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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-21

The STATE JOURNALS Want and Mis-.
cellaneous columns reach each working
day in the week more than twice as
many Topeka people as can be reached
trough any other paper This is fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-21

SUNDAY; no issue.
The above is a correct report of the issues Of
the TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL in the
months of January. 1891. January. $685. and
January, 1895, and shows daily average OF
1886, 6,6l9 and 9,47S for the respective months
named. The daily average for the last six
months of 1894 was 1852.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-21

Good work done by the Peerless
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29

government of the United States I
would picture Uncle Sam standing
with his hands thrown up saying:
Anything you want, gentlemen" to
the liquor king with his gun presented
on the right and the money king with
his gun presented on the left. Money
and whisky have got the politicians,
and the politicians have got the gov
eminent. MY hope has always been
in the people. l have never had any
hope in politician except as he
feared the people and acted for the
people. People are aroused from one
end of this country to the other, and
we'll they may be, and the politicians
may look to hear thunder before long.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29
rhnnra the Constitution,

Either the constitution needs chang
ing, else we need a change Of judges
to interpret 1t.
However, as far as it goes, we have
no doubt the constitution is all right.
The constitution at the time of its
adoption was sufficient to cover all
emergencies that might have arisen
under the conditions Of that day. Be-
sides that the right of amending 1t
was left open as a means of adapting
1t to the growth and development Of
new conditions.
Our forefathers expected their de-
scendants to be capable Of governing
themselves, and never anticipated that
a time would ever come when this
country would be ruled by gigantic
railroad and other corporations, nor
that the original constitution itself
would be twisted and misconstrued so
as to give advantage to the rich and
greedy.
II our constitution were amended so
as to make plain its bearing on the
great institutions upon which our COM
merce has become dependent, 1t would
probably relieve the milliOnaires Of a
great deal of expense in buying de-
cisions Of courts, and remove tempta-
ton from their benevolent souls.
The corporations as they have grown
up have been very careful to provide
statute laws for their own beneft-but
the common people must not have any
laws for their benefit. Oh, no that would
be unconstitutional. But please tell US
of any law advocated by corporations
and trusts that was ever declared by
the courts to be unconstitutional
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29
what the Money Power Is.
W. H. Harvey, in North America
Raviam for Ii1IvN

wv. H. Harvey, In North American
Review for July)
Money has no patriotism. 1t has no
moral principles. II the life OF the gov
eminent were in danger tomorrow, as 1t
was in 1861-1S65, the money power
would hold 1t up by the throat. In fact,
1t is now strangling the government. It
smiles on you when you recognize Its
power, but will crush you If you antag-
onize 1t, Just as it induced Pontius PLATE
and the officials of that government to
kill Jesus Christ and scatter his follow
ers. It is now plainly aroused; If the
danger to 1t continues to rise In this
country it will exhibit its strength and
It will be terrible! 1t will seize the
government. Official despotism will
follow. Men whose characters have
been nodded and made by the condi-
lions leading up to the present situa-
ton, when elected to Office, become the
servants Of this power. Their salaries
are not reduced; If changed at all the
salaries are raised. The purchasing
power Of their dollars is raised by the
system they defend. Their self interest
goes with the money power and they
court its faVors and look for a soft
SPOT, financially on which to land at
the end of their term Of office. They
seemingly become heartless concerning
the common masses-the plain people
hence, official despotism. These are
the conditions that come with the
breaking down Of government as a
natural result of the absorption Of the
wealth Of the people. do not mean
any one individually, or any number Of
men collectively, when l speak Of the
money power. 1t is thing impersonal.
It is a grasping, perverse nature culti-
waited by man, that seizes upon the
use of money to accomplish its evil
purpose. It is most dangerous because
1t gives strength and prominence to
those who advocate its cause, and has
the appearance Of being a just and
reasonable right under the laws Of man
for the disposal of property. 1t is not
SO easy for men to see that its tend
ency is evil and it's victims millions,
when their eyes are blinded by the
dazzling blaze Of possibilities of wealth
for themselves. The right to accumu-
late unnecessary property and to pro-
duce distress among the people Is not
divine right, and should not be guar
anteed by human laws.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29
An Ancient Chestnut.

