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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-07
Applause for the old Flag.

More than ten years ago a slight but
significant incident occurred in Savan-
nah, Ga, says the Philadelphia Citizen.
Between the acts of theatrical per-
Torrance there was occasion to drop
a large national flag from the flies above
the stage. This was done without GER
emony, merely in preparation for the
ensuing act, but as the heavy folds I'M
rolled and gave the stars and stripes
to the light such a cheer went up from
the audience that the house was shaken.
Savannah is conservative city, slow
to forget and tenacious of old ideas.
Here, if anywhere in the south, the war
prejudice would be strong and yet the
mere presentation of the silent emblem
of the nation called forth such ring
ing, CHEEKY response of loyalty that any
suspicion of the south's good faith must
have been shamed into silence. Even
today men are not lacking who will
assert that the patriotism of the south
is shallow and grudgingly given only
upon compulsion. Southern orators
and writer's from time to time protest
against this insinuation, but without
materially changing the opinion of the
skeptical, for it is easy to say that such
written and spoken utterances are in
sincere or inadequate. But the spon-
taneous expression of a heterogeneous
multitude is bit of testimony which
cannot be gainsaid. And there has been
an overwhelming amount of such tes-
timony upon the occasion of the tour
which the old liberty bell has just made
throughout the south. Not alone in
Atlanta, it's destination, but all along
the route, at every stop which it has
made, it has been the signal for an
outburst not unworthy of comparison
with the scenes of the memorable day
when it proclaimed it's brave tidings.
Nothing so appeals to the universal in
stinct of patriotism as does an mani
mate object which is emblematical of
a nations character and history. Phil
adelphia is properly jealous of the old
bell, and disinclined to relinquishit for
any considerable time, but if it is care
fully guarded from danger, as it is in
the present instance, it is fitting that
it should be loaned upon an occasion
of such Importance as that of the At
lanta exposition. 1t is pleasant to know
that the old bell is not so silent but
that it can yet speak to the hearts of
our people, and give fresh assurance
that a common bond of love and pride
and reverence unites the entire coun-
try
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-07

ficiaries of the government They would
be presented for redemption in such
amounts as not to excite comment, and
thus become very efficacious in causing
still another issue of bonds. This scheme
is another of those "endless chains"
mentioned by Mr. Cleveland. The circu-
lar says further:
The banks not only of this city but of
the country at large have become thor
oughly aroused to the i'm portance of
making common cause with the treasury
in elevating the status of the demand
obligations OF the govern nent They
realize that. with weakness in the treas
ury there cannot be real sire myth in the
banks; and they therefore do not hest
tate to make their gold stocks available
for the gold requirements of the national
government. This is bona fde exhibit
ton of patriotic finance; nd the spec
tacls will convey an edffy ing lesson to
the foreign critics who have charged US
with financial incapacity and feebleness.
As Clews idea of patriotism the above
suggestion is not bad. The banks having
forced the government to the necessity
of borrowing money to maintain the
ruinous financial policy which it has
adopted will now kindly take the gov
ernment's bonds at a rate of four per
cent per annum. The four per cent of
course is no inducement; they are actuat-
ed purely by sentiments of patriotism.
The public would perhaps understand
and appreciate this patriotic feeling bet
ter if the offer were made by these self
sacrificing gentlemen to exchange their
gold for government bonds bearing no
interest," or to refund the interest when
due, but the public has as little under
standing of real patriotism as it has of
finance.
Re alizing the great benefits which have
accrued to the class which he represents
through the use of the greenbacks as a
means of securing issues of bonds and
fearing the death of "the goose which
lays the golden egg" Mr.. Clews puts in
the following good words for this popular
form of currency:
Greenbacks are good money until we
can get better, and that only is gold.
Green backs in the past have done. and
are now doing, good service, and it is un-
grateful to cover them all over with
vituperation and cast them into the gut
ter, until they can be supplanted by some
thing better. Contentment with and
gratitude for the past services of the
greenbacks is now what is called for, and
not brutal kicks at old friends.
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wouldn,t Break the Law.

