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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27
Letter from NJ. A. Wilson.
Atwood, KAs., July II, 1894.

ATWOOD, KAs- July II, 1894.
J. W. MOrphy, Esq, Topeka, Kas.:
Ny DEAR SIR-I am in receipt of your
inquiry of recent date, asking my reasons
for leaving the republican and joining the
populist party. Will say, in taking this
step, do it believing that it is the right
thing to do. lam just as good repu6li-
can as ever, and honor and revere the
old republican party for innumerable
good measures and good laws passed by
them. But Of late years it seems to me
new and altogether different party, styl.
ing themselves republicans, have sprang
into existence, and by virtue of the money
power behind them, retain a miraculous
grip on the name republican. l am led
to believe, from their actions, that the
leaders in both old parties have combined
with the moneyed powers of the
earth, as against the common people,
and / believe it so strongly that
If Endorsed each and every plank in
the republican platforms, and only in
dorsed one plank in the populist plat
forms, would be constrained to vote the
pop. ticket, for have not the least hope
of Congress composed of the two old
parties, or either Of them, ever again pass
ing good and wholesome measure that
will benefit the common people. /, how
ever, believe the masses of the republican
party mean right. But the masses are
the minority when it comes TO passing
laws. l am in favor of free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver, l6 to l. So were
our three republican congressman, last
winter. But what could they do, battling
against the powers.
Twas 1.-THE Minneapolis convention and
heard that platform discussed and adopted,
and the plank in it referring 10 the COIN
age of silver is only forerunnsr Of that
part OF that meaningless plank relating
to silver in the republican platform re-
Gently adopted at Topeka, which is sus-
cePtible Of any construction that would ct
alegislative enactment favoring the money
loaner. In short, / consider the Min
neapolis, Chicago and Topeka platforms
regarding the coinage Of silver very weak,
cowardly documents, framed expressly for
the purpose Of misleading the voter.
consider Sherman, Quay and others in
Congress the prime leaders In the repub-
lican ranks, and working hand in hand
with Grover Cleveland and those democrats
who believe are in harmony with the
Wall street element backed up by the
Bank Of England. The reason think
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27
Judge J. P. Hindman'S Letter

The following letter was written by
Judge j. P. Hindman, of Olathe, to the
Kansas City Star, and will explain itself:
Your issue of the 18th inst contained q
dispatch from 0lathe to the effect that
would be candidate before the populist
congressional convention, at Paola, and
containing the further statement, that
after the election of 1889 l became pro.
hibitionist but last year espoused the
cause of the populiSts, and made some
speeches during the campaign. The first
part of this statement is incorrect. In
1890, not only supported the republican
ticket, but advocated the principles Of the
party as set out in the state platform
Now, with tens of thousands of the citi-
zens of Kansas who were identified with
the republican party four years ago, am
identified with the populist party. If
asked why We have changed our political
principles, we reply we have not changed
We are to-day advocating the same pOlit,
ical measures, the same legislation, which.
as republicans, we favored four years ago,
But the so-called republican party of
Kansas has abandoned every principle set
out in its former platforms. Four years
ago the state platform demanded the
free coinage of silver. The present plat
form is simply rehash of the views of
John Sherman and President Cleveland.
-Four years ago Kansas republicans advo-
Gated reduction of tariff duties. This
year the platform is, "We adhere to the
republican doctrine of protection" In
1880 the party boldly advocated many
measures of vital interest to the people of
Kansas. To-day it is as silent as the
grave upon every living issue before our
people, and its only reference to state
legislation is this: ave favor national
and state legislation for the encourage
ment of irrigation"
The platform points to the past, but
undertakes nothing for the present
and promises nothing for the future.
There was a time when the republican
party of Kansas boldly met every public
question and was the advocate of every
political reform. To-day it is a party
without voice upon the great and living
issues confronting the people of our
state. Its platform, in the language of
ex-senator ingalls,, "is all things to all
men," And this was the avowed design
OF obtaining possession of the state off.
ces. There are doubtless many who can
still be held in the party ranks under
these conditions, but thousands of the
Oldest and truest of Kansas republicans
have forsaken the party and will never
return. Up. Hrxnx,x
OLATHR KAs June IA 1904
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27
advocates Of golu monometallism and in

