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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-02-17
D DECLARATION
Of INDEPENDENCE
adopted at the Omaha Conference Of Labonng People
July 9TH. 1892.


compelled polling places
bribery newspapers largely
subsidized muz public opinion senc business FRUSTRATED our
with LABOR and the Land Goacsn
s 81 self Tine bor Ss
ssdps Rs 9 sP bs ss fR ss to
nd these the republic endanger
s vo eH s p0 0g we breed
m @ as beo n
INTO beang bonds thereby adding
THE PARTIES ARRAeNED
silver which accepted since the dawn q HISTORY has
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and nsaye n9u vast eonsuracV against mankind has bn or
a s%G at s ES
civilization absolute despo
witnessed century the struggles
been the hs that the
together campaign
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bones lives and Children on the aammn destroy the multi
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people, with which class it originated.
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al welfare the blessings liberty ourselves and
f
that which oft die
tho
he which, w %
productions make this
and podueng pledge
spn accordance with the terms OF platform
be E the p
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shall eventually cease n the land ff
THREEFoLD DECLARATION
every proposition intelligent
lions depend help wa
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Gay @ WIN ht 90 os~au ts w0ng rem n
First That the labor the United States this
sps sg s
from industry without equivalent robbery any will work.
SHAH he The
I'M and or all rail-
the ] %
the the use such additional
BY 5 a % al Ind Sb pSSs as
pva squ
:1osedng cent sa61ssury
coinage gold
ratio of 16 to
circulating medium speedily
creased to not less than $50 per capita.
We demand graduated income tax.
.s En-
government, economically honestly administered.
demand that postal banks beestabshed by
deposit the earnings people
exchange.
neutrality-suspicious. being change public
of Che people.
telegraph telephone like postofce SYSTEM being
government in the interest of the people,
land including all the
all the people, ard should not be monopozed for speculative
purpSes ownership land should
Held other
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-02-17

Protective Tariff Delusion. By
Mrs. Marion Todd. Paper, 25c.
"The best book ever written upon
the subject for the general reader. p
Col. B. s. Heath.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-02-17

In OFFICE: A story OF Washington
Life and Society. By Lewis Vital
Bogy. Paper, 25c.
For the writing of this book the
author was discharged from the pub
lie service.
An extremely clever story, which is
creating a great sensation, and which
commends itself to the general read
ing public on account OF it's intrinsic
merit as we'll.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-02-17

ent has produced work which is far
superior to anything that has ap-
peared for years in our literary
world. San Francisco ews-Letter.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-02-17
THE CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION
he RULES WHO READS.
Great West Book List.
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GREAT WEST $40 Wabasha Street. St. Paul. Minn. with
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-02-17

A MAN AND A WOMAN. By Stanley
Waterloo. Cloth, 81 Is; paper, soc.
IA book of tremendous vitality
and power has come out of Chicago
"a novel which deals with life that
has been lived. "A man and Wo-
man, by Stanley Waterloo, has the
fearlessness and vigor OF the West,
and gives the history of mans life
with appalling reality. Boston
Transcript.
"A splendid and emphatic answer
to the Kreutzer Sonata. '"-Figaro.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
The Rice WI EN- Happy.

The rice men are happier to-day.
The Southern Pacific has acceded
to their petition for a reduction in
rates on rice. The full request was
for reduced rates to all Pacific coast
points.
This was not granted in toto but
as the cut he's been made to San
Francisco, the grant made by the
railroad people to the shippers at
this point is a very desirable one.
This morning. Traffic Manager J.
G. Schriever, of the Southern Pa.
ciic road, informed Chairman S. A.
Traufant of his having received a
telegram from the higher officials
stating that they would make the
reduction to San Francisco.
The reduced rates will go into eff.
feet on June 2. This course cannot
prove otherwise than extremely bep-
efcial to our rice market. San
Francisco will, of course. become the
distributing point. but the demand
that will be opened up therefrom
will be unlimited.
It is natural to suppose that those
who are now receiving rice from
New Orleans may reject the rice now
in transit, in order to take advan-
tage of the lower rates that are
about to go into effect.
Such reflections, however, will not
amount to very much, as, according
to the statement Of prominent rice
man on Change this forenoon it will
not affect any more than about ten
earloadsECity Item.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
Eae Death ola Worthy Cisizess.

