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The eagle. (Silver City, N.M.) 1894-1???, 1896-05-13

not ask the government to pay him any
thing for his silver. He merely asks
the constitutional privilege OF having it
coined into money. But, SAYS the gold
ile free coinage will send MS right down
to Il "iiity cent silver dollar basis"
Then the silver miner will only get
fifty cents. The gold standardist is so
enthusiastic in the pointing OF the hor-
rors OF Tree coinage, that he frequently
overreaches himself. He actually tries
to make people believe thar Tree coinage
would force the government to buy sill
yer bullion at $l.29 per ounce, when
there is no buying about it. The owner
OF the bullion carries it to the mint, has
it coined into dollars, 37l4 grains OF
pure silver to the dollar, and takes his
dollars away. All that the government
is out is the cos! OF coinage, possibly =
or per cent.
When he gets his silver dollars he
takes his chances on their purchasing
power. Ii they drop to 30 cents he is
nothing ahead. Ii they stand at 100,
then they are worth that amount to
everybody else as well as to the miner.
The idea sought to be conveyed is that
the dollars will be worth a full dollar
to the silver miner, but will shrink to
30 cents the moment it it leaves his
hands. But they say lie can pay 100
cents OF debt with thatdolar and so it
will be worth 100 cents to him. That
is absolutely true, and so can everybody
/ else who gets one OF debt with it. This
very circumstance is what is going to
maintain its value.
The United States Commissioner OF
Labor in a recent report shows that
there are twenty thousand million dol
/ lars OF debts in the country, over and
above all set-offs. Douhlless the aggre-
gate oidebts is thirty thousand mil
lions.
At the present time the chief demand
for money is to pay debts with. Ii
man owe 81 900 and have 1000 silver
dollars with which he can pay that
debt, is he gOiH to part with them for
80 cents a piece. Ii he should do so,
it would be proper to have a guardian
appointed ior him at once.
The only way the pnrch asing power
OF dollars can be diminished, is by in
creasing the number in proportion to
the quantities OF other things.
Ii free coinage should drive the gold
out oi the country, and thus, as Mr..
Carlisle saws, make money scarce, that
The eagle. (Silver City, N.M.) 1894-1???, 1896-05-13

then worth about 80. In 1893, the East
Indian mint closed and silver dropped
in two or three days about onp-iuurth
OF its intire market price. What be-
comes OF the "labOr cost" theory in view
OF that fact? The truth is that the act
ual cost of mining Il given amount OF
silver is increasing rather than dnn-
ishing, for two reasons First, becans
the richest deposits are generally worked
out, and the mines are now operating
upon ores OF lower grades; and second,
the older mines are all the time beconl-
ing deeper, and more powerful machin-
cry is required.
1t is very singular that reduced cost of
production should make silver so much
cheaper, while gold produced in the
same way and equal improvements is
constantly becoming dearer.
But the claim has no foundation either
OF fact or sound economic theory to rest
upon.
The labor cost does not fix the value
OF oianythiug. That is controlled by the
supply relative to the demand The
cost OF producing only has an incidental
eject. 1t influences production, and
production affects the price.
Ii iagiven article sells for $l.O0 and
can be produced ior 80 cents, OF course
the profit is very great. Many people
will engage in that work. As result
the supply will be increased and the
price will fall.
When a thing can he produced practl-
cal without limit, OF course The supply
will he increased right up 20 the iull
measure Of the demand and at the low
est cost that will pay for production.
Hence there is, in general, some con-
uecIion netween the cost oi production
and the price of the commodity.
But in the case OF the precious metals
the labor cost only has - very remote
bearing. --..
A man cannc' take his pick and shov-
el start ont and dig up gold and silver
at will. All he can do is to search for
them, and he may search life time
without success.
Probably no one thing has done more
to poison the public mind and beclOud
the issue than the claim that the de,
mand for free coinage is merely scheme
ON the part OF the silver miner to force
the government to pay him dollar for
fifty cents worth OF silver. Nor is any
pretended argument more utterly desti-
tute OF truth. The silver miner does
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lesson for the nation on the question,
and while it presents scene Of which
no American can feel Justly proud.
still if it shall result in convincing the
American people that a change is
needed in the method of choosing our
senators, then we shall, after all. owe
much to the Kentucky muddle. Speak
ing of that muddle. by the way, this
is the manner in which the Boston
Herald sizes it up:
The longer the balloting for the SEN
atorship in Kentucky continues, the
way things are mixed there is well
Illustrated by the attitude of the four
newspapers of Louisville The Post is
Democratic in politics, but it supports
the Republican candidate, Hunter;
while the Commercial, Republican,
whose editor is assistant adjutant-
general of the state, and one of the
closest and most confidential political
friends Governor Bradley has, fights
Hunter tooth and nail. The Courier
Journal, for so many years kentucky s
pride, and the Times, its evening
edition, declare that the state must not
be disgraced by sending Joe Black
burn back to the senate. In the same
breath they shrek that Hunter must
be defeated, and the two editorially
advise that any Republican who tries
to unseat a Democratic legislator in
Hunters interest be shot on the spot
If this isn't confusion worse con-
founded. it would be difficult to know
what is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-23
FIRE DRILL IN SCHOOLS.

