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| Chauncey M. Depew. |
Cortland
Evening Standard, Saturday, July 25, 1896.
DEPEW RETURNS HOME.
Has a
Word to Say On Many Topics, Politics Included.
NEW YORK, July 25—Hon. Chauncey M. Depew
arrived on the Lucania from Europe, having been called home by the illness of
Cornelius Vanderbilt. He was taken from the boat at quarantine and brought to
the city on the New York Central tug and went direct to Mr. Vanderbilt's residence.
Later he discussed his brief trip.
"The Ancient and Honorable Artillery company
of Massachusetts scored a wonderful welcome," said Mr. Depew. "Their
movements were sure of a column in the London newspapers daily, and royalty and
the papers were alike hospitable. There is an intense feeling in Great Britain
for the existence and maintenance of friendship with the United States. It was
this more than any relation with the Honorable Artillery company of London which
caused all the demonstration.
"There is nothing that surprises
Englishmen as much, and they cannot understand it, as the unfriendly, almost
hostile feeling which prevails to such an extent in America against Great
Britain. Bayard's speeches have made him the most popular of our ministers to
St. James, because of his earnest reiteration of our common blood, language and
literature and the common mission in friendly rivalry of these English speaking
nations in the service of humanity and civilization.
"There is an honest and hearty cordiality
toward us among the people of Great Britain. The march for empire and gigantic evolutions
and revolutions of the century have obliterated from their memory all
recollection or knowledge of the revolutionary war, 1812, the Trent affair, the
attitude of their government during our civil war and the other things of every
kind, which form so large a part of the literature that stirs the patriotism and
moulds the minds of our boys and girls.
"The dramatic and spectacular Chicago convention
profoundly interested the English, indeed all Europe. Bimetallism is an
academic question in Great Britain and Mr. Balfour its leading advocate. The
French have lost interest in the subject and the Germans are discussing it in their
thorough and serious way. The English farmers who are looking everywhere for
relief from their desperate condition would experiment with silver if they
could.
"The action of the Democratic
convention has given international bimetallism a body blow in Europe from which
it will require years to recover. I saw several of its strongest advocates who
said that this precipitate movement was the greatest disaster to their cause.
They believed the sentiment favoring it was growing rapidly in both England and
Germany, but the capture of a great historical party in the United States by
the free coinage of silver men had virtually killed their party in Great
Britain and paralyzed it in Germany. They believed international bimetallism could
be brought about by agreement among the leading commercial nations without
serious financial or industrial disturbance. But they also see that free
coinage of silver in the United States alone will drive gold out of circulation
and make the cheaper metal the standard of value, and a fluctuating standard
will produce the wildest financial and industrial revolution of modern times
and throw every debtor into bankruptcy and will put our country out of touch
with our equals in wealth and power among nations and leave us linked in
prosperity and progress to Mexico.
"This movement has created a widespread
distrust of our credit and sense of financial honor. It only goes so far now as
to check the flow of foreign capital to our country for investment in the development
of our resources. If it was believed that the movement would succeed most American
securities held abroad would be thrown on our market for sale and the money
withdrawn from us and taken to the other side for investment there. One singular
effect of this distrust has been to give unprecedented prosperity and
employment for capital and labor in Great Britain.
"Money can be borrowed on account of home
investment at very cheap rates, while it is almost impossible to secure it for
America at any rate of interest. Municipalities which a few years ago had to pay
4 1/2 per cent now find their bonds eagerly sought for at 3 1/2 per
cent, and consequently there is great activity in improvements in cities and
towns, giving large employment and sustaining wages."
The
Second Florida War.
The second Indian war in Florida began on
Dec. 23, 1835, and ended Aug. 14, 1843. The total United States forces employed
in this war numbered 41,122.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
How the
Populists Look.
The character of the men engaged in any
undertaking is the surest indication of its worth. The St. Louis correspondent of
the New York Evening Post thus describes the populist gathering:
To a physiognomist these men are a study. Long
hair and tangled beards abound. There is a dangerous glitter in most of the
eyes, and nearly every face has some normal feature lacking. Queer chins, queer
noses, uneven temples—something out of common is conspicuous on every hand. The
only symmetrical faces in the lot are those of a few leaders, in which shrewdness
takes the place of oddity. They are the sort of men on whom an engineer of
dubious schemes would not waste argument, but whom he would proceed at once to
purchase, on general principles.
