be measured only by the sums of the welfare of all persons who have benefited by the instruction received. Such a result will be a true economic profit, a creation which many may share, secured without the impoverishment of anyone. We hope to receive reports of work being done at other educational centers designed to produce results similar to those sought by Harvard, although sought in a different way.

OUR PURPOSE YOUR ADVANTAGE.

It is our purpose correctly to educate public opinion on questions of public policy that affect your interests in many ways.

I. Taxation for unnecessary purposes, and to provide funds to cover public waste and extravagance, can be rendered impossible by a correctly educated public opinion.

2. A just system of taxation can be established by a correctly educated public opinion.

3. Public mortgages on private property for the purpose of owning and operating public service industries can be prohibited by a correctly educated public opinion.

4. Deficiencies caused by public ownership and operation of public service industries can be prevented by a correctly educated public opinion.

5. Corporations for general business purposes can be properly organized and regulated without unnecessarily checking the industrial development of the country by a correctly educated public opinion.

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6. Public service corporations can be effectively regulated by contracts for supplying the services rendered by them, at prices only sufficient to cover cost plus a reasonable profit on a bona fida investment, verified by a system of public accounting, which will be demanded by a correctly educated public opinion.

Correct education must precede correct legislation. Unintelligent legislation on these subjects will cost. you much more than the educational work necessary to secure intelligent legislation.

WE BELIEVE IN THE HONESTY AND COMMON SENSE OF THE AMER

ICAN PEOPLE.

"When the people are right on their facts they will vote right." This favorite saying of Dr. Samuel Adams Robinson, one of the most effective workers for the cause of sound money before and during the campaign of 1896, is absolutely true. The people of this country are honest at heart and are blessed with a large endowment of sound common sense. If they are correctly informed they can be depended upon. to vote right on any question of public policy. A review of the development and final disposition of any great question of public concern that has threatened the welfare or the stability of the republic will show that the danger existed in the uninformed or misinformed condition of the popular mind, and that as soon as correct information displaced ignorance or

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misinformation the question was permanently settled, because settled right. With such settlement all danger from it disappeared.

The experiment of a government by the people was denounced by many predictions of failure because it would lack stability. "The empire guarantees order," is a favorite dictum of those who claim the right to rule the people by divine favor. They believe the submission of all questions of public policy to the approval or rejection of all the people, at stated intervals of short duration, must result in chaos. For one hundred and eleven years the American people have proved the stability of honesty and justice as the basis of the patriotism of the people to be superior to the stability of order arbitrarily enforced, resting for security upon loyalty to a sovereign. When the people are sovereign loyalty to self and loyalty to country are inseparable. Every man wishes his fellow men to deal with him honestly, intelligently, justly. This desire is the basis of his reason for believing that the welfare of every man is best served when the affairs of state are administered honestly, intelligently, justly. While there have been many instances when public affairs have not been so administered there is no instance in which the people have not corrected the error as soon as they were fully convinced of its existence. While there have been candidates for office who have advocated dishonest, unintelligent, unjust propositions, there has never been a candidate who

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has sought election to office on the plea that the propo-
sitions he advocated were dishonest, unintelligent, un-
just. The only way in which dishonest, unintelligent,
unjust propositions have ever gained approval has been
through the ability of those advocating them to mask
their true character, making the worse appear the
better cause. In doing this they have deceived the
people, to their injury. As soon as teachers of truth
have been able to expel ignorance and misinformation
from the popular mind every dishonest, unintelligent,
unjust proposition that has ever been submitted to
their approval has been decisively rejected. So it will
ever be.
The true way to obtain legislation is to
educate the people correctly. When correctly educated
they will insist upon the enactment of any measure
that is honest, intelligent and just. A measure that
cannot clearly respond to these requirements has no
right to exist. When an honest, intelligent people
rule the stability of the government is assured.

SUCCESS OF THE ANTI-CIGARETTE
LEAGUE.

Smokers of cigarettes will not be employed hereafter in the packing houses of Swift & Co. Representatives of the Anti-Cigarette League have been working in the stockyards district for some time. The order of the big packing company prohibiting the smoking of cigarettes by its employes is their first great victory. In addition to the usual questions, an

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applicant will be asked, "Do you smoke cigarettes ?" If the answer is in the affirmative his name will not be placed on the eligible list.

This may be considered by some as an infringement upon the sphere of personal liberty. Granted, but it is a restraint on the abuse of personal liberty by those who are not sufficiently intelligent to be entrusted with a full degree of personal liberty. Liberty to do right there should always be. Liberty to do wrong there should never be. Those not sufficiently honest and intelligent to choose to do good must be restrained from doing evil. Upon this theory all laws for the restraint and punishment of evil doing rests. Success to the Anti-Cigarette League. May it win victories as important as this every week.

MECHANICAL SKILL OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR.

A new locomotive firebox has been invented by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. A test has been made under the supervision of the inventor which was so successful it is probable the device will come into use the world over.

Two locomotives constructed on the Vanderbilt principle are in use on the New York Central road, two will soon be running on the Baltimore & Ohio road and two more are about ready for the Union Paicfic road. This will give a sufficiently wide variation in conditions to test the device in every way con