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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-01-23
False Report.

The report sent out from Lawrence Of
. shortage of large sum on the part of
L. H. COrse. as agent of the Douglas
County Alliance, is denied by later re-
ports The failure of a Denver com.
mission house occasioned q loss of a few
hundred dollars to two or three individ-
ual shippers, for which Mr.. Corse wac
not responsible, covers the actual facts
in the case.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-01-23

Several Alliance candidates for the
Legislature have fled contests against
the election of Republican opponents,
to whom certificates of election were
issued. All are based upon corrupt
means used in the election. They are
]. A. Moor, of Ellis County, against J.
II. Reeder; S. NJ. Bennett, of Meade,
against A. II. Hader; E. W. Maxwell, OF
Marion, against George w. Rood.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-01-23

spectators must take warning.
Referring to the late election, the
speaker said that it was neither q Re
publican defeat nor a Democratic
victory. It was great uprising, indie
pendent and superior to both political
parties. It was q crisis that might
become a catastrophe. It was a peace
full revolution.
He attributed the depression in the
country in a great measure to the
decentralization act of 1873. He did not
claim that that act had been passed
fraudulently. His only explanation of
its passage was that both houses of
Congress and the President had been
hynotized by the money power. He had
not the slightest doubt that a great ma
jority of the people, irrespective of par
ty, were in favor of the free coinage of
silver and had been for the past fifteen
years.
Warnings and admonitions had been
plenty in this debate; but he would say
to those arraying themselves against
the deliberately expressed Judgment of
the American people-he would say to
the Senate, to the House and to the
Executive there would come q
time when the people would not be
triiled with on this subject. Some time
the people would elect q House of
Representatives; a Senate q repre-
sentative who would carry out party
pledges and execute the popular will.
The political power of the Nation
had been transferred from the circum-
ference to the center and the people of
that center were unanimously demand
ing the free coinage Of silver. It was
for that reason that he should cordially
support the amendment Of the Senator
from Nevada In doing 20 he would
not only follow the dictates Of his own
Judgment, but would carry out the
wishes Of the great majority Of his con-
stitaents, irrespective q party or polit-
lonl a0liatioQ.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-01-23

THERE arc better things In this world
than money, but it takes money to buy
them.-Indianapolis Journal
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12
FROM WASHINGTON.

SHOWING UP THE FACTs-THE SAME OLD
GAME OVER AGAIN-THE AGRICULTURE
lists TOLD TO WORE HARDER AND PRO
DUCE MORE.
The work of the Census Department
is beginning to open the eyes of many
sO-called statesmen and economists.
Not very long since the agricultural
and laboring classes. of the country
asserted that they were in oppressive
and almost desperate financial straits,
and that this condition prevailed in
spite of hard, unremitting work and
the strictest economy. This cry of
distress was met by the economists"
and Statesmen" with the assertion
that those classes were lazy" and
"extravagant :" and that by working
harder and producing more the oppres-
sive conditions would be changed.
WERE THE ECONOMISTS RIGHT2
Let's sift this matter just a little,
On the first of March, 1890, the amount
of corn reported to be on hand in the
country was go, 600, 900 bushels. The
article sold at % cent per bushel. The
farmers complained at the low price,
justly, but they were told it was all on
account of "overproduction !" toomuch
corn had been made. They give the
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12
DOMESTIC NEWS.
THIS WAS A TEST TARIFF SUIT.

J. "AO n 1hO1 lAhlfr oCIl.
Judge Lacombe, in the United States
Circuit Court, yesterday rendered a
decision which, if upheld by the Su-
preme Court, will net the government
hundreds of thousands on importa-
tions Of knit goods.
Arnold, Constable & Co. imported a
large quantity of knit drawers and
hosiery recently and Collector Erhardt
classified them as wearing apparel
dutiable at the rate Of forty-nine and a
half cents a pound and sixty cents ad
valorem. The Board of Appraisers
reversed the Collectors decision and
classified them as knit fabrics dutiable
at forty-four cents a pound and fifty
cents ad valOrem.
After a lengthy argumentasto which
classification was correct under the
Mckinley Tariff act the Judge reversd
the decision of the Board Of Appraisers.
The Judge said that in dropping the
words excepting knit goods" from
the clothing and wearing apparel para
graph it appeared to be the intention
of Congress in connection with the
change of term knit goods" to knit
fabric" that hosiery and underwear
should be dutiable at thigher rate
N. Y Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12
o
THE FROTH AND THE DREGs.

