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Year: 1878

Father, is Jack a better name than
John I"


"No, my son, Jack is inelegant. Say
John always"


"Well. father, saw you sling that
boot. John at a cat last night out OF the
bath room Window
A brave man is one who is not afraid
to wear old clothes until he can afford
to buy new ones. All editors are he.
roes.


A Bigampton IN, ~ wife went to a
ball one evening recently, leaving at
home young babe and her husband
The babe was frctful, and the futher went
to the ball and asked the mother TO go
home. She preferred to dance Soon
afterward the husband and father appear
ed again on the scene, this time wheeling
the baby in its carriage. Trundling the
cradle into the set IN which mamma was
dancing he called her attention to the
child and left,


DR.. Holmes says thai crying widows
marry first. There is nothing like wet
weather for transplanting,
Year: 1878

Ey If the internal revenue returns
can be relied on as trustworthy statistics
n reformation is gradually being worked
among the American people in the mat
ter of drinking whisley. The same sta
tistics that show a porccptible decrease
in the quantity of whisky consumed, in
dicate an increase in the consumption OF
beer. More than six million gallons OF
whisky were used in the fiscal year OF
1877 than in the last year, while the sales
of beer for tho last year exceed those OF
the year previous by four hundred and
fifty y-seven thousand barrels, or ono mill
ion three hundred and scventy-onc thou
sand gallons. Even these figures show
u decrease in the average quantity con,
sumcd, and as the intoxicating power OF
beer is much fceblcr in proportion to
the quantity than that of whisky, the
statistics apparently show up in favor OF
temperance.
Year: 1878

| have thus given you, fellow citi-
Zens, some reasons in favor of subSti-
tuting greenbacks for bank notes.
now proceed to consider the only OBJ
lection to the substitution that seems
to have much weight. 1t is said that
If green backs were to constitute our
only paper currency its volume would
depend upon the action of Congress
and not upon the natural laws of trade,
and that as Congress is liable to he in
fiuenced by popular feeling on the one
hand, or the arts and appliances Ot
special interests on the other, the cur
rency would be subject to initiation or
contraction, as either influence might
prevail, to a degree that would he ru-
inOus TO business and prosperity.


In answer to this objection, and ad-
mitting that it is not without force,
have to say, in the first place, that 1t is
equally potent whether our paper cul
rency be greenbacks exclusively or
bank notes exclusively: for let IL he
the one or the other. Congress would
have the power to expand it or con-
tract it at will. For instance, weIe
Congress to repeal the tax on State
bank circulation, a multitude of banks
would spring up under State laws and
a great initiation of the currency would
take place. On the other hand, should
Congress retain that tax and retire the
green backs, as the republican finan-
ciers demand, a frightful contraction
would result. In brief, if Congress
should have neither sense or honesty,
it might, for the time being, ruin the
country but to assume that it would
Il rrrrt,1A tNo 30
of government.


But our platform squarely meets
this difficulty. 1t condemns contraG-
ton on the one hand or 'kitins" on
the other. It demands that 1.-The
amount of such issues (greenbacks) be
so regulated by legislation or organic
law as to give the people an assurance
of stability in volume of currency and
consequent stability of value" and.
in unmistakable terms, il opposes the
decentralization or disuse of tie pre-
eiOus metals. Could anything, | ap-
peal to you. be more conservative than
this, If conservatism means TO con-
serve the interests of the people at
large and not those of a particular
class? Can any intelligent man reas-
onably object to q policy that pre-
serves gold and silver from destruc-
ton and demands a stability in the
volume and value of the currency
greater than has ever yet been attain
ed?


Fellow citizens. our platform has
been denounced by men who never
read il, and by others whose in
terests or prejudices incline them to
misrepresent it; and now the answer
l make them is to ask you to read 1t
and TO study it. II is in vain for its
enemes to say that it meaus what it
does not express. Its language is too
plain to be misunderstood by candid
man and the character of the commit
Year: 1878

| the shareholders and takes many mill


lions annually out of the pockets of
/ the people.


