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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-19
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cent advances in Mountain Lion, Insur-
gent and Wonderful. The stock market
for this week opens with stronger ter
denotes for an advance all along the line.
We advise our customers 10 buy Tom
Thumb. Ben Hur and Jubilee
ia James st.. Seattle, Nash.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-19

On Mount Chapaeca Ridpath q Mile
have a group Of Claims on which aenv
work begins next Monday. This proper'
was recently inspected by Boston expei
and pronounced free milling gold ptopf
sislon and of high grade.
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confln aea From Page One.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
BOOMERANG LINGO.
Spread Eagle FerVOr of Maudlin
Heretics Who Defend I'M
periQIism,

Sensible people, whatever may be
their private opinions as to the question
at issue, are becoming both weary and
indignant over the vulgar and brutal
denunciation heaped by orators and or
gans upon everyone who expresses a
doubt as to the wisdom of the admins
tration's Philippine policy. The spec
tacle is disgraceful and it will react
upon the cause in the behalf of which it
has been presented. This is free coun-
try yet, we hope, and honest citizens
still retain the right to their opinions
and their conscientious utterances.
The sooner the administration calls
off its newspaper and other champions
engaged in this abominable business,
the better for its standing with the
country at large. There is no possible
excuse for trumping up spreadeagle
fergOr or maudlin Mysteries. The cues.
tion is one OF eXpediency as to which
every citizen may express his views
without impropriety. All this talk such
as Senator Hanna has been induIging
into the effect that Europe will
''laugh at us" if we abandon our pres
ent policy-is feeble nonsense. Europe
is not likely to laugh at the United
States and nobody would care even if
she did. We are not running this coun-
try to please Europe, and have no inter
est or appreciation to consult except our
own. No amount of such gable as we
refer to can accomplish any result save
that of discrediting the gabblers and
disgusting decent Washington
Post
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
Has 1t Been Dood Little Willie While


ing of political standards constituting
so deplorable phase of recent years.
He is the antithesis of the American
statesman of this country's better and
purer days. The principle controlling
his public service is that of selfish devo-
tion to the almighty dollar. His real
constituency is composed of multimil-
lionaires and monopolists desirous Of
increasing the number of their millions
and strengthening the grasp Of their
monopolies. The common people repre-
sent to Mark Hanna only the material
out of which to squeeze these things
desired by the syndicates
This man, however, is serving good
purpose in American politics. He is
sickening the people of craftsmanship
for the benefit of the rich at the ex-
pense of the poor. He is causing Amer
iGan gorges to rise at the Developments
possible to prostituted politcis. He is
proving the danger and degradation in
evitable to a party which subordinates
principle to pelf. When Mark Hanna
retires from public life he will have
builded better than he knew. He will
have made it impossible for many years
to witness a repetition of Hannaism as
the controlling factor in party to which
the people had intrusted the manage
ment of national affairs for the best
interests of the nation.-St Louis Re
puhlic
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE.
Extract from the Financial Plank of
the Democratic Platform
of 1896.

Recognizing that the money ques-
ton is paramount to all others at this
time, we invite attention to the fact that
the federal constitution names silver
and gold together as the money metals
of the United States, and that the first
coinage law passed by congress under
the constitution made the silver dollar
the monetary unit, and admitted gold
to free coinage at ratio based upon the
silver unit. We declare that the act Of
1878 demonetizing silver without the
knowledge or approval of the American
people has resulted in the appreciation
of gold and corresponding fall in the
prices of commodities produced by the
people; heavy increase in the burden
of taxation, and of all debts, public and
private; the enrichment of the money
lending class at home and abroad, pros
tration Of industries and impoverish-
ment of the people. We are unalterably
opposed to monometallism, which has
locked fast the prosperity of an indus
trial people in the paralysis of hard
times. Gold monometallism is British
policy and its adoption has brought our
nation into financial servitude to Lon
don. 1t is not only un-American but
anti-American, and it can be fastened
on the United States only by the sitting
of that spirit and love Of liberty which
proclaimed our political independence
in 1776 and won it in the war of the revo-
lution.''
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
REPUBLICAN PAGANISM,
The Elements All Combine to boost
the ImperinIist Admin
iStFatiOn.

