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equal value to those made. Whether In
the simplest form of primitive society.
or In the highly complex organization
of industry in civilized countries, the
process is essentially the same
Under free conditions for the produc
ton Of wealth the amount of goods each
worker, whether on farm, In fac
tory or a mine, would get, would de.
pend on the value of that which he
produced. The total wages of labor
would be the total amount of goods, di.
vjded according to the ability Of each
worker. To add to the prosperity OF
the whole people it would be necessary
to increase the production of wealth.
Keeping these facts in view 1t can
easily be seen that # system of taxa
ton Is adopted by which certain men
will be enabled to take each year q
quantity of goods from the common
stock without giving anything in re-
turn, there will be 80 much less for di-
vision among the workers. This is
exactly what takes place under protecs
ton. That policy enables favored class
es of manuf1 cturers to get not only
their fair share of goods. but n large
amount over and above the value of
thos, they produce. This it does by In
creaslng the cost of their products, and
thus compelling the producers of other
kinds of goods to part with more than
an equivalent In value. This Is In prac.
tice the result Of tariff taxes which raise
prices by shutting out foreign goods.
1t should be clear to the workers that
when n new man got something for
nothing. wages, the share of labor prod.
ucts which goes to labor, will be small
er No talk of "higher wages through
protection" can hide the fact that If a
small class of millionaires have made
great fortunes out of high tariff protecs
tion, these fortunes have come out Of
the earnings of labor. If wOrkingmen
who complain of low wages will grasp
this truth the reign Of the protected
trusts aud monopolies will be short.
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ALLISON ON SILVER.
IVA Senator FavOrs BimctaIlism by
Agreement,

Iowa Senator FavOrs BimctaIlism by
Agreement.
Senator William Il. Allison, in reply ~
n request for his views touching bimctal-
lism by international agreement, has writ
ten a letter, which has been printed By
the Upper Des Moines of Algona, La.
Mr.. Allison was chairman of the United
States delegation to the Brussels none
tary conference in 1872, and studied the
question cxhaustively. He says in par: :
"As respects the prospect for an inter
national agreement to fix ratio between
gold and silver, with view to open mints
with unlimited coinage by the agreeing
nations, l am still of the belief that such
an agreement within reasonable time is
probable The silver countries cannot
abandon silver because of their situation,
nor can they procure gold to take the
place Of silver, even if they were inclined
to do so. Hence the necessity of a COM
mon ratio between the metals, embracing
the leading commercial nations. France,
Belgium. Holland, Germany and Spain
have large amounts of silver In circulation
full! legal tender. ccincd at the old ratio
Of 151h of silver to 1 of gold. To melt
these coins, or sell them at their bullion
value, would involve great loss, which
they cannot afford to bear. Ather coun-
tries in Europe have, in the aggregate, 4
large amount of silver in circulation ana
are in like situation.
"In England there is growing senti-
mcnt for international bimetallism, en-
bracing her political economists. her pro-
fessors Of universities, rs also her manu-
facturers, agriculturists, ship owners en-
gagged in foreign trade, and many OF hcr
leading bankers. and those especially trad
ing with her dependencies. chiefly Win
