The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, February 22, 1898, Image 1

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? Money Won w. j. bryan un tub ratio. No Plunk of the Chicago Platform is to be Abandoned -'1 ho Silver Leader Gives the Reasons. The New York Journal prints the following article from Wm. J. H yau : In answer to your iiquiry, 1 submit sumo of the reusous a huh lead mo U believe that the money question pre sonts an issue which is still paramount in importance. In the platform adopted at Chicago, the Democratic party said : " ltccogni/.iug that the money ques tion is paramount to all others at this time, wo invite attention to the fact that the federal constitution named silver und gald togetnor us the moi.oy metals of the United Stales, und thai tho first coinuge law passed Ic, C ?n gross under tho constitution made, tie silver dollar tho monotary unit anu admitted pold to froo coinage at a ratio based uponthe silver dullttr unit After thus elevating the qutBtloo to the place of supreme importance, the platform proceeded to point out tbo effect of an appreciating dollar, and declared the uualterahlo opposi tion of the party to the gold standard, characterizing it as both un-American and anti-American. The platform specifically demanded : First?The free and unlimited coin ago of both silver and gold at the pre sent legal ratio of 1U to 1. Second?That the standard silver dollar bo made a full legal tt nder, equally with gold, for all debts, public and pr rate. Tta! d?The enactment of such legis lation as will prevent for tho future tbo demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. Fourth?That tho United States shall not surrender its right to re deem its obligations in either gold or ?ilver. Fifth?That tho government shall not issue interest-bearing bonds in time of peace. Sixth -That the government shall not surrender to national bauks the right to issuo paper money. While, tho declaration against na tional bank notes is not a part of the silver plank, the division line between those who favor Independent bimetal lism and those, who oppose it is utmost identical with the lino which separates tho advocates of government paper from tho supportors of natiodal banks of Issue, and the two questions will bo settled together. Nothing has happened since the elec tion to letson tho real or relative im portancc of the money question. If the gold standard was bad in 18(J? it is still bad ; if our present financial sys tem wt.s un-American and anti-Ainer ioan in 18DG it has not become natural ized since that time. In 1896 independent bimetallism was pointed out as tho only retneuy foi the gold standard, and tho failure of our monetary commission to secure inter national bimetallism strengthens our contention. The Senate has recently put itself on record in favor of that plank of our platform which declares that tho silver dollar shall have u debt ( paying power equal to the gold dollar ( and tbat the government shall not sur render its right to icdCom coin obliga tions in either gold or silver, and the , House has declared against 110 propo sition. Tho effort of the secretary of the treusury to securo authority to issue more bonds and his demand for tho re- j tircmont of tbo greenbacks are in direct opposition to tho positions 1 above stated. Thus it will bo seen . that events, not free sliver agitators, , are keeping the money question before [ the country. Tho evil i ffects of tho gold standard , are so apparent that the Republican ! party refus a to become sponsor for the system jjt is so indefensible tbat even Secretary Gage In his recent speech at 1'hiladclphla took occasion . to say that tho president is in favor of j international bimetallism and has ( tho support of all his cabinet in his effort to secure tho co-operation of oth- 1 er nations in getting rid of tho gold standard. But while tho Republican party, through the chief executive, still holds out the hope of international bimetal lism, none of the party loadors say a word in defenso of the double standard, independent or international. Why not? Because international bimetallism can only bo defended on the theory that the existing gold standard is un satisfactory, and the Republican party leaders know that tho Republican par ly has no real intention of abandoning tho prosent gold standard, and they cannot, therefore, alTord to say any thing which would make tho people dissatisfied with it. Neither do they, as a rule, say any thing in favor of tho gold standard, be cause to do so would at once raise tho question: Why,then, is International bimetallism desirablo ? Occasionally a speaker will bo found who will tako both sides of tho ques tion as did Mr. Gage at 1'hlladolpnia. After trying to show that tho gold standard had boon a groat blessing to the laboring man, ho doclared it to be tho intention of the Republicans to substitute another system. Tho ques tion at occo arises, if tho gold stan dard has beon a blessing to tho labor ing man, why does not the Republican party advocate Its retention, rather than Its abandonment? International bimetallism will have exaotly the same effect as Independent bimetallism in raising prices. If a fall in prices Is an advantage, then s rise in price.-, cannot be desirable ; and if, on the other hand, a rlso in prices, whether obtained through independent bimetallism or through an interna tional agreement, is good, then tho fall In prices caused by tho gold stan dard must bo admitted to havo worked an injury. Tho fall in prices extending over tho last 25 years, has, in fact, been dis astrous to the producors of wealth in every gold standard country of the world. France now desires to abandon the gold standard ; tho German rolohstag deolared for international bimetallism in 1895; the farmers and laboring men of England aro now protesting against tho gold standard. Can any Democrat deny tbat rollof from the gold stan dard is imperatively needed ? Should tho Democratic party abandoa the po sition it has taken on the side of the masses in this world-wide contest ? The stand taken by tho Republicans raises tho most important quesdon that oan confront a nation, namely, the right of tho pooplo to legislate ft i thomsolve?. ThoRepublican platform is tbo lirst platform which evor de* olared In favor of repealing the Deola ratlon of Independence. ;That platform expressly transfers I fruin America to Kuropo tho right to I dotti m.uu the llnanoiul policy of the I Uuiteii