Getting their inspiration from the
Forakers and Roos yeits, the little or
gans of the republican party in all
parts of the country are joining in Civ
ing all the glory to the republican party
and its administration in this style:
with a wheat crop of over 500, 100000
bushels, corn crop of over 1000, ,000, 900
bushels and other crops in proportion,
the tide of prosperity which has set in
in this country may be expected to go
on rising"
That is the style. The farmer may
plant and the rain may water, but Nc
Kinley alone giveth the increase-Mc-
Kinley as the personification and en-
bodiment of the republican party. But
we need not wonder that the little or
gans unite in this absurd ascription Of
all power and glory to party when the
wise men and heroes GO about the coun-
try giving all the praise for every good
thing and for many things that
are not good to the party god.
A few days ago Senator Foraker not
only attributed all our prosperity to re
publican measures, but declared that
even if the chief of those measures was
the mother Of trusts it was an unspeak-
able blessing, and that its abandonment
even in part would bring upon the coun-
try idleness, souphouses, ruin and all
sorts of woes and calamities.
And little later Judge Nash, one of
the intellectual luminaries of the party
in Ohio, said to an audience that was
waiting to hear Hero Roosevelt: ''Much
of the great gain of our country is at
tributable to the restoration of tariff
law so fashioned as to be beneficial to
American interests alone. But much
more of it is due to the determination
of the American people to maintain in
violate and forever a sound and honest
financial policy in this land"
Because of this republican tariff and
of republican financial policy which
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
TEA faster IS KING.
Interesting Facts About Prices of the
Favorite beverage in Its
Native Land.

Th average price at Hankow for this
first quality of black leaf tea, which is
all shipped to Odessa, is about 40 Mex
lean dollars for each 9O-pound chest.
Twenty-Five half chests of this first
crops pekoe leaves are sent to the en-
peror of Russia for palace use. Several
times it has happened that the whole
crop of some particular farm or hillside
has been brought up by the Russians
and shipped before Chinese connois-
seurs, who would drink no other tea,
knew it. AT once they cabled to Odessa
and had the tea bought on arrival and
shipped back to China. Twice on the
Yang-tse 1 used rich and fragrant tea
from the Keemung hills that had per-
formed that journey to Odessa and re-
turn, because some mandarin knew
what he wanted and was willing to pay
for it.
The tea faster is king at Hankow for
the six weeks of his exclusive reign,
and whatever he may do during the re-
mainder of the year he is a most rigid
abstainer during the high seasons,
when every faculty of his keenest senses
is on the alert. Although he never
swallows sample sip, the tea-taster's
nerves and digestion are impaired at
the end of ten or twelve years, even
the stimulating effect of the strong,
volatile aroma in the tea hongs some
times giving retired tea tasters at
tacks of the tea tremens which the
Chinese and japanese recognize as
disease; while temperance reformers,
usually green tea drinkers, seem ig-
norant of the fact that other stimu-
lants than alcohol may be abused. The
professional tea faster at Hankow is
said to drink only soda or mineral wa
ters during the scorching weeks of
his eXactiDg season, and when word
goes round the settlement that such a
one of the great experts was seen to
take sherry and bitters at the club, it
is a signal that the great tea season is
declining, that little choice tea is being
brought in. Then the tension relaxes,
and a certain section of Hankow gives
itself over to a jubiiation and indulg-
ence that are the scandal and byword
of the other ports. Although the tea
firms are all Russian or Siberians now,
the tea tasters are Englishmen, and,
for reasons not flattering to Russian
character, it is said that tea tasters will
ALWAYS be English.-Century.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
HOW TO KILL THE TRUSTS.
Open the Mints Freely to the Coin
GEe of Both Gold and
Silver.