India, embracing all classes. These are
united into formidable organization 10
promote bimetallism. On the coh'lheh,
the States of the Latin union, except
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but 100. West of the Mississippi and In
the Southern States. where the silvee
sentiment is the strongest, there will be
24S electoral votes. To have any show
of success, the Republicans will have
to carry the East solidly. and hold fast
to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and
Wisconsin, besides capturing several
States west of the Mississippi River.
These are the facts of the campaign,
and the wise student of politics Will
perceiye that while the East Is the skfrt
mish line of the gold bugs. the real bat5
tie must be fought in the West.-Phiia1
delnhia Item.
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ty-eight were so far recovered two days
later as to be abe 10 go to their homes.
OF the fifteen persons remaining Ill the
hospital several are suffering from terri
bic injuries, the nature of which makes
their recovery doubtful. There are still
people who contend that the Reading
train was racing with n train on the par
allel track of the Camden and Atlantic,
and that the Reading train was going at
such a terrific rate of speed that 1t could
not be stopped when the danger signal
was suddenly shown. The story that the
Reading train was racing when the accl-
dent occurred continues to be repeated,
but it cannot be substantiated. If two
trains were racing the engineers were vlo-
lating one of the strictest rules of their
roads, and were liable to instant dismls-
sal, if discovered. On the other hand,
man whose name is withheld, and who
witnessed the accident, says the trains
were not racing.
No verification of the ing between
the two trains can be obtained from the
railroad people, as they either refuse to
talk or fatty deny that the engineers
could have been racing. Nevertheless,
people who daily use the two roads, assert
stretches, where the tracks are parallel,
and bets among the passengers would be
made over the result. Two of the wound
ed at the sanitarium are in very serious
state. These are Mrs. Fralinger, of
Bridgeton, whose leg was amputated, and
the unknown woman with the fractured
skull. The latter recovered Consciousness
Saturday morning, but cOnld only talk
incoherently, giving no explanation of
herself 1t is probable her skull will be
trephined in the effort to save her life.
The terrible event has cast gloom over
the city and sobered the gay throngs of
summer pleasure seekers. Besides the
death and suffering entailcd by the col
lison, it is likely to seriously affect the
business of the city for the rest of the
summer. The fear is expressed among
hotel men that the accident will make
people timid about travelling on the light
ming EXPRESSES and as this has been a
Door season so far, the outlook is viewed
with ANYTHING but cheerful minds by bus
mess people.
A little incident that is not without
patbos is connected with the sufferers in
the sanitarium. Directly across the
street from the hospital is the Protestant
Episcopal Church of the Ascension. Ev-
ery Sunday morning the chimes in the
belfry are rung Saturday Rev. j. ii.
Townsend. rector of the church, came to
the hospital and inquired If the ringing of
the chimes would affect the patients.
| Each of the wounded was asked if he
would rather that the church chimes
would not ring. and each replied in the
negative. Strangely enough, several ask
ed that "Nearer, My God, to Thee be
rung. and this hymn was played into the
diving ears of the men and women.
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Democratic Chances.

