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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1896. farm their ranches in peace? The answer to that very fair question is that the laws to which the reform committee objected did not exist when the majority of its members had J U S-[ I FI [S 1 entered the Transvaal eight years before. THE AAID Richard Harding Davis Writes on the Strife in the Transvaal. HEROISM OF LEADERS PORTRAYED. Uitlanders Ground Down by the Oppression of Boers and Denied Franchise. ALL APPEALS FCR REDRESS RECEIVED JZERS. Treatment That Justified the Action of John Hays Hammond and Other Reformers. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 5.—Richard Harding Davis has written an interesting review of the recent troubles in the I'rans- At that time the revenue of the country was | barely able to support it ind emigrants were | warmly welcomed. The law as it then stood { was that s Uitlander could obtain full rights | of citizenship after a residence of five years, | #nd with this understanding many Americans | and Englishmen bought land in the Transvasl, | built houses and brought their families to live | in them, invested their capital in minesand machinery and graduslly severed the ties that had bound them to the rest of the world. But when the gold-seekers grew into a majority the Boer, who still retained his love for pas- | toral and agricultural pursuits, passed a new | 1aw, which declared that the Uitlander could | not obtain the franchise until he had first re- nounced his allegiance to any other country, and then after a lapse of eight or fifteen years, he could, if 1t pleased the Government, become | 8 burgher, with a right to vote, but thatifit | did not please the Government he could never | hope to become a citizen of the Transvaal. | They were many other grievances, and though Mr. Hammond has refused, on account of his pledge to the Boer Government, to dis- cuss them with me, other members of the re- form committee have spoken and written of | them freely and they are so well known that they are described as the “admitted griev- ances.”” When the Uitlander first came to the Transvael the revenue of the country was $375,000. It is now $10,000,000, and, as I bave said, the Uitlander furnishes eighteen- twentieths of that total revenue and yet it has | been practically impossible for him to obtain even an educasion for his children in the State schools which his money supported. The sale of monopolies by the Government to different | companies made his expenses excessive be- | yond reason, and the mismanagement of the | railroads led to delay in the transportation of machinery and of perishable goods, which robbed legitimate business of any profit. | Another evil srose from the liquor trust, | which gave the complete control of all the | liquor sold on the Rand into the hands of one | firm, which manufactured a poisonous quality | of whisky and sold it without restriction to | the natives, upon whom the mines de- pended for labor, ana who ior the half time | were incapacitated from attending to the work JOHN HAYS HAMMOND, the Noted California Mining Engineer, Whose Heroism in the Transvaal Is Set Forth in a New Light by Richard Harding D. avis. vaal, in which the raid of Dr. Jameson and followers and the action of the Johan- nesburg Keform Committee are fully justified and shown to be only a culmina- tion of the unjust treatment of Uitlanders by the Boers. Davis says: On the day that Jameson and his officers were found guilty of infringing the foreign enlistment act and sent to prison, Mr. John Hays Hammond, the American engineer who was & most active member of the Reform Com- mittee in Johannesburg st the time of the raid, was staying in Lendon at the Bavoy Hozel. I happened to hear this and, remem- bering that Mr. Hammond had been one of those who invited Jameson to enter Johannes- burg and who had then left him to fignt his way there unsupported, said thatif I had to choose I would rather be in Holloway prison with Jameson than in the Bavoy with Ham- mond. This remark was carried to Mr. Hammond by & mutual friend, a classmate of Hammond’s 2t Yale, who asked me to keep my opinion in abeyance until I had heard Hammond’s side of the story. The sare mutua} friend then in- | vited me to dine with Hammond &nd himsels, and for the first time I heard the story of the Jameson raid told in a manner which con- vinced me that the charges of cowardice laid against the reform committee were unmerited. The story has never been made public, but it is full of interest, putting many things in a new light, adjusting the blame and, in my opinion at least, removing the charge of lack of faith under which the members of the re- form committee and the peovle of Johannes- burg have been resting in silence. That they have been silent for so long is be- cause they did not wish anything to appear in print while Dr. Jameson was awaiting trial which might deprive him of popular sympa- thy which he enjoyed