The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-02-12

the same principle that it objects to
the Government loaning money at
, per cent, or selling dry goods, OF
hardware, or boots and shoes at actu-
al cost. The Government postal SER
vice-a part of which is furnishing
printed envelopes-is run ut a yearly
loss of S5,OO0,OO0. The REGISTER
would agree to furnish envelopes at
half the price the Government now
charges, if it could be empowered to
tax the people to make good it's loss
es. The Government might go into
: the retail clothing business and put
ual now i'm that business would be
. forced into bankruptcy. Would 1t be
right? These objections cannot be
answered by saying that the conven-
fence of the people demands that the
Government furnish stamped and
printed envelopes. The convenience
of the people doesn't demand printed
envelopes any more than it demands
printed letter heads. OF what use is
an envelope without a piece of letter
paper? or what use is paper without
pencil or pen and ink? IL the Gov
eminent furnishes envelopes, it
should also furnish letter paper. If
it furnishes letter paper it should also
furnish pencils or pen and ink. The
argument reduces itself TO an absurd
ity. The principle of the thing is
wrong. The Government has no
right to do anything that private en-
terprise can do as well. The Govern
ment has no right to take business
away from printer and then tax that
printer to make good the loss it suf-
fers.
1t is a strange, strange thing that
men who own land i'm Kansas, whose
whole interests are bound up i'm Kan
sas, cannot see that when they deliver
a blow at Kansas they strike blow
at their own pocket; that whenever
they hurt Kansas they hurt them
selves. But it seems there are some
who can't see this. A friend of ours
hands i'm the following item, which
certainly has very obvious and
pointed point:
One day last week the writer was
standing on Main street in Humboldt
talking to man from Michigan who
was inquiring about q farm to buy.
Along came two men from Salem Tp.,
and knowing that one of the men had
several hundred acres more than he
needed, he was introduced to the
Michigan man. The first remark the
I Salem TIP. man made was, "What are
You doing out in this GOd-fOrsaken
country" This man owns three or
four quarter sections of land, and he
has been whining for years because
his land won't grow crops while he
guZZles whiskey and curses Kansas.
/ 1t isn't .much wonder that the Mich
, igan man went to another county to
buy farm.
Erie Record: A few weeks ago the
'fence corner" grOcers were infesting
the country, and now the "fence cor
ner" dry goods fellows are industri-
Ously working" the farmers of the
country. The tramp fakir should he
given wide berth. They sell goods
only for cash and get % per cent more
than the home merchants would
charge for the same goods. Farmers,
don't be gulled by them; don't buy
their cheap shOddy goods. PatrOnize
your home merchants who help you
pay your taxes and who accommodate
you by giving you little time when
you haven't got the cash. You know
you will get your moneys worth from
them. These wandering tramps do
not help you pay your taxes, they
don't take your butter and eggs and
other produce off your hands, they
will not be here to make good any of
the defects you may find in the goods
you buy of them.
Harry Flesher, 81 years Of age, was
run oyer by an engine i'm the yard at
Grants Pass last Tuesday. AS re-
suit of the accident his arm was am
putated and he died Thursday morn
ing. During the war he was a captain
in the 9th Kansas Volunteers and was
at one time well off, financially.
Whisky ruined him, and he died a
drunken pauper.-NOrth Iamhill,
(Ore.) Lcdder.
Captain Flesher was one OF the plO-
neers of Allen county. He located
the quarter section on part of which
A. LETTERS now lives, short distance
east of lola, i'm 1857 or y and lived
there until the breaking out of the
war when he enlisted i'm the Ninth
Kansas and was elected Captain of
Co. T.. All the old Ninth Kansas
boys-Judge Arnold, John Walters,
John Mcdonald and Others,-knew
him well and are sorry to learn of his
death.
Mr.. f. J. Thayer went over to
Carthage last week to thoroughly in
vestigate the stone quarries of that
place. and he returned home with
more faith than ever in lola marble,
and the good things it will eventually
bring to the town. There are two
quarries at Carthage, both together
employing about 80 men, and yet their
stone is inferior TO ours in every way.
The secret of it is that their stone has
had an introduction to the market
while ours has not. When we can
once get architects and builders to un-
dnrStnnd that We haze the very hest