4 weary and disheveled man toiled
painfully over the promenade of the Brook
Ign bridge. He chung closely to the iron
work on the right side of the walk an6
occasionally stopped to reflect.
''Why don't you get out in the middle
here?" asked policeman who had been
watching the actions of the unsteady Pc
destrian.
'' 'Gainst the law, ole fel,'' was the re-
ply. "Guess you don't know me, hey?''
''No, don't know, you" returned the
policeman. Where do you liver"
The man waved his hand in the direc-
ton Of Brooklyn.
BROOKLYN" queried the policeman.
The man nodded. Don't know meP''
he mumbled. why, I'm Joe Team. Live
in Jol man street"
"Jeroloman street?''
"Uml Jol'man street,
swell, why don'tyou get out here away
from the side?''
why repeated the wobbly gentle
man, with foolish smile. Cant you
read7 Look at that sign there. Whatever
want me to do-break er law? Read
sign
The policeman looked over into the road
way, and this is what he read:
Loaded teams will keep to the right"
New York Mail and Express.
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A Very Honest Coal Dealer.

Mr.. Black, the eminent and wealthy
coal dealer, called one of his Oldest drivers
into the office the other morning and ten
dered him quite a large sum of money.
''What is this for?'' asked the astonished
driver.
Merely token of appreciation for
services rendered." replied Mr.. Black
kindly.
"But you've always paid me we'll for
my services, and that was appreciation
enough
''There is really more than that in it.,
John,'' continued Mr.. Black. 81 really
owe you the money"
''I don't understand"
''Let me tell you And he dropped his
voice to q whisper. ''You have been with
me for 20 years, working 800 days every
year and averaging three loads day.
That makes IS, 900 loads. You weigh $50
pounds. John, and we have never failed
to weigh you with every load. That makes
2, 700, 900 pounds or 200 tons. This, at
an average of 81 per ton, John, represents
81, 200. The package you hold in your
hand contains e12O, or 10 per cent, which
we think is yours by right. We arc honest
men, John, and don't desire to defraud
anybody out OF what is justly his
John bowed in humble submission and
is now waiting for the next dividend
London it-Bits,
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The BOYS View of It.

Mother-she's always a-sayin. she is,
Boys must be looked after-got to be strict.
When tear my breeches like Billy tears his,
It helps 'em considerable when am hclzedI
But it amt leapin over the fence or the post
It's jest that same hckin at tears 'em the
mostI
Mother-she's always a-sayin to me
Boys must have people to folIer 'em roun,
Never kin tell where they re goin to be,
Sure to git lost an then have to be found,
An then, when they find 'em, they re so full
of joy
They can't keep from lovin an liekin the boyi
There's Jimmy Johnson-got lost on the road ::
Daddy wuz drivin to market one day,
Fell out the wagon, nobody knotved
Till they to halt an his daddy said :
f'Heyl
Warren It no two hosses could keep up with himI
Jest KEEP a.goin an got to place
Where wuz a circus, took up with the clown,
Cut of his ringlets, an painted his face,
An then come right back to his daddy's own
town.
An what do you reckon? His folks didn't know
An paid to see Jimmy that night in the showi
An there's Billy Jenkins--he Jest run away
Folks at his house wuzn t treatin him right)
Went to the place where the red Iniuns stay
An once, when his daddy wuz traveIiu at
night
An the Injuns took after him, hollerin loud.
Bill run to his rescue an sealped the whole
crowd!
No use in talkin-boys don't have no showi
Wuzn t fer people a-follerin 'ern rom
Jest amt no tellin how fast they would grow
Bet you they d fool everybody in town.
But mother-she says they need uckin,
They too busy hollerin to git up an growl
Frank L. Stanton in Chicago Times Herald.
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THE actual date of the issue of bonds
which has been announced, has been
postponed thirty days. This will give
the syndicate time to withdraw nearly or
quite enough gold from the treasury to
pay for them. There can scarcely be
any doubt that this is the intention of the
arrangement, There is now $50, 100000
in the treasury. This is being added to
all the time. In a month the syndicate
can draw out COED part of the neces-
sEry $10o,000,OO0 and when the day for
the exchange comes around it will be ex-
changed for the bonds. The situation
will then be that the syndicate will have
traded non-interest bearing govern
ment paper for that which bears a good
rate of interest, and the treasury will be
Just where it was before the transaction.
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NEWWTNE IN OLD BOTTLES.

NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES.
HENRY CLEws' latest circular deals
with the approaching issue of bonds as
follows:
The bonds will be payable "ia coin;"
and will be paid for in gold; which, at
the reported price of 104, would transfer
TO the government 104 millions of gold.
At first sight this operation, especially
rs it will be almost entirely confned to
the home market, may seem calculated
to produce sharp stringency in the
money market That effect, however,
would depend upon what the treasury
might do to ward OF such result. The
treasury is certainly very vitality inter-
ested IN using any power it possesses to
avert stringency; and the power it has to
do that is very considerable. The secre-
tary Of the treasury has authority to keep
any amount of his cash balance on de
posit with the banks. receiving United
States bonds rs collateral to . like
amount. His present working balance
would easily admit of his depositing 70
millions of legal tenders with the banks,
which would prevent any Injurious
stringancy. although it might permit a
full per cent market rate of interest
Under the guise of preventing a
stringency, here is presented a cunning
scheme to aid the bankers and brokers
in their business of Withdrawing gold
from ths treasury. $75,eO0. 900 of the
legal tenders In the United States
treasury deposited with the banks would
prove of great assistance to these bsns-
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WHAT spectacle it is to see congress
sit idly by and witness without protest
the carrying out of the conspiracy which
was organized in 1898 for eliminating
every form of currency from the country
except that furnished by the banks. The
repeated issues of bonds are intended to
serve a double purpose. While they are
being utilized for the purpose of rstir-
ing the greenbacks, they also furnish a
basis for an increase of national bank
circulation, which can be contracted or
expanded in accordance with the pre-
vAiling rates of interest
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FREDERICK WARDE.
RICHARD GOLDEN COUNTS THE COST.

aICr7AfIO OOEG6N OOON = TIE GOS =
If there should be war, count me right
in it. don't know what could do, but
1 could try to look after the comnissary
department. and thus take care of tho
brave fellows who are in front doing the
fighting. m not strong, but l would
take q chance. Seriously speaking, 1 do
not believe there will be any war, because
the two governments, England especially,
have too much at stake. She has 81, 0O0,-
600: 600 of capital invested in her Ameri-
can possessions, and war would mean tho
loss of all these millions, besides another
thousand million more at the hands of
our commerce destroyers. 1t would prob
ably take still another 81 900, 600, 600 to
man her navy and transport her troops
and thousands upon thousands of her peo-
pie would also be sacrificed. Then if she
was whipped, as she undoubtedly would
be in the end, her empire would be dis
membered, and Albion's glory would for
ever depart.
= If there should be a war, it would be
England's fault. We are clearly in the
right, and, while deprecating all the hor-
rors of war, 1 believe firmly in Davy
Crockett's maxim, "Be sure you're right;
then go ahead" England, however, am
convinced, will weaken, and peace will
unfold her heavenly wings over both ma
tions. RICHARD GOLDEN.
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WHEAT JACK M,AULIFFE SAYS.

