~THE EVENING GAZETTE
THE EVENING GAZETTE. I
ENTERED u run Pos'r OFFICE IN NORWALK
as A NEWSPAPER.
HAIL S UBSC’RIPTI’ONB
Dam. one year. 83; six months. $1.75; three
’ months. $1.00; one month. 30c.
WEEKLY. one year. in advance. $1.00; six
months, 600.; three months. 350.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1896.
Serious Words With the Tramway.
It goes without the saying, that the
people of Norwalk have desired and do
desire to be on friendly terms with the
Norwalk Tramway Company. But no
proud and spirited community, that has
freely given away a most valuable
franchizs, can be expected to long en-
endure being snubbed and wronged
with reckless audacity and insolence,
by any corporation dependent upon its
favor for support and patronage.
The aggravating little incident re-
ported in our South Norwalk columns,
was the culmination of a long series of
unjustifiable annoyances, tput upon the
public.
A large party of reputable citizens
from the two Norwalks, had arranged
for a special car, as is averted, to bring
them from a dance at the Yachtjclub to
their homes, at a late hour of the night.
They were brought as far as the corner
of South Main and Washington streets
and then the twenty or so residents
along East avenue and here at this city,
were informed that the car would go
no further.
There were ladies and gentlemen in
light evening dress, chilled by the ride
in an open car from the Yacht? Club
station, and impatient to reach their
homes.
To every appeal to the conductor to
“go on uptown,” according to expec-
tations, the curt reply was given “this
car will go no further; our orders are
to st )p here.”
There was. nothing for uptown pas.
singers to do but get out, go! to the
hotel and wait an hour and more after
midnight, for the last car up on the
Street Railway Company line.
The writer was similarly dumped out
in the mud at the same point on Dec-
oration Dav with some Ih'rty or more
others, without the sali fying explana-_
tion that the poorly constructed rail—
way’s tracks had spread at East Nor-
walk and its cars could not run through.
But no such excuse (an be pkaicd in
extenuation of Monday night’s outrage.
Our people have borne from the be-
ginning, with this road’s cheaply laid
tracks, in most places either above or
below roadway grades; with the centre
of its road-bed filled with loose stones,
and seldom graded up to its iron rails;
with its long waits on switches, and in-
different efforts to reach the railroad
station with and for passengers; annoy-
ances that have subjected the cfiicials
of the two cities and our Selectmen to
constant and severe criticism; to say
nothing of its cheap and inferior (quip-
ment; its excessive double fare for a five
mile ride; its at least questionable
methods of capitalization;—all this
4 should lead its management to cultivate
more amenity and less amentia.
CO
An Honest Cheap Money Man.
Err-Governor Horace Boies, of Iowa,
is one of the few entirely frank cheap
money men of the country. He is
quite prominent- as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for President,
and unless EasCongressman Bland shall
be preferred because he might be more
likely to unite the Populists with the
Democrats in the contest, there is
strong probability, that Boies Will be
made the Democratic candidate. He
is a man of ability, and the fact that he
presents the silver issue in plain ard
honest terms to the country is the high-
est evidence of his honesty.
Mr. Boies has recently given public
interviews on the money question, and
they are refreshing in their candor. He
frankly admits that the first necessity
for cheap money is in the fact that the
West Is largely indebted to the East
and cannot pay in honest dollars. They
do not prefer to repudiate debts as
heroically as has been done in a num-
ber of the Southern States, but inas-
much as they are unable to pay their
honest debts dollar for dollar, they sin- '
sist that the money standard of the
country shall be reduced one-half by
the adopt-ion of free silver,-and thus
enable them to pay their debts in 50
cent dollars.
This is honest in expression at least,
"Euhowever sthe honesty of the purpose
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may be questioned. It is. not disputed
that these debts have been contracted
on the gold basis. It is now nearly
twenty years since specie payments
were resumed in this country, and every
contract involving the payment of
money since that time has been dis-
tinctly on the basis of the gold value.
