The advocate., 1897-08-18

the special committee appointed by the
trustees to confer with the president
upon his return from Europe.
Washington Cd. c. Post: Intrinsi-
cally, the proposition is simple enough.
The mints of the civilized nations are
closed to silver; the same mints are
open to gold. In this way the only
thing that makes money of any metal
is bestowed upon gold and withheld
from silver. In this way gold acquires
a fictitious and artificial worth and
silver is reduced to the standard of it's
essential usefulness. In the same way,
were the process reversed-were the
mints closed to gold and opened wide
to silver-would gold depreciate and
silver become more valuable. Yet the
mOnometalllst orators and editors, the
paragraphers and the headline enthu-
siasts go ahead upon their insensate
and VOciferOus way as though reason
had vanished from the earth and the
people had nothing left save slobber,
gush and poppycOck.
New York Evening Post: Everybody
remembers how the Republican party
and Republican candidates and speak
ers had to be goaded into saying gold"
year ago. It frightened them to
death at first, and they hated awfully
to give up their good as the flag" and
equal to the best" antiquities But
they had to say gold, and say it often,
and carried the election on that word.
Now their courage is OOZing away
again, and they humble something
about the System" and the basis"
and the need of revision" This is all
very fine for midsummer stagnatiOn,
and while a humbug metallic commits
sion is abroad and in peril of having
the gas let out of it prematurely by the
word gold; but when Congress meets
and the administration submits it's plan
Of currency reform, it will have to say
gold, and say it loud, unless it desires
to be hooted at by the business world
and honest men everywhere.
Providence Or. I) Journal: The call
for novels at our public libraries, to
kind of literature, has long been rec
ognized as an evil. And although part
of the cry against fiction has been
mere ignorance and prejudice, every
note Of protest is not to be met with
this assertion. For no form of art, how
ever good or noble in itself, can win
popularity excluding all other forms
without vital injury to public taste in
general. The novel, as has often been
shown, is to our age what the drama
was to the age of Elizabeth. 1t has
been a natural vehicle of expression
for many of our greatest writer's. But
that is no reason why it should be re-
garded as the only vehicle of express
sion, or why every person who has a
theory to exploit should feel called
upon to do SO through the mouths oS
imaginary characters. Those who have
the highest conception of the dignity
of the art Of fiction will grieve most at
seeing it perform an Office 80 sordid
and mean.
New York World Galveston, on the
coast Of Texas, is much farther from
Chicago than New York is. 1t is about
three times as far from Galveston to
New York as from Chicago to New
York Yet shippers in Chicago are
actually sending freight from that city
to this by way of Galveston, as a mat
ter of economy That is to say, they
are having this freight hauled by rail
greater distance than from Chicago
to New York, and carried thence by
sea three times that distance, in order
to reach this city. 1t is wonderful
age and a wonderful country that we
live in. When men still living were
born it would have taken the better
part of year to haul freight from Chi
cago to Galveston, even if Indian and
other depredatOrs had permitted it to