The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 4, 1902, Page 10

ar sioc ila, H ymed we satis 3. oS tof in 0) he SeTL ert yor ho nen pre nin ‘tol oT dics od pre) t ¢ oli in. la het to ity rtu nae 1s et} ew ad li] ch il ort Ch rit 1 Ir. \ie he ne Int th of id e Ct rae nM st ag representatives voted for their issue? Were these gistinguished Republi- cans hypnotized for three decades by sme unseen influence, and inveigled into the seppert of “impreper -meas- ures? The people demand a frank response. The cnange tg the form of invest- ment of our seh) moneys from the “bonded form” of eadebtedness to the “certificate torm” of indebtedness, made upon the recommendation of Governors Hardin and Phelps, was timply @ change from the negotiable to the non-negotiable » form of bond. This action was taken in order to more perfectly safeguard this sacred fund, transfer- The neg. ile bonds were able from bana to hand, while the non-nege te be are made to the State Board of Pducat'on, in trust for the schools, and can not be trans- 1 This) chan therefore, ob- ve dollar of schoet money Management Schoot Puses in’ Republican states, In view of the opposition of the present leanership of the Republican party to the investment of school moneys in cour own securities, it may be well to nete the position of other states In respect to the investment of Bschool moneys It ns that the Republican state of Ohto rt ntains a similar systent of fnvestine \ letter from Schools in that state, to Superintend- ent Carrington, under date of March 26 of tl esent year, says: “The investment of the school funds terived from the sale of bas been conducted by id money in’ the. state constitute an irre- on which the state pays 6 per rest, and such in- terest is distributed annually to the counties of the state for the benefit of he school This plan has given entire suuisfaction and there has been no: tion in regard to chang- Ing the : Theft n ton tis to Bayliss, Superin- Alived of ools, of the great state ippriptendent Carring- | e date, also save » yours: of the express, pr XIV. and h inst., 1, to-day, HI. artment. On }vou by iowill find a ske'ch of the perma nt hool tind of Tlinois, On page of the NNT. Biennial Report you will find a statement in regard. to the pernianent hool tund, The school tund proper, the enrpus revenue, the college fund and the seminary fund amount to $1,165 407 32. While the state is commonly said tobe ontoef debt, by its own laws, it is hefa for that sum, and it pays the intevest on the same yearly, « 4 L444. not a This fund nounts to $6Y ou. represents this Which the state has money H in trust and used for its own purposes and which it has pledged itself by publi to pay interest at the rate ol 6 per cent until it refunds the mor ‘he act providing for such disposition of these funds was un- doubiediy beneficent, for it has prob- a leon the means of saving many k cur 1 uleo quote from the Superintend- ent of Publie Tnstruction for the state of Michigan, Hon. Delos Fall, ina letter to Superintendent Carring- ton “In reply to your letter of March ¢ will say that by the ordinance of 1787 the sintecnth section of each town- éhip was reserved and the proceeds of : Which otherwise would have oc- the sale of the same was to go to the primary school fund, Besides these Janda the government also ceded to the state certain so-called swamp lands and other reservations for the ye purpose. These lands have prac- ally all been sold and the money has gone into the state treasury and been used by the state, but the state pays on about one-third of the sum @ per cent interest and on the balance 6 per cent.” Again, | quote from the letter of Hon, L. —. Harvey, Superintendent of Public Schools for the state of Wis- consin: : “Your favor of March 26 was re- ceived this morning. The matter to | whieh you refer never, 1 believe, been the subject of any serious discus. sion in this state. The certificates of indebtedness in Wisconsin amount to $1503, 700, It appears that this state borrowed from the school funds very nearly this amount in 1866, at the rate of 7 por cent per annum. This is practically the only permanent school fund in this state and yields us each year $109,459. Although the — state might now borrow this money or a large amount of it from these same trust funds at the rate of three and a half per cent per annum, no one of the state officers nor any member of the leg'slature has ever brought the question up for discussion or legisla- | tive enactment.” It appears, therefore, from the let- ters from which I have quoted that the Republican states of Ohio, Michigan and Illinois have deposited tneir echool moneys in their state treasuries, and have used them for various pur- poses, paying certain rates of interest on the moneys thus deposited for the maintenance of the schools, It_also appears that the state of Wisconsin invested her school moneys under the laws identical with those of Missouri. If, therefore, these latter-day leaders of the Republican party are eager to denounce the Democratic management of the school fund in this state, they must also denounce the Republican management of the school funds in the four