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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
The Age of Consent.

There is another effort being made
in the legislature to lower the ''age OF
consent" In the interest of ''our
boys" girls of more tender youth
and of less experience are demanded to
be offered up to the wiles of seduction
and the damnation of prostitution.
Some young libertines have been
caught under the present law and i'll
memary of wild OATS sown, fathers
are heard to plead for the animal pas
sionS of youthful SONS. What about
the tender trust of our youthful
daughters? Twenty-Five years is young
enough to withdraw all protection from
young women. Even after that age
the average woman is inclined to trus:
honor and everything to the word of
the man who has by fair means. OF
otherwise, won her love and confidence.
1t is wOman's nature TO love and trust
and it is to mans shame that he ever
seeks to take advantage of this angelic
attribute in one who with all her SOU
OSSlICo ~ iCdH upon hiIil anu ~ OSSSINS
his prOtectiOn-and to take the advant.
age which at once destroys her puresi
ideality. and destroys her. soul and
body. ''Oh!'' but pleads those long
faced and hypocritical law makers
There is the bawdy house whose low
| foul inmates are often under the age OF
sixteen years, and who, being without
conscience or shame. might take ad
| vantage Of these sex-protective laws Il
black-mail our boys, nay. to even jeop
ardiZe their liberties as American citi
Zens." Ah. yes! what are your boy.
doing in such place. pray? And how
does it happen that these girls under
sixteen years of age have got down int
such depths? Why. eight times out o.
ten, the sixteen-year-o old inmate of sucl
den be it gilded palace or hovel. a.
also the more mature women, are al
there, and only there as the victims o
seduction through words of f1attery anl
| promise made by the man or the ''deal
boy'' for whose pleasures these now
fallen creatures would have in theil
purity and innocence risked their very
hopes of an eternal existence. Had
they been protected till Trey were
tweutyfye u even twenty yeins Old
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

CONGRESSMAN JERRY SIMPSON is
coming to the front right along. He is
one of those aggressive fellows who has
been kept in the background all his life
time because he has been liberal and
Independent in his views, and would
not truckle to the mandates of party
bosses. Once placed in position to
command the ear of the public he is
bound to show his inherent ability as a
worker i'll good cause. The Kansas
City Times says of him: The country
has it's eagle eye ''sot" upon the Hon
orable Jerry Simpson. His develop
ment in statecraft since the foolish
ones and the blind laughed at his pre-
sumption in facing the Wichita Laun-
celot has been marvel of politics. He
seems to have been born with an in
stinctive knowledge of how to run d
machine. Long health and life
to the Honorable Jerry. If he puts
through successfully his latest stroke in
diplomacy he may draw on us for as
many pairs of socks as will carry him
happily dry shod through the troubled
waters of the fifty-second congress.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
TRUTHS AID EOOENTRIOITIES.

II requires very little mining to blast
a reputation.
A man never gets so poor that he
can't borrow trouble.
Anybody could carry the town off
when the girls get to kicking foot ball.
Resolve to be less quick of speech and
more certain in action than you have
been. I
A millionaire doesn't weigh any more
on Gods scales than a man in a check
shirt. g
There are men who never say a good
word for their wives until they do it on
a tombstone.
Another boom like the people made
last fall would drive about all the law
yers into the ministry.
Kind words cost only little thought,
a little self-eontrol, little effort; but
their fruits are manifold and weighty.
When fellow spends too much time
at one place he should teach his dog TO
stay at home and not give him dead
away.
The world never knows what loud
prayers a man can offer until he is call
ed upon to pray for the sins of bis
neighbor.
The wisest scholars are honest stud
ents, and an honest Il do not know"
is a million times more respectable
than pretense-
A woman pressed by care and work
who gives bountifully time and service
to those craving her charity, adding a
blessing to the gift, brings heaven very
near to earth and by her daily round
of toll makes a bright pathway to
another world.
Did anyone ever stop to think how
man will move to Missouri to benefit
his wife's health, and the man he trad
ed farms with will give the same rea-
son for moving to kansas2 A wife,
after all, is no great drawback to a man
| who is up to snuff.
| A boy of the period, who understood
his own value and knew what was ex-
pected of him, when asked what was
his duty to his father and mother, an
| swered smartly: Ito take them out for
a walk on Sundays, and not let them
know how much more 1 know than
| they do"
Talk about economy, We have heard
of young man who goes with a girl so
small waisted that when he makes glad
| the waist places he can use his pocket
for glove. There is nothing like tax
ing life by the smoothest handle. A
man shonld never be above noticing
small things.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