States. According to that plat j l" in, tho American people ? !.?...Li seek international co-operation in ri storing ! bimetallism, but must maintain the gold standard until thut co Operation lo S<.v''ll-' d. Tue ItapublloAO plan is to iuvito^for eign assistance, but while wo may in vite, K.i (|;oau nations uro at liberty to refu e tae invitation, aud they have thus far done so. Tho Republican platfoiin, thercforo, means that we must have tho gold standard as long us Kuropotin nations favor the gold stun uar?, a>.d can havo bimetallism only when they consent to it. liecent? events havo demonstrated that [?uropo bus turucd tho money [questlou over to Kugland, und Kuglantl seems to huve turned it ovor to the Kngiish ti iaueiors, who, on the 22d of last September, mot at the clearing house, pledged themselves to secrecy, decided upon tho gold standard, and tl us determined our financial policy ?is long as tho llepublicuu plan pre vails. No one ht licves that bimetallism will prove a panacea for all political ills, out the " or.ey question must be sottled helt re o her quest'ons can bo reached. Pioauotal inui pendonco is a condition precedeut to roforin t'long other lines. Pho power thut controls our financial policy can control tho policy of our govi rnmc-nt on ovory other subject *ih never ocjusion arises for the ex ercise of teat control. Sunposi , for instance, thut the mon e> qu eliou wero dropped und the tight ugttiuet il.o trusts mudo tho main Is su01 Much foreign capital Is invested in lru.-ir, in d foreign liimnoiers could announce tl ut uuy legislation hostile to trusts wou'd bo lollowed by tho withdrawal of foreign capital und u panic. If they eau threaten tho with Urawal of foreign capital to prevent a change of our financial policy, they can threaten such withdrawal to pre vent the annihilation of trusts or tho regulation of other corporations. Not only ran this threat bo mado In regaid to o r domestic policy, but it can be niode to prevent the adoption of nny foreign policy which does not meet whti favor in Kuropo. Wo cun not pi o'iut tho r'ghts of our citizens, aVeuge an insult to the flag, enforce iho Monroe doctrine or express our sympathy witU those who ure strug g ing to Le freo, If wo uro to bo de terred by the throats of foreign inves tors. The rig !?t. to legislate for our people on the ujouuy question involves the right to legislate on ull questions, und until Ulis i g'lt is secured the discus sion ol othei questions will avail noth ing. Win n wo have released ourselves from the uictation of foreign tinnn eieisand overthrown the local money trust w?luli controls our liuancial pol icy we snull bj in a position to under take the extermination of other trusts aud the projection of our people from all (oruiu ui monopolistic oppression. The other plunks of tho Chieugo platform are not abandoned. Tnoso who favor free coinugo at l? to 1 ad vocate and will carry out all tho other reforms enumerated in tho platform, but they wil" not lessen tho emphasis placed upon the money question by ilio party Use ? in its iatest utterances. Hut tut re are tomo who admit tho necessity for bimetallism and who coo mbs that it can only bo secured by in dependent action, but suggesta change of ratio. They usk, why hi to 1 ? I answer that there are several rea sons. Sixteen 10 1 is tho ratio at which we had free coinage from 1834 to lt is the rauo now existing between the gola and silver coins in circulation, and it is more favorable, to gold than the ratio now existing in most Kuro poan countries. To change tho ratio by independent action, besides changing existing con tracts, lessening our currency and In curring great expense, would put us imt of harmony with other nations, es pecially would it put us out harmony with France, the Kuropoan nation ir jst friendly to silver, where tho ratio is 15 12 to 1. If by International agreement we should chunge the ratio to .'12 to 1, for Instance, it would necessitate tno re Dolnago of more than four billions of silver into coins twice as large (pro vided tho change was mado by increas ing tho size ol tho sliver coins). To double tho size of the silver coin of tho world would diminish by one half the silver money of tho wor.d ; it would diminish by one quartor tho en tire volume of metallic money of tho world. Such a shrinkago in tho volumo of money would, in clYoct, add billions of dollars to the debts of tho world. Should so groat an injury be done with out tho necessity for it being proven beyond a reasonable doubt? Biinetallists contend that gold and silver have been driven ap.'.rl by hos tile legislation, and that they can he brought together by friendly legisla tion. They contend tnat legislation favor able to gold has increased the purchas ing power of an ounce of g< Id through out tho world and lowered the general level of prices, whilo the same legisla tion has lessoned tho demand for silver and lowered tho gold price of that metal. They contond that the restoration of tho froo and unlimited coinago by a great nation liko tho United States will incroaso tho demand for silvor to a point whoro tho mints will require all tho surplus silvor of tho world, and thus, by raising tho gold price of silver and loworing tho purchasing power of an ounce of gold, will restore, tho narity at 1(3 to 1, and thereafter miintaln ti e parity at that ratio. it is true that som i bimotullls's do notbolievo that this nation alon j cau maintain the parity at that ratio but shall tho great majorly who do b-jlievo surrender tholr conviction to the com paratively fow who doubt? Upon what principal can a minority demand of a majority tho right to dic tate a platform ? Thoso who aro op posed to tho gold standard must act together, and tho plan of action must be determined by tho majority. Tho moment tho ratio of 10 to 1 is surrendered our silver plank loses Its force. Thoso who oppose tho ratio of 10 to are not agreed utnong themselves. No considerable, body of men ask for any other specific ratio One man says 20 to 1, another 24, another 1)2 ; but al' tho objuotors together are small In number when compared with those who Urmly bnlievo. In tho ability of this nation to maintain tho parity at 10 to 1. 