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The advocate., 1894-08-08

capital can be invested in monopolies II
will be scarce and dear FOX the user in
legitimate production. Were the money
volume doubled or qusdrupled, no new
wealth would be created, and no new
avenues Of production opened to the un-
employed, nor homes given the home
less. Were government to loan money
TO all having good security to offer the
only effect would be q wild sat-
urnaliR Of speculation followed by
the inevitable collapse, in which the
rich would get very much richer and the
poor very much poorer. The relation Of
money to wealth is precisely that Of
poker chips to the stakes being played
fora mere counter-it records acquisi-
tions, but does not make them. What
the poor and middle-clRsses need is not
q counter Of wealth, but wealth itself;
not more money in some other mans
safe, but Q chance to make money (ac.
quire wealthy themselves. This is pos
sible only through soCislizing of all
monopolies, and thereby relieving pro-
duotion Of ell the tolls and taxes which
now rob it.
Brother Allen asks: "WhRt will the
producer, other than the first, care
about an interest in land? This quea-
tion is answered by the elections now
being enforced at Pullman; by the whole
sale eviCtions at Homestead after the
strike, and Of the coke burners now, and
by the 10000 yearly average Of svictlons
from rented homes to the street in New
York city and q scarcely less number in
Chicago. Let him come even to Law
renee and investigate and he will find
from ons-thlrd to ons-half Of the sCanty
wages Of the poor is paid for land rent,
one acre in the city renting for more
than a good farm.
A Lawrence merchant recently told
me that two-thirds his net profits 60 to
his landlord, and this rent Brother Allen
is helping to pay when he trades at
that store, and he pays monopoly rent
when he buys coal or iron, ships stock
or grain, or buys anything that has
come from large city.
He asks: "Why tax the land and let
products 90 untsxedH" Because land is
q public or monopoly value, not a pro-
duct Of labor, and to tax products is to
tax labor, and to tax land is to free
labor. But have already exceeded my
space. w. Ell. I. wakefield.
The advocate., 1894-08-08

Another reason is that boards Of trade
have more or less influence on the price
Of grain, and their rules and regulations
are such as to place the seller Of futures
on the vantage ground over the buyers,
and by 30 doing they create q shear
crowd" who though they toll not,
neither produce q bushel, TO add TO the
worlds food supply, yet skilled in spsCu-
lation and backed by millions Of money,
they stand ready to sell on every bulge
in prices, until they perfectly drown the
market. These conditions with some
others give us low markets. Then many
farmers have and see around them an
abundant crop, and little demand, with
dull prospects ROe any better, Paraded
before them until they become despOnd-
emit, the more so when they have no suit
able place to save their grain, and cam
not think what they can do with it better
than to sell for what they can get.
Then what is often worse Of all, q
pressing nesd for money, which they
have stayed OF in every conceivable way
in expectation OF getting it out of this
very wheat crop, in many cases the frat
material source OF income they have had
Eor long time. And frequently credit
ors and needs clRmOring for which shall
get the lions share OF it. This ia what
makes men sell, and not remunerativo
prices. The writer "h&s been right
there" for years, as o Nebraska farmer,
and knows he speaks truly.
Is there any remedyP There ought to
be. Let us see. In the first place, there
ought not to be q single bushsl thrown
onto this demorRlized market that the
producer could make other use OF, and
get along without selling. Then every
accessible avenue through which to dis
pose Of it ought to be carefully sought
The high value Of wheat when fed to
stock has long been known, and should
be Carefurly tested and reported, and ell
low grades at least, ought to be fed to
stock, and best grades taken care Of and
sold only when 1t would bring q fair
price. Then this time would be much
nearer US than most men are aware Of.
Not sixty days ago, the speculative
trade made things look right here at the
head Of the market, just like We were
sure to see 20 cents to 81 Q bushel for
wheat right away, yet now we have but
little over so cents. Just q year ago
now, in the worst kind Of a panic, cash
wheat here reached 54}s cents while
now it is about 81 cents, and over mil
lions less Of visible supply now than
then. The crop Of Kansas, which has
been talked Of as 100 million bushels,
will amount to about IS million bushels.
NebraskR's g crop is far below an average.
South Dakota has considerable damage
from hot winds. The last government
report put the spring wheat crop at only |
SO per cent. Of a crop. Immense crop
damage to corn is constantly received
here now, so that yesterday May corn
shot up 30 cents in less than three
hours, though it did lot fully hold. And
to-day, after change, calls on May corn
sold cents above the closing prices for |
corn. Mr.. Editor, / write this for what
it is worth, not wishing TO influence
anyone to hold his wheat TO his own
hurt But feel sure that wheat. grow
ers are now losing their opportunity BY |
forcing their crops onto glutted and
hearish market, when, IL we'll posted and |
The advocate., 1894-08-08

