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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-02-23
$25,s42,5ls 65
DISBURSEMENTS

Death Claims . . . $l,456 04S.O0
Mature and Discounted
Endowments $4,000
Cancelled and Surren-
dered Policies 526,3I3.9l
Distribution of Surplus 66S916 80
Total paid to Policy
Holders $2,9O6,7SS,21
Amount paid for Com
missions to Agents,
Salaries, Medical Fees
Advertising, Printing,
Stationery, ard all
other incidental
penses at the Home
Office and at Agencies 535,9I2.3l
Amount Paid tor accru-
ed interest on Invest
ments purchased dur
ing the year l4,9Sl.6 3,i5I ,654.B
Net Ledger Assets Dec.
81, 1893 22,3s4, s6i52
Market Value of Securi-
ties over Ledger Cot 39O,975.S4
Interest ana Rents
crued Dec. 81, 1898 Pol ,3i2.05
Net Premiums in Course
of Collection l76,930II Sl9,2!b on
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26

much about the north which was new
and strange to them 1t was about
nine o'clock before / found myself
alone on the veranda with the planter.
1.-The man you came here to find,' he
said, twas one of my dearest friends.
He has been estranged from me, from
everybody, for more than five years.
gather, from what you say, that it is as
long as that since you have heard from
him.
.'Rather longer"
81 recall incidents about him which
none but a friend would remember
Among other things, remember dis
tinctly his showing me your letter,
telling me about your father and your
self, and saying that you were a fine
fellow; that he should have you down
here some day and make planter of
you. But 1 fancy that you might as
well end all your dreams of his favor
right here"
l saw by the moonlight that his fine
face was thoughtful. Sorely disap-
pointed as / was by these tidings,
was burning to hear more. He pres
emily went on to explain himself.
All that is contained in chapter first
of this narrative thus heard for the
first time. 1t was told me, of course,
in different language, but all the de-
tails were given. I listened with
breathless interest. When the planter
had finished that account, he paused,
and seemed for the moment reluctant
to proceed.
But what eagerly asked, ''was
the quarrel about? What was ME-. Cas-
tex's offense?''
His answer filed me with surprise.
ut is all mystery. I knew very
little about it, then. 1 know no more
now. 1 believe it would be better for
you not to inquire"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
THE TARIFF AND WAGES.
Facts Brought Out by Omcfal Statistics Of
Manufactures

Facts Brought Out by Ohhcial Statistics of
Manufactures
The census bulletin giving the statis-
tics of manufactures by states ex-
plodes completely the protection theory
that tariffs regulate wages.
If this contention was true wages in
the same industries ought to be sub
stantially uniform throughout the
states subject to the same tariff law
That this is not the case-the tables con-
clusively prove. The variation is
greater between different states of our
union than it is between the average of
wages in this country and the average
in England.
1t is shown by this bulletin that the
mean average wages paid in the entire
country in all manufacturing indus.
tries except mining and quarrying, for
1890, was s4s4 per hand.
Among the states falling below this
average were these: Alabama, by
S11O; Georgia, SIT; South Carolina,
s217; Maine, s1S4; New Hampshire,
SlO1; Wisconsin, s92
Among the states exceeding this
average were Colorado. S246; Montana
$23S; Massachusetts,, $40; New York,
$65; Pennsylvania, IS; Wyoming, $3.50
The obvious lesson OF these figures
and of the rest of the table is that
wages depend upon the productivity of
the workmen, the demand for labor, the
efficiency of labor organizations and
the cost of living not upon a tariff law
which may permit but never constrains
protected employers to pay more than
the market rate tor wages
Wages in manufacturing industries
II
ers, and are higher in this country than
in Europe, because the workmen pro-
duce more-that is, are more intelli-
gent, have better machinery or work
longer hourS-or because there is q
greater demand for their labor or a
higher cost of living and a stronger
union of laborers to maintain their Just
demands
Intelligent workingmen know this
The census bulletins prove it--N. I.
World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26

