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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
An Ancient Chestnut.

The Boston Herald says that the
treasury has the same old story to tell
about the dishonest silver dollar
it won't circulate, it keeps coming back
into the treasury. If the silver dollar
were One-half as dishonest as those
whose business it is to malign it, it
would be in the penitentiary, rather
than in the treasury. Coin, whether
gold or silver, does it's 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 coins9
Perhaps that would be too glaring 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 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
eulation" 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 a glimpse of a gold coin of any
denomination, and no man will have
one II he can get a silver certificate a
greenback or a banknote in place of it.
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
tact tnat 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 it out that
there were something like $500. 600, 900
in circulation" just because there was
| that much whose whereabouts was un-
known The truth seems to be that
about 5000. 1000, 900 of this gold circulates
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.
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 vio-
lently and vigorously against being
forced to receive it-they didn't want
gold coin If they could get silver certi-
icates or anything else The only rea-
son gold coin doesn't ..how back into
the treasury" Is that there is SO pre-
cious little to flow. It certainly doesn't
dow IL the channels Of trade.
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

The textile workers of Rhode Island,
after starving more or less for three
months Striking" have returned to
work at the masters wages. The mas
ters didn't starve. They had feasts like
unto Belshazzar, they balled and dined,
while the workers, too foolish to listen
to socialists, were outside and starving.
They vote their masters ticket, and
are afraid to listen to socialism and
learn how it will make them masters.
Let 'em starve. Darn starving voter
who insists on voting for system that
starves him. Vote for boodlers some
more, eh?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
That Ten Per Cent "kaise.,

All over the country the statement ia
published that wages at Pullman have
been increased ten per cent and the
company has received eulogistic notice
from the daily press generally on this
unself1sh act of corporation that only
a year ago was the most extensively
abused for pusilanimous meanness of
any corporation in the United States.
The real facts appear to be that the
Pullman company are deceiving the
people and that the pretended raise in
wages has not occurred.
The Chicago Chronicle under the
caption ''The Pullman Fraud" says:
Inquiry among the men who earn
the wages demonstrates that there has
been no "raise." At least, the people
who draw pay have not found their
checks bigger or their pay envelopes
heavier. One mana skilled work
man, not laborer-tells Chronicle
reporter that weeks work of 1O%
hours day brings him only $3.50.
Another says that in the cabinet-mak-
ing department $2.35 day is the limit
set. Pay is theoretically by the piece,
so as to prevent loafing which is just
but If a man is particularly active,
industrious and efficient, he is still
prevented from earning more than %
cents an hour-which is more than un-
Just, it is fraudulent.
1t is singular that even for three or
four days the Pullman concern could
humbug the press of Chicago. No
body who has had opportunity to study
the methods of that corporation could
attach Importance to the assertion that
1t had voluntarily increased the wages
of its employees. Philanthropy is no
part of the Pullman code of business,
nor even is justice. Wages once low
cred never increase. The hand Of Pull
man is against every man-that is,
against society, and it is not extraya-
CANT to say that society is coming to
raise its hand against Pullman"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

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 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.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
JUDGE LYNCH AT WORK.
An Ohio Mob Hangs a Colored Man for
the Murder of An Aged Banker

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Aug. 23.-At New
Richmond, Ohio, twenty-five miles
up the Ohio river from Cincinnati, at
o'clock yesterday afternoon, mob
took Noah Anderson, colored, from
the Jail and hanged him for the muir
der of Franklin Friedman, nearly so
years old, and president of the First
National bank of that place. MIR.
Friedman was among the wealthiest
men in Clermont county.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

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
ernment. My hope has always been
in the people. have never had any
hope in a. 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
well they may be, and the politicians
may look to hear thunder before long.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Citizenship Forfeited by Marriage.

