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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-11-08
Some History.

that defeated the Greenlee railroad bill last
winter. Il passed the republican house but
was defeated in the senate because IL pro-
vided for the election Of railroad commits
sioners by the people.
The statement that the senate de-
fested the railroad bill because it pro-
vided for the election Of the commission
ers by the people, is false in every
particular, as the journals Of the senate
and Douglass" house will show.
House bill 119, an act relating to rail-
roads was introduced by Mr.. Greenlee
on February 2, (see Douglass house
journal, page 148), the rules were sus-
pended, the bill was read the second
time and referred to the committee on
railroads, in whose hands it remained
until March 2, when, after the said com.
mittee had been increased by the addi-
tion Of eight Populist members, the bill
was resurrected and reported back to the
house with the recommendation that it
be passed, with the addition OF new
section providing for the election Of COM
missioners. (Sse Douglass house journal,
page S72) March 8, Mr.. Dunsmore
moved a suspension Of the rules, and
that the bill be placed on third reading.
A roll call was demanded on the motion
and resulted in it being defeated. The
vote being yeas 50, nays 50, only five re-
publicans voting to consider the bill. Qn
same journal, page 47O) The same day
Mr.. Greenlee moved that the bill be
made special order for Saturday, March
4, at 10 o'clock a. m. The motion was
adopted, yeas IA, nays %, all the mega
tive votes being republicans. (See
journal, page 471)
March 4 the bill was placed on it's
final passage with the following result:
Yeas, 80; nays, 13 (See journal, page
1927
An analysis OF the vote shows that Of
the 80 yeas, 46 were Populists and only
43 republicans. OF the Ii nays, all but
one were republicans. And yet the re-
publicans are claiming the credit OF pass
ing the Greenlee bill.
The bill was messaged to the senate.
(See senate journal, page 597) When
called up in that body Senator Leedy
moved to amend by striking out all after
euactiOg clause and inserting what is
known az the maximum freight bill, the
same that had been passed by the Duns-
more house.
Section IA Of that bill provides that
the Office OF each Of the present board Of
railroad commissioners should expire on
the 1st day OF March, 1893. Section Is pro-
vided tnat the executive council should
fill the vacancies thus created, until the
board would be elected by the people, as
provided for in section 16, Of the same
act. (See senate journal, page 604,)
The bill as amended was discussed
from time to time and finally passed the
senate, yeas, %; nays, II. The nays
being all republican but one, (Sse sem
ate journal, page 6S5)
The two houses having disagreed on
railroad legislation, conference COM
mittees were appointed, and on March
10, the senate committee, composed oil
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-11-08
HAVE PATIENCE.
Labor Must Continue to Suffer Until the
Deluge Comes,


in common with England and other pow
erful European nations. Our lRboring
classes and products Of their labor must
now compete with the industrial classes
Of Europe and India for possession Of
gold money. Can our industrial classes
outbid the poorly paid labor Of Europe
and India for possession of gold money ?
Ii Populist says it iS impossible for Ia
Dor of the UDited States to compete with
labor Of Europe and India, he would be
called calamity howler," therefore, /
shall not answer the question, but rely
upon Prof. Bryant, one of the best &C
Cepted authorities upon political eron-
omy, to answer it, viz:
"The power Of money to fix the condi-
tion Of man is supreme absolute sover
eign. The condition, then, Of those who
gain it must rise, while the condition Of
those who lose it must sink; no slterns-
tive is possible. Hence, to possess money
becomes, as it were, the life and death
struggle Of civilization, Of mans exist
enCe. Now, it is obvious that if the
money OF several nations be Of the same
kind-in fact or in principle--then this
merciless struggle for the money-for
mans existence-will be Of one nation
against all the others, Of all against all.
To make money that is common to ssv-
erRl nations is to set up a huge auction
block upon which prices will Oficiste as
a heartless and soulless suctioneer who
Will knock down the money to those who
bid the most of their labor and it's pro-
ducts for it. The highest bidder will
ever be those whose necessities are the
greatest. If among these several ma
tions having the same kind Of money, in
part or in principle, there is even one ma
tion whose institutions are such as en-
slave the masses to an sristocracy who
own the capital and land, then that curse
spreads itself, inevitably, all over the
other nations. The miserable condition
and necessities Of that people forces
them to offer the most Of their labor and
it's productions for the money, and as it
flows to them their condition rises, they
prosper, but those from it Gibbs, sinks,
nor can any human power arrest their
sinking condition until they have reached
4 point where their necessities makes
them the highest bidders for the money.
A system OF money common to several
nations guarantees two results. First,
that the condition OF the producing and
industrial classes will be about the same
in each and all, and the condition of
these classes fixes the condition of fully
95 per cent. Of the population. The con-
dition Of the manufacturer for home
consumption, the merchant and protes-
sionsl man will all sink with the foun-
dstion. Second, it guarantees that no
one of the nations will ever enjoy more
than four successive years Of prosperity.
Their prosperity is ever born Of the dire
necessity which compels them to bid the
most for the money, but in gaining it
they reduce some other nations to ad-
versity, which in turn bids it away from
them again. It is a tide that Gibbs and
flows like that of the seas. In connec-
ton with this it is Of the highest import
ance to consider the following fact, viz:
That for each year of prosperity there
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-11-08