advocates VI golu monometsllism and in
tctively mourn.
The ease with which Grover Cleveland
construed the life out of the national dem.
ocratic platform convinced me that the
only hope for true bimetallism lay in the
election of bimetallists to office, and be-
fore the republican convention was held
had firmly resolve to vote for no man fol
any legislative Office who was opposed to
the free coinage of silver.
In my opinion, John Sherman is no
hrmer advocate of gold monometallism
than is the republican candidate for con-
gresham at large; and although he may
declare himself thousand TIMES in favor
OF bimetallism, his voice and vote, il
elected, WOuld be given for a single, gold
standard.
Bimetallism is term of recent origin.
Webster defines bimetallism as the legal
lied use of two metals in the currency of
country at fixed relative value. Both
the definition and derivation of the term
forbid its use to designate any arrange
ment whereby one metal is favored at the
expense of the other.
No man is bimetallist who does not
favor the legalized use of both metals
without determination.
No one could claim to be trimetallist
because he believed in the use of copper
pennies in connection with gold and sill.
yer. he is no bimetallist who opposes
the coinage of silver on equal terms with
gold.
Blue belongs to the class who assured
Us that the repeal of the Sherman law
would be followed by wave of unexam-
pied prosperity. So far as 1 have heard,
Kansas has not been drenched with it.
These men now explain that the pres
ent depression is due to the fear of in
furious tariff legislation. ALI present
indications denote either no tariff legisla-
ton or immaterial reductions.
So long as present financial conditions
remain, prosperity will continue to be a
will-O'-the wisp.
The lack of confidence which prevents
investments is justified by the continued
falling of prices. This depression will not
cease until the volume of currency in cir
culation becomes adequate to the business
demands.
II all of the silver mined in the whole
world for the next 10 years should be
coined and added to the circulation of the
United States, we would not have as large
circulation, per capita, as that demanded
by the Pennsylvania republican state con-
vention. .l...... ...
The California republican state conven-
ton declared unequivOcally for the free
coinage Of silver at the present ratio. Will
Kansas elect q congressman who opposes
the rehabilitation of silver? / hope that
no mrn who is sincere friend of Kansas
will permit himself to be deceived in this
campaign. ........
Ishall give your Communication as wide
circulation as / can. wish it could reach
every republican in Kansas, and hope
you will miss no opportunity from now
until the polls close on election day to
secure vote for free silver.
Yours truly, THos. L. BOND.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27

Full legal-tendsr money is the end Of
the law. II Is all-suficient and needs no
savior but the producers OF wealth, Who
will gladly redeem 1t in every article Of
necessity, comfort and luxury created By
human labor and skill Give us plenty OF
this kind of money. It is infinitely sups-
rior to any scheme of credit which 70
quires the people to belisre that the banks
can loan out their deposits, and st thu
same time keep them on hand to meet
their obligations on demand. Kissovrj
World.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27

A leading foreign banker says, accord
ing TO the Boston Bureau, that there is q
disposition to belittle the importance Of
the international interest account. His
records, extending over a series of years,
show that fully $ll0,O0O,OOO is sent
abroad each year on foreign holdings of
American securities. To this should be
added from s50,0OO,0OO TO s6O,OO0,oO0
expended BY American travellers abroad,
or BY the American oolonists in European
cities. "There il also an item Of $40.
100000 or s50,00o,000 for freights; 90
that over 100000 have been RENTED
each year from this country on what
may be properly classed as interest 90
counts. Inter Ocean.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27

The plutocrsts are making their bed.
The thcrns they are laying down for the
poor and oppressed viii pierce their own
fesh.-Adrocdte, Buffalo, NY.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27

Additional frauds discovered in the
Carnegie steel contract. 1t appears to be
q steel contract for stealing. -Brockton
Diamond.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27
REoLAIMIsG TIE LAND.

The land, including all the natural
sources of wealth, is the heritage of the
people, and should not be monopolizsd
for speculative purposes, and alien own
ership of land should be prohibited.
All land now held by railroads and other
corporations in excess Of their actual
needs, and all lands now owned by aliens,
should be reclaimed by the government
and held for actual settlers only.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-07-27

Transportation being a means OF e1-
change and public necessity, the gov
eminent should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
post-ofice system, being necessity for
the transmission of news, should be owned
and operated by the government, in the
interest of the people.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28
INSECT VISION.

