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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17
The Power of Plutocracy and II
Aini0ns.


Gentlemen, we have got there. Yes
sir, Caesars Column has already been
founded. The case of the man who
told too much, said too much, ETC.,
in defense OF his country's welfare,
and was put in prison on trumped
up charges and false testimony, for
life, is only the picture of what is at
hand.
1t is today dangerous to tell the
whole truth. The absolute state
ment, ready for oath, of three wit
nesses, would be no safeguard
against a man who is protected by a
rich political plutocracy. Hence, it
is dangerous to speak the full truth,
however well guarded. Witnesses
are sent on long journeys, are con-
verified to deny, refuse to testify-un-
til it is dangerous for man today
to expose corruption in any party
even in his own.
Not only this: But more-you let
a man or influential journal take up
the cudgel against corruption and
fraud in any party-let him fight
against the inroads of secret enc
mics, or try to maintain the purity
of it's politics! Let him do this, and
he will find q thousand enemies at
his heels shouting "disorganizer,"
"disturber," JUDAS" etc., until the
sky is black with his outrageousness.
And during this time he may have
ten thousand friends and advocates.
But they lie quiet to see whether
these epithets are not deserved.
They do not spring into the breach
to defend the walls of the citadel of
political honor. They begin to
doubt themselves-and if at last a
charge OF serious character is made
against the stalwart, ne treads the
pathway OF thorns alone-probahly
wrecked in fortune, and perhaps
lodged in prison.
This is the condition OF things up
on the Threshold OF which we are en-
tering. And when you call upon
any man to prove his charges, if he
makes any against the minions oil
plutocracy, you ask that man to
enter the highways OF danger. There
is but one safe course. That is, to
be wary, cautious, and thoughtful
In fact, it is question whether it is
not wiser to let the public conscience
bleed OF it's wounds-and pass by on
the other side.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

The Crookston Times says that
Donnelly is trying to sell out the alli-
ance to the democratic party! Oh
Lord! Oh JOSH Oh Brahma! Oh
Fo! Oh Ratu-mayimbalu! Oh, oh
dear!
WHY. what's become of Merriam,
that Donnelly has slippered out from
under his thumb into Mike Doran's
slopbucket!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

The Independents of S. Dakota
held a Conference at Huron, which
closed on the 10th. The unanimous
conclusion was to merge into the new
Peoples Party. The Citizens ALI
ances and the Knights OF Labor will
be brought into the work. Unless
some unforeseen circumstances occur,
the two Dakotas will be carried for
the Peoples Party by a majority OF
10000
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

Indiana is afire with enthusiasm
for the Peoples Party. At one of the
ordinary country celebrations on the
4th, gotten up by the new party,
there were 1000 teams in line, and
80 acres filed with people and teams.
Thousands of people could not get
near enough to the stand to hear.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

We call attention to letter OF
John II. Burke, to the G. A. r. boys,
on the 7th page. The letter should
have a more prominent place, but
the eternal ''fit"-ness OF things
wouldn't have it that way.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

We have just received a letter from
Oklahoma Territory indicating that
the alliance is booming there. An
advertisement OF a big alliance Hur-
rah at Veache's Grove was enclosed.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

Indiana has called her Peoples
Party State Convention-at Indian
.apolis, July 3Oth. The convention
will organize the state, and the call is
issued with almost certainty OF
having a large and successful meet
inO
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

One of the Oldest banks in Louis
vile, the Falls City Bank, has sue
cumbed to the pressure. 1t is in the
hole for half a million. Oh, the spar
rows fall one by one or more, and
still the currency decreases, and Eos
ter talks of stopping the silver coin
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

The grasshoppers are overrunnlng
New Mexico and Arizona. 1t is lear
ed that next year they will spread
to the eastward.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17
The AMERICAN RAILROADS.

