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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13
pasture.

LAST fall it was thought that the
tariff was killing the country, but
the Sherman law is now accused of
being the assassin. k. G. Journal.
"Last fall" both Democrats and
Republicans labored zealously to
hoodwink the people into the be-
lief that the tariff was the bone of
contention, but the people knew bet
ter They knew, and daily felt,
that the insufficiency of money was
the really great issue, and that the
tariff was forced into prominence
to, if possible. fool the people. No
man expected Cleveland, if elected,
to avert financial distress. Such a
condition was inevitable as a result
of the devil law forced upon the
people through the connivance of
John Sherman, and the prophesies
INDUCED in following the Minneapo-
lis and Chicago conventions are
meeting with fulfillment-yea, and
more than fulfillment, for some of
the larger fish are being devoured by
the greater. On with the dance of
death until the conspirators are en-
gulfed
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

Oglesby committed to Imprisonment,
upon which act there was not an
unfriendly criticism, Gov. Altgeld
sees fit, in the exercise Of his pre-
rogative as executive of the great
state of Illinois, to do long-delay-
ed act of justice, and set free men
condemned without evidence, and
the whole pack of Plutocratic
fishmarket school is pouring CRIME
upon him and covering him with
their maledictions with a bitterness
that may well cause Gov. Altgeld
to be alamed for his safety.
He can console himself with the
fact that that man never yet lived,
who was in advance of the great
throng in honorable thought, word
or deed, who was not made the vic
tim of ignorance, prejudice and
hate. All down through history is
the record that all men who have
stood forth courageously for the
rights Of man have been the victims
of the oppressors hate; and that,
while the lives of many Of those
grand heroes were spared, the NAL
edictions of the evil were heaped
upon them without stint.
1t took England several centuries
to properly appreciate Cromwell.
They have learned his value to free
dom, though late.
Justice moves faster, and Gov.
Altgeld can afford to bide his time.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13
colonies and the perpetuity of slav-

colonies and the perpetuity of slav-
cry.
The tricks of Wall street have
been exposed. Now, the mask torn
from it's face, Plutocracy stands re-
vealed a hideous monster, and with
out its mask, it boldly and defantly
makes open war on the republic.
We have passed through the
stages of lies and tricks-of false
and broken promises, and now we
behold the mailed hand and the
drawn sword. Petitions are met
with insult. Grievances are an
swered with heavier burdens. The
cry of the famished will be hushed
in prison. The mortgaged debtor
shall be homeless wanderer in his
own land, and wages will be cut to
the point of starvat:on-And then
cometh the end.
The irrepressible conflict is on,
but the horseman shall lie in the
ditch, while the horse goes out to
pasture.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13
HARD RIDERS.

Wall street is hard rider, but,
like all reckless riders, it will have
it's fall, with broken bones, or posi-
bly, broken neck. Thirty years
in the saddle does not prove that a
rider cannot be endorsed. The
steed, in time, learns its superiority
in strength. The saddle-girth may
be rotten, and certainly the rider
has less pliancy. History furnishes
examples of the inability of old
riders to clear bitches. The ruling
class of England, through long
years of brutal oppression of labor,
both at home and in her colonies,
lost the pliancy necessary to meet
the just demands of the American
colonists, and the result of the leap
was a PROSTATE horseman. The
slaveocracy of the South attempted
a similar race, and the result was,
the horseman was left in the ditch,
while the horse went out on free
pasture.
The money power in America is
on a race that will surely unhorse
the rider. A change is inevitable,
and nothing more surely points to
that change than the recklessness Of
the riders. What was only ditch
is rapidly becoming gulf The
mad leap to a geld standard--to the
Capitalization of all wealth in the
hands of few personals as sure
to result disastrously to the prime
movers as the arrogance of King
George and the Shareholder proved
disastrous to British rule of the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13
quilted !!

