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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

The election of Allen as permanen
ohairman Of the Populist convention,
indicates that the middle Of the-road' -
crowd Is in the minority, and that Bryan
will get the Populist nomination. AS
far as effect upon the election is con-
cerned Bryan's endorsement or non on
dorsement Is of little consequence. Prob
ably the great majority of Northern Pop
ulists will vote for Bryan anyway,
whether he gets the Endorsement of their
invention or. not. There is doubtless
hostility on she part of the Populists of
the South toward the Democrats, and
without an official endorsement of Bry-
an they will not be likely to vote for
him. But their numbers are not
sufficient probably in any Southern State
to take away an electoral vote from the
Democrats. ..The chief thing &C,
oompIished by the Populist nomination
of Bryan will be to put him In position
where he will have to tell the people
whether he approves of their platform or
not, for he can hardly pass over their
nomination without some sort of for
NAL acceptance. and he cannot accept
without endorsing their platform, and
this endorsement is liable to make him
unpalatable to many Democrats who
have not yet bolted him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25
CURRENT COMMENT.
WILL THE FARMERS BE FOOLED
AGAIN?

AGAIN?
(From the Inquirer (Rep.), Philadel-
phia.
Come, ye farmers of Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland,
among whom the Inquirer circulatss,
what would happen? The silver dollar,
which now passes for 100 cents, no longer
bolstered up by gold, would be- worth ex-
actly its melting-po value-its bullion
value at the market price. With this de-
preciated currency in your hands, what
would happen to you? You would be
ruined. That is the long and short of
this FREQ silver business. Vote for free
silver if you will, but make all your
preparations in advance for bankruptcy.
You were fooled four years ago by the
agitators. Is 1t possible that you can
be fooled agaip.
BRYAN HELPED MAKE MONEY
GCA ROE
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

1t is the fashion of the silver men to
attribute ali the fall in prices that has
taken place since 1878 to the demonetiza.
ZION OF silver. In the early days of
the republic our only circulating medium
was silver. Yet the fall of prices from
1909 to lS49 in extent and duration far
exceeded the fall since 1873. Ths silver
people when they are talking about
the fall in prices and quoting tables to
show that it was coincident with that of
silver always neglect to speak Of this
more remarkable fall of prices in the
early days of the Republic. WhyP Be.
cause this was q period OF binetalism.
when silver enjoyed full money power.
10 mention this fall would tend strongl-
to dlsproye their explanation of the fall
since 1873 and SO they manage to forget
ali about it, and proceed to make it ap-
pear that there has been something ex-
traoroinAry and unheard of in tho fall of
prices since 1878. There are explanations
OF the fall of prices since the latter date
much more reasonable than the one they
are giving, namely, the demonstration
act. Take wheat for instance which is
one OF the articles the silver men point
to most frequently and Professionally. In
1873 Russia exported only half as
mnch wheat as she did in 1891. From
1873 to 1899 the Indian export of wheat
increased eighty times. In 1878 the Ar
gentine Republic exported no wheat at
all. in 1899 it exported 40, 1o9,617 kilos.
Our own production of wheat since 1879
has more than trebled. But this IL not
all. Since 1873 the cost of raising wheat
has been greatly lessened by labor saving
Inventions. Increased production at d.
unfinished cost explains the fall in the
price of wheat far moro satisfactorily and
naturally than the decentralization of sill
yer. So with other articles which have
fallen in price. Increased production or
diminishd cost of production by reason of
labor saving inventions can be invoked
to explain them oil.
1t the demonstration Of silver were the
cause all articles ought Co be affected
alike. But as matter of fact some are
higher now suhan in {. 1873. Eggs were
higher in 1892 than in 1872. Beef fell
only slightly. Butter fell not at all. The
rule is that where production has greatly
increased, for where labor saving ma
chimes have been applied prices have fall
en-, in other cases they have kept up or
varied slightly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

Yhe only thing that the silver man can
surely assert with regard to the silver
dollar If remonetized and made legal
tender ia that 1T will be equal in debt
paying power to the gold dollar. When
he says it will be equal in purchase ng
power, he is indulging IN assumption
merely. and it is an assumption which
flies in the face of experience. Accord
ing to the silver m en- themselves it WAS
the combined action of three or four
great commercial nations that reduced
tho value Of silver to Its present figure.
Can they reasonably expect that the ac-
tion Of single une of them can restore
its OF course not.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

