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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17
WHAT IS A CONVICT?

To those who have never seen the in
side of penitentiary, the word soon
vict'' has a meaning that leaves no
doubt as to the total depravity OF this
branded individual. This idea is usu-
ally confined to those who read cheap
literature and the unreliable stories
pertaining to criminal matters that are
published to meet the wants of a SEN
satonal class of people. The prisoner
is placed in an unfavorable position.
Dressed in prison clothes, with char
acter and honor gone, friendless and
alone, he is the Outcast of society, and
appears to the superficial observer AS
the typical renegade. A great many
go away with this erroneous idea firm
ly fixed in their minds, thereby doing
themselves as we'll as the prisoner an
injustice. The haggard features and
despondent looks which they mis-
take for viciousness are brought about
by the ordeal of misfortune and not
inherent wickedness.
Very few people have true concep-
tion as to what prison life really is.
If they did they would change their
views of the unfortunates who are
shut off from the encouraging words
of friends and loved ones, the pleasures
and ambitions of life, and confined in
a five by seven cell. TO be confined
thus, after hard days work has been
performed, does not bring the same
peace and contentment of mind as
sumptuous supper and spin upon a
bike does to the outsider, nor can the
mind be eased when troubled for the
safety of wife and little ones and the
necessaries they may be in need of
while he. their bread winner and pro
tector, is in prison unable to supply
them or watch over them while sick
These, and other causes, are wha'
stamps the prisoners face with thu
marks of mental trouble, and not thu
hereditary signs of vicious and dis
sipated nature as great many sup
pose. This impression has been tn
cause of many an ex-prisoner LOSING
his self-control and again relapsinI
into former ways that means certain
obstruction to his moral character.
Some believe that we are specie
that belong to a lower order of beings
For the time being, no doubt, they ar
right in their conclusions; but, never
theless, we should not lose courag
but remember that it is the ignOrar
who fail to recognize the frailites {
human nature. The educated an
true Christian knows that beneath tt
clothes that proclaims our degradation
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17
THE ANSWER.

Twas down by the brooklet in the cool OF eve
Where twilight shadows fall.
And fleeing Day behind doth leave,
Its departure known to all.
Where none but lovers can conceive
How sweet the night birds madigral.
When from out their grassy lair
Fit the happy fireflies,
And is heard upon the Silly air
The solemn hoOt OWLS cries.
And echoes coming from everywhere
From the nightly sounds that arise.
When the song the brooklet then did sing
While flowing meath my feet
Left in my ear pleasant ring
OF its music low and sweet,
And revealed there was lacking just one thing,
To make happiness complete.
Twas there with her head lain on my breast.
In the raptureous twilight glow,
And slumbering sweety was the bird i'll her nes
In the willow bending low.
Twas there at my oft repeated request,
Came her soft sweet answer, "NO."
FRANK NEAL.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17
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YOUNG MEN IN CITIES.

The entire scope of this question can
not be covered within the limits of this
article, but it may be partially answered
in few words.
There are certain eternal principles
operative in this world of ours that are
as inexorable as the laws which govern
the universe. To work in harmony
with these principles means successful
living in it's highest and truest sense,
while to run counter to their action
must result in failure. There are some
causes responsible for the ruin of young
men in our cities so obvious as not to
require mention. GAS man soWeth,
so shall he also reap" If he sows the
wind he must expect to reap the whirl-
wind.
But setting aside the consideration OF
those vices that beset young men, and
that, of necessity, lead to ruin ii in
dulged in, am convinced that hosts OF
young men are ruined in our cities
through an almost insane desire to &C
quire wealth quickly. This desire is
usually accompanied by extravagant
habits and tastes, and the combination
is too much for the average young men
to contend with successfully. This
haste to be rich-to begin life where his
father left off-to win fortune by
few bold or reckless ventures, rather
than depend upon the slow process OF
small but steady gains, has been the
ruin of countless numbers of our young
men, and will continue to be wherever
this spirit dominates the life.
The opportunities for speculation IN
our large cities abound, and the temp
tation to take risks they cannot afford
in the hope of making extraordinary
gains is more than many young men
can resist.
Successful ventures in purely specu-
lative transactions unfit one for the
slower, but safer, methods of doing
business, but where ten men achieve
final success in speculation, hundreds
are ruined.
The leaders in business IN all our
great cities-the men who have been
conspicuously successful-have in the
great majority of cases, begun life on a
farm or in humble homes, where fru'
, gality and self fdenial ruled, where lux
= urious tastes had no need to be In
!. dulged, where habits of industry and
= selfreliant characters were formed and
where the value of dollar was known
i. The traits of character developed dur
= ing those early years have enabled these
9 men to fight the battle of life success
:. fully, while others who began life un
: der far more favorable conditions have
:. been dismal failures. thrust the "morar
- is plain Plaintield (Ind.) Reformatory
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17

