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Bryan's Campaign Speeches. AT PICKDKKICKSBUItO, V,V An Eloquent Tribute to Motherhood at the Oravc of Mary Washington. On his journey to Washington, D. C, Mr. Bryan halted for a short tiuio at Froderioxsburg, Vu., and ho was tukon to the monument lately orcctcd to the memory of Mary Washington, the mother of George Washington, whore a stand had boon ereoted, and the oandidate addressed a large gathering of Virginians as follows : Ladles and Gentlemen : I am grate ful to the mayor of your city for his oloquent words of welcome ; I am glad to renew my acquaintance with my colleague In Congress who has bo kindly presentod mo, and I am pleased to greet the people who have assembl ed in largo numbers on this occasion. Frederic kebuvg is not a largo city and yet is rich In incidents of groat historic value. Here the women of America have reared a monument tu Mary, the mother of George Washington. (Groat upplauso.) 1 urn glad to stand on this spot; I am glad to feel influences which surround her grave. In a campaign, especially in a campaign like this, there is bittorness and sometimes abuse levelled against the candidates for pub lic otllco, but my friends there is one charactor, tho muther, the cai.didato for the ailectionof all mankind, against whom no true man over uttered a word of abuse. (Great applause.) And there is one name "mother" which is never found upon tho tongue of the slanderor; In her prosonce, ail criticism in silent. Tho paintor has with his brush transferred tho landscape to the canvass so that you can almost bolieve that tho trees und grasses are real rather t'jan imitations. Tho paintor hasoven transferred to tho canvas the faco of the maiden until its beauty und purity almost speak forth, but there is ono pioture which no painter has ovor boon able to faithfully portray, and that Is a picture of a mother holding in her arms her . babe. (Grout upplauso.) Within tho shadow of this monuinont reared to hor who in love and loyalty was tho mother of oach one of us, 1 bow in humblo rovoronco to motherhood. (Great upplauso.) I am told that in this county wcro fought more, buttles than in any county of like size in the world and that upon 1 tho earth within tho limits of this county there foil more dead and wound ed than ever fell on a similar space in all tho history of tho world. ilero opposing linos were drawn up, faco to 1 face ; hero opposing armies mot and stared at each other and then sought 1 to take each others' lives, but all those scenes have passed away and those who meot in deadly array now meet and commingle here as friends. (Ap plaubo.) Here tho ploughshare has [ boon mude out of the sword and tho spears have been convoi tod into prun- ] ing hooks and people learn war no 1 more. Hero tho bands on either side 1 stir up the Hugging zeal with notes 1 that thrill the hearts of men. The?e j two bands are now component, parts of j one great hand and as that band marches on in the lead playing," Yankee ( Doodlo" and "Dixie,'* too, (groat up- 1 plause) behind tho band follow war- 1 scarred veterans who woro tho blue 1 and the war-scarred votorans who wore ! the grey, oach vicing with eaeh other ' in the effort to mako this tho greatest 1 and grandest nation on God's footstool. 1 (Great cheering) I am glad to visit this historic placo. They say thut hero Goorgo Washing ton once came and threw a silver dol- 1 lar across the rivor, but remember, my friends, that whon he throw that 1 6iivor dollar across the rivejr it lit, it fell and remained on American soil, i (Great cheering.) Thoy thought that i it was a great feat then, but we havo i doveloped so rapidly in the last 10U years that we have financiers now who j who can leavo Goorgo Washington's i achievement far behind. Wo have finan ciers who havo been able to throw gold dollars all the way across the Atlantic and then bring them back by an issue of bonds. (Great cheering.) Would you boliovo, my friends, that i i silvor dollar which was good enough J :o be handled by tho father of his | ;<.'untry, is now so mean a thing as to >cite the contempt of many of our 60 alled tinanclors. (No, no!) Well, dt la so mean that thoy don't like it. Why jur oppononts tell us thut they want a it'llar that will go all ovor the world. , vVo havo had dollars which have gono :>vor the world so rapidly that wo want a dollar that will stay at homo without .?curfew law. (Cheers.) Our opponents -.oil us that they want a dollar which i.hey can see anywhoro In the world If t.boy travel abroad. I am not so much vorrlod about our dollars which travel i.broad. X want a dollar that wont be ashamed to look a farmer in tho face. (Loud applause.) People can have just as good a dollar as they want because dollars are crea tures of law, and you cun deterraiuo the purchasing power of a dollar when fou determine tho number of dollars, f you want dollars dear make them scarce and thoy will be dear. If our dollars are good enough now when a dollar will buy 10 bushels of oats, you can make it good enough so that it will buy 100 bushols of oats. (A Voico: "We don't want that kind of a dollar.") If anybody here has been raising farm products und complaining becauso tbey are not oheap enough you can mako them cheaper if you vote tho Republi can ticket this fall. AT THF NATION A ti CAPITA^., Urges the Doctrine of Home Rule? Makes an Assault on the Cleveland Administration. The orowd in Washington was esti mated at 10,000, but a rain storm lit ter fered with the meeting. Mr. Bryan's speech was as follows : Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle men?I am grateful to you for the very cordial welcome which you havo ex tended to me as I return to the city in which four years'of my o?lolal life were spent. Here one of the orowd, catohing on to the words "four years," shouted " four years more," and the point was quickly taken up and erl?s of " good " and cheers were given. Mr. Bryan, proceeded : I see before me the faces Of a groat' many who are known as young men. I am glad to speak to the young because, we who are young and who in the com nature must live tfnder our govern ment for many years,are interested in making that government good enough to live under. (ApplauBO.) I desire to call your attention, to two planks In the platform adopted at Chicago, before touching on other matters con nected with tho campaign? 