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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-27
STATE FINANCES.

The "companion measures as
the American puts it, the one rails
ing the State tax rate to 80 cents and
the other creating a sinking fund has
this objection; it will increase the
taxes and encourage extravagance.
1t is all very we'll the way the
American figures it out; but then,
old adages to the contrary notwith-
standing, figures will lie sometimes.
The more money the people will
pay, the more the politicians will
spend. There is better way to
create sinking fund than by rails
ing the taxes; and that is by cutting
down expenses.
Instead of increasing the States
income some 100000, at the peoples
expense, cut down expenses that
much. If we are asked where and
how, we will answer, begin at the
Capitol and cut every salary in that
building, and discharge half the
clerks and then go right on down
the line cutting everywhere close to
the quick.
The State has been run in debt by
extravaganza; the easy way out of
course is to raise the taxes; that is
the way our statesmen usually do,
make the people foot their bills.
But the just way, and the sensible
way, and the popular thing to do,
would be to let the tax rate stay as
it is, and spend two or three hun
dred thousand dollars less money
for running expenses per annum
than they have been doing; and
they can easily do this if they will.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-27
FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS.

For yonder pup the world was first
rounded out by the limits of the kennel,
where the good things of life reached
him without effort and were accepted
without question. Then came days of
loose jointed roaming, and at last a bark
of his own and burst of wild freedom.
About that time his troubles began; for
having teeth he started use them and,
having the impulse to destroy he yield
ed to it. His idea that the world is only
for his amusement and that rugs and
shoes are designed by providence for
whetting teeth will soon be dispelled.
The power to do by no means iustifies
deed. At this point all sorts of pup
pies go astray; and at this point also
their sufferings begin. 1t is a hard les
son, but a necessary one; that powers
seem principally given to Us in order to
be curbed instead of iudulged. The
philosophy Of modern progress is that
puppies must be tanned into useful dogs
aud wild boys into thoughtful men.
Were it not so the boy would slip back
to savagery and the dog become an out
cast. The more we insist on having our
own way, As IL the whole world was
made for us, the worse time are we go
ing to have.
There be goes now 20 hide a bone
which he has picked, aud that really
has no mortal use to which he can put
il Il is all very well to explain that
this u due 70 ancestral memory dating
back o. the time when dogs were wild
aud food ,arce. Yet, nevertheless, we
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-27

1t is not fair to speak only of the bad
qualities of dogs and men. There are
good ones worth chronicling, always
have been and always will be. But as
with the bone, so for another day an
other story. MEMO.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-27

Mr.. Fry. Chairman of the Fl.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-27

What the little canine cannot under
stand he barks at. He wastes his breath
upon the great round moon so long that
morning drives her away. Lo, the bark
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-27
We Permit No OVerstatGmGntS
In Our Advertisement.

We believe in the sublimity of
plain truth. Some people consider
deception an art. 1t may be it's an
art we have no use for. Fair deal
ing is artistic enough for us. 1t
makes new friends and holds old
ones, and that's all we are after. Pri-
ces are the only difference between
clothing here and elsewhere.
Now for a Killer.
Until you see the HERALD again,
we offer the largest line of
PANTS
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-01-27
McKe3Do3, A3dQrso3 : Foster.
Here's an Opportunity TO BUY Fine silks Cheap.

| - 5 CERTAIN as a fire leaves ashes, busy season
J Of Silk Selling leaves remnants, short lengths and
odd pieces of Silks and to keep from putting down
on our invoice book Tuesday night more than hun-
dred pieces OF these and short lengths going
to give you opportunity buy them Next Monday at
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14

