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Supplement TO THE DALLE CHRONICLE. Miimni iM in . m. IS NOT FOR BKYAN. ECKELS TfcLLS WHY HE S AGAINST THE NEBRASKAN. El-Complrollrr of the tummy tinier IkBMMtClmlMd wui Ttgtwii UppuK the of Use Paine cratic luiulidilv. I did not imhh Mr. Bf7a i" f and 1 do not intend to now. I thall op pose his tu ition this year with nil the v igor and ability I possess. I . not !'. d that T could stund to my convictions by remaining iiiitI passive iiud contsallap myself with .-.imply v. Mini; against lii.n. Hry.ui tlie I No inane set forth in un platform, no matter hoiv cunningly devised itu-.l ar ranged, in this taatpalga cuu he niu.le Iarainonnt to the issue of Mr. Bryan himself, his erroneous views of public Question.-', his numerous vagaries and Ma deniousuiucd d -iic tu Bud popularity and votes iu a never-absent appeal lo class prejudices and supposed race btt treds. I am still a Democrat, if bclicm g in Democratic principles correctly interpret ed and property enforced as all anno y for good constitutes H ue I lemocraey ; hut I am nol one if the nlteninces of the plat form adopti d at Chicago fOWf yeurs since and just reiillruied and re emphasized Ht Kansas City are the rightful expressions of what modern Democracy stands for. Isms of Populism. The many isms of Populism were ab horrent four years sine- lo uiy sense of what is safe and sound ill the Operations of government and (he general well being of til" people, because I viewed them as being fundamentally wrong, ami. being so. neither lapse of time nor er rors of the party in power reconcile me to their adoption or make it possible thai i should support a candidate who not only appro! es of them, but is their best embodiment and moat vigorous liampioii. I have not read all of .Mr. Bryan's utterances: during the past four years, but 1 have taken note of enough of them to know that his views have not changed on any Important ijucstion since 18B6, and Lis determination to stir up class strife is not less manifest. Throughout all hid addresses, public and private, is shown uniformly .111 apparent pleasure in preaching the desirability of discord be tweeu employ and employer, rlntj and class. No appeal ever comes from him which is got tinged with advice lo those who must work to distrust those who must employ. Harmful to l.iihor. Ail this is not only nil-American, but it is unjust, unfair ami linrmful, most of all to the laborer, for whose well being be yond all others 11 is necessary that com plete harmony bet wee a capital ami tabor and not continual antagonism should ex ist. The interests of labor are never in such great jeopardy as when Intrusted to a tuati who has the gift of orttiory roiipied wiili unbounded political ambi tion ami no kualaeaj ludgmenl or train' km No man is titled for the presidency who day in and day out proclaims, in the midst of a dentoast rated batter rendition of affairs, (ha reverse to be true In order to foment a discontent, which will gala to himself and part a political advau tage. linnet .01 01- Kliiid. Mr. Bryan, without the statesmanship to analyze the conditions as they exist, and tind remedj therefor, gives utter ance to nothing thai would improve them, but only to thai which would make them worse and cause greater injury to the great mass of the people, whose fate he constantly bewails. I do not believe iu the public value of any man who is. un der any and all circumstances, a fault finder and mere protester against all ex isting order of tilings. Mr. Bryan's friends insist that he is nothing if not Intellectually honest and fearless, II ranted that their contention is true, (ht Inquiring public must then he forced to conclude that he is either woefully ignorant or willfully blind. At no time tinea Ins coming into political power has he made an economic predic tion which lias not failed of fulfillment, r laid down as truth an economic doc trine wbioh iias not iu the course of quick rents leen demonstrated to be an econ omic fallacy, Blstatlssj of Platform. If he does not study grave public iiies Jons in the light of past history and present facts and human etpcrieii.es, but only views them iu the glare of hi own preconceived notions and (lame of his own lery political oratory, be is uuauited cith er to advise the public as t teacher or guide them as a leader. If he was unlit because of hit errone ous views and economic heresies, to be elected to the presidency in 181X1. he is equally an until man now, for he boast, with triumphant self satisfaction, that -e stands to-day on all these questioni exactly where he