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Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10
ARE AMERICANS INCAPABLE OF
SELF.COVE2NMENT.

"A man goes 10 a tailor fo- salt Of
clothes. a shcemake:'s for pair Of
shoes but snail We say that we must
so 10 the nnant!ers for finances? say
no. Tney are Interested too much 10
be Just = would he about as reason
able as employing a physician VINO is
Interested IN your death IL you had
suit against Il Judge would yon take
your Ease before the judge for de-
ciSlnn w. j. Bryan.
SO said William j. Bryan az Louis
Vile ia discussing the issues before the
people. Yet that is the system to which
we are coming. The ruling interests
and classes to make. construe and ad-
judge the law in all cases affecting
themselves ana 10 assume the facts TO
largely under that system as regards
coinage. money. currency banking and
finance? Government by injunction. !"
since IL was challenged by the Demo-
cratic platform OF 1896 has taken great
strides. not only against all it opposes.
but IN behalf of Itself ard all II favors
To deny i; is sheer nonsense. especially
In all cases of popular right. power, lib
er,y and privilege. Not only does the
Federal judiciary make the law for it
self. but 10 suit its interests. opinions
and friendships: and in recent case
the Supreme Court of Virginia actually
'def;ed the Legislature and nullifed our
Constitution, Bill of Rights and Code
and under the nretence of inherent
right" claimed supremacy over the
State and people. Yet in all cases affect
ing Judge. or court, the matter must
so before the judge for decision" un-
der the judicial assumption that judges
have no peer, much less superior,
We find the same theory installing 1T
self in railroad and other corporations;
while trusts are practically proclaim
ing that they are beyond all restraint
and can and will dU as they please,
with no check or guide but their own
exclusive interests. Competition they
cons:sn to determination. and none but
themselves have any rights worthy of
respect: and their own monopoly is to
be master of all business. all men and
all capital that will not come into their
conspiracy.
And so 1t goes: with ever increasing
rapidity and insolence. Capital and its
trusts are supreme. That is q fact.
Law and right and the people are out
lawed and the only remaining question
is: VIM the people overthrow this
usurpaton in 1900, or will they submit
To II? Are we not capable of self-goy-
ornncnt?
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10
THE WORLDS GREAT ARTISTS.

neglected with their drying sails and
trailing rigging. London was a small
town in those days. a comparatively
small town. with the country not SO
very far away. And here comes In an
other consideration, for when he walk
ed four miles northwestward or north
eastward Turner was already far away
in the fields. where now he would still
ba confined between lines of houses. The
country around London is not highly
picturesque. not very varied. in sur
face. nor with very marked character
ls;lcs: but it is attractive and some few
places Of extraordinary beauty are
we'll known to Londoners. Much of the
country which is now built up with
rows of little dwellings which replace
for the London artisan and wage-carn-
er the tall New York buildings, whose
floors are rented out separately, was
even as late as within the memory OF
living men. a charming region for quiet
walks. 1t was delightful, as late as
1850 to cross the fields or follow the
roadside to Dulwicf, where the picture
gallery was ana is. or to Greenwich
where is the park before the hospital
dear TO readers of Marryatt or TO Den
and Hampstead Heath on the north.
mark hill on the south or Kentishtown
Then. too, Turner had, even in his car
~ life. longer journeys afield than those
We have imagined for he was one of
those precocious draughtsmen who take
to laying washes of color and drawing
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10
WHO CREATE TRUSTS AND
MONOPOLlES

The Baltimore Sun and the Washing
ton Post, together with the leading or
gans of both parties. that urge that the
trusts Will not be. and cannot be. a
practical issue between the parties next
year. as it is already understood that
both parties, in their platforms. will de-
clare with equal ferocty against trusts
and other combines to restrict trade,
competition and personal liberty in bus
mess. seem to forget that the issue be-
tween roSues and homes, men is none
the less distinct and practical because
the rosues shout stop thief" just as
vehcmently as the honest men.
There are trusts composed of Demo-
Gratis as well as Of Republicans; but the
Republicans are in supreme power.
They maintain the tariff that is so
nursing mother Of trusts. and they
are the authors. beneficiar!es and de-
Tenders of the great trust and mon
opoy that make all the other trusts
ana monopolies possible-,he Money
Trust the gold monopoly. with its pa
per ally and substitute in the National
Banking Associations Is the Baltimore
sun really Il uure OF the RepuDlica n
cry of stop thief" Does it really be-
lieve that that cry will screen the Gull
prit and put him on an equality with
his pursuers. with The stolen goods
still in The thief's pockets? No denun-
citation of trust and monopolies is to be
credited that sim exempts the trust of
trusts and the monopoly of monopoiles
the Money Trust.
1t is Of no moment what n party de-
clares in its platform about monopo-
lies and trusts when il is responsible
for the money trust Che National Bank
Asoclatiom. the gold monopoly Uhe
mono mctallism Of the so-called single
standard-money being that standard.
that single standard. no matter of how
many materials legally made and guar
antocdD. the currency monopoly Uhe
National Bank notes.. and the other
trusts. monopoies and combines con-
trolling everything and everybody by
money and its power.
Yes! the Republican party Is for an
anti-trust law (?). but opposed to its
enforcement.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10
VIII. TURNER.
BY RUSSELL STURGIS,
PHI. D.. f. y. l. y.

