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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-24
To Rent.
Town of Osie.

WILL sell lots in this town at public out
cry at eleven o'clock on October the 18th,
1890 The town has been laid of and map
will he on exhibit on the day OF sale. 1t is
beautifully situated in most fertile section
of country OH the G. {. Il n. Railroad near
place formerly known as Bozeman's Mill
whore there is an immense wafer power.
MRS. NJ. L. HOLLOWAY.
Sept. %, 1880, If
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-09-24
The State of South Carolina,

The State of South Carolina,
ABBEVILLE COUNTY.
Probate CONFEDERATION for Letters OF Ad-
miniStration.
BY j. FULLER LYON, ESQ.,, JUDGE PROBATE
COURT:
WHEREAS, W. G. Rice Jr. has made suit
w TO me, to grant him Letters OF Admin
Istration Of the Estate and effects OF Or. u. II.
Waddell late OF Abbevile County, deceased.
These nre therefore, to cite and admonish
oil and singular the kindred and creditors OF
the said DR.. G. II. Waddell deceased, that
they be and appear before me, In the Court OF
Probate, to be held ut Abbeville Z. H.. on
Tuesday, October 7th 1890, after publication
hereof, 8t II o'clock in thr forenoon, to show
cause If any they have, why the said Admin
istration should not be granted.
Given under my hand and seal OF Court,
this 10Th day Of September in the year
H. 81 of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and ninety and In the ll5th year
of American Independence.
Published on the oath, day Of September,
1870, in the Press and Banner and on the Court
Honse door for the time required by law.
]. FULLER LYON,
Judge Probate Court.
Sept. %. 1890. tt
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
SHEDDING THE YOKE.
That Is What the Putting Forth of Inde
pendent Tickets Means.

That Is What the Putting Forth OF Inde-
pendent Tickets Means.
There is no mistaking the temper of
the people. Independent tickets are
being formulated everywhere. Ii is in
no sense preconcerted movement 1t
has not originated with any man or set
OF men, nor Is it the work of any organ
lzation. The chief officers of the farm
and labor organic tons, while they have
earnestly prayed for deliverance from
ring rule, haYe rather discouraged po-
litical action as it was no part of our
organization work. The politicians
of course will charge it all to these So
cieties, but to do so is to confess their
own incapac; ty. They have in their
own hands all the machinery of organ
izatlon, strengthened by mountain of
prejudice. They have the orators of
National reputation, the offices of the
Nation and the State, the big newspa-
pers of the cities and their multiplied
shadows throughout the country. They
have the money of Wall street and
the powers of monopoly. They have
the most of the colleges and
a majority of the pulpits. If
b
hold the masses against few obscure
farm and labor speakers, then their in
capacity ought to be confessed, their
miserable "a lure admitted, the wrongs
they have done no longer denied, and
for very decency's sake they should
step out of the way. Any class of
animals or insects but leeches would do
so. Instead of oing this. however, the
party politician falls back not on his
dignities for he has none, but on his
helplessness, and howls at this or that
organization for going into politics
The fact is the organizations have not
gone into politics, and they do not in
tend to, but the people evidently nave
determined to throw off the yoke they
have so long borne and they deserve
the worlds plaudits for doing so It
only remains to be seen whether they
will carry out their beginning to a stic-
cessful ending Progressive Farmer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
THE CURRENCY.
Condensed Propositions Concerning None,
and Its Relative Value.

Condensed Propositions Concerning Money
and Its Relative Value.
Money is creature of Government.
1t was created to serve the people:
l. AS standard of comparison for
determining values.
2. As an instrument to exchange COM
modities.
8. To compute and express debts, ac-
counts, and commercial values.
Money is convenient in trade 1t is
necessary in fulfilling the contracts and
obligations of governments. Money
should express fixed or stable CONNER
cial values In order to do this the
amount in circulation should bear GER
tain fixed ratio:
l. To the amount of wealth.
q To the amount of exchanges.
8. To the population.
A fixed and stable ratio of monev to
the three conditions named gives a
stable purchasing power to money A
stable purchasing power of money gives
stable commercial value to all commod-
tiles. Stable commercial value to all
commodities is necessary for the welfare
of all trades and pursuits, except that
VI GHe mOHey l0nUer or Gn0 Sp6culatOr.
Therefore, a fixed and stable ratio is
necessary for the welfare of the main
body of the people, since the main body
is engaged in other pursuits than money
lending and speculating.
large volume of money is an i'm
portant factor and aid in maintaining
the fixed or stable ratio of the volume to
the three conditions named, as shown by
the following: If there is large vol
ume of money in circulation, and if a
certain amount of it can be drawn out
and boarded, the ratio will be changed
less than If that amount were to be
drawn out of smaller volume Those
who have convenient access to history
and statistics can compare the condition
of the people in countries where the
volume of money is large with the con-
dition of the people in countries where
it is small. If experience sustains the
premises and conclusions stated, thew
should be accepted as sufficiently cor
rect to act upon.-Dr. p. b Clark, in
National Economist.
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NEWS OF THE MOVEMENT.

