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The Portland daily press., 1890-09-25

the State, although to do 50 false return must he
anai, ana perjury committed. This offence
a ogainsI tne State and good morals is too fie-
d;uJantly committed by men OF W alth and repufed
slsn character, and of corresponding position in
society While such men thus disregard
ana violate the law, 1t must be expected that our
YAK duplicate will continue TO decline instead OF
Increase with our growth and development. The
narm they do is not measured by the amount OF
money OF which they deprive the State; their ex-
community
The advocate., 1890-03-26
EAsT-BOUND.
BETwEHN ToFHEA, ATonIsoN B gT. J0aETH

San francisco Express A. Topeka, 1l.8O p m
COL a San Diego Exp. l2.O5n0on
The advocate., 1890-03-26
CapltaI IIoute.

TRE ONO d MIsmsswyI R'Y 10 Il capital
route IN more than one sense. Capital in It's
road bed, through car service, equipment
md speed, as well as in the fact that II is The
only through car line from st. Louis 70
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Now York, via
Washington.
Daily lines Of Pullman Vestbule Buffet
Sleeping Cars are run by this company from
so. Louis 10 New York without change, via
the Baltimore b Ohio r. II.
Our Through Vestibule trains 10 Cincin-
nAti also make direct connection with tho
celebrated ~. y V. Limited" Of the Chesa-
Doake a Ohio Route, having through Pull
mnn eloopors aud Pullman Dining Car TO
New York.
Nhrough Car Lines via both these routes
paaa through Washington, Baltimore and
Philadelphia, allowing stop-oh without go-
ing out Of the way or mourning any extra
expense for fares.
The Ohio d Mississippi R'y Is tho shortest
and quickest line from 1T. Louis 10 Cincin-
natl, with four solid yestibulO trains daily,
equipped with the finest Pullman Buffet
Parlor Cars and Pullman Buffet Sloepers,
making the run in less than ten hours.
Tho direct and fast line TO Louisville with
two daily trains carrying through day coaches
parlor cars and buffet sleeping coaches.
Connections are made in Union depots Ot
Cincinnati and Louisville with trains for all
points East Northeast and Southeast.
For further information, call ON agents of
connecting lines throughout the West, or
address, A. j. LYrLE, General Western Pas
sonRor Agent o. q M. R'y, l0l and 1903 North
Fourth street, st. Louis, Mo.
The advocate., 1890-03-26

Of the economic problem. The Kansas
farmer does not underAand why he is
offered a pittance for whit he has to sell,
and is charged so deaty for what he
has TO buy. To better understand the
cause Of this condition, md II possible
remove them, is what he lopes 10 accom-
plish through the alllmce- Wamego
AgricUliurist
The advocate., 1890-03-26

We take pleasure in directing attention
70 the advertisement Of the Bragdon
Chemical Company in this weeks issue.
We have no direct acquaintance with
this firm, but from an lndlsputable source
we have the information that their pre-
paratlOns will do just exactly what is
claimed Tor them and in ID matter Of 80
much importance to our farm brethren
and indeed the general community. We
take satisfaction In endorsing that which
possesses true merit.
The advocate., 1890-03-26

The government loaned the Pacific
railroads $130,OOOOOO on which it does
not collect interest, and gave them $780,
100000 worth Of lands; it loans the ma
tlonal banks $GO,OOO,OOO without interest
but a great many people seem to think it
unreasonable to loan the people-the
men who really support the government
money at one or two per cent on real
estate. Most Of our Legislators and ofIic-
ials at Washington are better acquainted
with the millionaire bankers and railroad
bunco steerers than they are with the
farmer Acquaintanceship makes all the
difference in the world, don't cher know?
--COncOrdid Times.
The advocate., 1890-03-26
New and gnperb DLnIng Car OntlIt.

The Dining Cars just complete for the
GREAT Rock ISLAND ROUTE, not only embody
all the latest improvements in general use,
but especial and distinctive features Of ex-
cehence, and render them unapproachably
superior 10 ordinary Dining Cars. They will
be placed on tho Rock ISLAND Route west Of
tho Missouri River on and after March 28rd,
1890, and will impart the crowning grace Of
perfection 10 its SOLID VEsTmULE EXPRESS
TRAINS, giving that road continuous
THRoUaH DINING Can SERVICE between Chi
cago and Denver Colorado Springs and
Pueblo. The Rock ISLAND ia the ONLY line
that runs two Vestibule Express Trains
every afternoon from Chicago 30 Denver.
II Is not only the Fast line, but II is also the
most completely equipped Of all the Colorado
roads, with elegant Day Coaches, Pullman
Sloopers, FREE Reclining Chair Cars, and
the finest Dining Cars in the world
The advocate., 1890-03-26
MONTEAUMA.

