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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
Labor Needs More Money /.

All the appeals to the laboring men
are based upon the idea that the wages
of labor do not depend upon the law OF
supply and demand. It is true that
labor organizations resist for a time
the reduction of wages, but all efforts
to keep up wages while an abundant
supply of labor is unemployed must
ultimately fail. Wages rise when
there is demand for labor and lower
when that demand ceases. The wages
of labor throughout the civilized world
were more than doubled by the addi-
tional money supply by the gold and
silver from California and Australia.
The new money from these discoveries
put the wheels of industry in motion
in the United States and Europe and
created an extraordinary demand for
labor. The employers of labor sought
workmen and were compelled to pay
the wages demanded because the la
borers would find employment else
where if the wages offered them were
not satisfactory. Gradually. wage
earners ask more and more for their
services and employers were COM
PEELED to stand their raise. as long as
prices were stable aud business active;
but when silver was demonetized and
one-half of the metallic money of the
world was destroyed, prices fell and
business had to stop The stoppage
of business decreased the demand for
labor. The aggregate amount paid to
labor has been very great There is
not 33H per cent as much money paid
to the laborers in the aggregate as
there would be if prices were raising
and times good. The farmers consti-
tute fully one-half of the labor of the
country. Labor on farms has been un-
productive; in fact. the farmers of the
United States have worked for less
than nothing in the last twenty-fys
years Their farms are not worth
more than one-half as much today as
they were when silver was demone-
tized, and the sheriff is constantly en-
gaged in turning over the farms of tn.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
A FRANTIC APPEAL

We call Mr.. Mckinley's attention to
three groups of states, all of which he
must carry. The first group is the
three states that together make the
Democratic key to the presidency
New York, New Jersey and Connecti-
cut. These are the Democratic states
They can be carried for Mckinley only
by the votes of Democrats The sec
ond group contains four states-Dela-
ware, Maryland, West Virginia and
Kentucky. These are also Democratic
states necessary to Mr.. Mckinley. The
third group-Illinois, Indiana and
Wisconsin-was carried by Mr.. Cleve-
land.
Mr.. Mckinley hopes to get these ten
states. He relies upon the public con-
science of their democratic voters He
has said that he admires these con-
scientous Democrats. But what has
he done to show that he appreciates
their sacrifices?
Do they not deserve some consider
alton?
They show the highest public'spirit,
the noblcst self-sacrifce. They are
attached to their party. They believe
in its principles, in its usefulness. Yet
they help into power not only an
odious party; but also leader of that
party who. as the extreme champion
of an odious system of taxation is in
their eyes not without blame for the
growth of tariff rings and monopolies.
In return for this they ask no offices,
no patronage, no political honors. They
make one simple condition.
And what is this condition? Merely
a guarantee that Mckinley shall stand
for real popular self-government.
That he will enforce the laws already
| upon the statue books; tn at he will re-
sist the aggressions of those powerful
and oppressive combinations the cor
rupt trusts, syndicatcs, pools and
monopolies
Could they conscientously ask less?
Is it not palpably just? Is it not
for the benefit of the whole people? Is
it not in the interest of good govern
ment? Is it not vital to the republic
itself? Is it too much to ask of Mr..
Mckinley an assurance such as Mr..
Bryan gives when he says: IF by the
suffrages of my countrymen am
placed in the highest position in the
gift of any people in the world, every
law shall be enforced against the great
as well as against the small?
What do you think about the trusts?
Speak out Mr.. McKinley.-New York
World gold October 2.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
PoPuLiST STATE POLITICS.

Dricdenthal has secured for distri-
button from the Populist state central
committee of Nebraska cards denouuc-
ing Paul Vandervoort as a traitor
whose sole object is the defeat of Bry-
an. The cards state that he has been
excluded from all conventions in
NebraskB and is regarded there as a
Hannacrat
E F. Madden, president of the FIRST
National bank of Hays City, presided
at silver meeting recently held at
that place. w. II. Morris Populist
candidate for au iitor of state was one
of the speakers Ellis county is
safe for Bryan and tue Populist state
ticket.
Senator Foraker. of Ohio. expects TO
carry Kansas for Mckinley by devot-
ing two whole days to the state. He
might do some good at home, bu,
Kansas is beyond redemption.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
IF BRYAN rs ELECTED
THE CENTRAL CITY STOVE
WORKS OF NEWARK, CHIC
Offers to Increase Wages-Business in
the West Must be Stimulated.