The value of the fire drill in schools
was demonstrated anew in the Musca-
tine, Ia, high school the other day.
Flames were discovered in the build
ing and the teachers Immediately di-
rected the pupils to secure their books
and other effects and to arrange them
selves in single file around the room.
This was done and the boys and girls
began their march from the burning
building. While the children were de-
scendfng the starWays the smoke be-
came SO dense that somewhat of a
panic was created among the little
ones in the rear of the line. The line
was not strictly maintained, but all
escaped from the building uninjured.
The building was very soon a heap Oh
smoking ruins. It is not too much to
say that the fire drill saved the lives
of score of pupils. And why? Be
cause of the discipline and the self
control it taught teachers and pupils
alike.
The terrible loss of life that fire.
quently ensues when fire breaks out
in some theatre or other building
where hundreds and hundreds OF peo-
pie are congregated, is almost entirely
due to lack of GOODNESS and judgment
Could the audiences in such cases but
remember that their chances for get
ting out unharmed would be increased
a hundred fold if they would not rush
for the exits, but go out with no great
er haste than they ordinarily do, the
fatalities at theatre fires would be
very few indeed. It is perhaps TOO
much to expect this, but if each one
would think about it he would be bet
ter prepared when the test came.
The public schools of this city have
the fire drill and it is one Of the most
valuable things in our very admirable
school system. 1t should not be neg
lected on any account. If ever &C
casion should arise to put it in practice
it should be done, for if the drill has
been at all thorough there need be no
doubt as to the result. 1t will reduce
a great danger to its lowest limits
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DENoUNCING FREE SILVER ADVo-
GATES.

At times the denunciations of the ad-
yocates of the free coinage of silver
by those who are opposed to it be-
come really amusing. To read them
one would think that the silver men
were traitors to the country and were
plotting treason all the while. All the
ills of the country can easily be traced
to the agitation for free silver; what
that agitation will not explain is
scarcely susceptible to explanation if
these denunciators are to be believed.
A Washington correspondent of a
leading Chicago paper sends up ter
rible wall over silver. such wall as
the giants whom little Jack slew were
wont to send forth just before they
gave UP the ghost He declares that
the government has been literally turn
ed topsy-turvy for the benefit of sill
YER 1t is greatly to be regretted that
if such is the fact that silver has not
received the benefit it was intended
that it should. Is it not possible that
the government has been turned topsy-
turvy because nothing really worthy
the name has been done for silver?
This wise man of the east goes so
far as to declare that the very equi-
ties of the system of popular represent
tation have been destroyed. This is
really too bad. He declares that new
states have been brought in, devoted
to a single interest Che could not say
a single standard at least) till nullif1-
cation has resulted. What has been
nullifed is not stated; there is still
something left for the imagination to
90. 1t is gravely stated that there is
now in Washington congress whose
senate stands like stone wall against
everything that does not make for
silver. That smile about a stone wall
is very fine but if we mistake not we
have seen 1t before. Then this con-
gress has house Of representatives
that is against free silver two to one.
There is no challenging that fact. Then
there comes this terrible charge against
the silver states, that "of the forty
FIVE states Of the union only eighteen
Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colo
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NOT DEAD.