during that period, and | which they hoped might help to lessen the se- verity of his sentence. That sentence has now been passed, without much regard having been shown for the point of view of the people, and Dr. Jameson is pay- ing for his adventure like & man. And in time, having paid for itin full, he will come out agein us picturesque a figure, and with a great mass of the British public as popular a hero as when he won the Matabeleland and aaministered that troublous territory in the interests of the Chartered Company and later made his ill-conceived and ill-starred invasion of the Transvaal. As he has had his turn, it seems only right now that he should give place in the public eye to those who have suffered as well as him- self, and through his actiou, whose plans ne spoiled and whose purposes his conduct en- tirely misrepresented io the world. For these other men of the reform committee have 1ain, owing to him, in a far worse jail than Hollo- way prison, and some still lie there. Some have been sentenced to death, while others have been fined fortunes, and, more than all else besides, they have had to bear the odium of having been believed, both in the United States and i England, to have shown the white feather in deserting a comrade and of failing to keep the promises of help they had held out to him. The reform committee of Johannesburg was organized with the object of obtaining certain reforms which had grown so serious that the position of the Ultlanders in the Transvaal hed become unbearable. There is an objec- tion which is instantly raised whenever the condition of the Uiilanders is described as I have just stated it. Itis this: If the Uitlanders aid notlike the laws of the Transvaal why did they not leave it and go elsewhere; the world is large enough for everybody? Why did they instead plot to upset the government of the Boers who had sheltered them, and who only asked to be left to breed their cattle and to they were paid to do. Land, which had been s0ld to the Uitlanders for miniug purposes was not recorded by the Boer Government as pri- vate prope This being the case the Polish Jews, who handled most of the liquor sold on the Rand, were able to place their canteens | where they pleased, et the very mouth of & shaft, if they wished to do so. with the result | that the Kaffir boys were constantly drinking, and in consequence constantly falling into open shafts, tighting among themselives and suffering {rom the most serions attacks. Another monopoly under the protection of the Government was the sale of dynamite, which gave one man the exclusive right to manufacture that most essential part of a miner’s supplies on_condition that he would manufacture it _in the Transvaal. He did not meanufacture itin the Transvaal, but bought a low quaiity of dynamite in Germany, changed the wrappers in hisso-called manufactory and sold the stuff atauy price he pleased. It is said that the accidental explosions which have occurred in the Rund are largely due to ibe low quality of this dynamite, which was the only brand the miners were allowed 10 use. The Government’s method of protecting the Netherlands Reilroad is also interesting. The | coal deposits run parallel with the gold mines, but at a distance of ten to thirty miles. Coal | could be bought at the mouth of the shaftby any one for 7s 6d, but the Netherlands Raii- road charged from 3d to 1sa ton per mile jior carrying it over the few miles intervening between the coalfields and the gold mines. So that the coal which originally sold for 7s 64, :o:bwhen delivered at the mines, from 11s 0 30s. The average charge for treight per mile in the United States is one-hali cent per mile. In England it is three-fourths of a cent, which throws a lurid light on what the earnings must have been for the Netherlands Railroad wnen it charged from 6 to 20 cents per mile. There Wwes so little profit in this for the gold miners, that the different companies purchased strips of 1and, and giving each other permission to use the land already owned, they mapped out arailroad over which they proposad 10 carry what coal they needed. When the burghers heard of this,” they passed a law forbidaing them to build this railroad, and later, when | the miners attempted to carry the coal in ox- carts with traction engines, they were forbid- deu to do that also. Freightcan be sent irom the Cape in almost a direct line by an English railway which stopped at the border of the Transvaal, the rest of the haul being made over the system of the Netherlands Company. This point of the border is only forty miles from Johannesburg. Oritcan be taken in a more roundabout way from a point much fur- thereast. If it comes from this direction, it travels 300 instead of forty miles. In order 10 make the Uidanders use the longer distance and so bring more money into the coffers of the Government railroad the Netherlands Company allowed the freight to congestut the point forty miles from Johannes- burg and kept it there for