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Reeds Closing Speech.

The speech in which Speaker Reed
closed the Maine campaign was mas
terpiece of sound argument. Witness
this extract:
We had every temptation to listen to
the men who said to us, Issue more green
backs. Let us have a large currency ana
we will go forward" The temptation was
great to many of us, but we said: when
the United States says this is dollar, just
that moment 1t ought to be dollar, and
shall be- and our reward was fourteen
years of the most magnificent prosperity
the sun has ever shone upon. From 1879 to
1892 the United States grew In wealth.
dignity and honor, and If q nation ought
to see from experience that 1t should be
honest it should be the United States or
America. Now we are again threatened
with disease in n greater form The en-
perience of the world has shown conciu-
svely that the attempt to issue govern
ment money every time a speculative pc
riod has set in and burst means destruc-
tion and ruin. out of which there Is no way
except through bankruptcy. Now we
have got to learn that it is not wise to
lower the currency one-half In order to
eke out a speculation. l think We shall
learn It.
The Democrats hold out two inducements
to us. The first is that if we can lower our
currency you and | can pay our debts at
less rate. and the second Is that the gov
ernment can pay its debts at a less rate.
What nation owes If its resources are
ample and sufficient history shows, makes
no very grave difference. England has
risen from 900 to f90O,O 900 In debt.
and people wanted her bonds because
never in her history has she refused to
pay what she promised she would pay,
and she can borrow money at lower rate
than any other country because Of her
honesty. Nothing stands nation in stead
like the honorable fuliilment of every OBJ
legation entered into. No method has ever
been discovered of keeping material
that is One-half cheaper than another ma
terlal equivalent to the better material,
except by exchanging it whenever the
man who has the weaker material desires
1t. Great as our nation Is, we cannot make
something out of nothing except by tho
use of natural means. and we cannot by
any possibility do more than to set the
laws of nature at work. Let us recognize
our limitations.
Judging from the returns Reeds
speeches accomplished their purpose.
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visory committee is somewhat irrcgn-
lar. no doubt: but its results are too
good to be disputed. The time Is COM
Ing when all American cities will have
to be governed on business principles
and In closer accord with the wishes
and interests of the taxpaying element.
The Boston idea is only a step. 1t is
interesting because novel. 1t ought not
to be regarded as anything out of the
ordinary in municipal government. and
the fact that 1t is simply illustrates into
what bad ways American municipal
government has fallen.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

While we do not know that an accur-
the amount Of money spent by the
American people ON theatrical enter
tainments, the total must be something
enormous. 1t has been estimated that
in our large cities during the six cool
months of the year a larger aggregate
of persons attend the theater than go
to church. This takes into account the
fact that while there are more churches
than theaters, the churches receive only
three audiences a week while the the
aters seldom entertain fewer than ten.
Whether this estimate Is based on
truth or not II certainly is true that
each year witnesses multiplication Of
play houses and an enlargement OF the
investments in the amusement business
which are proceeding at faster rate
than is the growth In population, from
which is drawn the inference that the
stage is AN augmenting factor in our
social life far too big and influential to
be ignored.
The vitality Of the theatriS>l voca-
tion is. however. less seriously in dis
pute than in the question Of its influ-
ence upon public morals. Upon this
latter point 1t is possible to pronounce
and apparently sanction n diversity of
judgments, ranging all the way from
extravagant condemnation to equally
extravagant praise. The truth proba-
bly, lies at neither extreme but is to be
found somewhere near the conserva-
tive middle statement that while the
stage is far from free Of defects, II still
is an instrumentality Of public benefit.
1t is true at this time that the stage is
seemingly disposed to elevate frivolity
above serious artistic effort and conse-
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15
AsIMPLE STATEMENT.
From the Globe-Democrat.

FROM tne GlODe-Dtllociat.
According to the best data available
there are about $4,000, 100000 of silver coin
employed in the world. The greater part
of this stock of silver has been coined at
the 15ia to ratio, and the market value of
the whole is about s20O0,00 600 The sill
yer which is in the various other shapes
has been estimated at between S2,OOOOOO,-
900 and $1,000 900. 900. Placed at the lower
of these figures the amount of silver in the
various forms in use in the world amounts
to $4,000, 600 600 at its market value. Bry-
ans contention involves the assertion that
free coinage Of silver by the United States
alone would make this $i,OOO,0oO, 900 worth
$4,000, 100000. A simple statement of what
this assumption means reveals its absurd
ity and folly. The 10000, 100000 of people"
whom Bryan triumphantly declares the
United States has is vary large number.
but it is only small part Of the 1.2OO. .00O,-
600 or 800, ,OO0, 900 contained in the world.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15
The Result in Maine.