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The advocate., 1894-08-08
Progressive Indiana.

party is moving onward and upward in
Indiana The great strike has opened
the eyes OF the people, who are fl0Cking
to the POpulists. Populist conventions
over the state are large and enthusiastic
and speakers everywhere are greeted by
audiences Of sober, thoughtful and earn
est men and women eager to hear the
truth. The recent miners convention
indorsed the platform OF the PeoplS's
party, and urged every loyal miner to
rAtify this action at the ballot box.
In Q speech ct his home in ToEre
HSuts on Sunday, July %, President
Dsbs said: II have reached the point
whore believe it absolutely necessary
in the interest OF coed government 70
absolutely put out both parties, for
feel called upon to confess to you can
didly what action in my lice ( sm most
ashamed Of. 1t is to admit that voted
three times for Grover Cleveland. Zap.
plsuSal Discard old political badges;
they:symbolize your degradation.
. The POpulist party comes nearer
representing the principles for which
organized labor is battling; therefore, /
am POpulist" Loud cheers.
On Monday evening, July 80, Nj. Dsbs
spoke at Brazil, Ind, to q large audi
enCe.
~
l shook hands with President Dsbs
last Monday, and / am proud Of tho
fact No one could look at him and mot
like him. He has a smooth face, q nose
somewhat large, and q mouth which
closes in q way that indicates great firm
mess and decision Of character. His
eyes show their posssssoR 10 bO
man Of even temperament aud q
kindly disposition; altogether his face
expresses great intellectual strength,
unyieldinR moral vigor. Not only
his face, but his career as a labor leader
proves him to be an unselish man, true
to his convictions and ever ready to
stand up for the rights of humanisy'n
oppressed legions. The people Of In.
diana, who are unprejudicsd, are proud
that Eugene V. Dsbs is citizen OF the
Hoosier state. We lift our banner Of
"equAl rights to all; special privileges
to none" and on it's face inscribe the
words, Eugene V. Dsbs, for governor
OF Indiana in 1896"
a*a
When Mr.. Debs stepped of the train
at Brazil on Monday evening, whore @
large crowd met him, / noticed an old
man, upon whose face were written the
lines which tell too plainly Of the struggle
against the inhumanities OF this world,
approach Mr.. Dsbs and extend his
hand saying in arsvsrential voice: "God
bless you. am glad to see you, l tell
you ! sm." Unnoticed by many, this
was to me q. very touching incident.
The old man, with a heart which beat
with an honest love Of truth and right,
saw the conditions which plutocraCy
has brought upon our people. He saw
justice dethroned; right orucifed. He
saw the masses Of the people struggling
against the spectre OK want, while the
few lived upon the wealth which the
many had produced. AS he looked at
Mr.. Debs, q great leader Of the great
forces Of right and justice, and a. he
saw in Mr.. Debs the representative Of
All those elements which must battle
against King Ayarice. his sanaa M ina.
The advocate., 1894-08-08

