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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
PASS THEM ALONG.

The following call has been sent out,
from Washington, from the able chair
man of the free-silver party of the
United States:
American Silver Organization.-Office
Chairman National Committee, Cor
coran Building, Washington, d. C.
Plan OF Organization.
That the voters of the country may
have an opportunity to so organize that
they can cooperate and redeem our
country from the blight of gold stand
ard which has made the one-hundred-
cent dollar of 1873 Northumberland
dollar in 1896, and is paralyzing the
energies of our people, undermining
our liberties and bids fair to fill the
land with poor-houses, the National
Committee appointed by the Silver Con-
ference, in Washington, D. c., Jan. %
and %, suggests the following plan of
organizations
LIST. That the organization proceed
from the people up, by all silver men
signing the club roll.
"a. IudI the orSduiZdtioH SHOULD eX-
tend into every school district, so that
clubs may be formed convenient to the
homes Of the people.
In order to effect such organization.
the representative of the National
committee in each state and territory
should proceed to secure the co-opera-
ton Of one active and efficient worker
in each county to act as committee
man for such county, whose duty it will
be to organize said county.
The county committeeman should
proceed without delay to secure the CO.
operation Of one active man in each
city, township or precinct to under
take the organization Of said city,
township or precinct. II Is further
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15

While such ruinous losses from fall
ing prices have bankrupted agriculture
and beggared labor, the value Of bank
stocks has increased beyond the fondest
dreams of avarice. Chemical Bank
stock rising from $100 per share to over
$4,000 per share. First National John
Sherman's bank) from s10O to $4,000
per share, and numerous others rising
from five to eight hundred per cent in
value.
Again, we see that usury rolls wealth
so rapidly into the hands of the few
that they cannot find investment for it
all in loans. 1t has absorbed all rail-
roads, telegraphs, coal mines, oil fields,
lumber forests, and similar industries,
and by the enormous advantage Of i'm
mense combined capital has CONSOLE
dated the manufacturing and similar
branches of business into three hun
dred gigantic trusts all controlled by
the few. 1t has thus swept the smaller
operators out of business and turned
profit from such business to the usur-
ers. This oligarchy, with control of
banking, transportation and the trusts,
increasing its income SO rapidly has
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
Avoid Nngglng.

J. R. Miller, speaking of this com.
mon fault. says:
"Nagging' is not means of grace.
There is more excellent way-the way
Of love. 1t is better, when we wish to
correct faults in others, to be careful
to let them see in us in strong relief.
the virtue, the excellence, opposite to
the defect we see in them. 1t is the
habit Of certain good man. If one
of his family or friends mispronounces
word in his hearing, never pedanti-
cally to correct the error, but at some
early opportunity to find occasion to use
the same word, giving it the correct
pronunciation. Something like this is
wise in helping others out of their
faults of character or conduct. An ex-
ample is better than criticism"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15

or precinct committeeman subdivide
their work by the appointment Of a
committeeman in each school district,
whose duty it will be to canvass the
school district and secure the signature
of voters to the club roll.
This would make a state organiza-
ton right down with the people, each
county having a member Of the state
executive committee. The school dis
trict committee men would constitute
township or precinct committee; the
county committee would consist OF
the chairman of the township or pre-
cinct committees. 1t will be the duty
of the representative of the Provisional
National Committee to act as chairman
Of the state committee, until after
state conventions have been held, and a
new state committee created.
The Importance of an immediate
thorough canvass of the voters and the
securing of their signature to tile club
roll cannot be too strongly urged. After
the signatures are secured the work of
perfecting the organization becomes
easy. II this plan be adopted and
vigorously executed it is believed that
in our cause long before the date set
for holding our national convention.
When the people understand that this
plan has been adopted throughout the
entire country they will at once realize
that the only effective way Of overcom-
ing the money power and its servile
politicians and press has been adopted,
and hope will take the place of de-
spair.
The club roll should be left in charge
of the school district committeeman
but copy should be furnished to the
national committee so that newspapers
and documents could be sent to all
signers Of the club roll if desired-and
friends Of silver in the United States
could be ascertained.
When the politicians learn the num-
Der Of names on the list the Straddler
will straddle no more and Goldbuggery
will hide its head.
J.J. MOTT,
Chairman.
Whereas: The decentralization Of
silver in 1873 enormously increased
the demand for gold, enhancing its
purchasing power and forcing down
prices until the northumberland dol
lar of 1873 has become a two-hundred
cent dollar in 1896, measured by the
average of American products. This
fall of prices has deprived legitimate
industry of profit, and injured pro-
ducers for the benefit of producers,
increased the burden of debts, swelled
the gains of creditors and paralyzed
the productive energies of the American
people; condemning willing workers to
idleness and filling our land with
tramps and paupers while building up
colossal fortunes at the money centers;
Therefore be it
Resolved, That we the undersigned
legal voters Of.
County state .............
will not support any political party, or
vote for any candidate for any Office
whatever that does not favor the restor-
alton of the money of the constitution
by the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer and gold on terms of exact equality
regardless of the action of other ma
tons, and that we will not support any
candidate for the Office of president or
vice-president whose past record on
this question does not constitute a
guarantee of his action in the future.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15