Fort WORTH, Texas, Aug. 2a.-The
court of claims for citizenship in the
Chickasaw nation has ruled that a
white man who has married an Indian
of the tribe forfeits all his rights of
citizenship with said tribe after the
decease of his Indian wife by marry
ing white woman. The result of this
decision will be OF great Importance
to many lntermarried citizens.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Joe Patchen Defeats John R. Gentr

Joe Patchen Defeats John r. Gentry.
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Joe Patchen yes
terday won the great match race
against John r. Gentry in straight
heats. The race took place on the
famous Washington park track, but
as wind that amounted almost TO a
gale blew all afternoon, a sensational
time performance was out of the ques-
tion. The three heats were covered in
2:O5H, 2:O7I and 2:O74.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Female Highway Robber.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 23.-At
$3.50 o'clock last night Michael Barrett,
aged 81 years, was waylaid, stabbed
and robbed by woman footpad while
on his way to the depot TO take train
for ST. Louis. The woman robber Sc
cured S405 from him and made her
escape.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
A Loan Agent Accused OF Theft

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, Aug. 23.-The
grand jury has indicted James r. Mil
ner, one of the most prominent loan
agents in Southwest Missouri, on the
charge of embezzlement He is out of
the city and will be arrested on his re-
turn. He represented Mrs. E. A. Ruff,
wealthy Philadelphia widow, and
she claims that he has taken Sc, 600 be-
longing to her.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Two Female bandits Arrested.

GUTHRIE, Ok, Aug. 2o.-Jennie Met
calfe and Annie McDowlet, the girls
arrested last week for horse stealing,
but who escaped from Sheriff Lake,
have been again captured and lodged
in the Pawnee jail. Both were in male
attire when captured this time, with
revolvers in their belts and spurs on
their boots.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Debated at n Picnic.

MEXICO, Mo-, Aug. 23.-There was a
mammoth picnic held near here yes
terday. 1t was estimated that there
were 5000 people present. Three
counties were represented-Audr
Rolla and Monroe. Champ Clark, sill
yer advocate, and Congressman Riley
Hall, sound money man, held a joint
debate of three hours duration. The
majority of the audience was with
Clark. Both made extraordinarily
fine speeches.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Fatal Array at a DANCE.

DRExEL, Mo-, Aug. 23.-At dance
at the house of Alex Lopeman, twelve
miles northeast of here, fight took
place between A. B. Evans and Lee
Nichols, in which Nichols received five
bad wounds from a pocket knife.
Evans was not hurt much, while Mich
OILS is not expected to live. Evans got
up the dance and Nichols is a son-in-
law of Lopeman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Kan.a. snyar wor,-. so,a

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Yesterday
Secretary Morton sold the entire gov
ernment sugar plant at Medicine
Lodge, Kan, and the experimental ap-
paratus at Sterling, Kan, to Louisiana
parties who will, it is said, remove the
machinery to that state. The condi-
tions of the sale or the price paid are
not known.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Mhr Is ItY

Why is the plute press so quiet about
the bankers national convention held
at Saratoga, N. Y. the other day? Have
they caught on that bankers opinions
are nightly unpopular now?-New
Charter (San Jose, CALI
Haven't you heard the news, broth
er? The bankers have decided not to
allow any more Of their proceedings
to become public. The people are
catching on to the conspiracy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Much Money for Hawaiian Education.

Much Money for Hawaiian Education.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22.-Charles r.
Bishop, first vice president of the Bank
of California, has given $500. 600 to
schools and societies in the Hawaiian
islands The money is to be used to
promote the interests of a number of
institutions sustained by the late Mrs.
Bishop in her lifetime.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Twenty-Five Bodies Recovered.

DENVER, Col, Aug. 22.-The number
of bodies found in the ruins of the
Gumry hotel up to noon to-day was
twenty-five. Some of these have not
been fully identified. The last one
recovered may be that of William ID.
Dodds of Albany. n. Y. A dispatch
from Chicago says that w. B. Owens is
there, but his SON may have been lost.
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NINE MEN KILLED.

Five Others Will Die-Caused by an Ex-
plosIon at Homestead.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 2l.-An explo-
sion at furnace III, of the Carnegie
Steel company at Braddock, at 5 o'clock
yesterday morning killed nine men, in
jured sixteen more and destroyed $780,
600 worth of property. Five of the in
jured will die. All the killed and in
jured were Hungarians, except James
Harrison, the foreman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
A rrested for wearing Bloomer,,

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Aug. 23.-Mrs.
Noey, the first female cyclist to appear
on the streets of Little Rock, clad in
bloomers. was arrested by the police
under an ordinance prescribing s'inde-
cent apparel" The bloomers were of
the conventional pattern, such as are
worn in other cities. The case will be
fought to the end.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Ohio Democrats.

