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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1896.
Harrison to Speak.
_ There is happily, little doubt but that
the report that cit-President Harrison
will take an active part in the coming
campaign is true. As the statement is
made by an intimate friend, and as
Gen. Harrison is an intense American,
there is no reason to doubt the accu-
racy of the report. It is stated that he
will make a tour of the important west
orni’states, and it will be arranged for
him, to make several speeches in Ken-
tucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and
perhaps in Louisiana. He will be found
ready and willing to throw his undoubt-
edly great influence in favor of honest
money, because he believes that no
campaign since" 1864, equals this in
seriousness. Mr. Harrison will mater-
ially help the cause of good govern-
ment wherever he may speak.
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As to a Third Ticket.
“The cause of honest money and the
defeat of repudiation—in other words
the success or defeat of McKinley—can
not be subordinated to any question of
democratic organization or regularity. .
It is the duty of every American to join
the forces of the strongest and most
hopeful opponent of the Populist con-
vention at Chicago. And the Ohio can-
didate is the man.
Patriots must follow McKinley
.- against the enemies of the republic who
come from the prairies, as though he
were the regular commander for de-
fence against an enemy from over the
sea.
Sentimental allegiance to the name
of a' prostrated and now impotent de-
mocracy, or insistence on the techni-
calities of its organ.zation, inimical to
the most desired end, the preservation
0' the national credit.
The above patriotic utterances are the
deliberate editorial opinions of the
New York Sun. I
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llliterate Immigrants.
The statistics of immigration for the
year ending June 30 show an unusually
large number of illiterates among the
arrivals. Of the sixty-six thousand
who came from Italy more than thirty
thousand, or nearly half of the whole
number, could neither read nor write,
while more than a third of the twenty-
three thousand Hungarians landed were
equally illiterate. ,
This is a matter that demands public
attention and should call for Congres-
sional action. Desirable emmigrants
always have been welcomed, but this
country is not to be made the dumping
ground of the ~riii'ralf and ignorant
masses which Europe wants to get rid
of. Our law already draws the line at
criminals, lunaitcs and paupers. Why
should it not be drawn also at illiter-
ates ?
Ability to read and write is essential
to become an intelligent voter and a
good citizen. Immigrants who do not
meet this requirement are not wanted.
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A Workingman’s Campaign.
The presidential campaign for 1896 is
distinctively a workingmam’s campaign
and there never was a tune when the
wage-earners should give Icloser atten-
tion to public issues or more thorough-
ly inform themselves upon the effect
upon them of the different policies es-
poused by the great parties.
The heads of several great labor or-
ganizations have spoken, and working-
men under their leadership will oppose
the socialistic and labor-degrading
tendencies of the times.
Mr. O’Connell, who is at the head of
the Order of American Machinists, says;
“I and my fellow machanists have been
discussing the free silver coinage ques-
tion and carefully examining it, and I
do not know one who has not come to
, the conclusion that free silver ought to
be opposed by every workingman, since
it means for him, if he is to be as well
off as he is to-day, the necessity of
doubling his wages—a thing, of course,
which could not possibly be secured.
If his wages be not doubled, then they
will avail him for only hIilf as much as
they do'now.
’ For that reason the American ma
chinists-are against free silver, and I
unsatisfied that when the American
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workingmen understand this question
as we do—and many of them do so
understand it—you will find the wage-
earners of the United States, to a man,
opposing this doctrine. The only labor
men who will defend it will be influ-
enced by other motives than a regard
for the welfare of labor.’ ‘
The financial policy of the govern- .
ment is stable to-day, and the purchas-
ing power 'of the money earned by
labor was never greater. What labor
needs is not a revolution in the financial
system of the country. but a change in
its tarifi‘ rates which will lessen foreign
competition and increase American
manufacturers and home trade, and the
demand for labor at gold-standard
prices.”
NIAGARA BRIDGE.
IT WILL BE ONE OF THE GREATEST
WONDERS OF THE WORLD.
Its Span will Exceed that of the Famou'
Ends Bridge of St. Louis by 320 Fee!
It will Take the i’lace of and Be Buil
Over the Present Suspension Bridge.
