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The herald., 1896-02-13
Free Coinage Is Silver Protection

There is propriety in adding free coin
age measure i'll the senate to the tariff bill.
Under the Sherman law silver became a
com modify. Its price fell. All the silver
producing states demanded that whatever
their production of silver they should be
paid for the bullion the equivalent of dol
lar, though the price might be so cents.
They wanted bounty just as Mckinley
gave bounty to the sugar producers of
Louisiana. They were not content with
their own investment, their own business
management, the bounty of nature-they
demanded that the whole people of the
United States should assist them to con-
duct their business proftably, hence their
clamor for the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at not the commercial ratio, but
at ratio which established the parity be-
tween the metals when l6 to l was the
| relative commercial value.
The mining camps looked for paternal
government. They said in substance:
I'VE cannot get the price we want for sill
yer unless you give it to us. You must
give it to US so as to make our so cents of
silver, more or less, worth dollar or your
whole system of protection is a delusion
and a snare. We will do our utmost to de-
feat it unless we are included among the
| beneticiaries."
That was the beginning of the silver aei.
tation in its later and more pronounced
| form. That some short-sighted Democrats
have fallen in with the specious cry is due
TO their lack of intellect. Every body dis
Germs where the motive lay. The silver
! miner wanted to use the government eX-
actly as the mill lord in Rhode Island or
Massachusetts proposed to use it, and Nc
Kinley is as heartily in sympathy with the
proposition to extend protection to any
other rich class of producers or manufac-
turers.
Free coinage of silver is scheme to rob
the people for the benefit of silver produc-
ers. 1t is on par with protection. 1t has
all the vice of the protective system. 1t is
robbery of everybody for the benefit of
somebody. The amazing feature is that
Democrats who have been and continue to
be sturdy opponents of the protection idea
should be carried away by the free silver
movement, movement as harmful to the
mass of the people as movement for the
higher taxes of the old Mckinley law
Chicago Chronicle.
The herald., 1896-02-13
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1906.
THE PEOPLES HERALD

The legion friends Of The HERALD
will be gratified to learn that their IA
vorite newspaper is now securely un-
der the domination and control of the
management which shaped the popular
policy upon which it has been con-
Quoted, with unprecedented success,
for the past six months. Emancipated
from retarding conditions-due to a
lack of concentered executive author
ity, wanting which no corporation can
be most effectively conducted; without
embarrassments, financial or factional;
encouraged by an approving and rap
idly multiplying constituency; with no
enemies, potential for harm or him
drance, and no corporate interests to
conserve, save those of the Herald
Publishing company and those of the
body polite, The HERALD faces the
future with serene confidence and a
Straightforward purpose to deserve and
win the largest measure of journalistic
success,
The herald., 1896-02-13
Why England Is Not Loved

The London Times has published a
great many letters of late under the head
ing, Why England Is Not Loved. A fine
variety of reasons has been assigned, rum
ming all the way from the indefinite one co1-
nected with the name of DR.. Fell to the
preciseness OF the lady who refused a
suitor under six heads and eighteen SUBJ
heads. A broader but no less searching
question is put. however, by one con-
tributor who observes:
"Now that so many writers have proved
that England is not loved and have fur
nished divers explanations of this melan.
choly fact, may one ask some of them to
60 little further and to tell us which of
the great powers is loved, and, if there be
such a one, why it is held in affection?"
Surely it is not the United States, for it is
our great aim in life to be hated by foreign
ers, and we are happiest when most hated.
How happy we ought to be on this score,
reference to current South American and
European public opinion will show. Rus
sia can hardly be said to be the desire of
all nations; Germany is not exactly the
model OF international sweet reasonable
ness and modesty to which affection goes
out spontaneously: France has not all the
world at her feet as a lover; nor are there
great outbursts of foreign enthusiasm and
tenderness for Spain or Italy or Austria.
Yet the press of all these countries remark
with satisfaction as profound as is their
surprise that England is not loved. How
strange! / am not loved, you are not,
none of us l. ); but, just think. England is
not, either.-New York Evening Post.
The herald., 1896-02-13

