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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-10-17
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DIED.

At an carly hour this morning, Mrs. ANN
BATTLE, wife of w. II. BlrtIe esq. Her funeral
will tske place Monday, &C ober 18th, at ten
o'clock, from St Mary's Church.
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Department Of Sc1looI .St1l-
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QUE BASEMENT AS sALGsR0oM
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access-being reached either By two elevators or
by wide, easy stairway in center olhoor-hss
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HoU5EFURNIsH(NG GOODS,
Such as Wooden Ware, China and Glass Ware
Baskets Brushes &c also
DEPARTMENT FOR SCHOOL sUPPLIEs.
EVERYTHING NECESSARY FOR USE il tho
schoolroom and many sorts Of the several differ
ent kinds ut the lowest price, current.
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ALEXANDRA AArEEa, Oct. 17.-Tho aatkc.
is easy. Wheat is quiet at G5a10G, tho atlor f3.
dry, hard longberry for milling. Corn is also
quiet at 65-69. Eye 90 so, as to qusiity, ana
Oats 3OA35
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NEW YoEk, Oct l7.-l,tton cut. urlaa1-
8 7-16; Orleans SIS future cpenod ,,sdy srd
CLOSED essy. Flour quiet AMI casg. g ioa, quo,
and firm Cora quiet ard firm Pora duli sid
steady at SO 00slf 90. Lord quiet AID weak a-
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= Ttsoa=, Oct i Flonr steady and nm
changed Whe.t steady. Corn steady Oats fl m
but quiet. Bye quiet but firm aad higher H.y
atesdy and qniot. Provi1iona firm and IN.
chsnged
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LIST OF LETTERS.

The following is list of the letters remaining in
the Alexandria, Va. postofhcc October II.
Persons calling for letters will please say they arc
advertised
Advertised letters not called for within Two
Drenks will be sent To the dead lnttar otfina
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TIE GOVERNORS sYMPATHY.-The Gov
ernov yesterday sent the following telegram
TO Mrs. Lee:
"RIoHMoND Oct. 16. 1891.
Mrs General ~ Fl f Lee. Burke'S Station,
"a:
My Dear Madem,-Allow me to tender
you my deep sympathy at tn death OF your
distinguished hushand. Virginia Ia in
mourning to-day. She has suffered great
los, also Gen Lee was ons OF her brayest
aolders in war, aud one OF her solest repl e.
sentatives In psacs.
P. ". MCKINNEY"
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BALrIBoRz, Oct. 17.-y,raiuin eor o., do
lC.4us - bid; Go 1866.
The advocate., 1891-07-22
construction fund, as follows:

Thus we should have In and during the
decade construction fund sufficient to
build 100000 miles Of road at a cost Of
$4,000 per mlle-or-5 So 900 miles at cost
of 10000 q mile, and while we were
building all this additional mileage the
per capita cost of railroad facilities would
remain at $500 per capita, or 40 per cent.
less than for the year 1890.
Now, / want to notice one other fea-
ture Of this programme. The accumula-
tion and setting aside OF an annual sink
Ing fund, amounting to $3.50, 100000 each
year, would, IL no provisions were made
to counteract the effect, retire from cir
culatlon during each decade, the enormous
sum OF $160,OOO,O0O. How then, shall
we obviate this difficulty? We can do
thiS-nGEe of the sinking fund the ve-
hicle or means for the demOnetizatiOn of
both gold and SiIUer. How, can we do
this? Accord to both gold and silver
free and unlimited coinage, continuing
the present system OF Issuing either coin,
or gold or silver certificates, at the option
Of the owner Of the bullion. Then as
fast as gold or silver coin or certificates
are received and sunk into the railroad
sinking fund pay out upon legal appropri-
atICns, United States full legal tender, pa
The advocate., 1891-07-22

