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United States cotton now sells for
about eleven of the new cents.
There has been a rise in the
American price which is just
about equivalent to the debase-
ment of the dollar.
AIOW congress wants cotton to
~ go higher. How can it go
higher? The silver people say
one of two things can happen. If
cotton remains at cents gold
outside of America, then to iaise
the price the dollar will have to be
cheapened inside of America. If,
on the other hand, gold itself be-
comes cheaper, prices will rise
outside of America, and without
domestic initiation or debasement
prices will rise inside of America.
The silver movement can there
fore be described in one sentence
as movement to cheaper gold
all over the world
How does it propose to cheaper
gold? The silver people say that
if the world suddenly discovered
new gold mines, as it did in the
COS, gold would become cheaper,
because there would be more of it.
When gold began to be cheap
about 1900, prices rose all over the
world and brought prosperity.
But there are no new gold
mines in sight. So, say the silver
people, let us use the other
precious metal as an equivalent
for gold. Make silver legal money
exchangeable for gold and it will
produce the same effect as if the
world had discovered new gold. 1t
will cheaper gold, raise world
prices, make further paper infa-
ton unnecessary and restore
solvency.
The silver movement Is an at
tempt to raise the world price
level. The devaluation of the
dollar has merely raised the
American price level. That is
why it can be said that the silver
movement is international in
its purpose.
The objections to a silver policy
are. I believe, based chiefly on its
practical difficulties. 1t is hard to
obtain agreement among the ma
tions to restore silver as money.
1t is something of a gambrs for
one country to restore silver by it
self. But there are few students
of the question who would deny
that if the practical difficulties
can be overcome, if gold can be
diluted with silver, prices will rise
in the world at large.
Copyright. 1884
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vote, however, a balanced budget
is out the window.
This brings up another thing.
controlled" imitation is fine as
long as it is controlled. But once
runaway congress runs away
with imitation, as it did with vet
Grams compensation, we may find
ourselves hauling money in Wheel
barroWs a Ia Germany after the
war.
Unquestionably, that is the most
significant signpost in the vet
Grams veto reversal.
A COUNTY agent coping with
n the problem of reducing the
little pig crop has sent the de-
partment of agriculture a letter
received from a farmer in his
county.
The farmer was doing his best
to raise fewer pigs, and to this
end had put mis- prize SOW. Es-
meraldo, in one pen and his boar
in another adjoining. But I'M
fortunately the boar broke
through the fence.
Il think the damage is done"
wrote the farmer. Can you rec
ommend anything 1 can do?"
THE automobile strike compro-
l. mise seems to have been but
the beginning of many set-backs
for the American Federation of
Labor.
BY that compromise company
unions definitely got their foot
in the door at Detroit. But the
important question for the future
is the automobile labor arbitra-
ton board, charged with settling
delicate adjustments between the
A. F. of L. and company unions.
Upon this board depends the
whole future of the Detroit labor
situation.
Consider, then, the consterna-
ton of the A. F. of L. when Leo
Wolman was appointed its i'm
partial chairman" In the opinion
of Bill Green and other A. F. of
L. moguls, Wolman is anything
but impartial. They hate him as
the auto industrialists hate them.
He is the apostle of industrial"
or vertical" unions. They have
staked their lives on craft unions.
Unquestionaoly there is going
to be more trouble in the automo-
bile field. The clash of company
and the A. F. of L. unions will
not abate. Already there is word
from ST. Louis that A. F. of L.
men are being fired.
AS arbiter of this feud. charged
with exercising the patience of
Job and the wisdom of Solomon,
will sit the chief labor enemy of
the A. r. of L.
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dramatized and played in the
theaters; read of his appearance
at great public functions; read of
his journey to America and his
satirical American Notes"
While all England was enjoying
his christmas Carol" it must
have dampened her holiday spirit
to know that she had foolishly
sacrificed the privilege of sharing
the fame of its author.
The creation of those immortal
characters, Pecksniff, Mrs. Camp,
Tom Pinch, and many others,
took place all within ten short
years of the time when she had
sent him away.
CHE now discovered how Won
- derful his boyhood's letters
had been; how favored she had
been to have had them addressed
to her; and how narrowly she
had missed the golden opportunity
of becoming the wife of a great
international character.
And so in silent penitence she
continued her middle-class life,
coqueting her way along with
the "eligibles" that her discrim-
mating parents approved; and on
Feb. Is, 1845, she married Henry
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WARDEN HEARD
IN BUNK CASE
States DiIIinger Could Not
Have Locked Deputies
in Jail Cells.
BIZ Tnited Press