Edgerton, S. D.. September 80, 1899
several statements in the Journal re-
lating to the deposit per capita of resi-
dents in different parts of the country.
l do not consider any of them, taking
into account our handicap of no rail-
road towns, as good as Charles Mix
COunty's There are four banks in the
old part of the county now having de-
posits of over $40 per capita. There
are no manufacturers, large ranchers'
stock or grain buyers deposits, and
half of the merchants keep their ac-
counts at their railroad shipping
points, or use the sock" Ninety per
cent of the deposits belong to the
farmers and the balance to a part of
the merchants. This county went Pop
ulist last year, but it will never hap
pen again as long as the present condi-
tions of the country will last.
T. E. ANDREWS.
When prosperity comes in at the
door POpulism flies out at the window.
That is the burden of brief but sig
nificant communication from Charles
Mix County, S. D. The statement that
the farmers of that county have nearly
$50 per capita laid away in the banks
before marketing this years fine crops
forms the basis of the prediction
Sioux City Ua.) Journal.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14

Mr.. Bryan is reported to have an.
plauded speech of President McKin.
ley at Canton. ILL., AS the brief address
was principally devoted to the martial
triumphs of this country, and to the
greater triumph of overcoming the
enemies of prosperity and scattering
their forces, Mr.. Bryan was either
sincere or has decided that prosperity
is something more than a semblance.
The former asserted that this nation
has been greatly blessed, and at this
hour We are a united and prosperous
people" Col. Bryan continues to harp
upon the dOleful theme Of suffering
people, ground down by the money
power. plutocrats and octopuses whose
brains and money are actively engaged
in the work of expressing labor. Facts
and conditions prove which of the two
men is right.-Tacoma (Wash.) Led
ger.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14
PROOF OF PROSPERITY.
Notable Decrease In the Amount Q
Child Labor Employed.

Notable Decrease In the Amount Of
Child Labor Employed.
The enormous amounts of work be-
ing done in the factories of Grand
Rapids, and the increased number of
men employed, clearly indicates that
this city has not failed to get it's share
of prosperity. According to figures
compiled by Deputy Factory Inspector
Addison. of the Michigan Factory In
spection bureau, the number of en-
ployes in the factories in this city has
been increased to a total of 13, 1913 since
the first of May. the number on that
date being 1929, an increase of 464
There is also a noticeable decrease in
the number of children and boys under
16, their places being taken by men
and older boys. The companies have
decided that they are better off with
the older employees. and they do not
care to take the chances of prosecution
for violation of the law which pro-
hibits the employment of boys under
Is years of age. Again, under more
prosperous conditions the necessity for
every member of family to be earn
ing something does not exist as it did
coce, and that fact has considerably
thinned the ranks of child labor
throughout the country as we'll as in
this city. Increased trade and in
creased employment are sure signs Of
prosperity, and if Senator Jones of Ne
vada, who lately expressed his belief
that there was no real prosperity in
the country, will come to Grand Rapids
he will be speedily convinced that
present prosperity is something very
real. after all.-Grand Rapids (Mich.)
Herald.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14
LYING UNDER A MISTAKE.
Sheer DemagOgism to Charge the Re-
publican Party with Trusts.

Sheer DemagOgism TO Charge the Re-
publican Party with Trusts.
Increased prices with no increased
salaries or wages is a lop-sided pros
perity that follows with peculiar pro-
priety in the wake of the party that
by restrictive tariff called trusts into
existence.-So-called Democratic or
gan.
The opposition organs are filled with
just that sort of political stuff In the
paragraph quoted there is one unim-
portant truth. A few articles have
been advanced slightly in price, per-
haps, but that mas been much more
than counterbalanced in the increased
demand for labor, and the general ad-
vance in wages
1t is not true that there has been a
recent marked increase in the price
of every day necessities" nor is it true
that there have been mo increased sal
aries or wages" Wages have been
generally increased, and in many cases
largely increased.
AS for trusts, so far it has not been
a political question; individuals of all
parties have been and are mixed up
with them, so are free-trade countries.
And it is sheer demagogism for the or
gans of that party to charge that
trusts were organized by the Repub-
lican party or that that party is in any
way responsible for them more than
any other party. Such a charge would
be at variance with the truth, and none
know it better than those organs
which are continually mouthing> it
over. In fact it is a part of their
political stock in trade. That is only
another way of politely saying to any
one who ventures to make the charge:
You lie, sir-under a mistake. Nor
walk (Ohio) Reflector.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14
Railway Prosperity.