Morgan syndicate? As a bulwark o
the gold reserve the product of tn,
Buckeye attitudinizsr did not seem to
be very much in evidence about that
time.
The fact is that at the very opening
of Harrison's term unrest and doubt
began to manifest itse If and continued
throughout the administration. 10
1890 a financial stringsncv was so i'm
minent that Secretary Wiudom, then
secretary of the treasury, went into the
market and bought bonds to the tune
of $73,694,S50, paying therefor pre-
miums aggregsting s2l 1922, 1894, rather
expensive way OF redeeming the gov
ernment's obligations. This premium
expenditure constituted one of
the methods by which the big
surplus left by President Cleve-
lsni ia 1889 WAS dissipat ed.
When Secretary Carlisle took possess
sion of the treasury the surplus was no
more, gold was being transported to
Europe at the rate of $12,000,000 per
month, the governments expenditures
had been increased by Mckinley
congress more than $60,000,000 year,
and the revenues had fallen off more
than $lS,000,000 per year. Aud then
for sixteen months thereafter Presi-
dent Cleveland had "the Mckinley bill
back of his administration"
The herald., 1896-02-13
Eve Still Loves Serpents

What is it that makes the daughters of
Eve admire snakeskins? One would think
that they would want to get as far away
from it as possible; but, on the contrary.
every woman who can afford it ia wearing
snakeskin somewhere about her person.
Bags and purses, card cases and belts, the
backs of gift books, toilet accessories and
everything else that a woman can get COW
cred with snakeskin goes. The skin has
come to cost as much as Russia leather,
and "snake farms" are now much more
valuable as revenue producers than wheat
farms. 1t is worthy OF note that no woman
of the swell set has yet taken to wearing a
tanned rattler's hide around her hat, as
the Mexicans do, but that will probably be
the beginning of the end of IA not very
pretty fashion at best. The skin takes a
high polish and is as durable as alligator
skin.
The herald., 1896-02-13
world, of which she poses as an eminent

world, Of which she poses as an eminent
leader.
By parliament the queens address
was, of course, received In the usual
way, by the one side with approval, by
the other in spirit of willing, but ap.
parently fair criticism. The speech OF
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, repre-
senting the Liberals, in reply to the
address, was certainly one of the
ablest Of recent forensic efforts
in the house of commons. 1t was
full and frank discussion
of the subjects touched on by Victoria.
He covered the question of the Mon
roe doctrine and its applicability to the
Venezuelan boundary dispute in can
did and comprehensive way, and there
is little doubt about his remarks SO
affecting British public opinion ss to
make easier satisfactory adjustment
of the difference. No better exposition
in brief way, of the reasons for the
Monroe doctrine and the general for
eign policy of the United States, could
be expected from foreigner than is
found in the following:
~ am in entire agreement with Lord
Salisbury when he says the United States
have a perfect right to interpose in any
controversy by which their own interests
are affected, and that they are entitled to
judge whether their interests are affected
and in what measure they shall be sus-
tanned. That is general doctrine upon
which all states act. Upon this is founded
the balance of power, and upon that
ground Great Britain interposed in Bel
GUM, Greece, Turkey and many other
places. The Manroe doctrine is not an
extension of this principle; it is limita-
ton of what other states claim to exercise
everywhere. President Monroe limited it
to the American continent, and the
United States, following the wise teach
ing of Washington, have declared their
disinclnation and de erminaton not to in
terfere in the controversies of the European
powers; but they have deciaret the con-
troversies of the American continent to be
of special interest to themselves, and
they will judge when and how they are
called upon to interfere
The substantial concurrence of Hon.
A. J. Balfour, Conservative leader in
the house Of commons, and Lord Sails
bury, the premier, in the house of
lords, in the views expressed by Har-
court practically settle the proposition
of England's recognition OF the right
of this country to intervene in dis
putes of the Venezuelan boundary
character.
The herald., 1896-02-13
NO TRIFLING