That law which will enable the farmer
to sell has crop as the demands of the
world call for it, and at that fair price
which the supply will guarantee under
normal condition Of trade. is the law
we need That law is the Sub-Treasury
bill. Southern Alliance Farmer
The officials at Washington never
say word when the bankers rob their
victims of ten to forty per cent in the
West but if Wall street gets short on
money every pore in the treasury is
thrown open tosupply the sharks. 1t is
given to them, Great is Shylock and
his satraps. Avalon (Mo.) Aurora
Every thing goes to indicate that
there will be more business failures in
the next four months than were ever
known in the United States before in
the same length of time If those who
oppose the Sub-Treasury bill can SUBJ
stitute measure that will give to the
agricultural districts the relief they de-
mand more gu cl1ly and more effectually
why do they not promulgate it?-Marlin
(Tex) Peoples Signal.
AS the Alabama farmer sees his cot
ton pass into the hands of the specu-
Iator at less than ten cents, he can put
his hand on the hollow place in his
pocketbook and thank his Representa-
tive FOR his part in causing the aching
void. With the Sub-Treasurv bill a
law, not less than ten and most fre-
quently eleven cents per pound would
be obtained for cotton. MONTGOMERY
(Ala.) Alliance Herald
No better proof that money is too
dear, and that the present rates of in
terest are ruinous to the general busi-
ness of the country, than the fact that
in every general or local paper you see
its columns flooded with ADVERTISE
ments, Money to loan" The fact is,
present rates of interest pay better
than the dividends on any business en-
terprise, and the m oney of the country
is boarded and kept out of the regular
channels of business where it properly
belongs. In consequence of this all
branches of industry, business and
trade are suffering. -Loup Valley (Neh
Alliance.
Gold at 143 per cent premium in
Buenos Ayres means wretched Gov
ernment. Jobbery seems to have run
wild in that interesting Republic. In
fact most of these South American
commemorative seem to have been suf-
fering from severe attack of the Lon
don money market. The sharpers.
thieves and financial adventurers who
dominate London have played these
young, crude, growing nationalities for
moro than they are worth. The money
goes to London; bankruptcy remains
with them. When the true history of
this nineteenth century is written, it
will be found that the financial ways
and methods of the English metropolis
surpass any villainy known in the an
mails of mankind N Y Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
STILL THE ISSUE.
TinxerIng With the Tariff for Sixty Years
and Yet the Old iarty Statesmen Can Not
Solve the Question.

TinIerIng With the Tariff for Sixty Years
and Yet the Old i'arty Statesmen Can Not
Solve the Question.
The following letter from President
Walter Muir, of North Dakota, is printed
by the National Economist as worthy of
careful consideration:
For sixty years the tariff has been
the leading issue between the great po-
litical part es in this country, and still
it is the issue, One would suppose that
the combined brains of the statesmen
of two generations would have by this
time given US such tariff as would
satisfy the people. What good reason
can the people have to believe that
either party in its leadership are honest
in their efforts to bring about sucn a
tariff as would satisfy the Nation? OF
what use is, it to permit this farce to
continue longer? Have not both the old
parties fully demonstrated their utter
inability to cure the evil? The Repub-
lican party can not do otherwise than
stand by the manufacturers in order to
secure the funds to run their cam paigns
and thus secure the control of the Gov
ernment The Democrats dare not
oetOh1pO ouOA q ESouCGlOH dS WOulQ
do the people justice. Should they,
the combined power of the moneyed
interests of the Nation would be upon
their backs at once. What then, must
be done? Nothing but the massing of
the people in a great independent party
can bring about the needed relief All
reforms come from the people, and not
until the people who pay the taxes are
counted can we expect any reform of
National taxation of permanent char
acter. How can it be otherwise, when
the only parties who are consulted on
the tariff are the class that receive BEN
efits by the tariff? No tariff bill ought
to become law until it is submitted to
fair vote of all the people in the Ma
tion and receive majority vote. This
wholesale surrender of the rights of the
people to body OF men who, doubtless.
owe their election to the money ad-
vanced by the very men who are to re-.
ceive the benefits of the tariff, should
be summarily stopped by the people de-
mandtng that no such measure become
law, taxing them hundreds of millions
of dollars for the benefit of small class
of their fellow-cit, zens, without their
consent Taxation W thout representa-
tian is tyranny"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS, w.

