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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-28

NEW YORR-The New York bank
statement II not favorable one, but
not M hearish as expected. The
changes as against last Saturday are
a. q fnllnANn.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-28

Very prosperous conditions continue
throughout the land. and the wave ad-
vgncgs rather than recedes. with bright
prospects ahead. a larger number OF
working men are employed to-day on
terms satisfactory to themselves and
their employers than ever before in
the national history. Discomfort Is no.
where iusunably to be found. 1t is
true grievances creep out occasionally
here and there. but they are not Of SER
ious consequence. The demand has
fairly caught up to the supply in every
thing, There is little selling ahead.
The business OF the country is on le-
climate basis and devoid OF boom,
which Is the best evidence OF Its sub
stantinl and lasting character. Now
that the crops are assured, and the
money scare mas passed over. the impe-
tus to push business ahead can be relied
upon for the balance OF this year at
least, thereby making It the best rec
ord year ever experienced in buslness
circles.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-28

The past week witnessed several sharp
attacks upon values. Results were any
thing but encouraging to the bear side
Of the market. Two or three Of the
active shares were singled out and
more or less liquidation induced by the
circulation Of doubts and sensational
predictions of lower prices. Such shall
low tricks, however, were soon exposed
and there was no real interruption to
the favorable conditions and news
which are now influencing values. No
change wus made in the Bank OF Eng
land rate OF discount, the reserve
standing at about the same point as
year ago. London has apparently
been a more active buyer OF American
railroad shares; the market there show
ing considerable excitement at times
but nus far there has been no cores
ponding increase in the supply of secur-
Ity bills in the foreign exchange mar
ket. so It Is uncertain whether the buy
ing in London was on foreign or Amer
lean account. European financial mar
kets were somewhat unsettled by the
Trlnsyaal and Dreyfus AFFAIRS, but
apart from these influences there Is
nothing untavorable to this market in
the foreign situation. AS we have said
previously, Berlin is n point that Will
bear watching but there are no serious
signs Of danger there yet in view.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-28

Electric cars Bridgeport 10 Wheeling.
Bellaire and Martins Ferry.
Consult agents for best routes and low.
sS' '3'e' NJ. G. CARREL
General Passenger Agent
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03

scheme would be started in the prolific
brains Of the sharpers to turn the lands
over to them on some specious pretense
or other.
It is much more important to the
state to raise men and women and chill
dren than 1t is to raise trees. And in
deed, the experience of the entire West
has shown that with the dividing mp of
land into farms, under the homestead
and presumption laws, there is hum
dred times more timber In the Western
states today than there was when the
country was first settled.
On the one side we find represented in
our governmental affairs the philan-
thropic purposes of great and good men,
and on the other side we have lot of
thieves whose predominant instinct is
to steal. In this state they have robbed
the Indians, stolen the pine. gobbled
the half-breed scrip. and purloined
everything they could lay their hands
upon. And now they propose to fence
in an immense tract of land and shut
out the poor men who are seeking
homes for themselves and families.
The whole state should rise up against
any such proposition. We are paying
Christopher Columbus Andrews $4,000 a
year to put out fires 500 miles from
where he lives O. and to concoct such
schemes as this in the interest of ma
RAIDERS.
Our public lands are nearly exhaust
ed; the opportunities of the common
man are reduced almost to nothing;
and now the scamps come along and
propose to withdraw from settlement a
tract of 118 miles long and 81 miles
wide. to help the supply of water in the
rivers that carry either no part of the
commerce of the country, or a very
small per entage of it.
We cannot believe that the good sense
of the nation will permit any such
games. That old fossil, Cleveland, tried
similar fraud 1--WE think it was in Wy
Oming or MQntana), in a reservation of
a vast area Of timber but the thing
was set aside by the Republican admin
istration. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
THE CHURCHES AND REFORM.

Edward Everett Hale, in his newly
His Friends" has this to say:
With the ordinary stupidity of ecclesias-
ticism, most Of the organized churches had
succeeded in shutting out from their SER
vices the ultra speakers on whatever Ques-
tion. They confined their sermons on Sun
day to the decorOus wishwash in which
average men treated in a harmless way
subjects to which the people were indiffer-
emit. Speaking of the English pulpit at the
same period, under conditions not far diff
ferent, Jowett says: Really, l never hear
a sermon of which it Is possible to conceive
that the writer had a serious belief about
things If you could but cross examine
him he would perjure himself every other
sentence" The Indifference with which
wide-awake Americans, particularly of the
younger generation, regarded such preach
ing. resulted in the development of the
''lyceum system" of the North The organi-
zed churches might thank themselves if
they found, introduced into every COM
munity on week days, the most radical
views. and frequently by speakers who
would not pretend to address them on Sun
days. l am trying not to travel outside the
line which I have marked for myself in
these papers; but l do not pass that line
when l say that sort of indignation was
aroused through the whole Northern COM
munity because the established church. in
Its various communions, was unwilling to
devote itself to what was clearly it's BUSH
ness. the fair discussion of the most i'm
portant subject bearing on right and wrong
which could possibly come before any peo-
pie.
Are not the churches Of today stand
Ing silent while the money power and
the trusts are manacling humanity and
numbering the republic? I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
VERY SORRY.
AN EXPERIMENT THAT FAIL