We,are panied to, chronicle the
death Of DIR. Fl. O.. Read. who died
suddealy at his home at Chataigner,
st. Landry parish on the oath ult..
DR.. Read was born in. st. Landry
parish where he was reared and re-
ceived his education, While quite
yenng he took up the study Of me1>
icine, and in l849 graduated with
FIST hoHcrs at the medical Depart
ment Of the University of Louisiana.
He then located in the town OF
Lafayette and remained there sever.
al years, thence moving to Abbeville
where his success as a physician was
eminently successful.
When the yellow fever broke cut
here in 1857 and all the other ply
sicians left town. DR.. Read remain
ed and battled with the malignant
disease faithfully and successfully
rendering incalculable services, both
as nurse and physician to the suffers.
He himself was taken down and
came near loosing bis life 10 the dis
charge Of his duty, Shortly after
his locating in Abbeville he welded
Miss Eugene Guegnon a most esti-
mable and intelligent lady we'll
known here. Four sons of their
marriage survive, three of whom are
physicians, and the youngest, Steven,
is now tax collector Of st. Landry
parish.
DR.. Read enjoyed q large and
lucrative practice while located in
this parish until the seventies, when
owing to his health moved to Grand
Cheniere. A few years past, his
health being better, he located at
Chataigner assuming active practice
up to the time Of his death He was a
frequent contribnter to the different
medical journals and several papers
The MERlDIoNAL extends sympa-
thies to the bereaved family in this
hour of distress.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
Henry La, 5-31-'93.

As an instanc Of what energy and
progressive ideas can do when
combined with small capital, the St.
MartinsvilIe Messenger notes the fol-
lowing; I'VE have been told that
two young men, the Thibodaux broth
ers, living some ten miles north of
thistown, on the east side of the bay.
on, have built a small sugar house
to make syrnp that is remarkable in
its construction aud almost astonish
ing in its production. The rollers
are a small horsepower mill that was
bought. we believe, at a cost of $45.
The kettles or pan is home or plan
tation made, the bottom OF the pan
is sheet iron, and the sides and par
titions are made Of wood. The
furnace is made entirely of mud and
this establishment is making just a s
nice and good syrup as can be made
in any sugar house. Two tons of
cane give about one barrel Of syrup,
which is sold for SIS, which gives
them a large profit. This model
sugar house makes from three to four
barrels of syrup a day, and two men
can run the hole thing, and yet have
an easy job. The expense of fuel is
very light. We congratulate the
Messrs. Thibodauz on their indus
try and energy and the SUCCESS with
which they have met.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
Rice Bread.

The writer recently bought q
package Of rice meal from Mr.. Tar.
bell, who was peddling it in town
and after trying it was surprised at
the result. The dough was made.
up with eggs water and salt, exactly
like the dough of Of corn bread, aud
it was baked in a thin pone. When
brought on the table it had the an.
pearance Of ordinary egg bread
made of corn mea', but was superior
in every respect. It had the pecu.
liar favor of we'll made -four muf.
fms, and al the same time is Wi.hous
the sickness of the muffin. Try it.
Cook.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03

We are Of the opinion that a rail.
road excursion to Abbeville woald
pay. We have heard large number
Of our people express a desire to
pay q visit to that town, now that it
is in easy access. Let US organize
excursion to Abbeville st. Martin
Messenger
That's right. Come right along
and you will find our town ready to
receive you. An excursion from st.
Martinsville to this place would
have more than the ordinary plea.
sure of such ma outing because Of the
many acquaintance the ezcursionists
would find here. Get up an excnr.
sion to Abbeville by all means.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
The Manly ART.

In speaking Of "a grand glove
contest" which took place in Opelous
sas on the % ult between two buck
negroes the Courier says; "On &C.
count Of limited space we refrain
from giving names of those who took
such an active part in this noted
contest, bat may do 80 in our next
issue"
If the space of the Courier is at
all valuable the world should never
know 1.-THE names of those who took.
such an active part in that noted
contest"
Prize fights are not elevating when
fought and conducted BY men who
have spent their lives in learning to
clip such contests of brutality.
They are degrading, indeed, when
indulged in by raw and unscientific
roughs: but when white men take
part in the making and man.
aging of brutal fight between
negros the lowest Of their low
class, the act floats as a swollen bub.
BILE in the slongh OF indecency.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03