The adjournment of the councils
committee on water and water supply
yesterday without date is, to say the
least, somewhat inexplicsble to the Or
dinary mind not versed in the myster-
ious ways of Providence and city coun-
cilmen. The committee has had ample
time to prepare for the consideration
of the water rate question and should
have been ready yesterday to engage
in something more than an in
formal discussion Of the subject.
Any additional information they need
about the matter can be acquired with
reasonable industry within a few
hours. 1t is quite apparent that it is
not the intention of the committee to
report before a week from mex! Mon
day, and it is by no means certain that
it will report then.
The city charter requires that the
municipal council shall establish the
rates in February Of each year for the
year succeeding. The month of
February for 1896 has nearly
half expired, and as yet no
serious move has been made towards 8
complying with the charter require
ments. and from present indications
the month will be succeeded by an
other before the committee with the
duty in hand will have gotten fairly
under way. The people of this city are
most emphatically desirous of a re-
duction in water rates; the mem bers of
the committee are certainly aware of
this fact, and they should know that
the sort of trihing that has thus far
been INDUCED in will not be condoned.
The HERALD suggests that the commit
tee on water and water supply sit again
before the present week elspses.
The herald., 1896-02-13
VICTORIA AND PARLIAMENT

The speech Of the queen of England
and the empress of India is hardly of
the kind that will upset the equilibrium
of the average Englishman. 1t follows
in the main the good old conservative
ruts and it's chief merit is in the peace
fulness of its tone. Victoria evidently
looks with kindly eye on peace.
The most significant utterance in
the address is that relating to the
Venezuelan boundary dispute. When,
after briefly adverting to the
expressed desire of the United
States to cooperate in terminating the
differences between Great Britain and
the South American republic, she says
Il have expressed my sympathy with q
desire to come to an equitable arrange
ment, and trust further negotiations
will lead to satisfactory settlement"
She means that after careful and de-
| liberate consideration the powers that
be in England have concluded that the
United States are not nearly 80 unrea-
sonable as appeared at first blush, and
that after all there might be something
in the controversy with Venezuela
worth additional diplomatic effort.
Her references to the situation in
Armenia have sort of motherly re-
prcachfulness about them that should
make the "unspeakable Turk" heartily
ashamed Of himself, but it won't dc
anything of the sort. The chances are
the Turk and the Kurd will progress
in the slaughter of the hapless and
helpless Armenian until the material
either gives out or is converted to the
faith Of Islam. It is unnecessary tc
say that the gentle tone of the queen
regarding this subject will prove dis
tinctly disappointing to the Christian
The herald., 1896-02-13
HO FOR ARIZONA!

Ihe mldwlnter carnival to be held at
Phoenix, Arizona, next week promises
to be very important as we'll as an at
tractive event in the history of the
tlourishing territory lying east of
Southern California. The people of
Phoenix and surrounding towns are
evidently about to make "the greatest
effort Of their lives" Neither money
nor labor is being spared in the prepa-
rations for the forthcoming carnival.
The management of the important
affair is in capable hands, and all
classes of respectable people in
Arizona are disposed to do their ut
most toward aiding the management in
bringing to perfection the plans
mapped out.
The carnival will possess several
novel features, besides many which
though not altogether new will be ex-
csedingly attractive and enjoyable.
Among the novelties will be several
bands of thoroughly alive Indians,
whose war dances and other perform
ances and sports will add weird pic
turesqueness to the outdoor scenes.
The cowboy sports, baseball and football
games, firemen's tournament, bicycle
and running races, trap-shooting, mar
digras pageant, trades parade and mill
tary drills, will enchain the attention
of those who attend during each of
the four days, while at night elaborate
fireworks will illuminate the Arizona
atmosphere as it was never before
lighted Cp. Other and minor attrac-
tions will help to make up grand car
nival seldom equaled anywhere in the
United States.
| Besides the pleasures to be enjoyed
in such program, visitors from Cali
fornia, Of whom there should he many,
will have an opportunity of seeing and
learning much that is new to them con.
corning the wonderful resources OF
Arizona. We are glad to know that
Southern California, and especially Los
Angeles, will be quite numerously rep
resented at the carnival. Mr.. Max
Meyberg, president of the Merchants
association of this city. has arranged
with the Santa Fe railroad officials for
a special train Of Pullman sleepers,
which will leave Los Angeles next
Tuesday morning and run through to
Phoenix on a special time card, thus
aFording the ladies and gentlemen of
the party delightful trip to Arizona's
capital. 1t is expected that this
will be the most finely decorated
train that ever ran out of Los
| Angeles. This train should be crowded
with representative citizens of this city
and vicinity. Between Southern Cali
fornia and Arizona there is commu-
nifty of interests, and there should be
bond of sympathy. No opport Unity
for the cultivation Of closer intimacy
should be neglected. The Phoenix
carnival offers splendid opportunity
Of that kind, and 1t should be utilized
| for all that it is worth. Let us invade
the territory of our neighbors across
the line by the train load, and with uu-
limited good will help them make their
carnival a success that shall not soon
be forgotten.
The herald., 1896-02-13
South Cardinals Disyracs

