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The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
THE SPIRIT OF PROGRESS.
An American Birthright That ca.
lamity How ,rs Cannot Baunt
Nor SpOil.

President Mckinley said in historic
document that the purpose OF this
country was not aggressive. The docu-
ment itself and the results which fol-
lowed it proved that while the national
spirit is not aggressive it is progressive.
When the way is opened, as it has been
during the present year by the course
of inevitable events, the American peo-
pie must go forward, and will. 1t is
as useless 10 try TO stop this movement
as it would be TO attempt to check
the rising tide from flooding every
opened channel. The forward move
ment is in the blood.
That this indomitable progress is the
American birthright was illustrated
conspicuously at the annual dinners Of
the New England societies of New York
and Brooklyn. The societies them
selves are witnesses to the persistence
from generation to generation of the
spirit of the Mayhower. The men who
were present at the dinners were the
most recent leaders in the advance
movement. At the New York dinner
were Gen. Merritt, Gems. Shafter and
Wheeler, Col. Roosevelt, Capt. Taylor,
Of the Indiana, and others who have
carried the flag across seas because the
American spirit of progress was in
| them and with them and behind them.
Gov.-elect Roosevelt, who could speak
as type of both civic and military vic
tories, with great pertinence traced the
sea victories of 1898 back to the sea
crossing of 1920, to the stock (which
carried the Bible in one hand and il
the other the sword" THE good man
who cannot make his virtue practical, "
said Col. Roosevelt, counts for very
little in the community"
The Puritan who, as has been hui
VIGOROUSLY said, first fell upon his
knees and then upon the aborigines,' -
did both because he could not help it.
1t was the union of faith and works, on
which the worlds progress has been
based. 1t was "the sword of the Lord
and of Gideon" The sun drives away
the clouds, and the rushing breeze the
deadly vapors of stagnation, without
any apologies. Men of thought and
men of action" must clear the way. 1t
is the pioneer making the clearing.
Spain should have kept her fences in
order and her cattle off the track. The
train cannot stop to save material for a
bullfight.
This idea of the compulsion of the in
ward sense of duty has not been put
with more forcible conciseness than by
| Col. Roosevelt when he said at Brook
| lyn: II have scant sympathy with that
mock humanitarianism which would
prevent the great, free, liberty-loving
races of the earth from doing their duty
in the worlds waste spaces because
there must be some rough surgery at
the outset. Troy Times.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
THE PRESIDENTS PLATFORM.
PLAINLY Declared by Mr.. Mckinley
In His Speeches In the
South.

President Mckinley, while travelling
through states which voted for Bryan.
said at Savannah: Our financial and
revenue policies cannot be changed for
at least four years, and whatever legis~
lation may be had affecting them dur
ing that period will be to improve and
strengthen, not destroy them" That
was plain-spoken enough for any body.
And the president proceeded to say
why it should be SO. Internal dissen-
SONS, as between parties and policies 5,
must cease while the country. without
regard TO party. unitedly meets the for
eign problems which newly present
themselves.
The president somewhat slyly init
mated that even those who might de-
sire different internal policies-anI
cannot get them-have the satisfaction
of sharing in the prosperity that comes
from confidence in permanence, and
from absence Of the fear of change.
Having thus annuonced the platform.
TO which he and his party and the ma
jority of his fellow-citizens are devoted
for internal affairs, the president gave
his views of what may be called the
oountry's foreign policy. These views
were ennobled because they took for
their handspring the purpose conveyed
in these words. "The chief considera-
ton is one of duty" The president.
boldly declaring his policy as favoring
the retention Of the Philippines, made
one of the most concise summaries Of
argument yet presented when he said:
Can we leave these people who, by the
| fortunes of war and our own acts, are
helpless and without government, to
chaos and anarchy after we have de-
stroyed the only government they have
had?" 1t was quite memorable say
Dg when he Remarked: Whatever
covenants duty has made for us in the
year 1893 we must KEEP" And the
| encouragement for this resolve was
found in the fact that final success
in cause which is altogether unselfisn
and humanitarian can only be de-
ferred, not prevented
1t becomes historical picture wher
the president of the United States takes
the occasion of visit to a section OF
the country once in revolt to declare
frankly the policy and lis declaration
are timely. The country is thus given
large disclosure of where it is anC
whittier it is tending.-Troy Times.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
"BALANCE OF TRADE"
element of Foreign indebtedness
-CObdenite Predictions.