1 apeak of these two planks because they cor.? eern the people who live in tho Did* triclOf Columbia. Tho Chicago plat form conialna this plank : " Wo faVot i. of the territories of Now and while- they remain territories we aold that the officials appointed to ad minister the government of any terri tory, together with tho District of Co lumbia and Alaska, should be bona Ade residents of tho territory or dls trlot in which tho duties are to be per formed." (Applause.) I desire to emphasize these words : "Tho Democratic party bolleves in home rule." (Applause.) I believe in that platform and in that plank of the platform and that portion of tho plank which I have emphasized, and when I say I believe in home rule, I do not mean that there shall he a home in tho distriot or in the territories after tho rulers commenco to rule, but that they Bhall live there before they are ap pointed. (Applause.) Lot mo road another plank: "Wo aro opposed to life tenure in the public 8orvlce. (Applause.) We favor ap pointments based upon merit, fixed terms of office ind suoh an administra tion of tho civil service laws as will afford equal opportunities to all oltizens of ascertained fitness except as other wise provided by the constitution of the United States." We are in favor of a civil scrvico re form that moans something and not a civil servico reform that pormlts a President to suspend the civil service until he can get his friends into otlice and sustain the servico just as he is going out so as to keep his friends in. (Applause.) We bollove in appoint ments based upon merit and such a 1 mothud of appointment as will open tho oftlcos to men of ascertained fitness. We are in favor of fixed torms of office in tho several departments of the government. We want it so that when a man goes in we will know now long he Is going to stay and when ho Is going out. We don't want to build up an office-holding class and fill the oltices for life, so that when a man gets an otlice ho will have no moro con corn about his country than to draw his salary. (Choors.) We bollovo that tho lifo tenure whloh relieves a man from all further caro is destruc tive of the highest forms of oitizenship and is not to be tolerated in a country llko ours. Our opponents aro doing as much for us in this campaign as we are able to do for ourselves. (Laughter.) Of ull tho public documonts recently issued, tho most important ono is the letter just given to tho public, written by tho secretary of tho treasury, from which I desire to quote one sentence: "It Is tho duty of tho secretary of tho treasury and of all other public officials to excuto In good faith tho policy de clared by Congress," and, mark thoso words, "and whenever ho shall bo satisfied <that the silver dollar cannot bo kept ? equal In purchasing power with tho gold dollar except by receiv ing it in exchange for tho gold dollar when such exchange is demanded, it will bo his duty to adopt that course." [ want you to mark these words, be cause in those words tho seorotary of the treasury tolls you that whenever tho secretary Is satisfied that it is necessary that ho will commence re leeinlng silver dollars in gold. (Laugh ter.) I now call your attention to it bucuuse I want to-emphasize the de ceptions which have been practiced by this administration on tho money ques tion. (Applauso.) When this ad ministration advised tho ropoal of the Sherman law, you wore told the repeal jf tho Sherman law would remove the :litllculty, and yot as soon as the Sher man law was repealed, the same au thority which promised relief as soon as that wus repealed came to Congress with the demand that tho greenbacks mill treasury notes must be retired by an issue of gold bonds in order to stop the drain on tho treasury gold. Tho secretary of the .treasury in forms you that if the greenbacks and tho treasury notes were all retired, bo that there wo ild not bo a dollar of paper money to bo presented for gold, yot It would be his duty to commence to redeem tho silver dollars In gold and to start another ondless ehaln that would drain the treasury. According to the doctrine laid down by Mr. Car lisle, you cannot stop the drain upon the treasury until you retire all the silver dollars and loavo nothing but Sold In the treasury vaults. 1 am glad that our opponents aro thus com pelled to oxposo to the public eye, their heartless, merciless and cri minal policy. I am glad that th y have told tho pub lic wo must have gold alone and thus have confessed that we aro In the hands of two banking syndicates und must pay thom what they want. Talk about monopolies and trusts und horo thoy propose to establish the most gigantic trust?a money trust?and to let tho men who own the gold dole outdt to the other 7,000,000 of American citizens. I denounce that policy as moro cruel and heartless than would be tho domlna rather, as has been said, put. our army In the hands of a foreign general or our navy in command of a Foreign ad miral than put tho treasury depart ment in the hands, of a secretary who would barter it away to a syndicate. (Cheers.) I would rosist suoh a finan cial policy with as much earnestness as I would theaggrcsslvo and invading army. (Choers.) Once when Mr. Lincoln was a oandi datotfor office, some one said to him: " I hope the Lord is on your side," and he replied thut he was more anxious to boon tho Lord's side. (Laughter and !i pjdause. i I am glad that in this oam palgn we have so many evidences that un overruling Providence is on our side and in no ono instance that I know of is that overruling t'rovldence so dis tinctly and clearly manifested as in tho recent lettor of the seorotary of tho treasury. Let me ask you a question. Did tho administration when H recom mended the repeal of the Shorman law believo it would cure our troubles? (Cries 6f " no " and oheers.) If it did then the administration was 90 ab solutely mistaken that you have tho right to disregard and distrust the knowledge of the administration on this question. If the administration know that the ropoal of the Sherman law would not bring rcllof, then you have the right to distrust the honosty of the administration whloh would thus recommend ono polioy and pursue another. (Applause.)' If the administration knew when it recommended iho retirement of tho greenbacks and treasury notes as a means of stopping' the drain on the gold in the treasury that after thoy wore retired a policy would be propos ed suoh as the secretary now recom mends, it was dishonest In not tak ing the people into its contldcnoo at tho time./(Cheers.) If It did not know that then, let It