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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-23

policeman vino was patroiing Brush
street L cold night heard some m
growing and mumbling near Recrea~
ton park, and after hunting around
A while he located a man lying under y
tree.
what are you doing here" he
asked.
Its my bed for the night"
But you'll freeze here"
"Oh, no, / won't. I've got a substL
tute for bedquilts."
Il don't see it,
But I've got it. There's a chap in
this town who has insulted me several
times and who's going to get an awful
licking some day. l just imagine I've
met him, peeled oil my coat, called
him a liar, knocked him clean through
a fence, and I'm so warmed up that l
wouldn't thank anybody for a blanket
You 90 right along and let me alone.
I'm all right and as warm as natural
gas "-Detroit Free Press
A Lincoln Story.
The great public receptions with
their vas rushing multitudes pouring
past him to shake hands, Mr.. Lincoln
rather enjoyed; they were not a dis
agreeable task to him, and he seemed
surprised when people commiserated
him upon them. He would sbaks
hands with thousands of people, seem
ngiy unconscious of what he was do
ing. murmming some monotonous sal
utafion as they went by, his eye dim,
ais thoughts far Withdrawn; then sud
Aenly he would see some familiar face
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-01-23

As George Humphreville was seated
IN a ear going to Lancaster a few days
? a mouse sprang from the back Of a
seat in front of him and landed be
meath the collar of his coat. In a
twinkling the rodent was in the sleeve
Of Mr.. Humphreyille's coat, and then
there was considerable commotion in
the car. The mouse was finally eX-
PEELED from the undesirable hiding
place. but none % soon for the peace
Of mind Of his victim. -Philadelpbr.
Record.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

WE believe it is generally con-
coded by the medical fraternity that
if dose of cathartic makes the pa
tient sick, it is good indication
that the medicine is having the
right effect. If this be a correct
theory, then why not apply it to
those good, old-fashioned vote-'er-
straights and their party, who are
now politically sick from the good
effects of the recent doses of polit-
ical cathartic they have had to take
at the hands of the people?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

The people of South Dakota in
many localities are in destitute Cir
cumstances, in fact are in starving
condition, and are calling for aid.
What a lasting blessing it would be
if the government would reach out
it's strong arm, even if it donated it
outright, and issue sufficient
amount of money to tide our Dako-
ia brothers over, and thus keep life,
hope and happiness in their homes.
Why is it that Wall street idlers
should have so much while these
brave frontiersmen suffer in destitu-
ton, though they are struggling to
add to the wealth of the world, and
bless mankind in the production of
food? Why is not the public treas
ury opened to them to save life,
lust once, while it has been opened
so many times to save the pockets
of the heartless gamblers ?-Iowa
Tribune.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

Truth will not only take care of
itself, but it will take care of the
man who breaches it.-Sam Jones.
Correct. The truth never devil
ates, and always stands by the man
who breaches it, provided he has
enough of moral backbone and STAN
ina to practically stand by it relig-
iously and politically.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
Death-Bed Repentance.

Senator ingalls, made a grand
speech in the United States senate
such as he never made before, il
hopes to tickle the Alliance legisla
ture of Kansas.
1t only shows how well he knew
the situation all these years, and
yet put in his time fighting rebels
We quote:
Mr.. Ingalls, said that there were
two portentious evils which men.
aced the safety if they did not en-
danger the existence of the repub-
lie. The first was ignorant,
debased, degraded, spurious suf'
frage-festered suffrage-suffrage
contaminated by the feculent sewage
of decaying nations suffrage in
Inundated and suppressed in the
south-suffrag impure and corrupt,
apathetic and Indifferent in the
greatest cities of the north, so that
it was doubtful to his mind whether
for half century there had been a
presidential election in this country
that expressed the deliberative and
intelligent Judgment of the whole
body of the American people,
Iowa Tribune.
We have heard it remarked that
owing to the late decision of the
Kansas Legislature, the most of what
Ingalls, said in his recent speech
doesn't count. Well we are inclin-
ed to believe that death-bed confess
sions are generally considered as
being good evidence in most cases,
hence we take it that the aforesaid
speech was clean-breasted i'm
parchment of John j. Ingalls, rec
ord during the eighteen years he
has been in the United States SEN
ate, and that 1T is a pretty goou
count after all, in showing up not
only his record, but also some of the
corruption that is and has been fos-
tered under the administration of
both the old parties.
Now then, is it not high time for
good, law-abiding, civilized citizens
of this nation to rise in their might
as a united band, in one great ma
tional party standing on a platform
of grand moral principles, that when
inforced, will purge this nation OF
the corruption that is now fostered
by both old parties? Again we say,
for 1872.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

