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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-15

The City Express and Transfer
Co. Mr.. E.T.Guerin, Manager has been
organized. Offices at No. 410 East
Houston street. Telephone No. 4sS.
All transfer and freight business
solicited. S-lS-lm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-15
.HAGER \ MOTHS,
Is N. Alamo and | 2 Losoya Sts
cheanest FURNITURE House
In Texas.
In Texas.

has booming for time and destined to be the
been Booming Fun
to believe that business will continue
occupied that
Furniture entirely and beautiful
cordially invited call and
boast that
Furniture house in the
and
build
up bny
a courte streatm O
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-09-15
From Sept. 80 to Oct. Il

Extensive Improvements being made in every de-
partmen and the grounds being Brilliantly Illuminated by
Electricity The Exposition will be kept open Night and Day
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
Is it a Crime to be Rich2

sit is no crime to be poor''-not at
all-but the stock brokers, gamblers,
usurers and swindlers who infest the
national gambling hells in Wall street
can form their combinations, and
through these combinations shake the
prosperity of the entire nation, and
swindle, or in other words literally
steal, millions upon millions of dollars
from the people of the country and go
unpunished; aye, they are not even
reprimanded by the press of the coun-
try. The difference consists in the fact
that the rich can set the law at defiance,
and through the aid of corrupt legis-
lation steal millions of dollars from the
laboring men Of the nation and go tn-
scathed. wearing the garb of respect
ability, while the poor laborer is sent
post haste to the penitentiary for steal
ing s3 from the millionaire. and yet we
ara told ''it is no crime TO be poors'-
~.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
Costs Him Too Much.


Congressman Peters of Kansas, who
makes so wry a face over the exactions
of service in congress and the absence
of adequate recognition, financially or
otherwise, processes an intention to
refuse to return there for another term.
There is room for incredulity in the
matter, as no precedent is known in
Kansas history. He is probably fur
nishing standing ground for those who
want to enlarge remuneration OF the
congressman, indirectly or otherwise.
His schedule of exactions shows an
opportunity to obtain all the needed
exercise without joining any base ball
club, and the totals seem to exceed bis
salary by $50 month. He says be
pays $50 month for very ordinary
room at a hotel, 500 month for
stenographer and clerk, $50 to $40
month for carriage hire to run about OF
errands for his constituents, $50 or 81
per month to an expert to look up lant
cases, and he loans nearly as much Il
deadpeats who claim to be his con
stituents. Possibly Mr.. Peters ha
mistaken the duties of the congress
Lran.. Others can cut off the bulk
his ltems.-St. Paul Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
The False and The True.

Many Kansas papers have started an
alliance department" through which
the members Of that organization may
make known their plans and move
ments. Some of such papers were slow
to sscatch on'' to the fact that the
Kansas farmers and laborers mean
business, and only came out openly
for the movement after they saw that
it was going to be power in the land.
A few, however-and we are proud to
count the DEMOCRAT as one of them
saw the many good things the farmers
may accomplish by a united organiza-
tion when the movement first started,
and promptly sanctioned the work. The
farmers will be able to recognize the
false and the true-will know who
agrees with them for policy and who
works with them from principle and a
knowledge of their needs and their
rights. When a man needs a friend
most is when he is struggling for a
fo0thold, and the one who assists him
then will not be forgotten when he has
attained a solid footing. There is
coming a time when some of the
fellows who want to be so friendly
to the farmer will fly the track
and again denominate him an igno.
ramus and a mutton-head. That time
will be when the farmer asks an equal
voice in the management of county
state and national affairs. The time
will come when the ssfat'' will again
be fried out of protected monopolists
in order that the legislators in sympathy
with the money powers may be selected
to make our laws. Then will be the
time when the farmer and laborer car
discover the false and the true.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
HEIaHBoRHooD HAPPTuHaa.


Haiington Items
From the Dipatch.a
Sam Pearson had his fingers mashed
the other day while coupling ears.
The Ia gripp still fingers unpleas-
antly around. There are few cases
in town.
A great many visiting hunters are
having good sport in the Cheyenne
bottoms.
The report that Senator TYper drew
fifteen thousand on the 11th is yet to
Be confirmed. .5z
Real estate in Homestead township
Is assessed at $2.25 and in South Home
stead at % an acre this year.
DIED:-Geo. Archie Bagley, on
March 8, at 11:25 p. M. aged Z years,
months and 10 days. He was injured
BY fall when Ii months old which
deformed him for life. Was patient in
his sufferings and passed. away calmly
without struggle. Funeral services
were held in the NJ. E. church Monday
morning at 10 o'clock, conducted by
Rev. Pitkin.
L
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

