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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

There is no particular glamor or mag
netism about benjamin Harrison, but
we notice he has no trouble in drawing
larger audiences than Bryan.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

When YOU come to think that Ohio
stove factorys 10-per-cent.- -wage-in-
crease-if Bryanis selected proposition
over it grows much clearer Since
free silver would virtually cut wages
80 per cent, the Newark factory could
restore 10 per cent. and still be A. per
cent. ahead on the deal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

of the United States senate and the
of both parties passed bill providing
that where arrests are made for con-
tempt of federal courts in disobedience
of injunctions relating to interstate
commerce, the accused shall be entitled
to a trial by jury, with right to en-
ploy counsel and summon witnesses.
This bill did not reach the house III
time to become law at that session.
but il is sure to become one soon after
congress re-assembles, because there is
virtually no opposition to 1t.
The point on which we take issue
with Governor Altgeld is not, then, as
to the justice of government by in
junction." the faults in which are in
acting without partisan bias; but as to
the propriety of using this issue SO as
to give encouragement to every law
breaker in the land. and hope to every
influence which aims at the tearing
down Of our social structure. No one
defends arbitrary and inequitable ac-
tion by judges passing on contempt;
nobody proposes to sacrifice reasonable
liberty on the judicial altar. Why,
then, pretend that great peril is III
view? Why rise scare cry? Why
foam and froth at the mouth? All this
is the mechanism of demagoguery. 1t
is the business of the political COM
edian. whose objective point is not jus
tce, but votes. We deny the right of
John p. Altgeld, the pardoner of the
Chicago anarchists, to pose as the
particular champion of justice and civil
rights; we challenge his credentials as
safe guide to wholesome amendment
of the functions of the judiciary; in
other words, we brand as spurious his
pretensions and denounce him as an
impostor. To such as be the American
people do not have to look for guidance
in the preservation of their liberties
They prefer the leadership of McKin-
ley, Harrison, Reed, Sherman, Cullom
and Allison. men whose political char
acter backs up their political preten-
sions, and whose public actions lend
weight to their counsel.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

If the Times wants to quote Secretary
Carlisle on the redemption of the silver
dollar in gold. why doesn't it reproduce
his letter of six weeks ago, in which he
said if it ever became necessary to pre-
serve all our dollars at a parity, as re-
quired by law and dictated by national
prudence, fairness and honor, the gov
ernment would not hesitate to exchange
gold coin directly for silver?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

"Our opponents cannot ignore the fact
that gold Is now going abroad in spite OF
all legislation intended to prevent it, and
no silver Is coined to take its place. ~
Madison Square Garden Speech.
Yes, the gold which went abroad in the
fiscal year 1896 amounted to $SO,57S,6l9 in
excess of the importations of gold; but If
Mr.. Bryan will examine the imports of
merchandise for the same year, he will
find that they were Sl2l,7l5.4O2 in excess of
those in the last year of the Mckinley
law. Imports of merchandise have to be
paid for in gold or its equivalent. Had
they been no more in 1896 than they were
in the last year of the Mckinley law, We
could not only have kept at home all of
the $50, $40 which went abroad, but all
of the difference between that and the
Sl2l l5.4O2 of excessive importatiOns due
to the Wilson-Gorman act, which Mr..
Bryan helped to frame and pass, and
which not only stimulated the importation
of goods demanding gold for payment,
but closed the factories of this country at
the same time.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

Herman II. Kohlsaat, the editor of
the Chicago Times-Herald and the man
who foretold just what Mckinley would
do at the Illinois primaries last spring,
now says McKinley's plurality in that
state will be 100000. His guess is enti-
eled to respectful consideration.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23
THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL..
STATE.

President--WILLIAMM MklNLEl.
Vice President-CtARRET \. HOBART
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

Campaign managers all agree that
this year there is an unusually large
element among the voting population
which declines to label itself for the
guidance of the guessers, and the Popo-
is going like an avalanche for Bryan.
But why? When voter keeps still it
is a sign that he is thinking. Thinking
results usually in the sitting of truth
from fallacy. Bryan, inasmuch as he
stands for notorious fallacies, has far
greater reason to dread this OminOus
silence among the thoughtful wage
has 1t BODIES him no good.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23

ION the result next month depends
whether we shall hang our heads with
shame because our country has become
the dupe and willing prey of dishon-
est demagogues, because we have an
nOunced that we do not wish to pay
our just debts, because we have an
nounced that we do not wish to enforce
our laws and are willing to count the
national honor as nothing In the bal
ance again successful trickery; or else
we shall stand prOuder than ever of
our citizenship in that great republic
whose boast it has been that at last
this nation, alone of all nations through
the ages, has solved the problem of
preserving orderly liberty, of standing
stoutly for the rights of the individual,
while yet being careful to allow no man
to be wronged, and of guarding with
jealous care that national honor which
can be seriously hurt only by our own
folly or our own weakness. No other
nation can harm us if only we are
true to ourselves, but we shall deserve
all the misfortune that will surely over
take us if we surrender ourselves into
the control of panderers to dishonesty
and disorder. er."-Theodor Roosevelt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-23
NiSSfafemenfs OF
Bryan Disse(ted