three or four weeks and subjected it to such delay and tosuch treatment on the way up as they hoped would finaily drive the Uitlanders into abandoning the use of the more direct route from the Cape. Sooner than do this the Uitlanders organ- ized a system of ox-carts and started to carry their freight overland in thatslow and cum- brous fashion. To prevent their doing this the Government closed the “drifts,”” as the fords of the river are cailed, and so prevented their crossing. It required an ultimatum from Great Britain to open them again. These are a few instances of the laws and customs of & Government which has been seek- 1n% sympathy as & free and enlightened re- public, and compares, and not unfavorably, with the free and enlightened republics of Central Americo. The spirit of discontent caused by these grievauces grew slowly and showed liseif Nwhen it first found expression in ¢ form of perfectiy constitutional agitations. In May, 1894,13,000 Uitlanders petitioned the Voiksraad for tne rights of frauchise, and it is on record in the minutes of that legislative body that this petition was received with jeers and laughter. Two months later another pe- tition, signed this time by 32,500 inhabitants, was received by the Volksruad in the same manner, one of its members, indeed, goi: tar as to rise and say: “1f you want the fran. chis why don’t you fight for it?” His invita- tion was accepted later, when the inhabitants of Johannesburg, finding there was no help to be obtained through the “sacred rightof peti- tion,” organized the reform committee and repared themselves totake what they wanted b5 & revoiution and the tise of arms. Oue difficulty in dealing with the history of this revoiution lies in the fact that while the men in it had the same end in view, they were working toward that end with different mo- tives. There were a great many men in our rebellion who fought for the doliars they re- ceived for fightiugtas they: to-day fighi for pensions, and there were & great many con- iractors who made money out of the war, but no one would argue fromall that that all the other men in it held low motives, or that the cause for which they fought was not a good one. There is an elementin the affair of the Transvaal which cen only be described as the unknown quantity, and that element is, of course, Cecil Rhodes. He would have been benefited by a reform in the laws of the Trans- vaal as is’ well understood, but so would everybody else who wus interested in the mines there, and who was hampered by the restrictions, taxes and monopolies, which added burden of expeunse to every ton of ore that was taken ou tof the ground. Cecil Rhodes, as one of those most lltgely interested, was proportionately interested in seeing labor made cheaper, transportation mede easier and those men in office who were interested in the mines instead oi the Boers, who were not. As a matter of fact, Cecil Rhodes’ interest in Consolidated Gold Fields was but one-fifteenth of its profits, so it was not money but the development of his cher- ished plan for a combinaion of all the South African republics that moved him. What he hoped from the revolution we can imagine, That he would have looked at a change of government in the Transvaal as another step toward the umfication ot all the republics in South Africa is most probable, and he knew that to such a union the Boers of themselves would never consent. But that the whole revolution was & plot to seize the Transvaal for the sake of its gold mines and for the ag- grandizement of Great Britain, and that the men of the reform committee who risked their lives in the cause of the revolution were the puppets of Rhodes, moving at his bidding, is absurd. There were other big men in the revolution business besides Cecil Rhodes, and it was well agreed among these men that no flag but that of the republic was to be ratsed when the revo- lution began, ana whatever the Englishmen may have wished, the Germans, the Afrikan- ders and those of the Boers who were in sym- pathy with the revolution, and the Ameri- cans, which latter composed one-sixth of the reform committee, formed a majority which certainly had no intention of turning the country over to the Queen, and as a matter of history the Transveal flag floated over the Goldtields bmilding, which was the headquar- ters of the revolutionists, from first to last. Personally, I am convinced, after having talked with the men who were at the head of this revolution, that the greater part of them as honestly believed that they were acting for the best good of the country in trying to over- throw the Boer Government as did the revolu- tionmists of 1776 In our country, or as do the rebels in Cuba at the present day. Six weeks before the Jamesoun raid thereform | &g committes had map out thefr plan of action. They had spent £70,000 ($350,000) in provisions, which they expected would out ast a two months’ siege; they had arranged that the water supply of Johannesburg could not be cut