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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
a TIMELY WARNING.

4 Contemporary Points Out the Necessity
of RaIIying to the Defense of sound
Principles.
1t is apparent from the actions OF the
Holton convention that alliance farm
ers still belonging to the peoples party
are members thereof by reason of some
thing higher and more sacred than the
spoils of office. The party represents,
TO them. an ideal of government 1t
stands for concrete and tangible re
forms" to which they are attached 1t
embodies political principles in behalf
of which they regard themselves as
vitality interested
To the people of the state who are
better educated than these alliance
party men in the principles of govern
ment, there is a warning in the result
at Holton. The farmers who are still
attached to the fat heresy mean bust
ness, and it behOoves every man inter
ested in the welfare of the government
to fight this heresy down. The good
name of the state imperatively requires
it. No honest democrat can afford 70
play with such peril. The distribution
of the offices, or any other mere incident
of government, is an insignificant mat
ter compared with this fundamental
concern of good citizenship. The duty
of the people of Kansas this year Is to
stand against the organization which
proposes to flood the country with rot
ten currencv-Topeka Capital
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
WORLDS FAIR CITY.
Its Interest in the Arts, the Sciences
and Education
An Extensive Public school System-Im-
portance of Combining Theory and
PractIce-Educational Division OF
the Columbian Exposition.
Especial Correspondence


CHICAGO, June 6.-The name of Chi
cago is coupled everywhere with indus
trial and commercial progress. Never
theless the city is beginning to develop
the higher functions of life, and with
true Chicago genius it reaches out at
once for the best. A sure material
basis is necessary before the iutcllec-
tual and spiritual parts of our nature
can be developed. So Chicago laid
foundation of material prosperity first.
There was time. not so very long ago,
either. when people said that in Chicago
they begin building houses with the
roof and thence downward to the base
ment They were not altogether wrong.
II is 4 common thing now, and was
much more common few wears ago, to
raise the low frame dwelling and put
Easements underneath.
But since they began building for a
city that was destined to be the greatest
on this continent, people laid solid
foundations and looked to the future in
erecting buildings.
So they are doing in the arts, sciences
and education. a magnificent art
temple is rising on the lake front,
which will be sufficient for many years
to come. A huge public library build
ing is going up in the immediate vicin-
ity. It will be able to house the larg-
est collection of books, and the one
now owned by the city, be it said, by
the way, is none of the meanest. The
Chicago university. now being built
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
ENTRANCE TO PUBLIC LIBRARY.

of modern pedagogues, Friedrich
Fraebel, l have her statement that
the Cook county normal school carries
out the Fraebel idea of education from
the documentary degrees to the teach
ers' seminary more completely than any
other institution in the world, IN
theory, at least True, there are some
faults in the practical execution OF the
idea, but they must be attributed more
to the opposition which the new idea
has encountered, and the consequent
curtailing of means to give 1t the fullest
play, than TO any lack OF a proper ap-
probation of the idea.
The city Of Chicago, exclusive Of the
county of Cook, which is really COM
posed Only of suburbs to the city prop
er, has to-day 1872 schools, OF which
twelve are high schools. The small
number of high schools goes TO show
that the general rudimentary educa-
ton of the masses is the prime object
sought and attained. There are en-
rolled il the city schools 1ee,264 pupils,
of whom 62,713 only are in private
schools. The army OF teachers in the
public schools numbers 1888. The
total tax levy for school purposes
amounts 10 s4.25O, 600. and there is a
bonded school debt of -, O36,OOO. The
salaries of teachers reach an annual
total of about 100000. and about
STOO, 600 is expended on new buildings
The estimated expenditures for the
year 1872 are not far from S6,OO0,OO0.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
PUBLIC LIBRARY.