MY THEORY is this: We have worked
the "home market" racket until We
have killed our foreign market: we
have protected our "lnfant industries -
at the expense of the western agricultu-
raj states until we have driven our for
eign customers for agricultural pro-
ducts to the necessity of looking to, and
building up, other countries from which
they can buy without so much expense
and annoyance. The result is the
American farmer has to compete with
the cheapest labor in the world, while
our manufacturers are protected by a
tariff that was never intended to cover
anything but the necessities of war
Wichita EQ0le
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

Register and he win register your name
upon the register in tho Register once,
and then you win be prepared to have
your vote registered If you are old
enough.
When you and my love must part.
win cause an aching in each heart.
in some lonesome place viii mourn,
Sit down and die some have done.
All this and more have TO say,
Night is at hand can not stay.
With tender care review these lines,
You viii in them question fnd.
fThe above poetry was written by q
college girl, and found by one of the
boys, who is little beardy.l
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

ABRAHAM LINCOLN said: "You can
fool all the people part of the time
and part of the people all the time; but
you cannot fool all the people all the
time" Protection fooled all the peo-
PIE between 1862 and 1868; but it only
fools part of the people now.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

A BALLOT with spread eagle
printed at the top of it is not going to
be 50 popular at the polls this fall as it
has been. Politicians should see that
a sheaf of wheat or plowshare heads
the ticket if they desire success
Topeka Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
A FEW WHOLESOME TRUTHS.

Every farmer in the west should read
the inaugural address of Gov. Bois, OF
Iowa. 1t was pointed, sensible, clear
headed address. Acknowledging that
he owed his election to the votes Of
liberal conservative men of all parties,
the new governor discussed vital state
questions in a most hearty and vigor-
GUS manner. He demonstrated that
not only had prohibition been failure
in the attempt to enforce the law, but
that the provision of the constitution
favoring prohibition is a constant me-
mace to immigration. On the question
of tariff reform, Governor Bois was es-
pecially happy. We find space to re-
produce the following extracts from
that portion of his remarks:
''Any system of taxation the effect OF
which is to take from one class and give
to another is necessarily . partial and
unequal distribution of public burdens.
1t is probably true that the burdens OF
an exhorbitxnt protective tariff fall
more heavily upon Iowa than upon
most of her sister states. Such tariff
is necessarily in conflict with the best
interests of the one great industry
which is the chief hope and sustenance
of her people. 1t increases the cost OF
nearly everything we buy and dimin-
ishes the price of almost everything
we sell.
1--WE denounce as a conspiracy a COM
bination between few men to increase
by artificial means the cost of the least
of our necessaries and encourage by ma
tional law vast monopoly that defies
the law of trade and regulates in its
own interest the price of nearly every
thing we are compelled to buy. We
have followed this delusiOn of this pro
tective tariff with the blind faith of q
devotee, listening to the most deceptive
of arguments, believing in the most pa.
tent of fallacies. We have been willing
to believe we could enrich our work
man by making millionaires of Their
employers; that we could increase the
farmers income by system of legisla-
tion that clogs the outlets for his pro-
ducts that must 60 abroad, Or smothers
the market we would nourish.
1--WE have been clay in the potter
hands nodded to suit his selfish will
until with granaries overfowing. with
flocks and herds that man can scarcely
number, we are still poor, because by
artificial means the profits of our great
industry have been depressed below
their norAo1eeeuajtiosf that those 1o
another might be elevated above it'
own. And yet, in the light of all ou
experience, we are confronted by ,
policy for which we are as much respOn
sible as any one, that is draining TIN
national treasure by extravagant ex
penditures that war tariff may b'
maintained in time Of peace; tha
threatens to remove the tax on th'
worst of luxuries that it may be re
tanned on the greatest of necessities
Let it be understood that the neces
sites of this state demand cheap cloth
ing, cheap food, cheap implements o
labor-in short, cheap necessaries
They are not interested in cheap whisk
or cheap tobacco, and if compelled
take the latter cheap and the forme
dear, they will surely resent the in
jury" ."-Hutchinson World.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

WE KNOW man in Great Bend who
has great big white elephant" on his
hands. He may think at present that
be knows what to do with it; but as
time rolls on and the animal grows
larger and more ravenOus we fear he
will very anxiously wonder why he
took the thing.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

WHEN man gets married he will
pay the minister from SIS to $40, or if
one of the family dies he will pay the
minister for preaching the funeral, but
the editor of the local newspaper will
write up a nice marriage notice and
within one year from the time will
speak of the birth ofua child; if they
should get sick, he will tell everybody
about that, and in the next issue comes
out with a long obituary notice, and
close up with card of thanks. For
all this he gets not even as much as n
fried cake.-Ellsworth Democrat.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

