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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

The Childs-Drexel club held meeting
Sunday last and decided to give amen
tertainment and ball Wednesday even
ing, April IL, at Labor hall, in aidaof
the relief fund of Typographical Union
No. 80. Tickets are SO cents. An inter
esting programme of numbers has been
prepared, and the affair promises tosbe
well attended
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

The electrical workers union will
hold an important meeting Friday
evening next, at which all members
are requested to be present. Six new
members will be initiated and several
matters of Importance to the trade will
be considered. Signs of a decided re-
vival of interest in union matters are
manifest among the electrical workers.
and the future of the union promises
exceedingly WELL ~
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

cial Science association.
Thursday-Cigarmak bricklayers.
Friday-Trades and labor assembly,
electrical workers.
Saturday-Iron moulders, bakers,
brewers. cooperS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

Reports have it that during the win
ter 100000 persons in Chicago have re-
CURED assistance to protect them
against starvation, and $4,000 persons,
in addition, have been taken care of
at their homes at public expense Here
is total of 100000 persons forced by
circumstances they had no hand in
creating, to live on the ragged edge
of starvation.
1
1t is not intemperance which COM
pels whole families to work in fac
tories, but the bitter competition
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

All who are engaged in the produc-
ton of wealth must limit their charges
in accordance with the law of COM
petition, but the man who has an abb
solute monopoly, such as a forest or
a mineral deposit, is freed from the
operation of this law.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

The Typographical Journal, the
official organ of the International
Typographical union, comes to hand
this week inclosed in an artistic
cover, and has inaugurated new
departure-thato of receiving. adver-
Using. The Journal is a valuable
publication to the printers, and
should be literally patronized by
them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

The stage hands of the city will
hold ball at Turner hall on the even
ing of April IS. At noon of that day
a unique street procession will occur.
participated in by STEMS band and the
Fort Smelling buglers.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
Stead's Plan of Taxation.

EDITOR OF THE VoICE:-Stead, in his
book, sIf Christ Came to Chicago"
shows up in strong colors the corrupt
methods practiced in that city in MAX
ing returns of property for taxation.
It seems to me there is great need of
reform along this line, not only in Chi
cage, but everywhere else in this coun-
try. The author of the book named
above, on page 354, suggests a novel
method of making assessments, which
he calls an automatic method. He
says:
sNhy not make every citizen his
own assessor? The city might accept
as final the sworn statement of each of
its citizens as to the value of his pos
sessions, subject to the distinctly un-
derstood proviso that they might at
any tiae be condemned or appropri-
ated by the city at the figures at which
the owner assessed them. By this
no citizen would dare to asses
his property much below it's value. II
he did SO, he would simply invite the
condemnation of his own property for
the benefit of the CITY,"
I should like of the Voice readers to
give us their views of this method OF
assessment. w. N. C0UP.
Mt. Vernon, Q.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
Confiscation by Taxation.

To cur equal rights to land there
is in this stage of civilization but one
way. Such measures as peasant pro-
prietary, or land limitation" or the
reservation to actual settlers of what
is left of the public domain, do not
tend toward it; they lead away from it.
They a affect only a comparatively
unimportant class, and that Temporal
rily, while their outcome is not to
weaken 1andownership but rather to
strengthen it, by interesting a larger
number in it's maintenance. The only
way to abolish private property in land
is by the way of taxation. That way
is clear and Straightforward. It con-
sists simply in abolishing, one after
another, all imposts that are in their
nature really taxes, and resorting for
public revenues to economic rent, or
ground value. To the full freeing of
land, and the complete emancipation
of labor, it is, of course, necessary that
the whole of this value should be taken
for the common benefit; but that will
inevitably follow the decision to collect
from this source the revenues low
needed or even any considerable part
of them, just as the entrance of a vic
torious army into a city follows the
route of the army that defended it,
Henry George.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
ABLE DISCUSSIONS
AT the Farmers Nationo, r...-

