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form the foreign and silver the domestic
office, and this latter is declared by the
silver3tes to be their great aim and pur-
pose.
Finally, 1t Is asked, why limit the legal
tender capacity so that if one wishes to
pay a debt in excess of $50 he must ex-
change silver money for money of un-
limited legal tender? This overlooks
the proposition that all our silver Is to
be made legal tender There is limita-
ton upon it now that is grievous and
unfair. The present limitation is far
greater than could possibly result under
the new plan. The obligation to be dis
charged always will be under and ac-
cOrding to the terms of the contract
upon which the liability is based, de-
BILE declaration of the Chicago plat
form in favor Of fiat reputation and
the obliteration of the right to con-
tract
But all these latter objections are an
swered by the simple statement that the
silver and the gold coinage of the
United States under the plan outlined,
will remain on parity. One dollar Will
be precisely as good as another dollar.
just as at present. There could by no
possibility be any change in that stu
alton except the volume Of silver issue
became larger than needed for domeS-
tic exchanges and uses. Then, and then
only, would silver suffer.
That is precisely what will happen If
free coinage, unlimited and unre-
strained and to individual account, Is
adopted. as the Bryanites demand. 1t
is the limitation that keeps silver on a
level with gold in purchasing capacity.
Remove the limitation and silver cur
rency will be debased and the wage
Garner will then, as he always has in
such cases, receive the debased and
least valuable money.
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THE PASSING OF sHORTRIDGE.

II the evident paresis under which
Samuel M. Shortridge appears to be
laboring Is the result Of too assid-
uous attention to the cultivation Of the
sentiments and emotions, it is well that
the schools of modern oratory have
placed fervid eloquence as a method of
advocacy under condemnation. The old
style of ornate rhetoric has long since
been abandoned for the natural, the
argumentative, the consecutive and the
consists Of great ideas and the most
persuasive oratory Is that which con-
vinces the cool judgment Of men
Fervid rhetoric still has two adher-
ents. One Is the stage and the other
Is the colored preacher OF the South.
The stage portrays human passion, and
therefore retains something of the old
forms of emotional sentimentaIity
When great national policies are I'M
der consideration; when the cold facts
OF political economy are to be brought
In testimony, attempted eloQuence is
eloquent only Of emotional imbecility.
In the old schools of oratory, the best
methods were those which led from
premises to conclusion, rounded off
with peroration in which an attempt
was made to intensity thought into
emotion. But modern oratory does not
face the footlights with tear stained
Cheeks. lurtd rhetoric, or rainbow
SMILES. What the attempts in the di-
rection of practicing this anachronism
in oratory will do for g. man is pain
fully illustrated by the mental condf-
ton into which our esteemed fellow cit
izen has fallen. Intensified thought
may become emotion and still be some
what above the utter contempt Of men
but emotion without thought Is bathos.
Il acknowledge" says our modern
Demosthenes, "a desire for fame, a
yearning for Immortality 1t may be
that we may not attain the immortal
ity of the gods. but we may at least
ity." The bare suggestion of doubt
that we may not attain the immortality
Of the gods is pathetic in the extreme.
There is a sweet sadness in the modesty
which can say: 1T may be that we
may not attain the Immortality of the
gods" It is vaulting ambition tenn
pered by blushing modesty
There is some confusion Of ideas.
however, in the profession: Rather
would I have q poor bunch of flowers
laid upon my grave than to be reInem-
bered in the grandest monument or
most costly mausoleum in the world. -
This specimen Of blank verse follows
the line: But we may at least strive
after an earthly Immortality" How
earthly immortality Is memorialized Is
not quite apparent When a great
soul burning for the immortality of the
gods turns from the mausoleum to the
poor bunch of flowers, this abdication
CT monumental memorialization scarce
ly comports with the professions of a
desire for fame.
But the climax Is reached In the con-
Guiding sentence. 1t Is at once a fare
well and an epitaph. In deep intro
spective thought and sepulchral rhet-
ortc. the Henry Clay Of the West says:
IT hope to be remembered after death. -
aood-by, Sam.
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bullion form it leaves Mexico or Is
locked up in our vaults as the property
of foreigners.
Mexico has had four gold bond is
sues since 1888, and a number OF domes-
tic silver bond issues. The gold bond
issues aggregate about 10000, 600
Most Of the bonds bear per cent. In
terest. The interest on the gold bonds
amounts to about S6000.000 in gold an
nually, but when the time comes around
to pay the interest we have to give up
S12,000,000 Of our money. So we really
pay double interest on our loan. Then
the question presents itself, 'Whas
amount will 1t take to redeem the bonds
at maturity 1t is a guess now as tn
what we will owe at the time of redemp
ton If silver goes up we will owe less;
II 1t goes down, 1t will take 50 much
more of our money to pay our creditors,
It's all according to what our dollars
will bring In the markets Of the world.
What Mexico wants most to-day IS
a fixed price Of silver. What we fear
most is the continual fluctuations of the
white metal. With silver up and down
alternately, our merchants cannot make
calculations for future transactions. In
commercial sense, we live from day to
day.
The silver standard In Mexico acts
the same as high protective tariff. II
shuts out foreign competition, and has
allowed our home industries to grow.
We have two elements in Mexico. The
exporters. who send to the other coun-
tries great quantities Of coffee, tobacco
and fruit, want to see silver kept down,
as they receive gold for their exports,
and with the gold they can purchase
about twice the amount of their sales
In Mexican money. The consumers
want to see the price of silver rise, for
then the silver dollar which they carry
In their pockets would be worth more,
and they would not have to pay SO much
for foreign goods, much of which is
shipped into the country"
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Mexico Under a Silver Standard.

