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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-26
IT'S Not an Iridescent Dream,
but Stern Fact.
Sylvester Wedg e's Letter.
TopEKEY, KAs., Jan. %, 20

TOPEKEY, KAs., Jan. ~, VI.
Mr.. EDDITUR.
DEER SUR: hev .jist returned
frum a fyin trip tn Whashinton,
wher | waz ordered tn go tn attend
a sekret meetin, an tn reserve sum
more instruckshuns frum our party
educators, regardin ov our move
ments at Topekey mex Chusda an
thereafter, or until we win or lose
the biggest stake we ever plade fur.
1t IL bigern jac-pot, an we reck-
ognize the fack tibet we hev 4 aces
tn beet, but we hev marked kards
tn play with. We also air aware
tibet if John Jeems goze down, Re-
publickanism ov Kansas goze with
him, an when tibet ockurs, mi ock-
upashun will be gone, an life wood
hardly be worth the liven, an | will
then leve orders with you tn rite
mi epitaf, an ] think sum ov mi
trends will want sum at about the
same time, so we will all order at
once an git cheeper rates. In order
tn save time an trubbel, please send
prices at once. l am not at liberty
at this ritin to speke ov what con-
klushuns we arove at, or what in
struckshuns we reserved at our
meetin. May tell you more in mi
mex. But l will tell you ov a littel
insident tibet | witnessed while Their,
which | think will konvince you
tibet our John Jeems IL a gud kris
tun man an not a hipokrit az our in
imies wood hev you believe. When
furst arrive at Washinton, l went
direck tn hiz rooms, an not a-heerin
ov eny noize around, | thot | wood
peek thru the he hole in the dore tn
sc eff he waz there. Them Ike holes
in the dores air CRATE invenshun.
don't see how, in our biznes, we
we Good git along without 'em.
Tha air a CRATE help when we want
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-26

SEVERAL state legislatures have
decided to make no appropriations
for the worlds fair if the force bill
becomes law. If the Republican
hot-heads want to kill the greatest
of worlds fairs, let them go on with
their foolishness. We think, it safe
to say, however, that the force bill
is dead.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-26

THEY stuck. Yes, and they will
continue to stick; and the ranks of
the reformers will continue to grow
until the new party embraces all of
the needed reforms, and the great
army will march on to victory in
1892.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-26

l PeeKeu III an J1sC az L put mi eye
tie the hole, John Jeems hit the
fore with his neeze, an az l dident
want to distarb a religus meetin, l
waited and lisened an tuck notes ov
what he sed, an this il his Potassium
substantially az he delivered it:
Oh Lord, you no I am not in the
habit ov botherin you or a-callin ov
your attenshun tn mi individual ne
cessities, but az all mi plans an
skeems hev bin failures frum beginin
tn eendin, | ask tibet you give me
your attenshun fur a fue moments
an heer mi petishun. l think, Oh
Lord, tibet about six years ago,
when l waz figgerin fur this same
job, got into tite phase. l then
asked you fur sum help an gave it
tn me, an l think at shet time l
made you sum gud promices. l
don't remember fur sartin, but l
toink l did. / gineraly do-thet's
the wa l am built, an if l failed tn
keep 'em, it waz becase the other
Teller offered better inducements, an
l don't think l shuld be held to &C
count fur it, az am now more than
ever konvinsed tina he'd me hipno-
tiled. And now Oh Lord, az l am
about tn looze mi job thru a CRATE
uprisin ov the ignurent, unedicated
Tiers ov the sile in mi deestrick
in Kansas l ask your help an assist
ence, an now, Oh Lord, while
think ov it will explane tn you
tibet when l condemned your golden
rule an deckalog in politix, l dident
meme it. l only sed it becase it
sounded nice, an it shOed mi trends I,
in Wall street how fur it waz thru |
tn the other side ov mi conshunts.
/ only ask you, Oh Lord, tn help me
this time an if l am SUCCESSFUL |
will see tibet mi constituents air put
in such shape tibet l kin help miself.
Tha sa tibet the Lord helps him who
helps hisself. Thet's jist what l am
a-tryin to do, but it il evident, Oh
Lord, tibet | also need your help.
In mi late speach l demanded at the
hands ov the government all tina
the Aliancers) demanded. l con-
DENIED all tina condemned, an then
sum. expiated on the rongs tibet
naz bin dun 'em bi the demonitiza-
shun ackt ov 1873, which l helped
5u do, an it brot us gud stake, an
Oh Lord, l gave 'em the only ex-
olanashun l Good give, az tn how it
tn BEGUN law. l told
EN- we were hooded bi the monied
power in Wall street, an we waz.
Tha used lots ov the stuff tibet gilt
,ers, but Oh Lord, l am sorry we
,ook it, an ask if you hev it charged
Up agin me tn mark it off az l now
hink we Good have got more; an
low all l ask il tn be re-eleckted
lgin, an l will sho the damphules a
rick wurth morn eny tina hev ever
Tit sene. An now, Oh Lord, az l
lev not called on you fur long
ime, l ask tibet you konsider this
ppeel, an l am
Yourn truly,
JOHN JEEMs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-26
Ratification!