and organized, is attracting to itself
the best talent and the ripest scholars
in the land.
1t is not necessary, however, to look
to the future in order to show that Chi
cago is not behindhand in its educa-
tional system, at least. The public
school system is most extensive and
elaborate It is not yet equal to the
demand, it is true, but therein it only
shares the condition of many of our
public institutions growing unavoid-
ably out of the pheuomenally
rapid development of the city.
With scarcely greater means sup
piled by taxation than other cities this
municipality not only has to keep up
its establishment. but is continually
building up new features. 1t has to do
in a few decades what other cities
of its size have spent centuries IN de-
veloping. Hence the expenditures by our
school authorities may appear ex-
traordinary. But if it is considered
that it is not merely matter of keep
ing up the schools, but also of extend
ing the system, erecting new school
houses to satisfy the needs OF popula-
ton increasing ordinarily at the rate OF
over $4,000 a year, and Introducing
studies which were not required in
more primitive condition, the wonder
must be rather that so much is accom-
plished with such limited means. Still
the school taxes are high. But Chi
cagoans do not grumble. If there is
any tax they pay willingly, even cheer
fully. it is the school tax, for they feel
that there can be no better investment
of money than in good education for
their children.
AS in other things, so in educational
affairs Chicago is for progress. 1t be-
lieves in the most intelligent, modern
ideas of education. Does it not sound
strange in the ears of many people that
the Windy city," the city of hog pack
ing and grain shipping, should have the
most perfect Fraebel institute in the
world? Yet this is true. can speak
by the card in this regard. Being in
a position to hear frequently and di-
rectly from the widow of the greatest
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
eoNOHoLDERS."
The Folly of Peoples Party Organs shown
in Their Treatment of a Question of Tax


The Folly of Peoples Party Organs shown
in Their Treatment of a Question of Tax
alton
The reiterated shrek of peoples par
ty organs to tax ''plutOcratic bondhold-
ers'' over and over again is as idiotic as
it is vain. In the first place il is moral
" wrong to impose taxes on bonds
when the property which they simply
invoice is already taxed. Then, again,
a tax on bonds can not be very success
fully collected if it is imposed 1t is
not likely n millionaire bOndhOlder is
going to remain long in Kansas il the
tax collector is after him every year for
a few hundred thousand dollars Grant
ed that the people have been abused by
the so-called plutocracy, some sense
ought to be shown in the remedies pro-
posed Straight-out reputation IS pref
cradle by its plain dishonesty to the
futile sneak-thieving proposed by the
peoples party. 1t is all wasted effort
If the British government could impose
tax on securities held in London
enough might be realized to pay
all imperial expenses; but what
would follow such an attempt? The
holders would Immediately leave for
some other city where the authorities
would not act so foolishly, and London
would be financially dead. SO. New
York might get more than enough to
pay metropolitan expenses if it could
collect current rates of taxation on
bonds held in that city. But, as an i'm
mediate exodus of the exchanges would
follow, it would not get its tax, and. in
stead. would lose vitality by the depart
ure of its well-to-do citizens To super
fetal observers it would appear that
bonds ought to be taxed; but, inasinuch
as they represent debt on property
already taxed. reason is shown that
their tax alton is hardly to be defended
Added to which is the uncollectable ma
ture Of the impost. Bonds, except in
rare cases, have never paid taxes, and
the peoples party will have more than
human ability if it can devise scheme
which will successfully extract taxes
| from paper securities.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
To Find Your Car when Abroad.

Every traveller is aware Of the
trouble and annoyance that is often ex-
perienced on a long railway journey
when. after alighting for few minutes
from ones carriage, the bell rings and
the driver blows his whistle, while
the bewildered traveller is franticauy
running up and down trying TO recog-
nize his carriage from a dozen others,
all built alike and painted the same
color. Here he cannot, as in England,
Jump into an empty compartment, for
in France the practice of overflllng
prevails, so that he must either find
his place or lose the train. The Paris
Lyons Company has adopted an in
genious device which will put an end
TO all this worry and also make il
easier for trains to start punctually
from intermediate stations II is due
u an engineer, NJ. Edouard Gros, and
was to be seen working for the first
time on the Marseilles express NJ.
eros remarked that the number painted
outside the carriage, often running into
five figures, is the very last thing that
will strike a passenger or fix itself in
his memory. His device consists in
placing outside the carriage an
enameled plate with, as he calls il, a
synbolical figure, in blael; and white,
Paris Cor. London Telegraph
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
Things That Mon,t Nix.

