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ONE STEP FURTHER.
Editor Of The Tribune.

VI ne llDuHt.
Sir:-I. for one Republican, am in favor
Of the free and unlimited coinage of sill
Yer, provided the remedy goes far enough
but. heavens alive, the Democrats don't
carry it half far enough to suit me. Let
us have enough at once of coined iron and
brass on the market along with silver to
supply the poor as well as the rich. Sure
ly their arguments are good for this as
we'll as for free silver. l appreciate the
kindness of the advocates Of free silver
In remembering us poor, scraping work.
ingmen. 1t is nothing but right that man
kind should have their burdens made
lighter and the road of life made easy
once in awhile. Indeed, to make a start
in life with the solid gold and silver we
have a present is impossible, because the
rich have swindled and raked 1t all up
What glorious thing 1t would be for
the people at large, therefore, to have old
iron ard brass admitted to coinage at
lG to |. We would get rich and very pros
porous at ten days notice The poor
workingman could pay his store bill with
his old stove or brass kettle; engineers,
firemen and all railroad hands could pay
up their insurance policies and building
fund by old frogs, rails and vorn-out boil
er cocks: the breaker boys could run
around picking up old rusty nails, horse
shoes and playcd-out clocks enough TO
support their poor widowed mothers; yes,
even the young factory girls would thus
soon be able to buy horse and buggy
apiece to ride around the country roads
with.
You bet your boots am in favor Of free
and unlimited coinage Of iron and brass
at . ratio of 1i to !. for ] can prove by
pcmocracy's own arguments that such
plenty Of money in circulation in every
home, and give the poor, honest working
men a chance to pay the back bills he has
been accumulating since Cleveland came
in. Daniel Il. Gregory.
J,,l,
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Protection and Sound Money.

A number Of weeks ago we alluded on
this page to notable speech delivered
by Governor Lippitt, of Rhode Island,
before the Republican club of the city
OF New York-a speech in which he
pointed out with clearness the fact that
the manufactures of a nation are an
unfailing index to its civilization: and
drew the conclusion that an economic
policy which checks the manufacturing
industry is not only Instantaneous
from scientific standpoint but also, in
respect of its consequences upon pub
lie progress, essentially immoral In an
other page in this issue we print that
speech in fun, and recommend to- our
readers careful perusal of it.
Shallow observation may at this mo-
ment conclude that Protection has
ceased to be an issue in American poll
ties; but such lessons as are contained
In Governor Lippitt's speech empha-
size the truth that Protection will be an
issue just so long as it is anywhere chal-
1enged; and that not even the momen-
tary enlargement of the monetary issue,
which traces its cause directly to an
unsuccessful effort to inauguratc free
trade, can long eclipse it in popular in
terest. Had there been no jugglery with
Protection by the congress Of 1893 there
would have been no money question to
arise and perplex the nation. That false
economic step, as Major Mckinley has
truthfully remarked. Increased the i'm
portation of foreign goods until our
money ran out; multiplied our foreign
obligations; produced balance of trade
against the country; supplanted the
domestic producer and manufacturer:
impaired the farmers home market
without improving his market abroad:
undermined domestic prosperity; de-
creased the industries of the nation:
diminished the value of nearly all ouf.
property and investments and robbed
labor of its just rewards 1t is not the
money system but the tariff system that
Is at fault. Until the tariff was deform-
ed by Democratic experimentation the
former was admittedly the best In the
world. Even to please uncomfortable
eastern Democrats we cannot shut our
eyes to this incontrovertible fact. To
do so would be political qualification.
The Republican party will. of course
stand in this campaign, as it has
always stood. for sound money. It does
not want to protect the workingman
with one hand and rob him with the
other. 1t will, therefore, as heretofore,
champion an honest dollar, worth at all
times in every place the full amount
stamped upon it's face. But we do not
propose to let this natural and obvious
championship obscure the party's sim
ultaneous duty in the matter Of Protec-
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WHY NOT!

