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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31
NOTES ON the Fam

ssCmoAoo he's abundance Of aocommo
datiou for an Tho vislSora who may goto
its worlds 1nir."eNswoastle CEng.)
Chronicle.
ssTrs business-lilee manner 3n which
this vast euAsrpsise b being prosecuted
lnsures . splendid triumpA."-Irisb
Times, Dublin.
'CmcAeo Il equipped better than auy
other city to handle largo crowds o3peo
ple."-Hamburgischer Correspondent
Hamburg, Germany.
''WHoEvER may think that Chicago
will not DO ready for the exposition
does not know American enterprise"
Schlesischc Zeitung, Brcslau, Germany.
"THE participation Of America, Eng
land, france and Germany practically
guarantees the sue cess Of the exposf
tion."-Aftonbladet. Stockholm, Swe
den.
1.-THE mammoth worlds exposition
to be held in Chicago the year after
next bids fair to become one Of the
greatest shows on rccord."-Journal Of
Commerce, Liverpool.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31
OFFICIAL,

To the brotherhood of the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union.
1t is now apparent that the enemies
of reform throughout the country arc
marshaling their forces for a vigorous
and determined effort to weaken and
destroy the alliance. Its future prog
ress will be stubbornly contested and
resisted. but we will assuredly and
gloriousiy triumph if we be cautious,
prudent, faithful and firm. The out
look for the success of the great re-
forms we advocate was never SO hope
full and encouraging as now The order
throughout the whole country is daily
adding to its numbers, and it is in finer
spirit and more thoroughly united than
ever before. But the peculiar condi-
tons confronting us demand the ut
most caution, lest we commit crrors
which might prove fatal to our cause.
The action of our state alliances and of
the supreme council. in their forth
coming annual meetings. will be uni
versally regarded with earnest interest
and the character of that action depends
largely on the wisdom of the subordi-
nate bodies.
The sub-alliances arc to select MEM
bers as delegates to the county alli-
ances, which are to choose delegates to
the state alliance, which in turn is to
select delegates to the supreme council.
In view of the great and important
work to be done during the next alli-
ance year, and which must necessarily
be largely directed by the state bodies
and the supreme council, the brother
hood is earnestly admonished to ever
else great care in selecting the me,, to
whom must he entrusted the RESPONSE
bility of guiding our course rs an order.
Let those who are to lcgislate for us,
In the state alliances and in the SUI
premc council, be not only our ablest
and wisest men. but let their loyalty to
our cause be without faint or tarnish.
Put none but true and faithful alli-
ancemen on guard in this hour of our
great need, and all will he well
L. L. Polk,
President ~ +. A. and l. u.
WASHINGTON. ID. C., July 3 1891.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31
THOMAS JEFFERSON.

Could He Rise From the Dead He WoulA
Not Recognize the Deaoera4ie Party.
Rise mp. Thomas jefferson. from the
dead. Face the people whose fathers
supported you, and for whose welfare
the best days Of your life were spent
Ninety per cent of the homes of the
farmers OF this country are under mort
gage. Ninety per cent of the laboring
men are without homes. and never will
be able to earn them, as their wages
are SO fixed as to always keep them
homeless The expounders of the de-
nocracy you founded say it is paternal-
SIN to protect them, and that all the
remedieS they provide for relief are un.
constitutional. Is that so?
The farm products of the country, by
combination of capitalists and specu-
lators each year. are bought at cost of
production from the producer and sold
to the consumer at one hundred per
cent advance. The opponents of the
democratic party you led say there is
no constitutional remedy that can be
provided. What do you say?
England owns nearly all the manu-
factories in this country and controls
the financial system of the government
In her interest and against Americans,
and by virtue of that power has estab-
lished system that will inevitably re-
duce the great mass of the people to
serfdom. The leaders of the party now
called Jcffersonian democracy are the
tools of these English people and doing
all in their power to assist them in the
consummation Of this purpose. What
say you about these things?
When the people clamor for relief
and demand pledges of those who
would represent them, these self-same
opponents of the democracy you
founded declare that to take off 20 per
sent Of the tariff on pocket knives and
put 10 per cent more tariff on crockery
will afford remedy, and that to let
the silver miners coin all the products
Of their mines into new silver dollars
will remedy all the trouble and correct
all the evils which have already bank.
rupted and is fast placing them beyond
redemption. what do you say about
it?
The great statesman would open his
eyes In amazemcnt and with the fire of
Indignation and evaporation flashing
from them. would say: ''These so
called leaders are not of the party
founded They are false in heart,
false to my precepts and perfidious to
the proud example / left them. The
great masses should arise in their
majesty and power and drive this gang
of impostors and liars from the temple
assisted in erecting for the safety and
protection of the people, for they pro-
fame the name loved so dear; they
prostitute the purposes I labored so
earnestly to consummate; they have
made my temple the resort of liars,
libelers and thieves. and 1 am ashamed
of it. Oh, grave, receive me, and let
my obliviousness forever remain undis-
turbed. until l can see my people and
my country redeemed from vandals,
and Gisenthralled from the curse of the
perfidy and treachery of false and per-
fidious leaders. "-Montgomcry (Ala.
Alliance Herald
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31