all valuable agricultural land. To this
end it raises firmly its invincible
weapon, the gold standard, by which
1t can force prices of land and products
ever lower, until it has by foreclosure
of mortgages or otherwise, swept all
such land to the hands OF plutocracy,
thus destroying all Independent Amer
lean farmers, reducing them to renters
and wage slaves, who in rags must toll
side by side with Cinnamon, and fast
hurrying all branches of labor to con-
ditions, where a pure despotism Of
capital shall grind ever deeper into the
dust of despair, slavery and misery
the once happy and hopeful millions Of
our land. With wages ever falling, the
masses become more wretched, the
army of unemployed is greater. The
usurer despots object to giving to labor
the means of life by public employment
of the unemployed while they are yet
outside the Jail, but favor driving the
laborer first to Imprisonment where he
may work as the slave Of the state. To
this end they enact so-called vagrant
laws, by which all men without means
of support become criminals, and when
arrested and forced to prison for the
crime of poverty, the usurers favor
furnishing public employment in pris-
Ons to the victims whom they have
forced to that position.
This is the situation, and the prob
lem we are called to face in the year
1896. Therefore we are now face to
face with the crisis of the ages. We
enter upon this irrepressible conflict
from which we are to emerge with vic
tory and Industrial freedom, or in de-
feat and hopeless slavery. If we will
rise to the occasion the contest cannot
be doubtful. The usurers have frankly
stated the process by which they have
enslaved the people, in the infamous
Hazard circular issued by the London
capitalists to the New York bankers in
1862, which said:
Slavery is likely to be abolished by
the war power, and chattel slavery
destroyed. This l and my European
friends are in favor of, for slavery is
but the owning of labor, and carries
with it the care of the laborer, while
the European plan led On by England,
is capital control of labor by con-
trolling wages. This can be done by
controlling the money"
1t is, therefore, the control of money
which they confess has been the chief
weapon in destroying our people. This
control of money has been possibl,
only because these same despots have
controlled our government and our
people can never end their slavery I'M
til they hurl from political power the
organizations which have given, and
now give to usurers the control of
money. Mr.. R. M. Widney banker,
said in 1891: "a corner on money is a
corner on all other corners combined
and can control the social and political
as we'll as the producing, labor and
property interests of the nation" This
is the testimony of every honest states
man and of all human experience. We
must have a financial system which
will place the control Of money forever
beyond the power Of any combination
or class. The remedy must be ade-
quate to the occasion a system which
will destroy usury is the only one
which can meet the demands of this
hour. THOMAS V. GATOR.
San Francisco, April 1, 1896.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
The Way

First find thou Truth, and then
Although she strays
From beaten paths of men
To untrod ways
Her leading follow straight;
And bide thy fate;
And whether smiles or scorn
Thy passing greet,
Or find'st thou flower or thorn
Beneath thy feet
Fare on! nor fear thy fate
At Heavens gate.
WIN. 8. Shurtleff.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
A Poor Remedy.

President Lincoln, being once asked
after long voyage along the coast on a
steamboat, how he was, replied: Il am
not feeling very we'll. got pretty bad
ly shaken up on the bay coming along,
and am not altogether over it yet"
Let me send for bottle of cham
payne for you, Mr.. President" said a
staff officer; that is the best remedy
1 know of for seasickness."
mo, no, no, mysyoung friend" re-
piled the president, 1--WE seen many a
man in my time seasick ashore from
drinking that very article"
He who can laugh at himself, may
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
Three Houses Form rhI. parI,b.

The changes necessary to the con-
struction of Queen Victoria street, Lon
don, have brought about curious state
of affairs. Piece by piece has been
taken from the parish of st. Mary
Mountain until at present it actually
consists of but three houses ard yet 1t
is legally an electoral parish sill.-New
York World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15
NAME. RESIDENCE.

