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St. Landry democrat., 1890-05-17
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SEC 10. Be 1t ordained, etc. That Road Over
seers shall not be allowed any compensation for
the number OF days the road hands are required
TO work, but they shall be allowed the sum Of
sl5o tone dollar and fifty cents per day for each
days extra work, and no compensation shall be
allowed for notifying the hands That All
road oyerseers shall receive the same
per diem and mileage as witnesses for eacl,
ana every day they are summoned before
the Police jury. II shall be the duty Of each
oVerSeer to summon all male persons from, fhe
age OF eighteen to fifty, except such as may be-
exempt from public service by the Legislature of
ths State, or by the Police Jury to meet at such
places and times as to them, the said overseers.
sha seem convenient, with the necessary tools
iof the repairing or making Of the public road or
roads under their charge: and whoever without
lega excuse, Or physical disability certified TO bv
some licensed physician practicing in this parish
Shail, upon such summons, refuse or neglect to
attend, with the tools designated and do fhe;,
anty elthef IN person or by sending in their place,
na 20 pc accepted by the oyerseer Of the roads
~ elhc'ent hand moi subject TO be called to work
on the pubIe roads, shall forfeit and paw The sum
u Two dollars per day for each person so neglect
ng or refusing, to lie recovered with costs. by
Judgment before any Justice OF the Peace in the
oalsli OF ST. Landry, and paid by said Justice
)ne-hal1 to the OVerscer Of the road as oonpens
'ation and one-half to The parish Treasurer to be
disposed Of by him according To Section %: and
II default OF payment OF said fine within "a
lours after Judgment, the person so falling to pay
St. Landry democrat., 1890-05-17

Further Hsusses % ebser@@eE cd Roads and spea.
9s8tacS soR' Interfering with Road Hands
while :at Work. Public Roads.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15
Jay Gould.

According to the Toledo Blade, Jay
Could is again the master spirit on Wall
street. 1t will be recalled that tor some
time past, there have been frequent
tlurl;ies on Wall street, bordering on Il
panic; and that these flnrres have been
assigned to various causes. During the
latest fury. Jay Could appeared upon
the scene and became a heavy purchaser
of railroad stock. 1t will also be re-,
called that it was claimed that Bal Ing
Brothers, owing 10 South American
complications, were obliged to unload
American securities. These securities,
it would seem, were unloaded so ABB
ruptly that they went down until they
were selling for mere song. 1t was
when railroad stock reaches its lowest
point that Jay Gould bought. And
within a week invested $4,000 900. 4
The late purchases make Jay GOnld the
largest holder of railroad stock of any
man in the United States. The Toleda
Blade says: "With his own roads, and
with his voice in the management Of
others. the railroad transportation inter-
ests of this country are practically in
his hands.' We leave our readers to
conjecture what will follow when Jay
Could controls all the railroads Of the
United States, and TO inquire if Jay
Go,l really owns all he claims, Some
time since, II statement was published,
that Jay Gould was only the agent of Il
vast. money power that has its headquar-
tors in I. London, England. The state
ment, looks reasonable in view of the
fact, That affairs in South America are
not sufficient cause for the apparent
magnitude of the money panic. Does
not "A careful study of the whole affair
lead to 10 the conclusion that the panic
and unloading of American securities
was IA pre-arranged affair? and does it
n t appear that Jay Gould is really the
agent of European money power,
since he appears on Wall street at the
right time 10 buy stock for song. Ii
jaw Gould OWNS what he claims, he is
interested in railroads. alone, TO the
amount of six billions of dollars.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15


WALL, street, rum and Doodle are
supreme in the high counsels of both
the old parties of the nation. Con-
science and patriotism do not pre-
side in their supreme counsels. Now
they let men and women, of con-
science and patriotism, unite i'll one
national band of free American pat,
riots, open up recruiting stations in
every school district. fling outthe flag
of human rights and the peoples rule,
to the free breeze, and STOW the COM
bina.ions who rule as supreme III the
counsels of the nation, that YOU are
men and woman Of undaunted hearts.
and of a patriotism that cannot and
will not be enslaved; and let the
watch word be all along the line,
For God and home, aud native land. :"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15
Presidents Annual Message.

