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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30
The uses of stakes to prop a tree that

The uses of stakes to prop tree that
is overcrowded with fruit is univer-
sal, but progressive fruit growers no
longer believe in propping the trees,
preferring to thin out the fruit at an
carly stage, and thus lessen the work
Of the tree. 1t should be the object to
grow choice fruit, instead of quantity,
SO as to get better prices and avoid
shipping that which is not desirable in
market.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

This kissing epidemic should be
nipped in the bud.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

A good many people don't want 10
know the truth, If 1t is opposed to their
foolish prejudices.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

Why Bfmetallisni IL Paramount. !,
1t has been estimated that there are
between 10000, 100000 and gsSS, 900;
100000 Of longtime Indebtedness, con-,
sistlng of national, State, county, city
and corporation bonds, and Individual
promissory notes, owed in this nation.
Over one-half Of this is payable in law
full money Of the United States. Under
free coinage, silver dollars become
legal tender for the payment of all that
ten or fifteen billions of debt. 1t is a
principle recognized In all political
economies that IL one dollar is cheaper
than another all the obligations pay
eb.e in lawful money Will be paid In
the cheaper dollar, and thus IL silver
should ever so to discount compared
to gold, there would be that enormous
demand created for silver by the debt
ors who owe the SIC, OOO, OOO, 600 or $751;
O0O,OO0,OO0.
With such an enormous demand upon
the limited quantity of silver available
for coinage, is 1t possible that anyone
would part with silver at an appreci-
able discount? You must remember
that this silver dollar is not only
legal tender for the payment of private
debts, but 1t is also legal tender for
the discharge of State, county and
city taxes, as well as all import
duties, Internal revenue duties and
postage dues of the national govern
ment, and you must remember that the
national government raises by those
duties the enormous sum of almost
$500,000,000 year. The premiums
contracted to be paid In lawful money
each year in the United States upon
life insurance policies are $685., 902,321,
mud upon fire insurance policies $685.
S19,3SS. The total amount Of life in
surance IN force in the United States,
all of which is payable in lawful mon
cy, Is $13, 742, 405, 42O.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30
Ch,rro,1 on tho E,r,,

To make charcoal, says the Philadel-
phia Ledger, cut wood into four-foot
Epgths, stand on end around light ma
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

A dentist never takes pains with his
work. His patients do that.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

Tie question IS asked how the center
Of population IN the United States Is
determined. 1t is rather an intricate
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

When a man plants blackberries he
has plantation that with care and
spraying with funglcides to prevent
blight can be kept for all time. 1t Is
very hard to root out blackberry
patch, as any one who has planted the
wild sorts and who wishes to change
fer Better can testify.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

II Is growing more luuulIeSC eHCu uHy
that the gold Democrats are disposed
to stand by the national organization
and will lend valuable assistance to the
party opposed to Mckinley In the cam
paign of 1900.
There can be no doubt that the dlsaf-
lection of the gold Democrats in 1896
aided materially in the election Of Nc
Kinley, but the betrayal of these volun-
teers by the man who benefited through
their votes has embittercd them and
they will never again allow themselves
to be made tools of by a political trick
ster. Mckinley has evaded every OPP
portunity to show appreciation of the
aid given him and his party by the gold
Democrats; he has even failed to carry
out the currency reform, notions
which attracted the gold Democrats.
Added to the sins of omission, the
rank ingratitude and the insulting dis
regard Of favors extended, Mckinley
has pursued policy of Imperialism,
militarism and subserviance to trust
control which has alienated every gold
Democrat beyond the hope of reconcil-
iatiOn.
Under the circumstances the situa-
tion is ripe for reunion of all the d.
vided Democratic forces, and a wise
political leadership will see to 1t that
nothing which will bring about har-
mony shall be omitted from the pro-
gram.-Chicago Democrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30
Democratic Year In Ohio.

