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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
The RICH. to Complain Asserted.

AS hitting supplement to this splendid IL
carnation of democratic principles beg to call
your attention TO the following language. used
by Andrew jackson in his message vetoing the
Unite States bank bill.
1T Is TO be regretted that the rich and power
full too often bend acts of government TO their
selfish purposes Distinctions in society will
always exist under every just government.
Equality of talents OF education or of wealth
cannot be produced by human institutions. In
the full enjoEment of the gifts of Heaven, and
the fruits OF superior industry economy AMI
virtue, every man is equally entitled to protec-
ton by law. But when the laws under take to
add 10 these natural ana Just advantages arti-
fetal distinctions. 70 grant titles, gratuities
and exclusive privileges 10 make the rich richer
the potent more powerful. the humble members
OF society. the farmers. mechanics and Iaborers
who have neither the time nor the means of
securing like favors to themselves have right
20 complain of the injustice of their govern
ment Its evils exist only in its abuses. II IL
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
g, a. s4aoI NnrIe-z

WEST SUPEBFoR, Wis, Aug. I2-The
Sxitch1nen's union viii take hand in
the steel workers strike At meeting
of the trades and labor assembly they
promised to handle TO cars containing
the product of non-union workers
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
Connpsed Physically.

AUGUSTA. Ga. Aug 10.-CcngH-sS-
man Watson opened the campaign in
the Tenth congressional district at
Thompson Yesterday He was given a
big reception by his third party cons=it-
uents He spoke two hours and IT the
end o. MS speech collapsed physically.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18

grand master of the
grand encampment
and past grand mas
ter, past grand high
priest, past eminent
commander, past
m o st illustrious
grand master of the
grand council. illus
'trious deputy for
Michigan and An
cient and Accepted
Rite was elected
grand master of the
knirb-S Ta~-7,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
Friendship for Toneisa.

In your letter, you say further:
at have always felt great pride in the CAPT
tai of Kansas; have always done every thing il
my power to encourage the building of the cap
itol and other public improvements there
have always thought that it would have beer
far better for the state if all the charitable in
. stitutions had been located at the capital"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
The Prnper Thin.

Observation-Disclosures you hair brush
with an iron back?
Clerk-What do you want one with
an iron back for?
Customer am going to move sooTi-
and III need il to drive nails with
T.1Flra
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
Honest Pri,ciule. Espou-ed.

Now. as to the homes. principles they have
espoused, and OF which you seem SO p-ofoEad-
~ in the dark. VIII t1ke pleasure il trying 70
give you some light and advise yoa Of some
honest principles they have espoused:"
FirsEThey have declared war against al
legislation. state and national having for is
object. that viii result il the increase Of mo-
nopoiy. the creation of trusts. AID the asgrega-
ton of wealth il the hands of the few 10 the
detrirnent of the many.
Second-They are opposed to the principle
and practice OF tariff legislation as embodied in
the Mckinley bill, which they regard, and as
all democrats regard. ard IS thousands OF
good republicans regard. the most Infamous
tax measure that was ever forced upon the
American people
Third-They are in favor, without limitation,
OF the free coinage of silver as a part OF the
constitutional money of the country, aid their
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
NEW TEMPLAR oFFIcERs

Judge McCurdy, of Michigan, Chosen
Grand Master-The Next Conclave to Re
Held at Boston.
DENVER, Col, Aug. l2.-Judge Hugh
McCurdy, of Corunna, Mich, thirty.
third degree, right eminent denr,tv
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HnHCamaia

prospective HOusenald = u
house an the wages suits me we
enough Now. VIII yez please let L,
see your husbands porthrait so t I CT
see what kind OF I loolzin' man he is
Boston Beacon
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18

signs?'' s.Not I, 1 am the weather
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18

cries OF the Knights
Templar which con-
stitutcd the escort
of the grand en-
-ampnent to its
asylum, moved from
Fourteenth and
Market streets on
its long march
through the princi-
pal streets of the
| -ity. From easy
morning prePara-
lions had been made
fer the event and the
streets were crowd
ed with people seek
ing positions on the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18
THE GRAND mARcH.

