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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30
FARMER JOHN REVIEWS =.
GOLD-BUG SPEECH.

FARM ER JOllN KEW LEW -
GOLD.BUG SPEECH.
I've ben to hear Gold man speak
About the pesky game
The Silverites are tryin' to play
To ruin our great name,
Fur havin' honest dollars,
And fur payin' what we owe
In coin as just as justice,
Though the process may be slow
He says if they can play their game
That fifty cents will make
The dollar of the country
The poor man'll haf to take;
That the silver bullion owner
To our great mints can come
With fly cents in bullion
And luke dollar home.
He said that what the laborer buys
OF -four and pork aud SIGH,
Would go a.scootin' up sky high,
But that no one would get rich;
That the great advance in prices
We farmers would receive
Would more than all be swallowed
In what 'twould cost TO live.
He said that when Mckinley, Ben
Harrison, Carlisle,
With Lincoln, Blaine and Gar
field,
And all the other pile
OF big men talked for silver,
In days not long gone by,
Twas because that they were
young and green
Then he winked the other eye.
When he told us how Mark Hanna,
With Rothschilds, Morgan, Platt,
Was workin' for the farmers
And a-fryin' out the fat
From corporations, trusts and SIGH
To beat that silver crowd,
So't we could pay our debts in
gold,
The cheers were long and loud.
He said if we should ever get
Upon that silver base,
The dumbdest clatterin' ever heard
In this country would take place,
When all the other countries
Came a.dumpin' on our shores,
Their tons and tons of silver bricks
And all their silver ores.
Pm mighty 'fraid that silver'd take
The place of buildin' stone,
And then my quarry business
Would be busted up and gone,
And that money'd be SO plenty
That we'd have to hire a hall,
When we carted off our crops to
For a place to store it all.
He said that two things kept us
We might not quite see through,
And yet that what he stated
Was really nothin' new
One was that we produced too
And forced the prices down,
"And that "uuder.consumption"
Afflicted folks in town.
knew some darned consumption
Was a-sialking through the land,
For the mortgage keeps a-growin',
And the taxes still expand.
While the prices keep a'shrinkin'
And the prices keep a-slrinkin'
And the dollars hard to git;
Perhaps his explanations right,
But ] can't seen through it yet.
FARMAR JOHN.
Iowa Letter.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-10-30

The Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf Railroad-the Port Arthur
Route--will complete its line to
Polk county, Ark, about August
Is. This will open up one of the
newest and bsst portions Of South
western Arkansas to settlement
This country has been without rail
roads and is very sparsely settled.
there being in this section of the
state nearly 5000, 900 acres of the
very finest kind of government land
for homestead entry, and millions
more of magnificent fruit growing,
farming, mineral and heavily tim
bered lands can be purchased at
from 81 to $40 per acre. This is a
high, rolling, well watered, heavily
timbered, healthy country, with an
excellent summer and winter eli
mate.
The seasons are regular, rainfall
abundant and free from hot winds,
cyclones, billiards., drouths and is
"A never-iailing fruit and grain conn-
try. 1t is land of mountains and
valleys, forests and streams, being
sufficiently elevated to insure pure,
cool brcezes in summer, and walled
on the north by 200 miles of noun
tain forests which protect it from
the cold blasts of winter. Game is
plentiful and it is now open for the
first time to the pionecr--the home
seeker. merchant, mechanic, manu-
iactnrer and investor.
The new town of MENA, 382 |
miles sonth of Kansas City, will be
the railroad division, and the com
mercial, manufacturing and dis
tributing center for country 80 to
IS miles in either direction. The
town is charmingly located and
surrounded by the richest and most
beautiful country in ArL ansas. Ii
offers rare inducements to all kinds
of business ventures and is des-
tined to become n large and -four
ishing city within a few months.
SPECIAL Low RATE EXCURSIONS.
Al railroads will sell haIf-ratc
homcseekers' to any point
on the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulfr railroad on the following dates:
August 4 and IS, September | and
Is, October 6 and 20. Be sure to
buy your ticket to Mena, and see
all Of southwest Missouri, the Ozark
apple country and western Arkan-
sas. This will afford homeseekers
an unparalleled opportunity to visit
this country and secure homes in
this new land. Papers and pam.
phlets giving full description of
The country will be mailed free by
addressing +. A. llornbeck, Land
Commissioner, It'll and Wyandotte
streets, Kansas City. Mo.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

