The advocate., 1897-06-09

can expect even consideration OF their
claims.
Referring TO the chess game by telegraph
between members Of Congress and members
Of the British Parliament, the Concordia
Blade says that 1t hopes that the record Of
the game will be published in the Congress
sional Record, as it would be vastly more
interesting than the Dingley tariff bill gush.
President Mckinley made speech at a
banquet given the international CONNER
cial Congress at Philadelphia last Wednes.
day in which he said that with the passage
Of the tariff bill would come business coma.
dence and industrial activity. This would
interest the people Of the country If IL
were true.
Washington dispatches state that 1t is
the wish Of the President that after the
passage Of the tariff bill Congress should
provide for currency commission whose
duty 1t shall be to report at the December
session a feasible plan OF 'placlng the Ma
tional finances on a sound, substantial and
enduring basis.n
The ''death watch, /" an insect belonging
to the beetle family, seems to have taken
possession Of Wall Street 1t is found
everywhere In the offices and mercantile
houses. II derives the name from the fact
that when full grown 1t chirps in lively
way, which is believed by the superstltious
to be an omen Of death.
A notice Of reduction Of wages was
posted at an Indiana coal mine, and shortly
after someone posted up beside 1t picture
Of Mckinley accompanied by the following
inscription: This is what we voted for
last fall.r The operators we're very much
dlspleased and offered reward OF $50 for
the names Of the persons who posted the
picture and inscription.
Rev. Myron w. Reed, President Of the
Brotherhood Of the Cooperative Common
wealth, Of which Eugene V. Debs and
Henry d. Lloyd are promoters, says that
the first colonization experiment will be
ma 10 ct some point in Utah, 1t Is the In
tention to establish communities Of l,5OO
people each, and II 1t works successfully
efforts will be made to colonize other States
having unOccupied lands
The New York Post charges that Ellis
Roberts, who has been appointed Treasurer
of the United States, is an unfit man for the
place. u is charged that while Assistant
Treasurer at New York during the Harri'
son Administration he solicited and received
loans from bankers through the influence
Of his position and that he declined to pay
these loans, finally compromising them ior
few cents on the dollar The Post alleges
that Mckinley was advised Of these facts.
Bishop McLaren preached a sermon at
St. Peters Church, Chicago, recently, In
which he said. "The need OF this city Is
not more religion but more morality.
Crime is most dangerous in educated men.
Selfshness, covetousness, and the idolatry
of the dollar rule Corruption becomes en-
throned in places Of legislation, Ia the
present state Of affairs a municipality cam
not secure legislation, however needful and
proper, without buying It's way through
the Council. Within short time men Of
prominence have said In conversation that
they do not believe anything short or revo'
luton will mend the present state OF at
fairs"
WilmerdIng, Pa, employees Of the West
lnghouse Air Brake Company to the num-
Der Of 800 were laid off last week because
of the overstocked condition Of the factory,
due to lack Of demand for goods. Most Of
these men were members Of the John Dai-