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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-20

We suppose romances have been writ
ten on a background OF "bieeding Kan
sas,' bat we do not recall having seen
anything of the sort. The field, how
ever, ought to be good for something
more important than the short story.
Surely there was thrill enough in the
border ruff'an days before Governor
Geary took hold OF the situation to sup
ply library of lively books. Mr.. Ar
thur Peterson, who had already written
a few effective books of western life,
pictures Kansas in the exciting time of
John Brown in a spirited novel entitled
"For Freedoms Sake" g.. Il. Lippin-
colt Company; for sale by Preston
Rounds; s1.25.) The book tells OF a
young fellow from New England who goes
ont with the rush to Kansas to take up
law and settle. He finds the aggressive
southern element in full control of the
government and the peaceful northerners
staggered and confounded by the rumpus
in which they lind them eselves dragged
by the slavery question. The experiences
OF the young New Englander carry the
reader through the development OF or
point of armed resistance to the Nilsson
rians, and, OF course, "Old Ossswatonne
Brown" figures prominently. Equally
OF course, there 10 love story running
through II all. The various types of
opinion and character that the seething
cauldron OF Kansas politics brought
out have each representative in
the story. and Mr.. Peterson has
SO handled the cbundan tmaterial
es to furnish vivid and clear
picture, with some excellently done char
acter drawing. 1t Is a first rate book TO
resd for the readings sake, and we are
OF the opinion that 1t furnishes relia bic
idea of the life on the border In these
days-a part of our history that is of
more absorbing interest to the lover of
sensation than any sensation ever in
vented.
John ID. Barry is the author of "The
Intriguers," which is the Novem her is
sue of Appleton's Town ana Country. LIZ
brary. Gregory, paper,.5o cents.) Both
because the name of the author was new
to US, and because a glance at the book
indicated that he was an American we
settled down with q good deal of inter-
est to the reading, to. Gee what we should
see. Perhaps 1t Is because we hoped for
too much that we were disappointed, but
we do not recall a book that, like the
Intriguers does not have a satisfactory or
a satisfying character in 1t. II is sufii-
GENTLY readable story, and because the
people in 1t are so thoroughly common
place may recommend 1t where the reader
only wants to fnd in his book the kind
of human beings he finds around him ev-
cry day--ths kind he is himself, most
likely. But In human society something
q little bit winning can. be found in most
every body. In Mr.. Barry's book we
wouldn't give a rap to know more about
any of the people although, being nice
appearing folk, they strike US favorably
on introduction. We get the idea from
the "Intriguers' that Mr.. Barry could
write lively and purposefui story II his
natural bent was not repressed by the
realistic blight, which seems to take ell
the sand and Juice out OF him. We should
like to see him unshackle himself and
let loose.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-20

Molly Elliot Seawell is capital story
teller. Her new book, "The Sprightly
Romance of Marsac," Is o French story
with the "local color" from that most
popular Partisan locality. the Latin
Quar- ter-sc of SO much that 10 read
able in story telling. The style OF the
book, the manufacture that Is, Is
Frenchy to give the story the proper local
color in book fsshionipg-glazed white
paper, big margins, full print in narrow
columns, uncut edges, gilt top, all as
daintily inviting M it we'll could he.
And a French artist illustrates 1t with
sympathetic raciness. This is the story
that won the prize Of $4,000 offered for q
novelette, in the New York Herald's re-
cent competition open to American
aut hors. As published by the Scribners'
1t il an elegant piece Of bookmaking as
well 90 o capital story.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-10-20

Marie Corelli without grievance
would be unusual, but that her stories
would lose in interest with the element
of controversy out OF them We very much
doubt. "Ihelma" was the best story
that Miss Corelli ever wrote. II was a rat
Ting good story, indeed. Ii took the
popular fancy. what's more, and we can
not conceive that anything she has writ
ten since can nave caught II so success
fully. Here is the new "Murder OF deli.
cia" for example. II comes to Us from
her American Publishers, the J. b. Lip
pincott Company. bound in red buckram,
gilt design, iu' harmony with previous
books IN the CorelIi list. At the risk
of icing suspected OF reading no more
than the introduction we venture to
quote thersfrom that the "Murder Of De-
licia" IL "a slight ana unels torated
sketch OF very eommonplacs spd every
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15

