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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1894
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Dec. 3, 1894.
GROWING DEMAND FOR CIVIL SER-
VICE REFORM
Any method of civil service examina-
tion Is better than the old plan of leav-
ing appointments to the selfish will of
greedy politicians. Of course it miffht be
well to have the examination relate as
for as possible to the line of information
most needed in the conduct of the office
for which the candidate applies; but any
fair contest in which all hands have an
equal show, and in which the highest
score wins the prize Is much safer than
the rule of the spoilsman. While some
of the riuestions asked in civil service ex-
aminations may not relate directly to the
business which the appointee will be ex-
pected to transact, still such apparently
irrelevant questions are perfectly fair to
all applicants and tend to minimize the
chance of the patronage jobbing politi-
cian to make or procure selections to suit
Ills own purposes and Interests. It might
not be at all necessary for a clerk in
some department to know anything
about geography, yet an examination on
this line might be the very best method
of depriving the professional spoils brok-
er of the authority to drop one of his
relatives or customers Into the place. It
would be vastly better to resort to a toss
for heads or tails In picking the winner
than it would be to have appointments
dispensed as campaign capital of one or
another set of successful speculators in
spoils politics. Questions propounded in
civil service examinations should relate,
as far as possible, to education or Infor-
mation pertaining to the office for which
the candidate applies; but any test of
this kind on any line is better than no
test and no chance at all. In the course
of time all applicants for appointments
to state and municipal offices will doubt-
less find it necessary to submit to some
civil service test. Why not? If the dem-
ocratic party means what it says when
it declares so emphatically for civil ser-
vice reform, why not prove its faith by
applying civil service rules In states and
cities over which it has complete control?
If the republican party is really a civil
service reform party, why not prove Its
faith by its works in places where it rs
able and free to do eo? Such reform Is
needed in state and municipal manage-
ment not less and perhaps more than In
the distribution of federal patronage.
Appointments should go all the way
down, all the way up and all the way
round, as places awarded for fitness and
held for efficiency and merit without ar-
bitrary limit of term. Civil service em-
ployments and emoluments should not be
periodically apportioned out as brief and
precarious rewards of partisan zeal to
campaign henchmen. The business of
the civil service should not be liable to
genera! disturbance with every change
of political administration. These were
the Ideas of Samuel J. Tilden Incorporat-
ed in a distinct declaration of the nation-
al democratic platform of 1876. This item
of the platform has been reaffirmed by
every national democratic convention
which has been held since then. The
country has seen how persistently and
scandalously the party as a whole has
failed to live up In practice to its doc-
trine and promise of civil service reform.
With a creditable degree of steadfast-
ness, however, the distinctly Cleveland
contingent of the democratic administra-
tion has striven and plodded on the line
of the doctrine and the promise. On this
line, too, is the bill just Introduced by
Representative De Forest of Connecticut,
chairman of the committee on civil ser-
vice, for the exclusion of "political influ-
ence in the appointment of postmasters,"
The bill provides for permanency of ten-
ure during good behavior and prescribes
specific conditions In the interest of non-
partisan Incumbency and atsured effi-
ciency. Representative De Forest is a
democrat and doubtless has the approval
of the president and the postmaster gen-
eral in the submission of this measure.
Wliether these facts will commend it to
the favorable consideration of the demo-
cratic majority of the house or the sen-
Ate remains to be seen. Meanwhile it is
to be remarked that every argument and
every demand of public interest for non-
partisan rules of appointment and tenure
<n the postal department, such as pro-
posed in the bill reported from the house
committee on civil service, apply with
equal force for the establishment of such
rules in all the other administrative de-
partments. Politicians of both parties
may as well take notice that public opin-
ion is ripening to a pitch of impatience
which will not longer brook studious de-
lay in the work of giving the country an
all-round system of non-partisan and
business-like civil service, nor longer
brook studious dalliance with all the
hungry Imps of public and private mis-
chief that serve the central devil of
spoils politics. Is the present democratic
congress to wind up with obdurate per-
sistence in such delay and such dal-
liance? If so, it will put on record an-
other certificate of death for the hapless
party which it claims to represent and
which is responsible for its existence.
SHOW OF OPPOSITION
It seems that one of the first demands of
Prince Hohenlohe-Schilltngsfurst-Stalter
after his elevation to the chancellorship
of the German empire was a liberal in-
crease of salary. The emperor joined him
in a vigorous back-salary grab. In order
to satisfy the demands of the great man
it was deemed proper to appropriate pen-
sion money, set aside expressly for needy
and deserving war veterans. The greedy
raid has stirred up Germany and Emperor
William is playing bumble-bee again.
What this country needs is more gov-
ernment in the home and less government
out of it.
Perhaps the only way in which Mr.
Mudget-Holmes-Pratt-Gordon of the Phila-
delphia jail can get justice is to come
down to Texas in irons and stand his trial
for horse theft,
Careless people should be held responsi-
ble for their accidents.
A red-headed South Carolinian declares
Mr. Cleveland "a party wrecker." The
most dangerous of all party wreckers are
the embodiments of ignorance, prejudice
and greed who consider the party above
the country, and who do not know a fit
of bitter prejudice from a thrill of genu-
ing patriotism.
The papers give it out that "Tom Reed
lo growing fat." Well, why shouldn't he?
Governor Hogg declares that he would
like to be one of a party of business men
to make another trip north In the inter-
est of Texas development.