composed Of farmers, and when the reGubmis-
sion question came up It was defeated about
three to one. Then again this unreStful party
elected some Congressman, also two United
States Senator's Were they reSubmlSSionists?
Nay, verify, but true, christian, temperance men,
OF whom we feel proud.
Why this gratultOus inSlnuatl0n? The brother
thinks when the farmers are kept busy, like
children they viii not think OF mischief.
This song Of the bOuntiful harvest Is the Syren
song that has been sung annually for the past
ten years to my certain knowledge. yet In that
time there have been written upon the farms OF
America nine millions Of mortgages, for q sum
greater than the national debt ever was Ap-
palllng as 1t Is, 1t is not near all. In the past
year 900 mortgages were foreclOSed In Kansas
alone. Is lt any wonder the farmers are restless?
They raise these b0untiful crops TO see them slip
through their flDgers TO enrich the wealthy COM
blnatlons. Already the price of wheat has been
depressed near 30 per cent, with the fact that
there is not to exceed sixty days supply OF old
wheat on hand to feed the masses; with the
further fact that the far east wheat producing
countries are drouth-strlcken, and famine Is
expected. With these facts wen known by the
farmers, is 1t any wonder there is unrest with
them? The facts are that the farmers have
been studying finance and transportation and
other national problems as they never have
done before, and are as well equipped to defend
their rights as any other profession or Occupa-
ton. They have q well defined platform to
stand upon, and the time for rldicule and cpl
thets like ''stIeet corner statesmen" has gone
by. There Is an impending revolution, the faint
mutterlngs Of which can be heard In the distance,
that within the next year will sweep over this
country like cyclone
The farmers have been called anarchists, re-
pudiators and other eplthets. Iwish to ask who
has converted this country from desert to q
land of plenty? Who built the school houses
and churches? In short, who are the wealth
producers of this country? Are they not the
farmers and labOring classes? Then, in the
light Of these facts, is 1t not little unchrStian-
like to designate them as resubmiSsiOnists and
street corner statesmen? In conclusion, 1t has
been asked why is the ministry 30 silent on this
question that is agltating this country from cen
ter to circumference? Those who are not for US
are against us. W.R
The advocate., 1891-07-22
quence.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAIL-
ROADS.
NO. IL.

To the Editor of THE ADVOCATE:
In my previous communication en-
deavOred to show that 1t was possible for
the government, or people, to buy the
railroads OF the United States at the enor
nous fictitious valuation Of eight billion
dollars, and give to every holder Of rail-
road stock shsre, or bond, a United States
Q per cent bond. l also stated that the
collection from the people of the same
gross receipts from operation as were
collected during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1889, would pay, in full, for the
railroads In fifty years, and l showed
that 80 doinga reduction Of individual or
per capita cost Of transportation facilities
Of 40 per cent. would be effected during
the first twenty years.
In making this argument / assumed
The advocate., 1891-07-22
We are in receipt of copy Of the

We are in receipt of a copy Of the
Topeka Capitals circular to post
masters, soliciting their aid in extend
ing it's circulation. This circular
contains the following gratifying as
surance: ut will meet every Demo-
crstic-Alliance political issue with
reason and argument" If we had
any confidence in this assurance we
should certainly congratulate the
Capital on it's change of tactics. The
spasmodic attempt at argument upon
the subject Of money was SO short
lived, however, that there remains
little hope of any permanent improve
ment.
The advocate., 1891-07-22

that the present railroad facilities, both
trsCkage, rolling stock and force Of en-
employees, was amply sufficient to do the
work Of the nation for the next twenty
years to como. OF course It Is under
stood that such items as ballast, fencing,
bridge and building repairs, and repairs
to rolling stock are included In "operat-
ing expenses" as are also all laborS per-
formed by the regular gangs Of section
hands. "Constructlon" only embraces
the construction of new trScksge and
erection Of new buildings.
Assuming then, that at the end Of
twenty years, and not until then, there
would be some new trackage to construct
and buildings to erect, We will note the
manner in which this contingency may
be provided for.
We have seen that the increase in pop
ulatiOn and the consequent increase In
railroad traffic, during the first twenty
years would have the effect of reducing
the per capita cost Of railroad facilities
40 per cent, although the same gross
amount were collected from the people
then as now. Now, 40 per cent. is nearly
equal to one-half, and there certainly
would be no cause for discomfort on the
part Of the people il their burden Of
transportation charges were only GO per
cent. per capita, Of the charges now paid.
The next (10) ten years then may be
called q period of railroad cOnstrWc-
tiOn.
AT the end Of the third decade (1920)
our population would be at least $780,
0O0,O0O-an increase Of over thirty mil
lions. AT an average per capita charge OF
$3.50 transportation rates would aggre-
gate 81, ,248, ,OOO,OOO-a increase over the
charge for 1910 of $98S,OOO. Now, in or
der to pay for the railroads, at valua-
tlon Of eight billion dollars, in fifty years
we need only the sum Of $96O,OOO,OOO .
year.
Commencing then in 1911 to build ad.
ditional roads, we should let the freight
and passenger rates remain as they were
at the end of the year 1910, using the
surplus above sO6OOOOOOO--which the
increase In population and traffic must
Inevitably give US, to build new roads
with. This would give us a railroad
construction fund, "a follows:
The advocate., 1891-07-22

