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DISGRACEFUL SCENES

"The most striking feature of the
hearing on the tariff before the ways and
means committee was the evidence pre-
sented that our people are coming to
depend upon the government. rather
than upon their own efforts for success"
says the Florida Citizen. I'VE have long
been familiar with this truth in it's ap-
plication to the manufacturers; these
hearings showed that other classes in
the community are beginning to be af-
fected in the same way"
The Washington correspondent of the
Galveston News, in a recent letter to
that journal, drew this graphic picture
of the scene:
"The sight in the room of the ways
and means committee when these hear
ings were going on was enough to make
the high heavens weep. Hardly standing
room could be found in it a any time,
50 crowded was il with men who YER
lily purred in their greed. They We're
arrogant, dictatorial and lachrymose
In fact, all of the physical evidences
of men who have their whole souls bent
on acquisition were to be found in the
faces and department of these people
who came and asked the government
for it's interference in their behalf And
really the committee a times seemed
to feel as if it was a criminal, through
the criminality of the government in
the presence of the cormorants. l can
not account for the lowly spirit of the
Republican members of the committee
in the presence of these bulldozers, ex-
cept on the hypothesis that they felt
the truth, which was that these greedy
persons have paid their money for the
monopoly of the markets and had the
right to demand their compensat tion in
whatsoever manner they might desire :"
Summing up the results of his obser-
vations as the hearings closed, this acute
critic declared:
mo man who had spark Of Ameri-
can manhood in him, no man who be.
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crat has announced that he will henceforth
act with the Republicans. except that, rep
resentinE as she he does Democratic constit-
for United States senator.
The members OF the Ancient and Honor
able Artillery company Of Boston promise
that II F'aneuil hall is made fire proof they
city's collection Of "relics of four wars"
and make 1t the most interesting in the
country.
A murder was committed at Emporia,
Kan, KAN the , other % day. The murderer con-
shooting. The coroner's jury thought such
evidence incompetent. irrelevant and i'm
material and failed to agree.
There are more breweries in California
than there are In Illinois; more distilleries
in Massachusetts, than there are in Ken
lucky. and more cigarettes manufactured
in New York state than in all the other
states or the country combined
A list of persons in Philadelphia worth
over $4,000. published in 1S45. contained us
names. There were only ten millionaires.
The stephen Girard estate leads with 81
oooO nearly one-seventh Of tho wealth
of the whole list.
To remind a person that his clock needs
winding Wyoming man has device con-
sisting OF lever placed so as to touch OF
an alarm when the coiled spring has un-
wound sufficiently to move the lever out
of position.
Nevada for many years has had but one
Baptist church. This is at Reno and now
a second has been established at Wads-
worth, thirty-five miles distant, with a
membership of sixteen and four awaiting
baptism.
A Boston lecturer announced as his SUBJ
tect the other night, Marble Poems;
Worlds Worship in Stones; the Frozen
Music of the Ages" Then he went on to
talk about European cathedrals.
A recent issue of the Medical Record re-
ports the death of a boy months old of
what appears to be old age. The texture Of
the hair was coarse like that of an adult.
Three-fourths of all the iron mined in the
United States is shipped from Duluth. The
iron ore output of Minnesota increased
from g., 900 tons in 1884 to 10000 tons In
1896.
1t is said that only two miles of steam
railroad have been built In New England
between Maine and Vermont
The New York police department asks for
the modest little sum of 81, 100000 for the
expenses to be incurred in keeping the
Gothamites In order during 1897.
Hypnol is the trade name of new rem
eTy for insomnia In chemical language
1t is known as manotrlchloracethyled
hylphenylpyrazalon.
Before the great freeze in Florida the
annual orange crop was from 1000. 900 to 10,
100000 boxes. The estimate for this season
is 70,0O0 boxes.
More than 500 Anglican ministers are
Catholic church since Cardinal Newman
took the step.
Wages in the lumber country of Montmo-
rency county. Michigan. have fallen to the
| lowest figures recorded there-$12 to SIS a
month.
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with the privilege enjoyed and should

