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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

D friend of my youth, wero you with us
today,
The laugh would 60 round and the
story be told,
Though all which once graccd you had
faded away
And left you deprived OF your glory
OF old.
Why then DO we grieve, whep perhaps
not a few
As strangers had passed you aud
beamed with delight
70 grasp your warm hand, though they
could not renew
That part of yourself which had van
jshed from signtf
Why ask when the answer cannot be
made known?
We loved that OF him which alas was
concealed
Till what we call death rolled aside the
dark stone
And 10, unto us our dear friend stands
revealed!
The Angel of Death!-Ah, indeed il is so!
Hath strengthened our circle since
last We met.
And made US, my comrades, to feel and
TO know
Where the outposts OF infinite Love are
set!
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
TIME TO TAKE SIDES.
II Repudiator, Vote For Repudiation; II
Not. Vote For Mckinley.

II Repudiator, Vote For liquidation; II
Not. Vote For Mckinley.
The arguments for free coinage can
not stand the tests Of facts and truth.
The historical argument is no better
than the rest. The fact that silver was
used as money for a long time affords
no reason why it should always be used,
when it has become so common and
cheap as to lose the power to accurately
measure other values. 1t is more than
possible that while Abraham was pay
ing 400 shekels of silver, current
with the merchant" for the field of
Machpelah the 'ative Americans were
settling their balances with wampum,
form Of money more laboriously pre-.
pared than are the metal coins Why
should not we Americans continue to
honor this currency, that for ages was
the accepted circulation among millions
of earlier Americans?
Sincere many Of the silverites un-
doubtedly are, but the twin purposes
that push the "cause Of silver" are.
first, that of the mine owners, 10 make
fictitious market for their product, and,
second, that of men everywhere who, as
we have seid, want to scale down their
obligations. We all wish we'll to pro-
ducers, but no class of producers has q
right TO imperil the country for its ben
eft. With repudiation under any guise
we have no sympathy whatever. But,
notwithstanding the selfish and dishon-
est purposes behind the silver move
ment, we must admit that il has ac-
quired great strength and today con-
stitutes a powerful menace to the honor
and the prosperity Of the courtry.
What ought men Of all parties to do?
Those who believe with Altgeld and
Tillman and Teller, that free silver COIN
age is the highest duty of the hour,
should vote for the Chicago platform
and the men placed upon it. AL others,
whatever may be their party alliances
in tho past, who believe that obliga-
tions, personal and public, should be
sacredly met and tho currency Of the
people protected from uncertainty and
variation, should content themselves
with no half way measures, but go un-
hesitatinely TO the opposite side, making
their rebuke as emphatic and decisive
ms possible, TO the end that the question
may be settled and its disturbing force
eliminated from our affairs. Dry Goods
Tkr,ps,la
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

manner and a rhetoric more refined and
attractive than thoso of Tillmau 20 preach
tho gospel of irresponsible Populism.
What pledge has the short public life Of
Bryan given us that he mas ability, judg-
ment and dignity Of character to berve
him as Chief Magistrate OF the nation?
Jt is as though the great Democratic
party had been led into somo wild orgy
in which 1t mado it's excesses itf policy,
throw all that Is honore BILE in It's history
TO the winds and started on a career of
utter madness. We do not wonder that
decent Democrats North and South,
East aud West, turn from the convention
81 Chicago with anger and disgust and
repudiate 1t utterly. That Is what the
people will do in November, The danger
10 akin 20 that which confronted tho peo-
pie in 1850: but We have the most per-
feet con fidence as to the outcome. Com
mon sense, common honesty and COM
mo1 devotion to our institutions will
triumph as they have triumphed before,
and save to US our honor. our institu-
tions and our government.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
NOT THE ONE THING NEEDFUL.


