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The Delta independent., 1895-09-18
LOCAL.
Attend the social.


Remember the social tomorrow night.
Jay Gillett returned from Denver
Friday.
Ell. Lowe came over from st. Elmo
last week.
Mrs. w. B. Stockham returned from
the east last Thursday.
Miss Mae Fellers left Sunday for her
home in Humboldt, Neb.
The Episcopal mission at this place is
negotiating for an organ.
Mrs. NJ. Furchgott returned to her
home in Denver Saturday.
Cord Wright went up to Telluride
last Friday on fruit business.
Dave Fleming left Friday for Ouray
and Telluride on a business trip.
C. M Roberts, OF Hotchkiss. was in
town Sunday.-Gunnison Tribune.
J. W. Deem, of Salida, was home
ward bound passenger last Thursday.
John Hart, Of Delta, has been visiting
in the city this week.-Lake City Phon-
ograph.
Mrs. E. A. Spurlin went to Gunnison
Saturday for visit with friends ard
relatives.
Ernest Clack and Mayor Winton
made business trip to Montrose last
Thursday.
Miss Luena Turner left Saturday for
Powderhorn. where she will teach school
the present term.
Mrs. Ruark left Friday for her home
at Glenwood Springs, after brief visit
with her sister, Mrs. Ida Beaver.
Mrs. Donald. who has been visiting
Saturday for her home in OuraY.
I'D. Oviatt. OF Warren. Ohio, an at
torney at law. is in the city and may
conclude TO make Delta his home.
H. A. PARCELS returned Thursday last
from a trip TO numerous towns in the
interest of his patent shuttle hoe
Mrs. Geo. Mahr, OF Telluride who has
been visiting Mrs. f. b. Ander son OF
this city. left for her home Saturday.
Miss Nettie Rowan came down from
Lake City last Thursday for visit with
her parents, who reside on Surface
creek.
The Stockham & Hillman Co. have a
change in this issue. Read il and then
inspect their goods before making your
purchases.
Will and Harry Mathers. Charley Up
degraf, Arch and -Denison
took run up to Montrose Sunday on
their wheels.
Oscar Mckinley has gone 10 Louis
vile, KY to be gore a month or six
weeks. He will stop at st. Joseph, Mo-,
for brief visit with friends
The Ladies Aid Society OF the Prcsby-
terian church will give a social at the
residence Of Mrs. 7. H. McGranahan
tomorrow night, which all are invited
to attend.
The Gillett Grocer Co. has purchased
the Nutter meat market and took pos
session Of it last Saturday. They will
now pay the highest prices for veal.
butter, eggs, etc.
DR.. Mcdonald took tho train Tuesday
for visit with his family at Delta. He
also took in Peach day at Grand juno
tiou and returned to Lake City Satur-
day.-Lake City Phonograph.
Rally Day will be observed at the
Baptist church the last Sunday in this
month. A special program for the occa-
sion will be prepared and carried out.
tho regular services for that day being
dispensed with.
Mrs. E. ]. Matthews and the baby
came over from Paonia Wednesday to
visit the folks and renew old acquaint-
ances. She says the fruit crop on the
North Fork is something surprising. and
the d. & r. G. will soon be compelled to
build a branch line to that section in
order to enable them to ship it.-Mont-
rose Enterprise.
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The Delta Trading Co. have been get
better than ever prepared to quote low
prices on first class harness, saddles,
buggies and wagons.
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We leave competitors as though there
were none with our line Of groceries.
which is as complete as a novel after the
last word. Conklin i Gaunt.
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II you have a veal calf, fat hog or
ducks. turkeys or chickens to sell. you
can get cash for them at the Gillett
Grocer Co.'S meat market (Nutter's old
stand in Delta.
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Remember those chicken dinners at
the Central house on Sundays. They
are fine. Try them and be convinced.
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Oat and potato sacks for sale, also
grape baskets, by the Delta Wholesale
Fruit and Produce Co. 9tf
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You can buy first-class wagon. bug
gy. harness or saddle Just as cheap right
here in Delta as anywhere in the state.
The place to purchase is at the Del
Trading Co.
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Norton & Winton will sell you Tongue
Creek coal for s4.0O per ton, the best coal
in the State.
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Cash will be paid by the Gillett Gro
Ger Co. for dressed pork. veal. mutton or
poultry at their meat market in Delta.
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The Delta Wholesale Fruit { Produce
Co are selling car load of grape bas-
kets at $50 per 100 so 50
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Norton & Winton want TO know why
you don't bring in those hens and fry
chickens?
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IfyOu want to buy or sell town
or ranch property you will save
time and Money by calling on
BLAIR 4 HASTIN.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Rosebud -four S1.5o per 100 at Hunter
4 Beckley's. Try a sack and be con-
WINGED that it is the best in the market.
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Wanted.