since 1 saw HIM. / certainly never
want to see him again. He was a
wild, undutiful fellow, and in con-
tinual difficulty with his father.
When he was twenty he disappeared
1 presume that Mr.. Bostock knew
where he went; but he never men
toned him and nobody cared to know.
If there could be such thing as a
born gambler, should say that Conrad
Bostock was one. When but sixteen
lhe would go to Vicksburg and spend
days and nights there, in the lowest
resorts along the river. He never
seemed to me to stand in the least awe
of his father, but Mr.. Bostock always
appeared uneasy when he was about.
When he went away there was a rumor
that he received large sum of money
from his father upon condition that
he should never return. This may
have been mere rumor; l only know
that the people about here never did
see him again, and that 1, knowing as
much as anybody of the family in those
days, never saw the least sign of af-
lection between father and SON.
To a person who had never seen
Pierce Bostock, all this would natural
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
Il(EllIgIEs lAkD
g s6ffoaE me War.
ssszs2EEsss5sssEsiEEsa eTax DIt
-.a0Ras &OAN@VlAs.
copyright. 1893. by 4 N Kellogg Newspaper Co.
CHAPTER vd.-CoNrINuED.

CHAPTER V1.-CoETINUED.
''Oh, yo' can't miss EN-. young maus-
sa! Great big house, bout three mile
back from e ribber; with great v'ran-
der al round"
''But how far-and what road?'
Its right smart ways. l specs as
much as five OR seventeen miles. Yo' go
up to de bluff road, an yo' follow him
down right smart; den yo' branches off
at de Muddy Corners; after awhile yo
turns to de right, an den go ares de
tccgi o, yo'll find him.
Not much encouraged by this rather
cloudy direction, but glad to find
somebody who had some faith in the
existence of the object of my search, l
took nights rest. The morning found
me early astir. I succeeded in hiring
mule, being assured that there was
nS other mode of carriage practicable,
and after breakfast 1 mounted and
pushed out on my quest.
The reader who has ever tried to
make his way over the roads of the
south of thirty years ago, to say moth
ing of later day, and to gain infor-
nation as he progressed about dis
tances and localities, will not be sur
prised to learn that I consumed the
whole of that long June day in finding
the plantation of my search. Doubts,
ignorance, and very little positive in
formation, were surprisingly mingled.
Had not the patience of my mule been
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.

-Gov. Mckinley is now attribut-
ing all the evils of the country to fear
of tariff reform Last summer he made
several speeches proclaiming that the
democrats were responsible for those
evils because of their delay in assem-
bling in extra congressional session
and repeating the Sherman act Louis
vile Courier-Journal
Gen. Green r. Raum assures ms
that President Harrison has had enough
of Office holding. and that he will not
be candidate for denomination in
1896. Green B. knows some things, for
he was pension commissioner under
Harrison, and is believed to be on in
innate terms with the ex-president-
Iowa State Register (Rep.).
According to the Tribune ''the
democratic party has to learn that il
cannot draw a large revenue from a
people by impoverishing them" The
party learned that it could
impoverish q people by drawing a large
revenue from them The sufferings of
the country from Mckinley taxes and
billion dollar appropriations led to the
repu blican overthrow. The democratic
party is not afraid of impoverishing
the people BY reducing their taxes
n. Y. World
The tariff organs have overshot
the mark In their eagerness to de-
molish the Wilson bill they have ex-
ploded mines under the Mckinley bill
They have succeeded in demonstrating
the tyranny and iniquity of the sugar
trust and the very words that they
have used in denouncing that organi-
zation can be applied and are being ap-
piled by intelligent republicans to the
steel rail trust, the wall paper trust. the
glass trust and other Mckinley
benefciaries- The protection newspa-
pers have been pouring shot and shell
into their own camp and they are too
stupid and too ignorant to realize the
damage they are doing to St Mckinley
and his disciples Chicago Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
IeNoRANce OF M.klNLEY.
Shallow Sophistrles of the Apostle of
Protection