Ecery one suffers
from Catarrh in the Head. Those
who don't have it suffer from those
who do. It's q disease you can't
keep to yourself.
Here are some of the symptoms !:
Headache, obstruction of nose, dis
charges falling into throat, some
times profuse, watery, and acrid,
at Others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody, putrid, and often
sive; eyes weak, ringing in ears,
deafness offensive breath smell
and taste impaired, and general de-
bility. But only q few of these
likely to be present at once.
The cure for it-for Catarrh it.
self, and all the troubles that come
from ia perfect and permanent
cure, is Dr.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The worst cases yield to its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties A record of rs years
has proved that to its proprietore
and they're willing to prove it
to you.
They do it in this way: If they
can't cure your Catarrh, no matter
how bad your case, or of how long
standing, they'll pay you $500 in
cash. Can You have better proof Of
the healing power of q medicinep
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31
1--WE STOCK NOTES

BuCxwmAT bran Is more nourishins
than wheat bran
To GET the best results, handling and
training should begin when the colt Is
very young.
IT is against the dignity Of tho COW
and the profit Of her owner for her to
90 faster than q walk.
A BOARD hung over the face Of .
vicious bull will do o good deal to check
tho exercise Of his fcrocious pro.
pensities-
RUBBING the horses shoulders at
noon and at night with strong salt
water win aid materially to harden tho
shoulders and prevent chatting.
DoN'r fail to mix some wheat bran
with the lambs feed. One-third each
Of bran, oats and corn makes an excel
lent feed for lambs. and 'dcn't you for
get t."
Don't let your Sleeps feet 60 so long
as to render walking difficult. but use
the too shears freely. A sheep with
long feet cannot thrive and Is not much
of an ornament to flock.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
ALLIANCE NOTES.


1T is the democratic party's turn to
squeal now. The third party move is
now booming in the south.--Missouri
World
One swallow does not make a
suring. neither do thirty-seven scabs
make the state alliance of Texas
Southern Mercury.
now opening that for centuries is to de-
termine which shall rule, the citizen"
or the dollar. "-Southern Mercury.
One hundred and thirty-scven
trades unions in Cincinnati, whose con-
situations prohibit political action, have
Endorsed the peoples party platform
The senatorial contest in Missis-
sippi continues at fever heat OF the
twelve counties which have spoken
through their primaries, eight have de-
clared for Barksdale and four for
George.
I'm the west we read of the New
York alliances declaring against third
party In New York they read of Kan
sas alliances seeding. One is true as
the other, and both false.-NOncon-
formist
u. S. Hall being a prominent figure
In the Texas so-called anti-sub-treas-
ury alliance meeting is dead give
away. No further evidence is neces-
sary to prove it partisan movc.-Mis-
souri, World
The great objection to the land
loan bill is that it would make the rate
Of interest two per cent all over this
country, which would ruin Shylock
and make the people Independently
lance Herald.
Step by step the farmers demands
are gaining ground and commanding
the attention and respectful considera-
ton of publicists There is a strenuous
Effort to avoid discussion of these de-
nands, but it must and will conc
Exchange.
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in the past in which he would not have
made q good profit. G. realized more
than the cost of his product The rea-
son for the above is plain. The farmer
must dump onto speculative market,
within the space Of sixty or ninety
days, the worlds supply of breadstuff
for a whole year. This places him on
the wrong side of the law of supply and
demand. This enormous increase in
commodities to be handled is not met
with a corresponding increase in the
volume Of that tool of commend
medium of exchange, caHed mode
This places him on the wrong side of
the money market The two combined
put him into the power of grain gam
blcrs and spectators, and give him
low prices and cause him to pay high
interest for money.
Now stick a pin here. The farmer,
just as readily as any other employer
of labor, could limit his days labor to
eight hours if he could secure the es-
tablishment of just two conditions.
LIST The ability to store and hold his
crops. selling direct to the consumer
each month one-twelfth of the total
supply. This would place him on the
right side of the law of supply and de-
mand
ID The ability to borrow upon his
individual product of national wealth
money at q low rate of interest to tide
him over from crop to crop. This
would put him on the right side of the
money market The two combined
would free him from the clutches of
tho grain speculator and the money
shark.
But the moment it is proposed in the
far-reaching, wise and bcneficent sub
treasury plan, to give to the farmer
these salutary conditions we find the
Journal, in common with all other par
tisan plutocratic sheets. vehcmently
and vigorously opposing the measure
and decrying its originators. The
Journal deplores the condition and yet
fights the remedy.
A few words must suffice to prove
that the establishment of the eight
hour law in cities and towns would i'm
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31
THE U. S. ARMY AND NAVY.

