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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28

I'VE favor the strict and impartial en-
forcement of the law as our best guar
antee that such policy will insure the
repeal of vicious laws and the substitu-
ton Of good ones. Until the iniquitous
license legislation is blotted from our
statute books we favor as necessity Of
today the strict enforcement Of the
present excise laws, and believe that
violations thereof should be punished by
imprisonment instead of by fines that
are rarely collected.
"We favor the rigid enforcement of
the ballot reform law and its application
to all elections.
eve favor the strict enforcement of
the weekly payment law.
"Clear in the conviction that none Of
these desirable ends can ever be attained
SO long as either of the old parties is DOM
inant in government, we again call upon
all loyal and law abiding citizens to unite
with the Prohibition party in the cleo
ton of officers who will perform these
duties Of Office.
while clearly seeing the sincerity Of
the old parties in the matter of the sub
mission of the constitutional Prohibition
amendment, we declare that as the Pro-
hibition party stands-the only exponent
and advocate of Prohibition-every men,
Der thereof will vote for the adoption of
the amendment if the election occurs,
and shall from now until such election
work for it in the most effective Way,
namely, by pursuing our systematic
party work persistently and uncompro-
misingly."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28
HOW TO MAKE CHOICE DRINKS.

Delicious Beverages Which Are Tokens
of Our Personal Liberty.
The American Analyst reports dealer
in liquor adulterants as saying:
Our largest business is in the liquor
line. With French spirits and color as
a basis, can make you any liquor you
want with our extracts. Here are the
essences of Old Tom, London Dock.
Swan, Holland and Schiedam gins. the
extracts of Otard and Cognac brandies,
rye, bourbon, applejack, Irish and Scotch
Whistles, Santa Cruz. Jamaica and Med
ford runs, not to speak of the fancy cor
dials and liquors. To make Old Tom. !
take teaspoonful of French spirits. one
Of water, three drops Of glucose sirup
and two drops of the extract. That
makes the Old Tom you have drank in
dozen saloons in this city. -
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28

There are some funny things about
this part of the business. Most people
like their whisky and brandy aged and
free from fusel oil. But there are q
great many, especially among manual
laborers, who like it fresh and harsh.
They want it ''to cut as it goes down"
To supply this demand we sell fusel oil
to rectifiers and even retailers. They
mix barrel of whisky, of spirits and
one of water with a gallon of fusel OIL
That makes ten cent rye which beats
a torchlight procession. It's cheap, too,
and stands an intelligent dealer in only
81 gallon. That's twenty cents bot
tie. and less than one cent a drink on an
average. No wonder rum sellers grow
rich and become aldermen or go to con-
gress.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28

Gently. He believed IN temperance Or
CARNATIONS and temperance speeches.
but he believed also in work. He said
no conscience was needed to be license
man. II am glad the question is in poll
itics, and in politics it must stay until it
is settled. Each of the old parties must
be crowded into this question until it
can evade it no longer. l am glad to see
those engaged in the traffic getting DOM
ineering. The more they get that way
the sooner the people will see the evils
Of it,"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28
POOR RUINED IOWA AND KANSAS.
Officials Show How Prohibition Has AT.
fected Two Great States.