The free, unlimited and independent
coinage OF silver will not give employ
ment to the people.
1t will not start the fire in single fur
mace.
1t will not set a-humming a single
loom.
1t will not make full days work In
place of short hours.
II will not build up wages from present
cut-downs.
il will not In fact in the remotest way
effort OF idle brain and hand.
Plenty OF money? Bosh! Some men
inherit money. Some men steal il. The
immense majority OF us can't get any of
Il unless we work for it.
What gives us employment gives us
money. The mints might hammer out
silver dollars or gold dollars or any kind
OF dollars till doomsday, but il We could
not get cnance TO work we could get
none of them. They would only choke
up the store rooms OF tho mints and the
treasury. Employment first, and money
will come.
Then we shall want the right kind OF
money, sound money, 10O-cent dollars,
money that rays us for our labor, not
that half pays US because we have to pay
double the face value of IL to buy the
necessities and comforts of life.
That's what
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

The "gold bugs" may occasionally
refer to the bryanites as "lunatics, Z"
anarchists" and "repudiators, but in
its most unabridged form tho voca-
bulsry is distinctly modest by contrast
with that OF such silverites as Senator
STEWART, who in one speech the other
night referred TO the sound money men
ss."gold bug swinolers, "monarchists,' -
"aristocrats, "monopolists, "des-
pots, property wreckers," "swin-
dlers," "gold gam blers," and "enemies
OF civilization"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
UNKNOWN PARTS OF THE PLANET.

UNKNOWN PARTS OF THE PLANET.
Australia has been crossed from North
to South. The journey is beset with
perils, and it's traversing has boen asso-
ciated with much suffering TO the OK
plorers. 1t Is q not generally known
fact that this great island continent has
never yet beon crossed iom East TO
West.
AS pointed out by member OF the re-
cent geographical congress in London
there is lots OF earth on thu planet that
is not mapped, much OF 1t hardly touched
by the adventurous explorer. Outside
the polar regions, oil the seas have been
explored, but by no means all the land.
Not only is Australia, with all its wealth
and population hardly opened up behind
OF South America Is but roughly mapped.
IL has been pointed out that omitting the
Arctic regions, 5,oJO,OOJ square miles and
the Antarctic country, $500, Oco square
miles, neither OF which can offer much
hope for contributing to the necessities
OF mankind, there is in Africa 9, 500, 900
square miles, In Australia and south
America 1000, ,OoO in Asia 10000, and
among tho islands scattered nbou, the
seas, 400, ,Ooo--a total OF il.10o, 900 squsre
miles OF practically unknown land on
the enrth's surfa.o,
There u ample oppori unity vet for the
scientist, the geosraphor and the ox-
pIoror VINO loves nd venture In the wilder
ness TO dIsport themselves
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

THERE are yot living In the South men
who have had their share Of experience
with money OF no other vsIue than that
-ef . sisssp made by the government with
out any hard cash in the treasury. The
Confederate rsper money was plenty, and
prices were high, but the height Of the
prices was ell out OF proportion TO the
plsntituds OF the money.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
NO CROSSES,

In the hurrah OF the campaign there
will be ample oppori unity for the display
OF wide variety of suggestive and fanci-
iul costumes, devices and EN- mblems, but
II is to be hoped that few communities
will be made witnesses OF anything repre-
senting cross of gold or any other kind
of cross in political procession. such
an emblem WINS displayed by the silver
men in Kentucky procession the otner
night and 1t has been iitly rebuked.
The BRYAN "cross OF gold" appears to
have been taken up as fine campaign
rallying symbol by the more hystorical OF
the silyerites. But it Is an offensive SYM
boil Ii would better be dropped from
campaign literature. 1t is irreverent and
wholly unwarranted. 1t is On offense to
the sense OF decency supposed TO be the
possession OF every citizen where 1t is not
regarded as sacrilege. No Christian
community, no thinking community can
tolerate 1t.
Let the silverites ia thoir paradcs ex-
ercise freely their ingenuity in devising
phrase and emblem designed TO express
their Ideas and excite opposition to .or
ridicule at the claims of the sound
money cause. But let there be 10 crosses
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

1T is hardly an scceptable figure OF
speech to refer to BRYAN, ALToBLD, TILL
Man and their Hind as the "musnroom"
leaders of the Democratic party. "Tosd-
STOOL" rather.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

