Jas. G. Blaine declared in aspeech that "God Almighty madegold and silver money. 1 '

If the national republican con-vention declares for free silver at16 to 1 I shall leave the party.?Gov. McKinley.

If the democratic national con-vention declares for free silver at16 to 1 I don't see what I can dobut vote the republican ticket.?J. G. Carlisle

We acknowledge the receipt of abundle of Sound Currency, a semi-monthly magazine published bythe Sound Currency Committee,No. 52 William Street, N. Y. Wefind many things of interest in thisiittie paper and have salted it downfor use in the next campaign.

We want to thank our readersfor the many favors they have soWittily done for u«, and we ventureto beg them to continue to do what

they can without any inconvenienceto themselves, in the way of send-ing in subscribers. We are doingall this work on the Dawn, for thegood \ve hope it willdo; but it canonly benefit those who read it.

SPECIAL NOTICE.llev. A. M. Allyu, of Spokane

District, Missionary for E. Wash.,conventian and a former pastor ofthe Baptist church here, will ad-dress the people in that churchnext Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.

Public school closed yesterday.

Frank McCandless returned fromDenver, Colorado, yesterday.

J. L. Brown, J. B. Davidson andA. Mires willdeliver addresses onDwofißt.fon I'av

oecome a motner without being awife, would harmonize sweetly withthe songs of Heaven. Their teach-ing was a lie!

And now remember the dark re-sults of the voting hiatus of 1880"was a deeper cut in the heart oflabor than was the legislation of1850."? H.

Of the Compromise, it was saidby that New England divine, Jo-nathan Davis:

"A forced, embrace by the blackghoul of slavery, of the Goddess ofLiberty, and her resisting it, willcause the blood to flow in this landtill the ground is made rich by thered effusion."?Sermon in M. C.

The matchless genius of HenryClay was expended, to exhaustion,in getting the measure throughCongress. It was a measure of fear-ful import?the mightiest mistakeof statesmanship known in time.The blind leading the blind, for acentury, on the slavery question,made such a mistake possible.

And like all agreements withwrong; like all compromises withsin, it was to l>e a finality?it wasto fillup the vacant niche in theTemple of Time, on that subject, sothat never again "should a dog waghis tounge," Never again shouldthe question of slavery be touched.

' "It was settled." So Mr. Claydeclared.

"No more agitation," rang thevoice of Mr. Yancy.

"Let him be anamatha, who saysthat slavery is not divine," was the

jdulcet speech of M. Mason."VVeo to him that buildeth a city

in blood," swelled out from thatthen despised name?Garrison.

"There was silence in Heaven,and jubilees In hell," was utteredby-H.

The Compromise measures in-cluded six items:

1. !<Jin}>hi£ the Northwest,

bowed in abjeclness to their god?

slavery.There was a third party that did

not bow?The Liberty party.That party talked about slavery,

and for its talking got many a free"ride on a rail."

William L. Yancy said: "Theslavery question is settled,- andthere is to be rio more agitation.He who would agitate deserves tobe shot."?His letter to Hatch.ed."?Letter to Inman.

Win. Lloyd Garrison categorical-ly asked him: "You say the ques-tion is settled, and there is to be nomore agitation, and lie who wouldagitate deserves to be shot." "Sir;the question is new infinitely unset-tled: the agitation has only just be-gun, let the bullets come; they will\u25a0settle it/'?His colloquy with Cojfeen.

The Abolitionist?the third party?said: "Let the agitation goon,truth will take care of itself."

Calvin Fletcher said: ''Thereshall be neither slavery or involun-tary servitude in the United States,except for the punishment of crimewhereof the party is duly convict-

He was denounced as fanaticaland criminal. The spirit of arro-gance on the part of slavery, wasfearful to contemplate.

\Vui. H. Sewart wrote: "I fearthe encroachment of slavery. TheCompromises are but a pretext.That power will claim that it shallown labor, and the issue will be-come IRREPR ESSIBLE."?Letterto Heckman.

This letter came to light throughA. C. Bell, and found way to thefruitful pen of Stringfellow, and soenraged him that he hurled backupon Mr. Stewart this bit of rhetor-ic:

"All who labor for their dailybread, or who are dependent ont.hei'" labor for subsistence, are

Opinion, Us the Act of March , Sth"18(H)) but it is a mereentrance wedge to still further and

? more devilish raids upon the rightsiof man to earn his bread by the1 sweat of his brow.

Remember this, in 1852 the: Democratic party was the avodedI

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i champion of the slave power. But

I the Whig party was more thanwilling to do its bidding. The

j conventions met to put candidatesin the Held for President. Piercewas chosen by the Democracy, a

| man of the North, unknown to' fame, "but his trainers knew him

; well."?Phillips.The platform said in effect: "No

more tinkering with the slaveryi question.'' Hie let alone policyi was fully adopted. The Whigsi put up that great "name. General| Scott, and said in their platform,"No more agitation of the slaveryquestion."

HoraCe Hreely said: "I spit opthe platform, but endorse the man."

The slave power was then alsothe MONEY POWER.

1 Three billion, five hundred mill-ion dollars in slaves gave it a pow-er so potent, that it could take aFree Son of the North, turn him into a bass wood man, put a dough

; face upon him, and he would bow

las abjectly to the oligarchy of the

1 j lash a« does the liindoo devotee to

| the grinning idol of his worship.Continued next

C. A. Tonneson, Seo'y. StateBoard of Horticulture, Tacoina,Wash., willplease accept our thanksfor a copy of the Second BiennialReport of the State board of Hor-ticulture of the the state of Wash.

Have you read the advertisementof "Breakers Ahead?'' It not. readit *.'( once and t-hen send, for '? copy

°LYMPIA, May 2i» equestion thufe J,

s Peeial?A.ai» ouZ!.TtLT".Siu -' -

attorneys rtiro «.«»»*..., ""v

one that lias lately been submit ? «>lto Assistant Attorney GeneralHaight, the chapter of the laws of1895 reading "An act relating topenalty and interest on state coun-ty and municipal taxes, which be-came due aud payable in the yearsof 1893 and 1894, and declaring anemergency." The question raisedis, has the county treasurer a rightto allow any Tebate of either penal-ty or interest 011 taxes levied forthe year 1892?

Taxes for 1892 become payableiu December, 1892; 1893 taxes be-came due and payable iu January,1891. There was no tax that be-came due and payable in 1893 towhich this law can apply.

Mr. Haight is of the opinion thatthat the law does remove the pen-alty on taxes levied in the jrear 1892,and the words "due and payable''refer to the time when the taxesmust be paid by the taxpayer, notto the time when he has a right topay them. The taxes levied iu1892 were payable in 1893 in the

sense that the taxpayer was oblig-ed to pay them before the first ofApril, else they would then becomedelinquent. Prior to that time andbefore the close of 1892 he had theright to paj the taxes, but was notobliged to pay them. Mr. Haighthas therefore advised prosecutingattorneys throughout the state thatthe act enables the taxpayer to paythe taxes levied in 1892 and 1893without paying auy interest orpenalties thereon.?P-l, Seattle.

AI) I ER TISED I.E TIERS.Letters* remaining: unclaimed in the El-

lensbur;; I*.O. for the week fending May IS.Dixon, Mrs.. Mary. Henry; Mrs. Patrick.Luclr z, August. MeCowlev, Mary.Morgan* Mr. Frank. Morrow, Ihon.Robinson, l{.(.1. Scribner, Mr. Ira.Smith, K*riie K. Seott, Rev. ,1. C.Yiu'on, T; Ji Watt, -Joseph

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