II is felt by great many acute poll
tlcians that this will turn out a Demo
cratic year in the variable Buckeye
State, hence there is more interest than
there has been for several years in the
Democratic State Convention. The
Republicans have heavy load to car
ry-in the first place in Mckinley and
Hanna, and then in Imperialism, mill.
tarism and the trusts The election In
wolves to some extent the future of Mr..
Mckinley. for IL his party is defeated
IN Ohio this fall his denomination next
year will become very doubtful ques-
ton. Mr.. Mckinley is not an excep-
tionally strong man personally In Ohio.
He is too well known. and certain
gloss that conceals the real man in 9TH
.er States has worn off in that wide
awake commonwealth Plttsburg
Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30
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lAinley from the White House the lob
Is going to be done by Democrats, not
by heterogeneous aggregation of
Popuiists, greenbackers and silver Re-
publicans. There are in this country
enough Democrats to elect a President.
1t depends upon themselves whether
they get together or not. The Demo
Gratis of Wisconsin, through their COM
mittee, have marked out line of ac-
ton which may be followed with profit
by Democrats of other commemorative
ana by the Democracy of Kentucky in
particular.-Chicago Chronicle.
Beware of the Enemy,
In 1896 the Enquirer was the out.
spoken champion of free silver and its
peerless leader. In that campaign Its
efforts In behalf of the cause were of
character known of all men. 1t COM
Dated with the full force of its energy
the enemy-that is, the gold standard
leaders, headed by William Mckinley,
and the more dangerous chairman Of
the National Republican Committee,
Mark Hanna, and it is doing the same
thing now and will keep right on doing
IT. The power of money and the influ-
ence OF the great trust corporations
prevailed, and William ]. Bryan met
check. He emerged, however, from
defeat, not weaker, but indeed strong
err. The cause he championed and the
nag he carried could not be downed by
any temporary reverse. The cardinal,
doctrine Of the Chicago platform was
and Is a living, burning issue. 1t can
not be displaced by any minor topic
until the sweep of victory gives en-
phasis to Its teaching and weayes Its
doctrine into the fundamental law of
the land.
These observations on the part of
the Enquirer are made to give warn
Ing to the Democrats of the designs Of
the enemy. The Republicans are now
trying to create a party division in
Ohio under the false cry that there is
faction seeking to make Bryan a
follower rather than leader. This to
Democrats should be known as a silly
lie. 1t is silly lie. Bryan still leads
and his influence has not abated one
jot. The cause he advocates Is liv-
Ing cause. Under his magnificent lead.
ership the Enquirer knows enough to
know that II NIL the Democrats are not
beguiled by the efforts of the enemy to
divide them, victory SO signal us to be
emphatic waits. 1t is the time for all
Democrats to get together. The cham
pion and national candidate is al.
ready in the van; flock under his ban.
ner and victory is in sight, Cincinnati
ENQUIRER
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

Rolling Up Republican Majority.
A model Republican citizen of the
"better class" of the Quay reformer
type has just been committed to jail
in Philadelphia for the light offense
of voting tlirty-seyen times at the cleo
ton last November. When arrested
he admitted the crime and declared
that he hWl voted in thlrty-seyen dis
tricts on names registered in those dis
tricts. That was one of the ways
Stones plurality over George A. jerks
was piled up.-Pittsburg Post.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

The use of coffee as bevarge began
lii Southern Arabla in the latter half Of
the fifteenth century. 1t was introduced
into Constantinople in 1854 and into
Venice in 1915.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

to me to be a very good thing for those
who make n business of using much
fodder annually in the feeding ration.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30
Must Get Tnret1,er,

MIST Get Together.
If the Presidential election of 1900 is
10 result in the eviction of William Nc
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30
CHE ]. pen,o!l!rat.

BRONSON 4 CARR, Publishers.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30
HOW TO LET GO.