The general rule is that q person
pays interest upon what he owes; but,
in the case of bank note, this rule is


reversed. The note is a debt due by


the bank; but. instead of paying in


terest upon it, the bank is authorized


to loan il as money and take interest


upon the loan. 1t thus enjoys priv


ilege that no one else enjoys. 1t draws


interest upon its own indebtedness.
and this privilege of the national


banks brings them an annual income
of probably $40, 900. 600. Their aggre-
gate circulation is, in round numbers
S322, ,000, 900 ! think it may he reas-
onabIy assumed that $500, 900 900 of
these notes are loaned at an average
rate of interest of at least seven per
cent. If so, the annual interest they
receive from the loan, not of money
not of capital, but of their own in
debtedness is S2I, 100000, And this
sum is taken out of the annual pro-
duct of the country before that pro-
duct is 'ivided between labor and cap
ital. The general rule is, that the
product of human industry is ulti-
mately divided between labor and cap
ital; but when bank note circulation
Is used the banks first step in and, by
virtur of their special privilege, take
a large slice in the shape of interest
upon their own Indebtedness. In the
case of our national banks this slice, as
we have seen, amounts to S2l 600, 009
every year. Now, if there can be no
sound paper currency but bank notes,
then there is nothing left for Us but to
bear this burden or try to reduce the
amount of the eXactiOn. But If tile
green back is as good as the bank note
and nobody denies that it is-why
should it not be substituted for the
bank note and an end put to the exact
action?


And, consider, further, that for every
greenback it has issued the government has
received value. That greenback has paid
for services rendered or material furnished,
or it has discharged portion of the inter-
eet bearing public debt. There is thus
saving to the government or to the people
Of an amount equal to interest upon the
outstanding greenback circulatiOD; for. had
the greenback not been issued, the govern
ment would have had to raise the money by
loan or taxation to meet its expenditures. -
If it raised it by loan it would, of course,
have to pay interest upon the loan. If it
raised it by taxation the taxpayers lose the
interest their money would have earned
had hey not been compelled to give il to
the government.
Year: 1878

One Of the objections of re-establishment
Of an income tax, indeed, the principle
objection, as far as appears, is that such
tax involves a governmental inspection
of private affairs, and such inquisitorial
powers on the part of tax collectors as is
wholly inconsistent with the spirit of our
government and the rights of the people.
This is the objection most generally urged,
but the real seat Of opposition is the in,
disposition to pay any tax, which indispo-
sition is not confined to any class of citizens
or property owners. Anincome tax, fairly
and fully assessed. would be the tax easiest
to paw, easiest to collect, but the difficult
is, that it is impossible to fairly assess such
a tax unless every mans business is trans
acted under the immediate supervision OF
government officers


But the objection 10 the domiciliary Wis
its and the inspection of business which an
income tax make necessary, is of equal
force against our resent internal revenue
law. That law gives, or is construed to
give, the revenue officers, spies and in
formers, power 10 enter Ill and search any
dlstillery, factory or brewery, where spirits
or tobacco are manufactured, or any
building where either is sold. This power
of search is carried to great extent, and
is exercised at the pleasure of the officers,
who are not required, so it is held to base
their action on an affidavit or warrant. The
law, with its regulations as to stamps,
and the methods of destroying them
work great Hardship in many
cases. During the past two weeks the
readers of the Register have seen re-
ported the names of an hundred or more
citizens, of various cities and towns in
this district, who have been brought here
on charges of violating the revenue law,
which charges have subjected them to
heavy fines and great costs. In some OF
these cases there has been apparent a
total ignorance of the law and complete
innocence of any criminal intent. In
other cases men have acted upon the
Interpretation Of the law as given by a
local officers, and have been punished
because such Interpretation did not agree
with that of the officer next highest in rank.
A still further hardship appears in the
fact that in some cases local officials are SO
negligent of their duty that cigar factories
are obliged to suspend for days because
the local officers have no stamps to supply
the demand, so that the business is prac
tically suspended to await the pleasure oi
some slow moving official.


Such instances as these which we cit,
are frequent. but do not. by any means
include all the evil arising from the rev
nue. law. just now its agents, as alway
in the campaign year, are very active anC
enterprising, for the purpose, apparentl,
of impressing their great value on thei
superiors, but this is, or may be, carriet
too far.-Itinois State Rsgister.
Year: 1878

WASHINGTON, day 4.-One hundred
Journal pensions bills passed last night.