England, to protest against it, and
to demand that the British Govern
ment should interfere to prevent it
from becoming law. just what the
Sheffield people expected their Govern
ment to do affords large opportunity
for amusing conjecture; but at the meet
ing, accord ing to the report cabIed over
to the New York Herald, the leading
speaker, who was Sheffield manufact-
urer of cutlery. after stating that he re-
mem bered the time when the Americans
supplied work for the entire city of
Sheffield, went on to declare that the
Mckinley bill was bill to raise Amer
lean taxes out of the pockets of the
Sheffield exporters. and that Sheffield
was not going to pay British taxes and
American taxes too!
This statement shows very clearly
that the foreigners know who pays our
protective duties! Sheffield may do as
she pleases about it, but under the Nc
Kinley bill, if she desires to sell her
goods in the American market she will
have to pay for that privilege and the
amount of her payment will be exactly
that sum which is the difference be-
tween the cheap labor of Sheffield and
the expensive labor of America.
Some tine ago, in speech delivered
in the Canadian Parliament, Sir John
Macdonald, the Premier of the Domin-
ion Government, gave a most apt and
accurate illustration of how our protect
i've tariff works. This was his exact
language:
Suppose man has 100 acres on the
Canadian side of the line and 100 acres
on the American side of the line Sup
pose he grows 1. 900 bushels of barley on
each of his farms He takes his /, 600
American bushels to the American mar
ket and gets 81 bushel for it. He
takes his 1, 900 bushels of Canadian bar
ley to the Amer can market and gets
S5 cents per bushel, because he has to
pay Is cents duty for taking it across
the line. How can it in this case be
said that the consumer pays the duty?
1t comes out of the pockets of the
Canadian farmers"
What better proof is wanted to DEM
onstrate the fact that protective duties
are not paid by the Amer can consumer
but by the foreign prod er.-National
View
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
Deceptive Arguments.

With the exception of the reform
press, the others, one and all, resort to
every kind of decept on to make it ap-
pear that when there is bountiful crop
and prices are low, the reason the peo,
pie are poor is because they have pro-
duced too much; that poverty is caused
by an overabundance; that they ought
to pray for a famine in order to reap
good prices They will pretend that
the amount of money has nothing to do
with the matter; that there is money
enough if you have any thing to sell,
and the reason of poverty is the people
have 50 much 1t makes them poor.
These same papers will advocate an
honest dollar and contraction, ana ia
the next breath viii claim there is a
str ngency in the money market and
that the Treasury ought to furnish the
needed relief The people have been
humbugged with such nonsense so long
they rather like to swallow it IF prod
ucts are plenty and money scarce, the
effect is the same as if products were
scarce and money plenty In either
case put little money earcalases. -tilad-
brook iowa Labor Review.
IT IS saiu tnaJ IN the present Congress,
the first session of which recent tly closed.
of the entire membe rsh D of the House
only thirteen had any pretenss to being
farmers, and in the entire senate there
was only one # the farmers wish &
text to preach from or to study this
pgght te afford pretty good one
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
A Novel Method of Taxation.