The prospects of the Presidential
campaign of 1896 have changed most
wonderfully during the two months
past. They were greatly in favor of
Mckinley in May. His rivals for the
Republican nomination, who were. all
of them, "sound" for sound money
were then already beaten, and his own
nomination was secured. But the
friends of Morton. Reed and other COM
petitors, as a last resort. raised the
question of McKinley's ''soundness" on
the '-sound-money" question. They in
terrogated. they beset him, they bullied
him. till they got him partly committed
to their gold-standard program. 1t was
then too late to defeat his nomination.
for that was secure, but 1t split his
convention, disgusted his mana gers and
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FALL OF THE MOORES.
Diamond Match and Biscuit Deals
Come to a Sudden End.

Diamond Match and biscuit Deals
Come to a Sudden End.
Like a thunderboit out of clear sky
came the announcement from Chicago
Tuesday that the Moore brothers, the
giants behind the great Diamond Match
and New York Biscuit deals. had failed.
The sensation produced in 'the street
that indefinite term used TO describe the
banks brokers' Offices and the business
places of the big men in finance without
regard to their location-was most pro-
found.
While the effects of the failure will be
far-reaching and widespread. a Chicago
paper asserts that there will be no panic.
The Chicago Stock Exchange did not
open Tuesday. and it will remain closed
until arrangements shall have been COM
pleteI to settle the trades outstanding.
This action was decided upon at meet
ing of the governing committee. The ac-
ton of closing the exchange was COM
mended on al sides. 1t was admitted that
il an attempt had been made to carry on
trading under present circumstances Sc
rious trouble would surely have followed
in which all stocks would have suffered
materially. Operators cite the fact that
during the panic of 1873, when banks
were failing al over the country, the New
York exchange closed it's doors and re-
mained closed from Saturday. Sept. 81,
for ten days, resuming on Tuesday, the
Both. For some time thereafter there
was very little business transacted. The
exchange was also closed in 1863. when
Gould cornered the god, and Black Fri
day made it absolutely necessary to stop
the wheels OF business.
The speculative deal, of which the fail
ure of the Moore brothers is the begin
ming of the end. began early in this year.
The head and front of the speculative
movement were the Moore brothers, but
they were ably seconded by the most
prominent local and eastern spectators.
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imperiled his election. The chances of
the campaign changed as though by
magic.
The Democrats, when they met at
Chicago, took advantage Of the enemy's
blunder, by adopting a free silver coin-
age platform, and selecting new man
to lead their array. The trif1ing defec-
tion which followed has been more
than made good, and Mckinley has
been falling behind ever since the day
when his Wall street and Chamber of
Commerce enemies forced him upon
their gold platform. He has lost his
trans Missippi electoral votes, has gain
ed no Southern support, and has made
10 advance ut the North and East ex-
cept in capturing the uncertain support
of handful of chronic malcontents.
Never has there been so sudden a
change in partisan fortunes, never so
prompt a collapse following upon mis-
step.-New York News.
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Democrats Claim the Governor by
10000 Majority.
According to an Associated Press dis
patch sent out on the night following the
Alabama election; Johnston, the Demo
cratic candidate, won with a majority
of about 10000. Elections in the State
of Alabama are conducted ON the Aus
tralan plan, and no definite figures MS to
the result can be given until the official
count is completed.
The Populists kept close watch on the
proceedings, one of the "spotters" placed
to count the number of voters who went
into the polls used peas, transferring them
from one pocket TO another. At another
polling place the POpulist ''spotter' mark
ed Democrats entering to vote by white
peas and Populists by black beans. Hc
contends that several hundred more votes
are returned from the box than there were
voters who went inside the ropes, and he
says he had in his pockets many more
beans than Goodwin received votes.
The vote was heavy In almost every
part of the State. Difficulties occurred
in several sections, but none SO far re-
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as to make comparisons needlessly cruel
to his opponent. WHAT, then, Is the
duty of the American citizens who de-
sire to secure the best possible govern
ment for the republic during the next
four years? Plainly it is to vote for that
presidential candidate who is manifest
" best fitted to administer the govern
ment, and to settle the financial ques-
ton through their representatives in
Congress. Gold men may vote for gold
candidates. silver men for silver candl-
dates. and bimetallists for bimetallists.
But nobody who realizes what Is at
stake in this campaign can vote to
abandon government of the people. by
the people. for the people, in. favor of
government of Mckinley, by Hanna,
for u syndicate-New York Journal.
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The Campaign of 1906. On


This is country of forty-five States,
and in the present political contest the
East is generally opposed by the West
and the South. True, the West and
South were represented at the st. Louis
convention, but it can be truthfully
said that the platform framed there
does not represent either the views or
the wishes of the great masses OF the
inhabitants of those sections.
The electoral college this year Will
he composed of Al votes, 224 being nee
essary for a choice Giving the Repub-
licans all the States norts OF Mason ana
Dixon's line. and east of the Ohio River,
they have but 12O electoral votes, and
with Maryland. Ohio. Indiana, Wiscon-
sin and Michigan added. they will have
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BENTLEY AND SOUTHGATE.
Formal Letters Written by the Ma
fionSl Party's Nominees.


