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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

Charleston is getting ready 10 entertain
the grain congress OF the south and west
which meets in that city April .. The
meeting wiz he the third annual one Of the
grain congress. the first one having been
held in Wichita. Kansas. and the second
al Mobile. \ semi-annual session was
held at New Orleans in the fall Of 1894.
Savannah as well as Charleston is inter-
ested in this congress. and doubtless she
will be well represented. The delegates
are chosen by cities. towns. commercial
bodies and transportation companies of
the south and west The vests interest in
the congress is in having the southern ter
ritory opened to western trade and in ind
ing the cheapest ports through which TO
ship grain abroad. The south's interest is
in having western products shipped abroad
through its ports and in having closer
trade relations with the west.
No doubt Charleston will make extraor-
binary efforts to make a good impression
upon the congress. 1t is only reasonable
that she should do so. 1t is noticeable that
she is already talking of a regular line OF
steamships 10 LulDpG anu u a NlloEA anu
better railway connection with the west.
In fact, Charleston has shown considera-
BILE ambition recently to make a better use
of her port facilities. and very laudable
ambition It is.
We have called attention a number OF
times to the Importance Of starting grain
shipments through this port. There is no
good reason why much Of the grain of the
west shouldn't be shipped abroad by way
of Savannah. While it is true that the
railroads having their terminals here have
been looking into the matter, they do not
seem to be as active in respect to it as they
ought to be. If they are not careful they
will see grain. shipped abroad through
Charleston before any shipments are made
through this port. Our merchants, BUSH
ness men and transportation companies
cannot afford to neglect this opportunity
to greatly increase the trade Of this port.
They must be up and doing or they will
find themselves left in the lurch.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
PERSONAL.

Those Chinese mandarins who were in
Formosa at the time of the surrender
of the Island to Japan and who thought
mat they had a perfect right to help
themselves to the government funds in
their hands I'm order to save them from
the republicans or the japanese invader"
seem to be now having pretty hot time
OF II. Some censor has memorialized the
throne on the subject, and has compu-
ted that over 1900, 600 taelS were taken in
this manner, which should rightly have
been turned over to the provincial treas
ury at Foochow
M. Benton, a French naturalist, who
studies the wild life of the Mediterranean
in tho garb of diver, has succeeded in
taking some new photographs of the sea
bottom. He uses fiash-light obtained from
spirit lamp and magnesium powder,
which is covered by. water-tight bell
jar. The lamp stands on a barrel con-
tanning oxygen gas, which he employs
to work the lamp and the pneumatic shut
ter of the camera. He ,breathes through
the supply pipe of the diving dress. The
camera is water-tight, and stands on a
tripod near the barrel, so that the shut
ter and the tiash-light can be worked to-
gether
A new addition to the rubber industry,
which it is claimed will largely increase
the output of gutta-percha is the COL
lection and export of the dried leaves of
the gutta-percha tree. The extraction has
proved to very profitable, giving an
leaves yielding from to 10 per cent. of
their weight of the manufactured article.
The natives formerly cut down a tree to
obtain the sap. and from this, If II were
an adult tree % years old, there was OBJ
tanned one catty of pure dry gutta-percha.
Fully as much can be obtained from two
pluckings of the leaves of the same tree
without injuring it, for IL will continue
to put out fresh foliage, and will live to
seed and reproduce its species. This is
important, as the best gutta-percha trees
do not bear fruit until 80 years of age.
Crawford Marley who has just died in
New Zealand, at the age of SO, IS believed
to have been the last survivor of those
who had a ride on Stephenson's No. l en-
CINE when the Stockton and Darlington
railway was first opened. He was about
13 years of age at the time, and with two
other boys he went to see the iron
horse" which was brought from New
castle on a dray by eight horses. When
the locomotive had been placed on the
line, George Stephenson's brother, Joseph,
who was in charge of 1t, asked the lads
to run to a farmhouse for some buckets,
and the boiler was filled from a spring
near at hand. The fire having been light
ed and steam raised the boys, in return
for their assistance, were invited to have
a ride. THAT was.' says the New Zea-
land Herald, nearly three-quarters of a
century ago, and with Mr. Marley the last
survivor of the first railway train has
passed away"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
why Rnsiness LnEs.