IF no other immediate good comes
OF the grand rush of settlers into the
CherOkee strip, the fact that they ef-
fectually drove the cattle kings out ana
made it impossible for them TO return
Dy S9nias TIC P.4use, wfn - eO@
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

s George w. Martin, of the Kansas
City, Kansas, Gnsette, an old time high
tariff republican. is evidently getting
his eyes open. Hear, the following:
The facts coming to light through
this: lead ore fight confirm the storjesf
~ Sbtpdjttl3a M N NM siibio
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

AS NO manufacturing or mercantile
business can prosper in Kansas when
aged, all business men should welcome
and assist any movement that will en-
able the farmers to unite their forces
for the betterment of such conditions.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

THE power of the local press is un-
limited. It attracts wealth from
abroad and makes known the resources
and capabilities of the city or town.
Each advertisement in local paper is
an advertisement Of the town.. It il
the voice of the busy merchant talking
to his customer and also to those who
dwell at a distance. It acts in many
ways to benefit the town and increase
the business prosperity. For these and
various reasons, it is the part of wisdom
aud honesty for men interested In the
growth and prosperity of atown or city
10 patronize them and help to support
and build up home institutions rather
than those abroad. In other words,
advertise in your homo paper, and show
to distant communities that you
appre6iae the efmts made - dsve1op
S6I6 tbsh q. e4lyss6Aos.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

THE Tribune paid its respects to the
Register last week in two column
article, What waste of wind!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

THE Wichita Democrat, under the
management of Frank B. Smith, is
one of the best Kansas exchanges that
comes to our table,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

IF the wiseacres who are advising
the Kansas farmers to Diversity their
crops would advise them to Diversity
theivotes a little more and vote for
their own interests on national issues
they would be pointing out the straight
road to an improvement in their con-
-dition.:K. c. Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

A MEETING Of the presidents of all
the county alliances ip the state will
be held at Topeka next Tuesday, the
25th, to consult upon state matters.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

bines or pools; that is what it amounts
to. It is the exhorbitant freight rates
that will bankrupt Kansas unless there
is relief. Vanderbilt testified that 100
pounds could be carried l 900 miles for
IL or Is cents, but Kansas farmers are
paying IL cents for 100 miles"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
PLEASE, HARRISON, TELL ME HOW.
WRITTEN BY A FAKxER. !

WRITTEN BY A FARNEH.I
am only a common farmer,
reap, Isow, plow,
1 know 1 am protected,
But I.can't tell hardly how.
My neighbors often guy me.
And this is what they say:
What, a man living under protection
Growing poorer every day?"
Now, what they say of my property
Is true, ! must allow,
Still know / am protected,
But please, Harrison, tell me how.
know the harness is protected
That use ON my tired team:
Likewise my costly reaper,
Every cog-wheel, bolt and beam,
And the double-trees hitch them to,
Every clevis, clasp and clip,
And pound them through the long hot day
With a highly protected whip.
Yes, everything is protected,
never saw the beat;
From the old wool hat upon my head,
To the cow-hides on my feet.
But the farm produce it don't show up;
Three hogs. colt and cow
had to exchange last stirring time
For highly protected plow.
Then farmer Jones, he st me grinned
And said, chow do you like it nov?"
want to show HIM what fool he is,
Please. Harrison, tell me how.
My corn it went for Is cents,
Ny potatoes, though not small,
I almost had To give away as
They would hardly sell at all.
The wage worker is protected too,
And, of course in wealth will roll
But miners are starving to death in the east
While freeze for want of coal.
Now am only an ignorent laboring man.
Through these things cannot see;
For while my party are protecting all,
OF course they are protecting me.
But while my neighbors chaf me,
Must in ignorance bow?
Oh, no, must refute them,
Please. Harrison, tell me how.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

THE present U. S. senate, like any
common burglar, wants to do business
in strictly secret, executive session.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
Brick Bats.

From the ~Brick."
: The boys say that Prof. Goodheart
has taken a special liking to a college
beauty.
A mover, on bis way 70 HOdgeman
county, had q young child seriously
scalded, last week, near the Star livery
harm.
This city viii soon have fine clar-
ionet player, as Chas. Hobart contem-
plates throwing away his ''gyke'' and
taking up clarioDet-
Have you registered? If aot. call
nfoh Blbe Culriss, eis3 c{sf1, d edb
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

A MISSOURI jury the other day &C
quilted an old man charged with MUIR
der who shot into gang OF rowdies
who we're subjecting his daughter to a
charivari. Missouri juries sometimes
show good Judgment. In this enlight.
ened day the old-time hoodo business
should be roughly dealt with.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