Charles T.. Bentley, of Lincoln, Ncb..
and James H. Southgate, of Durham, y.
c.. have filed their letters of acceptance
of the national prohibition party's nomi-
nations for President and NicePresident
respectively. Mr.. Bentley strongly urges
the cause of prohibition and holds that
suffrage. without distinction of sex, is Il
cardinal principle of the party. He then
declares the party's policy is opposed to
the national banking system, and favors
Government ownership of natural monop-
olies, the public school system, and a
juster and more cqpablc distribution Of
wealth. He denounces the Wilson and
Mckinley tariffs as shields of the trusts,
and makes q demand for general reform
of the Government Mr.. Southgate's
letter is not SO long as that of Mr.. Bent
ley, and does not go into an analysis Of
the situation. He highly commends the
national pnrty's principles and calls at
tention to its broad platform and the rad
ical reforms suggested therein.
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engagement WIS HII-
nounced. few months ago, up to the
present the Vanderbilt family has made
known its uncompromising disapproval
of the match. The fact that the bride
is a few years older than the bridegroom
has been the main obstacle to their union.
and even this has been as nothing in the
face of their devotion to each other. BY
marrying the girl Of his choice young
Vanderbilt may forfeit a patrimony
which is estimated at $4U0,OOO,OO "A
single carriage stood in front of the Will
son residence during the ceremony, in
which the bridal couple were conveyed to
the railway station.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., is the Oldest
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ported serious. At Sylacauga and Irona-
ton there was no election on account of
quarrcls. From reports received indica-
tions are that Johnston and his full ticket
will be elected by 1000 more of a ma
jority than William C.. Oates received
over Reuben +. Kolb. Counties which
two years ago gave Kolb good majorities
show signs of having gone Democratic by
small majorities. Colored voters who
were considered solid for Goodwin on
account of his vote in Congress for Muir
ray, the negro contestant from South
Carolina, seem to have divided in many
Dl1cpS
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Switzerland, are practically united. There
is strong sentiment in Germany in the
same direction. The international BIZ
metallists are thoroughly organized in
France Germany, Belgium and Holland.
The Brussels conference met ut an in
opportune time and without sufficient
preparation and consultation with gov
ernments invited to participate. Such
n conference, when held, should be pre-
ccl-l by n carefully d;gesttd plan for dis
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cussion prepared In advance by the lead
ing governments. Thus it was at Brus-
sels that Germany and Austria and some
of the smaller States were not permitted
to act and vote in the conference, and
therefore it was failure as respects inn
mediate results, but it accomplished one
thing of great value, namely, a general
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Millionaire Robbed.

San Francisco special: James A..
campbell, Honolulu millionaire, who
disappeared the other day, returned with
n bullet hole through his hat and an ex-
citing tale about all adventure with rob-
lers. Campbell says that while he was
drinking in private room in saloon he
was confronted bv two masked men who
demanded money. The millionaire re-
fused the demaud and in the fight that
followed a bullet went through his hat
and Campbell says he was robbed and
kept prisoner for two days. When re-
leased he was given nickel for car fare
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Imprisoned i'm a Burning Mine.

kankakee (lll.), special: Nine miners
are imprisoned i'm the burning mine at
Clarke City. The main shaft of the
Gardner W ilmingion Coal Company was
destroyed by fire and 40 miners were im-
prisoned. Before the upper works were
totally destroyed, however, 81 of them
escaped. But little news can be obtained
from the mines, as the telegraph lines
were badly damaged 10y lightning.
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A DueI with knives.

Two farmers, Tom Hall and Terry
James, near Greenville, Ky, became i'll
yolved in a difficulty over a discussion
about a protracted meeting held in The
neighborhoOd. They came 10 blows and
pulled their knives. Terry James was
stabbed five times and died. Hall is cut
in seven different places and cannot live.
The men fought in the broiling sun and
were al one when the fight occurred.
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IIn,s;iiiirEents pcstro,y Tobneco.

A dispatch from Havana says: The in
surgents have burned and demolished the
tobacco fields of La Rosita EumeIritO,
Union de Reyes, and have destroyed the
magnificent tobacco plantation Of La Car
1otta and the coffee plantation Of Alfonzo
XII, Province of Matanzas. In the latter
base seventeen houses ofdlfferent descrip-
tions were destroyed, and the damage
done was estimated at S600,O00. During
recent sklrmisei in the Provinces of Pinar
del Rio and Havana the insurgents left
fweniy-four killed and three wounded on
the field. The troops during these en-
gagements had twelve men wounded.
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cut Hts Aged wife;s Throat.