11 is proposed to louvo the ratio to Congress, It must bo remembered that thoso who desire bimetallism demand affirmative action, and every one op posed to tho ratio tlxed In any proposed bill .vili be countod against any kind of bimetallism. If tho ratio Is loft to bo determined by Congressman who run upon different platforms, lt gives a chance, for a vii' i rlety of ratios, which ?111 offootually prevent uoy legislation favorable to bi metallism, and will him) give u chance for friends of tbo gold standard to slip into Uongresd under tbo protonso of favoring somo undefined ratio, but wbo, us a matter of fact, would use their positions to maintain tbo gold standard. The ratio of 16 to 1 has boon adopted by tho Democratic party in a conven tion which, more than any reeont con vention, received its authority direct from tho people. Tho rank and Ulo of tho party, in stead of leaving tho ratio to the load ers expressed their own opinion upon the subject und that opinion has not changed since tbo convention. This ratio has also boon endorsed by tho I'opuli&t party, tbo National Silver prrty and tho silver Republicans. To abandon tho ratio would bo wrong In itself, and as impolitic, as it would be wrong. If tho Democratic party wero to al low its policy on tins question to bo de termined by a few doubting Thomases, or by tho deserters who supported the enemy iu tho great struggle between Democracy and plutocracy, it would lose tho respect and confidence of those who now look to it us an elliciont means of restoring the government of tho people. To turn fron, its clear and courage ous enunciations to wallow afirain in the mire of ambiguity and deception woild alienate tbo.se who have boon drawn to it by the platform of 1806. Tbo Democratic party could have re tained within its folds tho de-sorters of 181?) if it hud consented to a meaning less platform, but it preferred to lose somo members of tho body rather than have tbo whole body destroyed. Lie generation did not come too s-oou. The gold Democrats were rapidly making the party a rival of the Repub lican party for the favor of trusts and monopolies. If the Chicago platform did nothing else, it drove from tho party those who hud been manipulat ing the party for private gain and using the government for public plun der. There are many of theso desertors whoso return to tho party'would bring weakness rather than add strengtn, and there are millions of Dome-rats who would not surrender a single line of tho Chicago platform to recover every deserter who left because of real antagonism to the principles set forth in that platform. 1 do not refer to those who were misled. There wore many who left because they did not fully understand the issues raised, and thoy are coming back of their own accord, because they lind themselves in sympathy with our platform. Tho party can win more voters by steadfastly standiug by tbo right than by weakly compromising with error, and those won hack to the platform will bo useful when they return, while those who profess attachment to the Democratic name rather than to Demo cratic principles will always require , watching. The Dornt oratio party has put its hand to the plow, and unless I mistake the spirit which animate s the members, it will not look back. w. J. Bryan. .-? mmi ? ? ? gfc - A PAiKlOUti LAMP 1'OST. New York DoNtroyH u Land murk that in Familiar to All Visitors. Tho New York Sun gives the infor mation that tho lamp-post and its letter box opposite Grace church on Broad way has been removed, and In is will bo regretted by every ono who has seen oho play of tho " Old Homestead," ( in which this landmark of Now York ( figures so conspicuously Too Sun says : ( A not very big or very important or . to Now Yorkers themselves not even , familiar lundmark has lately gone tho , way of all landmarks and is now no more. H was tho lamp post, with its letter box standing directly opposite Grace church, and which, by means of its counterfeit presentment, was known all over the country far and wide to all who had over aeon one of tho best known of rural dramas. Kvery ono ro members the scene?Christmas ovo, tho snow falling, Grace church in tho dis tance, tho letter box in the foreground and tho old countryman, but just ar rived in tbo city, his letter in his hand. "There," ho says as bo drops tho mis sive in tho box, *' 1 s'pose it's at tho p')dtoilico by this time.' A minuto later the postman comes in, unlocks ttio box and takes out all tbo letters, whereupon Uncle Josh springs upon him and alt but ha ? him urrestcd for robbery. Tho provincial audience that didn't relish this scene is i.oton record, au.l of a.i its details thu letter box stamped itself most securely upon its memory. Muny and many a far .off Westerner and Southerner has resolved then und thoro that when he paid tbat long looked forward vialt to Now York ono of the first things ho should hunt up would be the letter box In front of Graco church. It was like an intro duction to at least a feature of the me tropolis. Some thin a about rheeity might seem sirar.gu and unfamiliar, bu* with tho lottor box in front of Graco church?naturally a landmaik of great importance or why would it havo boon incorporated in a play ??? it would bo like meeting an old friend. Indeed it was not uncommon in sum mer when the rural contingent usually Unds its wav'o the City to see sight seers of no uu in i stateable stamp grouped around that lamp-post as Hlghtseera of another stamp are grouped around the Milesian Venus in tho Louvro. With ttio march of municipal progross tho lamp-post has gone, however. Tho let tor tox has been promoted to another corner. The majority of New Yorkers may not even notioo tho difference, but to t hobs And j of non-New Yorkers fam iliar with the play tbo change will ho significant. Took it as a uint. ?a atory is told of Sonatur Vcbt making a politi cal speocb in Sedalia, ivlo., some time ago, when ho was greatly embarrassed to soo nearly overy man in tho houso tako out bis wutch at the same time, lie had been speak in. an hour, out tho hint that ho had exhausted the patleoce (if his hearers was so palpable that he could scarcely ignoro it, and he Oluricd OJt something in tho way of regrets tnat ho was keeping tbo) orowu too long. No ono in t ie hail sc6tned to understand why ho stopped in the midst of Iiis argument to mako his apology, and the Incident was over looked in a few mtnutos, for tho poli tical enthusiasm was sulllolont to en courage the S.outor to concludo his speech. After tho mooting bo spoke to tbo obulrman ubout tho romarkable anxiety on tho part of the 'judic::cc to ascertain tho time just as tho olook struck nlno, and explained th t ho took it as a hint, booaueo tho aggres sive atriklng of tho elook soemed to obviate