Officials Show How Prohibition Has At
fected Two Great States.
Ex-Governor Larrabee shows the rot
tenness of the claim that Prohibition is
ruinous to business by quoting the bank
statistics of Iowa. he shows that in
1888 there were 1856 banks in Iowa, with
deposits amounting to $27 ,231,7 19.
In 1888 the banks increased to PA, and
the deposits were $50, 1886, 1862. Mr..
Larrabee says that the claims made by
liquor men to the effect that real estate
had deprecated in value is the sheerest
nonsense. He remarks that "crops
grow, herds multiply, and the markets of
the world continue open to us the same
as before. Money is now spent for the
necessaries of life instead of being spent
at the saloon.
The lying reports Of the liquor dealers
bureau are being spread far and wide,
giving comparisons of Nebraska and
Kansas for the purpose of showing the
beauties of high license from financial
standpoint as against Prohibition. As
usual, they have put their enormous
foot into their prodigious mouth.
Hon. James A. Troutman, of Topeka,
has made thorough investigation, and
gives the following figures both as to
popular votes of the states and the COM
parison of the two systems side by side
in Prohibition Kansas and High License
Nebraska.
He gave the following official figures
of the assessed valuation of Kansas and
Nebraska: Nebraska in 1880 had $780,
499, 618: Kansas, 1920, 57O,761. In 1889
Nebraska had $1S2, 1853, 5S5; Kansas, $780,
$751; 73: increase in Kansas, $500, 2S4 ,312;
increase in Nebraska in same time, $92,-
1853, 800: difference in favor Of Kansas,
$1O7, 970, 391; annual increase in Kansas,
sec, 900, 900; annual increase in Ne
braska. $9,000,000; annual increase in
favor of Kansas, $11 100000.
He took another line Of argument in
the title of Business Failures in 1885,"
Business houses in Kansas lost $24, 929;
business houses in Nebraska, $20,771.
The failures in Nebraska were 272, in
Kansas only 1888; in favor of Kansas, SO.
The ratio in Kansas was one failure in
every 1875. but in Nebraska the failures
were one to every IS.
These figures are eloquent answers to
the brazen falsehoods now appearing in
the columns of the subsidized whisky
press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28
Why Not Now?

Bonforts Wine and Spirit Circular
says that at Wichita, Kan, Capital is
secured for three breweries and two dis
tilleries,. to be added to the industries Of
the city as soon as the prohibition act is
repealed"
Why not now, if prohibition don't
DIG nil it?'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28
$125.5o
Grand Special Premium.
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Dollars
and Fifty Cents for the Largest and
Best Display Of Farm and Gar
den Products i'm Any Town.
ship in Anderson Co.

The business men of Garnett have
contributed this sum, to be divided
into three premiums, as follows:
First premium $500
Second premium 1000
Third premium 3O5O
for the farmer who shall make the
best display of agricultural products
at the fair this year; the display to
be selected anywhere in the township
where the exhibitor lives.
It has been suggested that the ex-
hibitor exhibit his display OH wagon
in such a manner that it can be moved
to different parts of the ground, so as
to display it to the best advantage.
The premium displays will also take
part in the triumphal procession
around the ring.
The association reserves the right to
select anything they may desire from
the premium displays to be used in ar
ranging a display TO be sent to the
state fair and to other county and dis
trict fairs. Parties who desire to com
pete in this display are requested to
notify the secretary of their intention
as early as possible, and not later than
Saturday before the fair, so that space
may be provided for the display.
1t is hoped that farmers in all parts
of the county will take All interest in
this matter and help make this grand
feature of the fair. The object of the
association and Of the business men
who have contributed to the premium
is 10 show what the agricultural re-
sources Of the county are. We believe
thew are second to none in the state OF
Kansas, aud that Kansas takes no
back seat for any state in the Union.
The following parties have contrib
uted to the premium:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28
RoseED HY POLITICIANS.