off from the outside, and they had ordered rifles and Maxim guns and were smuggling them across the border. This was the most difficult part of the work, for guns are as strictly prohibited to Uitlauders in Johannes- burg as are public meetings, and every one who owned a rifie was a marked man in con- sequence. It is well to remember this, for it is notas though Johannesburg in_that respect rescmbled some of our own mining towns, where weapons are sometimes as plentiful as pickaxes and where a cal to arms would merely mean the reading of the payrolls at the shafts of the different mines. It was while these guns for defense were slowly . coming in tbat Dr. Jameson, the ad- ministrator of the Chartered Company’s af- fairs, was told of the movement of tue revo- lutionists and asked by them if he would, in case they needed his assistauce, come AcCross the border to the aid of his fellow-countrymen, bringing with him his mounted police and 1500 extra guns, which they would send him to Mafeking. The gentlemen of the reform committee were Dr. Jameson’s personal friends. They had trekked with him all over the rounding country, hunting, prospeciing and exploring; they knew he was a mau ready for adventure, and that in the easy spi, f the unsettled countrs about them it - bediflicult for him to gather around him & body of men ready to go whereyer he led. Jameson gave his consent readily ad agreed | to the conditions under which he was to enter the Transvaal. These conditions were exceed- ingly important and exceedingly explicit. He was (0 move oniy when the reformers gave the signal for him to do so, and they, as the chiei movers in the plot and’ the men having most at stake, were 1o be allowed to judge when that time had come, or if it should come st all; that when he came 'he must bring 1500 men with him and the extra 1500 guns on which they counted. This he promised to do and asked in return that they should write him & letter inviting him to cross the border which he could show later as his justification for his action. Davis then reviews the stirring incidents of the raid and its failure, the voluntary return of John Hays Hummond to jail after being reieased by reason of ill health and concludes in these words: And when people accuse the reform commit- tee of cowardice and ot being men who failed to keep their word they should put before | them these two pictures, the one of the Eng- lishman (Jameson), surrounded by his 500 troopers, saying, “Those men at Johannes- burg are tunking it. I am going to stir them up,” and three days later Taising the white flag, and the other of the American (Ham- mond), when still shaking with fever, returned to serve out his sentence and stauding alone at midnight knocking for admittance st the gate of the Pretoria jail TO0 CARRY OUT THE WILL. Editor Kohlsaat Takes Steps to Secure the Cremation of Kate Field's Remains. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 5.—Before Kate Field left for Hawaii she advised H. H. Kohlsuat, editor of the Times-Herald, that she had provided in her will for the disposition of ber remains in the event of death. Diligent search iailed to discover this will until Friday last. Meanwhile the body has been lying in a vault at Hawaii. It appears from this will that Miss Field directed that her body be cremated, and that her ashes, together with a plain goid ring worn by her, be placed in an urn and deposited above the coffins of her father and mother in Mount Auburn Cemetery at Cambridge, Mass, Mr. Kohlsaat has undertaken the imme- diate execution of these instructions, and to-day wrote to Consul-General Mills at Honolulu making provision for the ex- pense and directing that the cremation shall take piace there if practicable, but that if not the remains shall be forwarded by next steamer via San Francisco and overland to Boston, where the desired dis- position of them will be made. e e SWEPT BY WIND AND HAIL, Great Damage and Probable Loss of Life in Northern Oklahoma, PERRY, O. T., Bept. 5.—News was re- ceived here to-day of a disastrous wind and hail storm that swept over the north- ern part of the country. Great damage is reported to have occurred in several lo- calities, mostly from the wind. in the path of the storm a considerable number of farmhouses were destroyed, and the destruction of barns and other farm buildings was large. The town of McKinley suffered more se- verely than any other place fromwhich re- ports have yet been received. The storm raged furiously in that place and a num- ber of residences were biown away. As far as known there has peen no loss of life. A number of people were hurt in McKinley and vicinity. Ii 1s feared that later news will tell of 1atalities in the track of the storm through the country. s LAYING OF A CORNERSTONE., Governor altgeld Perjorms the Ceremony and Delrvers the Oration. MOLINE, ILL., Sept. 5.