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The herald., 1896-02-20
Idle Hands and Empty Stomachs

Says Statesman Billy Mason: "From the
day and hour on which the Mckinley law
was repealed until this day and hour labor
has stood with idle hands and empty stom.
achs." And the party organ grinders hold
up their right hands aud solemnly swear
that this preposterous assertion is true.
This is politics.
When it comes to business the Republic
an organ grinders tell different story.
One of them tells his readers that for the
calendar year s93 "the Illinois Steel com.
pany had considerable deficit to show as
result of the years work. In 1894 tho
company earned a surplus of $3O,607, but
taking this from the deficit of the previous
year left a net deficit of $3lS.s65."
So there was a deficit of $349,472 for
the year 1898, and the Mckinley act was
in full force every day cf that year. In
1894 there was surplus of $3O,G07, and
the new law IVES in force during the last
four months of that year. The new law
was in force every day of 1895. Did the
Illinois Steel company close it's works? :?
Did its employes stand "with idle hands
and empty stomachs?"
Here is what the Republican organ says
about it, ut is said the presidents re-
port will show profits sufficient to more
than wipe out the deficit carried over from
last year. The company is in excellent
financial condition, and it could pay
dividend it the directors desired. Some
OF the directors are IN favor OF a > per cent
dividend to be paid at once, while others
are reported as favoring 6 per cent divi-
dend for the year 1896. to be paid quar-
terly. beginning April 1st.''
This does not mean that workmen in the
steel industry have been standing with idle
hands and empty stomachs from the day
and hour on which the Mckinley law was
repealed. The Illinois Steel company has
not been earning enough to wipe out de-
felt Of over $349,000 incurred under the
Mckinley law and to declare dividend
besides during the first full year of the
new law without employing men and pay
ing them enough to keep their stomachs
full.
There is some doubt. however. about the
6 per cent dividend for the current year.
Business has not been so good of late. The
organ above quoted says: "Jhe year
1S05) up to the last two months was an
exceedingly good one, but November and
December show a falling off in the demand
for iron and STEEL" The year was exceed
ingly good until the time approached for
the assembling of the house with its OYER
whelming high tariff majority in the popu-
lar branch From that day and hour.
Statesman Billy, "labor has stood with idle
hands and empty stoInachs. Chicago
Chronicle.
The herald., 1896-02-20

floods the valley to the extent of many
square miles to q depth of from seven TO
teu feet above the ground, remaining stag
nant for months. These waters will be ar
rested in their descent in deep trenches
describing curviliuear, which shall carry
OIL the wa'er directly to the sea. The walls
OF the trenches will be very thick, and in
order to slow the rush of waters it will be
necessary to fortify them with some kind
OF vegetation.
The quantity of water from the noun
tains will be lmi ed by the construction Of
great number of funnel-shaped craters in
the rocks, which are OF calcareous stone,
highly porous, and therefore naturally
suited to the purpose. Another way of
disposing OF these masses of water will he
their accumulation in semi-artiiicial lakes.
Seven-eishths of the entire territory can
be reclaimed, it IS predicted, within two
months after the grounds have been
thoroughly leveled. but as the remaining
1000 acres that are incapable of drainage
would make the greater area uninhabitabIe
by their poisonous eXhalations, they must
be taken in hand as well. Tie engineer
proposes to separate these swamps by
closed dams from the neighborhood and to
drain them by wind motors and siuice
bitches after an elaborate and novel
method. 1t is the purpose of the projectors
not to leave a single yard of wet meadows,
not pool or pond, in the district. The
valley thus freed from etagnaut waters and
protected against further inundation will
be easily dried up by the sun.--Terre
Haute Gazette.
The herald., 1896-02-20
Our Commercial Xictnri,s

