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The times., 1899-12-07

lief Commission and outside Of it. But
they have never been disproved and are
universally believed throughout the United
States. This may be an unpleasant com
mentary on the grade OF whitewash used
by the Commission. or upon its method
of applying it, but it is the truth all the
same
What Mr.. Mckinley probably would have
said if he had himself composed the en-
balmed beef paragraph of the message.
would be something like this: Our meat
trade with Europe. nearly destroyed by
the crimes of certain miscreants. against
the Government and our soldiers in the
field during the Spanish war. is gradually
reviving under a more rigid and honest
system of inspection, which I have or
dered to be conducted without regard to
the political influence OF chronic offenders,
and with due protection to faithful in
spectors who may report violations Of the
law" It is great pity that in the hurry
Of his preparations. the President did not
give the matter more attention.
The morbid appetite in New York again
has something to feed upon Roland B.
MoIineux has been brought to trial on the
charge of having murdered an inoffensiye
woman by means of poison. Crowds raw
enous for sensation. especially when it is
served gratis in a criminal tribunal, have
to be kept from the halls of justice by mus
cular officers. They are determined to
gloat over the man on trial for his life if
they can get the opportunity. To them
the agony Of a defendant, the horrifying
detail of a grewsome case, the dissection
of motives, the legal quibblings, and the
| probing and reprobing of witnesses are
! great attractions and they feel it an in
| dignity to be shut out. The Molineux case
| promises to be a lengthy one, with the
usual absurd conflict of expert opinion. The
| toXicologist will. no doubt, be much in evil
| dence with his learned replies to confusing
! hypothetical questions presented in such a
| way by prosecution and defence that the
! one will neutralize the other so far as such
! testimony is concerned. Technicalities will
/ play their part in the proceedings and after
long and arduous deliberation the jury
will seek to sift just verdict out of the
| corglomerate mass. But it is the detail
and not the issue that is the main attrac-
ton of the case to those whose sole occu-
| patton seems to be a search for the sensa-
| tionaI. The guilt or innocence of the pris-
oner at the bar is a subordinate matter
with them.
The times., 1899-12-07

Former Representative James Hamilton
Lewis, of Washington, has worthy sue
cessor in Representative +. W Cushman
who is enjoying his first taste OF Congress
sional life, Mr. Cushman is even as pic
turesque as was his predecessor. and has
over six feet of it, He is hardened from
years Of cattle punching and thinks ne will
have no trouble in getting the floor when
he wants il
The times., 1899-12-07

Few Of the patrons of KernaD's. ever
alert for catch-words. can have forgotten
the ''Oumn-n-n-u IA sound half way be-
tween a grunt and a groan-which cams
to be sort of trademark for the work Ot
Rice and Barton some years ago at hat
house The tone, which was made Tart
OF the humOr introduced by those come
dams, was Initiated all over town and
should serve as a label OF merit Rice
and Barton return TO Kernan's next week
with their Big Extravaganza company.
and the reputation of which this mention
is a part, viii DO much toward drawing
audiences. The programme presented row
Is said to be more enjoyable than ever
before. It includes an OIiO in which ara
heard the Princeton Sisters sOubrettes;
Hickey aud Nelson. who are aveTred 60 ha
fresh from the European music halls;
Barton and Eckh0ff. instrumentalists, j.
X Mullen and Annie Dunn duaiogists,
and Touhey and Mack who are well known
here This OIio is preceded and followed
respectively With two burlesques. the first
of which is entitled "Satans Inn and this
second Maud OF the TendeFloin- All
told the entertainments should prove en-
tirely enjoyable.
The times., 1899-12-07
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THURSDAY. DECEMBER Z, 1893.
The times., 1899-12-07

Senators Foraker of Ohio and Beveridge
OF Indiana shook hands over their birth
place yesterday They have done this many
times of yore. but not since the latter came
to the Senate. Both gentlemen were born
in Highland county, Ohio on neighboring
farms.
The times., 1899-12-07
Has the senate Degenernted.-

a
recent signed article for publication, Sen
ator Depew of New York made this state
ment: Il want to say that there are men
in the United States Senate today who are
equal if not superior in point of intelligence
to any man who served in Congress in an
tebellum days" Senator Depew under
takes to prove that the Senate as body
has not retrogradeed; that the Websters
and Clays were only ordinary mortais after
all. 1t was only a few years ago that MIR
Depew had some very unpleasant things to
say about the Senate. In a magazine arti-
Gle he expressed the opinion that the Sen
ate could no longer be regarded as the con-
servatiye branch of Congress. However,
probably in Mr.. Depews judgment his elec-
tion TO the Senate has wrought a wondIous
change in the character of that veEerab. e
body, Mr.. Depews humor is only exceed
ed by his modesty.
The times., 1899-12-07
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.

Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. LOnE.-The re-
port has been in circulation for some time
past that the relations between the Presi-
dent and his Secretary of the Navy were
somewhat strained. and that the early re-
tirement Of the Massachusetts, gentleman
from the Cabinet might be expected. While
Mr.. Kong and several of his personal
friends have rushed into print with an
emphatic denial OF the report, it, never
,heless, continues to circulate and, strange
to relate. receives considerable credence in
semi-Officiai circles. Secretary Long, it
can be stated on the best authority. is not
in the highest favor at the present time
1t the White House. He has allowed him
self to be made the tool of the Sampson
Crowninshield ring in its war on Admiral
SchIey. and, naturally he must suffer the
consequences. Mr.. Longs friends assert
that he is the innocent victim of cirCum-
stances; that he is not personally respon-
sibe for the vicious attacks that have been
made on Admiral Schley, although they
have received apparently his official sane
tion. This explanation on the part OF the
friends of Secretary Long does not help his
case materially. 1t only proves in their
opinion that he Is incompetent to be at the
head Of the Navy Department. a Con-
greSsiOnal investigation of the whole SAN
tiago campaign is said to be in contempla-
ton. and may be ordered in the near
future. The Administration is said to be
desirous of clearing its skirts of the whole
business, and, manifestedly, the first step
in that direction will be to provide for the
retirement of Mr.. Long from the Cabinet.
1t is an open secret that Mr.. Long was
not originally the choice of Senator Lodge
or any prominent member of the Massa-
chusetts delegation. He was the personal
of Mr.. Mckinley who had served with him
in the House. Mr.. Longs retirement from
the Cabinet will, it is understood, be
brought about naturally about the same
as Mr.. Ayers last summer. 1t viii be
recalled in this connection that Mr.. Alger
insisted that he had no idea of resignng
right up to the hour that his resignation
was formally rendered. Mr.. Longs success
sor will. it is believed, be New England
man. He will be some one it is said. who
will represent the real sentiment of that
section on the subject of expansion. II is
violating no confidence to say that Senator
Lodge would be glad to have a new head
to the NAVY Department
The times., 1899-12-07

Lord and Lady Algy. which viii be the
Offering Of next week az the National Thea
ire. is a comedy which has been presented
with success both in New York and IN
London The production is in the hands Of
the Empire Stock Company, OF which jessie
MiIlward and William Faversham, respec-
lively. are leading woman and leading man.
The times., 1899-12-07

Two bills providing for the election Of
Senators by popular vote were introduced
yesterday One of these came from Sena-
tor Harris OF Kansas and the other from
Senator Stewart of Nevada. Nothing in
this line has as yet been offered by Sena-
tor Penrose of Pennsylvania
, 1899-10-26
REPUBLICAN FINANCIERING.


