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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Til. Trend of Politics.

The nearer we approach the focus of
the political contest about to be waged,
the closer are aligned the various ele-
ments which go to make up the two
great parties before the people. 1t ap-
pears from the present outlook that
there is more disintegration than crys-
Utilization In the ranks Of the Repub.
ltcan party For reasons which are
we'll known to the American people
and which they will consider next No.
vember, we have departure from the
organic law to begin WITH and the in.
famous financial measure in which the
government relinquishes its exclusive
power to create money, into the hands
Of bankers and bondholders. But this
is not the worst of it. 1t is the DISPOSE
tion of the Mckinley administration,
manifested ever since its Inauguration,
to utterly ignore the will of the people,
their expressed wishes and desires, for
the purpose of benefiting special class
which sets itself up In some sort as
the arbitrary guardian of the masses.
The reign of the people is the reign of
God. This axiom is forgotten by the
Republican party, and hence it may
be said that in deriding the will or the
sovereignty of tile people, Mr.. McKin-
ley and his advisers are flying in the
face of Providence himself. On the
other hand, the Democratic party is
rapidly crystallizing into huge unity
of strength, which. If it remains a
unit, will prove irresistible The Demo
cratic party has now become the vox
populi in ontra-distinction with a
plutocracy.
Local issues, If not wholly lost in the
great and absorbing national issues,
have become subordinate thereto, this
being presidential year, and we now
find from the present outlook that the
Democratic people, meaning the Dem.
ocratic party, may take heart of hope
that the vox populi will become truly
the vox Del. To that end all seem to
be working, giving up petty differences
and contrarieties of opinion for the ben
eft of the common good, which, it is adj
mitted, stands in need of drastic meas
ures to prevent its destruction.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
USES OF VARIOUS PROTOTYPES.
The Purposes of the Different Kinds of
Shell Used in War.

The Purposes of the Different Kinds of
Shell Used in War.
The nature and manufacture or the
proJectiles used by artillery in South
Africa is naturally subject of consid-
cradle interest at the present tine. The
larger part of the ammunition of the
British forces Is being manufactured
at the Woolwlch arsenal. The picture
shows the character of the shell turned
out.
With the introduction of rifiing to
large ordnance, the projectile, hitherto
round, became, of necessity, elongated,
with the addition of studs fixed upon
it to take" the riding. This system
was found SO wastefIil. as regards the
wear of the gun, besides leading to loss
of power from windage, that the intro
duction of the copper driving band or
gas-check followed as an inventive
matter of course.
Under the regime of the muzzle- load
ing gun, this was impossible, but the
advent of the breech-loader permitted
the use of projectile larger in parts
than the bore of the gun. To put 1t
tersely, the breech chamber can be
made larger than the remainder of the
barrel, thus admitting the shot, pro
vided with gas-check. This latter con-
sists of n fiat band of copper. forced by
tremendous hydraulic pressure on to a
groove In the base of the p.oiecti.e.
When the explosion occurs the shot is
forced into the bore, which it accurate
ly fits, while the slightly larger copper
band is nodded under the stress of the
exploding cordite to the shape of the
rifiing. The mass of metal is forced by
this method to revolve as it leaves the
barrel, which it continues to do
throughout its course in mid-air.
The greater number of projectiles are
of cast steel, and the process of casting
is one of great interest Masses of
molten metal are poured from huge re-
ceivers into molds from which emerge,
.1hen cool, rough castings very differ
ent from the smooth shell with which
every one is familiar. These are turned
in lathe until they are sufficiently
smooth for painting, when they have
the copper band applied.
The projectiles vary considerable in
size, from that required by the tiny
seven-pounder to that necessary for the
service Of the monster 1925 gun. the
110-tonner. This mass of metal weighs
three-quarters of ton, stands feet
6 inches high, and is propelled by u
charge of 500 pounds of powder. cor
dite not being used for these guns.
Roughly speaking, shot of all kinds
fall into four groups, viz, armor-p!erc-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Beauty of the Arctic.