President Roberts of the Pennsylvania
railroad was asked day or two ago why
business lags. 1t lags, he said, because
there is so much uncertainty about our
currency due to the free silver coinage
craze. Continuing he said: There is no
reason under heaven why our country
should not be enjoying the largest pros
perity at present. There is nothing the
matter with our material condition. En-
terprise and capital are ready to strike
out any moment when something definite
is known but, with the silver craze ana
the war fever rampant, who is willing to
take any risks?" Further along in his
talk, Mr.. Roberts said:
Il repeat the first thing necessary for
the nation is a sound money system. The.
great political conventions should take
the bull by the horns and come out square
they say honestly and plainly that
they indorse the gold standard, and then
the first step will have been taken to-
ward the turn in the tide / tell you again
that we should be the most prosperous
country on the globe to-day were it not
for the feeling of uncertainty in foreign
circles as to what we will do. English
or continental gold will not come here
for investment until some assurance is
given that our standard will remain I'M
changed, and that gold, and not silver.
will be returned when wanted. Sound
money is at the bottom of business. 1t
it the pivot on which prosperity turns
Truer words were never spoken. Mr.
Roberts is not interested in Wall street
He is interested in having the farmers,
the miners and manufacturers prosper
Gus. because on theE prosperity depends
the prosperity of his great railroad. When
he speaks for sound money he speaks
from the abundance of his experience
Last fall business started out we'll, and it
would have continued good had it not
been for the silver agitation. AS that agi-
tation increased business activity declin-
ed, and it looks as if we should have duh
times until the people by popular vote
put the stamp of their disapproval upon
the silver nonsense.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
Nortbern Viii Men Manned.

1t is evident from the articles which
are appearing in the New England news
papers, relative to the decadence of cotton
manufacturing in that section, that south
ern competition is causing genuine alarm
among New England mill men. The action
of the Lawrence Manufacturing Company.
in ceasing to manufacture certain kinds
of cotton goods, and returning to its stock
holders the money that was employed in
their manufacture, instead of reinvesting
it in the manufacture of some other kinds,
indicates pretty clearly what is thought
in New England of southern competition
in the manufacture of cotton goods. On
Sunday the Boston Journal printed let
tiers from quite a number of leading mill
men in answer to questions it had sent
out relative to the probability of the move
ment of cotton manufacturing to the
south.
These letters show that the advantages
are largely on the side of the south.
Among those mentioned are a greater
number of hours of labor per week, the
cost of cotton. which is about one cent
pound less, cheaper coal. and, on account
of the climate, it is less expensive to warm
the mills in winter. These are only a few
of the advantages.
These northern mill men say that within
a very short time the south will manufact-
ure all the coarser grades of goods, and
that it will not be very long before
she will be an extensive manufacturer
of the finer grades of goods. There are
already southern mills that are producing
cloths of finer yarns than can be made
by nine-tenths of the northern mills"
And there is no reason why the south
cannot compete with the north in making
staple fine cloths.
We do not. of course, wish that the
New England mill men should be the vic
TINS of misfortune, but we cannot help
rejoicing at the prospects of greater in
dustrial activity in the south. That there
is going to be greater Industrial activity
in the south cannot be doubted by any one
who knows the facts.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
Who Free Silver Would Hurt.
From the Philadelphia Ledger HndO.