stood then, and to make more manifest and clearly defined his po sition he compels his party to blazon such (act in a platform so constructed a to accord with his views tud wishes. Alliance with Croker. I can conceive of nothing more pitia hle than the sight of accredited dele gates of a once great political party in a national convention supinely surrender ing their own views on a vitally Impor tant economic BWOttloa at the behest of a once defeated presidential candidate, who only had brought that party into dis grace snd disrepute, unless it be the sight of that presidential candidate and to lie nominee, appealing through his confiden tial agent Richard Croker, Tammany dic tator, to be his chief sid, trusted friend and lieutenant iu the emergency which confrmiic.1 him. Heretofore Democratic presidential candidate have gained public respect snd strength by having the open enmity of Tammany. Mr. Bryan, who more thau any of them has hoatttd of his stand for principle and hi integrity of character, has done what Mr. Seymour. Mr. Til den and Mr. Cleveland would not do. He has ot nied an open alliance, offensive and defensive, with Tammany, and that too, at a time when that organisation la anotvn to he thoroughly corrupt, snd a constant menace to all the best interests of good government. Unity with 1'opulists. Mr. Bryun hardly appesls to the thoughtful ciliieii, with whom political parlies ate only agencies for public good tu the extent that Ihey stand Fof funda mentally right principles and honest ad ministration, when upon the one baud he i- pre. cited by the I'opulista and on the other by Tammany. The joining hands with one constitutes nu offense against -afely in governmental administration, tin- alliance with the other an offense agaiatt political decency, mskiug it doubtful as to bis ability, 110 matter how strenuously he might try, to secure hon est! in the conduct of public affairs in an administration over which he presided. ft is not difficult to predict what would be the outcome of uuy administration based upon the socialism of Populism and the rapacity of Tauiinany. Heaftiriiiina of 10 to 1. 1 am told that not a few Democrats who refused to saint ion the nominee and platform of the Chicago convention will aid the nominee presented at Kansas City. 1 doubt if there are many who will do so. Why should they? The same candidate has been named, the same doc trirt - me 01 need, only iu a more offensive way. It must not he forgotten that the re I farming of the principles of the Chicago platform was the replcdging of an Inten tion, w hen opportunity is ufforded, to de base the country's currency. It waa re assaulting the Supreme 1 ourt of the country. It means a realliance with the cements of disorder, as against the prop erly constituted authorities of peace, in tegrity of property and person. It is the announcing once more of a desire to get into power that the sacred right of pri vate contract under the guaranty of law in. iv be abrogated. It is the acceptance ot those elemenls of socialism which w ork injury to both government and people. In line, the rcitlirniat ion at Kansas City was the re-usserl ing of the utter ances made at Chicago, which, revolu tionary then, are none the less so now. A Ion ret at menace to the country then, tiny art equally so now; and every man THE THE Senator Tillman inConcrcss - who stood out against them theu ought not on sMm new issue, which does not in mil degree lessen the dungei' of these for bdrni, fail to denounce and defeat them. I do not think that the fact that here and there may be some elements more conservative- iu the party than seemed lo Im- the case ill I MM, makes any difference. Mr. Brtan -still gives official voice lo the party's views, maps out its campaigns and writes its platforms. Mr. Bryan's j intimates anil ad risers arc Hill 1 opuiisis and self seekers, with the added coiitin 'geul of Tammany bosses. He has neither us nor care for any man who is eon scivatno in his views or careful ill his utterance. I. Meet on tiold Haais. If elected President the public must be prepared to see Mr. Bryan as chief execu tive and those associated with him as cabinet counsellors construe every law bearing upon the currency and the low ers of the Treasury Department iu such a manner as lo nullify as lest they can it.s provisions in so far as they bear upon the question of the iiiaintenan. e of the gold standard. His Populist allies boast that they seek power that 1 hey may briug about the repeal of the existing laws ami to this end they are Mr. Brian's cham pions and defenders. He can and will keep