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New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
AN OBJECT LESSON IN EXCHANGE.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir; Twenty years ago / landed I'm New-York a
lad Just from Ireland. without money or friends
i soon found work, and have had steady employ
ment ever since For the last ten years have
been able every Christmas send to my old father
and mother IN the "old country" usually 81, but
sometimes so. have given $2j to a money broker
downtown, and he has given "A draft OH Dublin
for H. a. What | want 20 know IS how
much will have to give the money broker for a
for g II | pay him In silver dollars after the
pas sage OF a free-sliver law | also want 10 know
how big draft he would give after free silver
bect mes the law IL exchange for the S25 give him
An answer 20 this will interest thousands situated
| am. FOREIGNER.
New-York, Aug. %. 1896.
| A draft for GJ would cost in 53-cent silver
sbout S47 30 . For so in 53-cent silver per
son who wished 10 send money abroad could buy
a draft for about e 12s-(Ed.
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
REVOLT AGAINST BRYAN IN ALABAMA.

Montgomery, Ala. Aug 27.-The State Conven-
tion Of the sound money Democrats met here at
noon to-day The hall of the House of Representa-
tiyes i'm the State Capitol was well filed with dele
gates from over half the counties in the State.
Chairman Dent Of the State Executive Committee
called the convention To order and made strong
spccch i'm favor of the und-money movement
General George F. Harrison. member of Congress
from tho IIId District was made temporary chair
man lie condemned 'hc Chicago platform Pop
ulistic The convention enthusiastically chcerod
H. ,nnntInn Of president ClcXclanhs nAmo
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
TO NAME DELEGATES TO SYRACUSE.

Saratoga. n Y. Aug. 27-The sound-money Demo
GRATIS OF this county will hold a convention on
saturday at Ballston to name delegates to the
Syracuse Convention.
Money Democrats Of the 1st and lid Assembly
districts of Dutchcss County held convention in
this city this afternoon and elected the following
delegates to the Syracuse convention: 1st Dis
trict ! Uervey Cook John Fitch and Myron
benton; ia District Dr. Guy G. Baylcy Alfred
II Peters and Henry V. Peton.
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
HONEST MONEY LEAGUES WORK.

An extension of district organization was decided
,non a, last nights meeting Of tie ExecuNve Com
mittee of the Democratic Honest Money League Of
America at the headquarters. in No. Is West rwen-
ty-fourth-st. Headquarters will shortly be opened
in each Congress district in the State joint
meeting of All the Congress district committees VIII
be held in the Twcnty-fourth-st headquarters on
n..Xt "Wednesday eNNnlng
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
FOR STATE DEMOCRACY PRIMARIES.

The Executive Committee OF the New-York State
Democracy held short meeting last night at No
25S West Twenty y-third-st. In the absence of
Charles s Farchild. United States District -Attor-
ney Wallace Macfarane presided. Nothing further
done than TO arrange the final details for the
State Democracy primaries in the various districts
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28

Secretary Of State. General ID. II. McEntire' Oh
Mexico Albert A. Leseur. the present secretary
Contention was placed in nomination.. but met
with such vigorous protests that the NOMINATION NOMINATION
was withdrawn These nddltlotiai nci,lhh,' S
we're made: Treasurer. William +. Mclirath OF
Livingston; State Auditor: r. D. Porter OF JASPER.
Attornry-t;cnerai. n. D. Thurmond. OF CaihWay'
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner harry N.
C'oster of Platte: Supreme Court Judge. Theodore
cf
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
HAS HILL BEEN ASKED TO ACCEPT?

