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Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-28

colonies, although he had only
been gone eight months, he
found out that secret agent OF
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
Had been sent out from London and
had destroyed every book and scrap OF
paper having the slightest reference to
the old convict system, or referred in the
annotations of his book. The second
novel of Australian birth, is the Mystery
OF a Hanson Cab, written by Fergus W.
Hume, at one time detailman in the
local room of the Melbourne Age. He
was bright and clever youngster, and
one day he walked into the editorial
room and got into conversation with old
Richard Birnie the principal writer on
the paper. He told the old man that
he had just written a novel, but there
was not much plot to it. Old Birnie
reared up:
''Eh, mon dear, an hoo are ye gain
to hae novel wi'out plot? Ye maun
as weel has funeral wi'out a corpse"
Fergus went back to his daily routine
of local, and for a while nobody heard
anything of his debut among the worlds
novelists, he came on horseback and
with all four shoes on one foot. His
novel was local in character,
and bore the impress of crude
ness in many of it's details, but
second to none in the cardinal requisite
of plot. Had he handed the manuscript
to ripe scholar like old Mr.. Birnie, for
a thorough revision, he would have pro-
duced one of the most COM
plete novels of the century. The
careful reader of this book is
MYsTIFIED FROM THE OUTSET
By the ingenuity of the plot, which
brings up man on trial for his life.
The reader, sympathetically enough,
takes the side of the young man, and
follows up his sweetheart in her protest.
alton of young Fitzgerald's innocence of
the awful crime. Yet how closely in
terwoven is the web of evidence
that the detective, Mr.. Gorby,
has woven about the unfortu-
nate man. How cold and unsympa-
thetic is the old wool-king, Mark Fret
tebly, when he finds his prospective
son-in-law an occupant of the prisoners
dock; and yet not one reader in
hundred would implicate him
in the murder from that trifing circum-
stance. And it is not till the penulti-
mate chapter of the book that the guilt
OF Cne horrible crime IS liked upon the
true culprit, who commits suicide in his
cell at Pentridge.
Mr.. Hume's characters are drawn
with more than ordinary genius, but his
women are never equal to his men. He
never could have begun to draw
such a woman, such beautiful
demon as Sarah Purfoy in His
Natural Life. Mr.. Hume has written
several books since, but Madam Midas
is the only one of them that l. have
read. 1t is only fairly clever
book, although one can trace
through it a more polished style
som Cab" story. Mr.. Hume is living
in London now, and has a handsome in
cnr1na from his h<,1s1---.- l>-- = l. III
long time before he again equals his
first and crudest efforts. T. B. M.
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Tariff Tired.
v. S. cRA1eHroN. +.


Air Wearin' o. the Green.
o, met an honest farmer, and took him by
the hand.
Said I: "How are you prospecting, and how do
you stand?"
30, my house and lands are mortgaged to an
eastern company;
But we've got the finest tariff, sir, that ever you
did see.
Yes we've got the highest tariff
And the lowest grain said he,
'sFor we sell at free-trade prices
To the countries DER the sea.
But we buy prote cited clothing
And our farm machinery,
And we're growing rather weary
OF the G. o. r.
o, meta toiling miner, and said: Chow do
you do?
Are you laying. up your wages with compe-
tence in view"
80, work for slender wages for my wife and
children three;
But we've got the finest tariff, sir, that ever you
Gid see.
Yes; we've got the highest tariff
But the bosses swear" said he,
"They must impert cheaper labor
From the countries O er the sea-
They must have free trade in labor
And protected coals-and wei
We're growing rather weary
Ofthe G. O. P.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-08-28
DAY AT GRINsTEAD's HOME.

The Emperor, Amigo and the Hook at
the stud.
Yesterday had but little to do and,
as the day was cloudy. l thought it
would be cool, so I got on a Santa Fe
train and went out to the Santa Anita
rancho for look at the youngsters.
This has been a blue year for Mr.. Bald
win. Last year he won $4,000 in
purses and stakes, which was his small
est year since he first commenced racing
at the east. He took twelve head OF
handsome youngsters back there this
spring, but go far has not won anything
of note, although reports from the sta
BILE indicate that all the colts are begin
ming to round. to in handsome shape.
Some of these are by the Emperor OF
Norfolk, whom Mr. Baldwin believes to be
the greatest horse in America. He bases
this opinion upon the fact that the En-
peror, not only won at the far east, but
also was the only colt that ever won all
three of the 3-year-old stakes at Chicago,
in 1888, carrying his penalty and win
ming in the Drexel, as easily as he had
done in the Derby, with seven pounds
less weight on his back. Ole day
asked Mr.. Baldwin what he considered
his best racer: II would like to say
Volante," he replied, stbecause | bred
him myself. while bought the Emperor
from Mr.. Winters. But there is no con-
cealing the fact, for figures show too
plainly in the Emperor's favor"
AS walked up the old familiar lane,
fragrant with the odor Of eucalyptus and
pepper trees, thoughts of Australia came
back to me, and was once more in the
shades of Bundoora. But here were q
half-dozen artesian wells flashing their
crystal foods into the soft summer air,
any one OF which would have been con
sidered a bonanza by Mr.. Gardiner.
No, America is good deal the best
country yet.
Approaching the long row Of stables
the sculptured head and neck Of bay
horse flashed out of the stable door
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
WILL BE THE SENSIBLE MEMS
VICTORY.