The elegant watering-place hotel at Las
Vegas Hot Springs, N. NJ, known as the
Montezuma, is a modern structure, arranged
TO give every room therein an abundant sup
ply Of that brilliant and tonic sunshine for
which Now Mexico is noted. There is not
q pTettier spot in the Rocky Mountains than
the canon in which the Montezuma stands.
A braclng climate affords quick relief for
tired nerves, and when supplemented by
baths, in the hot springs, the most iaded
traveller soon feels strong again. The quaint
hali-Spanish half American life of the ma
tive inhabitants is always picturesque, and
can be seen nowhere else in the Territory TO
better advantage.
Excursion tickets at low rates, via Santa
Fe Route.
Write for pamphlet TO Geo. I. Nicholson,
q. =. q 7. A., Topeka, Kas.
The advocate., 1890-03-26
Miro. Florence Olmstead'S Song Book.

We are In receipt Of "The Mite" a lit
tie book Of songs composed by Mrs. Ohm
stead, for use in the farmers and labor
ers' unions. The book is admirably
adapted for the purpose designated, and
in several instances the verses touch real
pathos and beauty, while some Of them
are stirring, and awake a martial thrill.
Mrs. Olmstead is enthusiastically de-
voted TO the alliance. The little song
book costs $t.OO per dozen or 10 cents
each. Address, The Toiler, Nashville,
Tenn, or Mrs Florence 0lmstead, Doug
lass, Kansas.
The advocate., 1890-03-26

At the county alliance, organized at
Westmoreland on the 1st, the farmers
manifested marked enthusiasm. Dele
gates from all the auxiliary alliances
were present, and the interest taken was
sufficient to give assurance that the
farmers are earnestly seeking a solution
The advocate., 1890-03-26

Brother @. A. Tyler, manager Of the State
H.xchhnge, sayos II would much facilitate hia
hn1inona and insure prompt answers II cor
rtnpondonta would sign their names 10 doc
ulnenlu, and would undoubtedly save much
anHisty Of mind 10 those who enclose drafts,
ohocka etc. with no guide 10 the identity Of
lho sonders.
The advocate., 1890-03-26

Economists have held that wheat,
grown everywhere, cannot le cornered
by capital And yet one man in Chicago
tied the wheat crop in his handkerchief
and held il until a sewing woman in my
city, working for 30 cents a week, had
to pay 20 cents tax on the sack of flour
she bore home in her famished hands.
Three mon held the cotton crop until the
English spindles were stopped and the
lights went out in three million English
homes Last summer one man cornered
pork until he levied a tax Of S8 a barrel
on every consumer and pocketed profit Of
millions. The czar Of Russia would not
have dared to do these things, and yet
they are no secrets in this free govern
ment OF ours. ET.
The advocate., 1890-03-26

The Albany IN. ~ union says that
$4,0OOO0O would make the Hudson river
nayigable for ocean steamers Of large size
10 the city Of Troy. In like manner the
great inland water way from Lake Michi-
gan through the Illinois and through the
Mississippi to the Gulf Of Mexico, can be
made TO float steamers commodious and
safe for traffic to the West Indies and to
South America. Take interest at 4 per
cent on the S4O,OOO,0OO interest on the
public debt Of 1880, which under the law
yet in advance, and we have S1,600,000
per annum, another free gift to that class
Keep that gift out Of their hands and
employ laborers now idle, in digging and
dredging that water way by using this
sum annually, and in ten years the work
will be done. Take idle surplus, or new
issues Of greenbacks, and employ laborers
now idle, and make the Erie canal u
national ship canal cut canal across
Flodlda and perform other needed work.
What better method can be devised TO
convert government money into value.
The advocate., 1890-03-26
LABORATORY 113 WALL STREE