special to the News (Denver.l
NEWARK, o., Oct. Sit has been
many days since factory notice prom
Sing an increase of wages has been
seen in this vicinity. but the employees
Of the Central City Stove Works here
today were notified that in case of
Bryan's election, an increase of 10 per
cent in their wages would be given.
The companys president. C. w. Cum
bingham has been a lifelong Republi-
can, while the heaviest stakeholder,
W. n. Fulton, although a banker, is
IN enthusiastic silverite. Nearly all
The employees are Republicans, but all
ire Bryan supporters.
President Cunningham said today
that the reason the promise of better
wages was made that the company
felt confident that the free coinage
would stimulate business especially in
the west, where the trade of the concerc
largely lies. He cited the fact that
molders' wages before silver's demone-
tization were higher than they are to-
day, and pointed out how all manu-
facturers of stoves voluntarily in
creased wages in 1879, after the pass
age of the Bland act.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

agrieulturists to the money loaners of
the cities. It is estimated that there
are three millions of men forced to be
/ idle for want of employment in the
United States, and the balance of the
laborers are working on short hours or
about half time. The laborers who
have employment dare not offend their
employers for fear Of losing their
places. If they should be discharged
not one in hundred thousand has any
idea where he would get employment.
The consequence is that the employer
of labor makes the price or determines
the hours to suit himself The laborer,
in view of the fact that there are
plenty OF men hanging about waiting
for his job equally competent as him
self, lives in fear and trembling, and
will submit TO any condition his en-
ployer may prescribe.
In every age of the world laborers
have resisted reduction in wages. but
in no case have they succeeded when
the mines gave out or when money was
growing searcer and dc arer, because on
falling prices of the products of labor
the wages of labor cannot be main
tanned. If the minis were opened to
the free coinage of silver there would
probably be enough silver available
for coinage to stop falling prices and
start the wheels of industry in motion.
This would give employment to every
willing hand in the United States.
There would be no 50-cent dollars. The
dollars would have the same number
of cents in them as they now have and
would pay the same amount of debts
and taxes but they would not be so
dear as to destroy business. There
would probably be enough to main
tain stability of prices and give suffici-
ent employment to enable every young
man who is honest and industrious to
secure competency. Money enough
TO stop falling prices and maintain
sta bility of prices would cause labor to
receive three times as much as it now
does, in addition to making such labor
steady and sure Any man who con-
tends that falling prices will not ulta-
mately produce falling wageseither is
fool or he intends to deceive the peo-
ple.-Silver Knight.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
WHAT DOES "PARi MEAN9

In his last public letter Secretary
Calisle bases long argument upon the
false assumption that the government
is bound by Federal statutes to main
tain parity between gold and silver
dollars by exchanging one for the other
at the option of holders.
Whenever silver has been coined uu-
der all existing laws, all further re-
sponsibility regarding its use, or rela-
tions to gold, ceased right there. It
is coined for holders of bullion, and
made legal tender. The government
has no more to do with it. Coming it
at the established ratio makes the
parity. There is no other just or
natural interpretations of the word
parity. Mr.. Carlisle's assumption that
parity is synonymous witt. the word
''exchangeability" is wholly gratu-
tious. No law justifies it. 1t is Of his
own Interpretation, unwarranted
either by law or fact. But as it ac-
cords with goldbug ideas of public
plumber, the goldbug press sustains its
falsity.
Parity means equality in coinage
privileges under the law at the estab-
lished ratio. Mr.. Carlisle and his
hackers ought to go to school and
study up the simple meaning of the
word.
But it is less question o: schooling
with them than an open attempt to
falsely construe the law in behalf of n
foreign gang of public plunderers-
Philadelphia Item.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

A few years ago James Dixon took
Pauline Descellis Of Highland, Ill. to
St. Louis, where they were to be mar
rled. The first thing they did was to
register at hotel as man and wife,
and few hours later the young woman
was refused license to marry because
she was trifle under statutory age. A
few months later when Pauline became
old enough to wed she was shocked to
learn that her Jimmy had not only
changed his mind but had disappeared
as well. and now she is seek
ing the arrest OF the man who
would have married her but
for the laws restrictions. Thus it is
that strict enforcement of the law
sometimes canses untold misery.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

a CHASTITY case Of cruelty to animals
has been brought to light in Norris
town, n. J. a coachman named Wood
wished his employer to get new and
better pair of horses than those he had,
in which deal he was to get handsome
rake-off. His employer refused, where
upon Woods mutilated the horses in a
horrible manner with a view to making
them useless and thus forcing the pur-
chase of a new pair.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

