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The advocate., 1890-04-23
Gro. O. WARD.



InhationI Are we justified In demand
ing IL? Let us see. The national debt
was purchased ut an enormous discount
upon los face value The state debts,
the municipal debts, the county and
township debts, and in fact the bulk Of
our public debts, have never cost the
holders near the value they are drawing
interest upon, and expect to be paid in
settlement OF tho principle. Script and
bonds are issued and arc sold in the
markets for what they will bring, any
where from 25 to 70 cents on the dollar,
only in exceptional cases bringing more.
We then proceed TO tax ourselves to pay
interest and principal upon the face value
Of these debts. After the currency Is
contracted, thereby increasing the value
of these debts, we still go on paying inter-
est and principal upon the face value
Is that good business policy2 How
long would the capitalists retain set Of
agents who would manage their business
in that kind Of style?
Dive down into the financial policy Of
certain class Of capitalists the world
over, and you will discover that it has
been to give the people but fraction of
value for the debt obligations these
capitalists have obtained. In the con-
struction Of both public and private In
debtedness, the people have been mulct-
cd to a wretched degree.
The question now arises, are the peo-
pie in duty bound to discharge these
obligations by giving more than value
received for them? Wouldthe capitalists
think itright and just and fair, for them
to be compelled to pay more than value
received for a quantity OF obligations
they had in a series Of years incurred2
just talk about requiring such thing OF
them in any given case, and see how soon
they will begin to cite verses from the
bible, and passages from books upon
morals and ethics and to get up kick
and noise in general
If it isn't right for them to pay for q
thing they never got, is it right for any
body else to? Well, hardly.
How, then, are we going to do justice
TO ourselves? How are the citizens and
the public to pay their private and pub
lie debts without giving more than value
paid, for value receivedH Initiation is the
answer. Appoint a commission to de-
termine what was the average rate Of
discount levied upon us in the formation
Of these debts, and initiate accordingly.
Then begin to pay off the debts, and keep
up the initiation until the debts are all
paid. Is there anything wrong about
this? Rather ask, can the people be
credited with the possession of good com
mon sense If they don't do something
like this? II is nothing but sound bus
mess policy and future historians will
pronounce it so, if It is now done.
WILLIAM VICKRoY.
The advocate., 1890-04-23

lot and put $1,000 Of II into building
or to have him pay 1000 for q lot an'
put $4,000 into buildingl
Which do you prefer, rapid settle
ment and rtention Of the incoming
wealth or a slow settlement and a drain
Ing OF every mans pocket FOX the beneh
OF Cutglders2 You can answer by sayinl
what kind Of taxation you favor Tal
favor vacant real estate and you bring
about the one condition; tax disfayor Il
and you bring about the other condition
The resolution OF the presidents favor
the exemption from taxation, in whole OF
In part, OF the homesteada Of the people,
A consideration Of the subject will
demonstrate, think that II would be
lmprEctcablo 10 exempt entire farms
from taxation, but no doubt II would be
good policy TO exempt from taxation the
self-occupled dwellings Of those who are
the owners thereof and 80 much ground
10 connection herewith as Is necessary
for the dwelling 10 rest on and for door
yard and garden spot. That would be
afiording protection TO those whose sole
possessions we're their little homes, while
as to the wealthler, Il would not effect
much, II any, Of change In the amount
which each property holder would have
10 say, since Il would simply be taking
the tax of Of the home and placing II on
some other part Of the property.
II might be objected that the wealth
ier would avail themselves OF the oppor-
tunlty afforded by the dwelling tax OK
emption to provide themselves with
costly dwellings and attachments that
would go untaGed. The objection is not
a good one. II would be all Fightif these
people did do thiaS the public would be
doubly benefited thereby. In the first
place, the capital thus invested would be
withdrawn from competition with the
capital OF those more In need OF oppor-
tunities 10 profit. In the second place, a
demand would be made upon the labor
and resources Of others, very good thing
in these days when there exists a general
complaint about the slugglshness OF de-
mand.
The only criticism the communicative
taxists have TO offer TO the action OF the
county presidents In regard TO this meas
ure is that they did not 50 FAR enough.
The heappllcAtion Of the principle Of the
cumulative tax TO the mines and manu-
factories and business establishments Of
the state would not only crush out what
monopolles there were In the state, but
II would advertise 10 moderate capitalists
abroad that here they could invest their
means and start up enterprises and be
without danger from combinations bent
upon crushing out rivals. Our state
would rapidly All up with adequate-sized
and independently operated enterprises
under the protection Of such a tax, and
the farmers would have home market
for all Of their spare products.
Taxation shoulh be with a view TO two
objects only, the procuring Of a needed
revenue, and the proper regulation Of
industries, Laid upon this principle, no
hardshlps would be worked, for a taxa
tion which will afford an opportunity to
those who may have to pay higher rate
to get recompense for the same, In the
The advocate., 1890-04-23