—With impres- sive exercises the cornerstone of the West- ern Hospital for the Insane, on the bank of the Mississippi River at Watertown, four miles above ihis city, was laid to-day. Hon. C. H. Deere, the big harvesting-ma- chine manufacturer, was master of .cere- monies. Tuere was a big parade of civic socicties and of, militia regiments from a dozen points. Governor Altgeld laid the cornerstone and delivered the oration. In its interior arrengements the new institu. tion will be one of the finest insane hos- pitals in the country. ST Boiler Explosion Kills Three Men. EDWARDSVILLE, Ara., Sept. 5.—News has been receivea of the explosion of a boiler used for the.purpose of pumping water for a railroad tank seven miles west of here on the Southern road. Three men, Elsie Black, George Black and Dan Turner, were 1d not | SE WORDS AT CANTON Five Thousand Voters From Pennsylvania Visit McKinley. DECORATED WITH THE GOLDENROD. Delegations Journey Into Ohio to Assure the Major of Their Patriotism. SPEEECHESTHATHAVE WEIGHT WITH THE MASSES. Pilgrims Greeted as Al'ies in Protect- ing the Honor and Prosperity of the Nation. CANTON, Onro, Sept. 5.—Decorated with clusters of goldenrod, embtematic of the money they favor, 5000 Pcnnsylva- nians visited Major McKinley to-day to eer him and 10 listen to his speeches. The first delegation, which came on three special trains, arrived at the house at about noon. There were about 2500 persons in the delegation, ana they were escorted from the station by a mounted escort, a club of former citizens of Pennsylvania now living in Canton, and by a committee of prominent citizens of this town. This delegation was from Beaver County, and was largely composed | of people from the towns of New Brighton, Beaver and Beaver Falls. The visitors 1epresented sixty-five manufacturing es- tablishments. With the delegation was Representative Charles C. Townsend, Gen- eral John 8. Littell and Hon E. H. Thomas, president of the Lincolu Ciub. Edward A. Frethey, a molder, was spokesman. When he appeared on the porch with Major McKinley cheer after cheer burst from the great crowd in the yard and on the streets. Replying to Mr. Frethey’s remarks, Major McKinley said: Igreet you at my bome as friends and as allies in the great cause in which the honor of the country and prosperity of the people are involved. You are our nearest neighbor in the East and are closely connected socially and in business relatious with the eastern part of the old Congressional district which for many years I had the honorto represent. | The people of this country never were so eager to vote as now. [Great cheering.] The last four yeats have been long years—the longest four years siuce our great Civil War, [Cries of “Tnat’s right!] Everything has suf- | tered but the Republican party. [Laughter.] | Everytbing has been blighted but Republican | principles [applause and laughter] and they | are dearer, more cherished and more glorious thau they have ever been before. [Cries of “That’s right!”] The people of the country are oniy waiting for an opportunity to embody those great principles in public law and public administration. [Applause.] Idonotrecalla time in the history of the country when the question of protection was at issue that your State did not declare by em- phatic majorities in its favor. My fellow- citizens, Ido not forget that this delegation | comes from the home of that distinguished | leader and unrivaled Republican organi- zer [great cheering and cries of *Quay! Quay!”] whose unfaltering devotion to Repub- licanism has never wavered and whose splen- dia services to the cause have more than once assisted to achieve the most signal triumphs in both-your State and the Nation. [Great applause.] Iwish he might have been a part of this great delegation to-day, but his ab- sence is fully compensated by the fact that on | another part of this great field of contest he is serving the samegjcause in which you are en- gaged and for the success of which so many of the people are striving. [Applause.] It is this year, my countrymen, a great cause for which we contend, commanding the sup- port of every patriot, for it represents the National honor and stands for National pros- perity. [Applause and cries of “That’sright.”] It involves every cherished interest of the country and embraces the weliare of every citizen of the republic. [A voice, “Yon to1d the truth then.”] It involves the labor and wages of the people and the earnings accumu- lated and to be accumulated, the honor of the country, its financial integrity, its good name, all are at stake in this great contest; and every lover of country must be.aroused to duty and quickened to responsibiiity in this crisis. [Ap- plause and cries of “You needn’t worry about that.”] Our glorious country has suffered no dis- honor in the past; it must suffer no dishonor in the future. The past is secure and giorious. The present ana future are our fields of duty and opportunity. Those who have preceded us have done well their part. Shall we be less honest and patriotic and brave in the per- formance of our part? [Cries of “No, no.”] 