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Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26
LEGION CIRCULAR NO. 8.

The election is over. We have
gained wherever we had state ticket
We have no cause for sorrow, except
the agony we feel for the oppressed
people. II they had energy and zeal
enough to organize they would not be
crushed. It is apparent to all that we
must organize. We have gained in
every locality where we have the Le'
gion at work. 1t is too late to perfect
another plan. It took three years tc
establish the Legion. 1t meets every
want of our party. BY organizing now
Legion in every township we can wiz
in that locality. All 1t needs is unity
Of action. When you organize send
cents to Rev. ]. D. Botkin, Neodeshar
Kansas, and get his book on plan oil
work. II this method is followed we
can carry the election. We must act
speedily. 1t will be too late il we wait
until the national convention. We will
lose the long hours Of the winter. We
can not afford to lose one minute. It
is folly to sit and growl and find fault.
It is more than a crime to wait on the
so-called leaders of the party. Let the
people act. Let every ardent soul who
loves the cause of humanity and will
sacrifice time to organize send for
commission as scout or county recruit
ing officer. If you have no time for that
send for papers and organize at home,
and then appoint committee to plant
other Legions in all the surrounding
country. We send supplies free, but
want stamps to mail them.
If the people will not move the cause
will perish. We should not lay down
and let the enemy trample us under
foot. If each one of the six million
people eligible as members of the Le-
gion would join and pay 10 cents en-
trance fee and 10 cents annual dues,
the campaign fund for 1896 would be
abundant.
If all who are able would send 81 for
certificate of membership, we can raise
a fund that would furnish all the
speakers and literature free.
It is in our power to do this and it
is the patriotic duty of every one in
sympathy with our cause to organize at
once. 1t will be suicide to neglect It,
After every election we see how badly
we need it, and yet we wait and do not
remedy matters.
The brave Coxey, the gallant Burket,
the eloquent and manly Pettitt would
have won if every precinct had been
organized in each state. appeal to
every willing worker in our party; to
every manly heart, to every tender
souled woman to help this work. 1 may
issue, as one critic says, "bombastic cir
culars," but 1 must do something. My
sworn duty demands 1t. wish / could
sound the trumpet call that would rally
the people. pray that the feeble words
1 writ may touch many loyal hearts.
It takes a circular every month to
even wake the sleeping multitude for
one day. I again appeal to all our
editors, to our great writer's to sound
the alarm and urge the whole member
ship Of our party to combine on the
National Legion.
We can march in solid column to
victory, II we act on this call.
PAUL VANDERVOORT.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

The American Agriculturalist figures
out a crop of Sc, 256, 900 barrels OF ap-
pies this year, or about a barrel for
every man, woman and child in the
county
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

Mexico's largest gold nuGget was
found at Pianchas PlsceTs, SOnOre, in
the spring Of 1892. It weighed lax
pounds.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

The man who patented the brass
spring fingers, one sees on lamps for
holding the chimney in place received
for many years royalty amounting to
85O OOA
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

A man in Odessa left million rubles
apiece to four nieces on condition that
they work for fifteen months as cham
ber-maids, cooks or farm servants.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

Green Lake, Colorado, is said to be
the most elevated body Of water In the
world, having an altitude Of 1O,25s
feet above sea level.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

The gold-bugs would be very much
pleased to have the agitation Of the
money question die out. They cannot
defend their position when people are
awake,
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

OF the 1877 students now enrolled at
Vassar'419 are from the New England
States, 267 of these being from Masss-
chusetts. New York sends OF, the next
largest number, and Pennsylvania A..
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

Railroad authorities say that the av-
erage locomotive travels upwards Of
10000 miles in the course Of o year.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

Unconventional people would like
the Queen of Madagascar. She chews
tobacco, drinks, smokes, uses palm oil
on her hair, wears Worth costumes
and goes barefootAd.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

The longest word in the dictionary
is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The
next longest is transub stantiationalist.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

Jimmy-"Timmy GrOgan is talkin'
of gittin' him bicycl." Mickie-'Rim2
He amt got de price for de wind wot
goes in de tires "-Tit-Bits,
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

Dashway lat the all)-I saw her in
the reception room with you. How is
it, old chap, did she accept youP
Stuffer-I don't know. Just as /
asked her, supper was announced.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-26

Well-borers &t Los Angeles, Cal,
have discovered mastodon tooth at =
depth of 40 feet beneath the surface.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13
MORTGAGE EXEMPTION.

