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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

the desirable only in horse races,
pool rooms, saloons, gambling hous-
es, dog fights, houses ofill-fame and
smuggling matches or testimonial ben
efts to fistic champions. --Pomeroy's-
Advance Thought.
Mrs. Charles Miller, sick wom-
an, and her children were evicted
in Denver last Saturday. They
were piled up in an alley with their
household goods, where the sick wo-
man lay for two hours before being
taken to the hospital. She was also
brutality assaulted by the owner be-
fore the officers of kind, benevo-
lent, christian, civilized claw" ar
rived and dumped them in the alley
like so much garbage More brutal
treatment was never meted out in
Russia or Ireland by process of law.
OfcOurse such claw" is not anarchy.
0, mol And this is The kind of gov
eminent people have been taught to
uphold and defend. w"What fools
these mortals be-" Ignorance, how
you do suffer. Later--The woman
died from the brutal treatment and
exposure, leaving helpless orphans
to bless this kind of government.
Crisis, Pueblo, Colo.
LIQUORS for treating purposes at
the worlds fair will be admitted
free of duties. Here is case where
the foreigner would really pay the
tax, and it is RENTED. Foreigners
will bring with them large quantities
OF wines 1and beers for the exposi-
ton. They will use them at their
meals and will offer samples to their
guests. Now why not remit few
of the taxes our own people have TO
pay Kansas City Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13
l.. Folks Picture Free.

We will send an enlarged photo
Autograph of the late president of
the F. A. & l. U. free (size, 6x9
inches, suitable for framing, to any
person sending 25 cents for emo.
trial subscription to The Farmers
Wife. Address n
EMMA D. PACK, Topeka, Kas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

Megrimine is the only guaranteed
permanent cure for headache and
neuralgia. Relieves in 20 to 80
minutes. A great blood cleanser
and stimulant that in time positively
cures. Sample free. The DR..
Whitehall Megrimine Co., South
Bend, Ind.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

The Inter Ocean says that the
men who mobbed General Weaver
were rocked in the same cradle
with the men who mobbed Wendell
Phillips and William Lloyd CARR
son and, we add, so were the men
who mobbed j. G. Otis, and who
burned St. John and l.. l.. Polk in
effigy The cradle is large enough
for the progeny Of the twins, both
north and south. The same cradle
held the Tories of the Revolution
and the bloody prosecutors of the
sixteenth century.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

The Inter Ocean of September
18th gives, as a reason for the act
of 1878 that dropped the standard
silver fl ON our monetary system,
that, for fifty years previous. the
amount of bullion in silver dollar
had been worth from l0l to 104
cents, and nobody was taking it to
the mint to be stamped 100 cents"
In reply, we have to say that sill
yer coin was plentiful at the be-
ginning of the war--so plentiful
that the government paid out silver
to the soldier in settlement of
wages. But, admitting that the
Inter Ocean is right, then why did
congress, in the same act that drop
ped standard silver from our none
tary system, authorize the coinage
of the trade dollar, which contained
more bullion than the trade dollar?
And, further, why did congress, in
1874, stop the coinage of the trade
dollar? The story is too thin
Congress drops the coinage of the
standard dollar because bullion is
so high that nobody wants it coined,
but, at the same time, creates an
other dollar that contained ii IL
more grains of the high bullion, and
year later, discontinues the coin
age of any silver whatever. The
trade dollar was a blind to deceive
the people or, if not, why did it
have more of the dear bullion !? and
why was It's coinage discontinued ?
Note another fact that the Inter
Ocean cannot refute The price of
silver bullion dates it's decline from
the year 1874, at which time it was
fully demonetized.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

Friend, have You a copy of the
AGITAToR of June %, 1892? if you
have it, and will send it to us, you
will do us a great favor We need
it to complete our files.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

