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Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

There win be q supper and entertain
ment by the Y. p. S. G. E., at the First
Baptist church, Thursday evening. A
good programme has been arranged. Miss
Carrie NJ. Douglass will read
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

If you are looking around for holiday
gifts, visit Maxcy's crockery store, just be
low Smith Bros. bakery Here you will
find the highest grade of goods in this
line, at moderate prices.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
Had Settled Ono.

Soph-Say, Fresh, did YOU ever sec 81
billf
Fresh-Wcll guess yesl Had one pre-
Bented me that time you invited me to
lunch. Courier
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Judge Wiswell was in the city, yester-
day, on his way to Skowhegan, where ne
is to preside at the present term OF the
supreme court.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Miss Fannie Gallert arrived, Tuesday
night. from her school work in New York
city. She will remain at her home here
during the holiday vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

DIR. G. II. Fiske of Lewiston, was busy
all day during his visit to Gardiner,
Tuesday. He is meeting with great sue
cess in his special treatments.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
HALLOWELLs

ID. p Livermore would be glad to have
his friends young and old, call upon him
Tuesday afternoon or evening, Dec 20,
on the occasion of his Goth birthday
anniversary.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Major Frank Haskell and wife of Wa
terville, We're in Gardiner, Tuesday, call
ing upon friends.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Mrs. Frank Sawtelle of Fryeburg, has
been visiting her brother, George Il.
Benson.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Miss Hortense Low left on the morning
train, Tuesday, for Boston, for visit of a
few days.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Mrs. J. W. Dana went to Portland,
Tuesday, where she will visit during the
HOLIDAYS.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Mrs. II. l.. Edwards of Lewiston, is
visiting her father John Jaquith, on
Harden street.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
OAKLAND.

Dwight Mccartney has returned from
weeks visit to Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

arc well stocked with Christmas gifts and
at present trade is good. John Fairbanks
is plastering his house this mild weather.
NORTH vASSALBORO.
On the 18th, the secretary of the local
board of health of Vassalboro was notified
that 6-months- old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Goodrich had died from diphthe-ia.
The family were at once quarantined
and the child Immediately buried. Two
other children were sick at the time, and
on the 10th, another boy, years old, died
and was buried in the night. Another
child is sick with diphtheria and the
mother has been sick for some time
Everything possible is being done to keep
the disease from spreading.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

J. p. Butler of Portland, was in the
city, Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
STATE NEWS.
Aro0stook.
MASARDIS.

MASARDIS.
There has been quite number of cases
of TYPHOID fever here, this fall. All are re-
covering now excepting Henry Fraser's
little girl, whose fever has not yet turned
Miss Eva Bridgham, who was teaching
in district No 1, is at her home in Ash
land, quite sick with typhoid fever
The ladies of the Sewing Society have
again to express thanks, this time to Mrs
Laura Hayford of Bangor, for $25 to their
church fund.-It is understood there is to
be ball here, Christmas Eve; supper at
Pollard's hotel.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

The high school will have a vacation
through Christmas week;
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Winona Clark of Waterville, spent Sat
urday and Sunday with her friend, Lena
f. Bates.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Lewis Brann and George W. Lawrence
arrived home, Tuesday, on their vacation
from the State College at Orono.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

after being confined to his house by a
severe cold.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Sidney Gallert arrived home, Tuesday
night, for his holiday vacation from New
York, where he is attending school.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
WATERVILLE.

P. S. Longley of Solon, was in the city,
Tuesday
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
MAPLETON.

There will be Christmas tree at both
churches, on Christmas night.--L A.
Foss showed us an egg, the other day,
that weighed 334 ounces and measured
6SHx7 inches.-Mrs. William Bartsell is
very sick. She is attended by DR.. Dow -
The telephone line has been extended
from here to Ashland.-J. W. Dudley has
been chosen a member of the board of
agriculture tor Aroostook county There
will be an entertainment at the Free
Baptist church, Saturday evening, con-
sisting of music and recitations. There
will be good talent to make it interest
ing
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Fl. G. Barker, the furrier, will keep
his store open every evening this week.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Samaritan Lodge, !. o. 0. F.,will work
the third degree at the regular meeting,
this evening
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Mrs. K. n. Small went to Augusta,
Tuesday, for visit of a few days.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