On entering one of our largest book
stores a short time since, my eye rested
on two immense tiers of books placed
side by side on one Of the most prOmi-
nent counters. Both were meeting
with immense sales. One of the vol
umes was bound in black, very plain.
The delicate binding of the other was
protected by white-glazed paper Gov
ers, printed in gold. The sight of these
two books placed in juxtaposition pro-
duced in me a distinct mental shock
a strange thrill, such as I remember ex-
~periencing a few months since, when,
glancing over the New York dailies, I
noticed an extended description of a
magnificent ball given by the Wander
bits at Newport, while in another col
umn I saw a wonderfully pathetic pen
picture of the terrible want then being
experienced in the little cottages and
novels of the poor strikers on the Van
derbilt road.
Something of the same sensation [
experienced on seeing these two books
side by side: one, "Society as I Have
Found It." by Ward McAllister; the
other might have been termed 80
ciety.a as [ Have Found It." by General
Booth; one being an elaborate descrip-
ton of the Froth on the surface of
social life to-day, the other a picture Of
the Dregso of civilization; vivid glimpses
of the upper and lower strata of u
modern life; the world of indolent
frivOlity, and the world of crime, deg
radiation and poverty. The one whose
denizens eat, drink, dance and are con
stunned in a butterfly existence; the
other filled with gaunt, hungry, hol-
low-eyed millions, to whom life is an
awful curse. The one basking in the
sunshine of wealth, floating on the sur
face, held up by the great current be-
Meath; the other doomed to dwell in
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12
DOCTORS IN CONSULTATION.

WASHINGTON, D. O., May E, 1871
The second days session of the Ameri-
can Medical aAssociatiOn was more
largely attended than the first, and
more interest was taken in the proceed
ings. DR.. E. L. Shirley, of Detroit, de-
livered the address of the day, on
General Medicine" He confined
himself to the discussion of micro
organisms and zymotic diseases, giving
a general review of laboratory work.
Life and death are distinguished only
by difference in molecular action. He
then discussed the formation of proteid
bodies in their physiological and chemi-
cal aspects. He mentioned ptomaines
as a chemical product of the body's
laboratory, especially in man, who is
above all things an artificial animal,
assailed by poisons on every side.
Fermentation, as set by micro organ
isms, is as yet a question little under
Fstood. Even pathological bacteria can
be shown to have a pure albuminOid
product. in which may lie the poison
GUS cause of the disease, leaving the
rest of the tubercle inert. One hundred
and sixteen species of bacteria are al
ready enumerated. How much further
might not the list be extended? BAG
terra must be the cause of infectious or
zymOtic disease-but the question is,
How do they act? They must have,
to begin with, a favorlte soil, other
wise the natural juices of the body de
destroy the vitality of the bacillus; but
when this good soil is found the disease
is started and chemical action set up
by the bacteria does the rest.
Drugs act m~olecularly, and DR.. Shir-
ley believes that the best action and
quickest is obtainable from hypoderic
injection of the drug.
Dr.. L, L. Buckley announced that
the section on deFmatology had at last
been resuscitated.
DR.. Scott's amendment to abolish
the Committee Of State Medicine, as
the section on State medicine covered
the whole ground, was accepted. The
amendment of DR.. E. A. Wood, of
Pennsylvania, to form a new section
on dietetics and physiology was car
ried.
The Medical Society of the State of
Virginia sent communication, asking
advice as to how much the code of
ethics admitted a compliance with the
rules laid down by various corpora
tions. chiefly railroads, for the actions
of their contract surgeons, and eff, in
fact, to contract with a railroad is l4ot
the same as contracting with an indi-
vidual, and so contrary to the code of
ethics. 1t was referred to a committee
from State societies to investigate this
suspected eviI.-N. Y. Herald.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12