We hope that all men who are not
members of the Peoples party, and
who do not desire to join it. but who
nevertheless are in favor of free sill
yer, will cut out the foregoing petit
ton and pasting it at the top of a
sheet of paper, get as many signatures
to it as possible. 1. d.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-05-15

He who can laugh at himself. may
laugh much.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-04

and found myself looking, not into the
garden through which had passed, but
into one beyond the alley; and there
on a scene so strange and yet apropos to
my thoughts that paused, gaping.
ON plat OF grass four men were
standing. two and two; between them,
with nosc appraised and seeming this
way and that, moved a beautiful black
and-tnn spaniel. The eyes OF all four
men were riveted to the dog. which MS
i looked, walked sedately frst 10 the
one pair, and then, as II dissitlshed, 10
the other pair: and then again STOOD
midway and shifted the air the men
were Bpeaklng, but ! could not eaten
even their voices, and was reduced TO
drawing what differences could from
their appearance.
OF me two farther from me, one was,
my rascally bedfellow. the other q
crooked villain. ALMOST In rags, with
one leg shorter than the other, yet a
face bold and even handsome. or the
nearer pair, who had their backs to me,
the shorter. dressed In black. wore an
ordinary aspect; when, however, my
eyes Travelled to his companion they
paused, He, II was plain, was the chiet
OF the party, for he alone was covered,
and. though could not see his race nor
more Of his figure than that he was tall
and OF handsomer presence. II CHANGED
that as / looked he raised his hand to
his chin, and caught the sparkle OF
superb jewel. :.
the dog perple&ed me. and continued
10 watch. Presently the great man
again raised his hand, and this time II
seemed to me that an order was given
Tor the lame man started Into action
and moved briBkly toward the wall
which bordered the alley-and conse-
aucntly toward the house in which l
stood, MY companion Of the night In
terposed, however. and apparently would
have done the Grand himself; but at q
word he stood sullily and let the other
proceed; who, when he had all but dis.
appeared-on so little thing It turned
below the level OF the intervening
walls, looked up and caught sight OF me
at the window.
.rA M CnNITINIIEDl
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-04

Mr.. isaac Horner, proprietor Of the
Burton House, Burton, w. Va. Is
about as widely known rs any man
in his section. He says: "In April, 1892,
mad a severe attack OF rheumatism.
The attack was 80 severe ftrat our fam
fly physician was Immediately called In
ana for about month I was treated
constantly by two physicians. Con-
tInuing to grow worse. j then placed
myself under the care Of one Of the
best physicians In this state at Wheel
ing. I continued to grow worse: i
again called in our two family ply
siclans and they continued TO treat me
for about q year.
medicines and Iiniments recommended
by friends, but could get no relief what
ever from anything and after being
confined to my room, for over three
years all this time unable TO walt on
myself and suffering the most excru-
ciating pains. In fact, have not suf-
ficient command OF language TO con-
yey any idea OF what suffered Ny
physicians tod me that nothing could
be done for me and my friends were
fully convinced that nothing but death
would relieve me of my suffering.
In June, 1894. Mr.. Evans. at that time
salesman for the wheeling Drug Com
pany, recommended Chamoerlatn's
Pain Balm. / decided TO try Il and
bought fifty cent bottle. At this time
my foot and limb was swollen more
than double It's normal size and It seem
ed 10 me my leg would burst, but soon
after began using the Pain Balm the
swelling began to decrease, the pain
10 leave, and now consider that am
entirely cured I have no pain. the
swelling has left my limb, and l walk
Anywhere that care 10 go. 1'firnly
believe that Chamberlain's Pain Balm
saved mysllfe, and We would not be
Without a bottle OF It In the house for
ten times It's cost" Sold by Druggists
6, r. Goethe. w. W. Irwin. c. Schnepf.
q, Menkemeller, John Klart, W. II.
Hague, II. C. Stewart, r. B. Burt. J.
Coleman, A. q. scheale, William Menk-
emeller. ]. g. Ehrle. wheeling; Bowie
& CO., Bridgeport: B. F. Peabody &
Con RAnEyO0d
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gyN0pGTg