Stephens, from the coinage committee,
reported a bill favoring the retiring of
five and three cents silver pieces and
stopping their coinage, also making subsi-
diary silver legal tender to the amount of
twenty dollars and exchangeable at the
treasury for other legal tenders, when
presented in sums over twenty dollars.
Ordered printed and recommitted.


The house then took up the legislative
appropriation bill.


Banks made point order on the
amendment offered by Gibson for the re-
establishment of branch mint at New
Orleans, that it was new legislation After
a long argument the point was overruled.


The house then began to vote on various
amendments agreed to in committee of the
whole; first one on which division was
asked was one increasing the clerical force in
the office ofsurgeon general, the amendment
was resisted generally on the democratic
side, and was supported on the republican
side as being necessary for quicker des-
patch of business in the decision of pension
claims.
Year: 1878

spring is a :rying season. Indications of sickness
should at once be attended to. Fatal diseases may
be caused by allowing the bowels TO become con-
stipated and the system to remain in disordered
condition, until the disorder has time to develope
Itself An ounce of prevention is worth pound of
cure, is old truthful saying. Therefore, we ad-
wise all who are troubled with the complaints now
very Observation-Disclosures indigestion, disordered
liver, want of appetite, nausea or feverish skin
to take, without delay, Shenck's Mandrake Pills.
We know of no remedy harmless and decisive
in its action. 1t at strikes at the root Of the
disease and produces healthy tone to he system
People never need suffer from any disease arising
from disordered condition of the liver If they would
take this excellent medicine when they feel the
first indications of the malady. Families leaving
home for the summer months should take three Or
four boxes ofsthe pills with them They have an
almost instantaneous effect. They will relieve the
patient of headache in one or two hours, and will
rapidly cleanse the liver OF surrounding bile, and
will effectually prevent bilious attack They are
sold by all druggists.
Year: 1878

Expose yourself day and night; eat too
much without exercise: work too hard
without rest; doctor all the time; take
all the vile nostrums advertised. and
then you will want to know.


HOW TO GET WELL.
Which is answered in three words-Take
Hop Bittersl See other column.
Year: 1878

Let us suppose case for the consid- eration of the chivalric peopple of Geor- gia, says the New York Herold, refer ing to the case of Kate Southern, now attracting so much attention. We will suppose that one of the gallant sons of that paradise of illicit whisky had mar ried lady and had made the discovery after marriage that his wife had pre- viously been on intimate and question able relations with another man that he had thereupon notified his rival not to attempt to renew his intimacy with the lady; that despite this request his rival had thrown himself in the wife's way, boasted that he could wean her affections from her husband and spread scandalous reports about the latter call culated to break up his home. We will suppose further that the husband had entered ballroom and, finding this rival dancing with his wife, had walked up to him, chivalry fashion, and shot him dead in his tracks or driven bowie knife through his heart. Does any one imagine that Georgian jury could be found from the Tennessee border to Florida and from the Savannah River to the Chattahoooche that would not have acquitted the infuriated husband almost without leaving the courtroom? Yet what would be chivalry in husband is murder in wife, according to Georgia s idea of manhood, and so the Georgia ehivalry declare Kate Southern guilty and condemn her to the gallows. It is to be hoped that the Governor of the State is not Georgian f1e-eater.
Year: 1878

John Ross of Casnovia, Mich., has an ailing wife. It was certain that she could not recover, and he thought that he might as we'll look around for her suc- cessor. He chose the daughter of a neighbor, and so informed his wife, who told him that she would not stay long in the way. That night sue drowned her. self. A mob tarred and feathered MT. Ross.
Year: 1878

Stands confessedly at the head of American rail ways. The track is double the entire length of the line, of steel rails laid on heavy oak ties. which are imbe6ded in 6 foundation of rock bal last eighteen inches in depth. All bridges are Of iron or stone, and built upon the most approved plan. Its passenger cars, while eminently safe and substantial, are at the game time models of comfort and elegance.
Year: 1878

every uay, tnat Diakeiy mlSut sec
them as he dashed by.