Yesterday the House amended the bill
reported by the ways and means com
mittee which provided for an exemp-
ton from taxation $500 of the mortgages
on realty by increasing the amount to
81, 900, and passed it to a third reading
by an emphatic vote, in spite of the
arguments and protests of that commit
tee. The bill is an important one. If
assessors find the mortgages in the
State they can be taxed; if not, that
amount of realty will practically escape
taxation. If it were proposition to tax
the property to the mortgageor and
mortgage in proportion to their re-
spective interests in it. what is some
times called double taxation would be
avoided. Under this proposition, how
ever, if the party holding the mortgage
is not found in the State $1,000 worth
of every piece of property mortgaged to
that amount would escape taxation. 1t
is asserted that the proposed exemption
of the bill will reduce the assessment
$85, 900 900.
The subject in this form is practically
a new one. and, being of so great i'm
portance, it should not be given the
force of law without the most careful
consideration. If the experiment is to
be tried would it not be better to test
it's working with an exemption of $500?
There are other points to be taken into
consideration. One of these is the posi-
BILE danger of fraud Would not an ex-
emption of 81 1000 from taxation be a
temptation TO a great many people to
relieve themselves of taxation to that
extent by executing fictitious morris ges
to be sent out of the State and held by
relatives or kind friends during the few
months that the assessor is doing his
work? The tax on each $1,000 for State.
county and township purposes in In
diana amounts to an aggregate which
looks very large when it is on a tax
duplicate.
The desire to relieve people who are
struggling to pay for home or a small
farm is most commendable. but viii it
not be wise to accept the amount fixed
by the ways and means committee.
whose members have given this matter
careful and intelligent consideration +?
The exemption of $500 would be no
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13
DANCING In THE PULPIT.
Young California Preacher Trying to
Waltz Himself Into Favor.

OAKLAND CAL, Feb. 12.-The spectacle
presented of a minister using his pulpit to
illustrate the innocence of the waltz Is one
that has given rise to considerable comment
in religious circles in this city. The Rev.
Edward David, pastor of the Christian
church, who danced through his sermon
Sunday night to exemplify the harmlessness
of the amusement, is young man who has
some striking original and bizarre ideas on
the best methods of proclaiming the gospel.
Rev. Davis says he Is not at all heterodox
and disclaims moreover that he is a mere
notoriety seeker employing sensational
methods to draw crowds and win dubious
all, to preach the simple gospel Of Chris
tianty, but he dislikes the effort and ques-
tons the efficacy of preaching to empty
seats, as he did the first Sunday he APP
peared in Oakland. last night he gave a
representation of the waltz and other
dances. His representations created much
amusement among the more ungodly of the
flock. Generally the drift of his remarks
were in favor of dancing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13
temptation to fraudulent transfer to es-
cape taxation compared with double
that amount
APPLIED DEMOCRACY.

The country is having second demon
stration of the enormous cost of applied
Democracy The term Democracy is
used here in it's narrow, restricted and
illogical sense as designating the polit-
ical party which, during the greater
part of its existence, has been based on
an aristocracy. Applied Democracy is
very different from theoretical Democ-
racy. The latter, or. as it might be
termed. Democracy in the abstract, rep
resents economy. retrenchment reform
and Jeffersonian simplicity. Applied
Democracy is very different thing.
The country had a memorable expert
ence of the cost of applied Democracy
in the enormous debt and long interest
account which grew out of the civil war.
The rebellion was the elimination of
Democratic ideas and administrations.
and the cost of suppressing it is charge
able to the Democratic party. The pub
lie debt at the close of the war was
$2,6SO,647,s69, and the people have been
engaged ever since in paying it off. For
fifteen years after the war the interest
alone amounted to considerably more
than 500, 600, 900 a year, and even now it
is about s3O,OO0,000 All this must be
charged up to the profit and loss account
of applied Democracy.
But, great as was the cost of the civil
war, it has probably been exceeded by
that of the present administration. A
fair estimate of this should include in
direct as well as direct losses, injury to
domestic trade, to foreign trade, to man.
ufacturing, to the national credit, etc.
The tariff reform agitation on which
the administration came into power Gull
minated in the panic of 1893 and the
universal prostration of business from
which there has been as yet only a
partial revival. There is no means of
estimating even approximately the
money cost of the panic, but, taking into
account the suspension of business, the
decrease of production and the shrink
age of values, it has been enormous.
Domestic trade has been paralyzed and
our foreign trade crippled. The reve-
nues of the government have for the
first time since the war fallen far be-
low it's expenditures, and deficit has
been accruing at the rate of more than
$6000,000 a month LAS compared with
the fiscal year 1898" says Secretary
Carlisle in his last annual report, 1.-The
receipts for 1894 fell off $3S,914,063.' He
did not add. as he might have done
truthfully, that this was direct result
of Democratic agitation and blunder-
ing. In the same report the Secretary
stated that the deficit on July /, 1894,
was $50, S03,260. and it is more than so
per cent. greater now. The public credit
has been seriously impaired, as is shown
by the fact that whereas few weeks
ago the government could borrow money
at less than 3 per cent it now has to
pay 3A.
These evidences of. paralyzed trade.
shrunken values and impaired credit
might be multiplied, but it is not a
pleasant subject to dwell upon, and they
are patent to all. They show that ap-
piled Democracy is enormously expen-
SiVa
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13
CONDITION of INDIANS.