The peoples party in Miami county
seems to be in bad way. On the Goth
of May the regular convention was held
and anti-fusion delegates were elected
to the various nominating conventions
of the party. This was not pleasing IN
the eyes of the democrats and the ALI
ance place hunters and tixers, so they
gathered themselves together last
Saturday, resolved for fusion and
elected contesting delegations This
attempted mixing of spoils and prinei-
pie is one of the things that is killing
the peoples party. They won't mix
and the sooner those who are repre-
senting principle give up the contest
with the fixers and get back into to re-
publican party where they belong the
better it will be for them--Emporia
Republican
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
NEW ART INSTITUTE.

training is not a fad, provided it is
properly handled. We are accustomed
to trace the faculty of reasoning to the
senses of sight and hearing. But the
sense of touch Is, perhaps, quite as
necessary. A scientist attempted re-
Gently to base the entire faculty of
reason and speech upon the sense of
touch. He showed how the parrot sur
passed all birds and most other animals
in intelligence and articulation of
speech if that term may be
used of animal language, and argued
that it was due to the fact
that the parrot had an oppos-
ing thumb on its feet which en-
abled it, as the hand enables man, to
feel of objects and get true idea of
their form, which the eyes would not
reveal
The Chicago board of education be-
gan some years ago to Introduce man.
ual training in the high schools, setting
apart certain rooms and hours and
making the study optional But it was
found more convenient to establish
separate manual training school, which
is now in operation and is located on
West Monroe street near Halsted- II
ranks with the high schools and in
cludes all the high school studies ex-
cept Latin and Greek and the higher
sciences like geology and biology.
The manual training department en-
braces chiefly woodworking room in
which the important branches of that
industry are taught, and blacksmith
and machine shop. These two lines are
representative OF all the leading indus
tries and fit young man for any trade
he may take up in life.
But the main point in connection with
manual training is not the special
knowledge of q trade which a child
may acquire. ''As to any learning that
a man may acquire by school educa-
tion," says Thomas Paine, 1t serves
rather as small capital to put him in
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17

The above table is good evidence of the
prosperity which exists in this county
Wheat is looking well and healthy and
every wheat grower is happy. Iexam-
ined thirty-fve reports from the wheat
growers made TO party who has charge
OF about 125 farms owned by non-resi-
dents and occupied by tenants, and
thirty-four out of the thirty-tive said
their wheat was good Those who have
corn up report IT in good condition, not
withstanding the cool weather. Corn
is looking remarkably we'll One gen
tleman who was waiting for warmer
weather said that his corn ground never
was in better order and believe there
will be a good crop of wheat, corn and
oats in Kansas and that Kansas farm
ers will be liberal buyers of Kansas City
merchandise this fall. Yours truly,
WILLIAM E GOwDT.
Ellsworth, Kan, June l, 1892
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
THE ALLIANCE IN ERROR.


The sub-Treasury Assertions of the Peo-
piles Party shown to Be Without Foun-
dalton.
Senator Cockrell has received from
Commissioner Mason of the internal
revenue bureau, another letter supple
rentary to the one received some weeks
ago, in which the commissioner stated
the true relations existing between the
government and the distillers of spirits,
in answer to certain arguments made by
the advocates of the Farmers Alliance
sub-treasury scheme, based on the as
sumption that the government pays all
or the greater part of the cost Of stor-
ing spirits awaiting consumption The
commissioner in this last letter states
some additional facts bearing on the
subject, which are in substance:
L That it is not true that the govern
ment pays the salaries and fees of store
keepers and gaugers, but that, as mat
ter of fact, under the present law 5 per
cent of the tax was imposed to defray
these expenses, and that the revenue
from this percentage of the tax is now
sufficient 10 more than defray the entire
cost of maintenance of the internal rev.
euue bureau, inclusive of the salaries
and fees OF the storekeepers and gaugerA
= The popular impression that all
spirits are warehoused for three years
is erroneous, and in fact fully one-half
of the production is withdrawn and the
tax paid within the one calendar month
after manufactured
& Spirits exported without payment
| of internal revenue tax are not privl-
legged above other manufactures as Is
generally supposed, for all goods sub
iect to internal revenue tax are subject
To the same exemption when exported
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
NO COMFORT FOR THEM.
Friends of Calamity HowIing Over ImaS-
mary Grievances.