Shallow Sophistries of the Apostle of
Protection
Gov. McKinley's Minneapolis speech
was a labored attempt to prove that il
a ten or twenty per cent tariff in the
early part of the century was good
thing for the country, one that ranges
from sixty to eighty per cent. is abso-
lutely necessary for our existence to-
day. Tariffs which upon an average
did not impose duties of more than q
quarter of the percentage levied under
the Mckinley bill were held up as fine
examples of protectionism, while the
Wilson bill, comparatively high pro-
tective measure, was denounced as free
trade.
1t is by such claptrap as this that
Mckinley hopes to win the presidency
in 1896. The preposterous argument is
paraded that import duties should in
crease with the advance of civilization
until they become nearly if not entirely
prohibitory. Once give a man the
right to rob his neighbors of five per
cent OF their earnings and 1t is only
question of time when he will take
everything, except bare and miser-
able living for his victims That has
been the history of all legalized rob
berry and it is the record of protective
tariffs in the United States.
The old pretext for protection" was
that infant or feeble industries ought
to be encouraged by the government
Mckinley idea is that all American
industries are perpetual infants and
can only exist by the constant con-
tributions of consumers. So impotent
and helpless are American manufactur-
ers. according to republican opinion,
that. even after thirty years of the
pap-feeding policy, the mere promise
by democrats to cut off part of their
unearned rations precipitates panic
That is protectionist doctrine in 1894
as preached by its chief opponents and
proclaimed as patriotic" and 'Ameri-
cam
The next republican candidate for
the presidency thus explains his belief
on the question of taxation: we must
either tax ourselves and our property,
our lands and our investments, or we
must tax the products of other nations
seeking a market here"
The idea sought to be conveyed here
to his ignorant and partisan hearers
was that imported goods belonged to
foreigners and that taxes levied on
them would be paid by people in
Europe. As goods only come here
when bought by some one in this coun-
try, all tariff taxes fall. not upon for
eigners, but first upon our own impor-
tiers and by them transferred to Amer
lear consumers.
McKiniey's gross ignorance of rudi-
mentary political economy ought to
consign him to political oblivion, if his
attorneyship for the great American
tariff thieves has not brought him such
fate already. Chicago Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
woMAN's PROTECTIVE LEAGUE

Its Purpose Is to Afford Protection to
Helpless WOmRnhoOd in Every Walk Of
Life.
WASHINGTON, April 1S-It is known
that a new secret organization of ladies
has been working against Col Breckin-
ridge 1t was given the name OF the
silent jury" and. to avoid publicity,
every member was pledged to secrecy.
The society grew so rapidly that the
name of the silent Jury" suggested
by the original twelve, and their pledge
of secrecy was given up. and that of
the Woman's Protective league adopted.
The avOwed purpose of the society, as
now constituted, is to afford protection
to helpless womanhood in every walk
of life When officers are chosen their
names will be. made public, and com
plants from women of in Justice, from
whatever source, viii be investigated,
and not only moral influence. but more
substantial aid, will be forthcoming in
every good cause. The league, as now
constituted, comprises women from
every section of the United States,
north, south, east aad west, and there
are representatives of nineteen differ
ent churches among the members
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
Pusuc LANDS.
Senator Carey's Bill for the Reservation
SaRe and Settlements OF Arid Lands Vail
dating Oklahoma Claims

