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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28

for the ten years of 5000, 900, 600
which would give probable per capita
circulation of s45.
There appeared in the August, 1891.
number of the Arena an article upon
the subject under consideration, pre-
pared by c. Wood Davis, who is known
to be an experienced railroad man and
an accurate aud well informed author
lty upon railroad statistics
In the course of the article in oues-
ton, Mr.. Davis presents a carefully pre-
pared schedule of savings" which
would or could be effected by govern
ment ownership and operation. l shall,
therefore, take the liberty of using his
schedule Of savings" in the summary
or recapitulation which / shall now Of
fer, in which hope to make the justice,
necessity and feasibility OF the peoples
ownership and operation of the rail-
roads so plain that "a wayfaring man,
though he be fool need not err there
in" Mr.. Davis schedule is as follows:
Saving in consolidation Of depots
andstaffs...........................s2OO 100000
Savings in exclusive use OF shortest
rOutes................................ 100000
Saving in attorney salary and legal
expenses ................. .......... 1900, 900
Saving in abrogation OF the pass evil 100000
Saving in abrogatlOn Of the commits
sion system. ........................ NOOO,OOO
Saving in dispensing with high sal
AIRED presidents, managers, etc. 100000
Saving in disbanding traffic associa-
tons. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 100000
Saving in abolishment Of (al but
local offices. Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Saving in tlve-sevenths OF advertis-
ing account. 100000
AOlals ..' iOJ,UuJ,UUU
1t will be noticed that the total saw
ing in operating expenses" as sched-
uled by Mr. Davis, is Sl6O, 900. 900 a year.
For the year ended June 80, 1899, the
gross earnings of the roads were
1850, 100000; net earnings, $500, 100000
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28

capitalization, represented by stocks
and bonds, and yet not be more than
fifty years in paying for them, while
rates would be reduced "at least one
fourth the first ten years
Now, | want to notice one other feat
IRE of this programme. The accumula-
ton and setting aside of an annual sink
ing fund, amounting to Sl6G, 900, 900 each
year, would, if no provisions were made
to counteract the effect, retire from cir
culation during the first decade the
enormous sum of $1,000, 900. 900. How,
then, shall we obviate this difficulty?
We can do this-make of the sinking
fund the vehicle or means for the in
auguration of the land loan system de-
msnded in the platform Of the peoples
party and also an easy method of in
creaSing the volume of currency, slowly
and conservatively, in accordance with
the peoples demands.
How can we do this? Accord to both
gold and silver free and unlimited coin
age, continuing the present system of
issuing either coin, or gold and silver
certificates, at the option of the owner
Of the bullion. Then as fast as gold or
silver coin or certificates are received
and sunk into the railroad sinking
fund, pay out upon legal appropriations
United States full legal tender paper
money in the same amount TO take the
place of the gold and silver held to re-
deem the railroad purchase bonds,
which should be loaned to farmers
upon their productive real estate, max
ing the loans become payable in nine,
eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two
and one year. Bear in mind, however,
that the redemption of any certain
amount of bonds at the end Of ten years
would not be obligatory, but optional
on the part of the government
We are said to have now, in round
numbers, about one billion dollars in
gold and silver money, and with free
coinage of silver the two metals NAV
be relied upon to furnish O,OOO, 900 ad-
ditional each year. Under the opera
ton Of the system l have outlined.
s16O,OOO,O 600 in gold and silver will be
loaned to the people each year, while
during the same year the currency
volume would be inflated in the sum of
sl60,OOO,O 900 in United States legal
tender money, such money being "bot-
toned on taxes" and redeemanle in
United States one per cent intercon-
vertible savings bonds of small demon
nations. At the end Of decade ST.
6OO,OOO,OOO Of such money would be in
the hands of the people While the
stuck of gold and silver money would
have been increased by the sum Of
1900, 10000, making total increase
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28
FOOLISH BOURBONS.
The BourbOns In Both Old Parties Think
Their Party Ties Will stu Suffice to Bind