with the privilege enjoyed and should
be paid to the government.
Upon what grounds, in equity. would
such rentals go to the sustenance of the
civil governments, local, state and ma
tional? Upon the grounds that land
values are site values which are deter
mined by the number Of human beings
contiguous to and making contribution,
by reason of their necessities, in en-
hancement of such location. In other
words, land values (aside from mines,
quarries. water reservoirs and railroad
rights of way) are created by the people
as a community and are, therefore, Of
right applicable to communal uses.
The rationale of the single tax assess
ment is simply this: AS vendor Of
wares would pay a worlds fair company
for a booth site where the tide Of hu-
manity flows by, buying as it goes, so
the occupant Of a given area Of the
earth's surface should pay In taxes to
the state a sum commensurate with its
value as a business site. AS for mines,
quarries, natural water-basins and
rights of way, they should never have
been alienated from the people; but they
could be readily resumed by adequate
taxation upon their output. "The power
to tax is the power to destroy"
The herald., 1897-01-27
AMERICAS MOSCOW

Preparations for the inauguration of
Major Mckinley are being made on a
scale never before thought of by cit
izen of the United States. The managers
of the affair appear to be fashioning the
ceremony and the attending festivities
after the spectacle that was witnessed
at Moscow last year on the occasion of
the coronation of the czar. From start
to finish splendor and magnificence will
be in evidence upon every hand, with
spectacular climaxes at intervals all
down the line. Gold lace, spirited char
gers and marching soldiers will fill the
streets, and a thousand bands will bur-
den the air with patriotic music. The
mighty chief, that is, Mckinley, will be
escorted from his home in Ohio to the
capital by horse, foot and dragons,
while he himself will be transported In
a palace on wheels, and when the hour
arrives for him to lay hold upon the
reins of government there will be dis
gear so magnificent that were the young
czar to see it he would fall to the
ground in a dead faint from sheer envy
and jealousy. 1t will not only be the
greatest performance of the kind ever
given In this country, but it will be the
occasion for the ascendency to power of
the industrial barons, trust grandees
and monopoly princes, and when the
show is over the people will see, if they
take the trouble to look that the nation
has taken a long and pretty firm step
in the direction of Capitalization; and
If they listen they will hear voice, the
voice Of the favored few, say ''the pub
lie be damned"
Evidently it is the purpose Of the man
ager of the inaugural show to depart as
far as possible from the simplicity of
the fathers, and establish the custom
which prevails in the empires and king
doms of Europe where the "grace of
God" crowns king to protect the few
While they ROD ana plunOer tne many
The barons and the grandees and the
princes know their business. They un-
derstand that the time has come when
the people, the great producing class,
must know their place. and large mil
itary escort from Canton to Washington,
and an elaborate and extensive exhibit
ton of the chief executives machinery
of force in and about the capital will
they think, convince the people-the
"mudslls" Of society-that they have
no rights that the industria, barons,
the trust grandees and monopoly princes
are bound to respect. But was not s16,-
900, 900 contributed to the Mckinley cam
paign fund for this as we'll as for other
similar things? And in the language of
one of them, What are the people going
to do about it? How are they going to
help themselves?"
The herald., 1897-01-27
REDLANDS OF TO-DAY.

The Redlands Citrograph has started
out on the latter half of its tenth year,
volume 20. today. In making compari-
sons of the Redlands Of a decade ago
with the Redlands of today the Citro-
graph says: But what change in the
town and surrounding country! Then a
two horse stage made six trips week to
San Bernardino; now nearly thirty pas
senger trains on three roads enter and
leave the town daily. Then there were
but few scattering orchards; now Red
lands will ship nearly 700 carloads CT
oranges this season, to say nothing Of
other fruits. Then there were not
enough children to make a school dis
trict. In fact, those interested in the
formation of the Redlands school dis
trict were compelled to wait short time
for the enlargement of the census by
reason of the expected arrival of lit
tie stranger in one of the principal fam
lilies Of the settlement; now there are
more than 1000, and they are housed in
five commodious and elegant buildings"
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MUCH IN LITTLE.