The silver men are continually appeal
ing to the working men to support free
silver in opposition to the bankers and the
capitalists. yet experienced and common
sense teach everyone that the chief suf-
ferers from debased or disturbed currency
are the working people. Capitalists, and
especially bankers, can take care of them
selves, and even profit by the distress
OF other people, but the wage-earner must
take what he can get of any kind of
currency that is made a legal tender, and
must pay what is demanded for the nee
essaries of life, whether prices are on a
gold or silver basis. The profits of broker
age are never greater than when values
are unsettled and money is at premium
nuctuating from day to day: or when in
haton gives rise 10 wild adventures of
capital in speculative enterprises. The
bills have TO be paid some day, and the
plain people have TO pay more than
their proper share, because the moneved
men. the bankers and brokers who are
denounced by the silverites are shrewd
enough 10 make their own losses good
netore the crash comes Il IS the WORKING
people who should be the most resoute
opponents Of a debased currency or OF =
. enc! q me standard OF money. from
that winch % recognized by the chief COM
inefclal nations Of the world.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

To-day there will be republican conven-
tions held in Kentucky, Nebraska and
North Dakota. Tomorrow the republicans
Of Maine will meet at Augusta in conven-
ton and give the Reed boom the greatest
boost it has yet had. On the same day the
New Jersey republicans win hold their
convention. Maine and Kentucky are the
only states of the lot thar have favorIe
sons M for the nomination. Maine will
do the handsome thing BY Reed. but the
chances are that Kentucky viii sit upon
her little son and slye her delegation TO
Mckinley.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

An Americas democrat who has known
Mr.. Crisp all of his life told the Journals
correspondent the other day that until
this spring he had never known there was
a humorous side to Mr.. Crisp's nature;
that he never knew him to tell funny
stories on the stump, and to use his best
efforts to keep the crowd laughing. until
the series Of debates with Mr. Smith. The
strain upon Mr.. Crisp must. indeed, have
been very severe.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

I try to quit smoking, but l could not put
through day without uferlng
extreme nervous torture, increasing hour
by hour till finally, to save myself from
going TO pieces. / had to light the little
white pipe-Stick and swallow the smoke.
zone day l read in my paper Don't To-
baccO Spit and Smoke Your Life Away
just what 1 was doing; it came to me like
the warning of the red flag of danger at
the abroad crossing, and though / did
not believe IN il, yet like drowning man
No-TO-Bac
THE effects were magical; it destroyed
the nerve craving and desire for cigarettes.
Two boxes, would you believe it? made
me well and strong
Il have gained mentally, physically in
vigor and manhood, and with brain free
from nicotine and a breath no longer be-
fould with tobacco smoke, l am so hap
py to-day to write that No-To-Bac did ii
all year ago, so the cure is time tested
and tried, not only in my own case, for
several of my friends have also been
cured.
I'VE have a baby boy now.
MY wife and feel that all this happiness
started from the time when / first used
No-To-Bac, and in evidence of our appre-
cation, and in order that the memory of
our happiness may be perpetuated in a
living form, we want 10 name our baby
boy after the man who wrote the line
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life
Away
Use these lines in any way that you
think will make known to suffering hu-
manlty the happiness that there is in No
To-Bac for men with nicOtinized brains
and weakened resolutions, if they will
only make up their mind to save the
waste of vital power-tO say nothing of
the money--now going up into smoke and
out in tobacco spit"
Get the booklet Don't Tobacco Spit
and Smoke Your Life Away" Written
guarantee and free sample mailed for the
asking. Address The Sterling Remedy
Co, Chicago or New York.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

Over in Charleston the other day
drummer told somebody that certain
New York importing house would short
~ bring over from Japan lot of BIZ
cycles. to be retailed at $3.50 to SIS each.
1t seems that Charleston is not familiar
with drummers and their love Of a Joke,
and has taken the matter seriously. 1t
would probably be altogether safe to say
that Charleston will be riding on trolley
cars long before she rides on So. so high
grade bicycle from Japan.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
The Plain DUTY of Congress.