JUNCTION NfWf, kAN,, FeDTuNTy 49, lbOu
10 the BragdOn Chemical CO., Fort Scott, Kas,!
GRNTLEMRN During the month OF NOyem.
NOR 1890, cholera broke out among our herd OF
hthR We fed them One.hundred and twenty-five
nliNdaOl one remedy that was guaranteed %
1nrA While feeding this positive sure CllIe We
Ir1i one hundred and twenty-five head OF hogs.
yh tyicd Oflier remedies which were recommend
I'll Nv cure cholera and after all others failed your
Aahnt john y. Townsend, called upon us and
ilbr6ed aeventy-slx head thatwere In dying con-
ilinn, As they were dying from three ID Ave day,
AiiQr using your Specific for the Prevention and
Cure OF Swlne Plague or Hog Cholera for only
few days we noticed decided change for the bet
ger among our hogs We fed only seventy-twO
pounds (Or three Cases) Of your Specific nc cost
on only t54 and saved sXtythTce hogs, losing only
thirteen ont Of the entire lot NJ Seyenty-SlX head
We Cheerfully recommend your Specific for tho
Prevention and Cure OF Hog OhOlara as we are
perfectly satisfied Il saved OuT hogs, and we verify
believe n will do all you claim for H. You are nc
liberty tO refer 10 us nc any time
Respectfully yours, VIM. CUTTER & SONS.
HARRIS POsTOFFICE
MU8KOGEE, INDIAN TER,, Feb. p, 1890
The Bragd0n Chemical Co, Fort Scott, Kas.
SIRsl received from y. " Davis one twenty
four pound case OfyOuT Hog Cholera Specific and
4 had lost about thirty hogs before received the
\ kcdiclne, and after commenced tO give the med
Pine it eliectually checked the disease and have
lost no hogs since. fed some 10 one hog thAt
Y wAe nearly dead, which completely cuTeu him,
and IAke pleasure In recommending the sane 70
'qS g99lcti gS9lsl r Ylog1T5',F;,S. Ylg, wN; FITRrs.
The morning call., 1890-06-22
sUPEKTLUOUs QUESTIONS.

The provision of law which authorizes a
census-taker to take names from neighbors
when the party whose name is taken can
not in reality be found suggests the propri-
ETY. of striking out about twenty of the
twentY-SiX questions the census man is au-
thorized to ask. Certainly not more than
six of these questions can be answered cor
rectly by third persons who are not init
mate friends. A mans own family may
answer a larger number with sufficient
approach to accuracy, but as rule neigh
bors and chance acquaintance cannot. In
most cases where the census-taker takes
a name at secondhand he will be satisfied
with the name, probabilities in regard to
nativity, approximation as to age and guess
work as to other conditions. How many
women who keep boarding-hOuses or lodg-
lighthouses know whether the people who
are occupying rooms in her house and
places at her table are married or not? II
there is no sign Of wife or husband she may
assume that they are single, but aSsump-
tions of this character are misleading. If
the census is to be taken by hearsay the
questions should be few and simple. Sta
tstics which are only half true are utterly
false. That is, they convey false impress
sions and lead to false conclusions. What
is the use of thinking we know what pro-
portion of adults are married when the
information upon which tables are based
are in a large proportion Of cases guess
work? A third person can tell whether a
person is male or female, young, middle
aged or old, black or white, in most cases
native or foreign. and that is about as much
as they are likely to know. The rest is
guesswork. The census man does not prob
ably ask many other questions, but fills out
his blank with such variations as may oc-
cur to him. A too striking uniformity
would be suggestive Of the method of get
ting information. 1t happens in this way
that few persons are put through the in
QUESTION Of twenty-six questions, some of
which are of delicate nature, while of an
other the census man only gains the bald
facts of name, sex. age, color and probable
nativity
The morning call., 1890-06-22
TIN-PLATE.