National Congress.
Mr. A. F. Potter of New York rear
an interesting paper at Parkersbup. w
Va'' on the tax question showing how
tne burdens of taxation were uniustly
heavy on the farmer, H. az
serted and proved by the flo.
ures' which he read, that, in propor.
'ion 10 value, the farmers paid over 9(
per cent. of the taxes. His address was
1uil OF startling facts on the subject.
nc asserted also that there was q
steady and unbroken decline n the
values OF farm lands. This latter dec.
1aratlon brought up a delegate from
iilinols who said that in his state farms
a appreciated in value in the last
twelve years.
MT. Cowden, of Ohio, favored strin-
gent legislation to compel individuals
and corporations to give in for taxation
all intangible property such as stocks
and bonds, and if necessary for the
state to conhscate such property. He
also was in favor of severe punishment
Tor persons who perjured themselves
In giving IN property for taxation.
delegate from Maryland knew of a
gentleman in his neighborhood worth
$4,000, 600, who paid taxes on $50 worth
OF property, while his farmer neigh
DORIS paid taxes on every species of
property in their possession.
There was no honesty or equity in
such an arrangement. It was accom
plished by class legislation and was in
direct conflict with free government.
ALI men were created equal and have
inalienable rights, and should Insist
that those rights be respected.
A delegate from Ohio was in favor of
having the assessors stamp put on ev-
cry stock and bond, that they might
be listed for taxation.
Oliver, of Pennsylvania, stated that
he was In favor Of every species of
property being taxed. He explained
the tax system in vogue in that state.
Smith, of Pennsylvania, a banker
and farmer took exceptions to the
criticisms of the corporations INDUCED
by farmers. He explained that he was
interested in a bank with a capital
stock of 500, 600. The bank paid 5000
q year in taxes. A neighbor of his, a
farmer, who refused to sell his proper
ty for 500, oOo, paid only 5000 a year
taxes. Corporations, he believed, were
the salvation of the country and paid
a just proportion of the taxes.
Moore, of Pennsylvania, assaulted
the position taken by Smith, and the
sentiment of the crowd appeared to be
with him. He knew from observation
and from other sources of information,
that town property was not assessed as
high, according to value, as farm prop
erty.-Daily Sentinel, Parkersburg.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
NOVELTIES,

J. E. WATKINS has been appointed tc
the unique railroad position of historian
OF the Pennsylvania lines.
The map Of its system which the
Pennsylvania railroad will put up i'll its
Philadelphia station will be one hun
dred and fifteen feet long by fifteen
wide. 1t is claimed that it will be the
largest map in the world.
AN ice locomotive was some years
ago constructed for use in Russia. 1t
is employed to haul freight between
st. Petersburg and Cronstadt. The
front part rests on q sledge, and the
driving wheels are studded with
spikes.
CYLINDRICAL shape bales of cotton
are being shipped from Waco, Tex, by
the Missouri, Kansas g. Texas road.
The bales are pressed compactly, and
each weighs four hundred and ninety
pounds. BY this new method a car
can haul one hundred and ten bales.
AT London, Eng, a company has
been registered with a capital Of fifty
thousand pounds in ten pound shares,
to acquire, Observation-Disclosures diov
inventions designed to indicate mechanS
ically to passengers in railway trains
the name of the station Which the train
is approaching.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
~Socialistic Taxation.