There will be a ratification meet
ing of the Peoples party at the
court house, Friday evening, the
both. Manford Schoonover, and
others, will address the meeting.
By order of the
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
THREE cheers and tiger for Kan
sas. She has wiped out her eighty
two thousand majority, and has
elected Judge w. A. PETER, an AL
lance candidate, to the senate.
WHO said the Alliance men were
going to sell out to Ingalls, ? The
man who said it cannot be found
now.
THEY stuck together pretty well
didn't they?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-01-26

LET us give thanks.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

THE Bellevue Herald, referring
to the terms of court for the fourth,
judicial district says, Judge Stock.
slayer ''said he would not hold 6
term of his conrt in either Logan
Alta or Lincoln counties until the
supreme court has passed upon the
Alta-Lincoln county BILL" and tina,
he has accordingly adjourned the
Logan county term sine die. Amen,
this statement we have received and
published this week an order au.
thorized by Judge Stockslager, 70,
term of the district court to com
mence at the county seat of Lin.
coin county May Is, 1891, and a
term at the county seat of Alta
county, to commence June 8, 1891
from which it would seem that q
conclusion in the matter has been
reached.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

EX-SENATOR INGALLS,, so repor,
says, will enter the journalistic pro.
fession. The ex- Senator would prob.
ably prove an important adjunct to
American newspaperdom. He is
said to possess wealth, which would
give him independence, a quality
sadly needed in our newspapers
Besides this he possesses learning
experience in public life, personal
courage and ability combined with
a remarkable facility and elasticity
of expression that would enable
him to lay bare many fostering pc.
litical shams and do much good
And if his late defeat shall have the
effect of making of him less par.
tisan and more of patriot than
formerly, both political parties
would be gamer by the castigationf
they would be sure to receive at his
hands.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

THE Butte Montana mines have
shut down in order, if possible, tc
make terms with the railroads. Il
the miners generally would pursue
this course it would be an easy
matter to secure reasonable rates on
ores, but it is doubtful whether the
Butte companies, unsupported, will
be able to accomplish anything, as
the railroads are strong and aim to
leave the miner just enough to en-
courage him to take out and ship
ore, but not cent for profit. Or
ganization can be successfully COM
batted only by counter organization,
and the miners of the Northwest, il
they continue to work their mines
and live, must organize and shut
down all along the line. BY this
means the railroads can be brought
to their senses.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

DURING the month of February
last the Nogales custom-house re-
turns show larger importation of
silver and lead ores from Mexico to
the United States than is shown by
any other month in its history.
This has happened in spite Of the
tariff. Freight rates on ores have
been advanced over the West and
Northwest 40 per cent. Railroad
men own vastly rich silver and
silver-lead mines in Mexico. I'M
portations of ores from that coun-
try are increasing in the face of a
tariff that we were told was intended
to exclude them. Putting this and
that together, it looks like a COM
bination has been formed to which
the railroads are party, by which
the effectiveness Of the tariff, if it
had any, has been overcome.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