''The free silver movement IS not
dead"
That is the first sentence in long
editorial on the subject in the New
York Times; and it is gratifying, in the
midst of a general disposition in the
east to ignore the one great issue be-
fore the country, TO see in an
eastern paper plain statement Of
the truth-''the free silver movement
is not dead" The trouble with the
press and political leaders in the east
is that they ignore the sentiment
among the plain people. They talk only
with the fnanciers, with bankers and
spectators; they look only at their in
terest and listen only to their views.
But 1t will be found that If the people
can only once get chance to be heard
squarely on this subject, their voice
will speak different things than the
f1nanciers and politicians now repre-
sent them as saying. Recently the fol-
lowing communication appeared in the
New York World over the signature of
Thomas H. Potter Of BelIeville, New
Jersey:
In your issue today is a letter from
Mr.. Clews laughing at the silver craze.
He would be wise to look deeper into
the subject In the delirium Of fever
a patient may utter many absurd
things which the wise man will disre-
gard in his anxiety to grapple with the
disease.
The silver craze is one of the many
indications that the state is in bad
way: that farmers and other workers
are discontinued with their condition.
They are told on all sides that the
currency is in a disgraceful state
eight kinds of dollars. and seven of
them discredited by the very govern
ment that issues themi Are they to be
much blamed if they, in turn, are not
quite sound on the financial questions?
Those responsible for the finances of
the United States cannot afford to
throw stones at the greatest fools just
at present
There are reasons apart from cur
rency for the distress among the work
ers of all countries. Gentlemen in Mr..
CleW's position can do something bet
ter than deride the rawlings of men
tortured by the thought that industry
and honest endeavor seem powerless
today.
people, and we are glad it found an
opportunity to be heard. The people
are patient, wonderfully patient, long
suffering beyond the point of virtue
sometimes, but their wrath is all the
more terrible when it does break away.
The masses are suffering great distress
from the uncertainty, stringency and
lack of enterprise that comes from
eight kinds Of dollars and seven of
them discredited by the government
that issues them-which means really
that there is but one kind of dollars
gold. We say they suffer from this, and
it is not well for the financiers to mock
them with their laughter, it may reveal
to the people the contempt that those
who are thriving at their expense feel
for them, and once aware of that, the
curled darlings of the temple of NAM
mon might learn to their sorrow that
there is still power with the people.
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MULTUoI IN PARvo.

That man is not poor who has the use
Of things ecessary.-Horace.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees;
she requires the hand Of time.-Voltaire
The man of pleasure should more pro-
perly be termed the man of pain.-Colton
A picture is an intermediate something
between thought and a thing.-Coler-
idge.
There is no opposing brutal force to the
Stratagerns of human reaSon--L' EStrange.
Who ever saw old age. that did not ap-
plaud the past and condemn the present
tirne?-Montaigne
When a man has not a good reason for
doing a thing, ne has one good reason for
letting it alone-Sir Walter Scott.
They could neither of them speak for
rage and 50 fell a-sputtering at one an
other like two roasting apples.-Congreve
It is not enough that poetry should be
so refined as to satisfy the Judgment: it
should appeal to our feeling and magma
tion.-Horace.
There is in every true wc%nan's heart
a spark Of heavenly fire, which beams and
blaZes in the dark hours of adversely
Irving.
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times have-of making others speak for
them.
insisted on his answer. but he only
srniled-like the pastor Of prosperous
Woods wear a blessed look Of No
Mans Land; that's why boys like them.
This strong and sweet extract OF life
books, 1 mean.
Books of the right sort are the altar
OF friendship and nature-with all the
affairs gain and loss.
Our emotions are the soul IN vibration
He who would keep up his spiritual fire.
must keep up his material wOodpile.
Art for arts sake? No: no more than
the loaf and the jug for the loaf and the
jugs sake. But for the soul. the en-
bodied souls sake
a delight must join itself to both hope
and memory.
Most men exaIt work over play. They
are wrong. Work is silvern, but play is
golden. Yet In this matter We must all
be binetallists.
Come away from the unplayful ant
and go to the butterfly But the ant
lives longer? oh, no-only lasts longer.
1t is not mere work or mere play or
mere utility or mere delight-it is both;
it is all; it is art.-BostOn Herald.
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IMPORTS OF WOOL.