Senior Jose Ives Limantour. the Mex
lean Minister Of Finance, now visiting
at St. Louis, makes the following OBJ
seryations on the effect Of free silver
coinage in Mexico:
Legally we have a double standard
in Mexico, but practically 1t is a silver
standard, as there is no gold In circula-
ton. Every ounce of gold we produce is
Immediately drawn out of our country
by foreign nations We coin silver at
the ratio Of 1914 to l. We do not coin
gold but a. quick a. It assumes its
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THE "wAY OUT' MORE IN DE.
TAIL.

Concerning the plan recently re-
ferred to In these columns for enlarging
the volume Of the silver currency, with
out resorting to free coinage on individ-
ual account, there is growing approval
Ina the press.
The suggestion is that the volume of
silver, which ought to be augmented to
between $3.50, 100000 and 100000, 600
by ordering all the surplus silver be-
longing to the Government and aggre-
eating now over 500, ,OOO, 900. to coinage
instead sf permitting 1t to lie in the
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The reports sent out Of the meetings
Of Mr.. Bryan speak Of the enthusiasm
OF his reception in Southern cities. AS
Stunning these stories to be true it is not
surprising. since down South there Is
enough Of the secession and Reputation
spirit left to work UP considerable
boom Of the fellow feeling order.
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Governor Mckinley expressed the
need Of the country and for which the
Republican party stands to apply the
remedy when he said: Our duties
should always be high enough to meas
ure the difference between the wages
paid labor at home and in competing
countries. and to adequately protect
American investments and American
enterprises"
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THE WORLD HAS.

Reno Gazette: The party Of but one
idea has In its wisdom seen fit to re-
fuse to debate the tariff question and
the platform upon which 1t stands, with
it's opponent About ten days ago the
Mckinley and Hobart Club challenged
the Bryan and Sewall Club to a joint
debate to occupy three evenings. The
flrst to be devoted to a discussion Of
- uaonAv QUESTION, thD second to the
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VOICE OF THE PRESS.
Expressions Of Coast Newspapers il
Brief,
On All Shades Of Political Belief and
Upon Leading Topics Of.
the Day.

Marysville Appeal: Free trade makes
cheap men and cheap women. Free sill
yer makes cheaper men. This country
wants the best men and women and the
best money on earth
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Placerville Nugget: The iowa State
Leader Dem.) brings out an impor-
tant contribution to the literature of
this campaign by finding an editorial
of the Omaha World Herald" printed
in 1893, when Mr.. Bryan was the editor
of that paper. and responsible for what
appeared in it's editorial columns Then
he was q free coinage advocate but for
honest dollars-one that had q dollars
worth Of silver In It, not 50 cents
worth. His paper did not scruple to
call 10 to / advocates dishonest"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
ARMY MILEAGE.
Interesting Question Which the Secre-
tary of War Has to Decide.


