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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
The Cause of Low Farm Prices.

From the New York World.
The real cause of cheapened farm prod
ucts is a lack of population.
All prices are determined at last by sup
ply and demand. A certain amount of
wheat is produced. If there be many peo-
pie wanting bread the wheat will bring
higher price than if there be only half as
many. So it is with everything else.
A hundred years ago Mr.. Malthus got
himself abused as an advocate of baby
killing by calling attention to what he
thought a danger. He argued that as food
production increased only in an arithmetical
progression, while population tended to in
crease geometrically, the world must either
find some practical means of limiting pop
ulation or soon confront general want and
starvation.
His fear was that population would in
crease faster than the food supply. Ex-
actly the opposite has happened. Thanks
to improved machinery and still more to
the development Of cheap transportation,
the production of food available for the
support of the worlds people has enor-
mously outrun the increase of population.
1t never occurred to Malthus that railroads
and steamships would enable Dakota
wheat-grower to furnish flour to the Lon
don coster at 81 or s. barrel.
This is what has happened. The railroad.
the steamboat. the telegraph and the
steamship have brought widely separated
regions so near together and made trans
portation so cheap that d New York or
London newsboy can afford to eat
peaches and pears grown in far
away California, while flour and meat
grown in Dakota and Texas can
actually be delivered to the New York
or European consumer for less than a
hundred years ago it cost to buy the meat
and the -four made in the immediate neigh
borhood.
The natural and necessary result is very
low prices. They will rise permanently only
when the growth of population shall again
produce pressure upon the food supply.
|. At present the Improvement In means Of
production and distribution outruns the
increase of population. and so in a general
| way the price of food products tends to
fall
What the farmer needs Is not a cheaper
dollar, but that larger market which an
increase in population alone can give him.
So long as there is wheat enough In the
world to supply all the people with all they
want Of it at 80 or 60 or 20 cents buShel,
its price will not go to a dollar. To
change the meaning Of the word dollar so
| that it will signify 80 or 60 or 70 cents will
not increase values to the farmer except
| in so far as it will enable him to cheat his
creditor But 1t will make a disastrous
| difference to the workingman. His wages,
| as measured by that term, would not ad-
vance under the change at all in propor-
| ton to the usual advance in prices.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
He Still Ha. Reverence.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
"Ah." said the elderly lady, "it Is sad
to see. but the young men of the present
day seem to be lacking totally in rev.
erence."
ma" said the younger lady. "You should
start one of them to talking about him.
self"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
Sense From Colorado.

From the Colorado Springs Gazette
Is Colorado Springs prosperous?
1t is the most prosperous city in the
state and has been for more than three
years.
What made 1t prosperous?
Two things mainly: The climate and
the Cripple Creek gold.
How was the Cripple Creek gold got
out?
Partly by using the returns from the first
production to develop the mines from which
tho gold came; but mainly by money bor-
rowed from the money sharks and tools
of Wall street.
Who pays the wages to the miners in the
Cripple Creek district?
The "idle holders of idle capital"
Who is putting up the fine reduction
works at Colorado City?
Graspng capitalists.
How would the election of Bryan and
a Popufist state administration benefit
Cripple Creek?
By partially depopulating the camp, by
stopping all investment by greedy monop-
olists, by cutting in two the purchasing
power of the wages made by the miners,
and by encouraging free riots.
Do prospectors and holders Of property
at Cripple Creek desire outside help in de-
veloping their property?
They always seem glad to get it.
Can they get it now?
Not much
Why not?
Because capitalists are holding their
money in fear that the standard of value
NAV be changed, and that they may get
back only part of their money if they in
vest it.
Will the election of Bryan let this money
loose for investment?
No.
Will the election of Mckinley let this
msney loose for investment?
Yes.
How do you know?
Ask any banker in town.
Have the city banks money in their
vaults now?
Yes; more than ever before.
Will they lend it?
No: not without extraordinary security.
Will they lend 1t on ordinary security If
Mckinley is elected.
They say so.
Why don't the Populists compel them by
law to lend to everyone that asketh?
Simply because they haven't thought Of 1t
vet.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

