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The advocate., 1896-12-02

servant 10 the pOt0ntNt0 OF tho truly
civilized man. he lS q menace 10 civ.
illEations who will take more than he
ju.tly needs. He iS q menace 70 civilt.
E.tiCn who is content without al the
comforts OF life and chat which is neC-
esSsry for the full development Of hiS
physical, mental and moral natures.
Toe civilized man will never inCsrcer-
Bte the freezing man who steals Q
basket Of coal, and bow the knee to
him who has robbed the people Of mil.
lions.
He who has developed beyond the
bsrbsrous slavery Of chains and bonds
will cry out with voice that will rent
the hes geOs when one woman wears Q
single solitaire that cost G45, 600. while
In the same city 5000 women are buried
10 the potter's field every year. Mil.
llonairs thieves and debsuchers WOr.
ship In million dollar churches while
babes stSrve under the shadow Of these
same structures. Men and women
who have shaved al their lives die Of
starvation while those who have never
lsbored q day control their millions.
Babes die for lack of afr and food
while lsp.dogs are given fessts and
driven out for the air. Thirty FIVE
THOUSAND milllonaires and four million
men out Of employment and one and
one-hslf million living on crumbs.
ClVilizatlOnP 0, ye godsl TSis is
nsught but the reign Of the bond with
it's minions who have taken down the
emblem Of the golden rule and who
PROSTATE themselves before the golden
calf. This is not life; this is not civil.
zstlon. And neither of these will man
know until he grinds the bond.mskel
under his heel and initiates the reign
Of justice and joy, when there will be
no more wealth, but plenty for all;
when there will be neither masters nor
slaves, but all will be brothers; when
all will do az they would be done BY.
Then will man know Christianity and
civilization; then will man know the
higher purport Of human life, and not
before. LUELLA R. KRAYBILL.
The advocate., 1896-12-02

conventions, they should always do 90
In the highest terms possible, no matter
what wrong the convention may have
done. The enemy will 1nd our weak
spots too easily without our showing
them. State committees and State can.
dldStes should be guided by the same
rule Of conduct 90 NstlOnsl.
State or National committeeman
should not at any time give notice to
other parties or to any one what their
next convention will or will not do,
for they can't always just tell what a
Peoples convention will do. And then
it smscks too much Of b0sslsm. We
fellows In the ranks don't like to be
promised to anyone, unless we say so.
Let as all do little thinking about
what is our duty In our position.
''Stsnd up for Kansas" should now be
our motto, on q white ribbon. We
should at once reorgsni2e our Peoples
party, free silver and Bryan clubs,
elect new officers for the year, and ed
ucate. Our club at Lucas met last
Saturday night; will meet again In two
weeks, elect officers and prepare to take
In all poor wandering, sick Republican
sinners who are ready to repent Of their
past sins, and there will be many Of
this class to be found during the next
four years, for the days Of bondage
will be more and more. Lower prices for
the products Of humanity, with higher
prices for the products Of corpora.
tions, must continue under present
conditions. And let every true Peo.
ple's party man feel that it Is his duty,
and see that he does his duty In up
holding the incoming State admins
trstion, for so noble a set of officers as
We have elected should be sustained in
every honorsbly way. "Staud up for
Kansas" and stand together.
Yours for free silver, government
banks, government ownership Of pub
lie utilities, death to chartered rights to
pets, With equal rights to sIlin 1900.
s. P. DINsMooR.
Lucas, KSS., November %, 1895
The advocate., 1896-12-02
The state Alliance NsetInE.

The ninth annual session Of the State
Farmers Alliance aud Industrial Union
Of Kansas will convene in Topeka, Jan.
uary 6, at 10 O'Clock q. M, for atwo days
session. Suspended members may, by
the payment Of 25 cents, become men,
bers Of the State organization. There
will be both closed and open sessions.
At the open meetings there will bo
papers and addresses upon various phases
OF reform thought The public is COR
daily invited to be present Rt these open
sessions. The program Of subjects and
speakers will be announced later. We
hope for large attendance OF Alliance
brethren and sisters. Fraternully,
ENIGA r. ,TRoUDNKR, President.
The advocate., 1896-12-02