Albany Aug. Ex-senator Hill tonight refused 10
discuss the report that he has received letter
from Mr. Bynum asking him to accept the Pres-
Dental nomination to be made by the Indianapolis
Convention.
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
SOMETHING FOR VOTERS TO REMEMBER

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / hope you Will keep this trite saying in
big loaded type every day till election: THE farm
ers OF JeffeI son County know that you cannot
increase the product of cheese by watering the
milk" and also please keep Mckiney's trite say
ing: It IS better 10 keep laboring men of America
employed than to open our mints 10 the silver of
the world"
You can educate many people by keeping these
two truths conspcuously in the columns Of The
Tribune \ FARMER.
Mohawk Valley, n Y. Aug q, 1895.
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
MISS BARTON's WORK NOT FINISHED.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The fact that Miss Barton has left Con-
stantinope for Il rest with friends in Germany has
created the impression that she has closed her re-
lief work for the suffering Armenians and is on her
way to the United States. This is not the case.
She is in readiness to return TO Constantinople In
the fall and has left the relief work in competent
hands All reports from the interior indicate that
the suffering and destitution will be very
the winter comes on. The experience already
gained and the agencies for relief already estab-
lished will make it possible to conduct the relief
work on an increasingly thorough and satisfactory
basis In urging that there should be relaxation
in the relic work Miss Barton herself writes
follows
Every practical idea would point to the inn
portance Of making il possible for these people 10
use their time and strength in these summer days
and through the early autumn In the best provis-
onal work possible against the cold and hunger OF
the long winter months when. without these pro-
visions nothing is left to them but suffering and
Dr Dwight. of Consta Atinope. writes in regard
to Miss Barton: She has done splendid work,
agents have been the missionaries have expressed
The strongest appr9ya or their % methods me ana EN-
"it is expected that the relief work will become
more truly int national and official The Euro
pcans have at iast been CONVINCED from their own
cred i'm with thc winter France is waking up.
Germany Is going 10 open orphan asylums at liar.
poot. Oorfa and Cesarea under the protection Of
Denconcsses Switzerland has relief committees at
Geneva. Zurich. Basle and I}erne England Is
making strenuous efforts To keep up supplies. with
view to have means In the winter when the stress
comes
At least $4,000 has already been contributed by
the people of America for the relief work and
about the same amount In Great Britain.
All funds intended for this object should be sent
10 Brown Bros. N Co. No. SO Wa-st. New York
who are the trcasurers OF the National Armenian
Relief Committee and OF the Red Cross
SPENCER TRASK
Chairman the Executive Committee
+. - GREENE. Secretary
New-York Aug. 81 1896
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28

irgs by means Of your reports. Mr.. Moody believe,
carrying the Gospel into numbers OF places Whemrs "a
the Word Of God would be rejected II presented ip
any other form. A. p FfTT !"
East Northfeld. Mass. Aug %, 1896. l.
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
PRAISE FOR THE TRIBuNEs REPoI

PRAISE FOR THE TRIBUNEs REPORTS.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr. Moody wants TO thank you very warmly
for thc way In which the Northheld meetings were
reported during the recent conference He has
heard on many sides from people who were not
able TO get to Northhed. but who were delighted 10
think that they could keep in touch with tie mset-
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28

G. A. H. ST PAUL
The j.. and o r. r. will sell ticke,. to ~, faui
Septombe. iS Offices Nos. i72. AS and lliO Broad
way. -
New-York tribune., 1896-08-28
SOMH CAMPAIGN QUESTIONS.
A CASE OF MELTED COIN.
WHY THE GOLD WAS WORTH PAR AND THE Sill
YER WAS NOT-THE LIFE INSURANCE
QUESTION