The railways Of the country are do
ing an unparalleled business at the
present time. Not only are people trav-
cling in greater numbers than in or
binary times, but there is an equally
heavy amount of freight traffic So
much freight is to be transported that
the railways are finding it difficult to
provide enough cars to meet the de-
mand for them. The situation is
summed up by an Eastern railway Off
cial as follows: With the enormous
business in sight it will be a crime il,
for the next six months at least, there
is a single rate cut or an unemployed
car east of Chicago. There is sufficient
business to keep every road busy"
The great amount of business done
by the railway companies is sure in
dication of the great prosperity that
prevails in all parts of the country.
1t reflects good times for all the people.
The crops are large, causing unusually
heavy shipments of grain and agricul-
tural products, which means increased
freight business for the railways, while
the great amount of manufacturing
and our large exports to foreign coun-
tries contribute to great extent in
giving the railways new business.
Then the people are travelling more
than usual. because they feel that they
can afford it. The prosperity of the
railways is an infallible test of the
prosperity OF the country. AS they
have never known a period when their
receip@ were greater. it may be as
sumed that the country is enjoying
greater prosperity than ever before
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14
WE'RE PROSPEROUS; THAT is
ALL

Facts Known to Every Intelligent Man,
but Worth Reading Just the Same.
A famous epitaph commentaries the
virtues OF Roman woman who, in an
age of frivolty, 'staid at home and
span her WOOL" She did not promenade
abroad until her household was clothed
in purple and fine linen of domestic
manufacture. So, with but two inter-
walls in the past generation, the United
States has been engaged in providing
for its own people enough food, enough
clothing, enough manufactures Of
every sort to supply every reasonable
American want by the proceeds OF
American industry. 1t has stayed at
home and spun its wool with success.
and now it is ready to go abroad in
search of markets for the irrepressible
surplus of it's industry.
For long time we were accustomed
to speak of 1892 as 1.-The Mckinley
year." as "the record-breaking year of
exports" But the inevitable trend of
Republican policy has carried us far
and away beyond the figures of 1892.
For example, during the whole fiscal
year of 1892 our exports of copper and
copper manufactures were worth ST.
226,392; during the first eight months
OF 1898 they were worth $22, 1925, 4S5;
during the first eight months of this
year they have amounted to $751;
056. Our exports of iron and steel, ex-
elusive of iron ore, were worth $685.
SOO,93O during the twelve months of
the fiscal year 1892. They were worth
$6S,OOS,O71 during the first eight
months of 1899. Our exports of leather
and its manufactures were worth $12,-
OS4,7S1 in the whole of 1892, and ST.
413,45S during the first eight months
of the present year.
We exported agricultural implements
to the value of $3.794,9S3 during the
twelve months elapsing between June
30. 1891, and June 30, 1892, and to the
value of $11, 1876, 450 between January
and September, 1892
A phenomenal increase of exports is
noticeable in almost every branch and
department of manufactures. Stimuli
with this there has been a vast
extension of the production of goods
for home use Never have the de-
mands of the home market been more
pressing; never have William ]. Bry-
ans common people" been so well
fed, so well clothed, so we'll housed, SC
well supplied with money to spend, as
at present
But there has been one decrease in
exports. In 1892 our exports of pro-
exclusive of breadstuffs, were
worth $40, 1862. 159; for the first eight
months of this year they are worth
f121. 651 ,443. We have now more money
to spend on food, and we are eating
more and better food. The time seems
not far distant when the American peo-
pie will be able to consume all of the
choicest products of American farms.
All these are hard facts, known to
every intelligent man, but it is worth
while to gather them and read them |
occasionally as long as the voice of the |
Democrat is heard in our land.-Chi. |
ago Inter-Ocean
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14
Would Il. . Sad Revenge.