our dwellings, cooks our food, mOlES
glass, burns brick, Wields the hammer,
sets machinery 10 motion, and per-
forms the Thousand and one metallur'
gicsl operations for which the United
States is noted. If We examine this
gas we fnd 1t the most wonderful pro.
ductiOn.
Suppose It lay inert at the bottom Of
the we'll, and could be brought TO the
surface only by mechanical powerS,s q
huge pumping machine would be re-
quiFed at the mouth Of the well and
additional engines to force 1t to an lTl-
dustrisl center for manufacturing pur.
poses, fuel and light. The artificial
gas which lights our room is under
pressure Of two ounces to the square
inch of surface. The rock pressure Of
natural gas is 500 to 700, even 800,
pounds to the same extent Of surface
q force of It's own sufficient to force it
many miles.
1t has no smell except q faint nSpths
odor. There is no good reason why 1t
might not have been impregnated with
an Odor as fearful as sulphureted by.
drogen or blsulphide of carbon, in
which case oceans of Lpbin's extracts
and cologne water would have been re.
quired to make its presence even tOl.
Grated. 1t produces great heat and no
smoke. A silver teapot removed from
lts direct fame and placed upon q
white linen table cloth leaves not the
slightest mark. 1t is brought from
the street mains In pipes and dlstri6-
uted over our buildings and b. rned In
our CRATES and stoves, which require
no alteration for its use, No kindliOg
wood Is needed; no coal to be brought
In; no sshes to be carried out; no FeseF.
voir Is needed for storing our winters
supply, for the gas is sl@sys on tap.
The wiley Chinsmsn made use OF nat.
ursl gas for fuel over a century ago,
using bamboo poles for transportation
line. Truly the age of enchsntment
has again returned to southeastern
Kansas, petroleum aud natural gas
being the magic words which have pro.
duced this Transformation.
Many land sharks have come into
the district and purchased mOrtgsged
farms ss an investment for their com.
Portable surpluses Ss prospective oil
territory. The oil companies that are
interested In the development Of the
new SuDAower oil AID ga region are
putting la on an average Of $500
day TO develop what In the near fu-
ture must become an important
part of the petroleum producing
regions Of the United States. Toe
recent report Of operations In the
new oil and gas region Of the West
gives wells drilled In Chautsuqua,
Montgomery, Allen, Neoshn and WI.
son counties. They are lOcsC' d near
the Following places: Sedan, Elk City,
Humboldt, Thsyer, Buffalo, Benedict,
Altoona, Neodesha, Dun and Ere.
dOnlS.
"Vsluable Hydro-Csrbons" next
issue. Dr.. B. L. PATTERSON.
The advocate., 1896-12-02
CORRESPONDENCE.
Chains, Bonds or LlieR

into life, and it seems that mans inS.
bllity to comprehend the higher pur'
port Of life will make Q lapse of ages
yet necessary to bring him TO q com.
prehenSlOn Of the real the ultimate
purpose OF human life. We might say
that It is mans selHshness and insati-
ate greed that make necessary bis pro-
longed period Of ethical evolution, but
he Of truly ethical conceptions knows
that the man who lives solely for SELF
sdulatiOn and sggrsndi2ement rObS
himself OF more than he does all the
world else. He who lives to do by ell
the world ss he would have oil do by
him puts himself at once In accord
with the ultimate of all ethical deVel.
opment, and he knows that future ages
will never enroll his name upon the
great scroll Of eternity ss one who,
with chain or bond, crushed ont the
lives Of mothers and babes, brought
nations to ruin and dissolution and de-
spoiled the earth.
It required ages for man to realize
that It was q british instinct that i'm
PEELED him to enslave and fetter his
brother man In chains, but he has not
yet sufficiently developed to realize
that his nature Is yet rife with the
treschery and lnhumsnity Of bsrbsr-
ism who would rob and enslaVe his
brother with the bond. Bonded inter.
ests have sucked the flesh and blood Of
every civilization Of the globe and left
them prostrate aid dissolute. The
heartless treschery Of the most inSsti-
ate vsndsl plundeTer was necessary to
bring about this monetary bondage
which has ever been more pitiless than
chRttel chains.
We would call him barbarian who
would enslsve his brother with chains,
and he Is ss great q vandsl who would
ehslaVe with bonds. Like the christ,
let IA put the demon under the mt
versal sCourge We pity the AFFECTION
Of he who 10 content 10 chains, And
10 he not 90 deficient In manhood who
Is content to be enslaved by bonds 7
True ethical development, true man
hood will know neither master nor
slave but the equal and universal
brotherhood Of man. Then will man
begin to know the true purport oi
human life and not before. He who
will be either master or slave will un
balance civilizations. Nature 10 ali
her realms will never tolerate 40 In
equality nor an injustice, and unit
man develops to the full Comprehen
Bion Of justice, human life will be
failure and civilization 60 down like
an eternal setting Of the sun.
Il Is unequal conditions that produces
unequal men, not divine decree. II
the true philosopher every deficient o.
inferior human being but tells thr
story Of mans inhumanity to hl
brother man sometime or somewhere
No longer believe the tyrsnt'S philOso
ply, that man was made to suffer
Life was given man and given him 70
Joy, and until Joy has filled every III
and justice been done every indlVidua
upon earth, 1t is crime for anyone T.
be content.
Both the chain and the bond make
failure Of human life and civilizations
and q competitive economic Systeu
makes devils Of men. He who amasse
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
cOLFAx GRANT PARISH LA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY o. 1896
Murder a National Issue.