II the people in Kansas City yesterday
who wanted to hear Bourke Cochran and
couldn't were divided into audiences of
$780, and Mr.. Cochran should address an
audience every evening. he would remain
in Kansas City for some time after the
November election.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

There isn't one syllable OF truth in the
assertion" says Chairman Jones, that we
have abandoned Bryan or that We intend
doing So" That is probably true 60 far
as Jones is concerned, but it won't hold
good as TO thousands of his party
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

this young man why he took the trouble
to so through the, train getting the prefer
ences Of voters every day. TT is busi-
ness" he replied, with broad smile on
his face. "It puts everyone in p good hui
NOR, sets everyone to talking and makes
'em buy things. When I tells him who's
won, all tha Mckinley men-an' that's al
ways a big majority of 'em-sort of feel
friendly to me. you know. an 1t doubles
my sales. The presidential campaign is
good thing for my business, all right"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

The announcement that Thomas B. Reed
has placed himself at the disposal Of the
Republican national committee for CAM
paign work in the West will fall on Bryan
lite ears with dull, sickenIng thud.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

Mr.. Sewall has gummed himself to the
ticket little tighter with his letter of ac-
ceptance A few more stout assertions
and another contribution or two, and the
country will realize that Sewall is really
going to stay.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

Coin Harvey's reference to one-armed
and one-legged Union veterans as 'old
wrecks Of the rebellion. who have lost all
their honor and patriotism will probably
make votes. but not for the ticket Harvey
is supporting.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
Coinaxe of siIver Doll.r,.

VIRTUE OF THE CRIME OF THE
FATHERS. SONS.
Avef'a ge ANNUAL Average annual
coinage of silver doll coinage of silver dol
lars for IS years pri-I1ars for 10 years after
or to 1878, $94, ,4s4 t1S7s, $22,673.16o
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
straw Vote. All for Mckinley.

Walter Wellman in T1mes-Herald-
The train boys are pretty smart people.
Wherever have been these merchants of
the rail have gone through the trains TAX
Ing votes on the presidential election.
Ninety -niro times out of a hundred the
boys say. Mckinley is ahead of Bryan.
Ono boy said he had taken a vote every
day for a month. and Bryan had beaten
Mckinley only once and that was a day
When a lot OF delegates were on the train
Se.ns 10 some local convention. / asked
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
The Ono Thing Needful.

Some claim We need more of real art
And soEle protest our diets wrong
No doubt these troubles form a part
OF mankind's sad complaining song.
But in these cool October days
There is one universal care
That nils life's desolated ways
We need some winter underwear.
Chicago News.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
Having Fun with Him.

From the Detroit Free Press.
And the dude thought he would have fun
with the old doctor to whom he said:
"What had I best do. doctor? When
even take light exercise breathe in short,
quick pants"
Get a pair Of trousers. stretchers."
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

II must be admitted that in the matter
OF taking care of carnivals the weather
man Is on to his job.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

doctor who told Tom Watson he must not
do any more talking in the campaign has
q private understanding with John Brei-
denthal, of Kansas.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

Miss Pallas was pleased to observe that
Kansas City has been holding its own in
spite of the atrocious crime of 10.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

The 3oO-foot serpent in yesterdays parade
was a little hard on the nerves of spec
tators with a thirst. but it was a striking
feature. -a
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
A..ienat. Crushed the People.
Professor Perry in Elements of Political
Economy"

Professor Perry in Elements of Political
Economy
THE distress and CONSERVATION into
which a country falls when its current
measure of services Is disturbed and de-
troyed, is past all powers of description
The prisons and the guillotine did not COM
pare with the assignats in causing suffering
during those six years. This example is
significant because it shows the powerless-
ness of even the strongest and most un-
scrupulous government to regulate the val
lie of anything. The assignats were depre-
ciating during the very months in which
Robespierre and the committee of public
safety were welding the power of life and
death in France with terrific energy. They
did their utmost to stop the sinking Of the
revolutionary paper. But value knows its
own laws, and follows them in spite of de-
cree6 and penalties"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

According to Candidate sewail. the thing
that stands between the Bryan party and
sectionalism is Arthur Sewall. Well, that
isn't much.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

II guests don't see what they want they
should take another look at the weeks
programme. IT is probably on there.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
Concise.