Mr.. Harrison, as usual with Wall
street presidents, finds the country hap
DIV and prosperous. Why, Jay Gould
has made, Specializing in stocks, some
thing like s. 900, 900, say nothing about
his ordinary income. The silver barons
have found market for their silver 1T
very fair returns. Congress has still
further protected the s'infant industries -
of the east by the Mckinley tariff law.
The farmers are particularly prosperous,
with fifty per cent. yield of wheat, q
sixteen per cent. yield Of corn, and hogs
at 3 cents per pound. Railroad ems
plOyes are prosperous on a daily average,
including all classes. of 81 GLE per day.
Oh, well. but we hear me one say that
the peoI lie " no work are not Il part Of
the country. Sure enough. Tine peo-
pie be damned.'' The railroad compan-
les, loan companies, the bankers, the
mine owners, the manufacturers, The
brewers and the dstillers are HE coui
try. The toier Oh the farm, or IN the
work shop, in the mine, or in the factory
"Eias 10 part nor lot in The inliaritaiice,''
except to work on, if he can get work,
take what he can get. live on it if he
can, if not, he can die. Ii he cannot
buy two suits of clothes, as Jay Could
advises. he. can take one; OF if he caii-
not get one, he can be placed in the
mines, as In ancient times, and go ma
ked. it,4.,
Again, Mr.. President says that 1.-THE
people are generally employed" when
if he had taken into consideration the
w ,rllng people and the fifth annual re-
port of the United States labor commits
sioner, he would have found that of the
500, 900 employees, only 20 per cent. are
permitted to work but one-third OF the
time, SO per cent. less than One-half the
year, and only 20 per cent, find steady
Happy and prosperous
on 5000 Il year-pay rent, buy fuel,
and food, support family,
maybe, and lay by money for a rainy
day. Don't see why railroad employees
don't become millionaiIes.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15
Re.SubmissiOn.

The re-submissionist has just about as
Intelligent views of what will bring gen
eral prosperity as the frce-trader.
Doubtless the re-submlssionist is sincere,
as is also the free-trader; but that fact
does not render the position taken by
the friends of these principles any the
less open to objection and criticism,
Suppose that at the coming session of
legislature, tile prohibitory amendment
is re-submitted; the effect will be to at
o ice revive all the excitement and Bit
terness of IA temperance War, and while
the laboring people, who honestly differ,
are engaged, fighratively speaking, in
cutting ne';inOther's throats, the money
power. Will, unhindered, 90 on with its
work of despoIling the people. But
suppose the question of prohibition
could be settled without dividing the
masses into two hostile camps, and the
saloons were re-opened in every city,
town and village in this state, what,
would follow? Would the open saloon
give general prosperity? How many
men would find employment? How
many dollars would the saloon place in
the hands of the burdened tax payer, or
debt-ridden farmer and mechanic? How
many mortgages will the open saloon
pay off? 70 how many dreary homes
will the saloon bring sunshine and hap
piress? How many manafactories will
the saloon stimulate into existence, or
how many miles of railroad will it. con
struct? Will the saloon build more
school houses and fill them with happy
children? VIII the saloon create new
houses, by joining hands in tnatrimony
and building new dwelling houses? 70
ali this we answer, No: The saloon has
not Il single element Of generous pros
perity, and cannot have any place in the
Peoples party The Peoples party set
out to rebuild old homes, and erect
n Nv ones, and any deviation, ever so
Sig Int, will wreck its hopes. /,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