sand when T found out this habit.
|it occurred to me that I could give


Blakely a preat pleasure. How often


have / cursed my meddling kindness
since. January 25th was the child's


birth day. proposed to Mrs. Blake


ley that she and Charley should board
the train which her husband drove,
unknown to him, and run up to Har-
risburg, where he had the night off.
There was to be little supper at the
Lochiel House. Charley was to ap-
pear in a new suit, etc. OF course
the whole affair was at nay expense
a mere trifie, but an affair of grandeur
and distinction which fairly took
James breath. She was e. most lnno-
cent, happy creature one Of those
women who are wives and mothers in
the cradle. When Blakely found her
she was a thin, pale little tailoress-a
machine to grind out badly made
shoddy clothes. But three years of
and petting of Charley had
made her rosy and plump and pretty.


1.-The little Highland suit was
bought complete, to the tiny dirk and
feather, and very pretty the little feI-
low looked in it. 1 wrote down TO
order a stunning supper, to be ready
at eight. Jane and the boy were to
60 aboard the train at Jersey Shore,
a queer little hin village near which
they lived. Blakely ran the train
from Williamsport down to Harris
burg that day. His wife being in the
car before he took charge
Of the engine, Of course he would see
aud know nothing of her until we
landed at Harrisburg at seven. /
had intended TO go down in the smok-
ing car as usual, but another fancy,
suggested suppose by the origina-
tor of all evil, seized me. No nep,
to laugh. Satan, / belive, has quite
as much to do with accidents and
Year: 1878

Judge Hilton says the "Women's
Hotel" enterprise is to be abandoned as a
failure, because its expenses have been
81 300 per day above its receipts. Only
fifty women have cared to accept it as a
home, Notwithstanding all its comforts
and luxuries, and at least five hundred
would have been necessary to meet its
running expenses outside the payment
of the interest upon the cost of its erec-
ton and furnishing.
Year: 1878

Is He BACKING Down ?-John Sher-
man has written letter to Michigan, In


which he says there will be S134, ,23I,-


S65.O6, in the Treasury available for re-


sumption purposes on the first of Janu-


ary, 1879. This looks like he was COM
| ing down from his late highfaluting style


Of talking about resumption with gold


alone. But he does not stop there. He


goes INTO state that there is per capita


circulation of paper in the United States


of Sl4.65. and that this is a greater per


capita circulation Of paper than there


is in any other country. The aggregate
paper circulation, he says, is S6sS, ,597,-
275. This looks very much like honest
John was again preparing to deceive his
single gold standard followers, and leave
them to get out of the maze into which
he has led them as best they can. Ger
tain it is that he never can hope to meet
this immense aggregate of paper money
with $134, ,23l ,S65.06. In this amount
the silver legal-tender dollars are inclu-
ded. 1t is nonsense for him to assume
that the greenbacks will not be returned
to the Treasury for redemption. The
Banks will feel bound to cover into their
vaults all the gold they can get for green
backs and it would take every cent he
says there is in the Treasury to make
up their reserve alone. Where then could
he find gold to meet the demand for the
general public? If the people knew there
was s6OO,OO0,O00 of legal-tender money
in the Treasury it is likely they would
not trouble themselves about it. But
when they know the money is not there
they will be sure to want it and Mr..
Sherman has just taken the trouble to
give them this information in the letter
we refer TO.


we have never changed our opinion
one particle on the question of forced |
resumption, and this letter from Mr..
only strengthens our convic-
tions that 1t should not be undertaken ON
the first of January. If, therefore, the
law can be repealed or modified by Con-
gress in December it should be done as
early as possible.
Year: 1878

WE HAVE a very liberal set of gentle
men in Washington. They use the peo-
pies money as though it cost us nothing
They are about to pay England $500
ooo OF what is termed the Fishery award


when at the same time, according to the
correspondence of Mr.. Evarts, we do M,
owe England anything. Indeed accord
ing to an article from the New Yorl