The BOurbons In Both Old Parties Think
Their Party Ties viii still Suffice to Bind
Populisits.
One of the peculiarities of the present
political situation is the hallucination
on the part of the twin frauds which
causes them to believe that old party
ties are yet dear to the heart" of peo-
pies party men. The two old parties
do not seem able to comprehend the
idea that populists have renowned their
allegiance to them and, while supreme
ly interested in the success of their
own party, are utterly indifferent as to
which one of the twin frauds gives up
the ghost first Thus the Kansas City
Mail, a partisan democratic paper of
the ultra Bourbon stripe, says:
Mr.. Weaver must know, for he is not fool.
whatever else he may be, that the only thing
possible for him 10 accomplish in Missouri is
the defeat Of the democratic party by the tr;-
umph of the republican party. II he and his
assistants can induce sufficient number Of
Missouri democrats TO leave their old comrades
and party and vote for Leverett Leonard, the
third party nominee, he can succeed-in what:
In electing William Warner. high tariff bitter
republican partisan, governor OF Missouri This
much and no more is the bare possibility Of
Viewers efforts in Missouri So there is man
ifestly nothing to be accomplished by this varie-
gated many-colored politician and oflice-seeker
in Missouri but the possible election Of a repab.
lican governor in Missouri
The Mail evidently does not under.
stand that next to winning victory
over both the old parties, nothing could
please the populists better than to over
turn the existing state of affairs not
only in Missouri, but in all other states,
turning out the party in power and
breaking up the rings and combines
that seek to establish its perpetual
reign.
A true peoples party man is popu-
list from principle, and both of the
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28

twin frauds are antagonistic to the
principles to which he owns allegiance
In striving for the success of the peo-
pies party and the principles it repre-
sents, the sincere populist does not care
one continental which one of the "or-
ganized hypocrisies" is damaged the
most by the campaign Of the peoples
party. Moreover, populist who has
burned his bridges behind him and is
marching through the enemy's country
toward the promised land, would not
turn his hand over to be able to dictate
which one Of the old parties should re-
tain or assume control in any state or
in the nation at large.
But the sophistical imbecility of the
Mails argument is best apprehended
when it is remembered that populists
are just as anxious and try just as hard
to win converts from one old party as
the other. Indeed, it may safely be
said, that as rule the voting strength
of the peoples party is drawn, in about
the same proportion or ratio to its nu-
merical strength, from each one Of the
two old parties, so that unless the pop
ulists should become strong enough to
gain a plurality over both Of them,
their relative strength TO each other, or
the result Of an election, would not be
materially changed For every hereto
fore democratic county in the state of
Missouri, where majority of the voters
have gone into the peoples party, an
erstwhile republican county can be
cited where the same condition prevails.
The Mail insults the intelligence Of
the populists in propounding such a
gauzy, transparent proposition. 1t is
nothing more nor less than an illy-dis-
guised appeal to that hidebound parti-
san prejudice which, since the war, has
kept the people fighting each other
while the plutocrats robbed them of the
products of their toll No sincere or
well informed populist will pay any at.
tention to this despairing appeal but,
supremely Indifferent as to whether
Lawyer Stone or Lawyer Warner is
elected governor of Missouri, every true
peoples party man will follow his prin-
ciples to the ballot box and cast vote
for God, humanity and Mollie and the
babies GEORGE C. WARD.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28
A GRADUATED INCOME TAX.
II Would Place the Burdens Of Taxation
Upon Those Best Able to Bear Them.

II Would Place the Burdens Of Taxation
Upon Those Best Able to Bear Them.
Now that the people are awakening
to the appalling fact that few thou
sand corporations and individuals are
rapidly absorbing the created wealth Of
the country, the question arises: Is
there remedy? We believe there is
an adequate and rational remedy.
We do not coincide with the views Of
those who would arbitrarily limit the
accumulation to 1000, 900 or 5000, 900.
Nor would we suggest any course that
would have the effect of crushing out
that spirit of enterprise and go-ahead
which has done so much to put the
United States in the front rank Of the
worlds great nations.
One of the remedies that we would
suggest is this: Limit the life time Of
corporations, say to twenty-five years,
with no power of renewal This would
put quietus upon those creatures that
have no souls and never die" CorDor-
ate wealth would then become dissi.
pated and be scattered among the vari.
GUS natural or legal heirs, in about the
same time it does the property which
belongs to individuals In other words,
limitation would play havoc with cor
porate wealth the same that death
plays havoc with individual accumula-
tions.
Another remedy, and the principal
one that we would depend upon, is this
The adoption of graduated income
tax. Exempt all net annual incomes
less. say, than $4,000 Levy tax OF
per cent on incomes from 1900 TO slO,'
900. When $4,000 is reached increase
the tax to 10 per cent on all above sl0,'
900 and up to, say, $4,000. On $50, 900
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28
A SIMPLE PROPOSITION.