Du''on HOUSE. Topeka Ks'. lsoP'rdsy
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

Peaoing the adjustment OF some difficult
ties between the propriesors and printers
in the Atchison Patriot Office that paper
is sending out plate editions. That beats
suspending. but that is all that eau be
claimed for it.
The Missouri river is making a great
run on the banks and its deposits are the
color of old gold. The trouble along this
side is that, the deposits being taken from
the Kansas banks, it will bankrupt a
good many farmers.
The enumeration of the school popula-
ton of Hutchinson has just been complet-
ed and turned over to the clerk OF the
school board There are 2. 5S7 white pupils,
of whom 1852 are females and l, 235 males.
In addition TO this there are III colored
puPils-63 males and IS females-makins
the total number of persons Of school age
to be 2, 70S.-Patriot.
Mrs. John C. Calhoun, four miles west
Of Garden City, has sixty acres of alfalfa.
the first crop of which she is saving for
seed with fine prospect for IA wonderful
crop. Good judges estimate the yield at
ten bushels per acre But call it eight
bushels PER acre, $50 bushels al 50 per
bushel, 81. 40, au average Of SPA per acre
for one crop, with positive assurance OF
hay crop yet from the same field of one
and "A fourth tons per acre, worth now in
the market So per ton. making the total
grass returns of each acre for the season
s31. so and with very little labor attached
to 1t. And yet the honorable secretary OF
agriculture is talking of abandoning the
governments grass experimental station
at that place because of the failure of
forage CROPS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
A FELLOW FEELING.

The attempt to elevate self by pulling
others down would hardly be commend
able, but Kansas is in position to feel a
degree of comfort in the fact that other
localities now have their share of tinan-
cial depression. The habit OF classifying
and vilifying our state at a time when
every good citizen was using his best
effort to pull out OF the difficulties en-
gendered by the late boom in prices, had
become SO general, and was prosecuted
with such industry that, 20 say the
least, our patience became stale virtue,
and now we can say to our unfortunate
brethren down east, you have
our sympathy, but it would
be more sincere if you had
treated us more kindly when we were
in distress. The fact that your trusts
and diluted stocks have come to grief
gives emphasis to the fact that you had
no patent on financial skill, and that a
Kansas mortgage may not be the mean-
est asset in the list.
We have heard much of dishonest
methods; we have been listed as swind-
lers and regulators; we have been
lectured, .scolded and pounded by turns,
yet after all your ado the loss sustained
by the slump in Reading and the Cor
dage trust foots up more than
the total amount of loss by de-
faulted real estate mortgages in
Kansas within the last five years.
The liquidatinS process having now been
under way for four years we may con-
graduate ourselves, while we commits
crate and drop tear for those who
have the whole long journey before
them. Our critics will find that it re-
quires cash to pay debts. and that their
delinquencies can be adjusted at the
office just as ours have been.
We have taken our medicine as
as we could, but being now
we are fortunate in having
an abundance of the good things pro-
duced by Kansas soil and sunshine
If it should transpire that our accu-
surplus should turn the bal
ance of trade in our favor for season
Or two, we will divide literally with our
eastern friends for cash consideration.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
Kansas Eas