any necessity for watch con ' sultatlon. Bo was informed that at noon and 9 p. m., the nearest approach I to a local t'mo-gun waa fired, and tbat , everybody, as a matter of habit, con . suit d Ida watch at those hours to 800 r i if it wore correct. THE MAINE BLOWN UP IN HAVANA BAY, 253 ailON KILIil01> OR WOUNDED. The Battleship in a Total Wreck?Ex plosion in Forward l'mi of ship? --Gravo BusptolOOS Mint it Was Not an Accident. Tlie U oited States baLi ioship Maine was bloAu up in the harbor of Havana on Tuesday night, 15th iast., and the wreck of the vessel was complete aud total. Tho explosion took place under the men's quarters, in tho for ward part of tho snip, and the accident occurred when most of tho men were asleep, which accounts iu some measure for the fearful loss of life. Tho num ber who are missing foots up 2;>:i, which makes this cutastropho the greatest kuown in tho history of tho United States Navy. Tho explosion, which shook the city from one end to another, created the wildest excite incut. All tho electric lights were put out by the shock. Fire engines rushed madly from one direc tion to another, and no one knew for certain from which direction tho ex plosion nunc. Some of the crew who were able to support themselves by swimming were saved by the boats. James Kowo, tho ship's cook, was tho least injured of any that were res cued. When asked how it happened, he said: "I don't know. I turned in my hum mock ut 8 o'clock, and heard th ? bells strike. I don't remember any thing more till I felt myself turning over und over, and falling heavily upon the deck through a mass of smoko. 1 got on my feet and worked my way on Ueck. When I got there tho super structure deck was dipping under water, and I jumped overboard to keep from being drawn into tho suc tion. I was picked up by a boat from tuo Spanish man-of-war. Kour more, were picked up by tho same boat." Co isul General Lee, who was at the Hotel Iuglaterra, received a telephone message from General Blanco telling uim that the Maine had been blown up. General Loo hastened to the palace, where the cabinet quickly as si mbled and orders were givou the i Hi ;ers and crew of the Spanish battle ship Alphonso XIII, to aid iu the rescue of the Maine's orow, All the ollicers were Baved except Jenkinsaod Mcrritt, who are missing. Captain Sigsoeo was on deck when the explosion occurred. It was in the bow of iho vessel. A sentr y stationed at the bow was unhurt. Lie had seen nothing supicious. One eflloer, whose name could not be learned, said of the explosion: "I was in my bunk. When I got tin ( deck lue had started forward. There | was a good strong breeze. The call for till hands on deck was promptly obeyed and the men and t dicers were i perfectly cool. All possioio efforts : wero made to cheek the lire, but w ith out avail. , "The Haines spread rapidly and | several explosions occurred. Maga- i zines wero burst open and explosive, . wero thrown overhourd. In half an hour it was apparent that nothing ? could save the ship." i A Spanish naval oflloer said that | Oaptalfi Sigsbce was tue last man to , ubandou the sinking ship and that he remained alongside the wreck as long ; as it was possible to du acything in the , work of rescue. i Joseph M. Mann, a passenger on i board the City of Washington, of the , Ward lino, which was inuored near the | Maine on Tuesday night, at the time | uf the disaster to the battleship, in , describing the catastrophe, said. I "While we were conversing in the cabin at about twenty minutes to 11 on Tuesday night, a loud report startled , tho cou pany. They rusued to the , port holes and saw an immense Hash shoot up in the air with a tcrritic re- , port. I).-bris of all kinds and a large number of bodies were thrown upward. It was at lirst believed that the Maine was being being li reel upon, but after ward as the City ol Washington was struck by what turned out t) be falling debris and sheoareened, it was thought she was being lired upon. A second explosion took place and, following it, we beard groans anU cries of 'Help,' 'Help.1 Tue boats of the City of Wash ington and those of the Spanish grulser Alfont'O XIII, wero hurriedly launched and went to the rescue. I went into one of the boats of tho City of Wash ington and tho scenes I witnessed wore heartrending beyond description. "Two of the small boats on board tho City of Washington were stovo in by debris Irom the Maine. The battle ship sank even with the water in about tbreo minutes after tho explo sion. Tho City of Washington was converted Into a veritable hospital. Many of tho rescued men were.brought on board almost nude, and the passen gers gavo thorn slothing, etc. The ollicers of the City of Washington did all in their powor to make tho roscued men comfortable'." Tho surviving crow and oflloors of tho Mainestu'e thatthe ship at the ex plosion was raised out of the water and then wont partly to plocos. All but tho surgeon wore in the ward room at tho moment of the explosion. Then eamo the stupendous shock. All tho ollicers below rushod on tloek but could get no further forward than tho middle superstructure on deck. Only a vory pitiable few of the 350 jackies over got from below. Tho wuter rushoti ovor thorn and many wore stunned and drowned, hut not mangled. It is not likely that mo?*o than 8u sailors wore saved. Tho olllcors on deck natrowly escaped. In tho junior ollicers' mess all had to clamour out through water and wreckage waist tleep. Ono ladder from the* after torpedo compartment was jammed with men struggling up for life. All agree that a double ex plosion occurred from natural result of an Underwater explosion of the maga zine j. Brass pipe, angle iron, otc , fell in a] shower on tho ducks of tho City of ] Washington, 300 yards away, so Injur ing two boats that when lovorod tney wero useless. Out of tho dense smoke camo anguished cries for help. Si in u I tuneously with the cessation of falling fragments,search lights wero thrown on tho wreck and its load of agony. Span ish boats from tho shore joined those of tho Washington alongside at once, hut tho regular ferryboats, passing soon after tho explosion, did not stop to offer aid. Tho Maine wuh looked upon as a war ship that would give a good account of herself in anv situation. Shu was built at the New York navy yard and since entering Into aotlv* service, on Sep tember 17, I89u, ha? been continuously at work. Sho was also a steol-ar.nored battleship and was equipped with two 10 inch