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The advocate., 1892-01-06
OF SENATOR PEFFER's

VA TBlbUIE ~ ohNAAVh AbomD'
veral Republican andsome Demo
/; 3 papers, speaking OF Senator
sr's remarks on the occasion OF
'sudden death Of his late colleague,
VA have the people believe that
indicate his return to the Repub-
"a party. This is pure rot. It is
Asgrace to journalism that a man
ot speak even upon an occasion
mis- character without liability that
Amotives will be misinterpreted. d.
tor PETER has the good sense to
Inguish between the private life
llindiyidual worth Of an American
On, and his attitude toward ques-
Of public policy in his political
lr. Senator Plumb's official acts
properly subject to discussion
criticism during his lifetime.
d his death there is no longer a
Assity to discuss them save as
ers Of history. His public career
ded. He has passed over the
If he made mistakes he there
simply demonstrated that he was
nan; and it becomes us to cover
errors with the mantle Of charity.
3 man, as q husband and father,
as an American citizen, his name
starnished. We differed with
officially, but that is no reason
we should not recognize his
his industry, all that he hos
Iat is meritorious, his devotion
invalid wife, his parental kind
and affection, his social qualities,
his services to the cause Of liberty
early history Of our state. 1t
iese that prompted Senator
\ Is tribute to the deceased, and
Athis his remarks have no sig-
'RA t--
The advocate., 1892-01-06
As WAS predicted by many knowing

As WAS predicted by many knowing
ones several days ago, Governor
Humphrey has appointed Bishop w.
Perkins to the vacant seat of the late
Senator Plumb. 1t has been very
generally remarked that the Govern
or wanted Perkins out of the way in
the Third Congressional district.
Bill Hsckney's trip to Topeka failed
to bear fruit.
The advocate., 1892-01-06
THE CAPITAL ON PENSIONS.

The C1p1t1t whose great love Tor
the old soldier has been manifested
in time past by much solieitude re-
specting the pensions that might be
taken from them should the Peoples
party come into power, now objects to
the pension bill recently introduced
by Senator PETER. Two chief objec-
tions are urged against it. The first
is that it will increase the payments
to pensioners from $133,O0O,OOO to
over $2OO,OOO,OOO-so the Capital
says. The question of the justice of
the measure is not regarded worth
considering. No suggestion is offered
upon the subject as to whether this
amount of money would be in excess
of what is really due the soldiers for
services rendered, or of the actual
obligations Of the government to them.
This is not deemed matter worthy of
consideration. The Capital simply
reiterates the argument of the Demo-
cratic press, which, so long as there
was no danger of an increase of PEN
sions, could safely be made ques-
ton of partisan difference; but the
moment any one seriously proposes
the very increase which it has for
merly advocated, it fops and takes
the same stand as the Democratic
press has always taken. The people
will be able to Judge from this of the
amount of sincerity and honesty Of
it's former pretensions.
The second objection to Senator
Peffer's bill is that it proposes to pay
the pensions in full legal tender
money issued by the government for
that purpose. This the Capital desig-
mates as fiat money and thinks the
soldiers will object to receiving it.
We would like to see them have an
opportunity, and see how many would
reject it. In the mean time we would
like to have the Capital name some
kind of money now in circulation that
is not fiat in the same sense that the
money proposed in Senator PeffePs
bill would be. We would also like
an expression from the same authority
concerning the money in which the
soldiers were paid while in actual SER
vice in the field, and which was puw-
poSely deprecated by Legislative
enactment with a view of robbing the
soldiers and enriching the Shylocks.
The Capital, which is SO solicitous
about the character of our currency
at the present time, never has word
to say about the infamous conspiracy
by which that of 1861 to 1865 was
manufactured for the special purpose
of robbing the masses in order to en-
rich the classes. Its interest in the
pension question consists in the use
that can be made of it to further the
interests of the Republican party.
The advocate., 1892-01-06
AN OPEN LETTER.

