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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
CUMMINGS DRIVEL.

Does He Suppose That sour Leading
Papers" Do Not Voice the Peoples
Views?
see the socialists are still after this
paper. 1 rather think just now their
bark is worse than their bite. The
national committee, at its recent meet
ing, cut the ground from under these
destroyers, and it would seem that
they had reached the end Of their rope
so far as the populist party is con-
cerned. The secret organization which
they have inside our party can do US
much harm, however. and will require
constant watching.
In this connection I wish to warn
the populists of every state to look
carefully after the election of dele
gates to the national convention.
There is great danger at this point
since the socialists are sure to make a
supreme effort to fill the convention
with their disorganizing element Be-
ware also of giving out proxies, for
these socialists are supplied with money
and will go to any length to obtain
seats in the convention. Some may
see undue alarm in this warning. To
such would point to the work of this
element during the past year and the
grip it now has upon the editorial
forces of nearly all our leading papers
in the north and west Our only dam
ger lies with this element Let us be
watchfuL-N. A. Dunning, in Tom
Watson's Paper.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
THERE is NO OTHER CURE.

Nothing but Public Ownership Can Stop
the Robbery of the Masses by the
Classes.
The new railroad and coal combine
has thrown 10000 miners, railroad and
middlemen out of employment. Ac-
cording to the election returns last fall
these 40, 900 men voted the old party
tickets for maintaining the present
order of private property in coal mines,
and now they are getting just what
dupes are not allowed to know that
public ownership would benefit them.
The coal combine can afford to bride
their leaders, their preachers, their ed
itors and their political masters, and
thus they are kept in densest ignorance
of the truth. AS the kings suppressed
by bribery or force everything
tending to show their subjects the
absurdity and harm of the lie of the
''divine right of kings" so these rail-
road and coal kings do the same thing
regarding the idea of the sacredness of
the idea of private ownership of prop
erty. The more the combines, the
greater the number thrown out of
work. the more kingly the splendor of
livings of our lords and the more in
tense the misery of the masses, the
sooner will the latter learn the lesson
that socialism is the only way out of
their bondage. Socialism will make
ION earth as it is in Heaven" and
there are no monopolists in Heaven.
We need not one on earth. They are
public enemies. to Reason.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERsoxAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
A DISPATCH from Washington stated
President Cleveland had said to q cab
met member that he believed it would
be best for the democratic party to
adopt an unequivocal declaration in
favor of the present monetary stand
ard and the retirement of greenbacks,
as recommended by the secretary of
the treasury, and make the keynote of
the campaign mo compromise with
silver" and the administration forces
at the Chicago convention will work to
that end.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN MICHAEL D. HAIR
TER committed suicide by shooting
himself at Fostoria, O., on the ED
"Bn.L NYE," the noted humorist,
died at his home near Asheville, N. c.,
on the aad of paralysis, aged AZ
Ex-GOv. FLOWER inaugurated boom
for Chauncey Depew as a presidential
candidate at dinner in New York on
the ed.
THE Union Republican club held a
meeting at Washington on the 22d to
celebrate the 10th anniversary of the
birth of the national party.
THE democrats of Boston gave a
Washington banquet on the 22d and
Mayor Josiah Quincy presented the
name of Secretary Olney as the candi-
date of New England for presidential
honors at the hands of the democracy
of the United States
THE Daughters of the American Rev
olution finished the election of officers
on the 21st at Washington. Mrs Mat.
tie A. Howm is Kansas repre-
Mrs Ethel B. Allen, Missouri's; Mrs.
c. NJ. Barnes, Oklahoma's, and Mrs.
Walter A. Duncan, Indian territory's.
THE body of the late Theodore Run.
yon, ambassador to Germany, was on
board the steamer Havel, which ar.
rived at New York on the 21st. The
remains were conveyed to Newark,
where they will lie in state in St PauPs
Methodist Episcopal church until the
funeral
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, in denying a
pardon to F. NJ. o. Holster, convicted
in Oregon of forgery in pension case,
said that he was decidedly in favor of
strict punishment in cases which in.
volved the ''swindling of the poor and
needy veteran"
THE Daughters Of the American Rev
olution, in convention at Washington,
unanimously elected Mrs. Stevenson,
wife of the vice president, as president
general
The Whitney presidential campaign
managers for the states of Mississippi,
Arkansas, Louisiana and Alabama
opened headquarters at the Grunewald
hotel, New Orleans, on the Goth.
SECRETARY OLNEY on the Goth re-
ceived a cablegram from the United
States am bassador at Paris stating that
the president of the French republic
has signed the papers for ex-Consu]
Walters release,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
Sound Money Lunatics.

