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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

Bryan to revise the tariff would be
likely to result in free trade altogether
TO remedy few evils he would upset
the whole fabric of home industry.
That was what he did in 1894.
Bryan's second remedy requiring
federal license for corporations neces-
states q constitutional amendment
giving congress power over corpora
tions. Yet the Democrats In congress
only last June refused to vote for that
Bryan could not count on his own par
ty following him In his second remedy
for trusts, unless 1t is willing to re-
verse itself.
AS to the third proposition in the
Nebraska candidates antitrust plat
form 1t is sufficient to note that its
application would undo every patent
in the country, cancel every copyright
and take away every property value
now arising from control of special
production. In a specific sense it
would prevent Mr.. Bryan from writing
a book on his Second Lost Battle"
and pocketing $4,000 in royalties.
In only one item is his trust cure
sound. To prevent stock watering is
highly important; but it would hardly
pay to do that by soaring enterprise
altogether, which Is what Bryanjsm
implies.
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IN REPLY TO THE TIMES.
Editor Of The Tribune

Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: The editor of the Scranton Times has
something to say about gentleman who pur.
ports to speak for the commercial travellers,
whom The Tribune dubs IAN able business
man." will waive The Trihunes adjective. Mr..
Editor, grant you that word able is mistake,
and l will make this plain statement Of fact.
am 4 business man. also 4 commercial traveller.
| am not politician nor am l paid by any
politicians office seekers to express an opinion.
| stated the situation just as have found it to
be. did not have u word to say about trusts
except indirectly but ns the editor of the
Times has interpreted my statements into an
endorsement Of them | will say word on this
interesting subject. wish to state most en-
phatically that II am not defender Of trusts,
nor do meet many men who either among
the merchants commercial travellers. In fact
the commercial travellers strongly denouncc
them hut somehow, Mr.. Editor, the great ma.
jorily of men l meet do not believe that Mr..
Rryan's election and the success of the Demo.
cratic party would bring about their overthrow.
You see. Mr.. Editor, they are not as creduious
as the Times editor appears to be. They look
upon Mr.. Bryan man who has very glib
tongue and a fanriful imagination; one who
talks more than he thinks and promises moro
than he would be able to perform. They re.
member some OF his assertions four years ago
when he thought ne possessed the gift Of
prophecy and prophesied all manner of dire
evils that would bcfa the country if certain
policies that he outlined were not carried out.
lie proved to he false prophet then and among
great many thinking men there is an aversion
to trust him now.
There are great many men, Mr.. Editor,
who do not put the responsibility OF the trusts
upon President Mckinley, or even on Mr. Hanna.
They may tell you that most of the successful
trusts were organized previous to McKinleys
election. Some OF these men will even quote
facts and figures to prove this. They will tell
you that the Stannard Oil company organ.
lied in 1852; the dressed beef combination in
,sS5; the American Tobacco company in 1890,
the American Sugar Refining company and the
National Tube company in 1884, the National
Wall Paper company and The Consolidated Steel
and Wire company in 1892. These will
also tell you that when the Republicans at,
tempted to legislate against trust the Democrats
frustrated their efforts, and occasionally ! meet
man who has something to say about the ice
trusts
These are some Of the reasons, Mr.. Editor, why
men who do not believe in trusts haven't
particle of faith in Mr. Bryan's assertions that
he, ii elected, would eradicate these evils. And
isn't it possible that even able a gentleman
as the editor Of the Times may he mistaken
Arthur L. Collins.
Scranton Oct %
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
NuBs OF KNOWLEDGE.