drcds of thousands of willing and able
Workingmen have been thrown out of
employment. and have been obliged to
consume their small savings to support
their families. Everybody knows, too,
that during this period there has been
no contraction in he money of the coun-
try. There is just as much money now
as there was in the good time we had
when Harrison was President. The gov
eminent has not even stopped coming sill
vcr-it actually coined over 5000, 600
last year. Mr.. Bryan has utterly failed
to convince the intelligent workingman
that the coinage laws Of the country have
anything to do with the present business
depression.
What then is the matter? Why are
times hard: Why is labor scantily en-
ployed? Why are so many factories
silent? The workingman would like an
answer to these questions from the man
who is seeking their votes for the presi-
dency. They know what the answer
is. They know very well that if we
buy millions of dollars worth of goods
make i'll this country men and women
formerly employed in making those
goods are thrown out of work. That is
what Mr.. Bryan's tariff theories put
into practice by the Wilson law have
done to the labor element of the United
states. IN the matter OF wooden goods
alone over $50, 100000 have been taken
away from American working people
and given to the English and the Ger
mans. In the single item of lumber
over $S,OOOOOO a year is now paid to
the Canadians that ought to be paid
to American labor. Mr.. Bryan does not
think the tariff is an important issue
in this campaign. The laboring man
out of work knows that it is the real
issue, that Mr.. Bryan is artfully dodg-
ing it. trying to divert attention to his
preposterous scheme of coming the bull
lion and old coins of the world into
United States dollars for the benefit of
silver owners.
There is only one way of making
times better in this country, and that is
to furnish more employment to labor
How can this be done if we buy foreign
goods instead of making what we need
at home? This is plain question which
no frce-trader has ever yet been able to
answer. The free-trader gives us theo-
ries, but the protectioniSt deals in facts.
Let us open the mills and shut the
mouths of the cheap money agitators.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
TARIFF TO THE FRONT.
The Real Issue is Forcing Itself Upon the
Public.

Every intelligent workingman who
reads the newspapers and thinks seriously
about his own condition and prospects in
life must have been struck by Mr.. Bry-
ans persistent refusal to discuss the tar
if question. In all his speeches he
pushes it aside, saying that it is not an
important issue in this campaign. When
ne was In Congress a few years ago he
regarded it as very important issue.
His efforts were mainly directed towards
king down the Mckinley Protective
Tariff law. He was elected in Nebraska
ON wave of short-sighted transitory an
tl-tarlff agitation. He was one of the
most conspicuous free-traders in Con-
gresS. He wanted to go a good deal
further III that direction than did Wilson
himself. In fact, he was on the tariff
question as he is on the money question,
an extreme theorist If the tariff was
an important question in the wears when
our industries were prosperous and our
laborlng population all employed at good
wages, what is the matter with it now,
Mr.. Bryan? '''"'
-. Everybody knows that a large proper
tlon OF the manufacturing concerns in the
country have been closed since the Will
son bill, which Bryan supported, went in
to operation. Everybody knows that
wages have been reduced since the bill
got in its deadly effects, and that hun
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
THEY WANT M'KINLEY.
Eighty Per Cent. of the Illinois
Skilled Laborers will Vote
for Him.

Tho, vail ,f +l, ,,,,,,,I,,., &C ,,,;u- f,o
-' I''' va '"' '"'i'i"E - vi HILLS l"'
tories ANA Runway SHOPS IN limos cities
auN towns taken by the correspondents
ut the Tribune adds coufirmatorv tcsti-
,u,rtE tn th, MANY n,,idoncns ,Iroodv
,.,r, .,.. ~
N"l''"" ny iHIS paper 10 eStapllSh the
proposition that at least 80 per cent. of
the skilled labor in this state is for Nc
kiuL,y.
N,Har % ,,n1I If +l,, Cr,ro L,Io,,,+o,.
,,.mI.. i',il' h1i'' "'ol
WINS J." 'llIH city, '3NGh ny means Oh
a SECRET ballot. showed that over 1000
employees Wrr" for Mckinley and only
90 Wcr" for Bryan, even the most OPP
rindstic shook their heads incrcdulously.
Secret ballots taken in the various rail
way shops and other manufacturing es-
Establishments in Chicago. the results of
which have been published in the Times
Herald, indicated It condition of Dolitical
sentiment equally gratifying to the
friends Of sound money and protection.
With such 4 Urpuoudrroncn of snnti
muut Favorable to Mckinley amonr Chi-
cago shop men it was easy to nrornosti-
cate results i'm November, proyided the
favorable showing was mniu+ainod IN
the. factories and shODS i'm othrr n,rts If
the state, That the prrcnnto~n of Nc
EinIcy adhcrents is more than sustained
in other towns is shown bv the canvass
of 1912 employees in all grades of pro-
ductivc industry.
Out of the 1319S emuloves in tbo
nineteen towns canvassed 10317 dnrIarnd
themselves for Mckinney. 1881 are for
Bryan and 3S4 are scattered between
Palmer and lowering or are noncom-
INITIAL
The most significant showing is made
by the railway shops. At Aurora. where
is headquarters for the Chicago division
of the burlington road. 800 employees in
the Burlington shops voted for McKin.
ley. while only II expressed IL prefer
cnce for Bryan. In the Burlington
shops at GaleSburg 425 ment voted fol
Mckinley and % for Bryan. OF the
burlington engineers 275 are for Nc
Ninley and 20 for Bryan; Of Burlington
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
RAILROADING IN MEXICO
A Conductor in Mexico Tells How Free
Silver Operates with Him.