The SILK of the Kline. A Novel, by L..
McManus We have had of late a num-
Der of works of fiction, or historioaTstor;e 8
dealing, with the siege of LONDONDERRY
and the times prior to and following th g
siege. 1t is quite correct that one of these
as in che present lnstance-should show
forth fanaticism and abuse of power on
the part of the Professionals and should
also indicate the spirit of hatr ed towards
England which led to much of the suffer
ing and woe OF the period treated of. A
veritable certificate Of eviction is copied
Transplanter's Cetifoate-for the
reader. can enormous scheme of eyic-
ton had been planned by Cromwell,
which was to include all tho native and
nearly all the Anglo-Irish Inhabitants of
Ireland. This was the transport
tation of all the existing Catholic land
owners of Ireland. to Comnaught, there
TO inhabit narrow. desolats tract be-
tween the Shannon and the sea, desti-
tuta for tho most part, of houses or any
accommodation for their reception.
where they were debarred from entering
any walled town, and where Gordon of
soldiers was to be stationed to prevent
their return"
On this til e story is framed AS love
story itiis strong, sensitive and beautiful.
1.-THE Silk of The Kline is something be-
yond the average both in sentiment and
expression. (New York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A Humble Enterprise by Ada Cam
bridge, author of "The Three Miss
Kinge," etc, etc. We have here cosy
little story. largely made up of "scones
and tea." 1t apparently is an early novel
of the authors for it is certainly faulty
at many points. Yet it is written with
such an evident gift at story telling and
is SO pretty romance that it will find
many readers, Especially amongst young
people. Barring some trifing ineiegan-
oies, the tone is good, 10, it sets forth. as
deserves magnifying, the value of domes-
tic capability and the home making arts
The story shows plainly the loveableness
Of the gentler virtues and of true high
breeding as oontrasted with fashion and
false heartedness. New York: D.
Appleton & Company; Town and County
Library No. 1856; Portland: Loring Short
& Harmon. Price, cloth, $1.0O)
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

A prerequisite of the revival of prosper
ity is a restoration of confi1ence-and it
is prerequisite that 8 absolutely indis-
pensable. No man Of common sense
will embark in enterprises while the con-
ditions are as unoer tain as they are now.
While radical change in the character
of our currency is threatened he will
wait and watch. He will keep In port.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

1t would seem to be practically settled
by the conference at Chicago that a
sound money gDemooratie convention is
% DO called and a sound money Demo-
drastic Presidential ticket nominated. 1t
is to be regretted that all the sound
money vote cannot be combined upon one
ticket, for thus the defeat sof the free sill
ver theorists could be made overwhelm-
inc
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

Why should the masses of the people
want the prices of the necessaries Of life
to go upg Why should they be interested
to double the price Of -four or corn or
dry goodsP Yet they are invited to vote
for free silver because it will increase
prices.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25

Bryan wants free silver which will
make the prices of commodities high and
free trade whion will make the price of
labor low. And he wants lahoring men
to vote for him on this platform.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25
SCARCE.
lKennehen Journal.l

Mr.. Bryan complains that we haven't
enough money in circulation. There
was, however, when MIR. Bryan, the ar
dent supporter of the Wilson bill, was
advocating q policy that turned the bal
ance of trade against this country and
has drained our money into the Golfers OF
the foreign manufactures. How does be
expeot we are to have plenty of money
in circulation when men are idle and
spending the money they saved under
a wise, protective tariff in the purchase
of foreign made goods? Yet Mr.. Bryan
has got free trade along with free silver
at his masthead. He helped to fool the
people once and thinks they are going
to permit him to fool them again, does
hep
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-25
FOR PRESIDENT,
Williamr1CKinley
OF OHIO.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
Garret A. Hobart
OF NEW JERSEY.
FOR GOvERNOR.
Llewellyn Powers
OF EOULTON.
OF HOULTON.

Not less than 152 Democratic and INDIE
Lendent papers have declared against
Bryan.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08

refractory Juveniles In public scho' is
on the rocky bluff has acquired happy
disdain for old-fashioned things. Her
public schools are built on a scale of
lofty grandeur and maintained with
breezy indifference to those pruden-
tial and economical considerations that
prevail in such towns as New York and
Philadelphia. Being strikingly original
In everything, it was to be expected
that Duluth school-teachers would en-
ploy some novel method of castlgating
the rebellious Juveniles that make life
weary waste of worry to the luckless
pedagogue. And they do. Instead OF
pummeling the anatomy of the incor-
rigible youngster with a wooden ruler
or rawhide the stern-yisaged school
ma'am merely turns the hose on him.
That Is, she flogs him with a piece OF
rubber tubing. 1t has been found that
the bounding residence of the rubber
tubing when applied to the well-cush-
ioned posterior of Il youth Is such that
tie muscular eXertion required to make
robust rascal pneumatically tired is
so slight that 1t has become the official
ly authorized method Of punishment
in the Duluth public schools. The
secret was let out in suit for dam
ages for assault brought against one
of the feminine wielders of the rubber
hose. The court decided that scourging
pugnacious Juvenile belligerent with
rubber tubing is not an assault, no mat
ter what evidences of conclusion may
be found on the anatomy. Now that
court has rendered decision the
rubber hose idea of leading the way
ward youth along the Jagged and pre-
cipitous highways of knowledge Is
bound to spread to the public schools
of other cities. The bicycles are al
ready making a heavy demand on the
rubber tube factories. But more fac
tories must be built The course of
popular education must not languish
because of any rubber tube famine.
Stretch the tube or spoil the child.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08
The Criminality of Animals.

