Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 25, 1892, Page 5

GEN. VAN WYCK AT DENVER /' Address on tho Silver Quostion Before the Knights of Labor. FREE COINAGE EARNESTLY UPHEID Money In the Past and Frosent Discussed ~ Views of the Speaker on the Situation—In Favor of More Carrency. Dexvenr, Colo., May 24.—[Special to Tns Ber.]—I'he anniversary celebration by the Kuichts of Lavor has brought together a large concourse of working people who as- sombled tonight at the Colisoum hall in this city to hear the address which General Charles H, Van Wyck of Nebraska had been juvited to deliver. The subject of Van ‘Wyck's speech was ““The Relation of Free Silver Coinage to Labor.” The speaker oc- “® cupiea ono hour in its delivery ana was fro. uently interrupted by applaus The foi- owing 15 a synopsis At your bidaing I come to discuss a sub- ject, which, not far distant from tho creation of man, througn all nations, civilizea and savage, Christian and infidel, bond and free, for over 4,000 vears in continuous line, has heen not'so much discussed as approved without question, and from necessity ever recognized as a standard or measure of value, Silver has been the favorite throughout his- 10ry as a money metal, more generaily than even gold, and I8 80 with uearly ail tho na- tions of the world today. From tho ecarliest records of history its uses were woll known, and tho thoory of money iliustrated as clearly as modorn financial writers have explained it through all tho ages, When Abraham made tho pur- chaso of the cave for the burial of his wifo he would notv accept it as a gift, but insisted upon paying the full measure of good monay, and he weighed out 400 shekels of silver, cleaily showing that somowhore and sowe: bow the flat brand had thus early beon stamped upon it, and iv was recorded ns equal or suporior to the oxact welght, “our- rent mouey with the merchant.” So down to tho timo of Christ, nearly 1900 years after, » Wwhen tho heavens were shrouded and desp gloom camo upon tho ocarth and the blackest betrayal ever committod by man —which ouly the best money could obtain— wo find that 80 pieces, not of gold_but, of silver purchased tho' life and blood of the Savior. Dominated Financially by England. We are now apout the same number of years after Christ as Abraham was before, et during all those centuries has silver beon he money of the world. ~And now tae uni- versal custom of mankind from the time of Christ, from the time of creation, must bo reversed, Why! Has it been found bad in practicol Has it worked an imjury to the great multitude on either continent!” A few money loaners in Bugland and Gormany must’ amass more rapidly than honest gains could allow aund their payments must be made in gold. The world’s addition to the gold metal will not be suflicient to make payments to the two empires of England and Germany. Then tho plutocrats of ©ngland conirol the plutocrats of America, for they now own a majority of our government. bouds, railroad securities, and have a neavy interest in all our syndicates and trusts. Lombard street has dominated the financial policy of this republicsince the war by dominating Wall stroot. 'I'hese aro the men who are growing richer as our producers and laborers are lro.wlng poorer—at all events growing no richer. ‘Why this persistent attempt to depreciate, and finally destroy, silver! Before domoneti- zation in 1873 we were prosperous. Scheming was required, and under theinnocent protoxt of reorganizing the mint the direction to coin the standard dollar was purposely omitted. The conspirators knew why. Theinfamy was completed ana the dollar demonetized. ~ Yet wa are told there is a conflict betwoen capi- tal and labor. Who was the guilty party to the conspiracy? What the object! Busi- ness! The people were not suffering ror any remedy, particularly one so heroic as amputation of the most vigorous branch of the monetary system. That act struck down ¢ prosperity. Immediately our troubles in- croused, ‘activity disappeared and all the ] inovitable results of monetary contraction cursed our falr country. Those who plotted well knew the results. It was the first bold attempt to usurp the place ana prerogatives of the “lost cause,” the lost slavedriver, 1t was stealing from the white man more than an honost share of s hard earnea dollars. As over, it was only the masses who were 1njured by the dry- ing up of the sources of producing