There are those among the Republic
can leaders who believe that the hold
Ing of the Philippines is bad policy, but
has become necessity through the
treaty of Paris. Many of these leaders
would be glad to let go IL they could
only discover how to do 1t. 1t is quite
likely that the President begins to I'M
derstand that his policy of Imperialism
is unpopular, and 1t is not unlikely that
which to cast off the incubus. I'm
doubtedly If the Philippines are to be
held it must be through conquest and
the carrying on of a warfare extending
over many years.
Perhaps Mckinley could not do bet
ter than to study the suggestions made
in recent letter to the New York In
dependent, written by William J. Bry-
an. Among other things Mr.. Bryan
says:
If the doctrine of self-govcrnment Is
sound, the Filipinos are entitled to gov
crn themselves, and the President can
now promise them independence as soon
If the President is not willing to take
the responsibility of enforcing the doc
trine set forth in the Declaration of In.
dependence he can call Congress togeth-
or and let it take the responsibility. A
special session would be less expensive
than the war, not to speak of the prin-
ciples involved.
Our nation is protecting the republics
of South America from outward intcrfer-
cnce while they work out their destiny.
We can lend the same doctrine to the
Filipinos and save the inhabitants from
n foreign yoke; we can guard them from
molcstation while they develop a repub-
lie in the orient. They will be our friends
instead of our enemies; we can send
school teachers to Manila instead of SOL
liers, and the world will know that there
is reality in the theory of government
promulgated at Independence Hall and
defended by the blood of the revolution
airy fathers.
Trusted Republican leaders believe
with Mr.. Bryan that the holding of the
Philippines by the United States is n
bad thing. and the President can listen
with profit to the advice given by Bur-
rows, Boutwell,, Edmunds, Hoar and
others.
There can be no question that large
majority of the people in the United
States realize that a grievous error has
been committed in regard to the admin
lstration's Philippine policy. VIII Nc
Kinley be wise enough to study the
question Of how to let go?
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-08-30

MANCHESTER, IOWA.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-19
MINE PROMOTION.

The Englishmen who bought STRAIT
toms Independence mine know a thing
or two themselves about the profitable
art of promotion. They have stocked
it at 100000 shares, which they have
placed on the market at $3.50 per
share, giving the mine valuation of
Sl3. $50. 900. Their expert, Professor
Richard, says they have in sight now
about $4,000, 600 of ore. Even if it cost
nothing to mine this ore, it will be nee
essary to discover more than as much
more ore before the purchasers of the
stock have in sight anything like a
return of their investment. Since the
mine was discovered in 1891, it has
yielded about So, 500. geo. or about $45O,OO0
of ore each year. Mr.. Stratton is said
to have Melted about $4,000 year, or
81. SOC, goo in ALL Calculating on the
same basis, buyers of the stock will OBJ
tain an annual return of Ill per cent
on their investment.
The Denver Post is devoting some
space and considerable talent in de-
nouncing the promotion of the indie
pendence as questionable at least. In
the opinion of that paper, the result
will be disastrous to all legitimate min
ing ventures in the west, as it does not
believe buyers of Independence stock
will ever obtain any adequate return.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-19
READY FOR THE INVADERS.