The Chicago Inter Ocean has been do
ing some figuring, and has figured In
gals back into the senate. We know oil
whole families of Republicans who figur-
ed during the recent campaign, buI.
somehow or other, tEeir figures lied out
rageously. The best time to figure is AT
ter election. The Inter Ocean, in
speaking of John j., says:
The country needs such men in its SUI
preme leg islative chambers us in earlier
days il needed its, Clays and Webster
and Kansas will make AN irreparabir
mistake that she will sorely regret if she
SHALL displace John j. 1ngalls with Il less
able statesman, Il less earnest patriot.
and ii less sincere, steadfast ana influeli-
tial Republican,. ~
TO compare Ingalls, with the Clays a"d
Websters is sacrilegious and foolish in
the extreme. AS, to- Ingalls, patriotism,
every one knows.it is an u know guam
-tity. No patriot eyer declared the la,e
war failure. His Influence has been
gained by check and. selflimpOrtance
He is nota friend to- Kansas, and the pc
pie of Kansas know it. Therefore. they
have said, by their votes, that they do
not want him in the senate any longer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15
The .Plandealer of the 9th contains

The 4.Plaindealer of the 9th contains
the following:
The interests Of the laborng man and
the farmer are not Identical; in fact,
they are natural opponents. for what the
farmer is asking for through legislation
is inimical to labor interests, inasmuch
as the farmer c0ntemplates high com
pensation for the food supply. and the,
/ laboring man is the farmers chief
patron.
The Plaindealer is either not inform
ed, or wilfully misrepresents probably
a mixture of both; for as a, genera
thing, theiring,press either betrays gross
ignor;ince, or an utter disregard for
truth. If labor, as the Plaihdealer adj
niits, .'has joined its voice with the
farmer against the common, acchmula-
fed capital" how can it. be possible that
the interests of the laborer and farmer
are Identical. Accumulated capital is
the enemy of the farmer in that it sets
its price upon what the farmer produces
without regard to the farmers wishes or
interest. without regard to the cost Of
production Accumulated capital is. the
enemy of the laborer in that it advances
the price of this same farm produce
many times to the consumer. the labor
.er; and at the same time lessons the
ability of the laborer to pay by cutting
wages down to the lowest point attaina.
BILE. The common enemy of both labor
er and farmer is the railroad, the grain
gambler and the money lender. These
agencies, under the present conditions.
are enabled to sell to the consumer at an
advance of from fifty to seventy five
per cent, Illus so far passing the bound,
OF reasonable compensation as to stamp
such transactions with the brand of le-
galized robbery. The farmer and lalor-
er-or wealth producers, are willing 10
share living with the distributing
agencies; but to surrender One-half or
more is intolerabe. The farmers ask
for higher prices for farm produce, but
do not propose to take them off the con-
sumer, but off the robbers who stand
between them and the consumer. The
wealth of the few, of necessity, is tie
up, while if it was distributed among
the many, it would flow on ceaselessly,
back and forth, greatly increasing t..
demand for labor, and the products of
labor, and for this object the farmers
and laborers have joined hands.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

LAST year there was II full corn crop,
md it WAS worth 10 cents per busnel,
according TO the laws of supply and de-
lnand.s This year there is only IL per
cent. OF crop, but corn is only worth
40 cents per bushel. What strange
law is the law OF supply and demand,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

SENATOR PLUMB said, short time be-
fore the adjournment of the last session
of congress. ;lllt the government, Tor
wears. had been contracting the curren-
cy by the withdrawal of bank circula-
ton. How about the bank circulation
low? Has It's withdrawal ceased?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

THE way for new party to succeed
is to keep right on with the. work Of
Organization. Pay no att ention to the
old ring bosses, turn a deafear their
pronounceS. They are only a cloak
to cover up their under ground
schemes of robbery. .4. ..-.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

SENATOR PLUME is an Out-;ind out
Gree coinage of silver man, but he
voted for the present silver law, ,and
pronounced it II good law, ut the rime' of
its passage.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

D.
ABOUT year ago, Trigg, of the
Eagle, asserted that it was the Prohi
bitiOn party in Anderson cou ny
that defeat ed the g. o. p. candidate for
sheriff, and now the same Trigg as
serts that it was the Prohibition par
ty. vote in Kansas that elected the 9.
o. p. candidate for governor. Now,
according to Trjgg, the Prohibition
party is getting to"bc a young whale,
for it either defeats or elects somebody
every time. It also strikes us, Mr..
Trigg, that large number of the
Prohibition party fellows took part
in the Alliance whirlwimd that struck
the o. o. p. in Kansas Oh tie 4lh of
last month.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

