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The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-02-08
The Iniouitous Currency Bill.

The new currency bills give the banks
an enormous leverage for stock tinker
Ing Under their provisions they may
choke or revivify commerce at will. Be
yond all this, however. Is the power
they will be enabled to put forth in
thwarting the political will of the peo-
pie. 1t is reasonable to suppose that
two-thirds of the entire Republican
campaign fund is contributed by banks
controlled by Republican directors.
The bill which the Republicans pro-
pose to rush through the Senate posi-
lively and Immediately puts into the
hands of the banks upward of 24OOO,-
900 as q free gift, which can be used as
campaign fund TO perpetuate the
present administration in behalf of the
banks. The national banks now have
about S242 100000 of bank notes out.
The bill now under consideration pro-
vides for an increase of 10 per cent. on
the amount of bonds, which would be
100000. This will cost the banks
little or nothing to secure, and it VIII
not take thirty days to get this amount
of currency into their hands
This bill provides also for the refund
ing Of the entire public debt into per
cent. bonds, which the banks can buy
at par. They can take these bonds to
the Secretary of the Treasury and get
back dollar for dollar, currency that
can be used ad lib. for campaign pur-
poses. BY retiring the greenbaeks and
silver certificates they can thus secure
q fund Of about $1,000, 100000. Does
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-02-08
Instruct All Delegates

1t Is dangerous for the people to i'm
agine that the party is all at sea upon
every issue vital to the American peo-
pie. There are many, and they are the
same persons who endeavOred to wreck
the party in 1896, who desire above all
things that the Democratic party
should assemble in its national conven-
ton without knowing just what issues
to frame.
There can never q greater mistake be
made, and it is one that would be fatal
to success-in fact-it would destroy
the labor of the past few years, to uni
fy the party and bring it before the
country as the peoples party, one de
voted to the common interest and
pledged always to insure the welfare
of the people.
The Chicago platform is the key to
the whole situation, and it is and must
necessarily be the harbinger Of success.
Its reputation would be qualification
Of the principles of the Democratic
party, and that party is not yet ready,
nor fallen so low that it must needs
take the advice Of those who left it TO
Its fate in 1896, and even sought to de
strOy it.
All the new issues forced upon the
country by the party Of imperialism,
McKinleyism, Hannaism and the fat
frying trusts, hinge upon the principles
set forth in the Chicago platform.
These new issues cannot stand alone
before the people, because they need
the principles in the Chicago platform
to sustain and maintain them. Is the
money question less burning one now
than in 1896? Must the Democratic
party forego the question of trusts
when the money question hinges upon
it? Are We to lie down in front of the
tiIcKinley imperial juggernaut in adora-
ton of a Republican idol that means
destruction to the nation? No, We are
more strongly American now than in
1896, and less inclined to surrender any
principle.
Let all delegates be submitted to the
scrutiny Of faithful observation OF
Democratic principles, let them show
the faith that Is in them by their uni
form, unvarying adherence to Demo
cratic principles. If there is a single
sign of having wavered in his allie
glance, reject that man as dangerous,
The Chicago platform must be reaffirm-
ed or the party is lost, and delegates
should be pledged to reaffirm it. 1t is
but the instructing as to principles
which is not domination but common
sense. No man can be a Democrat
without faith in Democratic principles
That Is what the Chicago platform
demonstrates, and if any man preach
contrary doctrine, let him be anath
ematized.
The Ubiquitous Currency Bill.
The new currency bills give the banks
an enormous leverage for stock tinker
Ing. Under their provisions they may
| choke or reyiyify commerce at will. Be
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A Ruinous Financial Policy.