New Zealand's education is entirely secular and
free.
The life Of an Australian native rarely exceeds
80 years
or the 1900 Chinese in New Zealand only 90
arc females.
In 1880 there were 200 horses In Australia; in
1000 there are 2,O0OOO0.
On a nursery at Brisbane Water there are
nearly 100000 exotic trees.
Scandinavians are numerous in New Zealand,
and Germans in South Australia.
The largest occan.going vessels can voyage up
the river st. Lawrence rs Par as Montreal, over
1000 miles from the Atlantic Ocean.
Westraia is the only Australasian colony that
pays neither the members Of the legislative
council nor those of the legislative assembly.
"British Columbia 'tooth.picks'- about
3 feet square and 90 feet long--is a name given
by Canadian lumbcrmen to large timber baulks.
The total capacity Of the boiling down. chill
ing, freezing and meat.prescrving works in New
South Wales is estimated at 100000 head of
sheep and cattle.
The Australians cat more than double the
amount Of meat per head Of population to that
consumed by any other people, except those Of
the United States.
The proportion OF divorces to marriages !
Australia Is very much higher than those in
other countries, except Denmark, Switzerland
and the United States
The principal rivers and streams OF Tasmania
have been stocked with the fry Of English sa
mon, brown trout, salmon trout and Loeb fcvc'
trout. bred in the colony.
Scotsmen show most favor for New Zealand,
Trishmcn more attracted with Queensland.
while Westralia has the greatest percentage of
English compared with the other divisions Of
the island continent
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porting oil. all of which would have been i'm.
possible without imcnsc aggregation of capital.
The pipe line system itself could not have been
developed by individual fort, nothing short OF
colossal corporation made that possible.
The great competitor Of the Standard Oil
company is Russia. Since 1870, the. oil indus
try has undergone immense development In
Russia, all American methods having been
copied. The product OF the Russian fields 10
now nearly seventy million barrels year.
Nothing but the superior economy and large
capital and high developed management ot
the Standard Oil company has prevented
Russia from supplying the American mar
ket, and thus taking the benefits Of that in.
dustry from American labor and capital. Be.
sides supplying the American market the Stand
ard Oil company exports about one hundred mil.
lion gallons OF oil a year, which at the present
price brings over sixty millions Of gold into
the country.
Thus by the power Of its large capital, this
concern gives employment to nearly forty mil.
lions Of laborcrs, pays over one hundred thou.
sand dollars a day in wages and brings sixty
millions Of gold to the country a year. all OF
which would be lost to this country but for
the superior management and large capital OF
this company. Small oil producers, such as ex.
listed before the Standard Oil company was or.
ganized, could not hold the American market
month against Russian competition.
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MERELY A STRAW.
". L. Curtis, in Chicago Record.

There is no barometer OF commercial activity
so accurate and reliable as the receipts at the
postofice, for people do not buy postage stamps
and money orders unless they reed them Busi.
ness Is always more or less disturbed by cleo
tions. During the presidential campaign Of 1856
it was almost paralyzcd by the uncertainty that
lung over the financial policy of the Unitch
States In 1862 and 1888 1t was the tariff which
unsettled values and caused suspension OF con-
tracts. But this year there is SO little uncer'
tainty as to the results of the election in the
minds of business men that the receipts OF the
postoficc department not only keep mp to the
average, but in most eases exceed it. During
the months of September and October in The
years when presidents are elected there is always
n large falling off, but during last September
only fourteen of the fifty principal cities of the
country show a decrease in receipts. The total
receipts for the fifty cities showed net III.
crease Of $cO1 ,6l2, or 5.4 per cent.
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Bryan's Deceptive Remed les.

IN WEST VIRGINIA m NTo,d,,,
va ."''"'S'
Mr. hrSan oHered specihc rem
II edieS for trusts. We use the lam
puape accredited IN hin, in tba
,u,,,shaa r,,o,, =, hi, s,o,,,
80" 'pse'" ~
Charleston!
wo so,. first nut nm Tho ,roe usr ,h. ,ust.
wodo ,,;,loy AMI ,ho, ,ho ,,o,nor,,,nns v,I,
not hc insni,cd ,o cnmhin. 4, this nn,,"t,, r.
raiss nricoy horo yhi,e ,hey soil ,hroaI in .o,n
ro,i,inr Win ,ho unr,1 ,rhn, ,.il, s,on aston
ian ond no m,n c,n do,ond n nro,octiro ,'r,g
for the benefit oi trust that combines to rob
WV WV n'',am @ @ '"" r, 'h, ~ W. a W , o' SUP '"r'r
oorporat;on orpnuiycd in uny state dors hu.ina.,
outside OF The state it shall take out license
from the federal government and before it gets
;ne nsslse u ~ s,'a,i snow .na. 'ne'e Is no wa'er
yo,,-al,ew :, coronation to water IFS stock No
farmer can initiate the value OF his farm; no la,
boring man can initiate the value Of his labor
no "'e'rhahl can innate the Vd'ue OF the sooai
stock and ,hcn nv means Of mononolw can col.
lect dividends on money never invested: But
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
CHAMP CLARK'S CHANGE OF
TUNE.

