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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

the national gold Democratic
party in 1896, died at his resi-.
dence in this city at 5 n. M.
His death was caused by heart
failure. He was an honorary pal
bearer at General McClernand's
funeral last Saturday. Last night
General Palmer was on the street
viewing the State Fairlllumination
until n late hour apparently well.
He was about SO years old.
Gen. Palmer complained early
yesterday of II pain in his chest
lie sleps uneasily last night and
about 3o'clock this morning Mrs.
Palmer called a physician who did
not think the generals condition
alarming, The general awoke at
at 7 O'Clock this mornig still com
planning. He talked to his wife
for short time then fell into a
doze and expired soon after.
John McCanley Palmer was
born in Eagle Creek, Scott Coun-
ty, Kentucky, Sept. l3, 1917. He
removed to Illinois in 1881, and
in 1889 settled in Carlinville. lie
was admitted to the bar in 1910.
add was delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1847,
a member of the State Senate in
1924; delegate to the National
Republican convention at Phila-
dclphia in 1856, q presidential
elector on the Republican ticket
of 1850, and delegate to the peace
convention at Washington, Feb. a,
1861. He was elected colonel of
the Fourteenth Illinois volunteers
in April, 1861, accompanied Gen
John &. Fremont in his expedition
to Sprigfield, Mo-, and was COM
missioned brigadier-general of vol
unteers on Dec. 20. He was with
Gen. John Pope at the capture of
New Madrid and Island No 10, and
"a bNi "di no COliifuuucu INC IeUIH
brigade, tenth division of the army
OF the Mississippi. In Novem Der,
1862, he was with Gen. Grants
army in temporary command of a
division. Subsequently he led a
division at the battle of Stone
River, and for his gallantry there
he was promoted to major-general
of volunteers, Nov. 20, 1862. He
led the Fourteenth corps in the
Atlanta campaign, from May till
September, 1864. He was Gov
ernor of Illinois from 1869 to
1872, inclusive, and in 1893 he
became a United States senator.
He was nominated for the Presi.
dency on the National Democratic
party in 1896, at the indianapolis
convention. Simon Bolivar Buck
ner of Kentucky was nominated
on the same ticket for vice-presi-
dency.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Escondido (Cal. Times: Lei
the independent voter compar,
the candidates. VIM. j. Bryar
has been addressing audiences in
every section of our country fol
the past four years, and being a
loyal and candid man, he has not
been forced to retreat, explain or
apologize for a single utterance.
But how is it with Mr.. McKlnIey's
official utterance? Why every
body knows that the President
has often violated pledges, pro-
misses and official statements.
Bryan is great eader and peer
less Observation-Disclosures is a
corporation tool, a vacillating SER
want of those who scheme and
work to deceive and rob the peo-
pie. Producers, wage earners
and honest business men, which
candidate will you cast your bal
lot for?
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29
s7a- 7--7-77--s7777
nAILiN0 A MAQAZINE.
One fian Could Not Mail Single Edi-
tion OF the Ladies' Home Journal
In a Whole Year.

Eighteen men, aided by the fast
est mailing appliances, are kept
on q rush every month getting the
Ladies' Home journal off to its
subscribers. The FIRST shipments
are started about the middle of
each month, and from that time
until about the twenty-fifth the
magazines pour out of the Jour
nails publishing Office by tho two
horse dray load. On the twenty
fifth of each month every journal
has reached its destination, and
work in the mailing department
slackens for few days. Some
idea of the tremendous size of the
Journals subscription list may
be gained when it is known that
forty tons of mailing type are re-
quired to set up the names of sub
scrlbers. There are three quar-
ters of ton of each numeral,
and it requires twenty thousand
galleys to accommodate the sub
scribers' names in type. This
stock would equip six or eight
large daily newspapers. As many
as sixty-five compositors are em-
ployed setting the names of the
Journals subscribers in type
printers enough to set the type for
the biggest metropolitan daily
newspaper. The expenses for
postage paid by the journal APP
proximate $4,000 a year.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29
oPI, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1900.