A special from Fort Smith. Arkansas,
says: In his address to the Federal
Grand Jury United States District Judge
Isaac G. Parker, who has sentenced over
$50 murderers to death, dealt with the
increase of homicide in this country. He
stated that the number of persons who
have been murdered in the United States
in the last five years is six times larger
than the Continental army at the close
of the Revolution, and that the number
murdered last year is greater than our
standing army at the outbreak of the
civil war. "The issue before the coun-
try" he declared. sis not money or tariff.
but whether or not we are able to guar
antee proper protection to life. The
people should demand of the courts that
they discountenance intrigue and hair
splitting distinctions in favor Of the GRIM
mails. The Appellate Court exists main
ly to stab the trial judge in the back and
enable the criminal to 60 Free"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
Coming Into the Fold.

We learn that a large number of citi-
zens of Grant parish have determined to
quit the Popullst party and come back
into the Democratic fold. They are tired
Of following set of leaders who have no
fixed principles, but are in politics simply
for what there is in it for themselves.
They are tired Of Performers" who don't
propose any reforms, and whose stock in
trade is abuse Of the party in power.
This is no new thing, but is at work
all over the land. Tom Watson, whom
some Of the Pops hereabouts regard as
perfection, is weakening in his grip on
this non-descript party. He has been a
member of the party for several years.
and has at last discovered that many So
called Populists are really socialists and
of the Coxey brand. and that it is part
Of their policy to interfere with the prop
erty rights of their neighbors. This does
not suit him, and he threatens to quit if
the socialists become strong enough to
control the party. Watson deserves some
credit at least for being honest enough
to admit it when be discovers that he is
with the wrong gang. Many men, like
Watson. have made mistakes and joined
the Populist ranks who will sooner or
later see the error of their way and re-
turn to the Democratic fold.
Sensible men frequently change their
views upon political questions, but some
fools think that consistency is shown by
sticking to error, and are not disposed to
change even when they know they are
wrong. The Democratic party has ex
lsted for more than hundred years, and
half Of its older members were once
members of other parties. Come along,
gentlemen; it is no new thing to receive
recruits to the Democratic ranks. and
you will feel all the better after candidly
confessing your sins.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
Important to Settlers.

Senator Blanchard introduced in the
u. s. senate. on the 18th, bill for the
relief of settlers upon lands within the
limits of the grant to the Pa
cIfic railway company. He said. in pre-
senting the bill. that it had been recon-
mended by the land department of the
and its object is to enable
settlers on the indemnity lands of the
Pacific railway to hold their lands while
the government is to give the railroad
company other lands in lieu of those con-
6rmed to the settlers, of whom there are
from eighty to one hundred living in ST.
Landry, Arcadia, Grant and other par
ishes in this section. The department
holds that the title to the lands is in the
railroad company, and there has been for
years considerable trouble growing out
OF the conflicting claims. The bill pro-
yides that authority be given the rail-
way company to relinquish any lands
within the indemnity limits of its grant
IN favor OF the settler entitled to the
right of entry under the laws Of the
United States who has been allowed to
maize entry or who has resided upon and
improved the same for five years. and the
railroad company is allowed to select in
lieu thereof an equal quantity of other
lands from any of the public lands not
otherwise appropriated.
The bill. which is far-reaching in its
benefits to q large number of the citizens
in Grant parish. has every prospect OF
becoming law, as it has received hearty
endorsement from the committee to
winch it was referred, and will meet with
little or no opposition. Our people
should get in position to take advantage
of its provisions.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
Judge George Wear.
(Winn6eld Comrade.)

