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The Iola register., 1890-11-07
Carnival and Chrysanthemum show

The ladies of the Library Associa-
ton and the Ladies Cornet band will
give an entertainment at the opera
house Nov. II, Is and II. On Wed.
nesday afternoon from to 4 o'clock a
prize will be given of 8 months read
ing in the Library for the largest col
lection of named chrysanthemums;
End prize, months reading for the
greatest variety Of eolors; 3rd prize, l
month reading for the largest plant.
Admission 5 cts. An elegant supper
will he served from to o'clock. An
interesting literary and musical pro-
gram from 8 to 9 o'clock. Admission
10cts., supper 20cts.
The Iola register., 1890-11-07
Shipping Apples Wanted.

Call and see my buyer. Cash price
at present the highest paid by any
body for hand picked winter apples.
Hart & Ha nkips building north side
square, lola, Kansas.
w. II. PENDLETON.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Way of the Grain Gamblers.

The way the grain gamblers in the
produce exchanges benefit C) the grain
markets was we'll illustrated by recent
occurrence A vessel was chartered in
New York to carry $4,000 bushels of
wheat to Lisbon. This indicated an i'm
provement in the foreign demand for
grain, but the gamblers telegraphed the
news all over the country late in the
day, the spectators doomed up the
price of wheat on the strength of it.,
with the result that when the would be
shipper went into the market he was un-
able to buy. wheat at figure that would
enable him to fill the order, and the
charter was Cancelled at loss to him.
Of course the advance caused by this
operation was not maintained, and a
promising new outlet for grain was
closed, to the ultimate loss of grain
growers. Who was benefited: No one
except possibly few spectators; but it
Is just such operations that are depress-
ing the export trade in cereals and other
products. The law should prohibit
gambling in agricultural products just
Is much as any other kind of gambling.
Rural New Yorker,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Cheap Money for the People.


There are many ways by which the
government could loan money directly
to the people without the Intervention
of national banks, but we will give only
one, which we believe to be so simple
that even national banker would be
compelled to admit that it was practical
Our plan would be simply this: That
the government loan to the states at
l per cent. interest; the state loan to the
counties at 2 per cent, and the counties
to the people at 8 per cent. There would
be but three transactions.
From the United States treasurer to
the state treasurer, from the state treas
urer to the county treasurer, and to the
people by order of the board of commits
sioners. No increase of officers, no extra
expense, no danger of loss or corruption.
The interest would go into the national,
state and county treasures to defray the
expenses of government, national, state
and county, which would relieve the
tax payers, as there would be no taxes
to pay-at least while the volume of
money loaned remains at what it is at
the present time.-Denver Field and
Farm.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Taxes Already Too High.


Congressman Butterworth, of Ohio,
said in an interview shortly after the re-
cent election:
The people of this country are in such
state that not even the most prosper
GUS class will stand the addition of an
other feathers weight of tax. It was
the most unwise policy that any party
could pursue to take the stand of favor
ing an increase in the tariff when it is
and has been apparent that a reduction
is what has been needed and wanted.
think / saw what was coming, at
least my actions show that pursued a
wise course, and other Republicans knew
only too well the inevitable consequence
of the Mckinley bills adoption. I re-
ceived letter from a Minnesota con-
gresham this morning which read:
GLOW terrible was the slaughter! You
saw the trouble and slid out, but I staid
like lamb, and was butchered beauti-
fully. The Mckinley bill and the Farm
ers' Alliance were too much for me"
Nearly every one knows that the Demo-
cratic gains were made because the mass
Of Republicans are becoming more and
more Disguised with high tariff teach
ings Now that the prophet has spoken
and lesson been taught have no doubt
that proper adjustments will Immediate
ly follow.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Realizing It.