nO0OGO 0v POlI INtNNSs
How 1t Is Sought to Render Prohibition
Odious and Fruitless.
A startling array Of facts and figures
taken from the official records was pub
lished by the Register recently to show
that the prohibitory law is being used
by gang of mercenary officials to plum
der the public treasury. 1t is shown
that during the first six months Of 1890
there has BEEN taken from the treasury
for the criminal costs Of the Justices
courts in this city alone over 100000.
Of this amount over 81 900 was paid to
five justices. The remainder went to
their constables witnesses, jurors, etc.
This enormous expenditure was nearly
all for the searching business, or such
criminal business as incidentally grew
out of it; and with all this expense it is
shown that not a single place that was
selling liquor six months ago has been
closed, and the business goes steadily
on. The mode of operation of these
officials is very simple. A constable goes
to a justice Of the peace and swears he
believes that the prohibitory law is being
violated at certain place. A warrant
is sworn out and the constable, with
two or three companions to be used as
witnesses, goes to the place and enters
forcibly or otherwise. Sledge hammers
ara,<arried by some of the searchers and
doors battered in and partitions knocked
down, sometimes when entirely unneces-
sary, just to show the people who happen
to be around that they have the authority
to break and enter where they please.
Whatever is found inside is taken
away. Most frequently single bottle,
not always full, is the only thing seized.
The searchers then go their way, and be-
fore they are out of sight the place is
running and customers are being served
as usual. The keepers Of these places
are rarely arrested, and in this way the
whole machinery of the justice courts is
being worked to perpetuate the business.
only being interrupted often enough to
make the work of the searchers and
their courts lucrative. The records show
that in hundreds Of cases a single bottle
of beer has been put on trial, and when
it is convicted, condemned and ordered
spilled in the gutter the county is called
upon to pay an average of about $725
in costs.
The figures show that for the first six
months of this year Justice Calender
has received fraction, less than $1,000:
his constable. George Cleggell, a colored
man, has received 49,. 1873. Justice John
sons fees for six months have been
$2,170, Constable SINNERS, 81 ,452, and
Constable McGrew's pile in the same
court, 1868. Justice Mathis has received
81 1873, and his constable, George Han
sen, 81 1902. Justice Tippie and his con-
stable, S. o. Allen. who are new in the
business, have received only about $500
each, and Constable Wilson's amount is
something lover $1,000 Justice Ames
has received 81 1894 and Constable Mer-
Ger 81 ,624, all during the last six months.
This shows a conspiracy of corrupt
politicians to rob the people, and at the
same time encourage violations of law
for their own benefit. Let us put Pro
hibition officers in power.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28

Prohibition straight and national is
what we want" said Representative
Pichler to Washington audience re-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-07-28

TEN CENTS in either silver or
= HnDUx stamps PAYS for the MI SsouRI
AEOhE AND KANSAS FARMER Tor four
months. When IL can be had
HONESTLY for such Q tribe, even the sample copy
fend' should subscribe. Address "MIssorsI AND
KxNsAs FARnKR" Lock Box B. Kansas CITY. NO
, 1890-11-08

bled to collect the amount of the contribu-
ton promised towards defra1iug the Ak
pensrs OF the combined Swedish and Aus
tralian Exploring Expedition to the South
Polar Regions. The report on being put
to the meeting was "receiyed with acela-
nation Mature
, 1890-11-08
From the st. Thome Tidende

The Danish man-or-war Iagof was to
leave Copenhagen on the 18th of October
for the West Indies, after having first
called at Madeira. She is under command
of Captain Fugl, who is well known here.
The West Indians at present in Copen-
hagen were to have a large Subscription
Dinner on the 10th ulto. at the Royal
"Skydebane," Messrs. H. K:ingberg K'ebs.
Rise, Schoushoe, and Lawyer Stakemanu
forming the Committee. There are no less
than se~yeuty-two West Indians at present
in Cope nhagen.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16

believe that investigation would show
that petty bosses rob the company and
make the men pay for it; but that would
do the men no good, for they would sim
ply discharge the old thief and hire a
new one, who would begin in a new way
to rob the men, and their lot would not
be improved a bit, for it is rob all around.
The corporations squeeze the community
In the first place and then starve their
workmen into submission. The bosses
rob the corporations, and in all Of this
the men are expected to be model citi-
zens. They are expected to be honest and
not break even the frailest of the COM
mandments for fear of calling down
wrath on their heads. / often wonder
what the harvest will be when the people
get their eyes open and see this system
in its true light. V. Powderly in
New York World.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
Ours a Government by Machine.

The government of the constitution has
practically ceased to exist. In its place
has grown up something which admits
of no classification among systems of
government, ancient or modern. Re-
publican in form, as nominally repre-
sentative, it is yet not a republic; for its
representatives, though chosen by the
people, are not the peoples choice. DEM
ocratic in methods, as seemingly resting
on universal suffrage, it is yet not a de-
mocracy; for the periodical appeal to the
popular voice is an empty ceremony.
Though the government of class, it is
not an aristocracy; for it is largely COM
posed of elements least of all deserving
of respect. And though the government
Of a few, it is not an oligarchy de jure,
though it is such de facto; for it exists
by no recognized right, and its existence
is not even confessed. The imperfection
of language has necessitated the inven-
ton of new form of words to describe
it; and this has been supplied, by those
most familiar with its workings, in the
felicitous expression, "machine govern
ment." No phrase could have been bet
ter chosen.-Late f. A. p. Barnard in
April Forum.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
The N.tiona, Eight Hour Law.