harbotto turrets. Sho was 318 foot long by 58 feet bea n and had a dis placement of 0,082 tons. Her draft was 21 feet 0 ine.hr.,, which allowed her to en i - -i Havana harbor without trouble. Sho was equipped with twin screw Vertical triple, expansion engines, which drove her at tho rate of 17.45 knots an' hour, and ohe was thus nblo to make tho distance botwoon Key West und Havana iu four hours. Sho bad a maximum coal capacity uf 1364 tons. Her sides wer? protected by 12 inch, her turrets by >s inch and her barbettes by J2and lOdnuh armor. Sho wus armed with four 10-inch guns in t irrets, six (i-inch br; eoh-louding riU ?8, seven ii pounders, eight 1-pound ers and four GatllDga. Tho Maine cost *:i,?U?.UU0 in rcinU ligures. THIS IS SPANISH WAR. A Vivid Description ol Uno of the Horrible Features of the Cuban Struggle. Tho speech of Senator William E. Mason, of Illinois, 01. his resolution to request the President to notify Spain and tho insurgents tout the war must cease, and that the United States will declare and maintain peace on the Island of Cuba, waiono of tho most telling addresses delVered in tho Sen at", for many years. In the course of his speech, Senator MnSOD read a Letter from an American jirl, who is now mother superior in an institution in Habaua, The nun stye : "Liutely some of ouj older pupils dis covered a place called 'Los r'osos,' which means 'the ditches,' because it is a low and marshy ,iaoo. Tbero over a thousand women aid children of both sexes aro living abandoned, unknown, and starving. Maiy aro perfectly naked; all aro heaped up pell mell I They havo been liiere neariy two months. Of their Dumber, lifteon to twenty or thirty ilia daily. At night' there is no light, and in the morning the corpses and Iving are found to gather. Our Children of Mary ^re perfeot heroines, but only tho older ones can enter inti this den where the. government has concentrated the country people fur the purpose of muking them die from inanition. Their Iniquitous piau 'u a great success Alter having passed weeks without food, they are brought salt codfish or rieo, and in eating ravenously they die." Commenting on this statement, Sen ator M ason suiii : "Mr. President,] do not care what your religious faith may bo. 1, who have studied in a modest way the evo lution of nations, am here to say to un co.leagues in tins Senate that there Is no vicarious atonement for a nation's crime : no suffering on the Cross of Calvary will lilt tue shadow of the law of compensation. For a hundred years wo set our II tg in the sky, and said: 'This is tho lund of tho free and the home of the brave," at the same tim selling women and children to the highest and best bidder for cash. No picture could he painted of tho genius of America wherein tho whipping post and the slave pun did not rear their heads, no music of the Union but what 1 was discorded by the songs of the slave. It was oot tho fault of tho South; >t was tin fault of our country, rtio Supremo Court was as much my court in llllnob as it was yours in South Carolina: but wo committed a national crime, mid the law of compen sation demanded settlement. "To be sure, wo tore down tho slave pen and the whipping post, hut wc did not have material enough to make headboards for nur graves. On this .-onti.iont it wi,s written by a little American nun that in Cuba there are I starving and naked women and chil Iren, wliilo the bucket shops and the I money loaners are Bending insulting telegrams to ne today asking mo to consider the price of wheat and pork in my own St:de. I say to you with the picture of starving women and i children before mo, I have no heart to look at the price of pork in Illinois. "Those who fear war, those who watch the markets and the tickers and the bucket shops, those who fear for the disturbance, of prices, toll us that war is hell. All right, in Cuba It is worse than hell. Dante with all bis word painting never has described Loa Fosoa. With Iiis cruel pun he tortured ' tbo sonsitivo, shocked and startled the world and satisfied the cruel, but in tho supreme moment, ultbough he saw naked, writhing, burning women and men he never dreamed to portray the cruelty of bringing a baby from its mother's womb into L'is Fosos, tho in ner recess of hell. And this is war", this is Spanish war; this is the war which the Republican party promised to ?top; and 1 deny tho right of anyone to be a better Republican than I am, whether he sits in the White Rouse or in the Senate of tha United States." MISS FRANCES WlLLiARD. The Dlstillgaised Advocate of Tcm perance Hail Passed to Her Ho ward. Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Un on, died shortly after midnight on idio lHth inst. at the llotol Empire in New York City. At tho bedside of Miss Willard at the time of death were her niece. Mrs. W. W. Baldwin, Mrs. L. M. M. Stevens, vice president of tho W. C. T. U.; Miss Anna M. Gordon, Miss Willard's scorotary, ami I):. Alfred K. Bills. Miss Willard had been ill for about three weeks. Dr. Bill made the following stu'o mont: "Miss Willard had suffered some years with profound anemia, and on several occasions had been given up to die. Lust summer shoj seemed to take on a now lease of lifo and gained in weight and strength so that sho wen' through her conven tion work at Toronto and Buffalo, which was most arduous, and came out much hotter than was expected, but on her arrival hero tivo wcoks ago she ?? a . almost prostrated and readily took tho grippe, which attacked the Stomach, Ufer, intestines and later the n rvous system. Tho disease progressed favorably and in manyruapects she had m ich improved when tho fatal issue Came and overwhelmed tho nerve centres. There was no cancerous de gration of any organ as has boon stated." There will ho funeral services in New York city and later in Kvuiiston, HI., Miss Wlllnrd's homo, where tho hody will be taken. B'anccs Bllzabetb Wlliard was born In Oburohvllle, N. Y., September 28, 1830.' She was graduated at North western i'Vmalo eollego, Kvanston, Ml., in I860, became professor of natural science thuro in 18<>2 and was principal of l}ino.-8oo Wesleyan seminary in 1860*07, Tho following two years sho spent in foreign travel, giving a part of the tlmo to study in Paris and con was profossor of aesthetics in too tributing to periodicals. Iu 1871-72 she North western university and dean of i.hu woman's college, where she de "oloped her history of self-govornmont, which had boon adopted by othor edu cators. ?It may not oo Known to the people generally that the production of hoot sugar Is a million tons more annually than from sugar oane. THK VIUKU/iNS' ItKUNlON. Tho Commanding General fssuis or dors I ;< ?