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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-02
Various Ties That Bind.

8pprenend there are some people
now in the Republican party who
would be in the Peoples party if
there were more broadcloth, and silk
hats in the latter.
Most Of US have too much defer
ence for wealth independent of other
considerations. Bushes considera-
tons influence many; more than does
conviction.
| l know some men of whom one
would expect better things who find
moro satisfaction in having the
president of a bank or some promin-
ent lawyer-politlcian give them a
patronizing hand-shake or pat them
on the shoulder than they would in
standing BY manly conviction when
such a manly stand deprives them of
the patronizing. hypocritical obse-
qulous attention of the rich and inhu-
entail. Vanity and excessive love of
appreciation are the predominating
influences with such mon. They feed
on t1attery and adulation, and. strange
to say. are often unconscious of their
weakness.
Heaven pity such men! Whether
preachers. lawyers, physicians. bust
ness men. or laborers; verify they get
| their reward.
Courageous devotion to conviction
| always wins respect
Social ties hold many mon in party
lines. Selfish ties hold legions.
Almost Infinite are the motives and
forces which prompt men to affiliate.
Intelligence motives and purpose
determines strength and duration of
affiliations.
In society. as in nature. no organi-
cation is fixed and Interchangeable.
Interchangeable fxation would be ever
lasting deadness
Organization is a primary law in
nature. The universe and the plan
cts were evolved from chaos by sys-
tematic monadic organization. and
concentration of Observation-Disclosures
units coagmented. This law pre-
walls in the animal and vegetable
kingdoms and is prominently and
beautifully illustrated in the forma-
ton of minerals It is natural to or
ganize. Individual isolation is de-
cay, and eventually dissolution. Ex-
istence' vital strength and potent &C
ton depend upon sagacious organ1za-
ton. It is right to organize. It is
wisdom. 1t is strength. Organize!
But all organizations are inevitably
and invariably subje to aggregation
disintegration, and eventually to dis
organization.
Political organizations are not ex-
| captions to the rule.
Don't contend against the inevitable
changes demanded as a sequence to
| perpetual evolution and advancing
| civilization.
New things are only new in forma-
ton. Topeka Advocate and Tribune.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-02
Clearly Mattel.

Tho platform adopted by the Peo-
pies party Of Connecticut is a model.
Short. clear cut and to the point. it
tells the voter in words that permit of
only one meaning just what the party
believes and desires to do. Believing
Implicitly in the wisdom of the meas
ures 1t advocates the Peoples party
does not find it necessary 10 dazzle
and befog the electorate by the use of
glittering phrases intended to oh.
scure rather than make plain the in
tent of the trainers of its platform. A
party OF plain people it speaks to the
plain people in plain language telling
simply the reforms it believes to be
needed and pledging itself to work for
them. The trainers of the Connecti-
cut platform have been peculiarly
happy in their choice of words in
which to put their views before the
electors. Take their land plank, for
example. which reads as follows:
I'VE desire that assessments be 50
levied on real estate that the bur-
den shall be borne by the proprietors
OF those locations which the growth
and industry of the whole people
have made valuable, and not by the
farmers scanty crop by the mechan-
les modest home. nor by the mer-
chants depreciating stock"
This gives the whole doctrine of
land reform in the compass OF a SEN
tence. A chapter upon the right OF
the community to the unearned incre-
ment on land could not make the evil
effects OF the system Of land monopoly
more clear. journal of the Knights
of Labor.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-02

The doctors say that during the
cholera season all fruit must be cooked.
but most people will draw the line at
boiled watermelon.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-02
Onward.