AN EXPERIMENT THAT FAILED.
The property of the famous Ruskin family
has been placed in the hands of receiver
and sold. The colony was founded in Ten
nessee in 1894, and until recently gave
promise Of great success a socialistc ex-
pertinent. There were some 300 colOnists
and they held property worth $1,000 Be-
sides farming and gardening on the CO.
operative plan. they conducted several
profitable manufacturing enterprises. Their
newspaper, The Coming Nation, attained a
national circulation and was in itself val
liable asset. Each member Of the colony
was obliged to work 4S hours week at that
labor which he or she was best qualified
to perform. Payment was not made in the
currency of the country, but in certificates
testifying that the bearer had done a GER
tain amount of work and was entitled to
the equivalent in food, clothing and other
necessaries of life.
But finally there came discord. Certain
members advocated innovations to which the
majority would not give their assent One
was the adoption of free love as one of the
tenets of the colony. The trouble started
about year ago and ended in an applica-
ton for receiver by the minority and the
sale of the assets as stated above
At the beginning and for four years there
was no apparent reason for the failure of
the experiment. The colony was prosperous.
And il food in abundance. good raiment,
pleasant homes, schools, library and a
newspaper bring happiness, the Ruskin col
onists should have been contented. Unfor-
tunately the 800 members could not think
alike. In their sociological views some were
more advanced than others. There arose a
radical party, but it was opposed by a
stronger conservative party. The majority
was not permitted to rule and the inevitable
crash came. The minority party, however,
bought in the property and will renew the
experiment. Perhaps they will be more sue
cessful in thinking alike than was the
original colony.-Minneapolis Times.
There is the trouble in all these eff
forts to lift yourself above prevailing
and universal conditions, by Juggling at
your boot-straps.
You cannot be in the ocean without
getting wet, and you must share in the
blunders and follies Of your age and
country.
The only way to reform existing con-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
THE TRUTH.

The article, Stirring Up the Animals -
from the Initiator, is from the pen of L.
c. Long, the man who ran for governor on
the midroad ticket last fall. 1t is a COM
ment on a portion of the same article we
quoted last week. 1t emphasizes the state
ment We made that the men who charge
that the midroaders were being coached
by such men as Jim Hill were, in fact, the
recipient Of pass favors from Jim Hill
themselves, and that charged by the
Republicans Jim Hill was in favor of the
election of John Lind for governor. Read
the article. 1t is too good to be missed
Faribault Jeffersonian
The praise of two such men as L. c..
Long and j. r. Lowe overbalances tons
of abuse from such creatures as that
poor, imbecile, corrupt "cuss," Hotch-
kiss. of Fillmore county.
We are profoundly sorry that we de-
Tended the creature in the senate, when
his own neighbors united to rub his
nose in the dirt, by leaving him off the
Chattanooga commission. 1. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03

boys as voicing the sentiments of the
American people at home.
This press censorship has grossly de-
ceived both the boys III the ranks and
the masses here at home, and the I'M
necessary retention of the troops whose
time OF enlistment has expired, have, all
been parts Of scheme or administra-
ton conspiracy to deceive the people,
while rewarding a few administration
pets and paying of '96 campaign debts
Sooner or later all these facts will
come to light. The boys will some Of
them live to come home and tell the
truth.
Alger. Eagan, Otis and other scape-
goats will in time cut. loose their
tongues. Eagan was discharged on
full pay to keep his mouth shut. Otis
is to be made governor general of the
Philippines for the same purpose.
Alger will be given a senatorship at
Hanna's expense, to keep him quiet, bat
the boys will some of them talk when
they get home.
Some of these scapegoats will eventu-
ally demand higher prices for their I'll
lence, and the cat will come home.
Meantime there is no lack of circum-
stantial evidence which would in any
other country impeach, if not behead
it's chief magistrate. The following
from the New York World will show
the unpopularity of Americas cause in
the Philippines.
WASHINGTON, July 26.-Gen. Otis has
been authorized to organize four regiments
in the Philippines If he thinks the four can
be raised.
This is in consequence of an optimistic
dispatch from Gen. Otis today saying that
he might raise another regiment from vol
unteers exclusively. So now three regi-
ments Of infantry and one of cavalry are to
be recruited in the Philippines. IF.
At the same time Gen. Otis reports that
he has recruited only about 900 men for the
regiments previously authorized although
few weeks ago he reported 1000 recruits.
1t Is manifest from his cable today that he
has made no progress in enlisting men. al
though he speaks of 400 applications.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
A GRAND STEAL.