Contrast of Treasury Conditions Under
Cleveland and Mckinley.
Nothing marks more clearly the con
trast between Republican prosperity
and Democratic adversely than the net
gold in the treasury of the United
States under Cleveland and under Nc
Kinley. That accumulation is the mer-
curry In the business thermometer Of
the country. 1t rises or falls with the
business temperature.
On Thursday. Sept. Z. there was re-
ported to be more gold in the treasury
of the United States that day than on
any previous day In the financial his
tory OF the government. The net coin
and bullion amounted to 1881 .61S. 132.
including the 800. 900, 900 reserved for
the redemption of legal tender notes.
When resumption began, in 1879, the
net gold of h treasury was s130,249.-
457, and 1t eve fell below the hun
dred million mark until 1893. Not
quite a month of Democracy was then
required to bring the net amoun be-
low the minimum of safety, where 1t
stayed, except as the government went
into the market and sold bonds. until
after the era of Democratic rule was
ended by a vote of the people. Hard
ly had a Democratic president, a Dem
ocratic house and a Democratic senate
com into power before the mercury in
the treasury department fell below
the freezing point of 500, OOO, 900. BY
the beginning of 1894 it had gone to
500. $50, 175, and Jan. 1. 1895, it was
down to s44. 705, 967. 1t would have
been wiped out entirely II it had not
been for the stocks of gold secured by
bond sales. In 1895 the amount real
lied from this source was Sill ,166. 246.
or more than the total net gold in the
treasury either when the year began
or when 1t closed.
When the presidential campaign OF
1896 began the amount was about $780,
100000. and when the election itself
occurred 1t was Sis, 000. 200. The news
that Mckinley had been elected, and
with him a Republican house of rep
resentatives, then went out TO the
country, and when the actual change
Of administrations came the net gold
amounted to about $3.50, 900, 900. From
that time all fear of the endless chain
was forgotten. The increase has gone
on steadily until the maximum of over
$3.50, 900. 900 has been reached.
With the contrast between Democrat
ic adversely and Republican prosperity
presented in this concete form. 1t is
difficult to conceive how any man OF
ordinary business sense can fail to be
impressed with the advantage Of hav-
ing the government conducted on dis
tinctively Republican lines of policy by
an administration which inspires finan'
cial confidence.-Chicago Inter Ocean
, 1899-10-26

Mr.. Jefferson Seligman, the eminent
financier, is a pronounced optimist in
respect to the future which lies be-
fore us. He says:
81 am as hopeful as ever of the flu
ture. and can see nothing to stop the
onward march of prosperity. Never
before in the history OF the country
were business conditions on such sta
bic foundations. Good times have
come to stay. Mills and factories of
every kind are taxed to their utmost
capacity. Railroad business is limited
only by the capacity of its rolling
stock. Each passing week shows some
new high record of earnings. i" :
| do not think that we shall ever fall
back to the conditions that prevailed
a few years g The wealth OF the
country and the buying power OF the
world have become so enormous that
1t is only reasonable to say that old
forms of business have become obso-
lete and a new era has opened"
The one thing most obsolete of all Is
the theory OF free trade, which had a
temporary resurrection a few years
ago, and which was responsible for the
evil conditions which existed then and
to which Mr., seligman thinks we win
, 1899-10-26
EVER AGAIN.

Up to two years ago. as some one has
put it, America was wearing her old
clothes. The American voters volun-
tarily cast work and wages away from
them by voting for Cleveland and tar
if reform" In consequence OF that
the American people were forced to
fall back on what they had bought and
on what they had saved during the
prior days of McKinleyism and pros
perity. A very short period Of protec-
ton under the Dingley law has. how
ever. brought the wherewithal for new
things. and during the past year and
more the American people have been
buying new clothes, new everything.
No small part OF the sales Of the past
yea has beef sales of things which
should have been bought years before,
and which would have been bought II
the American people had not bartered
their birthright of prosperity for the
mess of pottage offered to them by the
free traders. We are better off than
Esau was, though. for we have had
another chance and have got our birth
right back. We won't let it go again.
, 1899-10-26

Complaints have been made against
the officers of some of the Fall river
mills for hiring women and minors to
work nights as well as days, but on
investigation it appears that, although
the mills in question are running every
week night until 10 o'clock, they are
not violating the law which forbids
the employment of women and minors
more than fifty-eight hours in a week.
The fact that the question has Gsen
raised at all presents a situatt.@s GU
riously in contrast with that which
existed In former years. There we're
no violations OF the fifty-eight-nour
restriction of the days of the
Wilson tariff. No complaints were
then heard of over-working wom-
en-. minors, or any other class
of labor. The trouble in that
CHASTITY period was to keep the mills
running on halftime. to say nothing Of
overtime.
, 1899-10-26
PAUL KRUC