Edward Atkinson, the well-known po-
litical economist, writing on the silver
question several years ago said: "Thc
annunl value of the silver product is about
$4,000, ,oc0-n gold. The production of the
hen yards of the United States, according
to the census statistics, was In 1879. i5G,-
9lc,91G dozen eggs, and. If hens have in
creased in the ratio of population, 1t is
now 50O,c0,0OO dozen, which. at only 10
cents q dozen, would exceed the value of
the product of the silver mines.
1T would be vastly more reasonable for
congress to order the compulsory purchase
Of s2,OCO.W0 worth Of eggs per month. in
order to sustain the hen products of the
United States than 1t Is to buy 81. OOO, 900
wvi'.n OF @.iNcr: because the eggs could be
used. or else would rot. while the silver
carnot he need. and is expensive to store
and to watch"
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tion. 1t is not only necessary to keep
the dollar honest, but It is also neces-
sary. and imperatively necessary. to
establish by law such economic condi-
tions as will tend to put that honest
dollar into honest circulation. No mat
ter how sound our money may be, it
will not conduce to our prosperity so
long as its principal mission is to pay
the foreign manufacturer for goods that
ought to have been manufactured in
our own country; so long as the chief
avenue of its expenditure points away
from instead of toward home. -Four
years ago our money was not only
sound, but it was also active. 1t paid
to American workingmen the highest
average wage they had ever received:
It kept our industries busy turning out
the largest production they had ever
known; it moved the wheels of COM
merce in all directions, caused the
largest known consumption of the pro-
ducts of our farms and, in short.
brought to every legitimate interest in
the United States a degree of prosper
ity without previous parallel. This it
did because it was backed by system
attic and uniform Protection. We need
to get back to those favorable condi-
tions. We shall not be prosperous un-
til we do.
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"The money of the United States,
and every kind or form of il. whether
Of paper, silver or gold, must be as
good as :he best in the world. Itmust
not only be current at its full face
value at home, but it must be counted
at par in any and every commercial
center of the globe. The dollar paid
the pensiOncr must continue forever
equal in purchasing and debt-paying
power to the dollar paid to any sov-
crnmcnt creditor. Mckinley in His
Speech Of acceptance.
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tion in the case OF Professor McClos-
key and EMPLOYED another gentleman
in his place as assistant instructor In
mathematics for the new high school
after he had already been notiaed Of
his employment have valid reasons for
their course. 1t is due the public that
II be fully Informed as to those rea-
sons. We offer the columns of The
Tribune for an explanation. II there
are 10 such reasons, the public will BE-
forced to conclude that a contract with
the board of contrnl of the city of
Scranton is not to be regarded as bind
ing in case a whim influences that
body to annul it.
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The Scranton Times apparently does
not relish the reminder that free sill
yer coinage as advocated by Bryan &
Co. means 5o-cent dollars. But it can
t show that it does not mean this.
No foreign nation would be under any
necessity of taking an irredeemable
American dollar containing only 80
cents worth of silver bullion at more
than its bullion value: and no nation
would take 1t at more than that valua.
tion. A dollar worth only so cents in
Europe would soon be worth only 80
cents in the United States. The bur-
den of such a depreciation would rest
most heavily on the working classes,
whose wages would not rise sufficiently
to counterbalance it. IT, indeed, they
should rise at all, which is doubtful.
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Stand by the Tariff,


letter appears in the Wilkes Barre
Record from William b. Miner upon
"'rhe Tariff as an Issue" Mr.. Miner be-
lieves thoroughly in sound money. but
he believes even more firmly that it is
the duty of the Republican party to
stand up straight and stiff for the only
policy under which sound money can
be earned by labor and gained by busi-
ness men: in other words. for Protec-
ton. He says:
Who Is SO energetic in making the
money question the supreme issue in this
campaign?
The Democratic party.
Why?
Because that party after a vain effort
to make their tariff for revenue only
policy a success have not enough points in
their favor to so before the country on
that issue. Such a campaign would invite
a crushing defeat, and they do not dare
face it.
What could they do?
They hardly knew. The difficulties OF
running q large government on small in
come naturally made the money question
a burning one. They do not understand
even its most rudimentary forms, but the
universal distress throughout the country
made it a possible catch cry, and to dis
tract the people from the real cause of
their woes was their only hope of success.
The Democratic party and not the dear
people, however, were to be the real gain
ers. Hence the battle cry of free silver.
rho Chicago convention is history. II
4. al L.Nl
whethcrintentionallyo or otherwise remains
to be seen. The Democratic dust bag, for
strong eyes is always full, however, and
il Is lust as we'll to be cautious. A feint
at boiling would emphasize silver as an
issue and subordinate the tariff. You will
notice there is an almost invisible thread
attached to their protestations for sound
money. 1t In effect means: 1--WE will join
she ne;ruo'ieS y'i 1.',,' y" o.no,s aI % Goht "a
gether, but no tariff Not this year. Make
the issues as we want them ana all Will DC
Tho Democrat,c marty has not. will not
change. 1t is made up of malcontents.
anu tss 80 p', ,' its h.nds ' in hnrror at having
inadvertently put into words in its plat
form what its puDilc ac.s nave AWAY IA"
people. Its coddling to the Republican
party for help to throw the cloak OF oo.
not'n Nv 1,orS U penuhiiran institutions have
suffered too much through the present
Democra'lc aomlil,istlati'" ~ "'''"
The Democrats are too willing to let
the past be bygones, but II tne hepuo.i-
eana ..,',, w ,hn,, % rood have M fear as to its
stand on the money question. The Re-
publican party nus Always 0ee' '0'
protected workingmen.
Protected Industries
7, is al, me and indivisible. a policy
strong and indestructible. embodied in the
single worn ri'oi '-o io.>.
Honest and conservative Democrats
who believe that free SILVER "ouiu NC
ruinous to the country are welcome u
vote for Mckinley; and' peing Oh Soou
itdcr,ent and p1triOtic impulses tley
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COUNTING THE COST.
From the Philadelphia Times.