Hill Cook is said to be lying at the point
of death near Muskogee. Look out for
another train robbery.
Detroit has organized an antl-kissing
club, and it is now in order for some rival
city to get up an antl-hugglng society.
Life is too short for such foolishness any-
way.
It is evident that the legislature of South
Carolina has In it some disappointed ap-
plicants.
Governor Flower has dismissed the
charges of willful negligence against Dis-
trict Attorney Fellows, and has once more
come fully up to the expectations of his
Tammany relatives.
Hon. Byron Drew of Kaufman, though
a full-blood democrat, fails to see anything
paternalistic in the plan to have the state
go Into the life Insurance business.
Fireworks are becoming more dangerous
and deadly every year, and It is only a
question of time when every city will
find it absolutely necessary to draw the
line against the yearly revel In the devil's
element.
SNAP SHOTS.
The person who refuses to be criticised
Invites criticism.
Of course one's stomacl* has something
to do with it, but nobody's digestion can
be perfect without a clear conscience to
help It along.
The butcher fancies that there is some
short cut to fortune.
The actual settler Is a man who pays
his debts.
There are two ways to avoid criticism.
One way is to get above it, and the other
Is to fall below It.
The professional gossip is all nostrils and
tongue.
The veriest chances are decrees of fate.
Man first wants room, and after that he
wants the earth. _
Woman prefers a man with strong
arms.
Common sense is the very best stock in
trade in any line of business.
The man with chestnuts talks through
somebody else's hat.
Beware of Irresistible Impulses.
Most of the Ills from which people suffer
are traceable to either too much or too
little exercise.
No young American considers himself
a hero until he has deafened his grand-
mother with a cannon firecracker.
This Is a cold world to some people even
in summer time.
WILLIS COLLEGE.
Willis, Montgomery Co., Tex., Dec. 28.—
The Willis college closed Its fall session
last night with a concert under the man-
agement of Miss Miller, for the benefit of
the J. Norsell students, two of whom
have recently matriculated here.
SHOT HIMSELF.
Greenville, Hunt Co., Tex., Dec. 21.—A
young man named Julian Wood shot him-
self in the right leg last night accidentally
while removing cartridges from a revolver.
It enn not be determined yet whether am-
putation will be necessary.
LOST A FOOT.
Calvert, Robertson Co., Tex., Dec. 21.—A
colored boy riding on a freight train that
was switching In the yards to-day had his
foot caught between the drawheads, mash-
ing and breaking the bones, causing am-
putation.
SURRENDERED BY HIS BONDSMEN.
Bryan, Brazos Co., Tex., Dec. 24.—The
bondsmen of Claude Ward In the criminal
assault case with which he Is charged
have given him up to the authorities, so
that he Is now confined on two charges.
LOST HIS ROLL.
Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., Tex., Dec. 24.—
Mr. C. C. Hill, who is here on a visit,
to-day dropped from his pocket $329, which
has not been found. He offers ¥50 reward
for its return.
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HURT WHILE RACING.
Elkhart, Anderson Co., Tex., Dec. 23.—
While riding a race here yesterday Alan
Arnulne was thrown from his horse and
badlv thouirh not seriously hurt.
Will the Senate Halt in Confirm-
ing Some of Culberson's
Appointments?
SOME H06GITES POUTING.
They Remember That Ex-Governor Ross
Was a Clark Man and Was Opposed to
the Creation of the Commission.
Austin, Tex., Dec. 24.—The opinion is
spreading to some extent that there will
be a show of opposition made in the next
senate to the confirmation of some of the
appointments which Mr. Culberson has in-
dicated in advance. This is especially
manifest with reference to the placing of
Governor Ross upon the railroad commis-
sion. His appointment is distasteful to
some of the Hogg people, who, while they
are not making a great show of their cha-
grin, nevertheless do not forget to recall
that Governor Ross was a Clark man and
that, lie opposed the creation of the com-
mission. They even remark that his ap-
pointment suits the railroads too well. If
open war is actually made upon Governor
Ross those gentlemen who found fault
with his management of the agricultural
and mechanical college in the Twenty-
third senate two years ago and who will
again sit in the Twenty-fourth senate may
be ready and willing to head another at-
tack upon him. In this connection it may
be remarked that it is not considered im-
probable that Mr. Foster may be a candi-
date for election to a railroad commls-
sionershlp, now that the elective feature
has been adopted in regard to that bureau.
CAPITAL CULLINGS.
Austin, Tex., Dec. 24.—Chartered to-day:
The Tyler ice company of Tyler; capital
stock $30,000. Incorporators: Daniel Dop-
pelmayer and J. P. Alford of Marshall,
and John L. Philips of Tyler.
Governor Hogg to-day appointed W. G.
Taliaferro of Bryan to the judgeship of
the Twentieth district, vice J. N. Hender-
son, resigned.
J. E. Hollingsworth, commissioner of ag-
riculture, insurance, statistics and his-
tory, has returned from New York.
DRISKELL LEASED.
Austin, Tex., Dec. 24.—The Driskell hotel,
which has been closed for six months
and was recently sold at trustee's sale for
$75,000, was this morning leased to J. E.
Alexander, formerly of the Beach hotel
at Galveston, who will open it in about
ten days.
REGIMENTAL QUARTERMASTER.
Brenham, Tex., Dec. 24.—Mr. Charles L.
