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The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23
REIGN OF LANDLORDS
MORE THAN HALF OF OUR FAM.
lilies ARE HOMELESS.
Have No Claim Whatever to the Homes
in Which They Dwell-Parallelism That
Is Startling. Indeed-Read These Fig
ures anu Study Their Meaning.


More than half of the total number
IF families in the United States are
homeless, having no claim whatever to
.he house in which they dwell, an adj
litional seventh whose homes are
mortgaged, only 81 per cent. of the
families of the country who own their
own homes free from incumbrance--
these are some of the startling and
thought-provokins conditions revealed
by the United States census for 1890.
The figures are as follows: Number Of
families, 2.69O. 152; number of tenants,
6,623, 735, or - per cent. of the whole
number; number of families whose
places of abode are incumbered by
mortgages, 1,696, $50, or Ii per cent
number of families whose homes are
free from debt, 4.369. 527, Or "a per
cent. of the total number. These figures
include farmers and the people who
live in villages, towns, and the smaller
cities. The following table showing
the conditions in these respects of
thirty cities of the country, east, west,
north, and south, of $4,000 population
and over, indicate how great is the
disparity among urban families:
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23
Political Pointers,

STUDY the money question.
MARCHING through Georgia" the
Populists.
THE absence of dollars means an alb,
sence of trade.
Low PRICES mean difficulty IN the
payment of debts.
If people had more dollars mer.
chants would sell more goods.
MORE education and less legislation
would produce beneficial results.
\ COLD day is now not far Off for he
millions of unemployed of the land.
MIR. CoxEY will bear watching. The
frs: thing we know he'll be in Con
gress.
THERE is split in the Democratic
party of Nebraska. That means Pop
,,llst success.
Don't let the bows forget that ma
iority of Democrats in Congress voted
against free silver.
CHARITY soup houses will soon be in
full bloom again. They are the flow
ers that bloom under the old party
rule.
The Populist National Committee
STATE that the party will elect fifty
Congressman and control the next
Congress.
THERE is not a moment to lose. Re.
member that organized fraud must he
overcome by organized patriotism. De
ternline on a fair count.
TAKE this text and preach from il
up 10 the election day: why is ii
that amid unparalleled bounty of pro
duction millions ara hungry"
GOV. ALTGELp of Illinois states that
$40. 100000 of property in that state
goes free of taxation. \ good portion
Of this untaxed property belongs to
the Pullmans
THAT big Georgia Populist vote has
set the Republican party to trembling
also. The handwriting is on the wall,
gentlemen : take your medicine, that 5
what it was made for.
II is now foregone conclusion tina,
the next President will be elected bv
the Lower House of Congress. if the
new party does not succeed in electinn
him by the electoral college.
DEMOCRATS would have the voter be
| lieve that business Is rapidly on the
! mend: but the idle wage Garner knows
| better, while the farmer does not need
to be hit with q brickbat to realize
| that prices of products of the farm are
still ruinouslv low and fail to eNtenc
helping hand in lifting the mort
gage.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23

Among Our Exchanges.
The Democrats are in favor of free
trade, if it don't interfere with protec-
ion.-Adventist, Nevada, Mo.
The east is now running a political
bunco game with the old party bosses
as cappers. Wichita Daily News.
The east is afraid of degraded, de-
preciated currency. We are afrail of a
deprecated, degraded people. Reas-
Oner.
Tue Republican State Committee is
paying the freight" on the Democrat
lie campaign i'll this state Herald,
Fredonia, Kan.
THE Republicans and Democrats are
on the same side on the financial aues-
ton. They are ON the inside.
cinnati Populist.
The honest dollar to-day is the gold
dollar that takes twice it's worth in
products to pay one dollar Of debts
Tribune. Carthage, Mo. ss"
loU can no more keep down the
swelling tide of Populism than you
can place an injunction on the sun
light.-Sentinel, Dayton, Ohio.
WE bully the President. bride Sen
ators. buy congressman, run the Gov
eminent and damn the people: what
are YOU going to do about it ?"-Bond-
holders.
AN exchange notes the fact that the
whole country is kicking" Good
That is ano her evidence that the
country is very much alive.-Press,
Franklin, Neb.
IT is said by the dispatches that
Governor Waite is out for the Sena-
ship 1t is the hope of all true pa
triots that he will succeed in catching
it, Chicago Sentinel.
ALL American panics have been
money panics, the direct result of 9
false financial system. So long as this
iniquitous system shall he tolerated
just SO long will panics come.
IT is said that the Democrats OF
Watauga County have put out fam.
lily ticket, called the cousin ticket.
| That's right. The machine wants to
take care of its own. When it's re
duced down to one family it is easily
beaten.-Mercury. Hickory, n. c.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23