An Attempt to Withdraw "a Vnst Ter
pie.
We find in a recent number of the
Minneapolis Journal the following ar
ticle, in reference to a subject that has
engrossed a good deal of public atten-
ton:
The Journal has taken pains to give it's
readers today map showing the area and
character of the country included in it,
which it is proposed to set apart for a
forest reserve and great national park
around the headwaters of the Mississippi.
The tract included is 118 miles long, east
and west, and "a miles wide, north and
south-a very extensive area and providing
for very ambitious project. The prob
abilities are that the people who advocate
this park do not expect to secure the res
ervation of much land for their purpose;
but while they are reserving they are re-
serving a plenty The project, no doubt,
as a good many things to commend it. 1t
will also encounter a great deal OF oppOSi-
ton. The Journal has, from time to time.
presented the ideas of those who favor this
project, as we'll as those who are opposed
to it. 1t is a pretty serious proposition.
involving the withdrawal from settlement
and use of very large area and the prac
ticability and wisdom of the project, in its
entirety at least, is a matter upon which
there seems to be room for very careful
consideration In the mind Of The Journal,
the most important consideration is forest
preservation, and the service to be rendered
to large section by the benefit to the
water supply at the headwaters of the
greatest river system of the country.
We are opposed to the whole scheme.
Only such idiots as Gen. Christopher
Columbus Andrews would advocate it.
1t proposes to take out of the heart of
Minnesota tract of public land almost
as large as some of the IL original states
that formed this nation. The plea is,
as the Journal states, that it would con-
stitute valuable forest reserve, and
would assist the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi river by retaining the woods
around it's original source. The real
object of the movement is to arrest and
prevent that, which has been the distin-
gushing feature of our government
the transfer Of the public lands TO THE
PEOPLE, and to assist in the creation
of a royal estate in which our nabobs
and their posterity could hunt deer
and bear forever. The ultimate result
would be that after the people had been
deprived of . making homes on these
lands, for number of years, some
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
AN ALABAMA LETTER.

In another column will be found a
letter from an Alabama gentleman, w.
T. Kendrick, dealing with the money
question. Mr.. Kendrick plainly compre-
hends what the money question is, and
he has stated some fundamental truths
which should be considered by every
American.
He strikes at the root of the whole
matter by exposing the fallacy of in
trinsic or property value in the sub
stance out of which money is made.
He shows the inconsistency of trying
to re-establish the silver evil while we
the gold evil 1t is the intrinsic value
and commodity feature Of the gold
standard, accompanied with private or
monopoly ownership of the metal that
renders the gold standard SO objection
able to the masses who own no gold
but are compelled by law to use it as
money
All these objections are equally APP
plicable to silver Mr.. Kendrick raises
very pertinent question, why should
reformers fight for silver, when every
we1l-informed man knows that govern
ment paper money is the only scientific
money, and money that does justice
alike to all classes, and that gold and
silver are alike illogical, and are for the
same reasons Objectionable as material
out of which to make money?
E. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03

did our heart wait or the decision Of those
three most awful days In history.
Those crimson days have left their scars
ineradicably upon our hearts. Men now
drawing near the outerm0st verge Of life
close THAR eyes and zee the dread horror
of that time. It's glory and It's bloom Will
fold them round a. In mantle. while men,
DRY holds the past Ia her tender keeping
To the whole nation that past is sacred.
The battle was lost and the battle was won
at the sacrifice Of the hearts blood Of the
south and of the North The tears of the
widows and the orphans left by those ter
rible days have scalded their way through
the life OF the country. To the spot where
Reynolds fell in the dawn Of the great bat
tie the North turns with sorrow and love.
by the sacred place where our noble Armi
stead. with his hand on the enemys gun,
went home to meet the warriors God, We of
the South stand with reverend feet and
souls filled with solemn awe.
To those of us for whom the wounds OF
Gettysburg yet bleed the suggestion of
mimic representation of that great struggle
brings a chill of horror. 1t might be, as
suggested by those who conceived the pro-
Georgia State fair. There is q fascination
in the sound of guns and the fash of swords.
even though 1t be but in the cardboard bat
tie OF a melodrama, which IL second only to
the perilOuS enchantment of the great trag-
edy Of real warfare. Those of us to whom
blooming royalty on the greatest battlefield
OF the modern world was more precious than
if it had flowed in our own veins, can but
shrink from the tearing away OF the curtain
which time has thrown around our hottest
and saddest memories.
The old South has passed. The new South
has wrested from defeat a victory more
glorious than was ever known to cOnQuerOr.
Yet in the new she forgets not the old.
Her memories are the sacred relics of her
great tradegy. There is one memory which
flames in lines of fire across the record OF
her sad, storm blown. noble past-the mem
DRY of Gettysburg. She asks that it's glory
and its terror be not desecrated to make a
holiday.
Defeat can bring no dishonor to
land that can produce such heroes as
Pickett, and such heroines as the writer
of these magnificent lines.
There is heart and soul and brain in
them. 1t is craftsmanship welded to
immortal pathos.
We are glad the South did not get
away from us.
They may yet save the nation.
l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
AN EXTRAORDINARY BOOK
Caesars Column.