Mr.. Thomas S. Sherman. who has
long essayed 10 furnish the dispensers
OF higher education and our best
thought generally with their ultimate
convictions on the British system of
political economy, is out with an article
under the above heading, which vir-
tually concludes:
So far from this favorable balancev 49,
trade" being any evidence of increa vi
wealth in this country, it is simply eviden
Qf the figures are worth anything) that [
cream of our wealth is being carried off
Europe, without compensation.
Our readers know that none of Cd
den's predictions have been found
liable. Hence Cobdenites have had
times to trade horses while crossing
stream; in, fact. they have done most
their trading on economic foods; but al
will be astonished to find that favor
able balance of trade" is present to
the debtor community.
The necessity of the case. however.
requires the theorem. Our favorable
balance of trade" is getting large. Be-
tween 1S47. the time of the Walker
tariff" and 1875 our net adverse bal
ance of trade" amounted to over 81 800
100000. This was arranged for by the
export of specie and such interest bear
ing securities as could be negotiated
On the other side. Now Mr.. Shearman
finds that since 1875 the net excess of
American merchandise is in round num-
bers $2.577 100000. Besides this we
have exported net excess Of gold
and silver, bringing the aggregate. ac-
cording to Mr.. Sherman, up to $780,
100000.
1t is claimed by our writer that we
have not got this back, either in secnri-
ties or cash, and that we are not going
to get it back. Both claims are doubt
less true. Our favorable balance of
trade" taking Mr.. Shearman's figures,
amounts to less than $15O0O0000 a
year. TO offset this balance we have
the estimate of persons conversant
with the subject that our payments to
foreign steam companies for oversee
freights, passengers and mails have for
some time averaged between $2C0.00o.-
900 and $250,000,000 year. And. as
pointed out by Goschen. the freights.
commissions and exchanges earned by
British steamers form a noticeable ele-
mcnt in the revenues by which the
British discharge their foreign obliga-
tions.
Mr.. Sherman is doubtless as CONVEX
SAINT with the earnings of foreign
steamer lines and their application to
the discharge of obligations as anyone
in this country, but he omits to tell the
truth for the sake of being able to make
adverse comment on american women
who have bought European husbands
at good round price" The price paid
by some has probably been high, but a
free trader like Mr.. Shearman should
rot object to that. as the object of free
trade is to force the purchase of Eu
ropean products at high price.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

A MONUMENT is to be erected in men,
DRY of Charles Floyd, member of the
Lewis and Clark expedition, who died
near the present site of Sioux City,
Ia, August 90, 1904, while on his way
with the party to the head waters Of
the Missouri river. Floyd was the
first United States soldier who died Oh
the new Louisiana purchase" and
was one of the foremost characters in
the history OF the northwest. His
grave is the only visible mark of the
Lewis and Clark expedition. Congress
is to be asked for $40, 900 for the mon
ument
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

CIRCUIT JUDGE SETTLE created SEN
sation at Bowling Green, KY, the
other day by his charge to the grand
jury. The charge was on the subject
of gambling. The Judge instructed
the jury to return indictments for
every kind of gambling, saying that it
made no difference whether it was
progressive euchre, played in the par
Tor of private residence for prizes, or
whether it was with chips across the
green cloth of gambling den.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

GEN. JOHN BARON left Washington
on the 9th for Porto Rico to undertake
the supervision of education in the
island. AS superintendent Of freed
men under Gen. Grant he organized
schools in several states and was for
l6 years United States commissioner of
education. He was consulted in shap-
ing the educational systems of Japan,
Egypt, Bulgaria, Chilli and other South
American countries.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

THE largest railroad station in the
world has been opened to the public at
Boston. The depot can receive 1000
trains in Is hours The shed and
yards under roof cover 80 acres and
shelters so miles of rails. 1t was
built at a cost of $4,000, 600. There
are sos switches controlled by a
signal system. The train shed will
hold 400 ordinary passenger coaches at
one time. The platforms and build
ing can comfortably hold 100000 peo'
pie. The four other large depots in
the order of their size are in Bombay,
ST. Louis, London and Glasgow.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
NEBRASKA WELCOMES BRYAN.