From the Kansas City. Mo-, Journal.
Will the alliance party, thus REIN
forced by the absorption of democracy,
be enabled to carry Kansas against the
republicans? That does not follow.
While there is a battalion thus going
into the new party, there is an army
corps going out. The thousands of old
soldiers and lifelong republicans who
went off with the alliance movement are
coming back where they belong. This
mixture of democracy and calamity will
hasten their footsteps. They will soon
be keeping step to the music of the
Union again, and thousands of the more
respectable democrats will keep them
company. The peoples party in Kan
sas will, by November, be simply q con-
glomeration of cratic democrats, green
hackers, socialists and cranks. The
sensible men of the state will be prac-
tically all in the republican camp, and
they will be there to stay.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
HOW WOULD HELP7

Tho democratic papers, disregarding
the fact that by the Mckinley law the
tariff was lowered upon nearly every
thing that Andrew Carnegie msnufsc-
lures, are attempting to make point
against protection out of the troubles
at Homestead. Would the wofkmen be
in any better fix il there were no tariff
and they we're compelled to compete di-
rectly with the workmen in England?
The iron and steel workers in England
get but about half the wages received
by the workmen at Homestead. We
fail to see how free trade would help the
Homestead strikers. Moreover, they
fail to see it also and three-fourths OF
them are staunch republicans. In Ale
gheny county the republicans outnum-
Der the democrats nearly two to one.
That county gave Harrison majority
Of over 10000 in 1883 and will do even
better this year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23

Il = no wonder thst Cleveland b ths
fsvorite candidate Of Great Britain. The
uttesancss Of the British papers them
solves show that they regard tho demo-
cratic cause a. the cause of England
against America. What do American
voters, whose interests are bound up in
the prosperity and development of the
United States, think of this state Of
affairs? What do Irish Americans, who
are asked to serve their hereditary foe
and oppressor by voting for Cleveland
and British free trade, think Of it?
The polls viii show in November.
The Press has abundant confidence
that they will show that the American
people, native and naturalized, indig-
nantly resent foreign dictation, aud
propose to place in power the candidate
who represents American principles and
policies. That candidate is Benjamin
Harrison.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
USELESS LABOR.
From the Kansas City, Mo-, Journal.

From the Kansas City. No., Journal.
Our friends are constantly sending to
us for answers to democratic misstate-
ments about the tariff. We dislike to
to say lies-for we don't think the av-
erage man will lie knowingly. But the
average democrat, to save his life, can
not understand tariff. Thus one state
ment is that even admitting protection
to be proper, $50 per cent is too much
and the Mckinley law is go per cent
tariff"
Now, it is no such thing. The pres
emit law has the largest free list ever
contained in. any law since the govern
ment was organized and larger than the
Mills bill proposed. The average duty
under the Mckinley law as shown by
custom house collections is exactly Is
per cent-that is for 1891. Now the
first tariff law was passed in 1889, and
by the same witness-the treasury
books-in 1871, just 100 years ago, the
average duty collected was 22.24 per
cent-or the Mckinley bill has rate
only 23 per cent greater than the tariff
signed by George Washington. Yet the
democratic editor in the face of these
facts will tell you the Mckinley law is a
60 per cent tariff, while that under
Washington was only 10 per cent, It
is useless labor to try to keep up with
these wild, ignorant statements.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
.ONAN0WERABLE.
From the Atchison Champion.

From the Atchison Champion
Yesterday, in a talk with Mr.. Smith,
who is with d. G. Newcomb, of this
city, the owner of the largest dry goods
house in Kansas, he made this signifi-
cant remark: 81 have been in this bust
ness forty seven years, and never saw
the time when you could purchase 80
many goods for dollar as you can
now" That is the business mans answer
to the political yacrobats who profess to
see ruin in the Mckinley bill.
The simple truth is that there has
never been a moment in the history of
Kansas when the product of the farm,
the field and the orchard found q more
ready cash market than right now in
this year of grace, 1892. That's another
business mans argument, and it is un-
answerable.
Another thing right in this connection:
there are not only plenty of dollars to
pPy for the products OF the farm and
field, but every dollar is worth 100 cents.
You do not have to carry bank note
detecter to discover whether the money
is good, as you did in old democratic
days. Republican policy has given you
an American market, American money,
American fabrics, and has made the OPP
portunity to buy more goods and of a
better quality for dollar than ever be-
fore in the worlds history. 1t is a bus
mess mans argument and is better than
acres of .fapdoodle about the tariff from
democratic orators.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
you CAN'T VOTE FOR CLEvE-
LAND IN KANSAS.