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Gus, but if he were on quarter sec
ton wrestling with the low prices
for farm products, he would doubt
less be better posted as to the con.
ditions of the masses of the people.
Missouri World.
1t is just as dangerous to the
state, and ought to be as criminal
to secure votes by lying as by buy
ing. To get votes by lying is the
same as obtaining goods under false
pretences, which ranks with theft in
the law books, yet the candidate or
pobticsl party that gets votes in
this way is looked upon as very
clever and ranks high as an adept in
practical politics Pittsburgh Kan
san
One of 7 e most pathetic scenes
OF life is tO&ee poor men shivering
in the face of the dreaded cold sea-
son, while the price 0 f fuel goes up
out of his reach because he and his
kind have voted coal trusts into ex-
istence by having had their preju-
dice and credulity imposed upon by
political sharpers and confidence
men in statesmen's clothing. There
is no reason why the sources oflife's
should be owned and con-
trolIed by a few Caesars who levy
heavy tribute on the things that
are the peoples. The Peoples par
ty is the only one that tends in
toward the abolition of in
dividual trusts. Omaha Tocsin.
Tariff for revenue only" is de-
fusion and absurdity upon it's face
while congress appropriates billions
Cut the civil list in two, discharge
hordes of useless employees, stop APP
propriating the peoples money for
statues and shows; cease to foist gil
gantic steals in river. and harbor,
sundry civil and urgent deficiency
bills upon the country. Clean the
Augean stables, balance the books !,
and start new. You are lacking
down toward cyclone talking
about "cheapening things. This is
what is the matter: products are too
cheap, merchandise is too cheap, Ia
Dor is too cheap, flesh and blood too
cheap. 1t is only money which is
dear and growing more so. Vote to
make it more easy to get.-Nation-
Al Economist.
When the Democrats have only a
ghost of so-called force bill to hold
Up as the great Shibboleth of cam
1aign, it is time for the teachers to
De engaged anew. For years the
Democrats have been ridiculing the
bloody shirt, and now, as usual,
hey take up something that has
,een discarded by the Republicans
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13
Among Our Exchanges.

the habit OF striking for higher wa
ges and voting for lower wages are
bigger fools than Kansas Republic
ans. -Acorn, Marshall, Ill.
The fair name of Georgia has
been disgraced by the malignant ef
forts of Bourbon Democracy to re-
tain power. Both the law-abiding
and honorable citizens must suffer
with the political hireling and his
mastes. National Waterman.
Suppose we demonetize corn.
Wheat is better cereal and, if we
were to pass "a law prohibiting the
raising Of corn, wheat would go up
and the Minnesota and Dakota
wheat lands would advance in price.
True, the corn lands of Iowa might
dcpreciate, but then if we are going
into the business Of favoritism, why
not favor few farmers?-Iowa
Tribune.
New York is trying to get rid CT
the tenement house system because
it is a breeder Of poverty, disease
and crime. The tenement house
system is the legitimate offspring of
the unholy union of land monopoly
and money monopoly. These mo-
nopolists shrink in horror at the
hideousness Of the result of their
own lust. industrial World.
Farmers should paste this propo-
sition on their farm implements to
be seen and thought of every hour.
If the Liverpool market controls the
price Of farm products produced in
the United States, are not our farm
ers competing with the pauper la
Dor of other countries? If this is
true, where does the Mckinley tar
iff or any other tariff protect the
American farmer? Billings { Mont.
Times.
A New York paper publishes
full page cartoon Of a soldier stand
ing with fixed bayonet, and labels
it "the safeguard of the Common
wealth" Unhappy the Common
wealth which must rule on such a
instead of safeguards of
liberty, justice, and equal rights of
all men before the law. When a
is so far from these that
it can only be upheld by the use Of
bayonets against the people, it can
not stand long, and it ought not to
stand at all.-St. Louis Republic.
Coal has gone up again. Not be-
cause there is scarcity of it, but
because the combination" orders it.
The combines of capital have broken
up the treasury vaults of nature,
seized upon the geologic treasures
where the mighty forests of the an
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

THE total value of the production
of silver in the United States, from
the year of 1881 to 1890, inclusive,
was $4S4, 055, 900, or an average
per annum of about $50, 7S3,O 900. If
it had all been coined, it would only
have increased the volume of cur
rency 81 per capita for each year.
The Manchester Fire Assurance
company of Manchester, England,
holds as assets 1914 ,6S5 90 railroad
gold bonds. What business had the
railroad companies to give mort
cages ON the peoples roads, payable
in gold
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-10-13