By United Press
CROWN POINT, Ind, May g.
Trial of Ernest Bunk, f1ngerprint
expert at the Lake county jail who
is charged with aiding the escape of
John Dillinger. March 3, was adj
journed today for the primary cleo
ton.
Testimony will be resumed tomor
row before Special Judge Maurice
E. Critics in criminal court.
Lew Baker, warden of the Jail
was the chief witness called by the
state yesterday.
Baker testified that contrary to
the general belief, Dillinger could
not have locked a cell door on jail
attendants and TRUSTEES because he
was not near the lever box at the
time.
The witness related how he was
ordered into a cell by Dillinger who
showed something in my back"
THE door must have been closed
by some one else" he explained,
because it has to be operated by a
lever box at the end of the hallway
and Dillinger was standing in front
of the cell all the time"
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DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO--ROUND
- By Drea0 Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON 8Behnd the
w engud the
divdual who chewS the end talks
and would buttonhoe Queen Mary he her corridor
He John Thomas
Council and the effective lobbyist Capitol
of Wayne B. Wheeler and his dry cohorts
always that's
Using this motto
the pockets of veterans dollar
Sam
His salary $500 plus travelling expenses"
Taylor learned the legislative racket
Penro famous boss of Pennsylvania the
teen decorations back
law partner of Thomas Miller Hadngs Property
later federal pententary
The method of Taylors weapon is di-
rect action He has behind him
ring doorbes And congress knows how d
fectively they
Taylor has but to threaten ito
and that of the election
o ~ '00
This, primarily was what Rooevelts Veto
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evident.
On the part of the administra-
ton this change is manifested by
its determination to expand trade
by lowering tariffs. A year ago
the administration had only an
academic interest in international
trade, and made no serious at
tempt to obtain power over the
traffic.
On the part of congress the in
terest is centered in the demand
for a silver policy. This is an
international remedy. Congress
is passionately interested in sill
yer as a means of raising inter-
national prices.
Twelve months ago the things
that most urgently needed to be
done were almost entirely domes-
tic in character. 1t was necessary
to bring the dollar into line with
the currencies of the British ma
tons and of the sterling bloc.
That could be done by follow
ing their example and changing
the value of the dollar in rela-
ton to gold. It was necessary to
reopen and stabilize the banks, to
put the budget in order and to
protect the federal credit, to le-
lieve the unemployed, the debtors,
the farmers, industries democrat
lied by excessive competition.
All these things it was possible
to do by our national effort. They
have been we'll enough done to
produce a recovery to the gen.
eral level which existed before the
international financial crash in
the summer of 1881.
DUT the winter of 1881. though
ID it was much better than the
winter of 1882 and 1888, was still
a period of hard times. Led by
Mr.. Wallace and Mr.. Hull. the
administration has been explain
ing very candidly to the country
that if we are to go the rest of
the way to recovery we must re-
cover a considerable part of the
international trade which we have
lost.
The alternative :! to regiment
agriculture and industry in an
effort to reduce production. To
reduce production is to lower the
American standard of life.
Therefore. while continuing to
use all the powers it has to pro-
mote domestic recovery, the ad-
ministration now is asking for
power to promote international
recovery. 1t is significant that
congress is almost certainly pre-
pared to grant these powers.
This is all clear enough. What
is perhaps not so generally real
lied is that the silver agitation
in congress is inspired by wholly
international view of the problem
of low prices. If congress believed
that we could solve our difficulties
by domestic imitation alone, it
would be calling for greenbacks or
for a further devaluation of the
dollar.
But that is not what congress
wants. 1t is not asking hat the
dollar should be debased further
in relation TO the value of gold.
On the contrary, it is asking
that gold the world over shall be
reduced in value by diluting it
with silver. What does that
mean? Let us take very simple
illustration which, I believe, fairly
describes the essence of silver
agitation in congress.
When we we're still on the gold
standard, fourteen months ago.
cotton sold in the United States
for about 6 cents pound. 1t
sold for gold cents. Today, any,
where outside the United States,
it sells for about S gold cents.
There has been no rise in the
world price Of cotton. But in the
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No Gin There