Mr.. Higgins and other repre-
sent atives of the National Rice mill.
ing Company, of New Orleons, were
in orr City on Tuesday for the pull
pose Of selecting a location for the
new warehouses and elevator which
the company proposes to erect here.
The site chosen was Immediately
west Of Messrs. January & Hoelzel's
warehouse, and we understand that
work on the new structures will be
commenced within q few days.
The size of the buildings was not
stated by the representatives who
were here, but we understand they
are to cost fully $l0,000,-Crnwley
Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03

During the past year there has
been no drunkenness, no disturban-
ees, no fires and no crime 10 Brat
tleboro, Ut. Those who suffer from
insomnia should go to Brattleboro
because it is evident that the town 10
go dull and quiet that a person can
not help going to sleep. Brattle-
boro is known as a complete town
and such a town is about as near
dead as a thing can be.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03

One Of our exchanges says;aWhy
not work our conVicts on the public
highways? Let our parish have
something to show for the expense of
convicting and the cost Of grub af.
forwards. 1t would be more pro-
ftabIe to have them put in more
time working the roads and less
time working the treasury"
We have not thought much over
the matter but at first flash the idea
seems q good one.
There are at present in our Jail
some six or more prisoners who il
their time was spent in working our
roads would feel bet ter and be less
expense to the parish. OF course
when there would be only one or
two prisoners in Jail the expense Of
watching and making them work
would be greater then the fruits Of
their labor but that could be proper
ly managed.
We believe that il a law making
persons cent to the parish Jail sub
ject to work on our roads could be-
passed it would prove satisfactory
in its result.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03

A meeting Of the Sugar and Rice
Protective Union is called at New
Iberia, Jnne 7, 1898. The meeting
will be called to order at 4 p. m. 1t
IS placed at this late hour to accom-
modate planters arriving by day
trains. There will be an afternoon
and evening session. All sugar and
rice planters are requested to attend,
as matters Of great interest will
come before the meeting CROWLEY
Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03

II is given out as a certainty that
the rice milling trust of New Orlea US
will erect three rice elevators in this
section before the harvesting OF an.
other crop. One will be built at
Lake Charles and one at Crowley,
and the third the Of junction Of the
new branch road west of Esther-
wood. Ii ever there existed a rea.
son for the erection of Independents
mills here they are certainly now
evident. II we set with folded hands
and make no efforts to protect our
own interests, we must not feel sur
prised if we find ourself in q worse
position the coming season than we
we're the last. We welcome the
the erection Of the elevators, but tits
wise policy to place ourselves in o
position Of Independence. If there
has been an over production of rice
and it remains a drug on the market
why this willingness on the part Of
the trust to make such heavy in-
Vestment on an uncertain futuref
Boom the new mill of the Crowley
Rice Mill Go. and let us get work
started on it. that we may be ready
this fall to gather npa few of the
crumbs dropped from the tables Of
connection -Crowlev SIGNAL
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03

Messrs. Freeland Bros, on We'd
nesday shipped two car leads of
cleaned rice to Denver, Colorado,
the output of the Pickett mill. The
shipment OF rice to Denver from
this point is in tho nature of an ex-
pertinent and it is to be hoped that
the returns will prove fully salts
factory to the shippers. Crowley
Signal.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
Constable Sale.
STATE OF LOUISTANA,
Parish of Vermilion.
Fifth ,Justica Conrf.

j. ]. Thomas VS.. Edward Foreman II.
No. 65
By virtue of a writ of feri facias is
sued by the Hon. aforesaid court in the
matters of the above numbered and en-
titled suit and tome directed. | will pro
coed to sell, AZ public auction, to the
last and highest bidder at the front
door of the aforesaid court on
SATURDAY, JUNE, 18th 1893.
between the hours of Ii a. m. and 4
?. m. the following property to wit.
One blue Creole horse.
Terms, cash.
Columbus Spell,
Constable.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
Succession Notice.
State of Louisiana.
D We.