From the Topeka Journal.
District Judge Hazen has not yet de-.
cided a number OF the contested di
vorce cases which were tried by him,
week before last Some OF them are the
case Of Hit rs. Hit, and Sallie Zlrkle
rs. Emery Zirkle. The judge finds
III knottier problems than big civil
cases.
.Thc next Time | come to any of
these cases." said the judge to q re-
porter, II shall submit them to a jury.
The jury can deierpine whether The
divorce should be granted, and also
who should have the children. / didn't
know what was gettirg into before.
The lite Judge Crozier used to try di
vorce cases BY jury quite often.
"Some OF these people have actually
called at my residence since the trial
to argue the thing with me. They did
not sea the improperly Of the thing
and thought they ctuld come and tell
me just how it was. They were afraid
that the other side had been to see me
and got the start OF them. AS soon
as they told me what they wanted l
convinced them that it would be highly
improper tor NE to lis en- to anything
bearing on the case, even if had the
time and inclination to do So"
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18
The Cigarette Habit.

From an Exchange.
A leading physician, who has ma de
a special study of cigarette smoking
among boys, expresses himself as fol-
lows:
"a good deal has been said about
the evils Of cigarette smoking, but one.
half the truth has not been told. Ihave
watched this thing for a long time and
| IA say calmly ard deliberately that
| believe cigarette smoking is as bad q
habit as opium smoking. | am talking
now of boys, remember. The effect
upon grown men is, of course, lot so
marked. A cigarette fiend will lie and
steal just as a morphine or opium iend
will lie ard steal. Cigarette smoking
blunts the whole moral nature. Il has
an appalling effect upon the system.
1t first stimulates ard then Supplies the
nerves Ii sends boys into consump-
ton. 1t gives them enlargement of
the heart, and ii sends them to the in
sane asylum. | am a physician to sew
eral boys schools, and | am often called
in to prescribe for palpitation of the
heart. In nine cases out of ten. il is
caused by the cigarette habit. Every
physician knows the cigarette heart. l
have seen bright boys turned INTO
ounces and straight forward, honest
boys into miserable towards by smok.
ing. | am not exaggerating. | am
speaking the truth, that every physi-
clan and nearly every teacher knows.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

in the calendar year 1893, were 49,
1874 $50 pounds in we ght besides ST.
AGA, 1854 worth of which the weight is
not known, which, by the usual meth
DDS of reckoning, would be equivalent
to 325,315,536 pounds of raw wool.
This gives a grand total for consump-
ton of 800, 928, 245 pounds, which is
one halt more than the largest amount
ever taken by our markets-and at least
thrice the amount consumed last year.
There is no doubt the importer and
foreign dealers IN both wool and WOOL
ems, believed the present congress
would put a duty on wool and advance
the duty on woolens, and they pre-
pared for this by filling our markets
with both products. This congress
failed to do its duty, but the ware
houses and store-rooms in the east are
full to the roof of foreign wool and
foreign goods, brought In under SIRE
FORM free wool Wilson tariff, and it
is this condition the American wool
grower must face. With a years sup
ply Of wool on the market, our wool of
this years clip can only find a place
by making concessions. The authors
of that bill were guilty of a crime, and
not a political crime only, but such
an one as the thief commits, who steals
a sack of -four from your house, or
meat from your store, or clothes from
your wardrobe. They have taken the
bread from the wool-grower's mouth,
and the mouths of his little ones, and
the coat from his back and the blanket
from his bed, for they have taken from
him the means wherewith he obtained
these things. They have taken from
his pocket the dollars which he had
accumulated by years of hard and la
porous effort, by deprecIating the value
of his possessions, and the pity of it is
that their w~ickedness lives after them.
Under our system Of government,
the best the world ever saw, there can
De no hasty legislation. 1t takes time
to put a law upon the statute book and
it takes time TO repeal it. Although
the people of the United States are ris-
ing up as one man, from Maine to Cal
i~fornia, demanding protection and the
repeal of the infamous free wool law,
the earliest possible moment at which
that can be done, under the most ia
vorable circumstances, is July LIST,
1897, and il at that time, as is now the
case, the importers and manufacturers
have flooded our markets with
a years supply OF wool and
woolens, it will be 1898
before the wool -growers will begin to
recover from the curse placed upon
them BY Grover Cleveland and the
ifty-third congress.
But all legislation is the result Of
compromise and there can be no Just
compromise unless both sides are rep
resented, The wool growers must not
others to represent them. They
must speak for themselves; they must
declare their wants and demand
recognition through Representatives
July accredited from organized effort.
GEO. ii. WALLACE,
Pres. Mo. w. G.. Assem-.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18
THE PAYMENT OF TAXES.