The craziest of the whole outfit are those
seen at the "middle of the road"' headquarters. Few of these trouble
the hotels. Where they tuck themselves at night nobody knows. There is not a
collar to spare among them, and usually their costume is noticeable for its
dark colored calico or flannel shirts. The broad brimmed soft hat is another
staple, and the wilder the eyes the more sweeping the brim that shades them as
a rule.
Unfortunately, this is a crowd which,
however uncouth, cannot be laughed out of court. The East has ignored its
growth too long and now will have to fight hard to overpower it. It is not the
sort of crowd out of which common mobs are formed merely for plunder or wanton
violence, but is the sort which applies lynch law without hesitancy in defense
of what it regards as its rights, or when any one trifles with its system of
social order. Just now it is seized with the delusion that the East has been robbing
the West for years, and that the day of retribution has come, and it enters upon
the work of vengeance with the spirit which manned the Crusades.
A comparison of these men with those who
attended the Republican national convention in the same city a month ago will
show which are the safer to entrust with the affairs of a great nation. The
Populist crowd is the one to which Bryan properly belongs.
NEW USE
FOR BICYCLES.
Morning
Rides Will Cure Hay Fever, Says Mr. Solomon.
Bicycle riding will positively cure hay
fever, according to the statement of
S.
Solomon, a man well known in the wheeling world, who claims to have made this
remarkable discovery. Mr. Solomon is not a manufacturer of bicycles and he does
not say that one make of wheel is better than another as a remedy for this
annoying disease. Any bicycle that can be ridden will do, from the lowest
priced machine to the high grade wheel, so Mr. Solomon says, and he appears to
be in earnest about it.
"For 17 years I suffered from hay fever,"
he began in true patent medicine ad. fashion, speaking of his discovery, "and
I can tell you 17 years is a long time. I bought enough so called cures to
stock a chemist's shop, just as thousands of others have done. I joined the Hay
Fever club too, and spent a great deal of time in the mountains—the only place
where even slight relief was to be found. I bought a wheel two years ago, but
did very little riding until last season. I found out that the fever did not
annoy me much as I rode along, but this year I find that bicycle riding has
cured me completely. I usually ride about two hours a day in the early morning.
Any sufferer from hay fever who will follow this plan is sure to find relief in
a few days and a positive cure in a reasonable time. At least a dozen men of my
acquaintance have been cured in this way."
Mr. Solomon is preparing a paper on this
subject, which he will read before the Massachusetts Medical society next month.—New
York World.
SOME GEAR
LOGIC.
The question has been propounded whether it
would take more power to drive a wheel geared to 70 than it would to 50 over a
given stretch of road in the same time, all other things being equal. The
answer is very simple. The work done is the same, i. e., an equal weight moving
at the same velocity in either case, consequently the same energy and therefore
the same power, mechanically speaking; but then the human element comes in, and
to take an extreme case and compare two machines, one geared to 20 and the
other to 200, it is obvious that in the one case the rider could not move his
legs fast enough and the other slow enough to get a similar result. The result can
only be a compromise, which is exactly what it has come to in practice.
In cycle riding, to get the best results the
human energy must be used in the most advantageous way, and men of different
strength, weight, age and constitution should use the gear best adapted to
their special conditions.
A high gear, which might with advantage be
used by a strong and sturdy rider, will not necessarily be suitable for a less
robust companion. Mechanical laws do not deal with this question of human
energy, so in settling the point as to the most suitable gears for different conditions,
practical experience and common sense come to the rescue.
To illustrate: From a mechanical standpoint,
a machine with six-inch cranks and geared to 60 is equivalent to a machine with
three-inch cranks and geared to 30, and each should work as economically, yet
from a practical view the latter machine is an absurdity.
BE SURE AND RIDE THE CORRECT GEAR.
In purchasing a bicycle it is very important
to buy one where you can obtain just the gear required. For that reason we
recommend our riders to patronize local factories as much as possible. They
have the advantage of having their machines put together in exact accordance
with their requirements and besides, in case of accident after purchasing,
repairs can be obtained in much shorter order than when wheels are bought from
distant places.