money. Those who toil for oread demand a cur- rency both good and abundavt, a currency neither depreciated nor scarce. Through 4,000 years of experience wo have reached that ‘time when a nation, assuming more than the virtues of the ancients and all the religion of the moderns, for the sake of gain porforms a deed equal in cruelty and 1n- genlois plundering to slavery. Money a Creation of Man, We are told now that money is abundant, aralysis of business, stagnation in trade, leathlike coldness now and then will create congestion in all branches, and in that torpid condition the money loaner laments that business i3 unwilling to taka the chances of trade; but when heaith returns and buoyant hope sends the currents of renewed activity through the body politic with no returning ebb to the ude, thon money is in demand beyond the supply, and the few whose weaith is tenfold increased through a money famine prepare to tghten the market and demand increase of ntorest as money becomes scarce and high. A money famine is often more deadly than a grain famine. A power boyond tho govern- ment withholds the rain. Human foresight cannot guard against drouth. But how can an honest government be excusea a scarcity inmonpy! Man, through government, creates, makes abundaut, or withbolds, to the injury of the millions. There is no such thing as money abso- lutely, and 1t is found nowhere in nature, Diamouds, gold and silver ure valvabie and will Bmduce large sums for ex- change. jamonds, the most valu- able, have never been vested with the attributes of money, having no place to put the fiat brand as the government can on gold and silver. Nations as wise as, and possibly more humane than, ourselves never worried about its depreciation or had spasins about cheap money when made of un, Lycurgus taught a great lesson when ho ordered coins of won, thereby aiding trade and striking a blow at two classes not far apart—the hoarder and the thief. There is no such figure of specch as *‘depreciatea’ ¢, in the elegant dialeot of the blutoorat, Jeap and nasty.” The stamp or brand of @ groat government, backed by s great people, ought to rescue it from such aspersions. Which is the depreciatedi Government mouetary issuos are of three Iands—gola, silver and paper, 1f moasured by value of 'the paper, the greenback is least valuable, yetitis the most appreciated in use, nextto the ‘‘cheap and nasty.” Do not the finaucial prophets and political slelght-of-hand ringsters know that the {ovornmnnt brand makes each equally good 1 ( Each will Surclll'e as much of the com- \_wodities and renl estato as the other. 1Is it 1oL panderiug to tho plutocrats to say wat the poor toller will always roceive the cheap mouey! What autocrat above the constitution will draw this distinctiout Thank Hoaven! the ocagle stamped on gold and silver and the autograph of sixty willions on a bit of paper make all equal to tho money of royalty. They all nestle in the pockets of freo labor with the riches and spurkle of the Enghsh crown. Which of the three will not buy a dollar's Worth of tho value of one bundred centsi { 1 Bondholder Agulust Guaholder. f ’ £ » We are told the production of gold is lim- fted, 1s veally decroasing, 8o that more siiver 1s absolutely necessary 10 mmore prosperity and to less contraction and depression. These pharasaical partisans are now over- flowing whth pious rogard for the toilers, Pnoy uro afrald the unprotected poor m will bo imposed upon by having palmed ou nim the *cheap aud nasiy,” when the mil- lions of producers aud laborers, with scarce au excoption, are begglug for moro dollars, they care not of what materisl ma s (hoy bear the impriat of the e enough of fiat w make each the equal of the best. Don't be rieving on his account. » dotlars he recoives won't stay in his pocket & Guough 1o go Into baukruptey, bowever neap and unsty’ they may be. Thore was a time, iu the furusce heat of THE OMAHA DAILY BEE war, when this same olass ot pious patriots know that one dollar, by the extortions of the money loaner to which we were compelled to submit, was of more value than anothor. Then tho poor man, the soldier, his wife und little ones; wera paid in the poorost, not oven ‘'‘cheap and nasty’ silver: goid to the bondholder vut grosnbacks to the gunholder, ‘This 1s not the first time, however, that a wonderfal display of sympathy for labor_has been manifested. The manufacturers of New Englang, the