OAVaTOs
There are people who think or pre-
tend to think that the world makes
little real advancement; that history
is simply repeated over and over
again; that we travel around in a lit
tie circle. creating only to see our
creations tumble. Wendell Phillips
used to talk eloquently of the forgot
ten arts, as if the world with its pres
ent magnificent civilization was but
little in advance Of the brilliant civil
ization that had preceded ours. To a
degree this view of the worlds prog
ress or lack Of progress is correct.
Valuable arts have been lost; and
while we surpass our predecessors in
some directions they surpassed US
in others. But in many respects
and particulars that are most inter-
esting to mankind-the world has
made and is making progress which
nothing has been able or ever will be
able permanently to impede. We are
marching onward to broader liberty
and to a more universal recognition
of justice between man and man. The
"OAAu OuAIuS oil Cuo CeuGurloS JudJ
were marked by a fendish inhum-
anity to manly tyranny and
bloodshed and assassination - was
longing for and pushing toward the
freedom and self-g government which
was established on this continent over
hundred years ago. The men who
settled this country and the men who
established this republic were men in
whom all the protestations against
wrong and tyranny had seemingly
centered and they were men who
themselves had suffered oppression to
such a degree that their courage and
loyalty to justice and humanity gave
birth to the immortal sentiment
Give me liberty or give me death. !"
We might as well attempt to turn the
sun from it's course or wave back the
waters of the mighty waterfall with a
motion of the hand as to attempt to
blot out popular government born on
the battle fields that were crimson
with the blood of such men. The
time will never come when popular
government shall cease to exist where
the American flag to-day casts it's
shadow of protection and authority.
Farmers Voice.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-02
> millionaire,s words.

On August 20. 1892. Erastus VII
man. of New York. one of the richest
and most influential men of this ma
ton. stirred by the Buffalo strike.
spoke as follows: /,
Ours is an age of com bination.
Capital combines and so does labor.
Capital organizes into trusts. Labor
organizes into unions brotherhoods
and associations; and now l say-and
mark well my words-the possibili-
ties of organized capital are ten thou
sand times more dangerous to the
public than are the possibilities of or
Troop A, at Buffalo. engaged in OPP
pressing ATS laboring men who have
struck. He is supporting, regret to
think. unjust organized capital. They
represent organized labor. l regret
that he is there regret that 6. 600
Of our state militia should be there
overawing men who wish an hours
pay for an hours work.
One of the roads engaged in this
switchman's trouble the Lehigh
Valley road. is a party to the So
called coal trust 1t controls 20 per
cent of the anthracite coal land in the
country. The New Jersey Central
controls another 20 per cent and the
Reading system, as l was told in my
own house only two months ago. con-
trolls 81 per cent Here you have
over 80 per cent of the coal product
Of the country under the control OF
three corporations and one of these
three the Reading. has far from
enviable financial reputation, and
pays its employees according to it's
reputation. Another road, the Lehigh.
now implicated in the swltchmen's
trouble would like to reduce
wages to the Reading standard and
send up coal to the Reading price. If
these roads should SO wish, they could
refuse next winter to send coal to
Buffalo or New York City for that
matter
Again I say. the possibilities of Or
ganized capital are ten thousand
times more dangerous to the public
than the possibilities of organized
labor. l know that I am guilty of
outrageous heresy in so saying. but I
read the news every morning which
'tirs my blood. and l must let it out
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1892-12-02
Feeding The Devil.


The Chinese have upon their
calendar of feats one that is called
Feeding the Devil" 1t occurs only
once in three years but when it does
occur it is All important one. and
frequently lasts several days There
was one recently celebrated in Cali
Fornia. and in explaining it to
newspaper correspondent one of the
Cinnamon said:
IA Chinaman give devil heap big
supper; bimeby he go sleep. China
man burn him all gone. He no more
come back to Chinatown three year
steal Chinaman "-meaning that the
evil spirits were feasted until they
become stupid from commanding.
when they were burned, and would
aot trouble the earth for three years.
The American people are not
heathenish enough to attempt to
propitiate ''Old Clootie' after the
manner of the Chinese-and yet it
occurs to us that practically there
is a very big devil to which they
make far more costly sacrifices.
The big devil to which we refer is
the one known as panic and bank
ruptcy.
The feast is not celebrated every
three years-only at irregular inter-
vals-but when it does come off it is
huge affair."
1t is a reality instead of rite.
The beating of drums and the
chanting of songs are not sufficient
1t requires an actual Offering of
human hearts, hopes and happiness.
1t is devil that is not content with
anything less than the absolute ruin
of the great mass of farmers manu-
lecturers and wage-workers
The priests and musicians of the
American performance are made up
Of bankers and fund They
are the principal actors. And like
the heather prototypes they pick up
the crumbs that fall from the sacrl-
fetal altar. Also. like the Chimes
priests, they conspire with this devil
in order to profit themselves by and
through the propitiatory feast
1t would be a becoming thing in
both Chinese and Americans to ban
ish both devil and priests-once and
forever Chicago Sentinel.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-26
Herbert Spencer.
Lippincott's Magazine.