New York represents the extreme
tendency to the concentration of land
ownership, with it's - per cent. of
homeless families subject to the ca
price of the landlord. But the average
OF all the cities shows that the tenant
families represent IS per cent. of the
total number, while the average of
mortgaged homes is 8 per cent, and of
free from incumbrance pitiful Is per
cent.
Nor is this the most suggestive lesson
of these census figures. In a nation
where the people sang in truth but
few short years ago
And Uncle Sam is rich enough
To give us each !: farm
to-day 33s per cent. of our farming
population are tenants, Just about the
same proportion that is found in Bel
GUM, France. Germany, and many
other countries, while in Sweden the
percentage of farm tenants falls to Il
per cent. of the whole number And
yet Maj. Mckinley and the advocates
Of protection boast of 'the free land
and the free homes which the beneti.
cent policy of the Republican party
has encouraged and Developed" What
is the advantage. save that which
generous nature gives, of the American
farmer over his fellow who leases his
patch of ground in the lapd ruled bv
q monarch?
The close sympathy between land
and labor as Indicated by the concen-
tration Of the former and the increase
in the number of waSe-earners, which
is its unfailing concomltant. is suggest
ed by comparison of census figures
for the last thirty years. In 1860 wage
aarners represented 80 per cent. Of
those engaged in gainful occupations.
including farmers: in 1880 the per
centage had grown to IS, and in 1880
it had become three fOurths of the
people depended upon the remaining
fourth for their means of livelihood;
- per cent. at the mercy of his ma lesty
the landlord.
The parallelism is startling. indeed,
and the everincreasing rents sugges:
the possibilities of the future if there
be not some hing done to check the
growing power OF the few who own
! the land. No sincere, courageous
/ friend of the people. no truly patriotic
citizen who earnestly desires the per-
| petuation of popular government, can
study these figures and read their
larger meaning and not be impressed
with the imperative and immediate
necessity of such a reform as will re-
store to the people their inherent:
rights in all natural opportunities and
bring the reign of the landlord to an
end.-Chicago Times.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23

Old party speakers are busy telling
the people of the calamity that befell
Kansas when the state went Populist.
The following figures will show how
much the Populist administration of
Kansas has saved the people of that
Of TO
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23
What Will They DOs

Once in while you hear men ask,
What assurance can you give US that
the Populists would not sell out to the
goldbugs like the Democrats have?'
We answer by saying that no one ever
heard of new party failing to redeem
its pledges when placed in q position
to do ~
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23
They Vote Wrong

That the people cannot send ter
pound package of merchandise to any
place in the United States for ter
cents is because people vote Congress.
men who listen to anti-chamber argu.
ments by well-paid Hobbies of the ex.
press companies. 1t can be done with
the present postal plant facilities and
no money lost on it, but then how
would men become millionares in the
express business? Vote for men who
want to leave things as they are!
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23

THE natl nal convention of the nom
partisan Wonen's Christian Temper
ance Union will I've held in Washing
ton, Pa, November IL to ID, II clusivo.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23

The Republican party, under Jeffer-
son, was organized to repeal the alien
and sedition laws, to kill of primogen-
iture and to prevent the chartering of
national banks. 1t redeemed every
one of these pledges. But by 1928 JEFF
ferson had died, the people had ceased
to take an active interest in political
affairs. having turned all that over to
their officeholders, like they have in
the south since 1865. The result was
the demagogues seized the reins Of
party machinery and put the banks on
top.
In 1898 Jackson organized the DEM
ocratic party to kill of the United
States banks. He and his party did it
Just as soon rs they got Ill control OF
the Government. BY the way, the
Democratic party was third party in
1924.
By 1860 the Republican party roso
and went into power to free the me-
groes, and it redeemed this pledge
even 1T the mouth of the cannon.
Every Office holder, as rule, is
faithful to those who can give or take
away the Office from him. The masses
teen years, hence Congressman treat
the people with contempt. The way
| it is done is that the bankers and mon
| ey power agree on a man for Congress.
They pass the word around through
| those who owe them; the papers are
| induced to boom him the plain people
| know him or not, as the case may be,
but they support the man so highly
recommended without ever knowing
what he is pledged to do If necessary.
He is nominated and elected; hence
he sticks to them that put him in Of
flee. The idea that bankers don't take
much stock in politics is all rot. They
always have been and always will be
the potent factor in politics if the peo-
pie will let them be.
| You see if the Populists get into
Office they will ship the bankers and
Insurers, and they will serve the people
SO as to keep in Office.
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23