GEN. JOSEPH Z. JOHNSTON died at
Washington on the 2lst of heart
failure. General Johnston was the
last, Beauregard excepted, of the
full generals Of the Confederate
army, and was 81 years old at the
time of his death. He participated
in the Blackhawk, Seminole and
Mexican wars, and in the latter was
thrice brevetted for gallantry. Gen.
Johnston was a thorough Southron
and old-school military gentleman,
and aside from the part he took in
our civil war, which was that of q
soldier, his worst enemy would be
at a loss to find anything to say
derogatory Of his character or his
memory,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28
SENATOR PowER of Montan

SENATOR Power, of Montana,
seeking an excuse for his betrayal
of the people Of his state in the
matter of free coinage of silver, de-
clares: ut will not do for three
silver-producing states to attempt
to dictate the financial policy Of the
whole country" The fact is that
Senator Power knows no such state
of things has ever existed. A pop
ular expression Of sentiment on the
subject would show three-fifths OF
the whole people Of the country
favorable to and DESTROYS of free
coinage. m
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28
Horr's History.

All Congressman don't know
everything. It is not natural that
they should. But there are certain
things that all Congressman should
know, and ex-Congressmen Horr
ought to have known better than
to say there were no wire nails made
in this country in 1883, as some of
his constituents will surely know
better. The mandatory of wire
nails began in this country in 1875.
The tariff law as it stood at that
time did not cover the industry !;
but it was accommodated to it so
that a 35 per cent advalorum tax
applied. The nails sold at 20 cents
a pound at FIRST. Without any
change in. the tariff the price COM
menced to drop and continued until
the price had fallen to 4 cents a
pound. Meanwhile the tariff re-
NAMED unchanged. In 1882 the
tariff on wire nails was fixed at
about 4 cents a pound. The pro-
duct had increased from 1000 to
$4,000 kegs a year. The product
of wire nails continued to increase
in quantity and the price to decrease
until ct the time the Mckinley tariff
was adopted, two million kegs per
year we're made, and they were sold
at $2.75 to So per key. Both the
increase in quantity and the de-
crease in price having been brought
about by improved skill and ma
chinery in the manufacture of wire
nails and not by the tariff. In 1890
three million kegs were made and
they were sold at 50 % to 1915 per
key. Is there room in a showing
of this kind for an increase in the
wages of labor?
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28
The territory formerly comprised

The territory formerly comprised
in an Idaho municipality called
Logan county is about as we'll sup.
piled with officials as Idaho is
herself with senators, and very
similar concordance of feeling per-
vades both. 1t is singular to what
an extent political party with
"brainy leaders" can allay popular
discords and harmonic conflicting
interests and selfish ambitions in a
community that without its wise
guidance would be hopelessly rent
by factional disputes and divisions
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

A FIGHT has taken place between
the English and Venezuelans on
the British Guiana frontier, which
promises to result in a war and the
conquest of Venezuela by Great
Britain The Monroe doctrine !"
covers the case. What will the Adj
ministration do about it?
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

ALL of the malta assassins re-
Gently got rid of at New Orleans
were registered as voters. Italy,
therefore, has no claim for damages
and nothing to say about the mat
ter. 1t is our funeral, and Italy,
however needy she may be, will not
have the satisfaction of collecting
the undertaker's bill.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

ACCORDING to Mint Director Leech
ldaho's output of precious metals
for 1889 was 09,445 ounces in gold
and 3,424 ,331 ounces in silver, and
the increase over the previous year
came mostly from Occur d'Alene,
Wood River, Boise and 0wyhee
counties.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

SINCE last week two prominent
National Banks have suspended.
The first to 60 under was the Key
stone of Philadelphia. Later, the
Washington National Bank of New
York went under. It's affairs are
said to be bad. The keystone bank
will make an effort TO resume.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

WIN. DoUGHERrY, brother of the
silser-tongued orator, Dan'l Dough-
erty, died in cellar of private
house in Philadelphia few days
ago, where he had called to beg q
bite to eat. He was q tramp.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28
IDAHO NEWS.

