The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-20
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Strangely enough Japan doesn't say
word against the English annexation of
the Solomon Islands, although they are
nearer her shores than Hawaii is. Surely
the Japanese Government ought to PUNK
one of its famous long-distance protests at
Great Britain-N y. Mail and Express.
1t is evident that the Democratic disin-
tegratiOn begun by the acceptance of the
free silver and reputation policy of the
Populists, is greater to-day than at any
time in the past, and the elections this
year will be likely to teach that lesson
even to the most obtuse of the cheap
money Democratic leaders. PHILADELPHIA
Times.
Predictions are not by any means to be
rashly ventured in any field but we do
not hesitate to predict that whether the
Watson theory or the Boies theory or
whatever other theory becomes prominent,
the days of the I6 to I theory are num-
bered, and that it will soon be cast into
the waste-pile of abandoned and rejected
planks, beyond any resurrection, except
that, at some cool dispassionate day. of
the political historian. atlanta Journal,
Dem.
He took the States money, according
to the evidence produced before the
Senate Investigating Committee, deposi-
ted it in the bank to his own personal ac-
count, made such use of it as pleased him,
even to the extent of specializing in stocks,
kept it until the end of the fiscal year and
then turned it over to the State Treasurer
in lump sum. This is what constituted
the ground for the prosecution of Mr.
Kelsey. 1t was not the retention of the
fees by authority of the undetermined
meaning of a statute, but the retention
and personal use of trust funds belonging
to the State. The suit ordered to be
brought may result either for or against
Mr.. Kelsey, but there is very little room
for doubling the result of suit upon the
ground alluded to.-Ehza6eth Journal
Ex-Governor Boies, who was a promi
nent I6 to man before Bryan was discov
cred, told the country week or two age
that silverism has had its day, and thai
some new issue must be devised before
1900 if the $500, 900 men who voted fol
Bryan last November are to be held to
gether. Debs said substantially the same
thing several times before and since Boie
spoke. The Populist convention in Nash
vile has said that it did not believe tn,
question of free silver is s'broad enough
platform for a national party" Mrs
Lease now joins in the chorus by sayin,
that 'the silver question is an issue of thu
past, and will never again serve as lead
ing issue for the reform elements in poll
tics" Socialism," she adds, 'is th'
hope of the country, and in the next cam
paign the fight must be made for the in
dustrial emancipation of the people"
! What is said to be the greatest discov
cry eyer made is reported from Alaska
Some gold prospectors several months age
ran across what seemed to be lake of oil
1t was fed by innumerable springs, anC
the surrounding mountains were full O
coal They brought samples to Seattle
and tests proved it to be of as high grad,
as any ever taken out of Pennsylvania
wells. A local company was formed anc
experts sent up. They have returned or
the steamer Topeka, and their report ha.
more than borne out the first reports L
is said there is enough oil and coal in the
discovery to supply the world. 1t is close
to the ocean, in fact the experts say thai
the oil oozes out into the salt water 1t i.
said that the Standard Oil Company ha.
already made an offer for the property
The owners have filed on 5000 acres, ant
are naturally very much excited over thei
prospects for fortune.
For the first time in the history of Kan
sas, the total deposits in the banks of tina
state exceed the loans, and have 81, ooo, ooc
on hand which they would like to place a
interest The report of the state banl
commissioner. from the statements OF
July I, shows decrease of loans over tn,
first half year of 1896, of 1921, los, and al
increase of deposits of $3.50, 323. 1t il
the most gratifying report in every featur,
of the banking business that has ever beer
made to the department, and indicates al
unlooked-for degree ofprosperity through
out that state.
Reports from Nebraska also show tina
the west is paying its debts. The report:
of the mortgage and loan companies
doing business in that state, show that fo
six months ending July I, the amount o
SIS, 900, 900 Indebtedness was paid, mostl,
in the rural districts.
The brutal trankness of Englishmet
must send cold shivers down the backs O
American free traders who are determined
to follow their British kinsmen's eco
nomic policy, even though the latter per
sons with honest candor call them fool
for their trouble. The American FIRE,
trader never has ceased to declare since
the Mckinley law went into operation
that it was impossible to make tin plate il
this country. Here comes the British
Consul at Philadelphia and makes a re
port to his home government showing
that the tinplate industry of Pennsylvania
is in most fourishing condition
Notwithstanding all the difficulties en-
countered, it is now believed that, with
proper fostering, the time is not far dis
tant when the United States will produce
all the tin plate required for her consump
ton. Pennsylv ania alone is prepared
should the condition of the markets be
such as to warrant it, to produce, from the
steel billet to the finished product,
$50, 600, 900 pounds of tin plate, or fully
one third of the entire consumption of the
United States"
Thus every day is the Republican prin-
ciple of protection indicated by the for
eigners who have suffered the heaviest
losses from it--losses which were our
gains.-N. Y. Press.
1t is fact sustained by experience that
the Democracy of New Jersey takes its
political views largely from and finds its
examples in political practices in New
York. The methods of Tammany Hall are
accepted and followed by the Democratic
leaders in New York and also by those in
this State. The creed of Tammany Hall
is not politics for principle; it is politics
for ends 1t is politics for what there is
in politics. And the result is uncertaintv