Herald which we published day before
yesterday, England is fairly indebted to
us; nevertheless that journal to-day saws
we ought to pay this money because the
award was against us. That is, if one of
The thieves about Washington for the last
decade was appointed as Commissioner
and was deficient in talents and honesty
both and sold himself, nevertheless we
must pay. That is not sound doctrine


We believe we ought to have new trial.
and it would be well to keep our money
until we are better convinced we are not
cheated. England would not pay it if she
were in our place except to save going to
Year: 1878




The Republican has fallen into an
error in saying the GAZETTE sat first
condemned" the Democratic State plat
form las being too much for hard money"
Ihe platform as to the money question
met the GAzETTE's wishes entirely.
But the GAZETTE did object to it because
1t did not go far enough, in that it omit
ted to pledge the party for a reduction in
the army, and general reduction in the
expenditures of the national government
through the diminution of officials and
also OF the salaries of U. S. government
oHlcers; and the GAZETTE will continue
to urge these economical matters of re-
uenchment upon Congress.
Year: 1878

FOREIGN TRADE AND ITS DIFFrc1u-
TlEs.-A writer in one OF. the New York
papers, while declaring that we must look
abroad for our markets, inasmuch as the
sure and substantial extension of our
foreign trade is vital to our growth as A
commercial people, sets forth very clearly
the difficulties to be surmounted. First
freight rates are against It's. Next. we
have to contend with the absurd tariff
regulations of such countries as Mexico.
Brazil and many of the South American
States. We have also to overcome the
uis tnertjG of the native merchants. wbo
have been importing mainly from Eng
land, France and Germany, and who do
not care to jeopardise the safe trade they
have acquired by taking up new things
or new lines of goods. Finally, the con-
servatism of the people themselves, and
their tenacity in sticking to the old ruts
and grooves make them reluctant to
change. Even where it can be demon





strated that American goods are better
ana cheaper, they are strongly prejudiced
IN favor of the goods they have been ac-
customed to wear, the tools they have
used, and the furniture to which they
have been accustomed. All these things
are undoubtedly obstacles to successful
competition with the foreign houses who
are at this time in possession of the mar
ket. But there is no reason to believe
that American energy and enterprise will
iall Ill matters of this kind when thew
have been so successful in many others
that were far more difficult.-Bait Sun.
We need not expect to secure the ex-
tensive trade of the countries referred to
while we adhere to such odious restric.
lions as our high tariff policy at present
ehiorces. We ought to be the most fa.
vored nation in the world with all the
great consuming countries named above
Year: 1878

THERE is little to be said in reference
to tie election in Delaware. The work
is done, so far as the people are con-
cerned We doubt not every man has
made up his mind as to how he will vote
The Republican virtually gave up the
contest several days ago when it said, in
reply to the GAZETTE, that it hardly er.
pected to elect any one; but that it would
continue to urge its readers to vote the
Republican ticket for all that. We are
confident that that paper spoke by au,
thority then and uttered the sentiment,
OF the leading Republican politicians
VINO do not wish to be considered a,
playing the part of Don Quixote in thi.
campaign. .r.rH-
Year: 1878

NOTWITHSTANDING silver is one OF
the great leading products of this coun-
try and we are the greatest silver produ-
cling country in the world, there are a
certain class of newspapers that are daily
trying to cry down its value. The same
class of newspapers would cry down the
price of wheat or corn if thereby they
could make money for their bondholdlng
owners.
Year: 1878

THERE Is plenty Of time 30 make good
and trustworthy selections, but experience
has shown that unless the people TAKE ac-
tion without delay it is Of no advantage
to them to have plenty of time in which
to act. Delegates to constitutional
Convention ought to be chosen for their
solid merits and not for orsuperfcisl talents.
Brilliant takers are not at all likely to be
the best kind Of Constitution makers, and
demsgogues are perfectly certain to -
the worst. Sober, steady, experienced
business men, and men with a stake in
the country, should be chosen in prefer
ence. Party politics ought to have no
influence in tho matter, since il can have
no bearing upon the work ofths Conven-
ton. There nsyer was more need of
careful choice than at the present time,
and every community, large or small,
will do well to begin looking about for it's
most available men.-Sa Sacramento Rec
ord Union.