great Republican states of Ohio, Michigan, IIMnois and Wiscon- sin. Obviously, if it is criminal to es the posstbilt, of the loss of a | Hon, Lou's | DN, Bonebrake, State Commissioner ot extracts from a letter | Bien- | state, but an amount of | received | invest our school money in Missouri securities, it must be alike reprehen- sible for the people of these great Re- | publican states to borrow their school moneys for any purpose and pay in- terest thereon for the support of the schools of tneir respective states. In- deed, Missouri's management of her school funds seems to be superior to that of either of the states mentioned, except the state af Wisconsin. souri has never used a dollar of her school moneys to pay the current ex- penses of the state government, or for any other purpose except to retire state bonds equivalent in amount to the issue of the school certificates, Conclusion, The issues of this campaign are now fully made up. The tickets have been nominated, and the people will render | their verdict in November. Democ- racy stands by its record, and prom- ises a continuance of honest, able and | progressive administration of state Affairs. We have no apologies to of- fer. Our record requires none. In this campaign, to be fought out large- ly upon state tssues, Democracy's strength alone, with proper organiza- tion, is ample to secure a decisive vic- ‘Declaration of Princip] like Management of Mis- | | tory. In view, however, of the | Venomous and libelous assaults upon | the good name of the state by Re- | publican leaders, we ask the rank and file of the Republican party to aid in giving ug a “tidal wave” victory. The interests of the Republican masses are the same as our interests. Re- publicans are fulty identified with ‘every industry of the state. We are proud to acknowledge them as enter- prising and progressive citizens. We | ask them to stand up for the honor of ‘old Missourl, and rebuke the Republi- can leadership which, in the unworthy ‘ effort to secure mere partisan advan- | tage, hesitates not to dishonor this | commonwealth. It seems unnecessary, in view of the issues, to appeal to the Democratic hosts of Missouri. The proud record of Missouri Democracy in the admin- istration of state affairs, and ber envi- able relation to the national Democ- | racy, should bring every Democratic | voter to the polls on election day, A thorough organization and a full vote | | will insure a sweeping Democratic victory. Every Democrat should per- form his whole duty, and thus silence forever the Republican campaign of abuse and misrepresentation, oc Adopted by the 8 Joseph Conventon. PARTY PROUD OF ITS STATE RECORD. | Prosperous, Progressive and Honest Conditions Re- sulting from the Wise, Economical and Business- the Public Affairs of | Missouri—-Republican Extravagance and Mismanagement. The Democrats of Missouri, in repre- sentative convention assembled at St Joseph, inde and affirm the Democrat. je nathnal platform adopted at Kansas vty an A We are d to the Fowler bank bill, the new fean financial mease which ha verably r i ing be the indor neresk, havin ment of R Dlican leaders We condemn the dishonest paltering with the trust evil by the present Re- publican adaninistration, and we especial- } ly eendemn the subserviency to the trests of our “strenuous” President, who. only a few days before Mr. MeKinte assaastnation, paldly lie speech at Minneapolis, that trusts are fan evil which the public safety requires | should be promptly and mercilessly de- | strove the P leney, has struck not one effec- tive blow against them, although holding ‘in Vis lands all the necessary powers of government, and who, instead of exeeut- ing his threat to exterminate the trusts, talks now only of regulating them, Control of the Trusts. We favor the most stringent national ana State legislition ror the absolute con- trol and regulation of the trusts, to the end that they will cease to be a menace to our public welfare as well as perse- euters of the great army of the laborin people of our land. ‘To that end wé fav- or a consistent tariff revision which will | remove the Guty or tarut from all trust- madeortrust-controlled products, thereby foreing the trusts into competition wit foreign nations, depriving them of the fraternal support and fostering care of the Republican admin'stration, by which | they are now enabled to reduce txeir labor, minimize their output, grind down the working Classes” and arbitrarily tx their own priees '~ this country, to the great detriment and hardship of our people, while at the sume time the peo- ple of foreign councries reap all the ben- efits of the trusts economy by being able to purchase’ all of our trust reoducts in their own country at fixed reductions varying from 29 to 6) per cent. in the event of such legislation failing in its purpose, then we favor the most drastic legislation which can be enacted prohibiting the existence or forming of such trusts, or any other such combina- tions which will have e 4 tendency to destroy honest competition in any line of business or make it possible to arbi- trarily regulate wages, prices, rates or charges of any kind, Republican