mary Grievances.
Secretary Rusk has made valuable
and exceedingly interesting contribu-
ton TO the industrial statistics of the
country in his published report on the
wages of farm labor in the United
States. It furnishes no comfort or en-
couragement for the calamity hOwlers-
His carefully prepared tables show that
in 1S66 monthly farm wages, exclusive
of board. were as follows: In eastern
states. 1881: middle states, SO. S3;
southern states, Sl6.6S; western states,
s27.s4; mountain states, s27.23; Pacific
states, s44.6O, the average being s26.sI.
The lowest point was reached in 1SI9,
when the average was S16.05. From
that time, however, they have steadily
increased until at the present time they
are: In eastern states, $3.50; middle
states, S23.33; southern states, sI4s6;
western, s22.61, mountain, PIG; Pa
cific, $50. Is; the average per month for
the whole year being $500. The re-
port further says that a careful analysis
Shows that in fifty years the eompensa-
ton of farm labor has very nearly
doubled.-Kansas City Gazette
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
FIxERS UNIFIED.
Failure of the Kansas City Dark Lanter
GrnrG-

Failure of the Kansas City Dark Lantern
Crowd.
The surprising result of the First dis
triet peoples party convention at Hol-
ton shows that the fxers reckOned
without their host when they agreed
upon 4 basis of fusion at that kansaS
CITY conference. The most of the fxers
went from Kansas City direct to the
Holton convention for the purpose OF
running it according to the plans and
specifications laid down by the confer
ence. 1t was the plan of the frsionists
to nominate Col. W. A. Harris, of Leav-
enworth county, for congress, and for
week past it had been generally sup
posed that this programme would be
carried out without serious opposition
Col. Harris is one of the ablest as well
as one of the most popular men
in the peoples party and his de-
feat at Holton is due entirely TO the
fact that his candidacy was urged by
the fusionists, who proposed to have
him withdraw in the interest of dem
ocrat when the campaign got fairly
started. The farmers refused to become
the TOOLS OF JheSe SCuc4ACAS ohu HOAAAA
mated Fred J. Close, of Doniphan cOun-
ty, straight allianceman, who will re-
main on the ticket until election day.
Thus the first attempt TO enforce the
terms of the Kansas City sale proves a
ridiculous failure. The fxers are men
of a good deal OF nerve, but is doubtful
if they will be able to tackle the state
convention at Wichita after being so in
gloriously defeated in little district
gathering. 1t is probable, therefore,
that the result of the Holton convention
will put an end to the farce--EmpOria
Par,1 blipan
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17

An old miner once expressed himself
in regard to the different classes of men
who occupy themselves with mining:
There are the men who have the
theory down fine" he said: they I'M
derstand ali about how to do it. but,
after all, they can't do it. There are
the practical men who don't really I'M
derstand how, but they do it just the
same. Then there are the men who
have both theory and practice, and
generally they don't understand it and
can't do it, either"
Nevertheless the necessity of com
bining theory and practice has long
been recognized, but only recently at
tempts are made TO introduce the prae-
teal part into our schools. Manual
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
MAIN ENTRANCE TO ART INSTITUTE

MAIN ENThANCE ~ AM lNSAIlI L.
the way OF beginning learning for
himself afterwards"
The main principle of manual train
ing is to counteract the purely intellec-
tual training of our schools and thus
produce men and women of har-
monious development, ready to turn
to any speciality that nature
may have fitted them for and
bring to bear upon it not any special
talents or requirements alone, but the
entire weight of fully developed and
rounded human nature, of man 80
trained in his youth, as Prof.
Huxley says, that his body per-
forms with ease and grace all
the functions which as a mechanism
it is capable of: whose intellect is q
clear, cold logic-engine with all its
parts of equal strength, ready TO be
turned to any kind of work and forge
the anchors as we'll as spin the Cos
samers of the mind" That IS the high
est ideal of education. And it is this
goal that the board of education of Chi
cago is striving to attain. To this end
physical training has been introduced
in our public schools with most re-
narkable enlivening effect, and choral
singing has also been added to the curric-
ulum.
The educational division of the
worlds fair bids fair to be highly inter
esting 1t is under the management Of
Selim II. Peabody, formerly president
of the state university at Champaign,
Ill
The exhibit will embrace charts and
tables and all objects employed in in
structiOn. The woman's department
coutemplates a kindergarten in the
woman's building, which is to be kept
in operation continually.
III. f. O. HEISENANS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
Eruption Of n Pimple.