Senator Jones has the right idea
about the trust problem. He says there
would be no trusts if it were not for
the gold standard, shrinking curren-
cy and falling prices. We are proud to
see the senator reechoing the senti-
ments expressed in this paper. The gold
standard is the father and mother, the
wet nurse and midwife, of the trusts;
it is, in fact, the whole family, and the
way to get rid of the trust evil is to
end the greater evil of the gold stand
ard. Trusts are organized to sustain
prices, which have steadily declined
since 1878, because the annual supply of
currency was limited and contracted
by the unlawful demonetization Of sill
yer. The sole purpose of the gold stand
ard was to contract the volume of basic
money to point where it could be cor
nered and controlled by men and COM
binations possessing large means, with
the fact well in mind that those who
control the worlds money are the
worlds masters. This is the whole
meaning and purpose of the gold stand
ard, and it is so simple and plain that
anyone ought to understand it. An
other feature of the gold standard is
the impoverishment of the poor and the
artificial enrichment of the rich, by
which means the poor are made the de-
pendents and servants of the rich and
subjected to their will and pleasure.
The gold standard has almost complet-
ed its mission in this respect. 1t has
taken all the money away from the
people and concentrated it in vast
boards in the possession of the super
fiuously rich. Individuals among the
people can no longer get the means to
go into business, and consequently all
competition is confined to the big es-
adjustments, and these in turn COM
binee and organize themselves into
trusts and bring the people to their
knees in helpless serfdom. But the
hands if they will use it, They are still
permitted to vote. The ballot has not
yet been taken from them, as it will
be if they delay much longer. By the
use of the ballot they can place a man
in the presidents chair who will obey
the law and put silver on an equality
with gold. This will double the volume
of basic money already in existence and
increase to the same extent the annual
output. 1t will also enable the people
to supply themselves with money by
digging it out of the ground, regardless
of any action by government; and they
can use this money in establishing com
petition and breaking down the trusts
Let it be remembered that silver has
never been legally demonetized in this
country. Fraud vitiates all contracts
and renders null and void any law en-.
acted by fraud, as the law demonetizing
silver was. Silver has lost none of it's
legal standing in this country, and all
that is needed to restore prosperity
among the people is to place a man in
the presidents chair who will open the
mints freely to the coinage of both
gold and silver, as the law requires
That will settle the trust problem, it
will restore our declining fortunes and
it will set the people Mississippi
Valley Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
Shopping by Mail.

The John M. Smyth Co. of Chicago are de-
voting great deaI of attention TO developing
trade throughout the West and South by
mail. The concern is one of the largest in
the City of Chicago, and has been well and
tavorably known throughout that city and
the North and West for many years. They
are now ready to mail to any readey OF this
paper on receipt of l0c, to partly pay post,
age or expressage and as evidence OF good
faith, their mammoth catalogue, which con.
tains illustrated descriptions and prices OF
every conceivable article and necessity need
ed in the home or on the farm. The ten cents
paid for the mailing of the catalogue is al
lowed 0e on the first purchase amounting to
catalogue will also receive their monthly
grocery price list free every month. PeoP.e
living outside of large cities should send for
the John NJ. Smyth Co. catalogue and COM
pare prices quoted in this catalogue for all
dry goods, grocery, notions, clothing, etc.,
with prices which they are paying. Readers
who send to John M. Smyth Co., $50 20
l66 w. Madison St., Chicago, for their catl-
logue should not fail to mention this paper.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
4 Band of Criminals.

What is considered the finest band
in the southern hemisphere is composed
entirely of criminals. 1t is the con.
Wet band OF Noumea, New Caledonia,
Australasia. The kiosk in which the
convicts play is in the place Des Coco
tiers, and is surrounded by cocoanut
trees and fame trees with their scarlet
flowers, which give the place gay ap-
pearance. The band, which is generally
about so strong, is made up of tirst-class
convicts. The performances take place
on Tuesdays and Thursdays at p m,
under the supervision of armed ward
ers, who march round and round the
musicians. The music is classical. The
performers are all clean shaven Except
those who are to be shortly liberatedD
and are dressed in white trousers and
iuInpers ard wide brimmed grass hats
The audience is generally quite small
When the programme is completed the
convicts are marshalled up in line by
the warders and marched off.-London
Sketch.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
SOLID WALLS OF WHEAT
Five Thousand Acres of Golden
Grain Harvested on One
Oklahoma Ranch.