Extravagance, We condemn the alarming waste of the people's money In extravagant appropria- | tions by Republican congresses, now amounting to more than one biluon dol- lars per year, and we heartily approve of the course of our Democratic repre- sentatives in Congress in sturdily resist- ing this riotous profiigacy, and in stand- ing steadfastly for economy in public ex- penditures and tor just prine‘ples of gov- ernment. The assassination of the President of | the United States by a self-confessed an- archist is deeply deplore The recent assassination of the go of Ken- ; tucky by political onarchisis, who fled to Indiana, where they are now. protected plored, We denounce anarehy in all its forms and declare that it should not be permitted to find an abiding place in this country. We_uagain assure the menagement of the Loulsiana Purchase Exposition of our profound interest in that great en- terprise, and we renew our nledge to con= tribute whatever we can to the success of the Exposition. State Taxes Reduced. We congratulate the people of Missourt on the magnificent p ogress made by the State under Democratic rule, dorse the our public affairs by Govetnor Dockery and his official associates. The Demo- eratic party in Missouri offers as the best guarantee of the future its wise and economical administration of affairs of the State since it came into power in 1873, at which time it found a bonded debt of $21,768,009, the securities for which had been corruptly squancered by the Republicans. ‘tnis vast debt has been reduced through Demo tie cconumy and business methods, until the entire amount, except chat held in trust for the public schools, wi be pail by of the present ar, We have ining ‘Feduced taxation nntil the levw for Stite purposes is now but cne-half of what it was when the Republicans were in con- trol of the State, being now only twenty- five cents on the $10 valuation. and this tax can be etill further materially re- duced at the end of the current year. Notwithstanding this large reduction in | the rate of texation, and notwithsten ling the enormous sums required to meet tne interest and principal of the public debt, which is a heritage of Bepublican dis- | honesty, we point to the gratifying fact that the Democratic party has con- structed, equipped and liberally main- tained great educational, eleemosynary ' proclaimed in pute | . but who, since lls accession to | the governor of that State, is also de- | and en- | excellent: administration of | And penal institudd toimeet the grow- ing needs of ine . and: whieh ave universally cone te be amen the j best institutions of thar kind ino the | Union, In this connection we call attention to the facet that fth of th entire State wx ot : on the Mtles at distribation among the inal pu H tax bas been stand prin- | the | school distmets for ed ! that two-tifths of th | applied to paying the inte | State copaloof the publie debt, and that with the rematning two-fitihs of this tax which is but ten cents on the $100, all the current ¢exponees of the State gov ernment, inetuding appropriations tf | public buildings, for the suport ef the educational, eleemosynary and penal in- Stitutions of the State, for the payment Poof criminal cost tor the payment of { salaries of all executive, Wicial and | legislative off of the te, and for all other current exnenses of the State are paid, th’'s being the smallest ’ levied for sueh purposes by any State of the Union, We also call attention to the fact that when the Democratic pace eame into vewer in IST8 the honas of the State bears ng 6 per cent inter hy reason af the Incompetent and dishenest Imin’st a- tion of our publie atfairs by Republicans, were selling in the market about eighty cents on the Collar, but that now, by reason of the better and more honest eratic ausy honds of the S$ ing only 1-2 per cent interest weuld command a premium in any market of the world, Progress of the State, We take especial pride in also ealling attention to t> fact that under Demo- cratic rule, Missouri has outstrip) nearly all her sister States in industrial growth and development She stands proudly forth as the fifth State ef the whole Union. New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio outrank her, but they are the older States of the Union, and were the centers of population and wealth when Missouri was the frontier. I'inois is the only other St te to outrank Mis-our!, and Itnots is net only much older than Mis- sourt, but nas had exceptional advant- | ages. Missouri is confescedly the great- est State by all odds west of the Missis- sippi River. hese great achievements won by the Democratic party for the State have been won, not with the help of Republi- can newsp pers and politic s, but in spite of their malignsnt partisan efferts, still continued, to belittle nd tradnuee the State and obstruct its progr Splendid Public Schools, We point with special pride to our mag- nificent public school system, which was founded in 1887 under Democratic su- remacy, and has heen fostered by every Democratic administration since. Tt was revived from a lethargic 1873, when our porty wr power, and hus since been y devel- oped