ing all monopOlies out OF existence, and
the only yet discovered method Of giving
to labor its entire product for it's own
use and enjoyment, untouched by either
exsction Of monopoly or tax for public
purposes, their hostility at once ceases,
have yet to meet the FIRST honest re.
former who fully understood the single
tax without indorsing it.
Brother Aliens trouble in under
standing the land question is common
one-theY think Of land in terms Of area
instead OF in terms Of value, and that
men can live in the world without using
land to live upon, and can work without
using land to work upon. They also
fail to note the shifting Or incidence OF
rent, by which it finally falls upon the
poorer CLASSES. They also fail to dis
tinguish between economic and monop-
oily rent, hence do not see that farmers
and others enjoying only economic rent
have the whole Of their rent and some
Of their wages in addition taken from
tkem by those enjoying the privilege Of
exsCting monopoly rent.
There are two distinct classes Of values,
public or social values, created by the
presence and labor Of all the people;
and private values, created by the ex-
srtion OF the individual producing them.
It is the mission OF the single.tsx to
separate these two Glasses Of values,
giving to the public for public purposes,
the public or social values to which all
have contributed, and to each indi.
Vidusl the private values which he has
produced. To do either one of these
without doing the other also, is clearly
impossible. So long as q few monopo.
lie and receive the social values (un-
earned increment), labor cannot receive
its full product, being compelled both to
pay tax to landlords for the privilege
Of living and lsboring, and tax ~ gov.
ernment for public purposes.
Brother Allen says the only just basis
Of taxation is the power Of the tax
payer to obtain that in which tax is
paid (money), but I think there is both
a more just and more practical method,
and that is: to pay in proportion to the
social or public values one is permitted |
to monopolize. Incomes cannot be
accurately ssCertained nor tax on them
collected with any certainty, but the
social or public value Of the occupant or
user Of a piece Of real estate, mine,
forest, city lot, water power, or valuable
location, can be ascertained with GER
tsinty and the tax surely and chearly
collected.
Brother Allen seems to think ttRt
only those engaged in producing raw
materials live upon or use land, when as
fact these are the ones who use the
cheapest land and pay the smallest trib-
ute to lsndlordism. Does the city Of
Chicago, or all the rest Of Illinois, pro-
duCe most raw material, yet the rental
values Of the bare land in Chicago sx-
ceed those Of all the farms and mines
combined Of Illinois. The rental value
Of the bare land Of st. Louis is greater
than that Of all the farms Of Missouri,
and Of Kansas City greater than all the
mines OF that state. Forty-three mil
lionaires have been made by monopoly of
unearned increment in Kansas City, and
not one by banking.
Brother Allen thinks interest paying
q grievous burden, and it is; but every
The advocate., 1894-08-08

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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23
Gets Three Times What n. Lost.

HLLsB RIO, ILL.,, NAV 19.-Mrs. Emma
Gaby, Of Litchfeld, has just been
awarded damages to the amount Of 81.
500 In the Montgomery county circuit
court against Frank M. Lloyd aud 9th
ers. In 1891 John II. Gaby, Mrs Gabys
husband, lost 81 500 In crap game run
by Lloyd and she sued to recover the
amount. The court instructed the Jury
that II 1t found from the evidence that
Mr. G ably had lost that much money in
the game It should return a verdict for
three times the amount, which made
$500.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The torpedo boats Cushing and Sti-
letto stole into Newport harbor without
being detected by the searchlight. The
incident Is regarded as a remarkable
naval feat, as the officers of the torpe do
station were warned and made special
attempt to find the boats.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23
NEGRO DEMOCRATS MEET IN JULY.
Convention Of the National League t.
30 Held 1t IndianapolA.

Be Bed at 1ndianapOlhs
WASHINGTON, May lo.-The annual
convention of the National Negro Dem.
ocratic League will be held at Indian.
apolis, commencing July 8. State con-
ventions will be held in various states
on the first Tuesday in June to select
two delegates and two alteTnates to
represent each state at the national
convention. The call for the 5conven.
ton will be issued in few days. The
principal officers of the league are:
c. H. Taylor, Of Missouri, President; a
vice president from each state; F. L.
Dawkins, Of Florida, secretary; Smith
WoImley of Louisiana, chairman Of the
committee.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