the country in a state of ferment and uncertainty iu an attempt to bring about the larger use of silver as a redemptive money. The ex periment Is too dangerous a one to be en tered upon by any oil the grounds Ihst the gold standard is so fixed In law that it cannot Is? disturbed, im BMtter who may be President or Secretary of the Treasury. The law ought to Is- executed with a construction favorable to it to fully carry out its provisions and not iu a manner antagonistic to them. It is not a perfect law, but can be made so by Its friend. It can lie made abortive by its enemies once firmly entrenched iu power. Rrran and Recent War. It will hardly do for any sound money Democrat or Bepublican to ssjsjasjrl Mr. Bryan because of a supposed better po sition he occupies than Mr. McKiuley on the nuestion of colonial nossessinns de lff3g r . '.irto:,v-vi au v -zzr iK-v i 1 - . sm.. mm . spite his worst position on the question j Pc'ully in the face of proclaimed rear nt Mas moneisrv standard i ho 1 Urination of the Monroe doctrine, which Court, the enforcement of law and the right of private contract. Mr. Bryan's position ran hardly be aa satlsfsctory a one on an analysis growing out of the Spanish war. He and his friends. In order to put the administration to a political disadvan tage, urged on the declaration of wnr with Spain, and when ft was OTer Mr. Bryan, personally at Washington, through personal advice and solicitation, brought Into line a sufficient number of Democratic Senators to ratify the treaty of Paris, despite the fact that It provided for the purchase and taking sovereign possession of Porto Rico, and the Philip pines, without sny provision for giving them any home government fhatsoerer. The evils and burdens of the present mo uieut growing out of the Spanish war are to be laid at much at the door of Mr. Bryan and bis party as at tbat of Mr. McKiuley and his. His explanation of bis reason for wishing the treaty ratified is wholly superficial and does not bear analysis. Policy on I'hilippiuea. I imagine tbat self-government will come quite as readily through the admin islratiou of Mr. McKiuley as through that of Mr. Bryan. It will not come un der either until the Philippines are fitted fur it, property rights safe and personal ones protected. I hardly believe Mr. Bryan could do more than send a com missi, .n there, as the President has done, in order to take steps looking to sup planting the military government with a civil oue. The country will not sanction the im mediate abandonment of those islands to disordtr and pillage. When a time comes that there is safety in a constitutional home government, only remaining within the sphere of the influence of the Unit ed States, and public sentiment is to this end, it can be put down tbat Mr. Me Kinley's administration will readily grant it, for I believe it is generally admitted that no one is more ready to put himself in touch with public sentiment than the President, or act in accordance there with wilh more alacrity. If Mr. Bryan means an immediate abandonment of our control in the islands he must certainly fail of support, for no thoughtful person will sanction a policy which will make the country ridiculous Iu the eyes of the w orld. Would .Not Trust Him. If Mr. Brynn and his party had stood out as they should have against the Span ish war and had opposed instead of as sisted in ratifying the Paris treaty, they would be in a better position to confront Republican plans and purposes, for they would at least be consistent with their action. As it is now, they urged the war. but now wish to avoid the consequences in order to gain political power by so doing. As it is, I don t see that Mr. Bryan is less of an expansionist, through force of circumstances which he assisted in creating, than is Mr. McKiuley. The NEGRO DISFRANCHISED FIRST STEP fMTO A NtW SLAVERY 'c do our best to fleep every negro difference is certainly not groat enough to make any man surrender his convic tions on other great questions to accept him upon one. It may also be fairly doubted whether a man with so ma ay erroneous ideas as to the conduct of the domestic affairs et the nation can tic trusted to have right ones when it comes o managing our foreign properties. As to Porto Klco. As to the question growing out of the Polio Kican lariff, I baHare the admin istration made a Bans! egregious error, but ns Democracy is now constituted and con trolled it stands for nothing so far as a tariff policy is concerned. -Ii has aban doned all the advantages of its position on this question, by advocating in its sil- ver policy the