Wilkins to-day received a telegram from
Colonel Henry Hutchings of Austin tender-
ing him the office of regimental quarter-
master of the Second regiment, T. V. G.
Mr. Wilkins wired back his acceptance.
CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 24.—A fire oc-
curred last night in the flat occupied by
Chas. Cornwall. Both Mr. Cornwall and
his wife were away from home at the
time, three children being left behind.
In some unaccountable way the fire start-
ed. Mrs. Hanson, an elderly woman liv-
ing across the hall, heard the children
screaming. She opened the door and tire
and smoke rolled out. She saw a smoking
bundle on the floor, and It proved to be
one of the little ones. Picking it up she
ran screaming to the street. Mrs. Corn-
wall/was returning from the grocery store
when she saw her neighbor with the burn-
ing child. Immediately behind her was
Maud, 4 years old, in flames. Mrs. Corn-
wall grabbed the baby from the other
woman and ran down the street. Some
one threw a coat around the burning baby
and stopped the flames. A block away the
frantic mother was stopped, and both were
quite badly* burned. No one knew that
another child was missing, but after the
fire was extinguished the charred remains
were found.
WEIRD FUNERAL.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 24.—The funeral of
ex-United (States Senator J. L. Alcorn at
Eagle Nest, Miss., presented perhaps the
most welrti scene ever witnessed in this
country. The obsequies were attended by
300 negroes, the majority of whom were
the former slaves or the dead statesman.
The negroes were Inconsolable in their grief
and gave vent to 'their feelings in shrieks,
religious songs and prayers. At the grave
the old, gray-haired colored men threw
themselves upon the coffin and finally had
to be removed by force in order to allow
the body to be buried.
REAR END COLLISION.
New Orleans, La., Dec. 24.—At midnight
last night there was a rear end collision
at Viot, near Raceland, La., on the South-
ern Pacific railroad, when a freight train
ran into the west bound passenger. The
freight was making a switch, and in the
dense fog it was impossible to see the
passenger.
Fireman C. Russell of the freight jumped
and was killed. There were no others
injured and the damage done was slight.
ARMENIANS PLEASED.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 24.—The Armenians
of this city report that they and their coun-
trymen throughout the state are pleased
with the report that the duke of Teck
may be appointed protector of Armenia.
At a meeting of United Friends of Arme-
nia, held last night, the proposition was
received with favor and letters from Lynn,
Lawrence and Worcester were read in-
dorsing the proposal.
GERMAN KNIGHTS.
New York, Dec. 21.—The German memb-
ers of the Knights of Pythias have decided
to withdraw from the order rnd organize
into a new order to be known as the "Im-
proved Order of the Knights of Pythias."
This has been brought about by the re-
fusal of the grand lodge of the Knights
to rescind a resolution which stopped the
use of the German ritual In German lodges.
SALESMAN BEATEN.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 24.—John Moore, a well
known clothing salesman for a clothing
house in this city, was taken from his
home in Marietta Saturday and so severely
beaten that he Is still confined to his bed.
His nose was broken and other parts of
his body was badly bruised. It is sup-
posed to be the work of relatives of a
man whom Moore fought with and whip-
ped several months ago.
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IMMENSE LENS.
Chicago, 111., Dec. 24.—Louis Gathman,
the inventor, said to-day that he had ac-
cepted an offer of ten acres of land at
Lake Geneva, Wis., where he will locate
an observatory and factory, work upon
which will begin In the spring. He pro-
poses to erect a 50-lnch sectional lens,
which will outdo the great Lick telescope
or any other in existence.
shot and killed his wife at a dance, alleg-
ing jealousy as his motive. Lawson es-
caped, but is 'being pursued and will be
lynched if caught.
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WANTED TO BE A GUARDIAN.
New York, Dec. 24.—"Would you like to
be the guardian of a Philadelphia girl
worth $20,000 and get $2000 yearly?" asked
Edward O. Campagnon, who lives on East
Third street.
John Ortoll said he would.
"You will have to put up $1000 security,"
said Campagnon. Ortoll did not have the
money, but drew $400 out of a savings
bank. The two men went to a saloon near
the Grand Central depot, where Campag-
non met two friends. One of them had a
tin box, which was said to contain $2000 in
gold. Ortoll was induced to give Campag-
non his money, which was to be placed in
the box with the gold, which should re-
main in his possession. Campagnon was
to keen the key. Ortoli took the box home.
Two days after he told his story to a
friend. The box was onened and was
found to contain only a few pieces of lead.
Ortoli met Campagnon on Park Row nnd
paused his arrest. He was arrnigned be-
fore Justice Ryan in the Tombs police
court and held for trial.
LEADVILLE SMELTERS.
Leadville, Col., Dec. 24.—The statement of
the smelters for 1S94 show the bullion pro-
duced from Leadville ores during 1894
amounts to $8,160,040. The gold output for
the year Is $1,934,240, an increase In gold
over the 1893 production of $131,910. The ton-
nage of this camp for the year is 372.900
tons of ore, an increase of over 22,000 tons
over 1893.
The aggregate production of the Lend-
ville mines 1879 to 189!. inclusive, in gold,
silver and lead amounts to $196,449,447. The
number of men engaeed in the mining,
smelting and ore hauling business in this
district is as follows: Miners, 2231; smelter
hni ds. 650: ore handlers, 150.