ACCORDING to the May statement
of the United States treasurer, the
assets of the United States are
$751;, O97 AIS, and the liabilities,
$500, SSI,3IS. There are 1916, 0OO,-
900 greenbacks in circulation. By
deducting the liabilities from the
assets, it is at once apparent that
there is but $l20,2l6,O97 with
which to redeem the outstanding
grenbacks, leaving just $225,9S3,-
9O3 of fiat money as medium OF
exchange. But the property OF
The nation is behind that fiat, and
that makes it good.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

The unconditional repeal of the
Sherman act will absolutely demone-
tie silver and close all the mints to
that metal. The determination
which the East manifests to bind
burdens upon the South and West
can have but one effect-to solidify
the vote of those sections and over
whelm the anti.silver states in the
next national election. The gods
have made the East mad.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

"FREE coinage or a free fight %
is the war cry of that lively "Pop"
paper, The Road, of Denver. And,
by the way, The Road is printing
some stirring cartoons nowadays
they're tout o. sight"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

The Pupulist corn-crib theories
of finance are beginning to look re-
spectacle alongside of the silver
craze. Dayton (Ohio) Journal.
How about clearinghouse GER
tifieates of finance They are
nothing more than the unsecured
pledges of the individual or corpo-
ration. The farmers could pledge
the eternal hills and plains
and who is he will dare say such
pledges are not better than all the
banks in christendom Oh but
the Anti-silver men are daisies
when they line up for consistency
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13
GOVERNOR ALTGELD.


ton by savage, brutal pro-slavery
mob, for having the courage OF his
convictions, and for speaking, writ
ing and publishing those convictions
to listening but intolerant world.
For daring to say, "Human slavery
is the sum of all villainies," they
sought his life-and it is the wonder
of history that he was not slain. He
fearlessly held up to all men the in
describable Grimes of that element
in the body polite which ultimately
deluged this fair land with blood.
Loveioy and others Of his compatri-
OTIS sealed their devotion to the right
with their blood. The pro-slavery
propaganda demanded blood, and
failed not to take the lives of those
who stood in the way of their tri-
umph, and who dared uncover their
crimes; but the blood of those mar
tyrs to human liberty sprung from
the earth in a great multitude, who,
at the peril of their lives, did dare
battle for the rights of man.
The spirit that then dominated
pro-slavery councils, and those Of
their satraps, is alive and just as
unreasonable and intolerant to-day.
In the last decade of the nineteenth
century, that devil-begotten spirit
would take the life of Gov. Altgeld
if he were private citizen-take it
secretly if the fate of Booth and
Guiteau did not give them Statutory
lessons. The spirit to do is alive,
but the thirst for blood must be sa-
tiated with that of the poor and
practically friendless--those who
have none, or but few, advocates
before those in authority.
Vengeance is wreaked upon those
who cannot help themselves, or
whose voice falls dull on ears open
only to the opulent.
Six years ago, in the city of Chi
cago, Capital demanded sacrifice
Capital became the aggressor. 1t
would not be weaned from it's pur-
pose--to crush out the spirit of re-
sistance to oppression-and the
conflict at Haymarket square was
the result. Nothing less valuable
than the lives of those who so scath-
ingly arraigned Capital for its cumu-
latlve crimes against the rights of
man could atone for the insults
given those patrician-born and rob-
ber-elevated hordes They clamored
for the blood of Parsons and his
fellow victims of their hate, and,
although they failed utterly TO prove,
even by circumstantial evidence,
that he or his co-accused circum-
vented the death and wounding of
those policemen, eight were con-
domnad IN death Blood was what
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-07-13

We want all our dollars to be
honest, and no legislation foT silver
miners and spectators as Glass;
Dayton (Ohio) Journal.
How wonderfully concerned the
Journal is that there be no legisla-
ton for silver miners. We are anx-
ious to know if it was as deeply
concerned about Legislation for gold
gamblers "as a class. From the
notorious fact that legislation for
gold gamblers "as class" depreci-
ated the silver bullion, we are forced
to the conclusion that the Journals
can't about "honest dollars" is pure
ly hypocritical. Give us honest
legislation-such as will give special
privileges to homeland one-half, or
more, of the occupation of the
Journal and its co-blatherskites will
be gone
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
The Boring Sea Case.