We do not expect to get the
whole truth in school books, but
we want readers and histories
that will tell us as much truth
about the South as any other sec
tion.
1t is said that it will cost too
much to change books. That ar
gumenr IS always made by the
trust when their books are in, but
never when they are out. South
ern people spend hundreds of
thousands of dollars sending their
children away for the benefit of
better schools than they have at
home, but they tell us we should
not spend few dollars in ex-
changing inferior books for bet
ter books.
# we fail to support Southern
publishing companies who offer
better books and cheaper books,
if we suffer those struggling
Southern institutions to perish on
our own soil for the want of home
patronage, we must, in an histori-
cal sense, become mere colonial
dependencies, receiving only such
recognition in the chronicles of
the nation as the imperial book
trust, in the majesty Of its aggre-
gated wealth, accords us.
Shall the South continue to
make history for others to write
and sell? Her achievements have
been most magnificent in the an
nails of civilization, but they have
been emasculated and shorn of
their grandeur by the withering
and deadly omissions of the
school historian, the amanuensis
OF the imperial trust. Winonu
Times.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Mr.. Mckinley says "the Filipi-
nos opened fire upon our army"
In his official report Gen. OTIS
says the first shot was fred by an
American picket upon a Filipino.
Before indulging in any more
letter writing Mckinley and Otis
should get together and agree
upon a modus vlyendi.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29
a WORD TO DEMOCRATS.

Reports multiply that as a last
desperate expedient the trusts and
the money power, controlling the
industries of the country, propose
to adopt again the methods used
before for the coercion of the peo-
pie by bringing, on just prior to
the election, a panic. This done,
and it can easily be done by the
industrial and financial agcn-
cies which Mark Hanna typi-
fies, the cry will be raised by Re-
publican newspapers and speakers
that the panic is wholly due to APP
prehension of the success Of the
Democratic party at the polls and
that only by McKinley's re-elec-
tion can prosperity be regained.
No long polital memory Is needed
to recall the success with which
tits game was played to force the
repeal of the Sherman purchase
law in 1898. True, in accomplish
ing their object, the financiers
nearly bankrupted themselves
and might have wholly bank
rupted themselves had not n
supine and unfaithfui secretary
of the treasury and comptroller Of
the currency allowed the New
York banks to violate every por-
tion of the National bank act and
to continue in business for weeks
while admitting bankruptcy by re-
fusing to pay their depositors.
Today after four years of Nc
kinleyism the monopolists of mo-
ney and of industry are vastly
stronger than they were in '93 or
in '96. In '95 individual employ
ers coerced their workmen by de-
claring that they would shut down
their plants if Bryan were elected
Today one man sitting in gor-
geous Office on Broad or Wall
streets, New York, can send a like
notice to the thousands of en-
ployes of twenty or forty former
ly independent factories now
welded into one trust under his
control.
In '96 the banks were an orga-
nized, coherent and conscience
less force for the coercion of their
customers, Today there are few
er small banks and more big ones.
The process of consolidation has
proceeded there AS in other indus
trial enterprises so that again IA
word spoken from New York at
the behest of the few men can
shake the financial system of the
entire nation.
The devices which were tired
so successfully in '93 and again in
'96 will not improbably be at
tempted again. If it succeeds,
there is no reason why time after
time our national elections should
not turn on the whim of a few
millionaire monopolists. That
would be equivalent to the end of
the Republican form of governmet
1t is for the people of this nation
to prepare to meet this line of po-
litical warfare. Let them bear in
mind that though there was pro-
missed an immediate era of pros
perity after Mckinley's election,
there followed a period of multi
Piled ban kruptcies checked only
by natural and not political forces.
The financiers may threaten and
the trusts bull-doze, but they can
not permanently crush down the
industries of the nation without
themselves failing beneath the
ruins. Their worst will be done
prior to the election. If the peo-
pie take the reins of government
into their own hands, there will
be no opportunity for successful
repetition or no opportunity for
successful repetition of the effort
to coerce a whole nation.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