During the last vear four Leadville smelt-
ers that are running—the Arkansas Val-
ley. Union, Bimetallic and Elcln— handled
220,288 tons of ore, producing $0,846,484. The
balance of the bullion from this district
was produced by the valley smelters.
FELL DEAD.
Waco, Tex., Dec. 21.—George Ra'ls, a well
known colored man, fell dead to-day while
plying his avocation as drayman. He had
a tooth pulled In the morning and returned
to his work of hauling cotton in the ailer-
noon. While receiving ordsrs in a shipper's
office he suddenly reeled and fell heavily
to the floor a corpse, dying without a sigh
or groan. Justice J. N. Gallagher inquest-
ed the remains and ascertained that the
death was occasioned by apoplexy.
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BRENHAM NOTES.
Brenham. Tex., Dec. 24.—The Second regi-
ment band to-day renewed their contract
with Prof. W. A. Jnkel, their bandmaster
and instructor, for the ensuing year.
Rev. W. Wimberly, the newly appointed
pastor of the Methodist church, preached
his initial sermon yesterday morning to a
large congregation.
There was midnight mass at the Catholic
church to-night.
A VALUABLE ENVELOPE.
Brenham, Tex., Dec. 34.—Yesterday af-
ternoon Guy McNeese, local manager of
the Southwestern telegraph and telephone
company, lost an envelope addressed to
H. L. Sprairue of Austin, cashier of the
company. The envelope contained $115 in
cash arid $109 In vouchers. Mr. McNeese
does not know where he lost the package.
KILLED HIS PARTNER.
Boggs, Wyo., Dec. 24.—James Under-
wood, one of the proprietors of a saloon,
shot and killed his partner, W. Walker,
and fatally wounded another man named
Harbo, whom he charged with being im-
plicated with Walker in robbing him of
the receipts of the business.
SNOWBALL IN JAIL.
Brenham, Tex., Dec. 24.—Snowball, the
negro bootblack wanted here for stabbing
little Walter Chlsolm, was captured at
Caldwell by Sheriff Wilson yesterday.
Sheriff Teague went up and brought him
to Brenham. He is now in jail.
TO ISSUE BONDS.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 24.—The stock-
holders of the reorganized Nashville street
railroad company met to-day and author-
ized the issuance of $2,000,000 of bonds, to
redeem underlying bonds and to provide
for necessary improvements.
BROKE HIS NECK.
Perry, Ok., Dec. 24.—Lionel Truesdall, a
farmer living In the eastern part of Noble
county, broke his neck In a peculiar way.
He was swinging and by some means
caught his head in the rope in such a man-
ner that he broke his neck.
MORTUARY.
A FINANCIAL PLAN.
FATALLY CRUSHED.
Guthrie, Ok., Dec. 24.—Elmer Barber, a
youns man from the country, fell off a
loaded wagon while coming to town this
morning, and the wheels passed over and
fatally crushed him.
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TOOK MORPHINE.
Ardmore, I. T., Doc. 24.—T. C. McCauley,
a. Chickasaw citizen, more familiarly
known as Bud McCauley. committed sui-
cide last night with morphine.
MRS. WARE.
Colorado, Mitchell Co., Tex., Dec. 24.—
Mrs. Ware, wife of B. F. Ware, and
mother of United States Marshal R. F.
Ware. Tol and Charles Ware of Amarillo
and Fort Worth, died this afternoon.
C. H. MALLORY.
Taylor, Williamson Co., Tex., Dec. 24.—
C. H. Mallory, senior member of the well
known live stock commission firm of Mal-
lory & Son, Chicago, died here this morn-
ing. The remains were shipped to Chi-
cago for Interment.
MRS. E. B. WOMACK.
Hempstead, Waller Co., Tex., Dec. 24.—
Mrs. Womaek, wife of Hon. E. B.
Womack, died yesterday at the family resi-
dence, ten miles from here.
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MARRIAGES,
GOWAN-MORLEY.
Georgetown, Williamson Co., Tex., Dec.
23.—Mr. Meredith Gowan of Corsicana and
Miss Alice Morley of Austin were married
at the Georgetown hotel in this city on
Saturday evening, Rev. J. H. Hodges offi-
ciating.
RANKIN—MAY.
Yoakum, DeWitt Co., Tex., Dec. 24.—Mar-
ried at the residence of the bride's par-
ents on last evening. Miss Maggie May
to Mr. Tommle Rankin, Rev. Father For-
est officiating.
THE NEWS BRIEFED.
FIGHT OVER A CLAIM.
Perry, Ok., Dec. 24.—A terrible fight oc-
curred in Red Rock township, this county,
fifteen miles north of Perry, this evening.
A neighbor and Bryant Cagle fell out over
a claim and a fight was the result, during
which Cagle's head was split wide open
with an ax.
SHOT HIS WIFE.
Madelria, Cal., Dec. 24.—James Lawson,
acquitted a month ago on a. charge of
murdering hla stepdaughter, deliberately
Birmingham, Ala.—W. H. Gordon, fore-
man of the Payne basket factory, on the
the 20th was turning steam Into an empty
barrel to clean it when the head blew out,
fatally scalding htm. He leaves a wife and
children.
Montgomery, Ala.—On the 21st William I.
Stuckey shot and killed a negro named
Hoskins, who was intoxicated and was
advancing on Stuekey's father with a
brick. Stuckey surrendered after the
shooting.