London, April 4.-The newspapers general
IL comment upon the Introduction before
the court Of arbitration regarding Beflns
sea of the British counter case, exposing
the use made of mistranslatiOns or RUSSIAN
in the case presented by. the
United States. The London Standard says
that sometimes the translator seemed TO
haye Numbered out OF sheer carelessncss'
and in other places to have been mistaken,
wh.le some errors Of omission and COM
mission show deliberate Justification IN
favor of the contentious OF the Uhlteu
States. AS the agent OF the United STATES
had put in amended versions OF the ms
translated documents, most people, the
Standard continues, would suppose that no
more need be said; but 1t Is surprising 10
find that, after tacirly admitting some docu-
ments to be no more reliable than the MOT
mon Scriptures, the United States govern
ment has refrained from modifying or With
drawing the argument based Oh the gar
bled trunslations. The British contention,
the Standard adds. is that when spurious
passages are eXpunged there does not re-
main an atom Of evidence supporting the
chief American allegations. In closing. the
Standard remarks tnat it would perhaps
be futile to ask whether amy responsible
politician at Washington really thought that
the device could beguilc the representatives
of Great Britain.
The st. James Gazette says chat 1t does
not suspect the United States government
Of conniving in the concocted passages,
and assumes that the American people will
rapaiiate Il trick so dirty and so silly. Yet,
adds the Gazette, the arguments founded
Gil the fOrgerieS are ~uncanceled.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
iii RISING A T s.
snrinr Fre.het. in order.


WATERFOWL, s. d., Special, April r.
The snow has melted rapidly in the
northern part Of the state during the
last few days. Yesterday the Sioux
river rose rapidly, causing occupants OF
houses on the Third ward flats to vacate.
A farmer and children narrowly escaped
drowning while attempting to cross Kemp
avenue bridge to-day. The county COM
missloners are trying to save bridges IN
various parts of the county. The Great
Northern bridge south of this city went
out to-day and is now floating in Lake
Pelican.
Bismarck, N. d., Special, April 4-The
Missouri river began to break to-day
and by tomorrow ice will be running
freely. Gorges are already forming and
trouble is feared.
Dawson, Mimi, Special, April 4.
Three large bridges have gone with the
flood and others are in danger. The
railroad bridge is damaged and the water
is rising. The town is not in danger.
Black River Falls, Wis, Special. April
4.-Hail fell steadily here tonight for
half an hour, with a downpour of rain
accompanied by thunder and lightning.
Portland, Or, April 4.-The first train
over the Union Pacific since Tuesday
arrived here at noon yesterday. There
have peer heavy washouts along Snake
river in Eastern Oregon and Idaho and
a land slide in the Cascade mountains
this side of the Dalles which has wiped
out half a mile or more of track. Con-
tinuous trouble is looked for over the
Northern Pacific. There have been no
trains from the east for three days. The
Northern wires are down east of Butte,
Mont. A cold wave from the north
changed the rain into snow to-day in
the towns on Puget sound. -Four inches
of snow fell ut Tacoma.
Mandan, N. D., Special, April A.
Missouri river ice broke up this evening
aad is running out within its banks.
Hart river is now flooding no low lands.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
Chief No wntcr,. record.

Chamberlain, S. D., Special, April 4
Chief No Water, arrested ut Pine Ridge
charged with harboring and refusing to
surrender the two Indians VIII, are
wcrted for their connection with the kill
ing of the cowboys, bears a hard reputa-
ton and is one of the most desperate
Indians on the Sioux reservation. Previ-
Gus to the Indian trouble of two years
ago No Water was one of the most active
in inducing the Sioux to engage in the
ghost dance, and under his lead about
500 Indians gathered at his camp on
Wounded Knee creek and INDUCED in the
dance. So energetic We're they that the
earth where they danced was packed as
firm as a cemented cellar bottom, and for
a space of $50 feet in diameter there
was not a vestige of grass. nor the indi-
cation of the smallest shrub. No Water
refuses to adopt the manners and customs
of the whites, but wishes to always re-
main a blanket Indian" His prompt
arrest so soon after his bold declaration
that he would not surrender the Indians
under his care nips in the bud any de-
sign he may have had to create trouble.
The Indians on the Sioux reservation as
u whole are disposed to remain on good
terms with h gov erEment.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
Carpenters May Strike.