MR.. MIMMs OF Tennessee, late Populist
nominee for governor and one OF the
leaders in the st Louis convention, says
of the Boy Bellows of the Platte: "As to
Mr.. BRYAN, the Democrats have stolen
our man, bur we stole him back; they
also stole our platform, but We stole it
back, too. We were perfectly satisfied
with the nomination OF Mr.. BRYAN. We
know where he stands. We know him
to be heartily in sympathy with our plat
form. lie favors an irredeemable cur
reney. He is green hacker, out and out.
He favors government ownership of rail
roads and the telegraph, and fought at
Chicago for the initiative and refer
epdum. i sincerely trust tina. he will
not accept our nomination or speak out
for our platform. We know where he
stands, and are satisfied TO nave him re-
main silent. This would keep down
prejudice"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

The threat that this country would 60
10 n silver basis under the sherman make
shin four years ago brought panic. busi-
ness stagnation aud general distress. These
conditions were intensified by the passage
Of the hopeless Wilson tari1 law. Now
tho half checked panic Is threatened with
renewal under tho reality Of free coin
sgc and silver monomctaliism IL Bryan ~
elected pfeadcnt
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

Lines read at the Annual Reunion OF Twelfth II. J.
". at Rocky Point, August T. 1876, by
RICHARDSON twoonsoekeD.
They say we're growing old, my boys,
Our marching days are over,
And that we can't Withstand the noise
Which made a fool OF Grover;
That We are getting iean-or stout
Both outwardly and inly.
And haven't strength enough to shout
For Bryan or Mckinley;
So sadly are we out Of Joint,
Exclaim these wicked plotiers,
That none applaud at Rocky Point
The 18th X. /. "Trotters;"
That on our trotting and ali that,
So strict is the EN- barge,
We cam 1t oven straddie at
st. Louis or Chicago!
And SO they talk, these jealous folks,
But let the rascals go it,
They can't disturb with all their jokes
The 18th r. l. posti
HIS comrades OF today are just
AS vigorous, strong and hearty
Az when they frogged it through the dust
And captured Cncinnsti!
o Muse! To her dedicate
oily song and pause TO ask her:
Which will be the most hopored State
Ohio or Nebrnskar
For whom should toss up my hat,
Or wave flaming lantern2
The boy declaimer OF the Platte,
Or 'tother one from Canton
Here Captain Hu uboard's bravest boy
And most ferocious lion
Breaks In upon the virgin coy
And roars: "Misther 0'Bryan!"
And from the quartermaster's tent
A voice thus murmurs thinly:
"Sixteen to one, the President
Will be Major Mckinley"
Again i ask the muse IL she
Will calm my agitation,
And say which State deserves to Be
The greatest I'm the nation?
Amused she stands with matchless grace,
At length with a sweet smile and
Bewitching blush, she hides her face
And softly sighs, "Rhods Isiandl"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

Billy BRyAS declined the nomination
for President at the hands OF the Populist
convention, but he has not yet declined
TO accept IT..
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
SECRET SOCIETIES.
Orders that Meet this Evening.
ODD FELLOWS.

Grand Secretary. W. II. 4. Mosisy. o. wey-
bosset street. Telephone 662
EAoLE-Odd Fellows Hall, % weybosset 81.
fRANKLIN-Odd Fellows Hall. 81 wey bosses
street.
MAYFLowER - Valentine Hall. $50 West.
mipster street.
SwARTs-96 Westminster street.
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Persons leaving town can have THE
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
KNIGHTS or PYTHIAs

Grand Keeper OF Records and Seal, william
A. Wilson, Room .sls Butler Exchange.
Telephone l055.
ELMwooD-Elmwood avenue. corner Potter's
avenue.
ST. GEoRoK-7S Eddy street.
st. ELMo-s05 Eddy street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

The next occupant OF the White House
is reasona bly, sare to he named WILLIAM
at any rate. And IL will probably be
WILLIAM and not BILLY.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

WE have yet to hear from the man who
cut until BRYAN and SEwAIL are elected.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

n. y. Wood & Co. manufacturers o.
Fatincts and woolen blankets at North
bOro. Mass. have shut down their fac
tory. owing to depression in business.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
The Madness at Chicago.