There seems to be conspiracy atloat
among scientists to rob the credulouS
Of their belief in the innocence of in
sects, birds and all the creeping things
of earth. If 1t continues we shall not
only be no longer able to "go to the
worm," but We shall realize that what
we called sagacity and natural intel
llgence In animals is really acquired
villainy, learned from each other, or
the result of natures prevented by ar
tificial means.
We learn from Buckner, in his "Psy-
chical Life of Animals that brigand
bees can be produced by feeding them
a mixture of honey and brandy.
They soon acquire a taste for this
beverage which has the same disas-
trous effect as upon men. They be
come ill-disposed and irritable, and lose
all desire to work; finally when they
begin to feel hungry they attack and
plunder the well-filled hives. Some
times they kill the sentinels and In
habitants.
After repeated enterprises of this
kind, they develop a taste for robbery
and violence; they recruit whole com
panies and form colonies Of brigand
bees.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08
Tanning.

The most recent and expeditions proc
ess in tanning, according to The Revue
Scientifique, consists in passing a cur
rent Of hydrogen gas or current of
some gaseous compound Of hydrogen
containing certain quantity of arsenic
through the liquid in which the hides
are immersed. The hydrogen is obtained
either from the action of commercial
sulphuric acid upon zinc or iron or from
that of steam upon iron, the calculation
being in fact, that in this case the hy-
drogen obtained will contain n sufficient
quantity of arsenic. The gas, collected
under pressure in II gasometer, is intro
duced into the bottom of the tanning
vat through u pipe provided with Sc
ries of apertures, and after bubbling up
through the liquid it flows out through
another pipe affixed to the cover of the
vat. vats Of very large dimensions are
employed, and the tanning proceeds very
rapidly.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08
Its Name.

At the time when Venezuela Is SO
prominent in public notice, it may be
interesting to know how 1t received its
name 1t was the first part Of the
mainland seen by Columbus.
On his third voyage, in 1893, he bore
further to the south than before ana
had become convinced that he should
not meet with land on that course,
when his lookout described three hill
tops in the southwest.
Sailing on he entered the chief mouth
of the Orinoco, and there skirted the
lsland-fringed coast on his way to
Haiti.
But the country is said to owe its
name to Ojedo, who, on entering Lake
Maracaibo, the following year, noticed
one of the Indian villages of pile dwell
lings on its shore
"Why, here said he, 'is a little
Venice" (Venezuela), and this name be-
came the designation of the whole re
gion about there.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08

In the coronation of the Gar abso-
lutsm appears at its worst while doubt
less holding the opinion that 1t Is seen
at It's best. No real benefit Is secured
to a people who, denied full personal
liberty and the exercise of their own in
diyidualism for the earning of thch
own bread, are made benefciaries OF
the bounty of well-nigh barbaric ruler
whose unlimited accumulatlons OF
wealth have come to him through the
fruits of the toll of his subjects who are
entitled to that fruit of themselves
The Russian people ought not to be de
pendents upon imperial bounty. The
imperialist has inherited immense for.
tunes wrung from his subjects. There
is no repayment In the mere dole oi
aims or in magnificent barbaric dis
plays To feed quarter of a million
people upon Il plain Is n vast undertak-
ing when conducted under the order
and at the cost of a single individual
but that multitude had better for itself
and better for humanity and for the
Czar do it's own feasting. To secure
an earthen mug with a portrait of the
imperial company fresh crowned at
Moscow hundreds of thousands of Rus
slams, losing all self-respect, became
murderers of their fellow-men. They
trampled one another to death. The
Czar was not lacking in humanity OF
the moment, for his Golfers were agai:
freely opened to relieve the distresse
of those who were wounded and to as
benevolence is upon the wrong plane
Every man ought to have opportunity
to be his own bread winner, enjoy the
fruit of his own thrift and industry
and self-denial. He ought have Nc
guardian. The Government, whether
that of republic or absolutism, should
be government not of him, but gov
ernment for him-a government de
signed to preserve the peace and pro
tect life and property. That there was
no touch of real sympathy with the
people among whom the Car scattered
largess, whose self-respect had been
trampled out before their lives were, l.
demons trated by the fact that after he
had given orders for the burial of his
victims he went to the French Ambas-
sador's. There, among the persons of
what he doubtless regards as a superior
caste, this God-anointed ruler treaded a
measure, ''chased the glowing hours
with flying feet"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08
Eight Minutes Yet.