There is a beautiful bird called tho
rosy gull, very few specimens of which
exist in any museum. and whose entire
life is spent in the immediate neighbor-
hood Of the eternal ice that surrounds
the north pole. A paper describing
these curious birds was read Mt the re-
cent meeting Of the American Associa-
ton in Boston by John Murdoch. They
follow the advance of the ice toward
the south as winter comes on, keeping
near the loose edge of the floating pacl,
ice, and then retreat with 1t toward the
north when the summer sun begins to
rise high upon the Arctic circle. The
bird is small and of n deep rose color.
whereas all other gulls are white.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

1t driven up by the herdsmen. He then
casually selects the animal he wants
and puts bullet through its brain with
the utmost nicely.
When he goes out after game he is
even more skillful in bringing down
food for his larder. He can pick Off
with the utmost unconcern deer at a
thousand yards and while going full
gallop on horseback. Although the
younger generation of Beers are not.
perhaps, such expert marksmen as
their fathers. the present war in South
Africa has shown that their shooting y
by no means to be despised.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

armor plate and guns thus receives ad-
ditlonal strength. While 1t usually costs
more to build under Government con-
troll than in private plants, the increas-
ed cost is due almost entirely to the
fact that eight hours constitutes a
days labor under the Government,
while private concerns exact ten. In
regard to guns and armor plate it is
now known that the Government can
cut largely under contract prices.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
The Condition of Labor.


There is no denying the fact that Ia
Dor is not in as satisfactory a condition
as the opponents Of prosperity would
have us believe. 1t does not respond to
the Mckinley prosperity and the full
tin pals Of the perambulating speech
making President are limited to meta
phor and to the comic Republican
press. If so prosperous, why these
strikes, boycotts, lockouts, etc? Per-
haps there is prosperity, and labor is
endeavorlng to obtain small portion
of 1t, but Mt this present writing there
are no indications that 1t is receiving
what 1t should receive and what it is
entitled to receive according to the pre-
dictions of Mr.. Mckinley and the
benevolent trusts. There never was n
time when, and there never was ma
ton that has increased in Its industrial
achievements to such gigantic extent
as have tile United States. Such an
increase should have attached to 1t the
element of prosperity as a necessary
adjunct. But labor is not rising up to
the level of this wonderful prosperity,
and Its unrest is caused by its struggle
to break through the restraining crust.
But this means resistance to labor. 1t
is deprivation of tho good things at
tendant upon the startling era of trade
expansion, and when we seek for the
obstacle in the way of labor, the OBJ
stacle which it Is striving to surmount
by the only means in Its power, to wit,
strikes and boycotts, we find 1t in the
trusts and combines and also in capt.
tai in the sense of ex-Speaker Reed
that is to say, capital which is not
money, but expansive credit commonly
known us Shares of stock" 1t Is fig
-ured by the New York Journal, and it
is a fact, that the capital stock Of the
combines now drawing a percentage
thereon out Of the people amounts to
ten thousand million dollars. This is
capital, and 1t is the capital which is
arrayed against labor. We know that
1t Is not money, for our circulating
medium does not amount to one-fifth
Of that capitalization, but we do know
that that capitalization is turned into
income-producing wealth, drawing to
itself the total amount of our circulate
ing medium as its profit, and this add
ed to the other multiplications of our
circulating medium, or our actual mon
ey, compe!s one dollar of actual money
to perform. the work of three hundred
and thirty dollars of credit money. No
labor in the world and no combination
Of labor can successfully fight against
this burden. The only remedy is to re-
turn to the people the power to create
money which they have been deprived
IF and to destroy the criminal agrees
sora upon their finances.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
A Rad Memory.