Their Ownership and Management Two
Old Parties Unite on the Side of the COrDor-
atoms and Against the People.
following Davis of Junction
City, Advocate sawar reform journal
readers stating the earest exposition OF the matter that we
have
called Carlisle Kentucky
They with cordial reception which the correspondent Of the Boston
Herald describes interesting letter that paper Senator Carlisle
the delegates suggestions ponder their way and
they probably bordering yet The Herald says:
Some the western have rather kindly feeling for Carlisle
volt they Leading They with about Of their
railroads and gaphs brought and Mr. Carlisle turned
you to get possession OF those properties by consa
..No that wouldn't be fair" they admitted
o ' M Hs2
sn a ss
e7 sss s
% s yet ns1 %oa d o R %en e
the roll % succeed
was difficult dpacs
ons ssss al ssy s
Anyhow them, changing don't
eS Mo- how you
@sy IT. s s sa ss Dc
or 81 900 ooo he shall not earn any more two ..
FL Mr.
practical @
political millennium might be hand they mag
questions to
ance in Kansas
clip the above Topeka Capital leading Republican paper
Senator Carlisle Democrat and for the cordial them by
the Republican journal showing chey cordially both the old
parties uniting against the people.
must either consate them them And that to buy them
ten
that school boy would hardly think worth smile
the first Mace the neonle touoh their national and state
railroads. There corporation
the United States that railroad devoted the
use OF the public.
legal always people,
Legislature Congress
the of our railroads. Thew can neither sell nor
them This settles their legal This the
the courts That OF the matter settled much proposition
can be settled
equity plain
billions capitalization ighu glance
about as harmless the shadow bush the moonlight The
authorities like Poo Manual admit that onea the
waraud forgery and sale of fraudulent only the
SALE bringing into the corporations billions OF hard
having corporations
bought second time This then five billions alleged
capitalization Whence and how this billions? lands
cash the and their have paid the lowest
possible estimate billion dollars of this This leaves billions
alleged investment to be provided for.
Now the corporations issued and sold five billions
stocks bonds and have received four five billions OF dollars
the public for it, they have had from the billion
the form of lands and all these billions which the
hey nave oeen receiving ana interest at
the hundreds millions for period
again Why But,
Investment generally speaking?
So then welcome the truth this
ons the railroads. They have acquired
acquire general proposition
them If they had it has
times the
dividends stocks and bonds that nothing
| This is the general view
there special where
Hence should railroad
ledger should opened On should
appliances full liberal valuation On the other should be
the public lands
public property has however
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17

EVERETT w. FISH. EDITOR,
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-07-17
ST. PAUL, MIMI, JULY II, 1891.

MgMggR REFORM PRESS ASSOCIATION.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-18

Every man ought to know what kind
OF universe he is in, what his relations
10 It are, what and where invariable
conditions are imposed, what in the ma
ture Of things is possible and what Inn
possible, within what limits all his
achievements must be, and hence what
ideals he may consistently cherish that
his works may not be in vain. Ithardly
needs to be said that neither literature
nor art nor history nor theology can
acquaint man with these. Only science
can do it--science not as mass OF facts,
but as body OF relations II there be
anything that the ordinary man is
markedly deficient in, and which the
best schooling has not added to his men,
tai equipment, It is his failure to see
the necessities OF relation. Exercises
In logic and the study Of mathematics
have been supposed to qualify a man to
be logical, but II by this is meant that
for every effect TO be explained an adc.
ouatc cause must be assigned. then
most men are unequal TO the occasion.
Prof. A. Z. Dolbear, in Popular
Science Monthly.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-18
The iree OF the virgin.

Tradition represents Matarieh, Egypt,
as having been the place OF residence OF
Christ and His mother during their ex-
lie in the land OF Pharaoh, and tree
near that place is still pointed out as
being the one which shaded the Mes
siah and Mary. A recent traveller has
the following to say in regard to this
famous sycamore: Not far from
Mary's fountain, which is in sight OF
the city OF Matarieh, Egypt ] was led
by the Moslem guide to the foot OF an
ancient sycamore, which he informed me
was the tree Of Jesus and Mary" But
IL was not the original tree, as | after
wards learned from Vansleb cure OF
Fontaineblau, who says that the an
cient tree fell OF old age in the year
1858, and that the present tree shot up
from the old stump, fragments OF the
original being treasured by the Fran
ciscans at Cairo" Lady Herbert, In
her recent work, Cradle Lands" says:
1--WE were shown garden, in the CEN
ter OF which is sycamore tree, care
fully guarded, under which the Blessed
Virgin and ST. Joseph are said to have
rested with the infant Saviour on their
fight TO Egypt. II is close to well OF
pure water, in sight of an obelisk o.
imposing size, and is surrounded by
garden OF roses and Egyptian jasmine.
ST. Louis Republic.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-18