confoss Its ignor anco of tho offices and laws of tho coun-: 1 try. (Applause.) Does the administra tion know now that wfion it starts to re doom the aiiver dollars in gold, it will start another endless chain which will diain tho troasury?endless chain which will continue until thoy retire tlon of any foreign I would a 1 ra and aubeti more right to betray the people Into tbe bands of tbe shylocks of London than Benediot Arnold bad to attempt to betray the American army. (Great applause.) AT DOVISH, DKIj. A Direct Attach- Vpou tho Repub lican. Candidate lor Prcsident^ The Views of Prince Bismarck. Ladies and Gentlemen : Talking out doors is so dlffioult that I must beg you to help me just as much as you can by keeping as quiet as possible and let me aay that if these people who believe in free silver wore as easily seen through as the average gold standard argu ment there would bo no objection to their standing up. (Groat laughtor and continued applause.) Tho chairman said that no presiden tial candidate had ovor before spoken in Hi is State. Aside from tho fact that I have been making quite a complete tour of the country 1 huvoan additional reason for Bpoaklng in Delaware. When tho roll was called and tho nom inating speeches for tho Presidency had been made the first vote which I received was cast by ono of tho dele gates from Delaware, Mr. Salisbury, (applause) who lives in this city, there fore it gives mo a great deal of pleas ure to meet the peoplo who sent him to Chicago. (Applause.) Now, I want to talk to you a whilo about our finan olal condition. If things arc good then there is no roason why wo should make any change in tho legislation. If our present condition is satisfactory then we ought to leave it alono and not make a change. No one can advocate any kind of remedial legislation except on the theory that there is something that needs remedying. Our opponents confess the condition, and when I tell you that you cannot remedy tho present condition except by financial legislation, our opponents say that tho trouble is in the tariff and then times would get good again. I want to read you an extract from a speech made on last Saturday by tho Republican candidate for President at Oanton. Ho said: "Undor tho Republican protective policy we enjoyed for more than thirty years the most marvelous prosperity that has ever been givon to any nation of tho world. Wo not only had Indi vidual prosperity, but wo had national prosperity." Now, thero Is a statement made with in a week by tho Prosldontial candi date on the Republican ticket point ing back for thirty yoars, from 18?0 to 1890, and telling the people that during the poriod we enjoyed tho most mar velous prosperity of any nation in tho world and that wo had both individual prosperity and national prosperity. I want to show you by this same witness' very testimony given six years ago, that after thirty years of his kind of polloy tho farmers of this country were not prosperous. If you will tako the report tiled with tho McKinley bill on the 16th of April, 1890, you will And the words which I wish to quote: "That there is widespread depres sion in this industry today cannot bo doubted." (Speaking of agriculture) That is what tho Presidential candi date said when ho deliberately wrote tho report and tiled it with his pro posed legislation. "That thero Is widespread depression in this country today cannot be doubted." (Applause) Again, in that same report, ho said : "Oneof the chief complaints how prev alent among our farmers is that they can get no price for their orops at all commensurate to tho labor and capital invested in their production." That is what he said after thirty years of tho kind of policy which tho candidate of the Republican party says will bring you prosperity. Lot me read again : "We have not believed that tho peoplo already suffering from low prices can or will be satisfied with legislation which will result in lower prices. No country ever suffered whon prices were fairly remunerative in every field of labor." After thirty years of that kind of policy he tells you that the peo ple are suffering from low prices and that no country ovor sutTorod whon prices wore fairly romunorative in every field of labor. Now let mo road you again what ho says in this samo report: "This great Industry"?speak ing of agriculture?"Is foremost In magnitude and importance In our coun try. Its success and prosperity are vital to the nation. No prospority is possible to other' industries if agricul ture languishes." That is what ho said in 1890, that thero was depression in agrioulture after thirty years of his tariff polloy and that without prosper ity in agrioulture there could be no prosperity among the other industries of the country. Let me read just one other extract: "The depression In ag tioulture is not confined to tho United States. The reports of tho Agricul tural Department indicate that this distress Is general, that Groat Britain, France and Germuny are suffering in a larger degree than the farmers of the United States." There he is telling you that thero is a depression in agrioulture, and giving the names of three prominent agricul tural nations of the old world and telling us that agricultural dopres Slon 18 even more marked over there than it is here. I want you to ro member that when you read in tho paper that ho said that for thirty years wo had such marvelous prospority in this country. V.(Great applauue.) Now, my friends, I have quoted you that he said that ?thoro was depression in agrioulture in Germany. I want to read you what Prince Bismarck says about the condition of affairs in Ger many. Our opponents are in the habit of tell*ng us that all the civilized na 11ons are in favor of the gold standetd The Gormans who 11? o in this country point with just pride to the greatness of this illustrious German, Prlnoo Bismarck. Let nie read to you what he has.sald within a few weeks in re gard to bi metallism and then soo whether ho testifies that the gold standard has boon a good thing for Germany. (Applausp.), In a letter written to Governor Culbertson, of Texas, and dated.on tho 24th of August 1890,'Prince Bismarck has said : "Your esteemed favor of July 1st has been duly received. I have always had a predilection for bl-matallism, . but I would not whllo In office claim in} views of the ma .,-?