The tin-plate clause in the Mckinley
Tariff Bill doubles the present duty on that
article. AS there is no tin-plate manu-
featured in this country under the present
tariff, the duty should either be removed
entirely on the ground that it is tax on
an article we cannot produce or should be
made sufficient to warrant the opening OF
tin mines and establishing other works.
We imported last year 7S5,000000 pounds OF
tin-plate, at cost of S21, 100000. The OBJ
ject of the Mckinley bill is to transfer the
industry to this country. Tin-plate now
comes mostly from Wales, and the prOduc-
tion is in the hands OF a syndicate which
can lower prices to crush out American
competition and raise them when Ameri-
can competition is crushed out A dispatch
from Pittsburg says that the English SYM
dictate which controls the mines and manu-
factories in Wales will, in conjunction
with importers, raise the sum of S1,000,G00
to defeat the tin-plate clause in the Nc
Kinley Tariff Bill. Whether the sum to
be raised is larger or smaller, the movement
indicates that the English syndicate very
much fears that under an increased duty
the industry will be established in the
United States. There are quite number
of Americans also who seem to entertain
the same fear.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that tin
plate plant has just been established in
that city and that efforts will be made to
secure protective tariff sufficientlythi5h to
enable them to compete with the cheap
labor of foreign manufacturing cities. The
Dispatch adds that if the tin-plate clause
in the Mckinley bill passes the Senate
other mills will be established. In this way
home competition will keep prices down to
a reasonable figure, as such competition has
reduced the price of steel rails nearly to
EurODean cost
The morning call., 1890-06-22
THE PROSPECTS, OF FRUIT.

They write from the East that this is
going to be favorable year for California
fruit. Peaches, cherries, plums and pears
are practically failure in the Eastern
orchards; fruit consumers will have, there
fore, to rely to a considerable extent on
fruit sent from this Coast Arrangements
have already been concluded, or are about
to be concluded, for fruit shipments twice
as large as those of last year; they talk of
5000 tons of fresh fruit being sent during
the present season from California to New
York, Chicago and other Eastern cities.
OF course prices are rising. 1t sounds well
to hear that peaches are selling at whole
sale in New York at 81 30 for the bushel
basket; Of plums selling by the crate at 20
cents quart; of cherries commanding cor
responding prices.
This translated into figures means from
two to three millions Of dollars for the fruit
growers Of this State. But for the accident
of the Eastern crop failure most of this
sum would have gone to Delaware, Mary
land New Jersey and Ohio; as it is it will
cone TO US. 1t ought TO pay good many
debts and build good many fences and
barns. Fresno will take In this year some
thing like a million dollars for its raisins I;
and Napa, Sonoma, Alameda, Santa Clara and
the San Joaquin Valley counties will receive
a larger sum for their wine and their grapes
Add to this say 81, 800. 600 for our exports
of wheat and the farming interest of CAL
ifornia should receive this season something
like S25, eco 900 for its products, Independent
of barley, hops, oranges, etc. There are
not many STATES of the Union whose soil
Yields so bountiful return for labor as
that.
We notice, as the best evidence of the
growing popularity of California fruit in
the East, that dealers in the great cities are
beginning to quarrel over it. A couple of
years ago the grower in this State shipped
his fruit to an Eastern JmmiSsiOn-house
which disposed Of it when and where and
how it could. The consequence was end
less reclamatiOns for losses alleged to have
been caused by injudcious packing, excess
sive heat, an unexpected glut in the mar
ket, ana so forth. Our fruit-growers then
combined, and consigned their fruit in
tended for New York to two houses, with
instructions to sell il at auction Immediately
on arrival. The system was perfected so
thoroughly that in two hours after the ar
rival of the fruit-trains at Jersey City their
contents passed into consumption, and the
era of reelamatlons came to an end. Now
the commission houses complain that this
plan is unfair to them. They want fruit
directly consien ned to them. and object to
having to attend the auctions to buy their
stocks. 1t is observed that some of the
very houses which prefer this claim used
two years ago to deride the idea Of Call
fornia competing with Delaware and New
Jersey in the freSh-fruit market.
Time will regulate the matter. There is
no law which prevents an orchardist in this
State from having his own Eastern agency
The morning call., 1890-06-22
RUSSIA.

From information received at Washing
ton, Russia is ready to sustain the tile to
Behring Sea she sold to the United States.
The position Russia assumes goes further
than that the American State Department
is reported to have taken. inasmuch as Rus
STA claims that Behring Sea is closed sea
outright. while the State Department is re-
ported to have claimed that it was closed
only to the extent Of protecting definite
American right-the right to preserve the
seal fisheries. The United States Govern
ment now seems 10 be in the position of a
purchaser whose title TO the thing pur-
chased is guaranteed by a responsible seller.
Russia admits that she sold closed sea,
and offers to Cooperate with the United
States in making the title complete. If the
Government now declines to accept the
title Russia offers to confirm, Russia will
stand absolved from any responsibility for
the consequences that may result from cur
failure to act
The morning call., 1890-06-22
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RETALIATION,