The Trust, which is all stom-
ach, imagines that its employees
are similarly constituted. Hence
its "full dinner pail' drivel. On
ly two things travel upon their
stomachs - armies and snakes.
Men who fill their own dinner
pals by the sweat Of their brows
will hardly care to be classed with
either. The trust is the only
thing nearly approaching the com
bined characteristics of brute
force and reptilian locomotion.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Kansas City Times: The price
of flour has been advanced by the
flour trust from $2.15 to $2.75 a
bag; the sugar trust has raised the
price of sugar from 5 to Z cents a
pound; the Standard Oil trust has
advanced the price of oil from II
to 10 cents n gallon; the beef trust
has raised the price Of the poor
est grade of its beef from IL to
10 cents a pound; an advance of
70 per cent has been made by the
woolen trust, of so per cent BY
the cracker trust, of 30 per cent
by the shoe and leather trust; and
similar exhorbitant advances in
the price of their products have
been made by the broom trust,
the hardware and stove trust, and
other combines that control arti-
cles of prime necessity in the
houses pf the poor.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette:
Napoleon was another patriot who
was strongly in favor Of imperial
ism and who isn't being quoted
by the Republican papers. Ma
poleon is the gentlemen who
looked so much like Mckinley
and met his Waterloo.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Wanted sctiyo man Of good character
to deliver and collect Ia Mississippi for
old establish manufacturing wholesale
house, 5000 u year, sure pay. Honesty
more than exderiencc required. Our re-.
ference, any bank IN any city. Enclose
self-addressed stamped envelope. Mann
taciurers, Third Floor, S3i Dearborn ST.,
Chicago.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

A quarter of a million inhabi-
tants of Pennsylvania are anxious
" looking for the Hanna-McKin.
ley full dinner pail. The search
will grow more vigorous until
election day. The workingman,
even though a pauper, can vote.
Do not forget this factl
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Mark Hanna wants money and
wants it bad. The coal barons
should be invited 10 o feast. That
increase Of one dollar ton should
make respectable campaign fund
--even if it does represent human
blood and human fears.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Lafayette, Ind.) journal: The
prosperity campaign will not be
very popular in Pennsylvania,
where 100000 men have been
starved into idleness. chiefly be-
cause the Republican officials of
that State dare not enforce the
laws against trusts. The consti-
tuition Of Pennsylvania forbids
any mining company to engage in
freight transportation, yet the
coal roads and the coal mines are
identical in owDership-and the
people have been trodden under
foot till their only means of resist
ance is q strike.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

The school year has commenc-
ed, with geography in Asa, Ocean
lea and Africa all in the air. Might
it not be we'll to suspend the sub
ject until some settlement can be
reached? "a
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

The ablest negro churchman in
America is Bishop Turner of
Georgia and he is so described BY
the New York Sun. The bishop
has written a letter urging his
race to vote for Mr.. Bryan against
MIR. Mckinley, and the explana-
ton of his purpose to do so is that
he believes Mr.. Bryan to. be q
better friend of the negroes than
Mr.. Mckinley. He says:
II believe that he (Bryan) is a
man of sufficient honesty to use
bis influence in behalf of right
and justice. Mr.. Mckinley has
done nothing for the negro except
appoint a few of them to Office"
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Jim Howard charged with hav-
wing fred the shot that killed
Gov. Goebel of Kentucky, has
been found guilty and sentenced
to hang.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

There are, according to the Bal
timore Sun, 1000 names on the
membership roll of the German
American Democratic association
Of that city, nearly every one of
whom voted for Mckinley in
1896, Maryland will roll UP a
big majority for Bryan in Novem-
Der and the Sun is doing grand
work in the cause.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

One hundred and fifty thousand
women and children must starve
with them unless public conscience
is speedily awakened to a true
sense of the infamous conditions
which prevail under the rule of
the coal trust, and railroad trust
and all other trusts that have COM
|bined to coin dollars out of human
blood and accumulate wealth
Through the distillation of human
tears.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29
JOHN M. PALMER DEAD.
OF PALMER -BUCKNER FATE IN
CArPAIdN OF 30.
The Veteran Illinois Sena-
tor Was 83 Years of Age
Died of Heart Failure
Funeral Took Place on
Thursday afternoon at
Springfield, Ills.

