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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18
An American Monarch.

Senator Stewart, in a recent inter-
view, expressed himself in a very en-
phatic manner and somewhat bitterly,
concerning the general situation. His
remarks in regard to President Cleve-
land were Jas follows: THE president
has no occasion to consult anyone, and
/ do not know that he does. We are
drifting every day toward Imperialism,
and the pnly use that the president has
for the law appears to be to nullify 1t.
The administration announces that 1t
intends TO maintain the parity between
gold and silver, and it is doing so by
discrediting silver. There is some talk
about issuing more bonds. Whether
or not bonds will be issued will de-
pend, / think, on whether or not the
Rothschilds desire to have them issued.
AS for Mr.. Carlisle, ii does not matter
what his views upon the financial
Questions are, or whether he has any.
He is not there to have views. He Is
net called upon to do the thinking. He
is simply there to execute the presi-
dents will as the recording, secretary
of the president, and that is ALL
The Express.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

AS the conspiracy of the banking
power of Europe and this country goes
on and unfolds the damnable schemes
begun a third of a century ago, the
pimps of this power-the plutocratic
press-becOmes more servile and dis
picably contemplate. Emboldened
by the indifference or tame submits
sion Of the masses, the paid hirelings
on many Of these plutocratic sheets
are throwing off all DISCUSSES and
talking right out in meeting in way
that is refreshingly frank. They have
come to the point where they discant
upon the rights of capital in a @Gy
that would indicate their belief that
the people-labor-the producers of
wealth, have no rights that capital is
bound to respect. Within the year past
these penny-a-liners have been more
outspoken than ever before. Their
nerve and gall are simply astonishing
and they proclaim in almost so many
words that the banking power and
corporations generally are so thor
oughly entrenched as to be imprg-
nable; that the people are powerless
and must submit to their reign of
capitalistic greed. 1t is well that plu-
tocracy thus shows its hand. 1t will
have the Afect Of opening the eyes of
many who have hitherto been blind,
and cause men to think and see the
dangers that menace our free institu-
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18
MAKING ANARCHISTS.

The Vanderbilt Divorce Case a Scandal
to the Country.
The method by which the Vanderbilt
divorce was arranged is a scandal to
our jurisprudence. Worse than that
it is an influence for the degradation
of public morals and the breaking down
of popular sense of right and wrong.
Practically Mr.. and Mrs Vanderbilt
divorced themselves. There was no
hearing before a court. The parties
did not appear before the tribunal.
There was no public proof Of infidelity
on either side to serve as a punishment
to the guilty party or as a deterrent
influence in the case of others. The
whole matter was arranged by dicker
The only function of the court was TO
give legal effect to the terms of the
bargain. Is it, then, the privilege of rich
to annul their marriage at pleasure by
mutual agreement? The law, rigidly
enforced against all ordinary citizens,
prescribes that collision between hus-
band and wife shall be an effectual
and peremptory bar to divorce. Yet
this rich man and woman have sent
their lawyers into court with a collu-
sive agreement already made; the court
has suppressed the evidence agreed to
be presented by sending the case to a
referee, instead Of hearing it in open
session; the referee has made a report
in accordance with the terms of the
dicker; the court has affirmed it, order
ing the papers sealed, so that there may
be no scandal-which means simply
that the guilty party shall be spared all
social shame and inconvenience-and
the terms of the collusive agreement
have been embodied in a decree which
authorizes one party to marry again at
pleasure and imposes upon the other
a prohibition of marriage, which is as
Intellectual as bull against a comet.
Unless we accept the unclean doctrine
of free love, marriage an( divorce are
not in any sense private matters. The
family relation lies at the very founda-
ton of society. Divorce equally with
marriage is matter of public concern,
and should be decreed only after a pub
lie hearing and public proof of statu-
tory cause. A case of this kind sets
an example Of the most pernicous char
acter imaginable. 1t means to- the
majority that there is one law for the
rich and another for the rest of us. 1t
means that if you have money enough
your marriage VOWS may count for
nothing. 1t means that your miscon-
duct will be carefully guarded against
exposure by all the authority the
court possesses. 1t means that while
cOllusive divorce proceedings are per-
emptorily thrown out of court in the
case of ordinary persons, a multi-mil-
lionaire and his wife may arrange such
a proceeding in full assurance that it
will be ratified by the courts, and that
all the scandalous details will be Sc
curely hidden beneath the sacred seal
of the tribunal.-New York World.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