very worst kind of prol liou. Mr. Bryan stands responsible for making it a party unable to manfully advocate 11 Democrat h- tariff doctrine. It is to lay under Mr. Bryan's leadcr- snip, a puny empnasi.ing a Desire tor special privileges and class legislation, ap- pealing for the support of every element ! of discontent by. falling 111 wilh ami ad vocating the particularly special leglsia- tion which such clement stands for. Its demagogy is manifest on every hand Msisiiist the Hncr Issue. What thoughtful ami inquiring person can possibly believ.. that either Mr. Bry an or the delegates Si Kansas City are really deeply solicitous to the extent which it is made to appear that they are a to the alleged wrongs of the Boer In South Africa .' Is 11 not manifest, through ; the thin disguise of a love of human freedom, rights and republican form of government, that Mr. Bryan and his f,.l lowers hope for the Herman aud Dutch vote as a determining factor in the clc. tion because of racial atrilia'ions with 'he Boers ami .1 supposed race prejudice against lireat Britain, ami not he Canst Ihe question or (he integrity of the Boer republics is so dear to them? It is absurd that the great question wilh which we hav lo do alTecliug (he 1 vital interests of the I'nited States shall is- arse looked la a debate upon how Ureal Britain shall conduct it.s own affair, es- means, propeny itiicrpreteii. mat lUei'"-1 - " . " n " n caii.iniaie tmPiing people of the Dai ted States shall attend to their own affairs and let Kuropeim na I tions look after theirs. Coufldence In (fermun. Having voiced such a sentiment, the Kansas City convention, under the in spiration of Mr. Bryan, immediately pr. ceeds, for political effect, to express a wish to Interfere with a Kuropcan gov ernment in a matter strictly Us own. I riiink such politics cheap, and nnsiate manlike, quite beneath the dignity of any great party or leader. I shall be surprised If sny Herman vot er, heretofore the bulwark of the conn try, against every assault upon the in tegrity of the country's currency system - ' and protesting against any debasement of th- rnsutri'i co.u. will aiu suj aw such a proceeding because of a belief in any injustice done by Great Britain to some affiliated race ten thousand w..i away. If Mr. Bryan was a statesman and not a mere declaimer, and dealt iu a states manlike munncr with American prooi. nis. we would not I treated Iu the floods of petulant fault-finding and appeals to pre judice which are manifest in all that he snys, but would have instead suggested solutions, g.n.uided upon principles, and in accord with the fucts of uauouul bi tory and national experience. Distrust Ills Wisdom. I am sure the American people rightly distrust the wisdom of one who thus far in life has been a living expression iu every address he Has made of that best definition of the essential elements of stump speech, namely, to claim every thing and denouuee well. I am not unmindful of the fact that there are many conditions In this country requiring careful, thoughtful and states manlike dealing with. There are many evils to which labor is subject that need to be remedied. Likewise there are tunny prejudices unjustly entertained against capital, but in neither instance can they be dealt with to the good of all by any oue who brings to them none of the ele-tut-Lts of a statesman and all of those which wholly make up the successful stump speaker and campaign orator. Where Remedies Me. I believe that more of the remedy lies without the pale of euac.ed legislation th"n within it, aud that neither labor nor capital it neueClsd by nublic utter ances on the platform, iu legislative hulls and through the columns of the press to the effect that there is an irrepressible couflict between them I do not believe any man benefits bis country by beiug a preuchcr of discon tent, 'strife between classes, social and political pessimism, financial disorder and continuous financial gloom, despite sur roundings and widespread prosperity, und therefore I do not believe in Mr. Bryan. There are some things iu President Mc- K. nicy's administration and official acts I am not in accord wilh. I do not accept in our State from voting Bepublican doctrines as against pure Peg. IK raljt ones, rightly interpreted and incorporated into the administration of public affairs. Bui as between ICcpuh Itcanism and Populism, tillered through the channel of Bryanism, I prefer Ib pub IKa n ism. I eiiic Mis Democracy. There is no Democratic doctrine pre sented this year and no Democratic can didate. Mr. Bryan was first named by the Populists