Defining money the new standard
dictionary says: I'm legal sense
property is not money. and money is
not property; for property is that
which has inherent value, while money
as such has but representative value
and may not have intrinsic value. p"
Some limping idiots proclaim that
money must be made of metal, and to
be honest money, must contain metal
with a commercial value that 10
stamped on the face of it. And most
of these sound money lunatics want
money good in Europe although they
never were out of the state in which
they were born and never will see Eu-
rope. even if they live to be as old as
Methuselah.-Farme Review.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

BLACK snow was q novelty enjoyed
by Chicago on the 18th. When melted
on an extended palm the fakes left
each q tiny ink-like streak. The
weather bureau officials were at first
inclined to attribute the phenomenon
to local atmospheric conditions in COM
bination with the smoke and CRIME OF
the city. Advices. however. that the
same results were observed at suburbs
IS miles distant upset all such explana-
tionA Dispatches allowed that the
black snow fell over . wide expanse Of
territory and was not by any means
confined to the immediate vicinity Of
Chicaga
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
NOW IS THE OPPORTUNITY.

II tho Governments Acquires tho Pacific
Railways They Should BE Kept and
Operated In tho Interest Of the People.
The government ownership of the
railroads is both desirable. practical
and profitable. A rare opportunity is
now offered in the case of the great
Pacific railroad system. Our repre-
sentatives have it in their power to
bring this great artery of Transports
ton under government ownership, and
in doing SO they would not only fully
test that much mooted question, but
would, as well, bring the. freight and
passenger rates down to a reasonable
construction and operating, instead of
a fictitious valuation based upon ex-
clusively watered stocks.
! It was estimated by an assistant
auditor of the Pacific system who had
access to the books, and who had
grown up in the clerical service of the
road from its start to its completion,
that If the actual cost of the road and
operating expenses were considered
alone barrel of flour could be carried
for so cents and an individual for 81
from San Francisco to Portland, Me.
California is the finest fruit and veg
eta ole producing country in the world,
taken as state, is capable of yielding
abundance for this entire continent
and large portion of the rest of the
world, but under the demand for divi-
dends, from the earnings of the road,
on fabulously watered stocks, every
productive interest is crippled or bank
rupted Many of the small producers
are SO much at the mercy of freight
discrimination that they are forced to
sell their crops to large syndicates for
barely sufficient to subsist upon, or
ship them to a distant market, and run
the chances of having it all eaten up
by freight and commission costs
If the government owned the Pacific
railroads the service could be made
more efficient, and still pay profit to
the government; and still more i'm
portant, the middle and eastern states
would enjoy the luscious fruits of Cali
fornia at one-fourth their present cost,
still giving the producers more than
they are at present receiving. owing
to the outrageous system of paying in
terest on watered stocks.
Paying interest on watered stocks is
perpetual robbery, the enormity of
which, unfortunately, is little under
stood by the masses. If a burglar
breaks into your premises and steals,
the loss usually ends there, and posi-
bly, can soon be recovered from, but the
robbery of watered stocks is repeated
again and again in every dollar paid
for fares and freight as long as the
road is run on that basis Let US have
government ownership of the Pacific
roads.
Now is the opportunity. Louis
Evening Journal
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