federal courts which are running these
roads in the interest of their Owners"
Shall they be further taxed to provide
regiments of cavalry to patrol the
roads and hel p enforce the oppressive
elicts of their dictators? We rather
think not.
Gen. Schotield calls special attention
to "the wise forethought" which has
led the Government to establish "large
military posts near the great business
and railroad centers of the country"
He neglected, however, to eulogize the
noble benevolence which induced the
great business and railroad kings to
contribute largely toward the cost of
| furnishing sites for these armed camps.
| But he wants more soldiers for them,
thinking evidently that there is some
| thing in modern business methods, in
| modern railway methods, which makes
it essential to guard their practitioners
with federal troops. AS Il soldier the
| General does not stop to think, one of
the chief beauties of his profession be-
ing that its Jay is comfortable, its dig
nity overwhelming, its demand for i'll
te!lectual effort absolutely non-eXist-
ent. But other people do think, and
as, thank God, professional soldiers do
not make our laws or levy our taxes it
will be 4 long time before the people
will vote to increase the standing army
that .hc holders of monopoly, the pos
SCISSORS of privilege, the oppressors of
the people may be upheld and pro-
t"cteu III their expressions by armed
men paid out of the tax fund, which is
principally drawn from the very peo-
pie against whom their rifles are level
ed.
| Tax the Vampire.
| II man should determine to go to
tilling the soil to raise potatoes and
turrips to fill his empty stomach
where would he go to get land?
! About the first thing he would run
onto after being ordered to keep off
the grass" of land owned by private
spectators, would be the wire fences
OF railroad corporations. To give the
readers some idea of the amount of
land held by railroads as subsidies, We
publish the following list which is
only Il partial one. Beside the list We
publish, it is safe to estimate that not
one acre less than 25,O0O,OOO are not
taken into account. The following
railroads own the number of acres set
opposite their names:
The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-10-23

Texas Pacific. $50 10
L Mon Paclc........ ......... 100, %
Kansas taciic -.---. ................ GOO, No
Denver pac ................- l.nO00l
Central Pacific .''' lUR. 900
Southern Pacific Observation-Disclosures. A.ottVo
Northern Pacific ...........41.UO .OD
81 Paul and Pacific. +'r3u5>
Oregon Central. Observation-Disclosures. Loo 90
AFRO and Fulton ..... .....-....... 200. &.
Wisconsin Central Is t.0D
oregon and California .......... SHO.utO
Pensacola ANA Georgia Loss, ~
Mobile and O:!lo klEcr ...........-.-. 10 - III
81. Paul ana sioux ity. ............. loo 90
Iowa Falls and >lpuX tlty..-..... &c.. =. i. %
~. Joseph and Denver titt............ i,.uUU,U
Missouri. Kansas and Texas .......... 90 tO
Actirrgur and Missouri River. ........ IL $3.50
Pacific aud Southwest i,raurh........ i.ltl 3,
.aciS>t H. Lansing ana Saginaw. l.N.:ttn
t,nriinauou aud Missouri, River. =. H. %
.ttth son. Topeka and Santa le- ....- 300 900
Cedar Rapids and Missouri River. 49,. l..>>. ~
~. Baton Rouge AMI \ickStIrE. ..... :. toUo
Ill. Central. Mobile and Chicago. .. 70. uas
Chicago Rock island ami Pa 'tic 800. les Isl
Missouri River Fort Scott and & ilf By 90
In face OF this showing We would
like to inquire wha: there is wrong
about the scheme of Henry George to
tax these vampires till they let go?
Land. air. wa;er and sunshine God
made for man and not for cOrDOratious
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-04-14