The unbridled tendency of congressional
jingoism to NEEDLE with something which
does not concern the United States was
shown by the move to take up the May
brick case made as soon as the Cuban reso-
buttons were disposed of. What the lingo
spirit will next find to seize. upon and eX-
ercise itself over if congress continues in
session heaven only knows 1t is certain,
however, that there will be more or less
public anxiety and business unrest until
that body adjourns and goes home. That
is now the greatest service 1t can render
the country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

The ordnance bureau informs congress
that It will require twelve years for the
construction Of the guns necessary for the
proper defense OF the coast Qualifications
contemplated IN the Squire bill. lingo con-
gressmen would do wen. therefore. to let
foreign governments understand that their
wrath s. merely 70 be taken IA a Pickwlck-
ian sense Tor the next twelve years.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

1t has been suggested that Mr. c. A
Collier viii run for mayor of Atlanta on
the reputation he made in the manage
ment Of the Atlanta exposition. If sue
cessful work for the exposition is to be the
test for the mayoralty, without detract-
ing in the least from the good services
Of Mr.. Collier. it may be suggested that
the most gratifying success Of the whole
show was achieved under the auspices of
Mrs. Thompson.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

In the event of split of silverites from
the st. Louis convention and the nomina-
ton by the boilers of Cameron of Penn
sylvania for President, there will have
to be still another silver party. Tinman
of South Carolina has got to have a nomi-
nation from somewhere
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

1t is said the American Protective AS
ISOLATION will put up candidate for Pres
1dent. In that case there will be at least
four one-idea candidates in the field. if
the republicans nominate Mckinley, the
others being the populist and the prohr-
bitionist candidates.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
New Training in Florida.
From the Boston Herald Qnd.).

1t may be true. as Mr.. Platt says, that
the report that Mr.. Quay is catching on to
the Mckinley band-wagon is a malicious
lie. Nevertheless, the Philadelphia Press
reports one of Mr.. Quay's most intimate
friends in Pennsylvania as saying that the
Pennsylvania republican state convention,
two weeks hence. is quite likely TO be
swept by the Mckinley wave, and that,
If such prove to be the case, Mr.. Quay
will be found riding on top of it. He is
a very agile politician when emergencies
arise
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meeting-Irish Jasper Greens.
Special Notice2Double Tenement
Houses for Sale, Chas. H. Dorset, or
Henry 1. Seemann.
Business Notices-Infanta Eulalia CT
gars. at P. Mannings.
Waterproof Suits-Falk Clothing Com
pany.
The Style of Our Clothing-Appel &
Schaul.
Suits That Catch the Eye-B. H. Levy
& Bro.
Medical-No-To-Bac Hoods sarsaparil-
la; Cuticura Remedies; Johann Hon's Cen
uine Malt Extract
Beef-Liebigs Extract of Beef
Silverware - Gorham Manufacturing
Company.
Circular No. 25T-Railroad Commission
of Georgia
Tobacco-Battle-Ax Tobacco.
Cottolene-N. X. Fairbanks & Co.
Garden Hose, Etc.-Edward Lovelrs
Sons.
Railroad Schedule-Plant System.
Summer Resorts-The Inn, Lithia
Springs. Ca
It's SO Easily Done-Mutual Gas Light
Company.
Greyhound Bicycles-D. o. Croft, Man
ager B. D., at Miller Company.
ADJUSTMENTS - Savannah Volunteer
Guards Hop, at Arsenal, April 10.
Auction Sales-Lots on Tybee Island. by
c. H. Dorsett, Auctioneer; "Old Hoss"
Sale of Unclaimed, Refused and Rejected
Freight.
Steamship schedule-ocean Steamship
Company.
Cheap Column Advertisements-He
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For Rent;
For Sale; Lost; Personal; Miscellaneous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

Eighteen counties have declined to take
action in line with the scheme of the
silverite bosses, and the list of such
counties is steadily growing. The schem-
ers exerted their best efforts at the out
set, and the conservative. old-line DEM
ocrats will now proceed to let it be known
that they are still in fighting shape
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

"Restore the conditions that existed up
to 1873" say the silverites. In that year
no American silver dollars were in cir
culation. Only about S,OOO.OOO silver dol
lars had been coined during the whole
time that free coinage had been in force
In order to go back to the conditions of
1873 it would be necessary to destroy most
of the silver money in this country.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15
CURRENT COMMENT.
Time to speak out.
om the P.hiladelphia Record Dem.l.