Every dollar borrowed by the West was
borrowed in gold or its equivalent, and
was borrowed under the same laws and
the same money standard 'which we
have to day. But, says ExGovernor
Boies, the people are poor; they cannot
pay their debts, and instead of openly
‘repudiating them, they insist that the
goverment shall come to their relief,
cheapen money one-half and thus en-
able them to pay their debts at 50 cents
on a dollar. -
It is not doubted that there has been
great depression in the industrial circles
of this country, especially among agri-
culturalists, for three years past.
They have been told that cheap
money was the balm for their ills, and
many have thoughtlessly fallen into it,
but when they Eh'lII have repudiated
one-half of their debts by the enforce-
ment of cheap money, would dishonesty
and repudiation stop at that venture?
If it is competent for this government
to declare that 50 cents shall be ac-
cepted as a dollar, and shall be a legal
tender for the payment of debts, why
shall not the government, when evil
days shall come again, rush to the re-
lief of the people by declaring that 25
cen's shall be made adollar ? It is just
as clearly within the power of the gov-
ernment to declare 25 cents a legal‘
tender dollar, or even 10 cents or 5
cents, or 1 cent, as it is to declare that
50 shall be a standard legal tender dol-
lar, and be accepted as such. When-
ever a government departs from the in-
trinsic value of its coin, it is in the
slough of dishonor and is on the verge
of anarchy. Other free silver countries
escape dishonesty by making their sil-.
Ver money pass for nothing more than
its intrinsic worth, and this is the only
country of the world that proposes such
a monstrous wrong to both government
and people.
Another reason given by Ex Gover-
nor'Boies for reducing this government
to the silver s‘andard by adopting cheap
money, is one that inspires many of the
employers of the country. Mr. Boies is
one of the largest farmers in the State
of Iowa, and in a recent interview he
frankly stated that the fahners of the
West could no longer prosper unless
the wages of labor shall be greatly re'
duced. - He urgess the adoption of the
silver standard because it will enable
the farmers of the country to pay their
labor in one-half the actual money value
now paid; and yet with this frank dec-
laration of the deliberate aim for the
reduction of wages by cheap money, a
large portion of the working men (f
the Country are blindly following the
defusion.
Ex-Govcrnor Boies states the issue
frankly and fairly. Free silver means
the payment of debts in 50 cent dollars,
and it means the payment of wages in
50 cent dollars, without material in-
crease, if any, in the nominal compen-
sation of labor. It means repudiation
of'one-half the debts which have been
contracted on a gold basis of value, and
it means the reduction of wages of labor
to one-half its present compensation.
We thank Mr. Boles for his manly, hon~
est, and straightforward presentation of
the reasoi s which inspire him to favor
free silver. r . d of the results which must
inevitably IN: attained by its success.
M»—
;n; PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
—When. a doctor advises a patient to
go away, it’s a pretty good sign that he
is prosperous and has lots of others to
fall back OIL—Philadelphia. Record.
——“Louise, where does the intellect-
ual exercise come in in playing whist ?”
“O, in getting other people to pay atten—
tion to the game.”—Chicago Record.
——A wife has no business sewing for
the heat-hen when her husband wears a.
heavy, long-tailed coat in summer to
avoid embarrassment. — Galveston
News.
—Miss Gushington—“HOW did you
feel when you found that the ship
would surely go down in ten minutes?”
Capt. Salted—“I felt for a. life-preserv-
er.”—Melbourne Weekly Times.
—It always rains when you leave
your umbrella at home, and you always
lose it when you take it down town; so
what’s the use of growling about the
weather?——Atlanta Constitution.
—Cunlifle—“Did Roaring ever realize
any of his political ambit-ions ?” “N 0,
poor fellow; he never got any higher
than the position of favorite son.”—-
Philadelphia North American.
——Hopkins—-“There’s no reform about
these blodmers the women are wear-
ing.” Brown—“Why?" Hopkins—“I
find it just as hard as ever to find my
wife’s. pocket.”—Phila.delphia North
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