That was an uncommon lapse of
memory in Col. ]. w. Gates, of Ameri.
can Steel and Wire publicity. He jug.
gled Wall street out of S1,OOO,OOO the
other day. deposited it in bank, and
forgot all about 1t until the cashier
called his attention to it. 1t is by this
constant disregard of trifes that tho
trust magnates have the advantage of
the men who have their daily bread
ever before their eyes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Mark Hanna, in speech ut Colum.
bus the other day. announced that he
was going to withdraw from the Ohio
in favor of General Gros-
venor, at the same time saying: 81 will
have enough to keep me busy without
being connected with the Ohio delega.
tion." This is strictly true, for there
will be more States than Ohio to work
the barrel in this campaign.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Slippery Depew.

Senator Hanna says IL lie had been
in Washington he would have voted for
the exclusion of Matt Quay, but he
paired with Depew, and thus both Of
them performed their conscientious
duty in escaping the infection of injury
upon the Pennsylvania statesman.
Hence Quay is still in politics and
warking for Mckinley.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Information for the People.

Letters to the editor are an institu-
ton in Sicily, rs well as in more civ
ilized countries, and one which has just
appeared in the leading papers of Pal
ermo is worthy of note. 1t bears the
signature of Candino, the most feared
and murderous of Slcilian brgands,
and is destined to inform the renders
that he has expelled from his band a
notorious robber named Galbo, as hav-
ing been guilty of "discourteous and
unmannerly conduct in his dealings
with the public" The letter ends with
the words, "klndest greetings of friend
ship" for the editors.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Ancora,s silky Err

A recent writer on the Angora goat
calls attention to the fact that the eli
mate of Angora possesses some remark
able popularity causing the develop
ment of a silky coat on animals of va
rious kinds. Not only the famous goats
which produce mohair, are thus fur
nished. but similar tendency is exhib-
tied among such animals rs cats and
greyhounds living in the same country.
The way to make water taste better
than champagne Is to eat salt fish
about three hours before lmblhMg.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

cas-. SO far. The soft rubber frog. with
its wicked trio of hooks, is familiar,
but the "ghost," the newest aluminium
spinner, is distinct novelty. This is
a box-like affair, made of the light
metal and provided with four propeller
blades that make it spin and shine in
the eyes of the lurking bass.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
We DON'T Need Vice President.

We A7ohh 1SSCsi Il VICc ITVSIueuts
1t is absurd to worry about the Sec
ond place on the Republican national
ticket. Under the rule of the trusts
President without backbone is all that
is necessary to successfully govern the
country. By and by all of our executive
offices will be filled by committee of
trust magnates.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

there have been added
several new and at
tractive devices. Odd
est Of all these is n
mouse, life size md
C cove ere d with real
mouse skin. This bait
has proven almost ir-
resistible in the waters
of the rapacious but
particular black bass
wherever n haS I,oan
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Maryelous nfark,mansb,r

The accompanying Illustration is a
scene which goes to show Just what an
expert sharpshooter the average Boer
still is. This scene represents the Boer
method of killing cattle for food. The
Boer does not poleax his beef, but has
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
Sole Custodian of Prosperity.

tits safe to say that the Mckinley ad-
ministratlon and the trusts are the
guardians and custodinns of prosper
ity. There is no controversy about
that, the grievance being that they
guard it SO carefully that none of it
ever gets beyond Their control.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
ItM,de N D,ra va !.

Big sister Shouting to Bobb,e)-Bah-
bee! You're wanted to do an errand.
Bobby shouting back Tell mother /
can't do It now. I'm busy.
Big slster-It's otmother who wants
you; it's father.
Bobby ihastily)-All right. Tell him
/ m coming.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23