coal and iron manipulators of Pennsylvauia, the owners of pine forests in the northwest have spent much money to control congress and protect by an Amerioan tariff American labor, the duties on which have only been limited by the groed and avarice of bepeficiariea, who have been mado millionaires, while during all these years but few of the Awmerican laborers, who have formed the bulwark behind which the piuto- crats builded and sugarcoated emormous profits, have secured enough to live without The Veteran Used as a Decoy. And lastly, the pensioned soldier is used as @ docoy from&vbich to shoot arrows pointed with falsehood and sophistry amidst the toiling multitude, and they cunningly devise figures to show how much each soldier will lose if he receives his money in silver, or more silver dollars are made. Out upon such wicked bypocrisy ! Is there one soldier who can bo deceivod by such mockery?! Some idiot or knave in cougress sends out a circular declaring that ‘if tho free silver bill passes, the soldier who nominally gets $72 per month, the rate in extreme cases, would roally get but $50.40, with a strong probabil- ity that in the early future this 2 of monthly pension would be worth not over $43.20.7 What do vou think of the honosty and Intelligence of such aman! We ouly ask the restoration of a law, wuich by its age and beneticence had become part of tho government. We prospered under the free coinage of both motals. ~1u all sections, east as west, depression followea the attempted destruction of silver. In tne south, cotton, which once Loasted 1t was King, in the north, grain and meat scarcely return cost of pro- duction, The English autocrat, aided by British gold, demandod the demolition of ono of the pillars of our greatuess, and we did his bidding with the same agility we obeyed the behests of the slaveholdor—the slaveholdor had the advantage; he was not a foreigner, The man who wrote the circu- lar to the pensioned soldiers, no doubt, 1s of the crowd who has much to say about calamity howiors; himself the most reckless of howlers. He evidently has itelligence cnough not to pub. Lish “such brazen statoments. Ihe soldier or laborer or millionaire is not paid in bullion, and ke cares not ubout the value rel- atively'of the bullion and coin; he only stobs to count the figures und mark the brand the Rovernment Las placed upon the coin. Tho plutocrats are not only calamity howlers, but geuuine calamity doers. They have for years been besiexing congress to blot out silver and have gold alone as the basis of circulation. Not succeeding, they accepted the demonetization act of 1873, We romomoer how indignaat was the nation when that iniquity was discovered. The guilty participants were ratired as soon as the people could reach them through tho bal- lot box. Cunningly disguised in a bill with innocent title, the standard silver dollar was stricken aown. KEven Grant signod the bill without intimation of the crime against the people it contained, Wo are tauntingly told that England has demonetized silver. How uoes that concern us? We know it. And England demoneuized silver here in 1873. Today, as thon, England controls our finaucial policy. Now will somo other congressman issuo another circular showing when since re- sumption one American dollar from ocean to occan, whorever tho starry bauner fioats, has not had the same money value and purchas- ing power as any other American dollar? We had freo and unlimited coinage from 1792 to 1878. Did we ha7e any of tho calamities and horrors these prophets of ovil suggest! All tho objections now urged and the wanton calamities prophesied are abundaatly an- swered by the history of the world for thou- sands of years and tho experience of our own nation for & century. Done on Forelgn Dictation. Who insisted upon demonetization! And why? The nation did not demand it. They kuew there was an act to reform the mint, but not to destroy the standard dollar. Was it to increaso tho prosperity of the people and did it have that effact? Tho little joker is piain now. It was sought in tho interost of the fow, commencing with the English nobility who hold a msjority of our govern- ment bonds and railroad securities, the in- terest of which is paid in gold, 'Then the Amorican nobiiity, who necessarily ape for- oign customs, the Wall street brokers, who invest foreign money, securing bountiful returns to the owners, at the same time en- riching