Some people seem to imagine it to
be a matter of Indifference about the
payment of taxes. No subject is more
important, both to the individual citi-
zen and the public at large. Govern
ments cannot exist and perform their
functions, either national, state or mu
nicipal, without means to detray neces-
sary expenses. In county aud city
governments, the money necessary to
carry on public affairs must be raised
by taxation al peg asssi1 pTo-
portion to their ability and according
to their assessment, the burdens Of
government are equally distributed
but If the willing only pay, and others
decline, the burdens are unequally and
u%pjustly distributed. II therefore be-
comes the duty of all officers connected
with the collection of taxes, to compel
every man TO bear his just share of the
common burden and to pay his taxes
A movement has been instituted of
late in that direction, with good re
suits. The case of Dor Celso Baca, of
a@aaaaPv county, IS u good lIIustra-
ton. He had not paid bis taxes since
1898. The collector was instructed to
levy upon his property, and did so.
The full mount could have beerl set.
tied by tie payment of about 5000.
The effort to fight the matter ended
the other day by the payment Of. 1910
In cash, a large amount of costs hav-
ing accumulated in the effort to defeat
the payment. In other cases, parties
have acted more wisely and have paid
and saved costs. If the immense de. /
lipquepcy dxisliug ID this county were {
paid up, The financial condition would
be more creditable. i,
This y also true in city matters. /
AM
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

Ayers SarsapariIIa enjoys the ex
traordinary distinction of having been
the only blood purifier allowed an ex-
hibit at the Worlds fair, Chicago.
Manufacturers Of other Sarsaparillas
sought by every means ito obtain a
showing of their goods, but they were
all turned away under the application
of the rule %iorbidding the entry of
patent medicines and nostrums. The
decision of the Worlds fair authorities
in favor of Ayers Sarsaparllla was in
effect as follows: s.Ayer's Saisaparilia
is not a patent medicine. It does no:
to the list Of nostrums. 1t Is
here ON its merits
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

Mr.. ID. Z. DAVIS, a prominent livery
mar and merchant OF Goshen, Va,
has this to say on the subject OF rheu-
matism: ~ take pleasure In recon-
mending ChamberIain's Pain Balm for
rheumatism, as | know from personal
experience thati will do all that IL
claimed for it. A year ago this spring
my brother was laid up in bed with
rheumatism and suffered
intensely. The first application Of
Cham berIain's Palm Balm eased
the pain and the use OF one
bottle completely cured him. For
sale by K. d. Goodall, Depot Drug
Store.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18
How to Treat a Wife.

From Pacific Health journal.
First, get a wife; second, be pa
tient. You may have great trials
and perplexities in your bus
mess, but do not, there
fore, carry to your home a cloudy or
contracted brow. Your wife may have
trials. which, though less in magnitude,
may be hard for her to bear. A kind
word, a tender look, will do wonders
in chasing from her brow all clouds of
gloom.-To this VIC would add always
keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in the house. 1t is the best
and is sure to be needed, sooner or
Your wife will then know that
you really care for her and wish to
protect her health. For sale by X. d.
Goodall, Depot drug store.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