Almost the first difficulty that besets
q people trying to govern for them
selves is the question of revenue.
Where is the money to come ~froma
Taxes. the bugbear of all nations. also
puzzle the Swiss. His method of rails
ing them in some of the cantons is
alike interesting and novel No official
assessment is made of property.
Blanks are distributed to every house
to be filed in by is occupants. The
system is known as the s'progressiye''
tag scale.
A, who owns 81 600 worth of prop
erty, pays taxes only on half of it; B.
who owns SIS, 1000 worth, pays taxes on
eight-tenths of it; while C, with his
100000 worth of property, pays taxes
on the whole. The result is that G.
pays not the proportional twenty-five
times the amount of As taxes, but
fifty times as much. The income tax
IS managed after similar fashion.
The rich pay out of all proportion to
the poorer classes They probably
would not change places with the poor.
however. even to save what they deory
as unjust taxat on The plan is not
always popular one. Leaving every
man to assess himself has the disad-
vantage that the rich, with stocks and
bonds. sometimes do not make return
Of them. When rich Swiss dies,
however, the Government control of
his estate quickly makes amends for
all his past misdeeds in the way of as
easements, and every penny of taxes
held back is now deducted, together
with compound interest and fines
Harper's Magazine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
GOOD REFERENCES.

The Old PARTIES Offer Four Good Refer
enees as to Their Patriotism and
Honesty.
We have no fear of any third party,
any new political organization. The
Democratic and Republican parties are
the only legal, responsible and quoted
at lOO per cent Bradstreet firms in the
political business now, and, Mr.. Farmer
and Mr.. Laborer, if you don't believe
me, go and ask Mr.. Smith, the banker;
Mr. Jones, the lawyer; Mr.. Brown, the
Office holder; Mr.. White, the head man
IN that big manufacturing establish
ment We have a few more references,
but those four are sufficient Oh! What
Is that you say? o, yes, that Govern
ment loan craze-money at Q per cent
Never work; can't be did. The money
would be thicker than the leaves on the
trees Why, just look; if Brother
brown had mortgage on your farm of
$1,000, and wheat went up to 50 a
bushel, you could pay him with 500
ousnels; now 1t takes 1.200. And then,
again, If that mortgage was paid of, my
friend Lawyer Jones, would be out of a
JOB suing the case. Then there is
another good friend of mine, Mr..
Smith the Office holder. There
are his fees, too He has
to live in fine house and help the rest
OF us fellows to have good time. And
there is Brother White. who is not to
be forgotten by any me ms, as he is the
principal one interested on the respon-
sible side of this question. Why, you
would make money so plenty that some
one else would get enough to start a
factory, perhaps pay his hands better
wages and sell goods lower than he does.
That would never do; those industries
are the life of the Nation. What! DID
understand you? They are crashing the
life out of you! Why. man, you are a So
c1al1st, Communist, an Anarchist
Some of those agitators have been fill
ing you up. Stay away from those fell
lows. 1t may look little tough to you,
but it is the making of our party BY
the way / heard Lawyer Brown say you
were just the man for supervisor in your
district You just keep still and will
see that you get it in 2902.
Kind reader, can you find situation
and subject? There are thousands of
them. Let us hope that the time is
past when such stuff will wash with the
breadwinners of our land. --Bluffton
Qnd Tiller and Toiler.
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The pAuPER.s cowHIDEs.

TUNE: KINGDOM COMING
Say, Richards, have you seen the paupers
With mortgage on their lands
Going to Congress with their cowhijes,
An honest horny handsi
They saw thu sshecmsIs each year stealing
Theis hard earned crops away,
And their sod houses tn y are leaving
To right their wrongs to-day.
CHORUS.
To o4grcss now, hoi hoi
The cowhide boots wit run
This must be the hays ed 1ubilo,
And the pauper's kingdom come
Money changers that no paupers
Their dem ,nds shall be denied;
They scorn them now as they oag ego
scorned a pauper crucif l..
They judge men by the wealth they've
stolen
Aud the patent b 'ots they wear;
Say drones of earth alone can rule US,
That ne cowhide rule they'll bear
They used to tan the -kins of paupers,
Down in an Eastern l1nd;
But Riehards' patent turns them out
With skins already tanned.
But the bankers power wi soon be broken.
Thfir gold viii Sc its sway;
Wheh the oowhi Q boo s get into Congress
Ihey'it bring a tier day.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
VERY LIKE A LOAN.