Has the time arrived when all of the
people can be fooled all the time? The
great party of trusts seems to think so,
for it is making preparations to deceive
them by hypocritical assurances of
anxiety for the public welfare owing to
Its own creatures the trusts. The
Washington Times puts the matter in
the following clear and expressive
fashion:
Are the American people such fools
as that they cannot see the impudence
Of antitrust utterances from the
mouths of men who are owned and OPP
Grated by the trusts; who owe their
public positions to trust influence and
money, and who dare not speak or vote
in either house of Congress save as the
trusts dictate? If, indeed, the voters
of the country have fallen to plane of
political intelligence and virtue so low
that they are open to delusion by these
demagogic and corrupt creatures of the
trusts they will richly deserve what
they will get by it.
Aou5houl thc pieseuI SeSSlou VI
Congress the issue between the trusts
and their legislative tools on one side
and the representative of honest pop
ular opposition to grinding monopoly
and corrupt privilege on the other has
been continually In evidence and de-
fined on strictly political lines. The
Porto Rican infamy was accomplished
by the majority under coercion from
the executive branch of the govern.
ment. With half dozen exceptions,
In this MS in other trust legislation, the
Republican Senators and Representa-
tives have obeyed the orders of their
trust control, while the Democrats il
Congress have battled for public de-
cency and respect for our institutions.
Every effort by the minority to reduce
the power for mischief of favored mo-
nop9lies has been defeated, Every Job
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
BILE still, but not with terror. "But it
has happened, 'Lonzo, and -that's
enough for me!'-Philadelphia Item.
NEW BAIT FOR SLACK BASS.

1t Is a Real Mouse, and the Fish Snap
Mt It GrecdiIy.
To that big class of artificial fish bait
that embraces artificial flies, spinners,
rubber insects and many other lures
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

There is certainly enough conclusive
evidence to demonstrate that the Uni
ted States treasury is being depleted to
keep up the extravagant expenses of
an official style proper only to an I'M
partial regime. In his report upon the
Bacon resolutions demanding informa-
tion concerning government expendi-
lures in Cuba, Secretary Root seems
inclined to throw the blame upon eX-
Secretary Alger-that is to say, Score
tary Alger having inaugurated the sys-
TEN of making enormous allowances of
money to officials in Cuba for mere
purposes of official dignity. continues
In his footsteps and winks at the vio-
lation of law involved. 1t is little
curious that such an idea could have
found Judgment in the brain of an
American citizen, whether in private
or official capacity. Though there
should be no independent action on the
part of n President of the United States
for which he could not be held respon-
sible, yet such has been and is the con-
tinual conduct of Mr.. Mckinley and
all the members of his cabinet since
the Spanish war.
Our occupation of Cuba is not an
American occupation. 1t is the personal
occupation of the commander-in-chief
of the army of the United States. True,
he is the President of the United States,
but in his disbursement of fabulous
fees and in sanctioning the expenditure
of enormous sums of money to his own
official appointees in Cuba, he is not
acting as President of the United
States, nor as an official at all, but as n
commander-in-chief who has no SUI
perior, not even Congress. If Gems.
Brooke and Ludlow We're allowed thou
sands of dollars beyond their official
salaries; If Col. Bliss, the. collector of
customs, received n special allowance;
If Director of the Post Rathbone re-
ceived an additional allowance, and
others received large sums Of money
for house rent, horses, carriages and for
luxurious paraphernalia, the people of
the United States have right to know
whether they or the Cubans pay this
money. If it comes out of the Cubans,
it is simply robbery, and If out of the
treasury of the United States, it is alb
solutely unwarranted by law for the
very reasons specified by the imperial
lists themselves, that they are not there
MS the United States.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

Bnt now-I sit dry-eyed and cold,
And wonder that a living form can hold
A heart so dead. And il you ask:
What is it now? What new, hard tas!;
Has left you hopeless! Thus. tonight,
] answer, with n clearer sight:
The saddest thing-to sit alone
And face, alltearless, Love out-grown-
This is the saddcst thins!'
Dramatic Magazine.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23

The sea OF paatrlmony swamps man;
a coprtshlp.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-05-23
THE sAppEsr THING,

They asked me once, when life was
young
It's tale untold, its songs unsung-
And Hope still near. laughed and said /:
ITO know my. cheeks must lose their red,
And ev'ry shimmering, golden thread
In this fair coronal. its glory shed,
BE coiled and folded, snowy white
A sign Of sorrow, loss and blight
This is the saddest thing"
They asked again when partings came,
And Death, triumphant, breathcd the
name
OF one held dear. wept and said:
ITO sit alone, here, with ones dead
And list in vain their footsteps! This
To walt their coming and forever miss
Their voices. Surely life's sad tale when
told
No other grief SO deep can hold.
This is the saddest thing!"
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-10-11