QUESTION.
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: The Tribune of July % tells of a farmer who
had his money in the barn. $500 in gold and $500 in
silver. The barn burned down and the money
was melted up The farmer got it out of the ruins
and sold the gold ngot for 500. bur could only get
sl20 for the silver But the Tribune says that
the silver dollar is worth lcl cents. but will be
worth only % cents If the silver men win the cleo
tion in November But If the present silver dollar
is worth 100 cents. I canno; understood why the
much for his silver for his gold
The Tribune also says that people who insure
dollars but that If free silver wins the insurance
will be paid in 5S-cent dollars II am not mis-
taken this is the same l6 10 dollar we have now.
GEORGE PLACER.
Ashford. N. Y. Aug s, 1896
The farmer received 5000 for his melted gold
dollars because the gold in them worth 5000
and S12O for the melted silver dollars be
cause the silver in them was worth only S12O
The Government takes silver bullion worth S12O
and coins 1t into 200 silver dollars They
worth a dollar each only because the Govern
ment stands behind them. and keeps them equal
to gold 1t can do this only when the numbec
of such silver dollars is limited If they were
coined for anybody who brought silver to the
mint and demanded coinage for 1t, the Govern
ment could no longer do this. The value of the
silver dollar would then sink to the value of the
silver in it--at present prices of silver about
80 cents.
If free silver wins, debts contracted in what we
now understand as dollars" that Is 1OO-cent
gold dollars. can be paid in silver dollars which
will then he worth only about 80 cents. The
heirs of people who have paid 1O0-cent dollars
for insurance premiums will. therefore. receive
only little more than half 0n real value) of
what they contracted to receive. 1t will be paid
in the same silver dollar that now have-a
dollar that is "16 to |" dollar only because the
Government holsters it up. but which then will
have fallen to its market ratio Of 80 to
l.-(Ed.
SILVER PRICES IN LONDON AND NETWORK
To the Editor Of The Tribune.
sir: Will you please explain the difference In the
price OF silver in London and New-York? BY yes
terdays quotations. at London bar silver was
80 Tsd per ounce. which reduced TO our currency,
would be practically go l-S cents The New York
quotation 81 cents. being excess of price of
2-3 cents above the London market. How can so
great difference exist? HAROLD LAWTON.
Centreville r. l., Aug IS, 1895.
The prices quoted for silver in London for
sterling silver which is 925-1000 fine. The
prices quoted in New-York for pure silver
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-12
SECRETARY SMITHS CURRENCY
VIEWS.

EX-Speaker Crisp and Secretary
Hoke Smith are having series of dis
cussions in Georgia on the money ques-
ton. The ex-speaker is advocating free
silver while the secretary is favoring
gold. The Atlanta Journal, Secretary
Smiths paper, commenting on the joint
debate, says:
Judge Crisp's organ seems to think
that he has succeeded in worrying Sec
rotary Smith about the latters posi-
ton in 1890 on the currency question.
What the people are really interest
ed in knowing is, not what anybody's
position was two years ago, but what
is right and advisable now?
No doubt what people are most di-
rectly interested in now in that debate,
so far as the secretary is concerned is
what he thinks now. That is the imme-
diate concern, but it is not all. What
a man has thought on a subject in
the past is also matter of very deep
concern, as it will tend to show what
he may think on it in the future.
Every man in the present is the sum of
all he has been in the past.
Take the case of Secretary Smith.
Six years ago he was for free silver;
he is against it today. The people of
Georgia cannot but have an interest in
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knowing what his views were formerly
because he advocated them, and he is
a man of prominence and influence in
his state. They must have almost as
much interest in knowing what his
views We're in the past as in knowing
what they will be in the future. Then
they have a great interest in them be-
cause it will be evidence going to show
whether he is safe" on the currency
question. Today he is refuting the
theories he advanced and advocated
six years ago. How are the people of
his state to know when he speaks with
prophetic voice? They must ask them
selves whether he is a safe or unsafe
guide now. Why may he not lapse
from his present views and take up
with silver again?
For all these reasons it is a matter
Of much importance to the people of
Georgia what Secretary Smiths posi-
ton on the currency question was in
1890. 1t will greatly aid them in de-
termining what it may be in 1899.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-12
MISSOURI AND SILVER.