under its guiding influence until it | Stands today second to no State school | System in the Union. In view of the ef- | forts now being made by Republicans to dreg the public schools of our State into artisan polttes, it is but just to the rienas of educ | the fact that) Missouri will dishurse te j her pub..c schools this year a greater | amount than they received during the | entire six vears of Republican rule. Une } der a period of excessive taxation, the | Republican marty. when in control ot ;the State, disbursed to the counties for i school purposes an annual veruge of fonly $188 while this vear the publ sheols of Missouri, vn'‘er an excepti returned to $1.170.311.48, This macniticent appropriation for the | support of the suite schools does not inelnde the large apvropriations “ade for | the support and upbnilding of the Si i University and normal schools. Missouri, under Democratic rue, will y to the city of St. Lous alone, for the support of her public schools ths wear. mere {thon the average annual distribution for the entire State during the six years of Republican rule. Public Sehool Fund, jing to $4.997,509..2. which is nearly three | when the Republicans were driven from power, is safely invested in the secur- ities of the State. Our constitution re- quires that this school funa shall be in- vested in United States bonds or bonds of this State. and nothing else. More than a quarter of a century ago the State wisely entered upon the policy of in- vesting a!l Stats school funds in State bonds instead of United States bonds, This policy was adepted because State bonds bore a higher rate of interest than government bonds, and therefore would produce a larger income tor distribution to the schools, and also because State bonds could be obtained at a less price than government bonds. But as the bonds of the State were payable to bearer, and consequently ne- | The State public school fund, amount- | Democratic State Platform. gotiable by mere transfer from hand to hand, there was always danger in hold- ing jarge amounts of such securities; therefore, to safernard the school fund against tne ar of loss, on the recommendation of Governors Hard'n and Phelps, the State also wisely adopted the policy of changing these negotiable bonds, when purchased for the school fund, into non-negotiable bonds, which was done by canceling the negotiable bonds payable to bearer, and issuing in their stead non-negotiable bonds, payable directly to the State in trust for the school fund. For the purpose of distin- fuishing these two classes of bonds in the accounts of the State and in public reports, the non-negotiable bonds held fer the school fund have been termed “cerufiegtes of indebtedness,” but they are, none the less, bond obligations of the State, Security of the Funds, This whole plan for the investment and pretection of the public school fund, while distinetivery a Democratic mensure, had the unonalified approval of the mo: eminent puticans itn official life, among these being two of the present Republican candidates for judges of the siipreme urt, and it was indorsed by cae Republican house of representatives in 185 ‘The wisdom of thus investine the school mo in State bonds and of changing the form of the bends for the protection ot the fund was never questioned until = | new, when the Republicans of the State, } ; and } pay ; ten ever seeking some excuse to malign the Suite, prociamm: to tne world that Mie sourt bonds are worthless, We resent this assault on the eredit and good nime of the State vet treat it with contempt, for Missouri has grown too great to be longer injured by partisan defamation, ‘This is the answer we make to the Re- publican charge of “looting the school und,” Constitutional Amendment, We heartily endorse the proposed amendment to our State constitution pro- ing for the future investment of our umulating school moneys in the coun- township and school disiriet bonds our State, and for the reduction of eur State interest. tax frem ten cents on the $10) valuation to not exceeding three cents, Under the present assessed Valuation ef the State, + of two one-half cents would be ample to that. interest) tax, Unless this amendment shall be adopted under our constitution the present interest tax of cents on the $10 will have to be continued, and the funds thus colleetert from the people fer the rment of the certifiertes of indebtedn wonld have to be invested in’ government bonds, which commend so high a yvremtim and 7 a rate terest’ that version. the prinetpal of our scheel would be materiaiy reduced annnal ine 1 fund and the come lessened more than one-half. If this omendment is adopted, tire levy dneed ta eventeen and one-half on the $100 for all purposes, whieh would ge ito ment the s of the State cents ten cents of current x vernment, wh nooother > trom ine pe se osemollon the maintenance of the State's ment, or which gives se large Hien of State taxes to the enus cation, sum sovern- propor. of edue the peaple imparti We ellien f P the eleetion laws of Missouri with ofany State in une Union. In Mis. the minority party is) gi the sume rights senjayed ae itv has e ual pols in jutees, ngers