We congratulate the Peoples Ad-
Uocate on it's vindication in the recent
libel suit. The Peoples Advocate is
making things exceedingly interest
ing for the boodlers, and has received
its full share of persecution in conse-
nnnnna
The advocate., 1891-07-22
stand thus:

This fund Of $S2,OO0,OOO year would,
Of itself, build all necessary additional
railroad mileage so that the steady per
capita reduction of cost Of railroad facili-
ties might 20 on during the whole period
of fifty years. Or we might use the
money thus saved in interest, in construct
ing second tracks (double) upon the
principal trunk lines, at the rate Of 1890
miles each year. And then there Is
another saving which would be effected
by the government itself transporting It's
own mails. The people now pay an
average annual sum amounting to $685.
100000 to railroad corporations for trans
Gro. @. WARD,
Kansas City, Mo.
The advocate., 1891-07-22

per money, In the same amount and TO
take the place Of the gold and silver held
to redeem the railroad purchase bonds.
1t is likely that Sll sorts Of people viii
urge all kinds Of objections to this plan,
but / warn all prospective objectorS that
they had better study and reflect long,
carefully and exhaustlvely, before they
rush In with their objections TO this prop
osltion-it's loaded.
But, 1t may be asked, SHOW will that
demonetize gold and Silver2" ] answer:
BY the force Of public education and the
example of public precedent. We have
now, in round numbers, about one billion
dollars In gold and silver money, and
with free coinage of silver the two metals
may be relied upon TO furnish $60,O0O,0O0
additional each year. Under the opera
ton Of the gygtem ! have outlined $780,
OOO,000l In gold and silver will be locked
up In the government vaults each year,
and United States legal tender, paper
money, issued In lts place; such money
being "bottomed on taxes" aud redeem
able In United States l per cent inter
convertible savings bonds Of small de-
nominations. At the end Of decade
81, ,GO0, 100000 Of such money would be In
the hands Of the people, having replaced
that amount Of gold and silver, which
would then be paid to the holders OF
railroad purchase bonds. What would
these men do with this gold and sllverG
They could do one Of but three things.
First Invest it across the ocean, either
permanently In real estate; or temporarily
in merchandise, which they would haye
to bring here and exchange for paper
money. In investing abroad the gold
and silver would be sold by weight, thus
being demonetlzed.
SeCOnd-Store It In cellars or vaults, In
which condition It would possess less
value than cellar full Of potatoes.
Third-Use It at home In buying rea
estate and the products Of labor; or loar
1t in competition with the paper money
loaned to the people at 2 per cent, in &C.
cord with the demands of the Cincinnati
platform.
| Query: How long would it take the
people to discover that Issuing these
more or less useful metals as money,
they were guilty Of wllful waste and use
less foollshness? II, however, the peo-
pie did not choose to demonetize these
metals, and continue their use as money,
upon an equality with paper currency,
the same method of procedure could be
re-enacted during the next succeeding
decade, and the holders Of railroad pur-
chase bonds be paid In gold and silver.
1t may be well, also, TO point out that
as 81 OOOO0 900 Of the principal Of the
railroad purchase bonds, would be paid
at the end of the first decade, the yearly
interest charge thereafter would be $32,-
100000 less than was the annual interest
for the preceding ten years.
Hence the interest account would
stand thus:
lst ten years S................elG elG0 900 900 year
2nd .................. 12S,OOO.0OO q year
3rd ................... 06,O0O,O00 q ear
4lh ................,.. 64,000,0O0 q yeal
ogn .................,. oZ,OOOOOO yeAl
This fund Of $S2,OO0OOO year would,
Of itself, build all necessary additional
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-11
THE GENUINE OLD rLUNDEr:ER