A the far end of the room there was water
n cooler but it gave only water unless that
colorless fluid could have been gin. But it couldn't
have been gin. either You wouldn't find gin on tap
in whisky plant.
The girl at the reception desk said it would be all
right now. Your correspondent could go back and
the head man. Back to that door on the right.
The head mans office looked much more real
stic One wall of the devoted to glaSsed-in
cases, containing long shelves with hundreds of
bottles in beautiful cardboard containers, row on
row. Old Step-Father Old Aunt Hattie. Old Funny
brook Old Soak Old Hedgehog and a large variety
of new brands of whisky, all named old something.
There also were some cartons of small bottles of
type which has been conspicuous in the saloons,
drug stores, hat stores, candy stores and all such
liquor diSpensaries since the citizens made good
woman of the whisky business
The head man stepped outside a moment and
your correspondent opened display case and very
respectfully lifted out pint carton labeled seven
teen years old" 1t light it almost hoped
away 1t was fake. 1t was empty. It was dummy
and there was not dram in the entire display in
the head mans office in the midst of a great
distilling plant producing $4,000 gallons day.
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Louis Winter, who for the time
being put an abrupt end to her
romantic career.
Henceforth, Maria must be con-
tent to be the staid little wife of
staid little business man. living
a narrow existence in a mar
row world where nothing in par
ticular could happen; and Cupid
entered her on the CLOSED" list,
until he should call on her again
ten years later, to play leading
role in the second chapter of one
of the most absorbing love ro-
mances in history.
n n
CEVENTEEN years after break
~ ing with Maria Beadnell-
Charles Dickens-his fame secure
in all the world, resting on a long
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ID OOSEVELT now has the dis
N tinction-n not altogether
unique among White House in
cumbents-of being kicked from
both sides of the street.
Hitherto, conservative business
interests have led the attack. But
the veterans veto onslaught was
led from the opposite camp. In
fact it was a blow at business all
most more than the President.
For the whole Roosevelt policy
is based on the plan of a balanced
budget by 1886. The government
can not continue borrowing money
with its budget unbalanced. On
this, conservative elements are 100
per cent for Roosevelt, in fact go
beyond him. With the veterans
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BY H. II. HARPER


A
to Paris
friend" Anne to The
Of
Maria
and
of the to
deerm to makeo o
dinner with older felowworker
~ Chronicle George Hogarh the father of charming
Georgina He promptly fell in love
being the only of manageable she be-
CHOICE his draugh of mind half
his sudden he asked her marry him
the
amable obgng
swept Chapman Hail. London publishers asked
accompany of sporting prints
published monthly From his bachelor quarters in
telling this
and he Y
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SOCIALISTS WILL NOT
APPEAR IN PRIMARY
No Provision for Minority Parties
Made by State.