A commercial war mas long bean waging
between the United States and England in
which the older country has been worsted.
England has found the American victories
OF peace to be in some respects more dis
astrous than til ,se of war. While the
American navy of 1872 was too small to
threaten seriously the naval supremacy of
Great Britain. American commerce of to-
day is threatening her commercial su-
premacy all oier the globe. This COM
mercal war has been carried into Africa,
and American goods are even supplanting
british IN the British markets. American
woolens, tools, hardware, and leather
goods, not to speak of other articles are
sold in England's commercial centers, and
the London trade journals, while they try
to minimize the facts. openly acknowledge
and deplore the inroads of American man
ufactures on domestic products.
In spite of the difference in the wages of
workmen, the Englah manufacturer can.
not compete with his American rival.
Yankee ingenuity enables American work.
men to make superior goods at less cost
than the same goods can pe pro iuced in
England. Unable to withstand this COM
petition, the English commercial papers
resort to calumny and abuse and try to
prove that the American manufactures are
really inferior to the English. The hos
tllity which has long been displayed in
their columns is not far removed from that
found in newspapers whose countries are
actually at war. Expressions are used SUCH
as Napoleon made cause of complaint
against the English government of that
day in the brief interval of peace which in.
terrupted the long contest between France
and England in the early part of the cen
tury. If any justification were needed for
the hostility now shown toward England in
this country it could be found in the COL
unns OF the English trade journa!s-An
American Manufacturer in New York Sun.
The herald., 1896-02-20
Comedy in Finance


The monetary system of a great nation
is the last place humor would look for
amusement.
No dramatist has ever presented on the
stage, ancient or modern, more perfect
illustration of comedy than has been fur
nished in the monetary system of the
United States within a month. The na-
tional executive asked for gold to replenish
an exhausted reserve in the national treas
ury and offered 4 per cent bonds in ex-
change. Since this proposal was made
$l6,O0O,OOO and more in gold was drawn
out of the treasury itself and offered back
to the government in exchange for that
proportion of bonds on which the people of
the United States will pay interest for at
least ten years, and probably until 1925.
If this be not comedy in finance, by
what name shall it be called? Nor is it q
laughing matter. The country has al
ready incurred debt of s262, 100000
with interest to keep this comedy going.
Yet there are people who say that the
monetary system of the United States 10 in
no need of revision.
1t is only in relation to American finance
that the American seems to lose his other
wise acute sense of ofhumor.-Chicago Times
Herald,
The herald., 1896-02-20
To Drain the Pontlus Marshes

Letters patent for the reclaiming o. che
Pontine marshes at Rome and their resto-
ration to cultivation have been granted to
Major Won Donat, an engineer officer be-
longing to the Prussian general staff, who
has made drainage on large scale the
subject of special study and experiment.
The marshes, which for nearly 5000
years have been notorious for their insalu.
brity, are situated between Rome and
Naples. beginning at q distance of twenty.
ing in all $4,000 acres. The German
engineer proposes to make this immense
territory productive at comparatively
small expense. He is now organizing a
company. The value of the agricultural
lands to be reclaimed Is estimated at 25O,-
100000 francs. They include, aside from
the marshes proper, 100000 acres in the
neighborhood now lying idle because the
pestilential atmosphere admitted by the
swanps makes their cultivation impossi-
BILE.
The marshes and the surrounding ter.
ritory have never yielded revenue save as
a pasture for half wild sheep and cattle,
and they can be had almost for the asking.
The law permits the requirement of waste
lands at sixty times their tax assessment.
King Hunbert, it is said, is not only Civ.
Ing the scheme his moral support, but has
also subscribed large sum of money to
further it. as it's successful realization
many huodred square miles of other fever.
laden lands where live 100000 Italians.
OF whom il is estimated 100000 annually
die OF of pellagra, an incurable disease, in.
duced by eating damaged food aud living
on poisonous ground.
If the Pontne marshes, the drainage and
cultivation OF which have been in vain at
tempted by the Roman republic, by Caesar.
Nero and TragaIlus, by Popes Bonitace,
Martinus, Sixtus and Plus VI, can be re-
claimed by the aid of science and modern
machinery, capital will be forthcoming for
the improvement of other Italian swamp
regions that now repel instead of attract
ing settlers, and they Kill by inciies those
who brave their maiodorous surroundings.
since the middle ages, and probably CEN
turies before, the Pontine marshes have
been inhabited only by wild horses, buffa
,oes and handful of herdsinen. Among
the latter are twelve brigands on whose
heads the government has prizes in money,
notably Tiburzi. the brigand chief, and his
NEIL.
Unlike the great Dismal swamp of Nir-
ginia and North Carolina, which is covered
with spongy. vegetable soil, without any
mixture of earthly particles, the surface of
the Pontine swamps, which consists of vol
cauc products. would form a solid mass if
drained, and would have truly astonishing
fecundily Major Donat caused a large
section OF dry land in the district to be
tiiSsA uutiie tisS ftot lew SrheuuSs tAttta ttIc
result vac harvest such rs il possible
elsewhere. as ia India and Mesopotatni
This would prove that the calculations as
to the agricultural value of. the reclaimed
lands are not e,travagant.
3i.e engineer proposed to stop up the
artificial az we'll az the natural water
courses, and also the great masses of water
running into the valley from tho mountains
as a consequence of the terrific transforms.
This accumulated rainwater frequently
The herald., 1896-02-20