The Independent.
Simple madness ruled the National
Democratic convention at Chicago.
Nothing else could have led the repre-
sentatives Of that great and historic party
so to dishonor its record and drive it's
best men in sorrow and disgust from its
ranks. Many foilies have been COM
mitted in its name; but mot hing but the
treason Of secession and war upon the
government could exceed In folly and
wickedness what the National Demo
cratic convention of 1896 did at Chicago.
The PRINCIPLES enuncisted are such as
honest men, who believe that debts paid
In bad money are debts in part repudi-
ated, and that mob rule in criminal rule
must condemn and reject as of the very
essence OF dishonesty and anarchy. Our
government Is under solemn obligation
to pay all its PROMISES in money tnas Is
of one and the same value, not only in
our own land, but in every civilized
country of the globe. The Chicago pro-
position is to pay them In silver worth
only about half it's face value, and to
introduce this cheap money in quantities
measured only by the production of the
silver mines of the world. We say II is
reputation. II with the ability to pay
our debts dollar for dollar, as we con-
tracted them, we pay only fifty cents on
the dollar, we are repudiatiouists; we
are as dishonest as robbers who take by
focre, as mean as thieves who take by
trick, as wicked as pirates who take
against all law and humanity.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1896.

"BETwEEN Love and Riches"-BILLy
BRYAN 'twixt Tom WATSON and ARTHUR
SEwALL.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
AMERICAN MECHANICS.

State Council Secretary. Charles W. Littsn
833 Westminster street.
NARRAoANssTT-27 Westminster street.
UNioN-767 Westminster street.
RHODE IsLASp-2l0 Westminster street.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

S that the of the
FOR THE FEW snver @ g @ companies m ms NUMBER mum is aDu
population
wealth this producers asked take that will
laboring milio ons-D ayton, O., Herald (Dem).
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

ALL language is not to conceal thought.
In BILLY BRYAN's case 1t appears to be
resorted to TO conceal the absence OF
thought.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05


IL So
Hath broken our circle since last we
met!
Perhaps tis well, for do not know
Where the bounds Of infinite Love are
set.
We think that we trace them our path
way beside,
While yet to our greetings none fail to
respond,
But when the fond look to our grief is
denied
Hope fixes them far In the silent be.
yond.
But, o, tits hope that is tinged with de-
spair! .
The bosom heaye, not with the life-
giving breath;
The eyelids are closed, and, behold,
everywhere
Both here and beyond-fits the phan.
tom OF Death!
The Angel OF Deathl-Ah, my scofrngs
must cessei
must not repine, for 1 know not the
Perhaps, perhaps. twas the angel Of
That snstched from our presence our
comrade and friend.
Perhaps we alone are enshrouded with
gloom
And blindly are cropping through
shadows and strife
While nc has emerged from fond Ma
ture's dark womb
And feasts on the unuttered glories OF
life.
The secret OF life mocks the keenest pur-
suit,
But glimpses are caught when an icy
breath
Sweeps over tho strings OF an unseen lutte
And light issues forth from tho oarkS
ness OF death.
1t brings to our vision, az never before,
Our loved ones with grscos tnat life
had concealed.
And mskos ms TO cling In our griof more
and moro
10 what, but for Il, would have been
unrevealcd.
'Tis not what we see, or hear, or en-
brace
That brings to our bosoms such un.
spoken charms:
'Tis something behind and beyond the
dear face,
And that which so rudely VAS snatch.
ID from our arms.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

ro morphine or Opium In DR. Miles PtIu
PudS CURE All Pain. .Ono cept - aoSe F"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

The Hon. GEORGE FRED WILLIAMS
appears to have himself tor following.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