Historical Erasmus Hall, In its day a
famous school Of Brooklyn, which was
erected In 1856, Is to be torn down.
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
contributed $40 each toward the con-
struction OF the building.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-10-11

The adoption Of self colorcd or eel
luloid clasps has rendered the feminine
glove q thing of beauty which shines
in contrast with ils predecessor Of a
few years ago fitted with the large
hooks, which caught in the daintiest
laces and caused CONSERVATION and Ill
humor on the part Of the wearer says
The Buyer and Dry Goods Chronicle.
Little else but clasps viii be shown
In fall gloves, while buttons are seen
only on an occasional pair. Suede and
glacc gloves win be worn as much as
the mocha. For ordinary street wear
grays, with an assortment Of tans,
browns and modes, will be eminently
proper. One can never make mistake
In wearing plain White glace gloves for
evening wear The regulation mannish
gloves Of heavy cape in cOlors and
white will still hold sway. These
goods are saddlery sewed and have one
large horn button or ivory clasp.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-10-11

A new motor for automobiles ia be-
ing perfected by a New Haven maehin-
ist who claims great things for 1t, says
the New York Mail and Express In
general It works on the same principle
that a gas engine does, which imparts
power to the crank axle by successive
explosions against the piston, this In
turn being the way steam exerts its
power in a reciprocating engine. In
the New Haven motor instead Of gas
being exploded gunpowder is used, and
It is said that expe -fments enough
have been made to demonstrate the
success of this principle. The powder
is kept in n receptacle near the cylin-
der and is fed to the latter in small
doses, Just about the same as is the
case In q cartridge filling machine.
The motor makes about the same
noise as though gas were used, but 1t
is said to be more easily managed and
cheaper. Its cheapness lies In the fact
that little powder is necessary to cause
an explosion that gives the motor con-
siderable power. 1t is claimed that ten
pounds Of powder is sufficient to take
the machine several hundred miles.
Outside of cheapness In operation its
feature is endurance, journeys that are
now looked upon as long for the aver
age automobile being nothing to this
one. This recommends it for army
uses. 1t is also said that the cylinder
where the explosions take place does
not get as hot as when gas is used, and
it therefore does not need such an
elaborate cooling apparatus.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-10-11

The red man was plainly going the
pace.
Hold upr' we urged earnestly. "Can
you not hold upY
ooh. I'm a Sioux spender all right"
replied the child Of the forest, with
bonhomie.
We could not help but observe that
he was somewhat heated with wine,
but his leyity panied US much never
theless.-DetrOit Journal
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-10-11
Their RusIness.

Gas Man-Hello, Tom. what are you
doing these days?
Pork Packer-I'm in the meat bust
ness. What are you doing?
Gas Mani 90 you one degree better.
Pm in the meter business.-Detrolt
Free Press.
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-10-11

plays many rows Of stitching. and the
fullness az the back is set into two
small inverted plalts at the whist
The blouse fastens Mt the left side
from bust to waist with the pearl but
tons. rs rounded out ut the neck and
bordored with a wide collar Of the
serge. enriched with row upon row Of
stitching. The short upper sleeves are
Of the serge terminating at the ell
bows. where they are finished with a
gauntlet cuff Of serge stitched at the
edge. The fun undersleeves are Of
white silk gathered into a wristband
Of tucked silk The chemlsctte Is Of
tucked white silk, headed by a tucked
collar band. the lower edge Of which Is
cnclrcled by a turnover collar OF silk
with n black satin crayat knOtted at
the opening philadelphia Ledger
The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1900-10-11
FemIninItv,s IDEAL.

He-Isn't that Daisy Putter at The
next table?
Ruth Wlttington-Yes. She is look
ing for an Ideal.
"What kind Of a man is thatT
"Oh, any milllonaireP-Life.