G. w. Hovey of Pittsield, was in town,
Yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Mrs. John Clark, an aged lady living at
Smithtown, had shock Of paralysis
Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

The stores will all be kept open every
evening this week.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Mrs. Leander Stackpole left, Tuesday,
on a visit to her daughter in Maiden,
Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Major Frank Haskell and wife went to
Gardiner, Tuesday, for short visit.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Mrs. B. p Manley of Waterville,i is visit
ing Mrs. Abby Ward on Main street.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

Mr.. and Mrs Warren G. Maxcy left,
Tuesday, for their home in Oshkosh, Wis.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
GARDINER.

Langdon Paul went to Lincoln, Tues
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

DIR. +. W. Rafter returned home from
New York Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

A. J. Hooker returned from Norway,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19

W. D. Spaulding is at his store again,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-19
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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
The P1utOcrtic Dead.line.

1t was considered a horrible thing
when the Confederates established a
"dead-line," around the prison camps,
and shot dead any one of our poor fell
lows who put foot across it. We learn
from a friend, who has just come
through Montana. that at Arlee, in
that state, the United States Court
officials have got number of "Com-
monwealers' in shed, and establish
ed similar dead line" around them.
and have already killed two men for
crossing it. And this, be it remem-
bered, is in time of peace, with men
who were out Of work and hungry.
The Confederates had the excuse of
the passions of cruel war, and lack
of troops to otherwise guard their
prisoners. But here it is the whole
United States, with unlimited re.
sources, shooting its own citizens. 1t
is horrible.
And the daily press have not had
one word to say upon the subject.
They are prompt enough to record
everything to the discredit of the un-
employed, but have nothing to say OF
the cruelties Of their oppressors.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
A PITIFUL INCIDENT.

A pathetic incident in Carl
Brownies arrest by the brutal police
at Washington is thus described:
"At first clutch of the officer Browne
struck his assailant He was dubbed
and beaten, fist and baton, from doz-
en- at once in reply. But when the
string of beads was broken, and the
yellow, SNOWY keepsakes spilled about
like peas, Browne gave great cry,
and down under the rearing armed
hoofs he knelt, in a vain attempt to
pick them up again. 1t broke his
heart. Browne wept like child, and
as they dragged him away, raging
horse-policeman tearing at him from
either side, he pleaded with them to
regain those poor mementOs of his
grave-wrapped wife,"
If Browne had gone there with a
half million of British gold to buy up
Congress, to rob the people, he never
would have felt the weight of police
mans baton. He would have dined
with Grover and John Sherman.
Poor Browne! What right had he to
a wife or to tender sentiments? The
beads were not diamonds, but only
some cheap kind Of ware; and Browne
is poor. vulgar, devil; and has no
rights that a congressman or police
man is bound to respect. eff Christ
comes to Chicago" he had better come
in a .barouche, with banker on each
side of him, or he may run the risk of
the county Jail. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
We Have Not Ii,