-.;11 <I i 11;; tho Auuutil Ko untou to bo Hold in Charleston, Tho following order has boon issued by Ceu. C. Irvino Walker in regard to tho uunuul conveutiou of the United Confederate Veterans, which will bo held in Charleston on tho 27th of April : 1. Tho annual Convention for 1808 of this division will be held in the German Artillery Hull, Wentworth street, Charleston, Wednesday, April the 27th. Tho convention will bo culled to order at 10 A. M. 2. Each camp will appoint one spon sor, Arbo will select her maid of honor, to represent the camp at the reunion. .'i. Representatives of camps will bring tho banner of thoir respective camps to be carried into the Conven tion Hall, ami used to designato the representatives of the various cumps. Comrades are specially requester to bring any battle Hues in their posses sion. Tho bearers of such battle Hags will report to division headquaters at I*.15 A. M.| April 27th, and ?:o into tho Convention with tho ollicers of tho division, and bo seated, bearing the Hags, upon tho stage when in tho hall. ?1. A meeting of the committee on the mOQUment to the women of tho Con federacy will bo held at the Convention ball at an hour to be named hereafter. 5 A meeting of tho chaplains of ouch camp wili bo held at the Convention hall at any hour to be named hearafter. Bach camp will please secure tho attendance ol their chaplain, us the division chaplain has a matter of much importance to lay before them. (i. During the reunion the command ing general will 'request, at some con venient hour, u meeting of tho com mandants of all thecamps. thecoloncls of. tho regiments, and generals of the brigades to make reports upon tho status ,of their respective commands. They will come prepared to make full reports as to numbers, their ollicers and the work they are accomplishing. 7. Kites of faro for travel about one cent per mile, havo been secured, which will enable comrades from all parts of the State to be present ut the reunion. 8, Charleston extends to us u most cordial invitation. It is hoped that an appreciation of her splendid hospital ity, her royal welcome, will be shown by a large gathering. Lot every comrade eotno. Wo are fast passing away. Kvery year wo miss some familiar loved face and every year lessens tho number of those who gather to renew the friendships formed in the hou.'SOf danger and trial. Hut few more such opportunities will we have. , Let us meet and clasp hands (for how many of us will it be for the last time?) with those who served With us in defence of our Southern rights, who were our brotheis in those try'ng days. By command Of MajorQen, C. Irvine Walker. James G Holmes, Adjutant General, Chief ol Staff. A PENSION ROMANCE. How I he Government Helps tho Fam ily of an Old Con federate Soldier. A writer in the Lexington, Ky., Her ald, discussing the good unU bad fea tures of tho pension system, has this to say : "There may bo a great ma* y worthy pensioners, and this annual distribu tion of $145,000,000 may be just, hut in my experience I have never known but one Instance whores I thought a pension was properly applied," saiil a gentle man yesterday. He was reading in a newspaper of two millionaire pension ers who aro now occupying federal positions and drawing large salaries. "The case I speak of furnishes no of the most remarkabh exhibitions of unselfishness 1 have ever beard of. In a county not more than fifty miles dis tant from i xington there lived two neighbors, who, at the breaking out of the war, took up arms on opposite sides. In the course ol time the di visions to which they belonged met in battle, and after a bloody conflict the Union men wero put to rout. In riding over the Held after the battle tho one who belonged to tho rebel sielc r..cog nized his neighbor in blue lying among the dead and dying soldiers. His log had been shattered by a shell, and he was to all appearances dead, lt re quired but a few seconds for the.Iohnny Kob to dismount, place his neighbor on tho horse before him and sturt post haste for the confederate hospital. The Immediate attention of tho sur geon and careful nursing wero the means of saving the Union mau's life. "At tho close of the war the two men returned to their firms. The business interests of tho soldier of the Un on hud not suffered during Iiis absence, and he returned to a lifo of plenty. The othor did not fare so well His fortune, as well as his hopes, had been1 wrecked, and time did not hotter his condition, lt was not long until his place became heavily mortgaged and a hand-to-mouth existence sot in. By hard work and economy ho managed to support a largo family and pay tho interest on the mortgage, but was not able to save a cent. Years passed and each seemed to bring fresh trouble and adversity to the unfortunate soldijr. Finally ho died. Living across tho piko and prospering was his war enemy. Though entitled to ? pension, he had never had cause to apply for one until one day ho thought of this as a means of helping the widow and chil dren of tho man who had saved Iiis life. Ho was quick to act and in the course of few months received back pay of sufficient amount te> pay olT the mortgage on the farm, and was grant ed $24 per month for the loss of his leg. Hoisstill living and every cent that ho has received from the govern ment has gone toward tho support of tho widow and children of the rebel soldier." ?A correspondent lit Mt. Airy, N. C, writes tho Wilmington Star as follows concerning ono whom bfl terms a " in ?st remarkable man: "The Ue.v. James Needham, of Surry County a local minister of tho Methodist Church, preached a groat sormon from Acts 17-30 tO a large congregation in tho Central Methodist Church hero a few days ago. Brother Need ham will i.o OD years old on May Lid, and has boon a minister of the Gospel for moro than seventy-five years. Ho is ono of the most remarkable men in this coun try. Physically ho Is quite aotivo for ono of his ago, and bis mental faculties aro cloar and vigorous. Ho is hero at I tending a revival mooting, and is loved and honored by everyone who knows him. Ho is, indeed, a father in Israel, and in listening to him ono almost im agines that ho is hoarlng a voico from tho great boyond." ?A countryman walkod into a W?Btorn newspaper ollloo to advertise tbo