Italian skies:
i fine climate;
\ good name:
1 central location:
Pure air and lots of Il:
4 law-abiding population:
4 reasonably dry climate:
An orchard on every farm:
Blue grass and clover pastures:
Flfty-two million acres Of lsnr.
Eigh. thousand scaooI teacher:
seven thousand school .souses;
Millions Of bees and tons Of honey:
Plenty OF quail and prairie chickens:
First class Osiidin- stone 6 Everywhere.
Pcssunls, pawpaws aud peTsinsrnoEs
= record Of eisTea successive cora
crops,
4 smaller per cent OF her people who
cant read CT a-Tile thar any state a ise
Union;
\ people who are ready u "afise.
shine AMI uazke kpo%a tise beauty aIs4s
glory Of this great st.te upoa every pos-
sl5.e scc@ssea. -As9sa Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
BETHANY COLLEGE,

20 the Editor o; the Eagle
Bethany college, Topeka, deserves the
attention of those who are contemplate
ing sending their daughters away to
finish their education. 1t is high grade
school. \ few facts CLEANED from the
1874 catalogue, are here presented for
your readers. The value of the whole
school property is estimated at 1851 900.
Numerous improvements in the interior
arrangements of the building have re-
Gently been made. The dormitories
in Wolfand Holmes have been changed
10 closed rooms, each room being
furnished with steam heat and electric
light, thus doing away with the last Of
the dormitories and giving the pupils
the more modern ard lSoTne-iike rooms
Of . private dwelling. Elevators hare
been put IN. 10 relieve the i'll effects 0!
ascending and descending tie stars. One
hundred volumes have oeen added 10 the
library. and Improvements made IN tse
laboratory ay which students ia chem
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

If the acts of the mob can be consid-
cred justifiable at all. the hanging of the
abortionist in Lawrence county, IIls.,
mentioned in yesterdays dispatches, was
such case. And if lynchings have the
effect of lettering others from the COM
mission of the CRIME for which victim
expiates his otfense, as is claimed by the
apologists for the mob, then it would be
IN the nature of virtue to encourage
the mob to prosecute its vengeance
against the class of barbarians to which
the Illinois horse doctor belonged.
Abortion is the close companion to the
wickedest crime against society and the
human race-crimes which, if I'M
checked, threaten the utter demoraliza-
ton of society and ultimate extinction
of the race.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
The Railroads Kick.

from me Topeka Press.
The representatives Of the Santa Fe,
Rock Island and Union Pacific railroads
raised big kick yesterday before the
board OF equalization over their assess
ment of their respective lines, and de-
manded that the assessment be cut down
in almost every particular, as it was
preposterous, they claimed, to place the
valuation so high IN these hard times.
The board informed these representa-
tives that If IN any particular they had
been too high they would reconsider
their assessment. but the kickers failed
to point out any special grievance. so
the assessment stands just about q II
was. The figures will no, be complete
for some time yet, but they will reach
$63, 0Q0, 900 al least.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
ON THE WAY TO CALCiS.
Ghostiy Funeral Cortege-Thc Sorrow
full Dirge OF the Monrners.

A Ghostiy Funeral Corfege-The Sorrow
full Dirge of the Mourners.
A small procession Of people. al u
sort of half run, half walk. rapidly
came toward US. singing nasal dirge.
The leader Of the funeral. for such we
soon perceived IL tn be. carried coffin
lid, decorated with various colored
ribbons. upright in his hand and fol-
lowing him came numerous bearers Of
banners with the portraits of saints de-
plcted on their embroidered fronts; the
next in order of procession were the
papathes. or priests, in long garments.
the predominant color of which was
white; they appeared 20 rise above the
rest of the mo1rners, owing 10 the pc
ruliar shape Of their clerical headgear.
perched on their long hair, which was
fastened up IA knot like a ehignon
behind their heads.
After them came the corpse. aD aged
woman in a shallow coffin carried
shoulder!high. The feet and head were
slightly propped up and we're fuliy ex.
posed 20 view: they even seemed n
possess a ghastly kind 81 vitality from
the trenulous motion impaired 20 them
By the bearers The cortege having
passed ON along the white road toward
the blue horizon IN it, front. we re
placed our hats. which had been re
moved cut Of Difference 70 the dead
ard continued orr sTsy 70 Calcis. which
We entered by way 81 the market place.
On market dzys the open space
where u1oet % the country people,
business = transacted - elOsely pScissd
with lively gestlculating crowd II
garments of various hues and cuts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
ABOUT KANSAS,