> Infallibly truo when advanced against tho vlowa of oxports. I hold to this /very hour that It would bo advisabio to bring about botweon tho nationsfchiofly ehgagod In tfu> world's commerce*;a mutual agree ment in favor of the'establishment of hi inetallism." If tho gold standard had be log Germany, whv would ho'notsay that it would he bettbr^to keep the gold standawl instead M getting rid of th? gold standard and Awtitntfng t he double standard by lntorVi?|lQnfcl agr-oo mont W "?stdero? rjrom l\ cntnincftatl ! ? ??.????; :4%t*a-are f>ee? hu eh net ion would exert a most salutary influence upon tbe consummation of international agreement and the com ing into this league of every European nation." . We have those among our people who have said that aomo other nation must take tho lead. Prince Bismarok says that the people of the United States are freer by far in their movements than tho nations of Europe. Then it can bo that this groat German states man has a highor conception of the ability of tho people of the United States than the Torlos who are not willing to do anything until they ask tho consent of other nations? (Great applause and cheoring.) Not only does Prince Bismarck say that we are freer to take action than other nations, but ho says if wo act it will exert a most salutary intluenco upon tho consumma tion of international agreement and the coming into this league of every European nation. Prlnoe Bis marck testifies first, the gold standard is tho policy in Gormany and he wants bi-metalll8m restored; ho testifies, second, that tho United States is in the best wosltion of all the Stuten to take tho lead. He testifies, third, that if tliis nation takes tho lead, it will havo a salutary iniluonce, not in preventing bi-metallism, but bringing other na tions of Kumpe into an international agreement. I desire that you all re member this testimony, coming from so distinguished an authority in Ger many. Let me call your attention to another thing which Prince Bismarok Bald. Our opponents toll us that we aro ar raying ono class against another. Let me show you what Prince Bismarok has said in rogard to tho classes, on the questions which concern agricul tural depression. A little more than a year ago he was quoted as saying to a farmer audience in Germany that the farmers must stand together and pro tect themsolvos from tho drones of so ciety who produce nothing but laws. (Great applause.) Remember the sig nificance of thoso words, that tbe farmers must stand together and pro tect themselves from the drones of society who produce nothing but laws. (Great applause.) My friends, divide society into two classes; on tho ono side put the non producers, and on the other side put tho producors of wealth, and you will find that in this country the majority of the laws are made by the non-pro ducers instead of tho producers of wealth, and just as long as the non-pro ducers make the laws, juat so long will it be more protitable to bo a non-pro ducer of wealth. Bismarok tried to amuse the farmers of Germany to throw out thoso drones and tako oharge of legislation themselves. I suppose they will call Bismarok an agitator. (Laughter and applause.) I suppose they will say that ne ought not to array ono class of society against another. Of course, I do not know how drones feel in a bee hive, but if drones could talk and make speeches, I will b a that you could not tell one of their speeches from the speeches made by the heads of those great trusts who call every body anarchists who do not**beliovo with them. (Applause.) I will ven ture that if a drone could talk and writo and express his ideas in lan guage, that t here is not a momber of a syndicate that bus been beating this government, but who could tako tho drone's speech and use it as his own, and without his being accused of plagi arism. (Great applause.) My friends, that is tho only class Issue that wo raise, and if to say tho peoplo who fight tho nation's battles in time of war havo a right to do tho legislating in time of peace, is raising class against class, then I am willing to bo called an agitator, my friends. (Great applauue and cheers.) AT PHILADELPHIA Tho Quaker City Gets an Insight as to the True Mission of Do mocarcy. Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gen tlemen : I havo always been taught to regard politics as very serious busi ness. In a country like this tho peoplo make tho laws, or at least have a right to, and if they don't Improve the op portunity they enjoy the privilege of suffering because thoy havo noglected the opportunity. (Applause.) If the laws aro not good, tho people them selves are to blamo. In this campaign one great Issue is presented to tho peo ple. If everything Is all right and what you wish it to bo thon It ought not bo changed. If the gold standard is a good thing and wo have had it those many yoars, why is it so many fail to appreciate its blossings. I will tell you, because its blessings have only reached a few peoplo who liko It. (Ap plause.) This is a campaign of eduoation in whioh the newspapors are not doing thoir share of the. vork. (Applause and laughter.) Tm.ro is one thing about truth, that it co-nmonds itself to thoso who receive it, who oxamino it, who investigate it. There is ono thing about error, that it is discarded by fieople when they got acquainted with t and the reason why overy day finds moro advocates of freo coinage is ex plained by the fact that free coinage of sliver is based upon solid rooks and is defended by arguments which ap peal to the heads of those who think and the hearts of thoso who* feel?ar gumonts which aro only useless when directed to the pocket-book. (Ap plause.) I met a prominent man yostorday who said that until tho Chicago con vention acted on tho subjoet ho had never investigated the monoy question and never auppoaod thero was anything in it; that the papora did not soem to consider It worth thinking about. They regarded It as a craze and he did not have time as a businoas man to pay any attention to orazee. But when a groat nation.il party adopted a plat form making the money question the paramount issue ho began' to thinW about it. That was only a few weeks ago. He got to be a orank, and ho said to me: "if Wo don't Win this fight, It is going on until wo do win and I don't caro now many years it takes." (Ap I plauae.) . I oan appr. eiato the feeling of that 'man. I went through the same ex pe rlenen myself. Until six years ago, I thought any man who talked about money was a harmless orank. I did not even listen to his arguments They bad nd weight with me. Six yoars ago I began to study tho question, trying to find out .what was right becauso I was tftugbt to believe If a man Would ground himself on what was right ho could wait for other poople to come to him. L was taught to bollovo no man couid afford to bo wrong no matter bow many ho had In Iiis company. 