GEN. LEW WALLACE, well and favor
ably remembered, out here, MS an ex
governor of New Mexico, it seems, has
made a very good thing out of his pen,
and has been wonderfully fortunate,
having, no doubt, succeeded 10 saving
some Of his money. He hes built a flat
10 indianapolis costing 800, 600, and
il now putting up an addition to cost
nearly as much. lie owns a large
business house, also, in that city, and
2,400 acres. of farm land in Illinois
He is now building, near his own home
in Charlottesville, a study detached
and ire.proof, into which be will put a
library of some 10000 books. A tower
sixty feet high is being erected on the
building and an artificial lake sur
rounding. The sum OF $50, 600 will
bestxpended before it is completed.
No doubt General Wallace can CON-
mand as high prices for his works as
any American author, having realized
as much as $4,000 aud $50 600 out of
a single book.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18
MONDAY EVENING, MAY IS, 1896
A IusTIEIEn VERDICT.

The verdict Of guilty rendered
against Scott jackson for the murder
of Pearl Bryan will be generally APP
proved. 1t is true that there was no
direct evidence that he did the killing,
but the testimony was clear that he
wanted the girl out of the way, and
plotted for her removal. The motive
shown was as discreditable to the de-
PENDANT as the murder itself. His own
villainy created the motive, and while
the Newport jury could not technically
bring in q verdi 1t implying the death
penalty for that ~offense, it will go far
toward justifying the verdict upon cir.
cumstantial evidence of the murder.
The trial of Walling will be begun
at once, and the indications are strong
that he Will share the fate of Jack
son. The same chain of evidence that
bound the convicted man is woven
about the one yet to be tried, except
that he had no motive for com mltting
the crime save an internal aptitude to
do horrible things to accommodate a
fellow ID self-inficted trouble. That
disposition is not likely to help him
any in the estimation of the jury, and
the public will naturally have less sym
patty with his cold-blooded connec-
ton with the murder than with Jack
son, who had a strong selt-interest to
impel him to its commission.
The only way in which Walling may
reasonably escape the verdict that has
been rendered against his companion
is by presenting mdisputable evidence
that he had no hand in the murder.
That he probably cannot do. Mean
time the gratifying fact stands out that
The way of the criminal is not ~secare,I
nc matter what pains he may Jake to
conceal his crime or the identity of his
victim. In this case the brutes who
committed the awful crime attempted
TO prevent Identification of the victim
by decapitating her and hiding her
head, only TO be speedily frustrated by
a pair Of t~ell-tale shoes. Well, They'll
deserve the extreme penalty OF the
law
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

There - Il largo tlty dellhguoreyl es.
prcially in poll tax. This latter Tux is
80 snisll that It A. surprising that men
can mako any claim to good-citizen-
ship, who will delay aud grumble
about this contribution Of a small mite
for the public good II might be
well for such as these to take warning
in time. 1t is tho plain duty of tie
authorities to collect these taxes.
Public improvements cannot BIO made,
tho necessary financial affairs Of The
city carried on, with air or moon
shine. Money is required. The bur
den is not great, and it should be
promptly borne.
THE OrTlc understands that suit is
soon to be brought for the collection
Of poll.tax. II is not fair that men
who are willing to pay, should be
compelled TO bear the burdens Of city
government, and it is to be hoped that
1t will be demonstrated whether or not
there is force enough in the law, Ito
compel all to contribute their equal
proportion. A poll lax is necessarily
small on the individual. II is equally
distributed ana those who have vol
unfairly paid should not be required tc
carry the whole burden.
THE Optic will look. with interest
upon the action of the city authorities
on this subject.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

Mniis on the star routes leave Las Vegas
Las Vegas to Fort Sumner, includln
Anton Chico, Los Colonais, Eden, Santa
Rosa II Puerto de Luna, trl-weekly, on
rive on alternate days of each week.
Las Vegas to Fort Bascom, including
Obaperito, Gallinas Springs, e. Cuervo,
Bell Ranch, Liberty and Endee, ri-weekly,
ON Monday, Wednesday and Friday, OF
a week. and arrive on alternate days..
Las Vegas to Mora, including Los Alamos,
BapeIio, san Ygnacio and Rociada, tri-
weekly, on Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day, OF each week, and arrive on alternate
Las Vegas to temperance, once a week
on Saturday.
Conveyance on Fort Sumner line, is by
tWo-horse blackboard, on Fort Bascom and
Mora lines by single-horse blackboard, TO
temperance by private conveyance
usually spring wagon.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18
WOOL Prices.
The Blcssings(?) or Reform Legis-
lation and the End Thereof.
Written for TIE OrTIc.L

