The Advocate and news., 1898-04-13

person will ever heed the tale intro
duced by these COWardly words, yet but
lately the pure character Of an innocent
and sanity woman has been attacked in
this cowardly manner. Innocent actions
have been distorted and made to ap-
pear treacherous. If there is one place
in hell hotter than another that place is
reserved for the tale-bearer and scandal
monger who hides behind the words 1T
Is said"
American Banker: The bill introduced
in the Senate requiring that 80 per cent.
Of customs duties shall be paid in gold
coin is a measure of sheer futility. So
long as the government redeems its pa
per money on demand in gold 1t win not
be possible to increase the gold income
by means OF the device proposed. To
make such a measure effective specie
redemptions, or rather redemption in
gold, would have to be suspended. In
that case persons paying customs duties
would be compelled to draw gold from
the banks and the banks would have to
replenish their stores from sources out
side of the treasury. The governments
gold reserve will be ample so long as
there is no disturbance Of public conf
dence or so long as the currency re-
deemable in gold is not enlarged.
w. ]. Bryan: So far as / have been
able to learn, the position taken by the
three national committees Is quite gen
orally Endorsed by the rank and file OF
the three parties. II there is any opposi-
tion anywhere 1t will manifest itself in
those States where the silver sentiment
is so strong that one faction may hope to
control local offices by defeating the
other faction. To some 1t may seem i'm
material whether our forces win by
united action or one wins over the other,
but 1t seems to me that survey Of the
whole country ought to convince any
impartial friend of bimetallism that di-
visions now weaken us for the battle OF
1900. Where the parties agree upon the
paramount issues, but have different
tickets, the contest is likely to arouse
partisanship and personal feeling which
will make future cooperation difficult.
Yale Review: Despite a general re-
adjustment of rentals, occupiers lin Eng
land] have suffered hardly less than
owners from the continuous fall in profits
and the accompanying depreciation in
the value of farm stock and the diminu-
tion Of agricultural profits. In the east
ern and some Of the southern counties
of England the position Of tenant farm
ers must, with few exceptions, be de-
scribed as critical one. Many of them
have been obliged to give up their farms,
in spite of considerable reductions In
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weathered the storm have been left with
a heavy burden of debt or with INSULT
cient capital for the management Of their
FARMS A compilation of the 100 farm ac-
counts collected by the assistant COM
missioners, representing condition more
favorable than the average" discloses
the fact that for the past twenty years
profits have averaged only 60 per cent.
Of the ordinary rate in the period preced
ing. The position Of occupying owners,
both yeOmen farming considerable es
tates and small freeholders, is on the
whole worse than that Of tenant farm
ers. Such properties, whether inherited
or purchased, have as a rule become
charged with mortgages, the interest
upon which, with declining prices, now
forms an intolerable burden. Thus, in
the arabic counties, where difficulty is
experienced in effecting any change in
the system Of cultivation, the large farms
have suffered less, whereas in localities
where truck and similar farming has
been possible, the smaller farms are the
more prosperous.
w. J. Bryan: Cooperation requires
some sacrifices upon the part of parties
and individuals but certainly some
sacrifices may be reasonably expected
from those who believe that the gold
standard would ultimately entail upon
the human race more misery than all
the wars, pestilences and famines of the
past. In the presence of conspiracy
such as we have to meet, all minor diff
ferences should be forgotten and all guns
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