Republicans talk with much conf
dence Of AIcKinley's election IS gov
ernor Of Ohio. They base their
hopes-and they are not ashamed TO
avow ton the ability and willingness
OF the protected barons of the East to
purchase the prize for their pet states
man. who must not be allowed TO drop
into innocuous desuetude and political
oblivion. We have been told alse how
the bankers and financiers vi the East,
the bond holders and men Of that class,
are expected to fry out freely in behalf
Of John Sherman when the time for
electing { United States senator from
Ohio comes around. Time was in the
history OF the Republican party when
o charge of bribery would meet with an
ind gnant and scornful denial from the
leaders Of the party. Now it awakens
From tacit and shameless admission
OF the soft impeachment, Republicans
have advanced to open boasting OF the
fact. as evidence that the so-called ire
spectacle" classes are with it, while
the bulk OF the Democratic party are
made up of the canailie. the rabble, th
great unwashed." Such is the depth
of utter and shameless degradation to
which the habitual employment of
wholesale bribery has gradually re-
duced the g. o. p.-the genuine old
plunderer.
Since 1875 when it stole the presi-
dency, that party has lived only by
bribery. In no other way could it keep
its hold on power.
The tariff is nothing in the world but
stupendous and all-conquering bride;
ditto pensions, ship subsidies. and the
various forms of financial legislation
enacted from time to time at the behest
of Wall street.
Reduce the tariff, stop the infamous
pension steal and other legislative
briberies, and how long would the
Genuine Old Plunderer" survive?
Only until the first general election.
That would send the old ship whirling
to the bottom.
When once the cohesive power of
public plumber is broken, there is no
longer Republican party.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-11

SECTION 10 of the act is too severe and far
reaching. Under this section no corpora
ton with an alien stakeholder could own
any land in Texas Tor any purpose. Under
il no manufacturing establishment could be
built in Texas if one of the stockholders
was an alien. for the deed TO the company
to the land on which TO erect the manufac-
tory would be void. And since people sell
dom eXpend their money in placing stately
buildings and costly machinery on other
peoples land, | assume that it prac-
tically inhibits the building of large
aud needed manufactures in Texas.
This ] do not believe to be the policy of
Texas. nor do believe it TO be to the inter
est OF her people For above all things,
Texas needs more aud larger manufactures
and she cannot reasonably expect Northern
manufacturers TO build in Texas competing
establishments which will only render their
property in the now manufacturing states
less lucrative, or less valuable 10 them
selves. 1 see no way to free the people Of
Texas from the enormous tribute now paid
TO the protected barons of the maaufac-
turing states, except by inviting, protect
ing and encouraging the investment of for
eign capital in building and maintaining
cotton. wooden, iron and other manufac-
tories in our borders: for our people have
not the money, and will never have it 50
long as we pay SUCH heavy tax to the
should be prevented from acquiring and
holding in perpetuity large bodies of Texas
lands. but this, think, can and should be
accomplished with a more conservative
alien land law than the present law. This
object should be accomplished by a law
which would not cripple or retard the de-
velopment Of the great resources Of Texas
by driving out foreign money, but by one
which viii be just and equitable to all for
eigu investors in such improvements. and
at the same time protect our own PEOPLE
in the sovereignty of their soil, and which
will efrectua.ly prevent monopolics and
experimentation H. Cochran.
And that is Democracy. 1t is the
third party that shuts its eyes TO the
millions Of acres owned by William
Walter Phelps. and denies the ordinary
security to the men whose money is
needed to develo Texas
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-11