The returns from Maine at the hour
Of writing are incomplete, but they suf-
flee to show that the home of the Popo-
cratic nominee for vice-president is un-
waveringly loyal to Protection and
sound money.
The Republican expectation was co.
900 plurality; the realization bids fair
to exceed 45,OO0 This is the largest
Republican plurality ever cast by
Maine in any election. It's meaning
needs no Interpretation.
Just one word, though, by wny of
caution. Let Republicans beware Of
overconfidence. The duty of the cam
pagn is not simply to defeat but to
bury Organism for all time to come.
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PUT IN A NUTSHELL.
From the New York Sun.


/. Fuld, who travels for New York
cloak house. was the principal speaker
yesterday at the drummers' noon-day
sound-money meeting. Broadway and
Prince street. suppose" said he, leach
and every one of you had a machine in
your business that was in universal use.
1t was the very best thing that was on the
market. And suppose that some one in
vented another machine and claimed 1t
was superior to the one you were using.
Would you jump Mt 1t, accept his word?
No, you would tell him to put 1t in COM
petition with your own machine, and then
II he demonstrated by a practical test
that it was better you might consider the
advisability of accepting it. Now. 1t is
just so with a gold dollar. We know what
a gold dollar is worth; we know that its
purchasing power is the same the world
over. 1t Is not an experiment, It is an ac-
tuaI fact. We do not know what a silver
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quently presents unusual openings for
attack. But the philosophers reassure
us by pointing out that the stage is not
the only field of human activity just
now disposed to put something of a
premium on trifling. In politics, in so
ciety, and even it is to be feared, in re-
Igion, are noticeable more or less frc-
quent manifestations of the same gen.
eral phenomenon, from which. indeed,
has come the locution characterizins
each century end as decade of special
unrest.
In due time we shall probably grow
rational once more, even in our amuse-
ments. 1t takes billions Of people to
make q world and no two are alike.
Therefore it follows that theatrical
tastes will always cover an ample
range. To one the serious drama will
appeal, and to another the comedy, the
burlesque or the farce. Allowance must
consequently be made for inherent diff
ferences in taste. The stage, however.
should in its general teaching and in
flunces be harmless, if not directly and
aggressively beneficial. 1t ought never
to corrupt people. If it cannot be
strenuous force for good it ought to be
at least divested Of positive power for
mischief. To this point it will eventu-
ally and inevitably come, in obedience
to the natural law of mental and moral
evolution from whose operation no
form of artistic endeavor can be long
exempt. In the meantime the dramatic
season of 1867 is now formally open
and for those who like that sort of di-
vertisement the play is again the thing
I'VE have nobody with us but the
people," says Bryan. And he might
add. "Ap1 blamed fpw Of them"
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POwderiy to Wage.Earners.

Quoting the statement from his
Cooper Union speech that per capita
circulation Is a circulation which does
not circulate. and no man can lay fin
gers on a dollar of that per capita eX-
cept in one of two ways-honest or dis
honestly labor of some kind or Ivy
theft of some kind" the Chicago
Times Herald rightly says that Mr..
Powderly's mastery defense of our
present monetary system ought to
command attention from workingmen
all over the country. And it adds:
AS master workman of the Knights of
Labor Mr.. pOwdcrly showed himself to he
true friend of labor by steadfastly re-
ssting the assaults of the free traders
upon the bulwarks of protection. In him
the false economists who seek to degrade
our labor to tn Asiatic and European
level found a valiant antagonist who never
surrendered. While the walking delegates
sought to persuade our toileis that indus
trial prosperity could only come through
allowing European products free access
TO our markets. Mr.. Powderly rightly
maintained that every dollar paid for a
despoilment Of American labor. Being
an honest and consistent friend of Amer-
can labor, Mr.. POwderly Is quick to resent
the imputatiOn of dishonor and ignorance
placed upon our wage-earners by the as
sumption that they can he persuaded to in
dorse debased currency. After eXplod-
ing the fallacy that the gold standard Is in
any way responsible for low prices of COM
modities Mr.. Powderly shows the absurd
1tv of the pOntpptiOn that N Dcp . b.,
per capita circulation with 53-cent dollars
will benefit labor. The per capita cir
culat'on of honest dolar.-each worth 100
cents-increased from S1Sti in 1873 to So 96
In 1885. but how could this be of any bene-
ut to the idle laborer who was forced out
or employment by tariff policy which
Disseminated against American working
men? Increasing the per capita circula-
ton to 500 by the free coinage of silver at
any ratio would not give employment to
Idle labor.
The plain fact is that labor can only
prosper in this country by return OF
business confidence and general re-
Investment Of now scared and stag
mated capital in productive industries
1t wants open mills not open mints;
steady employment at good wages paid
In money equal to the best in the
world. Labor sees this, too. Abusing:
Mr.. Powderly for his frank recognition
OF the truth will not blind the eyes Of
the workingmen of the United States
to the side on which their bread Is but
tered.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15
BICYCLE LONELINESS,
From the Sun.