A CONVENTION of Kansas county
superintendents of schools will be held
in Hutchinson some time in May.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

DR.. BUCK informs US that one-third
more silk was made at the Peabody silk
station last year than was made the
year before, and that the indications
now are that the amount made this COM
ing season will at least double that of
last year. We are glad to see this i'm
portant industry making such wonder
full strides toward success. We still
have unbounded faith in sericulture as
one of the big things of Kansas, and it's
present rapid development goes only to
show that our faith is well founded
Peabody Graphic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

S. w. MCCOMBs, one of the county
commissioners of Stafford county,
writes that the alliance has a member
ship of 1 500 in that county and rapidly
increasing. He takes Ingalls, to task
for ignoring the interests of the pro-
ducers of this country, and suggests
that there is fine prospect of his meet
ing with the same fate of his predeces-
sor, Samuel Pomeroy. He says that 10
cent corn and 40 cent wheat, compared
with IL cent sugar and 25 cent coffee,
is opening the eyes of the producers of
this state to the fact that there is some
thing radically wrong that needs right
ing
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

THE Lyons Pukio;tionsss is no more.
having been merged into the Rice
County Eag1e- The Eagle's scream viii
be'more pleasing to the American ear
than The cro4A1ns q III Jue,a1aw
HrS4tbaspAee
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

B. III. CLOVER, vice president Of the
national farmers alliance and president
of the Kansas alliance, says the order
in Kansas had incresed its membership
twofold since the national convention
in St. Louis two months ago. The
membership now is fully 10000, dis
tributed among 1900 subordinate alli-
ances. The alliance, he says, will not
go into politics as an order but will de-
eide to support the best men nominated
on the various tickets. A state con-
vention of the Kansas alliance is called
to meet March 25th, in Topeka.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

THE short sum in subtraction below
given is good reading at any time. 1t
helps to give a reason why the present
president of the United States is never
mentioned as a possible candidate for
reelection. The figures represent the
total vote for president at the last
presidential election:
For Grover Cleveland :. s, ,53S, $50.
For Benjamin Harrison. IS, Al 1902.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
"An Open Confession Good for the Soul"

"An Open Confession Good for the Sou"
In speaking of the location Of the
postoffice in this city by the appointee
OF Harrison, Mr.. Caraway, Bro.
Townsley says:
1.-The people are not being very
largely consulted by this administra-
ton. Conceived in sin and brought
forth in iniquity. the people must take
what is give them and be thankful that
they live in free country, where one
man is just as good rs another and in
some instances great deal better"
Conceived in sin and brought forth
in iniquity" is strong land truthful)
language to be used by an old-time,
high protection organ; a paper which
could not do enough to assist in hood
winking the people of this county to
place the government in the. hands Of
this same administration. Can it be
possible that the man has at last
listened to the voice Of conscience and
resolved to lead a new life! We hope 80.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

SPEAKING of government control of
railroads, John A. Anderson says: ut
begins to look as if this would have to
jeuis. M rsdwsys III tdtuifas DR.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20
Cleveland's majority. :. s

GREAT BEND is becoming somewhat
''unjointed" because of the prosecution
of her wisky dealers. Optic.
ALL mistake, Tom. Great Bend is
making such strides in the direction of
social, political and financial improve
ment as no city could make whose
joints didn't work smoothly. No stiff
joints in Great Bend; all are working
nicely, are well oiled and loosened up
by the popular sentiment in favor of a
reform In some of the obnoxious laws
that are in the state statutes, ''for po-
litical purposes only"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-20

the rich richer and without any cor
responding benefit to the poor man. We
might Just . well get down to business
and talk plzinly.
..How much longer can We face the
facts of the stone crowd at Galena
clamoring for protection, who have their
hundreds Of thousands on a mere
pittance of az investment in lead ore,
while their laborers are no better OF
than they were nine years ago, mean
while there is an immense fifteen-cent
corn constituency. Tho discrepancies
between the conditions Of different
classes of people are beccming too plain.
Have the rival trusts, combines and
shysters got US, and 3 the tariff to
blame for it? -
ssShall the largest manufacturing
establishment in Kansae be closed out
or taxed $50 per ton on IS ore, SO that
a rich interest make mpney' and the
farmer in Kansas hate his market
curtailed, as has already partially been
done in retaliation BIZ the Mexican
government?' 1zf 10 -. oss 4.
Certainly. The Demo rat would liks
to have some good repu ican editor e1
plain why it is any woro to protect =
lot Of rich mine owners than anybody
else. Is It not the rich sotectedY II
protsction is right, Kfnsas smelling
works. have nothing w1etever to d.
with the principle.-Wihita Democrat