Among the famous bells at Dewsburg,
Yorkshire, England, Is one known as
"Black Tom OF Scothill," which was
presented to the church in expiation OF
a murder. "Black Tom" is always
runR ON Christmas Eve. Its solemn toll
ing as Il strikes the first tap at exactly
midnight Is known all over Yorkshire
as the Devils Knell," II being the no
ton that when Christ was born the devi
died. Legendary superstition has al
ways invested bells with miraculous
power and strange influences, but why
the so-called spirits Of darkness are
credited with a strong aversion TO their
din has never been satisfactorily ex-
planned. In many Catholic countries
bells are rung during the time Of great
storms, $50 that the devil may take
fight and the tempest subside. st
Louis Republic.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-18
The Advance Of Years.

Victor Hugo once confessed TO a close
friend that the most disagreeable adj
vance in age TO him had been that from
80 10 40. "But" CON mented his com
panion, II should II n great deal
better to be 40 than TO be So" To
which the great Frenchmen gayly re.
Piled: "Not at all; 40 Is the old age OF
youth, while 30 is the youth Of old age"
This anecdote reminds us OF the motto
OF Oliver Wendell Holmes: II had rather
be 70 years young than 20 be 40 years
old"
Well, time doesn't ask our leave, nor
consult us on these points nor give us
much choice, but hurries us on--all the
faster as we grow older.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-18

service, there be warmth Of devotion
and the pure gospel preached. lmpos-
Ing court houses? Yes, but in them let
Justice and mercy rule. Palaces OF
Journalism? Yes, but let all OF the
printing presses be marshaled Tor hap
piness and truth. Great post OF
Ace buildings2 Yes, but through
them. day by day, may cores
pondence helpful, elevating, and moral
pass. Ornate dwelling housesY Yes
but In them let there be altars OF devo-
tion, and conjugal, flial, paternai ana
Christian fidelity rule. London Tor
magnitude; Berlin for universities;
Paris for fashions; Rome for cathedrals;
Athens for classics; Thebes for hero
glyphics; Memphis for tombs; Babylon
for gardens; Ephesus for idolatry; oue
what shall be the characteristics
OF our American cities when they
shall have attained their full
stature? Would that Holiness 70
the Lord might be inscribed up
on all municipalities. One thing is
certain, and that is that all idolatry
must come down. When the greatest
goddess OF the earth, Diana, enshrined
in the greatest temple that ever Stood
was Frustrated at Ephesus, 1t was
prophecy of the overthrow OF all the
idolatries that ever cursed the earth
and anything we love more than GOD Il
an idol, and there is as much idolatry
in the nineteenth century as in the hrst
| and in America as in Asia.
AS our train pulled out from the sta
ton at Ephesus, the cars surrounded
by the worst looking group OF VILLAINS
ever gazed on, all Of them seeming u
wrangle with each other and trying U
get into wrangle with us and we moves
along the columns of ancient aqueducts
each column crowned with storks
having built their nests there, and W
rolled on down towards Smyrna an
that night in sailors bethel we spok
of the Christ whom the world mus
know or perish, we felt that betwee
cradle and grave there could not o
anything much more enthralling io
the body, mind and soul, than our Wis
to Ephesus.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-11-18

WHAT was long suppo,cd TO be awax
figure on crucifix in the Bruges ca
thedral, turns out TO be a mummihed
human body. The church record shows
that It has been in its present position
since l140 A. ID.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27
A Merited Notice.

From time to time, for some months
past, we have called attention to the
mammoth advertisement of Drs. France
d Ottman which appears In our columns.
In these notices we have purposely re-
Trained from the expression Of a personal
opinion of the doctors. Their continued
visits TO our city and the constantly in
creasing numbers that throng their par
lors at each succeeding visit, coupled with
the important fact that not word of dis.
satisfaction has come 10 our ears from
any one of their many patients, makes
ID duty to our readers that we
personally call attention to the work the
doctors are doing. The evidences In our
community of their superior skill arc but
the results of years OF experience and
cal learning. Those who have not con.
suited Drs. France q Ottman should GER
tainly not fail to do so at once.
Drs. France d Ottman. formerly of New
York, now of The France Medical and
Surgical Institute, Columbus, Ohio, by re-
quest of many friends and patients, have
decided TO visit Canton, Friday, Septem-
ber4. Consultation and examination free
and strictly confidential Ia the private
parior OF the Barnett House, from q. m.
TO 8 p. m, one day only.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27
BETTER In JAIL.
He is Arrested in Cleveland on a
Charge of Perjury
And Brought to Canton by Con
stable Fred slagle.
A Possibility That There Will be Some
New Developments
In the Famous Maxwell oase--In Default
Of $1,000 Bail witness Better is Taken