: A remarkable surgical operation has
been successfully accomplished at the
city hospital of Newark, N. j., on the
person of laborer named Arthur Har-
ris, whose skull was so badly fractured
by a fall that large portion of the
brain protruded. This was replaced by
the surgeons, the broken bone removed
and silver plate inserted, and Mr..
Harris upon recovering consciousness
did not at all realize that possibly his
brain was in different place in his
skull than heretofore. He is recover.
ing rapidly, moreover.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

A man named Claude B. Lassalle has
been arrested in New York for passing
forged checks and the police claim
that they have in him the most expert
and dangerous forge: in the United
States. While none of his forgeriea
have exceeded 800 or $3.50, yet he Il
said to have made over $3.50, 900 by this
illegitimate business. In his posses
sion We're found blank checks on all the
large banks of the country and book
containing cut and pasted down sigma
lures of large merchants and prominent
professional men in the various cities
IN whose banks he had checks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

An Italian woman in New York has
illustrated the peculiar vindictiveness
of her race in a recent stabbing scrape
that took place in the big metropolis.
Feeling herself to be insulted by a man
she told her lover of the occurrence
and they went to hunt up the man.
When they found him the woman slip
ped up behind him and grasped him,
pinioning his arms to his side and held
him firmly in this position while her
companion stabbed him several times
in the front part OF his body.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

An Ashland, Wis, correspondent of
Chicago paper calls attention to the
remarkable fact that several of the very
disastrous forest fires of Wisconsin
have occurred on July 81. He specifies
some instances in support of his propo-
sition that it has been a fatal date for
that part of the country, but unfor-
tunately for his logic, the facts are not
all as he states them. Many a fine
theory can be spun out of manufac-
tured facts.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
Green mcCurtain Inaupurated.

WIsTER, /. T., Oct s.-Grcen Nc
Curtain was inaugurated as governor
of the Chocsaw nation at Tusk ahoma
at o'clock yesterday afternoon Nc
Curtains plurality over jackson was
40 The total number of votes cast
for McCurtain was 1, 405; for jackson.
1885. Everything is quiet. The
troops aud Indian police will leave
for their respective homes in a
day or SO.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
The Mckinley Bill and Wages.

The Mckinley Tariff law went into
effect Oct. 6, 1890, and the Wilson Cor
man bill Aug. %, 1894. The first eff
feet of the passage of the Mckinley
bill was general reduction in wage.
in protected industries. The World il
1892 printed several thousand in
stances of strikes and lockouts in pro
tected industries that followed the en-
enactment.
Yesterday the junior organ of tn.
protectionlsts continued the tale of dis
aster to workiugmen under the Nc
kinley bill by publishing the follow
ing as the experience of merely on,
protected firm-The Cambria Iror
company.
LOSS TO wORKINGMEN
There were Ssss, 4O4 less wages paie
in 1893 than in 1892
There were 81 4O6,410 less wares
paid in 1894 than in 1892.
The loss in wages in two year:
amounted to Sa,304,s14.
loss TO COMPANY.
The value of the product of the Cam
bria Iron Company in 1893 was s2,o54,
coo less than in 1902.
The value of the product of 1894 was
SS.9l6, zoo less than in 1892.
The shrinkage in two years amount.
e6 to Sc, $50, zoo.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
st. Louis Yelled Propb.t..

ST. Louis. Mo-, Oct Sit is doubt
full 1t St Louis ever entertained q
larger crowd OF strangers than it did
on the occasion of the eighteenth an
nual parade OF the Yelled Prophets.
Over ESQ. 900 people are said to have
witnessed the parade
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
Sweeping Challenge From I've.

NEW YORK, Oct 9.-Frank Ives, the
champion billiard player, has sent a
remarkable challenge to the great
French players, Vignaux, Plot and
Fournil. He offers to play them a
series of three games, 18-inch baik
line, 5000 points up. for $1,000 to
$4,000 side. Ii any one of them
wins single game, Ives will lose the
match. He leaves 20 them the privi-
lege of selecting the place of contest
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

A French acrobat claims to be able
to stand squarely upon platform, leap
into the air, turn three complete somer-
saults and alight upon his feet Per-
haps this explains where so many can
didates for Office this year have found
a precedent for their political gymnas-
tics
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
L,teratur. p,..r,bu..on TO r.a.