Bailey wants new honey on account or
in exchange for goods.
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The cheapest place to buy your gro
ceries is at the
GILLErT GROCER Co.
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The Delta Wholesale Fruit i Produce
Co. has a carload of water and cider
barrels for sale.
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LOCAL NEWS.

One announcement Of any entertainment to
which an admission fee is charged viii be made
in these columns free. Any further announce
ments will be charged for at advertising rates.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Fruit Jars and Jelly Glasses
Mason Jars in pints and quarts, also
jelly glasses, at bottom prices.
SIMPSON Il CoRBIN.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Try our best Mocha and Java coffee.
GILLETT GROCER Co.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Kohler's Jersery Creamery Butter at
GILLETT GROCER Co.
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The finest line of Teas and Coffee in
| town at GILLETT GROCER Co.
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Mixed paint at bedrock prices at the
Pioneer drug store.
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Pasture and Hay!

have l2o acres OF alfalfa pasture; 12o
acres Of stubble pasture and 400 tons OF
alfalfa hay in the stack; also straw from
l2o acres OF wheat and oats; have good
corralls and water, For particulars ad
dress Delta County Bank. 3Oplm
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Michigan barrel salt. and Higgins i'm
ported salt at Gillett i Co.
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The Stockham il Hillman Co. want a
car load Of oats.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

If you want to make quick
sale Of your property list it with
BLAIR Il MASTIN.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Michigan salt, White Loaf Denver
-four at GILLETT GROCER Co.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Chickens are bringing good price
at Norton l. Winton's.
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Try Kohnle's
Ice Cream Soda with Crushed
Fruit. It's The latest.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

The finest line of mixed paints in town
at the Pioneer drug store.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Paper water pals, washtubs and boards
at Hunter i Beckley's.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18

Jelly glasses Go cents dozen at Hunt
er & Beckley's.
The Delta independent., 1895-09-18
BUSINESS NOTICES.
Fresh Tafy at KOhnlc's.
White Loaf flour at Gillett Grocer Co.
Best Sc SeSar at KOhnle's.

People are rolling in the new honey
to Bailey.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
THEIR PROPHECIES.
Our Banker.Rulers.

Mr.. Daniels (rep) OF New York pre-
sented the resolutions adopted by the
board of trade, Bankers association.
and other commercial bodies OF Buff
falo, in favor of the pending bill.
"Are these the same associations,
asked Mr.. Terry (dem.) of Arkansas,
(which adopted resolutions in 1893 to
the effect that the repeal OF the Sher-
man silver law would be followed by.
prosperity"
"Perhaps they are," replied Mr..
Daniels smiling.-Congressional Re-
port.
1t is a shame that class of men
should be SO personally ridiculous
and yet by the power Of money con-
tinue to rule the world. If the~Lord
had foreseen the establishment of
metallic currency he would have made
sundry and divers improvements in
human nature;-he would have in
creased its honesty Is per cent; de
creased its selfishness SO per cent an6
strengthened it's backbone 100 pei
cent. Or he might have taken short
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
THE DEMOCRACY.
What 1t Has Done.-What 1t Has
Failed To Do.

The Democratic party has taken the
money out of the pockets of the peo-
pie and the mucilage off the backs of
the postage stamps.
1t has failed to set up LiliOukalani
as queen upon the throne of Hawaiia,
and to wipe out the green5acks. But
there is no telling what it would ac-
complish if it had another chance.
1t fought the Republican party for
thirty years, declared it a menace to
free institutions,a land altogether utter
ly abominable and villainous, and
then rushed into it's embrace, to de-
fend Plutocracy and destroy liberty.
With all it's economies it is to be
hoped it will save enough to buy
rope to hang itself. 1t may be that
its victory in 1892 furnished the rope.
It should be brushed off the face of
the earth, so that Jefferson and Jack
son will no longer be compelled to go
around the halls of heaven in their
night gowns, weeping and bowling.
n)this state it's greatest achieve
ment was the 10000 plurality it gave
Nelson! And it's proudest boast is
that it's candidate for governor was
reappointed Railroad Commissioner
by the man he ran against! There is
a sort of soup-house flavor to this that
tickles them into delirium.
Noble organization! And it yet has
Flandrau! They have lost the nation,
but Flandrau still pokes his head up
out of the Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad office and chirps:-"I am a
DemOcrat!'
Happy party! Noble Flandrau!
ID
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20