II the people want the predictions
Of Demo-Pops to come true, all they
have to do is to vote for them, as was
done in 1892, and they will see repe-
tition of history. The year 1899 has
so far been the most prosperous the
nation has ever known, and it would
be a sad reverse to destroy it that Bry-
an and his supporters may hold Office.
-Medford (Okla) Patriot.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14
WHY WEGIVETHANKS
REASONS FOR OBSERVING ruE
NATIONS FEAST DAY.
The Exceptional Causes for Thanksgiv-
Ing Set Forth by President, Mckinley
In His Procla mation Appointing Thurs
day. Nov. 80, For That Purpose.


has issued his proclamation naming
Thursday, Nov. 80, 1899, as a day OF
general thanksgiving and prayer ito be
observed as such by all our people on
this continent and in our newly &C.
CURED islands, as well as by those who
may be at sea or sojourning in foreign
lands In his customary crisp phrase
ology, always admirable for it's incisive
dlrectnesS and its freedom from VERDI
age, President Mckinley points out the
facts that support his statement that
Seldom has this nation had greater
cause for profound thanksgiving +"
Seldom indeed has this nation, and
never has any other nation, had equal
cause to give thanks Here are some
OF the causes as set forth in the presi-
dents proclamation:
mo great pestilence has invaded our
Shores
See national election returns 1896,
1898. The pestiIence of free trade has
ceased to aflict us.
Liberal employment waits upon
labor"
See American Protective Tariff
leagues industrial census for March,
1899, showing an increase of 1886 per
cent in amount of labor employed.
54.09 per cent in amount of wages paid
and 1919 per cent in wage rate per
capita.
k,nv LODI fhpns
efforts of the husbandman."
Also higher prices for these crops by
reason of the larger employment and
the greater consuming capacity of
American work people
Increased comforts have come to the
hOne."
The people of the United States were
never before so we'll fed, so we'll
clothed, or so well housed.
The national finances have been
strengthened and public credit has been
sustained and made firmer."
Owing to sound financial and eco
nomic policy which has increased in
dividual and national wealth to a de-
gree never before known.
'In all branches of industry and trade
there has been unequaled degree of
prosperity, while there has been steady
gain in the moral and educational growth
Of national character. Churches and
schools have fOurished."
The three things go together: pros
perity morality, intelligence. These are
conspicuous in Republican policies
and practices.
american patriotism has been ex-
allied"
1t always was and always will be
exalted by thoroughly American gov
eminent such as that which now di-
reefs affairs of state.
Such are the chief causes for thank
fulness suggested by the president in
his proclamation. They are splendid,
extraordinary, exceptional causes which
appeal to the pride and excite the
qualification of every true American.
Happy is the fortune of the president
who can cite such an array of reasons
for general thanksgiving. His prede-
cessor in Office could not do it tour
years ago.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14

Will some one please name a great
trust magnate who is not a Repub-
lican?-Eureka Union.
Well. there is Havemeyer, the sugar
king, to start with. There are others.
however.-Eureka (Kan) Herald.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14

But say to the twenty-first century
escort: Il cannot understand this.
Have these worshipers no sorrows. or
have they forgotten their sorrows?"
Our escort responds: Sorrows! Why.
they had sorrows more than you could
count, but by a divine illumination
that the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries never enjoyed, they under
stand the uses of sorrow, and are COM
forted with supernatural coincidence.
such as previous centuries never ex-
perienced."
ask again of the interpreter: "Has
death been banished from the world?"
The answer is: mo. but people die
now only when the physical machin-
cry is worn out, and they realize it is
time to go. and they are certainly and
without doubt going into world where
they will be infinitely better OF and are
to live in a mansion that awaits their
immediate occupancy" But how is
all this effected?" I ask our escort.
Answer: by foods of gospel power.
You who lived in the nineteenth CEN
fury never saw a revival of religion to
be compared with what occurred in the
latter part Of the twentieth and the
early part Of the twenty-frst century.
The prophecy has been fulfilled that
"a nation shall be born in day: that
is, ten or twenty or forty million peo-
pie converted in twenty-four hours. In
our church history we read of the
great awakening in 1857. when 500, 900
souls Were saved; but that was only q
drop Of the coming showers that Once
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14
Keeps Him Hust,t.r,