From the Sun.
AS Mrs. Wickwire came into the din
ing room he was saying: Tell you. old
man. she was just a dandy! Every line
perfect. and better knee action never
saw In my life."
"Of whom are you talkingT asked Mrs.
W!ckwire.
"Of whom? I was talking about John
sons trotter."
"Oh! l thought II was one Of those BIZ
cycle girls you'd seen going along some-
where. re."-Indianapolis Journal.
Speaking generally not hing in this world
Is uglier than the knee action of a stout
ish woman. in short drab skirts, on q BIZ
cycle, chewing gum.
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matter with Kansas? Nothing under the
shining sun. She is losing wealth, popu-
lation and standing. She has got her
statesmen, and the money power is afraid
of her Kansas is all right. She has
started to raise hell. as Mrs. Lease advised,
and she seems to have an overproduction.
But that doesn't matter Kansas never
did believe in diversified crops. Kansas
Is all right. There is absolutely nothing
wrong with Kansas. Every prospect
pleases and only man Is vile"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15
POLITICAL ITEM,
From the Times-Herald,

From the Times-Herald.
What is the difference" the major
asked. between puffs at his seed and Hav-
ana filler with the Wisconsin wrapper
what Is the difference between Mr. Bry-
an and Buffalo Bill?'
Give 1t up" replied the man with the
winter overcoat and the tan bicycle shoes
what is the difference between Mr.. Bry-
an and Buffalo Bill?"
Buffalo BILL said the major. mas a
show"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15
AERIAL NAVIGATION,

An autumn day,
a sunny sky.
A hill that's steep and dusty;
A bloomer girl,
a shining wheel,
A wind both strong and gusty.
A sudden breeze.
a bloomer filed,
A rise. with naught to guide her;
A soaring maid,
A lonely road.
A wheel without a rider.
jeanette Elizabeth Fowler, in the Sun.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

The chances are that the Scranton
Times will now have to concede to
Mckinley and Hobart the electoral
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

dollar will be worth under a free and un.
limited coinage bill. Mr.. Bryan wants to
have us take his word that II will buy
just as much as the gold dollar. Mr.. Bry-
an may believe that, but he ought not to
expect any other sane person to Join him
in any such fantastic notion"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Senator Hills attempt to run at the
same time with the hounds and the
hares is very amusing to everybody
save Senator Hill. But he will have to
swallow Bryan, free silver and all, or
else shut up shop. The silver camp is
his last hope.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

The Times says those 5000 Homestead
workmen were forced to visit Mckinley
at Canton. They were--by their convic-
tions. That is the only force which
can account for their enthusiasm
there
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

A little thing like self-stultillcation N
the matter Of a money plank ought
never to have been expected to feaze
the Pennsylvania Democracy.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

We wonder that some one doesn't
draw deadly parallel on the Sunday
News headed James C. Bailey, Before
and After"
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Congress-WILLIAM CONNELL.
COMMISSIONERS. w. ROBERTS, GILES
ROBERTS.
Auditors-A. L. KIEFER, FRED l..
WARD
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Ex-senator Edmunds is making
sound-money speeches in Philadelphia
and it's vicinity, and they are speeches
that the undecided voter ought by all
means to read. The way he dissects
the free coinage delusion Is an intel
lectual curiosity
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

The Philadelphia Record is now after
the splitting habit. evidently gone are
the days of Jeffersonian simplicity
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Mr.. Bryan is credited with the belief
that he is q man of destiny. He proba-
bly, is, but his destiny this year is to
get the worst trouncing since the days
of Horace Greeley.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Bourke Cockran's refusal to go to
congress isn't saying that he would
spurn an invitation to succeed Dave
Hill in the senate.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Considering the licking that's in pic
kle for him, it seems to us Brother Sim
Garman.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

According to the London Times
Cuba's battle is as good as won. We
sincerely trust that the Thunderer's
present reverberation is based on fact.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Bryan, according to all accounts, is
already as good as licked but Republi-
cans mustn't let a little extra work
stand between them and a first-class
lob
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

New York Republicans appear to have
composed their little differences and
fallen into quite a love-feast attitude.
1t Is we'll
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COUNTY.