The Boston Herald says that the
treasury has the same old story to tell
about the dishonest silver dollar
1t won't circulate, 1t keeps coming back
into the treasury. If the silver dollar
were one-half as dishonest as those
whose business 1t is to malign 1t, 1t
would be in the penitentiary, rather
than in the treasury. Coin, whether
gold or silver, does its work through
its paper representations. The people
would rather have silver certificates
than silver coin just for the same rea-
son that they would rather have gold
certificates than gold coin. The day
has long since passed when either gold
or silver in the form of coin will cir
culate except as change" because
their paper representations are more
easily handled. But why doesn't the
Herald make its point all the stronger
by telling how people fall over each
other to get one dollar gold coins?
Perhaps that would be too glazing a
falsehood for the Boston Herald to tell.
The fact is, that silver dollars do cir
culate freely, while the effort of the
government to force gold dollars into
circulation was so complete a failure
that congress stopped their coinage by
law. The people simply wouldn't have
them, and they wouldn't circulate at
all. Whoever sees gold coin Of any kind
In circulation? Where Is all the gold
complacently supposed to be Gin CIR
culatlon" by the circulation artists Of
the treasury department? What IL
limitable nerve it requires for a gold
bug newspaper to talk about silver coin
not circulating among the people, when
not one man in a hundred ever gets
even glimpse Of a gold coin Of any
denomination, and no man will have
one If he can get a silver certificate, a
greenback or banknote in place Of 1t.
What gold is in circulation among the
people is in the form Of gold certifi-
Gates, and there is precious little Of
that. The New York Financial Chron-
icle in 1888 published an editorial on
this subject calling attention to the
fact that not one man in twenty viewed
either gold coin or a gold certificate,
and said this was as true Of the north
as 1t was in the south, though the
treasury officials figured 1t out that
there were something like $3OO,0OO,O 900
ain circulation" Just because there was
that much whose whereabouts was I'M
known. The truth seems to be that
about 5000, 000, 900 of this gold cireulates
only in the treasury reports and in the
minds of treasury officials. 1t is not in
the country, and what is here doesn't
circulate and is not wanted for circu.
lation in the form of coin.
A few days ago the Mobile Register,
a monometallist paper, declared with
charming naivete that Mr.. Bryan
had put the people there to great in
convenience by charging that the
banks were boarding gold; that the
banks thereupon began to pay out gold
to their customers who protested VIC
lently and vigorously against being
forced to receive it-they didn't want
gold coin If they could get silver certl-
ficates or anything else. The only rea-
son gold coin doesn't flow back into
the treasury" is that there is so pre-
clous little to flow. It certainly doesn't
low in the channels Of trade.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29

If I should make a cartoon of the
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29

themselves. For instance, 1.-TWO for
One" might represent the two dollars
worth Of produce the debtor Is COM
PEELED to pay where he contracted 70
pay only one.
The "grave-digging machine" Of the
gold-bugs might be contrasted with
COINS Flying Machine" pig in the
Garden" suggests "Hog in the White
House."
And so on. Our special artist is at
work making special designs, and finds
the gold-bug effort great help by Vir'
tue of its very absurdity.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29
ARE BIRDS GUIDED BY srARsq
An Attempt to Solve the Great Mystery
a uts nFt..-.As

An Attempt to Solve the Great Mystery
Of Bird Migration.
In an article on Birds OF Passage"
the Chautauquan says II one desires
an explanation for the great mystery
Of bird migration, there being nothing
else that will answer, he will have to
accept the theory Of hereditary knowl-
edge, a knowledge Of the unfailing
stars. The Great Bear and Orion APP
peared at the same time in our region,
even when the divisions Of land and
water were very different than they are
today That the stars are the guides
Of birds agrees with the fact that they
fly at remarkable heights, often above
the clouds, and that wanderers lose
their way when they stray into clouds
and mists. On starlight nights stray
Cling birds are seldom noticed. When
the sky is overcast, when the night Is
dark, but especially when a fine rain Is
falling, multitudes Of travelling birds
are heard. They viii call often, doubt
less for the purpose Of keeping near
each other; and often great numbers Of
them bound against the windows OF
lighthouses. Thus Gatke has observed
that on Oct. %. 1882. from 10 o'clock at
night till the next morning golden
crested wrens bumped like snowflakes
against the lighthouse Of Hellgoland,
and that on the following day golden
crested wrens sat on every square foot
Of Heligoland. Toward the end Of the
summer, along into the fall, 1t was not
a rare occurrence on dark nights to
see, through the light Of street lamps.
birds flying over inland cities. The ex-
perienced observer recognizes by It's call
the curlew and the strand-snipe, sea-
swallow and seagull. occasionally hears
even the flap Of their wings. But no
bird is visible in the darkness. On dark
nights no stars appear; then 1t is that
the straying Bird loses his way, The
stars are the most plausible guides to
birds in their migrations. But only the
future can tell US whether they really
serve In that capacity.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29