Two theories of insect vision are ex-
tant-the older one that each lens forms
separate eye, and the more recent one
that insects see as in mosaic, each
lens forming part of the total picture.
The old view is supported by the ex-
pertinent of placing a thin slice of an
eye under the microscope, when the
image of any object reflected from the
mirror is seen to be transmitted through
each of the hexagonal lenses, says the
Northern British Advertiser. A
rough model of an insects eye may
be made by taking glass shade of the
form of half-sphere, say about six
teen inches in diameter. Place the
eye at the center of the globe and paint
on its surface the picture of the outer
world as seen through it. If this paint
ing be divided into squares by lines
scratched at intervals of one-eighth
inch, there will be $4,000 of them, and
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28

sections where wood is scarce, the
stalks and shells are used as fuel, which
answers as a good substitute. The
ash from the suntlower contains a
large per cent. of potassium. Expert
ments have proven that 1000 lbs of
dried stalks yields 81 lbs of ash and
from 1000 lbs. of ash $50 lbs. of
the best potassium is obtained. Ac-
cording to the analysis of chemists, the
ash of the sunfower contains about 80
per cent. of potassium, and it is also
claimed by these scientists that, if the
soil is very rich, the plant will take up
90 per cent. of potassium. The ashes
are sold to soap makers. From the
fiber. of the stalk is manufactured the
finest varieties of writing paper, which
bear close resemblance in color and
texture to parchment.-John Trimble,
Secretary National Grange.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28
GOOD READING.

The taste for good reading can be
cultivated before child is out of baby
hood. Even the songs and the stories
of the nursery will help to determine
what his literary likings shall be.
The careful selection of books for the
young, and a watchful supervision
over their reading matter, cannot be
too earnestly impressed upon parents
and teachers Books are, to the young,
either "savour of life unto life or
death unto DEATH" contaminating or
purifying, weakening or strengthening
the mind of the reader
The primary aim of the public school
system is to make good workers; it
should be to make good thinkers, for
work we'll thought out or planned is
said to be half done. To accomplish
this, the young and ardent minds
should be brought into close and famil-
lar mental contact with the thoughts
and works of such as stand out before
the world as representative types of
true manhood.
The ideal man is already imaged in
the mind of the young. 1t is his birth
right, and 'twere pity to rob him of
it, or exchange it for the traditional
mess of pottage. But he is handi-
capped from the start by his environ
ments, and condemned to go through
the ''old, centuries DID," treadmill of
much that were better obliterated from
the face of the earth, benefting it and
humanity at once.
A large per cent. of what children
learn will pass away as cares of life
come upon them; but the taste for pure
reading, when acquired, unfolds and
brings to maturity the inborn love of
the true and pure, and will never pass
away; it will be of use every day and
almost every hour; they will find it
refuge and solace in the time of adver-
sity, and be happy when others are sad;
it will spread from the parents to the
third and fourth generations. The
ideal becomes personified, the world
receives stimulating impulse in the
right direction, of inestimable value
to the race, and never loses its power
of doing good.-Boston Budget
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28
NOW TO BUSINESS.

Confdecne is the word now-confi-
dence, energy, enterprise! The bad,
dull times are over. Prosperity is
coming back by leaps and bounds;
throw the doors wide open for it.
Soon the factory chimneys will be
smoking, trade humming, money
briskly circulating and the country
beginning to feel like itself again.
Prudence and conservatism were neces-
sary while the uncertainty lasted; they
should not be disregarded now. But
plans and undertakings that would have
been imprudent before Tuesday of this
week are now perfectly warranted by
the changed circumstances and pros
poets. There is a time for halting and
time for going ahead. This is the
time to go ahead. Courant.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28
THE EFFECT OF TROUBLE.