WILL Mr.. Funston renew his applica-
ton for committees to inquire as to the
cause of agricultural depression:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

Send in your subscriptions, and get
your ncighbors,to subscribe. D..
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-12-15

EX-Gov. ANTHONY says "Ingalls
will secure hi, election to the senate
through the strife among the Alliance
Garrett RIP.
While there are several candidates
for ingalls, place in the Peoples party,
no strife exists, and when. the legisla-
lure gets Iedy TO act in the matter,
Ingalls, successor will be elected with
out any trouble. Everything will be
harmonious. Our Republican friends
{ p seem very fearful 90 that divfs-
ions and dissentions will arise in the
Peoples party and irjure its useful
ness; but they need not fret. The
People are running this affair, and
they will run it about right. They
need~no assistance from the Republic
cans.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-03

THE supreme court of Montana has
Just decided 81 case in connection with
the Aust ralian balloting system which
is novel. A candidate failed to notify
the clerk of the court OF his candidacy,
as the law provides, and while his oppo-
nent received a great many less votes,
the court held that there was but one
man in the field. The decision is quite
lengthy, but the main point is that the
Australian ballot law is mandatory, and
not directory in its character, and all it's
provisions must be carried out. The
Nebraska republicans have very sensibly
declared for the Australian system only
in cities, and if adopted in this way its
complications will not embarrass those
running for miner offices in rural dis
trirts
Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-03

bettermont and advancement Of woman's
position, but that he was also ready to
accept all that should follow having like
results. Nothing was more interesting
and perhaps significant in what
Mr. Gladstone said than his
virtual advocacy of coeducation,
of the opening of the colleges
to women, and the influence OF his opin-
ion in this particular cannot but be
great toward settling aquestion which
has long been in discussion in England
aswell as in this country, but which Is
in better way OF affirmative settlement
here than there. There can be no ques-
tion that the cause Of woman's educa-
tional advancement has a very earnest
friend in Mr.. Gladstone, nor any doubt
that what he recently said in that be-
half will do the cause good service.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-03
ExEC UTIOYBY ELECTRICITY

Kemmler, the New York murderer,
who has been billed to make his exit
from this world for some time past, but
who has enjoyed the benefit OF the laws
delay, will be executed without fail dur
ing the present month by the new and
improved electrical machine. Amateur
ncologists have dubbed this lightning
process ''elcctrocution.' Philanthro-
pists have introduced electricity to take
the place OF the gallows, supposing that
the system would give the criminal the
minimum physical agony. 1t is fair
topresume, howev er that after man is
sentenced TO be put to death,
and realizes the awful fact
that there is no escaping the pun
ishment, bis mental suffering cannot be
material y diminished by the substitution
OF electricity for the hempen necktie.
The gallOws isdoubtless the least aris-
tocratic mode OF judicial execution, and
has accordingly been adopted by our
democratic government as best in keep
ing with its general principles
The PeIsians first adopted beheading
as mode of execution and it was looked
upon in Greece as the least degrading
capital punishment. 1t was afterwards
adopted for executing the British nobil-
ity. In the carly ages the blow was
given with an axe, but as good taste
advanced the sword was substituted.
In Scotland, in the early ages, an
edged instrument was used, called the
maiden, which was introduced into Eng
land by the regent Morton, who became
victim Of his own invention, as DR..
Guillotin was, subsequently, in France,
OF his Since the invention of the gull
loting, beheadiug is the only mode of
capital punishment in vogue in France,
while formerly only the nobility was en-
titled to such distinction
New York state was the first to adopt
electricity for legal killing, and there is
difference OF opinion as TO whether it
ispreierable, to the victim, of the old
way. Hetit occurs to us that sentiment
and sympathy have no part in the mat
ter. The old law, wherein Moses pre-
scribed As the means of punishment for
corporal injuries, IAN eye for an eye, a
tooth for tooth, and a life for life,
was not so much for vengeance upon the
particular evil'doer as it was the GER
Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-03