In sentencing some laboring men for
alleged contempt of his orders a Judge
gave one man three-months longer i'm
p-isonment than the others, because,
as he said, for being more intelligent
and therefore more dangerous" There
you have it! Intelligence is a crime!
The same kind of a crime it was to
learn negro slave how to read in an
te-bellum days. What is it that makes
a workingman's intelligence danger
Gus? All, it was an unguarded moment
when this judge let drop that express
sion. As the plant tool of plutocracy
that judge well knows that intelligence
of workingmen will drive plutocracy
power and such servile scoundrels as
he from the judicial bench. Well may
they fear the intelligence of the people!
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

tices Of which I have been speaking
are slowly but surely filching from us
the whole of our country-all, at least,
that made 1t the best to live in and the
easiest to die for. If parties will not
look after their own drainage and ven
tilation there must be somebody who
will do it, who will cry out without
ceasing till their fellow citizens are
aroused to the danger of infection. This
duty can be done only by men disasso-
ciated from the interests of party"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

It makes all the difference in the
world whose OK is gored. Senator
blanchard of Louisiana says the action
of the United States district attorney
in calling for United States troops to
suppress disorders in New Orleans was
unwarranted and uncalled for. 1t was
all right to send troops to Chicago last
summer and every cuckoo statesman
and newspaper in the south applauded
the act, but it seems that what is sauce
for the Chicago goose is not sauce for
the New Orleans gander. Queer
very queer country, thisl
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Wheat, cotton, and everything the
farmer produces has gone down, down,
down, in price, but the salaries of Of
fce-holders have gone up or remained
the same. What was that about a
dollar buying so much more now than
it would twenty-five years ago?
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

1t is written that the wages of sin
is death" but one would think by the
way Cleveland is appointing men to
office whom the people have rejected
that the wages of sin was office" Mr..
Springer's appointment as federal Judge
is the latest in that line.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18
The Elnurishinn Kirk

A Scotch elder was asked how the
kirk was getting along. He answered:
"Aweel. We had 400 members. then we
had a deveesion and there were only
200 left; then a disruption. and only
ten Of us left; then We had heresy
trial, and now only me and Brother
Duncan are left. and / hae great doots
o. Duncan's orthodoxy.-Boston Tray
eler.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18
The Oneidas.

Oneida was the name of an Indian
tribe. The word means "the people Of
the beacon stone" there being a tradi-
ton that in all their wanderings they
were followed by certain great stone
that took up its station on the highest
hill In the neighborhood.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Hard money and hard times go hand
in hand, for the simple reason that
there is not gold and silver enough
in the world to transact the business
without its being able to command a
premium over other things.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The secretary of the treasury is try
ing to maintain the gold standard
gold payments-by increasing the OBJ
legations against the gold he has at
command. Any fool ought to see that
the more promises he put out the less
able he will be to pay them.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

1t Is reported that the bankers are
getting ready to make another raid on
the treasury. Now that the Cook
gang" is cleaned up We suggest that the
government turn its attention to the
bank gang" that is infinitely worse.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Establish Peoples party headquar-
tiers in the Mississippi valley, at some
point where the common people can
drop in occasionally and rub I'D"
against the chairman.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

If the Republicans will now quit
laughing at the last congress and be-
gin thinking about the next it might
be better for the country.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Washington is no place for Peoples
party headquarters. 1t is the center of
seldshness. The politicians are likely
to want to have things run in their
own interest.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The fellows that tried to sit down
on" the Omaha platform are now con-
tent to stand on it. They have heard
from the people and my policy"
wouldn't win.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

DR.. Talmage is praying for forgive
ness for the Fifty-third congress for the
damage it did the people of this coun-
try. He has a large job on his hands.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The administration is acting like a
boy that has had whipping at school
wants to lick everything in sight to
get even.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

At the present rate before Cleve-
lands administration closes we will be
on fighting terms with every nation on
the globe.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The people have decided that the
Omaha platform is a pretty good thing
to stand on-while others 1--we discov-
cred that it won't do to sit down on"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

By the time the Democrats wash all
their dirty linen the Populists will have
opened the jack pot and raked the
board.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