favor of commercial liberty. Its evil
dent purpose is to ameliorate the dis
affection which has been created among
the people by the enactment of the Nc
kinley bill. but while its aim is political
and partizan, it nevertheless vindlcates
the principle for which the tariff re-
formers have been striving. The reci-
procity idea is the direct OutgrOwth of
the economic agitation which followed
the famous tariff message of Mr.. Cleve-
land. and is one of the fruits of the
campaign of education. The presi-
dents proclamation announcing COM
mercial reciprocity between Brazil and
the United States is tamtamOunt to a
confession that his party has been
driven to the adoption of more liberal
trade policy because of the protest
which the voters of the country have
recorded against the heresy of excul-
sion.
or course, the plan of reciprocity as
outlined by Mr.. Blaine falls far short
of the idea OF commercial freedom con-
tended for by Mr.. Cleveland. The latter
does not limit the operations of ex-
change to single hemisphere, but
takes in the entire world. England is
really the great natural market for
America, and Europe with its teeming
population and its limited agricultural
area affords demand for the products
of the United States which does not
exist on this side of the Atlantic. If
free trade with BarZil and other Latin
American powers is a good thing for
this country, it must follow. as a logical
sequence, that unrestricted commerce
with all lands where markets for Amer
lean products Can be established would
vastly m ultiply the benefits which are
anticipated by the champion of reci-
procity. Mr.. Blaine's scheme for open
lug up new outlets for the fruits of the
soil in the United States-and for pro-
noting his political fortunes -practic
ally cOncede the justice of a principle
which Mr.. Cleveland and the people be-
lieve ought to be made universal in it's
application.-Kansas City Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, D. c.. Feb. l3, 1891.
The letter of Elk President Cleve-
land denouncing the free silver bill,
which recently passed the senate and is
now before the house, attracted at the
capitol yesterday fully us much COM
ment as the famous tariff message of
three years ago written by the same
hand. The fact that Mr.. Cleveland in
tended to write such letter was known
few days ago by some of the demo-
cratic leaders in the senate, and they
endeavored to persuade him not to
make known his views at this time.
They believed that their advice had
been followed, and the publication of
the letter yesterday morning. therefore
came with double force. In the after
noon Gen. Hooker, Of Mississippi,
voiced the general sentiments of the
democratic side when, in the course
of speech advocating the free
coinage of silver, he said, there was no
man in this country, whether he held
distinguished position or whether he
had an ambition to bold the highest
position withi, the gift of the Ameri
can people, be he of one party or
another. who could Law down tie law
to the great masses of this country,
who thought for themselves. On being
asked by Mr. Cannon whether he was
in favor of Mr.. Cleyeland for the next
president, Gen. Hooker replied that he
did not think that any man on the con-
tinent of America will ever be the cam
didate of the democratic party for pres
ident of the United States who is op
posed to the free coinage of silver.
Leading men in both houses did not
hesitate to echo the views thus express
ed by Gen. Hooker. With the excep-
tiOn of a few eastern democrats. like
Senators Mcpherson and Wilson, of
Maryland, and Representatives Wiley,
of New York, and Maish, of Pennsyl-
vania, and with the exception of one
or two pronounced Cleveland men like
Breckenridge, of Kentucky. and Wilson,
of West Virginia. every democrat
agreed that Mr.. Cleveland had placed
himself. by his letter, outside of the
possibility of d nomination for the
presidency OIL the democratic ticket.
Without regard to the merits of the
proposed legislation on the silver ques
ton, Mr.. Cleveland's letter to the
Cooper Institute meeting cannot help
but command the respect and COM
mendation Of every citizen who admires
honorable and straightforward methods
in public affairs. It will undoubtedly
be freely predicted that Mr.. Cleveland's
letter has endangered Ii not lost him
the democratic nomination for the pres
idency. The convention which will
confer this nomination is over one year
hence, and great many radical
changes Can be wrought in American
politics in the course Of twelve months.
However, be that as it may, Mr.. Cleve-
land, in sustaining his reputation for
candOr and consistency, has vindicated
his right to hold place high in the
esteem Of the American people. This
is Il prize which cannot be controlled
by any poll tical party
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
CLAFLIN.