death of a relative. " What is your oharge?" he askod tho olork. " Wo ohargo two dollars an lnoh." *' Oh 1" said tho countryman. " I can't afford that. My friend was six feet throe lnohes." HE DREAMbO THAT HE WENT T? HELL EXPERIENCE OF <V TEXAS LIAR Ho Told Mio Devil u Very Funny Story?Satau Laughed Until the Nickel Plating OU Ilia Tail Cracked and Ftdl Oil'. Frank Brady in Kansas City Times. Tales whoso scenes aro laid iu frozen north, which abound in descriptions of ice gorges and snow storms, aro re lished best when read under the ardent conditions imposed by the dog days ; and by a parity of reasoning the mind should entertain most agreeably in midwinter narratives which recount the actiotis of human beings performed under the torrid Influence ol a super heated climate. This rellection has caused mo to think that perhaps tho winter solstice is the accepted time to tell about Tom (Joggan's dream of bell. Burly and big and tall, was Tom Goggan, His 225 pounds of llesh wore not distributed over his bones to as to make lines and curves am! proportions like those accrciliteu to Apollo Bel- j videre. IIlu legs wore built up like ! tree boxes, and his body round and ! coripact, bulged at the middle like u { cotton halo with the center tie ripped otT. Tom insisted that his hair was a " beautiful auburn," but if it was a woodprc's topknot is your truo Titi anesque tint for angel's tresses. Tom had a face like tho full moon, hucd as is the lobster's when the water around it boils iu the pot, and his bluo green ish eyes twinkled when ho talked iu a i merry way mat ?preaU the contagion Of good humor all around him. Cog gan possessed a high-keyed voice .id a pronunciation of the English language which would cover with contusion and sliaine any dialect v iter, no ma". ter how well equipped, who would attempt to successfully translate it into print. Uo was so utterly grotesque that he wus fascinating. The most inartistic looking human being to be met with outside a museum, ho had yet made a big fortune out of art. lie had grown rich selling liudles, pianos, autoharps, mandolins and other musical instruments, lie was an alderman, a deacon in the church, a yachtsman, and accounted himself tiie most successful urummer that ever survived the perils of tbo railroad sandwich or bullied a sleeping our porter. Tom's "Central Musical Emporium," as ho was proud of calling it, was iu Galveston, and his traveling salesmen operated all over the southwest. Hut he reserved as his special held the city of Houston, fifty miles north ol Cilveston, which he exclaimed "need ed careful nursing on account of its business j alosy of Lalittc's old town on the ^uif." In the sweltering July of '89, four of us, as Tom's guests, had lisued and perspired with him all day long navi gating the nooks and ingles of the ? West Hay on Hoard his yacht, which he had christened by the poetic exple tive, " Carrainbo.'' The three sailors composed tile crew had caught all the iisli we needed for display purposes. The sun was going down behind Bolivar Point, There was not a pint of wind to make a wrinkle in the sails. The intense heat that had been stewing us all afternoon gave no signs of lottln up. Worst of all, the supply lib T hail given out, anil there wo lolle.? upon the blistered deck with not. n j but plain ice water to cool our fevered lips, looking across the ten miles of watery expanse toward the spired city that was 111 led with refreshments of all kinds and lasting ttic tortures of Tan talus. Three of us related cold weather sto ries and Col. Nick Weeks, a long legged banker with scraggy black beard, Bang a sung about a barkeeper in tho Rookies who woke up one Christ mas morning and found his barrel of whisky frozen bard as a brick, no matches in the house and his lire wood stolen. The song recited how his customers cam3 around, with axes, chopped up their whisky and enjoyed it in solid form. "Hoy.-, boys," said Tom Coggan, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, when he was called on to contribute his share to the entertainment, "1 will tell you something. I'll toll yon my dream, if only to keep N'ick Weeks from running Ml the lish in the bay ashore with another of bis heathenish songs : "Ono night, while in Houston last fall, 1 went out with the boys. 1 start ed out with the Bohemian club. We mot the Heft-handed Fishing club. The Bohemians took several with me. I took tho same .lumber with the Bo heminns. Tue Left-handers treated tho Bohemian olub, the latter reoipro cated. I set 'em up for both. This In terchange Of hospitalities went on for three hours. 1 went I.) the hotel about II o'clock, threw myself across the bed, with the window open, and fell asleep. I im "Uiately dreamed I died?i d ed with a three cornered jag on. " I wus shot aw..y from earth like a man on a toboggan. Fast as I slid 1 kept thinking. 1 thought: "There now, Tom Coggan, you're dead ! The Lord will never have any mtroy on you aftor your carrying-on this night with those Fishhnnded Bohemians and those OlubQshod other follov s ' You sec I was confused in mo mind and got things mixed. In almost the twinkling of an eye the sled on which I seemed to ho tied went 'kerswash' up against a big metal gate, and before I had time to yell 'cnango cars" a voice came from he hind the gale, saying loud as Ihundet : 'Tom, you'roa wicked man. ? Go to the devil I' "Then the veliiclc I was attached to whirled around and shot down, down, down, until my brain reob d with the fast motion. But I thought faster than I traveled. My conscience pricked me liko nettles. 