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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

distinct tones said he had been offered
$4,000 to work for w. A. Clark. Hard
ly year passes in which there Is not
diegraceful scandal over the election
of United States Senators, and shady
methods will probably be employed as
long as the present system of electing
Senators is retained. Ordinarily, legis
lators are more secretive about their
transactions than the statesmen in Cal
ifornia and Montana. When men adj
NIT openly that their votes have been
purchased or bid for. and no effort is
made to punish them, it would seem
that the public is growing callous, and
is no longer ofended by the venality of
legislatures. How can the abest and
purest men be sent to the United states
Senate when. as too frequently hap
pens. the candidates fitness and char
acter are subordinated to the length OF
his purse-strings?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19


Wealth is exempt from all taxation.
directly, by the law, which exempts IT'S
incomes and bonds, and indirectly, bv
its ability to add all other taxes to its
rents. sales and interest or to deduct
them from the wages. prices, &C. that
1t pays. If legislation seeks to exact
some revenue from it, the courts are
its temples of refuge.
Labor pays all taxes. Yea, 1t creates
all real wealth. maintains all values.
and pays all interest, rents, profits and
incomes not only by it's work, but bv
It's numbers, and its demands for the
supplies of life. If it become FESTIVE
under It's burdens and expressions, the
courts issue their injunctions and the
executive powers order troops 90 the
scene.
And this was once the land of liberty
regulated by law. under n government
OF the people, by the people, for the
people! But don't mention it. save with
bated breath and humblcness. Our
masters would have us forget.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19
THE PHILIPPINE TR1Jsr

From the Chicago Chronicle.
1t is announced that the President
now considers the occupation of the
Philippines by the United States forces
as "in the nature of a trust" This
should satisfy all doubters and cavilers.
Anything in the nature of g trust
coal. steel, Standard Oil or Philippine
is, of course, sacred. The major. how
ever should substitute for General Oti.
Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan. who is ac-
customed to handling trusts and should
make a good job Of the Philippians nro-
position.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

scientists now announce that the
supply Of atmospheric air is failing:
mat we are consuming oxygen at so
prodigious rate that sooner or later
IL must all be consumed. Wonder ~
the contractionists have anything to do
with 1t! They have our money in
charge. and by constructing our supply
OF 1t. they coerce us to their will with
little difficulty; but If they can only
get control of our breath, or the air or
oxygen we breathe, we shall be their
helpless thralls. In effect, they would
then have US by the throat, as they
now have us manacled hand and foot
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19
Joseph Brown.
White
Goods.

January is a month for such
buying. Selections good
more time for making properly,
less occasion for worry because
of disappointment or chagrin.
Dimlties at 8. 10, 12H and
10 are strikingly good.
India Linens at 40 and 12H
as represent an actual saving
of 21a cents the yard.
Long Cloths at 1Oc. the
yard. Others, 121ac.
A beautiful Nainsook, $3.50
the piece of ~ yards.
Joseph Brown. 22O Main ST..
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

The Money Trust furnishes the tie
mat binds all trusts together, and
makes them all subservient to it. Break
TINS trust and Its monopoly by restoring
silver. and again the land will know
freedom. prosperity and happiness.
Silver again free. the people can snap
their fingers at the oddities who now
have them at their mercy.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

work. man. can have no better. nor
more blessed business. None other
pays SO well. in that everyone finds his
own greatest good in contributing to
the prosperity and happiness of others.
Only devils and flends can rejoice to
prosper in the adversely of others.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