There are lots of people who are so
kind in this world that they would not
kill chicken with an ak; but are all
the time doing their level best to Kill
their neighbors with their long tongues.
jamestown IN. j. Advance.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-09-17

To live for self alone is to live with
out purpose. No man ever practiced
selfshness without incurring the ex-
ecration of his fellows.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
PERSONALS.

W. L. Austin of Denver is in the City.
H. Wilson of Alaska is at the Baldwin.
James Topley, druggist of Vallejo, is at the
Grand.
VS.. McClatchy, editor of the Sacramento Bee
is in town.
F. A. Hilen, the capitalist, of Santa Cruz, il
in the City.
Ex-sherif W. ]. Graham of Kern County is
at the Russ.
H. v. Pullen, mine-owner of Coulter7ille,
is in the City.
Frank L. Coombs OF Napa, ex-Minister to
Japan, is in the City.
]. Desine and wife of Fresno are guests at the
Cosmorolitan Hotel
Captain A. P. Maus of the United States
Army is at the Palace.
]. s. Hill, well-to-do Iivestock-grower of
Nevada, is at the Russ.
B. s. Chace, the well-known hotel man of
Santa Cruz, is in town. =
c. L. Hussey of the United States steamer
Thetis is at the California.
NJ. Lawrence, manager of the Tallac House at
Lake Tahoe, is in the City.
C. P. st. John, g business man of Chicago, Is
among recent arrivals here.
Hon. H. Eaton. of England is at the Palace,
accompanied by Mrs. Eaton.
George J. Campbell Jr. will leave this after
noon on the Doric for Japan.
Otto Crate, orchardist, of PorterviIle, Is stop
ping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Bishop and Mrs. Kendrick of Phoenix, Ariz.,
registered at the Occidental yesterday.
r. D. Hatch, wealthy dairymsn of Nevada,
arrived here yesterday and is at the Grand.
C. E. Byrns, proprietor of the Byrns Hotel,
Woodland, and OF Yolo County lands, is at the
Grand.
J.. H. Wells of Fourth Crossing, cattle-dealer,
accompanied by his wife, is at the Cosmo-
politan Hotel.
Mrs. McIvor, whose husband is the owner OF
the noted McIvor vineyard at Mission San Jose,
is at the California.
Ex-senator N. e. Sargent, the extensive land
owner of San Joaquin County, arrived here
from Stockton yesterday.
Mrs Charles D. Perkins of Washington, D. e.,
wife of Commander Perkins of the United
States Navy, is at the California.
G. R. Georgeson, agent at Eureka, Humboldt
County, of Wells, Fargo d Co. and two or three
railroads, is among the arrivals here.
M. Greenblatt one of the owners and editor
of the California Demokrat, was appointed as
a notary public yesterday by Governor Budd.
party consisting of W. G. Purdy of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, Misses S. E., E. T. and
B. A Purdy of Chicago and Miss A. B. Sanger
of Washington, D. c., are at the Palace.
]. NJ Engle of Salt Lake, who owns largo
areas of timber in Utah, with mills, and who
ha contracts for several million feet of lum-
Der for railroad building in the Mormon State.
is at the Russ.
Alexander Begg, publisher of the British
Columbia Mining Record, Victoria and Van
couver, B. c., is at the Baldwin. Mr.. Begg was
formerly one OF the proprietors of the Seattle
Daily Telegraph and also of the Victoria DaiIv
News. He was for many years agent of the
Hudson Bay Company at one of its northern.
most posts in British America. Mr.. Berg is
here On business trip.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
THOSE SILVER MINES.