In view of the returns from the recent
elections the following extract from the
address of the president Of the first con-
vention of the Farmers National ALI
ance, which met in Shreveport, La,
Oct. 12, 1887, is interesting:
This body is the first organization of
the real cotton raisers ever inaugurated
on plan calculated to assist the poor
man. This is gathering Of representa-
tive men from statesmen who repre-
sent the greatest of all industries
ssembled here not merely for the pleas
ures and emoluments to be gained by
their attendance, but. I trust, imbued
with proper conceptions of the great re-
ysponibiity resting upon them, thor
~oughly alive to the conditions of the
times, and firmly resolved to work out
the true and proper solution Of how to
relieve the depressed condition of agri-
culture in our beautiful southland, and.
when found, to stand shoulder to shout
der in one solid phalanx till the effort is
srzowned with victory.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
A Great CuriOSity,

The National Farmers Alliance opens
its annual session at Ocala, Fla, on the
first Tuesday of December. The meet
ing will also be marked by an exposition,
at which the resources of Florida and
specimens of all the natural curiosities
of the state win be displayed for the in
struction of visitors. This exposition
will remain open during sixty days, but
we undertake to say that the greatest
curiosity of all will be the Farmers AL
lance itself. The wonders it has achieved
of late are of no common kind, and we
trust that the National Farmers will en-
joy themselves at Ocala as they deserve.
New York Sun.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Col. Polk Satisfied.

L. L. Polk, president of the National
Farmers Alliance, is jubilant over the
result of the elections. In the course of
an interview he said:
The Democrats and Republicans are
claiming everything just now, but when
they come to sift the chaff from the
wheat they will find out that the Farm
ers' Alliance had something to do with
electing a fair proportion of the good
men who will have seats in the next
congress. Up to the present time it is a
certainty that congress will contain
thirty EIGHT straightout Alliance men,
and there are twelve or fifteen more who
are pledged to u.s.
These men are from the south and
northwest two sections in which
most OF our work was done. The Alli-
ance in Nebraska. Minnesota and Iowa
is not our organization, has not amalga-
mated with us, but it made the same
fight and will join us this winter Our
Alliance co-operated with them; we will
cooperate with any farmers association,
and in little while have grip on the
situation in almost every corner of the
land.
We are here to stay. This great re-
form movement will not cease until it
has impressed itself indelibly in the ma
TONS history. Financial reform is the
necessity of the hour. and it must come.
The press and the voice of the stump
speaker were our only assistants. The
Alliance had no campaign fund, no
Doodle. If we had had money we would
not have used it. The fight was no
small affair. The extremists of both
parties attacked US bitterly, and gave no
inch of ground. In the south it was the
Democrats who opposed us. In the
north our most vigorous antagonists
were Republicans. Washington Cor.
New York Herald.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
When to Be Conservative.

To break trusts, combines and monop-
olies farmers must watch and learn,
come out with arguments and throw
conservatism aside. There is no con-
servatism about trusts and monopolies,
only to deceive the people, and they use
feints and stratagem to defeat the peo-
Pile.
Our legislators must be watched, also
the commissioners and their recommen-
dations in railroad affairs. Money is a
power to defeat the people. Monopolies
are not conservative to fee voters on leg
islation only to blind the people. and no
doubt many lawyer legislators consider
a bride simply as fee and vote for thier
money client instead of serving the peo-
pie with justice and to promote the gen.
eral welfare. Is such conduct patriot
ism?
The people should be conservative on
the tariff issue. While it is political
issue it should not be partisan issue.
We have protection Democrats as well
as protection Republicans; free trade
Democrats and reciprocity Republicans.
What is best for America should be the
issue, not what is best for the party in
national legislation.
They differed on the tariff
AS wise folks sometimes do.
On free trade or protection.
Or tax for revenue
Said he: Though free trader
To end our tariff strife
I'll advocate protection
To you alone-for life.'
A peal Of roguish laughter.
hug, kiss; said she,
Hadn't we better compromise
On reciprocity"
w. II. Hoffman in Grange Bulletin.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
A Canadian View.