1n America we spurn all class distinction. [Applause and cries of “Correct, correct.”] We are all equal citizens—equal in privilege and opportunity. In America, thank God, no man is born to power. It haslong been determined that the philosophy of Jefferson is true, and that this, the land of the free and seli-governed, is the strongest as well as the best Government in the world. [Applause.] Let us keep it so. [Cries of “We will do our part.”’] Men of Pennsylvania, friends and neighbors, let me bid you be faitnful to the acts, tradi- tions and teachings of the fathers. Make their stand of patriotism and duty your own. The audience was one of the most dem- onstrative that has gathered in Canton since Major McKinley’s nomination. It applauded with vigor all the emphatic points of the speech and greeted with pro- longed cheers the tribute to Senator Qu. After Major McKinley finished n specch the desire to get near enough to grasp his hand was so general and so in- tense that men pulled, hauled and jostled .each other in a very vigorous and at times alorming manner. . The second delegation of Pennsylvani- ans under the auspices of the Pittsburg Leader arrived on three special trains about 2:30 and marched with their bands to the McKinley residence. The commit- tee at the head of the delegation, consist- ing of Congressman W. A. Stone, Major A. B. Hay, representing the professions; William A. Carney, representing the labor- ing men; Samuel Hamilton, representing the business men; J. F. Burke, Captain William Fullwood and T. W. Nevin, ed- itor of the Leader, were taken into Major McKinley’s study and presented to the candidate. A few minutes later, when the com- mittee appeared on the porch with Major McKinley, there was a demonstration which lasted several minutes. Men cheered and tossed tbeir hats in the air, women waved their handkerchiefs and ap- plauded, and the young men blew tin horns. When the noise hau subsided Colonel Stone made a short speech and in- troduced William A. Carney, first vice- | president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, Mr. Carney isa typical workingman and is highly es- teemed and irusted by his fellow toilers. He made one of the most stirring and ef- fective speeches that has been addressed to Major McKinley. He said, amongother toings: The Republican party has never been un- friendly to the cause of labor and is not to- day. Some workingmen may have been led astruy by the promises of false prophets, but the great body of laboring men want work and honest money and believe that the suc- cess of the Republican party will bring them prosperity. Mr. Samuel Hamilton also spoke in be- half of the business and commercial classes. Replying to these speeches Major Mc- Kinley said: Thix assemblege thoroughly typifies the Na- tionul idea of a great American common- ‘wealth, in this, that it represents the equality ofall which liesat the basisof popular gov- ernment. After speaking in earnest terms of labor to-day and all it typified, Major McKinley continued : The country by a vote this year will either continue the present industrial and financial policies of the Government or abandon them. The Republican party stands to-day as it has always stood, opposed to the continuation of an industrial policy which cripples industries at home, robs labor of its just reward and sup- plies insufficient revenues to run the Govern- ment. [Cries of “Good, good.”] 1tstands op- posed to any change in our financial policy which would put us upon a silver basis and deprive us of the use of both gold and silver es currency. ([Cries of *That’s right.”] In- volved 1n the contest, too, is that fundamental question of whether we are to have a govern- ment by law. The Republican party stands now, as always, for the maintenance of law and order and domestic tranquillity. [Great applause and cries of “That's right, Major.”’] There are two things which deeply and per- sonally interest the workingmen. They are work and wages. They wani steady work at good wages, Theyare notsatisfied with irregu- lar work at inadequate wages. [Cries of “No.”] They want the American standard applied to both. They are not satisfied with steady work at poor wages. They want regular employ- ment &t remunerative wages, and with steady work they want to be paid in sound money. [Cries of “Good, good.”] They do not want to lose any part of their hard earnings through poor dollars [a plause] and they don’t want to be paid in dollars whose value can only be ascertained by the daily market reports. [Great cheering.] Whatever work they have now is paid in good money, and therefore no complaint is made on thet score. They are satisfied with the money but they are not satisfied either with the scant or the reduced wages. [Cries of “That’s right, Ma- jor’] They are satisfied with the present dol- lar bill, but they are not satisfied with the present tariff bill. [Tremendous cheering and blowing of tin horns.] We have learned from experience that we