stltution that would allow the enactment
OF O law imposing cumulative tax up
on land In such manner as TO prohibit the
holding OF large bodies Of land by foreign
ors, railroad corporations and others; also,
70 exempt homesteads in whole, or In
part, from taxation.
That action on the part Of the county
presidents, Is in exact accord with the
doctrines Of those who have been adyo-
eating the cause Of cumulative taxation,
and II gives the friends thereof good
reason 10 feel encouraged.
Let me call attention, now, TO what
would be some Of the effects Of tax In
creasing In rate with increase in values
OF landed holdings.
The proprletors OF large landed possess
ions, would find II an expense, rather
than profit 10 hold on 20 these lands and
would, as a matter OF business policy, Inn
mOdlately place them upon themaTket TO
be sold In ordinary farm sized tracts up
on long time and easy payments 10 indl-
viduals designing 10 make Of them home
steads. The unfortunate victim Of the
mortgage foreclosure, would then have
an opportunity TO buy back the home
from which he had been dispossessed, the
lucSless renter TO become proprietor In
foo simple and the land apeCulator to
seek a new avocation. Serving as II
would TO advertise TO the world, that the
lands Of Kansas we're henceforth TO be
used exclusively for farming, and not at
all for speculative purposes, this tax
would attract settlers In such numbers as
TO lmmensly Increase the population, and
20 convert our unoccupled areas into
cultivated farms snd beautiful homes.
Nor would this resolution Of affairs
take place In the farming districts alone.
Town lot grabbers would also find IL Inn
possible TO longer hold on TO their lOtsand
would be forced to throw them upon the
market whence they could be bought at
q low figure, and upon easy terms by In
dlylduals working to improve them for
their own individual use.
Heretofore the policy has been to tax
vacant lands and town lots low, in order,
as q friend Of mine said TO me the other
day, to induce rich men abroad to invest
In them. But lot us see II this kind Of
Investment Ia a benefit and should be en-
Couraged. II rich men abroad invest in
these realities what will they do with
themS Hold them for rise, for that Is
the way they make their money out Of
them. Is that benefit to the country,
and 70 the people already hereS Let me
put question or two, for consideration
using Haskell county as an illustration.
Which is the most benefit TO Santa Fe,
Ivanhoe, Lockport, Loco, and the other
trading points in Haskell county, TO have
the claims and town lots owned by oc-
cupAnts, who will patronize the stores,
the banks, the hotels and the business
men OF these towns, or TO have them
owned TO large extent by distant capital
lists who will never spend cent among
the people here beyond the paltry sum
they pay for the lands and lotsS
Which Is the best for these towns and
country roundabout, to have those that
come here to live with us send all their
cash to eastern spectators for high pric-
cd lands and lots OF TO have them get
The advocate., 1890-04-23