San Francisco News Letter.
THE CALL has dealt the Examiner some
weighty blows during the week. Hereafter
nobody can have doubt that neither the San
Francisco Examiner nor the New York Jour-
nal is worth reading on the subject of coin
age. The interest of their proprietor, w. R.
Hearst, is so largely made up of silver mines
that he could easily afford to buy two or three
more "great daflies" and run them for moth
ing, If only Bryan and a silver Congress be
elected. OF course he would not think of run
ming them at that price. but he could if he
wished. He is not, however, that kind of
man. There Is, notwithstanding his great
wealth, not more nimble, or unprincipled
catcher OF nickels in all this land. His nu-
merous devices, often made up of hatred and
fal school, to conjure small coins out of the
pockets of his readers into his own, have about
sickened all the better elements of our local
society.
For so young man, raised with the double
advantage of money and education, his greed
ana low morals are phenomenal. THE CALL
has gone to first hand tor its information as
to his interest in silver mines. 1t published
the sworn inventory filed in court of the
Hearst estate, from which 1t appears that the
estate consists of mining interests to the value
mines make considerable figure in the list
One OF them is said to be easily worth 81 ,00O,-
! 600. If the silver-mine owners are 10 have
their product nearly doubled in value-and
that is the sole aim of the Bryan campaign-it
is very palpable why Mr.. Hearst became such
an enterprising advocate of silver, as soon as
advocacy success. He did not always appear
to be for silver, but that was when he thought
it would kill his papers if he permitted them
to say what he thought. Hence, it came that
his writer's were permitted to go as far as they
liked for gold, and THE CALL furnishes curious
reading in showing how far that was.
1t was not until after Bryan's nomination
that he dared to change the course of his New
York Journal, which previously had as good
editorials as he can procure-which is not say
ing much-in favor of the gold standard. Up
to then he lived in fear and trembling as
to the possible loss of the nickels OF the
proletariat if he abandoned the advocacy of
honest money. But Bryans speech, nomina-
tion and temporary popularity gave Hearst
the opportunity ne wanted, and he promptly
switched around to what, in point of fact is
nothing more nor less than booming his own
silver interests. That may be worldly wis
dom, but it is downright d1sgrsceful journal
ism, which no honest man respects. But,
really. does Mr.. Hearst care for the respect of
honest men? Since his exposure in the rail-
road blackmailing case there are not many
men who believe he does. His course since
then has been such that the general belief is
that he will have blood or die in the attempt
His brief career furnishes a curious object
lesson. He is conspicuous example of the
danger inherited wealth is to young man ap-
parently without scruples or honor.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
A NEW PROPOSITION.

Congress man Newlands, "Nevada's Sill
yer Champion" comes to San Francisco
occasionally to enlighten the benighted
hereabouts on the free silver coinage ques-
ton. No doubt he knows a good deal
about the question, past. present and
prospective. but his enthusiasm rather
clouds his judgment. He says things
sometimes which might better be left un-
said, In the address he was kind and
good enough to deliver at Metropolitan
Temple awhile ago he grew confidential
with his audience and said:
The mines of the present are in private own
ership. The mines of the future are in the
ownership of the Government, and it will be
easy, should any undue production result
from the increased price of silver, by an ar
rengement with Mexico, to withdraw the min
eral lands from grant, or to exact a royalty or
TO take some other method of restricting pro-
duction SO that it be equal to and not pass
beyond the existing demand.
Government ownership of the silver
mines of the country is new proposition,
and an agreement with Mexico to restrict
production is a wonderfully wise sugges-
tion no doubt. But does not Mr.. New
lands admit too much when he suggests a
plan to close the .mints against "free and
unlimited coinage? The supposition has
been that free and unlimited coinage"
meant tnat the minis should coin all Of
ferings, but Mr.. Newiands does not so un-
derstand 1t. He wants'to provide ''some
method of restricting production" Re
stricted production would mean restricted
coinage, and since it is Mr.. Newlands'
plan 10 confer upon the Government the
right to say how much the mines shall
produce the conclusion is that he believes
real free and unlimited coinage would be
very bad for the people.
But Mr.. Newlands would go still fur
ther to guard against unlimited coinage.
He proposes that the Government shall
own and control all the silver mines of the
country, which would enable it, in con-
junction with Mexico, to keep the coinage
of silver within the requirements of com
merce. Or course that would necessitate
the absorption of all private mining prop
erty by the Government for otherwise the
Government would be.in competition with
its citizens. But Mr.. Newlands' plan
necessarily provides for the purchase of
all private mines by the Government and
right in that scheme may be found the
"ioker" of the whole business
The difference between Mr.. Newlands'
plan and the Governments present sys-
tenn is that now the Government buys sill
yer and coins it on its own account, which
plan enables it to restrict coinage, while
Mr.. Newlands' plan would make the Gov
ernment the owner of the mines, so that
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30