Senator Carey's Bill for the Reservation
sale and Settlements OF Arid Lands Vail
dating Oklahoma Claims
WASHINGTON. April Ex-senator Ca
rey's bill for the reservation, sale and
settlement of arid lands has been so
amended as to include such lands in
Kansas and Oklahoma The bill is the
one which allows 1000. 900 acres sur
veyed public arid lands in each of the
states in which the desert land law of
the United States is aPplicab bic, upon
which shall be expended the sum of 50
per acre in irrigation and such other
works intended for the reclamation of
such lands
Any state accepting the conditions
of this act is authorized to regulate the
manner of reclamations, and as rapidly
as the state furnishes proof of reclaim
ations. patents shall be issued to it or
its assigns for the lands so reclaimed;
provided, that the state shall not dis
pose of more than 100 acres to any one
person, and the profits derived from
the sale of said lands shall be held as a
fund toad in the reclamation, and the
surplus, If any, devoted to retaining
other lands in the same state
All lands, exclusive of timber and
mineral lands, which will not without
irrigation produce some agricultural
crop, shall be deemed arid lands The
affidavit of two or more credible wit
nesses to this fact is sufficient, and
where there is no adverse claimant the
simple decision of the register and re-
ceiver of the land office as to which
lands are arid will be deemed sufficient.
This act shall not be deemed as in any
way leasing the lands to any OF the
states, or for use except for reclama-
ton. The act shall apply to Montana
and Kansas and to any states formed
out of Utah, New Mexico. Oklahoma
and Arizona, when admitted as states
The regulations for carrying out the
provisions of the act shall be pre-
scribed by the secretary of the inte-
rior.
TO VALIDATE CLAIMS.
WASHINGTON. April Ex-senator Ca
rev has introduced a joint resolution
in the interest of certain settlers in
Oklahoma and to validate their home
stead claims The act of March ., 1889,
opening the Oklahoma strip has been
construed by the secretary of the in
terror to disbar as illegal claimants all
persons who in preparing to make a
run for homestead locations crossed
any portion of the reserved territory
and took up a position on the boundary.
They are declared under present de-
partment rulings to have been sooners.
Senator Carey's resolution declares it
was not the intent of congress to dis
qualify those who travelled through
the territory on the public highways
in preparing to make the race The
object of the said proviso is declared to
be only to clear the territory of set
tiers until it should be opened, and to
require them all to start from the out
side of the territory at the same time
in their search for land.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
RIOT AT DETROIT.
A Serious Disturbance Results from n Dis
agreement to the Manner of Paying
for Work.

A Serious Disturbance Results from Dis
agreement as to the Manner of Paying
for Work.
DETROIT, Mich, April I9.-Wayne
county's sheriff lies in precarious con-
dition to-day, his body lacerated by
the shovels of enraged rioters. Two
Polish laborers are dead and the num-
Der injured is seventeen. These I'M
fortunate conditions are the result of
conflict which occurred at noon yester-
day between some 400 Poles and Sheriff
Collins and a number of his deputies.
The riot was brought about by differ
ences of opinion over wages to be paid
laborers by the city water commission
ers for digging trenches for pipe laying
in Crosse Pointe township. just east of
the city limits. The commissioners de-
cided to pay by the cubic yard, but for
the past day or two 800 Poles had hung
about the vicinity, declaring they
would neither work nor allow others
to unless paid 81 50 per day.
No outbreak was anticipated, but as
a precaution Sheriff Collins and five
deputies went to the scene to protect
those who wished to work. Work pro-
gressed on a small scale during the
morning, but Engineer Williams be-
coming alarmed at the aspect of things
consulted some of the commissioners
before noon. and was instructed to quit
work for the time being Before he re-
turned, however, rioting began. Sheriff
Collins and Deputy Steyskal, after
telephoning for reinforcements began
to address the mob, to pacify them
One of the Poles began an opposition
harangue- The crowd thereupon started
to annihilate the officers and the
handful of laborers at work
At the advance the officers drew re-
volvers and fired over the strikers
heads, but the mob came on and the
next volley was discharged into the
crowd Then the officers retreated
slowly. firing as they went. Still the
mob followed, one man dealing the
sheriff vicious blow on the head with
his shovel The other officers, the
workers and reporter escaped, all be-
ing more or less pounded with shovels-
But the helpless sheriff was brutality
attacked. The mob then scattered,
leaving the sheriff unconscious on the
field Two of the Poles were killed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
pRorEcrloN.s cRlMEs.
AcKinleyism the Curse OF Honest Amer
lean Labor.