A New York Times special from
Washington says: An interesting
question of army mileage is before the
secretary of war. An inspector general
recently visited an engineer officer and
examined the latter's accounts pertain
ing to certain river and harbor work
of which he had charge. He was
obliged to hire a team, the place being
some distance from the railroad.
, The question has now come up wheth-
er the expense incurred by the inspector
should be paid from the regular army
mileage allotment or from the appropri-
alton for the specific river project 10
which the examined accounts related.
The matter is a small one in this in
stance, but the principle involved is inn
portant.
The fund set aside for army mileage
is not large when one considers the
amount of travelling army officers do
in the course of year, and it is treas
ured with great care. If the visits of
inspectors in their duty may sometimes
be charged to the civil appropriation
for rivers and harbors, it will be saw
ing of that much of the mileage fund.
Engineer officers who travel in be.
half of river and harbor work get their
mileage or the expense of their trip
from the various river and harbor ap-
preparations concerned.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
Born at an Unhappy Moment.

The last two conventions have
wrought distress for at least two per-
sons at English, Ind, who had the adj
ditional misfortune of having been born
shortly before those events. Elmer
Graydon, an enthusiastic republican,
inflicted his newly-born son with the
euphonious name of Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses Grant William Mckinley. But
John Vaughn, democrat, not to be out
done, styled his latest edition Thomas
Jefferson Andrew Jackson James Mon
roe William jennings Bryan. The boys
are said to bear the strain VERY well.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
JAPAN'S NEW WAR SHIPS
Report That They Are to Be Built
in This Country Denied.
British Ship Builders Secure tho Con-
tracts by Lavish Use of Money and
Scores of Agents Sent
to Japan.

Anew York Times special from Wash
ington says: Thereport fromSan Fran
cisco that accredited agents of the jap
anese ministry are in the United States
prepared TO make contracts for the
building of several battle ships is de-
MED at the state department, where
the intentions of the japanese govern
ment, so far as the rehabilitation of its
navy is concerned, are well understood.
While it is known that japan purposes
at once contracting for q number Of
high-class battle ships, it is also well
known that these vessels will be con-
structed on the Clyde and not in the
United States. Since the beginning Of
the late war between Japan and China,
British ship builders have anticipated
these additions to Japan's navy and
have made their plans accordingly.
Moreover, number of the younger of
ficersi in the Japanesenavy have received
their technical training in Great Brit
ain, and these men are strong partisans
of the country where their education
was acquired. Their influence has been
exerted in favor of British ship build
ers from the start, and their influence is
said to be very powerful. While the two
great ship building firms of this coun-
try-the Cramps, of Philadelphia, and
the Union iron works, of San Francisco
have been represented in Japan for
only weeks at a time by single agent
each, their British rivals have sent
scores of representatives to Toxic we'll
supplied with money and instructions
to entertain lavishly. These men have
been kept continually upon the ground,
and their efforts have been supple
mented by the younger class of Japan
csc officers who were graduated from
English training schools. and who have
aided their British friends through the
social and official influence which many
of them are able to exert. Advices re-
ceived from Toxic at the navy depart
ment state that only two cruisers will
be built in this country, one by the
Cramps and the other by the Union iron
works. These, it is believed, will be YES
sells of the Olympia class, which the
Japanese government seems to favor.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF BEX-
AR COITNTY.

A mass meeting of the Republicans of
Bexar county is hereby called to meet
at Mission Garden, in the city of San
Antonio, at $50 p. m. on Tuesday,
Aug. IL, 1896, for the purpose of elct-
ing delegates to attend the State Re-
publican convention to be held at Fort,
Worth on the Sth day of September,
1896, and delegates to attend the Re
publican congressional convention for
the Twelfth congressional district, to
be held at Mission Garden, Aug. IS,
1896, and for the purpose of electing a
new Republican executive committee
and chairman thereof of Bexar
county, and also for the purpose of
electing chairmen of the various pre-
cincts In Bexar county with view to
thoroughly organizing the Republican
party in the county, so that hereafter
all Republican county conventions
may be organized by delegates select
ed at the precinct meetings.
Each precinct in the county is urged
to send representative to the county
convention hereby called with view
to aid in the organization of the party
in the county as above suggested. By
order of the committee.
G.. G.. CLIFFORD, Ch'mn.
f. TERRELL, Sec'y.
S-4-tf
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
ILLINOIS BOASTS A BIG SNAKE.
Prize Rather Located on q Farm IN the
Vicinity of Red Bud.