Chicago, April 4. The worlds fair
board Of control this afternoon at the
conclusion of the conference with repre-
sentatives of the carpenters unions re-
fused to sign the new union scale. The
worlds fair people also declined to ar
bitrate as to whether none but
union men shall be employed on the
grounds. OF the 1,5OO carpenters III
ployed on the grounds about 700 are
hired by the exposition company and
about 500 by contractors. The strike.
if it occurs. will involve the 700 men
those employed by such contractors as
have not signed the union scale, in all
about 1000 men. Mr.. Cogswell says
the worlds fair people say the strike will
have but little effect so far as they are
concerned; that their work is so advanced
that anybody who can drive a nail can
finish it. and that men to take the places
of any who strike will be plenty.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
TO BoYCoTTS.
THE STRlKEP RECEIVES A SET
BACK.
A Decision in the Ann Arbor Case
Averse to the Engineers and
Firemen'-A Boycott De-
cIare~'-~ "a 4 Con-
8piracv.
spiracy.

Knocked Out in the First Round.
Toledo, Ohio, April 4.-The federal
court room was thronged this morning
to hear the decision in the two cases
arising out of the Ann Arbor strike
which were head a week g Chief
Arthur, however, was not present, be-
ing represented by counsel. During the
reading Of the two long opinions al
most breathless silence prevailed, and at
various points there was applause at
tempted, which, however. was checked.
The first case was hat of the eight en-
gineers md tiremen of the Lake Shore
road, who quit the company's service
rather than haul boycotted cars. The
decision is in line with the informal
talk he gave these men ON the afternoon
of their arrest, but which was miscon-
strued widely into a declaration that a
man can be compelled to work though
he desires to quit his employers service.
The decision, briefly, is that q man may
quit work when he shall choose. if he
quits in good faith; but an engineer out
on a run must complete his run before
quitting.
After Judge Hicks decision was rem
dered he proceeded to the decision of
the circuit court composed of himself
IL Judge Taft in the motion of the Ann
Arbor company asking a temporary in
junction against Chief Arthur restrain
ing him from issuing any order which
shall require or command any employe
of any of the defendant railroad COM
panies to receive. handle or deliver any
cars of freight in course of transporta-
ton from one state to another. from and
to the Ann Arbor road. and prohibiting
him from anyway, directly or indirectly,
%endeavoring to persuade or induce any
employees of the railroad companies whose
lines connect with the Ann Arbor not to
extend to said company the same facili-
ties for interchange of interstate traffic
as arc extended by said companies to
other roads. The decision. which was
written by Judge Taft, grants the in
junction prayed for and declares that if
the members of the brotherhood, in
obedience to rule II, boycott freight they
become guilty of criminal conspiracy
against their country"
This suit was instituted by the Toledo,
Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railway
cOmpany to compel the Lake Shore u
Michigan Southern Railroad company.
the Pennsylvania company and other de-
PENDANTS and their officers and employees
to receive from it, and deliver to it,
freight and cars destined from one state
to another, commonly known as inter-
state freight. L.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
Decd. of Whitecuns.