r. J. Condit railroad conductor, at
one time employed on the Yellowstone
division Of the Northern Pacific, but
who is now in Mexico running a train
out of Rascon. has written a letter to an
old friend concerning the condition of
affairs in the country where Bryan's pol
icy is in full control.
The letter was not written for the
public. but simply as a confidential COM
municatiOn to a friend. 1t is letter of
advice from Il man who knows what free
silver means to a friend who should
know.
Mr. Condt while in this country was a
Democrat from hair to heel, and for that
reason the letter carries additional
weight. The Letter in full is as follows:
Rascon, Mexico, Aug. pa. f. Anderson,
Esq. Glendive, Mont.-Dear Sir and Bro:
l received your letter of the 10Th inst to-
day, and as | have a few moments to spare
l hasten to answer.
In the first place this money question is
too deep for me, and l cannot for an in
slant imagine what the outcome will be if
the United states comes out for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver. No country
has ever prospered under it. but possibly
America is powerful enough to stand alone
upon this question and experience no bad
results, but | doubt it.
AS you may have heard around about the
clubs, have always been Democrat, but
my boy, if | was in the United States in
November Mckinley would get my vote.
enough for me, and l sincerely hope that l
will never live to see the American work
ingman vote himself down to the level of a
laborer in Mexico.
l sent to Joe Wdmyer Teditor and pro-
prietor of the Glendive independent last
week Il table Of wages Of this country and
it alone should convince any thinking man
that free silver is bad for Them 1t will
reduce your wages as sure as the sun
shines.
My run is between Rascon and Tampico,
200 kilOmeterS or 125 miles, the same dis
For the round trip l receive $40. and if l
make ten trips receive 500. If I am then
called to the states or any other country
on earth, except South America. l exchange
my money and get $50. While a freight
conductor running from Glendve to For
they consider in Mexico that freight con-
ductors on this division are paid too much
best paid men on the system. Passenger
conductors get $50 month, or $50 in your
country; engineers $6 day, amounting to
So in the states.
wheat bread will cost you So Canadian
club whisky costs 40 cents q drink
l have pair of 81 American tan-cOlOred
shoes that paid Sill 80 for. Stetson, Dun
lap, Knox, or, in fact, any make Of hats
are $40.
So, Gus, take my advice and vote fol-
Mckinley, and you owe it to yourself to
do all in your power to influence youl
friends to do likewise,
l know their cry, "We must have
change, and if we do vote for Bryan il
can't be worse than it is now" but they
The man who works for living and casts
his vote for free silver, thinking to better
his condition, will live to bitterly repent it.
Yours truly, r. ]. COND1T.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
DANGEROUS PASTIME.

Some weeks since man ;+h in On Ghie srio
got into a conversation with the grip
SU, Of of q cable car. The car was out OF
the congested district of the city and was Is
booming along at lively clip making
The grip man noticed Mckinley sLchin: c but
ton in the lapel of the passenger ger s oHi;
s 4 Certainly intend to vote for Mckinley 1hat
and T sunpose the prevailing idea IS, that
to vote 't the Republican ticket means to
vote e'f for 'I gold. How do you intend to
vote?" oronod his
coat and On his vest was the silver but
"Why?" asked the passenger;
because we will have lots OF money
GLOW do you know"
Tho No" Grin man hesitated a moment.
said h at s as If to there sst i m "nd
,ndar frea coinage there would be more
silver. We never see much gold anyway
"The fact that there is more money II !,
won't make it any easier to get. It Is
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
N'KINLEY'S GROWTH.
A Leader Who is Great Enough
to Meet the Emergencies
of the Hour.
HAS RISEN TO THE OCCASION
Proof that the Confidence hePooeo
in Him Has Not Been
Misplaced.