Herbert Spencer, the great philosopher,
is profoundly bald-headed man, of mid
ding height. considerably rounded at
the shoulders, with a firm mouth,
soft gray eyes, and pinky white
cheeks framed in curly. gray side whis-
kers, and still adheres to the broadcloth
frock coat. low-cut waistcoat, stand-up
black crayat. and over CATERS of long
ago. Despite the immense burden of
learning which he carries. he IS singn
larly modest; has the gentlest of voices
and is almost feminine in manner. He
is now Internationally, and started
out in life as a civil engineer, with a
desire to make reputation as mathe-
matician. He IS unmarried. and has but
few intimate personal friends. 1t is
related that his doctor once told him it
was not good for such a man as he to live
alone, as his solitary meals were apt to be
marred by thinking too much on
deep subjects, and he advised him
to stay for awhile in some boarding
house, where the dinner-table talk would
be conducted by nice. CHEEKY brainless
folk. He went, but did not stay long.
1t came to his ears that the pleasant lady
whose seat was next 10 him at table was
q sad disappointment. A friend asked
her how she liked the boarding house;
could she recommend it? "Oh, yes, l
think l cam" she replied 'but there
is Mr.. Spencer who thinks that he
knows about science and philosophy. l
have to correct him every night!' He
lives quietly among his books in an old
fashioned house in Regents park, but
dimes out often, generally at the Athe
n2um Club, and occasionally visits place
of amusement. Comic opera is his de-
light. He finds in it an offset to his lucu-
brations upon the data of ethics. For
he is still yeritable glutton for
work, and is at times obliged to suspend
all mental application for weeks, being
completely Frustrated by nervous COL
lapse No matter how fine the day, he
carries an umbrella. He also carries
about a couple of little plugs in his pocket.
and whenever conversation around him
becomes annoying he takes them out
and puts them in his ears and thus
becomes deaf to the chatter about
him. He was the lifelong friend of George
Eliot, and has known all the celebri ties
of the day; but, like Carlyle, he
has persistently declined all academic or
other honors, and he is the bete noire
of the autograph collector, whose excuse
universally conceded to be the greatest
thinker in the world, he is not widely
read. as he pays but little attention to
his literary style and frequently writes
in an incomprehensible vein. SO that,
though his books have been translated
into Polish, Greek. Chinese and other
uncongenial tongues. they do not cover
the cost of publication, to say nothing
of the profit supposed to be lett for the
author. In fact, he hardly makes enough
to support his style OF extreme simple
ity; yet. withal life is very pleasant to
him. He relates with great gusto of a let
ter he received not long since from a pub
Usher in the far West asking how much
he would take for the exclusive right to
publish his poem The Faerie Queen" in
the United States.
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yet their more righteous contem pit never
Tor one instant permits them TO he
their real selves in his presence. In con-
sequence, his most conscientious report of
them, their ways, lives, and interests
is absolutely of no importance or value In
the world. He never knew them. nor will
he ever know them. They are not his
kind OF people, any more than he is their
kind of man; and their disappointment
grieves us more than his.
MANY of the truely heroic ancestry of
our best people, grew unguestionably
dialect of cast-not alone in speech, but
in every mental TRAIT and personal adj
dress. 1t is a grievous fact for us to
confront, but many OF them wore
apparel of the commonest. talked loudly,
and doubtless said ''thisaway'' and "that
away" and "Whatchy' doin' OFF," and
'Whur y goin' at?'-using dialect
even in their prayers to Him
who, in His gentle mercy, listened
and was pleased; and who listens verify
unto this hour to all like prayers, yet
pleased; yea, haply listens even to the re-
fined rhetorical petitions Of those who are
not pleased.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-26
AsFaiiure in Education.