themselvos; ' our railroad mauagers do the same, and this double enrichment makes a double burdon upon the people. Dur masters here have foreign masters, whose policy they have estabiished. We stand where Jackson stood when hoe demanded gold and silver alone as tho money of the constitution. No paper for him. _Wo stand far inside the Line whero Generai Har- rison, grandfather of the illustrious presi- dent, 'stood when 1 his fivst inaugural in glowing language he pictured the dangers of a purely metallic currency and insisted upon por. - And now domocrats no longer follow kson and a Harrison administration no ger follows the grandfather, and both vie with each other in submission to the domand of England. Our money must all be do- stroyed, exoept gold, because England will recelve no payments except in gold, and as that adds to the riches of the Shylocks and syndicutes they urge acquivscence. Contraction Brought Hard Times. Then the people must be deceived by the assumption that silver will drive out gold. Where is the proof! Did free coinage drive out gold during a centuryi Then, that *‘all tho silver of Europe will be dumped on our shores.”” They can only speak of silver in contempt, 50 1 the elegant language of the plutocrat’ thoy say *‘dumped.” Was such the case during a century of free coinage! Other nations have no surplus to dump here. This crowd are enjoving a great deal of un- necessary misery. The confederacy sought through many yoars to destroy tuis great re- tubn : they came nearer 1 it than the Goglish and American nobiity will to the depreciation of the ‘‘cheap and nasty"” Amer- ican money, to the extent of a farthing. Combined, they cannot burn false lights enough on the shore to vroduce wreck, over whoso ruins ihey would gloat, hoping thereby t0 increase their fortunes, Another con, smoan should issue a cir- cular saying when after resumption the peo- ple enjoyed the greatest prosperity, Let nim traceityear byrearand tellifit was not bofore coutraction, even the most limited, and while the despised inflation lingered. Tno nation knows hard times commenced with contrac- tion, Then demounetization, the most deadly contraction, followed a depression from which wo have not yet recovered. No one has shown when and how the people will be ben- efited by curtailing the currency. Prosperity follows abundance, whethor it be of grain or coin, When mouey is scarce interest rules high and labor suffers for woney and bread. Disguise it as thoy may, the question’ of in- trinsic valuo is only & pretense, Whether it 0e 16 to 1 or 1544 to 1, whother the price of sil- ver be $1.20 per ounce, as it was in 1573, or 90 cents, as in 1892, is not the point with the nobility! They din in our ears that mouoy is now overahundant. Since whon! kven in golden California and silver Colorado at ave complaints of scarcity of Ol, they say, that must be oeca- No, that should never be in a well regulated government seeking the happiness of the people. It should not be & possibility in & government of the people by the people and for the people. Did we have money abundant when Gould and the wmoney kings doliberately conspired to corer the money market and wreok ousiness, a scheme more infamous than wny wbich scuttied & ship in midocean, Had this attempt not been made, and it nearly succeolod, tho same olass of conspirators “woul | 51y 1t never could hap- Den; but it did happ-u wnd ouly by the nerve of Grant was the cou. ir; saved ; ho unlocked the treasury and poure | money through tho country. The demoroiization wet was of the same character, uid (uF Lho SWING PUFPOSE— to Injure many ‘while 1t enviched & fow—and in history it will be worthy to be placed in the same dark record as Black Friday, Labor only prospers iu the sunlight of uni- vorsal freedom, when trade and enterprise are (reo in all their channels, when mouoy, the life and spring and source of all indus- tries, is pulsing warm aud strong in all the arteries of business. A contracted currency drios up the avenuss of human activities, with no encouragement and hope of gain oF even braad to those who toil. Those who make gain by investment, and whose harvest is from depression, want neitber freedom in trade nor freedom la ooinage. Those who become rich by development of brain and wusele cau ouly bl the mesns and secure the reward when government will furnish an t abundance of money for the necessities of the people. Capital