Champ Clark, OF Missouri, who is now going
around the country berating Mckinley and Mark
Hanna and the consequences Of the Spanish war,
loudly denounced them two years ago for trying
to avoid war with Spain. Speaking In the
house OF representatives, on Jan. 20, 1893, he
called forth loud applause on the Democratic
side with the following:
''In these days of McITannaism our foreign
policy is so feeble, so cringing, so cowardlv,
that even old and decrepit Spain insults our flag.
maltreats our citizens and searches our ships
with perfect impunity; and President Mckinley,
instead OF sending men.of.war to protect our
honor, rsert our supremacy and teach the inso
lent and impotent "Dons'' lesson (applause)
they would never forget. passes the hat around
and invites the American people to contribute
aims for the starving and dying Cubans." Zap
plause.)
Clark is type Of many.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
AN ANTI-IMPERIALIsT'S RE-
MARKS.

THERE'S tremble and shver, and a dark,
portentous quiver, that has side-stepped
through the vitals of these great United
States. For we're up against a crisis, II
athwart the future forms of naughty poten.
tatcs
YES, sir. Danger, grim and murky, like an axe
above turkey, turks Just on the dim
horizon and its shadow will not down.
while we'n know the ruling OF the cruel,
crafty monarch who is topped of with a
crown.
'TWOlLD be easy TO arrange it, and we'd never
have to change it, once the grasping hand
of schemers held our country in its clutch
for the minute We suggested that we felt
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eff there is any one who believes
the gold standard is good thing,
or that it must be maintained, I
warn him not to cast his vote for
me, because I promise him it will
not be maintained in this country
longer than I am able to get rid Of
it."-William Jennings Bryan in a
Speech at Knoxville, Tenn, Deliv-
cred Sept. 16, 1895.
"The party stands where it did in
1896 on the money question."-Will-
lam Jennings Bryan, GAINESVILLE, o.,
September a, 1900.
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SCRANTON, OCTOBER "a, 1900.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
N NATIONAL.

.'rcsident--WILLfAM MCKINLEY.
Vice president-TlIEODORE ROOSEVELT.
State.
Congrcssmen.at. Large GALuSHA n. Hno"
ROBERT II. FOERDERER.
Auditor Gencral--E. d. HARDENBERdH.
County.
Corgress-W1T.LIAM CONNETI
Judgc-GEORGE NJ. WATSON.
sherif-JOliN II. FELLOWS.
Tteasurcr-J. A. SCRANTON. -
District Atorney--WlLLIAM r. LEWIS
protlonotary--JOHN COPELAND.
Clerk OF CourtsTfIOMAS r. DANIELS.
Recorder Of Dccds-EMIL BONN.
Register OF Wills-W. X. BECK.
Jury Commissioner D. STURGES.
Legislature.
First District-TIIoMAs j. REYNOLDS.
Second Distrct-JOlIN SCHEliER. JR
Third District-EDWARD JAMES, JR.
Fourth Dstrict-P. A. PHILB1N.
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Do You Want II?

~ YOU want to continue the
present good business condi-
IL tions, which give employ
ment to all and better wages
than ever before paid? If so, vote for
Mckinley, for under his administra-
tion, the protective tariff and sound
money principles for which the Repub-
lican party legislated, the depression,
the idleness and want of 1896 have
vanished.
The country is now more prosperous.
labor is better. employed, wages are
higher than ever before. 1t is reason
able to expect that with continua-
tion of McKinley's policy, prosperity
and employment would also continue.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

coming tobacco crop will be conserva.
lively $10O,OOo,O0O. This does not in
clude the very large production Of
cocoa, OF coffee and various vegetables
and fruits. nor does 1t include any of
the proceeds from mining and the
many other Industries.
IL we can do this much for the Gu
bans in an island we are to yield up,
what barrier is there. when order Is
restored, to equal or greater achieve
ment in the Philippines. which are
American for all time?
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5,GsT,SlS
S392. 10
5,06j,40A
$1,000
FACTS ABOUT A MUCH ABUSED
OCTOPUS.
rom Paper by Professor George Gunton.