One of the most extraordinary books
ever written is Ignatius Donnelly's
Caesars Column.
1t depicts in lifelike manner the COM
ing of the rule of the plutocrat, and
should be placed in the hands of every
doing voter who cannot realize the ten
dency of the present rule of trusts and
mOnopolies. 1t will open his eyes with
a threat of hellfire and other pleasant
prospects.
The story itself is a thrilling romance
that will hold the attention of the
reader from beginning to end.
The Schultz Publishing Co., of Chi
cagO, has just issued a new, cheap edi-
ton of the book which has always sold
for SO cents.
We will send it postpaid for 25 cents
Address this Office.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
THE BEST EVIDENCE.

In the Philippines we have over 30 900
soldiers. They went there willingly.
periodically and enthusiastically. They
went there to drive the Spanish from
those islands and to help the Filipinos
gain their liberty and establish SELF.
government.
No intimation had reached them that
their real mission to those islands was
to conquer the Filipinos for the benefit
of an administration syndicate of fran
chise- grabbing American millionaires,
These boys have been there long
enough to begin to comprehend the sit
nation. Many of them have written
home truthful accounts Of outrages per-
petrated upon the natives, Of the injus-
tiee of the American cause, Of the uni
wersal disapproval of the boys In the
ranks, and these letters have been re-
fused publication by the old party press,
The old party press has applauded the
course of the administration, and these
Papers have been freely supplied to the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
A VOCIFEROUS CUss.

We notice in several Of our Mime
sofa exchanges an article from the pen
OF L. c. Long, of Magnolia, which arti-
Gle appeared first in Mr.. Longs paper,
The Initiator
The article is entitled, stirring Up
the Animals"
Mr.. Long starts out with specimen
found in Southern Minnesota, near
Preston. He does not state whether
this animal is a jackass, a billy goat or
pole cat, but his description gives one
an idea of something very odoriferous.
After speaking Of ghosts. .hopgoblins.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03

to control the rank of the party, and we
will exercise our right as citizens by
voting where we think it is our duty
to, irrespective of leaders. l wish to
call the attention of all that there is
a new party in the field that has nailed
to it's topmast mo fusion. no compro-
mise" it meets conditions that have
arisen since the Omaha platform was
written, and is fully abreast of the
times, and if those leaders in our Peo-
pies party want to wreck it and join
the old parties again, we of the file can
join the Socialist party, where every
one will be leaders. party governed
by the initiative and referendum. Fra
ternally yours, w. H. COLLINS,
1925 Avenue L. s. Chicago, Ill.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-08-03
THE GOLD STANDARD AND THE AS
SASSINATION.

SASSINATION.
The following extract speaks for it.
self:
NEW YORK, July 27.-E. D. York, sec
rotary Of the SantO Domingo Improvement
company, who has large interests in San
to Domingo, and supported President Heur-
eaux, said today:
The assassination was the act of some
fanatical native. who thought he was max
ing martyr of himself 1t only IL
lustrates the temper of the race. Gen.
Heureaux, in my opinion, was in every way
what President Diaz is to Mexico. With a
firm hand he had put the country in a sub
stantial and prosperous condition. He
was public man in every sense of the word
and had labored hard for the betterment
of his people. Two months ago / was
IN the interior Of the island, and can tell
you from personal observation that never
had 1t experienced such a period OF pros
perity. 1t now has over 100 miles Of road
in the Interior The sugar and coffee crops
have been the largest known in years, and
while prices are not as high, the exports
are the highest known"
Mr.. York said that the currency question
was causing the administration no little
uneasiness.
an old silver basis to the modern gold stand
ard" he said, land the transition has oc-
casioned no little bitterness and discon-
tent. The plans, however, were largely ma
tured for relieving the situation, and leav
ing the country on gold basis
Reading between the lines, we think
the above article means that President
Heureaux was killed because he was
trying to force the island of Santo Do
mingo upon a gold basis; this caused a
bitterness which resulted in the death
of the president of the country.
Everywhere the oligarchy is reaching
out to drive silver out of existence, re-
duce the value of the products of all
countries and increase the purchasing
power of the dollar.
The men engaged in this work care
nothing for the results to nations or
politicians; they are bound to subdue
the world. /. D.