are composed largely of their paid at
torneys and agents or if the people
succeed in getting their friends in
power they r not strong enough to
pass any laws which can limit the
high-handed actions of the nobility.
These representative bodies are always
changing and are entirely irrespon-
sible, while the governing nobility is
rich and permanent, holding control
decade after decade through all the
changes of popular movements. They
do as they please and override every
thing that opposes them, while their
children are taught to rule over the
common people, the small traders and
merchants, so as to fill the places of
their parents and carry out the same
system of spoilation.
The middle classes and the labOring
classes are forced to submit to these
rulers who look down upon them and
do nothing for their advancement
socially, commercially or politically.
At long intervals one or another of
these powerful mobiles, who have
squeezed millions from the people, will
donate a drinking fountain in a public
park, found a public library, a mission
school or build a church or college.
Such public charities are expected to
cOver their multitude of sins. All the
necessities of life are controlled directly
or indirectly by the nobility before
reaching the consumer, and all pay
them a royalty. Competition to them
is prevented at home and all foreign
competitors shut out by a high tariff.
The industrial classes are expected to
pay for what they consume as others,
but are not expected to fix the rate
for which they work.
A~IistOcracies have never been pOpu-
lar forms of government. Denmark
in 1860 and Sweden in 177O exchanged
their aristocratical form of government
for a monarchial form, which they
preferred and retained. The Athenian
government became subverted to an
Oligarchy, while that of the Venetians
was constantly under a distracted and
unhappy State; the same, individuals
being often alternately infOrmers and
accusers, spies and suspected. The
ruling class were SO jealous that they
dare not employ home troops, but OBJ
tanned foreign mercenaries lest their
government should be overthrown by
their w oppressed and despised citi-
n Ansery a writer on government.
calls an ~aristOcracy "a~government Of
particular citizens in right of their
wealth, or their family, or their re
ligiOn, or any other circumstances eS-
cept virtue"
Establishing great estates, with one
or two hundred millions of money to
back them, rendered Interchangeable by
their perpetuation by means of trusts
and dispOsingl of enormous means of
influence, is giving boundless power to
q few families in a nation, while keep
ing out the majority Of the people from
the proper and free exercise of their
own will. Such a state of affairs is al
ways prejudical to the welfare of the
masses, and does away with all demo
cratic principles. This is u~nquestion-
ably the case in the North American
AristOcracy, where the people are
ignored and treated with contempt by
the nobility, while the fundamental
ideas of the Constitution are disre-
garded.-BartOU a. UIrich, an Rights
Of Labor.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12

JOUR- LEADERS," is the name of a
beautifuHy-eGecUted picture Of leading
AUIancenlen. See advertisement IN an
other column.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12

same reason for the low price of cotton
now prevailing; too much has been
made" But be it remembered now
that the same Statesmen and econO-
mists who assigned these reasons for
low prices are the very fellows who
once said to the farmers work harder
and produce more, and you will change
your condition" Well, the farmers
worked harder; they produced more.
Have they found relief from their OPP
preston? No. They are getting in a
worse and worse condition year after
wear.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12
MISSISSIPPI CAMPAIGN.

The Mississippi senatorial canvass
will open at S~enatobia, on May 5.
a violent and bitter fight on the Sub
Treasury plan, will open the campaign.
1t is expected that he will attack the
Sub. Treasury in his canvass, and being
under this apprehension, the Alliance
will have a good man on the ground
who will easily answer and annul all
objections the Senator may offer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1891-05-12

Two more national organizers were
commissioned last week to work in
New Hampshire, and more will be
sent to that field in a short time.
Wyoming is now under fire from the
Alliance and is being easily taken.
Two sections of the State have sur
rendered and have sent on for charters.
Arizona continues to call for ALI
nee workers, and one of the best men
In the Alliance was commissioned to
go there last week.
III. w. AVER,
Manager Reform Press Bureau.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-05
When Sister Derns the Socks.
L..o,,, IL. r;tt.J.,..o T.;.,+.b