From the Leavenworth Times.
Cleveland is out of the race in Kan
sas. You can talk for him, nominate
him, run special trains to Chicago in
his interesA but when it comes to voting,
the very thing for which elections are
held, you will find no Cleveland ticket
at the polls.
After the announcement concerning
the fusion of the democratic party with
the alliance. prominent democrat who
went to Chicago was asked: "How are
you going to vote this fall:" He re-
piled that he would vote for Grover
Cleveland and did not care d-n
about any of the other candidates. On
being informed that voting for Cleve-
land would be an impossibility this fall,
he VAS dumbfounded. There are no
democratic electors to be voted for
They must of necessity vote against
themselves. Cleveland's vote in Kan
sas will be 600, 100000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
EAvORIrE CANDIDATE OF GREAT
BRITAIN.

The laudable anxiety of our British
contemporaries to perpetuate, at the ex-
pense Of the United States, those eco
nomic doctrines (which alone maintain
British commercial ascendancy," says
the New Cork Press, accounts Of the
following editorial extract from the
great London trade journal, Engineer
ing, in its issue of April 6, 1892:
'There is q somewhat general idea in
this country that the McKinleyl tariff
law. viii be repealed before long, or at
all events be 90 modified that the sting
viii be taken out of those clauses most
Objectionable to British manufacturers;
and it il for this reason that the hopes
Of the democrats for the approaching
presidential election are 20 largely
shared in this country"
The democratic platform does all that
the supporters of democracy on the
other side of the ocean looked for. It
not only denounces with demaRogic
vlrulenoe the Mckinley law, whose Job
tectionable features" have preserved tho
homo market for America and hepk
John Bulls greedy fingers out OF Amer
ica's pockets; but it declares that tho
great measure OF industrial independ-
ence = unconstitutional and void II
the Golden club had framed tho anti
tariff plank ut Chicago, it could not
hsve met The British ideal moro sxaotly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
AN INTERVIEW WITH HARRIS.

w. A. Harris, fusion candidate for
congressman at large, was asked:
"What is the real difference between
populist and democrat?'
Nothing, nothing" was the reply,
the second word being drawn out as
though the speaker was studying on the
thought. "When I went into this move
ment I squared myself with Jefferson,
Calhoun and Jere Black and found that
I could belong to this party and yet be
a good democrat. They agree exactly
with Jere Black on the railroad question
and on finance; they follow Jefferson
and Calhoun much closer than the DEM
ocratic party does. In fact, they follow
Jefferson almost entirely"
"What do you think of the Omaha
ticket?"
Its all right. OF course We don't
expect to elect Weaver and Field, but
We are likely to do something else which
will be just as good-throw the election
into the house, where the peoples party
may be able to hold the balance Of
power. Our party is growing rapidly,
particularly in the south. think it
will grow faster there than in the north,
because it is less at variance with the
doctrines of the southern people. You
remember that two years ago the SUBJ
treasury idea was discussed great deal.
Now it is hardly mentioned. All the
leaders are satisfied that if the scheme
could ever be feasible it is too early yet
to attempt to put it into operation. I
scheme"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
SOUTHERN DENIS. PLEASED WITH
WEAVER.

The southern democratic members of
the house could not have selected a
ticket for the third party that would
have served them better than the one
put up by the Omaha convention. The
alliance question was in fact giving
them very little trouble anyway; but in
the few districts where there was some
danger of interfering with the shotgun
policy, all fears have been removed by
placing Weaver at the head of the tick
ct, he having been on all sides of the
question.
The democrats recall at one time that
he denounced them and the south more
violently than anyone else, and he made
many Of these speeches in congress.
The democratic national committee has
already employed a man to collect
Weaver's speeches of this character, and
they will be put out in the southern
states as campaign documents. This
will make solid south doubly sure and
ends all the work the democrats can see
they have to do against the alliance.
They will send nothing into the repub-
ican states that have an alliance men,
bership, as they want the alliance to
carry few republican states. The re-
publican national committee, however,
will collect some speeches made years
ago by Henderson, of Iowa, in which he
exposed Weaver most thoroughly. The
voter who wants information will be
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23

enough to go on and nominate . man
who cannot possibly carry New Yoe3
and without New York we cannot posi-
bly, win"
Daniel w. VOORHEES,: sIt would be
folly Of the worst type for this conven-
ton to attempt to force down the
Threats of.the New York organisation a
nominee whom they protest against,
who has not q single delegate from his
own state"
Richard Croker, Tammany boss: "For
twelve years the democrats have been
pestered with Cleveland, and, win or
lose, he cannot ask for another nomina-
ton. He cannot carry New York, but
if he carries Ohio, Indiana. California,
Pennsylvania, and several other states
the western politicians say he can, why,
he will certainly be elected"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
WOODEN GOODS AND THE TARlFF.