The condition of the farming commu-
nifty in Canada and the United States is
admitted on all hands to be unsatisfacto-
ry. Prices have fallen of late years and
the value of farm lands has consequently
declined and is declining.
Since 1880 the population of the states
has increased by about IL, ZOO, 900, but
the growth of the wheat acreage has not
kept step. On the contrary, there were
Sc, 100000 acres in wheat in 1880, and
there is only about the same number
now. The stoppage of the development
in wheat raising is no doubt due in great
part to the stress of the low prices and
small returns resulting from foreign
competition plus the greater application
of science and invention to agriculture
and the conveyance of it's products.
Some writers are of opinion that prices
are destined to fall lower as new wheat
regions are opened up in South America
and northern Africa.
However that may be, the American
farmer has come to the conclusion that
he must obtain relief by hook or crook
from congress. In the end the Alliance
will probably throw overheard some of
it's cruder theories and unite in a de-
mand for lighter taxation, which would
reduce the cost of production and to
that extent bring relief. The agricult-
ural schedule of the Mckinley tariff is a
sop to Cerberus, but the onerous duties
on certain lines of manufactures have
augmented store prices, whereas as yet
there has been little or no increase in the
price of barley, eggs, peas and other
truck. The Alliance speakers out west
have not failed to note this circumstance.
They are also keenly alive to the abb
surdity of the home market idea with
which, before the era of combines, pro-
tectionists used to juggle.-Toronto
Globe.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
A Northern Winter.

There is disposition on the part
OF some people to endeavor to con
ceal the fact that the winters of the
Northwest are not like tropical sum-
mers. They argue that any other
policy tends to stop immigration
and injure the country. What great
er nonsense could be given currency?
One OF the charms of this territory is
it's healthful, invigorating winters.
which bring a rudy glow to the
cheek and impart new activity to the
general system. Who but a'confirmed
invalid would desire the winter pecn-
liar to the South? Southerners have
no such sports as we enjoy-the car
nival, the snowshoe expeditions. the
coasting, the skating and the thous-
and and one other diversions which
go to make our winter a season of
jollity from beginning to end. One
need not fear the cold, for it is al
ways possible to be comfortable. o.
pecially when travelling on the Saint
Paul q Duluth RailrOad-the Dnlnth
Short Line-which is the ponnlar
route and the one to take whon
travelling between the Twin Cities and
Duluth and West Superior. 1t runs
handsomely equipped trains on fast
schedules, and makes close copnec-
tons Tor all points. For further in
formation, address Geo. w. Bull
General Passenger Agent, or Geo. G.
Gllfillan, Asst. e. p. A., st. PAM
MINI. ''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Tax the Net Value.

The whole trend of public opinion is in
the direction of levying taxes only on
what man is really worth, and not
what he seems to be. There is no ques-
ton whatever that this is the just and
equitable method, and if some plan that
is certainly feasible shall be evolved we
do not doubt that legislation will soon
be enacted to put the theory into prac-
tice.
''Many of our farms are heavily mort
gagged, and it is gross injustice to collect
tax on the full valuation of property
when some rapacious money lender holds
claim against it for half or two-thirds
Of its worth. Clearly such claim ought
to be deducted from the valuation of the
realty, and the mortgage itself be made
to bear its share of the burden of taxa
ton. And, further, there is great injus-
tice in the fact that hidden property
may escape all assessment. Our tax
laws discriminate against the farmer,
bringing him to account for possessing
property which he cannot put into bank
vaults, and allowing the bondholder,
the speculator and stock gambler to Sc
crete their wealth beyond the reach Of
the tax collector. Will either of the
chief political parties of this nation,
having as they do heavy capitalists for
their leaders, ever lift these burdens? To
look for such a thing would be to ex-
pect the impossible"
Thus speaks The Rural New Yorker
on this subject, and it but echoes the
universal sentiment of the agricultural
press of the country. Butwe may safely
look for such thing if farmers continue
to acquire and WELD political influence.
It will take long and diligent study to
formulate and put into effect tax laws
which will relieve the farmer of the dis
advantages under which he now suffers
by shifting from his shoulders portion
of the burden that belongs to others.
But when once all are aroused to the ne
cessity of it it will be done.-Journal of
Agriculture.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

The Illinois Farmers Alliance con-
vention decided to cooperate hereafter
with the Farmers Mutual Benefit asso-
citation, and the delegates to the national
assembly of the Farmers Alliance and
Industrial union, which meets at Osce-
ola, Fla, the first week in December,
were instructed to work for national
cooperation. The ultimate aim is to
consolidate with the F. M. B. A. associ-
alton, which is much the stronger in Dli-
nois numerically of the two, though ma
tionally the Alliance is the more power
full.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
the MoRTcAoep WEST.
The Virgin Soil No Longer the Home Of
American Freemen.