Idaho passed Rykert, her big barge
loaded down to the waters edge
with supplies for Kootenai Lake
points. We should judge from the
appearance of the craft she had on
sixty tons, mostly vegetables pick
ed up from ranchers along the val
ley. Her cargo was for the Koot-
enai Trading Co. which is opening
branch house in Kaslo. VIM.
VanGasken, the manager, is push
er for business.
Mr.. T. E. Montgomery, one of
the prominent ranchers of the low
er part of the valley, was in town
last Thursday. Mr.. Montgomery
has started a large fruit farm. He
already has 100 trees out, and
next year expects to set out more.
The principle varieties are apple,
pear, prune and plum, besides the
smaller fruits. Mr.. Montgomery
has all confidence in the Kootenai
Valley as a fruit growing region.
The steamer Nelson is tied up
at Nelson undergoing repairs. She
will be put into service on this
route in about two weeks, after
which the Spokane will probably
be tied up-unless business in
creases. The Nelson will be able
to make the run in better time
than the Spokane has been able to
do.
The tie in the Eaton election
for trustee between Geo. HI. Tamb-
lin and HI. L. Medbery was settled
by the two candidates drawing
straws. The former drew the long
straw and secured the seat. The
drawing was said to be little pc
culiar.
Mr.. G. d. Black and Miss Sloop
were made one by Judge Carlton
at his residence Tuesday eve. The
bride is the estimable daughter OF
j. E. Sloop, one of Ockonook's s
merchants.
The Bonnerport board of trus-
tees selected Tom Logan for Mar
shall at their last meeting. Tom
is a good man for the place and will
keep vigilant watch on the town.
Father Becker, of Ceur d. Alene
will hold mass for the members OF
the Catholic faith, in Bonner's Fer
ry, next Wednesday.
The river is on considerable OF
a raise. The more of the snow wa
ter that flows off now, the less we
will have next summer.
= Send your butter and eggs tc
the Kootenai Trading Co. They
will pay you the highest market
price.
"Wednesday eveing the Eaton
board Of trustees met and organized
Geo. H. Tamblin was reelected
chairman.
Our prices are adjusted to the
basis Of cash and "hard times
Try US on Groceries.-E. M. Kin.
near.
Prints, Ginghams, Satines and
other staple Dry Goods just received
at Kinnear's.
Bartlett Sinclair, Esq, went t.
Spokane and Rathdrum during the
week on legal business.
Read Casey's new ad. in the
HERALD.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-04-14
The kaslo-Slocan Railway now
an Assured Fact.
A LOCAL ROUNDUP

a man Commits Suicide. Movements
of the Steamers. New City OFF,
GERS Chosen. a Marriage. The
Commercial Club Meets.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-04-14

The Strike includes Everything from
Section Men up, and is ordered by
American Railway Union. The
strike the most complete on Record

The following order was flashed
over the wires last Thursday night,
and came to the public like thun-
derbolt in clear sky:
BUTTE, Mont, April 12.-[To all
Conductors, Engineers, Firemen,
Brakemen, Switchmen, Operators,
Agents, Clerks, Sectionmen and all
other employees]: 1t has been au-
thentically ascertained that the
management of the G. n. system
are arranging to run in lot of men
from the east to fill our places in
all departments on account of our
belonging to the A. r. U. 1t has
been decided that at II o'clock, M,
tomorrow, Friday, April 13, every
man in every department will
quietly quit work and go out. You
will do no work of any kind for the
company. Protect the company's
property from outside parties who
would seek to take advantage of
the strike. Every man from Butte
to liavre, including all branches,
and from st. Paul to the Coast will
go out. You will not return to
work until you receive notice from
the undersigned. The terms under
which we will return to work have
been satisfactorily drawn up, name
ly, a restoration of the old rate of
wages as paid prior to August 1,
1898.
Stick together and may God bless
you. Success is sure.
JAMES HOGAN.
Roy GOODWIN.
And promptly at the hour named
every man on the entire Great
Northern system, who had received
the order, from section men up to
train dispatchers, walked out. The
employees east of Grand Forks and
those on the Pacific division went
out this morning. The strikers re-
port not a train moving between
Seattle and Grand Forks, with no
no word from east of the latter
place, except that all employees
had gone out. The tie up seem to
be complete from st. Paul to
Seattle.
The grievance of the strikers is
the cut made in their wages which
amounts to from Is to 30 per cent
of the schedule in force last August.
The strike has been under consid-
Grafton by the employees for some
time, but was precipitated by the
report that the management of the
road intended to ship men from
the East to take their places.
What the outcome will be can
not be foretold. All is quiet along
the line, but the Mayors of Butte
and other points have advised Man
ager Chase not to attempt to run
in scabs.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-04-14