The most convenient entrance to the
Transvaal is being guarded and forti-
fed, strewn with deadfalls and fringed
with ambuscades in readiness for the
invader. The arrangements are COM
plete. the Beers are wakeful and the
British are without But win the trap
work? Will the plan succeed? VIII the
English fly walk into the Transvaal
parlor?
Anglo-Saxon invaders do not ALWAYS
find. it necessary to enter a valley
through the widest pass or over the
smoothest road. The British troops are
as apt to cross the highest range and
descend upon the peasants over the
toughest route, especially since enter
prising war correspondents have been
publishing illustrations and minute de-
scriptions of the Boer defenses for
weeks.
General Joubert, commander-in-chief
Of the Dutch forces, ought to establish
censorship on the Otis plan. In his
case there would be some sense in it.
The Beers are not afraid Of war
They feel conscious of being in the
right and have an abiding faith in the
triumph of right This is a pious con-
fdence, a poetic belief But it doesn't
always work Whatever may seem
right beforehand is apt to change its
color under the brush of the historian
who adds the final touches to such
affairs of national or international
honor. However, this Boer belief in
the superiority of Boer arms is not alto
gether q matter of religious faith. 1t is
doubtless stimulated by the memory of
the triumph of the peasants at Majuba
Hill, where the British were ignomin-
iously routed, and not one will deny
1.-The completeness of the defeat admin
istered to the queens army on that
/ occasion. Later on the Beers had an
alteration with DR.. Jameson, which
/ rather confirmed their impressions of
English inferiority in South African
scrappins.
But the Beers have not kept pace
with progress. They are not in touch
with the times. They have stood still.
waiting for the British to return. The
latter are returning, but they have not
been idle in the meantime. They are a
different foe today from what they
were at Majuba Hill. There is a change
in their methods, an improvement in
their equipments.
Then, there is another thing the
Beers forget. There is no Gladstone in
Britain to withdraw after a. single
possible defeat. 1t is not so much a
matter OF right or wrong. of, use or
folly, of necessity or wanton extrava-
gance as it is a matter of winning
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residences of it's nobility or of its mon
astic orders and clergy. Two-thirds or
the area of the city in those days was
occupied by churches, converts ana
hospitals But the principal external
feature of Norman and Plantagenet
London was it's pageants. These in
their magnidcence and splendor II
would be impossible for modern times
even to initiate, much less to repeat.
Under the Tudors and early Stuarts..
down to the time of the great fire,
the city remained pretty much what 1t
had been under the Normans ard
Piantagenets. But with the fire of 1866
a great change occurred. London De-
came once more a city of brick and
tile. Pageants were discontinued. and
the social life of the people, so far as
its external features were concerned
began to take on its modern aspects.
But in the present century the greatest
of all changes has occurred Old Lon
don. even the London of the last CEN
fury, is rapidly disappearing. And
from being a city of bricks and tile,
London, at least in its central parts, is
fast becoming a city of stone and
marble.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-19
SILVER AND THE TIMES.

About the meanest thing the Tribune
says about the silver question these
days is that it is nothing but hard
times issue. The war, gold discoveries
in Klondike. the benevolent distribution
of federal blessings by Mark Hanna,
or something of the Kind has caused
our neighpor to abandon the fight and
even begin to argue that bimetallism
would be the ruin OF This country.
Il has acknowledged that the closing
Of Indian minis which it assigned the
other day as a reason for its recent
change Of front on the silver question.
took place six years ago. since which
time il has put in five years bowling
most Justify fer the restoration of sill
yer. In other words it became severely
frightened last April at a report it
heard in 1888.
No one cares how much it argues
against free coinage, nor how hard it
fights for bimetallism in Europe and
gold recommendation in the United
States. nor how fearful it is lest BIZ
metallism should come to this country
and ruin it with cheap money" from
the jungles Of Hindoostan. we're used
to that 1t was the goldbug stock in
trade in 1s96-7-S. But to have the
Tribune say that bimetallism is not
permanent blessing, that it is merely
a hard times cry which must not be
repeated during intervals of artificial
prosperity-it is too much.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-19
ST. PAUL's CATHEDRAL.

Westminster abbey, the Tower and
Westminster hell-eonstitute the chief
points of interest in historic London T"
But there are many others. These 9TH
ers, however, we can only glance at
Many Of them, indeed, we cannot even
name.
Those that we shall glance at are as
follows: Old Palace yard, Westminster,
so noted for it's political executions
(Sir Walter Raleigh, for example, was
executed there; so also were the Guy
Fawkes conspirators); St. Paufs cross,
where the preachers of the reformation
delivered their burning words; Smith
field, or the smooth field where the
martyrs Of the reformation met their
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glorious deaths; old London bridge,
erected in 11T6 and taken down only
in this century, chief center of inter
est in the social life of historic Lon
dom" the Temple, once the residence
of the knights Tenplars, but for many
centuries. indeed ever since the time
of Edward III, one of the Inns of
Court that is, place of instruction
for those who intend to become lawyers
Tin the Middle Temple, one of the finest
EIizabethan structures in London
Shakespeares Tempest was played,
and the building is the only one remain
ing in which any of the great drama
lists works were played during his
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fights these days. The Grand Old Man
used to think of these things, and weigh
them, and decide according to the gem
e1al welfare of his government rather
than the glory of the army But the
Beers are not dealing with such a pre-
mier now.
If Dom Paul reads current history, II
he keeps posted on military statistics,
he will grant another concession or tive
to the Outlanders. War will only result
in the wiping of the Transvaal, as an
Independent republic. off the map of
South Africa,
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teenth century, is chiefly remarkable
as being the seat of all the great trials
we read of in English history-of Sir
William Wallace, the early defender of
Scottish liberty; of Sir John Oldcastle,
the professor of the faith of Wycliffe;
of Sir Thomas More. whom Henry VIII,
judicially murdered; of the lord pro-
tector, Somerset, in Edward WIS time;
of Essex, once Queen Elizabeth's
favorite; of STAFFORD. so notorious for
his Thorough of Charles 1; of the
seven bishops; of Warren Hastings,
whom Burke and Sheridan spoke
against.
But close to Westminster hall was
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-19
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''It's Way Ahead. "