When the Standard Oil company was organ
zed in 1871 the price OF very poor oil was
81 ITO cents per gallon. Under the Standard
Oil trust, which was disbanded a little over a
year ago, the price was reduced from 81 7l0
cents a gallon to z cents, and the quality was
infinitely improved as all consumers know. This
OF course was the result of immense improve.
ments, resulting from unlimited scientific ex'
periments in the process Of handling and trans.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

Mr.. Bryan has appealed to the me-
groes Of the South to vote to relieve
their brown brethren from oppression
in the Philippines. In the vicinity in
which this last exhibition of dema-
gogsm was made the majority Of the
black men will not be allowed to vote
at all. Verify, the Nebraska orator is
becoming positively school-b boyish as
the campaign drags along.
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Just as everybody was beginning to
think that he had concluded to keep
quiet, Hobson has again broken out in
a defense of Admiral Sampson, which
has aroused the old controversy in a
way to make the admiral appear
ridiculous. A mistake has evidently
been made in allowing Hobson to re-
turn to the talking belt.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

From the New York Sum-
'Do any OF you laboring men save anything
Of your earnings?" asked Mr.. Bryan the other
day.
The comptroller OF the currency can give the
ingenious questioner some information on this
point, lie has been looking at the figures of
the savings banks, mutual and stock, the great
majority, however. being Of the former class.
A little nosegay of statistics for the Paramount:
1896 1900
Total savings, dc.
posits .,.,.$l, ,l5G,a77 about 50, 400 100000
Number Of deposit
tors ........., 5.06j,40i 5,GsT,SlS
Average deposit. 5000 S392 l3
The bulk of the deposits is in the purely
mutual savings banks, which hold in 1900
s., 2,13i,i7l,l 1870 and which held in 1896, Sl,6ss,'
l9O,G03 Here is little apparent" prosperity
OF nearly Si50, 100000, gain of almost 20 pei
cent under the iniquitous gold standard.
As illustrating Mr. Byan's theory that the
poor are growing poorer, it may be said that
in 1883 the number OF savings bank edpositors
was 2,s70.+3s. 1t has almost doubled since
then.
Two billion, four hundred million! There
Is aggregated wealth for you, Mr.. Bryan. There
is plutocracy and there are the plutocrats "go'
ing on six millions Of them; and millions
more are on the road And now, perhaps, you
know whether the laboring man saves anything
or not.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

Senator Tiliman-he of the pitchfork
and shotgun for Southern negroes who
attempt to vote the Republican ticket
says that the Democratic senators were
bribed to vote for the ratification Of
the Paris treaty. AS Bryan was busy
lobbying for the ratification Of that in
strument, the charge suggests a host
of Speculation
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

According to General Wood, the
Cubans, as a rule, are extremely CRATE
ful and friendly to the United States.
1t seems that in Cuba. as in the United
states, the handful Of malcontents who
find fault with the government have
been making the most noise.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

HE REPUBLICAN who eX-
poets to vote for Mckinley
Il and Roosevelt because in
favor of the principles they
stand for, but who for one reason or
another of a local nature is inclined to
take a fall out of the Republican nomi-
nee for congress, is invited to consider
these facts:
o. There is not a principle of gov
ernment represented by the head of
the Republican national ticket which
is not also represented by the Repub
lican nominee for congress. The pres
ident executes but he does not make
the laws. He suggests but he does
not frame legislation. lie plans but
it is congress which votes the money
and authority necessary to put those
plans into effect.
G.) There is not principle of gov
ernment represented by Mckinley
which is not opposed by the Demo-
cratic nominee for congress in this
district and q vote for Conry is there
fore a vote directly against McKin-
ley.
Note the inconsistency between a
vote for Mckinley electors and vote
for COMFY for congress. Mckinley is
for Protection. Conry is for free
trade. Mckinley is for sound money.
Corry is for free silver. Mckinley is
for law and order both at home and
in the new dependencies. Conry is for
Aguiraldo and bandit rule in the
Philippines and he is not very definite
as to what he is for in domestic at
fairs except that he is for Conry for
congress.
If Mckinley Is reelected he should
have Il Republican majority in con-
grcss to back him up: otherwise his
reelection would be without meaning
and without benefit. The voter who
chooses him to captain the ship of
state should also choose crew that
will not mutny the moment the order
is given to lift anchor for progress.
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There will be no anxiety in this
country on any of the Anglo alliances
upon the Chinese question, so long as
the open door programme prepared at
Washington is carried out
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