Bellevue Herald: Apiece of rock
few from the sledge of Jas. Granger,
miner at the Nay Aug, while work
ing last Monday, and struck him in
the right eye with sufficient force to
burst it, entirely destroying the
sight.-Logan county has four
Alliance lodges.
Statesman: Judge Milton Kelly
was seized with a stroke of paralysis
about IL O'Clock yesterday at the
Hot Springs. He has been in the
best Of health for some time past,
and the attack was therefore all the
more alarming in its suddenness
The entire right side was involved,
and the judges condition grew so
serious that fears of his death were
entertained. His daughters and 9TH
er members Of his family were i'm
mediately summoned to the springs,
which gave rise to the report cur
rent in the town Of his death. Later
in the afternoon Judge Kelly rallied
somewhat, and at midnight was re-
ported as resting easier, able to
speak little and also to use his
right side to some slight extent.
Shoshone Journal: Improve
ments of every kind have begun
around town.--A few of our cit
liens are yet down with the grippe.
-Taxpayers of Lincoln county
are notified not to allow their prop
erty to be assessed by officials of
old Logan county Logan coun-
ty commissioners have vacated the
office of county treasurer.-Our
commissioners, Senter and Smith,
with Vic Bierbower, attorney for
the board, went to Haley this week
for conference with the commits
sioners of Alta county to decide
what course to pursue in perfecting
the organization of the new coun-
ties. We learn that the two boards
decided to appeal from the order of
the old Logan commissioners in
over $1,000 of Doodle war
rants, and in few days will begin
legal proceedings to recover the
records.
Avalanche: Mr.. Fred Hoher,
who years ago was a prosperous and
highly respected citizen of Silver
City, and large stock owner in the
county, died at the Blackfoot In
sane Asylum on the 7th inst
E. D. Stanley and James Morrison,
two we'll known miners, were seri-
Dusty, though not dangerously hurt
oy a blast, at the Black Jack mine,
asst Monday morning.
News-Miner: B. F. Oliver, just
N from Smoky, reports that Is in
,hes of 800 to 4OO-ounce galena ore
mas lately been struck in the Sun
lay mine, owned by p. NJ. Bruner.
The strike was made at depth Of
$50 feet.-George w. Richards is
improving, and will be on the streets
n a few days.-Thursday morn
ng at 4:3O o'clock the stables and
lwelling house owned by Powers &
Burns, on the west side of lower
Main street, Bellevue, was destroyed
~ fire. It's origin is not known.
Total loss, $500; insurance, 5000.
Messenger: Ben Beagle and VIM.
Sstill started for Sheep Mountain
IN Thursday.-Bud and Grover
Iarlartt of ketchum came in on
Thursdays stage.-The Indians
lave been catching large numbers
If salmon trout during the week.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

The editor of the Shoshone Jour-
nal has received letter from an
old maid and gives it away in his
paper. Evidently the lady thought
him unmarried and wrote with
matrimonial intent.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

The malta threaten to send 1900
men to New Orleans to avenge their
cutthroat comrades, recently dis
patched. Fourteen thousand Mafias
might be enough to start to New
Orleans but not enough to get there.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28
Colored Bditore.

A convention of colored editors
was held at Cincinnati last week
Among their demands was one urg'
ing President Harrison to appoint
colored men on the Columbian Elk
position; also urging the claims Of
q colored man for one of the judges
of one of the nine judicial districts
recently formed. They oppose ex-
patriation, but favor emigration OF
negroes from the overcrowded dis
tricts of the South to Western and
Southwestern states. As might
have been expected, they regret the
failure Of Congress to pass the Blair
Educational bill, and the force bill.
They also denounce determinations
against colored people at the South
on railroads and places of public
resort, and severely criticise the
penal system of that section, which.
by the way, is the worst in existence.
1t is barbarism intensified into the
most wanton cruelty, and cannot
be too often nor too severely de-
neunced. But the equality business
is a social problem that can only
become more complicated by mix
ing it in politics. It will have to
be worked out on social plan, en-
tirely. There may come time
when the two races will meet in this
country upon terms of social equal
ity, but if this time ever comes it
will be the result of a higher culture
among the blacks and not of the
passage of force bills or other kind
of legislation.
Our idea is that nature has placed
an insuperable barrier between the
races, and that its purpose, when
understood, is wise. One evidence
of this is found in the fact that be-
tween each of the various races of
men, there is found to exist strong
aversion to all of the rest; and so far
as We can see, this aversion is little
if at all modified by association,
education or civilization. Equality
of the races is taught by many, but
practiced by few, and by those who
teach it as little as by those who
oppose. Even Charles Sumner re-
fused to invite black men of such
prominence as Fred Douglass, Re-
wells and Nash to a public entertain
ment given by him at Washington
after the war.
The races should treat each other
fairly, kindly and honestly; but
race equality is altogether aside
from questions of political and
financial well-being, and of very
doubtful good to the race in the
contact having the least informa-
ton. 10 the North American In
dian, notwithstanding his grand |
extraordinary cunning
and great self-love, the contiguity |
Of the better informed white race
aas proven death knell. Has not
he black man been saved from a
ike fate by the fact that his 5ubor-
Innate position made his preserva-
ion by the master race a matter
If self-interest to the white man?
But emigration is the right thing
or the black man. By distributing
themselves over the north and west
he most Objectionable feature of
heir presence in the country-that
If negro dominance-will be elimi-
lated and the race problem rendered
hat much easier of solution, and if
here is any place where their real
lights are more respected than an
'ther, it will enable them to find it
nd benefit by it.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