Report of the Board of Commission
ers Submitted by Mr.. Smith.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Secretary Hoke
Smith to-day made public the twenty sixth
annual report OF the board of Indian COM
missioners. Regarding the purchase of sup
plies for the Indians the report says prices
We're surprisingly low. Last spring the con-
tract business was divided between New
York and Chicago. The commissioners can
not see that anything was gained by this
arrangement and say the division of the
work involves a considerable increase of ex-
pense.
1.-The graphic picture drawn by Senator
Dawes of the sad state of affairs in the
Territory, occupied and owned by the five
civilized tribes was" the report says, ito
many, new revelation. Those Indians have
so often been held up as models of civiliza-
ton, conducting wise self-government
supporting their own schools and courts of
justice and enjoying all the comforts of
home life, that it surprising to hear
that the courts and legislative BODIES are
utterly corrupt; that the pubic school sys-
TEN is primitive and inefficient; that the
lands belonging to the whole people by
treaty rights are to large extent absorbed
by few enteIpriSing half-breedS that have
gained complete control and pay no atten-
ton to the welfare of the great majority of
the people, that crime goes unpublished, and
that the white people who have settled in
the Territory have protection. But all
this has long been familiar story to aus.
We have repeatedly called attention to the
deplorable facts
The suggestion is made that Congress ex-
ercise its sovereign right and take control
of affairs there. The commissioners say
the policy of sillotting Indians land in sew
crafty is working well and that under it in
dividual Indians are slowly learning lessons
of independence and self-reliance, but legis-
lation is recommended to prevent sale of in
toxicants to these Indians, and to reimburse
the States for revenue lost through these
lands being nontaxable. Education is re-
ported progress .ng steadily among the
Indians, and, in closing, the commission
recommeds application of the civil-service
law to the Indian service.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13
PENSION RULINGS.
Negligence Carelessness - Rights
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Widows.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Some important
decisions on pension questions have been
promulgated by Assistant Secretary of the
Interior Reynolds. In the case of Frederick
w. Kerner, of New Jersey, Judge Reynolds
holds that where a soldier, pensioned on
account of deafness, walks alongside of a
railroad track to save distance and is struck
by car and injured, the injury is primarily
due to his own negligence and only remotely
if at all to his own deafness. If he is sub
ject to some infirrnity which increases the
risks it is held that his obligation to avoid
the dangerous situation is much the
greater To establish claim for pension in
crease because of injuries alleged to have
been incurred by reason of the disability
pensionable ii must be satisfactorily shown
that the accident was directly occaS1oned by
pre-existing disability, and not due 10
negligence or carelessnesS of the claimant
Pension attorneys are held to be entitled
to their fees when the eyidence to establish
ed The fee according to the decision, will
vest in the personal representative of the
attorney If he should die before allowance of
claim or issuance OF certificate. The rights
of an attorney declared to be determined
by his legal status at the time the claim
is completed and without reference to the
date of adjudication.
The widow of a soldier or sailor, says the
Assistant Secretary, whose husband volun-
tariIy served in the confederate army or
navy either prior to or subsequent to his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13
To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:


To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
According to the income tax law are per-
sons or firms whose gross profits are over
So 500, with the net profits less than that
amount, required to file a report! Are firms
mot incorporated) of two or more partners
entitled to the same exemption as mol
viduals? Where are the blanks to be OBJ
tanned? L. q.
The tax is levied net, not on gross
profits, and the law specifies what ex-
emptions or deductions may be made The
exemption of $1,000 allowed to individuals
does not apply to corporations. Partner
ships as such, are not liable TO taxation OF
firm or partnership profits or income, but
each individual member of the partnership
shall include his share of the partnership
profits gains or income in his individual
list, If his income is large enough to re-
auire a return Blanks may be had of 2.
J. Ryan, deputy collector of internal reve-
nue., this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13

The State officers may well wish to
escape the responsibility of electing man
ayers Of the State institutions, for, aside
from the annoyance, they would be sure
to make some enemies no matter how
intelligently and conscientiously they
might perform the duty. And by the
same token, Republican members of the
Legislature should not make the mistake
of supposing that the dispensing of this
patronage will be a source of strength
to the party. Unless the institutions are
better managed than they have been
heretofore and the party pledges in re-
gard to taking them out of politics re-
deemed, the patronage will prove a
source of weakness.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13