Joseph Mallord William Turner was q
landscape painter, who was born in the
beart of London in April. 1I75, and who
died at Chelsea. on the western border
or the great town, in December, 1851
lie left behind him a great number Of
his own most important pictures. which
he had retained in his own London res
idence with the intention Of leaving
them to the nation; and he also left a
vast mass of drawings, studies, records
of travel and of impressions, which.
when brought together, form one of the
principal treasures now In the charge
OF the British National gallery. Be
sides all this. he had sold works OF
art. paintings, prints from his etchings
and meZzotint plates, water color draw
irgs and drawings In slighter and less
brilliant form to such an amount and
OF such value that even at the low
prices of his day he had brought to-
gether fortune which for that time
was very conslderable-som 500 900
In total value. 1t seems we'll to begin
our estimation with these statements.
because what we have next TO say Is NOT
OF the sort which would lead one TO
expect to hear successful and money!
making artist. Turner's fine art is al
most wholly free from the evidence OF
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

Never before. since the formation OF
the Union. has any party or admins
lration appeared before the people for
endorsement. having so foul record as
this Hanna lger Mckinley gang has
made Cd for itself. At home and
abroad its course has been one reekins
aoomina..on. from beginning to end,
marked by every feature that may de-
hne political debauchery and lcen;ious-
ress. and in foreign and domestic af
fairs 1t has announced and begun n
program CT imperial and brutal force
that should alarm every rational citi-
zen. Can the people endorse 1t in 1890?
Only force or fraud can do that.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

Pennsylvania Democrats who inss,
upon cheap money and reputation as
The fundamental principle of Demo
cratic faith must lack either common
understanding or fidelity TO Democratic
interests. PHILADELPHIA Times.
The Times has its finest scns:bu!t!es
shocked and its highest sentiments Of
honor and honesty outraged by the pro-
position % restore silver to lis consii-
tutlonal place. from which 1t was re-
moved by fraud. as we'll as violence TO
the constitution But you see that was
all done in behalf of the class who dis.
dain cheap money, and who are able to
have and use dear money. To restore
cheap money to the people is "repudia-
tion," SAYS the Times: but II was all
right to take their cheap money from
the people and substitute money of
a cost of sixteen times greater-in
which. though SO much harder to get.
the people had to pay all their debts
their wages and prices. however, being
in the descending sosie 60 balance the
increased value of gold In the hands
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

We see and hear a great deal of con-
hdent talk about the sure reelection
OF Mckinley; but they who utter this
talk las we'll as they who hear it, know
full we'll that it is based on the hope
OF repetition Of the same bribery, cor
ruption, forgery, perjury. bull-dozine.
fraud and other villanies of 1896, where
by the people, as we'll as BRYAN. were
counted out.
This talk ought to be accompanied by
the blush of shame on the cheek of
every utterer; but it sn't,-all the more
to his shame.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

any other influences than artistic ones.
There is no purer fine art in the world.
none more completely free from social
influences. from politica! or patriotic
enthusiasm. from intraded personality
of the artist. from the limitations which
might have been expected to result
from his geographical and social sur
roundings He lived and died an artist
and nothing else. so far as his life con-
Germs the public. To himself and TO a
very small number OF occasional asso-
ciates. he was a rough even somewhat
boorish. man, good-natured and capable
OF fits of generosity. bu.. in Tie ma in,
unsocial. desiring no intercourse but
that With the nature he communed VITA
and the art he studied: and ne died so
lonely that during the weeks that he
lay upon his deathbed his place OF res
idence was unknown and a few persons
who interested themselves in him found
him out only at his last gasp. 1t Is
therefore. Is an artist primarily that
one needs TO study Turner and yet an
inquiry Into his early LIE and sur.
roundnEs is always valuable. because
IL reveals unexpected conditions as con-
duciye, on the whole. 10 artistic excel
lence. THIS, the boy Turner. being the
son OF a barber in a fairly successful.
way of business, and livirg in one Of
the old streets not far from the
Thames. was free of the river street.
and OF the water side. and. as we knew
from his paintings, loved truly that
strange side OF life. Ii was not the
stone built embankment OF to-day
which he knew along the north bank Of
the Thames, but sea walls and piers OF
the toughest description. with mud
banks between and beyond them bare
at low tide. and very filthy tidal es.u-
airy ebbing and flowing above them.
1t was not the great ships In exact
trim. we'll appointed and apparently re-
CARELESS of tempest and of danger and
foul weather, that Turner knew, but
above London bridge the shabby and
careless lighters and barges, and below
it, in the pool, the ships for foreign
parts, seaworthy and seagoing, indeed,
but small and rough, and now. in their
barber 9uise. bedragH1ed and seeming
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