LOST, strayed or stolen: A fog
horn blowing vociferously in favor
of free coinage Of silver and in
crease Of the currency. Was seen
and heard all over the second dis
trict for three weeks previous to the
late election, but since has been
missing, and it is very much feared
that it has been captured by the
White House ring, B. Harrison,
Esquire, chief cook and bottle
washer. Any person who can give
information of it's whereabouts will
confer favor on the constituency
of the Second Kansas congression-
al district.
The above appeared in the Free
Press of recent date. Now we pre-
sumo that Farmer" Funston is the
"fog-horn" that the Free Press has
reference to. If so, we submit the
following, which we clip from the
Kansas City Star of recent date.
Farmer" Funston favors the
plan Of distributing the Indians
through Ohio, Pennsylvania and In
diana. Mr.. Funston has legged for
several appointments at the Haskell
Institute in Lawrence, and is there
fore thoroughly familiar with the
Indian question.
We give this not only as informa-
ton, but also as a notice to Farm
er" Funston's fourth-class postmas-
tiers, henchmen and supporters, that
the good people Of the Second dis
trict of Kansas will kick like bay
steers if Fog-Horn, alias Funston,
attempts to favor distributing a
tribe of Indians through the Second
congressional district instead of at
tempting to carry out the free
coinage and increase Of currency
measure that he pretended to be so
much in favor Of just before the late
election. We can conceive of but
one reason for Fog-Horn's plan of
increasing the population of those
states by distributing the Indians
among them, and that is, that they
may be used as Ingalls, hired Hes
slams and mercenaries, seeing that
elecnions in those states will be OF
much Importance in '92.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

JAY GOULD and Vanderbilt have
each more property than fifty thou
sand farmers, yet one thousand
farmers pay more taxes than both of
them put together. No paternalism
in this.-EX.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

In the Ohio house of representa-
tives bill was defeated, authorizing
boards of education to have the
United States flag displayed over
school houses. This, you see, is old
party legislation. But it is all
right under old-party administration
to allow the United States flag to
be disgraced by having it displayed
over the distilleries, breweries, sa-
looms and every other institution in
this country that is robbing people
of their property, life and happiness.
Isn't it time for all good people to
wake up to a sense of their duty?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

The Southern Vidette, of AleXan-
dria, La, "a very bright and able
paper, by the way,) publishes one
of our Sylvester Wedges articles,
bodily, but fails to give this paper
credit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09
The Government and the PEG.
pie Must be Closer Together.

Hc llOSI llllpOIIduC dLu iuOoC III
gent thing to be done in and for
this country can only be begun in
l891-it cannot be done in any sim
gle year. Yet it must be begun at
once, if overland if never, popu-
lar government with us is at an end.
1t is to bring the government and
the whole people closer together.
The means and ends are:
l. The utmost possible simpliica-
ton Of all administrative processes,
that they may be clearly understood
by average citizens.
2. A rigidly honest and economic
administration in which partisan
ship, sectionalism and class legisla-
ton shall be at a minimum; admin
istration the main characteristic Of
which shall be that it helps the peo-
pie help themselves.
3. The practical participation of
all citizens in local (political) affairs;
for the better public training of all
citizens, as well as for the immedi-
ate administrative gains to the sew
eral communities. 1t was the New
England township that made the re-
public possible.
4. Increasing intelligence and
effectiveness given the ballot by
such measures as the Australian
system, the Crawford county sys-
tenn, and by some intelligent quail
fication and limitation of suffrage.
5. Increasing political intelli-
gene and revivified patriotism ; to
be seconded by teaching patriot
ism" in the best and broadcast sense
of the word, from the lowest to the
highest form, in every school in the
land.
6. The perpetual Punishment of
the men who always have politictl
axes to grind; who are forever on
the street corners, holding out their
political platters to be filed whether
it rains quails or paving stones.
I. The final abandonment of the
notion that an office holder is a
beneficiary rather than a public SER
want: some sort of "ruler" rather
than hired man.
8. The absolute rejection of the
doctrine that for some reason public
affairs are too "deep" for common
mon minds to comprehend and the
substitution of the belief that the
public business of America is the
private business of every citizen.
Very cordially,
JAMES H. CANFIELD.
From Minneapolis Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

