The Ladies' Home Journal

Ex-I'resiilent Harrison vvill discuss our national flnances in au article on "The Secretary of the Treasury" whiih will appear in the August issue of The Ladies' Home Journal. He will tel] briefly of the origin of our financial system; its expansión or development; liow the nation raises its revenues, and disbuvses its moneys; and detail the faults of our system of financiering1. Referring to the muthods necessary to maintain our gold reserve. Uenera! Barrigón expresses hiraself vvith evident disapproval, and says that "the present situation would be absurd if it were not so serious." The increase or the dirainution of the gold reserve, the ex-President asserts, powerfully aHects every interest, and the "ipending ol existing conditions will be a task for the wisest and strongest statesmanship." The Ladies' Home Journal, Philadelphia.