it could restrict coinage by restricting the
output OF the ore. Tweediedum VS.. twee-
dledee. This difference, however, would
obtain: Under the plan of Mr.. Newlands,
mine-owners could unload their properties
upon the Government.
But the point of Mr.. Newlands' address
to which attention is called is the un-
solicited admission that unlimited silver
coinage would be dangerous because of the
probability of the volume of silver dollars
becoming too large. OF course Mr.. New
lands antagonzes the theories of Teller,
Bryan and all the other leaders of the free
and unlimited coinage movement, and
practically reads himself out of the free
silver party, but it is just possible that he
has jumped from the frylng-pan into the
fire in advocating Government ownership
of the silver mines.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
ON THE DOWN GRADE.

The announcement that Bryan's man.
ayers have discovered a very rapidly
growing Populistic sentiment in the East
ern and Middle States, and that large
force of orators will be sent thither will
fool no one. The returns from Vermont
and Maine clearly indicate the drift of
public sentiment in the New ENGLAND
States, and only two or three days ago one
of Bryan's National Committeeman gave
it out that all the country north of the
Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of In
diana was sure to go for Major Mckinley.
The fact is, Bryan never had the ghost
of chance to carry single State east of
Indiana, and now he is losing ground in
the Mississippi Valley States, as any OBJ
server of passing events may see. The
announcement that speakers are to be
sent East is merely to bolster up the
cause in the West. If 1t could be made to
appear that the East was swinging around
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
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The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
THE MONARCH
OF HYPOCRITES.
What Contemporaries Say
of MIR. Hearst's
Course.
No Wonder He Is for Bryan
When He Has Millions
Invested in Silver
Mines.

A few days since THE CALL directed at
tention to the fact that Mr.. Hearst's in
vestments in silver mines might have
influenced the course of his two papers in
their advocacy of Organism. This was, of
course, merely suggestion, but the man.
ner in which it was received by the press
of the City and State is remarkable. With
one accord they speak out and in no un-
certain tones.
mo wonder" exclaims one indignant
editor, ''the Examiner is for free silver
when over So 900 of the Hearst estate
is invested in silver mines"
Another journalist dips his pen in ink
to write: Nobody, though, expects the
Examiner to be consistent; nobody ex-
poets it to be decent"
Still another epitomizes his opinion of
our contemporary thus: 1.-THE Examiner
is the monarch of hypocrites."
The following extracts may prove inter-
estlng reading.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
INCENDIARY SPEECHES.