A little nonsense in an hour like this
With us old fellows cannot be amiss.
The carpet knights whose martial airs
pervade
The scented ball room and the dress pa-
rade,
Or bravely go forth at the dinner call
Towards the lunch room or the banquet
hall,
May not enjoy the story or the Jest
OF grizzly veterans on day of rest.
But we, whose knowledge of the art of
war
Was gained by marching under Colonel
Shaw,
Whose chief delight was the delicious
stew
OF Uncle Horace or Lieutenant Ballou,
And who have felt the glories of Scamp
Smoke
Can stand the loud laugh and the harm
less joke.
Yet underlying all this outward show
or fan and nonsense there are fires that
glow,
Which only those can feel who through
their tears
Behold the ravages OF thirty years.
There is pathos mingled with the mirth
That reaches far beyond the wales of earth,
Into the shadows of another land
Which they, and they alone, can under
stand.
Comrades, attention. while my words
ascend
With feeble utterance to an absent friend
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

Specialist Rye. Enr, Cntarrh and Chronic Dis
eases - years in rrovdencc. New FLETCHER
Building, aGs Union ~, HoHts 10 ~; 70
Consutaticn Tree
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

Full Associated Press Dispatches.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

Free silver advocates in their madness
trample upon the moral law as well as
upon ali sound laws OF finance. They
propose to rob the creditor for the bene-
tit of the debtor; they propose to force
ruin upon lenders of money that the
borrowers may fatten upon 1t, to despoil
the class that has furnished the capital
for enterprise for the sake of the class
that has profted by II. And they pro-
pose, in order to tie the hands Of capital
lists and force them to accept bad money,
that all private contracts stipulating for
payment in good money shall be made
illegal. Men not given over to madness
could not have ser iously proposed in the
name of half the voters OF the United
States program of such blind folly,
rank dishonesty and ruinous conse-
quences.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

THE c,rbstone controyersialist is
abroad I'm the land.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

1t was fitting that In a convention of
such crazy enthusiasts men like Altgeld,
OF illinois, the npologist of the anarchist
rioters and the denunciator OF the courts
that condemned them, and Tillman of
South Carolina, running amuck with his
pitchfork. should come 10 the front, end
tnat the cause OF DeDs the lawbreaIer
should be treated as q sacred constitu-
tional right. The plank that proposes
this is as much a declaration for free riot
rs is the monetary plank for free silver.
The brave act of the President In res
cuing property and innocent lives
from mob destruction is pronounced
Grim, and the rig hteous contempt pro-
ceedings OF the Federal judges are de-
nounced as ga new end highly dangerous
form of oppression. {" John Most and
the whole crew OF cowardly anarchists
VIII be glad TO stand on this plank and
spit out their venom against all law and
order and government.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

As II the dishonesty OF the financial
plank and the shame of tho anarchistic
declaration were not enough, this con-
vention OF Populistic and Anarchis.ic
Democrats must add to them the folly of a
defense OF the odious aud unconstitutional
income tax, and n scarcely concealed at
tack on tho civil service system. They
practically declare for the old spoils
system, by insisting that there shall be
no life tenure in the public service, but
fixed termS of Office. That means that
every employo OF tho Government, every
clerk In the service must be prepared to
90 out when an Administration, goes out
that a new gang OF political heelers and
hangers-on may b. brought IN with ovcry
new administration. All that we have
gained for the reform IN generation,
this abominable platform proposes to
sacrifice.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05

it is a wonder that Tillmsn was not &c
lected as the leader OF these mad hosts.
Altgeld might have been, but he Is alien
form. aud there is constitutional bar.
BLAND is a SILVER mononanilc c. bot withal
nm able and respectable nan. He has de-
voted his whole life Co tho cause of FREQ
silver, but him they set reide, and took
the "Boy OratcK oi the Platte" tue
young dsmagogue who has voice, q
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-08-05
THE "TRoTTING TWELFTH"

Lines read at the Annual Reunion OF Twelfth II.
", at Rocky Point August l. 1876, by
IL, RICHARDSON lWoonsocket).