There's a nook beside the ingle, where the chill
dren love to gather,
When the winter nights are passing, and the
frost is on the pane,
There's a rocker fixed for mother, and big
arm chair for father,
And cosy rug before the hearth, for puss
and baby Jane.
And the clock ticks in the corner and the old
man gets his glasses
And mother brings her knitting, and the chill
dren mend their frocEs.
And food of pleasant feeling DER the little
circle passes,
And the boys get down the checker board,
while sister darns the socks.
talks of dolls and dresses,
Or frolcs with the pussy, tumbling round
upon the floor;
While the freight gints and ripples on the
golden, tangled tresses,
Casting shadows dark and gloomy, on the
walnscot and the door
Soon a bashful, sunburnt fellow steals across
the frozen stubble-
You can tell by some ones bushes that she
guesses well who knocks;
Ben Packer came to chat awhile, and see the
cider bubble
And hold the skein for Nellie, as she sits and
darns the socks.
There's talk OF cattle, sheep and crops, and colts
aud balky horses,
And subsoling, and top dressing and tobacco
juice for ticks;
And the old mans eyes grow brighter as he
Imbering up, discusses
God bless his simple earnest heart-of "drain-
in Off th- cricks"
The clock is striking ten, but still the awkward
figure fingers,
The old man rafting straight ahead, while
mother sits and rocks;
The Icurly heads are nodding fast, AMI Nellie
pricks her fingers.
For her heart goes with her lover, while she
sits and darns the socks.
o sacred hesrthstones of our land, o hresides
pure and simple,
Whose holy love- like that sweet dove that
slept DER Jordan's stream,
Around them fits. while mother knits, and sis
ter's bushes dimple,
Nor thought of guile or worldly vile, disturbs
their artless dream
| God bless the homes of innocence, and child
hoods thoughts elysian;
And bless, TO those WHO know him yet. the
sire who sits and talks;
The day shall come when homes sweet scene
will be a cherish d vision,
When sister sweeps q STRANGERS hearth, and
darns anothers socks.
| Ye proud, who, like tn Egyptian queen, sail
down LIES purple river.
Whose GOODNESS kills the spirit, and whose
splendor chills the soul,
There's a rapture, and glory from your hearts
shut out forever,
stream that rarely rises when the waves of
| grandeur roll,
IT'S the light of joy that sparkles when the fire
| of love is burning
| For the dream of fame and glory but blsters,
| blinds and mocl1s-
| How many naughty spirits, for their child
| hoods peace are ysarning.
| AS Ben yearns for his Nellie, as she sits and
| darns the socks.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-05
Mr.. Thompson's Return.

She's a good-looking, keen eyed girl of IS,
says the New York Sun and | shouldn't wonder
If she's a stenographer in some business house
In New York. I've seen her come over on the
Pavonia ferry and take suburban train on the
Erie road several times and | always admired
the independent and self-reliant way in which
she carries herself. She isn't bold or brazen,
but sails right along as IL she had certain rights
and was bound TO maintain them. One day
last week. as she left the boat, a middle aged
man of pleasant features, who had followed her
over, crowded her with his elbow and turned
and smiled and began an apology. She caugnt
on like fash. He had ''poked" her u create
an opportunity, and if not downed then and
there he would poster her again. A dozen of US
saw and heard what happened. She turned on
him, extended her hand for a shake, and art
lessly exclaimed:
why, Dir. Thompson, is that your Why. the
last heard of you you had run away to Boston
with servant girl, and your wife didn't care a
cent! You must have got back!n
He had. He had got back so much that his
face fired up, the words he wanted to utter
stuck in his throat, and he made a mysterious
disappearance about five seconds later.
knows her biz, " observed man who was
walking be lind the girl
You betr replied his friend. shell make
somebody a staving good wife,"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-05

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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-05
Hasty Legislation.