and watch Cares the en- | State purposes will be re. | public affairs of the people. Ceaseless war should be waged against this evil until it is thoroughly extirpated. Already the Democracy of Mssouri, after many battles, has driven the worst and most potent elements of the lobby operating in this State, into open alliance with the Republicans of the State, but we pledge the Democratic party to an incessant and uncompromising war upon this evil until it is wholly 5 ig a and eradicated, We favor the municipal ownership of public utilities while recognizing the right and necessity of permitting the people of each municipaity to deter- mine the question of such ownership for themselves, and we faver such legtsla- tion as will accomplish this result, and we hold that franchises to municipal ublic service corporations should not granted wihnout a direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable, And the Demo- cratic party of Missouri, in convenuon assembled, does hereby plelee its candi- dates for office to use thelr votes and influence and adopt all pre means to secure the submis<ion to neople of this State, by tue next ger assembly, ef a constitutional amendment providing for the practical anplication of the prins cinle of direet legislation through the initiatve and referendum, Friend of Labor, We declare that labor has the right to organize for mutual benefit and protec. tion, and we sympathize wiih the « of the wage earners of tae country to better their conuitions, We pledge the Democratic party toe the er reement of Just laws for the arbitration of differ- ences between emmovers and employes, We favor laws to prohibit the emplov. ment of chitd labor in mines, shops or factories, and we believe that the full- est right of euueation should be enjoyed by all the children of the State, We are opposed to rovernment by in- ‘Junction and declare that laws, both State and national, should be enacted to preserve intact the inalienable right to trial by jury and to protect the liberties of the people, Republican Mismanagement, The Republicans were in full control of the State from Iwi to Ist], and of the city of St Louis, which represents nears ly one-titth of the population and one- third of the wealth of the State, from INW to 1901, These periods of Republican administration in State and city were marked by a degree of intolerance and Corruption having few examples in American history, In the State they ene aeted election laws which denied to Deme ocrats allover the State any representa. tion Whatever in the registration of vote ers or at the polls 0 m day, and under wheh tb of high repute solely becwuse they were Democrats—a liw des nouneed by the supreme court of the Vnited States as beng “without any! precedent’ for partisan brutality. They cecruptiy sqmandered the securis ties held by the Stete, ample to indebtedness, said th ef atielal dishor ract even by hetorious rupt Republican y Was restored te the fami ino the of an interest: hearing: tion of the State, ‘They exempted pr Pr i} form: of taxation, while t My excessive burden of taxation, the pres nt rate, on the people sted the pevenne thus unequaliy Tnid and ujastey extorted in profiigate eX penditu es thoy so debased the eredit ef the State thr urh extravagant and ranteed | nis made for thorough and | honest r stration and for the nrmven- tion of 1, with neavy penalties for all violations of The law the hav governine eleetions in ft Louis, as wists tadav is peaetionth: the same as the law famed by the (vie Mederation of that city andy ain by a publi h an demo. a Der my ved * governor, It is as nev er y nonp fisan as an eleetion law ean he made. The minority member of the board o election commissioners exercises 1 rs with the majority members, ard vhsolute control over the seleetion of the judges officers of his When Repul issouri nad. yy in power in Meerat Was permitted ter v election in rk oor ether ‘tion officer, The just and imnartial lnws oof todav are in. striking contrast with the intolerant ond nreseriptive stat- utes which pre Ved during Republican rile in Missouri, when through the most flagrant disfranchisement of repre f tive citizens. the will of the yW9 expressed throuch the ballot: was temptuously disregarded, Republican Mendacity, The Repubucans, inspired by a desper- ate and unserupnlous leadership, inaueurated a eampaitn unnaratleled for mendacity and hypocrisy. ‘Taey proceed on the theery that fdsehoods, however Vielous or absurd, if multiplied and) per- sisted in, may eonfuse and mislead the people to the detriment of the Demo- erratic party, A striking example of this mendacity is to be found fn the attocks eon the tressiey denartment. These | attacks, often so absurd as to refute | themsely s, for instance, in the madition in | tion to esl) attention to | | committees, charge that $4,000,000 were stolen, of a total collection of £52.000,000—a1e yet pers sisted In, even after their falsity has been specifieriy exposed, The mendactous character of these at- tacks is made menifest by the sworn statement of the State anditor, indorsed by the governor, ana by renorts of ex- pert aceountan's who stand at the head of