A Screaming" farce was acted re-
Gently in the streets of Philadelphia,
which the Record reports:
A foppish young man, with foot
ball crop of hair, was walking along
Chestnut street the other evening,
when a little urchin asked him the
time.
"Ten minutes to nine," said he.
"Well," said the boy, "at nine o'clock
get your hair cut" and he took to his
heels and ran down Tenth street.
The youth ran after him, and in turn
ing the corner, came in contact with a
policeman, nearly knocking him down.
whats up?" asked the POLICEMAN.
Very much out of breath, he ex-
claimed: you see that boy running
down the street? He asked me the
time; told him ten minutes to nine,
and he said, AT nine O'Clock get your
hair cut
WELL" remarked the policeman,
"what are you running for? You've
eight minutes yet"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08
Among the new laws enacted by Il

Among the new laws enacted by the
recent Ohio Legislature is an act max
ing 1t unlawful for any band of gyp-
sizes, wanderers, travellers, or other per-
sons, to camp in tent, wagon, or other
wise, on the public highway or lands
adjacent thereto for longer period
than twenty-four hours, without con-
sent of the owner of such adjacent land,
or the consent of the owner Of the land
abutting on the highway where such
camping place is made. Any person
violating the provisions of this act shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction shall be fined not
exceeding $40, or Imprisonment in the
county Jail not exceeding thirty days,
or both.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08
,Mz2gdzs s.s :,

At IA meeting of the Massachusetts
Library Club the other day, George
Haven Putnam said that only about
10 per cent of what Is written for pub
lication Is ever printed, the other 80
per cent. being thrown away.
Five short autograph poems by Rob-
ert Burns were sold recently In Lon
don for $3.50; three long letters for
$370, and three short ones for $105;
at the same time seven letters of Sir
Walter Scott We're sold for about sgt 80
apiece.
Col. 7. w. Higginson's gift of books
to the Boston Public Library Is unique
In comprising 1000 volumes relating
to the history of woman in all lands
and ages. The collection was begun In
1916 with the purchase of Mrs. Hugo
Reid's "Plea for Woman" and has
been continued ever since.
In his latest work, "A Woman In
tervenes, or the Mistress of the Mine"
Robert Barr has presented to the pub
lie Il bright, readable story, which, while
1t scarcely equals in interest or ability
his earlier story "ln the Midst Of
Alarms" is still an excellent presenta-
ton of one womans pluck and busi-
ness knowledge.
DIR. Weldon, head master of Harrow
School, makes plea in the Church
Monthly for the severance of sport
from gambling. He describes horse
racing as 1.-The sport of kings, the no.
blest exercise of the physical powers
of the noblest animals" and asserts that
in ancient Greece no one made bet at
the Olympian games.
Miss Mary Kingsley proposes to re-
turn to West Africa to renew her stud
les in fetishes and fishes, after the pub
lication of her journal She appears
to have inherited large share Of the
adventurous spirit which was so mark
ed a feature In the character of her
uncle, Canon Kingsley, and still more
distinctly of her father, DIR. Kingsley,
the traveller.
The Rev. Barring Gould, the novelist,
lecturer and historian, is keen anti
quarry. One who knows him writes
that she wallows In It, You should see
him on Dartmoor with his shovels and
wheelbarrows unearthing some forgot
ten domicile and then you would see
the real man. Give him an old church
register and he'll spin you yarns about
1t by the hour"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-07-08
General Marceau.

General Marceau was not the only
soldier Of the revolution against whom
no accusation of cruelty or barbarity
has been leveled, but he was the most
conspicuous perhaps from the fact that
his efforts on the side Of mercy never
brought about his own ruin. Almost
every battle in which he was engaged
might have furnished an excuse for
leading him to the guillotine in the
footsteps of his old friends and COM
manders, Dillon and Biron, and yet, in
spite of his many enemies and the fierce
jealousy which he excited, he managed
to keep his head ON his shoulders while
many another, far less suspected, fell.
And this brings us to question
which can hardly fail to force itself
upon our attention. How was it that
Marceau, as humane and honorable
gentleman, could bring himself to serve
under the orders of Rossignol and Tur-
reau? One Can only say that he made a
rare proof of his patriotism in not de-
serting his post. One knows what he
felt about the successful campaign in La
Vendee from letter which he addressed
to his sister Emira-the sister to whom
he poured out all his onfdences-when
she wrote to congratulate him on his
brilliant victories at LIE Mans and Save
nay:
"What, my dear sister, do you con-
gratulate me ON these two battles, or
rather these two massacres and do you
really wish to have leaf from my
laurels? Do you not know that they are
stained and soiled with human blood,
with the blood, moreover, of our fellow
countrymen? l shall not return to La
Vendee 1t is painful to me to have to
fight against Frenchmen.