We Have Not Ii, Vain.
Nearly year ago " ( = aounced il
the Antitrust Convt g that there
was no warrant in Fl onstitution
state or national, TO : ,urt to veto
nullify and wipe out - islative act
and we challenged s lawyers tt
name any such au : Y; and they
never responded. =
ana now comes Juuk. BOOkwalter
OF the Illinois Circuit Court, in the
suit brought to determine the consti:
tutlonality of the congressional act
and says:
Courts, and particularly trial
courts, are cautious and reluctant
ABOUT deciding statute passed by
the general asse mbly to be unconstitu-
tlonal, especially so when such a
statute involves political questions or
Where 1T is of very grave moment to
the people. Our supreme court Ger.
tainly has the right, power and au-
thority to decide the questions in
volyed in this suit if properly present
ed, and its decision on such questions.
II ever rendered, will be the law of
TINS state, binding upon all alike and
upon every department. of the govern
ment; in other words, a decision of
our court of last resort upon the ques-
lions at issue in this suit will have, if
rendered, the force and authority of
law, and, in fact, will be the law of
this state upon those questions.
Ihe decision of trial court, how
ever, is entirely different, and does
not have the force and authority of
law. A decision OF such court against
the constitutiOnality of statute does
not lnvalidate the statute, but merely
dSsdats 1t. 1t also should be borne in
mind that coordinate branch of the
government, that is to say the legiSla-
ture, in passing the statute in queS-
tlon, decided in favor of it's cOnstitu-
tionality. The general assembly is
presumed to have done it's duty and
passed the statute in view Of the pro-
visions of the constitution in regard
thereto and in accordance Herewith,
as the legislature understood them"
So far. so good. The light is dawn
ing. But where does even the court of
last resort get any such power? And
how can an appellate court possess
powers which the court appealed from
did not possess?
Absolute and final power must rest
somewhere; and it is better that it
should rest with the peoples represen
tatives, elected by the people, than
with a bench of judges usually select.
ed by the corporations. If the repre-
sentatives make mistake the people
can correct it, in year or two, at the
ballot box; but if the court makes a
mistake it may stand for eternity
and become a precedent for innova.
tiOns all over the world.
We want the English systems, where
the Parliament is supreme; and no be-
wigged and be-gowned lawyers sit in a
neighbering chamJer. to veto the de.
mands of the whole people of the
British Islands.
We want a constitutional conven-
tion to revise the constitution of the
United States. Id.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
Government Telegraphs.

To tho Editor of the Journal
In last nights issue of your paper no
t1ced piece of news relative to England S
government controlled telegram service in
which you state that they have tried it for
5s,ooo0oo. You say this is a fact. / @ would
like you to tell me where you got your
statistics. And another thing, tell me why
cannot be run SO it will be self-sustaining
as we'll as our great post Office system, on
which the cover nment never lost anything.
ming the telegraph of this country have
lost in the last 20 years, Let me know why
ment with better results to the men en-
ployed thereon and to the public at large.
A CITIZEN.
Minneapolis, May II.
To this the Minneapolis journal re-
plies:
'The statistics referred to were OBJ
tained from the official statement of
the pOstoffice authorities of England.
The deficit is logical sequence Of
government control of railroads; else
where it does not pay any profit into
the treasury. Government railway
control in Europe is accompanied by
deficits. Our own postoffice system
very nearly sustains itself by receipts.
There is ordinarily deficit. The
Western Union Telegraph Company,
which does the largest telegraph bust
ness in this country, has always been
a profitable enterprise, the prof is last
year being 81 ,496,037 %. 1t is probable
that this company has not lost any,
thing in the past 20 years. If the gov
enment should undertake to control
and run these lines it could make no
such showing of profit for various rea-
sons. One is that it would be expect
ed to reduce the message tariff below
the cost of operating and another rea-
son is that the government could not
exercise that close business Supervis-
ion which private company exercises
over the department. If paying rates
were charged the public would kick
and, consequently, the system would
be conducted at loss every day in the
year, as it is in England. Why
shouldn't the people who use the tele-
graph pay for it?"
We do not believe the statistics re-
ferred to by the Journal. England is
perfectly satisfied with the system of
government telegraphs, and could not
be induced to go back to the old plan.
You can send twelve-word- messages
for cent each word; and the service
is so prompt that if man at II o'clock
desires to invite friend to lunch will
him at 2, he telegraphs him. Mes
sages are delivered anywhere in Lon
don and answer returned in twenty
minutes.
And see how adroitly the scamps in
terested in perpetuating the robbery
of the people present their arguments.
A deficit of $22,5Oo,O0O! Why that is
startling! But observe,-th deficit
occurred in 40 years or more" Then
it was about 100000 year. But
there are nearly 4O,O00,O0 people in
Great Britain and Ireland; and a de-
ficit of 81, 900, 900 divided among them
means about q cents, we will say; and
we pay ten times as much for in
creased cost of kilograms.
There is an annual deficit in the
post-office department but who would
think of the government turning over
the service to Rockefeller and the
Vanderbilts? 1. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06