An important arrest, growing out Of the
Maxwell abortion case, took place at 8
o'clock last night. The one who suddenly
found himself n prisoner Is none other
than Jacob Better, the Mineral Pointer
who testified for the defense during the
rial, and told some very crooked stories
upon the witness stand.
At the time he gave in his testimony,
which was TO the effect that he and DR..
Robertson had gone TO the Bordner resi-
dence on certain Sunday afternoon to-
gether, and that DIR. Robertson carried his
instruments in his overcoat In leather
case, and that he (Better) sat In the room
with Mrs. Bordner while the doctor went
into an adjoining room with Lille with
his Instruments, and then came out and
washed his hands. II was thought he was
perjuring himself, and the attorneys for
the prosecution at once went TO work to
look up the matter with view 10 bringing
Better 70 answer for his false statements.
In the meantime Better left the city un.
ceremoniously. The Investigations have
been going on however and on Saturday
Haman Bordner, n. brother OF Aaron
Bordner, the father of the murdered girl,
came before Justice RinRle and swore out
an affidavit against Better, charging him
with perjury.
Constable Slagle took the warrant
Monday and went to Cleveland,
AT 0 o'clock he found him
at his fathers saloon No. 162 Marble
street, NewberR. He was at once placed
under arrest and this morning the con-
stable brought his prisoner to this city on
the Cleveland d Canton morning train.
When the warrant was read to him he
averred that he had told the truth,
He was arraigned before Justice Ringle
at 10 o'clock when he pleaded not
guilty and in default of 81, 900 bail he was
sent TO jail to await u hearing next Satur-
day morning at 0 o'clock.
The arrest of Better on the charge of
perjury may develop some startling in
formation and shed some new light apon
the matter Of the trial OF DIR. Maxwell.
His folks at Newberg intimated to Con-
stable Slagle that Better was not sound
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27
FATALLY INJURED.
A Notorious Convict Sustains In.
juries Which will Cause His
Death.

At one o'clock today, q! a point about
one mile east of Alliance, Charles Cupps,
Of that city, was caught by fast freight
train and fatally injured. Cupps was one
of the most notorious criminals Stark
county has ever had dealings with. During
the last twenty years the greater portion
of his time has been spent in the peniten-
tiary. The unlawful acts which he was
wont to indulge in we're of the nature Of
assaulting and robbing people. He made
an assault on an old man named Mahir,
man five years ago, robbed him and did
time in the pen for it. Eighteen months
ago he was sent to the penitentiery for
stealing hides and bad been out of the pen
only since July.
He was forty years Of age and unnar-
ried.
His skull is badly fractured and he can
not live.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27
Robertsville News.

Harmon Anthony recently moving into
his new house. He has cosy and beauti-
ful home, and 1t makes valuable addi-
ton TO our town.
Maud Shuts went to Carrollton last
Saturday.
Joe Gibson went to Pittsburg last week,
where be expects to remain for sometime.
Marion Brothers has greatly enlarged
his warehouse.
The Reformed Sunday schools of the
Robertsville charge will hold their annual
picnic one week from next Saturday, Sep.
TENDERS, in John CreiRhton's Grove, near
lower Tolpahawk school house. Every
body Is invited to come with well filed
baskets and spend pleasant and social
day. -rs,l
The following delegates attended the
10th Sunday school convention last week
held in Columbiana, o.: Peter Ecker
man, Charles Waltz, Bert Starkey, Ida
Schory, Nora Lotz, Rev. A. Gonser, wife
anu SOus uf y.E
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27
Homework News.