Another Great Day at DenEer-CrS1d Pa
rade of knights Temp iar Along 4 hron=ed
Streets-The Procession Three Hours
Passing In Review.
DENVER Col, Aug lo.-Promptly at
1O.45 the great r,a,--ds. rSf 4bs .,,,,,9o,d-
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the laborins classes of society: but who will re-
ceive it when distributed among The states,
where 1t is to be disposed Of By leading politi-
clans who have friends to favor, and political
partisans TO gratifys 1t will certainly not be
returned to those who paid. and who have most
need Of it, and are honestly entitled to it,
There is but one safe rule, and that Is to con-
fine the general government rigidly within the
sphere OF Its appropriate duties It has no
power to raise a revenue. TO impose taxes.
except for the purposes enumerated in the con-
stitutlon; and IL its income is found to exceed
these wants, it should be forthwith reduced,
and the burdens OF the people so far hghtened. -
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the legislation of congress- to the boundaries
prescribed by the constitution. The good sense
and practical judgment of the people when the
subject was brought before them, sustained the
course of the executives: and this plan of IN
constitutional expenditure for the purposes
OF corrupt influences is, trust, finally over
thrown.
THE result of this decision has been felt in the
rapid eXtingui5hment of the public debt and
the large accumulation OF surplus in the treas
ury. Notwithstanding the tariff was reduced,
and is far below the amount originally
contemplated by its advocates. But rely upon
1t, the design to collect an eXtravagant reve-
nue. and to burden you with taxes beyond the
economical wants of the government is not yet
abandoned The various interests which have
combined together to impose q heavy tariff, and
to produce an overlooking treasury, are too
strong, and have too much at stake to sur
render the contest. The corporations and
wealthy individuals who engaged in large
manufacturing establishments, desire q high
tariff to increase their gains. Designing poll
tioianS will support it to concii lite their favor.
and 70 obtain the mems o. profuse expenditure
tor the purpose of purchasing influence in other
quarters, ana since the people have decided
thai the federal government cannot be permit
ted to employ its income in internal improve
nents, efforts will be made to seduce and mis-
lead the citizens OF the several stat by hold
ing out TO them the deceitful prospect OF beae-
fits to be derived from surplus revenue col
lected By the general government and annually
divided among the states. And If encouraged
bv these fallacious hopes, the states should
disregard the principles of economy which
ought to characterize every republican gov
ernrnens and should indulge in lavish expendi-
lures exceeding their resources, they VIII be-
fore long ind themselves oppressed with debts
which they unable to pay, and the tempta-
ton VIII become irresis tible to support high
tariff in order TO obtain sur plus dis tribution
Do not allow yourselves, nv feilow-citizens, TO
be misled this subject The federal govern
ment cannot collect surplus tor such purposes
without violating the principles OF the oonsti-
tuition and assuming powers which have not
been granted 1t is, moreover. system OF in
jus ice, and il persisted in. Will inevitably lead
to corruption and must end in run The sur
plus revenue will be drawn from the pockets of
| the people, from the farmer, the mechanic and
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-18

declaration on this subject is straightforward.
direct and unanbiguoCs
Fourth-They have declared against the re-
publican force bill policy, and in this position
they are heartily sustained by the united juds-
ment CT the democratic party, as well as the
best judgment OF thousands and thousands of
the best republicans in the land
Fifth-They have declared in favor of the
election of president and vice president of the
United States and United States senators by
direct vote Of the people. which proposition
Is likewise Endorsed by the best Judgment and
the best thought of the best men in all political
parties; proposition that would have sue
eeeded long since if men had possessed the
courage OF their honest convictions
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WORKED LIKE A CHARM.
The Reason why He Didn't Attend Il
Club.


Club.
Husband first night after returning
from wedding tour)-Tm going down to
the club tonight, love, and as haven't
seen the Toys for a long time, may be
late, SO You needn't wait up for me.
Wife (who had been warned by her
mother that this crisis in the matrimo-
NAL history was sure to arrive sooner
or later)--As you have never left me
alone before, dear, since our marriage,
/ am afraid l would feel very lonely in
your absence, so l think l will go to
the theatcr. If you are home before
me you need not wait up, for | can let
myself in with the latch key.
Husband-But you cannot go to the
theatcr unattended, my love.
Wife - / will not go unattended.
Cousin Jack is home from his yachting
cruise. l will cali on him and ask him
to be my escort. If he isn't in, will
find somebody else. You needn't worry
about me, dear.
Husband (who used to be dreadfully
jealous of Cousin jack - Your Cousin
Jack is home again?
Wife-Ycs. And you needn't fear
that | shall be dull in his company.
Jack is very entertaining, you know
Husband latter bordering while) -
On second thoughts don't think I'll 60
to the club, love.
Wife (demurely)-On second thoughts
] don't think I'll go TO 10 the theater,
dcar.-Texas Siftings-
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august
Flower