Oklahoma's largest wheat field lies
a few miles west of the small railway
station of Bliss, in Kay county. 1t con
tains 5000 acres, and belongs to the
noted ranch "101," which contains 49,
600 acres of land leased from the Ponca
Indians. Two hundred men, more than
800 mules and horses, and "a big twine
binders were employed in cutting and
shocking the grain grown on this mag
nifcent field this year.
Every principle of good farming was
observed in cultivating this big field,
with the result that the total output
will be not less than 100000 bushels of
as good wheat as can be found in Ok
lahoma. 1t is estimated that the aver
age acre yield will be from 20 to 25
bushels. There are many acres that
viii run from 40 TO so bushels. Buyers
have already offered 60 cents bushel
for the entire crop. 1t is probable that
the owners will get from 60 to 20 cents,
a gross sum of $4,000 or $4,000. The
cost of producing this wheat and put
ting it on board cars will be 25 cents
bushel, leaving a net profit of about
$500
Wheat is king in the strip, and its
importance eclipses everything else on
ranch '101." Numerically, 5,000-acre
wheat field is not very impressive. To
ride over it, however, in blazing sum
shine is to give rise to the feeling that it
covers the face of the earth. The 5000
acres of wheat on ranch "101" are di-
vided into two fields of almost equal
size by the Salt Fork river, a stream
that pours down large volume of wa
ter at this time of year. Great yellow
undulations of grain swept alongside
the river and then away toward the
distant hills, until they seemed to reach
the sky. 1t was so far across the fields
that the shocks look like solid wall of
wheat. In the fed on the south side
of the river the first circuit with binder
was made by Superintendent Miller.
.'There was not a man who could
guess how long it would take me to
make the round" said he. Il piled a
supply of twine on my binder and start
ed. 1t was almost dinner time when
got back. 1 was gone four hours and
travelled six miles,"
The distances are so great on the
ranch that ii was impossible for the
men to turn in at one place for their
meals. The loss of time would amount
TO hundreds of dollars in a season. Ac-
cordingly, camps are established at
different places, generally close to a
stream, where the men live in tents and
the meals are prepared by ranch cooks.
Kansas City Star.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
A Texas Judge.

In one of the remote counties of the Pan
handle of Texas two lawyers were trying a
case before justice of the peace. 1t was
go miles as the crow flies to the nearest law
book, and the attorneys differed, of course,
as to the law upon the main issue in the case.
They were trying the case without the inter-
vention of a jury, and his honor, who con-
Quoted a gambling house in connection with
his hotel, saloon and livery stable, was in
doubt as to what his decision ought to be-.
Finally Miller, the plaintiffs counsel, offered
to bet Hoover, the defendants attorney,
$40 that he was right. Hoover did not hap
pen to have that much of the circulating me-
dunn concealed about his person, and was
naturally at loss how to parry this forcible
argument. The court waited few mo-
ments on Hoover, and finally said: well,
Mr. Hoover, the court has waited long
enough. Miller's proposition seems to be a
dadS talr one and, since you don't put up, will
Law Notes.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
No POstpoEen,ent.

They were talking about the Scrip
lures, and of course her knowledge OF
the Bible was deeper and more accurate
than his.
In the Bible said she, zone can find
directions for conduct in all The circum-
stances of life
I'm afraid l can't accept that propo-
sition,' said he.
''Why not?"
We'll, does it tell one when to get
married?"
1T says that now is the accepted
time" replied she, demurely.
Subsequent events proved that she
was right.-N. y. World.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
HANNA BOBS UP AGAIN.
Tbe Republican Boss Returns to LOOK
Alter the Presidential
Job.