There is not being much said about
politics now by the two old parties.
One party seems to be as much ashamed
of it as the other.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Whenever a man wObbleS on the
spindle he ought to be reduced to the
ranks.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Our greatest danger is not in the
gunbOats and navies of foreign ma
tons, but in following their financial
theories.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

A criminal named Blanck liberated
a number Of fellow prisoners from jail.
in Seattle by using bogus gun. IA
held the weapon point blank at the
iailer's head.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The national headquarters ought to
be in some central city in the Mississip-
pi valley, Kansas City, st. Louis or
Memphis.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Every man who continues to vote
the old party ticket should be satisfied
with present conditions.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Decisions made to order" would be
good sign for the federal courts to
hang out.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The Democratic party is not dead,
but it's awfully sleepy.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

That Democratic chance" almost
skinned us. Save us from another.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Cuba seems to be a highway for
Spanish brigands.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Why didn't Grover send the troops
over to the Indiana legislature?
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The only sure means of identifying
Democrat nowadays is by his breath.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The honest dollar is the dollar of the
contract.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

A man built on the narrow gauge
don't like a broad gauge platform.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The two old parties in Oakland, Cal,
fused against the Populists and were
defeated by over 800 majority.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

Put none but brave, true men on
guard.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The demand for a single gold stand
ard is a demand for dishonest dollar.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

The gold reserve is reservin' some
better than it did.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

a government bond is public rob-
Der.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18

An increase of bonds in time of
peace is crime against humanity.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18
Banks Of issue are panic breeders.

Pull of your coat for the fight of 1896.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-04-18
1.397.5OO.OOO


Here we find that the entire fund.-
mental crops Of the farmers will bring
but one-half of the interest tribute
demanded Of the people. How is the
balance of this interest to be met and
how will the principle be liquidated
under present conditions are not easily
answered. The only method through
which it is possible to accomplish
this desired end is to increase the
volume of money in circulation,
thereby raising prices, and make
one Gushel of wheat or one pound Of
cotton or one days labor pay twice
as much debt and interest as they do
at the present time.
To do this is the one great object Of
financial reform which, in our judg-
ment, must come at once or the people
will become bankrupts.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-19
Cruelty III a Kid Glove.

It has been estimated that out Of
the IS, 900, 900 people in the United
States at least Is, 100000 are grown
women OF an age to wear kid gloves,
and yet, according to the Dry Goods
Economist. the import is about 10,-
100000 pair from France, which IS
said to make 24,O00, 900 pair, When
we realize that one woman Of fashion
can easily wear hundred pair during
the year it would seem that many of
our women are still to be converted
to the wearing Of that dainty neces-
sity, kid glove. Our large cities are
immense consumers, New York stores
selling a larger number Of kid gloves
to the average woman inhabitant
than any other city, except Paris,
which of course does a large trade
with its floating populace.
The center Of the glove trade has
always been at Grenoble, a mountain
city of 55, 900 people in France, where
even the streets and public squares
sing of gloves as one Of each is named
after Xavier Jouyin, veteran in the
manufacturing of kid gloves. The
raw skins manufactured here in a
year are valued at 81. 900, 900. When
made into Is, o0O,0O pair Of gloves
the value is just doubled, and the
making up Of the skins gives employ
ueHt to 80, people.
The skins for the so-called real"
kid gloves come from France, Italy,
Spain, Mexico and South America,
France ranking first where extreme
care is taken with the kids, even to
sewing the kid in cover or blanket
to keep the delicate skin in perfect
condition. In the meantime the lit
tie animal grows until the cover in
flicts untold pain, but we never hear
of ladies forming society to promote
the disuse of kid gloves, as has been
tried withthe Audubon society for
suppressing the fashion OF birds on
hats But the birds are not abso-
lutely necessary, or substitute may
be had, while nothing will replace a
good kid glove on a well dressed wo-
man Of the present day. The skins
from Chile and the andes are par.
tlcularly liked for suede gloves.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-19
THE Cleaner 'Tis, the Cosier 'Tis.' >
What is Home Without
SAPOL 10
For rAnti-vaccination Cranks.