It's a gamble whether we have a wal
with England or not If John Bull thinks
he can make good play by having war
with US, then it is war. Englishmen don't
like us, no matter how much they pirate
about ''our kin across the sea- That
found out when was over in England
few years ago. John hates an American
almost as much as he does an Irishman.
While in England I noticed that the gov
ernment was continually increasing its
naval strength, which even then far ex-
ceeded that of any other nation on earth.
/ am now told by an ex-English naval Off
Ger that these unusual preparations were
being made for US. England recognized
the fact that we were the only power which
stood in her way toward territorial ag
grandizement in South America, and she
was preparing for a war with US in case
we interfered with her plans.
1t took Salisbury five months to answer
Secretary Olney's note regarding the Ven
ezuelan boundary line. I'll bet Al of
those months were consumed in sounding
the other powers as to how they stood in
the matter. The answers must have been
favorable from all but Russia, else Sails
bury would not havo made the bold play
which President Cleveland so promptly
called. If England is not afraid of Russia
marching to ConstantinopIe and to India,
and France possibly making a move to-
ward Egypt, in case of war with Amer
lea, she may take chance and make a
play for us. If she wins, she is greater
than ever; if she loses, the map of Europe
will be changed If she comes at us, III
bet an eagle to a red cherry she loses. In
case of war I'll raise a company of stout
hearted lads for the blue in Williamsburg,
where Jack Dempsey and were brought
up, and Well do our best for the stripes.
JACK MCAULIFFE.
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The election of Saturday may be said
to be the victory of the women CT Seat
tle There is a sort of retributive JUS
tice about it, for they have frequently
asked that of the five school directors
one should be of the same sex as the
majority of the teachers. They have
succeeded and the result will be watch
ed with considerable interest. 1t is
claimed that fully so per cent of the
A. P. A. vote was made up of ladies,
but this is probably too high an esti-
mate, and 40 per cent is, no doubt, near
er the mark. They were indefatigable
campaigners and took care to see that
their husbands voted. If a wife can do
no more than this she will confer a ben
eft upon the community, for it is evil
dent from the light vote that thousands
failed to cast a ballot. OF the $500
votes cast there were fully 1000 cast
by women, which would leave only
$500 male voters, about half of the
voting strength of the city.-Seattle
Post-IRtelligencer.
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JAMES E. WILSON. >

territory enough and can be prosperous
enough as we are. If we must fight let
us fight for principle, not for plumber or
territorial aggrandizement. In our pres
emit contention with England 1 think we
are in the right, and if she does not back
down from her u4tenable position we
must fight her. I hope it will not come
to such pass, for war is terrible. Can
didly do not believe such a catastrophe
can occur. Two great nations should have
brains enough within their domains to
avert such calamity, and I believe they
have. If worst comes to worst, I Will
serve my country as best can.
JAMES E. WILSON.
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CHARLEY KELLY is READY.

Cleveland has won the boys, and they're
all with him If it is case of fight, but
they are afraid there won't be any. Sena-
tor Tim Sullivan, who is the great man in
our part of New York, says there won't be
\ clnch, and-the boys say that settles it.
The senator is a smart man and knows
what he is talking about. He told US at
the club the other night that England
"dasn't'' fight, because she would be
starved out of the game. He said that Eng
land could not produce one-tenth enough
of grain in her own kingdom to make
breadstuffs for her people. She has to get
the greater part Of it now from this coun-
try and the rest from Canada, Brazil, Rus
ala and Hungary. In case of war we would
shut her out Of grain from our country,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-07

TUE ST. Louis Post Dispatch cites a
rather curious reason why the death
penalty is not administered to persons
guilty of capital crimes in Kansas. 1t is
this: ''Thers are large numbers of
spiritualists in Kansas. and whatever
truth there may be in their belief they
set up An argument against capital pun
ishment, which, from their point of view,
is unanswsrable. It is that by sending
the murderer into another life you there
by set him free to inspire men and wo-
men of murderous propensities TO carry
those propensities into action
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KID LAveNE WILL RAISE A COMPANY.

I am glad to see we haYe champion-I
mean a president-who's got nerve. If
we had q putty man in Washington, we
would soon have John Bull making a new
boundary line'' for Canada that would
run down through the lumber yards of
Michigan, where L come from, over to Buff
falo and ultimately down to New York
CITY, if not farther. There's nothing too
good for John that's fat, sleek and juicy.
It's time he was called down, and Grover
seems to be the boy to do it. War? Not on
your life. John only goes up against
''good things He doesn't want a hard
game. I believe there will be no war, but
if there is will give up the boxing bust
ness, go back to the lumber yards of Sagi-
nav, where the boys think well of me, and
raise a company to aid in looking after
Canada. GEORGE LAVIQEE.
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Appealing to the Wrong Man.