You are coming. Col. Bryan, from the sick.
ly southern swamp,
And we'll be on hand to greet you with
some military pomp;
Though you faced no Mauser BULLETS. flying
thickly through the air,
No one blames you, Col Bryan, for you
wanted to be there.
You are coming, Col. Bryan, from the
scenes of war anI@trife
To enjoy the better portion of a peaceful
civil life;
When you come In all your glory. will you
rest till you are strong,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
All Sections Interested.

If congress would pass bill to give
the same protection 10 American ship
ping that it does to American manu-
facturers and farmers and mechanics,
there will be profitable business for the
investment of the millions now going
abroad at a low rate of interest. We
shall eventually save the $30O,000,000
now annually being paid to foreign
shipowners for carrying our foreign
trade, besides building up the great
est industry in this country-ship-
building. All sections of the United
States are interested in shch meas
Eure, but none more SO tha1 the Pacific
past states.-McMars.Vs &ase. \ Valley
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

GEN. CLEMENT A. EVANS, who was
chairman of the commission appoin ted
by the governor of Georgia in response
to a resolution adopted by the last leg.
islature requiring the members to Sc.
cure information as to the location of
the graves of confederate soldiers who
died in northern military prisons. re-
ported that about $4,000 confederate
dead were buried in northern states.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

ADJr. GEN. CoRBIN, in recent letter
to Chairman Hull, of the house mill
tary committee, compares the cost Of
the proposed army reorganization un-
der the Hull bill, reported to the house,
and the present regular military estab.
hshment The adjutant general gives
the present cost of the regular army at
S24, 443, $50 and the cost under the pro-
posed Hull bill, So, 053, SOS.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

THE Waco Karnival Klub, an organ
ization composed of business men, has
arranged to hold the southwest in
terstate 1900 jubilee and exposition in
Waco, Tex, next November and De-
cember. The club will buy 200 acres
of land for the exposition, part Of
which will be converted into lake.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
PRESS OPINIONS.

UNo man ever in the white house
was more popular with the masses
than is the present occupant.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
yHe is the first republican president
who has been regarded as truly the
chief magistrate of the entire union.
He is so regarded, and has been treated
accordingly.-N. o. Picayune (Dem.).
uyMr. Bryan says that the democrat
ic platform of 1900 will include free
silver and anti-expansion. 1t would be
characteristic of the democratic party
to favor freedom for materials and OPP
pose freedom for men.-Troy Times.
OThe neyt national democratic plat
form, according to Mr. Bryan, will be
a repetition of the Chicago platform
with a new plank opposing expansion.
Nothing more will be needed TO insure a
republican walk-over.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
/ryOne popularity of President Nc
ICNinley's speeches which doubtless
4 helped to arouse the enthusiasm of
| the southerners is noticeable in the
| fact that his tributes TO the south were
sxtemporaneou instead of encyclo-
pcdic.-Milwauke Sentinel.
USurviving confederates, thsiI1
and the sons of their dead con-
arms, no matter how they
| from Mai. Mckinley on quest
icy and the probabilities.
ment, will never cease
with friendship aid 81
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

THERE was conference at the in
terror department at Washington the
other day between Secretary Bliss and
certain officials over Indian territory
problems and it was decided to APP
point a superintendent Of schools and
inaugurate system of thorough edu-
ton in the territory.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

The Sacramento Bee recently pub
fishes the details of one of the greatest
engineering problems ever originated
in California. 1t is nothing less than
the diversion of the flow of the Yuba
river for hydraulic mining. 1t calls
for the condemnation of many thou
sands of acres of land and the con-
struction of many miles of main canals
and leveeS
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

