The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-06-12
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

TIL MOTTO OF \ CRAZE.
The New York World says: One of the
Southern papers says that the motto of the
Democrats in its State is Free silver or
bust"
This is an appropriate motto for Il po-
litical craze. 1t is borrowed from the en-
igrant to the new gold fields many years
ago who inscribed on his canvas-covcred
wagon: ''Pike's Peak or bust" Those
who have adopted this motto now may not
remember that that same wagon, very
much dilapitated, crawled back over the
plains few months later bearing the SIM
pie but sufficient inscription: Bust
This will be the fate of the Democratic
party if it shall adopt the shibbolcth of the
chcap-money fanatics. 1t will be "Frce
silver and bust" The Democrats cannot
carry 10 States on that issue. And to
throw to the winds their principles, their
traditions. common sense and the oppor-
tunitv which the candidacy of Mckinley
affords them would be so wanton and stu
pid a suicide that it will be incredible I'M
til it happens.
THE CONFEDERATE REUNION.
The Baltimore Sun says: Richmond is
making great preparations for the annual
reunion of the United Confederate Neter-
ans, who will meet at the Virginia capital
on June 80. The program of exercises
extends over four days and the most i'm
prcssive incident will be the laying of the
cornerstone of the Jefferson Davis monu
mcnt. Many thousands of the veterans
of the Confederacy will be present on this
memorable occasion and the reunion prom
Uses to be an unusually interesting and i'm
posing event. There are now 1913 camps
of United Confederate Veterans and APP
plicatons have been received at headquar
tiers in New Orleans for the organization
of nearly one hundred more. Among tho
objects of the veterans association arc
1.-THE best methods of securing impartial
history; the compilation and preservation
by each State of the history Of its citizen
soldierv: the benevolent care, through
State aid or otherwise, of disabled, desti.
tute or aged veterans and the widows and
orphans of our fallen hrothers-in-arm
the care of the graves of our known anC
unknown dead buried at Gettysburg, Chi
cago and Johnston's Island; to perfect a
plan for mutual aid and benevolent as
ISOLATION: to complete the monument to
jefferson Davis and to aid in building
monuments to other great leaders, sailors
and soldiers of the South This will
probably be the last reunion that many i
battle-scared veteran will attend, and the
hospitable people of Richmond will eN-
tend cordial greeting to the men who
wore the gray in the war between tho
States.
SOME THINGS THAT ARE NEAR.
The Philadelphia Press says: Flying Is
solved. The principle is known. n me
chanical expedient is all that is now need
ed to make it successful. Practical flight
i, tnlay- nt thop five
off. Commercial flight ought to come by
1925 or so.
A glow worm makes light with about
one-three hundreth part the force used IN
ordinary artificial light. When men know
how to make light as cheap streets and
homes will he as light as day for mecl
fraction of what light now costs. This Is
near Vacuum illumination without in
candescence Is already in full operation
and in a year or two should cut down the
price of light to sixth of its current cost
and in five or ten years light in II city may
be, like water, turned on in every house
at will
Compressed air has long been known
to be the best way, theoretically, to store
force for use in transportation. Their Is
no waste and no deterioration. The need
is cheap and efficient motor to apply
compressed air to city transportation II
this can be done, first the trolley poles and
wires will come down, next the horselcss,
air-compressed motor-carriage will do all
the work of city delivery.
When these changes come the only use
for gas will be for cooking-if this is not
done by electricity. Factories, also, he
fore many years, will be run by transmit
,ed electric power This has begun to be
done, and in five to ten years will be com
pleted, and the factory fire and boiler will
be a thing of the past.
The city of the future. and no very dis
tant future, will have no trolley poles OF
wires and no horses. All movements will
be on rails by silent air-motcrs or by horse
less carriages equally silent. All pave
ments will be asphalt. Unlimited light
will be as cheap as unlimited water is to-
day. No coal will be delivered at private
houses and no ashes taken from them
With no horses, no coal and no ashes
street dust and dirt will be reduced to 4
minimum. With no factory fires and no
kitchen or furnace fires, the air will be rs
pure in the city as in the country. Trees
will have chance Houses will be warm
ed and lighted as easily and cheaply as
they are now supplied with water.
\ city will be pretty nice place to live
in when the first twenty years of the
twentieth century are passed.