any other state, 20 say nothing OF her
extraordinary mineral resources. West
ern Kansas, where agricultural distress
is greatest, was settled in 1881 and )
by homesteaders, who flocked into that
region from the East and North by the
thousands. They had but slender means
as rule, and while the boom continued,
had no trouble in borrowing more
money than their land was actually
worth from the loan agencies. They
depended entirely on the corn crop,
which never amounted to much, be-
cause Western Kansas is entirely with
in the arid belt, and of course gets very
little rain. Unable to meet the inter-
est on their loans. they surrendered
their claims to the loan companies, or
suffered the latter to foreclose.
SO it viii be seen that this money
was borrowed for the improvement of
farms in an arid country where farm
ing cannot be made profitable. Bank
ruptcy not only of the farmers, but of
the loan companies as we'll, was the
inevitable result. Such result could
not occur in Texas. because no settler
or farmer can borrow money on his
homestead of 200 acres or less. The
law protects this class OF men from
themselves. The men in this state who
may borrow money on land are men OF
business habits who know how to han
die money, to make it profitable. and
who feel an interest and q pride in de-
veloping the great natural resources of
Texas. They don't, like the Kansas
homesteader. live in dugouts and trust
to providence and corn crop for re-
turns on their investment. They in
vest their money in furniture, factories.
iron mills, cotton mills. bagging fac
tories, canneries, packeries, etc.
There is a world of difference be-
tween Kansas and Texas in the matter
OF investing money. The former has
proved to be veritable sink-hole for
borrowed capital. while the latter fur
nishes such splendid opportunities for
Investment, that capital can be kept
out only by legislating against it. as IN
the Gossett amendment. They need no
such law as that in Kansas to keep out
money.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-11

CAN a thing that is against the law
be made lawful by events subsequent to
its occurrence? We know that the
converse is not true-a thing can not
by ex-post facto laws be made illegal
that was legal at the time it was done.
The question is suggested by the drop
ping OF proceedings in the United States
courts against the Gillian war-ship
Itata. The ship was pursued, captured
and brought back to this country for
violating our neutrality laws. Within
two or three weeks the insurgent gov
eminent, which it represented, has
triumphed, and is really the de facto
government in Chilli. This success led
10 the dropping of the prosecution
against the vessel for an act that was
said to be illegal when Balmaceda was
in power and the Congressionalists
were only a rebel iunta. But did the
success Of the Congressionalists make
that act legal. and if not. why was the
prosecution stopped?
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-11
Col. EOrnbH's Courtesy.


Col John Hornby of the Fort Worth
and Rio Graude last Sunday rendered a
special coach to Miss Ella Lowry OF Co
manche and her friends in recognition of her
success in winning one of the scholarships
in the Hardin college contest. The coach
passed through Granbury handsomely dec
GRATED, and on board were Miss Lowry and
siXty-fve friends from Comanche, who ac-
con;panied her TO Fort Worth and assisted
in the grand parting salute at the Union
depot. Perhaps the largest crowd of peo-
pie that ever assembled on the Union depot
platform in Fort Worth was present on
Monday night to witness the departure OF
THE GAZETTE girls who won the scholar
ships in Hardin college. The enthusiasm
was unbounded, and as the handsome Pull
man coach on the north-bound Santa F'e
pulled out with its precious freight, the air
was rent with deafening shouts. The Fort
Worth GAZETTE deserves much praise for
inaugurating and carrying through so sue
oessfully contest that has won SO much
for Texas girls.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-11
TEXAS AND KANSAS

Some of the defenders of the alien
land law support that law on the
ground that it discourages or makes
difficult the borrowing OF money, which
they claim is great evil in itself. AS
proof of what they say, they point to
Kansas with its thousands OF bankrupt
farmers sold out by loan companies.
In the first place it is worse than nom
sense 10 say that the Gossett amend
ment discourages or makes difficult the
borrowing of money on landed security
while New England may place all the
surplus money she has in Texas, if she
will do so at a reasonable rate OF in
terest. In the second place there is
very little analogy between Texas and
Kansas. No two states are more I'M
like. Kansas has but single staple,
corn, and no minerals, no factories.
Texas produces all the cereals, vast
quantities of ium Der, more cotton than