Winder, Ga.—Edward Delaperrlere, a
young man about 23 years old, who lived
a few miles from Winder, was accident-
ally shot by a friend of his with a breech-
loading shotgun a few days ago, the
wound causing his death. The man was
loading the gun and Jerked the breech to-
gether, causing It to fire the entire load of
bird shot into the thigh of Mr. Delaper-
rlere, who was only a few feet away.
Issue of $1,000,000,000 of National
Currency at 5 Prr Cent for
Irrigation.
It Will Bring- an Annual Income of
$50,000,000 and Perform Its Function
as a Medium of Exchange.
All would probably have been burned to
death had not word been taken to Officer
Forrester by a friend of one of the pris-
oners, who had permission to go in the
outer gate, where he discovered the Are.
Waldrip, Tex., Dec. 20.—To The News:
The great state irrigation meeting is over
and an association formed who will ap-
ply to the state legislature to enact laws
for the storage and distribution of the
waters of the state. Then we want the
money, and that Is a big question, In
fact, the main question. Congress Is now
discussing a new financial system that may
have a bearing on the money required
for irrigation purposes, and in compliance
with the president's desire to gain all
the information possible bearing on the
new projected financial system I submit
the following suggestions and observations
thereon:
Congress has made a donation of a mil-
lion acres to each state having arid land
that needs irrigation. Now they want
the government to provide the means of
doing so. If they pay for the use of the
public credit it is all right, and this is
how it may be done. Let the government
authorize the issue of a thousand mil-
lion of national currency, subject to the
demands of the states as they proceed
with the works and bearing interest at
the rate of five per cent.* This amount
is wanted now as a circulating medium,
and as it will take some time for the
states to expend that amount in irri-
gation and water ways, it would be well
in the meantime to open an account cur-
rent with each Individual banking Insti-
tution in the nation, allowing them a
credit of fifty to seventy-live per cent of
their paid up and unimpaired capital
stock at four per cent, the government
providing for its own insurance. This
would give us an elastic currency and
place every banking institution on its
own botton solid and uncontrolled by a
central money power.
As the irrigation works and water ways
in the states proceed, this loan to the banks
would be diminished till nothing is left,
but the banks would still be in existence
and would get their capital from individ-
ual depositors. Then every dollar of this
thousand million would represent one dol-
lar's worth of labor and would bring an
annual Income to the national treasury
of fifty millions along with a redemption
fund of 1 per cent. If this ia a government
of the people, by the people, and for the
people in fact, the profit on this issue of
legal tender notes belongs to the people.
Are the people going to continue to send
men to congress who will put fifty mil-
lions a year into the pockets of the na-
tional bankers instead of putting it in the
national treasury? It is not claimed that
either the Baltimore plan or the Carlisle
plan will put 1 cent in the treasury—merely
secure the nation against loss and give us
a circulating medium that can be ex-
panded or contracted at the pleasure of
banks. Neither plan can make the notes
of the national banks a legal tender. Bank
notes that are called money are not
money. iMoncy to be money must have a
legal tender qualification. We can not pay
a debt with bank notes if the creditor ob-
jects, and it is a grave question to destroy
money that has behind It the national
wealth of seventy thousand millions and
the annual products of seventy millions of
people and substitute a currency based on
elg'jit hundred millions of paid up bank
capiital that is loaned out to Tom. Dick
and Harry. It is true that the Scottish
national banking system is sustained on
this line, but every Scotchman will defend
his national institutions "to the last of his
blood and his breath" while the bells would
ring and the nation rejoice at the down-
fall of the Scottish system in America. It
is only eighteen years since the Western
bank of Scotland made the first break and
failed for $1S,000,000 and an appeal to pa-
triotic' Scotchmen throughout the world
raised a fund that paid its indebtedness
in full, principal and interest. No such
thing has ever occurred in the United
States.
It may be asked, Why these rates of in-
terest? There are millions of people in the
nation who lay by in savings and loan and
other Institutions something that will
fetch them an income in their declining
years. At the present time this money is
invested in undoubted security at 4 and 5
per cent. If we loan money to the states
for less we would be doing an Injustice to
every thrifty citizen of the United States.
It is not cheap money that is wanted, but
a plenty of It at a fair rate of interest-
but not too much. We know that it is
scarce now when our staple cotton is
moved with 10 and 12-per-cent money, as
was investigated at the Waco cotton pal-
ace. Again, a great deal of the money that
is loaned by the banks is time-deposit
money, for which they pay around 4 per
cent. If the banks could get all the money
they needed from the government for noth-
ing would they pay 3Vj» or 4 per cent to
their time depositors? This would be more
outrageous than the populist plan of lend-
ing at 2 per cent. Their plan would only
confiscate CO per cent of the hard-earned
Bavings of thrifty people, but the bankers'
plan, or the Carlisle plan, would confis-
cate the earning power of the whole con-
cern.
The people of the nation are now labor-
ing with a nightmare calamity. An ap-
propriation of $1,000,000,000 to be expended in
labor would break the spell even before a
lick of work Is struck. It would double the
value of every western railroad and put a
backbone into every western security, rid
the nation of tramps and inaugurate a
reign of hope, confidence and prosperity.
