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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-20
Plow shoes for 95c. which sold at

Plow shoes for 95c. which sold at
81 so.
Mems fine shoes for So 90 which
sold at 81 90.
Mems fine shoes for So 25 which
sold at So IS.
Mems fine shoes for 81 so which
sold at so so.
Boys pillow shoes for 81 90 which
sold at 81 90.
Boys fine shoes for 81 90 which
sold at 81 rs.
Ladies' fine shoes for So 90 which
sold at SIS 90.
Ladies' fine shoes for So IS which
sold at So IS.
Ladies' fine shoes for 50 90 which
sold at So %.
Ladies' fine shoes for 81 80 which
sold at So so.
Call at Brigham's old stand, and
we will quote prices equally as good
on the entire stock of Boots and
Shoes, which we are closing out.
JOHN McWILLIAMs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-20
ALARM TOKEN.

This is the significant name of a
new monthly Reform paper published
at Ellensburgh, Wash. by Turner &
Huey publishers Of the Emancipation.
1t is a column, 4-page paper, clear
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Messls. Turner & lucy are old-line
Greenbackers. Price of the Alarm
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-20

Again there is trouble in the Ten
nessee coal mines, and troops have
been sent to protect the convict la
borers or, rather, to protect the
interests Of the capitalists who own
the mines. Great is capital.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-20
PROGRAM.

Music.
Roll call responded to by suffrage
sentiments.
Music.
Paper-"Why am suffragist, y
Supt. j. A. Ramsey. Discussion
opened by G. w. Her, followed by
volunteers.
Music.
Paper oman's Wrongs Grace
Houston. Discussion opened by
Anna Champe.
Music.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1893-04-20
LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Better take ont a cyclone insur-
ance policy.
Clean up your rubbish piles and
avoid cholera.
Nathan Stanley, Of Lincoln
township, was caller, Saturday.
A good Cow for sale. Inquire
Of j ID. Stevens.
Mrs. Bowen and Mrs. Slocum,
Of the Centennial district, made us
Il pleasant call, Saturday
Farmers ybody-try the
HOME BAKERY Lunch Counter.
5. E Of public square.
Commodore Alvey arrived here
from Kentucky the first Of the week,
on visit.
Arthur Capper and wife were
down from Topeka over Sunday.
Headquarters for Ladies' Oxford
Ties and Prince Alberts at Brigham s
old stand. Closing-out sale
j. w. Bronston has opened a
grocery and queensware store in
the Harder building, south Of the
square. Jake is rustler and has
lots of friends, and will succeed.
Kansas City parties have pur-
chased the Mellen block, on the
north side.
S. d. Wilmington, of Kincaid,
was in, the city, Tuesday, on legal
business, and paid his respects to the
only reform paper in Anderson
county.
A fine line of Spring and Sum
mer Hats to be closed out Brigham s
old stand.
w. e.. Cress and wife, of Cen
trail City, and Mrs. Chas. Paul, of
Union township, paid the AGITAToR a
pleasant visit, Saturday.
II You look to your own inter-
ests, you will surely buy your Cloth
ing at the RED STAR.
The DeWolf furniture factory
is now owned by stock company
Nearly all the stock is owned by
Garnett business men.
Milo Boyle's mother is here fro m
Holden, No, on visit.
Martin Setter looks as though
the climate Of the Pacific coast
agreed with him. Mr.. Setter and
family returned from California last
week.
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Our farmer friends are invited
to attend the meeting of the Equal
Suffrage Club on Thursday evening
of next week. Bring your wives
and daughters
Your attention is called to Mrs.
Sarah Bells advertisement on this
page.
A full line Of Straw Hats at
the RED STAR.
Capt. Townsend and wife eX-
pect their daughter Maggie home
turn from Texas, soon.
We learn that Sam'l Grooms is
quite sick at Columbus, Ohio.
Fred Stokes, the little boy who
was kicked by colt two or three
weeks ago, is very sick, and it is
feared that he cannot recover
Why not buy your CLOTHING
at the RED STAR? You will find
a good line of latest styles to select
from in Prince Alberts and Getaways
in the latest shades.
The incest thing that has been
published about Mrs. Lease for many
a long day is the announcement that
she declined to leave the bedside OF
her little sick boy to attend public
meeting in Topeka Mrs, Lease can
always be depended on to do the
right thing.
The opponents of woman sui
frage are cordially invited to attend
the meeting of the Equal Suffrage
Club, on Thursday evening of next
week.
Last Thursday, Edwin j. Stitt,
of Moline, Kas., and Miss Grace l..
Usher, of Union township, were unit
ed in marriage by Judge Miller.
We offer our best wishes.
Mrs. Bailey, Els mother, has
been granted pension.
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THE RATIONALE OF 0UR HARD
TIMES,
The Testimony Of Senators Sherman, LO
gan and Plumb.