just as we'll tax the railroad itself;
and the whole Single Tax theory falls
to the ground,-for that proposes to
exempt all improvements! "What!"-we
fancy we can hear our friend G. j..
Buell. cry out, What! Tax the rail-
road, and then have the railroad col
lect it out of the passengers! Why,
brother Howe, you are daft! That
isn't Single Taxv'
No-if the Single Tax is to prevail
then the twelve acres, which consti-
tute mile of railway road-bed, are to
be taxed precisely the same as twelve
acres of adjoining farmland which
maintain half a dozen scrub cattle.
For if railroad is not an Improve
ment" what, in Heavens name, is it.?
We do not think our friend Howe
can make anything out of that
Omaha plank, which he quotes, to
sustain the Single Tax theory. If it
had been supposed that, in case the
Populists won, every farmer should
lose his farm, and become tenant to
the state, liable to whatever burden
the commonwealth might pile upon
him, instead of 100000 votes we
should not have today 1000.
Mr.. Howe says the government can
not reclaim the lands of aliens and
corporations except by taxation. He
forgets the power of eminent domain,
under which the railroads get their
right Of way, and under which the state
or nation can take possession of every
acre of land within their boundaries.
We can reach all the ends aimed at
by the Single Tax by other methods;
and the Single Tax will never reach
them by it's methods. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
MORE PROSPERITY.
1t Is Just Booming.-But the Fu-
ture Is Gloomy Indeed.

We picked up the St. Paul Globe of
February 11th. 1t was ponderous
document. 1t contained thirfy-t,co
pages of advertisements of delinquent
tdresv There were eight columns to
page,-this made two hundred
and tifty-six columns and tfty-one
thousand two hundred separate descriptions
Of pieces Of properyW
AS Ramsey county has about $4,000
voters this gives more than two de-
linquent descriptions for each voter
This is evidently good field for the
Single Takers. Tho holders of real
estate are altogether too prosperous.
And as Owen was defeated for Gov
ernor we have good times! Get out
your microscope and examine the di-
mensions of the beast.
And the State University wants the
Legislature to give it 100000 for
gymnasium, to develope the students
muscles! The taxpayers, who are to
furnish the funds. can develope theirs
by hustling to get money enough to
save their property from confiscation.
They are hanging on to what they
have by their upper lips and eyelids,
and it is splendid exercise. They need
no parallel bars. They have enter
tainment enough in the unparalleled
| condition of the finances. And wheat
at. 45 cent a bushel will lengthen their
Jaws and make their eyes pop out,
charmingly.
| There is one consolation:-thos
81 900 taX-sales are mostly of the prop
erty of the internal old-party fools
who elected Nelson by 60, coo plurality,
for fear Populist success would cause
hard timeS!.!
| Dean Swift wrote a book about the
land of the "Houyhnhmns," where
the horses ruled and the men were
slaves. Here we have the land of the
AaSynhims, where the donkeys rule
and the sensible men are slaves.
And the worst of it is that Congress
can, ,and will do nothing, to relieve the
universal distress; and there will be
no extra sessions; aud if it was called it
too would be ruld by the Money-power
and Cleveland will continue to issue
more gold bonds, until the cost of the
civil war is duplicated; and contrac
tion will settle down on the land like
a vast horror; and as warm weathe
comes uproar and turbulence and pos
sibly civil war may burst forth out O
the awful strain put upon human ma
ture; and the republic may end in ;
sea of blood.
And when it's epitaph comes
to be written by the historian it will
be:-"Died of the money-lenders, th
corporations and the old party luna
ticc - n
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
Keeping Platform Pledges.