During the year ending the 91st of
December, 1895, the number of pounds
of wool imported to the United States
aggregated 24S,9S9,217. This is far
more than double the quantity inn
ported during either of the Mckinley
tariff years, 1891 and 1892. the value OF
the imports for 1895 is $33, 770,1 59. This
is 1893 in excess Of the value of
wool imports during year of the Nc
kinley tariff.
That is from the Chicago Inter
Ocean. 1t gives the Inter-Ocean some
thing on which to hang a terrible tale
of woe. If the Mckinley act was
blessing it was a blessing in disguise
and it never had the disguise re-
moved before it was repealed.
But who was it imported this wool?
They were American citizens and they
had a perfect right to go where they
chose to buy it. Nor did they rob
anyone to do so. Yet the Inter-Oce
thinks otherwise. It says the result
of the purchase of this wool is that
very nearly s17,OOO,oOO is taken out of
the pockets of American farmers and
transferred to the pockets of English,
Australian, African and Argentine
wool growers"
That is nonsense, pure and simple.
To whom did that money belong?
That is the question. If It belonged
to those who had earned 1t then it was
their right to do with it as they
pleased. 1t belonged to American wool
growers no more than to any other
class of citizens. Would it have been
taken from the pockets of American
wool growers if neither wool nor any
thing else had been bought with it
but it had been allowed to remain in
the banks? Whose rights are the
greater and more sacred in this eoun-
try, those Of the wool producers or
those of the wool consumers? OF the
one class there are million perhaps;
Of the other, sixty-nine millions. Are
the one million to have all the con-
sideration while the sixty-nine mil
lions are to have none in this matter
of wool?
1t is further asserted that this is "a
dimfnution. by nearly SIT, 900, 900, of a
fund that is used for payment of farm
mortgages, or for Improvement of
farms. or for purchase of new ones, or
for payment of debts in country stores,
or for purchases in them
What right has one class of citizens
to call upon the balance for s17000,000,
even when it is to be applied to such
praiseworthy objects as the payment
of farm mortgages, or the improve
ment of farms, or the purchase Of new
ones. or for the payment Of debts in
country or city stores? 1t means the
diminution by the sum of S17,0oo,o00 of
the debt paying or purchasing power
of the people from whom the Inter
ocean would take it to hand over to
the wool growers. They have as much
right to demand that the wool grow
ers give them certain per cent Of
their clip. 1t is no more unjust than
the other proposition.
1t is not unnatural that people
should think they have been robbed
when their privilege of plundering is
taken from them and they are given
the same rights as others; no greater,
no less. 1t shows how protection per-
verts a mans natural instincts of
right and wrong and makes his guide
greed and selfshness.
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rents and the wind, and, withal, max
ing better speed in spite of both wind
and tide than the old time sailing YES
sci could make even when running be-
fore the wind and the ocean currents
in her favor-what would have been
the effect of such sight on his mind?
ct is a miraclep' he would have ex-
claimed: that is, IAN effect contrary to
the constitution and course of things
so are miracles descrfbed-"a deroga-
ton from recognized laws But is
such an effect to those acquainted with
the force of steam contrary to the laws
of nature? Or is it simply the result
of the employment of forces in nature
of which the mariners of two hundred
years ago were ignorant? It was
miracle to the old time mariner, but
to people of a subsequent period it is
merely the application of newly dis
covered force in nature. and it is now
so common that we cease to look upon
it with wonder
So with the things that we now in
our ignorance call miracles. we shall
yet learn that they are but the results
of forces in nature, of which, as yet,
we are ignorant, and which, in our ig-
norance of the things that are in
heaven and earth, and that have not
yet entered into our philosophy, we
say happen in derogation of the laws
of nature.
But the point we desire to present
is this: If man with his limited intel
Hgence has nevertheless so dis
covered and employed the forces
in nature as to we'll nigh an
initiate distance, making of the
continents and the great oceans con-
venient highways; if he has bound all
nations and peoples together with cleo
trio chains that they may be in in
slant communication each with the
other; if man can weigh the earth and
compute the distance of the sun, and
with a ray of light take measure
ments of the universe; if man though
separated from his friend by many hun
dreds of miles may converse with him
in familiar tones and know his voice;
if he may leave on the cylinder of the
photograph a discourse which years, or
centuries after his death may be re-
peated in his own voice-accent and
information, so that he though dead yet
speaketh; If now he may see through
opaque substances, so that the wonder
full internal organism of man shall be
as visible to him as the external parts
if man can do all this with his linn
tied knowledge and imperfect instru-
ments. who shall attempt to set bounds
to what the infinite intelligence and
power of God may do? Is it not time
for man to stop upon the threshold
of his discoveries when they reveal
so much, and with becoming humility
consider the questions: "He who made
the ear. shall he not hear? And he
who made the eye, shall he not seq"
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RADIO, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi,
Montana, Nevada, North Carolina,
Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
and Wyoming-gave a majority of
their votes to free silver in the house
last Friday The further charge is
made that the assessable wealth of
these eighteen states is less than
$1,000, 100000 out of a total of more than
$4,000. 100000. The picture here pre-
scented is too horrible to look upon.
Let us leave it, and in leaving it let
us ask our gold bug friends, as we
have asked before. What are you
going to do about it?
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The Governors Partisanship.