Put yourself in the place Of the sui
ferers; go into the slums and sweat
shops; learn and see what is going on
around you.
Behold the battle for bread, and look
coolly upon the scene Of miserable pow
erty on the one side and arrogant hog
gishness on the other-yes, look coolly
If you cap--you can not, If you have
the least vestlge of soul in your
anatomy.
It is a field Of Straightforward for
what are they fighting?
"ohp you say. Ego slow; they are
not fighting"
Not fighting! Then why does this
man cut the threats of his wife and
children; why are these dying of hun
ger; what means this riot, this calling
out Of troops; why all this robbery,
suicide, murder; these bodies buried in
the potter's field; what means all this
new machinery for killing men?
You say, OIL no, they are not fight
ling, they are only engaged In legiti-
mate competition in the great economy
OF supply and demand. They are not
fighting, they are only arguing the best
policy to pursue.
Go slow!
Don't do anything to disturb COM
merce.
Those people are not starving; those
men are not dead, they have only de-
cided to go little slow in striking.
Bless you! there is no quarrel between
capital and labor; the country has hired
the money loaners to stop depicting the
treasury; there's no trouble, these men
you call unemployed are only tourists
in search of recreation; there is no OPP
preston; there is no crime nor despera-
ton; no beggary nor selling OF virtue
money is plenty. There is only lull
in business, people are taking rest
Go slow; don't disturb them; every
thing will work out all right in the
end.
No use to try any experiments
things have always been this way, and
they always will. There's no use to try
to change them. Let us stop and learn
to be content with the station in life
to which 1t has pleased God to call us.
And this is the way many people
would have us talk reform. Continue
the system Of unclvilization, crime, dis.
sipation, disorder and distress, because
the men who profit by 1t don't wan
any better conditions.
They are doing we'll.
Who cares what becomes Of the bal
ance Of humanity?
They control the government ant
have right to do as they please.
3 Let the rabble starve and kill eacf
other If they will.
But go slow about changing estab
lished institutions. You might make
things worse, and you might MAKE
them better, but, anyway, you would
alarm foreign investors" by tlnkering
This talk about oppression is al
sentiment; trade must not be disturbed
by lot of calamity howlers and fellows
that don't know anything abou
Finance"
Government has no business inter
fering with "financiers."
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29
Cartoons Galore.

'The Sound Currency" club has
got tired Of keeping up the Sound
part of Its argument, and will try to
attract attention by means Of a series
of pictures, to rest its bowling appara-
tus. We have received a circular adj
vertising a list of 40 cartoons illustra-
tive of goldbug buncombe argument,
which are being sent out from 81 Will
liams street (adjoining Wall street, N.
Y. They are printed on card board and
the entire set sold for $1OO. The list
is as follows:
1. Two for One.
2. 16 to Locust.
8. Fiat Weather.
4. Coins Flying Machine.
5. Fiat Wheat.
6. Fiat Cloth.
Z. Too Much Business.
8. Pig in the Garden.
9. June Grub of 1895.
10. What Free Silver Will Buy.
IL. The Unjust Steward.
. IL. Life Insurance and Free Coinage.
10. A New Way to Swindle Old Sol
diers.
IA. A Double Standard.
1916. Choose Your Wage Standard.
II. It All Depends on What You Look
Through.
is. Don't Monkey With the Buzz Saw
10. A Mill for the Barons.
20. Wages in Silver Country.
81. After Taking the Silver Cure.
%. Pig Silver.
%. Clothes and Dollars.
"a. Rival Testers.
%. Dog in the Manager.
26. Free Coinage Hatchet.
q. Over the Brink.
%. Coin at School.
20. Light Weight Hypnotism.
30. Beauty of Bimetallism.
81. Up in Balloon.
80. "Bimetallic" Exercise.
80. The Biggest Hog.
"a. The Basis Of Commerce.
35. Coins Exegesis.
36. Christian and Demas.
81. The Two Yard Sticks.
SO. Whom Free Coinage Carries.
80. Nickel in the Slot.
40. Red Riding Hood.
We hope the Populists and free silver
men may be given an opportunity to
see all these cartoons, that they may
the more appreciate the counterparts
that will from time to time appear in
the reform press cartoon service.
Subjects for answer easily suggest
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29