GENT1EMEN:-Some time ago I re-
ceived from you a request that l
should accept from certain writer's
occasional articles regarding tenn
perance," for publication in The AD-
vocATE. A postal card was enclosed
for my reply, accepting or rejecting
the proposition. Not caring to &C.
cept the articles, I did not reply. l
have since received a circular from
you calling my attention to the
former letter, and earnestly soliciting
an answer. In order that there may
be no misapprehension Of my posi-
tion, / have decided to make my
answer public in the form Of an open
letter; and that the subject may be
perfectly intelligible to the people, /
here present the circular to which I
desire to make answer:
TOPEKA, Kan, December 81, 1891.
DEAR SIR:-YOu are among those who did
not return the postal card sent out by this COM
mlttee, lnquirlng whether the press OF the state
would Ike to receive occasional articles regard
ing temperance and prohibition, from the pens
Of the leading men OF the state. Thinking you
may have neglected or overlooked the matter,
we call your attention to 1t again. large re-
turn to the inquiries sent out was received, but
we desire to have the list include every news
paper In the state favorable to temperance or
prohibition, 80 that we may send regularly the
letters referred to. We think they will be Of In
tereSt to you and to your readers. They will
show what view many OF the men Of the state,
who are prominent in politics and affairs, take
Of the policy Of prohibition and Its effect upon
Kansas 1t will at least be worth while to
know how they are talking VIII you kindly re-
fer to our previous letter, and send In the card
(Or anOther) with your wishes stated thereon,
whether they be for or against? We wish to hear
from every newspaper In the state; and we call
your attention especially TO the fact that the list
is not to be published, but is for the use Of the
committee In the work mentioned above. There
Is, OF course no cost to you for these articles.
Yours truly, F.O. PoPENOE,
DELL KRIzER,
F.S. MCCABE,
Press Com. Kan. State Temperance Union.
While | am radical on the tenn
perance question, and q firm believer
in the Righteousness Of the prohibi-
ton of the unholy traffic in rum, /
must yet decline the contributions
you propose to furnish for publics-
tion in The ADVOCATE. l do this for
the following reasons:
Prohibition, as it exists in Kansas,
is child of the Republican party,
and, while that party has secured the
adoption of the constitutional amend
ment and the existing law, it evil
IDENTIFY has little regard for their en-
forcement. The principal use it
seems to have for prohibition, IN fact,
is to secure its influence in political
campaigns. 1t serves as a kind OF
dust fgurstively speaking, with
which to blind the eyes Of the people
and cover up other important issues.
The campaign ended, those whose
duty it is to see that the laws are en-
forced, openly conspire for their
violation. Governor Humphrey, who
has been twice elected by the Repub-
lican party as chief executive of the
state, has exercised his appointing
power by the selection of men for
The advocate., 1892-01-06

IT is said the reason the governor
appointed Perkins instead of Hudson
was because Hudson had abused the
Alliance so numerically.
The advocate., 1892-01-06


blank, leaving date to be filed after
sentence should be subsequently pro-
nounced. He was guilty of this fla
grant disregard of law during his
first term Of office, which fact was
we'll known to the leaders of the Re-
publican party and to the Kansas
State Temperance Union, and yet, in
the face of this knowledge, he was
reelected as chief executive of the
state, and the Kansas State Temper
snce Union helped to do it.
The evidence is conclusive to my
mind that the loud professions OF
Republican leaders, and of many
members of the Kansas State Tenn
persnce Union, of loyalty to the
cause Of temperance and to prohibi-
tion, are entirely hypocritical. I am
led to this conclusion, not alone from
the elevation of such men as Governor
Humphrey to Office, but from the
we'll known facts that many of those
who make loudest professions are
personally addicted to the use of in
toxicsting liquors as a beverage; that
Republican conventions are made oc-
casions for dissipation and revelry;
and that liquors are freely used for
the purpose of influencing votes for
the grand old prohibition party on
election day.
When the Kansas State Temper
ance Union shall cease to be simply
an adjunct to this corrupt party; when
it shall so far sbsolve itself from
party slavery as to be ready to expose
and condemn these unholy practices
without regard to the political effect
of such action; when, in short, it shall
place principle above any party, and
manifest q disposition to labor disin-
terestedly for the advancement of the
true interests Of the temperance
cause in the state, I shall be ready, to
the extent of my humble ability, to
cooperate with it in its work; but so
long as it has never, so far as my
knowledge extends, uttered a sylla-
bic in condemnation of the shameless
disregard of law and decency which
has characterized the Republican
party in its relations to this question,
and inasmuch as the names which ap-
pear upon the circular under con-
sideration are of men who are still
identified with that party, and who,
while they remain SO, are responsible
for the outrages enumerated, as well
as for the disgraceful proceedings in
the Botkin impeachment case and in
his maintenance in judicial authority,
/ can but question the sincerity con-
cerning the true interests of the tenn
perance cause, and I do not care to
open the columns of The ADVOCATE
to special pleas for continued Repub-
lican success under the guise of tenn
persnce literature prepared by the
commissioned lieutensnts of that
party.
TrDst;no tho raasons hePe assiOnad
The advocate., 1892-01-06
DPEKA, JANUARY 8, 1892.