fellow bought a candle to hunt for a
coin he had lost; the whole neighbor-
hood turned in to help him; they got
down on all fours and raked and
scraped, At last the chap jumped up
with yell, and cried,-"I have got
it!' They gathered to look at it. 1t
was penny! Some of them expressed
disappointment and disgust. "Well," "
said the fellow, II didn't care any,
thing for the penny, but l wanted to
see where the darned thing went to-"
The profits on the farmers wheat have
been disappearing for twenty years: it
will be worth IS a piece to them to
know precisely what particular rat
hole they ran into, even if they can't
plug up the hole. But we believe they
can plug it up.
If it be true that the whole world is
going to the devil, and that there is
nothing but universal ruin for the
grain-raisers Of the Northwest, we
want to know that fact positively.
But we do not believe there was ever
an evil condition which intelligence
was not able to overcome; and before
we lie down and die we should ex-
haust all the resources known to hui
man courage and skill.
There is one encouraging symptom.
The railroad officials, the merchants,
the bankers, everybody in fact, has at
last, with marvellous unanimity,
reached the startling conclusion that
"something must be done to help the
farmers!' The further impoverish-
ment of the farmers means the de-
population of the state; and that
means the destruction of all the towns
and cities. And we will find lots of
friends where before we had them
not. So let us make strong effort to
protect ourselves. Let us leave moth
ing undOne. [. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
Well Done.

We are glad to see that our friend,
Hon. Thomas " Gator, of San Fran
cisco, was, at the Peoples Party State
Convention at Sacramento, Cal.
designated as the choice of the con-
vention for the U. S. Senator. Judge
Gator is very able man, and has been
the inspiring brain of the Populist
party in California. His endorsement
was practically unanimous. United
States Senators should be elected by
direct vote Of the people, but since
that cannot be done, without an
amendment of our national constitu-
tion, the next best thing is to let the
party name it's candidate in conven-
tion. This was the course pursued in
1858, by the republicans and democrats
of Illinois:-the former nominated
Abraham Lincoln, and the latter
Stephen A. Douglas. The debates
that followed between these two
great champions constituted an era in
the political history of the United
States. Douglas won the senatorship
but Lincoln was the next president.
Nowadays sharp rascals work their
way into the Legislature with malice
aforethought and predetermination to
sell their votes to the highest bidder.
Hence the horrible decentralization of
our politics, and the fact that the
United States Senate has become SIM
ply rich mans club,-andi is made up
either of millionaires or the tools of
millionaires and corporations. The
corruptionists of course object to the
convention naming the United States
Senator. 1t spoils their market. 1t
takes away what they consider a
legitimate perquisite.
We sincerely hope the Populists will
carry California and that Thomas v.
Gator, will sit where Clay and Web
ster once sat. He will be a worthy
successor to those great men. I'D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
"SWitching.''

Coxey's new political party of Veal
ers claim they will wipe out both the
old parties. Another good time for
Ignatius to switch.-RushmOre Gaz-
cite.
This fellow furnishes, unconsciously,
an exhibition of the degeneracy of the
age. If new party has been formed,
more advantageous to the country
than the existing organizations, is it
not the duty of all men to ''switch" to
it? Was it not right for the Wings,
Know-nothings and Democrats to
''switch" to the new party, the Re-
publican, when it represented the de-
fense of the Union? We're the Demo-
Gratis to be denounced who, in 1864,
switched to the support of Abraham
Lincoln and reelected him, and there
by ended the civil war? Are men
created for the use Of parties, or par
ties created for the use of men?
Which is biggep:-God or creed? HUI
manity or political party? Speak up,
thou shallow ass of asses, and let us
hear thee bray, that thy dirty, corrupt
organization is bigger than God, coun-
try, liberty, progress and humanity.
Such fellows as thou art are curse to
their generation, for they teach men
to serve rather than to think; to be-
come vassals instead of freemen.
Yes. We support the Peoples Party
because it is better than the other or
ganizations. But show us a better
still and we will support that, be
proud Of the opportunity to do so;
proud that we have got courage,
manhood and brains to discriminate
between the agencies Of political &C
tion and select the best.
Go, poor creature; and boast that
you are tied to party, like battered
tin kettle to yellow dogs tail; clat-
tering along with whoop, through
the slush, mire and filth of the politi-
cal COW yard. 1t is something to be
proud Of. Isn't it.
Go; the difference between us is,
that you are the slave of others; we
think for ourself. You have no con-
science but such as the resolutions of
some packed caucus of ward politi-
clans, can afford you. We glory in the
fact that no party owns us. We sup
port it while it does good; when it
does evil we leave it. /. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
is, MINI, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1894.