There's at least one New York man
who knows what's what He vas
Burlington passenger from Kansas
City to Denver couple Of weeks
ago, and as he comfortably tilted
back in big easy chair in the smok-
ing-room of the sleeping car "SIVA,"
ne expressed himself in this fashion:
eDon't talk to me about the fine
trains they run back East I know
all about them They're not in it
with the West. Look at this car
it's way ahead of anything you'll
find outside of the limited trains be-
tween Chicago and New York. And
as for dining cars, why, honestly,
I've Just had a better meal than
I can get in any restaurant in New
York, with perhaps three excep-
tons"
If YOU take the Buriington's lao p. m.
or $50 o. m train for Omaha, Chicago,
Kansas City and st. Louis, you will have
an opportunity OF satisfying yourSelf as
to the correctness OF this New Workers
statement
TICKET OFFICE,
214 South West Temple ST.
R. F. NESLEN,
Trav. Pass. and Freight Agent.
W. F. M'MILLAN,
General Agent, Salt Lake City.
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that beautiful chapel of st. Stephens,
built in the twelfth century by King
Stephen, which from Edward WIS time
Q54O down almost to Queen Victoria's
time (1S34) was used as the chamber
of the house of commons. Near by,
also, was the Chapter house, which
for two centuries previous to Edward
WIS time had been the home of the
house of commons. Adjoining st.
Stephens again were the two chambers
which the house of lords used. The
more famous of these two chambers
was the "old house of lords" This was
the chamber that Guy Fawkes attempt
ed to blow up with gunpowder; the
chamber, too, in which Bacon was sem
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lifetime); the beautiful Temple church,
first built in 1855, one of the few
churches of London that escaped the
fire of 1866; ST. Giles church. Cripple
gate another church that escaped the
great fire, where Cromwell was married
and where Milton is buried; st. Mar
garets church, Westminster, founded
by Edward the Confessor and rebuilt
by Edward I, where Caxton is buried,
and where his beautiful. memorial win
Cow it; Lambeth palace, on the Thames
opposite Westminster. the LONDON resi-
dence of the archbishops of Canter-
bury for over 700 years; WHITEHALL
once lived in by Cardinal Wolsey, but
rebuilt by Henry VIII, in front of
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less arbitrary Westminster hall is
associated with the development of the
popular element of government-legis
lative, executive and judicial-with the
house of lords the house of commons
and the courts of law.
But Westminster hall is only relic.
The buildings with which most of the
associations we have mentioned are
principally connected, the buildings that
once constituted the kings palace at
Westminster have nearly all been
swept away by fire, the last great fire
being only so late as 1884. Westminster
hall itself, built by William Rufus in
the eleventh century. and enlarged and
beautified by Richard II in the four
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which Charles I was executed, and
where Cromwell lived and died; Guild
hall, the city half of London with
its quaint figures of Cog and Magog),
first built nearly five centuries ago,
though most of it can date only from
the great fire: the Royal Exchange,
first built in Queen Elizabeth's time;
the Bank of England; the British
museum, etc. etc.
All these must be unconsidered. But
in a word or two a brief summary of