Ill-cause lie Is-st ttOftd for Populisiic doctrines. c was only in dorsed by the convention at Kansas City, culled umler alleged Democratic auspices, becan-e Bryanism, Populism and Deinin racy as now msde up are si inmyiuoiis terms. Tile comhiic-d forCeS of the elements of discontent of the country having gathered ill one fold and found without a di-scnt- ing tutee I iiindola'.e mi 10. ii! -1 lo respond with an equal degree of satis faction to each one's peculiar ism. it seems 10 me tile part ot ivisdoin to meet I hem iu another election, ami again 1cm onsirate thai the electorate of (his conn- Iry iu every critical lime always stands ready to do lliat which is wise putting down the wrong thing and Ottttlaa sn the ; right. To Vote lor McKiuley. I am goiug to vol- for President Mc Kiuley. ami do whatever I consistently can lo aid It his election, not because I favor all his policies or approve of all his poiitieui lies, out iieeiinse uiuler all ex isting condition I believe the affairs of the country will be better off 111 his hand than in. those of Mr Bryst I hope some time to see the Democratic patty re-created, advocating Democratic candidate and Democratic piim-iples. but il cannot be more than a disturbing force in the country's daily history until it rid ilself of a leadership which lias brought it to its present low estate snd ceases making itself the lyingin asylum of ihose elements of discontent which if once entrusted with gorem Mental pow- er would work injury at home mid !os f Igadlng abroad. Advice to lie mix rata. It can lire under defeat without com plete snd ultimate destruction, but a vie- mo views in yir. myall ami a platform pledging the party lo carry mil the things advocated at Chicago in istn;. nnl in Kansas City this yesr. would Work such n -iill to the country that ii would pqag out of pnfrtletl power at a recurring elec lion, without the smallest minorities to do it honor. "t'nwcpt. Illihoiinreil and Ullsiipg," The Democrat who wishes to save hi parly's future will only aid that end by defeating Mr. Bryan and burying hi platform lis ultimate rcsirrcnce tn p,,w. er and prestige lies in the independence of Democrats who are such on prima,,;,., and not through expediency. JAM ICS II. Kf KKI.S ASSENT OF GOVEILNKD ARMY OF A MILLION VOItKS DISTRANCHISEQ IN SOUTH. o,..,uuicui by rnrca lassssasjd by the I ciuocrata at Home, While lbtjr Pcnuuaie kepublicau Ailmiu.ilra tiun iu Our Lolouic (from the New Vorg Times.) Four yeurs ago, iu the so-called Deuio cratk roaveatioa at Chicago, Senator Beujamiu It. Tillman of South Carolina, in offering u resolution tu dcuuuuce IftO admiuistratiuu of President Cleveland, n.ade an attempt lo couvert the cou.cn liou to his view that the campaign about to bogiu was a sectioaal one, iu wnnn the South aud West were to be combined by a common sen ti meat agaiust the North aud East, tp overthrow those sections and make their' financial opiuious odious, and to destroy iheir domination iu future national financial legislation and opcia tiuus. Tillman has learned something sin. e tbat day, wheu be was deservedly his-cd und hooted iu a convention otherwise none too sane or sensible, and tLe uienl ed rebuke administered by Senator J. K. Jones possibly convinced him that sec tionalism is us hopeless an issue as ;c cessiuu to divide the country. But he was still a mau of impulse at Kansas City. It- stored to favor after a civilining ordeal of four years of service in the Senate, he helped to prepare a plalXorm exKising his party to the charge of gross inconsistency or insincerity. To TUtmaa was assigned the lak of reading the platform. He do. s not lack dramatic sense, and he has a large voice. With prodigious volume and vehemence he rolled forth the refereuce-, iu the Opening phrases to "the inalienable rights" of men guaranteed by the Declar ation of Independence aud the Constitu tion. As a sweet morsel he mouthed the language of the declaration thut govern ments must "derive their Jnst powers from the consent of the governed.'" "Any other government," he shouted with so norous Intensity, "is tyranny, and to im pose upon any people a government of forct is to sustain ihe methods of impe rialism." The case of the Porto RlcaBO was described us appealing "with pecu liar force to our justice and magnanim ity." These sentiments were prepared and emitted by Mr. Tillman for application solely to the question of imperialism and the conduct of he administration in en dea VOCing to deal srith the new problems that vex the country. But they seem to have a more interesting meaning, us up plied to Southern States, than they would as Interpreted only to denounce aud em barrass the administration in its effort to establish free governments iu the Phil ippines, Cttbn and Porto Rico. Alabama's population iu IMhi was I,- DlSttllT. there were upon the common calculation of one voter iu five, 302,202 voters in that State iu lSHii. Alabama gave to all candidates for President 109, II.".'