Business men owe it to themselves to
speak out just what they think about
the currency question. This is not a
year for mumble-mouthed indifference.
nor is it a time for a mugwump aloofness
Because a business man has hitherto not
been "in politics" is no reason why he
should now keep silent on an issue in
Volving commercial prosperity and ma
tional honor Speak up and speak out for
the public veal!
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

Sylvester Badkin Tongue has been nom
mated for congress in Oregon. Upon first
lay odds on it that he is a silverite. But
he isn't anything of the kind. He is a
sound money man. 1t is gratifying to
know that his district has the courage
TO give Tongue to its sound money con-
Yictions.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

The riders of bicycles of this city are
complaining, and apparently with a good
deal of reason, about the toll roads. They
say they are taxed 5 cents per trip for
the use of about one inch and a half
of roadway, which is an exorbitant rate,
and are then compelled to put up with
hills and holes. and dust two inches
thick in dry weather and a slush of mud
in damp weather. When the roads are
repaired, which occurs only semi-occa-
sionaly the repairing is done by dumping.
piles of green oyster shells just where
they will ruin tires unless the riders of
the wheels get down and lift the ma
chimes across the obstruction. The riders
do not object to paying for value receiv-
ed, but they think they ought to have
some consideration in return for their
money Bicycles are a considerable source
of revenue to the roads.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

Mr.. Depew, who has just returned to
New York from tour Of the west, SAYS
he was surprised to find the sound money
sentiment so strong in San Francisco.
He thought everybody there would be for
free silver. but at a dinner which he at.
tended he discovered that he was mis-.
taken.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

Some Brooklyn republicans are going to
spring a political novelty on the McKin-
ley and Reed cohorts at St. Louis. They
are going to send down 100 men on b.
cycles to parade and shout for Morton.
into politics. 1t may transpire after {
while that they will put up nominees or
their own for municipal and other offices.
The probabilities are that even in the city
of Savannah the wheelmen are sufficient
~ strong to WELD the balance of power
as between political factions.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

The Nashville American notes that the
Tennessee counties are still instructing
delegates to the state convention for Tay-
Tor. 1t would be interesting to know how
Mr.. Taylor stands with regard to the hnan-
cial question. 1t really does not matter,
in so far as the office Of governor is con-
oerned, but Of late it has become the Gus
tom to measure every candidate for Office,
from constable to President. by the money
standard.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

The New York Times, in its issue Of
Monday. prints a picture OF Mr.. duBig-
non Of this city. who is a candidate
for the Senate against Congressman
Crisp. The Times picture. We think. gives
M duBisnon JUST a bit too boyish a
look. He is a young man, II Is true. But
he IS Of that peculiar temperament and
physique that he VIII be young still ff-
teen or twenty years hence; he is Of
the perpetuaIly youthful kind But he
isn't boyish. He is old enough and cru
dite enough TO FIJI q seat in the United
States Senate.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-15

The s!lverites of Alabama have tried to
hide the fact that they opened the prima-
ries to populists. republicans and every
body else. by saying chat the sound mon
ey men used money. This statement is not
to be accepted, however. because of the
fact that the sound money men had no
money to use. 1t would appear. from Chair
man Clay's letter to the county chairmen.
that the Alabama game of opening the
primaries to everybody is to be tried in
Georgia. Mr.. Clay says in his letter that
in his opinion, no registration is necessary
for the primary, but that only registered
voters can vote at the regular election.