THERE have been but four generals
over the army Of TIE United States:
Washington, 1893; Grant. 1886; Sherman,
1850; Sheridan, 1873
Ar military dinner In New York tho
other evening the ice cream came In the
form of cannon balls. guns, swords and
drums.
FoRr SHERIDAN, the new army post on
the outslkirts Of Chicago. is in command
Of Col Robert e. A. Crofton. of the FIJI
teenth infantry.
AT the close Of the civil war there
were seven hundred steam vessels
entered on the naval register Of
the United States, but to-day only
twenty-seven of them remain. OF these
survivors the most famous is the Kear'
sarge.
LYMAN 8. Low, o New York dealer in
medals, has among his collection sew.
eral hundred medals presented to sol.
diers in tho English army from 1903 to
1850 for deeds Of valor and conspicuous
bravery. With but few exceptions they
were all pawned by their owners to
meet the necessities of life.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31

their relative status. The farmer stands
in the same position rs regards agri-
culture as does the employer of city
labor to manufacturing industries He
is a capitalist and employer, as we'll as
a producing toiler His crop is his
product or output and his hired hand
has no interest therein and reaps no
benefit therefrom. To him it is purely
a question of wages. To the farmer,
extra time expended in labor. under
proper conditions. would mean addi-
tional profits; but to his hired hand it
| means extra work with no additional
! pay, just as it would to a hand in q
factory. After all, the question as to
whether farmer could make living
by working eight hours day not
only has nothing whatever to do with
the Justice and expediency Of the
eight-hour law for city laborers. hut,
per sc, has nothing to do with the
question of whether or not it would be
right for eight hours TO constitute a
days work on the farm. A suspicion
exists in the minds of advanced think
ers in the ranks of labor that if there
were no shirks, loafers, parasites and
thieves much less than eight hours toll
a day would suffice to support every
human being in the world in comfort
and plenty. That suspicion is fast be-
coming confirmed certainty, and the
forces are even now ut work which will
ere long enforce the Apostle PauPs in
junction, LET him who will not work,
not eat" and make it impossible for a
man to dodge the divine fat by eating
bread in the sweat of other faces than
his own. But many will bear me out
when l make the statement that those
farmers who take the longest moons,
have the latest horses and the best
crops.
The Journals argument must be
based upon one of two hypothesis:
1sf- That an eight-hour day upon the
farm would SO curtail production as to
be ruinous to the farmers interest
I'd. That an eight-hour day would SO
increase the cost of farm products as
To make farming an improbable bust
ness
To the first assumption we may an
swer that, under the present unjust and
unequal system of social economy, it is
a fact that the less farmer produces
the better he is off. If the farmers
raised NO grain for export they would be
independent of the Liverpool market
A short crop brings good prices
To the second assumption 1 offer this
answer. In all other productive indus
tries but farming the price of the
product is established by the producer,
and not only includes the cost but .
profit above cost Not so with the
farming industry. Instead Of setting
his own price and getting the price he
demands for his products the farmer
has to take whatever is offered him.
with the results that in many states
for many years. farming has been
carried ON at Mt an absolute loss. That
is to say. the farmer has had to sell his
products for less than it cost him to
produce them Aud yet II the farmer
could receive for his products
the price paid by those who
consumed them. there has been no year
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31

mensely benefit the farmer. We're the
eight-hOur law inaugurated it would at
once require one-fourth more laborers
than at present to produce the present
output and perform the present tasks.
This would put to work the one and a.
half to two million tramps now beg
ging from house to house and eating
''hand-me-outs" at the back door. This
would mean one and a-half to two mil
lion more purchasing consumers for the
farmers meat and bread stuffs This
would increase the demand, raise the
price and benefit the farmer by reduc-
ing the available export supply
George @ Ward, in Alliance Waterman.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31
KOteS.