Springfield, H., Sept. 25.-Gen.
John M. Palmer, OK United
States senator from Illinois and
candidate for the presidency of
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

The Industrial Institute and
College at Columbus, Miss, open
ed Wednesday with 500 pupils in
attendance, the full capacity. Six
hundred and fifty applications
were received.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

We can't help wondering in
what language Teddy the Terrible
will characterize the men who have
discovered that he charged the ne
gro troops at San Juan with COW.
ardicel If he could say such
things as he did at Detroit of mere
unoffending Democrats, who new
er harmed him, where will he find
words to do the subject justice
now2
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

proIound political economist &c
understand the nature of this
struggle for life. The humblest
man in the country is capable Of
pointing out the real seat of re.
sponsibility.
"The miners of the anthracite
coal regions are striking because
the coal trusts have so raised the
cost of living that the meu cannot
support life on their wages. The
great multitude of toilers deserve
the sympathy and support of eve
ry good man or woman in the
United States. @
"Ncarly every Republican news
paper has given evidence of the
GOODNESS with which the trusts
and their allies have met the des-
perate protest and appeal of the
desperate mine workers. The
crnelest element in the whole
sccne is the light tone of scorn
adopted by the organs of the co al
trust.
PITIFUL STORY OF LIVING.
"Three days ago we were in
McAdoo and there we ate with
the miners in their houses; and
such pitiful shelters for human
beings to live in!
"We were at the very heart of
the trust questionable dinner ta-
bic of the workingman. Itwould
have been interesting had Mr..
Mckinley and Mr.. Hanna been
there to talk about prosperity and
the full dinner pail.
"The grizzled father sat at the
head of the table, his hands
rougbened bp lifetime of labor.
His three daughters---all compell-
ed to work in the flower of their
youth, sat around him. The
mother, with face scanned and
puckered by the struggle against
starvation, waited on the rest.
"For twenty.four years the
miner and his wife had lived in
that little shanty. Ten children
had been born there. Some were
dead and the living were all en-
gagged in the battle for bread. Not
a dollar had been saved.
"And this year? The trusts had
put up the price of everything.
The coal trust had kept wages
down."
STRIKE DELIBERATELY INVITED.
The mine owners-composing,
together with the coal railroads,
the anthracite coal trust SAY they
were not approached by their en-
ployes with demands for better
wages. This assertion is false.
The invitations to the mine own
ers of the Pennsylvania anthracite
coal fields to meet and adjust the
mine workers grievances was sign
ed on August l6 BY j. p. Gallag-
herof Silver Brook, Pa. /; John T.
Dempsey, of Scranton, Pa, and
George Hertline of Shamokin,
ia. These are representatives of
local mine workers.
There is every reason to believe
that the mine owners and the coal
railroad owners have really invit-
ed this strike in the hope of des-
sroying the mine workers union
md then having the men at their
mercy.
And while this desperate strug-
gle between bare existence and |
orazen greed is in progress Mark
Hanna IS declaring their are no
,rusts and is continually lauding |
he fulldinner pail. The issue is !
oiDed.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

"There are no trustsl" "Down
with the ice trust.p' Extracts
from a speech by Mark Hanna.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Bay St. Louis wants more fac
tories. There is plenty of room
for industries.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Ocean Springs is to have cot.
ton factory. Bay st. Louis should
have one, too.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