From the New York Press.
wackware-'I hear Smith was very self
Possessed when the cable ear cut off both
his legs -
J2-''v-'Yes. Al! he said was. We'll. tnat
sluiups Ius."
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

1t is hoped that all the nominations
and acceptances will get in before the elec-
tion. They are straggling along very Ieis-
urely.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
THE WEATHER.

There may be other duties that require
attention. but the duty Of the day is to
have fun.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

no more worthy to live for its beauty. than
was that of the Republican standard
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

Blue Rapids bicycle dealer has sold a
wheel to Popocrat with the agreement
that the latter is to pay 81 for every 1000
majority Mckinley receives in New York
From present appearances that will be the
costliest bicycle ever sold in Kansas
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

Jerry Simpson says Tom Watson Is
conscientious Populist, though a misguided
one. Tom Watson's opinion of Jerry will
be given later.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

from the fort to Hays City he always
drove the animal across the Intervening
mile of territory hitched to a racing suiky.
The tonghs Of Hays City determined to
take the measure OF the dudish young
clerk, so one morning when he had hiiched
his trotter in front Of one OF the many
saloons which constituted the main busl-
ness OF the place. six foot terror with
guns on his hips and bowie knives in his
boots MOUNTED. the sulky and commenced
10 drive the horse furiously up and down
the single street OF the town. When VIII
son discovered the performance his heart
quaked. He knew enough OF the ways OF
the boisterols West TO recognize that this
vas, :, challenge to his nerve. While hesi-
tatiur what TO do he observed Wild Bill.
who was marshal OF the town. standing IN
the door OF a dance hall watching the ex-
hibition with an amused anu 9uixxlcaL ex-
preston or his counterarce- WSson had
some slight Acquaintance with Biii. and 50
stepped up 70 the famous killer with the
question: 'Bnl. what shall dor There
isn't bu, one thing to do. young feiier. u
you wan, 10 live In this country. was the
ourinous response But I haven't any
frTsnr 10 10 A. with" responded Wilson,
For an answer the king OF killers reached
around behind his huge frame and pro-
iueed two big. ivory handled riS-shooters.
which he handed 20 the young man with
out a word. Wilson accepted the weapons.
swallowed hard TO restore his humping
heart to It's normal position. stepped out
into the street and. when the ro~dy driver
came tearing by with his troster. Ieveied
both guns at him with the command:
Get down out Of that sulky.' For an in
slant the terror Sazel into the barrels
% the pistols and then without a wori
commenced 10 climb down from the suiky
seat Wilson waited with steady nerve for
his adversary 10 reach the ground and
draw for the duel which seemed certain 10
follow Instead of drawing. however. ths
coxed terror sidlei OF down the street
zniis, the jeeF< and boots OF the bystand-
ers. aud Two hours later had left town =
aisgrac-d man IN the eyes Of every killer
In the settlement This Was the beginning
OF a friendship between Wilson and VIII
Bill vhI-h lasted through the ia:ter's life.
He used TO say the highest compliment
- knew how TO paw hts young friend:
That caarterrnast-- dandy hs. more saaa
than any .. Sca .e.!srS"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

The Newton Kansan says that when the
Topeka girls were winking at the young
giant who wore white duck uniform and
played the slide trombone with the En-
poria band, they didn't know that he was
one of the professors OF the Presbyterian
college and had a wife at home.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08

Ex-Governor Lewelling Is out with q
newspaper interview In which he declares
that II the election of 1894 had been held
a month earlier he would have been elected
governor Of Kansas. From now on every
Pop In Kansas will be in favor Of holding
the election q month earlier.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-10-24
Fifth publication October "a.
SHERIFF'S SALE.