From the Banner.
If variety is the spice of life, life in
Kansas is certainly spicy.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Clarke has been very i'll for the
past week.
Our town is getting right to the
front. We even have prize fighters,
and no slouches at the biz either.
Mrs. Geo. Spencer and Miss Dodge,
of Great Bend, were visiting with their
sister, Mrs. Ingersoll. of this city the
past week.
Miss Luedde is spending the vacation
with her friends in Ellsworth. She
will open her spring term of school In
this city Monday next.
Kansas will need all of S1e0 GOO ito
make creditab1e showing at thS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

they never would have been there.
If any one of our s'dear boys" gets
picked up by fifteen or sixteen-year-
old strumpet he is but receiving the
penalty of his own ventures, and paying
that of his brothers who, in the first
place, made the girl what she is. The
hichrst. the SesL and the truest mean
ing that the word protection" has is
in connection with women, with all
that pertains to women and with all
that she rules over. Protect the girls,
protect innocent. trusting maidenhood
until the fullest years of her womanly
power, and the dear boys" will need
no protection from prostitutes under
the age of Wichita Eagle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
NEIGHBORHOOD HAPPENINGS.
HOISINGTON.

From the Dispatch.
A ten pound daughter was born to
Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Cooke Monday
| morning.
A. ii. Baker goes to Fort Scott next
week to represent the Hoisington ma
sonic lodge at the grand lodge.
Quite good deal of farm property is
being sold in Barton county at prices
ranging from $40 to $40 per acre.
l.. F. johnson has been appointed a
justice of the peace for Homestead
township in the place of RIM. French
resigned.
There is too much idle land in Bar
ton county that should be raising good
crops of wheat. More land should be
put in cultivation.
It is rumored that the Beacon is
about to change hands; either taken
in by the DEMOCRAT or to be conduct
ed by other parties. There should be a
general doubling up of newspapers
over there.
When we read of farmer i'm Lyon
county selling $500 worth of apples
from small orchard we wonder why it
is that the farmers of Barton county do
not pay more attention to fruit grow
ing.
d. o. Gray was in town Tuesday
with load of corn raised on his farm
in 1889 and of course realized a good
price. 1t is not so much the amount
of produce that farmer raises as it is
the selling at the right time and hold
ing at the right time that increases his
bank account and makes farming a sue
cess.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

A man in this town is charged up
with 200 pounds of coal stolen from the
editors coal pile last Sunday night.
Better call and settle before publicity
is given. We're onto OyOu.-HolsingtOn
Dispatch.
GREAT HEAVENS! Bro. Clark! what
is your town coming to? Can it be pos
sib!e that there is a man SO mean, SO
devoid of all the better element of hu-
manitY, that he would stoOp SO low as
to steal coal from an editori You have
our deepest sympathy, Bro. Clark. and
our fondest hope is that the villain will
be brought to the bar of justice. Keep
''onto him" with both your generous
feet, and squeeze him into repentance
for his rash act.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

THE New York Herald has a report
from the democratic members of
twenty.seven state Legislatures how
they stood as between Cleveland and
Hill for 1892 The poll resulted:
Cleveland, 1,5l5: Hill, ls9; scattering,
278. The New York legislature stood:
CevtIand :, HIN 81, Doubtful ~.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

THE Great Bend Register of the 18th
ult. in an article headed "Our Ingalls,"
caps the climax for abuse of the people
of our state and their representatives
at Topeka 1t speaks Of the retirement
of Ingalls, as great calamity" What.
A calamity to retire man who SAYS:
s.The politician considers that votes do
not smell badly after ttey are east and
counted, no matter what may have
been the method by which they have
been procured" And again: The
ambitious politician therefore endeav-
ors to ascertain what is popular rather
than what is right, and the possession
of an active conscience or a sensitive
moral nature is formidable, If not an
insuperable obstacle to success" Bet
ter that we should have pure upright
men in our legislative halls, with less
experience and not0riety, than to Be
misrepresented by monopolistic tools
and wind bags.-'PumT kinyine, In
Pdwnee Rock Leader.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
THE "BLooDLEss REVOLUTION" /"