are the out-crop of the great civil war;
wrecks Of a brutal era, cast up on the
f1ower-decked shores of peace. If
there had been no rebellion they
would have lived and died peaceful,
| honored farmers, on their $500 acres of
ancestral land. But they were sucked
| into the awful and blood-stained vor-
tex of the m@lstrom, and cast up at
Northfeld.
Cole Younger was born too late. II
ne had lived in 1865, in Normandy,
when William the Bastard, son of the
French mfllers' daughter, was collect
Ing his army of adventures, to invade
England, he would have joined them,
and probably risen to be an Earl or a
Duke; and his posterity, to-day,
might be among the blue bloods of
Albion, and sought in marriage by
| princes. Such are the chances of life.
There is one thing makes me feel
kindly towards the Youngers. When
| they were escaping, after the robbery
OF the Northfield bank, and the MUIR
der of the cashier by the James broth
ers, they made their way into the
woods back of MankatO. No one knew
they were in that vicinity; but a farm
er, hunting his cattle, stumbled on to
them, recognized them, and was made
prisoner. The question then arose,
what to do with him. The James
boys proposed to kill him, for if they
let him go he would bring the whole
| country upon them. Cole objected.
He refused to take the life of man
who had done them no harm, even for
his own safety. The others then pro-
posed to gag him and tie him to a
tree. Cole said this would be worse
than killing him outright, for he
might starve to death. Over this is
sue the gang quarreled and separated.
The James boys pushed west and es-
capped. the Youngers and their party
moved south and were finally killed or
captured. Before releasing his prison
er Cole swOre him not to tell of their
preSence;-the ungrateful fellow
whose life had been spared, hurried
back to town and reused the whole
country.
Now when you remember that the
Youngers were at that time out
laws, s,-with every mans
hand against them; and were fresh
from terrible scenes of bloodshed and
civil war. it showed a certain nobility
of nature to save the life of stranger
at the risk Of their own. And this
generosity should be remembered to
their credit now; for their is not one
man in ten thousand who, under the
same circumstances, would have been
equally magnanimous and generous. =
On my return to ST. Paul, met a
friend.
"Where have you been?" said he.
I'm Saltwater" l replied, "making
speech to the convicts." l added, 81
saw more rascals to the acre than you
could find anywhere else in the state
of Minnesota
Don't be too sure of that" he an
swered, "wait-until you see the Repub-
can State Convention, on July 1lth."
Iapologzed.
He referred, of course, to the demo-
cratic spectators in the galleries.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
This is Worse Than Striking.

The stockholders of the Pullman
company received quarterly
dividend of 2per cent on capitaliza-
tion of $39,OO0,O 900, which represents
enough water to float dozen ordi-
nary corporations. Six hundred thous-
and dollars earned within the last
three months! And wages cut to the
starvation limits in order to pay
dividends to millionaire stockholders
-Four thousand skilled American work.
ingmen out of employment because
they are unable to make living wages
for themselves and their families!
These facts do not monize.-Chica-
go Dispatch. :.
Who will say, in the presence of
hese.facts, that workingmen should
not combine to protect themselves
from degradation and starvation?
Either the workers must go up or
the whole world must 60 down. The
cause of labor is the cause OF civiliza-
tion. I'D.