But the banks must control our cur
rency to make it elastic,-that is. to
expand and contract 1t at their pleas
ure. We have had some bitter eXpe-
rience of the money-power in contrac-
housekeeping us on famine-rations for
its purposes; and we may be sure that
any private business" will only be
guided by it's own interests (and no
otheO by looscnng or tightening the
public purse strings, which should new
CT pass out of the hands of the gov
eminent. Sovereignty consists in the
sword and purse-in money and power
and If one goes into the hands of a
league or trust run for profit. we may
as we'll part with the other and become
slaves at once. We shall be little bet
ter if we do not shake off the clutch
the money-trust now has upon public
and private resources, values, powers
and credits. The fact is that this mon
ey leagues grasp upon us has alarm
mgly and injuriously increased. is rap
idly increasing, and should be speed
lily diminished by all means within our
reach.
Mr.. Gage, indeed. insists that We
must resort to the banks to regulate
our currency, because says he, 1.-The
government cannot conduct loan agen-
cies." 1t can, however. and does do
so, lending the peoples money to the
banks. without interest; and as the
Secretary recommends a separate "bu-
reau of issue and redemption" the
lending business might we'll be ex-
banded beyond the banks to the people
directly, with immense saving to gov
eminent and people. The right to is
sue credit money" says Mr.. Gage,
must be extended to the banks; but
the government itself must cease issue
ing such money."-"not." says he. that
Greenbacks are bad sort OF currency,
or at present Mt all dangerous. oh,
no! but that they take the place of n
better kind of currency" /. G. the cred
itmoney of the banks! OF course.
There is nothing like leather.
There are many better ways than-the
way Mr.. Gage wants; and il We can
agree upon no other. let us return to
the good old way of 1792-1S73 That is
safe reform,
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

at must needs be that offences come.
but woe to that man by whom the Of
fence cometh." Did you ever think OF
that, sleek citizen. as you contracted
the money of the poor, diminished their
work, in many cases deprived them of
employment. and lowered the prices OF
their productions?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

Truth? 1t is libelous: 1t Is vulgar
and indecent; it is naked. rough. un-
vanished; it is offensive to ears po-
lite; and 1t is very troublesome. To
lie is good form. Even to call spade
with common things and common peo-
nile
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19
Every Remedy Had Failed,
But He is Perfectly Well Now !

81 HAD TRIED ALMOST EVERY
CATARRlI MEDICINE 1 ever heard OF
and ALL FAILED to cure me. NV s,If-
ferings we're severe and l was misorablc
indeed. felt all the timc as il there was
n lump of phlegm IN my throat which
must hawk away. This kept me hawk
ing all the time. My throat would rot
dry, and sore and my nostris felt stury
and Cloggcd up. My ears kept ringin:
and singing constantly and my eyes were
sore. watery and weak. My appetite was
very poor. and | was so bad off | couldn't
sleep and would get up In the mornInr n {
tired as when l laid down at night and
d:d=. feel like working at ALL I fell
tired all the time and got easily fatirtod
OFTEN had dull headache when | got nm
In the morning. In this condition n
friend advised me to be treated by DIR
f1ItEY. which | did, and his treatment
has made me feel IKE a new nerson
Ny appetite is excellent, sleep well, feel
well. like to work. ears and eyes ali rirht
all the catarrh symptoms gene, brcat n
free and easy, in fact, I feel entirely
cured. Before taking his treatment | used
to lie in bed an hour coughing and hawk
Ing before l could 20 to sleep but no
trouble now. / certainly recommend DIR
tfrcy's treatment as the best Catarrh
Cure.
j. G. ONERMAN
Portsmouth Va
Residence. Duke street, near Scott, en-
ployed at Navy Yard
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19
Norfolk. Va, january 16tf
Norfolk. Va. january 10th, 1899.

Norfolk. Va, January 10th, 1899.
TT HID LAW FIRM OF VENABLE 6
Il MclLWAINE is this day dissolved
by mutual consent. Each member of the
old firm Will continue the practice of law
on his own account. and until further no.
ticc can be found in the offices hereto
fore occupied by them. W. II. VENA-
BILE. RICHARD McILWAINE. JR.
jal7-eod-10t
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19
TW ELVE PAGES
THURSDAY. JANUARY 10. 1899.
o SPIRIT OF ANDREW JACKSON