II have been afflicted with bilious
ness and constipation for fifteen years
and first one and then another prep
aration was suggested to me and
tried, but to no purpose. A friend
recommended August Flower and
words cannot describe the admira-
ton in which I hold it. It has given
me new lease of life, which before
was a burden. Its good qualities
and wonderful merits should be made
known to everyone suffering with
dyspepsia and biliousness. JESSE
BARKER, Printer, Humboldt. Kas. o
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IN a COMMON KIND O. WAY.

reckon faint no use fer me to try an please
We, sis,
Fer words tn me goes allus sorter kinder nit
an miss,
An shake themselves together Jest as awk'ard
rs they ken,
Whenever take holt an try to talk like other
men:
i know ct II em5arrasses an 'noy5 ye most to
death,
But reckon might Us well jest try to stop a
DRAWN breath
AS to try an make love regular, like them fea.
lcrs IN the play
/ kin only say Il love ye," in a common kind O.
way.
Aforc We went to visit 18th the city folks last
year,
We was happy thinkin' OF our love- an at the
time was near
Wen we'd start our lives together, Jest as
clipper as the jay,
An between our love an labor how we'd laugh
But that glance at city manners, an at glimpse
Sort o. set ye gainst our wcddin' an we never
changed agin;
I've no word to blame fer 1t; we must love jest
as VIC may,
N kin only say II lcyc ye," in q common kind
way!
II was all so new an strange to We, no wonder
at yc took
To seein' things all different an accortlin' to the
book
AT tells folks Of good manners an OF what it's
wrong TO do;
1t won yc cause I was stylish and cause I was
all so new;
Ye come back like another girl, an vet |
thought, somehow,
That later on ye'd be yourself-T've thought SO
until now:
An now l see 1t amt no use-Tve seen it all to-
day;
1t amt enough to love ye in my common kind O.
way,
-kirke La Shelle, in Ladies' Home Journal
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lined with fresh fires that spread with
extraordinary rapidity. The wolves
halted at each one of these little fires,
eyed them suspiciously and then stole
around them very quietly, as if in great
fear for their safety. This delay of the
wolves caused by the fires gave the run.
ner ample time to reach the clearing
far ahead of the brutcs, and as he
neared the house of friend and took a
glance backward he noticed some dark
objects at the edge of the forest, ap
parently gazing wistfully after him.
Those objects were the wolves, and
they only stopped long enough to utter
howl of disappointment and then
skulked away. and that was the last
heard of them. When the owner of the
house opened the door to admit Rev.
Ostrander the latter plunged headlone
to the floor fainting and exhausted,
and it was long time before he fully
recovered from that nights adventure.
-Azatlan wis., Cor. st. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
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value of the real estate. Had Mr.. Iorr
studied little longer, and perhaps q
trife more patiently, or at least moro
intelligently. he might have learned
this fact, together with d good many
more of much use to him which he has
overlooked.
1t is not surprising that man, whom
long and patient study have led Into
such serious betrayals of ignorance and
want Of thought. should suppose that
all other kinds of property. as well as
land, are increased in value by the adj
vances of civilization. Accordingly we
find our critic asserting that products OF
labor would have but little value but
for civilization, which gives value to
land, also gives value to labor products.
it IS as unjust to apply the value of land
to public use as to apply the value OF
labor products to such use. This is tho
familiar criticism that it is as unjust to
make land common property as to
make labor products common property.
How weak the criticism is may be seen
by reducing it to its lowest terms, when
it would read: 1t is as unjust to make
land common property as to make Ia
Dor common property. Mr.. Horr's pa
thence must have been exhausted and
his long study ended before he consid.
cred the fact the common and obvious
tact that advances in civilization con-
stantly tend to diminish the value OF
labor products. while they tend as con-
stantly to increase the value of land.
This tendency alone makes a distinc-
ton in justice between property in land
and property in the products of labor.
For by giving constantly to landowners
something that they do not earn, with
out giving to the owners of labor pro-
ducts anything that they do not earn
indeed, taking away from them an in-
creasing part of what they do earn. for
the purpose of giving it to the owners
of land-it produces a perennial confis-
cation of property of some for the ben
eft of others
Neither could Mr. Horr have consid-
cred the fundamental truth regarding
the difference between land values and
other values, that labor products come
to the owners either by right of pro-
duction or by title from the producer.
while land does not come to the owners
either by production or by purchase
from the producer, or in any other way
but by physical conquest or unjust
laws. If he can not distinguish differ
ence in the right of enjoyment be.
tween the value of property to which
the owners have no just claim superior
to their fellows. and that of property to
which they have the best of all titles
production, his case is hopeless To
study any longer, even with the pa
thence of Job, would be to him a
fruitless task, which he might better
abandon in favor of protection fables
and fallacies, which he is far more ex-
pert and quite as entertaining Tho
Standard.
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otuuy VI thC SuOJCC@ Nc1Ay ucAicS0S
this?
Let us put the question to any fairly
intelligent farmer; whose farm lies in q
we'll settled farming community: IF
fire were to sweep over your farm,
burning your buildings, your crops, and
your fences, and in consequence of the
disaster you should abandon the place
until the bitches choked up and sec
ond growth had made new clearings
necessary, would you have any more
difficulty in determining the value of
the farm after it had reached that con-
dition than there was just before the
fire?" 1t would insult his intelligence
to even hint that he would. Even Mr..
Horr could do it if he was familiar with
And does Mr.. Horr suppose it necessary
that the improvements of farm should
be thus destroyed before its land value
can be appraised? Is it not as practi-
cable to appraise the land values of inn
proved farms while the improvements
exist as when they have disappeared?
This, however, is not wholly a ques-
ton of what can or can not be done; IL
is something that Is done. Massschu-
sets, for the purposes Of taxation,
separately appraises the value Of land
and the value of improvements; and
even in New York, where the two
values are appraised together, 1t is .
common method for the appraisers to
first ascertain the value of the land and
then the value of the improve menta
and by adding the two to determine the
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Canada.