1 siudltju iuo question. I read books on tooth slfloa and compared them and the road tho deeper became my . lotions until I beoaro? so firmly of lion that there, could he no I prospjJvHy this country tintlr free braeka. It Ib the pioneer. Tho plat form adopted at Chicago on the silver question was first adopted in Nebraska by the silver Democrats there. (Ap plause.) When we did it wo had bolt ers,then as they have had Binco. We had men who claimed to bo Democrats who would not agree to our platform. They called themselves better Demo crats than we were and voted tho Re publican ticket to prove it. (Laughter.) We believe tho Democratic party, which owed its success to the tolling masses, must still, stand by them in their fight against the few if it do servos to continue its existence. Wo organized in Nebraska a Demooratio free silver league. Tho members of that league made an opeu light. They, did not go around in the dark wearing a mask. They said to the Democracy of the State, we are going to tu.ko pos-. session of the machinery of the party if wo ean; we are going to submit this question to the voters. We went out and presented tho questions. When our State convention met wo had three to one and we adopted that platform whloh has beaureadopt.od by. the na tional Democratic convention. (Ap plause.) Thore was never a fairer con tent ever waged. Then we organized a bimetallic Demooratio national league, which went out to do in the nation what free silver Democrats of Nebraska had done in that State. We carried the question to the primaries, and tho voters instructed the delegates to the county conventions and from thore to the State convention and from thero to the national convention. We nr-ver had a convention in this country which more correotly represented the sontl ment of the peoplo who sent tho dele gates than that convention which met at Chicago. It is honor enough to ho the nominee ' of a convention for President. But it is a higher honor yet to be tho nominee of the most Democratic convention ever held in this country. (Applause.) It is suffi cient honor to bp nominated by the machinery of a party, but It is u high er honor still to be nominated by the people in a pa-ty regardless of the ma chinery. (Applause.) Since that platform was adopted tho people have commenced to study the money question. What do they find ? They find that the people of tho West and South, who have been asking for tho restoration of bimetallism, instead of trying to ruin the country aro trying to save it. (Great applause.) Wo aro are trying to help our peop.'e. That is true, but I want to tell you that our people cannot buy of you unless they can sell what they raise. We must havo more than appetites out there. (Laugh ter.) We must have money to pay for those things which gratify tho appe tite. Because you have food to sell don't think you oan soil it just because people are hungry. You havo got to nave people who want it und who hav the money to pay for something to eat. (Great applause.) Your peoplo are Kreducing manufacturing products ere largely. Where do you get your consumers? Wipe out tho farming population and where will you sell the goods you produce? You virtually wipe out the farmers as consumers when you drive down the price of their products so they only realize enough to pay taxes and interest. (Great ap plause.) You have many truck farm ers. When they take what they havo to sell in the to'/ni,hoy lipd tho mark et Is rather dull, and what they got is small compared with what It used to bo. Djus It mean tho people of Phila delphia aro not as huugry as they ever were? 1 venture the assertion there Is more hunger hero in Philadelphia than thero was five years ago. (Great applause.) Is It because people havo lost their taste for tho good things whioh you produco ? No, thero is as much taste as ovor if they could get a chance to try it on' something. (Great applause.) How are you going to In crease your markets? By Increasing the number of poople able to buy what you produce. Will you do that by making dollars dearer? No, dollars do not eat. Thoy devour a great ucal, but they do not cat. (Laughter). How are you going to create markets ? By increasing dollars in tho hands of tbe few ? No, you havo got to restore prospority by stopping tho fall of prices, so men will sell what they produco to get money to buy what you produce. (Applause.) The gold standard newspapers think wo won't bo ablo to get silver Into circulation If wo had free coinage. I want to tell you that thoy will be mighty glad to have subscriptions paid oven In silver dollars if thoso people whom they havo been trying to do j troy in tho interests of foreign capi talists will continue their papers into their houses. (Great applause) Our opponents who are so confident that monoy can boat argument in a cam paign aro glad to uso eil vor dollar for a campaign fund. (Applauso.) Ifyoudo stroy part of our monoy you must bo contont to take a lowor price for what you havo to sell. When you drlvo down tho value of your property, you don't drlvo down tho valuo of tho mort gage you havo agreed to pay. That man still asks the same for lt. Wo don't ask to roduco the amount of mortgages, but I say the mun who holds a mortgage and wants you to pay him In an over growing dollar is tho most dishonest man you can find. Thoy huvo an idea there is only one kind of repu diation. If a debtor wants to pay in a dollar less valuable than the dollar ho borrowod ho is a repudiator, but if the man who holds that mortgage wants him to pay in a dollar worth twice as muoh as when it was loaned that man is a financier and a patriot and you cannot open your mouth against him. (Applause.) If those who hold tho notes of tho people of tho United States have a right to Insist on a gold standard to make their dollars devour more of our farm produots, I wunt to know why the peoplo of tho United States havo not a right in thoir sov oreign majesty to stop the growth of thoso dollars before they get any big ger. (Applause.) ?The New York Times says : " Al though the number of names added to the pension list during the last fiscal year exceeded tho number that dis appeared from it, the commissioner of pensions thinks It may now bo '?' safely assumed" that the roll will show a steady diminution, as tho rato of mor tality of those who servod In tho war is rapidly lnoroasing. If wo were to judgo by the longevity of soldlors by tho pension list, it would be some thing astonishing, for that has steadily inoroasod ov ,r slnoo the war, through the merolful interposition of a bmoll cent Congress,-which may yot again arrest the increasing rato of mortality for pensioners, is ooi for soldlors. It Is something that the disbursements have Como within the enormous appropria tion of > ?140,000,000? but wo obuorvo that the estimate for the next Usual year Is tho same amount, notwith standing the promisod diminution of the roll." ?It was a New Jersoy ?aid, " My dear, If you ca coffee without abusing r TIIK W HATH UK ANI> CHOPS. The Closing Report of thu Season?A Ho view ol'the Heated Term. The following bulletin shows the weather and crop conditions for the wook ending Saturday, Sept. 10 : The past week was very hot. FrL day, the hottest day of thu season over entire State. Weekly mean tempera turo KO; normal approximately 74. Mean temperature ranged betwoen 77 at Grcenvillo and Ueid and 87 and 8(1 at O^kwood and Poverty Hill, respec tively. (Maximum 105on tho 18th atOak wood ; minimum 01 on l.*ith at Choraw, on 14th and loth at Batesburg. Tho rainfall was light and confined to the north central counties?and to Berkeley county. Mont Claro report ed 3.00 ; Cheraw 1.02; Chesterfield 1.00. ?Twelve otber places reported light showers. Tho rainfall In Darlington county damaged opon cotton in the vlolnlty of Mont Claro. Tbe avorage for tho State was 0.10, and the normal is approximately 1.18. Streams aro dried up in muny places; wells are Very lo**tf.";and tboro is a scar city of stock water in tho lower por tions of tho Stute. I Corn is being housed and In places Is disappointing. Gralu loose on ears, but dry and hard. Latest planting amounts to nothing. Cotton about all open and two-thirds picked. In pluces tho entire crop Is gathered. The yiold continues to full Below previous estimates and now an average of all the reports wonld make tho probable yield half of tho July outlook. The fear is cxproseod that much of the seed is defeotivo and planters are cautioned to save the best only for next year's planting. Peas are still dying from tho heat and late peas aro a fullure. Turnips are very poor with no stands except is moist bottom lands. Late hay, other than pea vine, a poor orop. Syrup making contlnuos and tho yield of crop is small butswoot and tho quality of syrup obtained very good. Excellent rice harvest weather and early rice is about all secured. Qiallty and ylold very satisfactory. Late rico not so good. Sweet potatoes aro very poor ; havo stopped growing. Garden truck along tho coast suffer ing for rain, and gardens in tho inter ior are burnt up and aro failures. Crops are now in such a condition that rain would not benefit thorn. oxcopt turnips which could hp ?e-3own. RftlQ would put tho ground In rendition for plowing and -Oeding whi. . is being delayed. REVIEW OP THE SEASON. As this is tho lust bulletin of tho season, a short review of the weather conditions since March is given, ac companied by a table in tho regular report. As to tho tomperature tho tablo shows that every month except Juno was hotter than usual. More extended records than can bo given hero show that tho excess averaged 2 degrees per day. It has been tho hottest sea son since systematic records have been keut, a poriod of 0 yours. Tho table also shows that May and September wore relatively tho holtest months of the year. As to rahifull, the season can bo divided into three periods. Tho first iucludes March, April and May, with half tho usual amount. The Becond includes June and the iiret half of July, about six weeks, with a decided ex cess amounting to about 150 per cont. of tho usual rainfulJgkTho third period includes tho last half of July, all of August and September to date, with about 30 por cont. of the normal amount. A brief summary of crop conditions during the season shows that tho weather was favorable for tho thorough preparation of lands and for early planting, but that germination was slow on uccount of lack of moisture, but that ovontually good stands of all tho principal crops woro obtained. To tho cxccsslvo heat and deficiency iu rainfall in April and . May is ascribed tho poor yiold of small giain, the failure of the fruit crop ; and the poor under sized tobacco sets, and the com plete failure of early gardens. Beginning with June, thero wore six weeks of the best growing weather that could result from steady warmth and plenty of rain. Daring this time corn and cotton reached a condition of ox collcnco unequalled in many years past. The.10 two crops, as well as mi nor ones, grew so fast that they were by tho middl<- of July about thrco weeks in ad vanco of their usual develop ment, as shown by the early blooms on cotton, and growth and ripening of oarly planted corn. Tho excessive heat immediately fol lowing heavy rains in July is assigned by a number of correspondents as the principal cause of tho rapid deteriora tion in crop conditions, especially cot ton, and for tho remainder of tho seu son abnormally high day tompcraturcs and scarcely any rain are ample causes for tho continued steady decline in co'id it-'.on to date. TIIK AOK OH VICTORIA. that her history I ?ack as tho time/Of/ lad the tho reiy^j/ borefore, beon yfwpfy Tho World's Progress Since tho Queen ol' Great Britain Went on the Throne. Atlanta Constitution, The roign of Queen Victoria has be come tho longest iu ftnglami's history. Surpassing ttial of her illustrious grandfather, Goorgo tho third, whp.-Si tcnCtOloUa hold upon tho crown eolipit'd i ull former records, tho roign of Queen Victoria has reached the golden limit, of threo scores yoars and takes its placo in tho annals of Croat Britain as tho most protracted roign which tho peoplo of that island havo ever known. in connection with this statement it should bo rcmcmborod that England has beon govornod by a long lino of sovereigns, and that her histor. reaches as far back Julius C?<ar. Il Queen Victoria, tlu.