This conspiracy which We have to meet
Is conspiracy which has for its ultimate
opJect the striking down of silver as one
Si lhe stanuard moneys OF the world. -
Syracuse Speech.
Mr.. Bryan assumes that this "conspir-
acy mas been In active operation since
1915. Yet, according to the director of the
United States mint there is much more
than double the amount of silver money
In use in the world today than there was
in 1873. and practically all of it is full
legal lender. Director Preston estimates
the amount of silver money in the world
in 1878 at S.Sl160o.00o. while today 1t is
N,C7o, 10000. Here 1t iSsin tabular form:
Silver money in the world in
loto ,oUv,VU,
Silver money in the world in
1896 neutrality-suspicious.. 400, .OJ-
II this Is the result of conspiracy OF
tWenty-,hree years, wouldn't II be well
| enough to let the conspiracy" go on?
d
1--WE complain of the gold standard be
cause an increased demand for gold h
raised the price of gold and lowered tn
price OF all those things which exchange
for money. buffalo Speech.
How can there be an increased demand
for gold. when gold, silver and paper
money, as well as hank exchanges, have
increased much more rapidly than the
population in the past few years? The m
creased ease of producing both gold ana
silver has enormously increased the guam
tity of them offered to the public. Mdl-
hall, Preston and other authorities show
that the gold of the world, coined and un-
coined, has increased from less than 81,
5OO,002,000 to over $1,000, ,000,000 in the past
half century, and that the silver money
Of the world. which Mulhall estimates at
sl,sOe 900 fifty years ago. is now over
| Si,OO0, 100000. The proportion of gold in
the world which is made into coin has
doubled in the last fifty years, being now
over two-thirds of the total stock instea
Of one-third as 1t was half Il century ago.
So there is apparently six times as much
gold money and twice as much silver
money in the world today as there was
fifty years ago. Does this look as though
there was IAN increased demand for gold.
which has raised the price of gold?"
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
NUr,5EGs AND MAPLE SUGAR.

The charges In years gone by That
The people of Connecticut were given to
the manufacture OF wooden nutmegs
and r2iining them off upon the unso-
iiScated public as the genuine article
has Ions; since been exploded as cruel
libel. and row comes story from Ne
braska, TO the effect that an enterpris-
ms citizen of Cherokee county, in that
state. has discovered n process by which
an imitation of Vermont maple sugar
that cannot be detected. Is made from
corn cobs. The corn cob has been known
to be put TO many uses but 1t seems
that it has been loft TO this genius of
Nebraska State to discover Its real
value and utility. The Omaha Bee,
growing enthusiastic over this new de-
vc!opment OF the industrial resources OF
It's State, devotes two columns space in
predicting. the great revenue to be de-
rived therefrom. Nebraska has produc-
ed some wonderful things in their way
storms and billiards. and droughts
and the like-but no one has
yet believed that its enterprise would
enable 1t to convert corn cobs into maple
sugar. Truly Nebraska Is State OF
great possibilities
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
PERSONALS.

a San Diego man was cured of In.
somnla by going shopping with his
wife.
There is woman in Topeka who will
not speak 10 her friends for three days
after she is defeated ut cards.
y mother and her three daughters
We're divorced in one day recently III
Salem. ILL.,, and ii was not much of !;
day OF divorces. either
Indiana has produced another ano-
muly In the shape of woman who
has sued man for breach of promise
who proposed to her in poetry
DR.. Mary Altman. who has Just died
In Philadelphia. is said to have been
the first woman dentist ever gradu-
ated In this or any other country.
y Mckccspor, Pa. citizen was SC
fond of his cigarettes that he smoked
them in bed. The insurance COMPANY
refuses TO pay his life insurance to his
widow.
hoy Weighing seven pounds and
having II heavy head of hair and two
rows Of teeth was born to the wife OF
Samuel Mcglonc, n merchant of Lex
in2ton. Ky, II few days ago.
Capt. William Davis. who has lust
died in Aillville. Pa. at the age of a
circumnarigatcd the globe three times
and for three years and nine months
was one of the crew OF the old frirat,
Constitution.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