"Sufferings make or mar one s charac-
ter. Troubles make men either love or
hate God. Grief will turn them into
either optimists or pessimists in pro-
portion as they see an economy, min
istration i'll suffering. Pain will
sweeten or sour their disposition in
proportion as they see service in it.
Sorrow may make men melancholy
and morose; and it may give them
chastened joy, a refined happiness.
We can only justify suffering in that
we see in it a purpose, mission, neces-
sary and beneficial. We are tried in
the crucible of affliction, by the acid of
disappointments, by the fires of trouble,
that we may arise from that test gen
uine, sound, purified. We pass through
the darkness that, as Moore well says,
we may display worlds of light never
seen by day. We live through a hard
winter in the certainty of coming
spring. Rabbi j. Leonard Levy.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28

the proportions are those found in the
eye of dragon fly.
If now, instead of the details of tho
picture ON each square. a dab of color
be placed ON it corresponding to the
general tone, the effect of the whole
will pretty nearly agree with that of
the original painting. 1t is probably
this indistinct vision that insects
actually possess. Mathematieally it
may be shown that to obtain anything
like such perfect vision as human be-
ings enjoy an eye constructed on the
compound type would have to be of
most impracticable size. In our eyes
the rays of light passing through
single lens forms an image ON the con-
cave retina. The retina is built up of
the sensitive terminations of the optic
nerve, forming kind of tesselated
pavement with 36,000,000 squares to
the square inch. If our lens were of
perfect shape and the pupil wide
enough, the size of things which might
be seen as distinct objects would be
limited by the distance of tho nerve
endings in the retina from one an
other. In order that two points may
appear separate to the eye they must
subtend an angle of about one minute
of arc; that is, for instance. that fine
lines ruled twentieth of an inch
apart can be made out to be separate at
a distance of four yards. Beyond this
the whole surface has uniform gray
tint
Calculations clearly show that insects
cannot sec nearly as well MS this. and
their behavior to distant objects favors
this opinion. But their eyes have this
advantage-namely, that there is prac-
tically no limit to the nearness of OBJ
jects they can examine. The details of
their own antennB probably appear
palmer to themselves than to us, but
objects at the distance of foot appear
to them with about the same minute
ness of detail as would be attained if
they were made of rather coarse wool
work. Beyond this the shades of light
and dark are evident to them, but
outlines must be blurred and lost.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28
PRICES.

Brass in 1880 was $14 per ton.
A cloak, A d. ~, cost 60 cents.
Paper in 1431 was 20 cents quire.
In the Tenth century razors cost 30
cents.
Charlemagne paid 81 for pair of
shoes.
In Rome. B. G. 6, roses were cent
a dozen.
In 1907 horseshoe in England cost
ii cents.
In 1875 salt cost in France, 80. 80
a bushel.
A bed in a Greek inn in A. D., 327,
cost cents.
A Greek hat in the time of Pericles
cost 10 cents.
In 1917 cannon was made at Paris
that cost $742.
In 1864 pair of shoes made in Eng
land cost 20 cents.
Mary, Queen of SCOTS, once paid
So, 600 fol a dress.
In 1894 gunpowder sold for Ga
per hundred weight.
In 1861 apples in Germany were
worth 81 thousand.
In 1920 a milch COW sold in England
for So; an OK for $40.
A house of ten rooms in Pompeii cost
the builder nearly $5,0
A bed supper and breakfast in Paris
in 1862 cost about 30 cents.
In Corinth, about the time of Christ,
twenty figs brought 2 cents.
In 1542 Italian oranges were sold i'll
Rome for 20 cents a thousand.
In 1874 we'll written bible was
sold for 80 marks, about $40.
Poppaea, Nero's wife, paid 4 cents a
quart for asses milk to bathe in.
Among the bills of Marie Antoinette
is one of $500 for a pair of garters.
In China ordinary day board can be
had for Chinaman at about 3 cents.
In 1880 apples sold in Massachusetts,
for 20 cents a bushel; in 1870 they were
81.
The price of days board in Athens,
b. G. 400, was cents, or about $1.2O
a month.
The first Negroes brought to Virginia
were sold at various prices, from e4O
to $50 each.
During the years Immediately pre-
ceding the Civil war, $1,000 was a COM
mon price for a healthy young negro
man.
During the reign of Richard Ii wood
for burning cost in London 30 cents a
load; load was what could be carried
by horse.
The young women sent out as wives
for the Virginia colonists i'll 1920
brought from 1870 to 100 pounds of to-
bacco apiece, the tobacco being worth
3 shillings pound.
According to the accounts found III
the library of Nebuchadnezer, wheat
cost about 10 cents of our money q
bushel, and wine IL cents a cup
full" about two quarts.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28
Wrong Diagnosis-Strawbel