their profession and have a national reputation for probitv and h’gh ab'litv who declared, after an exhaustive exame ination of the original books, vouchers and accounts of the treasury departmert and its fiseal agents, that every dol'ar collected ond received had been honestly accomnted for, The felsity of these attacks is further shown by the reports of joint legislative appointed in pursuance of | lew at cach session of the general assem- ally low rate, will receive from the State | bly, composed of both Demoerats and Republicans, who thoreughly examined the books, vouchers and accounts of the auditor and ‘treasurer, spending months on the work at each examination, and who declared in every instance that ol! ‘the affairs of the department had been honestly administered in accordance with | the law. | We denounce these partisan calumnics as vicious and unwarranted assaults 07 , the credit of the Stote, and we declare | times as much as this fund amounted to | that the party euilty of them is alike unfit and unworthy to rule this great commonwealth, Corporations and the Lobby, Corporations should be fully protected in all their rights. and their legitimate interests should be respected, but any at- tempt by porations to interfere with tne public affairs of the pple, local State or national or any attempt. by them to control the sovereignty. which creites them, should be torb dden, under such penalties as will make such at- tempts impossib'e. further declare that contributions by corporations to political funds is an improper use of corporation money, is wrong in principle and tends to public abuses, and such contributions should ne forbidden by law in beth State and nation. Professional lobbying has become a | positive menace to good government and the public welfare. The States and the nation are alike infested by organized | lobbies maintained by powerful interests, who seek to control the political and tion that ats bend: ea oat interest, w rhets of the country ¢ tty © nts on the dotlar, ted the public institutions upto oadimi w ohivn 1 of the Stote , te the support and enrich. ment of th henchmen, and their exece Utive attics in adedetion to there salar vorbed as perquisit paid ince their dep: are how, s the enormous tments, which under Demo ie rule, ensury and ¢ ea fund upport all the departments e toa the people, And dure vlaney in St. Louis they alsa corrupt synandered the municipal reventies and then destroyed the publie records to conecal their mes, They goented ff Ss Valued at mile liens in return for be money, but for Which th city reecived not a farthing, rostituted the nublie institutions yore they aid of the State, in tfneir partisans, thereby ime » ciflctoney of the institutions, them in a condition bordering w ing and Teft on dreary ec service of the even the mayor 1 jury with em- private | secret otner | imports Renubliean that period heen indleted for perjury, bribery, rupt extortions in office and | for ¢ other offense: have been ¢ on which indictm nos some nvieted, some are fighting ‘lay, while otnerg have fled to for- ‘ign countries to escupe punishment for their crimes. Democrats Were Proscribed, Tue party an? tho men guilty of these foul misnecds—being the sume party and men who imprisoned woinen for teaching school, lawyer doctors fur practise ine their profe ns, and ministers for preaching the gospel; who disfranchised General Frank P. Bliir and others like him, solely because they were Demos crats; who robbed. General Shields and olonel Swazler of seats in Congress to which they had been elected, and robbed scores of other Democrats of offices to which they had been chosen, and then burned the ballots to hide the evidence of thelr frauds; and who for twenty-tive years in purty plattorms, in the press and on the stump. have denounced the State and its people, applying to them the most insulting enithets—come again with brazen effrontery and ask the people to restore them to power in Missourt. In view of the vell-known facts we appeal in full confidence to all Missou- rians who honor the falr name of our splendid commonwealth and are proud of + her high credit and great sehievements, to revuke at the coming eléction, by an overwhelming maforay, this party which, while in power, was faithless to public duty and which, in the hope of partisan advantage, has not hesitated to defame the State, to blacken its name and dis- credit it throughont the Union. = Prairie Dogs Multiplying. i Aithough the State of Kansas of. fered a reward of §5,000° to anyone who will suggest a successful plan for the extermination of the prairie dog pest, and employed agents in every county to carry out the plan of extinc- tion, this little animal continues ta thrive and increase. Japanese Carvings. Lovers of Japanese carvings are find ing it increasingly diffieult to obtain the choicest specimens in New Yoet. Connoisseurs say that the Japanese at hoine, now grown more prosperous, have set up a demand for these cary- ings for themselves, both on patriotie and artistic considerations. | “The man who minds his own busi-« ness will always have business to mind,” and what is more, it will be his very own. ! i ~_