New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-24

gers allowed.
ct presume that | am now being criticised
saws John Boyd Thatcher. Oh, no, dear 1hache'
YOU are not being criticised You are just peihg
laughed at.
The Popocrats down in Washington nave oeen
doing a little figuring on their own account vi
course they have no trouble in carrying the CIV
ton for Bryan on paper They graclous'y CON-
cede that seventy one votes in the Electoral Oo'-
ege are sure to be cast for Mckinley We'll we
are glad they allow us little something, any
way.
General Harrison never speaks without max
ing good points plentifully. one of the best
things In his little speech before the commercial
travellers was his reference TO the fact that the
same sentence Of the Constitution when gives
to Congress power 10 coin money and regulate
the value thereof and Of foreign CON- also con-
fers on 1t power to fix the standard OF weights
and measures And he right In saying that
il would be Just az reasonable after the length
Of the yardstck and the cubic contents or the
busheI had been fxe1. for Congress to alter
them and make the new standards apply TO All
existing contracts TO reduce the value OF the
dollar equally with the yardstick and the
bushel measure-ano conipeI every po"S !" az
cept 1t.
TO him that hath shall be given is abun-
dainty exempIine1 in the case of the Chicago
University, which has just been made the re-
cipient OF more than 50 O000O0 to be used in
the esta adjustment of branch school in Peoria.
II is "a fe 10 say that The Tribune is read,
every week by more than 1OOO0O human be-
ings For several months past the demand for
authentic news and sound arguments has re-
suited In an increase Of Tribune subscribers.
and il has been necessary to increase the me-
chanicai facilities Of this Office by the purchase
Of a new press. printing $4,000 copies per hour.
and by adding materially to the plant in other
ways The New-Jersey edition Of the Daily
shows a notable growth. to say nothing OF the
other suburban and regular city editions; and as
for The Weekly that edition alone has now
grown to 226.540 copies per week paid sub
scriptions being added at the rate Of over 10000
per week 1t is gratifying to The Tribune to
receive almost daily reports from States In the
West and along Mason and Dixons line to the
effect that The Tribunes which taken in
those regions are doing great good in promoting
patriotic sentiment and awakening the con-
science of the people. The arguments supplied
by the paper are deciding many men who have
been hesitating ard who are now getting down
off the fence on the right side" 1t is the testi-
mony OF contemporaries that The Weekly
Tribune il the greatest educator Of public senti-
ment in the United States In honest homes in
every valley and on every hillside In the Republic.
The Tribune IL read and studied by those who
are deeply interested in its messages from the
battlefield of politics at large. Its influence is
fifty years. It has hoi.estly advised the people as
10 what their best interests demand has never
Intentionally misled a single American citizen.
and has never varied from It's consistent promo
ton Of those two grea; interests-the saving OF
the American market TO American labor and
agriculture and the making of every dollar Of
the currency of the people worth 100 cents in
gold The increasing sale of the daily paper is
no doubt due In part to its excellence as news
paper No other journal In New-York prints so
accurately such a variety of the best news OF the
metropolitan district, and its Sunday issue is a,
marvel of bright entertaining and sound reading
This Is the situation. A vote for Bryan and
Sewall or Watson Is a vote for reputation and
civic disorder. A vote for Palmer and Buckner
is half vote for sound money and half sur
render to the pride of precedent and personal
liking A vote for Mckinley and Hobart is the
only direct means Of supporting good money and
good government and IL the expression de-
manded OF every good citizen throughout the
country in this hour of his country's peril
DR. Forsyth Major. who for the last two years
has been studying zoology and anthology in
Madagascar on a mission for the Royal Society
and the British Museum. has returned to Lon
don He landed on the eastern coast of NADIA
gascar at MananJara. few months before the
occupation Of Tamatave by the French and
thence directed his course To Srabe. four days
march to the south OF Antananarivo. where he
remained for several months pursuing his re-
searches. He was successful In obtaining
number OF valuable specimens for the British
Museum. among them being several skeletons OF
that giant bird known To naturaliss as the
Epiorns But DR.. Forsyth Major Also made
political observations. which are not less inter
esting He believes that the movement OF the
Hovas To rebel Is most serious and must soon
eliminate In furious attack upon the French
The conspirators. says the Doctor, high
Hovas officials. In whom NJ. Laroche the French
resident general. seems TO have unhounded con
hdence
What lot OF maudln sentiment is INDUCED OF
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