It's curious whut q sight O. good a little
thing will do;
How ye can stop the fiercest storm when
it begins to brew
An take the sting from whut commenced
ter raukle when 'twus spoke:
By keepin'. still and treatin' it ez II 1t wuz
joke.
Yell find thet ye kin fill place with
smiles instead O. tears,
An keep the sunshine gleamin' through
the shadows of the years
BY jes laughn,.
Folks sometimes fail ter note the possi-
bilities that lie
In the way yer mouth is curvin an the
twinkle in yer eye;
1t amt so much whut's said thet hurts ez
whut ye think lies hid
1t amt so much the doin' ez the way a
thing is did.
An many homes KEEP happy an con-
tented, day by day,
An like ez not kingdom hez been rescued
from decay
By jes laughin'
WASHINGTON Star
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Until The Herald called their atten-
ton to it. the people We're not aware
that Los Angeles was practically with
out police protection, and now they are
demanding a force fully equal to the
demands of the city The idea that a
policeman can cover a beat five miles
around and give protection to persons
and property is too preposterous for the
people to accept. The police commits
sioners have no right to refuse to COM
ply with the wishes of the people The
members of the board are the public's
servants and not the public's bosses.
That fact they should get straight in
their heads; moreover, what excuse could
the board give for protecting the GRIM
inal class by keeping the police force
insufficient? If the board does not in
tend to give protection to the persons
and property of the law-abiding citi-
zens, why, let it say so. The people
will then know what to expect.
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THE DANCE OF THE DEAD.

The sexton looked forth at the mid hour of
night
oer the tombs where the dead were re-
clining;
The moon. at its full. gave a great. ghostly
light,
And the churchyard as day was shining.
First one, then another-oh. terrible sight
Each grave opened wide, and, in gowns
long and white.
The dead all arose from their sleeping,
Round the tombs grimly dancing and
leaping.
In skeleton ring, then. together they
While they danced as the waves of the
The poor and the rich. the old and the
young
But their grave-clothes hindered their
motion;
And as here no modesty held its broad sway,
They all shook them off, and around them
there lay
Their winding sheets here and there scat
tered.
And they naked-but that little mattered
In frenzy of joy they swung their long
shanks.
Their long fingers in unison swapping,
And they clicked and clacked as they play
ed their wild pranks,
As though timber on timber were clap
ping.
Then the sexton laughed loudly again and
And mischief gave slyly the thought to his
Now quickly-'tis Joking. not thieving-
Steal a winding sheet! None are per-
ceiving."
1t was done and then swiftly he fed in
Behind the great door Of the tower
While the dance still continued, the moon
beams bright
mower.
At last it was o'er and the skeleton crowd.
One after another, each slipped on It's
shroud,
Then into their cold graves they glided.
And silence once more presided
But one-tis the last-trips and stumbles
along,
And eager each tombstone it scratches;
But none of its comrades have done 1t this
wrong,
For the scent in the air now 1t catches.
The church gate 1t ratified. but backward
was pressed
To the joy Of the sexton, the door had been
blessed
With crosses of iron twas covered,
And angels wings over 1t hovered.
Its shroud it must have else it rests not
again.
For soon its last hour will be Ginning;
The columns it grasps the high tow'r to at
tain
From summit to summit still climbing.
Oh. sad for the sexton. for swifter it glides.
And onward it rushes in wonderful strides,
. mischief! It's thou hast undone him:
Heavn help him! 'tis almost upon him.
The sexton grew pale, in his horror he
shook,
And the shroud would have yielded with
gladness:
Near nearer it came, then its last leap II
took
In a frenzy of rage and Of madness.
For an instant the moon no longer shone:
"One!" thundered the clock in a terrible
tone;
Its limbs through the air wildly dashing.
Down-down-fell the skeleton, crashing!
From the German of Goethe.
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WELL WORTH RECORDING.

The heart Of the common oak begins tc
rot at about the age Of 300 years. The holly
oak is longer lived.
An electric roller for massage purposes 1:
composed of plates of copper and zinc, and
generates it's own electricity.
The Oregon railway commissioners re.
port shows that not a railway in the state
has paid a dividend for four years.
There are 500 women journalists. editor.
and authors in England and Wales, accord,
ing to the last census report.
Farmers on and near the Umatilla res
ervation (Oregonl are complaining of be-
ing almost eaten by spotted rats.
At prayer meeting in Augusta, Me-, re-
Gently, prayers were asked for a young
man who played the fiddle on Sunday.
On a charge of burglary at Fort Scott
Kan. young man in evening dress, white
gloves and gold bowed spectacles was ar
raigned in court. He acted as his own law.
yer and refused to account for himself ir
any way.
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NOTES OF THE DAY.