g. IWIlLLcQ lQF lax IbclOFm oGuQlcbsJ
It seems paradoxical, but it is never
theless true, that the wonderful ad-
vancement in the civilization Of the
world and the triumphs of civil rights
and liberty there has been a constant
and quite perceptible retrogression as
regards personal rights and liberty in
many directions. Our statute books
have been congested with laws bearing
upon subjects, many Of them properly
foreign to legislative control. The dis
position upon the part of our legislat-
ors referred to has involved legis-
lation in a mass of ENHANCEMENT we'll
nigh hopeless. The counselor at law
wisely refuses an opinion upon sup
posedly simple points of law until he
has made a careful examination of the
statutes and decisions bearing upon the
subject. The control Of details and of
local affairs has been placed with mu-
nicipal legislators, whose intelligence,
acumen and probity is proverbially
limited. Thus, it has come to pass
that municipal corporations have pre-
sumed to throw about commerce and
traffic restrictions which the states are
expressly forbidden to create. The
right of the state to impose excuses and
penal revenue in order to meet the
necessity of paying the expenses con-
nected with the administration OF gov
Arnmental affairs has been greatly and
universally abused. In the process OF
time confusion has arisen in the minds
Of men upon the subject Of taxation
one Of the most serious import to men
living in organized society. Its orig
inal and proper purpose has been large
" lost sight Of and, in the form OF
mulot, fine, revenue and license, has
served as a football on the political
diamond, in a game in which local and
international jealousies, the capriees
Of professional politicians and n
wrongful development of legal prece-
dents and courtly pr~erogatives have
played important parts. Taxation has
In some cases d~egenerated into a spe-
cies Of blackmail under the forms OF
law. the object being to compel the
criminal and vicious classes to pay as
large q share as possible of the amount
necessary to maintain the government.
In some instances the effect is to place
4 premium upon vice and crime and to
protect the non-producing. vicious
classes from the just punishment OF
their misdeeds.
Under the form of q poll tax, men
must nav the penalty for very exist
encel The logical result Of such per-
versions of the power Of taxation IS
continued uncertainty and dis
in trade circles "a stagna-
zion and decentralization in business
the legitimate fruit Of . reckless lola
ton Of the plain principles OF political
and of morality and justice.
Tor want Of wise and thoughtful Lead
courageous enough to break
through precedents centuries old and
enter untried paths-the cause Of tax
has languished, and the vaga-
RES Of ignorant, oryicious e dressed
g. 4 little brief authority have had
full sway.
cnr system Of direct taxation is thor
enrhly unjust, the unequal assess
ments falling heavily upon the poorer
and lightly upon the wealthy
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

of all cases IF consumption can, if taken in
the earlier stages of the disease, be cured.
This may seem like a bold assertion to
those familiar only with the means gener-
ally III use for its treatment as, nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy emulsious, extract
Of malt, whiskey, different preparations of
hypophosphites and such like PaHtatives.
Although by many believed to be incura-
bic, there is the evidence of hundreds of
living witnesses to the fact that, in all its
earlier stages, consumption is a durable
disease. Not every case, but a large per.
cenkage Of cases, and We believe, fully 90
Der cent. are cured by Dr.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, ever after the disease
has progressed so far as to induce repeated
bleedings from the lungs, severe lingering
cough with copious expectoration (includ-
ing tubercular matter), great loss of flesh
and extreme emaciation and weakness.
: Do you doubt that hundreds of such cases
reported to us as cured by Golden Med
ical Discovery" were genuine cases of that
dread and fatal disease? You need not take
our word for it. They have, i'll nearly every
instance, been so pronounced by the best
and most experienced home physicians,
who AVE no interest whatever in mis-
representing them, and who were often
strongly prejudiced and advised against
a trial of Golden Medical Discovery"
but who lave been forced to confess that
II SuIpdSoSo, i po"Si w bAAS
fatal malady, all other medicines with
which they are acquainted. Nasty cod
liver oil and its filthy "emulsions" and
mixtures, had been tried in nearly all these
cases aud had either utterly failed 20 bene-
fit, or had only seemed to benefit a little for
a short time. Extract of malt, whiskey,
and various preparations Of the ~hypophos-
phites had also been faithfully tried in vain.
The photographs of a large number of
those cured of consumption, bronchitis,
lingering coughs, asthma, chronic nasal
catarrh and kindred n1a1adies, have been
ski1lfu1ly reproduced in a book of 100
pages which will be mailed to you, N re-
ceipt of address and six cents in stamps.
You can then write those cured and learn
their experience.
Address for Book, WORLDS DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

classes. This is also true Of indirect
taxation. AS a result partially of these
slarlng inequalities in our system CT
laSatlon, gaunt poverty stalks every-
"here IN u midst; overspreading like
a pail the best energies of a mighty
people. HENpv n pnssn
Geneva, ILL.,. 1894.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
You Can, Eat Wrourht Iron Nails,