If the peoples party committee on
discipline has concluded its seanee with
Elder and Snow, We move that 1t now
proceed to settle the little differences
between Ives and MeLallin- The boil
ing and rumbling in the Advocate for
the last few weeks promises volvanic
eruption of considerable magnitude
shortly if proper precautions are not
taken.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-06-17
CENTRAL KANSAS PROSPERITY.

Mortgages Are Decreasing Crops Are
Promising and Farmers Are Happy.
To the Kansas City Star: The fol-
lowing table shows increase and de-
crease of farm mortgages in Ellsworth
county, Kan, from September, 1891, to
lime 1892:
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-16
ELKINS MAY RUN

A Report That Harrison Has Induced
Him to Come to the Rescue of the
Presidential Ticket
Ssaa. telegram 20 ne Rs0istsr.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 15.-It is
now believed here that If President
Harrison is renominated at the Mime
apO..s Convention, Secretary of War
Es.ns will be the Republican candidate
ior Governor of West Virginia. Up TO
aiew days ago Mr.. ElkinS, in talking
with bis friends declined 20 take Seri-
ols.y the suggestion that he should be
candidate. He is said 10 have
nnuated again and again that
there was nothing In the place for
1m, and his friends pointed that
N was absurd TO expect a man who had
attained the national prominence OF
ArEsiuS 90 ''bury himself ia Charles
Nl Tor four years for a salary Of S2,TOO
sla2r. But in the last few days Mr..
talns has assumed different line 10
Speaking of jhe GovernOrship of West
Virginia. 10 is not stated he has said
--l1l,e.y he would accept the nOmlna-
loa, out be has talked In a way 90 con-
vince those who have discussed the sub
ec, with him that be means 90 be
candidate IL Harrison is nominated
Z. Minneapolis. From this tits fair
l.sreoce that Mr. Elkins means 70 sac
Dlla himself at the command of Har-
,'on, wh0n0 doubt believes that his
secretary OF War VIII be able TO capture
,' y. l.m the coveted electoral votes OF
west Virginia, aud at the same time
S' '1e GoyernorShlpe for himself.
.',laps Mr.. Harrison would not insist
AIS Secretary OF War running for
','eTnor lt he was aware of the man
Il which West Wir-
-@ Democrats take the announcement
NJ -el1sS probable candidacy. The
"s', Virginia Democrats are Hot at all
,s'lIo3ed at the prospect; i'm fact they
-A Their other eye in q way which
F,-.les they are quite ready for Mr..
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-16
AGAINST CATHOLICISM.
A Lecture by Rev. DIR. Justin ID. Fulton
in New York Last Night.

in New York Last Night
New York, May 15.-Rev. DR.. JUS
tin D. Fulton spoke tonight in this
city on the topic, "Shall the Columbian
Exposition be Romanized." He re-
ferred to the growing influence of
Catholicism in the United States as
something to be greatly feared by all
loversof freedom.
He predicted that in the near future
a great war would be waged between
Catholics and Protestants in the United
States by which Catholicism would be
deeply buried as was slavery by the civil
war. He offered resolutions which were
seconded by Rev DR.. d. d. McLaurin
and unanimously carried.
The resolutions condemned Mrs.
Palmer for requesting the participation
Of the Pope in the Woman's Depart
ment of the Exposition and in the relic
department. They suggested to Mrs.
Palmer that If she wanted Catholic rel
les she should procure some of the in
struments of torture of the inquisition.
Referring to the announced deter
minaton of the Pope to write an en-
cyclical letter at the time of the Chi
cago Fair in which he would trace the
life of Columbus and indicate the part
taken by the Holy See. The resolution
reads:
at is to be hoped that Leo NH will
be explicit and describe the man Pope
Alexis VII who, as Bishop, Cardinal
and Pope, is a synonym for infamy.
History will tell Mrs. Palmer that the
life of Alexis VII in relation to his
daughter, Lucretia, and others is such
tnat il cannet be described"