! votes, Bryan receiving l.'t(l.i!07. Lou isiana's population in IKIKI was 1 ,1 1S.5D7. The State was entitled in 1SIHI lo al least 22.t.l".n votes. Ii cast 102,040, aud Bry an had 7T.I f Ml of these. Mississippi bad l,280,WM population ill ISiai, and pre sumably 257,020 males of voting age. Iu 1S!M! thee were cast for President iu Mississippi 70,.'rl.'i voles. Bryan getting 53,860. North Carolina was reported in 1800, 'ii the census of thai year, as hav ing 1. HIT. III? population. The Stale cast 331,210 voles iu the presidential contest of 1M!m;, or a little more than the reason able ratio for 189ft South Carolina, with a reported population in I8!m of 1,151,14ft and with not lass thau 230,000 voters, cast for all condidatea in I8M 08,007 votes, ami 58,708 of them went lo Mr. Tillman's man. Bryan. Winn became of the fJOO.OOO rotes thai appear to hnve been listing from Ihe election returns of Alabama. I.otiisiann, Mississippi and South CsrollUH? Were thes,. 1(00,000 Voters to be governed, -til case Mr. Brian was chosen or defealed. without their maaent, thus subjecting them to the "tyranny" referred ft by the Democratic platform'.' Have those miss ing voters been since found and required to give .their consent to the election of Uepreseatt tires in Congress iu order thai they should not bo taxed without nation al representation, fairly secured? Or has their CO no ell I been obtained lo new re- strieiious of the suffrage? Mas there liecn I shown any tendency in any of those Slates lo exchange 'the methods of im perialism for those of a republic?" HOW have Alabama, Louisiana, Missis slppl, North Carolina ami Souih Carolina qualified themselves to reproach the ad ministration for imperialism? Have not three of those State formally and com pletely and tin two others by progressive Step undertaken to deprive some 009, O'XI of the governed" of the opportunity to give or withhold that consent guaran I I n a right I nding to the Demo cratic application of the Declaration of Independence, and laeartd by Ihe Cofl ttltntton ? Why waste hypocritical platform senti ment on the people of Porto BlcO be cause they have "a government without Iheir i 'in ami taxation without rep resentation," when 000,000 voters in four States, all Democratic Slate, arc depriv ed of the right to consent, and about USJ,000 altogether, if we consider Vir ginia, (ieorgis, Florida and Tennessee, ure in like manner subjected to "tyran ny." Mr. Tillman's platform also de clares itt opposition to "militarism" for the reason that "il means conquest abroad and intimidation and Oppression st home. It meant the standing army that ha always been fatal to free Insti mtiius." What apology does Senator lillinan offer to the -landing army of l.iXKi.txs) rot en disfranchised in South e.n Slates' Were "intimidation and Of restlon at home" praciic.,1 to bring shout that result, peculiar onlv lo oue ection of the country? l(. , ,.. (lit, on ,,f these silenced voters "eppeiil wilh iieruliar force to our justice and magnanimity ?" f.ubor I'rnepernns In New Vorh. Iu New York Stale the Bureau of La in Statistics shows that the number of 'inp!o)e. , :itva of the largest factories in Ihe Slsle has Increased in the last three years by :,0,3'Jl. or IH.7 pel M while the increase in waget is 21,400 -804. or IM per rent. Wtmm n Mis (Jrest 'ttll. Wages of employes conected with the xlnppiiig on the ;M.st .akM Bav, (,,,, g' in rally tdvinceij. RYAN'S SOLILOQUv" i I Is..! I. ,i t .. . Ifavur FrIrrTr."; I Uonor Proa Trad, ana V. tu fact. I .hall p V ' That bring, me 4utJ 'n, or I preach "the consent of the g .7IJ "rk Imperial .w.V 4VC. " ians tu iu v a., WUu stands oo m, platform , I kuuw I'm a talker tr , Aud gifted wild -gair II mailers u.tr h..- I .. -Tl ui War Hmm. I m sure of th Kd, solid satbl I favor Kipanaion" and tsx -' wu I wisu lo JIIMi-y Aud believe in the riot ,,f If they vote fur me oftu " i shtitr - I ireo i ll promise ail thlnr if .i. .... - And do what I ph-ase ,. . I favor all virtue In ,dHc 1 t Hut wink st tough Tamuiar,, ,t4. 1 know I'm a Blower ud Aria. By hiding my Ixtreu ui Toali ltealud Au'l Imperial humbug 1'hat Aiuu, Ilka rre s; .