THE rottener a mans politics are,
the harder he will "kick" against
what he calls political preaching;
and the more patriotic any man is,
the more ready he is to help on all
christian reform, regardless Of party
affiliation.- United Presbyterian.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

ONE hundred million of the gov
eminent credit to be loaned to a
syndicate to dig ditch in Nicara-
qua is constitutional with John
Sherman, but to loan the farmer
credit on his wheat, oats and other
crops that go to keep the human
family alive is, unconstitutional.
There is great deal of difference
between tweedle dee and tweedle
dum.-National Citizens Alliance.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

FRIENDS, subscribe for the AGI-
TAroR, and get your neighbors to
subscribe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

THE national banking institutions
pool. They help each other with their
money, credit and influence, to
crush out newspapers that are indie
pendent and above their control {;
also to squeeze more interest out of
the mortgaged farmers and business
men. and when one of these banks
happens to fail, through theft of its
officers, or by making too great a
scoop with their usury> net, they
manage to save more than their
homesteads. Now it is in order for
the mortgaged farmers and business
men to pool their interests and try
to save their homesteads, at least,
out of the wreck that usury has
brought upon them.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

THEY have lock in Springfield,
Illinois, that the Republican and
Democrat members of the legisla-
ture are unable to unlock. 1t
seems that the three farmer fellows
have locked and hold the key.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

WE need more genuine christian
ity in our politics, and less churcl--
anity and hypocrisy.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-02-09

ORGANIZE and unite !
The Iola register., 1891-07-24
Britain's Free-Treade Harvest.

Great Britain is now reaping just
what she sowed with blind persistence
during many years. Expecting rashly
by her example to open to her manu-
fOctured products the markets of the
wsrld, she adopted the policy which sne
has called free-trade. By that means
she prepared the way to become, unin-
tentionally, the dumping ground for the
unnaturally cheap surpluses of all coun-
tries. Whenever the necessities of any
foreign industry during the temporary
strait of business demanded sacrifice,
the undutied import into Great Britain
invited q shipment OF goods to be sold
for cash at slaughtered prices. There
ventures gradually disclosed the weak
points in Britain's industrial system,
while Britain's fiscal policy left the said
points undefended against alien encrOch-
ment. Aggression from abroad made
one lodgment after another. Little by
little-very slowly at first, but at length
with acceleration-British industry
yielded place to the invader. Mean
while the increasessof hostile tariffs in all
quarters OF the globe more and more
narrowed the scope of British exports.
Last year the United States shut, in
England's face, the door to the most
Opulent market on any continent. Now
the fullness of reaping time for British
free-trade is close at hand, and the
fruits are exceedingly bitter. Strikes,
depression, monetary stringency, dan
gers ahead-all these receive from Brit
aims fiscal policy the means of explana-
tion--The Industrial World.
The Iola register., 1891-07-24
Foreign.

The government of Italy has effected
an annual saving of $4,000 by re-
ducing the salaries of italian envoys at
London, Berlin, Peris, Vienna, st.
Petersburg and Constantlnople $4,000
each and others $1,000 each.
Great Britain has appropriated S125.-
600 for the Chicago Worlds Fair.
1t is now announced that the Re
Charles II. Spurgeon man recover from
his illness.
A madman shot at President Carnot
in the streets of Paris. The bullet few
wide of the mark, and the maniac was
arrested.
Attempts to secure the pardon in
London OF Austin Bidwell, the 500. 600
American forger, have been unavail-
ing.
Duncan, the American who attempt
ed to murder his wife in North Wales.
was acquitted on the ground of insan-
ity.
The British Vice Consul at Los Ange-
les, Cal, has advised English capital
lists not to make investments in that
part of the United States.
There will, it is reported. be heavy
shortage in the wheat crop of France
and of Hungary this season
Emperor William has invited the
Prince and Princess of Wales to visit
GERMANY in full state
The Iola register., 1891-07-24