RuinOus Financial Policy.
Two things have helped the people Of
the Eastern States to look upon the cur
rency policy of the Republicans with
somewhat of the clear vision with
which a majority of the people OF the
Western and Southern States have long
regarded it.
One of these is the recent disturbance
in the Wall street money market result
ing from few British reverses In
South Africa, which caused drop in
stock values of between five hundred
million and billion dollars, and the
consequent Indication which this gives
that, as soon as our financial system Is
planted upon the single gold standard.
it will be impossible for us to have an
independent monetary policy, because
our business will be injuriOusly affected
by every serious political complication
among European nations.
The other fact which is crystallizing
opinion in the East against the cur
rency policy of the Republicans is that
the bill that party is going to pass at
this session Of Congress combines the
national banks of the country into a
paper money trust in the first place, and
in the next, by authorizing them to is
sue notes to the full amount of Govern
ment bonds which each of them holds,
| incites them to continually exercise the
vast and far reaching influence placed
in their hands to bring about legislation
which will continually increase the ma
tional debt.
A policy. which makes our currency
and, therefore, our entire business de-
pendent upon political and trade condi-
tions In European countries, and at the
same time tends TO pile up the noun
tain Of our public debt higher and high
er, year after year, will not conduee to
the welfare and prosperity of the Uni
ted States.-Kansas City Times.
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anybody doubt that in case Mckinley ls
elected the banks will get their money
back before his second term expires?
These iniquitous financial bills ought to
be defeated at all hazards. The oppo-
nents of these bills will be entirely jus
tilted in fighting them day and night,
and by any and every means in their
power, for their defeat.-New York
Journal
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well as of current events, I ask you to | publish the enclosed letter from United States Minister Conger to the mission aries in Picking, only adding that his testimonial to their high character and worth is fully endorsed by such men as Hon. John w. Foster, formerly Secre- tary of State and for years United States Minister to Mexico, Russia and Spain, and counsellor to China in nlak- ing the treaty with Japan; Hon. Charles Denby, for thirteen years United States Minister to China; Hon. John Barrett, United States Minister to Sialn; l; President James B. Angell of Michigan University, United States Minister to China, 1880 to 1881, and Hon. George F.. Seward, for many years a consul-gen- eral in China and later United States Minister to that country.
 | Minister Conger to the Missionaries.
 "To the Besieged American Mission aries: To one and all of you so provi- dentially saved from threatened mas sacre I beg in this hour of our deliver ance, to express what I know to be the universal sentiment of the diplomatic corps, sincere appreciation of and profound gratitude for the inestimable help which you and the native Chris tians under your charge have rendered toward our preservation. But for your intelligent and successful planning and the uncomplaining execution of the Chi nese I believe our salvation would have been impossible. By your courteous consideration of me and your continued patience in most trying occasions I have been deeply touched, and for 1t thank you most heartily. I hope and believe that somehow, in Gods unerring plan, your sacrifices and dangers will bear rich fruit in the material and spiritual welfare of the people to whom you have so nobly devoted your lives and work. Assuring you of my personal respect and gratitude, believe me, very sincere ly yours, E. H. CONGER.
 Picking, Aug. IS, 1900.'
 Missionary Herald, November.
 A letter from one of the missionary ladies in the siege says 'We have made thousands of sandbags. They are made of cloth, silk, satin, velvet, lega- tion curtains, everything even to taking of garments; satins and silks of the most beautiful shades, some beautifully embroidered curtains costing tens of dollars, table cloths, sheets, pillow cases etc, etc. These have saved many and many precious lives,
 In view of the heroic work of that besieged band of missionaries and Chi nese Christians, how contemptible the puny efforts of professional writers and lecturers to belittle the work or the workers In the Christian missions in China! And this statement Is equally true whether of the Protestant or Ro- man Catholic missionaries and their converts in China. AMMAN.
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EXPANSION NEEDED.

First-class powers must have first class armies and navies in order to keep the peace or restore the peace when 1t has been broken. The United States hasn't first-class army, and it's navy is small and in bad shape. Admiral Crowninshieldc calls attention in rather startling way to some of the defects of the navy. He asserts that the present personnel of the navy would form bare ly one-fourth of the establishment nec- sessary to fight a flrst-class European power, and says it can no longer be considered an effective nucleus about which a larger establishment could be formed in case of war.
 It is not probable that the Admiral exaggerates the situation, and he is do- ing his duty in calling attention to it. His recommendations for improving matters seem to be wise. Whatever needs to be done should be done promptly We must keep up with the procession we have joined. If we fall behind somebody may take notion to walk over us.
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CIR D Ui L.

In Brooklyn-"Do you boil your wa ter before drinking it?" Boil it? Well, I guess not. I'd rather drink g. menagerie than a cemetery any day" Life.
 Reward of Merit.--Nellie-Gra How do you manage to knit so much in so short time? Ninette-Every time I do ten rows I give myself choc- oate cream.-Chicago Tribune.
 A Champion.-Mi Pinkerly-Don't you think, Mr. Tutter, that Miss Van Antler is 0 beautiful girl? Young Tut ter-Yes, Miss Clara. But you were no doubt just as beautiful at her age.-De- troit Free Press.
 Yes" he said, "I'm gradually break ing myself of the smoking habit have given up cigars and taken to a pipe now" But you smoke the pipe
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QUAY.

l Before he left for Florida the other
 day ex-Senator Quay of Pennsylvania
 said: T will be elected United States Senator by above 150 votes out of to- 1 tai of 254 on the first ballot In joint as-
 sembly." This ungrammatical but confident assertion has been accepted by
 many as settling the question, but the talk now Is that it is not at all certain that Quay has votes enough to elect him. The machine leaders now claim only 132, or four more than are needed to elect The anti-Quay managers rid icule this claim and say that the boss will be farther from an election this winter than he was two years ago. Without giving names they contend that from ten to fifteen representatives now claimed by the Quay men are secretly pledged to the opposition, by whom they were helped to an election, and that when the proper times comes they will be found in the anti-Quay ranks. To save these men from machine pressure their names are withheld, but 1t is said that they can be relied upon to remain out of the Republican caucus.
 Time will tell. If it tells against Quay many good Republicans will feel reliev- p6
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4 TRUE SAYING.