&-CAAAAAAcs Ash-k NHe Cuf9S OK nO13et amer
lean Labor.
There is a repetition of history in the
story of riot and bloodshed that comes
from the coke regions of Pennsylvania
Its proportions are less formidable than
those of the uprising at Homestead, in
the Hooking Valley and in the coal re-
gions of Tennessee; but it springs from
the same causes and is illustrative of
the same evils It is not a mere coin
cidence that all these deplorable affairs
occur in sections. of the country where
the privileges of protection are great
est and the support of McKinleyism is
strongest They are among the legiti-
mate fruits of that nefarious system;
inseparable from its active existence.
Where it processes to operate for the
good of the poor nottingham" and is
main tanned especially for the ameiiora-
ton of his condition. is where he suf-
fers most from grinding poverty and
all the train of evils that troop in its
wake.
McKinleyism has been the curse of
honest American labor. Duty has been
exacted upon every imported arti-
Gle entering into our manufactured
products except the most important
one of labor. That has passed our
ports free. 1t has come in cargoes at
the expense and solicitation of protect
ed American capital The lowest and
cheapest order OF pauper European
labor has been imported to operate our
mines and do the rougher work of our
furnaces, coke ovens and other infant
industries Without sympathy for our
institutions, ignorant, brutal and con-
tent with far less than will meet the
requirements of a self-respecting work
man in our own country, these free i'm
portations have worked for far less
than a good man should receive and
the protected barons well afford to pay.
Cheap labor and swollen profits
taken from the consumers under the
special privileges of protection, stimu-
lated production beyond the demands
of a restricted market, concep trated
more labor at the centers of production
than could be maintained in employ
ment, the inevitable result appearing in
enforced idleness of many and less than
a living scale of wages for the rest. This
has been the history of the great
strikes in this country and will contin-
ne to be up til our tariff laws are made
for the entire nation and not for the
favored few, whose enormous wealth
thrives upon the legislation which it is
enabled to secure.
Strikes were comparatively unknown
before the high protective system was
put into effect by the republican party.
Up to that time the wealth of the peo-
pie was more equitably distributed, in
dividual effort was not crushed out by
the ruthless power of combination, and
the man who was willing to work was
assured of the comforts which a coun-
try like this should afford to all its
citizens. The deplorable change has
been wrought by misguided tariff legis-
latiou, and the happier conditions thus
sacrificed will be restored by wiping
out the laws responsible for Mckinley
ism.-Detroit Free Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
Firemen killed by Electric Wires.

ST. LOUIS, April 1.-Two fremen of
the St Louis department lost their
lives yesterday and one was badly in
jured as a result of the overhead wire
nuisance Responding to an alarm for
a burning stable, at Dickson and Lef-
fngwen avenues, the two men became
entangled in wires, which, melted by
the heat of the flames, had parted and
fallen to the ground The men stepped
on them while directing a stream
William Cannon was killed and Tom
Dolan. the old ball player and former
catcher for the St Louis Browns, was
fatally hurt Ben Shively was badly
burned
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-04-26
NATIONAL GRAIN CONGRESS.
Meeting at Wichita Effects q Permanent
Organization.


Organization
WICHITA, Kan, April 16-The ma
tional grain congress which opened
here yesterday is largely attended by
grain men from all over southern Kan
sas and Oklahoma, as well as BY dele
gates from South Carolina, Florida, Al
ALBANIA, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas,
Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa and Mime
sofa The meeting is a very harmo-
NOUS one, and the delegates are able
men in the commercial world The
New Orleans delegation is strong one
and they are whooping it up for the
Crescent city.
A permanent organization was et-
fected as follows: President ex-Mavor
G. W. Clement of Wichita; vice presi-
dents, s a Jones of Florida. H.sAus-
till of Alabama, j. z Hall of Louisi-
ana, Mr.. Grimes of Oklahoma. c oE
Potts of Kansas. George Schouler of
Nebraska. Col J. W. Virgins of Colo
RADIO, d. C. Imboden of Texas. ]. H
Anderson of Minnesota and David
Meyers of Iowa; secretaries. Col. West
of Alabama and A c. Jobes of Kansas:
treasurer, A w. Oliver of Kansas