cannot increase work at home by giving it to people abroad [Cries of “That's right!”] and it is poor policy to keep our own men in idleness while we furnish em- ployment to those outside of our own country Wwho owe no allegiance to this Government and who acknowledge no loyalty to that flag (pointing to the American flag.) [Great ap- plause] Washington said: -There is no doubtot the wisdom of the policy of giving protection and encouragement in any proper legislative torm to domestic industry.” There is nota workingman in the United States who has not learned in the past three vears the wisdom of Washington’s utterance. He appreciates it now more than ever before. Now, another xpeeriment is to be tried. [Cries of “We don’t want any more experiments.”] No, never, I say, never. Your spokesman gave the whole philosophy of it wken he said that no matter how much money was coined you would not get it if you did not have work to earn jt. [Great cheering and cries of “That’s right!”] Some people seem to think that a cheap dolisr is the best thing for the working- man. The wage-earners are creditors. Their wages are paid to-day in money whose pur- chasing power is good for 100 cents on the dellar anywhere in the world. If a dollar worth less than 100 cents is a legal tender the workingman will never get any other kind. [Cries of “That's right.""] Who will raise the workingmen’s wages to meet the rise in the prodvcts he buys? [Cries of “Nobody ; give us a Republican administra- tion, with McKiney for President,” followed by cheering und blowing of horns.] The mints, if they were thrown wide open to the coinage of every character of metal, and were multiplied & hundred-fold in capacity, would neither furnish the workingman a job,re- store his exhausted savings nor give him credit. [Great applause and cries of “You're right, major.”] Nothing, my fellow-citizens, will ac. complish that but work—work at fair wages, and that will only come through confidence restored by a wise financial and lndustrisl\ policy. [Cheers and cries of ““Hurrah for Mc- Kinley.”'] We cannot have work if we don’t have wealth somewhere, and we cannot have wealth without work, for work is at the foundation of all wealth. [Great applause.] The power to get hold of some money—I don’t care what business we are in—depends upon whether the man who owns the money wants what we have and needs what we have more than he wants or needs his money. If we have our labor we can get pay for it if some- body waunts it who can pay for it, and he never wants it unless it is necessary to have itfor his convenience or comfort, or to produce some- thing from which he can make profit out of his money. [Greatapplause.] If we want to_borrow money our ability to get it is measured by the confidence the pos- sessor has in our ability and disposition to repay it. That is true of whatever kind of money we have, and there is another thing we ought to remember, which is that {ree silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 or any other ratio will not repeal the great law of supply and demand. [Cheers.] It is & grave error to suppose that you can enhance values by diminishing the value of money; that you can increase the vaiue of anything by changing its measure. Garfield uttered a great truth upon speaking for the re- sumption of specie payments, when he said: “In the name of every man who wants his own when he hes earned it, I demand that we do not make the wages of the poor man to shrivel in his hands after he hasearned them.” [Anplause.] What Garfield so eloquently spoke for was executed by the redemption law of 1879. The dollar of promise became the coin of fulfill ment, and every dollar we have in circulation to-day is as good as every other dollar in every mart and market of the world. {Tremendous applause.] That is the way it is now, and that 1s the way it shall be if the people decree the Republicans in control of every branch of our Federal Government. [Applause and cries of “They will do it!” and blowing of horns.] And the preservation of that doliar is as indispen- sable to our National honor and our public faith as it is to the men who work in factories and who toil in the fields. [Applsuse.] e McKINLEY'S CHANCES BRIGHT. Grand Army Generals to Make a Com- Vination Tour of the West. CHICAGO, IiL, Sept. 5—Chairman Hanna and some other distinguished Re- publicans were at the National head- quarlers of the party to-day. After his busy day was over Mr. Hanna said to a reporter for the United Associated Presses: “I am very proud of my Chicsgo organ- ization. They showed me reports of effi- cient work and organization in every State. Idon’t believe the crowds which went to hear Mr. Bryan in New York State indicate any increase in his follow- ing. Itonly showsa more general inter- est in the issues of this campaign. I have no misgivings about the East going for McKiniey. We have a good chance to carry Texas if the harmony plan among the Republican factions :oes through and the proposed