But they say, show about the 40 per
cent on wooden goods!" The democratic
orators will tell you that if you levy a
duty on yard of foreign wooden goods
the American article comes up to the
same standard. My old friend, go to
your democratic merchant and tell him
to bring out his books and compare the
prices under the revenue tariff Of the
democracy with the protective tariff Of
the republicans, and we will show You
that all wooden goods that the ordinary
class wears are 20 per cent cheaper to-
day than you have ever bought them in
your life; and, my democratic friends,
you know 1t. Go to any store in your
city and you can get suit of clothes,
such as farmers wear, S. to SO less
than you could IN 1860. Did the 40
per cent on wooden goods of foreign
governments increase the price Of the
American article to the extent Of the
duty? We think not. Take for the
next article the claw-hammer coats, and
Of the IA, 600, 900 of wooden goods i'm
ported last year from foreign govern
ments, more than one-haf was Of these
high-priced broadcloths and fancy cas-
simeres, which We do not manufacture
in the United States. Does the farmer
buy them? Does the mechanic
laboring man. Who does?. Those
rich old fellows who wear the claw
hammer coats, patent leather boots, dia-
mond pins and corkscrew whiskers.
They wear these fine goods because tits
English, you know" and We admit that
when you levy duty on q foreign arti-
Gle, and there is no American competi-
ton, of course the consumer pays the
duty. But it is the wealthy man OF tho
country who pays it, and not the Amer
lean laboring man. The high-priced
fine broadcloths and cassimeres are
manufactured in France and England,
and are not manufactured to any ex-
tent by our American manufacturers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
BUNCOME IN THE WICHITAP PLAT
FORM,

One of the tricks intended to deceive
in the Wichita platform is the attack
upon the republican senate of the last
legislature for failing to pass weekly
wage bill. The record of the alliance
house in that matter deserves q few re-
marks to show the hypocrisy of the
platform.
The weekly wage bills were introduced
in the house. The first was referred to
committee and died without again re-
appearing in the house. The second
was advocated by the American Fedora
ton of Labor and was killed in the
house on Recommendation of the COM
mittee that it be indefinitely postponed.
The third was picked up for buncombe
in n emergency. The house had re-
fused to permit the use of the room for
q labor meeting to be addressed by
President Gompers of the American
Federation. This affront to wage earn
ers was serious error and realizing the
'break," member of the house intro
duced third bill providing for weekly
payment of wages Three amendments
we're adopted and as SO amended the
bill passed. But the amendments were
fatal to the purpose of the bill They
provided that wages should be paid
weekly to all employees who demanded
it in writing, excepting to domestic ser
wants and farm laborers, and excepting
also to employees of bonded companies.
The last exception excluded railroads
and number Of other corporations and
with the requirement of q written Pc
tition in other cases made the bill q
travesty.
Whether this bill might have been
passed by the senate or not, the house
took good care that it should not even
be considered in that body, by passing
the bill on the same day that it adopted
q joint resolution agreed to by the sem
ate, it being near the close of the session,
providing that no measures excepting
appropriation bills should be considered
by either body after that date.
II there is anything in the record Of
the late house that appeals to wage
earne-s careful reading of the journal
fails to disclose it. Employees received
nothing but insults and buncombe, while
farm hands received blow under the
belt.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-07-23
DEMO CRATIC TESTIMONY.

Senator Ransom, Of North Carolina:
s4One thing 10 certain, Cleveland cannot
carry North Carolina"
Robert B. Roosevelt, New York:
s4Cieveland's nomination sets Now York
outside Of democratic hopes
Editor Scott Ray, Sbslhyville Ind.
Democrat: 81 believe Mr.. Cleveland
any man since ths civil war"
New York Sun, June 5: II Grover
Cleveland to be perpetual incubus On
the democratic party? The democracy
might Just - we'll disband at once -
issue these claimants bonds Tor defeat
every four years
Lisutsnant Governor Sheehan, Of Nov
York: "Ths democratic party . COM
hitting suicide It ID bull-hesded