and Labor's Neverending Conflict. Wae aro reproached at times becauso of a conflict or struggle botween oapital and labor. This conflict has always waged and always will, while thers is & necessity for bread and existence on one sida and a greed for gold on the othier. The struggie is generally an_un- equal one. Napoleon spoke with mush thuth when he claimed that Providence was on the side of the heavy artillery. [t is as truo to- day as when written years ago by neither a erank nor a demagozte, oid, the Iance of justios harm- itin rags, a pigmy straw doth plerce We well romember the confliot to retain, first atv the ballot box and then by arms, the monster, Slavery. Although hers in its most rovolting form, all the civilized, refined, edu- cated, judicial and theological influcnces for years, even tho stars und stripos, the soldiors And guns ot a_ropublic, wers employed to suppress all aspirations for freedom. The world has abundautly loarncd that a just God will not always wink at iniquity, ‘and that sometimes he makes a fearful reckoning. Strange what ure called conservative forces, society, government, tho courts and church, should always favor hoary, well-established wrongs on the ground that wrongs, no mot- ter how revolting, if only consevra’ed by age, aro better boruo than an attempt bo made to right them, however peaceable. Because the tyranny of tie conservative forces holds the remainder of the nation in its grasp. and, while they are comfortubly fixed, are ready to cry paace and say: “Now, soul, take thine ense.” Jackson and the elder Harrison were in favor of free coinage: why are not Cleveland and the grandson! Dow't you cloarly see an effort to chango the policy of the govern- ment! No party lines on this question. Cor- orations, syndicates trusts, monoy loanors, iave no politics, und no party must have any politics to interfera with such of their schemes of building up anc tearing down as may be necessary to add to their millins; the only issuo now is between the wealth- gatherers and the wealth-producers. 1 take 1t you are in earnest and mean what you say, and that you still hope that free coinage will be restored. Did you ever think how?! By moral suasion and entreaty? it were much easier to have convinced the sluveholder by argument. 1 suppose, as usual, you are bade back from political dis- cussion or consideration, and I, as your guest, would refrain from wandering in that do- main. This question is far beyond politics; it is governmental. “standeth God Within tho Shad America s the groatest silyor producing nation in the world, and congross strikes it down from the position where tho laws and the constitution and the prosperity of tho na- tion placed it when the foundations of the republic were laid. What consistevev! We tax tnis nation so that the coal and motals of Ponnsylvania may roturn millions every year to a few, and the probabiiities are that the representatives of silver will be loval to “ithe party” by voting the privilego to enter the pockets of tho people ad libitum; in En- glish that moans until thoy get tired, or, by n more literal translation, until death, Still there is hove that ‘the Lord does not always sleep. The Methodist church, for years enjoying tho distinction of the pioneer church, has always seemed noarer to tho hearts of the people,and wa trust nearer to the heart of Christ,and,whilo not aiways coming promtiy to tho help of the Lord against the mighty, has in the end gencrally responded to the sufferings of the oppressed. She first saw a ray from tne throne of God coming through a rift in tho clovas and the rift wid- ened and the ray enlarged and brightened tlL it brought, an inspiration, and the church had religion enough to know that it meant a new gospel of frecdom and she boldly preached it and arew the nation nearer to Christ. After peace and freedom, othor aes- potisms took the place of slavery and the church drifted back into the position of par- tial acquiescence or diluted antagonism to gilded wrongs. Today these have ripenea and we have oppressino and astruggle such as svthat which invoked the assistanco of the Almighty a third of a contury and more ago. And now this samo Methodist church with over 500 mea,n learn- wg and picty as grand a body as ever assembled, aro in session ina groat confer- eanco at Omaha, As vears ago, through auother riftin the cloud comos another ray of hovein a_resolution offored