DIR. A. 7. PERKINS. of Chicago, has
patented process of keeping perish
able products during transportation by
the use of sterilized air, doing away
with ice. Mr.. Smart, of Melbourne,
said that the new process would en-
able Australia to ship its meat to
Europe instead of boiling it down to
make tallow. He also said: ut will
enable us to ship our fruit, which now
rots for want of a market, to England
and annihilate the trade which the
American syndicate has been planning
tor. We propose to supply the whole
of Great Britain with meat and fruit. :"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

LEADING scien lists of Berlin predict
that before the close of a century half
Of the worlds passenger traffic will be
conducted in the air. A number Of
capitalists in the German capital are
forming q big syndicate for the con-
struction of airships patterned after
the invention of Count Won Zeppelin.
who has perfected q continuance which
is pronounced the greatest achievement
of the age. The Zeppelin airship Is a
cigar.shaped vessel, and can be steered
upward and downward, right and left,
forward and backward, in fact, all the
tered.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

THE executive board of the National
live Stock exchange of Chicago, st.
Hsuis, Kansas City and Omaha were
given a hearing by the senate commit.
tee on agriculture recently. They
asked for reciprocal legislation which
would open foreign markets to Ameri-
can live stock. It was stated that the
association contained 1000 members,
and that the live stock interest was
the largest single industry in the
world. They complained of the re-
strictions placed upon importations of
American cattle BY foreign countries
on the baseless charge of being dis
oased
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

FIVE rare coins were received at the
treasury department at Washington
in payment of the recently issued
bonds They were SIS gold pieces, dat
ed from 1912 to 1s47, and were stamped
with 3D." the mark of the old Dahl
omega mint in Georgia. This mint was
seized by the confederates at the out
break of the war in 1861.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

IN spite of the formal declarations Of
the imperial chancellor, Prince Hohen-
lobe. in the reichstag that Germany
was not prepared at present to issue
Invitations for q monetary conference,
the German bimetallists still hope
that an international conference will
be called and they have determined to
resume active agitation both in the
keichstag and outside of it.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

THE American consul at Leipsic, who
inspected the electric machinery in
Germany, says the United States is not
up to date in this matter. He con
siders the electric pillow a success and
the digging of potatoes by electricity
the best and cheapest plan,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

Mrs. JOHN D. TOWNSEND, member
of the board of school trustees of New
York, has prepared a bill to be intro
duced in the legislature compelling all
New York city children under 16 years
Of age to go to bed upon the ringing of a
eurfew bell The bell is to be rung at
nine o'clock every night in summer
and at eight o'clock in winter. Each
offender will be punished with a fine
of SIS or six months imprisonment
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

THE ooroner's jury at Centerville,
Ia, found that the double murder by
George Jones and his suicide were
caused by insanity, the result of smok.
ing cigarettes Jones signed a petit
ton to the legislature to pass an anti.
cigarette manufacturing bill the day
of the tragedy.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

A DELEGATION representing the tea
trade Of the United States appeared
before subcommittee on the ways
and means recently to advocate the Am.
position of a duty on tea.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

THE dread affection of tuberculosis
was located in the wrist of n patient
by DIR. james BURY and Electrician
Charles E. Scribner at Chicago on the
21st by means of the cathode rays.
The full extent of the malady was
measured. A clear negative was de-
veloped in half an hour. 1t showed
the carpal bones were matted together
In the tubercular growth SO as to stop
the circulation.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

THE new Bible prepared for the Chi.
cago public schools has been complet-
ed. 1t was prepared by a committee
from the Protestant, Catholic, Jewish
and other denominations and. is non.
Iectarian
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

AT Montreal, Can, Catholic priest
was imprisoned for refusing to dis
close In court the secrets heard in the
confessional.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