The United States senate has reached a
worse state of degradation than the people
of the last generation and of previous gem
era'ions would have supposed possible. No
other legislative body in the world would
have permitted such an indecent display
as that of Tillmau in abuse of the chief ex-
ecutive Office OF the state or nation. Moth
ing like it was heard in the days of parti.
san passion and strife when andrew John
son was president and articles of impeach-
ment were under discussion. 1t is said that
this was the ''stockn speech of Tillman
made to the sandhillers of South Carolina
for years in the state campaigns. Tillman
occupies the senate seat of Robert Y.
Hayne, who once made a speech that was
so able an argument, so eloquent and of
such national significance, that it elected a
reply from Daniel Webster, which is the
masterpiece of American oratory. Poor
old South Carolina.-ChicaGo Chronicle.
The herald., 1896-02-13
THE MKINLEY BILL AS A
BACKER

"If President Cleveland had the McKin-
ley bill back of his administration he would
not be so much worried by the Morgan
syndicate. He would have no bonds to
SELL"
foregoing spray of wisdom comes
fresh from the thought we'll of the
Phoenix, Ariz.. Republican 1t is one
Of numerous kind, and serves ad-
mirably to show how impervious to
fact and reason a well-trainsd Republi-
can editor can become.
1t was while President Cleveland had
the legislative reniniscence of McKin-
ley at the shack of his administration"
that the frat Of the recent bond issues
was made, and it was prior to the ex-
piration Of President Harrison's term
that deficiency in the customs rev.
enues commenced, that the peril of the
gold reserve became apparent, and that
preparations for an issue of bonds were
made. The repeal Of thu Mckinley
tariff law did not stake effect until
August, 1894. 1t was in the preceding
February that tho frat lot OF
bonds sold since the begin
ming Of Mr.. Clevelan1's present
term was issued That issue
was of $5O,0Ou,000 worth and was for
gold which the infallibls Mckinley law
somehow failed to pat into the treas
ury. What vas ths matter with the
Mckinley law "bicking" the admins.
tration then 80 that the president
"wouid have no bonds to SELL" thu.
keeping him safe from the rapacioui
The herald., 1896-02-13
The End of Ribbon Novelties

Some of the newest ribbons are stiff, with
real silver and gold thread, and have heavy
designs in velvet thrown upon them in eX-
quisite perfection of coloring. And they
think of bright purple tatTeta ribbon with
pretty pink apple blossoms forming a
stripe through it, CT brilliant yellow with
punches of cherries tied with pale green
dottinG it's length; or white velvet rib
bon with inlet punches of pink roses bro
caded in satin? All these fancies in sash
and narrow ribbons you can find on the
counters of the shops. They don't stand
out where the common herd can handle
and price. Not much! They are "behind
closed DOORS" and when madame comes
along and wants something particularly
elegant in ribbon garniture they are
brought forth and shown under the glare
of gas light, so that she may know exactly
what the effect will be when she wears
The herald., 1896-02-13
WHIPPED HER RIVAL
An Exciting Episode at the Corner Of Hill
and Fourth Streets