-,-y - dovold of other characteristic, toe fact that she has occupied tU* tbro/io for a longer period than/fto/ <>tnor sovcrolgn would bo sutlu/w' In Jtsolt to embalm her name ^y/?'1 tlmo to ??As'romarkablo a*? length of her roign is, howover^eontemporanoaus events who betaken placo in the history of the/vorld since sho first bo gan to rule c/ur the affairs of England are ovon po'ro remarkable still. So majestic i/#beon the maroh of thought during thi*? long Interval of time that to tho fttfo of tho future historian who le isurely surveys tho past, tho ago of Victona will loom up with oven great*r prominence than the go I dun age rf Elizabeth. Ofcourso tho Victorian ago has pre dne,d no Shakospearo, nor will any suc'/oeding ago evolve a genius uquttl to mat of tho bard of Avc* In com i/nsation fer this aoaoionoy, howovfljv f tie reign of Victoria has onrlohed4w? Xrld's thought and lltor-nluro With ?Ku.-iol tho grandest minds that n rooa 4(jf4j P a\ rok, , Dum H?tt Notwithstanding tho brilliant aohioveiuents in literature whioh havo characterized tho rolgn of Vic toria, the most vigorous intellectual efforts of this period havo been oxpead ud in tho department of invention. When tho present queen of England, thon a blushing girl of eighteen years, received the crown which hor ances tors had worn, tho world had scarcely begun to dream of those mlraclos which havo sloco awcu and dazzled the earth. The locomotive engine wus at that time only a mere experiment. Few bad the courage to believe that such a grim and ugly monstor as tho Iron horse would over prove a success ; and yet, within the last sixty years, tho looomotlvo engine has hecomo one of the most powerful and effective agents of civilization. Important changes have taken place iu tho structure of ocean steamers and, indeed, tho whole system of transportation has boon completely revolutionized. That use ful invention, the sewing muchino, has found its way into countless homes on both sides of tho Atlautio and has boon a vorltablo godsond to tho poor of al most every land. Tho age of Victoria is also tho age of tho telegraph. Sixty years ago that word could not be found in tho diction ary. To-day it signifies a gigantic sys tem of wiros, stretching from ono end of tho globe to the other and oven threading Its courso underneath the waves of tho ocean. Only a few weeks ago a telegraphic message, starting fron, the city of Nov- York, completed its world-wide journey during tho same hour in which it started. Such, In died, has been the progress of this re nt k rkahle science during tho reign of Victoria that tho vast extent of the globo ltsolf Is subjected to tho critical survey of every man who reads the dally nowspapors. Next to the telegraph, If not of equal Importance, comes the marvelous in vention of Edison, which has virtually accomplished the miraculous feat of converting night into day. Without enlarging upon this transcendent miracle, it is suilicient to observe that it belongs to tho age of Victoria. Other Importantaohievements might be cited in this connection, but tho limitations of space must bo consider ed. Jt is also necessary to omit the changes whioh have taken place in the world's map ; tho rise and fall of em pires, and the bloody wars wbUk J-g^rj7l dovas^tpjHh?4?uTairTrje It might hi-interesting fur those of a curious turn of mind to inquire into lue changes which time has wrought in the affairs of England herself and the fabulous ac quisitions which her land policy has added to tho torritory of tho crown. Such iS only a mere glance at tho record which tho world has written during the reign of Victoria. To com pare it with any former period of the world's history is to pale tho luster of the Elizabethan ago and to render com monplace the golden ago of Augustus. THE USE OF FUNNIES. The Foundation of Wealth and tho i'.asis <>r Prosperity. Walter Howard in Atlanta Journal. A short stay in New York will con vince any observant Southerner that tho part which the* penny plays in life in tliis great center of population ac counts, in a great measure, for tho fact that there is such a vast accumu lation of wealth hereabouts. It will also convince him that tho South and tlm West loso a great deal by virtue of the fact that tho penny plays no part in those sections as a medium of barter and trade. Up hero tho penny, the insignificant, contemptible little copper cent, that nobody will touch In tho South, that is scorned as beneath consideration and east into Northern-made slot machines or any other convenient receptacle as totally unworthy of ownership, is a powerful factor in the upbuilding of fortunes, in the maintenance of whole families, and in the conduct of the largest, as well as tho smallest branches and channels of business. From the newsboys, whose single standard and unit of value is tin* penny, to tho greatest department stores of this metropolis, which scale all their prices to the lowest penny's concession, the copper cent plays an exceedingly important part in tho daily courso of events In tho matter of tho street venders' trade It is an all-powerful factor. In tho South if you want an apple or oven two apples to eat as you walk or at your desk, or if you fancy a banana or a near, or a few peanuts, you must buy at least livo cents worth of them, receiving three or four apples, as many bananas, two or throe pears, and enough peanuts to make yourself and all of your friends sick. You must take on this large stock or go without the dainty. Thd vender will not hoar I to selling less than livo cents worth i f anything and you are coin pel leu to I buy three times what you really w?>r.J' The difference up uore ? ycite 1 marked. The penny, as I aaVQ said, is the unit of value vith t/i-'so Uklrs. An apple, a pear, a, ban-vm, ft;?** of peanut candy, n-id inr/t'uurabio Olher delicacies car be hn/Tor Urn ins.gnih cant cent. *rou do-hot mies the outlay and vet g't all that you wish for the time be>:ng. Tw/? results follow. People ner0 got what they waut cheapor and t,.a,X! is vastly RtfmuVted by tho fact tUt you can buy BP little at a time Chat you do not mlf/the amount spent. Both sides?the purchaser and the seller?are ben/itcd by tho system and both arc tfOroughly satisfied with ' liut great/^than this tin penny is the basis o^Ortube up here. It is an adnionltV? OI" frugality's advantages, it tcacl/a tho saving habitaud empha sizes /,l ''^ally wonderful manner the VH'ij/of nicklos aud dimes and dollars. ?