The English House of Commons is con-
sidering the policy Of taxing imports from
the United States. Mr.. Vincent, Con-
servatiye member, has given notice of a
motion to declare that the House will con-
slider whether free market ought longer
TO be given to the competitive products of a
foreign country which puts a prohibitiye
tariff on British goods. Mr.. Vincent prob
ably did not make so silly motion as the
London dispatch charges him with He
certainly would not ask the Commons to
consider the policy Of Withholding a free
market for American products and extend
ing enc to like products from other coun-
tries. England has an unquestlonsble
right to protect her agricultural in
terests by an import tax on competitive
products from other countries, but she
cannot well discriminate against the
agricultural products Of the United States.
If she does she invites retaliation. At
present we impose import duties on
English goods at the same rates as
upon the same kind of goods from other
countries, but if England discriminates
against American products the United
States will discriminate against British
products. 1t is poor rule that will not
work both ways.
The morning call., 1890-06-22
PERI APS.

1t is just possible that Mr.. Blaine is op-
posed to the Mckinley Tariff Bill. 1t is
inst possible. also, that the free-traders
represent Mr.. Blaine as saying things he
has never said. On two different occasions
Mr.. Blaine has been represented as taking
Mckinley by the throat, metaphor cally
speaking, and reading him a lecture. OF
course, if the fact could be established that
so pronounced protectionlst as Mr. Blaine
thought the duties imposed by the McKin-
ley Bill excessive, the opposition to the bill
in the Senate would be materially strength
ened. But Mr.. Blaine generally finds a way
to let the people know what he thinks when
in his judgment his thoughts have especial
interest for them. If he is really opposed
to the Mckinley Tariff Bill the fact will be
made known through other than free-trade
channels.
The morning call., 1890-06-22
PERSONAL INTEGRITY.

The New York Times permits a CORE
spondent to say: while Wallace's per-
sonal integrity was never assailed, he was
from the first recognized as the close and
trustworthy friend of rings and corpora
tiOns. He was one of the pro-
motors of the Infamous nine million steal
which was a scheme to use the sacred
Sinking Fund of the State for the building
of a railroad" They have queer ideas of
what constitutes personal integrity in the
Times office. If a man does not literally
put his hand in the treasury and take out
money for his own personal use he passes
as man of personal integrity. We have
considerable of that kind of personal in
tegritY in this part of the world. Men who
assume to possess high order of personal
integrity" help rascals into Office and share
the plumber. But man who knowingly
profits by an act he would not commit HIM
self adds cowardice and hypocrisy to other
questionable personal qualities.
The morning call., 1890-06-22
THE SILVER TANGLE.

The House has finally ruled to sustain
Speaker Reeds reference of the Silver Bill
to the Coinage Committee. This is set
back for the free-coinage men. If the
House had not sustained the Speaker the
bill would have been considered before the
House and a straight vote taken on the free
coinage proposition. Democrats in both
Houses voted on the Silver Bill with an ap-
parent purpose to pass bill which the
President would veto. Ii that policy had
prevailed the Democrats would have had a
good issue upon which to appeal to the
country in the coming Congressional cleo
lions. The Democrats could do nothing in
either house by themselves but they we're
assisted by free-coinage Republicans. The
prompt reference by Speaker Reed to the
Coinage Committee apparently robbed the
Democrats of good party cry for the COM
ing elections. If the two houses will now
unite upon the House bill as amended by
the Senate before Plumb offered his free
coinage amendment, the silver question will
be removed for time from party politics.
In year OF two we should see the effect of
increased purchase and be in better po-
stion to judge if the double standard can
be reached without in the meantime coming
down to the Single-silver standard
The morning call., 1890-06-22

if he thinks he will do better thus than by
consigning to the auction-houses. The ad-
vantage of the auction plan is that the
shipper knows where he stands as soon as
he receives advices of the receipt Of his
goods in New York. If his fruit arrives in
bad condition, ne knows how much he
stands to lose; if it arrives in prime con-
dition. he can reckon up his profit by
very simple sum. If, on the other hand, he
ships to commission-house, several days
may elapse before he can figure out the re-
suit of his adventure He can never feel
sure that his agent used due diligence, and
he will always be apt to cayil at reclama-
tione