SHERIFF'S SALE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. THAT
by virtue Of an order of sale Issued by
the clerk of the district court OF the
third judicial district Of Nebraska,
within and for Lancaster county, in an
action wherein National Life Insurance
company Of Montpelier, Vermont, Is
plaintiff. and Carlos G. Burr defendant.
l will, at 2 o'clo-k p. m, on the 18th day
Of October. A ID. 1886. at the east door
OF the court house. in the city OF
Lincoln. Lancaster county, Nebraska,
offer for sale at public auction. the fol-
lowing described real estate. to-wit:
Lot F Crop~ey County Clerk sub
division OF lot one j. two (2). three ~,
four (4). in block fifty-tbree t5}) IN the
city OF Lincoln. the west half u OF the
south half 90 OF lot twelve ~. in the
southwest quarter "a OF section thirty.
six (36). town ten (l0). range six (6) east
OF the 9th p. NJ. also three hundred and
twenty five (3..5) feet of the north end
OF the west half t1O'of the wet half
ul) Of the northwest quarter ca OF the
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-10-24
Fifth pub. Oc:. "a.
SHERIFF SALE.
Oct "a.

Notice is hereby given. That by virtue
o. AN order OF sale issued by the clerk OF
the district court OF the Third Judicial
District Of Nebraska. within and
for Lancaster county, in an
action wherein Jane E. Chamberlain, ct
al is Plaintiff. and Mulberry II. Linci-
come ct al, Defendant. I will. at 2
o'clock D. m. on the 18th day OF De-
tober, A. ID. 1895, at the East door OF the
Court House, in the City Of Lincoln. Lam
caster County, Nebraska. offer for sale
at public auction the following described
real estate to-wit:
Southeast quarter [s al C.: section
thirty-two [32h town eleven III range
five Isl. east Of the 9th p. m. all in
Lancaster county. Nebraska.
Given under my hand this Ord day OF
September, A. d., 1896.
John j. Trompen.
Sheriff
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-10-24

labor must be spent in preparing new
play for presentation. each different
department Of the theatre attending to
that particular portion which comes
under its head. Mr.. augustus Pitou
has spent months in making the neces.
sary arrangements for the production OF
MADAME Sans Gene" He has succeeded
in having every property used in this
play historically accurate. The crown
OF Queen Caroline and the coronet OF
Princess Eliza have been copied from
the originals. and even in the minor
matter of court decorations and orders,
absolute tioelity to the originals has
been observed. The forty-seven orders
were imported from Paris. among them
being the decorations of the Legion Of
II ,nor, the royal Bavarian and Austrian
orders, and Naroleon's personal badges.
Each ha- an appropriate ribbon. and
the secretary OF the French legation at
Washington was called upon TO assist in
properly arranging them. Mr.. Augustus
Cook, who impersonates Napoleon, car
ries handsome snuff box. fac simile
Of the one which Napoleon carried at
his coronation, and the original OF
which is now in the National Museum.
Mr.. Cook has filled it with some OF
Edwin Booths snuff, which, together
with the box. was presented to him by
KirkI atrick. the famous New York
curio gatherer.
The stage pictures will be very han1-
some. The gowns worn by the clever
star, Miss Kathryn KIdder, are probably
the most elaborate and cost! Of any
that have been seen in this city. They
are the creations Of Pequin, who is in
the first rank Of Partisan milliners. In
one act of the play, Miss Kidder wears
an exquisite deshabille. When Madame
Sans Gene" appears as the duchess OF
Dantzig, wife Of Marshall Lefevbre."
surrounded by court milliners. wig and
boot makers. she begins to try on the
magnificent dresses sent for her ap-
prevail. The deshabille consists Of a
long chemise OF India null and delicate
Valenciennes lace Of alternate stripes.
finished at the bottom with innumera-
bic hounces Of the lace. The upper
part is an orange satin Empire corset.
edged with a vide lace bertha, and fast
sned up over the shoulders with wide
orange satin ribbons. Over this is worn
a peculiarly shaped dressing sacque OF
the period, made OF orange colored
satin, with wide ruffles OF point d. Allen
con lace. Miss Kidder searched history
and France to have the smaller details
of Madame Sans Genes" wearing ap.
parel chronologically correct.
Seats on sale Monday morning, Octo.
Der 26, at 10 a. m, at theatre box
Office
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-10-24