JOHN WRIGHT recently died at his
home in Santa Rosa county, Fla, aged
1913 years. He had been blind many
years, but was mentally sound He
left four generations of descendants
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

TIE vacancy in the executive com
mittee of the American Anti-Saloon
league has been filled by the election
OF Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, and
he has accepted the Office.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

The robbers who have q cinch on
the coal which fawning and apologetic
preachers tell us was stored In the
earth by an all-wise providence, have
put up the prices SO that they will
squeeze s12, 900, 600 ont of the peo-
pie in addition to the extortinate
profits they now get Where is the
boosted intelligence and patriotism of
the American people, when they can't
see, or seeing stop. such infamous
, ''businessT'-Coming Nation.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

The United States is climbing up
rapidly in all forms of mineral produc.
ton and before the new century be-
gins will lead all other nations in coal
MINING
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

A NEW religious sect near Perry, Ok.
called the Church of God, profess tc
cure all sickness by prayer and wher
they fail it is given out that the sick
person has q devil
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
CURRENT COMMENT.
KANSAS

The retail druggists of Chicago hare
combined to drive patent medicines
out of the market and to stop rata cut
ting
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
Well Said.

There seems to be a disposition on
the part of some populists to ignore or
bclittle Gen. Coxey. of Ohio. This is
wrong. He may not be the man we
should select as a candidate for presi-
dent, but he has done great and earnest
work in the cause of reform. He spent
his time and money to arouse the peo-
pie and was cast into prison in behalf
Of free speech. He has endured cal
umny and abuse at the hands of our
common enemy and is entitled to re-
spect, and he will be remembered in
history. Bystander.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
The silver democrats ant

The silver democrats and silver re-
publicans should at least sever Nc
Siamese cord that binds them to the
old parties before they ask the privi-
lege Of coming into the peoples party
and debating its policy and principles
Southern Mercury
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
Making Headway.

City ownership is making rapid head
way in Great Britain. In Manchester
last year the city gas works furnished
street lights and lights for public
buildings at cost, and all that private
consumers needed at moderate price;
and they earned above expense half a
million dollars, of which 5000. 900 was
applied to payments on interest and
principal of the purchase price. and
$500, 900 turned into the general reve-
nue. fund. That seems a great deal
better, even, than depending upon sa-
loon licenses for city revenue. "Mu-
nicipal socialism" it is, of course; but
the world is fast outgrowing its fear of
that bugaboo. While the next century
is still young, corporation ownership
of street railway and gas and water
works will go as completely out of
fashion as toll gates and private
schools have now.-Star and Kansan.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
Minor State News

c. 3. Dalton, OF Baker university,
carried off first honors at the late ora
torical contest in Topeka.
The cotton gin of Senator McTag.
CART, about seven miles south of indie.
pendence, was recently destroyed by
fire.
Richard r. Price, of Hutchinson, was
awarded the prize for the best essay
on Tennyson's princess"
Frank Urban, of Leavenworth be-
came respondent over love affair
and recently attempted to kill himself
by cutting his throat with a razor.
The grand lodge of Masons recently
in session at Wichita, decided to es-
tablish state masonic home. The To-
cation was not named but will be by
committee appointed for the purpose.
According to the report of the grand
secretary of the masonic grand lodge
there was a balance in the general
fund on February of s17, 1864, and
in the charity fund of 1877, 393.2a Dur
ing the past year there had been ex-
pended for charity 90, 272. 90.
The Boys Brigade, Presbyterian
organization Of Kansas City, Kan, was
recently the recipient of a handsome
flag from the local G. A R post The
presentation speech was made by Gov.
Morrill, and the acceptance was made
by Secretary Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture.
Ira T. Steele, farmer and stock
dealer of Douglas county, has failed.
The cause of his failure was the fact
that he was a heavy indorser of paper
of Dolbee and the Metskers. farmers in
the neighborhood, who recently failed
A petition was recently being cir
culated in Topeka by the state tenn.
perance union asking congress to pass
a law refusing United States liquor
licenses to persons who are not pos
sessed of a state permit to sell liquor.
Two ten-year-old boys fought at the
Paramount Ueavenworth county,
school the other day and one of them,
Roy Warner. stabbed the other. Ben
Jeffreys, perhaps fatally.
Lee Dages, the oldest boss barber of
Fort Scott, committed suicide the
other day by shooting himself
Congressman Long has succeeded in
getting an appropriation of $4,000
added to the house agricultural bill, to
aid in western Kansas irrigation.
A jury at Wichita the other day
awarded Mrs Rosetta Voegel e400 dam
ages against q hardware dealer for
having her blacklisted in a local pro-
tective association.
Tho grand jury at Topeka indicted
four parties charged with completely
IN the late grave robbeziss in that
city.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
The Coal OIL Trusf