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monumental injustice Of our present
system Of finance, was clearly indicated
and pointed out. In endeavorlng 10
weaken the peoples plea, the Los Angeles
Tribune has enormously strengthened II.
SO Far as the idea ls concerned that the
savings bank deposits are any indication
OF a nations or peoples prosperity; the
National effectually dlsposes Of that in
the few we'll chosen words, contained In
the last sentence Of above paragraph.
10 Ia another matter that / wish 10 call
attention to, the peoples battle is being
waged against asystem that makes money
representative Of VGlle instead Of a
representative Of labor, and invests IL
with an income earning capacity which
is, or should be, the sole prerOgatiye of
labor These attributes OF money, which
entirely change its original scope Of de-
sign and utility Of purpose, are the dew
illsh devices Of capitalistlc money mon
gers, and are called "specie basis" or
"intriusic value" and "usury" or interest.
The baneful influence Of the latter attri-
butte, can the more readily be apprehend
cd, when il is remembered that at 6Ue per
cent, each 5000 has an earning capacity
Of s346 which the census says is the aver
age earning Of the American wage worker
Now for the application Of the above
clipping. Judge PETER, in his sway out"
estimates that the per capita circulation
Of money Is S2i.S8 each; that is to say,
that there Is in the hands OF the people,
for use as u medium Of exchange, S2l89
for each man, woman and child. And
now comes this California advocate Of
the theory that the nation is fairly pros
porous and that times are good,a and coolly
tells us that some certain number Of iR-
diUiduaIs have on deposit as sdOings, In
certain savings banks, more than ho en-
tire amount Of money in the hands Of the
people.
This explains why IL is that in making
reports Of their condition, the banks of
the country show an aggregate amount
OF money loaned 0ut, which Is two or
three or four times the amount Of their
entire capital The banks simply accept
these deposits, give their note for the
money Certificate Of depOSit,) and then
loan tho money Out to he people. More
than this, these deposits do not include
the capital Of banks, loan companies, in
surance companies, or indeed, any money
held and owned free Of interest, by any
individual, firm or corporation. This
being the fact; If all these depositors,
with one accord, at one time should de-
mand their money, these much vaunted
savings banks could not pay t,Oenty, y,fve
cents on the dollar. Away with such
fcticious bubble, as is our present fnan-
cial system.
One more item In this connection, and
am done. In the Tribune almanac, for
1890, find it stated that the capital,
surplus, undivided profits and individual
deposits, (all cash itemS,) OF the national
and state banks, loan and trust companies
and savings and private banks In the
United States on June 30, 1889, amount
edto S5,2O1, ,671 ,70O or at the liberal esti-
mate Of 61,094,6& population, to 894OO
per capita, or nearly four times as much
as there is money in circulation In the
hands Of the people. That is to say that
The advocate., 1890-04-23
SPECIAL CLUB LIST.

THE ADVOCATE & National Economist $l.7
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05

SIS improved farms, 100000 acres
long leaf pine lands, 10000 acres
solid agricultural lands, 20 pastures
from 1000 to 15O, 200 acres, $50 to $40
acre tracts in any part Of the state.
City and Suburban Property at Great
Bargains.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05
BEFORE AND AFTER.
A Man Went to Sleep With Long Ears
that Flapped and AwOke
With Short Ears.
a Surgical Operation that VIII Reduce an
AbnOrmally Large Ear to Respect
able Size-How tits Done.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 1.-Two
photographs have been hanged IN the
Jefferson medical college. They are
portraits without faces. They show the
back of one mans head. The hair and
the conformation prove that the two pic
lures represent the same individual; and
yet there is striking difference, for in
one case the ears are normal, while in
the other they stand out disfiguringly
from the sides of the head The students
of this orthodox old college are having
fun aver these photographs, and one OF
theiE whims is to decide by vote who,
among themselves, is the owner of the
unrevealed face. The explanation of
the divergent ears is that they grew
donkey fashion, but, by surgery, they
have been reduced to the proportions of
human oomeliness. The Photographic
lens was permitted to take a rear view of
the ears before their reduction, and
again after they had been shortened;
but it was not deemed considerable TO por-
tray the face of the man, and thus sub
ject him to possibly disagreeable pub
lieity.
The improvement in that pair of ears
is regarded as a novelty in surgery, and
that is why the photographs, before and
after, are placed in the college. Mod
ern surgery has not hesitated to cut q
new nose out of the cheek, to loop up
dropping eyelid, or engraft the skin of
one person upon another, but it has not
until now given man s ears set back.
To DR.. William w. Keen of Jefferson
college came brother physician to re-
pair a job that had been badly done by
natures prentice hand, so to speak.
The young man, for he was only nine
teen, was all ears; that is, his ears were
not only abnormally large, but they
tapped N a painfully absurd manner.
The surgeon proceeded to lay bare the
cartilage by removing the skin from the
posterior surface of the aurIcle, and
then excIsed long, narrow piece of the
cartilage-V shaped in cross sections, as
if he had run a miniature plough over
the ridge on the back of the ear. Great
care was taken not to cut clear through
and thus cause q scar on the anterior
surface. The edges of the cartilage we're
then drawn together by catgut stitches
IN addition to those in the skin. This
was done while the young man was
etherized. He went to sleep with long
ears, and he awoke with short ears-very
sore ones, and so intricately fastened into
position that for some nights he had TO
sleep Hat on his back. But when the
wound had healed, and the plssters were
removed, he found himself possessed of
symmetrical and fair-sized ears.
"From time immemorial, - said Pro-
fessor MARITIME to your correspondent,
after describing the operation, ''large
and prominent ears have been regarded
as unfortunate determines. They are
altogether too suggestive. But no mat
ter how notifying to the owner IS vanity.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05