Every dollar as It was earned would be
contributing annually Its 5 cents to the
national treasury and if it was farmed as
a Rothschild would farm it in sixty yenrs
it would amount to $$,000,000,00*3 without the
Issue of another dollar, and If we Issued 1
per cent of the thousand million every year
to make good the losses by fire and v/ater
and other contingencies it would be $10,-
000,000,000, with an annual income to the
treasury of $500,000,000. With our pensions
of $160,000,000 a year on the down grade and
our ever increasing revenues from the pub-
lic credit, tariff, custom houses and inter-
nal revenue would soon be matters of his-
tory. as all expenses of the government
would be borne by the interest of the na-
tional credit.
Prof. Max Muller not long ago found
from Sanscrit authority that ancient Baby-
lon had a gold standard, and he also found
that 13V2 times the weight of silver Was
the legal equivalent of 1 of gold. Thus the
debtor had the chol«>e of paying In gold
or Its equivalent. This is the oldest au-
thority on record. All that Is wanted to
protect us from a raid on the treasury for
our gold is to mane 16 parts of silver the
legal equivalent of 1 of gold—this is abso-
lutely necessary—and this under present
conditions would be incidentally almost ab-
solute protection to our manufacturing in-
terests.
No nation on the earth has progressed
to be in a condition to take advantage of the
true science of government but the United
States, in making the profits arising Horn
public works, built with the credit money
of the nation equal to the expense of run-
ning the government, and if Mr. Cleveland
wishes his name to roll down on the annals
of time as the founder of the true science
of civilized government, lie will lose no
time in Issuing his mandate for the Issu-
ing of this $1,000,000,000 and make 16 of silver
the legal tender, equivalent to i of gold,
and also make silver certificates a legal
tender. We can got along without coinage
for awhile, and thus Relieve the conaclc noe
of those who have sworn so vehemently
against the free and unlimited coinage of
silver.
If Mr. Cleveland and congress will give
a sober and thoughtful consideration to
the foregoing they will find that when the
money is expended and the irrigation and
waterways completed the government still
owns the $1,000,000,000 and that it will fetch
in an annual income of $50,000,000 and inci-
dentally perform Its daily functions as a
medium of exchange. The bankers' plan
and the Carlisle plan are plans to get
money in circulation—and it is accomplished
as fully as an incident In the foregoing
suggestions. ALEX. MITCHELL.
TALE OF CRIME.
FIRE IN A CALABOOSE.
Navasota, Grimes Co., Tex., Dec. 24.—
Parcal Arganda, the Mexican charged with
stealing a lot of goods In open daylight,
was caught after a lively foot-race, and
placed in the calaboose. Last night he set
lire to the building, which Is of wood. The
fire gained enough headway to almost
suffocate the five prisoners Incarcerated.
Another Account of Georgia Lawless-
ness.
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 24.—Telegrams this
afternoon from different parties in Brooks
county throw a different light on the
wholesale slaughter of negroes in that
county. The dispatches say never before
in the history of Brooks county has there
been so much crime and bloodshed as
in the past few weeks. Six murders have
been committed within the past week.
News has just, been received of outrages
committed in this county that almost equal
the much talked of Armenian outrages.
A few days ago John Isom was shot down
In cold blood. Isom's friend's armed them-
selves and went in search of Pike. Not
succeeding In finding him, they went to
the house of Samuel Taylor, an inoffensive
negro, who is the stepfather of Pike, and
threatened him if he did not tell where
Pike was. Taylor affirmed that he did
not know anything about It, and he was
immediately shot to death. Several bul-
lets entered his body.
From Taylor's t'hey went to the house of
Ell Frazer, who has always borne the rep-
utation of be'ing a good negro. Frazer was
carried down the road a short distance,
and when his wife found him 'he was mur-
dered by the roadside. From Frazer's they
went to the house of Harry Sherwood, who
was also foully murdered. It is reported
that the men, after murdering the negroes,
entered t'helr houses and submitted their
wives and daughters to the most barbarous
treatment ever heard of In a civilized com-
munity. Many negroes are leaving the
community.
A coroner's inquest was held over the
body of Taylor and a jury returned a ver-
dict of murder at the hands of Ben Till-
man and Albert Altman. All good people
of the community deeply deplore the
events and will endeavor to bring the
guilty parties to justice.
THE GEORGIA RACE WATt.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 24.—A special to the
Journal from Quitman, Ga., at 3 p. m. is
that hands of white men are capturing the
colored men and women and applying tor-
tures to make them reveal the hiding place
of Waverly Pike.
The sheriff is organizing a posse to go
to the scene of the trouble. The governor
will be telegraphed for troops if the trou-
!ble can not be put down. A large crowd of
whites and 'blacks are here appealing for
protection. The excitement Is intense. The
negroes have left their homes In the upper
portion of the county and say they are
afraid to stop there.
HE KNEW THE JUDGE
And Led a Reporter to That Functionary's
House.
Atlanta Constitution.
There's a newspaper reporter in Atlanta
who tells a good one on himself played by
the Irrepressible Chief Justice Logan E.
Bleckley. The reporter had but lately come
to Atlanta to enter -the newspaper busi-
ness. He was assigned to Interview the
chief justice on some important matter.