in_that body by Rev. Dr. Thomas Hanlon of Pennington sominary, declaring that “tne Methodist Episconal church should come out squarely upon the great struggle betwooen capital and labor now being waged in this country.” He said the church had not shown sufiicient sympathy for the toiliug millions, that the laboring classes wero drifting away, that the church was to a_large extent made up of women, and _that tho church had beon too much inclined to lean toward the interests of the capitalists. The journal adaed: *Dr. Hanlon was vigorously applaudod from the gallery.” The resolution was roferrea to a committce, Let us watch aud pray that tho bishops do not play the role of nursing moth- ors and put itto sleep. The only way to preserve the women members will be to keop them from tho ballot box, for their eves il then be opened and they will be oating from the treo of knowledge; they will then see the want of consistency in a government iolerating injustice and op- Dprossion and a_church so chaoged since the rebellion as to furnish no resistance to wickedness and crimes akin to slavery. Yet all churches are horritied at the great and growing number of infidels. It was the church, and not Tom Paine, that maae nf- dels when tbe church preached the divine right of kings. It was tue church, not Bob Ingersoll, that made intidols when the churcnh preached’that slavery was a divine institu- tion. Anditis the church today that 1s in- croasing the army of intidels by not daring toraise its voice for the cause of the poorand oppressed, and to relieve the toiler from a portion of his burden. You don’t want to preach contentment to the white man under urdens any moro than you did contentment to tho slave under stripés. The silver wrong is only ono of many; one 1n a great series, a hink in the chain which 1s binding free labor to the chariot wheels of capital. The people are almost powerless. All large business interests are each protect- ing the other, ail built upon fictitious capi- tal, watered stock, railroads with $4,000,000,- 00) capital not costing a furthing even of the *‘cheap and nasty” and divided botwoen the nobility of Eogland and America. Then Stand- ard oil, sugar trust, more than four times watered and divided in the same maaner, Then flouring wills, breweries, and a fow months ago the Vanderbilts reorganized the Chic tock yards, adding $15,000,000 by the stroke of a pen, and let in Johnny Bull as a partner. And while all this fraudulent inflation was going on, fllling the bunk vaults of millionaires, for the rest of the na- tion—contraction, R Catarrh Powder for cold in by all druggisis, 50 cents. D THE CITY’S CASH. Comptroller Olsen's Statement of the Money on Hand in Various Funds, The provisions of the charter require the comptrollor 1o make a statement to the coun- cil every three montbs, showing the condi- tion of the various oity funds. Besides complying with this provision, Mr, Olsen goes further and makes a statement each mooth. His last statement shows the balances on hand and in the different funds on May 16: General fund, 8155,064.14; five fund, $71,850.08; poilce fund, §67,354 83; curbing, guttering fund, $16,503.53; sower mai 858, 2 10; park fund, library fund, $18,75: 1,852, 1 judgment, $37,814.18: plumbing ‘malntuining funa, $1,351.52} water rent fund, $55,350.85; poiice ponsion fund, &,003.45: paving bond fund, 85,144.42; Omaba sower fund, $120.60; fire engine bond fuud, §46.55; city bail fund, $149,702.21; special damage, ; Tenth street viaduct damages, 3 dog fund, 81,022.90; viaduet, ) of Health, $2,20557; lighting, $15,971.45; sloking fuud, 8125, 13187, Tn the vinduot fund thore is an ovordraft of % which has been carried on the bonds s, unds of the general fund: Mayor's ofice, $3,091.98: oity council, $10,019.48; comptroller, $6,00; treasuror, §18,037.35; wal departmont,$6,479.70; city clerk, $4,501.06; ongineer and sewer department, $18,272.82; street commissiouer, $10,157.21; Bourd of Public Works aud sidewalk department, K crosswalks, 4,992 44 sup . tendent of bulldiug and plumbing, #7,:450.55; boller inspactor, §3,205.00; Boara of Healin, #2,630.14; police court, §2,648.13; gas 1nspec- #1,318.55; janitors, $1,200; veerinary ; liceuse luspector, $1,004.54; eugineers. $1,400; elevators, $720; walcbman, $1,450 sergeant-at-arms, $600; adverusing, $0,452.99; routals, 82,733 loctiou expeusos, $3,042.03; compiling tax list,§2,221; feeding prisoner 325,51 $21.40 cine. 