Tillman and Altgeld are Bryan's closest
political friends. They have more influ-
.ence with him than the chairman of the
campaign committee. That is because he
likes their political views. Birds of a
leather flock together. Mr.. Bryan, how.
ever. cannot quite keep up with Tiliman.
He can say ''crueI." "heartless" aud "cor-
rupt," when speaking of the leaders of the
Republican party, but it takes the South
Carolina partner to put things in true
Popocratic shape.
In the course of a speech last week Till
man took occasion to denounce the Su-
preme Court, and among other things he
said: "If Mckinley is defeated the Demo-
cratic party will take the rascally Judges
by the throats and teach them that there
is yet liberty in the land" That kind OF
talk is intended to breed sectionalism
and excite the worst passions of men. 1t
is an invitation to the lawless to vote for
Bryan under an implied promise that if
he is elected the authority of the courts
may be deied with impunity.
Senator Tiliman is representative
Bryanite. 1t is true, no doubt, that not
many Popocrats would indorse such in
cendiary speeches, but neither Mr.. Bryan
nor the National Committee has repudiated
Tillman's s attack upon the Supreme Court,
and the inference is that Bryan quite
agrees with Tillman that the "rascaIly
Judges should be taken "by the throat. -
Things have come to pretty pass when
candidate for the Presidency permits
his lieutenants to ask the lawless to break
the law and defy the courts.
Let honest and law-abiding people re-
member what Tillman, Bryan's close
friend, says: "If Mckinley is defeated the
Democratic party will take the rascalIy
Judges by the throats and teach them
that there is yet liberty in this land"
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
INCONSISTENCIES EXPOSED
Napa Register.

THE CALL devotes considerable space to the
showing up of Millionaire Hearst's free coinage
record, and in doing SO quotes freely from the
Examiner of dates not very far back. Here is q
sample paragraph. 1t shows how strongly the
Examiner was against free coinage June 27,
1895:
The free coinage OF silver under proper inter
national agreement would help our trade with all
the world, but free coinage by this country alone
unless II succeeded in bringing both metals TO a
parity, which would hardly be possible, would
certainly tniure our commerce with countries
having the gold Standard. We see the same effect
now in countries that are on a silver basis The
fluctuations in the price of silver disturb inter-
national exchange as TO make trade between gold
and silver using countries partake of the of
a gamble. All the profits of a transaction may be
wiped out by change in the SILVER market, or, on
the other hand. they may be doubled. This is a
discouragement to legitimate commerce and tends
TO put trade In the hands Of speculatOrs.
The San Francisco call., 1896-09-30
WHAT LABOR WANTS.

What this country needs is q perfectly
sound circulating currency and tariff
that will afford enough protection to our
industries to enable them to maintain
high wage schedule. If these two things
are secured and made permanent, the
people will do the rest. As for a sound
circulating currency, we have one now,
only that owing to our constantly increas-
ing trade with other peoples larger vol
ume OF redemption money is now or soon
will be needed. That need, however, is
we'll understood by the Republican party,
and at the earliest day possible confer
ence Will be held between those in in
terest, when q basis for comforting full
redemption power upon silver will be
established. The Republican party is
committed to that, and the other nations
being apprised of the fact will no doubt be
in readiness to co-opdtAte with this coun-
try soon after Mr.. Mckinley is inau-
gurated.
But our circulating money already being
as sound and stable as the wisdom of man
could make 1.-THE only need being a
larger volume-the work of inaugurating
system of protection to American indus
try becomes the first and highest duty of
the incoming administration. In fact,
we shall need no increase in the
volume of money until we provide
demand for an increase. There is an
enormous amount Of idle money in the
United States, and it will remain idle un-
til the various industries are in a condi-
ton to give employment to the armies of
unemployed. The moment our mills and
factories are assured that they will not be
crowded out of our own markets by foreign
industrial products money in ample guam
titY will be forthcoming. There is no
doubt about that, for idle capital is Just as
anxious to go to work as idle labor.
There are hundreds of thousands of
working people in this country who are
waiting for the word to take off their
coats and go TO work, and they know it is
not because there is no money to pay them
for their services that they are idle, but
because the markets in which their prod
ucts would have to be sold are overrun
with similar products made in other coun-
tries. The cause of the present depression
in our industrial field is well known and
und erstood by the working class, and they
know it is not the money question but the
question of opening the channels of en-
ployment that is the important one; and
the candidate who subordinates the in-
dustriai situation to the money question
will exert no influence in labor circles.
1t is opportunity to earn some of the
money that now is rather than more
money and less opportunity to earn wages
that labor wants just now.