Every married woman looks as if she
needed n little more love but what she
really needs Is Il little more money, says
the Atchison Globe
The American girl is again compli-
mented; this time by Novelist Hall
came who has found her "prctticr,
more attractive. more bewitchins than
English women"
~ corners jury In California found In
Inc case OF Il man kicked 10 death by
mule that he suffered death by being
run over by u railroad train. The jury
had no blanks about mule accidents.
The French Budget. the voting OF
which has just been done i'm record
time, implies IA tax of n little under
wa per head OF population. The aver
age head rate throughout the rest of
Europe is $l0.S5
y census of the gypsies In Hungary
was taken on the last day OF 1879 and
the results are just published The to-
tai number of the race was 27i.9iO.
About half Of them were settled In
| towns and villages. while the other half
led constantly wandering life.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
6 making heroes Of them. Mr.. Joseph

is making heroes OF them. Mr.. Joseph
Chainberlaine kpows as well as any man
in English politics how to feel the public
puulSs. and having already done this. It
Is easy to understand that he is not
going to deal harshly with the men
whom the English public would reward
with laurcls IL permitted to do SO.
The fact is the hillIbusters have never
been regarded other than heroes, and
the feeling is not confined to what the
world vulgarly terms the common peo-
pie The high moguls" in Downing
street partake OF this feeling, and Lord
Salisbury shares 1t with them. Had II
been otherwise the Hon. Cecil Rhodes
would have remained IN England, but
having been given the tip" by Cham
berlaine he could well afford to leave
Jameson to the care of that functionnry.
The end OF this whole affair Is not yet,
but when II comes it will create no sur
| prise.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
DISCRETION THE BETTER PART OF
yAI.OR. .,st 81

Con. Weyler, the new Governor Gem
eral OF Cuba, has given his officers IN
the field u commission for we!l,nfgh' IN.
limited savagery. but SAYS he does sHof
intend to take the field in person. and
this is the characteristic of such as he
General Weyler knows full well where
the danger lies, and so long as he can
keep out oc harms way he is sure to do
So The reports that come from the
Island are that 1.-THE Butcher" Is resort
Inc 70 his old methods to subdue the
PATRIOTS and that upon the slightest
suspicion Of sympathy Oh the part OF
the Cubans within government lines
for them, they are immediately unrest
ed and crueltics OF the worst kind are
inflicted. How long this state of
affairs are to continue no one
is able to say. but surely there must be
an end ami the sooner II comes the bet
ter. III the meanwhile Weyler Is fol-
lowing the old adagc. that "discrctIon
is the better part of valor." by remain
ing in Havana and sending others to
the front. where they receive, us they
should. the bullets of the men who
are engaged in q desperate struggle for
freedom.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
ARRIVED DIN ENGLAND.

The arrival OF Dir. Jameson and his
freebooters in England Monday from
South Africa is but the beginning of the
end Of the Transvaal affair. No one
believes that the British Government
intends to infict much. If any, punish
ment upon jameson. OF course, there
will be an investigation and much talk
but the belief is that Mr.. Joseph Cham
berlain, the Colonial Secretary, and Mr..
Cecil Rhodes fixed tine matter up when
the latter was in London few days
since. However ii is better for Presi-
dent Krcugcr ana the Transvaal Repub-
lie that DIR. Jameson and his men should
have been turned over 10 the British
authorities and sent to England, for to
have detained them as prisoners would
only have made martyrs of them, and
no end of trouble would have followed.
This would have been the case, how
ever Light the punishment inflicted
might have been. PERHAPS It was the
knowledge of this that led President
hreuger to deliver jameson and his
men up, and if suclr is the fact, It evil
dences q shrewdness on the part of
kreuScr which speaks well for his
saGacity. There is no question but that
DR.. Jameson and his followers were
iii''pusisrs. and yet the British public
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
30 Strong.

Bo strong to bear, heart of minel
Faint not when sorrows come.
The submits of these hills Of earth
Touch the blue skies of home.
SO many burdcnrd ones there are
Close journnying by thy sid6;
ASSIST, encourage. comfort them;
Thine OWE! deep sorrow hide.
What though thy trials may seem great,
Thy strength is known TO God,
And pathways steep and rugged load
10 pastures green and broad.
BE strong to love. O heart of mineI
Live not for self alone,
But find in blessing other lives
Completeness for thine own
Seek every hungcring heart to feed,
Each saddoned heart To cheer
And where stern justice stands aloof
In pity draw thon near.
Kind, loving words and helping banda
Have won more souls for heaven
Than oil the do.mas and the creeds
BY priests and sages given
BE strong to hope, . heart OF mineI
Look not on life's dark side,
For Just beyond these gloomy hours
Rich. radiant days abide.
Let hope, like summers rainbow BRIGHT.
Scatter thy falling tears,
And let Gods precious promises
Dispel thy anxious fears.
FOR every grief u l.rthe comes,
For every toll IL rest;
SO hope, 80 love, SO patient bear,
God doeth oil things best
Ia
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
SI37,4OS.l43
SLIGO. 965.Glo