BY the provisions of report made
by the postal commission Afty seven in
dependent postoflices in Chicago are to
be changed il to substations, liz car
rie7s are added and one more delivery
is provided for, the change to be eff
fective July l.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23
Wants No Moro Political Favor.

wants NO Moro Political fAvOrS
Representative w. J. Bryan of the
First Nebraska district has sent a let.
ter to the chairman of his congressional
committee declining to be 4 candidate
for re- selection. In his letter he ex.
pressed some doubts as to the future of
the democratic party, saying:
eff the presidents financial policy
becoms the political policy of the party,
l do not see any reason for continued
existence of the party, because the re-
publicans having followed that policy
longer are better prepared than we to
support it. On the otter hand, if the
party repudiate, Cleveland's financial
policy and renews its devotion to the
common people 1t may yet become an
effective instrument in the securing of
good government"
Representativ. Bryan states he will
resume his law practice in the city of
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

Charles Bradford of 65S Bedford avenue,
Brooklyn, left her home Wednesday
night after writing farewell letter to
her husband, and nothing has since been
seen or heard of her. AS she was 10
volved in financial difficulties TO the ex-
tent of $500 or more and some ct her
creditors were pressing her hard, it is
believed she has committed suicide.
She lived in brown-stone house with
her husband and two sons, aged 16 and
ID years, and stood high socially. About
eight years ago she engaged In specu-
lative business, the nature of which she
told few persons. Her plan was to Dor.
row sums CT money ranging from $50 to
81. 900 on the statement that she made
large profits in discounting the pay CT
public school teachers. As far as could
ever be learned she did little busine IS
with teachers, but spent good deal of
her time in Wall street. Those from
whom she borrowed were 4 class of
women who are usually very provident.
Some prominent and wealthy men also
lent her money. 1t is said her husband
let her have IS, 0OO He wa, under the
impression that this money was we'll in
vested, ard believed her when she told
him there would be large profits in his
investment.
Mrs. Bradford induced Charles !.
Stoll, pork packer, to advance her
$4,000, it is said, in various sums. Stoll
saw no income, and a few weeks ago
he called on her and demanded his
money. Mrs. Bradford put him of and
Stoll finally determined to sue her. She
called on him and tried In vain to have
him reconsider his intended action.
About week ago Stoll instructed Law
yer H. A. Powell of New York to begin
suit against her unless she returned the
money he advanced her In a short time.
He told Mr.. Powell that Mrs. Bradford
came to his place with r. r. Tietten.
berg of Bayonne, N. ]. Tiett,e nbers
represented to him, he said, that the
woman lent money to school teachers
on their pay checks, ard Stoll advanced
$4,000 on notes signed bv George Corliss
and Endorsed by Tiettenberg. When he
found there was not likely to be any
revenue from his $1,000 he went to
Tiettenberg, he said, and discovered
that Tiettenberg, too, had been lending
her money. He had let her have $11 900.
On Thursday Soil received a letter
from Tiettenberg, In which the latter
said that Mrs. Bradford had written to
him to the effect tLat she was going to
drown herself. Lawyer Powell and
Stoll went directly to the wcman's house,
where they found Mr.. Bradford greatly
agitated. Bradford told the men that
his wife had confessed her transactions
to him, and that she had been engaged
in the operations for eight years. In
that time more than $oCO, 900 had passed
through her hands. Mr.. Bradford added
that he himself had lent her money at
her request, but never knew inst what
she was dealing in. Several times he
asked her If she needed any help Ia
keeping set of books she was ALWAYS
consulting, but she declined his assist
ance. Bradford declared that it was
his belief that his wife had conn tilted
suicide, and he expected to hear at any
lime that her body had been found In
the river.
1t Is the general belief that the woman
ost all her money in sto:ks.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23
JOHN r. MORRISON.
OaAS. 81. REED,

4 LAW-Office in Masonic
n Block. vii practice in all courts and
u. s. Land Office
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