Of duty. It is said that this plant
will give employment to 200 out of
IS. 600, 900 people, and the weighty
circumstance is put down TO the
credit Of the Mckinley bill.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

Mrs. DIMMIcK, Mrs. President
Harrison's sister, and maid of all
work at the White House at 500 a
month, who has enjoyed consider
able notoriety as a factor of the
Harrison administration, has quit
the premises. The reason for the
lady's retirement as related in the
dispatches, is purely republican in
FORM" Mrs. Russell Harrison and
Mrs. Mckee, mother of baby Nc
Kee, imagining that they were being
overshadowed to some extent by
the personal charms and social fas-
cinations of the White House cook,
set about devising ways and means
for the destruction of her power.
They were successful. They caused
it to be whispered about that Mrs.
Dimmick was a hireling, was actu-
ally in receipt of a salary of 500
a month. This bit of information
proved such shock to the highly
strung nerves of the elite of the
Hoosier circle at the capital, that
Mrs. Dimmick was at once COM
PEELED to resign her position and
salary and will henceforth shine
among social equals. She had to
leave the White House. Wonder
full, isn't it? what a differnce the
different salaries paid to servants
does makel The peoples servant
at salary of $4,000 year, is
social grandee, but his sister-in. law
is debased by a salary of 81 200.
Fiddlesticks!
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

A NOTTINGHAM (England) lace
mandatory will be brought to the
United States, the custom house
officials having agreed to admit ma
chinery to the value Of 500, 600 free
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

The Cars brother whips his
wife, when he is not busy hiding
from the nihilists,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

GOVERNOR HILL, of New York,
Is emerging from his quarrel with
Henry Waterson, a very much re-
duced molehill.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

MAINE has rejected the Austria
liam ballot law. Well, it isn't easy
to manipulate elections under that
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

New MEXICO has at last legalized
a system of free schools, thus plac.
ing herself squarely on the United
States platform.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

THE Washington legislature ap-
propriates 81. 1879 for the expen-
ses of that state for the next two
years.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

ALL of the nine federal judges
recently appointed by Harrison,
were republicans. The victor takes
the spoils whether they belong to
him or not.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

The Salt Lake Times says there
is a millionaire editor in that city.
If that is so divvy is in order.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

ARIZONA has appropriated $780,
600 and New Mexico $4,000 for a
Worlds Fair exhibit, and it is
claimed that citizens of New Mex
leo will give twice as much more.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

A NEGRO millionaire by the name
of White died at Brooklyn, New
York, recently. He was probably
the only millionaire Of his race in
the country,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

A REVEREND Mr.. Lane attempted
to preach to newspaper men at Salt
Lake last Sunday, but when they
had assembled the weight of sin
proved too great for the floor, which
gave way, precipitating the whole
mass into the cellar. The inciden,
will improve Mr., Lanes sense of the
lad;ccous, if it has no other effect.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-03-28

The real estate exchange of Dir
mfngham, Ala, has called a meeting
of real estate men from all over the
country to meet in that city, March
Goth, and form a national real estate
exchange. Some such organization
as this might improve the atmos-
phere of real estate deals, and the
reputation of those engaged in the
business. tits worth trying.