they were something which he had to
wear summer and winter. There was
but one way to hide them, and that to
allow the hair to grow long. Thirty
years ago it was impossible to tell whether
q woman had ears or nOt-the prevailing
mode of dressing the hair hid them COM
Dletely. Faces of rare beauty have been
marred by ears too big. Pauline Bona
parte was q victim of auricular super
abundance, and it always served to
humilIate her when mentioned by her
rivals. What a superb beauty, but
look at her ears. - Had she lived in this
age, this grievous burden could have
been lifted from her shoulders, or, more
strictly speaking, from her head. Is
the operation serious? Not very. Con-
siderable blood was lost, but that can be
obviated in future operations, either by
the freezing process, or by placing q
long, thin clamp on the ear. The pa
tient only stayed in bed one day, but II
may be there was q woman in the case
that he was so anxious to present him
self to his sweetheart, in a new and i'm
proved form, that he oouldn t wait even
forty-eight hours. He was obliged to
carry the surgical embroidery for ten
days and then it was ripped out The
operation was entirely successful, the
young man S ears Delng now Close up
against his head, but only those who
have seen these before and after
photographs can form a correct idea OF
the Improvement. 1t is simply as
founding -
"And who is the man?''
60, really couldn't tell you that.
It is a professional secret.
But the patient was discovered in the
person of Charles n. Forester of Cam
den, Just across the river in New Jersey.
MIR. Forester is a graduate of Princeton
college and is now studying for entry into
the ministry. 81 don t mind the publ
cation of my name at all - he remarked.
FWhy should 1? My friends were all
aware of my big ears, and of my good
radiance of them. They were not only
deformity, but they seriously disabled
me for my chosen career. OF course,
there is a jOcose view to take of the mat
ter, but nobody can be better humOred
than / am about it, for 1 am now at least
presentable. The operation didn' make
an ugly man handsome. but it gave me q
good pair of ears.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05


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call
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05
THAT NIGHT.

You and I, that night, with its perfume and
glory
The scent of the locust, the light of the moon;
And the violets weaving the walter a story,
Enmeshing their feet in the watt OF the tune,
Till their shadows uncertain
Reeled round on the curtain,
While under the trellis we drank in the June.
Soaked through with the midnight the cedars
were sleeping,
Their shadowy tresses outlined in the bright,
CRYSTAL, moon-smitten mist, where the tount-
aims heart leaping,
Forever, forever, burst full with delight,
And its lisp with my spirit
Fell faint as that near II,
Whose love, like a lily, bloomed out in the
night.
Oh, your glove was an odorous sachet of
bisSes!
The breath of your fan was breeze of Cathayi
And the rose at your throat was nest Of spilled
kisses!
And the music-in fancy, hear it to- day,
As I sit here, confessing
Our secret, and blessing
Ny rival, who found US and waltzed you away,
JAS. w. Riley
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05
THE EIITTEN.

In the sleigh there was only just room for rs
two,
There was nobody else to forbid it
The music of sleigh bells beat time to my
heart
And some way or other did it.
There was love in the air that we breathed, the
white snow
Was tinged with the suns golden glory.
WE'LL spoke-and she gave me the mitten
point blank
The wild rush of happiness you do not know,
You can't know unless you have tried 1t.
What's that? Why, she gave me the mitten--
that true
But her dear little hand was inside it,
-lVassar Miscellany,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05
ALGERIA TO SIG.
Commercial and Agricultural ibili-
ties Under the French inE,'s.
The Old Arab Quarter of the Cit Shops
and HOuses-Same Scenes q
sand Years Ago. Ut
For the Gazette.