We have before us q narrow guage
circular. issued from the so-called
headquarters National Sound Money
tary Reform: A Conversation with
Secretary Gage" This is a character
istic specimen of n very curious cur
rent literature: curious, because it's
makers and circulators have long ago
revealed that their sound money" is
only the bank notes of favored private
institutions. which want the more. the
more they get (very daughters of the
horse-leechD. and above all curious for
It's solemn self-conviction of its sinister
purposes and it's grandiose pomposity
of f-stultifcation-all crowned by an
Inconsistencies of self-eXposure so
childlilSe and bland that one can hardly
believe that sane men can avow thus
the designs they proclaim. Men are not
accustomed yet to be told by money
that they are to be enslaved to it,
that their government is to surrender
to 1t and serve 1t exclusively. and that
all honor. profit, power and trust is to
concentrate in its hands. At first in
clined to laugh at these mad rawlings
Gas he considers them), the reader be-
comes seriously alarmed at this strange
literature. when he looks around and
sees what money and its lovers and
worshipers have already accomplished
'Reform" How curious that the ar
bitrary creators, shapers and controllers
of our banking. monetary, currency
and financial system should be howl
ing for reform There is not diff
Guilty. or evil, in the entire system
Except the banks themselves). but is
directly the result of the silver-demon-
citing act Of 1878 and its sequen,s
What caused the fatal contraction of
currency that Frustrated popular pros
perity and depressed all healthy en-
terprise. trade and business? What
caused the pretended necessity of n
purchased gold-reserve, and the nc
emulation of idle silver in the Trea
sury; the endless chain and the issue
OF bonds to buy gold and increase the
national standing debt: and the gene
raj subsection OF government. people
and all their affairs. public and pri-
vate. to money and its masters? An
directly and Enthusiastically due to that
baleful act of 1873 and It's authors-
these present howlers of "REFORAI"-
Greeks bearing us similar gifts to
those with which they have heretofore
overwhelmed us These are orr Ro-
formers!
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

Secretary Gage. as n pretext for the
legisla ton the Money Trust desires and
demands. declares the existing curren-
cy system defective; and so 1t is-made
so by him and his grasping set; but
further manipulation of the system by
the same set, in the same direction. will
only result in worse defects and great
err damage to government and people.
He urges n. single and permanent mon
ey-gold-aS q basis and standard of
value for currency; when we know that
it cannot be n circulating medium;
when st is too narrow basis for our
currency. and our currency must be
contracted accordingly, or be largely
mere shnplaSter, without basis or re-
demption; and when. experience has
shown us that any single standard.
without check or balance, must be as
variable in comparative value as any
product or material in the market-be-
sides facilitating the control OF our
finances by those who find 1t easy to
monopolze the sole material upon
which they rest.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

all notes put in circulation: gold Is
made the only money because 1t will
not and cannot circulate; and every
means (the bowstring. the sack, poison.
the dagger, every mode Of murder and
assassination is resorted to without n
scruple or a qualm to remove every
rival or competitor out OF the way of
this pampered banking institution, this
private money trust. and the notes we
feed 1t upon from our Treasury so free
ly and generously. Isn't the purpose as
clear as the sun at monday? Can any
body question the manifest design,
avowed by every word and deed OF the
league or trust. or octopus. to engross
all our monetary affairs; to retire. not
only our Treasury notes and our silver
coin. but OUT government itself. from
all financial business" and duty; to
monopolize adj our currency and be alb
solute monarch of government. people.
and all business. of every kind what
soever?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

1t Is said OF mans Great Exemplar
that. while on earth, He went about
doing good. His favorite and highest
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

Their women nor children. Indeed. the
weaker one be. the more rejoiced are
we to find him. down him, trample him
in the dust, and strip him or all he has,
though his starving wife and children
plead piteously to us for mercy
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19

Thanks, gentlemen: your generosity
has left tracks-all one way! And
what a curious confession IL IS from
Mr.. Gage OF the inferority of bank
credit. when, in proposing to deprive
the people of Greenbacks (their own
Treasury issue). he suggests that
they could or should be employed nc
part of the reserves Of the private In.
stltutions called national banks. which
lend the people, on heavy interest and
gllt-edged securities. the very notes lent
them by government without any in
terest at all!
ION what meat doth this our Caesar
feed,
That 1t has grown so create"
Have we followed its imperious and
arrogant temper by our free contribu-
lions from our public Treasury? Like
the Turk, it will bear no brother near
the throne,-not the government. nor
the people. nor anything that interferes
with Its sole and arbitrary reign. ST.
YER had to get out of the way; the
dreenDacks were retired by the mil
lions to make room for it, the remain
Ing Greenbacks and other Treasury
notes and legal-tenders are to be with
drawn; State banks OF issue are throt-
Gled by a ten per cent. Federal tax on
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19
TIL HE BOARD OF HEALTH RE-
Il quests all persons to have themselves