Prosper is the third secretary to the
bishop OF Beaulnis, who. ut the death OF
Louis NV, becomes the rival OF Car
tllnal Mazarln for the premiership OF
France and for the favor of Anne of
Austria. the queen regent. BY an error
In copying Prosper leads the bishop TO
make on absurd error in stating the
population OF Paris TO the council. Pros
per Is Dismissed with beating. lie Is
revIled IN the bishops steward, whom
he attacks in HIS rage, and Is pursued
through the streets Of Paris. rs ne ~
escaping he overtakcs another fugitive,
who looks around in fear, ana throws
u bundle into Prosper's arms. PROSPER
staggers against a door In q wall when
opens, and his pursuers go by. He dis
covers that the bundle contains some
thing alive, perhaps stolen child, He
determines to restore It, and claim n
reward, but as he turns the end OF the
street, he Is trlpped up by another
man who seiZes the parcel and runs OF.
prospper makes his way 10 the sub
urhs. and seeks refuge In a barn. on
awnkIng he finds near him the tngi-
tive who tossed him the bundle. The
latter Is much cast down when he
learns that he had given II up need
lessly, but is evidently overjoyed when
Prosper tells him that lame man re-
gained it.OyI1ently recognizing friend
Prosper has noticed small cape In
the mans girdlc, bearing the royal
crown, and at once stlrInises that the
infant king OF France was being car
rled of. He and the stranger return
to Paris. and Prosper takes note OF u
door ut which the man fingers for u
short time. before they separate.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-04

PITTSBURGH. Pa, March s.-somc::
thing Of sensation has been created
in political circles here over the an.
fiouncement that c. L. Magee, the great
Republican leader Of this city, Is can
dictate for the state SENATE from the
Forty-third district. The news was a
great surprise to the people Of Pitts.
burgh, as Mr.. Magee has never held
but one once, city treasurer, and that
was early In his political career. His
friends give no reason for his entering
the senatorial contest at this time, but
the combiners oil look upon II as wise
political move.
Among the politicians II Is regarded
as evidence that the contest between
Senator Quay and the combine which
was 30 bitterly fought In the state con-
ventlon last year and ended In victory
for the QuayItes will be renewed in the
legislature next winter.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-04

From letter written by Rev. ]. Gum
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was brought down with Pneumonia
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oxysms OF coughing would last hours
with little interruption and It Beemed
ms IL ahe could not survive them. A
friend recommended DR.. Kings New
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teen years she has been badly broken
out all over her body, causing her un-
told suffering, and frequently rendering
her unable to attend school. Her arms
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But 1 knew or thought that knew
all now. and the moment he was out
OF sight. set or towards the Palals
Royal like n hound let loose, needing
neither those against whom bumped
in the StralteF ways, nor the danger
ran OF recognition. nor the miser'
able aspect ! wore. I forgot all. save
my news, even my own wrctchedness;
and never halted or stayed TO take
breath until stood painting in the
doorway OF the lodge at the Palais, and
met my father-ln-law's gaze OF disgust
and astonishment.
He was Just OF the night turn. and
met me on the threshold. ! saw be-
yond him the Grinning faces OF the
under porter. But had that TO tell
which sim upheld me. threw up my
hands.
at know where they are" cried.
breathleBs. II can take you to them!"
He gazed Ut me. dumb with surprise
and rage; and doubtless n less reputa-
Bile son-in-law than appeared would
have been hard TO find. Then his pas
sion found vent pig! Jackali Gut
ter-birdp he cried. "Begonel Begone!
or will have you nayed!"
But know where they are! know
where they have him." protested.
His face underwent startling
ohange. He darted forward with u
nimbleness wonderful in one OF his
bulk and caught me by the collar
What" he said, "have you seen the
dog?"
seen the king! have held him in my
arms! He is"
He released me suddenly and fell
back q pace. looking Mt me 50 oddly
that paused. Say II again." he cried,
slowly. .'You have held the"
THE king! The king!" / cried. Inn
patiently. I'm these arms. know
where they have him. or al, least where
the robbers are"
HIS double chin fell and his red face
lost color. Poor devil," he said. still
staring at me. They have driven him
But" cried. "Are you not going
He waved me of and retreated a
step hastily and crossed himself.
Jacques" he exclaimed, Move him
OF! Move him OFF, do you hear. MANI"
But. tell you" ! cried. fiercely.
they have stolen the king! They have
stolen his majesty, and l."
There, there, be calm" he an
swered. .They have stolen the queens
dog, that is true. But have It your own
way II you like, only go. Go from here,
and quickly, or It will be the worse
| for you: for here comes monseigneur,
| the bishop, to wait on her majesty. and
IL he sees you you will There, make
way, make wnyw he continued, adj
dressing the little crowd that had as
| sembIed. Way way.for Inonseigneur,
the bishop OF Beauvais!"