A ST. Louis paper says that during the
past year fourteen persons were killed
by electric cars in that city and sixty
nine injured. some of whom probably
died. Similar casualties have happened
in every city that has electric cars and
probably in about the same proportion
to population. On it's face it looks like
an argument against electric lines, but
the same thing would happen under any
system Of rapid transit. Danger to life
and limb is inseparable from any such
system. and if people want rapid transit,
as they certainly do. they must take the
accompanying danger.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13

If Mr.. English is so much concerned about
the employment of soldiers on the monu-
ment work, why did he procure his own ap-
pointment on the commission? Granted, that
this concern is a late revelation TO him. why
does he not resign Indianapolis News
Perhaps it is because of an editorial in
former issue of the News urging that Mr..
English be appointed to fill vacancy then
existing on the board of monument commits
sioners because of his peculiar fitness for
the position, and reading thus:
Mr.. English has abilities that make him
emnently fitted for the place. No one has
been more closely identified with the State
than he, and his career has amply demon
strated that he has the wisdom and courage
so necessary for making such work as
this what it ought to be- We are sure that
than by appointing Mr.. English to one of
those vacancies. and we urge it upon them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13

Pennsylvania has an ELECTROMAGNETIC
law, passed in Difference to the dairy in
terest. At the annual meeting of the State
Dairymen's Association at Meadville last
week. prizes were offered for the best but
ter exhibited The editor of local paper,
who has always opposed the present State
law on imitation butter, sent to Chicago
for three packages of 1t, which he ex-
hibited butter and gave the names of
three dairymen friends as exhibitors. The
one-pound package of imitation received
second premium and third premium was
awarded on the five-pound package, and
now the laugh is on the dairymen who have
claimed that the nasty stuff could be de-
tected at glance
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13

The existing law for the protection of
song birds cited yesterday by a CORE
spondent of the Journal is we'll enough
so far as it goes, but it does not pro-
vide a penalty for the trapping or snar-
ing of such birds. their killing only be-
ing made unlawful. A bill to remedy
this defect is. we understand, now be-
fore the LEGISLATURE, and should be
passed. Like other laws. however it
will not enforce itself. and the people
who are interested in the protection of
the songsters must do their part in the
prosecution OF such offenders as those
mentioned by the Morgan county gem
tleman quoted on Sunday. Friends Of
the birds must exercise vigilance.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13

The passage by the House of the In
dianapolis library bill indicates that the
management of this important institu-
ton will presently be taken out of the
hands of the School Board and the pro-
pensity of that body to mismanage
affairs committed to it's charge be curbed
to that extent. While the library will
continue to be, as heretofore, a supple
ment and aid to the schools, it has long
outgrown the restricted limits of g.
school library, and there is now no pro-
priety, if such ever existed, in leaving
it's control to the School Board. 1t
needs the supervision of persons of
special educational qualifications and
with leisure and disposition to give
proper attention to it. The bill is in the
interest of the public.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-13
service in the United States army is not en-
titled to a pension under the act Of June n,
1900
MAY FAIL IN THE HOUSE.
Democrats Opposed to the Hawaiian
CabIe Surxex Pronnsitian

Cable Survey Proposition.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The appropria-
ton for Hawaiian cable which was added
to the diplomatic and consular appropria-
ton bill by the Senate, furnishes material
for ar. interesting controversy between the
two houses. The Hawaiian policy of the
House does not include the Hawaiian cable
in its creed or. at any rate, the Hawaiian
policy of the Democratic majority of the
House. There will be strong opposition
in the House to the expenditure of a half
million on the survey and preliminary work,
both on the general principle of objection
to government aid to enterprises of this
character and because of the depleted con-
dition of the treasury. Chairman Nc
Creary, of the committee on foreign af-
fairs, has stated plainly his objections to
the keynote TO the Democratic policy on
Hawaiian matters has always been uttered
by the chairman OF the committee. The cable
item will command the support of the DEM
ocrats from the Pacific coast and of the
Rebuplicans, but there is every probable
ity of majority against it. The confer
ence committee on the bill will be unfriend-
ly to the cable amendment The Senators
of the committee will be Blackburn, Brtce
Creary, Hooker and Hit. Both Blackburn
and Brice voted against the amendment in
the Senate but they will be placed in the
attitude of supporting it in conference, as
the instructions given to cGnferees are to in
sst on the amendments adopted by the
House. They may make report 10 the
Senate that the conferees are unable to
reach agreement and recommend that
the Senate recede from the cable project,
but unless the Senate votes to do so they
will be practically bound to support it.
Speaking generally. more Senate amend
ments to Senate bills are agreed to by the
House than the number of those given up by
the Senate. In this case the situation is
more uncertain because four of the six con-
ferees are likely to be personally In favor
of striking out the amendment, and repre-
sentatives of both houses may be disposed to
report back recommendations that it be