THE newspapers of Rome recently
announced that a wealthy American
woman had had gold snuff box, in
crusted with diamonds, made by one
of the best jewellers Of Rome, as a
New Years Offering to the pope, and
put check for $50, 900 inside it.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

THE Greeks have decided to exclude
all bachelors from their parliament.
They reason that an unmarried man
has no stake in the commonwealth and
that if he is represented he really
should expect nothing further
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

PROF. DAYTON C. MILLER, of Case
school, Cleveland, O., has constructed
an instrument which will measure to
one twenty-millionth of an inch. The
principle is waves of light.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

THE government fast mail short
time ago made the run from New York
to San Francisco in 81 hours and IS
minutes, including all stops, being an
average speed of 37.2 miles an hour.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. 25 cents
HE WAS THE REAL THING.
Low a Territorial Committee with
Long Guns Tanned a Com
trary Senator.

Il represented the territory in congress
then, laughed the man who has returned to
the east that he may spend his declining
years among the friends of his youth.
In one of the frontier towns where |
happened to visit they were trying to raise
funds for a charitable purpose, and was
invited to attend an entertainment given
with view to helping the cause. was
scarcely inside when committee OF three
with long hair, long faces and, long guns,
invited me to little tent at one side of
the hall.
Now, giner'l, said one of them who had
no definite idea as to the propriety of IT,
ties, you'll jest set where you are. This
here thing has got ter win, fur what few
wlmin folks we has is into it, and we can't
disappint 'em. I'll tell you as frien' to
stay right here and look pleasant Don't
pay no pa ticulair 'tension to the galoot out
'"'Then heard: Step right inside, ladies
and gents, an see the only live sinator ever
brought to these here diggins. He's import
ed at big expense from the wies of Sage
brush county an has been tanned by COM
mttee OF our bravest citizens app United fur
that special purpose. He's the real thing,
an all others is base imertations which none
of us would take fur the givin'. He speaks
our Language perfeck an is as harmless as
pet LAM
81 drew ike porous plaster, and never
in my life exerted myself harder to be agree
able. Some of you might think you would
have done. differently, but you never saw
that special committee. Detroit Free
Press.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
CURRENT COMMENT.

ACCORDING to the Chioago Tribune's
table the total number of persons who
committed suicide in the United States
during 1898 was $500 In 1897 there
were $500 suicides.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
An End of Jecring.

The Dingley law has vindicatedl
and the wisdom of it's authors
there will have 10 be an end Il
democratic jeers at Dingleyisn.--
(N. W Record.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

Those members of congress who are
opposed to Mr.. Roberts of Utah are
not certain as to how to prevent Mr..
Roberts from taking his seat in the
house at the opening of the Fifty
sixth congress. While the sensible.
les of the people may be shocked and
opular protest excited by the proposi'
" that polygamous MqAmon is &c
5mitted to seat in lpited
h0p2ress, 1t is not ~,
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
a Dissenter.

The Speaker-Wealth is not to be attained
by short cuts.
The Butcher-Oh, / don't ow!-Indian.
aDolis Journal.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

Don't scratch, when it can be avoided by
using Tetterine, the only sure cure known for
all itching diseases. so cents at druggists, or
by mail for cash or stamps j. I. Shuptrine,
manufacturer. Savannah, Ga.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04

Our street cars are all personally con.
ductored-L. A. w. Bulletin.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-02-04
OUR CHEAP MONEY.
A Direct Result Dc che Sound
Money Policy of Re-
publicans.