HoMEwoRTH, o., Ang. %.
DR.. Peter Stouffer, OF Massillon, will lo-
cate In Homework. Ie.y. SIC
Mrs. William Ickes fell Saturday morn.
ing and hurt herself badly.
DR.. A. E. Unger and wife have moved TO
Dundee, Michigan.
John r. Whiteleather, of New Chambers
burg, was chosen as principal of the Home
worth schools for the ensuing year.
Mrs. w. r. Daily and three children, Of
Cleveland, are visiting among relatives
here. s
A. J. Diehl is enjoying visit sto his
friends in Michigan.
Everybody is going te the farmers re-
union, near Louisville, next Saturday,
Aug. 20.
The Farmers Alliance picnic at Bun
ker hill, Saturday, was q grand success.
Rev. Loomis preached an able sermon
in the Brethren church at Freeburg
Miss Nettie willard, after a brief visit
with her aunt here, has returned to Can
ton.
Jesse Myers was terribly hurt by hand
car on the c. q p. r. R., on last Thursday
morning.
Mrs. Lizzie Heestand is improving in
health.
Rev. Smith lectured at Limaville Thurs.
day evening.
Homework is longing for new grist
mill. VIII not some one startup the en-.
terprise and keep the ball rolling until
we have one?
Hiram Varnes had bis hand badly hurt
while threshing one day last week. He
has not been able to do anything since.
The Sanor reunion will be held In
David Sanor's beautiful grove, near New
Alexander, on Saturday September 8,
1891. Everybody cordially invited.
Miss Della Bowers, of New Berlin, was
u. II IL. hax
will excite much interest this year. Races
two last days.
Mrs. j. c. KeIly's father, VIM. Sommer-
Vile, died last Monday. He was buried in
the Moultrie cemetery.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27
EDITORIAL sQUIBs.

SENATOR C. S. BRICE denies emphati.
cally that he ever "employed convict labor
anywhere on any railroad improvements
in which he is Interested" Will the Re
publican editors who have been repeating
the falsehood during Senator Brice's abb
sence in Europe have the manhood and
honesty to publish the truth about this
matter? The retraction OF this false
hood by the people who set it going will
not be made, because the principle they
go upon is that "lie well told and stuck
to is better than the truth."-Plain
Dealer.
NJ HELPED to put the tariff where itis,"
says Major Mckinley, "and would not
20 through 1t again for all the offices in
the gift OF the Republic" This is about
the position man, honest at heart, takes
after doing disreputable and disagreea-
BILE thing. Now, major, wouldn't II have
been q great deal more satisfactory to
have given the people lower taxation
instead of increasing II from AZ per cent.
average TO go per cent? You would have
then received the plaudits OF the bread
winners instead OF the acclaim of the mil.
liouaires.-Plain Dealer.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27
BRoADoIoTH VERSUS HoMEspUN,


Thus during the first three months
lNst year but 3,645,47 pounds Of cloth
ing and 1,l28 pounds of combing
the same time 1881, ,790 pounds of
clothing and lips, AIS pounds of comb
ing wool have been brought In. In
other words, more than three times as
much foreign clothing wool aud nearly
three time as much foreign combing
wool are being used this year as last.
The conclusion is irresistible that more
good wool and less shoddy and worth
less stuff are going into American
clothing this year than last, and that
the Mckinley bill is tending In q
marked degree to improve the quality
of the clothing of the people, ,-Cleve-
land Leader.
This is the first time we have seen 1t
stated that the Mckinley wool tariff
was crusade in the interest of French
broadcloth manufacturers, ITO improve
the quality of the clothing of the peo-
pie" Heretofore we have been told
that the high wool tariff was to make
market for American wool, by stimu-
lating home demand and guarantee
the farmers better prices by shutting
out foreign competition. This was
certainly the argument used by the
high protectionists and just what Nc
Kinley urged when he predicted last
fall that American wool would sell this
year for forty cents pounds, instead
of dropping as now to twenty-four
cents a pound. If the tariff has not
done this, says the Bellefountaine Re
publican, it is failure. This it has
not done and therefore, by common
consent, it is failure.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-08-27

COMMENTING upon the campaign Of
insincerity and preVarication inaugu-
rated by Major Mckinley In his key
note performance at Niles, the New
York World has the following:
He said that "the Democratic plat.
form delares for the free and unlimited
coinage of the silver of the world"
while "the Republican platform stands
IN opposition to anything short of a
full and complete dollar" Neither of
these statements is true. There Is
nothing In the Democratic platform re.
ferring to the 'silYer Of the world" and
there Is nothing in the Republican
platform nor In the law of Congress
discriminate z again st silve: from Ctler
countries. The "full and complete dol
lar" of the present coinage Is worth,
according to Mr.. Mckinley himself, but
"80 cents the world over"