IN HE BOARD OF HEALTH RE
Il quests all persons to have themselves
SUCCESSFULLY vACC1NATED.
Physicians are at the Health Office. City
Hall square. from to a. M, IL to I
and to p. M, to Vacc!nate all persons
unable to pay. jal9-2t
Norfolk Va, January 10th, 1890
CIRCULAR d. 80. TO THE MER-
" chants-CommencinGt this date. Mon
day, January 10TH all steamers plying in
tho waters of North. P3squotank. Soup
pernonE Perqu!manS and Roanoke Rivers
and Albemarle Sound VIII arrive and de-
part from Pier No. l tadioining Clyde
i-ine(. Water street. Norfolk, Va. All
points OIL the above waters will be ham
died at the above named pier. Yours very
truly. r. II. PANNILL. General Freight
Agent. Il. McCULLOCII. General Mana
ger. ja17-tf
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-19
7. G. OVERAIAN.

Residence, Duke street. near Scott. cm-
ployed at Navy Yard.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-11-02
! TRIP to rumfries.
To The Free Lance

10 Inc rec BhBtf
Readers Of The Free Lance would be
well paid by taking a trip from Guam
tico to the second oldest town in Nir-
ginia. Jamestown was the fret and
Dumfries, in Prince william county.
came next Ona recent visit we were
met at the train by friend. The road
/ from . lanticO 10 Dnmfries leads most
Of the way through dense body Of
woods Here aud there II skirts the
woods. and you can see we'll kept
/ farms and many evidences OF rural
contentuent. The woods and streams
are teeming with game and fish re-
spectively. We reached the ancient
and historical Dumfries about mid day
Driving through the town we saw here
aud there the ruius Of some old build
ings. Our business took Us mp the
Ouantico river near the pyrites mine,
now extensively worked By the BAlti-
more Fertilizer firm Of Dedrick & %
Three shafts have been sunk about l4O
feet deep. and tons Of ore are gotten
out daily by force OF 60 men. The
ore is shipped by the companys own
miles OF we'll built narrow guage
road 20 point on the Potomac
river. The sum Of $500 to $500 is paid
by this firm weekly for labor The
whole surrounding country seems q
bed Of pyrities ore and bright future
| il before Dumfries. On our return
from the mine we had TO Cross the
Quantico river several times. it occu-
pying a conspicuous place among wind
ing rivers On the northside OF Its
bank about a mile above Damfries you
pass the old site Of Gen. Geo. Wash
ington's saw mill. Some Of the foun-
dation is still in q good state OF pres
eryation. No wonder in looking upon
these ancient sights, that the young
men of Prince William county were
most patriotic and daring in eur late
civil war. The spirit of Washington
seems to be still lowering over these
historic fields. Through the kindness
of our friend. d. Amidon, we were
introduced TO his Honor. l. ". Mer-
chant. Mayor of the town. who took
great pleasure in showing us some old,
and now very valuable relics, among
them the key Of the Jail. large enough
in size to have locked Gen Grants
whole army out Of Dumfriesi the
Courthouse key and key from the
Pineapple Hotel, marked in Roman
numerals No XIII Ho also showed us
a ledger on one its pages as far back IS
Feb. /. 1887, cash 70 Gen. Geo. Wash
ington pounds and shillings, Eng
lish m )ney The sale Of tobacco Of that
day. on the same page aggregated 1924
bogheads, aggregating $50. S'l pouuds.
at 85cts a pound, sold to parties in
Norfolk. Petersburg and Blidensburg
Dumfries must have been q good
sized town it had bank. threater, /,
a market house and several merchant
,ylors and shoe makers, also hatmak'
er. Industry of every kind was carried
on. II turn about is fair play may not
at some later day Dumfries become the
town again it was l25 years ago. Here
ia Palestine right in our own State
where we can 60 and explore and med
itate with profit upon its former splen-
dor.
Enkarnrisa
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-11-02
Commander Page Dead.