The Money Now Paid as Transportation
Charges VIII Pay For the Roads in
Sixty Years.
A great many two-by-four demo-re-
publicratic statesmen, who pride them.
selves upon their abnormal brain devel-
opment are prancing about the coun-
try and ridiculing the idea of govern
ment ownership of railroads These
modern Solomons, with owlish gravity,
declare that it is ridiculously impossible
for the people to buy and pay for the
railroads. And yet it is a plain and
simple problem.
To illustrate the simplicity of the
problem and the ease with which it may
be solved, we here reproduce portions
Of an article which was very generally
published just about one year ago. 1t
will be noticed that it is the year 1889
the article deals with, but the same ar
guments and almost the same figures
will apply to the year 1891, as the pop
ulation and the gross and net earnings
Of the railroads have increased in Just
about the same ratio We quote:
sat the close of the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1889, the cost of the railroads
proper mot including real estate and
other investment0 and deducting the
amount of railroad stocks and bonds
held by the railroad corporations, was
something less than eight billion of
dollars When ! say cost mean cap
italization, represented by stocks and
bonds held by so-called innocent pur-
chasers.'
The gross earnings of the roads for
the year, in round numbers, was $780,
100000 and the net earnings, also round
numbers, was $500, 900.
To simplify the matter and avoid
lengthy argument, we will assume that
the people bought the roads, water and
all, for $4,000, 200, 900, in United States
two and one-half per cent bonds, pay
able, at the option of the government
after ten years 1t is to be understood
that freight and passenger rates are to
be kept so adjusted that no greater sum
than s96O,OOO,OOO shall be collected each
year. This plan would call for an an
nual interest payment of 100000, 900,
and an annual sinking fund of sl6O, OOO,-
900. Now what do we find? The net
annualreceipts are exactly large enough
to pay the $500, 100000 in interest and
provide sinking fund Of $4,000, 900
each year, which we will assume, for
The nonce, is swelled by savings effected
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28
F. SNYDER Sells all Standard

in operating expenses to an annual
sinking fund of 100000, OOO amount
ing at the end of the first
decade to $1,000, 100000, being
the amount OF the first in
stallment of bonds. Now note this
fact: While there has been no apparent
reduction in rates there has been very
material actual reduction in rates.
Upon basis of 6O,OOO,OOO population
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1889,
the per capita cost Of railroad facilities
for the nation was just SIC For the
year ended June 80, 1899, the popula-
ton would be, say $4,000, 900, and the
per capita cost of railroad facilities s12
"a reduction Of % per cent. At the end
of the second decade, or twenty years
another one-ffth of the cost of the rail-
roads would be paid, and as the popula-
ton would be increased to probably
10000, 900, while the gross cost of rail
road facilities remained at $3.50, 900, 900
the same as for the year lSS9-the net
per capita. rates would be $500, a re-
duction Of 20 per cent, or gross per
capita reduction for the twenty years
of 40 per cent, and so on to the end of
fifty years.
In explanation of above it may be
stated that it will be readily seen that
the increase of population and conse-
quent density of settlement would be
accompanied by corresponding in
crease of freight transportation and
railroad travel; so that, while the gross
amount collected from the people an
nually would remain the same, there
would nevertheless be a steady reduc-
ton, year after year, in freight rates
per hundred or bushel, etc, and a cor
responding production in passenger rates
| trust that have made it plain that
the people could buy the railroads, even
at the price of their present fictitious
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28
Silly Rot.