STATE OF Louisiana
Parish of Vermilion.
18th Judicial District Court.
Succession Of Victorin G.. Hardy.
No. 266.
Notice is hereby given to all par
ties interested in said succession or
having any opposition to make to
the tableau Of debts and charges
of the succession of Vietorin G. Har-
dy fled by Marie E. Boudreaux
Natural Tutrix, to file the same in
writing in the Office of the Clerk
on Court wishinIten days from the
notice hereof.
Given under my hand and seal OF
Office this 10th day of May A. D.
Alcide Leblanc,
Clerk of Court.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
Ned Answers Pat

r. E1lLOF- j HIS 10 HU sSHSuE TOT
a polisical discussion, mol did I in
tend such when | made mention of
the visit and speech of Mr.. Calvin
of Calcusieu at this place in your
paper several weeks ago-And were
it not that be said meet a state
ment Of facts" with personal abuse
and inu endo." I would consider
the matter as the mother advised her
little son when he complained Of be-
ing kicked by the Jack-"Consider
the source"
He claims that he did not come
under the disguise of he Farmers
Union. That can be as he chooses.
1t was published here that there
woald be a Farmers Union meeting
and an address by Mr.. Calvin.
And I am confident that the vicinity
generally understood it that way.
a prominent Alliance man and q
Third partyite, claims that Mr.. Gall
vim injured the Union cause at this
place, and since the Union passed
into oblivion in a tew weeks after
he left, we have reason to believe
that he did the cause no good.
His article clearly fails to show
where he was misrepreseDted. But
such schemer as Mr.. Pats "Cleve.
land Bond effort" and The recor.
ded vote Of our Congressman against
the Anti,option Bill" showed to his
heaven that he was truly correct
when he said in substance, that his
brain ealIibre was small.
| have always found the people
OF Vermilion Parish broad shoulder.
ed, and intelligent enough to cast an
honest ballot, let it be Democratic,
Third party or any other party,
But | have never found them SO stu.
pid as to support a fusion ticket
with the Republican--and now, they
are too intelligent to accept the pre-
tended theory that it was all unau-
thorized and packed up oy two Of
''our fools" as Mr.. Pat expresses it.
And they are too intelligent to stick
to a man when be asserts that his
leaders have fooled him once, but
they'll never do it again."
Chap" as / am. / am aware Of
all the organizations for honest gov
eminent etc. And | am also aware
that there are men at work in the
reform movement thai keep better
posted than the ~ex-preacher of Cal
casieu. My y~outhfulness may not
have cropped into manhood as yet.
Ny originality may be doubted-all
the same, ] was rocked in o Demo-
cratic cradle, raised under Demo
cratic parentage and will live a DEM
oerat, SO long as the party clings to
its old principles. ! am open to
conviction, but such fictitious and
falacions schemers as the sanity pa
triot of Calcasieu puts forward will
never change my opinion.
1t is indeed a recommendation for
the gentleman abroad to assert that
more than half of our farmers have
to depend upon the egg as a medium
of exchange. The fact is, Mr.. Pat,
that this is a natural poultry country,
and the wealthiest farmers here are
the largest poultry raisers. So
poultry raising is no sign of poverty.
II there is money in poultry, it is
certainly no disgrace to raise poul-
try, and to say because a farmer
raises poultry, that he has no other
means Of medium of exchange is
simply absurd.
"OLp NED"
Henry La 5-31-'93
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.

We have received the World Fair
edition Of the Monroe Evening
Times. It is handsomely illustrated
with excellent pictures of the leading
business men and buildings Of the
thriving metropolis of North Louisi-
ana. Messrs Cheney and Nixon
deserve great credit for their enter
prise in getting ont sueh paper.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1893-06-03