/ Notwithstanding Speaker Reeds arbi-
/ trary rulings, which he said we're intended
I 20 expedite business, many Of the most i'm
7 portant bills-especially the approx ration
I bilis-were passed during the last hours OF
congress. Indeed, there were apDrehensions
that the appropriation bills would not get
through, and that the new congress would
have to be convened la extra session.
Some Of the bills were hastily passed, and
doubtless many errors will be found in them.
1t is safe to say that they bear all the marks
of crudeness, and some Of the mistakes in
them may prove to be annoying and costly
ones The misplacing Of a punctuation
mark has in times gone by cost the govern
ment millions of dollars. 1t was found
necessary the other day to amend the bill
for the relief Of the supreme court the day
after it had passed. When it is remembered
that congress has had that bill under con-
sheraton for about ten years such careless
ness seems unexcusable.
The truth is that both houses Of congress
waste nearly their whole time in talking
about partisan matters and matters
Of minor importance 1t is only
when the day Of adjournment draws
near that the real work is done, and
then what is done is done hastily, and, in
many instances, in a very unsatisfactory
way. During the first session of the con-
gress whose life ended yesterday the Nc
Kinley tariff bill was not as carefully con-
sidered as it should have been. AS a
consequence, its constitutionahty is now
being questioned In the courts, and foreign
governments are doubling whether the
reciprocity feature Of it is not contrary to
the constitution. If the law should be
declared unconstitutional there wolld be no
end to the confusion that would exist in the
business and financial affairs of the coun-
try.
There ought to be q reform in the bust
ness methods Of congress. The important
bills should be out of the way before the
last days of session. Such bills should be
considered when there is plenty Of time for
their consideration, but there is not much
prospect Of getting congressman to work
steadily and faithfully except under pres
sure
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-05
The Supreme Court Relief Bill.

The bill for the relief of the supreme
court having become a law the President
has the appointment OF nine judges, one in
ates court Of appeals in each circuit which
is to consist of three judges-two of whom
will be the existing judges and one will be
the new judge The decision of the court
will be final in certain classes of cases, and
will thus relieve the supreme court Of a
large share of the business which now oc-
cupies its attention. The supreme court,
therefore, will have time to attend promptly
to the more impor ant cases. 1t is hoped
that litigants will not have to wait for two
or three years to get hearing, as has been
the case for long time.
The President is free to appoint repub-
licans to all the new judgeships, but it
hardly seems probable that he will do so.
At least four of the nine judges should be
democrats II the appointments were not
for life, or during good behavior, it would
not matter much even if only republicans
should be appointed, because they might be
changed when a change in the political
complexion Of the administration occurred.
There was a movement made in congress
to amend the bill 80 as to provide that the
new judges should be appointed from the
two political parties, but it was not success
full Perhaps there was conveyed to the
democrats an intimation that the President
would appoint some Of the judges from
their party.
The effort TO pass bill for the relief of
kI,1z h.H =
| good many years, and the bill that finally
passed was, In ell important respects, tie
one that was pending in the Senate seven
or eight years ago. 1t took congress long
time TO reach a conclusion as to the besi
method Of affording the supreme court re-
lief
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-05
unzretafnl Fe,thsns.

The missi.2ary field seems TO have usurped
the functions OF the ragmAn, says the Chicago
Mail. and the esh barrel to a certain extent. A
woman missionary just home from several years
Of service in India. says the boxes OF clothing
received by her for distribution among the
heather were a sad commentary Upon the
charitable missionary spirit Of the American
women.
last year, she said. among other things, con-
tanned over 1000 corsets, 200 pairs of rubber
garters, and 3.5 o dresses which were ribbed
with steel and whalebone. OF course, the ma
tiyes absolutely refused to wear these instru-
ments of civilized, fashionable torture, and the
corset business in India has never obtained a
foothold. Some of the dresses were available
after being cut TO pieces. but the Indian native
woman knows nothing about the use of garters,
and the entire consignment Of second nand
stock from Gotham was dead weight on our
banda