Lawyer CLOSING an inpassioned plea)-
And now, your honor, ask you to impose
a heavy fine upon this man, who, with
the recklessness common to bicyclists ran
down my client and inflicted serious in
juries upon him. ask you to protect the
ordinary pedestrian from the reckless BIZ
cyclist. Why should man feel that he
owns the universe as soon as he gets upon
a wheel? have no doubt that your hon
or will impose the full penalty permitted
by the law in this case as a moral lesson
to bicycle riders and in assertion of the
rights of the ordinary citizen.
Judge-The prisoner is fined 81, with
out costs. (Sotto voce to the Clerk)
ride bicycle myself. --Somerville Jour
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tions on earth are not going to commit the
gravest of iniquities. Arbitration is the
remedy, and there must be arbitration.
There must be no wholesale murder of
brave men, no spoliation of grand cities,
no devastation of fair fields, no destruction
of rich commerce, no breaking of human
hearts, no crushing of human hopes for
any such trivial cause as the boundary line
of a bit of land away down in South
America. As that Grand Old Man Glad
stone said the other day, little common
sense can adjust the difficulty. Surely
there are men at the helms of both govern
lnonts capable of such simple task. No
pride of opinion should govern. There
should be, and I am satisfied will be, ar5l-
traJion. Therefore 1 shall not consider
what should do in case of hostilities. It
is an impossible hypothesis.
FREDERICK WARDE.
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WILSON ON FIGHTING FOR PRINCIPLE.

Some historian has observed that great
nation needs q war every 25 or SO years to
stir up the patriotism of the people as well
as expand in a financial and territorial
direction. I even hear able men say
that war with England would do US an
immense amount of good ultimately, al
though we would suffer at, first, because
we would certainly win, and then we
could practically control all of South as
well as North America. I do mott believe
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A Relief.

81 don't know but I'm glad that the
holidays are about over" said the man
who permits himself to be worried over
small things.
Don't you enjoy themP''
Eyes. But it's a great relief to sit back
and serenely reflect that it'll be a whole
year now before somebody will turn up
and think it is smart to write Christmas
Xmas ''-Washington Star.
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JOHN /. sULLlvAN,s TIP.

Take my tip. There will be no war be-
tween America and England. British
statesmen know too much. They know
mat If England couldn't whip the Grip
pied colonies in 1870 or the young nation
Of 1912 she wou1dn't have show on
earth with tie greatest country under the
sun today. If she started IN on a war, she
knows she would get licked to a dead
moral certainly. A fig for her navy It
Inieht be able to destroy few seaboard
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Ne WAR. SAYS ERED WARpE

Scotch-although
3, 900 miles of sea
separate US. And
it would be Irish
and Scotch as well
as English We
would be fighting,
for English regi-
ments and ships
crews are so made
up. l will not
consider war q
possibility. The
great men of the
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1T should not be surprising that an &C.
casional goldbug is found who, like John
Sherman, opposes the retirement OF the
greenbacks. The greenbacks are the
best medium in existence for obtaining
an Issue of government bonds when
business is dull.
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Very Different.

Fights mighty good thing to have
a retentive memory.
Fogg-That depends. If the memory is
yours, it is a mighty good thing, as you
say, but if it happens to be the property of
your wife that's another matter. Boston
Transcriut
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eT.TURNING D.DIAMONDs."

"Stunap" AIcMicIlael and A. L. Robinson
Fined 50 for Doing it on Sunday.
tSt-st- Jump" McMichael and his ''pod
ner" A. L Robinson were fined SO each
in rolice court yesterday afternoon for
PLAYING cards on Sunday. They are COL
ored, and Stump was trying to see how
many diamonds he could turn in success
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ALMOST month has elapsed since o.
bon, the murderer of Charles Handle,
was sentenced, and yet no petition for his
pardon has appeared.