1 hud baoo brought up to 1 uve strict notions about tho hot end o citation, and my DOS* trils weie already filled with the smell of sulphur. I could feel the skin como I olT the ins'do of my throat from tho molted lead and brimstone that the devil ladled into it. 1 could see myself lighting my pipe with tho tip of my own linger ! " At last I stopped. Tho things which held mo to the sled wero loosod. I In front of me 1 saw a big bras* door 600 feet high and half as many wide Too keyh<ite*f 1 remember, wus h rgo enough for a railroad train to pass through, and 1 could not help thinking of myself: 'Indeed, then, tho devil must bo a strong fellow to carry about in his pocket the latch key that lits that hole.' There was a knocker at tho door, hut I didn't knock. Still, that made no dllferonco, fori hadn't arrived moro than live minutes before I heard a noise liko tho roaring of an olectrl'; car, and, looking up, I saw Mr. Satan's faco pooping through a wlckot in tho door. Ho had a grin on him liko a cau4y~ubti and wore his whlskors liko a F tonch count. "'Hello, tthore, Tom Goggan !' he .veiled out in a vory friendly tone of! j voice. " Conic in hero, wliorc UVB nice und wurm. You'll take yourl deatb of cold standing out thero with! your mouth open." With that he| opened the door, reached out his hand \ , und j -i ked me iusido with tho most cor- I ! diul manner i ever exporlonod. " I wus never so agreeably disap pointed in my life. Old Nick was not u bud looking man at all. He was in I full evening dress, wearing a bunch of j for-get-ino-iiots in his buttonhole. Ho j I also wore a pair of rod horns topoed J with gold arrow points and a nicklc a plated tail as long as a cow's, tipped! with a silver spear head. His rosldoafli I looked on tho inside liko a tnagni i licently gorgeous and beautiful opera 1 house. The like of tho pictures, tho tapestries, tho curved bronzes and j Btatues, the potted palms aud ovor gro< ns, rare furniture, the rich carpet [ fug, the soft lights, was never seen by 1 the eye of mortal mar. Sweet music like tho birds aud brooks ?make stolo through the upartmeiit from s >ruo un seen hiding place. " Then tho refreshments ! Ah, boyB, the refreshments ! Thero was a table as long as Galveston Island loaded down with 'em, and Old Nick and I sat down and ate a meal that would mako Ward MoAUl?tor turn over in his grave with envy. After wo wore full tin devil led me into ono of his ante rooms and Inquired about tho health of several of our mutual friends on earth. Then I asked him : " Where uro all the people V" " Never mind, Tom," he fstf., "They're in bod now. 1 knci* jou wore coming and sent them all away so that 1 might havo tho bonclit of youi conversation all to myself for an hour or two. I'm told, Tom, you're u line story teller, and as I'm the Father of Lies, wo might pass tho time be tween now and the arrival of tho morn intr trains swapping a few yarns. Mind ; I'll have nothing old from you, Tom." "With that we strolled out into the big uudienee oh amber, going in tho direction of the front door, he telling first one tulo und 1 another us wo meandered. The devil beat mo every time, and I was letting him do it on purpose. I was laying for him with tho best story I ever heard in my lifo, and 1 knew it would jar him when I let it go. 1 bad got the story from a fluttering tobaeeo drummer named DYed Ferguson, and it was just tho iiilircde&t, funniest story that was ever lloated since Lot's wife got suited for being too fresh. So when wo had walked back nearly to.the front door of hell 1 began It. " As 1 unwound t> yarn Old Niek laughed until the nickel-plating on his tail cracked and fell off. 1 grew more uiimated and he jumped against tho soiling and poppen his hoofs together until the air was lilled with chunks of thunder and links of chain lightning. When 1 reached the el i mux Satan turn a tripple somersault, fell on I ho Hour und roared with laughter till eho infernal regions seemed to bo rocked by an earthquake. Presently he gdt up and 1 saw ho was in a rage from jealousy. He pulled open the big front door with a cl&ug. " 'Tom Goggan.' lie roared in a voieo nf thunder, hell's not big enough to hold two such ornamental liars as you and myself.' " With tu is he took me by the slu';k of the trousers and the &cruff of tho neck and shot me out through the door. When 1 fell 1 landed so hard that all the pegs wero jarred out of my boots and my upper and lower sets of tejth went whizzing through space like so many shooting stars. " I limped off into the dark until 1 becuine frightened with the thought thut 1 might walk over a precipice und fall into a worse place than hell. 1 felt around and found a Hat rock. I sat down on it and grew as cold as an Eskimo's Christinas. " This waked me up, und I found myself sitting in my night robe on tho marble-top of my wash stand in my room at my hotel, a northern blowing through the window." " Tom," said Niek Weeks, "toll us the story you told the devil." "Nick," replied Tom, solemnly "It was the finest thing you could over hour in all your life. Hut I think 1 hit the ground so hard after the ('evil lot go of me that the story was joltod out of my memory." " You must havo endured great mental anguish during your dream, Mr. Goggan," suggested one of tho party. "Indeed, sir, 1 did. I didn't mind it so much the short time 1 was in hell, but the few moments 1 sat on that rock, svaiting for day to come, a fear camo into my mind that almost drove mo to suicide." " What was that?" everyono asked. "Well, I thought. Hero you aro Tom Goggan in a devil of a fix. You went to Heaven and tho Lord throw you out before yoi got in. You wont to hell and the mi ster of ceremonies Bred you just when you were beginning to feel at home, and now - after suf fering all this?heaven above! Will you have to go back to Houston ?" ?Senator Whito characterir.od Hawaiian annexation accurately in the declaration that it is purely a ? "matter of sentiment and sugar," with strong emphasis on the sugur. Tho Hawaiian planters have 031'n pr'"'ontod with t?.000,000 to $ii,0l)U,ui)O atiijually under tho treuty with this country and they are willing to spend some of that money to make this advantage perpetual, says the Hittsburg Disputen. Hy importing coolie labor under con tract, with u system of serni-slavory, | Which compels the laborers to work or go to prison, they are able to produco sugar oheaply. By evading duties they are able to realize a heavy proQt. It is not surprising that thoy should try to retain a good thing, but thoro is no reason why the United Status should depart from sound oolicy to assist thorn in doing it. ?Twenty million dollars Is tho sum which the Wrench governmont pro poses todevoto to the Paris exhibition of IU00. Nearly ?10,000,000 will bo consumed by tho construction of two palaces in tho Champs lOlysees and those in the Champ de Mars, in the Esplanade dent Invalides and on the quays, Tho bridges across tbo Seine ar.) to cost $1.000.000 and tho mechani cal and electrical ser/lcos another (1,000,000, Ina word, Franco propose] to aid the exposition on a scale of preoedentod magniiiconco. 1 ?Miss Pbobo C Fdgar, of Itahway, N. J., has been a teacher for 60 years in tho Sunday school of the Second Presbyterian church of ihat pj Recently tho officers and^ memoruted tho over, her with a sot of en; reciting tho good formed and exprc esleom in whiohj community.