OF course, and expect to digest them, but
you can eat ordinary food that is whole
some and digest it, too, after your stomach,
if enfeebled, has been strengthened by a
course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
Your kidneys, liver and bowels will be
rendered active and vigorous by the great
tonic, and your system fortified against
malaria and rheumatism. Use it, also. if
you are nervous and sleepless.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
In Olden Times

People overlooked the Importance OF per
manently beneficial effects and were salts.
fed with transient action, but now that it
is generally known that Syrup of Figs will
permanently cure habitual constipation,
well-informed people will not buy other lax
atives, which act for q time, but finally In
lure the system.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
lax REFORM STUDIES
EDITED BY BOLTON HA1r.
An Open Field

An Open Field.
II any one has an impression that
communications to these "Stnd;es,
WI. not be published unless thew ecbo
us ideas, he is mistaken.
IA nrtleies on any side of the question
VIII always be welcome, so thev are
uecent, well written, within rea,onah1s
nmlts and to the point, except that We
90 not discuss the tariff.
we will take our chances in the open
ned and reconsider any proposition
we can not fairly defend.
Land owners especially should be
interested, as the principal benefit Of
any improvement or social advance
goes to them in the increase of value
gwen to land. Write your opinions
briefly. Address this Office, or P. O.
Box ss, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

"How Do YOU pronounce this word,
golf, Mr.. HicksW Il don't really know,
Miss Wilkins: Some people call it golf, to
with stuff; and q Boston girl / know called
it golf in a little verse she wrote to rhyme
with laugh."-Harper's Bazaar.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

AN Insult.-Miss Bean {of Boston, visit
ing in Chicago)-"Mamma, that Mr.. Pork
ingham insulted me last night, and l shall
never speak to him again." Mamma
"How, my child?" Miss Bile asked me
if we were from New York.''-DetroitF Free
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

"HAvE you done anything for the social
freedom Of woman2"' asked the lady with
eyeglasses. "No'm," said the judge who
sat in divorce cases and was o cynic; but
I've done o heap for the emancipation Of
man Chicago Record.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

other, as pictured in LTlustration, "only
think, ii Jeanne d'Arc had not lived we
should be Englishmen!" s'That is true"
replies the other; ''but, then, it would have
been we who won the battle of Waterloo"
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

MISS De FASHION "a few years hence)-
"You are wanted at the telephone" Mrs.
De Fashion-"Oh, dear! l presume it's
I hope she won't talk long."-N. Y. Weekly.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

SBE-"You've been drinking, you
wretchl" He (reproachfully)-'M' dear,
why don't you let bygonesh be bygonesh.
I'm not (hic) drinking now, m I?"-Puck.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

81 AM aware, doctor, that the stomach is
q delicate organ" Teetotal Doctor-''Then
why do you treat 1t as If it were q barrel
organ?"
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

WI are never willing to admit there is in
sanity in our family until some member of
it makes a will that doesn't suit us.-Tit-
Bits.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

The difference between q wise man an,
an enthusiast is, mi drives with reins an
the other without.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

CANT so you married in haste. Well, did
you repent at 1eisure?" Hardly. / have
not had a leisure moment since the cere~
mony."-Truth.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

Social unrest on the part Of the poor, is
partially the result of too much rest on the
part of the rich.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05
ED1TH-"Mv dear child. it's no us