From the London Spectator.
round
The devious path to trace;
The giant form of Lincoln. crowned
By Cromwells grosser face;
Coarse, rustic garb. of uncouth cut,
That masks ZACH mighty limb:
Its shapeless folds the ready butt
OF Europe's testers trim.
So much the crowd can see; the rest
Asks critics clearer-eyed;
So rough a scabbard leaves unguessed
How keen the blade inside:
The trenchant will. the subtle brain
So strangely doomed to wage
With Destiny's still climbing main
The hopeless war of Age.
His kindred are n rugged brood
That nurse "A dying fire:
The sons of Calvin's bitter mood,
And sterner than their sire.
By faith through trackless deserts
Lost miles OF lonely sand.
Far from the intruding world they
They found their Promised Land.
BY such grim guardians tutored well
His Spartan childhood grew:
The wind-trail OF the fleet gazelle,
The lions path he knew:
The camp surprised at dawn. he rush
OF feet. the ~acklin smoke,
When on the sleeping laager's hush
The sudden kafir broke.
Nay, once. tits said. when vaal in Hood
Had barred the hunters way.
And mid its swollen current stood
A wounded buck at bay.
While some before the brute drew back
And some before the wave,
Striding that torrents foaming track,
The mercy-stroke he gave.
A stream more rapid and more wide
His strength has stemmed since then
Called from the plodding team to guide
The starker wills OF men
Chance-prentiCed to so new a trade.
Unlettered and u~nschooled
The clod-bred clownish peasant made,
No less. a realm. and ruled.
Yet. though that realm he still sustains,
Against an empires might,
And with untiring skill maintains
The so unequal fight.
He buys his victories all too dear,
Whose foes have Time for friend:
Each fatal triumph brings more near
The inevitable end.
HAPPY the hoarse-voiced guns must
close
The long debate at last,
Ere the young Future can compose
Its quarrel with the Past:
Nathless, our England, unashamed,
May greet n foeman true
OF her own stubborn metal framed,
For she is iron, too.
Edward Sydney Tylee.
, 1899-10-26

A number of construction concerns
have had to close their works tempora.
rily because the iron and steel mills OF
the country are unable to keep up with
their orders. If 1t wasn't for the pres
ent administration. the Chicago Post
says, this nev would have happened.
The iron and steel mills would have
more material on hand than they
could conveniently dispose of, and, in
c~identally, most OF them would be
shut down. Thus IL is plain that this
man Mckinley must be defeated at the
next election.-Newaygo (Mich.) Re-
publican.
, 1899-10-26

Larceny of labor will be the next
crime charged to the Republican party.
In st. Paul contractors are charging
each other with stealing men in order
to secure needed help to finish con
tracts. This is very different from the
conditions that existed under the Cleve-
land administration when wage-earn-
ers who held positions could not be in
duced to leave them for a single day in
fear that they might lose them and
never again secure employment.-Liv-
ingston Enterprise.
, 1899-10-26

The Lehi sugar factory started its
seasons run yesterday. with unusually
rich promise. The seasons product of
sugar there will be greater than ever.
because OF the better quality of the
beets and the satisfactory yield. and
already the plans for next season con-
template operations a good deal more
than double those OF this season in
magnitude and product. The pioneer
sugar factory is a great institution,
sure enough. and an especially crafty
ing feature of 1t is that it is a direct
product OF Republican policies.-Salt
Lake City Tribune.
, 1899-10-26
QUALITY AND NEWS.
FAME AND EXCELLENCE ARE
DETERMINING FACTORS IN
SUCCESSFUL DEVELOP
MENT.
One of the Important Functions of
HIgh-CIass Newspaper.

In presenting interesting phases OF
scientific and economic problems,
high-class newspapers frequently give
information of as great value in their
advertising columns as in those de-
voted to the publication of the prin-
cipal events of the day: and when
the fame of a product is extended be-
yond its natural limits into foreign
lands, and a large demand created
throughout Great Britain and her col
onies and the principal seaports and
cities of Europe. Asia and Africa, II
becomes a pleasant duty to note the
fact and to tell of the points of ex-
cellence On which so great a success is
based. We refer to the now world
famed laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs,
the product of the California Fig
Syrup Company. The merits of this
well-known excellent laxative were
first made known to the world through
the medical journals and newspapers
of the United States; and is one of the
distinct achievements of the press. 1t
is now we'll known that Syrup of Figs
is al ethical proprietary remedy, ap-
proved by the most eminent physicians
everywhere. because it is simple and
effective, yet pleasant to the taste and
acceptable to the system, and not only
prompt in its beneficial effects, but
also wholly free from n unpleasant
a~fter-effects. 1t is frequently referred
to as the remedy of the healthy, be-
cause it is used by people who enjoy
good health and who live we'll and feel
yell AID are we'll informed on all sub-
Jects generally, including laxatives.
In order to get its beneficial effects, 1t
is necessary to get the genuine Syrup
of Figs, which is manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
, 1899-10-26