-. g But ihe rarujer and Vllur duD ' rhat my Antl-Impi rial , Ian tid Is a 1'arameuui I'ram, just pel . A Dictator, l'-n hold to uiy party I furee them to do whit 1 think And sitll to the trough ! , , ,a' th, But can 1 induce Ihvm lo driakj And when Ihe election Is over If I should the White House sine. I ll turn aud twist with the KaliblaT Bamboozle and fool tba iu tgalal JUH.N A. JOYCE, Washington, D C. fcaWinti Jl arnVataWfcsl VAaVsxxai. "Dear Boy" Letters? My Dear Boy-In your last letter,,, say that old man Skinner, yonr emploi. er, snys that he "do. sn't see wfc fanner can be thinki. g uf to vu;e , McKiuley w hen the trusts ure mb ing tht life out of the farmers and tL I country is drifting right into imperiiii-a every day." You w ant to know how to answer bin, Well, I will tell you what to say to h;u and then i have u feu words to it; ; you. Ask Mr. Skinner if he remembers that in lN'.hi lie sold that sorrel mare that u- to work on the nigh side wilh old Jim for $d"i. thnh him win-inp the wm wasu't a better horse than tbat bay thm he sold to t'rawford the other d.ir f,r $80. Remind him that he Mid til in 1886 for 1-1 cents and t but he sold this year at '2i cents, I kicked Oh t tteti because he didn't gel 30, tlcutiy suggest that he sold a couple if steers in 1800 for JjUtJ." per hundred, sr. t that they were as good as tln.se ayjiad 1 fellow s that lie sold la-.t week for $5.10. The old man runs a huckster wagon ii lo Nelsonville and cls product to t!. miners' wives. A-k him if he remem ber, that four years ago h womuD wotid come out lo the wagon and sny "Can you let nu- have a peck of po'l toes and trust me till John gets work;" Remind him that the same woiuis COmet out BOW and says: "Hive me tint doaea of eggs and two pounds of butter. What are those peaches worth? I'll ts. u basketful of them Hive tne a pea of those tomatoes. How much does n all coine loV Here's your money. Wto. are you going to bring ill some ten!? Join likes veal for breakfast." Ask him if he doesn't ini thai oiotl n cy has been paid mil as 'jjrJ ll working men during the past yeartattit any other year in the history of the Hock ing Valley, Ask him whether a coa-M-trable part of this moiic) hasn't loud its way into his capacious pm-k etbook Remind him thai he i.dd nu- that whrn ever i he Mayhew farm : put upforule ho intends to bid on that upper eighty that joins his, ami that he bis made enough money iu the last two yen's t pay for It. And then gently suggcsl mat he Ml not appear to be suffering niiU'h from Imperialism or trusts either Tell bits that perhaps he had Is-tter let wet enough alone. Tell him mil It vote M what he doewli'l want I'ell aba till when trade is good and lmiu- aar denct strong and healthful, it is not U to tear the w hole thing don n bf flrbj the idmJuiatratlon Into untried tan I think that this is the only kind if argument that will I h old uiso Sti ller, but you. my boy, lime i large' soul. I want In say sol thei thiagt lo .1 oil. My boy, thank God Hint you lire country prosperous si h e ami honorrJ abroad, and never so perotll honored sr. 'low. When yon come to ' 'bi M tr member tbat the naiimial credit reached its highest Mint, thai Ihe wot' of American laborers has gained ita high est reward, and thai the glory of Ao'' can arms on land and sei lia b"c widely BMlatalned onder th war' thoughtful, palriotic adininisfrttktl William McKiuley. ReaaO taber that hi adiiiinitrttMI ' carrying out the pajgHpleii snd v"' the RepnMleaa pai rj Itememlier that the hi I t fo"' eratlons of American .nldlert rum your reins, and then vote so that yo will not be ashamed of "' 'J' day after election. Vol It KATW 'rui Masrtgfagrsa ami 'sittaa In 1WM) the farm State of Kansas uooui ' mm of 24O.00O.00. much id n V the exorbitnnt interest f I- I' .l.,.i ... IMWI to Ic - ' 000. certainly remarkable VrL, the prosperity of the farn ' f f ent rates of interest on haaasl loans are the lowesl tvei knowo. Prosperitr I'roof in Mooej " Postofflce stalisli.s " ' . Prom June SO. IS:.:. ' " " ibeie was a gain of 7'"' b.-r of motif) order- issued. l value increased by .V.. " ''-,i. average aniiiniit of en. Ii .1 1,1 ' , to $7.44). This is tnothe prtoj ' existence of McKinle.i .t .spenlf- ,abor In Ml. hla ,r kthati1 Labor Commissioner Wig's hill hi is in his 1X!K rep." ' ,!....;, I...1 Ineru.i.e over til"-' It!. an average of ntore than " l , crease over IK7. The grcitesi I ! ,(lf the fnct Hint all idle lab... it new; employed nt reiiiuaerslive wages- slue i W....I. M ' No"r' Msj Sheep are higher than '"' ' ..n and worth about double wbal four years ago. Wliut Cnws Arc ,rJ The lotnl value of t da ir.i man's milch rows gi . iter l ban in tflfi farmer ' M v' reot