New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-08
THE TALK or THE DAY.

The somewhat rough treatment OF Savage andor.
A ,.o,rg Englishman while no WAS travelling In
1-b,ha, has led an Australian paper % perTeira'e
a daIiehtful blunder 1t declares that recently a
savage landor" who had tried 70 reach Lhassa
was horribly malireated. THE landor himself It
adds was captured by Ihiheians VINO tort"rsl
him with red-hot irons and he narrowly escaped
with his life.
"vou 1.-Two by butchery" declared the maHufact
rar Of Mills 10 the surgeon. And you by pillage,
came the quick Response detroit Ere" Press
Saws THE Burlington (Vt, Free Press we
vouId respectfully invite the attention % cotton
manufacturers Of other Now England States 70
the fact that they can find right here In Vermont
what they regard as the advantages par excellence
OF the Southern cotton industries. namely. cheap
labor long hours without restriction and freedom
from Legislative interference As matter Of fact
the Vermont statutes revised IN !s9i the latest
revision contain not single reference TO hours or
labor much less any provision OF restriction a. 10
what shall constitute u weeks work GO day =
work and there is disposition on The part ot our
LEGISLATURE TO interfere in the direction 90 limiting
hours Of labor In short. there T. no good reason
why those cotton Industries that are about 20 be
driven from Massachusetts and other New Eng
land states 20 the south of should not nnd an
excellent field In the Green Mountain state
"Oh. my friends there are some spectacles that
one never forgets!" said lecturer after giving !,
Witnessed I'D like TO know where they sell
EN-" remarked IN old LADY Ia i've aud''nr" VINO IL
always mislaying her gasses- tIi'-hts.
When W J Bryan was in San Antonio Tex.
the other dav a colOquy occurred between him
and the Editor OF The san Antonio Express
The latter began by asking.
..What good would IT DO the three hundred million
civilized people whose silver Is now as good As gold
70 20 into a scheme to double the value Of the de-
based silver owned BY twelve hundred million OK
half-savages?
What good will 1t DO US to jeopsrdize our own
prosperity In order to double the "eai'h OF MEXICO
China and India
"rt will double the wealth OF eight thousand
American snver-mlne owners" said Nj Bryan.
yes il would do that" said the Texas editor.
1T would make bilionsires Of the eraspng mine
owners but what good would mis- do the poor
farmer who ia selling his corn and cotton FOR sill
yer a = good as gold now? Could his money he any
better?
And Mr. Bryan. II your scheme 10 double the
value Of all the commercial silver in tina world
failed where would the s6e5eo.cO in silver which
W. have coined so to? Would 1t go down In The
general wreck
Great Scheme -Watson-Now is your chance old
man tc get in on the ground floor Of my new COM
pany Stock Is sure To be at Il premium before me
BisnksNWha,s your scheme7
Watson--Company organized 10 sand by when
the returning KlondIkers shake the dust OF Alaska
from their feet. and gather up the dust. and smel,
on. the gold in it.-(SOmerNilr Journal
The English papers tell how old man failed
IN his attempt 20 escape the death duties act by
transferring all o. his pr perty by deed OF gift 10
his wife In the ordinary course ~ events he was
not expected TO survive her. but she got killed on
the hunting field. and then II was discovered that
she had left will giving everything TO a former
lover OF hers The lover however was a decent
sort Of chap. and settled annuity on the old
Miles Standsh a Yankee descendant In the tenth
generation from the famous Puritan. Is going "a
give up his place IN the Government Printing once
al Washington. as he says ne can make more
money In the same business light at home In Port.
land Ne. besides which. II does not cost as much
10 live In Portland as in Observation-Disclosures
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