Socialists will not participate in
the primary today, according to
an announcement by the public af-
fairs committee of the county So
cialist party.
The state primary law makes no
provision for minority parties in
primary elections, so that Socialist
candidates will not appear on the
ballot. To meet this situation, party
conventions are being arranged
throughout the state in which coun-
ty and municipal candidates will be
chosen. Delegates now are being
chosen for the state convention May
10 and 20.
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Fair Enough
by
WESTBROOK PEdLER

7 OUISVILLE KY. May s-Your correspondents
II tour of the whisky plant began at the main
office where the clerical help at their desks in
long rows punching busily at the keys of the type
writer's and counting machines
The girl at the reception desk was cold sober
although the time was we'll along in the afternoon
The other members Of the staff seemed sober also
There was not a Julep in sight on any desk Not
julep or od-fashioned a sour Not a souawk
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OF Sweet Adellne sounded above
the clatter and small tinkle of
the Office routine.
A clerical foreman got up from
his desk and walked over to a
small brunette to dictate a letter.
She took out her ruled notebook.
put down his remarks. folded the
book away and resumed boxing
the keyboard. He spoke in a low
voice and kept his distance and
a buSiness-like attitude. When he
had finished he walked back to
his own desk and bent over a
pile of papers. He had not thrown
an arm around her kissed her or
even called her baby"
Remember. this was distillery;
a place where they make $1,000
gallons of whisky every working
day. On big sign across the vic
outside. in letters as tall as a m
"DiStillery."
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Plane Service to Suspend

By United Press
CHICAGO, May 9.-The south
west will be without airplane pas
senger or mail service after Satur-
day, it was indicated in an an
nouncement made here today that
United Air Lines would discontinue
service on that day from Kansas
City to Dallas.
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COId-BIOOded SdmpIing

ITO do the head mans hospitality justice however,
Il it must be reported that his return he did
administer medical doses of three grades of whisky,
three months four years and seventeen years old.
But it all done in a very practical way The
samples just moStened the bottom of a liquor glass
and he took none himself.
1t was cold-blooded, critical sampling And now,
lest any should burst into song in the main
office on a working day, he summoned guide and
said Nov you may go through the plant"
Your correspondent is dsinclined to disparage an
industry which has put back to work, private pay
rolls thousands of citizens in the diSery cities and
other thousands in the hardwood forests and the
cooperage plants.
The whisky industry is paying taxes. also and has
lifted a considerable share of dead weight off the
treasury Yet it is impossible to depict whisky in
terms of beauty soon after tour of distillery.
The fumes the corruption seethng in the great
wooden vatS and the close heat of the plant did
associate we'll with the memory Of the tall frosty
jueps which were then being served in the hotels
and rural mansions of the Kentucky horse country.
And even the distilled white whisky, pouring out
of copper spout in a heavily padlocked glass
and trckling down into some final storage vat gave
off an odor that was by no means endearing. There
government gauge in the glass case measur-
ing the output of the plant at the end of the process
before it should be poured into the barrels and laid
away in the warehouses where more padlocks pro-
tected the governments count.
TIL outside air was sweet to breathe.
Back in the hotel the walters still were skdding
the precious illusion would return again after time
but when the waiter up to the table your cor
respondent said make mine vanilla"
Copyright, Syndicate
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+ LOVE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS


series of brilliant novels-began to
write his greatest story, David
Copperf1eld.
AS every Dickens lover knows,
he modelled his hero very much
after himself and wove a great
many of the actual happenings of
his own life into the tale.
And so when it came to the
painting of David'S sweetheart, to
the telling of his first love affair,
he turned back the pages of mem
DRY and made the never-to-be-
forgotten picture of Dora from the
image of Maria Beadnen, who was
still enshrined in his heart.
Thus from David Copperfield we
get the true portrait of Maria
Beadnell-and what girl in all the
worlds books of lovetS has ever
been so immortalized. Dickens
admirers will read with renewed
interest the following passages,
which are now substantiated for
the most part as true history by
the author himself, who later
herein writes to Maria Beadnell
Winter-"no one will ever be as
terribly in earnest as I and David
Copperfleld we're. People used to
say to me, how pretty all that was,
and how fanciful it was, and how
elevated it was, above the little
foolish loves of very young men
and women. But they little
thought what reason I had to
know it was true, and nothing
more or less.
ID ENGINEERING Maria with
IN her dog Daphne, he gave
Dora dog, Jip, and reproduced
Maria's fondness for her pet in
Dora's love for Jip.
He gave the following account
of his first visit to her house, and
the first dinner party:
L don't remember who was
there, except Dora. I have not
the least idea what we had for
dinner, besides Dora. My impress
sion is that I dined off Dora en-
tirely, and sent away half a dozen
plates untouched. I sat next to
her. I talked to her. She had
the most delightful little voice,
the gayest little laugh, the pleas
ATTEST and most fascinating little
ways that ever led a lost youth
into hopeless slavery. She was
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Pope Sees Steel Magnate