Fill up your gold bug papers with
that silly rot about a vote for Weaver
being a vote for Harrison II you are in
the Cleveland ring, or a vote for Weaver
being vote for Cleveland il you are in
the Harrison ring. You can't think Of
anything more silly. 1t will have
about as much effect as anything else you
can say, and it won't do anybody any
harm 1t will just bind you that much
closer to your master, the devil, who
always,lid love lie. And then you
can't say anything in that class of pa
pers that will reach the people anyway!
You have lied to them so long and 80
persistently that the people have no
confidence in you; and now, when they
want information they will 60 to a
friend, and not a monopoly hireling. =
Upton lind Alliance Dispatch.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28

The solid south is broken The
peoples party was the instrument that
perfected the deed. 1t will be no easier
FOR Cleveland to carry a southern state
than twill for Harrison TO receive the
electoral vote of the silver states
Bethany (Mo) Labor Herald
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28

(both round numbers). The amount,
$500, 900, 900, given as gross earnings"
does not include the amount paid by
the people to the railroads for the trans
portation of the mails; therefore such
item is not factor in the calculation.
The case would stand thus:
Present operating expenses. ........ s6iO,OO1 900
Deduct Mr.. Davis schedule Of say.
lngs erected. ........... lOO,O OOJO
Net operating expenses. ............ 5000 900
Gross earnings ...................... 10000 0
Deduct net operating expenses ...... 4sj.0lOu0O
Net earnings ........................ 4sO.0OO,OOJ
Deduct interest account ............. 20J,OJO,0JO
Surplus. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2SOO)0,0OO
Deduct sinking fund. ....."........ 10000 900
Available net annual surplus SIX, 900, 900
At the end of ten years one-fifth Of
the cost of the roads would be paid,
while the population having increased
to S0,OOO,OOO, the per capita cost Of rail-
road facilities would be reduced from
SIC to s12, a gross reduction OF % per
cent and an average annual reduction
of 255 per cent, while the met annual
surplus" would furnish fund of $780,
10000 year for all necessary uses
The bonds being now payable at the
option of the government the sum of
$3.50, 900, 900 of such bonds would be paid
each year, thus effecting an annual re-
duction in interest charge Of $4,000, 900,
and adding that amount each successive
year to the surplus revenue and saved
interest fund Of the year before, such
saving in interest charge and the net
annual surplus amounting during the
last forty years of the fifty years term
to the enormous sum of $3.50, 900, 600
or an average of 5000, 900, 900 each year
for the term of forty years. This fund,
thus furnished, would build all neces-
sary additional trackage, and also con-
struct second or double tracks to our
principal trunk roads, and would fur
nish fund for the payment of any ad-
ditional force of employees that might
be employed, as well as shortening the
hours of labor and increasing the wages
of those already employed
At the end of fifty years the roads
would be fully paid for, and the whole
sum Of s96O,OOO,OO0 be available for
operating expenses, which is equivalent
to saying that the people would get
their railroad facilities at cost The
population having increased at the ex-
piration Of fifty years. or in the year
1889, to at least 100000 900, the cost Of
railroad facilities with one-half as much
more mileage than at present, or 24O,-
700 miles, and a gross annual charge OF
$3.50, 600, 900 would be $3.50 per capita, a
reduction of 70 per cent from the pres.
ent rate. So mote it be. -Exchange
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28

Down with the imperialism of plu-
tocracy; up with the rights of the PEG
pie. Peoples Party Paper.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-10-28

The box-toed, cigarette-smoking
and beer-guzzling politicians of North
Carolina are down in the mouth. They
see that the reform movement is now
too far ahead to be overtaken The
great common people have been edu-
cated.-Raleigh On. C) Progressive
Farmer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-14
50 MONTGOMERY STREET, Jersey CITY. NJ j.
NOTICE8
NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.

NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT.
Notice Is hereby given that the account of the
suoscrl Ders, trustees OF the esfaus of Charles L.
Eortnrup, deceased, will be audited and stared By
tns Surrogate OF the County OF HUDSON, ami re-
of december next
NANCY NORTHhUP.
GILBERT COLLINS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-14
Darwin's Missing Links.