Ambassador Bayard has intimated to
the British government the desire OF
the United States to withdrawn from
the Berlin agreement provided all.th
rights of United S ates citizens in Samoa
are safely guarded.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23
ED. q. MAXEY, NJ. D.,

physician AND SURGEON-Ofice in
l. Masonic Building. Special attention
given to diseases OF the Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat. Glasses fitted, In Office all night.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

Rudolph, the politician who last week
attempted to shoot Business Manager
j. B. Elliott of the San Francisco
Chronicle, has been adjudged insane
asylum.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

A cloud-burst damaged the Omaha
road in Wisconsin to the extent of
SIS, 900. The water is running furious'y
through the principal streets of Harris
burg, Mich, three dams having burst.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

United States Consul General Villa m
Hayden Edwards of Berlin is dead.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

John Dalzel and William A. Stone
have been nominated without opposi-
ton for congress by tbs republican con-
ventions in the Twenty-second and
Twenty.third Pennsylvania districts,
respectively.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

Beaursgard was given life sentence
at Geneva, Ill, for the murder of a
fellow werkmhn named Wilson.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

Twelve of the fourteen aldermen of
Rockford, Ill. have agreed to refuse TO
confirm successor to Fire Marshal
Heffran, removed by the mayor because
If his religious belief.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-23

The bill for the admission of Utah az
state has been favorably reported by
the senate committee on territories.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-01-03

sYmpTy marvellous. HIS winnings IN a
single day have been known to have ex-
ceeded $50, 900 Fiction does not record
so wonderful a career.
The recent unsuccessful attempt of Pres
ident Walbaum to run Grammar off the
Saratoga track is we'll known.
What the young plunger will do in tina
future is purely problematical, but tho
long heads on the turf predict that he will
:op.e to grief.
Modest Pittsburg Phil.
Pittsburg Phil is modest young man
and objects to the notoriety he has gained
by reason of his success.
"Why should be picked out for mark
and my actions so faithfully chronicled?"
this young man has frequently asked.
Phil came from good old Revolutionary
stock, one Of his ancestors having owned q
bull that WAS captured by General Wash
ington at Valley Forge. His ambition
broke through the restraints of factory
drudgery, and he nibbled at the golden
bait hung out by the poolrooms of the
Smoky City.
Fortune or good Judgment favored tho
young speculatOr from the start of his
meteorc career, and the luck-as it is
called-that pursued him soon gave him a
local reputation that was greatly enhanced
when hepoolroom owners, having learned
to respect his money, decided to bar him
from their resorts.
Cast out in the world, with nothing TO
spend but money, Phil went to Chicago,
and again he duplicated his phenomenal
success and brought down on his young
head the wrath of the Windy City pencil
ers Phil was too big for Chicago and
came to New York.
The Pittsburg Phil or George E. Smith
of today is clean cut young man, always
we'll but not extravagantly dressed, affable
with friends, but not at all forward. In
the evenings he frequently drops into the
cafe of the Sturtevant House and studies
the entry card for the morrow races
At such times he Is surrounded by sew
eral friends, who carefully treasure the
suggestions the young plunger makes and
invariably follow his advice Phil will
sip settler or light beer at these informal
conferences, but he is not man to drop
into dissipation
On the race track Phil focks by him.
self, as the saying goes and depends upon
his own reasoning to draw conclusions,
He is frequenter CT the paddock and al
excellent judge of form If he has one
weakness, it is the control sentiment ex
ercises over his reasoning faculties. This
has cropped out recently in the determine
ton he has shown to make winning
jockey out of the imported article known
as Swash His vain pursuit of gain
through DerfargiIa may have been the re.
suit of sentiment, or maybe it was series
of errors in Judgment.
Phil has prospered finely and now owns
a nice home in Harlem. At the close Of
the racing season of 1892 he was reputed
to be worth $500, 600. His rapid climb to
the realms wherein miIlionaires swarm
was checked when he became the owner
of racing stable 1t appeared that the
possession of bang tails had bad influ
ence on his reasoning powers, and the re-
suit was that during the last season he
was generally credited with having loss
about $500, 00G. This may or may not be
true
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