The Standard oil trust has been dis
solved, says dispatch. The next day
the dispatch says the oil business will
be organized by a company with $780,
600, 900 capital. And thus we see how
the disorganization DISCREPANCIES. A
lage stakeholder in the new" company
says it will pay 10 and IL per cent.
What other business can be sure of
such profits? How long will people
allow themselves to be robbed, because
the robbers have told them it would
ruin the people to own this industry?
Socialism or starvation-take your
choice. Appeal to Reason
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
April

The best medicine to purify, enrich and
vitalize the blood, and thus give strength
and build up the system, is Hoods Sarsar
parilla Thousands take it as their Spring
Medicine, and more are taking it to-day
than ever before. If you are tired, out Of
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
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April, May are most emphatically the
months for taking q good, blood purifier.
because the system is now most In need
Of such medicine, and because it more
quickly responds to medicinal qualities.
In winter impurities do not pass out of the
body freely, but accumulate In the blood.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
vi ay

borts," nervous, have bad taste in the
morning, aching or dizzy head, sour
stomach and feel all run down, q course
body in good order and make you strong
and vigorous. 1t is the ideal Spring
Medicine and true nerve tonic, because
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
Bank Robbed.

The bank at McLouth, jefferson
county, was entered by burglars the
other night, the safe blown open and
80, 500 stolen. The robbers then stole
q team and escaped
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28
Assasslnated.

Charles Rodman, residing several
miles from Anthony, was in Harper
the other day and returned home after
night. Just as he entered his barn he
was shot and killed by an unknown
assassin.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-02-28

fatal Mrs Randolph was treasurer
for the Order Of the Household of Ruth
and robbery was supposed to have been
the motive of the crime.
JAMES j. CoRBETr on the goth sent
kilograms from Chicago to Peter Maher
and Bob Fitzsimmons at Ell Paso. Tex,
challenging the winner in the fight to
meet him. anywhere on earth for a con.
test
A DISPATCH from Utica, n. Y, stated
that the boiler of the locomotive at
tached to an express on the Delaware.
Lackawanna & Western railway ex-
ploded when about four miles south of
Richfield junction, throwing the loco
motive from the track and killing En-
gineer John Reach and Fireman John
Lewis.
The Union depot at Providence. R
L, was burned on the 21st. Office EN-.
ployes and several 6remen had narrow
escapes The loss is $500. O00
A FIRE at St Paul, Mimi, on the
night of the elst destroyed the street
railway barns and Is cars The loss
was 500. OOl
Ahe successor of the sultan of Turkey
in the event of Abdul Hands deposi-
ton would probably be his younge.
brother, Raschid Effendi. who is prac.
tically q state prisoner at the palace OF
the Cheragan. not being allowed to re.
ceive q visitor or read q letter, newspa
per or book that has not passed under
the eye Of the censor.
Mrs. Alice N. Lincoln has formulated
. plan for the improvement of the
tenement house districts in Boston.
The amount required for the erection
Of II small brick houses three stories
high, intended to accommodate 20
families, is 81. 900. which viii be raised
BY subscription.