The Virgin Soil No Longer the Home Of
American Freemen.
The western states have given more
attention to the collection Of statistics Of
mortgages than any other parts Of the
country. The subject is one Of great
and growing interest, and it is well
worth the careful examination of statis-
ticians and statesmen.
Ohio is the oldest of the northwestern
states. The state bureau of statistics re-
ported for the year 1888 291 $40 mort
cages upon real estate, and the amount
for which the land is mortgaged is $3.50, :
900, 900. The assessed value for real es-
tate was 81 ,22O, 26s, 900. The mortgage
Indebtedness, therefore, was, within q
fraction, one third the value of the whole
real estate of Ohio.
The aggregate mortgage indebtedness
of the people of Indiana is at least $780,
600, 1000.
The total number of real estate mort
cages in Illinois in 1887, apart from city
lots, was 92,777, for an anne lnt of $142,-
4OO, 900. The overdue interest amounted
to s., 919, 754, and the total Indebtedness
of the farmers, therefore, was $147 $780,
600. The number of acres mortgaged
was S,O82, 1874, and the rate of interest
was about 81 per cent. But of course
the interest nominated in the bond"
was not all. The interest, in one form
or another, will rarely fall below 10 per
cent.
The annual report of the Michigan
labor bureau for 1883 shows the follow
ing results: The total number of farms
in the state was 90,803, of which 80, O79
were mortgaged, their assessed value
being $79,713,OOO and the mortgage in
debtedness $37, 456, 900. The rate of in
terest was 7.2 per cent, and the accrued
interest was $2,7O1, 900. The percentage
of mortgages to the assessed value of
the mortgaged lands was 1853. The
number of mortgage foreclosures during
the year was 1867, and the number of
redemptions 1871. The number of sales
under execution was pa, and the num-
Der of redemptions was 80.
There are said to be 10000 farms In
Kansas, and on this basis the editor of
The Topeka Advocate concludes that
the total mortgage indebtedness of the
state among the farmers is $146, 563, 900.
The report adds: ga great many have
had to borrow interest from the banks,
and ot''0rs have not paid interest for
two years. daniel r. Goodloe in Fo-
rum.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Enects Of ssHarmsrss Taria.ss
When tho Mckinley bill was first
framed it was heralded as q farmers
tariff bill" This claim has not been go
vigorously pressed recently, but it is
worth while not to forget it.
In its efforts to convince the people
that the Mckinley bill has not advanced
prices The Boston Advertiser, protec-
ton paper, makes these assertions:
''There has been no advance m the
price of beef, fresh or corned.
''There has been no advance in the
price of pork.
''There has been no advance in the
price of flour.
''There has been no advance in the
price of sugar.
'sThere has been no advance in the
price of cornmeal.
''There has been decrease of ten
cents bushel in the price of potatoes
within the past week.
''There has been no advance in the
price of beans.
Butter advanced very slightly two
weeks or more ago, but it was only the
advance which always comes in that
commodity at the close of the grazing
season."
We fail to see anything in all this for
the farmer. He has additional taxes to
pay on nearly everything he is COM
PEELED to buy, and as the tariff act has
failed to advance the price of his prod
ucts we cannot see how he is benefited.
The Mckinley bill is the farmers tariff
only in the sense that he has it to pay.
In this connection we note an admis-
sion made by Mr.. Frank P. Bennett,
editor OF The American Wool Reporter,
a protectionist. He maintains that high
duties on manufactured goods stimulate
production, but adds that 'sthe attempt
to apply this policy to the products of
the field and the farm has been piece
of unnecessary modern demagoguery.
There is no room for doubt about the
demagoguery. Such measures as the
Mckinley bill are only possible so long
as their authors succeed in fooling the
farmer. Any means which enables them
to accomplish this object they regard as
necessary in the highest degree.-Louis-
vile Courier Journal.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
TarA II the South