fusion with the Populisis carries. A party of prominent Texan Re- publicans were in to see me to-day on this subject. I am well pleased with the West- ern sitnation so far as I have received re- ports. Ohio needs stirring up a bit.” General E. . Terrell was a member of the Texas party, also Ed H. R. Green, son of the famous Hetty Green. Mr. Green will be chairman of the Republican State Committee if the proposed harmony plan goes through at the State Convention next week. The visitors came to get the good offices of the National Committee to try to bring about peace and assist in elect- ing two or three gold Congressmen. A vplan for Grand Army senerals to make a combination tour of the West in opposition to Mr. Bryan was consum- mated at headquarters this afternoon. General Russell A. Alger and Colonel Dan E. Bickles, the latter a McKinley Demo- crat at Chicago, stopped on their return from the G. A. R. encampment. They held a conference with Chief Hahn, and it was decided that the best way to satisfy the demands which have been pouring iato the speakers’ bureau for G. A. R. leaders to address the so'diers and others was to arrange for a tour of distinguisbed Union soldiers on a special train. General Alger placed his car at the disposal of the party of speakers, who will be: Generals Alger and Sickles; General Franz Sigel of New York, also a McKinley Democrat; General Thomas J. Stewart of Pennsyl- vania, General Mulholiand of New York and Corporal James M. Tanner of Wash- ington. It was arranged to begin the tour Sep- tember 21 with a meeting in Chicago, and then as follows, including Sundays: Two meetings In Wisconsin, two in Minnesota, two in Iowa, two in Nebraska, three in Kansas, two in Missouri, four in Iilinois, three in Indiana, one in Kentucky, three in Ohio and three in Michizan, in the foregoing order. The selection of the cities will be leit to the State committees, except that the party will be 1n Topeka October 1, which is soldiers’ day at the State Fair. Speeches will also be made from the rear platiorm of the car at the stations en route. Speaking enthusias- tically of the pian, General Sickles said: | “I want to shake hands with the solaiers and tell them to stand in line as they did in 1861. There are more than a million of them in the country, and they can do a lot of good for McKinley besides voting for him, as a great majority of them will do.” e e ENTHUSIASM AT GOTHAM. Big Republican Mass-Meeting Held Cooper Union. NEW VYORK, N. Y., Sept. 5.—A mass- meeting . nder the auspices of the Repub- lican Club was held at Cooper Union to- night. The hall was well filled and the address of each speaker was enthusiastic- ally received. Among those on the plat- form when the meeting opened were Gen- eral Horace Porter, General Wager Swain, 'W. Seward Webband Edward Lauterbach. The principal speaker of the evening was Sentor John M. Thurston of Nebraska, whose remarks were punctuated with pro- longed cheering. Senator Thurston spoke in glowing terms of the viotory in Ver- question at length. His telling points were loudly cheer-d by the audience, which was evidently heartily in sympathy with the speaker, —_—— AN OLD FAMILY FEUD. It Causes a Desperate Row, in Which Several Men Are Shot. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Sept. 5—A desperate row took place at Winifred Junction, about fifteen miles below here, this evening about 5 o’clock, between the Slacks, Allens and Balls, growing out or mont and then reviewed the financial | old family feuds, in which twenty or thirty persons participated. Mike Branen was shot in the face, one of the Balls shot in the breast and another in the leg. One of the Aliens had his jaw brokenand an unknown man was fatally injured, besides a number of others being more or less wounded. The fighting did not cease until the ammunition was ex- hausted and then the crowd resorted to rocks and sticks. It is feared the fight will be renewed to-morrow. —_————— Judge Gregory Nominated. OMAHA, NEBR., Sept. 5.—The Congres- sional committees of the silver Republi- can, Populist and Democratic parties of { this, the Second District, held a confer. ence to-day. Last week the Populists and Republicans nominated Judge Gregory, and the Democrats, through a misunder- standing with the other party managers, selected I.J. Dunn. The conference to- day resuited in the nomination of Judge E. J. Dutfie, a native of New York and at present a Judge of ihe District Court. On | the informal ballot the Populists and Re- | publicans voted solialy for Duffie, a Demo- crat, while the Democrats were unani- mous for Attorney Frank Ransom, a Re- | publican. TURKS AND. HRMENTARS Panic Causel in Constantinople by a Man Falling From a Window. Rumors That He Had Been Thrown Out Nearly Resuit in a Re- newal of Rioting. CONSTANTINOPLE, Turkey, Sept. 5. A complete panic was caused here yester- day by the falling of an Armenian from a window to the street below. 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