Jenner learned that there is righ1
and a wrong way in which to insert
the virus-in short, that the operation
is nice exercise Of medical art. He
discovered that certain eruptive dis.
eases occurring at the same time make
the best virus imperative, and he as
certained that there are many circum.
stances that rapidly destroy the vital,
ity Of the virus when not properly
cared for. He left the fruits Of all
these observations embodied in a set
Of rules Of procedure that nearly a
century Of experience and medical ad-
vance has not improved upon. Of
course, he could not foresee the won
derful evolution in the methods Of the
production Of the virus that now puts
such q large and safe supply into the
lands Of the practitioner.
We, who TRANQUILITY enjoy the fruits
of the great deliverance from the hor-
rible and universal plague of smallpox,
see and know so little of it as not to be
able to form any just conception Of the
moustrous proportions Of the scourse
when unchecked. The average death
rate from it throughout England was
such that if applied to the present popu-
lation it would give 10000 per annun:
In London alone before 1904 tie an.
nual deaths were 2,O1S in population
of 100000; in 1890, in population Of
100000, there was just one death
from smallpox. In the year 1860 there
was not death from it in Massachu-
settS-Popular Science Monthly.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-19
WALTER BAKER & co. DORCHESTER. MASS.
9G8
The Earl of HalcoIfeS.

Man. little stories are told IN illus
traJ1ou of his kindliness Of heart un-
der a somewhat rough exterior. One
season he had a field Of turnips upon
which he prided himself good DEAL
ind walking abroad in the early
morning, he surprised and cid woman
busily employed in filing sack with
his fayorites. After giving ner a
hearty scolding, to which she replied
only by the silent eloquence Of re-
peated courtesies, he was walking
away when the woman called after
him: "Eh, my Lord, the bags unco'
heavy. Would ye be sac kind as 70
help ne on my back wi It'll" Whicn ne
did forthwith, and the culpr1t de
camped with profuse thanks.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-19
Funny Music.

A funny incident occurred at a
choir rehearsal in one of the fashion
able East Side churches not long ago.
They were preparing for the follow
ing Sunday morning beautiful Sc
lection, the first words of which were
Il am Pilgrim" It so happened
that the music divided the word pill.
grim and made pause after the first
syllable. The effect was most anus.
ing. The soprano sang ia high key,
Il am Pill" and stopped. The
alto repeated, Il am a Pill" The
tenor acknowledged he was "Pil-,'
and when the bass came laundering
in with the like declaration, Il am a
Pill" it was too much for the gray
ity Of the singers
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-19
The Size of the Pacific Oceah.

The Pacific Ocean may be reckoned
TO include 6O,OO0,000 square miles, or
more than one-third of the total area
Of the earth's surface. It extends
through nearly 135 degrees of latitude,
Or three-eights of the worlds circum-
rerence-a stretch Of 5000 miles from
north to south. From east to west 1t
varies from an even greater length to
less than fifty miles. If confined by
The smallest possible length of boundary
line, it would form a round pond $500
miiesin diameter. The deepest sound
ing made by the Challenger expedition
vas in the Pacific, between the Caro-
lines and the Ledrones, and was 4475
Fathoms, or 26, $50 feet: q greater depth
than the height of any mountain in
he world except three. A still deeper
pounding was made from the United
States ship Tuscarora, of 1900 fathoms,
27,600,) at the entrance to the Sea OF
okotski; that being probably the
!eepest reliable sounding ever made.
The Pacific Ocean has not been ex-
,lored nearly so thoroughly as the At
.antic, and generalizations from the
comparatively few statistics available
may be subject to considerable inaccur-
acy; but, putting together therecorded
soundings, and taking into account an
estimate of the depth based upon the
,wiftness of the tide wave, it seems
probable that the average depth of the
Pacific may safely be put at 5000
:athoms, lS,000,) or nearly 81 miles.
This gives the entire contents of the
Pacific as nearly 232, 100000 cubic
niles. Some conception of one cubic
nile may be got from the statement
hat, if we had a block of buildings of
that size, it would take an hour to
walk around it at good pace, and a
I :airly easy staircase to the top OF it
aould contain 10000 steps, while
thirteen cathedrals as high as St. Pauls
could be piled up on one another with
,ut reaching to the top.
The cubic contents expressed IN feet
', S thirty-four trillions, (thirty-four
million million million.) This is q
number it is not easy to realize; it is
50 great that if a million clocks licked
once second for million years their
combined tickings would net amount
10 it. As each cubic foot or water
weighs over sixty-two pounds, the
weight of the Pacific is over 1000 tril-
lion pounds, or $50, 900, 100000,
300 tons.-Longman's Magazine.