'ered as second class matter in the Post
at Topeka, Kansas.)
The advocate., 1892-01-06
'ished Every Wednesday By the
CATE PUBLISHING co.

TIN, President, Sole
,EBURNER, Bus. Manager, puoUrIotor.
WN, Sec'y Treasurer, HLOVli0OOA"
Jim, Editor.
SIz |Panb, !; Dl'0S' Associate EdltOrA
The advocate., 1892-01-06
Advertising Rates.

Advertising Rates.
Matter, 20 cents per line, Agate meas
ia lines to the inch)
I Notices, 40 cents per line.
y all communications TO the
ADVOCATE PUBLISHING co.
Topeka Kansas.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-19

guidance, and good many there were,
too. 1t was quite late as they drove
slowly homeward, and the horse went
on so meekly that Mr. Waldo had quite
good opportunity for paying more at
tention to his companion than drivers
usually do. He was much enjoying it
when that meek horse suddenly gave a
plunge to the side of the road. A firm
hand in the reins and few moments Of
good management quieted his fright
But what does this mean? Can Miss
Ronald have changed temperaments
with him awhile? How does it happen
that she has tight grasp on his arm
and seems to be of tremble?
No matter how it is, SO long as it
gives him a chance to put his arm
around her and say: at is all right
now. dear, and / won't stand on your
feet. Don't you think | have improved
in thoughtfulness and courage, sufi-
GENTLY, since that day we first met, to
lead you to think can take care of you
always?
She hesitated a long second, and said:
"Robert, you shall prevent me from
ever dropping another boy out of the
window: and the girls mothers must
comb their hair, after this "-Juniata
Stafford, in Housekeeper
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-19
MEETING TROUBLE
How Men and Women Differ In this Re-
spcct.

How Men and Women Differ In this Re-
spect.
Men and women meet the small trou.
bles of life very differently. In the
first place, a woman often lacks that
sense of proportion which is necessary
to distinguish the lesser from the great.
er ills; to her all troubles are of the
greatest magnitude, and TO be mourned
equally. The failure of a new dress OF
Of dinner party are ,calamities over
which she will sometimes worry herself
into fever. Most men would meet
similar troubles with a shrug of the
shoulders and then speedily forget them
Then, again, a woman does not for,
get easily, and is given to broodirg
nor is she so swift to run away from
her troubles as man is. Indeed, she
can not be easily induced to run away
from them at all; the contemplation OF
them has fatal fascination for her
In any small misfortune which falls
equally upon husband and wife, in nine
cases out of ten where the man reso
lutely refuses to remember it and hast
ems to turn his thoughts into some
other channel, the woman will seem to
take almost perverse pleasure in re.
calling it to her mind and rcGectinp
upon its actual and possible conse.
quences. Much of this difference in
their demeanor is, of course due to the
difference of their life. A man can
easily run out of doors and seek dis
traction, whereas a woman's lot is to
remain at home and think. Indeed, we
should say that very much was owing
to the greater opportunity that wom-
an possesses of contemplating her
worries and brooding over them
Yet it is hardly fair to assume that
affected by small worries, that there,
fore she has more to bear, There are
plenty of small worries outside those OF
the house, which last, we admit, fall
mostly to the woman's share-indeed
In the actual sharing of these little
woes, we should say that the man gen
orally comes off are worse, for when
the cook is impertinent, or chimney
smokes, the master of the house is al
most always called in TO lend his aid
and sympathy, whereas he can hardly
count upon much help or sympathy
from his wife when his own soul is
vexed by the shortcomings of his clerk
or the stupidity Of his groom --Speets
ter
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-19
lNTOLERANT MOTHERS.
Many Who WIN Not Share In the Progress
Ahnnt Than.