AN EXPLODED THEORY.
"Paw, what is a 'burst of confidence?'
"
"That's what happens to the man who believes
you can't inflate your tire too much, my son."
FREE TRADE AND PROTECTION.
We do not have to study political economy or
listen to the speeches of our campaign orators to learn the practical action of
protection on home industries. Any intelligent citizen of our town must be
aware that if he buys his bicycle in Cortland
from a Cortland manufactory, he keeps just that much money at home which
circulates through the town through the medium of wages paid to Cortland
workmen. A word to the wise is sufficient.
RUINING THE BALLET.
It is said that the bicycle is responsible for
the decline in the dancing school, which supplies the Paris opera house with
its stock of ballet dancers. The masters declare that girls who have machines
are defiant of the rules, and that discipline, which has turned out many
ballerinas, has gone by the board. Now [that] the wheel has cured ballet, who
known that it may also cure the baldness of those who formerly sat in the front
row to watch the caperings of the coryphées [sic]!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
Since the reorganization of the affairs of
The Wesson-Nivison Mfg. Co. mentioned in The STANDARD of the 23rd, an entirely
new policy has been adopted in the sales department. Hereafter our prices and
terms are uniform to all comers, and we will supply our Cortland patrons with
goods at the lowest possible price compatible with good material and
workmanship and our guilt edge guarantee.
THE WESSON-NIVISON MFG. CO. tf [paid
ad.]
After a
Long Search.
Since last January Deputy Sheriff J. E.
Edwards has been looking for one George Matthews, who was wanted in Cortland on
the charge of appropriating money belonging to the Hitchcock Manufacturing Co.
The officer has traced him all over the state. Thursday he was at Norwich on
some other business when he met Matthews face to face at the D., L. & W.
depot. Matthews was placed under arrest and brought to Cortland. The case has
been held open by consent until Monday afternoon and in the meantime Matthews
is confined in jail.
Army
Worm Disappearing.
The farmers report that the army worm is
disappearing. Many believe that the rain has beaten the worms into the ground
and killed them. Others claim that they have only crawled into their holes, and
will appear again in about three weeks. The damage done by the insect has been
great, but not so much as was expected. In some places whole fields of oats
have been destroyed, but in the majority of instances the damage has not been
so great that the grain will be lost. The farmers now look forward to a good
harvest.
BREVITIES.
—Daniel's orchestra left this morning for Union,
Broome Co., where they play for dancing at the park to-night.
—The Cortland baseball club left this
morning at 10:22 for Deposit, where they are playing the Deposit team this
afternoon.
—New advertisements to-day are—A. Mahan, a
musical education, page 5; A. S. Burgess, great mark down clothing sale, page
7.
—Town Clerk E. C. Alger has received a
quantity of copies of the revised game laws which may be obtained upon
application to him.
—Eighty-five tickets were sold at the Lehigh
Valley station this morning for the annual hop-growers' excursion and picnic at
Sylvan Beach to-day.
—The Cortland City band will give a concert
at the park to-night and McDermott's orchestra will furnish music for dancing
in the pavilion. Reduced rate tickets from Homer and McGrawville.
—Mr. Joseph B. Stone, a respected resident
of Summerhill, died at 1 o'clock Friday
afternoon of typhoid pneumonia, aged 50 years. The body will be taken on the
2:34 P. M. train to
Greene Monday for burial.
—In its report of the veterans' reunion at
Cortland Thursday, the Ithaca .Journal says: "The Ithaca delegation are
under very many obligations to Comrade John Freer for his interest taken in the
'boys' in describing Cortland in its early days when he boiled sap in the noted
park that they visited, and where fife and drum and patriotic speeches aroused
his patriotism and he boldly girded on the armor and went in defense of his
country."
Editor’s note: On September 2, 2013, the
Cortland Contrarian posted several articles from the Cortland Evening Standard dated July 25, 26, 28, and 29, 1896. A single
CC post was captioned "A. O. H. Excursion to Thousand Islands and Cortland
Park Land Co." Regular readers may want to bookmark this link: http://jeffpaine.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-o-h-excursion-to-thousand-islands-and.html
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