Congressman at Larg@-GALUSHA A.
GROW, SAMUEL a. DAVENPORT.
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Bryan calls the Palmer contingent
IAN army of generals" But an army
without generals is quite as Ineffective.
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LEGISLATIVE.

Senate, 2lst D.strict-COL w. ]. SCOTT
Representative I'd Dstrict--A. T. CON
NELL; 30 District - DIR. N. c.
NIACKEY
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What Is the Effect of Free Coinage on
the Gold Timer?

Under the gold standard at $500 per
day the miner gets about 20 grains of
gold for a days labor With this 20
grains of gold he can buy $500 worth
Of wheat, or anything. in Mexico (5
bushels at $1.2O), and in the United
States he can buy $500 worth of wheat
at so cents, or 5 bushels.
Under free coinage his wages are cut
down to So grains of gold, one-half the
mine-owner keeps the other half that
formerly was the laborer's. Under free
coinage, from this matter-of-fact state
ment it can be seen that mine-owners
would take away from each miner just
half his wages. The effect would be
the same on all classes of wage-earn-
crS.
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THE POOR MANS DOLLAR.

From the Times-Herald.
The silver dollar Is not the poor mans
dollar when it is worth but So cents. The
workingmans dollar is the dollar he earns,
and it should be the best dollar there is
in the market
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Mr.. Bryan, having voluntarily de-
clined second term, will soon be in
vited by the people to forego the first
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

EX-Congressman Bartine of Colora-
do has published an open letter to
Major Mckinley reciting the facts as
to the latters past friendliness for sill
yer and arraigning the sincerity of his
present stand for gold. The letter dis
closes nothing new. Many Republi-
cans who once hoped to see silver re-
approach gold in value have since sur
rendered that expectation and ceased
to indulge in further delusions. Wise
men are always willing to learn.
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THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.
STATE.

Pres.dent-WILLIAM MKINLEY.
Vice President-GARRET A. HOBART.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

The returns from Maine ought to
prove an elixir of life to comatose bus
mess.
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The Times points out that in China an
American silver dollar isn't worth
more than bullion value. Neither is an
American missionary. But we were
speaking, If you remember, of what are
called civilized countries. We don't
want to copy Chinese customs.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Sewall? Sewall? Seems to us there
once was such a name
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Commodore Singerly doesn't mince
words in his comment on the Harrisburg
qualification convention. He calls it "a
secretly Matched scheme of miscegena-
tion with the strumpet of Populsm," !"
which he "denounces, denies and de-
spises." Brother Singerly is evidently
determined to retain his self-respect.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

Brother Bryan has q clear case
against Arthur Sewall for breach Of
prOmise
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borrowing 1OO-cent dollars and then
wanting to pay back in 53-cent dollars
may not be dishonest in intent but 1t
is very clearly regarded by majority
of the American people as dishonest
in effect; and the majority in this
country, no matter what men may say,
are everlastingly honest.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-15

I'VE have nobody with us but the
people," says Bryan. And he might
add: And blamed few of them
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There are two ideas of government
said our noble Bryan at Chicago. There
are those who believe that If you just leg
islate to make the well-to-do prosperous
their prosperity will leak through on those
below. The democrat idea has been that
If you lcgislate to MAKE the masses pros
porous their prosperity will find its way
UP and through every class That's the
stuff. Give the prosperous man the dick
ems. Legislate the thriftless into ease;
whack the stufling out of the creditors,
and tell the debtor who borrowed money
five years ago, when the money in circu-
lation was more general than 1t Is now,
that the contraction of the currency gives
him right TO repudiate. Whoop it up for
the ragged trousers; put the lazy, greasy
tizzle, who can't pay his debts on an altar
and bow down and worship him. Let the
state ideal be high. What we need Is not
the respect OF our fellow men, but a chance
to get something for nothing
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"Oh, yes, Kansas is a great state. Here
are people fleeing from it by the score ev-
cry day, capital going out of the state by
the hundreds of dollars, and every indus
try except farming paralyzed and that
CRIPPLED because its products have to 20
across the ocean before they can find a
laboring man at work who can afford to
buy them Let's don't stop this year.
Let's drive all the decent, self-respecting
men out Of the state. Let's keep the old
clod-hoppers who know it all. Let's en-
courage the man who is posted He can
talk. and what we need is not mill hands
to eat our meal, nor factory hands to cat
our wheat nor cities to oppress the far
mer by consuming his butter and eggs
and chickens and produce; what Kansas
needs Is men who can talk, who have
large leisure to argue the currency ques-
ton while their wives wait at home for
that nlckers worth of blueing: What's the