Thomas j: Rogers of Nashville, Ill aged
"a years, killed his aged wife by cutting
her throat with a pocket knife. After
committing the awful decd he dragged the
body into the cellar and set fire TO the
house. lie then plunged the knife into
his own throat and was found in dying
condition. Rogers and his wife have been
living apart for some time, although not
divorced, and quarrels between the two
have been frequent. Rogers was found
with the knife blade sticking in his throat.
Ha will die
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BABY'S HEAD
Showed Signs of Murder, and the
Eathcr Is In Jail.

Pleasant Hills, Ohio, is aroused over what
seems 10 he brutal murder Of an infant
child of ElwOod Furlong and his wife (nee
Maggie Wrong). The parents were mar
ried less than year ago, and the child
was eight months old. FurlOng denied
being It's father, and said he would not
raise it. AT the time of the death of the
child marks of violence aroused suspicion,
and Coroner Funderbugh held an inquest.
The DOCTORS found the skull fractured just
back of the left ear. Evidence showed
that Furiong insisted on chlorofolming
the child two weeks ago. FurlOng claims
10 have accidentally struck The child's he al
against the door frame. The Coroner
turned him over 10 the Sheriff 10 answer
to charge of murder.
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of his family to at
tain university degree. Miss Grace
Wilson is not Il member of an old New
York family. Both her father and moth
er are SOutherncrs, who settled in New
York after. the close of the civil war.
Richard Il. Wilson is a self-made man
and is supposed to be the possessor Of
S1O,OO0,000.
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Four Children Murdered.

A man named 1Iuckabee of Opelika,
Ala, who is partially demented, went to
the house of negro, against whom he had
q grudge, land taking an ak from the wood
pile struck four negro children who were
there, laying their heads oDen, instantly
killing all four.
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The Standard Diggers News at Johan-
nesburg publishes an interview with Pres
ident Kruger, in which he states that he
has declined to interfere in behalf Of DR..
Jameson. The president pointed out that
the British Government had stiff to de-
eide who were the ringlcaders in the
jameson raid.
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Alleged Asylum Horror at Toledo.

Alleged Asylum Horror at Toledo.
Considerable excitement prevails at the
Toledo, Ohio, Insane Asylum as the re-
suit OF the alleged suspicious death of
John Vosburg, violently insane patient
from Bryan Ohio Coroner Henzler's in
quest developed the fact that six of VOs-
burg's ribs were broken and that he had
been terribly maItreated. DIR. Todd, first
assistant on DIR. Tobey's staff, as soon as
he learned the real state of affairs, sus-
pended the five attendants who had charge
of Vosburg. The CorOner's investigation
will be concluded in few days.
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DIVISION OF THE ELECTORS
Chairman Jones Says He Has Not Yet
Decided Upon an Arrangement.

Senator Jones of Arkansas, chairman
of the Democratic national committee,
says he has not yet considered any plan
looking TO q division of electors between
the Democrats and Populists. He is not
yet ready to announce all or part of
those who will be members of the execu-
tive committee, which will have the i'm
mediate management of the campaign.
The question as to whether an advisory
committee will be appointed has not been
decided.
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A1StoA VI hOts avn
wedding was pri-
vate. Only the mem-
bers of the brides
family were present.
The bridegroom was
the only one Of the
Vanderbilt family
at the marriage.
Probably no other
wedding In years
has so aroused the
interest and sympa-
thy of New Workers.
From the time the
- - . 80
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Crime without Precedent.

Edward Abbott of GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
pleaded guilty to the charge of attempt
Ing criminal assault upon the person of
his mother. Abbott is coal miner, not
yet of age, but has been travelling with
The Buffalo Bill shows. A neighbOr filed
The affidavit upon which he was arrested.
Abbott said that he had heard that his
mother was not chaste.
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John Cushman, of Brooklyn, was ar
rested at Atlanta, Ga, by Il. A. Smith,
claiming to he a Brooklyn detective, who
said Cushman had on July = murdered
Mrs. O'Donnell and two daughters at 81
Green Point avenue, Brooklyn, and that
there was reward offered of 81 800 for
Cushman.