The successful farmer finds no idle
time for want Of something to do, for
either in physical labor or mental i'm
provement he finds profitable employ
ment He knows that his eyes and his
directions on the farm are worth two
pairs hired and paid fo:; hence he is
found at home except when he is nee
essarily called away.
Corn Is one of the best fattening ra-
tons that can be used, especially with
hogs yet even when they can be given
the run of a good clover pasture, it is
not always good economy to make corn
the exclusive feed in fattcning.
The best plan of feeding bones to
poultry is to pound them up into small
pieces about the size of grains Of corn.
Supplied in this way the fowls will pre-
fer fresh bones to bonemeaL
Flowing under q clover sod will in
nearly all cases add considerable more
plant food to the soil than timothy.
During the summer eggs should
never be used q nest eggs; there is too
much risk Of making mistake that
70 say the least would not be pleasant.
Plan and feed now 20 IS to have as
few hogs Is possible to winter over, es-
pecially outside Of the breeding ami
mails.
Keep the laying nests clean. Filthy
eggs. especially during the summer.
will not sell at the best prices and it is
often some work to clean them A
cheaper way is to provide clean nesting
material
To test eggs Dissolve two ounces Of
salt in one piat Of water. A fresh-laid
egg will sink 70 the bottom; an egg one
day old will sink not quite 10 the bot
tom, and for each day old the egg will
swim nearer the surface.
With hogs. good clover will promote
. healthier growth than grain alone.
Care should always be talren not to
pasture the grass TOO close in Summer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31
MARvElS OF NATURE.

THERE is an island near Menominee.
Mich, which is literally alive with
worms that swarm over everything,
and another one that Is so infested With
snakes that no one will visit it.
ONE of the gardeners of Bayou Sara,
in Louisiana, has produced a tomato
that weigh. twenty-seven pounds, and
he now proposes to rest on his laurels
until his competitors ketchup with that
One of the prettiest shows in
Marshallville, Ga. is said to be u peach
orchard Of six thousand trees, planted
by the compass in squares. well titled,
beautifully trimmed, and each limb
gracefully bending under the precious
burden of its blushin0 beauties.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31

DA~@ OO - - = -
Both the method and results whsr
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it Is pleasant.
and refreshing to the taste, and aots
gently yet promptly ON the Kidneys
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn easctually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs il the
only remedy Of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and &c
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
it's action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend II
TO all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by al leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it Oh hand viii pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co!
SAY FRANCISCO. CAL.
LOUISVILLE. III. NEW Y0Rx. ~
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-07-31

Brethren of the west, Georgia is
with you. and the south is coming.
Let us falter Lot, but stand firmly by
the demands set forth at Ocala until
money is deprived of its power to op-
press and the will of the people
shall be supreme. Alliance
Farmer.
When a man digs in the mines and
finds silver the government will fur
nish a warehouse free of charge. store
it and issue him one hundred cents on
every one hundred cents worth of sill
yer, and charge him no interest. When
the man that digs in the earth and pro-
duces bale of cotton, and wants the
same privilege, the government denies
him this privilege, even when he pro-
poses to put up one hundred and
twenty-five cents for every one hun
dred cents he borrows ON it, and in ad-
dition the farmer proposes to pay all
the expenses of storage, etc, and inter-
est to the government What makes
the difference? The mine owner is a
millionaire, while the cotton raiser is a
pauper.-Southern Mercury.
Before you begin to ridicule and
raise that loud, silly laugh against
government loans to the people, please
answer these questions: Is not the ma
tional bank system government loan
system to the people? Do not the peo-
pie government create the national
bank notes? Is it not true that the
peoples notes government bonds) are
the security that makes them good? Is
It not true that national bank money
:an only go into circulation by being
borrowed? Is it not true that the
aational banker is only an agent be-
tween the people and the government?
Is it not true that you are paying this
agent national banker) something like
ten per cent for taking the money
which the people create from the gov
eminent and loaning it out to them?
Do you not think you are fool to con-
tinue to pay such a price for service
that can be rendered for two per cent?
Lamar mo Industrial Union.
DO you oppose the sub-trcasury
bill? If yes. then you favor the con-
tinuance of the elevator trust that is
now III pOSScSSlOu Oh Tic gram OF THIS
country and will continue to own and
control it until the sub-treasury shall
supplant it 1t is worth two hundred
millions = year to the elevator trust to
continue it, and 1t is worth that much
to the western farmers and the south
ern consumers to destroy it There is
no middle ground. You must help one
or the other. The sub-treasury bill
would assure profitable prices for farm
products in every section of the coun-
try and assure consumers food and raj
ment ut lower prices than now obtains,
because the syndicate Spectator would
be knocked out of the middle with his
immense profits, and assure this result
Take corn, for instance: The Kansas
farmer would store it at IS cents. The
railroads would place it in Alabama at
50 cents The farmer and consumer
would get it at IS cents, instead of 81.
The farmer would get . good profit and
the home merchant would get his profit
Nobody would be hurt except the ele-
vator trust-Alliance Herald