Here is chunk Of wisdom In an un
expected Cuarter-the N. Y. Sun. In
its issue OF May 81 1t says:
Nowhere in the world. except here
does any sensible man contend for the
liberty of esta blishing an unlimited
number of banks and allowing them tc
inject their checks or drafts into the
mass of the country's currency. so as
to give them the value which attaches
TO government money"
When even the Sun dare say thai
much. may be the whole truth may vel
have 4 chance.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

Cali him Drayfus. or Dryfus CIR what
you please. he's 10 nfamy no longer de
voted save that. as victim OF wrongs
worst DEGREES. the honored name OF
Dre;ius VIII be quoted. Zen Justice
nsnshes. as she sees his wife. with
brave and famous lola at her side, in
love and JOY grasp victory from the
strife. where justice faltered as love
all defed. Truth crushed to earth, Will
rise again. be sure. though State and
army, and the law, conspire; for COG
and right champion the obscure, and
bring all things and men to light and
right.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

Because of the goings- on and carry
inss-on of our forefa Tiers about the
tea. the stamp-taX and other matters.
the British government and people held
them to be riotous and turbulent peo-
pie. unworthy and incapable of self
government; but the essence of freedom
and human right is that every people
must judge of their government for
themselves. whether it be self-govern-
ment. or some other sort That was
the American doctrine until the ad-
vent of Hanna and his Repub,icanism
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

AND now 1t is rumored that General
horace Porter wants to come home. and
secretary Of War Alger may be sent
over to Paris to take his place. France
is not very far away. but IL Alger can
not be persuaded to go any farther let's
send him there by all means. Besides.
he can give our sister republic some
pointers on how to run n court of in
quiry and make himself serviceable
over there. now that Dreyfus is COM
ing back to be re-investigated. IF there
is one thing that our Algy knows more
about than another. 1t is investigations.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

And now, rather than be left by his
rival sensationalists in the pulpit, a
Doctor of Divinity in Brooklyn attacks
the Sunday Schools as nurseries Of re-
ligious ignorance and heresy. "The
dark centuries of Sunday School teach
ing" is one of his phrases. Perhaps the
Doctor doesn't know that there is a
secular code of Sunday laws. and hae
forgotten the commandment to keep
the seventh day holy. six days shalt
thou labor" &C.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

Volume or quantity is often. in many
tH1HgS OF =; ! ,ice-t than value:
as In ram. IN wheat and all the neces-
saries of life. AS rule. the less there
IS of anything in supply compared with
demand, the greater the value, but the
less happiness and prosperity. The an
nual average wheatcrop of the world.
great or small. has about the same
value: but a full crop is plenty. pros
perity and happiness; half-crop is
want. misery. famine and adversely.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

The people. no; their oppressors. are
me judges OF Their own rights, and also
OF the manner IN which they shall de
mand and assert them; and. therefore
the organs of Mammon had better
make hay while the sun shines" (for
them). than waste their time in shout.
ing Idle wind" at the people, as II
they were driving hogs or cattle.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

AS some horses may be soon curried
so some subjects may be briefly dis
posed of; but there are horses and sub.
jects that require more time and at
tention. and upon which these are very
probably bestowed. Even the man
who does not ride. In often fond of
horses. and likes to zee them well
ErooneA.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

The Dreyfus case is 10 be revised
Thank Justice for that: and we sin
cerely trust. for the honor of France
and human nature. that outraged inno-
cence may be vindioated, and the com
bined trusts of forgery. perjury and
crimina! conspiracy may be brought 10
full exposure and to some measure of
their deserts
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

Of monied employers and purchasers.
Yes. yes: we see: labor and produc-
ton cheapened. but money made dearer
and scarcer and harder to get. That
is piety. for the burden falls on the
multitude. who do evil, and the benefits
all go to the few who love-money!
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

ADVERTISING RATES: Ad,er;ise-
Ricnts instrleo al the rute OF is certs II
Square. iirst insertson each suhseaneHt
insertion ~ cents. or 81 Cents. wncn IN
serted Every Other Day. Contractors aI'
not allowed 10 exceed their spnce or al
vcrtise ether shan their legitimate ous'.
ness. except by paying especially ior '"e
., Rea ling Notices Invariably &c cents Per
Inc hrst Insertion Each subsequent III
sert!on is cents.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