IN Gn9 Q&rK as 10 Lne CBu5o VI O60SeS VI
the hard times that prevail in the land
How can they be ct y loss if they have
kept up with passing events in the last
few yearsY For the latter stand out in
such bold relief that the wsyfaring mass,
though of the smallest capacity, can not
possibly mistake them. Let US see.
Did not Senator Plumb in 1888 and
again in 1890 repeatedly warn nis fellow
senators Of the inevitable result OF their
financial policy if continued, and did he
not plead and expostulste with them
against persistence in the ssme-6ore'
telling the exact consequences that have
followed? refer to Senator Plumb be-
cause he is Of deservedly high repute
with all parties in Kansas. Turn to his
speeches and read for yourselves. He
demonstrated to the senate that the
amount Of all kinds Of money in Circuls-
tion was not $40 q head to the whole
population, and that that dwarfed and
contracted production, and enabled the
capitalist and creditor to swallow up all
the proceeds OF labor, which must end
in collapse and bankruptcy. And he
showed what Senator Voorhees, de-
nounced in the senate recently az q
great outrage on the public, that the
banks at all times were boarding three
times the amount Of money they were
furnishing the people. A beautiful sys-
tenn, said he ssrcssticslly, that while fur
nishing $1280OO,0O Of currency for the
uses and purposes Of the people, actually
has $5OO,OO0,OOO or $6OO,0OO,0O0 always
boarded in it's vaults, and which is, Of
course, of no more benefit to trade and
business than il it was buried in the sea.
Hence the money famine We are suffer
ing said he; "Rnd it must inevitably re-
suit in q still worse condition Of affairs.
1t can not be otherwise, in the nature Of
things"
The remedy he proposed was an en-
lsrgement Of the volume Of the currency
both coin and paper. And hereferred
to France as the bright and shining
light in the financial armament, with
$42 per capita Of circulation; and her
people happy, contented and prosperous,
while the rest Of Europe given over to
the worship Of the golden calf, and to
gold limitation are restless, disorRanized
and rebelIious. In this harness he died,
and Cleveland and Sherman are left to
WELD the destinies Of the country. Alas
for the consequences and for the fate Of
the plain people. 1t may become great
and splendid country for millionaires,
but poor country for the million.
And this seems the fate and destiny Of
the race. It has been 30 from the be-
ginning Of time-one record of history to
the same effect. Not even the life and
teachings OF the Savior can alter the
record. He came to take the part of the
weak and lowly, but how His record and
teachings are derided and disregsrded.
If He lived in our day He would be sent
to the stone-pile as q tramp and q
nuisance; and the states OF California
and Connecticut would treat Him as a
criminal and consign Him to prison as
having no rights that society was bound
to respect.
And how would Thomas Jefferson,
who. in imitation OF the Savior. under.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