After your fall work is done why
not go South and look over the
country and if it pleases you secure
for yourself a winter farm, interest in
some mineral land or an orange
grove that you can put in the winter
months on at a profit and avoid the
cold weather and blizzards of our
northern states. The prosperous de-
velopment of the "New South" after
the war is now in the full march of
progress, and will soon reach the
zenith OF itssplendor. Agriculture, in
dustry and commerce are everywhere
springing into new life, energy and
capital are flowing in from the North
and West, still there is plenty of good
land both farming and mineral which
can be purchased cheap in Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and
Florida. Round trip tickets to all
the important southern cities are
now on sale good for six months with
stop over privileges at various
points south of the Ohio River. L.
E. Sessions, Travelling Passenger
Agent Of the "Monon Route" Box
591, Minneapolis, Mimi. will mail
pamphlets, maps and printed matter
pertaining to any of the southern
states on request; he will also give
rates to all southern points. Time
tables Of the various routes, through
car services, ETC.. etc.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Tho Farmer and tie Tariff.
The following expressions are taken
from an interview with Mr.. G.. G..
Willis merchant of Champaign, Ills.
which recently appeared in The Chicago
Herald:
can't see the benefit in the policy Of
taxing farmers purely for the benefit of
the manufacturers. That is the effect of
the new tariff. It will increase the cost
Of all imported goods, and the prices on
all domestic goods which come in COM
petition will go up in sympathy. Hake,
for instance, this piece of ''F. F." cash
mere. It is made in this country. The
manufacturer, since the new tariff went
into effect, asks me q cents per yard
advance on the goods. Why? Not be-
cause it costs him any more to make it
than it did six months ago; not because
he has increased the wages Of his en-
ployes in his mills, for he hasn't, but be-
cause the foreign made goods which
compete with this have been advanced
in price by the new tariff, and he takes
advantage of that rise. That q cents is
pure blood money wrung from the con-
sumner by the tariff.
have large trade with the farmers
in this section. The farmers wives and
daughters buy the same grade of dress
goods as the townspeople-that is,
serges. cashmeres, Henriettas-all classes
Of wool goods. The Mckinley tariff law
has had the effect of advancing the prices
of all these goods. Serges now worth
Is cents per yard must be sold hereafter
for IS cents; cashmeres now sold for SO
cents will be worth 65 cents, and Henri
ettas worth now 95 cents will go to 81 Is.
Prices are still unsettled, and we receive
letters daily from jobbers in all kinds of
goods withdrawing former quotations.
Plush goods have gone away up. That
catches the farmer. He can't afford to
buy his wife a sealskin jacket or sacque,
so she gets the next best thing-a plush
garment.
We retailers are not hurt financially
by the rise in prices. We pay more for
our goods, we sell them for more, and
the farmers pay the fiddler. But it will
eventually hurt us. When the repeal
of the Mckinley law comes-and it is
bound to come-the drop in prices which
will follow will result in disaster to mer-
camille circles
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28
Capitalists Frightened.

A recent dispatch dated Abilene, Kan,
says: The Travellers Insurance company
has ordered its agents here to make no
more loans, on account Of the threats
made by the Peoples party against in
terest laws and loan companies. Every
attempt will be made to collect its bust
ness up closely, and no more money will
be put out until it is felt that invest
be raised if other companies will follow
suit.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

A great deal is said about the rights
of individuals, but we hear COMPARE
lively little about duties. Now rights
and duties are so closely connected that
It is impossible to correctly measure the
Full import of the one without consider
ing the other.-Grange Advocate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

Mr.. Carnegie has been showing the
people of Scotland how many people
have to go without comforts in order
that the Prince of Wales may draw q
salary of $575, 600. Carnegie should have
made like figures regarding his own an
nual personal profit of 81 500, 900 on bust
ness investments made exceedingly profit
able by general public taxation.-Fie
and Farm.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-11-28

In this state there are numerous
chronic demagogues who have seized
upon the Alliance to make themselves
obnoxious, but it does not follow that
the Alliance is responsible for or infiu-
enced by them. Ants and flies are fond
of honey, but that does not discount the
flavor of honey or the industry of the
bee. There are more cranks than turn
grindstones. Denver Field and Farm.