No employee OF the Virginlan-P!lot Pub
fishing Company Is authorized to contract
any obligation in the name OF the COM
pany, or to make purchases in the name
OF the same. except uron orders signed by
the PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

status. Notwithstanding any possible
increase in the production of either met
al, or both metals. as the experience of
centuries has demonstrated.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

in order IL avoid delays. on account OF
personal absence letters end all coniInu-
Mica ms for The VlRGlNlAN-Pil.O LOT
should not bn addressed TO any individual
connected with tho office. but simply TO
The VlRGiNIAN AND PILOT PUB
LISTING COMPANY.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

1t will do to prate about the CONNER
cial value OF silver as Il commodity, be
cause the act OF 1878 made that metal
commodity. deprived 1t of the privi-
lege of coinage. and then and thereby
so contracted the currency as to re-
once the commercial value of silver, as
apart from its monetary value, with
that OF all commodities. This could not
happen with gold. because it Is not a
commodity with n commercial value,
separate and distinct from it's legally
hxed money value. and for the simple
ana only rcason-because gold has not
been demonetiZed: and until gold metal
Is made commodity by deriving 1t
oil Its monetary privileges in coinage
and Its fixed legal value as money
metal, 1t can have no such commercial
or commodity value. Yet. until the act
OF 1873. when the two metals were on
an equality as coin and bullion. on the
ratio OF 16 to l, silver metal itself. as
compared with gold metal, WIS at an
AepFecfahIe Dresnium evor he latesr.
That would be their present substantial
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10
ri,Hun cxsrs rH,. cory.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

The VfRCINIAN-PiLO'fi Is delivered TO
subscribers by carriers in NotolA anu
xcinity, Portsmouth. Berklcy. sun o'h M
west Norfolk. Newport News 'or ~
gents per week. payable TO IN. ca. ~,
1ty mail. 10 any nluce La the Oh''eo
etatee. postage free:
DAILY, ono year $500
=. six months 800
three unOathy is';O
one month 80
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10

There is bimetallism, and n full mon
etary and coinage equality between gold
and silver: provided that the dollar
unit of both metals must be of equal
value and power in the markets and
payment Of debts There is no essen
tial difference between that and the
present position OF the party Cor Of any
party, so far us the valuc of silver is
concerned); for l6 10 is the cstab-
lished legal parity of the two coins.
and this parity the Democratic party
Will always maintain, when in power
Moreover, we defy the Republican par
ty. or this administration. or its candi-
dates. TO propose any other ratio or
parity than that OF Is to |. They dare
not do II. All the nations and people OF
the earth would protest. and the Amer
lean people would howl to everlasting
political perdition any party or admin
isiration that should attempt to alter
this established parity or ratio OF IL
to l.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-06-10
THE LINE OF 1896.

In a speech at Louisville. Mr.. Bryan
said:
But I want to talk awhile to those
who left us In 1886. because | want
them to come back and help us in this
fight"
On this the Richmond Times re-
marks:
''NIr. Bryan can easily win these Dem
ocrats back To the standard by simply
planting that standard upon the line of
battle where success was won I'm 1892 -
Here is "the line of battle where sue
cess was won in 1892" as far as the
money-question was concerned. as fol
lows; I'VE hold to the use OF both gold
and silver as the standard money of
the country, and TO the coinage Of both
gold and silver without discrimination
against either metal or charge for mint
age: but the dollar unit OF coinage Of
both metals must be- of equal intrinsic
and eXchengeable value, or be adjusted
through international agreement. or by
such safeguards of legislation as shall
insure the maintenance OF the parity
or the two metals and the equal power
OF every dollar at all times in the mar
kets and In the payment of debts: and
we demand that all paper currency
shall be kept at par with and redeem
able In such coin. '(Gold and silver
coin.)' We insist upon this policy ms
especially necessary for the protection
of the farmers and laboring classes. the
first and most defenceless victims of
unstable money and n fiuctuating cur
rency."
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-12
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
ut n meeting of the directors OF the
HONOLULU RAPID TRANSIT &
LAND CO. held at the company's Of
flee on the 1st instant. an assessment
of ten (1O) per cent was levied on the
Capital Stock OF the Company. due and
payable at the Company's office. No.
Al Fort street. Honolulu, from and
after this date.
The shares upon which any assess
ment may remain unpaid after thirty
C3O) days from this date will be de-
clared delinquent.
Honolulu, II. l.. 9Th July. 1899.
J. 4. GILMAN.
.5217 Secretary II. r. T. & l.. Co.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-12

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