For the Gazette.
cArAs,rA. SICILY, M. it1s9o.
One does not require week g
time in Algiers, or to with
his eyes open more 200
miles from the city of AIgiera any d.
rection in the interior, to disor, aside
from the human interest, wi is alb
sorbing on every hand, ando scenic
beauties and splendors, which suneX-
pected and surprising, that re the
French have found a new emf whose
possibilities as q garden spot enjoy
ment and material developmesurpass
ali ordinary calculation. The tive in
terror population and their stree man
ners and costumes have beeten and
fully described. The beauty topog-
raphy, the impressiveness Of military
and civil roads, the winsaness of
shaded lanes and ways, the iondrous
beauty and righteousness ofie flora :,
the enchantment of valley snes, the
depth and beauty of ravines. Fges and
lnter-mountain vistas, the timing of
cascades and torrents the almd Norman
or English sweetness Of fiashinstreams,
the picturesqueness of countless
vineyards and mountain-side brds with
their white robed shepherds land the
grandeur Of the Atlas peakslso lofty
| NAT their caps of snow often withstand
the assaults of the summer sirHco until
July, have all been well told btraveIers
who have come before me. st [ have
Things on which the future of ny coun-
Try must depend. In what repect NAV
France be vastly benefited by is AIge-
ran possession at such stuperious ORR
glnal cost OF life and treasure-is the
constant query OF the earnest eader and
earnest observer. The answers every
Where given in such stupendns proofs
OF rlch rewards, that the visibr is con-
stantlY forced away from The contem-
piaeioh OF the native people, customs und
Archaeology, 10 the liveliest most ex-
cltlng speculations upon commercial and
agricultural possibilities under the new
and
ENLIGHTENED REGIME.
AS to climate, one is reminded con-
'tantly Of the vast variety accessible in
Mexico. Every possible degree of heat
IT cold can be definitely secured during
zine months of the year. 1t is only q
question of ones location within tropical
ALLEY, far-reacbing table land, noun
ain side plateau, or crisp and freezing
eight. So, too, every form of vegeta-
ion known to torrid, temperate or frigid
one Is here discoverable by the botanist.
Within an area of ten square miles one
nay see, in midwinter months. prodl-
Ious lacqueminots, jonquils, Marchael
'en roses, and mignonette shrubs as
arge as the most l1xuriant American To-
ust; eucalyptus trees, cacti, hedges Of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05
Fort Worth's Business
Grows.

Fort Worth made a Bank
Clearing for the year 1889 of
S31, 732, 391 as against S16,-
O89, 1856 for the year 1888, a
gain of 96.6 per cent, having
the largest gain in the United
States. Denver stands third
in the list, with a gain of 1913
per cent. Galveston next with
a gain of 24.8 per cent.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05

pportunitiessfor fEnSking money out OF Fort Wort
gnized> raiIroad center of Texas; with first
immense teETitory, rich in cereals, minerals and the
N5lESas,s however, are yet low and Fort Worth
ein3ate years in older and larger cities. Get IN
oerty that viii in few years be very valuable. For
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05

Somebody is said to be building near London
an air ship which win carr crew of several
men at speed of 150 miles an hour.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-05
Fort Worth has Gained in
Six Months

An iron works and rolling mill
located; the Dixie wagon
works in process of erection,
the Alamosa Heights wooleal
mill, located; the Indiana
screen door, door, blind, sash
and general wood work fac
tory, locatedathe Texas tan
merry andshoe factory, located ;
the Fort Worth University,
M. E. G. buildings to cost
500, 1000; endowment fund to
be 5000, 900 ormore !; the stove
foundry, ready for business.
To the Front in Education and Churches
Fort Worth new university is to cost
500, 900. Her new High School building
is to cost 500, 900. The new Baptist
church cost $50, 900. The new Cumber-
land Presbyterian church cost $50 600.
Both of these new edif1oes are fine
pieces of architecture. The new Metho-
dist Episcopal church will cost $50, 900,
and will be perfect beauty.
The new Board of Trade build
ing cost $500, 900. The new
eight-story Hurley bnilding will cost
Sl25 900. Remember, not a stone of
this structure had been lifted two years
this struc re had been lifted two years
ago.
Show us a city of the age of Fort
Worth that has forty eight miles of mac
adamized streets or forty-two miles of
sewers?
Where is the city of the age of Fort
Worth which boasts of thirty-two miles
of electric car line?
Has any city southwest of St. Louis 4,
or south of Kansas City, such complete
stockyards as Fort Worth?