It is natural that Mark Hanna should
DE swift to reply to the statements OF
John R. Mclean relative to the recent
heavy shrinkage of stock values ia
Wall street, as, indeed, he is to answer
any and all assertions of evil results
chargeable TO trust monopoly Of Anerl-
can trade and manufacture.
1T is Mark Hannas first duty to de-
fend the trusts and to see that they
the domination made possible
by their control of the republican party.
1t was for this purpose shat he went
into public life, taking the leadership of
the republican party IL order to look
after the interests of the trusts. Hanna
had no honest ambition for legitimate
distinction in American politics. He is
the inevitable product of a political
party surrendered to commercialism.
The part he plays on the national stage
is solely that of the syndicates' man of
business.
When Marx Hanna took up Mr.. Nc
Kinley and elected him to the presi-
dency of the United States he was not
intent upon rendering the best service
to his party and people. He was serv-
ing the trusts, knowing that Mr.. Nc
Kinley would be subservient to the
trusts. When he assumed the manage
ment of the republican national or
ganization it was not done for the pub
lie good or primarily through party de-
votion. 1t was because this leadership
placed the party relns in the hands Of
the trusts. And when Mark Hanna
bought his way into the United States
senate he did so, not that he was am
bilious for senatorial honors or Jealous
in his constituents behalf, but that he
knew he could be useful to the trusts
on the floor of the senate.
Mark Hanna is not pleasant figure
to contemplate in American public life.
He stands for all the evil developments
in that life brought about by the lower
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Ohio republicans are glad to see
Hanna back-provided he has brought
the greenback.-Albany Argus.
Mark Hanna runs the republican
PARTY in the interest of the trust mo-
nopolies, and the people pay the freight.
st. Louis Republic.
1t is amusing to see man like
Roosevelt laying wires for the presi-
dency, while the g. 0. p. passes by such
statesman as Thomas B. Reed. The
bio and the little of it are Illustrated in
Reed and Observation-Disclosures
Leader.
Whenever democrat insists that
something practical be done in the way
of regulating the trusts there is always
a republican close by to eXclaim that
the democrats are trying to make par
tisan politics out of the agitation
Kansas City Times.
MIR. Hanna will not be able to
persuade the people that he and his
party are the sincere enemies of trusts.
The republican party begot the trust,
and since the offspring has attained its
growth it has in turn been the malnstay
of the republican party. a falling out
between them would be a strange af-
fair.-Chattanoog News.
With all the work Of American
brains credited to the high tariff, all
the stimulation of the war purchases
bv the government ascribed to it and all
our great crops in the time Of EI :.
ropean shortage supposed to be nee,
essary result of tariff legislation Mr..
Mckinley is naturally hopeful of
second term, despite the administra-
toms blunders inthe Spanish and Phil
ippire wars,-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

If there is one thing on which the
housewife prides herself, it is that of
having her laundering done nic.ly, so
that the wearing apparel may be the ad-
miration of all. The washing is small
matter, any one almost can do that, but
to have the linens present that fex-
ible and glossy appearance after being
ironed requires fine quality of starch.
Ask your grocer for a coupon book
which will enable you to get the first
two packages of this new starch-"Red
Cross" trade mark brand. also two of
the children's Shakespeare pictures
painted in twelve beautiful colors as
natural as life. or the Twentieth Gen.
tury Girl Calendar, all absolutely free.
This is oAe of the grandest offers ever
made to introduce ''Red Cross" laundry
starch, j. c. Hubinger's latest invention.
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02

has not yet emerged into the perceptible
Judge Nash declared: "The unem-
ployed are no longer idle. Those who
worked only half time and for half pay
are now reaping a full harvest"
When the little organs are told by
such great lights that "the unemployed
are no longer idle" because Mckinley
has set them to work somehow without
giving them employment it is no won
der that they forget Providence and
set up an elliptical josshouse at Canton
with Mckinley at one focus and a flag
at the other and continually burn
scraps of paper before these objects of
their pagan idolatry Chicago Chron-
icle
The Winslow mail., 1899-11-02
Pats Gnexs

Two park laborers sat on a curbstone op-
posite the Museum of Art and Science in
New York, eating lunch out of their pals.
you'd never think they'd put up that solid
strookchur just to kape dead boogs an
other crachures in" "1ndade, no, replied
the other, 'but are thin big letters cut into
the stone above the windies the names av?"
81 dono," said the first speaker. He fell to
Of intelligence succeeded the puzzled expres ras
sion on his face. Sure, hav it, he said
Thin is the names av the contractors" :"
Patrick made a good guess, for the names
craven in the stone were Aeschylus, So
phocles, Pericles, Herodotus, Socrates, Thu
cydides and Demosthenes.-San Francisco
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