When an intelligent, active, industrl- ous frugal woman finds she has married man who, instead of coming up to the standard of husband, is a mere de- pendent, who acknowledges that he Is only a helpmate to his wife, obeys her instructions, pours his little earnings 1n- to her lap, acknowledges her to be and always to have been the head Of the family, and leaves her it's support, it would be contrary to fact and an ab- surd construction of law to say that he, and not she. is the head of the family and deny to her the benefits intended for the family and of the separate estate she has accumulated, because the title is in her and she lives with him.
 So said Judge Parnell, of the United States Circuit court, sitting in Rich mond, Virginia and he said well. It Is refreshing to know that when wife is the head of a family she is entitled to recognition as such if she wants it. Judge Parnell's remarks will encourage some wives, even if they don't convince some husbands.
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THE M4 RTOUS MOSQUITO.


 The scientists who have been study | ing the malarious mosquito seem to have definitely fixed on him a heavy load of responsibility. One of the latest experiments, and decidedly neat and humane one, was the successful inocu- lation in London with malaria of an uninfected individual by means of in fected mosquitoes brought from Italy all of the details of the operation be- ing carried out with scrupulous exact ness and control. Dr. Manson's son, healthy man, twenty-three years old, who had not resided in malarial To- cality since childhood, volunteered as a subject for the experiment and submit ted on three occasions to the bites of imported and infected mosquitoes, with the result that within few days of the third inoculation characteristic symptoms of tertian malarial fever ap- peared, together with the presence of the corresponding parasites in the blood. These facts appear to the Phil adelphia Medical Journal to be conclu- sive on the main point. Our contem- porary comedies that there may be other media of transmission, as, for in- stance, the water, but for the present at least it can be considered as demon- strated that the mosquito (anopheles) serves as the intermediate host for the malarial parasite. With this knowl- edge the indications are as clear as the certainty with which night follows day, namely, avoidance of malarial locali- ties, destruction of the breeding pools of anopheles and protection from mos- quito-bites,"
 Down with the malarious mosquito. Hit him hard next summer-if you can.
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Missionaries in China.