The Democratic National Conven-
tion of 1892. assembled in Chicago,
pledged themselves to repeal the 10
per cent tax on state banks. The
House is Democratic by large ma
jority. This is how they kept their
pledge:
"Mr. Livingston (dem.) of Georgia
off cred the Wheeler amendment with
the provision that the repeal should
go into effect July l, 1896. He stated
that the president favored the repeal
Of the state bank tax, and on be half
of 11O southern Democrats he appeal
ed to the supporters of this bill to
give them this crumb. 1t was lost
81 to 96.
1t is enough to give a cast-iron mon
key the stomach ache! Where, on
where is Flandrau?
Why did they not perform the prom
Use they made the people? The ma
tional banks wouldn't let them.
Whyo The nation al banks are deter
mined that the re shall be no currency
in this country that does not pay
them tribute What excuse do they
| make? That we would have wildcat
banks again, without security or uni
formity. All! Indeed! But Congress
has the right to accompany the repeal
of that war-tax with any provisions it
may see fit to impose, for the purpose
of enforcing security and uniformity
Therefore there need be no wildcat
state banks, any more than there are
wildcat national banks.
All friends! The national banke r;
have got these 100000 people by the
neck: they have got their legs twinet
around the nations throat, like
Sinbad's "Old Man of the Sea-" ane
they will never let go until the victim
is choked to death, or infuriated int
revolution, and smashes the head o
his tormentor. L. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
LINCOLN.

drums,
Disturb our Judgment for the hour,
But at last silence comes;
Ihese are all gone, and standing like
Our children shall behold his fame
The kindly, earnest, brave, far-seeing
sagacious. patient; dreading praise, not
blame,
New birth of our new soil, the Grst Ameri-
cam"
God bless that noble spirit wherever
it way dwell. With all it's divine
characteristics it did not die. Intel
lect cannot be mortal while the dust
is immortal. The great Master of all
sent him to do a wonderful work. He
was lifted up from rags and wretched-
ness, and poverty and ignorance, to
transcendent heights of usefulness to
man. And do you fancy that Booths
pistol was able to end all this and
mar the designs of Providence? No;
God and Gods purposes shine through
the face and life of Abraham Lincoln.
AS he manumitted the black slaves
so his maker will manumit the whole
human family, now engulfed in
more dreadful bondage. He may not
use any of us as stepping stones, but
spurned as we may be into darkness
and dust and contempt, we shall still
look up and rejoice as we see the great
God striding forward to the emanci-
patton and glorification of the human
race.
That Lincon lived proves the exist
ence of God;-and the existence Of
God requires that justice should be
done to his afflicted children. In that
faith we live;-in that faith we shall
die. /. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
The National Cow.

"The meanest man on record is
said to live in Center county, Pa. He
sold his son-in-law one-half interest in
a COW, and then refused to divide the
milk, maintaining that he sold only
the front half. The buyer was also
required to provide the feed the COW
consumed, and was compelled to carry
water to her three times day. Re-
Gently the COW hSoked the old man,
and he is suingi the son-in-law for
damages. Exchange.
That is an emblamatical COW. We
have a similar one in this country.
The West and South own the front
half Of the animal and feed her; and
the East is milking her. And the
parable may be carried out still farth-
er-the COW may yet turn and hook
the old man. l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
MR.. OWENS VIEWS
On Single Tax.

We print in our Forum this week a
letter from St. Paul correspondent,
(F. e. R.), in which Mr.. Ovens views
are given on the Single Tax question.
We would especially call attention to
that part of Mr., Ovens letter in
which he says that he thinks the Sin
gle Takers all voted the Democratic
ticket last fall. That is it precisely.
1t is a mere trick to divide up the
people, and to strengthen one of the
old plutocratic parties, by holding out
the hope of free homes to the working
people; when the intention is to let no
man have home except as tenant;
and at a rent as high as, or higher
than, the greatest rent that could be
charged by an ordinary landlord. 1t
is measure to put a politician-ru ruled,
money-governed municipality be-
tween the people and the possibility
of homes on the planet. 1t is for
these reasons that we smote it hip
and thigh. We are not candidate
for popular approval and will never be;
and we feel it to be a Godgiven duty
to smash fads and frauds as fast as we
can get at them. We hope for moth
ing n this world but the privilege of
doing right.
We are glad Mr.. Ovens clear intel
ligence has not been befuddled by the
shallow arguments of the ingenious
Single Takers.
We have no desire to persecute gen.
tlemen of that faith, or drive them
out of the Peoples Party; we are glad
to have them with US; but when art
full men try to divide up the producers
and unite part in party, to be then
transferred over to Cleveland and
Wall street. we propose to denounce
them to the best of our ability.
There is one plank of the Single
Takers platform which we think
might be safely adopted in modified
form. We should not be in favor Of
exempting the Boston Block, or the
Ozark flats. or the Pioneer-PresS palace
from taxation, or any other store or
bank buildings; but we would be glad
to see an exemption, of say one or two
thousand dollars, applied to every
home, owned by the party who occupies
it. In these hard times the man who
is struggling to maintain shelter for
his wife and little ones should be en-
couraged. New Zealand has adopted
this system and it works admirably.
We also think credit is due to Mr.
George and his followers for forcing
public attention to the great question
of taxation Agitation is always
hcalthful and stagnation is ever dan
gerous. Apart from the efficacy of his
proposed remedy Mr.. Georges book
progress and Poverty is an epoch
making work, which every one should
read.
In what we have said in this discus
sion we have no malice. We simply
want to get at the truth-and the
right wrongs no man. l. u.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
DREADFUL.
Corruption Everywhere.