The new metal arch bridge at Niag
are Falls will be noteworthy in two re
spects. The new bridge is to be buii ‘
over the old suspension structure with
out interruption to the traffic on th
latter. The span from end pier to em.
pier will be 840 feet, making it th.
largest arch span in the world. Th
length of the principal existing all met
al metal arches, on the authority of the
Railroad Gazette, are: Louis I, Oporto.
Portugal, 566 feet; Gambit, France.
542 feet; Pia Maria, Portugal, 525 feet:
Eads Bridge. St. Louis, 520 feet; Wash
ington Bridge, New York, 510 feet
Paderno, Italy, 492 feet, and Rochester
Driving Park, 428 feet.
The suspension bridge now in use
which has been familiar to all visitors
to the great natural wonder for; forty
years, will be kept in place until the
new arch is ready, as it would be im-
possible to construct false works over
the Niagara gorge to sustain a. struct-
ure of this class.
The span will have a rise of 150 feet
from the level of the piers at the skew-
backs to the centre of the ribs at the
crain of the arch, which point is 170
feet above low water. The depth of the
trusses is 26 feet, and they will be 68.7
inches apart. '
The bridge will carry one floor, 46
feet wide, divided longitudinally into
three parts. On the middle portion,
which is 22 feet 9 inches wide, will be
two trolley tracks. Each side of these
tracks will be a roadway for carriagesS
feet wide, and outside of these, raised 6
inches from the level of the roadway,
will be footpaths.
The construction of this remarkable
span is from the plans of L. L. Buck.
engineer of the new East River bridge,
between New York and Brooklyn, and
the author of the plans by which the
railroad suspension bridge at Niagara
was replaced by an arched bridge.
The approaching or flanking spans
willbe 190 feet long on the American
side, and 210 feet on the Canadian side.
The total metal in the structure will be
about 4,000,000 pounds. Every confi-
dence is expressed in Mr. Buck’s ability
to carry out his plans. The replacing
of the railroad bridge by another with-
out an hour’s interruption of business
was one of the engineering feats of the
decade.
Those who have not seen the great
structure at Niagara which it is intend-
ed to replace will hardly realize the
stupendous character of the undertak-
ing. Imagine the task of replacing the
simplest sort of bridge without inter-
rupting traffic, and then add about 1,000
per cent. to the difficulty. This ‘.will
give something of an idea of what con-l
fronts engineers and builders.
In an undertaking of this nature the
slightest error might be productive of
infinite disaster. Every measurement
must be accurate to a. hair’s breadth.
Every portion of the great arch must
perform its particular share of the great
combination that will be one of the
marvels of the world.
The \Valk of Women.
“How women walk” has recently
been the subject of discussion in a. Pa-
risian journal. According to this au-
thority, the palm must be awarded to
French women. The English women,
it states, does not walk; she travels.
Her- limbs appear to be moved by
the engine of a steamer, and her fact
have the proportions of an Atlantic
liner! Concerning the gait of women of
other countries, this interesting journal
goes on to remark that the German
is heavy—one feels the earth tremble
beneath her tread; the Spanish woman
“prances,” the American resembles the
pendulum of a clock, the Italian wo-
man “skips,” the Russian “skates,” the
Dutch woman “rails,” and the Belgian
tramps about.
Now, although these remarks are un-
gallant and uncomplimentary to our
own nation particularly, we cannot but
own that there is a certain amount of
truth in them. Numbers of women do
not seem to care how they walk so long
as they cover the distance they wish to
traverse somehow. But if they could
only see themselves as they appear to a
casual onlooker, how very difierently
they would comport themselves! How
often is a pretty face and figure spoiled
by a stoop of the shoulders and a wrig-
gling, bustling walk!
Jersey Cows. .
There are more Jersey cows in Amer-
ica than there are in Jersey, and yet
there are more cows in Jersey than in
any other 'similar area. England has
twenty cows to every hundred acres.
Jersey has fifty- eight; but then, every
farm there has its cows, and the farms
are small, ranging from three to fifty
acres, the reason being that the old Nor-
man laws that still prevail in the island
prevent the accumulation of property.
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