Topeka's 400 organ, the Lance, mas been
moved to Des Moines.
a man in Atchison who has but one
foot is said to stump great many oniook-
ers by his many fests on a tight rope as &
Blondiu.
4 monument was unveiled az Fort Riley
yesterday in honor Of the memory OF sol
diers who were killed in the battle Of
Wounded Knee, s. D., in 1890.
The Centralia man who reports a stalk
of corn which he declares grew six inches
in twenty-four hours would probably be
called liar anywhere but in Kansas.
The Clay Center Times half profauely
observes that Collector Morris made "i''
of a change in the depuiyship az that
place when he turned OUT Tom Doran aud
put Tom Do,an in his place.
The Santa Fe Monitor says the Arkau.
sas river up there is full again. for a
change. II that is so, everybody down
this way wishes IL would let up GA its dis
sipstion and give we'uns chance To take
a lgluA.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
KANSAS LAND AT A PREMIUM.

The recuperative quality of Kansas
soil is one of its most commendatory
features. It's fertility is beyond ques-
ton, because so often demonstrated by
crops that surpass the yields of all other
states and sections. Likewise the capac-
ity of the soil for retaining moisture and
withstanding drouth has been demon
strated on occasions, but never more
forcefully than this season. To illus
trate: During the extreme dry spell in
the spring many farmers gave up hope
of realizing anything from portions Of
their wheat crop, some going so far as
to plow what there was of that crop
under and planting the ground with
corn. Since the harvest, however,
many fields that were regarded as
worthless at one time and were left un-
disturbed because their owners couldn't
reach theru with the pillow and corn
planter, under the stimulus of later
rains, revived and produced from twelve
to twenty bushels to the acre. You
can't discount Kansas lands.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

For some time past the Register has
advocated the raising, daily, of the
national iensign upon the flag pole that
stands in the midst of the city green in
New Haven, Conn, and finally the mat
ter was brought to the attention of the
city authorities who endorsed the idea
as valuable object lesson to the youth
of the community, but they declined to
act for the reason the city had no money
with which to meet the necessary ex-
pense. Whereupon the Register gener-
ously supplied the requisit number of
flags and appurtenaEces and now Old
Glory goes up every morning at sunrise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
The Logic of the situation.

From the Larned EsgIe-Optc Dem.
The fusion Democrats of Sedgwick
county are the sorest crowd of mortals
imaginable over the discovery that the
stalwarts have run an apparently valid
attachment on the title Of the party to
which both factions claim it belongs.
In their call the stalwarts invited ali
Democrats of the county To meet in
mass convention, and straight party
ticket was nominated by that conven-
ton. This ticket, it is claimed, must be
recognized by the county CLERK as en-
titled 10 occupy the Democratic column
on the Australian ballot, and if this is so
it will compel the fusiopists to hoist a
nondescript flag, and this will drive
away hundreds of men who will not
vote ticket that does not display the
Democratic label.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
Those Republican papers that are b

Those Republican papers that are be-
eating Attorney General Little so I'M
mercifully for his announced position as
to the prohibitory law, would do well to
think a little before they speak out in
meetin' so bold. Leaving the soundness
Or good policy of his ruling out of the
question he is vet not without precedent
in the adoption of the policy that leaves
the matter i'll the hands of the COM
munities interested, where it ought to
be and from whence it ought never to
have been taken.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
From Many States