II
edge it az theWork Of his hands, but de
nounce it 90 q distortion Of all hi
designs and purposes, and q gross bur
lesque on popular and equal government
John Sherman, as q representative o
monopoly and money, rules and reigns
and plutocracy is in the saddle. Ant
yet John Sherman, years ago and befor
he had enlisted in the cause Of his pres
emit masters, foretold the dire results o
their subsequent policy, and warned tn
country against it. mean the policy o
contraction and appreciation Of the cur
rency, 90 as to make one dollar do tn,
duty of 6wo, and Rs consequence to bu.
what two would before; two days work
instead Of one, or two bushels Of whes
or four Of corn, while the peoples taxes
interest and debts were left undiminished
thus increasing their debts by cutting
down their means Of payment and prsc.
tically doubling the salaries Of the 400,
900 or 100000 Office holders (nstional
state and county, Of the country and o.
all those in the receipt Of fixed incomes
until the burden of labor and production
became too great to be borne, and tht
whole superstructure built upon it col
lspsed and crumbled into ruins, as al
present.
But let Senator Sherman speak FOL
himself, and after that let no one be at q
loss as to what is the cause OF the
present hard times or what brought them
upon the country: "Do gentlemen con
slider what this question of contraction
{ for the purpose Of resuming specie pay
ments involvesP 1t means the ruin ol
all dealers whose debts are twice their
business capital, though perhaps less
than one.third Of their actual property
It means the fall Of all agricultural pro.
ductions without corresponding deduc
tion Of debte and taxes. When that day
comes, all enterprise will be suspended
every bank will have contracted its circu.
lation to the lowest limit, and the debtor
forced to meet in coin q debt contracted
in currency; must 90 to the wall. tt
attempt this is to arrest all lawful bust
ness by applying q new standard OF value
to their property without any deduction
of their debts, or giving them any chanc'
to settle with their creditors. II woult
be an Rct Of folly without an example
for evil in modern times" etc.
John Sherman soon after passed init
the service Of new masters, and was com
PEELED to do their bidding, and witness
the deplorRble consequences Of the YER.
policy he had protested against q
iraught with ruin to the productive in
dustries Of the people. His name shoul'
60 down to posterity covered with de
teststion and infsmy.
Gen. Logan, Of Illinois, also foretol'
the consequences Of the proposed pluto
cratic financial policy just as it has re
suited, and protested against it to tn
best OF his ability. And so did Sensto
Carlisle, now secretary Of the treasury
as has been so often shown recently b
extracts from his speeches before b
entered upon his present duties. An,
yet the ruling party in the country wen
forward in the execution Of the behest
Of the money power of Europe an
AroAr;oo yvh;ch thav ronPaaantad ukkaPl
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

PSE duuuAug COuSS8OAVAAS LOW SOAV VI
balance Of trade against US that was
never heard of until recently, but which
operates as an unslloyed and absolute
drain that readily accounts for the ship
ment Of gold from this country, and
places US very much in the position Of
the Irish people toiling for non-resi-
dent sristocracy who spend their rsVe-
nues IN foreign lands and to the benefit of
foreign people.
Yes, English landlords have acquired
title to millions of acres Of our public
domain, to be used ss deer parks and
hunting grounds like their domains at
home, or, worse yet, to be converted into
tensntries after the model Of Ireland;
these lands being filched from their own
ers (the common people Of this country
by unfaithful agents sent to congress.
It is estimated that go per cent. Of the
mortgages on land in this country is to
secure British and Scotch loan compsn
les, and more than 40 per cent. Of the
railroad stocks and bonds Of the country
is held by foreigners. And English
trusts are swallowing up all our import
ant industries, gold and silver mines, the
great Whitlacht. Union mine in Montana,
for instance, from which they have
reaped $20,OO0.0OO, and the Drum-Lum-
mon mine in the same state for which
they recently paid $1,5OOOOO; and all
this has taken place under the admins
tration of 9 party that was so terribly
anti English and 80 loudly denounced
British free trade in the campaign Of
1888,9O, you know.
Another cause OF the drain Of gold and
silver from our shores is known and
designated as the carrying trade Of the
country, now done almost entirely in
foreign bottoms, that is, in foreign
owned shipping; and the benefit Of
which, of course, aecrues entirely to
foreigners, and the amount Of it is over
S2O0,OO0OOO annually. That is, We pay
this amount annually for the trsnsportR-
tion of our products to market abroad,
and the imports that we consume. And
all this Os a consequence of the foolish
and suicidal policy of q party that, by
legislation, refuses to our merchants the
privilege OF buying ships abroad and fly
ing the American flag. And now figure
up the loss to and drain from the coun-
try for twenty or thirty years past, and
the Importance of this item stands out
in bold relief.
@Still another consideration in the same
line and frsught with similar effects ia
the large expenditure of American visit
ors to Europe and the old world, amount
ing annually to slOO,OOOOOO, since the
number Of such visitors is put down at
100000 q year. Senator Plumb alluded
to this in his exposition of financial
affairs in connection with the contrac'
ton of the currency, in his speeches Of
1888 and 1890; and he insisted that il
was an item Of consequence in the esti'
mate that the officers Of government in
their anxiety to show larger circula'
tion than the facts would warrant never
took into account. With these several
drains from our reservoir Of specie an
nually, il is apparent that the money
power of the old world can corner the
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-18

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The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-09-23
ume of what is certainly leading music

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JUST WHAT A NoRTHER IS.
The Icy Blast Which Sweeps Over
Texas Described by Native.