REV. FRANK L STEVENS, a brilliant
young minister who has been taking a
post graduate course at the Yale Di-
vinity School, has gone hopelessly in
sane in thinking over Lieut.. G. A. I.
Totten's prediction of the coming end
of the world in 1895, based on certain
prophesies of the bible. Mr.. Stevens
was the most brilliant man in the class
in the theological school, and won
scholarship which entitled him to a
long course of study in Europe. His
insanity has taken the form that he is
the Redeemer whom Lieut. Totten pre-
diets will again be on the earth this
decade. He has been stationed in
fine pulpit at Southington, Conn.,, but
last week was called to Brooklyn to
supply Q pulpit there. While on the
way his wife discovered the first symp-
toms Of the terrible calamity, and at
once took measures to discover what
she feared, but dreaded to know. II
took but little investigation of the fam
lily physicians to show that the once
fine mind was destroyed. He was
marked by the theelogians of Yale for
> most brilliant career In ths ministry.
:
The Iola register., 1891-07-24
Poor By Comparison.

In reasoning himself out poor pow
erty-stricken wretch the alliance far
mer institutes comparison. People
are only poor or rieE by comparison with
others. Fifty years ago a man who
possessed 1000, 900 was at a dizzy
heighth OF wealth to the envious pub
lie; now he is an ordinary person.
Why? Because there are others SO
much wealthier. The millionaire pales
into insignificance beside the hundred
millionaire. The ALLIANCES farmer does
not compare his condition with that OF
the average merchant or mechanic or
factory worker; If he did he could not
make himself out the miserable crea-
ture he desires to appear. He COM
pares his condition with the million
aires; he stands himself alougsids Of
Jay Gould, Carnegie and Rockefeller,
and says: Look at them in their
riches and me in my poverty" Such
comparisons are fruitless. There never
has been and never will be time when
individuals will not mount above ths
multitude and occupy more eminent po-
sitions. 1t is in intellectual life as
business life. and cannot be altered
without destroying individuality aud
turning the nation into q socislistic
And even that would not
change it The wise Creator
has made men different. and no con-
trivancs or system invented by man can
aver change this natural dissimilarity.
There are bounds beyond which human
reform cannot go.-Emporia, Ks. Re-
publican.
The Iola register., 1891-07-24
Newspaper. and Other PeopIe.

Sometimes an item will get into the
columns OF the best regulated papers
that somebody will take exceptions to.
This Is not strange considering the
great diversity of minds to be reached.
1t is so ordered by nature that few peO-
pie get through life without doing some
things that other people fird fault with.
Newspapers, being conducted for the
most part by mortal men, and read to
the same extent by persons now exist
ing on this mundane sphere, conse-
quently partake of the frailties OF
those who conduct them. 1t is not al
ways easy to guess with great accuracy
whom one may hit when
he throws a rock over a house.
even if the rock is thrown without
malice aforethought. But those who
feel aggrieved should not jump at the
conclusion when a remark is made that
they can make apply to themselves that
it was made to apply to them. News
papers are not more anxious to pick I'D
quarrels with people, or make dis
Daraging remarks about them, than are
individuals. The manner of a news
paper is but reflection of the manner
Of those responsible for what is in it in
their private capacities: and an allow
ance would be made them for
their words according to their
known characteristics, so it
should be done toward the paper
Those who take remarks as reflections
upon themselves, because of certain cir
cumstances surrounding them, should
remember, too, that others outside those
will be like the men con-
Quoting the paper-they will not see
the application of the remarks to the
aggrieved parties unless the latter call
their attention TO them.
The Iola register., 1891-07-24
Courage to Protect Ourselves.