Victoria imported several pairs of
common rabbits from his own country
and set to work breeding them in
the interests of Australian sports
mansEip. His friends and acquauin-
lance a~pplanded his public spirit,
and the people of the colony regard
ed him as a public b%enefactor. AS
his stock of the rabbits increased, Ere.
quens requests for q pair or two
came. to him from all parts of the
country. In a short time several
dozens of Australian sportsmen
were enlisted 10 the good cause Of
replenishing in this manner Aus
traiia's failing supply Of game.
They met with such pre-eminont
success that within twelve years
rabbits had become SO numerous as
to be universally regarded as q pub
lie Nuisance. The custom grew up
among the farmers and sheep own
ers of organizing rabbit drives, and
a common result was The killing Of
from 5000 to 10000 Of the pestifer-
Gus animals in a single day. The
rabbits, nevertheless, went on in
creasing at a prodigions rate.
So destructive to pastnrage and
vegetation generally had they be-
come in 1880. and so universal was
tR complaint against them that
the Australian Government passed
" an act to provide for the suppress
sion of rabbits" appointing bailiffs
whose duty it was to destroy them
on crown lands, and to see that all
walls, brush piles and whatever OF
like nature might afford them har-
borage were removed. They were
also empowered to do likewise with
all other lands at the cost of the &C.
cupants, provided the occupants
failed to do so. The killing of cer-
tain carnivorous wild animals hither.-
to considered unquestioned evils,
was likewise made illegal on the
ground that they assisted in the ex-
termination of the pest. But the
measures proved utterly futile. A
large unoecupied tract of country
supposed to be their main breeding
ground was fenced off in 1888 by q
woven wire fence 81 feet high.
The bottom Of this fence was buried
to a depth Of six inches 40 as to pre-
vent b%urrowing under it. 70 stop
jumping cut a barbed wire was
stretched six iache s above the top of
the fence. 1t required 1877 miles
Of this fencing, and two year later it
was extended $50 miles further to
cut off ingress from another diree-
ton. That this expedient brought
little relief appears in the fact that
in 1887 the government of New
South Wales offered a reward OF
rs, 900 to any person who would
divise or suggest q method or ez-
pedient for Kidding the country Of
rabbits. A commission of twelve
from the several Australian colonies
was appointed to pass upon the l,
400 plans submitted and rejected
every one Of them.
Mr.. Austin's weakness for English
rabbit hunting has cost Australia
enormously in public money ezpend-
ed in fight the pest, not to speak Of
the enormous losses suffered by in
dividuaIs from its devastation. An
official report on the snbject places
the amount Of public money thus ex-
pended by Victoria. New South
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-21

Il IS said that we never learn 10 appre-
clate any blesaing fully until we have been
deprived of II. A boy who had been nccus-
toned from infancy 10 the pure spring
water from tho granite hills OF New Eng
land was sent 10 school Mt a distance from
home where the water was imprcgnnted
with minerals and had brnekish taste.
He said that he bud never realized before
that there was my real pleasure in drink
ing a glass OF cold water, but he suddenly
came to the conclusion that 1t was the
greatest luxury In the world, and that for
months he used TO wake up In the night
and lie awake thinking how he would
drink when he got back 20 his father'swelL
He felt as II he could spend two or three
DAYS on his first return doing nothing else
People who have always lived in the
country have little OF that keen relish for
it's pleasures which one experiences who
has been for months or perhaps for years
shut up in the city, The inhalation OF the
pure air, the chance 10 walk on the soft
ground instead OF the unyiolding stone
pavement, the songs Of the birds, the shade
and the blossoms Of the trees, the hum
ming bees, the piping frogs, all the myriad
forms Of life and beauty peculiar 10 the
country-it Is only the tired, long confined
denizrn Of the city who fully enjoys and
APPRECIATES them. When he escapes into
tho country, he feels translated as Il were
to a new and delightful state ofexistenee.-
New York Ledger.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-08-21

Mr.. --, q newly made millionaire, has
distinct social aspirations and does not par
ticulnrly care to own up to what he thinks
is his somewhat plebeian lineage, Not
withdrawing this little weakness, however,
he was ever m aiIcctionate and dutiful son
to tho plain old farmer aud his wife who
toiled and moiled to give him his first start
In the world. One Of his first inhertancea
when they died was pnir of portraits done
by rural painter two pictures with no
merit whatever from an artistic stand.
point, but startllngly like MS such daubs
often are with the honlaly Sunday clothes
OF the wcarrrs realistically represented.
Mr.. -- meanwhile had become quite Cole-
DRAFTED for his art collection, and his fins;
impulse on receiving these staring and un.
mistakably bourgeois portraits was to relc'
gate them to the garnet.
Filinl affection, however, pleaded for the
familiar old figures, and In the midst Of
his perplexity brilliant idea struck him,
lie sent for Mr.. A., q famous artist, and in
duccd him 10 dress up his old parents Ia tho
most Hrigtocrntic garments of their day,
leaving the dear old faces Intact, but even
going TO the length Of arranging the old
lndy's hair so that when che picture was
hung In his magnificent hall she might
have been taken for duchess, so regal
were her attire and surroundings, while
the old gentleman fondling the head Of the
setter between his knees, looked like IA real
old English gentleman all of the oldcu
time. New York Tribune.