ADOuh
zone of the signs of the age" says an
observing woman, lis the difficulty
grown daughters find in adapting their
ideas to the intolerance of the mothers
who will not share in the progress
about them. This is especially true
where the daughters do not marry early,
and either remain at home or go out to
pursue some of the many occupations
now open to women. In either OF the
latter cases the home cords are not
much loosened-not nearly so much as
when the daughter establishes herself
by marriage in an independent house
hold.
"The gap between the mother edu-
Gated twenty-five years ago and the
daughter abreast of these glowing times
is wider than it ever will be again, and
it is trying one to the tilial child,
whose widening reach of things only
increases her sense of what Is due TO
her mother and eagerness to bring the
well-loved parent within the scope of
the falling blessings. To many women
an hutoSiuND ohoU ~
never wholly relinquished; for years her
lightest wish has been the daughters
law, and, if what Thackeray calls the
tyranny of parents is modified in many
instances, in equally as many Others it
painfully exists: ....f
81 have in mind at this moment Il
wise. calm, filial woman of thirty-five,
whose capable work in library gives
her widowed and otherwise childless
mother pleasant home, in which, alas!
its provider has no home feeling. All
her plans and ambitions are thwarted,
or, if perforce accepted it is with scant
grace; her friends are not welcome, her
hobbies are not tolerated, her theories
and principles are not respected. She
is merely to the mother big edition OF
the little girl whom she told to put on
her school froclk to-day and tomorrow
her church gown, and whose ungrudg-
ing hospitality she accepts with no
smallest sense of obligations. N. Y
| Tinac
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-19
IN THE SLEEPING CAR,
The Woman Who Forgot other Travellers
Caused Reflections and Suggestions.

The Woman Who Forgot Other Travellers
Caused Reflections and Suggestions.
Given sleeping car on a long route
and ten women in the various compart-
ments who have been notified by the
porter promptly at seven that the train
will stop at Charleston, or Chicago, or
Denver at eight for breakfast. Each
Immediately rouses herself, rescues her
different belongings from the gulf and
creases into which they have fallen,
fastens them with difficulty at levels
which are strange to them, seizes her
dressing bag, and goes to the dressing
room to find eight other women gath
cred outside and the door locked, barred,
bolted between them and the tenth one
the woman who forgot others.
Five minutes is the limit allowed by
just division and law of equity to each
of these women in which to wash,
brush and put up her back hair. They
wait patiently for five minutes, grum-
bling for ten, impatiently for fifteen,
Indignantly for twenty and furiously
for twenty-five. Then there is an eye
conference, then series of knocks
which take on the character of violent
remonstrance. Thirty minutes-forty
forty y-five.- the bolt is heard to slide
back, and some one emerges-combed,
curled, brushed, powdered, and but
toned-a sclf-satisfied creature who
smiles innocently in the cindery faces
which confront her,
Then is heard long-drawn sigh OF
wondering contempt from the group;
the one nearest the door bows deprecat-
ingly to the others, slips into the dress
ing room, spends her shrunken minutes
as best she may, and emerges with
wetted sponge and open bag, to stand
in corner of the passage and finish
the process of making herself unnotice-
able.
Referring to such incidents an indig'
nGnt woman remarked: Il believe that
anv fragrant infraction of the rights Of
individuals on the part woman is gen
orally 10 be referred to inexperience ol
ignorance She finds herself in totally
new posit:oa--that is, in possession OF
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-19
SHE WAS PARTICULAR.