Under his eDoke-house rsfsers
Tue eearded fxrmer stalks
sound Of saturnine laughter
Trails over him as he walks
He peen up under the gables dina,
And, lo. q vision takes form to him
OF some fine old politicians Who
Have faded out 70 the distance blue
OF his 'tbioodless revolution"
They have squeezed blood from nv turnipx
Aye, from the rock and veed
That NIB the farm and are scarce kept warm
By my biankes-mortgsge deed
am tired Of bioodshed now" said he,
With grim suspieioc Of bloodless glee
"And the twist sf my wrist by which throw
These statesmen into the afterSios-
Isa sbloodlees revolufiou.'
j r. B., in New York World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
CARAwAY has now thrown the sluic

CARAwAY has now thrown the sluice
gates of his inherent meanness wide
open, and scatters his contemplate in
situations about on friend and foe
alike, as is characteristic of his class Of
ward politicians. Let him alone and
while he attempts to smear his neigh
bors he will one day be smothersd in
his own wHNuW:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

LARGE colonies of negroes from the
south are settling in Oklahoma. AS
Oklahoma has just gone democratic by
large majorities it would seem that the
colonization did not commence soon
suouHh.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

My DEAR girl. no man of honor ever
continually visited girl, talked Of love
and yet said that he did not think of
marriage II he does not think of mar
riage he ought not to whisper of love,
and the sooner your acquaintance with
him ceases the better it will be for you.
The man You expect to love should ex-
pect to make you his wife, and you can
not afford to listen to prOtestatiOns of
never-dying affection from men who do
not propose to put you in that most
honorable of all positions position
of wife, 1 wish l could make you
understand how dangerous this is; 1
wish l could get near enough to each
one of you to put my hand on your
shoulder and look into your eyes, and
say: Take care! Women whose lives
have been those of shame and sorrow
met their first temptation in this way.
Go straight to your father Or your
brother and tell them what this man
has said to you. Hear what they say
TO you, and what they think. and if they
are the honest hearted men l believe
them to be, they will tell You as l do:
Listen to no word of love that is not
followed by the suggestion Of all early
marriage Ladies Home Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
ELLINWOOD.

From the Advocate
Frank Adams returned from Ohio
Wednesday morning.
A. w. Strong and wife went down to
Kansas City Monday evening.
A rumor is current that DR.. McCor-
mick will soon be editor and proprietor
of the Barton County Beacon.
The fact has come TO light that but
very few of the alliance members of the
legislature have less than six children.
and one is the father of sixteen.
A great amount of wheat is being
brought to town the last few days.
The farmers are clearing out their
granaries, preparatory to next years
large crop.
A benefit entertainment will be given
in the near future by home talent con-
sitting of farces, songs, music and will
be worth the price of admission, 25 and
35 cents. Bills will be out soon
The denomination known as the
German Baptist are holding protracted
meetings at the Presbyterian church
commencing at 7:30 every evening.
They will continue until further notice.
Let all Germans be in attendance.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

If the editors of the DEMOCRAT and
the Register had any inclination to
treat the Beacon with fairness they
would rely upon something better than
''rumor' in telling their readers about
the future of this paper. 1t is expected
that those papers Will do all in their
power to break down the new party in
this county; but the people can read a
scheme which is working for their de-
feat. This paper is not for sale.-Bea-
con.
AS FAR as the above clipping con-
Germs the DEMOCRAT We would suggest
that the editor of the Beacon has no
grounds whatever for charging that
this paper has ever treated him any
way but fairly. 1t is expected that the
DEMOCRAT will keep its readers posted
as to current events of interest to the
public, and that is what it shall do.
As to relying on ''rumor." we never
credit rumor with anything more than
what it is really worth, aud we are in
no scheme" to defeat any party OF
business. What the DDLOCRAT does ii
will do honestly and openly, and we will
not misrepresent anything either in
public or private.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
PAWNEE ROCK,