Texas Described by Native.
"What is Texas northern" The ques-
ton was put by Globe Democrat man to
Major B. NJ. Vanderhurst, of Texas, who
was airing his Apollo Belvidere figure in
the glad sunshine that crept under the
awning of the Lindell. "a Texas norther,
my inquiring friend, is an extremely
damp and disagreeable wetness that
crawls up out of the hole where the North
Pole used to be and swoops down upon
the sometimes sunny southland at a
Nancy Hanks gait, catching you with
your mosquito bar underclothes on and
your oVercQat in soak. 1t is more pene-
trating than ammonia, and requires but
ten seconds TO work its way to the most
secret recesses OF a fat mans soul and
cause him to regard the orthodox hell of
fire as the one thing in all the world
most to be desired. When a norther has
the victim in its grip he feels that he has
combination of buck ague and con-
gestive chills.
II is the custom in Texas not to make q
fire until somebody freezes to death. 1t
would be slam on the most delightful
climate on earth Few houses built
prior to the war had any provision for
heating. The custom was when norther
announced itself to keep piling on coats
until it got discouraged aud gave up the
contest. That custom is still generally
followed. Northern people regard this
eccentricity of the Texas climate with ex-
trene disgust. They go down there ex-
pecting ten months of summer and two
months of early fall weather; to revel in
the glad sunshine aud TO inhale the unct-
uous perfume Of magnolia buds all the
year. They get into their picnic clothes
and send their heavy-weights to friends
back home to be given to the poor or
packed away in camphor. Just about
days, they long to go to Manitoba to get
warm.o
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RAISING CRICKETS.
A Farmer Who Started q Successful
Stock Company.


eyes. the cold weather is mighty hard
on my cricket herd" said A X. Hooten,
of Greenfield, Tenn, to a reporter for the
Augusta (Ga,) Chronicle.
MY cricket herd? Why, haven't you
read about it? 1t was printed in the Re
public last spring, just about the time /
started in the industry. lou see. L live
in the middle OF Tennessee, surrounded
by the prettiest lakes that the eye ever
gazed upon.
1.-The waters are filled with trout and
other game fish, and in the spring. sum
mer and fall the nimrods flock there from
all sections of the country. One OF the
most curious facts about Tennessee fish is
that they wish nothing but crickets. Red
worms tale sawyers and the like find no
fish that will bite at them in our waters,
except suckers and small perch. The
most serious obstacle, therefore, with the
fishermen is to get crickets. l organized
a stock company, with a few hundred
capital and started to work last spring. /
had a large pasture fenced in with boards
about ten feet high, sowed grass. built
my lighthouses and incubators and then
began gathering in my crickets. My
pasture consists of about twelve acres,
and l calculated that / could well Craze
1000 crickets to the acre. They sell
readily to fishermen at 81 per hundred, so
you see what rich harvest there is IN
such an industry. They fiourished like
a green bay tree all during the summer
and fall, but since the cold spell has
reached them they have been dying off
at a remarkably sad rate, and if the freeze
should continue much longer / doubt if
will be left with seed for next spring.
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Indian baskets.

Those pretty little baskets of woven
wood, sold throughout this country and
Canada wherever senai-civilized Indians
are found, were once characterized not
only by simplicity OF form but also OF
color, for the Indians manufactured their
own dyes. Now, however, the Indian
use the cheap aniline dyes
of commerce, and the baskets glow In all
the coIors OF the rainbow. The best and
prettiest baskets DOW are those left IN the
natural color of the wood.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-09-23
Russian Ignorance.

The common people Of Russia as rule
speak only their own tongue. A large
proportion of them cannot read the
bewildering characters-Roman, Greek
and composite-which form their alpha
bet, and to help their ignorance the shop
walls are covered over. with rudely
painted pictures of articles for sale
within. The butchers shop has a picture
of meats of all sorts aud shapes; the
tailor's walls are covered with paintings
of coats and trousers. The pills OF the
apothecary and the vegetables of the
green grocer are advertised by pictures
upon tue doors and windows of their
stores.