Why not elect ]. Pierpont Morgan
king in this country? He is at the
head of the syndicate that was paid
81, 100000 in commissions to bolster up
the credit of the United States Treas
ury until next October. It now appears
that he has a controlling "einch" on
the great railroads in the country, and
is doing some controlling business
among them. A recent dispatch from
Chicago says:
81. Pierpont Morgan, In forcing the
Presidents Of the Eastern roads to stop
the severe cutting of freight rates
which has prevailed for several months
past, has shown there is no necessity
for the formation Of railroad pools in
order to secure the maintenance Of
rates. 1t demonstrates that the mon
eyed interests, which furnish the capt.
tai with which railroads are built and
acquired, can at any time stop the In
discriminate cutting Of rates and COM
pei the Presidents and managers, who
are merely their agents, to run and
operate the railroads on business prin-
ciples. The firm of which ]. Pierpont
Morgan is the head Of the financial
agent for most of the large railroad in
terests in the country, including the
Vanderbilts, and, there are few, If any,
railroad managers who would dare to
disobey the mandates Of Mr.. Morgan.
When the latter said the word, the lines
charged with preventing an agreement
were the first ones to append their sig
natures to the new "gentlemen's agree
ment"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29
sTOP-THIEF CRY.
we MUST GO SLOW" SAY THE
CONSERVATIVES.

Yes, Let America Go to the Auction
Rlock-Her children starVs, Her
strong Men Commit Suicide, and Her
Young Women Go to Worse Than
Death.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29
REV. SAM JONES TALKS
GIVES HIS VIEWS OF THE PO-
LITICAL SITUATION.

Says Old Party Lines Are Fading Out,
and the Country Is organizing on the
Brains and Common Sense Of the
Common People.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-08-29

Party lines are broken; the people
are thinking Independently and the
time has passed when little pot poll
tician can take drink out of his flask
and yell Jeffersonian democracy a few
times and call the democrats into line,
hitch them to his little wagon, crack
his party whip and ride into office.
This country is bigger than any polit-
ical party. Political parties have died
and the country has lived, and some
more can die and the country will be
better off by their death.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-24
WHARF AND WAVE.