CHICAGO. Oct 8-The campaign of
education" so far as the distribution
of literature is concerned, will be
finished on October IL. At both Lem.
ocratic and Republican headquarters
it is announced the distribution of
literature will practically cease on
that date
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

The famous stallion, for which Gen.
Coxey paid $4,000 n short time before
he organized the Commonweal Army,
was traded the other day in Columbus,
Ohio, for an old plug" and IS ito
boot" No wonder the general advo.
Gates better roads.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Recent experiments Of the Danish ex-
perimenters in feeding hogs corn or
barley show that while corn gives the
most rapid gain, barley makes much
he best quality of meat.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
The Pre.ident in washington Again.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. President
Cleveland arrived in Washington just
after o'clock last night on E. c.
Benedict's steam yacht Oneida, from
Greenwich. Conn, accompanied by
DIR. Bryant, his family physician, and
Private Secretary Thurber
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
GIri EIope, WItha Nerro

GUTHRIE. o. T.. Oct IA handsome
i5-year-oId white glrl, named Latta,
respectable aud with a good home.
south of this city, eloped last night
with Frank Lewis, a negro. of soady
reputation. The girls father is
furious, but can fnd no trace of them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14
THAT JOYFUL FEEIU

With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and internal cleanli-
ness, which follows the use of Syrup of
Figs, is unknown 10 the few who have not
progressed beyord the olG-time medicines
and the cheap substitutes sometimes offered
but never accepted by the well-informed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

The words on the dollar, '.In God
We Trust" are intended as a pointer
to the business man. The man who
trusts God and gets the cash from his
customers is the successful merchant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

LoeANsPoRT, Ind, Oct 9-Yesrer-
day afternoon st. Nicholas college
burned to the ground at this place.
Loss. SO. 600; insurance $50, OO0 Sixty
five students had matriculated.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Silk worms in the West have taken
an extra turn this year, and a colony
of $4,000 at Coquille, Ore, is reported
as having spun the cocoons quicker
and better than ever before.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Are you better than your father? Ii
not, You are not keeping pace with
mankind. Humanity is growing bet
ter all the time. Your duty is to inn
prove all the time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Our idea of injustice is to make a
fakir pay license and permit man to
discuss politics free.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

The first road in England operated
by gas engines has been started near
London. Each car has g Is horse power
engine and runs eight miles and car
ries 40 people.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Germany, too, has pension trouble.
There are now more oficers-includ-
ing over 1000 generals-on the pension
list than on the active list. and the ma
tional liberals. together with all the
south Germans. are going to effect q
combine in the coming reichstag t.
combat this policy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

The more perfect and ideal a night
is for sleeping the longer and louder
the baby tests its lungs. Such is life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

You ought to learn early in life that
when it il your turn to entertain
trouble you cannot run away and hide
from it. 1t is a great trailer. 1t never
gives up chase until it gets its dues.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

A two-story frame warehouse weigh
ing 500 tons was moved 1es feet at
Baltimore on 1000 pipe rollers with 90
screw Jacks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

The prophets are all busy prognosti-
eating on the character of the coming
winter. They all agree that we will
surely have one.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

The man who imagines that people
do not know when he has been drink
ing ought to take a glance in a mir
ror.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Paris swelis are wearing the Mores
hat this fall. 1t is broad-brimmed
grey felt, such as the Marquis wore
when lie was killed by the Tuaregs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

The Danube flows through countries
in which So languages and dialects are
spoken. 1t bears on it's current four
fifths of the commerce of Eastern Eu-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

A stranger passed through Arcola,
H., the other day on bike and on his
back was pinned card inscribed on
which was II am going to Paradise"
Many Arcolians insist that he was
headed the wrong way
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Nothing Is more inconsistent than
for the preacher to preach more truth
than he is willing to practice.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

1t would be kindly act if some good
accident insurance company were to
send a few circulars to Abdul Hamid
Just at this time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

We have noticed that the people
without any sense get along about as
we'll as the other kind.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

One of the great dangers in popular
government is the tendency OF officials
to be too liberal in giving away public
property.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Too many people haye the CHROME
ous idea that if it is proper to lie while
sleeping it is all right to keep it up
while doing business.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Give boy apiece of work to do, and
he spends half of the time in inventing
some continuance to make his work
| easier
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Everyone would be thankful If his
deeds were recorded on his face in hero
glyphlcs instead of such plain writing.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

When man has little time in
which to improve his mind, he spends
it in thinking what the women ought
TO do.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

An old man never knows how sprite-
" he can be until his hat blows off his
head and skips off in the direction Of
mud puddle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Wealth is always within reach OF
those who will pay the price in labor
and closeness OF pursuit.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Just to show how things go by con-
traries, probably the poorest pedes-
tran in Kansas is Mr.. Hoofer of Wa
verify.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

We don't believe marriage is a sue
cess with the man who uses bachelors
buttons.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

There are people who seem to i'm
agine that there Is something witty
about grumbliDg.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

Every man whose own village never
heard from him thinks the whole world
will hear from him some day.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-14

People get in the habit of whining
while cutting teeth and they never get
over It entirely.