never GO back. That industry Destroy
ing policy has no part nor lot in pros
perity. Prosperity has come to stay.
and therefore free trade must of ne
cessity retire into "innocuous desue-
tude" along with its most prominent
champion. Free rad and prosperity
cannot exist at one and the same time
in this country. We shall never fall
back into the conditions which pre-
vailed a few years ago. because we
shall not fall back into free trade
again.
, 1899-10-26

A former United States senator. in
a speech delivered in Omaha, at
tributed the prosperity which this
country is now enjoying solely to
natural causes. He urges that neither
fiscal policy nor faith has anything to
do with it. Upon his theory, this coun-
try should have been most prosperous
in 1897 than ever before or since, for
in that year nature was most prodigal
of her gifts in this country than at
any other time. The crops were the
largest ever known. and owing to
scarcity abroad, prices were high.
However, these natural causes
large crops here and small mes abroad
did not make the prosperity that is
now with us. We had been sending
more money abroad for other articles
than we were receiving from abroad;
hundreds of thousands of men would
have been idle in spite of the pros
perity of the farmers, where now there
is a labor famine, and natures bounty
is liable to be restricted by the ina
bility to secure workmen for the harry
vest.
Nature did its part, to be sure, but
the Republican administration and
congress did more for the country,
when a protective tariff law was passed
and honest money maintained, than
did nature.
1t would have been a hard and I'M
successful task for nature to compete
with free trade and dishonest forty
fve-cent dollars. -Tacoma (Wash.)
Ledger.
, 1899-10-26

by the advance agent OF prosperity"
They have stopped thinking about 16
to l or fiat money. and are not worry
ing much about the trusts. This Iowa
farmer is a representative type. He
knows what he lost by the triumph of
tariff reform" in 1892, n he knows
how vastly he is the gamer by the tri-
umph of "McKinleyism" in 1896. Next
year he will know how to vote.
, 1899-10-26
THE FARMER THINKS.

He Is Well Satisfied with the Hired
Man" Now In the White House.
Under the appropriate heading Of
u prints the following:
Upon the occasion OF a recent visit
to Iowa l asked a farmer in an interior
county what the people of Iowa in
tended to do at the next presidential
election, and his answer was as fol-
lows:
Wall, I ley argue politics and
never did. but II l give a man a job
and he does his work well, what's the
use of turning him of and Citing a
new man? Now, Mr.. Mckinley does
his work right up to the handle, and
no man could a done 1t better, though
| didn't have no part in putting him
there. So what's the sense in turning
him out and putting a new man in his
place?
He made a lot of promises about
good times, and can't see as he over
stated the facts either, for certainly
the times have been laundering good.
there's no denying that.
Now, Bill Bryan comes around
here telling the boys II they didn't
elect him the country would go TO hell;
and be quick about 1t. Pears like Bill
didn't know what he was talking
about, or was lying, likely the latter.
Guess we can spare Bill a spell yet, so
he can get his picture took. Maybe
he'll learn something II he hangs
round the house n keeps his head
cool out there in Nebraska. If he runs
again you can easy git the fool census
by counting his vote. He reminds me
Of a mule | owned once-the only time
he used his head was at dinner time
rest of the time he was hunting
around to find something to kick at.
Mckinley will go back for another
term, leastwise. that's what the neigh
bors say, Inc I'm likewise"
w. C. II.
New York. Sept. II.
The farmers of the United States are
not saying much about politics just
now. They are engaged in harvesting
and marketing at good prices one Of
the heaviest crops they have ever had.
and their cattle. hogs and sheep are
bringing them more money than for a
good many years past. They have
mostly finished paying on the mort
cages which were a part OF the bless
lngs of free-trade tariff tlnkering. 1898
1897, and are now taking the benefit OF
The good times which were promised