The state of Missouri at the prima-
ries which elected men to attend the
state convention that will elect dele
gates to the national convention did
better for silver than was even expect
ed Of it.
Mr.. Edward o. Gear, the chief clerk
in the office of State Treasurer Steph-
ems, and who is said to have kept close
figures on the county conventions says
that seventy-eight counties that have
selected delegates to the state con-
vention have adopted strong resolutions
favoring free and unlimited and in
dependent coinage of silver and gold
at a ratio of 16 to 1.
Moreover, up to the time of sending
out the dispatch from which our infor-
nation is obtained, the delegates report
ed to be elected numbered 277, and 266
of them had been instructed to vote for
Vest, Stcne. Coclzrell and Bland for
delegates at large from the state, and
| 225 of the number are instructed to vote
for a solid. free silver delegation to
the national convention at Chicago.
The state convention will be made up
! CT 535 delegates 100 of whom come
from st. Louis and Jackson county,
land of the total number" says Mr.
Gear, "435 elected and to be elected
from the counties outside of the two
large cities of the state, we confidently
expect at least 421 Of them to be en-
| thusiastic silver men"
rJ-1-
souri,, where it was supposed by the
defeat of "Silver Dick Bland for con-
gress meant that Missouri would go
back on silver and flock with the single
gold standard states.
The ST. Louis Globe-Democrat, the
staunchest single gold standard paper
of the west, few days ago dispaired
of the showing which the single gold
standard Democrats were making and
thus upbraided them for their then
prospective defeat:
The gold end of the. Missouri Dem
ocracy is making a poorer fight than
was expected. Apparently it did not
| take advantage eli it's opportunities
Nobody, of course, thought it could get
anything like a majority of the dele
gates to the state convention, but it
would seem that a reasonable degree
of activity on it's part would have Sc
cured several times as many as it will
now get. A decent regard for the good
name of the state should have spur
red the gold standard Democrats to
make a better fight than they have
done. The job of proving to the coun-
| try that Missouri is not welded to
that relic of barbarism. the silver
standard, will now devolve entirely on
the Republicans. Happily. they are
capable of performing the task effect
lively
We wish the Republicans joy of their
undertaking, but if only the national
Democratic convention at Chicago will
be sensitively aware of its opportuni-
ties, it will be able to thwart the de-
signs of the Republican party in the
matter and restore to the people BIZ
metallism, the money of the constitu-
ton.
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Church and state again.

The Latter-day Saints or so-called
Mormon leaders have issued a pronun-
ciamento which certainly leaves those
in harness no loop-hole for future par
ticipation in the boisterous game of
politics. Every church or other organ
ization has right to make its own
rules for the government of its mem
bers, and this is so especially of its
active officers; and no outsiders have
any interest in these rules except as
they affect the general public.
1t gives a superior officer an ugly club
to use over his applicants for advice,
if he so desires. There certainly is in
all avenues of life, either ecclesiastical,
social or political, a certain incentive
to aid personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT to the
sacrifice of that honor which should
control advice from an ecclesiastical
superior. Independent.
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There is some comfort for the Dem
ocrats,'' says the Boston Journal, Eek
Governor Boise might accept the pres
idential nomination on a free silver
platform That is about as near an ex-
preston OF willingness as amy Demo-
orat has made yet
And that is an expression of willing
ness that is near enough; for if the
national Democratic convention at
Chicago will only have the wisdom to
adopt the free silver platform, and
nominate either Ex-Governor Boise or
any other Democrat who may be trusted
DO carry out it's principles, our over-con-
fident eastern Republican friends may
be made to realize when the results OF
the election shall be summed up that
1t was not well to dispise a free silver
Democratic candidate and a free silver
platform. II
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-12

wee, 50 too has vice of virtue. But
When we read such statements as were
reported in our dispatches of yesterday,
giving parts of alleged confessions
of the murderer H H. Holmes, now I'M
der sentence of death for one of his
many crimes, it compels one to believe
that man can be utterly bad. Bad
beyond redemption, spending his time
in planning crimes, and with demons
cunning abiding his time for carrying
them into effect
After reading these alleged parts of
his confessions, where he owns up to
having committed twenty-seven cold
blooded murders, that he killed for the
mere pleasure of killing, and after
wards mutilated his victims for the joy
he had in cutting and carving them, it
will not be difficult for some
people to believe the statement
of the wretch himself that he
was born with the devil in him; and all
will believe him when he says he is
convinced that there is no longer any
thing human in him.
His inclination to KILL he says, came
to him in early life, and as mere lad
he had an ambition to study medicine
that he might know the relative eff
feet of poisonous gases that he might
fully become acquainted with their
use, and learn to be an expert in
handling them; and it was not until
he had graduated fully equipped with
this knowledge of poisons and the east
est way to sever the thread or human
life that he began his career as muir
derer and mutilator!
One sometimes is tempted to think
that in works of fiction the imagination
of the author overdraws the abnormal
creature he pictures, but in the realms
of fact we shall find, if we but observe,
characters on the side of the abnormal
ly bad, wretches that overtop the Gre
ations of the mind however much real
life may fall short on the other hand,
of producing characters of heroic
mould that have been brought into ex-
istence by creative fancy. Such real
characters as Holmes makes it possible
to believe the story of Or. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde" could find a counterpart in
real lie.
For the sake of such creatures as
Holmes-for the sake of humanity
one could hope that for such creatures
the future holds the possibility of an
Inhalation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-12