should become obsolete in any execu-
tive's vocabulary as soon as he shall
take his seat. All people can endorse his
recommendations Irrespective of politics,
but when they have to be Coated with
partisan incentives to q Perpetuation of
power it Immediately nauseates his OPP
ponents, besides some of his colleagues
and can do no good, for-as matter of
Gus corps Of ofcers Who do effersfi I and
good work will be fully recognized by the
people-or if not the politician who
stumps for the next campaign will see
that not only the governor but all ef-
ficient men with their great deeds en-
larged on fully without this ante
''blow-your-ow that comes
with poor grace from the chief execu-
tive.-Springville Independent.
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HusIoR OF THE DAY.

"Why,'' numbered the editor. do you
introduce such impossible situations?
Here, for instance, you say a woman
was comfortably but not stylishly
dressed How absurd!
And Art, thus made conscious of its
error, departed with diminished head
Detroit Tribune.
He-If there is anything a woman en-
Joys 1t is being a martyr
She-And how willing some man IS to
help her enjoy herself that way.-Indfan-
apolis Journal.
Museum Manager--What's your line?
Applicant-Boneles5 wonder.
week. just step over in front Of the
cathode camera there while 1 prove it:
No need to look Observation-Disclosures
Enquirer.
'sThey say microbes are in kiss"
Quoth he-their lips had barely parted,
'I am q homeopath," the miss
Returned in tone not quite faint-heaTt-
ed;
I'm Like cures like put my trust"
Whereas their lips again concussed.
-Y onkers Gazette
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Or. Prices Cream Baking Powder
World- Fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
CABLES CHARACTERISTIC SEN
FENCES.

Mr. George W. Gable gave his third
lecture In his Lowell Institute course, on
1.-The Story Teller and His Art last
evening, in Huntington Hall. AS before
the extremely subtle and delicate con-
nection of his argument throws the re-
porter back to selecting a few of his
characteristic sentences, which follow:
The long run-a SORT Of mathematical
name for Providence.
With q man of mind there are two
things for which only unfamiliarity can
breed contempt-good books and green
woods Who joins In one such self-re-
spect and modesty as the woods2
That odd knack which quiet souls some
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Leo XIII granted citizen Of Hall
fax, N. S.. a divorce separating him
from his wife, on the grounds Of in
fidelity on her part. 1t is said that
never before has a divorce been recog-
nized IN this country by Roman
Catholic authority. A legal dissolution
Of the marriage has also been obtain
ed from the supreme court. The ideas
OF divorce that prevail at Rome are
radically different from those that are
so popular in South Dakota The Ro-
man idea is the better one.