similarly forfeited IL the investigation de-
velops that the nlleQations Of that paper
are false and thos 9 of The HERALD truth.
full. .s;.t fi,.-
Second-In this controversy it is under
stood and agreed that the burden of proof
rests with tts Times, that 10, the Times ID
bound to produce sufficient and competent
evidence to sii staiu and substantiate the
allegations made by it in the publication
Iuoted.
Third-It is further agreed that the mat
ter in controversy shall he submitted to a
comini tee. to be selected as stipulated in
The HERALD of December Sth last. with
ont other conditions than those herein
specified; and the committee snail he en-
powered to dispose of the subject finally
according to its own judgment; and after
the rendering and publication of it's de-
cision the controversy shall be wholly
closed aud shall not be reopened by either
party thereto.
Fourth THAT the committee shall have
power to award the forfeit money to either
the Free kindergarten association of Los
Angeles or the Newsboys Home Of the
same place, or to both charities in equal
proportions.
Fifth--That the committee shall con-
slider no evidence except such as shall be
submitted OH affidavit; that bearsay testi-
,nony shall not be accepted as competent
by the committee: that technical construc-
he indulged in by the committee. but that
the latter shall determine the dispute ac-
cording to the facts developed by the tes-
timony.
The HERALD submits that the "rea-
son" given by the Times for fora Wish
ing" needs no further comment. 1t be-
lieves that it is safe in asserting that
there is not a single condition Of the
proposition rendered the Times that
any fsir-minded, intelligent person de-
string an honest adjustment of the is
sue between it and tho Times would
consider as in the nature of restric-
tive technicality calculated to "bar
fair settlement of the controversy"
The HERALD demanded that the Times
prove it's statements; that the testi-
mony taken by the arbitrstors be sub
mitted on affidavit; that mere hearsay
evidence-the testimony Of persons who
heard this, that aud the other thing
about the matters in dispute-be pre-
cluded, and only that Of people pos
sesed of direct personal knowledge of
those matters be accepted, and that
technicalities be waived. The HERALD
certainly could not be expected to try
its case under less equitable conditions.
The refusal of the Times to accept
50 eminently q fair proposition for
reaching q conclusion in the contro-
versy is not particularly surprising to
The HERALD and certainly should not
be to the public. The reputation at
tanned by that paper for trimming,
evsding and distorting has been ably
sustained throughout the controversy
which has been so unsatisfsctorily-to
The HERALD and the public--closed.
1t has ever been and always will be
thus-with the Times.
The herald., 1896-02-20
Without a Fayorite Son

For the first time in many years Indiana
is now without a "favorite son" who ia
available for presidential purposes, and it
is probable that business will still be car
ried on in Harrisons name, with OF without
his consent. Meanwhile Indiana is fight
ing ground for all candidates, indeed. the
lighting has begun already. AS in Illinois,
the struggle will be to keep the delegation
Ill the hands OF the old leaders. without
much regard to the desires of the people,
or, at least, to the extent of showing candi.
dates that if the delegation is given them
they must do business with the leaders and
not directly with the people. that good
man and crafty politician, John G. New,
naturally affiliating win Quay. Plat and
Clarkson is already talking about Allison
or Heed, while Mr.. Gowdy, the chairman of
the. Republican state committee, is out
spoken Tor Mckinley. The question is
whether they are fighting for blood, or sim.
ply sparrlng for points. You never can
tell when these politicians meau tho busi-
ness they seem 10 mean.-Chicago Times
Herald,
The herald., 1896-02-20

months at time, and then she returned
direct to England. After that brief &C.
quaintance mot. l believe, longer than q
forinight il was seven years before the
lovers saw one another. At the end of this
time. on Huxley appointment to the school
of mines, he was in a position to claim
his bride and welcome her to their fret
home in St. Johns Wood. He often used
to say that to engage the affections of .
young girl under these circumstances,
knowing that he would have to leave her
for an indefinite time, and with only the
remotest prospect of ever marrying, was
an act most strongly to be reprobated, and
lie often held it out as a warning to his
children never to do anything of the kind,
and yet they all married young and all
happily.
HuxIey's love at first sight and con-
stancy during those seven long years of
separation were richly rewarded, for 1t is
impossible to imagine pair more
thoroughly suited. North American Re-
view.
The herald., 1896-02-20
Our Stock Of Currency and Gold