From the Leader
A nu nber Of hoclls of geese put in an
appearance in this vicinity this week.
p. P Damn, of near Dundee, has
purchased the Ruben Kemmerling
farm, adjoining Pawnee Rock.
Kansas winter for this year has thus
far all been crowded into very short
space of time. about two weeks would
cover the time that we have had cold
or rough weather.
The revival meeting in the Evangeli-
cal church closed last Saturday night,
but as has been stated elsewhere prayer
meetings will be continued each
evening in the NJ. E. church.
Some one says: "that if the right of
suffrage is extended to women, Kansas
will regain her old republican majority
80 ,OOO." We question the statement.
They will all wart Office and will
naturally join the alliance to get it.
We penned few lines last week on
the question of the alliance members
actions ON the sick benefit clause in
their by laws. sighting a case that had
been given us. We have since been in
formed that we were miSinfOrmed;
that the president of the Riverside alli-
ance had been to the parties in ques-
ton. and asked them if they were in
need of assistance and had received the
answer that they were not. In justice
to the alliance we make this statement
as we have no desire to do them an in-
justice. We were directly Informed OF
the facts as given last week, by one
who was in position to know, but who
had, no doubt, not learned of the facts
as herein stated.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
A Happy Family.

utusuI -OosO-, 4 CO IosI
WILL E. STOKE, ED. DEMOCRAT,
Great Bend, Kans.
DEAR SIR:-The members of 'our
family" have taken a vote TO decide
which one of the Great Bend papers to
order. held the position of clerk, SO
will send YOU the result
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19

me vote being UNANIMOUS you VIII
please send the DEMOCRAT to No. 100
Santa Fe avenue. = Yours, with
best wishes from ''our family
CHAN BUTLER, Clerk.
We take great pleasure in complying
with the request of the happy family,
and hope that the weekly visits of the
away from Great Bend bearable to the
boys. May they all prosper is the wish
of large number Of friends in this
city and county.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-02-19
WE SEE that Mrs. Mccormick h;

WE SEE that Mrs. Mccormick has
| caught on'' to our suggestion that
there was no need of change in the
management of the Beacon in order to
enable her to keep herself before the
public until state superintendent of
schools is elected again. From our
knowledge of the manner in which
that lively lady secured the nomination
and election as delegate to the state
convention last fall, and later on the
nomination on the farmers ticket. we
are free to admit that she can ''let to-
morrow take care of tomorrow" and
still keep to the front. Her few re-
marks in last weeks Beacon also go to
prove that we were correct in surmiS-
ing that the "rumor" referred To was
without foundation and the cause for
our disbelief in it was just. We are
glad she has promised us fair treat
ment," but hardly looked for such fair
treatment" to be conditional upon an
impossibility. With about One-third
the space of the home side of the 8ea-
con at her disposal, Mrs. Mccormick
ought to be able to take quite an active
part in shaping the destinieS' of the
third party movement for the next
year or so, and we look for her Lines
upon lines, and precepts upon precepts"
to bob up with clock like regularity and
all the aggresiveness of a MUD carried
away with the idea that women are in-
dispensably necessary in politics.
The advocate., 1891-09-16
KANSAS CITY TO TOLEDO.
without Change Of Cars via Wabash
Railroad.

without Change OF Cara via Wabash
Railroad.
A solid train composed of the finest
sleeping and chair cars In the world is
now running on the Wabash railroad
from Kansas City TO Toledo, leaving Kan
sas city every day at $40 p. m, arriving
In Toledo at 4:l5 next afternoon, passing
through the cities Of Jacksonville, Spring
field, Decatur, Danville, Lafayette, Lo-
gansport, Fort Wayne, Defiance to To
ledo. No other train out of Kansas City
runs q solid train az far east as the Wa
bash. This fast Wabash train arrives In
New York at 400 p. m. the second after
ternoon from Kansas City. There Is no
extra charge on this fast train. We will
reserve your sleeping car accommOda-
tlons through to destination by applying
at Wabash ticket Office, northwest corner
Ninth and Delaware streets, Kansas City,
or write or telegraph to II. N. Garland,
western passenger agent