Coal has gone up again. Not be-
cause there is scarcity of it, but
because the combination" orders it.
The combines of capital have broken
up the treasury vaults of nature,
seized upon the geologic treasures
where the mighty forests of the an
tediluvian age are stored away as a
ready made providence for man, and
they have said, even this bounty OF
the Almighty we will dole out, not
according to the reeds of man or to
the cost of production, but accord
ing to our extorting power--Unity,
Chicago.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05

In June, 1890, Senator Plumb continued
the discussion of this subject, as follows:
Let Us see, therefore, how much money
is available for actual use among the
people. From the total of 81 $50 OOO, 600,
arrived at as above, must be deducted an
average of $26O,OOO,OOO, which the Treas
ury always keeps on hand, and about
which something has heretofore been said
in the debate on this bill, and that leaves,
as the maximum which can by any pos
sibility be used, 1880, ,0O0,0O There
ought, in fairness, to be deducted from
this $l50,0O0,OOO, error in estimate of
gold in the country, which would reduce
the money outside the treasury to 81, 15o,
100000. From this is to be subtracted
the $600,0OO,000 kept as reserve, as before
computed, leaving balance of S5500O0,-
600, which is available for delivery or use
In the transaction of the business of all
the people, or a trifle over $S per capita
But the force of my argument Is not ma
terlally weakened by conceding the gol0
com To be IA estimated by the Treasury
Department, which would leave in actual
circulation $7OO,000,O00. In order to
make up this amount all doubt must be
resolved in favor of the Treasury and
/ against the people, both the doubt as to
the amount of lost and destroyed notes
and that as to the gold supply. If were
NScAolhS IAlS case upon what cOhs1ue1
/ the best evidence, l would be bound to
say that 1 believed the money in actual
circulation did not much, if at all, exceed
! $5Uu,0OO,GOO. Upon this narrow founda-
tion mas been built the enormous struc-
/ ture of credit of which 1 have spoken. It
is the greatest Of the kind that was ever
built, because it was built 10y the best
people that ever built anything Over
twenty thousand millions of debts, the
enormous and widely extended business
of sixty-five millions of people, all rest
upon and must be served by volume Of
currency which must seem to the most
veteran financier as absolutely and dan
gerously small.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05

The platform adopted by the Republi-
can State convention is a wonderful piece
of mechanism, equaied only by the steepIO
of Strasburg cathedral The combine-
ton is known only to the committee.
The platform of two years ago was
sumner, but this one is a daisy. We have
just learned how it was constructed. The
committee agreed that they would eat
late supper of kraut dumplings and go ts
bed, and next morning each member
should write down what he dreamed, and
string it together for platform. They
faithfully carried out the plsn.-Troy CItef
(Rep.l
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05
PURCHASE OF BONDS.
Remarks OF the Hon. p. b. Plumb, OF
Kansas, in the U. 3. Senate, March
-, and April 4, 1883.

Wherein He ProcIaIms that for Years the Vol
ume Of Money in the United States has been
Declining the Country is GsIng Upon
the Breakers Of Financial Disturbance
That the Treasury Department has Loaned
Banks Over $s1 ZOO, 900 OF the Public
Funds, Instead Of Buying Bonds and Saw
Ing Interest.-The Greatest Depreciation oil
Agricultural Products the Country has ever
Known. i That Debts Have Not Only In
creased, but the Means to Pay them Have
Diminished.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05

Attention is called to the following table
and remarks from the Chicago Inter
Ocean, leading Republican paper of Il
iinOis:
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05
Currency. Population. Per cap.