Robert Tyson, in Progress, writing tc
the Standard from Toronto, says: II
was a rousing meeting that gathered in
st. Andrews Hall upon call of the
mayor in response to requisition sign.
ed chiefly by single tax men. Its object
was stated to be ''for the purpose OF
discussing petition to the local legis-
lature praying that municipalities be
granted the option Of relieving from
taxation all buildings, machinery, crops,
and other products of industry, and OF
raising their revenue by tax on the
value of land; or the option of raising
their revenue in any manner they may
deem best"
Alderman Carlyle, a good single tax
man, presided. The meeting turned
out to be chiefly labor meeting. The
Trades and Labor Council was repre-
scented by T. w. Banton, its president,
and f. c. Cribben, its secretary. The
district assembly of the Knights OF
Labor was represented by David Carey,
the president, and Robert Glackling,
the secretary. Three of these gentle
men spoke heartily and well in favor OF
the main resolution, which was as fol.
lows:
Resolved, That this meeting is OF
opinion that it would be greatly in the
public interest to grant to municipali-
ties the option of relieving from taxa
ton all buildings, machinery, crops,
and other products of industry; and OF
raising their revenue by tax on the
values of land, or the option of raising
their revenue in any manner they may
deem best; and that this meeting heart
lily indorses the recent action of the
executive committee of the Toronto
city council, in conference with the
local members of the Ontario legisla-
ture, asking Legislative powers for the
city of Toronto in the above direction.
Alfred Jury, Alderman George s.
Macdonald, w. A. Douglas, s. 7. Wood,
Stewart Lyon, David Boyle and others
spoke. The speeches were straight to
the point, and elected frequent ap-
plause. The resolution was passed
amid rousing cheers and by standing
vote. The chairman had called for OBJ
jectors, but no one spoke.
All the Toronto daily papers had good
reports, and the temper of the meeting
may be judged from their remarks.
The World (Tory) said: est. Andrews
hall was like an ice box, and the audi.
ence sat with top coats on, but nothing
could chill the enthusiasm of the single
takers" The Empire conservative or.
gan) said: "After last nights meeting,
there can be no doubt that the single
tax question is a live issue in Toronto"
/ should have mentioned that an event
of the evening was the frank announce
ment of Alderman George S. Macdonald
that he was single taxer. He said he
had come all the way from the Other
end of the city to tell it to the meeting.
Alderman j. q. Orr also sent letter
expressing himself in favor of the OBJ
ject of the meeting; also Rev. John
Burton.
A deputation was appointed to wait
upon the city council and the provincial
legislature with the resolution.
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ONE ENJOYS


Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn eAectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures hubitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy Of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C
ceptable to tho stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend is
to oil and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 60c
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gista Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FiC syrup co.
SAN FRANCISCO. cAL.
LOUISVILLE. Ky. NEW Y06x. Nv
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There IL . deeply.rooted super,

There IL . deeply-rooted superstition
In Scotland that May marriages are UNI
lucky and are bound to turn out badly:
Last April there were 2.o55 marriages
in Scotland, in May there were bat
1,0os, while in juno the number jumped
to 4,14S-twice as many marriages in
April as in May. and four times al
manv in June.
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"A New Hampshire farmer was once
asked how he made boarders pay. He
said he found out what the boarders
didn't like and then fed them on it. A
publisher of newspaper can't do that.
Printers Ink.