Some Proof to Support the Assertion That
the Government Loans Money to National
Banks.
Mr.. j. w Porter, of Charlottesville,
Va, in communication published in
the National View of October IL, denies
that the Government loans money to
National banks and challenges ''some
reader of the National View to present
proof to support the assertion SO fre-
quently made. Mr.. Porter seems intent
on using language to confuse his read
ers, rather than In attempting to make
his demands plain. We need only quote
one paragraph of his article to prove
the falsity of his posi ton and the truth
of the charge that the Government
loans money to the National banks Mr..
Porter says:
As well might the man say who hypothe-
Gates per cent bond at a INK and bor-
rows money on 1t at per cent that he loans
the bank the money.
This Is an exact parallel case-the
Government representing the bank, and
the National Banking Company the
man who hypothecates the per cent
bond. The banking company hypothe-
Gates or places United States bonds in
the custody of an officer of the Treasury,
and that officer issues, or orders to be
printed for the National bank, 90 per
cent of the face value of the hypothe-
Gated bonds-the collateral secur ty for
the bills issued by the United States
Treasurer to the banking company, for
which the Treasurer charges per cent
Isn't this fair. square loan, precisely
the same as the 8 per cent transaction
between the bank and the man cited by
Mr.. Porter? Now, why should the man
say he loaned the bank, or why should
the National bank say it loaned the Gov
ernment? Or why does Mr.. Porter turn
his argument topsy-turvy? Does he not
know that everybody will see that
ne Is putting the cart before the horse?
The man referred to by Mr.. Porter gets
bills from the bank, which the bank
charges him 6 per cent for and calls il
interest The banking company re-
ceives bills from the Governments for
which it is charged per cent, and it is
called tax The bonds deposited in
both instances are security for the ro-
turn of the loans On the return of the
bills or their equivalent the bonds in
both cases are reclaimed. The Govern.
ment has made the notes. and it de-
stroys them. The bank has used the
bills OF its depositors. and 1t returns
them to their orig nal owners when de-
manded.
Mr. Porter uses great deal of eolIat-
eral discussion IL ~ aFtieIe not GER
Enaae 70 the question az all, and COM
pletely refutes himself and confirms the
charge he sets out to deny. in the little
paragraph above quoted -E E Ewing.
in National View.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
Political Economy.

The great branches of political econ
omy are want, work and wealth. aud
these move the machinery of govern
ment Want makes men work, and
work produces wealth. For instance.
the farmer wants wheat he works to
SOW and harvest his crop, the crop is
his wealth. So it is in each field of
labor.
But there must be demand for the
fruits of industry, which is called sup
ply; for the farmer needs clothing, farm
implements and other necessaries, but
the farmer can not trade wheat for
clothing and implements, the wealth of
other mems work, therefore medium
of exchange is necessary, which is
called money, and which makes the
wheels of commerce revolve and creates
demand for the wealth of work. All
business enterprises flag without money,
although the supply may be great for
money is essential to prosperity.
Therefore increase the circulation.
open to us the commerce of the world,
quit robbing us, and the West soon be-
comes what nature intended her to be.
the granary of the world. d.-Excbange
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FARMERS ALLIANCE.
THE HAYsEED


TUNE: SAVE POOR sINSER LIKE M
was once a tool of oppression,
And as green as sucker coul be,
And m nopolies banded together
To beat poor hayseed like me.
The railroads aud old party bosses
Together did sweetiy agree;
And they thought there would be llttIG
trouble
In wors ing hayseed like me.
They toll me that politics always
Were filthy and foul. don't you see;
Aud raising my turn ips and cabbage
would be better for hayseeds like me-
And at every election they fed me
Wi taffy as sweet as cou.d be,
But when they elected their ticket
Thcy forgot poor hayseed like me.
They sold themselves ut to the banker
And thought IL would b a fine spree
To nre ali the greenbaeks and silver
And rob all such hayseeds as me-
They went into league with the devil
For the sake of high license fee,
But never a cent of the profits
Has come to a hayseed like me.
But now I've reused mp a little,
And their greed and CORFU Dtion see.
And my NEG nbors are waking arounl me-
And find theyr- all hayseeds like me-
And so we've formed an Alliance.
From oppression we re bound to be Free
And the ck 4 we vote hereafter
VIII be made up of hayseeds Ike me.
Arthur l. Kellogg