SO many phrases and names get into
use in politics that their origin is too
frequently lost and people are very apt
to think that they originated but a
few years ago. Such a name is 1.-The
boys" All know what it means and
it is much easier of comprehension
than of definition. A correspondent of
the New York Evening Post writes as
follows:
IAN ingenious student of political
history who should seek in the Century
or Standard dictionary for a definition
of Boy, would fail to find it. Presum-
ably the editors of these works sup
posed the word in it's political sense
to be only ephemeral slang; but
word which has held it's own for
half-a-century may fairly claim to have
established its title. In the New York
Mirror of October %, 1S45, we read as
follows: 1t (the Globe) is a very
handsome and gentlemanly-loo pa
per, considering that it represents the
'unwashed Democracy" and is the
acknowledged organ of the class of
politicians known as the boys"
Even the Oxford dictionary has missed
this definition.
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The Manifesto.

The incidents attending the omission
of the name of Moses Thatcher from
the list of apostles in Salt Lake. City
on Monday created a profound sem
sation in Salt Lake and Logan in par
ticular, and in the state generally.
Many different opinions were of course
expressed, with regard to the affair,
and sympathy was expressed at Mr..
Thatcher's dangerous illness; but what
ever other opinion might be enter
tanned, it must be admitted that the
authorities of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day SANS have an alb
solute right to take the position they
have assumed in the present contro-
versy, namely, the power to demand
of men holding the priesthood that
they take counsel with those in author
ity over them as to whether or not
they can be spared from their relig-
ious duties before accepting any polit-
ical office.-Logan Republican.
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Action of the Conference.

The action of the Mormon conference
in striking the name of Moses Thatch-
er from the list of apostles presented
for the approval of the people in con-
ference assembled is variously COM
mented upon in this camp, the general
conviction being that the church has
made the mistake of it's existence
Apostle Thatcher, they argue, has
friends who will not meekly abide by
the enforcement of such rule. This
feeling may not crop to the surface
at once, but it will rankle in the
bosoms Of the rank and file, and in
time will lead to open rupture.-Park
City Patriot.
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Since President Cleveland made his
unfortunate break at the Presbyterian
home missionary meeting in New York,
by virtually attacking the west, there
have been many facts produced to
show that the president was wrong as
to moral conditions prevailing in west
eIn states. In many ways COMPARE
sons have been made showing that
the west is not only equally as moral
as the east, but that there is actually
less crime, and that the western states
are freer from vices than those of the
far east. In this controversy nothing
has been more convincing than the
criminal statistics of the several states
and territories, collected and published
recently by Mr.. F. w. Hews. He
says:
In each million of the population
there are 1885 criminals in Massa-
chusetts and 1924 in Washington, 1921
in New York and Its in Idaho, 1921
in Rhode Island and 1924 in Utah,
1875 in Connecticut and 1885 in New
Mexico 1869 in New Jersey and 1,219
in Wyoming, 1924 in Pennsylvania and
531 in North Dakota.
Another very significant considera-
ton says Mr.. Hews,' is that within
ten years the increase of criminals has
been far less in the west than in the
east. In the western section, from 1880
to $780, there was an increase of % in
each million, while in the eastern or
northern Atlantic states there was an
increase of 1879 in each million"