Mr.. Bryan declines to credit honesty
to those voters who decline to support
him. He prefers to believe that the
country will go to the polls and indulge
in an avalanche Of Interior motives.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

Control of the next congress by the
Republicans is very important. See to
it that your ballot is cast in the right
way to help elect a Republican con-
gressman and a Republican senator.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

1t is to the credit of Spain that
General Weyler is still the most un-
popular man in the kingdom.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

The announcement that the ice trust
had declared a quarterly dividend may
partially explain where Croker got so
much money to bet with.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

The fact that it is his farewell ap-
pearance doubtless has something to
do with nerving Mr. Bryan to the
effort of twenty speeches a day.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

In view of recent reports from China
there seems to be little excuse for all
lowing the empress dowager to die of
old age.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

Democratic orators are willing that
everything should enter the antitrust
arguments save ice and cotton.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

You voted for prosperity and got it
Will you now vote against it?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

The Times dared us to name one
successful Independent tin plate mill.
We named three. Now the times is
angry. Prosperity always has that eff
feet on professional calamity howler.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

DO you want to swap horses while
crossing Prosperity's stream?
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
LITERARY NOTES.

''rle Worlds Work." the new magazine edited
by Walter H. Page, of Forum renown, and pub
lshed by Doubleday. Page Co., "a Union
Square, East, New York. has made its initial np-
pearancc. 1t springs into the arena full fedged
and we'll equipped to create a prominent place
fro itself in public favor. In plan, size and gen.
eral quality it is not unlike the American Review
of Reviews, except that it is larger better print
ed, better illustrated and edited upon somewhat
different lines, with less scrappiness of informa-
tion and more cheerful philosophy
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
MAKE YOUR CHOICE.

Keep the mills open.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24
AN OBJECT LESSON.

The books the great Bald win Locomotive Works tell Of
which following official
operations for nine periods Of national depres
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

When in the hands of master even slang is
entertaining. This is doubly true when the
master has natural sense of humor. George
Ade is master of slang and natural hnmorist
and the consequence is that what he writes peo.
pie read. Some months ago he wrote for the
Chicago Record series of modern fables that
caught the town and the country, too. They
were afterward put into book form and sold most
readily. The same process is repeated in
"More Fabels in Slang" an attractive little
volume from the press Of Herbert S. Stone &
Co., who announce the sale of $4,000 copies ere
the sheets were bound and who cXpct double
treble this demand as as the public awakens
to the fact that as a clever manipulator OF The
very latest slang Ade is the premier genius OF
the hour.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-10-24

The true story OF a whole company OF modern
Monte Christos is to be found in Douglas Whites
yankee Millonaircs in South America" a prom
inent article in Ainslee's for November. Take
George b. Chace. "Chile's Silver King" for cy.
ample. After having failed in his hunt for a
paying prospect in California, he prospccted in
Chile for ten years in vain. One day an old
Spanish priest a friend Of his. gave him map
by which he traced silver mine that had been
lost for hundred years, The mine proved to
be bonanza, and today Chace can draw on the
Bank OF England for five hundred thousand
pounds. Besides Chace there are about ten more
Yankees who have piled mp millions in South
America. but their photographs, which illus
trate the text, shov them to be hard headed
men OF business.
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Captain and Crew.

HE REPUBLICAN who en-
poets to vote for Mckinley
Il. and Roosevelt because in
fn of tho alril1n fllec tllnI,
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American "Imperialism."

e $;: : { 4: s: .;;:::; e.: : !;
in detail in his annual report
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AN ANSWER FOR MR.. BRYAN.

Scranton, Oct. %.