Jonesboro, Ark, April 4.-Great excite
nent prevails here to-day over the doings
of a band of White Cappers, the tragic
death of their leader and Of their victim
IL the subsequent arrest of eight men.
one Of them, q prominent man Of this
town, George Black, was a respectable
half breed SpaniGrd, living about two miles
from this place. He had been notified by
some one that he would have trouble. If
he rented land to a negro. On Saturday
night q party of masked men halted in
front of Blacks door and called him out.
He refused and they proceeded to batter
down the door. The Spaniarl armed hin-
self with an old musket loaded with shot
and when the leader of the gang, A. ].
Metcalf, of this town. stepped into the
door with a drawn revolver he received
the load of shot in the stomach and fell
MORALLY wounded. The gang then with
drew, carrying their FOUNDED leader into
the corner Of the yard. Black then at
tempted to escape, but was shot down with
a bullet from q Winchester and left for
dead. When the party dispersed Black
made his way by crawling n half mile
through thickets and over fences to the
house Of a neighbor and was brought to
town yesterday. Metcalf. who was brought
III and both he and Black placed under the
care of physicians. Both died last evening.
Mntcalf refused to divulge the names of his
a~ECOlnplices. but stated that Black was not
tae man they were after.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
Iowa.
Fire ut Grirnell recently burned Eve
small business houses.

Fire ut Grinnell recently burned FIVE
small business houses.
A Seymour special says: The IN
of this county have organized an assoc
citation for the purpose of buying and on
Il large scale. Thy contemplate turning
their farms into q common fund DO
ing MI .heir business on the cooperative
plan.
At a fire at Spencer, Frank Osborn,
while helping the tirelnen and saving
property, was injured. He died from the
effects last night.
Charles Voss, a young farmer living
near Zama, suicided by shooting himself.
Pecuniary difficulties was the cause. He
was unmarried.
Helmer johnson, a fifteen-year-old
boy, while riding on the tender of d loco
motive, fell off and was run over and
killed in the railway yard at Calmar.
Actress Irene Worrell Holton of Chi
cage of the once famous Worrell sisters,
gets 5 5000 damags for falling down the
opera house starirs at Dubuque.
Comisky Bros, proprietors of a large
department store ut Creston, failed to-
day. Chattel mortgages aggregating
$4,000 were filed. There are other m
known liabilities. Th assets are small.
The Iowa college for the blind is ar
ranging for an elaborate exhibit at the
worlds fair. Space has been assigned
in the Iowa building. j. w. iSarnagoy,
member of the Columbia committee. was
here today assisting the arrangements.
A number of prominent liquor sellers
were convicted in the district court at
Creston and the saloon element, of Crcs-
ton is greatly discouraged; States At
I~torney Bull Announces his intention of
making a clean sweep both by 'prosecu-
'tions and injunctions.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
Wisconsin

Jack Ryan lost his nose during a fight
in a saloon at Chippewa Falls.
The salary of County Judge Holgat
of Marinette has been raised to $1,000.
The Wisconsin Central Stock Farm
company of Mazomanie has been organ
lied with n capital stock of $4,000.
Fire in the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 ST.
Paul railway depot at GAINESVILLE caused
q loss of $1,000.
The Spring Creek Creamery association
of Walworth has been incorporated with
$4,000 capital stock.
Mrs. j. II. Sechler of Sechlerville, Jack
son county, is dead, aged sixty-six years.
She was u pioneer of Jackson county.
Mrs. Spicer, formerly a resident.of Ap-
p:eton, died suddenly at her home in
C%lintonville aged about sixty years.
Il. A. Renter, Il pi"n.sr OF Dane conn
ty, died at his home in Blooming Grove,
ut the age of lightweight years.
Frank Cone. arrested at Racine OH a
charge of bigamy, has been ..hcl: for
trial in tho sum of $500.
Miss Fannie Wells of Fond Gu lac
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-04-08
Tne Tru.t.

New York. April 4.-The Union Type
writer company, organized under the
laws of New Jersey, has purchased the
plants, factories, good will, etc., Of
Wyckoff, Seamans 4 Benedict, the
American Writing Machine company, the
Yost Typewriter company. the Smith
Premier Typewriter company and the
ence w. Seamans, Of Wyckof, Seamans
& Benedict, is mentioned as the proba-
BILE president. Each of the old companies
will retain it's former method of doing
business under the direction of the Of
ticers and general board.
The principal places of business will be
Jersey, City, n: j.: Illion, N. Y; Syra-
cuse, N. Y; Bridgeport, Conn.,; Hartford.
Conn, and Springfield, Mass. The CAPT.
tai stock is $2O,OOO,O0O.