The 7-SO three-year notes, whose circulation e.
currency is most secuted, were outstanding on the
lsC of September 1865 10 the amount of $3.50 OO0
every dollar of which was legal tender for its face
value under the terms of the law "to the same ez-
tent as United States notes."
Secretary Fessenden's report OF Decem-
Der 6, 1864, says he caused to be paid out
to the soldiers in the field over $20,00O,00o
of these 7-30 notes at one time.
"And,'' says the report, "the Secretary
h2s great satisfaction in stating his belief
that the disposal thus made was not only
relief to the Treasury, but proved a benenN
to the recipients, in affording them 3 safe
and valuable investment and an easy
mode of transmitting funds to their fam
ilies."
Mr.. Hotchkiss, of New York, July 90,
1866, in debate in the House, said:
We have now in circulation about 81 600 GOO 900
of paper currency, exclusive of the 900 Of
1905, which pass from hand to hand as circnlAt-
ing medium to a great extent.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Maine, stated in speech
in the House, March IS, 1866
That the banks held immense sums of interest
bearing notes during the maturity of interest," and
were disposed food the country with them aftsz
interest had been realized.
Hon. W. Loughridge, of Iowa, April 8,
1874, in the House, said:
During the war the volume of currency was
largely increased from time to time, until at its
! close the amount in circulation, including the
7-3Us, and all the different issues which served the
use of currency, about 81 700G00,000, and thtz
amount had been up TO the close of the war con-
fined to the States not in rebellion.
Hon. VIM. D. Kelly, Republican mem
Der of Congress from Philadelphia, in the
House of Representatives, February 10,
1879, said:
! The Sl43000,000 compound interest notes
outstanding December 1861 and were legal ten
ders for their face value; and If the 100000 OF
the 730 treasury notes were not So the people who
I hen nd ed ham Uph wei n
/ they were issued.
! President U. S. Grants message of De-
cember 2, 1873, indorses the fact of con-
traction up to that time, as follows:
During the last four years the currency has been
contracted directly by the withdrawal of the per
cent. certificates compound interest notes and 7-36
bonds outstanding the 4th Of March, 1863 all OF
which took the place OF legal tenders in bank
serves to the extent Of S63, 90 600.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05

The Senate as in Committee Of the Whole re-
Gumed the consideration Of the bill II. K. 5O34 "a
provide for the purchase Of United States bonds by
the Secretary Of the Treasury.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05

"Since which time," says General LO-
gan in March, 1874, contraction has gone
on, until the whole amount of currency OF
every kind now outstanding is only $742,
100000"
1t will be noticed that Secretary McCul-
Tough, according to General Logan, classed
the $83O,OOO,O0O of 7-3O notes among the
active currency of the country.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05

In Senator John A. Logan's speech OF
March IL, 1874, in the United States Sen
ate, find the following:
I will give the following tables showing the
amount Of currency circulation in the years 1865
and 1856:
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-10-05

Year
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-09-15

- REGlSTERS NO1ICES.-NUticei Is hereby CIV
i'cn that the following named persons have
nlcd their Administrators, Guardian, and EN-
ccuturo' account, In the Registers Olicc of Suy-
der County. and the same VIII hc presented Tor
confirmation and allowance al the Court House
In Middlchurgh, Monday, sep 90 lSt!.
]. The fir,t and nnal account Of Levi : Gllnctt
administrator Of the estate Of George GelnCtt.
late Of Perry township, decd.
?. First and nnal account OIL. w. Specht ad-
minslratOr ol 'he estate Of Adam Spccht late uI
spring township, decd.
., The supplemental account Or Perry kramer,
administrator ul the estate Of Bonneville kra.
mcr late OF Chapman twp, decd
(. The first and uual account uf jonathan d.
Rcglc, executor Of the last VIII ana testament
OF Regina Brubaker late OF Union twp, dccd.
.. The account Of y. j. Livingston, admlnlstrn.
tor ut the estate Of Hannah lDrkmau, late OF Sc
linsgrOyr Borough decd,
e. The first and nnal account Of George Nor
man, administrator ot the estate Of Henry Nor
man, late Ot Adams twp. decd
Z. The first and fnal account j. T. Kenawel
and LiLLtc +. Miller, administrators OF the estate
Of James VI. Miller late Of Centre twp. dec Il.
3, The first and partial account Of Thomas T.
Derr and solomon Grayhill executors Of the rs.
tate OfJohn Pile, late Of West Perry Twp, decd.
Q. Final account Of Jonathan Grimm guardian
Of Laura j. Finkham, nee BOlig).
10. Final account of samuel Knouse, admins
traitor OF the estate Of W, II II SwartL, decd
q. NJ. sHINDEI.
Middleburgh, Pa, Aug, -, '92. Register
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-09-15
Questions for Free Traders