EDITH-"MV dear child, It's no use argu-
ing with Mr.. Remsen. You can never con-
vince him" Alice-"I am sure of that,
dear. Why, do you know, in a discussion
we had the other night, he actually rea-
soned."-Harlem Life.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

GAZING AT HI G1RAFFE-"Hey, CHIMNEY,
how's dat for a t'roat ter boiler extrys
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

THERE Is more II" than Ideal" about
ONE people who are continually speaking
of their ideals.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

RECEIPTS for making restaurant chicken
salad should begin: "First catch your
~caf."-Texas Siftings.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

Actors, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise
Hale's Honey of Horehound andTar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

WHAT fruit is the most %visionarys The
apple Of the eye.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-05

No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Cures where other remedies fail. Csc.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-22
TUESDAY.

The funeral of Fritz Walter took
place yesterday afternoon and it was
the largest funeral W have had in
this city for a long time. The young
man had a host of friends.
The price of Georgia watermelons
has dropped in this market from sew
enty-tve cents to twenty-five cents.
and even at the reduced price the
market is overstocked.
Jackson mills. we understand. is fig
uring with the railroads to get lower
rates on wheat for the Jackson mills.
Col. Tiedemann is aware of the fact
that the farmers of Southeast Missou-
ri are disposed to ship their wheat to
st. Louis and he wants to head this
move of.
John f. Fullbright has several head
OF horses on the Fair grounds he is
training for the Fourth of July races.
The attachment suit of Reed x Asth-
OH. real estate agents, against +. =.
Gray. was decided this morning in
Justice Scivalley's court in favor of
the plaintiffs.
{. F. Betten moved 10 Jackson yes
terday. He will reside in hat town
during his term of office.
MIR. Quackenbush has moved into
the Rodney house on Fountain street.
John L. Miller has moved into his
property on Lorimier street.
Some time ago was taken sick with
a cramp in the stomach. followed by
diarrhoea. l took a couple of doses
of Chamberlain's Collie. Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy and vas Immediate
ly relieved. | consider it the best
medicine in the market for all such
complaints. l have sold the remedy
to others and every one who uses it
speaks highly of it. J. W. Stricken.
Valley Center, Cal. For sale by l.
Ben Miller.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-22
FRIDAY.

Do not veal ~impermeable and tight,
lifting hats that construct the blood
vessels of the scalp. Use Halls Hail
Remover occasionally. and you will
not be bald.
Maj. Dennis appeared before the
City Council last night and wanted
the Council to declare Williams sta
BILE "A nuisance. The matter was re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee with
instructions to report at next meeting.
The Street Commissioner has been
instructed to repair Middle street from
Good Hope to Morgan Oak.
Some people + constantly troubled
with pimples and boils. especially
about the face and neck. The best
remedy is a thorough course of Ayers
Sarsaparilla. which eXpelsa all humors
through the proper channels. and so
makes the skin become soft, healthy.
and fai'.
Capt. Juden says that five members
of the City Council told him to-day
that they voted last night to give him
a ferry license. There are some awful
liars in the City Council.
Ed Bonney came up last night from
PuNico to visit his mother. Ed says
the newspaper business is good at
PuXicO.
At its meeting last night the City
Council ordered water troughs put in
one in each of the four wards. The
troughs will be placed on street cor
ners for the convenience of farmers as
well rs citizens of the city.
Robert Giboney is in the city to-day.
Mr.. Giboney says the farmers in his
neighborhood are all busy in the
harvest field.
Cut down in their prime-Haman's
prices on shoes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-22
E

The river is still rising and it con-
tinues to rain,
In all probability a big stock of
millinery goods will be thrown on the
market here at public auction.
Will Ward. of Charlottesville, is in
the city. Mr.. Ward says Pemiscot
county is booming since the Kennett
railroad was extended through that
county to Charlottesville.
A Chicago lawyer was here yester-
day. He came here on a business that
soon satisfied him that he was barking
upsthe wrong tree and he did not re-
main long.