SPRINeFIELD, Ohio, Aug. Eth
Democratic state convention nomin-
ated Ex-Governor Campbell for gov
ernor and a complete state ticket by
reclamation The financial plank of
the last national Democratic conven-
tion was reaffirmed and President
Cleveland and Senator Brice hand
somely indorsed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
HoLD-UP IN MICHIGAN.
Chicago and West Michigan Train Is
Dynamited.

Dynamited.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug. 22.-The
fast express, known as the "Flyer," "
on the Chicago aud West Michigan
railroad, leaving Chicago at 5 o'clock
and arriving here at 1o:40, was held up
by five men in piece of woods just
before crossing the Kalamazoo river
at 0 o'clock last night. The train was
tagged by swinging a white light
across the track. The brakeman,
Timothy Murphy, was seriously
wounded by pistol shots fred by the
bandits. The express safe was blown
open with dynamite, but there was
nothing in it of negotiable value. The
conductor was robbed of 81.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
Negro Lynched i'm Arkansas.

negro. Jones, who murdered Whitman
Beltzhoover some time ago, and who
broke jail here few days ago and
shot James Bennett while resisting ar
rest, was lynched last night by mob
of twenty-five men.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

GUTHRIE, Ok, Aug. 2s.-Dr. Ignatz
Mayer, oculist of Springfield. NO.. has
applied here for divorce from his
wife. Sarah, alleging that her unreas-
enable jealousy caused her to interfere
with his practice and made life un-
beara HE
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
CounterfeIter captured.

MAcoS, Mo-, Aug 23.-United States
Marshal Snyder captured another al
legged counterfeiter near Elmer, Macon
county, and took him to Kirksville for
examination. His name is Clinton
Wilcox rls he isa well-known farmer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

EMPoRIA, Kan, Aug. 22.-John
Fluker, an old resident of Lyon county
and his son, Frank, were drowned in
the Neosho river while trying to ford
it Eve miles northwest of this city. He
was wholesale paper dealer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

There is no getting around it. The
main question is now, as it has al
ways been, whether men or money
shall rule.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
DEAR MONEY FOLLY.
DEBT INCREASED S111.17a o54
IN ONE YEAR.
And Millions of Cash in the Treasury
"A System of FinAnciering That
Would Disgrace Hottentot BarbarIans
Practiced by Honest Money Men.

The following is taken from the an
nual report of the secretary of the navy
issued July 1:
The monthly statement of the public
debt, shows the debt on June 30, 1895,
the end of the fiscal year, to have been
$1,O96,913, ,120 exclusive of $579, ,207, 1868
in certificates and treasury notes in cir
culation, Offset by an equal amount of
cash in the treasury. Nor does 1t in
clude $31 ,157 ,730 in bonds of the last is
sue which have not yet been delivered
to London purchasers. The correspond
ing debt on June 80, 1894, was 81, ,016,-
S79,S16, showing an increase for the
year, including bonds not yet delivered
In London Of Sill, ,173,054. The cash in
the treasury, however, has increased,
during the year from $117, ,5S4, ,436 to
$195,230 1853, gain of ST, sos, III. The
true public debt, including bonds not
yet delivered, less cash in the treasury,
is therefore 1922 $3.50, III, an increase for
the year of $33,517,3
In palmer language the secretary of
the treasury in order to find an excuse
for the issue Of additional bonds, has
added
$77655,717
to the money lying idle in the treasury
a year ago, and added $11 ,655 ,054 to the
bonded debt, and the interest bearing
burden of the people.
Or, to put 1t in another way, while
money was scarce and all business suf-
fering, labor idle and farmers pinched
for ha
control Of the government deliberately
manipulated things so as to buy up
and withdraw from circulation ST.
655,717 OF cash. To make it still plain
er: While the body polite is suffering
from lack of ELECTROMAGNETIC
wretches deliberately tapped the body
and bled 1t to the tune of seventy-seven
millions, thus making money still
scarcer and pinching the people more
and more. That this was a damnable
conspiracy is proved by the report
which further on gives the following
item of cash in the treasury July 1, 1895:
Gold. ................ S155, 1893 1881
Sllver.... ............. 1888, $50
Paper..... ............... 5,925, 1888
Distributing officers bal
ances..... ............ 16,903, ,120
Total. -. .............. $S11 ,061 ,6S4
In the face of these figures the people
are led to believe that there is only
s195,24O, 153 available" cash in the
treasury. The treasury officials get this
figure by deducting $615, 1921, ,533 "de-
mand liabilities" as they call them and
designate the balance as available"
The total debt including these "de-
mand liabilities" (gold and silver GER
tificates) is $1,676, ,120,9S9.
Was there ever a business man in
the world, who having a large amount
of assets and owing $1,000 kept $811 in
the drawer to pay his creditors who
don't want their money?
That is precisely what the admins
tration is doing. And by that system
1t makes money dear and labor cheap.
Milwaukee Advance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

