbance, employing language and going
further, the Popocrats contend, than Gov
ernor Altgeld ever thought of doing in
criticism of extreme methods for the sun
preston of lawlessness. This is a great
season for drawing records on statesmen
of all degrees Ht
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-09
Detter Said DiHerentlv.

MY friends and fellow patriots. the or
ator shouted. as he pounded the defense
less air, 'our friends, the enemy, have
boosted that they can elect a yellow dog
this year Let us get together, put our
shoulders to the wheel and show them
that can elect just yellow dog as
they can. That is to say-er-'
The rest was lost in the vociferous APP
nlauSe of the pa triOtS.