One hundred and twenty-five
thousand half-staryed miners and
laborers in the Pennsylvania an.
thracite coal regions have laid
down their tools in despair.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Teddy has been warmly receiv-
ed in Utah. Is it because the
Church there officially approves
the Sulu treaty and hopes that it
may be extended to Utah?
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

Empty stomachs and paupers'
graves give answer to the Repub-
hcan cry of the full dinner pail
and prosperity.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

There cannot be too much poll
tics--of the right kind.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

The anthracite coal barons fore
cd down the price of labor and
torced up the price of everything
the miner had to buy. There
could be but one result. The end
has come. The greatest labor cri-
sis OF the century has been preci-
plated by the coal and railroad
tiusts.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

In the meantime the trust has
Jumped the price OF coal into the
realms of wholesale larceny. Eve
~ consumer in the land is VIC
tim to the robbery--a robbery
more Infamous because it steals
'iirst from the starving miner and
Then from the consumer.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

On Monday of last week Mark
hanna made speech in Chicago
n which he defiantly declared
that there are no trusts.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29

The issue is before the Ameri-
can people - whether Hanna is
right or whether more than quar-
ter of million ragged and starv-
ing human beings in Pennsylvania
are right.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-11-21
LONG-DISTANCE DIPLOMACY.
The Telegraph Has Added to It's Com
plexity-Used to Mislead.


In this year OF "Conger dispatches"
trans-Pacifc cable projects and long-dis--
lance diplomacy, an incident connected
with the early days Of the electric tele-
graph may have repetition M. Louis
Adolphe Theirs, afterwards President of
the French republic, was even then
veteran in the public service of his ma
ton. and had little to learn Of the ways
of the world. To him came a young at
tache, full of enthusiasm over the new
era which telegraphy should usher in.
There were to be no more international
misunderstanding. The long delays Of
the post were annihilated, and the truth
Of any diplomatic situation could be
known almost instantaneously in all capt.
tails of Europe!
To his glowing vision the chief obsta-
Gle to millennial peace had been swept
away by. the wonderful invention. Theirs
heard him to the end Of his rhapsody,
but chilled him with a word. ''Millen-
mum, nonsense! The devil will control
the telegraph within a decade!' As we
recall the history of half-century Of
telegraphy, and consider how the Morse
alphabet has been used to spell out lies,
to throw the bourses into panic, to
mislead and confuse public opinion and
to influence governmental policies for
evil, the significance of the astute min
listers saying is readily apparent In
deed, the part played by the telegraph in
the lightning diplomatic strategy which
precipitated the Franco-Prussian war Of
1870 is ample warrant for the ill-boding
rk-Chautau0uan
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-11-21
CHINESE HOUSES.
Some of the Pecu1iarities of the Inn
peria1 Capital.

peria1 Capital.
In the four cities which make up the
capital, and particularly in the imperial
city, live most Of the leading and opulent
class, and. therefore, the houses are of
more important and solid appearance
than is the rule elsewhere. High brick
walls, with a single stone entrance, sur
round multitude of courts, fanked by
the rooted dwelling rooms. 1t is a
curious and universal custom among the
Chinese 70 put up Immediately facing the
outer door a stone or brick screen, bear
ing tablets or painted scrolls, inscribed
with the names of ancestors or classical
texts. The object, according to time
honored superstition, is to ward OFT evil
spirits, for the demon on entering knocks
ing devoid of all sense but an elementary
hatred of mankind, is repulsed and goes
away sorrowful Why the aforesaid
demon should have the cleverness to turn
in at the gate yet not sufficient to wheel
round the screen is difficult for the
initiated to understand.
There is no attempt at ostentation, or
even of decent comfort, about these
dwelling places. Within they are mere
ramshackle bungalows, with stone
tagged floors and paper windows, fantas
tically cut up by wooden partitions, and
papered without taste or cleanliness. The
furniture is polished wood made in the
stiff, square style that is not unfamiliar.
Ornaments are few, and of the common
est foreign make; while the bronze yes
sells to be seen are all modern and coarse
in workmanship-Lo Telegraph.