Negro physicians have organized state
medical associations in six states of the
south-the two Carolnas, Georgia, Tennes-
see, Texas and Florida. There is repre-
sented to be great need for many moro
thoroughly equipped negro physicians in
that section to care for their own race.
A Maine paper complains somewhat bit
terly because sVne good people of its town
got up a show That cost $40 to raise Sc for
clothes worth SO to be sent to the Indians
of North Dakota, when the clothes were
greatly needed by the poor around home.
Representative Van 3. Norman of the
Kentucky legislature, elected as a Demo-
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CREDIT WHERE 1T IS DUE

1t is only fair to the memory of the
late Secretary Gresham to publish the
official evidence, as the World does, that
it was he who originated and prepared
the way for the treaty of arbitration
with great Britain which Secretary Oh
ney has recently ompleted.-Hartford
Times
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THE INCIDENCE OF TAXATION

A grim saying obtains which links
The association of these two is really
intimate ard sequential and not that OF
mere unrelated resemblance. Death or
taxes" would convey the actual rela-
tionship. To illustrate: the national
government failing to obtain revenue
through taxation, direct or indirect,
must suspend. The state and county be-
reft of their sustaining revenues must
cease to be. The municipality which
gathers no corporation taxes must dis
incorporate. The individual who fails
to pay the tax of alimentation to "the
belly and members" must disintegrate--
die Hence we have taxation or death.
Since, then, taxation is the price Of
existence all along the line, it is using
no term of eXaggeration to say that the
Incidence of taxation is an ever present
question OF vital Importance; for where
taxation falls there rests the burden of
sustaining not only the fabric of civil
parts of the corporate organism.
Where then, should taxation fall?
Under existing tax laws no one can rs
cape direct or indirect taxation. This,
in theory, would seem correct If there
were equitable distribution of the bur
dens of taxation; but, in practice, it is
n that the vast weight of
ow falls upon labor and the
a.le .umulatons of the middle and
classes. Large wealth es-
ly, and will always do so un-
llr tax systems.
hould taxation fall? Upon
taons No. Money is crystallized l.
ir to tax it must enhance its
thus impose a burden upon
RAZOR On houses? Livestock? Pro-
cnee you must not discourage i'm
= eFca by fning the man who
bsaG ouse, or digs a ditch, or who
seeea lie, hogs, poultry and bread
s ed the many-mouthed world
.o tn nefactors of the race should
ga 43nr burdens
There a source from which all taxes
u3ay ibly be drawn. The source
6Ion Whicl all wealth has been drawn
Is rra lily limitless in it's resources.
Suca physical earth. The monop-
c'iza tiat the source of wealth must be
fcrlau"e How, in practice can this
iDa coun ;ed? By the imposition of
Argi upon land values. Under
wi2 cd of procedure would such
at be levied? BY imposing the
hsaxin tax upon the most eligible
site for business in the greatest center
of population. The next highest
tax would be imposed upon the site mex,
in Importance as an opportunity for
money making, and so on. In every city
there is business center where the tide
of activities runs highest. For the priv
ifege of doing business in such an eli
gible quarter the ground rent of such
b~xrw lvo clf CHI
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Senator Cameron's Cuban resolution
answered the purpose for which it was
intended, and Wall street is now trying
to hatch up another scheme to influence
the market price of worthless stocks.
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The courts of several states have de-
cided that bicycle is baggage and the
railways must so consider it. But other
state courts have decided that the BIZ
cycle is vehicle the same as buggy.
What is bicycle, anyway?
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would save his reputation as a general
by not driving him of the island.

will vote for a new tariff bill at the ex-
ira session to insure its passage. The
idea is to give the Republicans plenty of
rope to hang themselves.
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There are plenty of cold storage houses
east of the Rocky mountains these days.
Perhaps that is the reason concern of
that kind sold in Chicago the other day
for one-sixteenth of its original cost.
The herald., 1897-01-27

"How can ScAt22img's Besl
tea cost so little and be so
good ?"
Easy. It is roasted every
day in San Francisco-like
fresh coffee and peanuts.
Other tea is roasted once
a year in Japan, etc - like
stale coffee and stale pea
nuts.
Asessii,I4s saS prssslsS aseSSsa, "a. =
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MUST HAVE OUR JEST.