What this country needs is indepen-
dence, Long ago it achieved the power
to make its own laws without assent OF
any sovereign, hereditary or other. Ever
since the question hes been whether it
would make such laws as to defend its
own industries, to make its own workers
independent OF foreign domination or
competition, and to enable them to live
on scale OF comfort and of independ-
ence to be determined by themselves,
and not by the conditions prevailing in
other countries. With that issue plain.
ly before them. the people of this coun-
try have been asked more than once to
uphold that policy which defends and
builds up the industries OF our own
country. More than once they have
decided, and on the right side. But
what would their political independence
be worth If their industries and their
trade, in their modes of livelihood and
their habits of living, the millions of
working people in this country were to
be dependent upon the will of foreign
countries? Not soon will the people OF
this country, by free votes honestlycount-
ed. decide to surrender that industrial
independence for which they have been
struggling SO many yesrs.-New York
Tribune.
The Iola register., 1891-07-24
NEW YORK ADvERTIzER: A clergy

NEW YORK ADvERTIzER: A clergy
man in Jersey City tells his congrega-
tion that it is not only natural, but per-
fectly right, for those who work all the
week to go fishing, sailing, riding,
driving, walking or taking on Sunday
any other recreation which will refresh
them for the ensuing week. But he thinks
they ought to have a DIT of church-go-
ing before going fishing, and announces
his readiness to hold special Sunday
service at o'clock in the morning for
the benefit Of fishermen. It is Just pos
sible that the clergyman may have de
rived this idea from Elder Shepard's
proposal to open the Metropolitan Mu-
scum at daylight on weekdays for the
benefit Of workingmen, who are thus
to be brought to the development of a
taste for art, instead of for breakfast,
before beginning their labor for the day.
The Iola register., 1891-07-24
Failed for Want of Money.

KANSAS CITY, June 20.-The doors oi
the First National bank of Kansas City.
Kas., closed after banking hours last
Friday and the bank went into
voluntary liquidation and is now in
charge Of Special Bank Examiner Mar
shall.
The failure is not large one, as the
bank had few depositors, and will not
affect any other bank or business.
The bank was the depository of a
part OF the city and county money. 1t
was in good condition outside OF ready
cash and will pay depositors dollar for
dollar, but it is not thought 1t will re-
sumo business.
The liabilities are about 800, 900,
while the assets are S241, 200.
Attorney J. o. Fife OF the firm of
Hale and Fife, attorneys for the bank
stated this morning that the liabilities
were 800, including deposits. The
total assets are S2l4,0OO. These include
Sl20, 900 of gilt edge securities which
are good on call. The remainder are
good debts of various kinds owing to
the bank.
The failure, he said, was due to the
lack Of ready cash. The immediate
reason for this came about in this way:
The old First National bank was con-
solidated early last spring with the
Exchange bank, or rather the Exchange
bought in the First National and took
its name. In doing this it assumed
about $50, COO in liabilities OF the old
First National to the National Bank OF
Commerce of Kansas City, Mo-, a COR
respondent of the First National. The
notes fell due and the new First
National made arrangements for
their extension by the National
Bank of Commerce. The Bank OF
Commerce, the Kansas City, Mo-, cor
respondent of the First National, Sc
cured deposits for the First National
bank and gave the First National credit
on its notes instead of holding them as
a cash account of the First National,
finally liquidating its debt. This
caused the stringency in ready cash and
the failure.
The money account OF Wyandotte
county, for which this bank was partly
a depository, was overdrawn abou. $40,
which makes the county all right. The
bank was also a depository of 40 per
cent of the city money and had about
quota of funds. This is covered by a
good bond of $4,000, signed BY the
most substantial business men. They
qualified for s93,0O The city will not
lose this and Mayor Hannah said this
that the city would meet lis
obligations in August all right. No
is felt on that line.
Cashier White OF the National Bank
Of Commerce said to-day that the cause
Of the failure could not be laid to his
bank
1T is all a mistake" he said. st is
probably an excuse they have to make.
They have to lay the blame somewhere.
They did owe us money on notes but we
never extended them. We had some
of their money in our bank and when
he notes fell due they notified US to
change thea and we took their mon
~, sending them the Cancelled notes.
They owe US money yet"
The First National bank of Kansas |
City, Kansas, which failed, was in no |
way connected with the First National |
'ank of Kansas City, Mo.