VATICAN CITY, May s-The
pope granted an audience today to
Myron c. Taylor, chairman of the
beard Of United States Steel, and
Mrs. Taylor.
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HJeemC Me.
k
Haywood BROUN

A FEW months ago I gave my sense of humor
L n back to the Indians On account of all the
serious problems in the world 1 decided that it
would be silly for me ever to write anything which
was consciously funny. My friends assure me that
1 have kept my word and that there has been no
laugh in this column since the VOW was taken
Some of them insist on going even farther back
quite unaware Of the fact that grandma wasn't
playing"
But Of late have begun to wonder whether it
will be altogether good thing to have every single
sense Of humor checked at the same time. grain
or so might come in handy before the revolution
and even during and after. The matter comes into
my mind because of a newspaper plot discovered by
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"Marchers in the gigantic May
day parade in New York car
ried a Misunderstanding figure
wearing a top hat" began Mr..
Garlin, Prom it's mouth hung a
yellow tongue. 1t was labeled
The Press Capitalist newspaper
reports on the greatest May day
demonstration ever held in the
United States thoroughly justify
this description"
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q
DICKENS thus describes David
- Copperfields feelings on the
way to the picnic
Il shall never have such a ride
again; have never had such an
other. There we're only those
three, their hamper, my hamper
and the guitar case in the phae-
ton; and. of course, the phaeton
was open; and rode behind it,
and Dora sat with her back to
the horses, looking toward me.
She kept the bouquet close to her
on the cushion and would not
allow Jip to sit on that side of
her at all. for fear he should
crush it. She often carried it in
her hand, often refreshed herself
with its fragrance. Our eyes at
those times often met and my
very great establishment is that
l did not go over the head of my
gallant gray into the carriage.
There was dust, 1 believe. There
was a good deal of dust, 1 believe.
have faint impression that Mr..
Spanlow George Beadnell, Ma
ria's father demonstrated with
me for riding in it; but I knew
of none. I was sensible of a mist
of love and beauty about Dora,
but of nothing else He stood up
sometimes and asked what
thought of the prospect; 1 said
it was delightful, and l daresay it
was; but it was all Dora to me.
The sun shone Dora, and the birds
sang Dora. The south wind blew
Dora, and the wild flowers in the
hedges we're all Doras to a bud"
In tomorrow's episode we learn what
actually happened to Charles and Maria
in their cOurtship through his personal
novel, David Copperf1eId.
Copyright. 1884. John F.. Ollie CO..
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TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
By Waller Lippmann

Washington today Washington ago.
~ be that the 1888
failed and being abandoned
that
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Good Party Doctrine

N humorous in Irving Fedmans refusal to talk
for publication it might still class-angle the incident
and cite as an example of party discipline begin
ming at an early age. Which, of course is the best
time to begin.
Mr. Garlin thinks there is something very signif-
cant in the fact that less than three New York
papers used Irving Feldman. I can explain that
very easily There is growing sense of solidarity
among reporters Very likely the Herald Tribune
man had beat but generously passed it along to
the Post and Times representatives I think that is
much more likely than the opposing theory that
Mr. Rockefeller called up Mr. Morgan and said,
Send the word out to our newspaper lackeys. Let's
get Irving Feldman!"
Nor is Mr. Garlin content to nail this piece of
bourgeois propaganda as plot to kid the Com
munists. He finds even deeper and more subtle
villany in the intent of the reporters.
And don't miss" he adds, "the cute little anti
Semitic touch in concentrating all the attention on
little Irving Feldman. >"