However serious the subject, your
true American must have his jest. Some
editors refer to the plea of the tariff eat
ers as argument-DetroitT Tribune.
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AN UNREASONABLE PROJECT

The subscriptions are not pouring in
very fast towards Lieut.. Peary's fund of
$3.50 600 to equip another North Pole ex-
pedition. It's a pretty hard winter in
this latitude, and the pole will keep
Springfield Republican
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HITTING THE MARK.

A wave of prosperity ought to strike
the shooting galleries. Mckinley vii!
appoint only Mark'sm to off1ce.-Chi-
cagO DiSpatCh.
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1t begins to look as though surveyors
would be in the field very soon to locate
a railway between Los Angeles and Salt
Lake city.
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ENTERTAINMENT

People who watch Mr.. Platt this week
may not be able to see how he does it,
but they'll be greatly entertained.-Da-
troit News.
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THE CASE OF HUNTINGTON.

There might be more willingness TO
give Mr.. Huntington the paltry millions
he asks for if he could give any assur-
ance that he wouldn't come back for
another load.=Detroit Tribune.
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AN EXPLANATION.

The marriage service commands that
a man be faithful unto death. We make
this explanation because the women are
accusing man Of unfaithfulness whose
wife has been dead six months.-Atchi-
son Globe.
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SOBER SECOND THOUGHT.

Now that Congressman johnson has
had time to think it over, he ought to be
sorry ne said Washington Post.
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Weyler is shocked to hear that the Gu
bans will listen to nothing short Of COM
.plete independence. He thought they
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Of1OLA I L > NIO1NIoOILXAIIO4N.
Mr. Choate must console himself with
the thought that his candidacy made up
in quality what it lacked in quantity
Washington Star.
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JOKERS WILL MOURN.

When the theater hat is abolished the
theater hat joke will go out of commits
sion.-Pittsburg Chronicle.
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Not better but a very much larger
police force is what Los Angeles is pray
ing for.
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BITUMINOUS COAL
Annual average .......:5,o54,sc7 s3,sss,

Nor did any one speak of the recent re-
port of the commissioner of labor, which
shows, as follows, that the wages cost
per ton of producing such coal is lower in
this country than in Canada, while the
entire cost is less here than in Canada,
Great Britain or Belgium:
o. 1,r,1
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The hard. uncharitable world win well

The hard, uncharitable world will well
come with great satisfaction the an
nouncement that the opponents of the
treaty favor public discussion in open
sessions. BY all means let us have
frank and open debate on the entire
question. If the senators can prove that
the treaty would be dangerous to the
United States, that 1t is so one-sided
and defective that we have nothing to
gain and much to lose from it, the people
want to know the arguments and exam
inc the proofs-Chicago Post.
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THE ENGLISH TREATY

The queen has right to feel the graf
ification over the arbitration treaty
which she expresses in her speech from
the throne. England's readiness to
adopt 1t is largely due to the good old
lady's beneficent inuence.-New York
World.
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LIE dppllcdEtS IoF more protection
deplore the competition of Canada. But
ported goes to that country. On the
other hand, -fifths of the coal i'm
ported comes from British Columbia and
countries on the other side of the Pa
clfic. and is required for the mainten-
ance of manufacturing industries on the
Pacific coast Why did not the COM
mittee bring out some of these facts?
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The peopIe of The limited States an

The people of the United States ap-
prove the arbitration treaty with Great
Britain more unanimously and enthu-
siastically than amy other feature of ma
tional policy which has been brought
intimation which has found expression
in some quarters that this is a good
occasion for the senate to "get even"
with the secretary of state. and that
other suggestion that the treaty had
better be held over and amended so as
to give the honors to Mckinley and
Sherman, are too contemplate to be toll
Grated. The people Of the United States
are waiting impatiently for the senate
to complete the great work so we'll be-
gun-BostOn Post
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