Commander Thomas jefferson Page,
Of Gloucester, died in Rome. Italy,
LAST Thursday. aged 90 years.
Commander Page served in the L.
S Navy for more than 30 years and
became prominent on account Of his
WORK as q South American explorer.
he resigned his commission when his
State seeded and served the Conied
eracy during the civil war.
He was born at Shelly, Gloucester
county, Va, January + 1905, snd
was appointed midshipman on De
tober /, 1927 He passed for promo
ton on June 10, 1888, and was com
missioued as lleutensnt Deoem Der 20,
1899.
he served on the coast survey for
several yesrs, and eircumnsvigated
the globe in the Dolphin.
Ia 1853 be was placed in commsnd
Of an expedition for the exploration
of the tributaries of the Rio Do Ia
Plata and adjacent countries. He
was well received by President Lopez.
of the Republic of Paraguay, and
.rried out his commission without
obstruction till February, 1855, when
his steamer, the Water Witch, WAS
fred upon from q Parsgusyan fort
on the Parans river, and one man
was killed. He returned the FIRE, but
his vessel was no; fitted for offensive
operations. He returned TO the Uni
ted States in May, 1856, after an sb'
sence of three years aud four months.
Page. who had been promoted COM
mander September II, 1855, resumed
his surveys, and completed them in
Decem Der, 1860. turning over to the
Navy Department the charts, notes
and journals, which embraced sew
eral thousand miles of river nsvig4-
tion previously unexplored and rot
yet described in print.
He commanded the heavy batteries
at Gloucester Point, on York river,
and began the building of gunboats
at West Point, but burned them and
retreated after Yorktown was sbsn-
dOned.
la 1862 be was commissioned as
commodore and went to England to
take command of an ironelad then
building in the Mersey, and when the
British Government, under a threat
of war from the L. S. Minister, took
possession Of the vessel, he assumed
command of a small ironclad lying st
Copenhagen which put to sea under
the name of Stonewsll," and which
sfterward, when she entered Span
ish hsrbor. was seized by the officers
of Queen Isabella. He went to the
Argentine Republic, and for many
years be was engaged in sheep and
cattle farming. He then went to
England.
Commodore Page has for some time
resided in Florence, Italy. His son
is fl ct captain in the Argentine
navy.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1899-11-02
STAFFORD.
Run 10 be spanned by an Iron Bridge
Notes and Personals.

Correspondence TO The Free Lance }
Stafford, C. II Va, Oct. 30, '99.
The board Of supervisors met last
Monday, Messrs. Jones, Henry and
Lunsford being present. No. Lee
having misunderstood the day Of
meeting did not attend.
The only business Of importance
transacted was that Of erecting a
bridge seross Aqua Run, on the
telegraph road. The bid to erect
wooden bridge and abuiments filed
by Mr. JnO. Hancock for 81, 098 70
was rel -cted ~ The board then con
tracted with Rne PIttsburg Bridge
Co., to erect an iron bridge across
the run for its bid of 81 1876, and the
clerk was ordered to advertise for
bids for the abutment. IL is est
mated that the bridge will be com
pleted by February lst, 1900. Board
adjourned to 3:d Monday in Novem
Der 20. prox.
Mr.. T. w Berrey and his dsugh-
ters, Misses Louisa aud Lillian have
returned from visit to Mr.. BIS.
parents in Madison county. Mr.. b
reports larger acreage Of wheat
seeded in Madison than ever before
Mr.. J.R.McGeegor has eonvalesced
to such an extent as to be able to
ride out.
The many friends of Hon. W A.
Little sympsthize with him in his
affliction, and hope be will soon be
himself again.
Mrs Fannie E. Flatford paid the
court house visit yesterday.
lis reported that two Of the super
visors walked to the court house last
Monday to attend the meeting Of the
board. The supposition is they want
ed to prove to their constituents that
lhev were earn ng their per diem.
Rivalry in the wood trade Oh
Aqua Creek is brisk. Competition
being the life of trade" the wood
sellers are getting the benefit.
Mr. aud Mrs. Chss. Evans, Of
Washington, d c.. paid the court
house a visit Saturday.
Thos. Baker, colored, has csught
35 eoons thus far this season, and the
end is not yet Tom proposes to salt
coon hams down, and erect tannery
for their hides. If this thing con-
tinues there will not be g coon be.
tween Potomac Run and the river.
November term of county court
will be grand jury term.
Much cider is being cached" for
winter consumption. and coon hunt
ing is now measured by Zone or
two gallon hunt; if one gallon, some
"vsrmeuts" are caught, if two or
more gallons, the "varment" gen.
orally gets away with the psrtici'
Talts.
Miss Mamie Bryan and Mrs. Bessie
Jones, with her two children, return
ed today from Washington, D c
Scribbler.