If it is II proper course for city
like Birmingham, Alabama, to raise
fund of $4,000 in order to induce
n cotton mill to establish itself ut
that place, is it not inconsistent for
the same city to oppose Protection.
which alone makes the establish
ment of such mills possible
Was Abraham Lincoln thief
when he signed the Morrill, Tariff
bill ?
Is it not strange that England, II
country that never yet has lost an
opportunity to slight our citizens or
attempt to bully our government,
should desire us to adopt Free
Trade merely because we are not
prospering as fast as our British
cousins would like to see us prosper.
although we have already beaten
them in all their most cherished
fields of industry ?
Can the Free Traders pose rs pa.
triots when their ticket is composed
of two men, both of whom hired
substitutes. and one of whom stump
ed his State to show that Lincoln
was IA fraud and the war failure!
If the Mills bill was a farmer
measure, why did it abolish or great.
ly reduce the duties on nearly all
the farmers products, in the face OF
protests and petitions from agricul.
tural societies all over the Union
If reciprocity is n step "in the Iii.
rection of ee-Trode," how can il
also be scheme to untax foreign
ers only -? Is Free Trade "schemC
TO untaX foreigners only p
Who is more worthy the support
of our laws, the importer who bcne
fits foreign capitalists and laborers
or the manufactures who gives EN-
ploymcnt TO our own citizens anC
causes money to circulate among
our own people !
If Mr.. Charles +. Peck, who, il
his official capacity as Commissioner
of Labor of the State of New York
reported that wages averaged higher
for the year after than for the yeal
before the passage Of the Mckinley
Tariff, is II bold, bad preyaricator
utterly devoid of intelligence and
honesty, as thq 'ugST'-ssffs'.nd y Dem
: 11T dtfr.- pa, make nihhf''SHt " ~
. since his report appeared-if he i
, all this, why did the honest, - "pa
t triotic," "lofty-minded" Clevelan,
- appoint him to the Office he nov
, holdsl
Is the Democratic Superintendent
of the New York State Banking De
e partmcnt "A liar and II traitor, too
| because hc reported IN cXtraordi
, nary increase i'm savings bank de
poslts since the Mckinley Tarii
took effect
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-09-15

Ii is amusing to witness the dcs-
faous mill; sLh H--c.s1-.- II r!
fects of Commissioner Peck report
1t seems majority of the party
wish to convey the impression that
they are not in favor of free trade
fearing. it seems, that it will again
bc the rocl, of their destruction rs
1t was in the campaign of lsSs. We
cannot blame them, for Il burnt child
hates fire Nevertheless, he who
runs may read the plank adopted by
the Chicago Convention, rs follows 4:
I'VE dmomcc Republican protcc
tiOu u7 n fraud, taxing the labor of
the great majority of the people for
the benefit OF the few. We declare
it 10 be fundamental principle Of
the Democratic party that the Fed
cral Government has no power to
impose and collect tariff duties cN-
ccpt Tor the purposes of rev cnue
only
Now, how in the mischief are they
going to get around this ? Does it
not declare rs plain as the nose ON a
mans face that the Democratic par
ty is in favor of Il tariff for revenue
only
If this is so,ond II is SO, are We to
infer that the protection Democrats
are better than their party, and that
they are opposed TO the very foun-
dation stone of Democratic princi-
pies and yet are going to vote for it
What is the use of deyoting col
umn after column Of bosh to con
vince people that black is white and
white is black, aud muddle the under
standing OF thepcople like deyil-fsh
muddies the water when he tries to
hide "You can fool some people
part Of the time, aud other people
all the time, but You can't fool all
the people all the time
Labor Commissioner Peck's re-
port "will not out He is Demo
crat, and evidently an honest one.
for he gave the facts as they are
without establishment.
Think of it. In one year the Nc
Kinley law increased wages in New
York State So, 100000, and manufac-
tured goods $3l 100000. If so in
New York State, why not so in
every other State in the Union 1?
Mr., Peck must be a patriot or he
would have held his report until af-
ter the Sth of November. But he
didn't, and the feather that was
plucked from the Democratic body
to destroy the enemy served to di-
rect the arrow that will prove it's
own destruction. The statement
is as clear as crystal, as direct as n
rihe-shot, and as crushing as
steam hammer.