The Jacksonville Times Union, in re-
'erring 10 these figures. which 1t also
publishes. says 'that as the South has
only one-third or the population OF the
entire country II appears that of those
crops the South produces $33 per capita
while the balance OF the country pro-
duces only $50 per capita. 1t will also
be seen that the South produces every
thing that is grown In the Union There
are products peculiar to the South-none
peculiar to the North. This diversity of
product is . decisive advantage" The
fact is that while the South is making
great Roadway in manufacturing and
other industries. its chief strength is in
the agricultural line. and in this partlcu-
lar it eXcels all other countries.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
TIT E SGUTlz,s AGRICUE!TURALP PRO.
DUCrS.

The United States Bureau OF Agricul-
ture. in it's crop report for 1894. makes
fine showing for the South.
The South is one Of the greatest ag-
ricultural countries In the world. and In
comparison with the other sections OF
the United States 1t produces more than
them all combined. as the following
table, giving the value of twelve of the
principal crops produced during the year
1924 shows:
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

There Is "a suspicion that Pugllst
Qorbett, says the Washington Star.
tried to put Maher between himself ard
q aitzsimmons in much the same manner
s s.ehat Russell Sage attempted to inter
Z pose clerk when bomb thrower was
J efter him.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

s The Virginian publishes to-day the
names of the children of the public
schools OF Norfolk county who con
Sfributed to the rebuilding fund of the
university of Virginia. together with
skhe amounts paid by each pupil
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

g me Macon Telegraph says that Ex-
/ Speaker Crisp is having fun with Speak
,S 81 Reed these days. There are many
Z INN Lnnlngs ~ Mr.. Reeds previous record as
! 5i sspeaakeE which the man from Maine, as
-, candidate. would like to
save sAe forgotten. When the Government
;spsr SIS n recalling the past with cruel
Ep PEI una City, the eX-Czar probably wishes
more e heaHiness than even the as
s$s3'tnslns: politicians in the Third district
mat !aas,,! Vt. Crisp had not seen fit to de-
sclsne taie senatorship when it was ten
sS1tltel 10 him by Governor Narthcn.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

sS A l.. Jones. an experienced hop
grower Of New York, who has been c::-
sperimenting with hop growing in Mort n
aGarolina, is enthusiastic over the results
She has obtained, says the Savannah
News
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

Queen Victoria does not want war
with America. Her Majesty also re-
joices that the Ashantee trouble is hap
PLY settled
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

An exchange says that when blac!.
snow fell in Chicago the other day the
only way the inhabitants could realize
that 1t was snow was that 1t was !.
shade OF two darker than the mud.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
"WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY &c, 1856
EIGHT PAGE- E=:s

4 All roads lead to London now, even
Cecil Rhodes.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

F The Savannah News tells us that the
chesapeake oyster beds are rapidly d.
( minishing In prcductiveness. Fifteen
years ago they furnished about 10000
600 bushels of oysters. The product this
year will not be more than 5000, OcO
bushels.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

# It is said that the official announce
ment OF the pardon ana release OF Mrs
Maybrick will be made from the British
Home Office this week
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

The Columbus Dispatch says that the
legislator who traces a bill back to It's
origin, nine times out Of ten. will secure
valuable information as to It's merit.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

DR.. Jameson and his troopers have
reached England. The men were sup
Piled with tickets at the expense OF the
Government and sent to their homes.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

# A Dakota judge granted divorce,
and in stating the grounds in the short
minutes wrote cold feet" opposite the
names Of the parties TO the suit.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

SahI1n the kentucky Legislature nine
5Renths of the Democrats are Loyalty sup.
1 porting Blackburn, the caucus nomi-
/ nee, while one-terth are throwing away
their votes on Carlisle and McCreaYy
observes the Wilmington IN. c. star.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26

What$wNh Roentgen's rays to digcov-
i ers disease and the valuable and infalu-
sfV.s speeiiics for their cure. with medi-
sSs siiie anu surgery advancing as a most
astonishing science and with practically
outside the range of possib;li-
s.tless are we not In G fair way to developc
& race OF long lived people who will
IssesI.py eclipse old Metausclah's re.
core? Unless science comes to a stand.
Ss. siiA IN the next century it may be ne.
SaesSsary to pass laws legallzing suicide
8 ZOE the benefit of those whom the DIV.
4 alcsens WIN Het permit to die.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-02-26
HATS AT HALF PRICE F!

Think of that's at Half Price. The Hat
Fixtures must be moved. The alterations in
the building force the Hat Stock out. Half
Prices on Hats to make them go with a rush.