A case in point: Nearly twenty years
ago congress passed an eight hour act.
1t was signed by the president, and its
intent confirmed afterward by two presi-
Dental proclamations. Some Jealous
government officials in the Brooklyn
navy yard and elsewhere violated it's
provisions. They decided that govern
ment employees must work ten hours a
day instead Of eight. Many of these en-
ployes did this work under protest. For
years they have had a bill before con-
gress simply asking that they may be
allowed to go to the court of claims to
seek their rights. They want extra pay
for the extra two hours. In the last
congress the bill was talked to death in
the morning hour. The chairman of the
committee failed to press it after that,
on the ground that it stood in the way
of other important labor bills that would
not develop opposition. The men are
pressing the same bill in the present
congress. 1t has had rough time in
committee, but has at length been placed
upon the calendar.-Amos Cummings
in New York Sun.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
THE MERITS OF STEAM ROLLERS.
The Opinions at which a Practical OBJ
server Has Arrived.


Tie Opinions at which a Practical OBJ
server Has Arrived.
In response to query regarding the
relative merits of steam and horse rollers
in the building and rebuilding of country
roads, Mr.. II. NJ. Coombs, of Cranston,
r. l., recently sent this letter to Mr.. w.
M. p. Bowen:
"DEAR SIR-In replying to your letter
must begin by saying that my knowl-
edge of roads, like my experience, is
very limited. not having given much
thought to the subject, beyond natural
love of good roads. That love was early
strengthened by my having lived for a
number Of years in the then town Of
Waltham, Mass, where, as you must
know, poor roads are the exception-es-
pecially so within ten miles of Boston.
Coming from there to Rhode Island you
may be able, possibly, to estimate my
opinion of the public roads or highways
of the towns in this state as they were
twenty-five years ago. But you want
my opinion as to the relative merits Of
steam and horse rollers, for building or
rebuilding country roads. OF course, if
no other can be had, horse roller is bet
ter than no roller, but there is no more
comparison between them than between
the old Franklin printing press and that
from which comes the daily papers to-
day.
my short experience on Cranston
street, during the past summer, taught
me that in point of economy the steam
roller was, at first cost, /. e., the daily
cost of running it, more than 70 per
cent. cheaper than the Morse machine.
If the quality of work is taken into the
account $50 per cent. would be nearer
the correct estimate. We find after five
months of wear-and rather trying
weather for roads these five months
have been--that those sections of the
road rolled with steam apparatus are as
firm and smooth as when first completed,
while the parts rolled with the horse roller
are badly rutted, muddy when wet and
exceedingly rough when frozen.
"These facts are patent to any one who
may have occasion to pass over CranstOn
road from the city line to point near
the residence of DR.. Simmons, on that
street. From the city line to the Airing
ton Hay and Grain company's store,
the work was done by the steam roller.
From the car barn to the point above
named, the west side of the road was
rolled by steam, the east side by horse
roller. Let the public judge between
them.
SIN closing, permit me to suggest that
with the ample supply of gravel possessed
by the town Of Cranston, at least, and a
good steam roller, it is certain that as
good roads can be made as any in the
country, and at comparatively low cost
over that of the old faulty, and in the
end expensive, way.
81 sincerely hope that the town of
Cranston will act, as it seems to me it
should, in accordance with good judg-
ment, as to the merits of the steam over
the horse method, and order a fifteen ton
steam perfected roller at its financial
meeting in April next"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
A Clersyman's Hold Words.

It is a system full of inherent evils, a
system that denies the laborer either a
chance Of profits or chance of work.
don't know how you live in Chicago, but
in New York there are many who are
denied even those three God free gifts
pure air, sunshine, fresh water-and as
for the ownership Of the land, why that
is dream to them unthought Of. The
wage system is a system that diffuses
poverty, makes coffin of the cradle and
bier of the bed. 1t is time for us to
learn no longer how to make wealth, but
how to distribute it. We have developed
in our midst plutocracy and the worst
possible government on earth. Let it not
go down to our shame that we do not
know or care to know that such facts
exist and need reforming.-Dr. Lyman
Abbott
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
se,sn.lne p,lltleal Economy.