The show has caught up with the adj
vance agent of prosperity, and it keeps
the avant courier hustling to avoid be-
ing actually run over.-Benton Qn.)
AsputH an.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14

Prosperity has laid its hand on the
Sunhower state. and a journal ac-
knowledges it by saying, Laugh, and
tie world will be likely to take you for
Q Kansas farmer. IN. NJ
AfUna
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14

The sin of pride is the sin of sins:
In which all subsequent sins are in
cluded. as in their germ: they are but
the unfolding Of this one.-Archbishop
Trench.
The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14

Chickamauga is to have q eonfedee
ate monument to cost 36s, 900.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-10-07

Filpinos re-occupied the town. We will
very likely have to capture San Mateo again
within the next few weeks.
The only way to end this war is to ''cor
| rar' the Fiiipinos the same you would SO
many jack rabbits. But to do this need
| between IS, 900 aud 100000 men. With
this number of soldiers it is the universal
opinion here that the whole trouble would
be over by the next rainy season.
While our soldiers here are being killed
and wounded, and enduring the hardshps
of an active campaign in the tropics, some
of our politicians and newspapers at home
| are ''siving moral support to the ehemy,'
by publishing lots of tommyrot about this
wars being repugnant to the majority of
Americans, the cruelty and inhumanity of
our soldiers, etc. l suppose some isolated
cases of maltrcatment on the part of our
men can be cited, but to make the accuse
ton general is base SANDER. The Ameri
can soldier is proverbially kind and gen
erous, especially to fallen foe, although he
be treachcrous the Filipino.
The ACCESSIBILITY inadvisability of an
nexng the Philippines, etc., are matters for
our statesmen and not soldiers to discuss.
The sentiment of the soldier in the Philip
pines may be thus summed up: ''Prior to
February 4, 1898, the Filipinos mistook
kindness Weakness; consideration for
cowarclicc, and annoyed and nsulted all
they could, but we had orders pro
woke quarrel, and SO took it all. On the
night of February 4, after having openly
boosted they could take Manila in two
hours, the Filipinos deliberately fired on the
American haS,-and we've been clicking
'em'' since. They are now ennemies
of our country, and there is but thing
for us to do--continue clicking EN- until
they surrender. The only thing ask of
our politicians is, to- let up their '.chin
music and send some more men-we'll
do the rest. After have taught Aguin-
aldo and his followers good lesson on
''The American fag-how to respect it,
then it will be time for people to begin
quarreling among themselves.
Gas the Arabs folded their tents and
stole away, is there any true American who
would now have us fold the old flag and
turn homeland be the laughing stock of
the whole world? God forbid!''
THE WHITE MANS BURDEN.
The day after the arrival of the 24th
U. S. Infantry, American in Manila,
seeing the street old colored sergeant,
asked him, ''Well, my man, what are you
doing here?' Whcrcupon the sergeant re-
piled, ssAh am heah to take up de white
man burden, sah.'
THANK GOD, AM AN AMERICAN.
The more we see of the Spaniards, China
men, Filipinos, Mestizos, etc, the prouder
that we belong to that grand and
glorious country SO far away, and beholdinS
the old flag flying from the housetops,
every one of us thankfully signs s.Thank
God, l am an Americana
JAMES \. Moss.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-10-07
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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-10-07
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