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A few of which are given here adies k'ine Jersey Ribbed ? pure white Jersoy Lisle Vests, worth 85e, 10 Ladies’ Pure Silk Vests, white and colors, worth $1.50, 98 Cents. Ladies’ Fast Black Hose, Especially good for 35¢c, only ) ie; Fast Black Hose worth 50c pair, 3 pairs for $101 ’I Bys hon Clad Hose ldoub!c heels. knees and soles; D D THE MORSE DRY GOODS CO. 7Y itals, $1,276.07 ) e , rorording deeds miscellanoous, $23,286,00, In a side remark the gemptroller says: *'As remarked 1n my last stglement, the ger- eral fund wiil be lhown‘wt}r in better shape in July, when money will' Bo in the sewor maiotalning fund and ‘the lighting fund, and when money now expended out of the general fund for these two funds named can be refunced." PEETEAS SR Now is the time to take a good tonic medi- Hood's ~ Sarsaparfllu possosses this greatost merit, and Is & popular favorite. e Abolishing Stop-Over Privileges, Tho Northwestern bas posted ite notice that stop-over privileges will be abolished after June 850, Hereaftor a ticl will be geod only for a continuous passage, and the journey must be begun within one day from the data of the purchase of the uioket. Ifa ticket buyer discovers ou whe day of bis pur- chase hat bhe canunot begin his journey within the limit he ean get bis money back of the agent who sold him the paste- board, ‘*‘Kor redemption after that date,” savs the nouice, ‘*‘application should be made to the goneral passenger agent at Chicago.”” There is 1o assurance that the ticket will bs redeomed, and there 18 every prospect of considerablered tape. A general assenger agont of one of the Chicago lines s quoted in an interview as saying that all tickets will be redeemed If the railroad men are satisfied that the buyer was preventea from making the journey by some unavoid- abla circumstance, This ume limit and continuous passage condition was inaugurated receutly by the Alton and has been adopted by several other lines. 1t 1s intended primarily to circumvent the scalper, and one railroad mau says it will prevent dishonest conductors from holding out uncauceled tickets and selling them to the brokers. o Dr.Birney's Catarrh Powder oures catarrh For sale by all drugglsts. bU cents, —— Addressed the Seholars, On Monday morai the High school, Colonel Hoagland, *the newsboys' friend,” addressed the puplls of the school The colonel spoxe for some tweuty minutes, touching upon his work and the variaty of | good which might be done for the poor poo- Ho also apoke in highly commendatory terms of o artioularly id coadition of the High school, its most excellent ple, in whom he is 80 much interested, Qmab's public sobool systom, the splen courses of study and its faculty. ‘The_colonel then led in a short prayer, 700 heads bowed in acknowledgment of whil tho divine spirit. Afier the prayer Mr. J. A. Keller, man- ager of the Boys and Girls nome, spoke 0 oor boy living on the ninth story ork tonement bouse, He made ad- wo- ment in gaining such wun education as would fiv thom Lo struggle with the world and win. Although Mr. Kellor said that ho “‘was up bore aud tapped his forohoad is hand, be made ¢ very touchiog ad- a fow minuws on liad been o of & New mention of his early life and urgent) vised the young psople 0 improve eac! the timo when lackin with dress, which impressed his L Il'the young f rors deoply. teresting service was Republican City Contral Committes, There will be a meetlng at the republicas Al % then uuited in repeat- ing the Lord’s prayer and the short but in- leaguo headquarters (opposite Millard hotel) Wodnosday eveniug, May 25, at 5 o'clock, of tho city republican central committee, Kvery member is requested to attend, as important business will b transac Ricuakn Syirn, Chairmag, Secretary, —~— Wi A, KLt Druake o A disease, treated as such and pormas nently cured. No public ary. “Homo treatmoent. Harmless and effectual, Refer by permission to Bur- lington Hawkeye. Send 2¢ stamp for YlullphluL Shokoguon Chemical Co., Juriington, lu. No infiem -« Saved n Street, Johony Kyan, whose arm had been doo tored by scid by tramps fn order to furnish bim a stook fn trade as a boggar, hus been seut to the Hongland home recently opened in this city. Two Fifteenth street clothing houses bave fitted him out with new clothes. Ho'ts 13 years old and caalo from” Dushuell IL, Dewiw's Sai R et g parilla is reliable.