VICINITY OF neu buus
John Phegley, Of Modoc, H., has tho
boss snake of this country on his farm.
This is no snake story, and every state
ment relative to the Phegley snake can
be proved. 1t is monster reptile, as
large as the heaviest part of mans
leg and nine feet in length. This IL
known to be a fact because his snake
ship comes out every spring and sheds
Lis skin. OF course, the empty shell.
not being considered dangerous, is APP
preached and measured without fear.
The big snake lives in a deep hole or
den in the bottom OF "sinkhole" on
Mr.. Phegley's farm, and while its pres
ence has been proved many times the
actual snake has not yet been seen, for
he is wary, and times his visits in search
of food so that he has always kept out
of sight, but he is there and has been
there for many years.
There are others on the Phegley
farm, regular old rattlers, many hay-
ing already been killed there. Among
the recent captures was that of huge
RATHER who had caught squirrel and
tartar at the same time, for the snake
was found dead with the squirrel pro-
truding from its mouth. Both had evil
IDENTIFY died, the one in eating and the
other in trying to keep from being
eaten .~sas ..fe. =. +,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
MORPHINE FIENDS.
Many Victims of the Drug Arc Found In
New York's Four Hundred.

Many Victims of the Drug Arc Found In
New Yorh's Four Hundred.
The latest aristocratic vice in New
York Is morphine eating. The practice
has been more or less common for years,
but 1t has not until quite recently
received the sanction of society. A.
number Of well-known druggists and,
physicians throughout the city stated
that their experience led them to believe
that the consumption of the drug had,
increased 80 per cent. within the past
two months. Until recently the practice
was rarely taken up voluntarily. 1t
generally resulted from the use of NOR
phine first to allay pain or secure free
dom from the horrors of insomnia Ac-
cording to the form in which the drug
was first prescribed it was continued
by the patient, though the days of its
usefulness were over. 1t was then, and
is yet, generally obtained by prescrip-
lions made out for real illness and care
fully copied by the recipient later on.
Lately a large number Of morphine con-
sumers have been discovered who cam
not even advance the excuse of former
illness, says the New York Journal.
They took it up out of pure curiosity
and continued it as an indulgence.
No one can fail to recognize the de-
votee of the drug. A sallow, almost
yellow, complexion, CLASSY eyes, with the
pupils contracted to an almost in
initesimal point stopped shoulders and
general air of lassitude betray the alb
sorption of either pills or powder. The
first effects of the drug are stimulating,
rendering the victim garrulous, jubi-
liant, optimistic and at times even brill
liant to a degree. This may accountfor
it's popularity among the debutantes
and bellies of more mature years. With
the reaction, however, comes that
stirred feeling" which sooner or later
ends disastrously.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
a STRANGE SCENE.
Lamb Is Sacrificed and Then Eaten as q
Passover Feast.


Passover Feast.
A realistic observance of the feast of
the passover was held at a colored camp
meeting near Dunbar, Pa, the other
day. Persons present represented
Moses and Aaron, and the priesthood
were dressed in their royal apparel.
Rev. r. E. Brown opened the services
by reading several chapters of the Epis-
tie of John. A lamb, which had been
tied to tree, was led to the altar and
slain by Rev. Mr.. Brown. A white pig
con was dipped in the lambs blood and
then set free. The lamb was roasted
and the eating of the passover occurred.
After this the lambs bones were burned.
In the center of the grove large wheel
was erected. 1t was turned by 16 bur-
ly negroes representing Christian faith
in olden times. After this the washing
of feet occurred.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
A BAD POLICE JUDGE.

Cripple Greek, COL, Aug. 4.-The
trial of Bob Muller, police magistrate
of this city, has begun before the
town board. He is charged with NAL
feasance, oppression and incompe-
tency. 1t was shown by witnesses
that he threatened to kill George j.
Bentley, an attorney, and any one
else who should aid in the prosecution
of the charges against him. Muller
is accused of saying that he had an or
ganization behind him that would
wipe the earth Of any and all who op-
posed him. The trial may last a
couple of days.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-04
.Corn.r. WIN BE Increased.

Owing to the fact that the amount of
silver dollars in the treasury available
for the redemption of treasury notes
has become reduced to s1o,659,5s2, and
will be further reduced by redemption
during the current month, the coinage
of silver dollars by the minis will be in
creased from $1,5oo,OOO to 100000 per
month from August, and will probably
be continued at that rate in order that
the treasury may have sufficientstock
to redeem treasury notes presented in
exchange for silver dollars.