When one reviews the course of in
struction i'll schools and colleges with the
intention of discovering how much of it
contributes directly to the development of
reasoning power, one cannot but be struck
with the very small portion of time de-
voted to this ai-important object. No
amount of memoriter study of languages or
of the natural sciences and no attain
ments in arithmetic will protect a man or
woman-except imperfectly through a
certain indirect cultivation Of general in
teliigence-from succumbng to the first
plausible delusion or sophisn he or she
may encounter. No amount of such
studies Will protect one from he
lieving in astrology. or the
strikes. or boycotts, or in the
persecution of Jews or of Mormons, or
in the violent exclusion of non-union men
from employment. One is fortified against
the acceptance of unreasonable PROPOSE
tons only by skill in determining facts
through observation and experience, by
practice IN comparing facts or groups
of facts. and by the unvarying
habit Of questioning and verify
ing allegations. and of distinguishing
between facts and differences from facts,
and between true cause and an antece-
dent event. One must have direct train
ing and practice In logical speech and
writing before ne can be quite safe against
specious rhetoric and Imaginative oratory.
Many popular decisions are founded on
the commonest of iallacies-this
preceded that, therefore this caused
that: or. in shorter phrase.
what preceded caused. For example, |
was sick; | took such and such u medi-
cine and became well; therefore, the med
icine cured me-. During the Civil War the
government issued many millions OF paper
money, and some men became very rich:
therefore, the way 10 make ali men richer
must be 10 issue from the government
presses an indefinite amount OF paper
monev. The wages of American working
men are higher than those OF English in
the same trades; protection has been the
policy the nited States and approximate
free trade the policy OF England therefore
high tariffs cause high wages. Bessemer
steel is much cheaper now than Ii was
twenty years ago; there has been 4 tariff
tax on Bessemer steel III the United States
for the past twenty years; therefore the
TAX Cheapened the steel. England. France
and Germany are civilized aud prosperous
nations; they have enormous public
blessing. He must carry lthuriels
spear and wear stout arnor who
can always expose and resist this
iailacv. IL is not only the uneducated or
the little educated w no are vauqu!shed by
IT, There are many educated people who
have little better protection against deiu-
s.ons and sophisEls than the une3ucaied:
for the simple reason that their education,
though prolonged aud elaborate. was still
DO, OF q kind 10 tram their judgment and
reasoning powers.
The convenience of a Jar OF Cudahy's
Rex Brand Extract of Beef is never better
appreciated than when some grocer's lust
out"
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Dialect in Literature.

James " hltCOmb R3Iey N The FOrzlnl
So we find dialect as = branch % ntsrs
ture. worthy OF the high attention and
employment OF the greatest master in
letters-not the nerest mourtebank.
Let no inpious faddist then.
assume its just interpretation. He
may know everything else IN the
world. but not dialect. nor dialeczic peo-
pie. for both OF which be has supreme
contempt. which same. be sure,
is heartily returned. Such = ''su-
perior" parsonage may even GO
among these sunpie country people and
abide indefinitely II the midst % them,
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Even Bath Dian,t sober r.m.

George Layton, who had been eelebrat-
ing Christmas with liberal potations of
Railroad avenue whisky. fell into the
water at the foot of Washington sereet last
night and was rescued by Of,icer Glass
cock, who put him on Ballard scar and
started him home. About 2 o. cloA 0.ti Ger
Mike Powers found him stretched out on
the sidewalk on Fifth street. neSr Main,
sound asleep. AT the police station he
was so drunk that he could not tell his
name, and when asked how he tell4nto the
bay managed 10 say that he did NOT know
how he GOT in or ont.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-26
A VERY Sad Christmas.