He went to the capitol late in the after-
noon to find that the distinguished Geor-
gian had just gone home. He was told that
he resided on Peaahtree, and with this
meager 'bit of information he started after
him. Having never had the honor of an
acquaintance with the chief justice, hav-
ing never even seen him, the young man
determined to ask the first man he met
on the streets where the judge lived. As
it happened, the first man he tackled was
a tall, slender gentleman, slightly stooped,
with" long wavy hair, all white with the
"frosts from the almond tree." The elder-
ly man was going out Peach tree in the
same direction the reporter was bent. It
was a dark, rainy evening, and It was
already bordering on night. The winds
•blew the gray locks of the elderly gentle-
man back and forth, and the streets ran
deep In water.
"Excuse me, sir," said the reporter, "can
you tell me where Judge Bleckley lives?"
It was a long time before the stranger
answered. When he did it came this way:
"I guess so." Another pause. "If you
will go with me I will show you the place.
I am going out that way."
They walked on together. The elderly
gentleman was not without words. He
talked about the stormy night and asked
the reporter if he didn't find it disagree-
able going out in the streets such nights.
They finally halted before a small cottage
on Peach tree.
"I think you will find Judge Bleckley in
here," said the stranger. "I'll go In with
you."
"Oh, never mind. You are too kind,"
said the reporter, in deep and genuine gat-
itude.
"Yes, I'll go in with you. T feel at home
here," remarked the stranger, indifferently.
They entered the door without knocking or
ringing, and the man seemed to know
something about the place, for he said:
"Just hang your hat on that nail up there
and walk in to your right to the little re-
ception room, as we call It."
The reporter began to think he was lucky
In running against so intimate a friend of
Judge Bleckley, but there was a kind of
mystery creeping over the conduct of the
elderly gentleman that made him feel just
a little "woozy."
The man with long gray locks walked de-
liberately up to the grate, removed the
blower, looked in and, turning to the re-
porter, said: "There Is coal here, but no
fire. Now, if you want to see Judge Bleck-
ley and don't want to see him long I won't
build a fire."
"No, no; I only want to see him for a
minute," said the newspaper man, a little
bewildered, but never once dreaming of the
end.
"Well, sir," nnd the voice came slow and
mysterious, "If you want to see Judge
Bleckley. Judge Bleckley is before you."
The joke fell full upon the newspaper
man and stunned him. It was several min-
utes before he could go on with the inter-
vie w.
UNDER ARREST AT EL PASO.
El Paso, Tex., Dec. 24.—A. C. Reese, who
claims to have been at one time superin-
tendent of the Detroit, Lansing and North-
ern railroad, languishes In jail, while he
prays to be kept from the gallows. He
was arrested to-day charged with having
decoyed several little girls to his room
for the purpose of criminally assaulting
them. His scheme was to promise bicycles
to the little girls In order to secure a
visit. Reese has had no occupation since
coming here.
LATE HOUSTON NEWS.
Houston, Tex., Dec. 25.—After midnight
John Butts, the colored porter at Daisy
Douglass', on Prairie avenue, shot and
wounded Tom Angling, but not danger-
ously. Butts was arrested and jailed.
To-night Dr. Rube, while going Into
9adle Coman's gate, was wounded by
some one, who threw a bomb at him. The
leg below the knee was badly lacerated.
The bomb was evidently loaded with
slugs. He was taken home In a carriage.
The thrower escaped undetected.
o
CONDITIONS OF PEACE.
London, Dec. 24.—A dispatch from Shang-
hai states that the Mercury of that city
says that the chief conditions of peace on
which Japan Insists is a close alliance be-
tween herself and China against European
Influence, the development of Chinese
trade and commerce with Japan and that
Japan shall undertake the effective reor-
ganization of the Chinese army and navy.
GROCERY FIRM ASSIGNS.
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 24.—Bottman Bros.
& Co., one of the oldest grocery firms In
this city, assigned to-day. Liabilities,
$125,000.
o-
GOULD BUYS A DOG.
Toronto, Ont., Dec. 24.—George Gould of
New York has purchased from the Cana-
dian kennels the field trial pointer Mar-
garet by King of Kent at a big figure.
CURRENT COMMENT.
Pittsburg Dispatch (R): A careful perusal
of all the statements concerning ex-Presi-
dent's Harrison's attitude in the presiden-
tial struggle leads to the conclusion that
he will be prepared to grapple with the
nomination if it comes his way. It is the
uncertainty as to whether the presidential
electrical disturbance will manifest itself
in the form of chain, zigzag or sheet light-
ning, and where the storm area will be
centered, that is causing all of the trouble.
• • •
Boston Globe: A new terror has been
atjded to insomnia. A New York lawyer,
who has already collected $500 from his cli-
ent, demands $3000 more for his services,
one of the large items in his bill being for
"lying awake nights thinking over the
case." That is even more expressive, it
would seem, than ordinary lawyer's lying.
*. •
Omaha Bee: The members of the Ger-
man parliament who refused to rise and
cheer the emperor at the opening of the
session will be allowed to get off with a
rebuke instead of being put on a diet of
bread and water for a few weeks. This
must be very consoling to the offenders
against majesty. It only emphasizes the
old adage that you can bring a horse to
water, but you can not make him drink.
* • ♦
New York World: The correspondence In
the matter of the Armenian outrages was
laid before congress yesterday and it shows
that Air. Gresham has acted with entire
propriety. Consul Jewett, who will accom-
pany the sultan's commissioners, goes as
an American consul, and will make noth-
ing beyond a consular report to the de-
partment of state. Perhaps this will con-
vince the Parisian press that America is
not about to become one of the great
European powers.