THE iron and steel manufacturers Of
America are not satisfied with the pro-
tective favors OF the government. Hay
ing accumulated enormous fortunes,
they seek new worlds to conquer and in
crease tn cir stores. To this end, an in
ternational organization is projected
and a convention will be held in New
York in October for that purpose. AS
an evidence of the strength of the move
ment, it is stated -four hundred leaders
OF the trade in England, France, Ger
many and Spain, will attend, 1t is given
out with the usual trust assurance, that
the gathering is purely social, return
feast for favors showered upon Ameri-
can manufacturers in Europe two years
ago. But American trusts have never
been known to squandera quarter of a
million dollars in hospitality without a
certainty of the return of the principal
with liberal interest. An international
iron and steel trust will be notable and
dangerous feature Of modern industrial
com binatiOn.
Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-03

NeD Oh Ihfdtd
Nevada Jones, the champion of the silver
bill and the apostle of universal prosperity,
was no doubt delighted the other day when
the Herald informed him Of the happy effect
OF his legislation upon the national credit of
Mexico and agricultural prices in England
We are now happy 10 inform him that it
proves blessing to China. "Tca has ad-
Vanced ten per cent all through the silver
bill The Chinese are no doubt preparing
tablets in memory of the apostles ancestors,
TO be suspended frem their temples. Already
the tea hongs of Foo Chow and Ningpo buzz
with the hummed praises of Nevada Jones
Glory 10 the apostle Of universal prosper
ity. England, Mexico and China Join in his
praises, But where, Oh where does America
pntna ina
Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-03
GLADSTONE on WouA Ms EDUCATION

GLADSTONE on WOMANS EDUCATION
Perhaps nothing that has been said
this year on the subject of education,
whether in the old or new world, has AT
tracted more attention than the address
delivered by Mr.. Gladstone TO the pupils
of the famous Burlington school for girls
in London. The occasion was the pre-
sentation OF prizes TO the successful com
pettors by Mrs. Gladstone. 1t has been
remarked of the greatest of living
English statesmen that while on his in
tellec tual side liberal among lib
erals, he is q conse rvative among con-
servatives on his emotional side, and
it is a mingling of these chaHct les,
though the latter predominates, which
marks his deliverance on the higher
education OF women.
Mr.. Gladstone recognized with ap-
proval the changes that had taken place
not only in the actual but prospective
position OF women as members of So
ciety. He remarked that it is rathe
painful to look back upon the state of
women sixty years ago, upon tho man
ner in which they We're then viewed by
the law, and the scanty provision that
was then made for their wel fare, and the
gross injustice, hagrant, crying, shame
full injustice, hardly credible to modern
ears. to (Which in certain particulars they
were subjected. Great changes have
taken place and still greater are dis
cussed, and with respect to those in an
ticipation Mr. Gladstone was not pre-
pared to say whether they would all be
for good. II will only say" observed
Mr.. Gladstone, and herein was the spirit
that pervaded all hesaid, ''that believe
that anything which attempts or affects
to alter the fundamental rela ton
which the Almighty has esab-
lishcd, and the designs which He
has marked out in our constitutions and
capacities, to draw woman out of her
own sphere and to expect her either to
exchange it for thesphere Of man, or TO
act in both, with the presumption that
she can act in both with effiCiency-that
schemes that involve changes of that
kind, for my own part L contemplate
neither with approval nor with san
guine expectation of happy results"
This delivemncc of Mr., Gladstone
has subjected him to the criticism
of not being favorable to the
efforts making to extend the
education OF woman and expand
her sphere of usefulness, and standing
by itself it might fairly be subjected TO
such construction, but considered with
what followed, in which all the liberal
tendencicsof Mr.. ladstoneB intellectual
side we're shown, twas simply the care
full and safe utterance OF a man who has
never permitted his emotions to Ia Ike an
extrayagant direction. He referred
with evident qualification tothe splendid
distinctions won bywomen at Oxford and
Cambridge, the most notable in the his
tory of these universities having been
achieved by a woman this year, as a cir
cumstance of inestimable value and
promise for the future OF English society.
The great Statesman left no doubt that
he was in full sympathy not only with
the changes that had taken place forthe