Bankers and usurers are the only
men that ever questioned the credit of
this government in time of peace.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
MEDICINE LODGE. KANSAS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2s 1895.
wAYLAND,s CENTER SHOTS.
The One Hoss Editor Rips 'Em Up tn

A government fiat makes three cents
worth of copper into dollar worth 100
cents, but it can't make so cents worth
Of silver into dollar worth 100 cents! |!
Ratsi
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

If men won't vote for freedom they
ceserve what they get,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28
SEVEN MEN DROWNED.
Sent to a Watery Grave by the Capsiz
ing of a Yacht at Buffalo.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Aug. 22.-By the
capsizing of the small pleasure yacht
Rung Brothers last evening seven men
of the fifteen on board were drowned.
That there was not a greater loss of
life was due to the nearness of the tug
E. G. Maytham and the quickness of
the life-saving crew in getting to the
the scene.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

Democracy seems to be aflicted with
bad case Of lost identity.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

The way to win is to work to win.
Now is good time to begin.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

Il ] should make cartoon Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-26

financial discussion. (Applause). A man loan
Ing money in ls72 that one thousand BUSH
els of wheat would have paid, you must
now give him two thousand bushels OF
wheat to pay that debt. (Applause) The men
who own bonds payable In money and se~
curities, payable IN money aggregating
property in the United States have legis-
lated so as TO enhance the value OF their
property until you have got to give up
twice as much to them when they come to
when you go with your hard earnings, with
the product OF your farm and your field
TO buy their property tApplause).
Mr.. Horr-Now. want TO call the atten-
tion OF my friends to the fact that he can
not get at how farmers are doing simply
by selecting one article which happens TO
be cheap.
HARVEY WANTS AN ANSWER.
Mr.. Harvey-I want to ask you right
here before these people. to answer my
argument made just before 1 sat down.
Mr. Horr-I am going to do it IL you will
wait md keep still, that is what / am up
here for now Qaughter) The very last
thing he said was in reference to the fact
that a farmer had to give twice as much
wheat to pay his debt as he did before the
demonetization of silver. What ails you?
That is the very thing 1 am speaking
about. Now I was stating that he cannot
POSSIBLY nnd out the ldcls III reference 10
the. farmer. simply by taking one article
and that the lowest one you can find. Now
l will call your attention TO confirmation
of the figures which L have heretofore CIV
en-. Those figures show that prices for farm
have not declined. Here in the United
States. comparing the present values to
those of twenty years ago, find my con-
firmation in an analysis OF national wealth
by the great statistical authority. Mr.. Null
the June North American Review Mr.. Null
hall says that the average yearly accumu-
lation of the agricultural workers, per cap
ita, of the United States. was, for the
decade 1861 to 1870, sl7.@ each.
Mr.. Horr-Don't bother me. For the
decade 1870 to 1880, 7.1J per capita, and for
the decade 1881 to 1890, $47.50 per capita.
Here is an ability on the part of the farm
ers Of this country S to save , IN the last a cen m
in the decade before the silver legisla-
ton, 1873.
Mr.. Harvey-Didn't you have that writ
ten before you left New York? (Applause)
Nobody disputes that. The United States
has not only been a workshop in producing
wealth, but ii has been a sweatshop. Zap
plausc.) 1t has been producing wealth, but
have the men who produced that wealth
got wealthy? The rich men are controlling
the legislation of America and the old
world and there is no plan by which Eu-
ropean civilization can rise from under II;
and when we have passed four or eight
years further along there will be no way
for us to rise from under 1t. We are max
ing the United States to-day the last stand
of freemen in the civilization of the world.
(Applause.)
The answering of questions occupied
bate finally being adjourned at Mr.. Horr's
reu,lest till Saturday at ]. d. m.