DIAMOND HEAD, Jan. 23.-10 Pm.
Weather, cloudy; wind, Sc.
The Miowera is due from Vancou-
YER, B. O., today.
Spearing fish Is becoming quite
common along the wharves.
The Australia is due tomorrow
evening instead of Saturday morn
ing.
About 1I,O6O bags of sugar were
brought in by the island steamers
yesterday.
The American bark Mohican will
probably sail tomorrow. She is
ready for sea.
The schooner Esther Buhne is
ready for sea. She will probably go
in day or 80.
Purser Kelly will go back to the
Iwalani and White to the w. Ct.
Hall.
The steamers Pele, Kaala and
James Makee came in yesterday and
sailed again for their various ports.
The pursers of the island steamers
that arrived yesterday report every
thing perfectly quiet at their res
pective ports.
Brewers wharf has been a scene of
activity for the past week. The
barks Mohican and Lima and the
Andrew WEIGH have all discharged
there.
There are at present twenty vessels
in port not including island coasters.
The highest number so far this
month is twenty-five and the lowest
fourteen.
The bark Lima vacated her place
at Brewers wharf yesterday, in
order to make room for the Andrew
WEIGH to discharge her cargo of
general merchandise.
Several natives were employed
selling -Kona oranges on the w. q.
Halls wharf yesterday morning.
Eight barrels brought by the Hall
on her last trip were sold off rapidly.
Naval row is nearly deserted.
Only five vessels are there now. The
Alice Cooke will come in to a wharf
to discharge her cargo of lumber
very soon and the Paul Isenberg will
sail in few days.
The officers Of the steamer Re Au
Hou report seeing the sealing
schooner John Efhnger at Waimee.
Sheriff Wilcox and ten native police.
men boarded the vessel thinking she
had arms and ammunition aboard
Whiskey was all they found.
The Portuguese Government has
decided to construct a navy, and
with this object in view the sum OF
G120,000 ($600,000) yearly will be
provided for twenty years. Tenders
will be invited from ship-builders in
the United States and other coun-
tries.
The ship Great Admiral, named in
honor of Admiral Farragut, now on
her way from Baltimore to San
Francisco, is the last of the great
feet of Black Horse clipper ships out
of Boston In the China trade. Nava3
Constructor w. II. Varney, United
States Navy, designed the Great
Admiral in 1867, and she was launch
ed from the shipyard of r. H. Jack
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-24
The North Atlantic Squadron.

The strongest American feet ever
sent to the West Indian waters will
assemble there early this year. 1t
will comprise seven or eight war
ships, at the head of which will be
the flagship New York, Captain h:
d. Evans, an armored cruiser OF
$500 tons, carrying six 3 inch and
twelve rapid fire 4 inch rifles in her
main battery, and fourteen pieces in
her secondary battery, while her full
complement is 40 officers and $50
men. These vessels are assembled
there partly in compliance with the
custom Of sending the North Atlantic
squadron thither in the winter. as
the season is favorable for cruising
there, partly to enable the vessels to
practice feet maneuvers together,
and partly in view OF the Central
American troubles in Nicaragua and
that neighborhood.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-01-24
UNDERGROUND WIRES.
The Extensive System in Use in
New York City.


The multiform use of electricity,
and the vast increase of the bust
ness in New York, brought the de-
cree that wires must 60 under
ground. It was q hard fight, but
the poles and wires had to go, and
subways were built. There are
now 125 of these ways, reaching
out to every portion of the city and
carrying the various wires used as
electrical conductors, including
telegraph, telephone, electric light
and fire alarm wires. These are
under nearly every street, and in
many streets are two sets of sub
ways-one for electric lighting or
high tension and the other for tele-
graph and telephone or low tension.
Besides the main trunk lines of
subways there are lateral ducts
which reach out like great arms
to the centers of the blocks on
either side.
These subways belong to cor
poration that rents the privilege of
laying wires to the various electric
companies. The wires instead of
being stretched each one sepa-
rately, as when on poles, are-after
being insulated-made into great
cables, which sometimes have as
many as 300 separate wires. Thus
wires that would almost darken a
narrow street, when placed in the
old way, are now confined within
less than a diameter of three
inches. There are now more than
forty thousand miles of these wires
under the streets of the city, the
Metropolitan Telegraph and Tele-
phone Company having 10000
miles.
These wires are run through iron
pipes three inches in diameter
Along the line of these pipes and
about two hundred feet apart, are
manholes, into which they run and
where the workmen can get at the
subways for the purpose of laying
and repairing the lines. Here every
day in all parts of the city are men
working in underground New York.
Around the entrance to the man
hole they place an iron guard to
prevent accident. Where such
work is going on you will fire.
quently see men uncoiling a lead
pipe from a huge spool and
passing it into the ground. This
lead pipe holds the electric wires,
and as it disappears it is being
drawn into one of the pipes by
means of a rope that leads to an
other manhole. This rope was
taken through the pipes from one
manhole to another by means of a
long pole, formed from jointed
rods that are fastened together
as they are run in the pipes.
Several methods, such as a stiff
wire that could be coiled-a creep
ing, bug-ike device-and fastening
cord to a rats tail and chasing
him through the pipe with ferret.
have been tried to get the rope
through, but the jointed rod,
though requiring time in its opera
ton, has proven itself to be the bet
ter way.