To-,
No feature of the present campaign mas
been moro gratifying than the uhmiS-
t.,L.,ll,, ornvth of Mai. Mckinney to-
,,.1 ..7 r,,1i,.tion of those qualities
var" INV .+,+n.monship the
oi r'h'IF'"'"H''' nt,rht f., dnm,nd
American people nave r'S,,, h y" tL ,,,'' rn.
in their chief magistrates W Hat '''' ~
SnousihiIiticS of office within our melhof!
r.a,.,. dome, for Presidents Lincoln. Grant,
I5,,..- \rfbr. Cleveland and Harrison
,,1:,,,.,. fn,. tbr presidency
,"' "'''' '''''''''',' :I,..I f,. William
mas already ayr""I'i'N'' ''i :,,t,I
Mckinley W hrn ne was hoih!ll"''u
last June it WAS aS tn" representative OF
p Marty. His name was then almost
r..:,.r,- ij,,titinI in the noDular mind
;o, ;.,.,,,, II, stood before
E''" '.. ,'' ~. I,, ,.,,,nlnr for tho Nc
~. ,.''', AMI Within thr Re
N..I.\ '',,,' -. mo srrru~th of The.
lm'.''' 'i F' ...H,in,Int hn bore down all
,d,'n.,,.f,in3
l1!nr TN" 1lonti,n of the Chicago plat
r,,'n ,mJ me- nomination of William !.
f;I+I, Ly The Democrats practically
,rliuinatrl The tariff from the present
,.I,gIrigil. The necessity for Il revenue
IrwGu.iug tariff remains. but the supreme
issue was changed to sound money versus
90 q, based currency. national honor versus
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15

Mckinley 271 votes and Bryan - votes
The industries canvasScd represent Il
high grade of intelligent skilled labor.
he expression of political preference was
secured by means of secret ballots in
which it was impossible for foremcn. SUI
perlntendsnts or employees to know how
any man voted. To cry intimidation
or coercion to these men would be
their intelligence and self-respect.
No further proof is needed to demon
Strate the fact that nearly 80 per cent. of
the skilled labor of Illinois is for Nc
Mlnley, sound money and protection
Chicago Times-Herald,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
Some M'Kinley Epigrams.

We do not want more money, but we
want work for the money we have.
If wage-earners cannot work they can
not buy.
Protection has lost none of it's virtues.
Reciprocity should be restored.
We want an increase in confidence, not
in coin.
We want open mills, not open mints. .
We want an increase in the volume OF
business and not in the volume of money.
T favor restricted immigration.
The war veterans should not be torgot-
ten. ,...:o Co., o,r
shipping. rr financial
and industrial institutions.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15

Sixth-sevenths of the silver money now
in the United States has been coined
since 1873. Six times as much since the
crime as before the crime. Where is the
crime against silver!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
WOULD MENACE EDUCATION.
Free Coinage of Silver Would Cut CoIIeg,
Endowments in Two

EndOWmentS in Two.
Children of Western farmers. says the
Chicago Times-Hcrald. children of bust
ness men from all parts of the Middle
great universities and colleges of their
home states and those in the East would.
1t Is declared by educators. suffer ma
terially by the election of Mr. Bryan
The triumph of free silver. by all ad-
vices at hand, would mean IL serious
blow to the cause of university and col
lege education.
Northwestern university. Cornell. the
University of Wisconsin. the University
of Michigan and other prominent inStitu-
tons OF learning Civ voice to their fears
as to what free silver would do with the
magnificent endOwmrntS they have re-
celved III the past from patrons who be-
ieved that the United States would al
ways be for Il sound currency.
The chief cause of the trouble the
country has been experiencing in the
last two or three years., says cOnServa-
tive President Rogers Of the Northwest
ern university. lis due to Il want of con-
tidence occasioned by the free silver agi-
tation. Prosperity will return when that
SDecter has been laid to rest. For that
reason. although | have been Il Demo-
crat in national politics. | expect to vote
for Mr.. Mckinley.
Seats OF learning in all parts of the
country are agitated by the fear that
a POpulistic governments headed by Mr.
Bryan and representing Il deprecated
currency. will diminish the value of col
lege endOwments by at least one-half,
if not more.
"Anything which diStubs the equa-
nimity of business" says President Adj
ans of the University of Wisconsin, "or
of the industrial and commercial world
cannot fail to have a bad effect on the
great institutions of lparning.''
The election of Bryan may deal a
dcathbow to the educational aspirations
of hundreds of thousands of young men
and young women in this country 1t
may mean the closing of hundreds of
small colleges and schools. and would
seriously cripple the usefulness of every
big university as well. 1t means nothing
more nor less than the reduction by one
half of the incomes of those educational
institutions which rely upon their endow-
ment funds for maintenance. The same
is true of every charitable institution
similarly sustained, but the effect of a
free silver policy upon the universities,
colleges and seminarles would be felt
marc kpenly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
Labor Wants Good Money.