The wool of Colorado brings less
than eleven cents on the average against
about twenty cents five years ago;
Montana wool,phout nine cents against
twenty cents; Utah and Wyoming,
ten cents, against ~ cents; New
Mexico, six cents, against sixteen
cents. The money loss to Utah and
Wyoming on wool raised this year, at
latest quotations, will be over $2,2O0,-
geo; Montana, as much more; Texas,
81, GOO, 600; Colorado and New Mexico,
each, $3.50, coo, and the states be-
tween the Hudson and Mississippi,
about 81, 000,0 900, reckoning only the
loss in price.on the diminished quaint
ty produced this year. And it is prob
able wool-growers will have to face
lower prices than they have yet seen.
No one acquainted with The situation,
has the least confidence IN the stability
OF the market, or will quote prices for
future delivery.
During the prosperous years Of
1912, the consumption of wool in the
United States rose to the enormous
AMOUNT Of 625, eco, 900 pounds per
annum, the amount being ascertained
by adding the domestic product 1926,
100000 lbs J, the imports OF wool
(l50, 0GG, COO lbs J, and the importa-
lions OF woolens, reduced to their
equivalent In raw wool. (l70, 000, 900
lbs), together, and is approximately
correct. We know this an went into
consumption, for the decline of prices,
anticipated through threatened tariff
legislation, had forced every wool
dealer, manufacturer, importer, whole
safer and merchant to unload, and Jam
uary lst, 1898, there was not even the
llsnal stock of eilher eseei Q II Siooiiens,
the market. Then came the
promise of the election Of 1892, the
.sreform'' Legislation called the Wilson
bill, and. the drop in prices as
shown above; they correspond and
they We're coincident and
concurrent; they were cause
and effect. But every interest and in
in this United States was sim
larry affected; production ceased,
abor stood idle and 10 the utm ost
'urthest corner of the land the pur-
power of the people was de-
1t is true that necessities had
D be supplied, and through sacrifices
zen comfort has been maintained, but
he 2 liberal generous, t60uItiiui pro-
ision Of 1922 has been curtailed
nd consumption has declined. We
ave not been able to buy therefore we :
ave not consumed. and in support of
his statement, manufacturers, dealers
nd merchants report their sales of /
T%oolens as not over &C per cent, or /
vo-thirds Of what they were four and +
We years ago. This would indicate a Z
assumption Of 400, 000,000 pounds of r
NV wool. 10 meet This demand, we Z
ave the domestic product and lmpor- G
Ition f5om foreign countries. The n
rst is estimated at 275. 600, coo II
for The latter we have the il
licial figures oil the custom honse. c
The imports OF wool, shoddy and Il
for The twelve months ending b
ith February, were 2g0,612, 709 81
the imports Of wooden goods s
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

Sspello, Is now prepared to receive a limit
ed number of boarders. This ranch is
located In the heart of the mountains, amid
the most beautiful scenery in the world,
where brook trout and wild game offer
ample diversion for the nimrod or anyone
seeking outdoor sport. 1t Is located only
twenty-five miles from Las Vegas, and
within eight miles of the Rio Pecos, and
only three miles from the h%eadwaters OF
the Rio Gal!inas. Address,
Address Mrs. j. p. Blake, Rociada, or in
quire for co~nyeyances and rates OF w. e.
Critics, East Las Vegas, N. M.
J. p. BLAKE,
TIT Rociada, N. M.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-18

THE young Duchess Of Marlborough
has a strange taste IN pets. AT Blen-
helm she is said to have set up a
%menagerie, in which are two oslrlches,
several eagles and yaltnres and an
ibis, The %strangest member of the
collection, however, is a garter snake
that was purchased by the Duchess on
the banks of the Nile. She al not
at all afraid of the snake, and it soon
became tame enough to crawl toward
her. Thus it became her favorite of
all the pets.