An Exciting Episode at the Corner Of Hill
and Fourth Streets
An exciting episode occurred at the cor
nor of Fourth and Hill streets last evening
about o'clock. About that hour a covered
milk and butter wagoh containing man
and woman drove up to the northwest cor
nicely dressed woman walked rapidly IN
the street from Broadway on the south
side, and crossing over ordered the man to
put he woman ont of the wagon, ct the
Same time applying an opprobrious
epit 'et to her, and demanding to
know why she was riding wi h her
husband. There was no doubt about the
woman being mad, and it was seen that
she evidently meant business. After some
little parley the couple got out of the wagon
onto the sidewalk. Quick as a flash the in
furiated wife slipped around the wagon,
and, snatching the whip from the socket,
began be!aboriug the woman over the head
and shoulders, breaking the whip inc
pieces. As soon as she recovered from her
astonishmeut the woman who was attacked
turned and ran down Hill street. The irate
wife then turned upon her husband and
proceeded to give him a tongue lashing.
The man endeavored to quiet her, but
without avail. The wife's anger was
aroused, and she was evidently determined
to relieve her mind. The man finally
clambered into tho wagon and tried to
drive off, but his wife caught the horses b.
the brides and refused to let go. In the
meantime quite a crowd had gathered and
matters began to look sultry when the man
bundled the woman into the wagon and
both drove off, going down Hill street. The
identity of the parties is unknown, as no
one in the neighborhood had ever seen
them before.
The herald., 1896-02-13
ORIGIN OF THE WORD "JiNGO"

The origin of the word lingo" is inter-
esting at this time, when one is confronted
with it SO often. At the time of the close
of the Russo-Turlish war, which, as all
readers of history know, terminated so
disastrously for the Turks, and caused a
feeling of apprehension in England that
the Russians were bent on taking C1nstan-
tinople and the ultimate dismembarment
Of the Turkish empire, a change which
could not be tolerated, the public feeling
found expression i'll England upon the
stage in pautomime5 and in the music
halls by numerous patriotic songs. Que of
these was as follows:
The dogs OF war are loose and the rugged Rus
Full bent on blood and robbery, has crswled
out OF his lair.
1tseems Il thrashing now and then will never
help to tame
That brute, and so he's out on the same old
game.
The Lion lid his best to give him some exc lse
To crawl back % his den again all efforts were
no use.
He hungered for his victim. he's pleased when
But let Us hope his sins may all recoil on his
own head
CHORUS;
We've got the men. w~'ve got the ships, we've
got the money, too
We fought the Bear before, and while we are
Britons tue.
The Russians shall not have Constantinople
The song became most popular, and was
heard on every street corner, from every
organ grinder, and was whistled by every
bootblack. Shorty after the election cam
paign began, in which Gladstone, the head
of the Liberals, attacked the Tory party,
then led by the earl of Beaconsfield, who
was in power. The Tory foreign policy
was ridiculed, and they were stigmatized
by the Liberals as ''the party of bloodshed,
glory and jinao."
From the time of this election campaign,
which resulted in the defeat of the Tories
and the accession of the "peace party"
Gladstone's 1850 administration, the word
Lingo" has been used to denote an indi-
vidual or section of a party ready to rush
without mature deliberation into all the
horrors of war.-Pttshurr Dispatch.
The herald., 1896-02-13
TitInta1

The Philadelphia, Penn, Evening Bulle-
tin says: The harargue TO which the SEN
ate listened when Benjamin r. Tillmau OF
South Carolina made his first appearance
as speechmahec in that body, was a strik-
ing illustration of the degeneracy of soma
torial debate in recent years. However,
tho country has become so accustomed TO
exhibitions of clownishness and black
g,lardism in the senate that Tillman's
TRADE can hardly be called novelty. But
it is, perhaps, the worst sample OF the nu-
merous transgressions against public de-
ceucy that have lately m ar,sed the conduct
of the senate. Indeed. it is difficult to inn
agine that public man in the discussion
of grave public questions could descend
lower than TilIman did in his rancorous
abuse unless he actually employed the
Language of the barroom and the stews.
The herald., 1896-02-13
Here and There

Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Bundrem have left
for their home in the east,
John 4. Griffith left last night for San
francisco for short business trip.
Miss Julia Mercereau is at home again
after most delightful visit to La Canada.
The Sexennial league will give prize
masquerade ball this evening at Illinois
hall
Miss Dunkelberger entertained a few
friends informally last night at her home
on West Ninth street.
Arthur Mark, who has been visiting his
sister. Mrs. Wilbur l'lagg. ut her home on
OIchsri avenue # le ST mig fo':: b ca 20.
Miss Louise Sol;.e, the very capable so
ciety editor of the Times. is on the sicl,
list at the home of her friend, Mrs. Z. f.
Beatty. Pico Heights.
Mrs. Briggs. Mrs. Granville MacGowan,
Mrs. Nellie Ainsworth, Mis-. Dan McFar-
land and Louis Vetter formed a pleasant