^(Ver can a Southern man appro* ?ate the expression, "a dollar looked Us big as a cart wheel to him," until ho gets up heroa.nong these ponny-sav tng people. Tho penny habit docs not stop with tho use of the cent itself, but cuts to tho half cent and even further. On all of tho foirlcs and on tho cablo cars over Brooklyn hrldgo the f iro for a singlo trip % throe cents, if you buy two tlckotsnt a timo you got them for 2J cents fAch, saving a half cont, or ono wholqcent on the two t/ekets. If you buy s/x or 12 at a timo tho saving is large*'in proportion. So even the half t"it cuts its swath, in financial operaluths, The maintenance of that suporV monument to engineering skill' and fetaluB?tho Brooklyn brldgo?Is baser? upon tho hirjf oent, auch groat SiTpertips as the New York World and 'dW YjtaHc Journal kre builded by tho iBBiguWoant ha*f-oe-yts that aro rhudo on thefsdlo/^ each copy to the/news ompipitfs, tho groatStatuo of l/borty thnt.$anil-? on MedWs island, firnlah >f? fth-piratfon to tho unlv/rso of' llbotfwf lovers, was Itself nud'' up by its dbfinten Of tho I'Youchf hr?orgoofi8ijtt? I T): ?. Sooth and i pre/Higate West shoUlI tti0 " peuuv^ hub.t." It ' dotion'o; tin- I i u fl Won si of svi)al' of other sections if they will hut give the "contemptible copper'' the con sideration that it deserves aud? for whioh it promises so handsome a re turn. _ _ THE sol III MILL PROSPER Tho Advantages ami Itcaourcos of? this Section Will Attract Abundant Capital. Tho Haiti more Sun. in discussing* tho condition und prospects of the South, predicts that this section, uudor fair conditions, will devolop rapidly and become tho most prosperous part, of tho country. Tho Sun says : " Despite tho walls of the profes?! sioual calamity howlers, its develop-* ment, although retarded by tho pros oat unluvorablo conditions, is yet eo bsustantial as to excite tho wonder of those who do not know the greatness of its resources, for, notwithstanding tho statements of tho croakors, the South is steadily adding to Its wealth even under adverse circumstances. 'It is evident, .bova. vc ?,. kl??<t the great mills in New England no longer liud It profitable to compete with the Southern manufactories in tho produc tion of courso good':, and this brunch of tho business will soon bo monopolized by the manufacturers whoso plants aro almost within sight of the cotton Holds. In good t.imo the production of tho liner grades of cotton cloth will bo successfully accomplished by tho Southern mills and then tho Now England manufacturers will havo to establish themselves in tho South In order that they may reap tho oxcop tional advantages which tho mill owners of that section enjoy. This will add vastly to the industrial ac tivity and wealth of tho Southorn States, and will open up a Hold of de velopment, the extent of which cannot bo over estimated. " ?he South is immeasurably rich in minerals, and abundant capital could be bad to develop its natural re sources if the voice of the political calamity bowler wore stilled forovor and agitation was abandoned. That u section so blessed should offer a tempt ing Held to investors is not surprising, und under those conditions which offer the proper safeguards to Investments there will be a notable revival. "^Tho reports which como from that seotion aro^HWfi^ag^g uml indicate such an Increase oi t\. w*"w,|'.ild' uswill make; tho South the center of enormoTfr ? activity. Tho planters havo learned bow to make a profit out of their cot ton tielils even with prices last year lower than over before, and now that their staple crop has taken a substan tial rise they will pocket millions of dollars a. clear gain over tho cost of production. Other .departments of ag riculture will also enjoy a revival when oonfldonco has recovered from the rude shook of the past few years. There is no great amount of gnawing poverty in the South, its people are. in the main getting aloug well, according to the testimony of those who are thoroughly acquainted with the condi tion.- there. It i:< an admitted fact that tho South has passed through the last few years of business depression In bettor shape than any other section of tho country and there is every reason to boliovo that when the present period of politi cal uncertainty is over the South will cuter upon au era of wonderful develop ment. THIS PECULIAR CAMPAIGN. Ono Of Its Funny Incidents Related and Vouched tor oy a Kansas News paper. Wichita Eagle. Tho following is a true story illus trative of tho peculiar political changes \ going on : Down at Cold water thorc is a banker who has boon a lifelong Democrat. At Wichita he has a lifelong chum that bus beim a lifelong Uepuhlicau. They visited each other two or three times a year, and most of their timo was put in trying to convince oach other that they were wrong politically. The' Wichita man met the Cold water man last winter, and lie appealed to him strongly to como over to tho lie publicans and lind salvation and that peace of mind that it brings. Tho Cold water man could not bepersuadedj Finally the Democratic conventhj was held at Chicago, with regul iliar to every body. , The Cold water mx^'au?ed ^is politics and bepjrri '^l'"b -?"u. Ho felt good, as ^TT^ocviit does who sees the cv/". offhl? , Vlfi ?2 T'1? not keei*^"1 himself, so ho took .u-ifa/n atfid oarae posto haste to Wi chi'-?^ and went direct to tho homo of, , j/H.-diid. ytVell, Ed," sa'd ho, reaching out p/s hand, " I feol good and could not nelp coming up to tell you about it." "That's it -another boy ?" " Guess again." "Struck a gold mine?" " It's better than that." " ltioh uncle died, eh V" " Still better." " What, has your mother-in-law loft you " " Well, It's nearly as good as that." What is it, for goodness sake V" have seen the error of my ways, turned Republican ? nil am hur rahing for McKinley. j. ''o on that, old hoy." Hu didn't shake, jut hung his.head. "Why. Ed, old bey, what's tho mat ter with you? Why don't you shako ami welcome mo into your ranks?'' "If you want to bo with me politi cally, said Ed, "you'll have to change buck again." "What do you mean V" "1 mean simply that I have changed myself. J am hurrahing for Bryan mid Sowall." "1 h I have ?Texas has a hoy burglar whO'is In corrigible. Soruo timo ago tbcV'bby's father who was in jail, escaped and nftCrwards died from exposure whl'o lying out in tho Ked river bottoms to dude tho officers who were after blru. Tho uoy began his oaroer about two years ago by stealing a cow, which he subsequently traded to a nogro woman for half a dozen chickorfs. Throe months ago ho stole two horaoa, for which he was placed in jail, but tho pleading of his mother securod his re lease Uocently ho was caught bur? sjpMiz'ng a house. All hoposof reform havo now b on abandon d, und for his lastolTonso ho will be pioseeut >d to tho extent of the law, which In tho state pr]