♦ * *
Springfield Republican: It just happened
so, no doubt, but it is not altogether for-
tunate that the first application of the
Sherman anti-trust law should be made
against a labor union for conspiracy. The
law has been in force four years and was
designed to suppress combinations or con-
spiracies of capital. But so far as the
trusts go it has been a dead letter.
• • •
Louisville Courier-Journal: A republican
organ declares that "t»he tricks and legal
quibbles resorted to in order to prevent
the -men from holding offices to which the
people have elected them are as shame-
ful as the frauds committed to defeat them.
The whole business is infamous to the
last degree." Just so. Such condemnation .
is particularly deserved by the republicans
o.f California, who are now trying to de-
fraud the democratic governor-elect, Budd,
of 'his office. For Budd is about the only
democrat elected to anything this year.
• • •
Pittsburg Post: The striking peculiarity
of the late tidal wave over all others
known to history Is that the defeated party
finds its great principle in large part in-
dorsed by this universal tirade of repub-
lican newspapers and leaders against Mc-
Kinleyism, which held the citadel of pro-
tection and was routed therefrom by the
defeated but still triumphant democracy.
We have no doubt the republicans pro-
pose the same game practiced by the torles
of England, on paliamentary and suffrage
reform, when they stole that issue from
the liberals, while the latter were off
guard, just as the democrats were a month
ago.
• * •
Montgomery Advertiser: The north and
west have had the advantage over the
south more because of the greater quan-
tity of grain raised there than the differ-
ence In climate. If the south raised the
corn necessary to fatten vast quantities
of hogs the cold storage appliances could
be put Into operation here. It Is neces-
sary to use them up there until sale or
consumption of the cured product. The
south can produce its own corn. That
has been developed this year. Why not
start In next year to raise all its own
pork? The money paid to other states for
corn and meat by southern people would
make great fortunes for our people If
kept here at home. Even at 6-cent cotton
they would make more than to get higher
prices and pay it all out for something
to eat.
ROYAL SKELETONS.
Washington Post.
The stories of the physical Idiosyncrasies
of the great ruling houses of Europe are
discreetly whispered in diplomatic confi-
dences. Each royal family has its particu-
larly fatal Inheritance of disease. The
Romanoffs, since the great Peter's time,
have been liable to a deadly spinal trouble
complicated with renal affections. The
house of Hapsburgs are hereditary victims
of epilepsy, complicated with frequent open
insanity. The Hohcnzollerns have a scrof-
ulous tendency that takes sometimes a
cancerous form, and England's royal blood
Imported from Hanover has a like weak-
ness that in later life may become Insanity.
Old Emperor William Frederick of Prussia
succeeded to his brother, Frederick Will-
iam IV, because the latter was Insane.
Every one who has seen Queen Isabella of
Spain remembers the horrible scrofulous
scars on her neck, which no artistic cover-
ing could ever disguise.
So it is with every great reigning family
of Europe except the kings of the Scandi-
navian states.
HANGING UP THE STOCKINGS.
The following beautiful Christmas poem
was written by Miss Nettie Houston
ISringhurst of Bryan, and first appeared In
The" News several years ago, though after
traveling around the newspaper circle It
found Its way back to its author's home
a few days ago, and was republished by
the Bryan Eagle, which erroneously
credited the Atlanta Constitution with hav-
ing first put it Into print.
Night has fallen o'er the snowdrifts,
Pillowed In each baby head;
And the Christmas tree Is laden.
For the children are in bed.
Side by side the little stockings
Hang upon the nursery wall,
Santa Claus came down the chimney.
Thro' the snow to fill them all.
Plump and full I see them hanging, i
Holding all their treasures fast;
And beyond those tiny stockings
Visions greet me from the past,
Scenes from my own sunny childhood,
Brightened by a mother's love;
Ever present love that guided
Where my little feet might move.
And again I see bright stockings;
Like the children's, plump and small.
Flashing crimson in the firelight,
Hang upon the nursery wall,
Stockings filled by loving lingers,
Ere the tired hands reposed; ;
WThen my baby mouth was silent, *
And my happy eyes were closed.
Oh, the blessed faith of childhood!
Fled from me forever more!
All your joys are passed and vanished,
Christmas mirth for me is o'er.
I have seen each bright hope perish,
Watched each thing that loved me die;
To the beauty of my childhood
I have said a long good bye!
Yet, when Christmas snows lie heavy,
And I watch the white flakes fall,
Memory haunts me with her pictures
Of bright stockings on the wall.
Pictures of my fair dead mother,
Of the love that crowned my life,
When I dream'd of dolls and playthings,
Not of worldly care and strife.
On my lap my hands lie Idle, i.
Let me dream a while to-night:
Not of womanhood and wisdom,
But of childhood, love and light.
Lot me feel that sweet faith stirring
All my heart now as of old,
Faith In Santa Claus gift laden, ,
Creeping In through snow and cold.
Leave the hopes of youth behind me, '•
Trample fame beneath my feet.
Take me back to sunny childhood,
When my life was fresh and sweet!
What have lore and learning brought me,
That I would not give again?
What has womanhood e'er taught me.
But that life is bitter pain?
Ah, to-night I place In fancy
One more stocking on the wall,
'Tis my life with Its dropped stitches—
In the web I see them all.
Take, oh time, your years of learning;
Take your gifts, I spurn them alll
Give me back the faith of childhood.
Hang my stocking oa the wall! .. ..
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