During the period of fifteen years
students at the Kansas Agricultural
college have been enrolled from the
different states and countries as follows:
Arizona, 4; Arkansas, 6; California, 10;
Colorado, %; England, 10; Florida, /;
Germany. 5; Holland, /; Illinois, 40;
Idaho, Iowa, 81; Indiana, II; Indian
Territory and Oklahoma, 80 Kentucky,
2; Michigan, ); Missouri, IS; Minnesota,
1; Montana, /; Massachusetts,, ?: Ne
Uraska, 81; New jersey, 5; New Mexico,
%; New York, IA; North Carolina, 2:
Ohio. Il; Pennsylvania, 49,; South Da-
kota, 4; Tennessee. 10; Texas, 5; Utah.
10; Rhode Island, 2; Wales, ); Wash
ington, d. c., 1; Wisconsin. 4; Wyom-
3; Vermont, /; Kansas, $685.. Total,
316
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

The statement has been going the
rounds that the Nicarauguan canal
scheme would prove afailure in the END,
as the Pacific ocean was 600 feet higher
than the Atlantic. Actual surveys dem
onstrate that the Atlantic is six and one
half feet the highest. This leads us 10
remark that many OF the statements re-
garding the financial condition of this
coantry are as wild as the above, and a
true analysis of the situation would give
comparatively the same results.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

Judge-You admit the promise %
marriage. understand. bat claim tha,
the defendant was insane when the
promise WAS iuade2
Defendants Lawyer Yes. yosr hon
or. we enter plea Of insanity.
J.-Upoa what evidence do you de-
pend % sustain Jour claim Of abcrrsr
ton Of rnipd7
u. We intend, your honor. 20 rad
the love Letters that he wrote 70 her.-
y. l.. Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

New York Mail and Express: The
World this morning congratulates its
readers that the silver purchase clause
of the so-called Sherman law will be re-
pealed, and it gives poll of the senate
to prove II. This shows that 81 Repub-
licans and only 81 Democrats are for re-
peal, while % Democrats and only 10
Republicans are against repeal. This is
an admission that wholesome financial
legislation from this Democratic con-
gress can only be had through the help
of Republican votes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

Strange results in politics occur in
other countries as well as in this one.
The largest gains made by any party in
the German elections were by the fanat-
ical Anti-Semltes, who have doubled
their popular vote and more than
doubled their representation in the
Reichstag. They cast half a million
votes. showing more rapid growth than
tie Socialists, whose successes We're
overrated III the first reports. This is
anything but pleasant thing for the
Jewish population of the empire to con-
template. Ii indicates that they may
ere long experience something of the
oppression their brethren have suffered
for years in the cars realm, though for
the sake of humanity and the good
name OF the Fatherland it is hoped aot.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

istrv will have individual tables for
work. The faculty consists of twenty
two members. notice that the total
attendance fcr the past year was 23o.
which shows a liberal patronage. The
tuition is only $500.
1t is proper to remark that while
Bethany college is not located in Wich-
ita that it is the diocesan school for girls
for the whole state OF Kansas. Its age,
its equipments, lis instructors and lis
course OF study make it equal to any
school west Of the Allegheny noun
tains. These hard times it might pay
parents TO investigate home schools in-
stead OF sending their children to the far
east. DEAN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

Circulars were received here at the
local railway offices from the interstate
commerce commission giving notice
shat all railroads must adopt a standard
height for drawbars on freight cars and
naming that height as 81 inches for
standard and &c inches fornarrow guage
roads with three inches play between
cars of loaded and empty cars. The
whole matter is in pursuance of an act
Of congress passed last winter and APP
proved March ,. Railways are requested
10 change their drawbars TO the standard
height as soon as possible and are given
until July /. 1895, as the uttermost limit
within which they can make the change.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16
The Late Justice Blat CHORD.

From the Washington Post.
His decisions were characterized by
great learning and research, and were
uniformly permeated by the spirit of
justice In its highest and best sense and
by regard for human rights that gov
erned his conduct in all the minor and
private relations of life. He was man
of many friendships, kindly and helpful
to younger members of the profession,
and possessed of the public confidence to
remarkable degree. That he was
good man and righteous judge is the
best epitaph that can be written of him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-16

Noting the statement of Blanton Dun
can in the Denver News in regard to
the Cleveland letter pledging favor to
the free silver idea in return for support
from the silver states-which is no
revelation-the Lawrence Journal Us ks
who is Blanton Duncan? We will
answer in a word: he is the erstwhile
Whoop Tomlinson of Kentucky, but now
of the booming and boundless west.