Heretofore those advocating the free
ard independent coinage of silver have
based one of their favorite arguments
upon the assumption that the United
States is borrowing nation, and that
a cheap and larger volume of money at
home was necessary TO deliver the
American people out Of the grip of the
foreign money lender. We were told
that gold policy was the policy Of
foreign money lenders and would sure
ly make us their slaves.A Many people
we're led to believe this assumption.
We have been deh.es RaNon. but that
day is of the past. The latsst evidence
that such is not the casa and that the
United States have become not ONLY
creditor nation, but one of the worlds
financial centerS, is presented in the
statement of Mr. Eckels and in the fact
that Russia has passed by Berlin and
London and made an effort to place her
bonds in the United States. In financial
circles it is said that money is the
cheapest thing in America" This is NOT
true of New York alone, but il is true in
degree mere in Indianapolis, when n
ten-year municipal bond bearing 81.
rer cent. has been sold to local financial
houses at the equivalent of 3.22 per
cent.
The CAUSED of this abundance of
cheap and good money in the United
States have been told many times. We
are producing $6O,O00,0Oo in gold an
nually and it stays at home. The pay
rents of dividends and interest on
stocks and bonds will set $lo0,00G.g0J
afloat. To pay off portion of the
n.oney due us as balance in trade $751;
0G0,0C0 came to US during October and
Move .nber. Much more is yet due US,
because favorable trade balance seems
to have been permanently established.
This opinion is not based upon the as
sumption that we will always he selling
Europe so large volume of breadstuffs
and provisions as now. but because We
have come to the condition when we can
sell the outside world as much in value
of manufactured goods as foreigners
sell to us. For years the excess of our
imports of manufactured merchandise
has been so large ths' it has taken Al of
o,r surplus of the products of The soil
to square the account. Thanks TO the
republican policy. we are a great com.
petitor in the world of manufactu) res as
well as the products of the son. De-
cause of that policy and by reason OF its
great fight in 1896 against tic silver
reresy. the United States is ko-day a
creditor nation.-Indianapolis Journal.
UThe other day William J. bryan, of
Gilpin observer., 1899-02-23
Death Of Philip Zanq.

Philip Zang, of the Zang Brewing
company, Denver, gently passed away
as in sleep at his residence in that
city last Saturday afternoon at 2:55, in
the 18th year Of his age.
He was n charter member OF Schiller
Lodge No. Al, a. +. & A. NJ, n prominent
Odd Fellow, member of the Bavarian
Verein, the German Kreiger Verein, the
Brewers Benevolent society, the East
Denver Turn Verein and other organiza-
tions.
He was very generous man. Among
the generous deeds of his life best re-
membered in Denver was the gift OF a
fine bell to st. Eizabeth's church, cor
ner of Eleventh and Curtis streets, which
was named in his honor.
He leaves one son, Adolph Zang, who
hae managed mis- fathers business for
the past twelve years. The funeral took
place yesterday, interment being made in
the family plat at Riverside.
Gilpin observer., 1899-02-23

HaDge and excess of metal on the lower
edge of the tongue for swaying the
tongue over the edges of the slot.
The State Ore and Chamberlain Sam
ping works in Black Hawk last week
put through lot of smelling ore from
the Lillian mine in Russell district,
which is worked by Craig, Hughes e.
Chance. Mr.. Chance informs The Oh
SERVER that the company will ship to
the smelters twenty-five tons during
February. The ore is OF good grade, the
principal value being gold.
An assay made few days ago for Mr..
Kuhns Of the Hdee Gold Mining COM
pany, of ore from the Hidee vein in Lake
district, gave values of 1.66 ounces gold
and 5 ounces silver per ton. This class
OF crevice matter was being thrown over
the dump as worthless. To more fully
satisfy himself of the values it contained
Mr.. Kuhns had an assay made with the
above result, 1t will be saved hereafter.
Gilpin observer., 1899-02-23
Death Of George n. Neatly.

The Minneapolis, Mimi. Tribune OF
Feb IL, 1899, contains the following no
tice:
George II. Neatly died at the home OF
his father, j. II. Neatly, after an illness
OF four months. He was connected with
the mailing department OF the Journal
for nine years, and was member Of the
Upchurch lodge, No. Ii, A. o. u. w. He
was admired and respected by all who
knew him. The funeral will be held
from the residence, 25l7 Stevens avenue,
Sunday at 2:30 p. m.
Deceased was nephew OF Mrs. Emma
A. MARROW OF this city, and OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas II. Acres OF Denver. He
spent several weeks visiting his aunt and
uncle in this city in 1892, and made many
friends, who will regret his death.