No Tavern with Flre-Escapes for Her.
She had come down from Kalamazoo
and was seeking quarters in Detroit
hotel. She was about fifty and the
years had taught her great conservatism
and caution.
''Is this safe tavern to stop in?' she
inquired of the chivalrous clerk, who
was at that moment wearing his dia-
mond pin on his back, or rather the
coat for whose value the pin was col
lateral.
''In what respect, madame he asked.
"Fire, of course" she said suspicious
ly "Ain't anything else to be afeard
of, is thare?"
"Oh, certainly not. madam; certainly
MT" he hastened to assure her. And
as to fire, our house is absolutely fire
proof, and even if it was not, we have
tire-escapes everywhere"
"Fire-escapes.' she exclaimed with a
gasp, reaching for her bul,dles. well
if your drafted house is fire-proof what
have you got escapes for the fire for? |
s'pose you've got burglar-escapes, too.
guess | don't want to sleep in no tav-
erns like this. Good evenin', and away
she went, leaving the clerk in a halo of
despair and disappointment Detroit
Free Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-19
HUMOROUS.

John" said the dealer "where is
the key to this self-locking safe?" SIN
soide, sorr. It'll not be losht there,
SOFT, returned John.
Poor Browney fell off the yacht
md was drowned" "Couldn' he swim?"
"Of course he could, but he didn't have
his swimming clothes on."-Harper's
BaZar.
-Strawber-"I heard that you made
an hours speech at the debating club.
Was it well received?" Singerly- They
cheered me when | sat down. brook
lyn Life.
Tales that Thrill. -Jolliboy-"W
do the women do in their club? Do
they tell bear stories and fishing lies as
men do?' Miss Demure-"No. They
tell mouse stories. IN Y. Sun.
She Knew.-Soppy (To the kid af-
ter a long wait-"Does your sister
know I'm here, Fannie?" FanpFc--
"oh, yes, Mr.. Soppy, that's why sse's
taking her time about coming down.
Detroit Free Press.
-Scribbler-"I lent the editor my Uni
brella few days ago, as he forgot his
and it looked like rain" Tomson-
HAS he returned it yet?" Scribb'cr
(sadly)-"No, but he will; he returns
everything of mine. Truth.
How 1t Was.-"lIarry, remarked
a Cass avenue wife to her husband,
what is your financial state this morn
ing?" ut isn't state at all, my dear"
he said turning his pockets inside out;
Its nothing more than territory
Detroit Free Press.
Customer - ''You said this cloth
would wear like iron. I've only worn
these trousers two months, and now
look at this. Do you call that wearing
like IRON" Certainly l do
Amt they rusty enough to suit your
Boston Transcript.
well, Uncle 81, you are prophet;
tell me what is the weather prospect
| for tomorrow" "Ye'll have ter ex-
cuse me ter-day, sir; I'm too busy to tell
ye. Call around day after tomorrow,
and I'll give youal the information you
want about tomorrow. ."-Harper's Ba-
zar.
| They Never Met.-"Is it true"
asked a sympathetic friend, that you
met with another accident on the street
yesterday?" mo, SIR" said the victiIu,
surlily lit isn't. I'm not meeting these
accidents at all; they're following me
up, dye hear following me upr'-St.
Joseph News.
Another View of It.-First Suicide
| Struggling in the water)-"There's
Nothing in life worth living for" Sec
ond Suicide - True; but I've just
thought of the fact that there is moth
ing in death worth dying for. I'm GO
ing to get my clothes and go home. -
Seattle Soundings.
The Voice of Experience Young
Caliow-''Do you think it is more trou.
bic for a husband to manage wife than
for wife to manage husband?'
BenediclS-''I don't know, but if an ex.
pertinent of that kind is to Dt tried in
one family there is likely to bs trouble
snougb for both,