A Wrong Diagnosis-Strawber-
Doctor, l haven't been able to keep any
thing ON my stomach for week. DIR.
Probe-System all run down, ehp What
you need is sea voyage. Strawber
(turning paler)-A sea voyage? Great
heavens! only arrived from Europe
this morning.-N. Y. Sun.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28

The English income tax has been
changed eighteen times since 1S42,
varying from pence to the pound to
16 pence.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-28

When a woman refuses to turn
around in church to look at anothe
woman's bonnet, it is sure sign that
she has religion. n.-Philadelphia Record.
The evening world., 1894-10-12
FIRST RACE.

Maid Marian, Hugh Penny and Black
furIongs. There Hugh Penny drew away
and won easily bv two and a half lengths
from Maid Marian, who was two lengths
Mutueis paid: Straight $3.50; place,
$S.55; third, $5.15. Maid Marian paid:
Place, S5.55; third. $5.15. Black Hawk
paid $3.50. third.
90. SECOND RACE.
The evening world., 1894-10-12
CLUBS NOT TRUMpS.
Police Attack on Cloakmaksrs to
Be Investigated.
Capt. Grant Says No Unnecessary
Violence Was Used.
Two Strikers Are Fined for Threat
enlnB IA Woman.

Norris Bonner. of ~ clinton street
and Max Dewitsky, of ~ Essex street.
pickets for the striking cloakmakers,
proprietor of the sweat shop at s2 Di-
vision street. for admission to the
premises this afternoon to see n any
union hands were at work. When she
refused she says that they threatened
TO break in her door and do her bodily
harm. This created considerable eX-
element and a policeman was called,
and on Mrs. Adler's complaint he ar
rested the TWO pickets and also Will
lam llammcrsiough.t twenty two years
old. of W Norfolk street.
AT Essex Market Court Hammers
llorgh was discharged and Domer and
Dtwitskey were fined " each.
Joseph Sugarmar, "A picket was ar
raigned on the charge of entering the
shop of Samuel herman, loo Division
street and intimidating the workmen.
Sugarman was discharged.
samuel Cohen, cloakmaker, OF %
Sunolk street, showed the strikers COM
mittees. at 45 Franklin street, a bad
wound In the right wrist this after
snop of Nathan Schlissel, at az Canal
street, says that when he went up stairs
TO see II any mer were at work, Schlis-
sors, and inflicted the wound. Jacob Sill
versteln. OF 2l4 Madison street said he
witnessed the assault. 1t Is said that
rest Schlissel Cohen went to law
yers office for the purpose of having
Schlissel arrested upon a warrant.
Supt. Byrnes this morning ordered In
Spector Williams to make an Immediate
investigation INFO the alleged clubbing
OF striking cloakmakers by Capt. Don
aid Grant and policemen OF the Madison
street station.
At Police Headquarters this morning
Capt Grant denied that any unneces-
sary violence had been used, or that he
himself had used his club upon any Of
Essex Market Police Court was crowd
ed this morning with striking cloak
makers and friends OF the three men
who were arrested last evening In Rut-
gers Square.
Justice Ryan was on the bench.
Lawyer Henry J. Goldschmldt appeared
Of Policemen Mccarthy and Shea, OF the
Madison street station.
Abraham Rabinowlch, a young sales.
man. living at 4s Canal street, and not
you are charged by Policeman. Nc.
Garthy with resisting arrest" said the
| NO" was the answer. II was stand.
ing on the stoop of my fathers house at
a Canal street when ! saw this police.
old man with his club. / was leading
the injured maj to drug store, when
Mccarthy drove me back, holding his
club as II about to strike me with It.
II said Don't strike me: l will take
bed me by the coat collar and roughly
dragged me to the station house"
Policeman Mccarthy denied Rabino-
wich's statement in toto, and said the
young man had interfered with him in
the discharge OF his duty.
II have known this policeman for TWEEN.
ty years" SAID Justice Ryan, land
know him to be truthful. Rabinowich,
you are fined S."
Joseph Weisscoop, twenty-one years
old, OF No. 1875 Suffolk street. charged
Shea and resisting arrest. and Samuel
Schneiderman. thirty-four years old, OF
l63 Attorney street. also charged with
resisting arrest, were discharged.