One of the chief objections to the theory
of evolution which was especially laid
stress upon some thirty years ago was
the impossibility of pro lucing at that
time a series of intermediates links" to
connect the now existing anim1ls all 1
plants with their presumed ancestors
from former geological epochs. TO meet
the objection. Darwin had TO devote Il
special chapter in his great work to tha
itnperfection of the geological record and
TO insist hoth upon It's fiagmentary cha
what 1t contains.
The recent progress of both geology and
paleontoloQy renders such explanation
almost s~uperf1nous. Geology, aided Bv
the deep sen explorations, has come to a
better comprehension OF the mechanism
of sediments, aud it knows what it NAV
expect to find in the rocky archives Of the
earth and what 1T may not; and. on the
other side, the discovery of the missing
links between past and present has ben
going on of late with such a rapidly as
has outstripped the most sanguine ex-
pectaticns.
Our museums already contain whole
series of fossil organisms which almost
step by step illustrate the slow evolution
of large divisions of both animals ana
plants; our present mammals ALREADY
have been connected by intermediary
forms with many of their Tertiary an
cestors, and the paleontoiog;st can all
ready trace the pedigree Of birds, and
ven mammals. as far back rs the lizar Is
of the secondary period-not merely lie
Quoting it from emhryological data, but
by shn wing the real beings which ouce
hreathed and moved about upop earth
Prince Kr0potktn aM Popular Science
MOnthJu.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-14
OYSTERS THE PRICE OF FREEDOM.
How the Petersburg Bankers, shalol
chine, Obtained Their Liberty.

How the Petersburg Bankers, Shalou-
chine Obtained Their Liberty.
Apropos of the marriage of the Grand
Duke Nicolas TO an ex-serf, it may be OF
interest to learn that The great st. Peters
burg bankers. ~Shalouchine, to whom
many of the American tourists in Russia
carry letters of credit, were formerly
serfs. They belonged to this enormously
wealthy Count Sneremetietf, and obtained
their freedom some fifteen years prior to
the general emancipation, by means OF
a barrel of oysters.
Old Shalouchine, the father of the pres
9nG members OF the firm and the founder
of the hank. repeatedly entreHted Count
Scneremetief to grant him his freedom,
offering him as much as $500, 600 for the
boon. But the Scheremetietfs are the
weaitniests mobiles in Russia; money was
no object to the Count, and it gratlfed
his pride !to.-feel THAT one of the leading
bankers or the Empire was one Of his
serfs, unable to harry either his sons or
daughters without the masters consent.
Moreover, as a serf, the banker was lab
to have his money seized aud confiscated
at any moment by the Count, since every
thing that belonged to a serf, including
his wife. children and property belonged
ip,e facto TO his master.
One day ~Shalouchine, who had that
very morning returned 10 the capital
from Odessa, called at the S~heremetIef
Palace for the purpose of reporting his
arrival. as in duty bound, TO his owner.
He had brought with him II barrel OF de-
licious CrimSan oysters for presentation
to the Count, but left them in his car
rage at the palace door until he should
have Obtained his intimation that Lie
gift was acceDtab BILE.
On entering the presence of the Count,
the banker found him surrendered by u
party or guests and engaged i'll berating
his chief butler for neglecLing to provide
oysters for the dejeuner to which they
were about to sit down. The butler was
explaining to the Count that there were
no oysters to be got in the capital ut that
moment for love or money.
Catching sight of the serf banker, the
Count exclaimed: '-Oh it is thou again.
Thon art come to poster me once more
for thy liberation. Thou knowest that it
is useless. lsnould not know what to do
with thy money. But stay | will tell
thee something. Get me some oysters
for my dejenner and thou shalt have thy
fresdoml'
Shalouchiue bowed low, left the room.
fetched the barrel of oysters which he had
left in his carriage at he door and placed
it at the feet of his master. As soon as it
had been opened the Count called for a
pen and paper, wrote cut a declaration
emaucipating both the Sbanker aud his
family fro II %serfdorn, n th-D bowling
courteously to the man, who but Il mo-
ment before had been his slave, ex-
claiined:-'sAnd now, my dear Mr..
Shaloucline, will you give US the
-Marqm'se de F%ontenoy In the PhilGdel-
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