Martin O'Hearn, rancher liv-
ing about two miles below town.
committed suicide by taking strych-
nyne, ut about IL p. M, last Tues
day night, at the Bonner House, in
this city, giving as reason that
he was tired of life and that his
troubles were more than he could
bear. 1t seems that he had been
doctoring for ibis eyesight which he
was about to loose. This coupled
with the fact that his means were
about exhausted, led to disponden-
cy. Coroner Sabin came in the
following night and held an in
quest, the jury being composed of
Frank R. Little, r. L. Sabin, Jas.
Casey, M. Ryan, r. Fry and A. J.
Mcdonald. The jury rendered
verdict that the deceased came to
his death by strychnyne taken with
suicidal intent. The deceased had
no relatives in this country. He
was an Irishman by birth and
about 40 years of age.
The Commercial Club had a
very lively meeting last Saturday
evening, and there was every indi-
cation Of great interest manifested.
A report Of the treasurer, William
Ainslie, showed a balance of 1884
in the treasury. The conundrum
with the Club was what to do with
the money. Some wanted it put into
sidewalks and fire protection. 9th
ers wanted the money to remain in
the treasury until the townsite
matters were adjusted, and the eli
max was reached when a motion
was made to divide the money pro
rata among the members in good
standing. The motion prevailed
and there the matter stood when
the club adjourned.
The HERALD man took trip
on the Alton this week to Ockon-
ook, the new town that is looming
up, on the banks of the Kootenai,
at the International Line. Some
Of the observations we noted down
on the trip we shall record at some
future time, but we simply wish
here to acknowledge the courtesies
extended by Capt. F. NJ. Lucas of
the Alton, and Maj. ]. l. Barnes, at
Ockonook.
Prof. Hydorne closes his term
of school a week from next Friday.
He commences another term on the
following Monday, at Ramsey, near
Rathdrum. the Professor has
fought the Ramsey school before
and with the success that they
want him back again.
Parties just in from Kaslo re-
port that the provincial govern
ment has guaranteed the bonds of
Kaslo-Slocan Railway and that the
line will now be built. 1t is said
the Great Northern will control the
road.
The new board of Trustees of
Bonnerport organized last Monday
night and elected General Fred
Kaiser Chairman. This was a very
worther selection and we herewith
take off our hat to Mayor Kaiser.
Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-16
wALLINGFORD.

The electric company began yesterday
 finishing up its work on Quinnipiac street
 and is doing fine job. On East Center
 street the street has been greatly improved
 near Northrop's bridge by the filling in
 with the crushed stone. The track is all
 laid and will be finished as soon as the
 wire arrives which has delayed the work.
 The annual rose festival of the Ladies'
 Library association will be held on Tues
 day evening, June 19, in the Congregational
 church.
 The Daisy Fets scarf-drilI, given by
 Aquilla social, D. of R, will bs in Odd
 Fellows' hall, Friday evening. June g. Rev. J. J. Blair officisted at the funeral of Mrs. F. A. Rich yesterday afternoon. The bearers were her two sons, A. F. and E. H.. Rich. and sons-in-law, W. N. Mix, 0. O. Norton, W. I. Todd and H. W. Howe of New Haven.
 The grange will hold It's annual picnic l to. day over at D. W. Ives in East Walling- ford. H. W. Davis caught sl<- pound pickerel in the lake Wednesday and B. F. Kramp made dinner Thomas Nicholson and bride are the guests of Mir. and Mrs. J. R. Cottrill of Center street. W Dearth of Bristol is the guest of G. A. Stocking.
 ! Moonlight parties on the lake are now quite popular, and every evening boatloads of young folks are enjoying the opportunity. Charles E. Da is reported as quite i'll. A freight car at the Air Line station in East Waliingford loaded with feed for the grange was broken into during Wednesday night and quan- tity of the feed was carried away. No clue as to who the thieves were can be obtained. The selectmen and school visitors will meet next Tuesday evening to make up the estimate for expense of schools for the next year. Yesterday was the last day to pay your water rent to cave having the water shut off. Principal Howard of the High school will teach in Windsor Locks after the expiration of the present term.
 The ball game this afternoon between Manag- CTS Heineman and Taylor's hines, for $100 side and the championship of the town, promises to be an exciting one and hotiy contested. Both sides are confident of victory, and a big crowd from Merideu will bs in attendance. Game called at 3:S0 sharp.