From the PhlIadeIphla Times.
The wage carners Of the country have
some 5OOCOO,O00 invested in building as
soc!ations. This amount also represents
the savings of the workingmen, and they
have saved it and thus invested it to M
able them to become owners OF their own
homes. The change from sound money
of this country and of the civilized world
to the cheap money of the semi-civilized
apd pagan nations. would reduce the
value of these savings just one-haf.
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An announcement has appeared in some
of our exchanges to the effect that the
widow of Fred Douglass has taken the
lecture platform. and that her theme is
entitled Protection fer the Rich" One
OF her strongest points it is said Is made
from Il recital of the Flagler case. in which
the daughter of a rich government official
escaped punishment for the deliberate
murder of n little negro boy. This case
and others that appear on the surface al
most daily are enough sometimes to make
one wonder If, after all, justice is not
too frequently tempered by circumstances
as was undoubtedly the case in the muir
der of the negro boy at Washington. There
is often question in the minds of many
as to whether the trainers of laws that are
found in the statutes of the common
wealth of Pennsylvania intended that the
construction should be placed upon them
that occasionally causes surprise when de-
cisions of the higher courts are rendered.
1t seems Impossible that the laws Of
the land were originally intended for the
protection Of the rich, yet there are many
instances that would justify assertions
made by lecturers of the stamp of Mrs.
Douglass. Merolo, the Old Forge mur-
dercr. had neither friends nor money. He
paid the penalty of his crime by death on
the gallows. Was Merolo any more guilty
than the scores of other red-handed mur-
dCrers Of Lackawanna county who have
escaped punishm ent? Suppose Meroo h2I
been supplied with money; what would
have been the result?
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1t is not true tnat Republicans want
to side-track the money issue. All they
want is to let the public know why that
issue has been raised: in other words.
how the free traders are trying to cover
up their mischief
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Mr.. Bryan has himself publicly ad-
mitted that in all probability q panic
would result should free coinage be at
tempted. Do the voters of this country
want another panic on top Of the one
which followed the Democratic plrty's
other little experiment?
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Since this is to be another grand edu-
cational campaign, let 1t begin as soon
as possible and be kept up without in
termission until the end. The Repub-
licans need not dread to have their side
Of the discussion carefully studied.
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The councilmen who defeated the
Citizens Street railway franchise no
doubt don't mind the new rule of the
Traction company charging for carry
ing packages. They doubtless all have
passes.
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Should the election of a president by
any chance be thrown into the house,
it Is worthy of note that Mckinley
would get at least q of the As votes.
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We agree with the Manufacturer that
1.-The duty of the Republican party is to
stand fast for it's principles; not to hunt
around for methods Of making uncom-
Portable Democrats comfortable"
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Now let Mayor Bailey ratify the new
fusion by giving the local Populists
chance at the municipal pie-counter.
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Ignatius Donnelly declined to race
for the Pop nomination; but it was a
decision more of necessity than choice.
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There was not murmur four years
ago. outside limited circle of silver
extremists, against our currency. 1t
was sound, popular and abundant until
Protection was repealed Debas sing its
value will not cure the dire results of
the past three years of attempted free
trade
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Some years ago, it is alleged, we'll
known citizen OF Scranton inverted an ap-
pliancc of great value to railroads. 1t was
an Invention that should have brought tho
discovercr Of It fortunes. He was advised
by friends to give half of the profits of the
invention to some railroad company in or
der to secure their aid in protecting the
patent for him. He laughed nj the advice.
His discovery was the result of hard
labor and study. Why should he share
the profits Of his toll with a corporation?
The laws OK this free land would protect
n poor man in his right. In vain he was
informed that in the courts 4 poor man
would stand no show beside the great rail-
roads backed by resources ?mple to eH-
hauSt hie means in lawsuits. The inven-
tor att Mpted to reap single-handed the
fruite Of his lalors. And what was the
result? After years of weary battling IN
the courts FOR his rights, the inventor was
at last Obliged to retire almost penn'lcss,
and today the great railroads of the co1in-
try are. ii is said, using his invention ana
without paying one penny of the royalties
which should make the inventor wealthy
man. Is 1t any worder. then, that In this
age there is plenty of soil upon which the
seeds of discord and discontent flourish
whenever they are scattered by persons or
mischievOus propensities?
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STATE.
COngrcssmen.at