According to the February statement oi
money and currency in the country, the
amount in circulation February 1st was
$l,5S9, ,72O,6O7, against $l.613,657,5l5
at the sane s5a od@ time last Of
head of population is stated at $22.47, or
about 81 less than it was July ], 1892.
Yet there is no complaint OF q scarcity OF
circulation.
The amount of gold coin in circulation is
stated at $499 ,262 ,6s6, or about 81 .O0O,.
600 less than it was a year ago. While
year. there is an increase as compared
with previous years, the largest total at
any former time having been $495 ,976,-
73O, July !, 1894. There has been an in.
crease, interrupted at times but fairly con-
tinuous, ever since the resumption of
specie payments in 1870, when the amount
brought into circulation was about $l10,-
100000, according to the treasury depart
ment estimate.
During the period of suspension begin
ming in 1862 and ending January l, 1879,
there was no gold in active circulation in
this country, except on the Pacific coast.
The amount in circulation there, including
subsidiary silver, is estimated at $25,OO0,-
900, without change for the entire period.
1t is obvious that this unchanging estimate
for a region continually growing in popula-
ton and wealth is not to be accepted i'm
plicitly. -r'..'
The total estimated amount of gold coin
in the country plus bullion i'll the treasury
on the 1st inst. was $6l3,3OS,42O. Com
pairing with table showing the estimated
stock at the beginning of each fiscal year
since 1873, this is the smallest total since
1885. except in 1893, when the total stock
was reduced to $597, ,697,6s5. The stock
of gold reached the maximum of $685.
s1S,S55 July /. .1SSS. The total July,
1879, six months after resumption, was
S245, ,S37. The increase in nine
years, therefore, was s460,O77,O1s, or
nearly s5l 100000 year on the average.
Since 1883 we have lost $92, 0, ,435, or
u 4.23O, 900 a year on the average.
We had no difficulty in obtaining gold to
meet our increasing currency requirements
until after we had clicked the channels of
circulation with great mass of cheap sill
YER. Then the supply of gold in our circu-
lation not only ceased to grow, but began
t. diminish. and it has continued to dimin-
ish with intermissious ever since. We have
heaped up inferior money only to lose the
best money and to inflict enormous losses
upon the people of the country. We have
been paying dearly for the folly and cow
ardice of our Legislators
The herald., 1896-02-20
vIslTANTs

They come to US at dawn Of day
With whlsperings of long ago,
And haunt me in the twilight gray.
With notes OF forgotten lay,
That once so we'll fused to know,
They come to me at dawn of day;
And when in dusky aisles pray.
They come on wings of music low,
And haunt me in the twilight gray.
In scented blossoms of the May,
In winds that through my lattice blow,
They come 10 me at dawn OF day
They come from regions far away,
On summer showers or flakes of snow,
And haunt me in the twilight gray.
Through everything do or say
some tokens of their presence flow;
They come TO me at dawn OF day,
And haunt me in tt e twi light gray.
ARTHUR L. SALMON.
The herald., 1896-02-20

The financial endorsements OF
Spain are liable to assist in q speedy
termination of hostilities in Cuba
Wars of the Cuban order cost money,
and Spain has neither money to spare
nor the credit with which to raise it.
An idea of the business methods which
obtain with the Spanish government
may be inferred from the fact that no
account Of receipts and expenditur 9
has been published since 1870, but it is
known that even during years of peace
the deficits have been from 60,000,000
to 100.000,000 pesetas, and that the
kingdom has total debt OF nearly six
billion pssetss. 1t is pretty hard for
a country in such q FIX to put down q
formidable rebellion.
The herald., 1896-02-20

Commenting on the Barrett -Talbert epi-
graph (Republican) observes: 1.-THE young
man from Massachusetts whose absurd
performance in the house shamed his older
and more sensible as we'll as patriotic as
sociates on the Republican side, was only
s years of age when Sumter was fired or" !"
The herald., 1896-02-20

When the Rattlesaa!ye was in Sydney
harbor the officers ~ere invited to bail,
and young liiSlev a,nnng the nunlbsr.
There Tor the !.rsa tii.a is rlct his future
wife. whose parents resided at sydney. A
few days after they were engaged, and the
ship sailed for the Tower straits to com.
plete the survey If the north coast of Aus
tralia, all communication being cut off for
The herald., 1896-02-20