The political economy Of the future
will be of comparatively slow growth,
but it will deal with men as creatures Of
flesh and blood: not as automatic moved
by q few ticketed wires. The materials
for the rising science are being labori-
ously gathered by many earnest investi-
gators, who are fully alive to the errors
Of their predecessors, and who mean,
therefore, to let the facts as much as
possible speak for themselves. To the
new political economy many independ-
ent lines Of inquiry will contribute. The
biologist, the moralist, the statesman,
the lawyer, will all bring their stores Of
carefully assorted data; and when these
have been further arranged and CORE
lated by minds of competent scope and
grasp, we shall begin to see the outlines
Of much more comprehensive theory
OF economics than any that has hereto
fore been given to the world.
In word, science will undertake to
organize region that in the past has
been too much given over to priori
speculation, with its natural accompani-
ment of presumptuous dogmatism. In
future our concern will be not with the
opinions Of individual writer's, but with
their demonstrations; mere hypothesis
will carry no more weight in this field
than in any recognized department of
natural science.
What the effect upon social order and
progress of really well constituted
science of political economy will be it is
not difficult to foresee. 1t will act as the
great harmonizer of conflicting claims,
and most potent aid to the realization
of justice in all human relations. And
once more it will be proved that the only
way to know things is to know them
practically, and that the only way to
build up science is to bring the facts
together, and all the facts.-Popular
Science Monthly for April.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
What a New York Town Is Doing.

The town of Sweden, Monroe county,
N. Y, owns q stone crusher and hires
men by the day to run it. Last spring
the town appropriated $4,000 to crush
stone, and, to make a rough guess, 1 think
the 1900 crushed stone enough to make
about five miles of perfect road. They
set the crusher near stone, which is do
mated; the town pays for hauling stone
to the crusher, and pays for crushing it;
the road districts go and get the crushed
stone and lay it. Each road district and
individual is greedy to get the stone, and
I think that money thus expended goes
ten times as far as any other in making
highways.
In the last three years the town of
Sweden has made about twenty miles of
road, so good that team can haul as
large load in the open, muddy winter
as in summer. The land is clay, and
the roads not laid with stone or gravel
are simply fearful. 1t would pay per-
son to go long distance to see what has
been done to the roads in the town of
Sweden. When the roads are all made
with crushed stone and the fences re-
moved from the bleak places where the
snow drifts, the millennium will not be
far away.-7Exchange
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
Unused Advantages In Missouri.

In 1880 or 1881 the board of curators of
the Missouri State university passed res
olution providing that any county survey
or and ex-officio roads and bridge commits
sioner who felt not fully prepared for
his position might take the engineering
course in the university free of tuition.
That the generosity Of the board is not
taken advantage of, says st. Louis
correspondent. is evidence of the indif-
ference of the people at large toward
the improvement of highways. The
ground of this indifference is simply ig-
norance of the advantages Of improved
roads. When the taxpaying citizens can
see the proftableness of the investment,
Missouri will, as in other things, move
to the front in the development of her
internal commerce.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
How tho Struggle for Wealth Causes Poverty

How the Struggle for Wealth Causes Poverty.
The struggle for wealth is turning out
barbarians by the million-on as large
scale, in fact, as any other products Of
our expensive machinery. Competition,
governed by no higher principle than the
"higgling of the Market" creates pow
erty, drunkenness, vice, physical degra-
dalton, bestial indifference to every HUI
man good. The abundance which ought
to feed civilization Is choking it. The
labor market" has taken the place of
the slave market, and men, women and
children are sold in 1t every day. But
the wage Garner comes cheaper than the
slave. He belongs to nobody. His fee
simple in our magnificent social progress
is but contingent remaindel in the
workhouse-where no useful work is
ever done, lest IL should increase the
competition outside and 30 multiply pau
pers.--Rev. DR.. William Barry in April
Forum.