Intelligence has just reached this city of
the death OF Mrs f. L. Thompson,
nee Gass. whose parents reside at
Ellensburg, this state Miss Gass was
married on December Ii, at her old home
in Paris, KY, to Mr.. E. L. Thompson,
agent for the Great Northern railway at
Fairhaven, and the happy bride of week
died of diphtheria before they had started
for their future home. Mr.. Thompson has
the sympathy of many friends in Wash
ington
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pounds of candy. The cost OF the affair
was at least 81, coo, exclusive of the gratuit.
Gus offerings Of the generous public. The
Tacoma Railway & Motor Company car.
ried the children at half fare, and the car
interiors on the return trip presented the
appearance of Sunday school Christmas
entertainment
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PUGET SOUND a. ALASKA DIVISION
VICTORIA ROUTE.

STEAMSHIP "CITY OF KINGSTON"
500 am Lvl MI. Tacoma. lllOlArt 5;i5 am
1915 pm i.vi ~ Sc. Seattle ~ ivl 500 am
10 pm fvj - 1T. Townsend rs t.vl Il as pm
40 pm Aril 60. Victoria. p. MILvl $50 pm
Steamers "Clty uf Kingston" and 'Nt1ty OF seat
TIE make connections at fort Townsend Tor pas
sengeTs going from Beliingham hay points 10 VIC
torla and return
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The convenience of a jar OF Cudahy's
Rex Brand Extract of Beef is never better
appreciated than when some grocer's lust
out
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DIR. Georges Recital.

Rev. DR.. w. ?. George will repeat his
reading of Dickens Christmas Carol" on
Wednesday evening at the First NJ. f.
church, Third and Marion streets.
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"Tell of the things ifs like they wus-they don't
need no excuse"
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RAILROAD AND STEAMSHIP TICKETS To
ALL POIN rs IN THE WORLD.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-12-09
Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Morris.

The funeral services of this es-
Unable christian woman occurred
at the Christian church in Kinks
Vile one week ago last Sunday,
Nov. 9th.
The sermon was preached by
Prof. G. 81. Laughlin.
The following briet sketch of
her life Will be of interest to her
numerous acquaintance IN Mis-
souri,.
Elizabeth Tatum was born in
Orange county, Va, in 1912. She
was married to Blackley Morris in
1882. Eight children were born
to them, six of whom are living
They emigrated to Missouri in
1910 and settled in Galloway
county, having since lived in said
county, and also in Audrain and
Adelr.
Her husband died in 1881, at
the residence of Mrs. n. Wilson.
She lived there until the marriage
of her youngest daughter, Mrs.
William Gerry. Since then she
lived with Mrs. Gerry. About
two yesr RS and a half ago they
moved to Colorado Springs, Colo,
where Mrs. Morris died Nov. "a,
1892. She became member of
the Christian church at an early
age, and attended public Worship
as long as her health would per
nit. Sixteen years ago she be.
came an invalid and was confined
to her bed until the day of hel
death. During al these years
she was patient sufferer. She
was always kind to all. Her body
was accompanied to Kirk sville b,
her daughter, Mrs. Gerry.
After az appropriate service tn
remains were laid beside those o
her husband to await the resurrec
ton of the just. l..
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-12-09

Mrs. A. butcher received $1,000
from the A. o. U. W., thirty days
after the death of her husband,
Albert butcher. This is only one
of the many instances of safe in
surance and quick payment by an
old and reliable order. The A. o.
U. w. has been the means of do
ing much good in this city. Eight
deaths have occurred and seven of
the policies, amounting to Sl4, 600,
have been spent here in the pur-
chase of homes for the widow and
fstherless, showing wisdom on the
part of those deceased brothers
who builded SO wisely in life. The
following is list of those secur-
ing benefciaries from Milton
Lodge, No. 103, Kirksvllle, Mo-:
N. L. Page. Miles DeReamer, J
G. Hennon, ]. L. Nelson, F. L.
Campbell. F. A. Grove, d. H.
Green and Albert butcher, max
ing a total of $4,000. What 9th
es beneficiary organization has
done as much in this city,