To the Editor of the Journal and Courier:
 Your paper has within the past week given us light CD on this question from writer to an English journal, the other an academic professor who is letting glow-worm effulgence shine upon the poor dark-m minded theologues of this city. Without attempting to reconcile the statements of these eminent men with truth or the facts of history as
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Montana is going to have the largest electric railroad in the world, the proJ- ect of the Great Northern railroad be- ing to build line 200 miles long, from Billings to Great Falls and operate it throughout with electricity produced by the water powers on the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers. There would be a heavy traffic, consisting chiefly of coal ores, and other heavy freights.
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In recent report on the big trees of California published by the Department of Agriculture there is an interesting discussion of the probable age of these giants of the forest. The conclusion is reached that in many cases the ages run up into the thousands of years, and in one instance an age of five thousand years is assigned to a tree. Professor Charles B. Bassey of the University of Nebraska, in note recently published in Science, expresses his doubts as to proach the age of two thousand years. In corroboration of this contention he says that he once examined carefully the stump of one of the largest of the great trees, which was felled in 1853, and whose stump forms the floor of the so-called dancing pavilion. He counted the number of rings from circumfer- ence to center and found them to amount to 1,147. He considers that it is safe to say that the tree, which was fully twenty-five feet in diameter and considerably more than three hundred feet in height, acquired these dimen- sions in LAY years.
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Boston is still discussing the project of Cape Cod canal, between Buzzard' s bay and Barnstable bay, or across the isthumus or neck of Cape Cod peninsu- la. By some it is claimed a canal be- tween these two points without locks would create rush of water, especially in winter storms, that would destroy the canal unless it's banks were lined with solid masonry As against this view it is contended that as the dist proposed canal is something less than seven miles and the difference in level of the two bays is fourteen feet this would give an average slope of not more than two feet to the mile which would not produce and extraordinary swift current. The old Roman aque- ducts, it is said, often carried an incline greater than this, and some engineers do not deem this an objection to a prac- ticable waterway. These point out the difference in time the tide on the north ern and on the southern coast, which is about three hours, and as a natural re- suit the waters would flow back and fourth under ordinary conditions with. out destructive force.
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A geologist has been asked to submit report concerning a ledge of rock cov- cred by the sea, and just off a sparsely populated portion of the northeast coast of England. During storms the prospec- tor responsible for the idea has been struck by the amount of hard, resinous coal washed up at the point in question. He believes there is a valuable seam running beneath the sea- and if the ge- ologists report is favorable he hopes to obtain powers to work 1t.
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According to the census returns, Ver- mont has four towns with less than one hundred inhabitants, and five with less than two hundred.
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908,35 90S 355 Certain 1t is that there is needed in this state a encouragement of districts in order that population to represen- tative may be more nearly capitalized.
 E. c. HILL.
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The government at Buenos Ayres, says a writer in the Spectator, "has granted concession of two hundred square leagues of land in the valley of the river Pilcomayo for the foundation of an agricultural colony, and by the conditions of the contract twenty thou sand Japanese settlers are to be plant ed in this territory. Argentina is ready to welcome the Japanese settler as a means of utilizing her vast and, at present unprofitable domains, where the population does not amount to more than 25 a square mile, being the lowest rate which obtains even in sparsely peop1ed South America. If the experi- ment proves successful-and there is no apparent reason why it should turn out unfavorably--then the twenty thousand settlers above referred to will be proba- bly, only first installment."
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At Boscoreale, on the slopes of Vesu- vius, large Roman country house has been unearthed. It contains twenty four rooms, which were completely empty, but the walls were covered with seventy extraordinarily well-preserved frescoes. In these figures of life and more than life size are painted, being the first ancient pictures of such pro- portions. One represents guitar play CT, twice the size of life; another an old gladiator talking to woman; third, a listening woman. The frescoes have now been carefully removed from the walls. They are ascribed to the period of the late republic, a hundred or two hundred years earlier, that is, than the Pompeii pictures. The finder and own- CT is Deputy de Frisco, who found the silver treasure in the same place a few years ago.
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The toughest and most durable floor fn. ish ever introduced.
 The best thing for use on Linoleum and oil Cloth for preserving the freshness of the colors and adding to their durability. Easily applied and taken care of. We have for free distribution at our store n pamphlet telling more about Liquid Gran ite, and giving useful hints on the care of Natural Wood Floors.
 THOMPSON X BELDEN,
 306-30S State street.
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practically continuously from morning to night" she asserted. True" he admitted, "but you must remember that the necessity of filling a pipe makes the lntermissions between smokes a little longer r.'-Chicago Post.
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which, though smaller than any other, covers a territory which is now grow ing faster in population than any other section of the State,
 We are aware that this apportion- ment may be subject to some criticism as to the slight differences in popula- tion; If. however, it was desired to rem edy this, take off from the Hartford district the towns of Hartford, Burling- ton and Bristol, with a population of il ,453 and add to the Litchfield district increasing the population to 169. 306 and compensating the Hartford district by adding the towns of Enfield, East and South Windsor 11.S71, which would give the Hartford district 1S2,735, and eav- ing the eastern district with 1S4,343
 The result of these two plans in popu- lation would be as follows:
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To this add from New Haven county the adjoining towns of Madison, Guil- ford. Branford, North Branford, Wal lingford, Meriden, East Haven, North Haven, Cheshire, Hamden, New Ha- ven, Orange and Milford, with a popu- lation of
 177,270 All contiguous territorymak- ing a total population of 190,056 Passing still further west we come to Fairfield county, with a population of
 1S42O3
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All contiguous territory mak-

we have a district with a population of -181 915 and far more shapely than with the point containing the three above men, toned towns left in the district. Passing to the north we have left the entire Litchf1eld county with 63672 to which add above three towns from Fairfield county
 2,2sS and in addition to this the remaining towns, all com pactly grouped, in New Ha- ven county, viz. South bury, Mlddlebury, Water bury Wolcott, Oxford Nau- gatuck, Prospect, Bethany, Beacon Falls, Seymour, An sonia, Derby and Wood bridge, 91, ,S93 leaving in this district population of
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we have a total population for the district of 196,214, a little more than the ratio, but located in territory more slow in growth than the balance of the State.
 Coming west take the balance of Hartford county, all lying west of the river, with remaining population of
 161,955 to which add from Middesex county CornWall .................. 203l MlddletoWn ........,.....ll,4S ,4S6 Middlefeld .. .......... 845 all contiguous territory - 20, 362 we have total population for this district of
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CONG ESSION1L DELEGATIONS.

How They Have Been Chosen-Con- necticut's New App0rtionmcnt-sug-
 gesttons Concerning the Rcdistrtcf-