And now, at the convention of the
miners, held at Columbus, Ohio, Feb.
lith, Mark Wild, district organizer OF
the A. r.. o., who was chairman OF the
A. K. U. grievance committee OF the
Columbus, Hooking Valley and Toledo
railway strike last summer, rises in
the convention and says, that four
strike, which, it is charged, was cor
ruptly settled, John Mcbride, now
president Of the American Federation
of Labor, and ex-president Of the
mine workers association. gave him
the sum of 5000 to keep his mouth shut.
And Mcbride. admitted in the con-
vention the payment of the money,
but said it was giren as a chd,1tyv
Since when have Labor leaders been
going around with $500 wads of green
backs in their pockets, to give away
for charity?
Where is this to end?
Let not the workingmen become
discouraged at these repeated evil
dences of the treachery of their lead
erS. 1t is poor human nature unable
to resist the strain put upon it. The
remedy is intelligence, observation
and self-reliance among the masses.
Remember most of these suspected
leaders tried to prevent the working
people from acting with the People s
Party, under a hundred different cum
ming pretences. Let the workingmen
move into the Peoples Party in a
body; let them regard every man
who advises otherwise as the corrupt
tool of Plutocracy. Sus pect those who
seek to split you up. That is the only
resource left to the OppreSSorS OF the
people. The producers of this coun'
try constitute vast majority of al
the voters. All abuses can be righteC
if they will but act together. Mil
lions will be spent to drive golden
wedges into them to split them into
fragments. Be wise, be patient, be
sensible, be forbearing with each 9th
er. Not every man who hOwls is hon
est. Oftentimes, like minor note
of disharmopy, you can hear the
Jingle of the bribe in his pocket
through the uproar of his protesta
tions. Doctor Johnson said:-"pa
triotism is oftentimeS the last refuge
of scoundrel."
Set it down as an axiom, that ever.
leader of the working classes VIII
seeks to keep the workers in the olt
parties is bought and paid for. l
cannot be otherwise; for it is the &C
tion or the non-action of the old par
ties that has brought the populace t.
their present wretched conditions
and to perpetuate those parties is t
prolong the wretchedness. Let tn
masses watch their leaders, and ris
up and smite them at the first sign o
treachery. Leadership is market
able commodity nowadays, and TIL
enemy are ready to buy it; and hum a
nature, as the Hoosiers say, is ''powel
full weak" l. d.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
Converting the Fools.

The heaviest real estate transac.
tions ever reported are being recorded
in New York. Depress prices and
then buy 'em in. One whole block has
lust changed hands and will be re-
built as a department store" that
will do the business Of several thous-
and small ones! Hear the retail fel-
lows squeal as they are bankrupted.
Let the good work go oon.-Comlng Ma
tiOn.
Amen! Give it to them! We are not
malignant; but we hope to see every
banker (?) in Minnesota that terror
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20

cut and abolished the whale outfit.
He must get very mad now and
then at the antics of His human mon
keys,-and cry OUT.
"See here, Gabriel What did I
make those internal fools for? Is
there anything else like them in the
universe? Think of 10000, 600 people
letting a few hundred scamps bleed
them to death! Get me wagon load
of thunderbolts, Gabriel! And lap
full of cyclones! I'll see if I can't
knock some sense into them!'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
Scared.

The Democrats in Washington are
badly scared. They are now talk ing
free-silver. We shall believe in it
when we see it. Are they getting
ready for another duplex, back action
platform, beginning ia fraud and
ending in a sell-out? We hope we are
not uncharitable to them. The rank
and file are all right, but the leaders
would cheat the devil out of his front
teeth. l. y.