Mr. Powderly made 4 very sensible
address in New York city Thursday
NIGHT, He showed that workingmen
conld not reasonably hope to gain any
fling by a free and unlimited silver coin
age 5olicy. He showed that workingmen
should have the very best money as com
nansation for their labor. This extract
From his speech is worth preserving:
What about labor with the nation on
q silver basis instead of Il gold basis?
One silver dollar then will buy but half
what it will now, and the man working
for a dollar day will then have to work
two days in order to purchase as much
for two silver dollars as he now obtains
for one dollar of gold, or silver, or paper
based on gold The proposition that the
silver dollar is the poor mans dollar is
pure gush. The dollar of the poor man
is the dollar which he earns, whether it
be gold or silver. The workingman is
entitled 20 the best in the market, the
gold dollar is as much his dollar as it
is the dollar of the millionaire, and in
stead of joining in the shout for cheap
dollar. for free and unlimited coinage,
he should inscribe on his banner: The
best is none too good for me."-Nash-
vile Banner.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
FREE AND UNLIMITED BRASS.

I, It's free and unlimited brass to
press a demagoglc crown OF thorns
unon the brow of labor
, It's free and unlimited brass to
DENY the broken promises on the free
trade price on wheat ard wool:
3. It's free and unlimited brass to
deceive the WOrkingman with Is to l
stumn-tailed dollars when Judas re-
ceivad fuu 30 for betraying his Master.
4 It's free and unlimited brass to eX-
change protection, reciprocity and honest
money for free trade, anarchy and fiat
ism.
cbnnpe the red dragon of free trade. for
tho Silver freak with heads and 10
6 It's free and unlimited brass to at
temnt to turn the land of Washington,
Jackson. Jefferson, Monroe, Lincoln,
Garfield and Blaine over to the political
weary Willes, who nave been feeding
at the back door of every political party.
Z, It's free and unlimited brass to try
TO deceive workingmcn with the cry of
free silver. who have been stung with
the hornet of free trade.
s rs free and unlimited brass to af-
firm that the unlimited coinage of silver
will increase the value of silver.
8. It's free and unlimited brass to insist
on the free coinage OF hat silver. when
it is much cheaper to print the fiat on
paper.
10. It's free and unlimited brass to
claim that any arguments for the free
| coinage of silver are not equally potent
| as arguments for the free coinage of nick
! ell and copper.
| II. It's free and unlimited brass to
| claim that the arguments for the free
coinage of silver at the ratio of Is to /
are not equally potent for the free COIN
! age of silver at the ratio of 8 to l or 6
! to l.
| II. It's free and unlimited brass to
claim any benefit from the Unlimited
coinage of silver to any persons other
than the silver mine owners.
! 13. It's free and unlimited brass r.
claim that the workingman will be bene.
fitted by the free and unlimited COMA &c
of silver.
IA. It's free and unlimited brass to
| claim that the farmer will be benefited
by reducing the purchasing power of his
| money.
Is. It's free and unlimited brass tc
| plead the broken promises for prosper
| ity as reason for pntrusting the same
party again with power.
16. It's free and unlimited brass tc
intimate that the shop whistle is an un
welcome sound to the laboring man
| Mansfield. o., News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15

-Guerrita, who is now the first bull
Fl ghter in Spain, has appeared in fifty
eight fights this season. and is engaged
for nineteen more. He receives f24O
for each appearance, and, as his expenses
average ESQ performance his clear
income amounts to over 10000, besides
the present made to him.