northwest quarter "a OF section one QD.
town nine (9). range six ISL, east OF the
9th p. NJ. also fifty l5Ol feet of the
south end OF lot one M and fifty I50l
feet of the south end OF the east half
o: lot two ~ in block one hundred and
eighty 1891 in the city OF Lincoln, also
lot eight lsl. block eighty five 1851. in the
city OF Lincoln, all in Lancaster county.
Nebraska.
Given under nv hand this 18th day Of
August, A. d., 1896.
John Tronpen.
Sheriff.
Oct "A.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-10-24
WANTED S = i! a.: $.s a. :

each county to take orders for Nursery
stock, and are willing to pay well for
good work. We agree to REPLACE
FREE anything that dies from natural
causes.
We also have a choice line Of SEED
POTATOES. Give US trial.
THE HAWKS NURSERY COMPANY
Milwaukee, Wis.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-10-24

and twenty eight as actresses. In q ma.
jority OF all Of which cases 1.-The ofenses
charged were venial."
Without reinsisting upon the fact that
many persons who are not actors te-
scribe themselves as actors, and with
out going into detail, it is easy to see
that the $4,000 odd OF other persons in
durancs must have included many more
persons OF other walks Of life whose re
spective members are usually recog-
nized as law abiding.
When cold figures like these are put
forth in official reports one is apt to
wonder where the sensational press
finds even imaginative material for it's
stories Involving theatrical persons in
social disorder. But as sensational
journalism has come to be placed on a
plane with the stuff that formerly was
confined to the industry OF confessedly
tictional publication, wonder would per-
haps be wasted in pursuit OF the
matter beyond betrayipg headlines.
E. s Willard is visiting Hall Game
in The Isle OF Man.
Francois Coppee, Armand Sylvester
and Emile lola were judges at recent
cat show in Paris.
Does virtue reside in the west after all
in spite Of an ancestry OF border ruffiar-
ism!
cidliy OF realistic plays Of the blood.
thunder. and lighting sort. and who go
generally into the walks ofthe notorious
for leading characters, recently endesv-
ored to seduce son of the late Jesse
James from the peaceful and law abid
ing work of clerk in a Kansas City
packing house. Offering him position
as an actor OF the part OF train robber
at salary larger than that attaching TO
his clerkship. With common
place virtue that students OF her
dity may wonder at. young James
DIT clined, and is still a clerk. And
as his father. whose note as a train
robber was universal. is dead, and the
holding up OF trains has degenerated
from the province Of picturesque fellows
of the James order to the casual prac-
tice Of tramps in multitude. whose at.
tacks on freight lines means nothing
more unlawful than a ride without
tickets, it would seem that the parficu-
lar melodrama meant in this case to be
realistic by consequently can be made
interesting only reminiscently by the
work OF some one who can act.
Lillian Russell, who comes to the
Funke on Friday, will play to packed
house. Her costumes, her beauty, her
talent, make trip 80 far west unusual,
but Lincoln people will show her they
know good thing even before they
have seen it.
There never has been moment since
the death, some seventy years ago OF
the Man OF DESTINY at st. Hele ma, wher
the public interest in his wonderful
career, has been SO great as today. Many
volumes have appeared and every maya
zine OF any standing has contained.
during the past year. articles historical
or critical referring to the First Ma
poleor. 1t is but natural, OF course,
that Freuchman should have written
o
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-10-24
In the Title Role.

Prices-$l.5O, $1.O0, 75c, SOC and Csc.
Monday Morning. Lansing Theatre office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-08

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