The one thousand United States dol
lars that the Times made a bluff at
putting up against the HERALD's money
in the contemplated trial of the
Times verscity is still on q string. 1t
is now being paraded around as q gift
to the Newsboy's Home-under certain
conditions that are not at all likely to
be fulfilled. A plain case Of noble
CONTINGENT" philanthropy.
The herald., 1896-02-20

To show the zeal of the Republican con.
Rress it is proudly asserted that "business
is in forward state, with three appropria-
tion bills already passed." If this method
of showing patriotic diligence we're not
more or less habitual with Republican con-
the treasury besides a long-felt want New
York World.
The herald., 1896-02-20

Although the silverites cannot procure
the adoption of their policy, they can
.'make candidates voiceless," says the
Boston Herald Und.), land are masters to
that extent of the political situation. Here
is power, indeed, and power that grows in
demands by the concessions it is accorded.
Is it not time that a direct contest be made
with it?''
The herald., 1896-02-20

WITH characteristic originality and
enterprise Chicago now introduces
black snow. It will now be in order
for some poet Of the west to sing of
the "bsautiful sable mantle Of winter"
The herald., 1896-02-20

THICK and fast gather the presiden-
tisl booms and they 60 careening
around the country at rates of speed
that inspire fearful snticipations in
the timid. Bnt up to date there have
been no collisions, all Of which shows
that this Ia great country with lots of
space.
The herald., 1896-02-20

almost twsnty-four hours before they
landed at Phoenix. In other words,
according to the enterprising Times,
they got there before they arrived.
Truly this is q awonderful scoop.
The herald., 1896-02-20


Col Samuel stoutener, who would eat up to:
baceo like COW ca hay tried this wonderful
remedy, and even Samuel, after all his years
ot slav ry, lost the desire
q. Cobler, Lessing Evans, Frank Del. Geo
i. May. Z. O.. skillington, Hanson Hobinett.
Frank Hershberger, John Sh inn and others
have Since tried No o Bac, and In every case
they report, not only cure of the tobacco
habit, but n wonderful improvement in their
neral pnysical and mental condition all OF
which goes to show that the use of tobacco
had been injurious TO them i'll more ways than
one
All of the above gentlemen are so we'll
pleased with the results that we do not hest
tate to join them in recommending IT to suuer-
lug humanity. we have thoroughly investl-
gated and are satisfied that No-To Bac does the
work well and is a boon to mankind.
The costis tritling, and three boxes are uaI-
anteed TO cure any case, or money REFUNDED: /:
One box i'll every stance stated above efected
a cure, with one or two RECEPTIONS. NO To Bac
has a wonderful sale upon its merits alone
and can be secured al almost any drug store IN
this country or Canada 1t is made by the
Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago, Montreal or
New York our readers are warned against
purchas ng limitations. as there are several on
the market. BE sure you get No.To.Bac. Then
you're all right
The herald., 1896-02-20
"Pure and Sure
Cleveland
~ BAkENG POWDER.

Bread and cake raised with keep their freshness and
flavor. The is the leavening power from
pure of and soda, nothing else whatever
The herald., 1896-02-20
NEVER TOO LATE.
Premature Old Age Made
Impossible. ..
A Lifeline Habit Easily Broken--Its Easy
II You Only Take the Right
Road,
lFrom The Press, Everett, Pal

n II I'LL DeT OI OuI
great and most iu-
vcterate tobacco
smokers and chew.
ers have quit the
use OF the filthy
weed. The reform
was started by
Aaron Gerber, W no
was a confirmed
slave for many
years to the use OF
tobacco. He tried
the use OF No.To
Bac, and to his
great surprise and
delight, 1t cured
him
Hon. c. w. Ash
com. who had been
smoking for sixty
years, tried No To
Bac and it cured
1,t-.
The herald., 1896-02-20

Write tho Truth as you see Its
Fight the Wrong as you find it: Pub
llsh all the News, and Trust tho
Event to the Judgment of the People
The herald., 1896-02-20

The popular HOTEL METRoPoLE open,
and regular steamer service every day except
Sunday. commencing Feb. s, 1896. See railroad
time tables in Los Angeles daily papers. Full in
formation from BANNING CO., 222 s. Spring
street, Los Angeles, Cal.
The herald., 1896-02-20

R0-Psrsens desiring THB HERALD deliv-
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mako innssdiats esnpIaint At the office.