Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-08-21
ISL CREEK.


Mrs. 0. r. Clark has been quite /
sick for several days.
Fred Pratt and Richard Dawson /
have.gone toward the Orient in search |
of work.
Cutting corn fodder is now the ord /
corn knife, some the mower, some the /
binder, while some use sled with a /
knife attached with which they can /
cut from FIVE to seven acres per day. !
The people are meeting the emer- /
gency like little men and the way the
country will be raked this year for
rough feed will be a caution. Some
claim that they can only get one cent
per pound for fat COWS and that the
butchers still charge the old prices
for meat. ''Why Is thus?'
The huge cribs of corn that are
noted for their absence this year, will
make pork the coming winter Of the
variety known as a streak Of lean and
a streak Of lean.
Our neighbOr, I. Y. Lee, lost a val
liable mare and colt by lightning one
night last week. Ike has lots of luck
mostly bad. It is quite a loss to
him.
II. G. Swisher's babe was danger
Ously i'll last week.
Onr old friend, j. H. Fleisher and
his brother, Rev. E. H, were out this
way last week. j. HIS eve Mack's"
sounded natural.
The Farmers Alliance is flourish
| ing in these ends Of the earth. All
IS quiet and peaceful. Harmony pre-
walls, and the people feel that they
| are engaged in a grand good work,
and one of which they have no cause
to feel ashamed, nor IN which there
is no reason that they should grow
weary.
We notice that you Mr. Editor, call
IN question our statement, that that
much debated question ''neYer was.
and never will be a party issue in fact
as 1t IS made to appear in theory -
/ Now we Will just explain that we
meant that the statement is true as to
| the times 1CIle7l 1t has been U0ted up
on. Every one knows that the two
great parties have made issue of it
since, just as they have of other
| questions. If one advocates one side
of the question the other takes ex-
! captions to 1t, and one wOuld almost
! be led to believe that what one party
advocated was poisonous to the other.
/ Now, this law is in force in Kansas, !
and while many of us think it is all
right, many more think land we must
allow that they are hOnesbl that some
thing else would be better. At any
rate the constitution can only be
amended at an election when repre-
sentatives are chosen, (if we mistake
nOt), and, as the question cannot be
presented to the people for two years
can we not, Mr.. Editor devote the
time to agltating those vital questions
which concern our means of subsis-
tenCe. You remember that YOU, as
well as myself have said, that if the
Republican party failed to throttle
the trusts, combines and corrupt
machine work, and do something for
the people that it ought to die.
You have always been on the side
of right, let me ask you in all candOr,
do you believe that the debt burden
ed people Of our state, made so in the
main, according to my belief, by the
scarcity Of money, ought to drag IN
this question which is being used by
! politicians to divide the people
Ought we not, rather, to insist on the
enforcement of eCeTg law and cease !
pointing with pride" to the past, /
and uniting on living issues, go for
ward to solve the problems of the
day. PED.