Congrcssmen.at-Larg
GALUSIIA A. GROW. Of Susquehauua.
SAMUEL A. DAVENPORT. of Erie.
Election Day, Nov. 8.
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The new chief of the fire department
can hardly have been serious, If 1t IS
true as reported that he has issued
orders to the Chemical company that
1t must not answer still alarms until
notification has first been sent to him.
If Mr.. Hickey will give bond always
to be within call, such an order might
not work great hardship: but in view
Of the uncertainty connected with his
whereabouts at any given time such an
order would be apt to involve a Sc
rious peril to property. 1t would scarce
ly be argued that policeman should
not nab burglar before sending word
to Chief Robling.
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TOLD BY TIE STARS.
Daily Horoscope Drawn by Aiacchus
The Tribune AstrOIo-rr.
Astrolabe cast: go a. M. for Wednesday,
Juiy 80. 1896.

dN ~ aEs
A child born on this day will refrain
from making election bets until the Bryan
Watson ticket has been ratified by the
LaCkawanna county Peoples party.
Another cousin of the late Judge Hand
ley has arrived in the city. Let us hope
that this will not stimulate Il revival of
speculation regarding 'schcd---."
Some of the pupils OF COINS Financial
School, in this vicinity begin to show
the effects of over study.
"A "still alarm in Scranton often causes
considerable noise about the fire depart
mcnt.
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OF all members of society there are prob
ably none who are less appreciated than
the campaign orator, who Is subject to the
contem mpt of the opposition and the jokes
of the funny writer's who seem to regard
this earnest and hard-working politician
as a legitimate mark for warmed-over wit
Of other years. The criticism showered
at times upon stump speakers Is unjust.
The campaign orator is the real educator
Of the masses. He is the advance agent
of his party leaders who makes converts
by his wit and eloquence in localities
where the efforts of the most profound
writer's for the press fall unheeded Prop
erly equipped the campaign orator can ac-
complish great good, and when the advo-
cate Of humbug can also do incalculablc
mischief. In any event the campaign ora
tor is an individual who IL not admired
must generally be respected
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IHTsaKr 1T TIE FosToYFIcs At scgAIroN PA. ~
sEcoED-cLssS MAIL NATTER
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II the twelve members Of the board
of control who effected O reconsidera-
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PEHNNSYLYAN|A
ROOFING g.,
32S Washington Ave.
SCRANTON, PA
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Dentists.

c. c. Lhl-3ACH. SURGEON DENTIST.
10. 10 Wyoming avenue.
Il. VI. STEATTON, OFFICE COAL EX-
change.
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Midsummer iii

Mary had a little wheel
And oft essaycd to ride it:
And where she went the wheel would go
When Mary was astride it.
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FRANK T. OKELL, ATTORNEY AT
Law, Room 6. Coal Exchange. Scran.
tom Pa
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sTrnters' Ink" the recognized journal for adveTs
tsers rates THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE ~ the best
advertising medium in Northeastern PennsyivS
MIA. "Prluiers' Ink" knows.
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Probably the most cruel shot directed
at the campaign speaker of today was re-
Gently given by farmer residing few
miles southeast of Scranton. The gentle
man in question approached DIR. Scott.
pastor Of the Elmhurst Presbyterian
church. and extended an invitation to the
doctor to speak at political meeting
which is to be held in the near future at
a small school house in that vicinity. When
the clergyman attempted to decline the
pettiorer said: "You see, doctor. it's like
this. We don't understand the money
question that there is so much talk about
and we would like to have some one make
it clear to us. Now, We believe what you
say, and would like to have you explain
the subject before the campaign orators
begin to come and get us all muddled up
DR.. Scott, who is well equipped to present
both sides of the case, could not resist this
appeal, and will probably deliver lecture
on the currency question as requested.
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JAMES w. OAKFORD. ATTORNEY
at-Law. rooms 50. q and s5. Common.
wealth building.
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SAMUEL W. EDGAR, ATTORNEY-AT-
Law. Office 317 Spruce st. Scranton Pa.
L. A. WATERS. ATTORNEY-AT-LA
421 I.acknwanna ave. Scranton. Pa.
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LAWYERS.

ALFRED HAND, WILLIAM J. HAND.
Attorneys and Counsellors, Common.
wealth building Rooms 10. 20 and q.
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THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
NATIONAL.

For President.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY, of Ohio.
For Vicc-Prcsidcnt.
GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey.
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URIE TOWNSEND. ATToRNEY-AT-
Law. Dime Bank Building Scranton.
Money to loan in large sums at per
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