(Wluu0elO OOmf0OosI
We always take peculiar pride in an
nouncing for Office men in whom we have
confidence.
Elsewhere in our columns appears the
announcement for reelection for Judge
of the 4th Judicial District, Judge Geo.
Wear.
Judge Wear is native of South Caro-
lima. When our civil war opened, al
though quite a youth, he enlisted and
served in the principal battles Of Vir-
ginia; SO we see he was not a lay soldier.
but one who fought for his country.
Longetreet's corps, to which he belonged,
was ordered to Tennessee about the time
of the battle of Chicamauga. He re-
turned to Virginia and remained there
until Gen. Lees surrender.
Then, having his fortune to make, de-
pendent on his own resources, he came
to Caldwell parish in June, 1865. Pur-
suing the course that has been followed
by almost all Of our self-made men who
have attained to eminence, he was a It'll
Ter of the soil," and continued to work on
farm until 1869.
He was then appointed clerk Of Cald-
we'll parish, and studied law while at
tending to his official duties. In 1871 he
was admitted to the bar. For several
years he practised his profession, and
was appointed district attorney of the
then 18th District to fill out the unex-
PRED term of S. M. Brian. He filed this
important Office with honor to himself
aud satisfaction to the people, as subse-
quent events prove, for he was elected 10
1879 and reelected in 1884. So for more
than eight years he was fearless, ener-
getic prosecuting officer.
At the death Of Judge Bridger in 1890
he was appointed judge. That he was
elected Judge in 1890 and reelected in
1892, serves to show the great confidence
held by our people of his ability as an
expounder of the law showing partiality
to none, but. equal rights and justice to
all. regardless of politics, caste or color.
That Judge Wear, if reelected, will
fill the judgeship IN the future as he has
in the past, we feel every confidence.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
The Democratic Record.


The whole stock in trade OF the Popu-
list agitators is vile, senseless and un-
truthful abuse of the Democratic admin
istratiop, both State and National.
We shall not at this time say any
thing of the dozens of wholesome laws
that the National administration has put
into effect, but we wish to shake q few
red banners at the Populist bull, a. it
were. and excite his ire by the recitation
of a few of the good things the Demo
cratic administration in Louisiana has
accomplished:
It has ridded the State Of the lottery.
It has made taxes uniform.
1t has prohibited trusts.
1t has placed our public schools upon
a cash basis.
1t has paid one million and half Of
the debt of twelve million dollars foisted
upon Louisiana by Republican misrule.
1t has promptly paid up the interest
upon the debt assumed by the people in
adopting the constitution of 1879.
It has raised the State obligations
from SO per cent. discount to par value.
1t has enlarged the asylums Of the
State, 80 that all our unfortunates arr
now cared for.
It has put down crime, suppressed
mob law and protected tho rights O
both white and black alike.
1t has provided for the arbitration o
labor disputes.
1t has suppressed tax-dodging.
1t has encouraged emigration.
1t has provided for Confederate veter
ans, the insane and the blind.
It has reduced State expenses.
1t has passed laws to prevent the rail
roads from making extortionste charges
But time and space forbid our naminl
more at this instant. When the Pop
have told the people how much bette
they can do than this, we will repeat an
other list.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
sHFRIFF SALE.

Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish
of Grant, La.-No.
Equitable Security Company vs.. George
s. johnson.
BY virtue of a writ OF seizure and sale
to me directed in the above numbered
and entitled suit, have seized and will
offer for sale in front of the Courthouse
door in the town of Colfax, La, between
the hours prescribed by law, on
SATURDAY, MARCH IA, 1895,
the following described property, seized
as the property of the defendant, viz:
Eleven hundred and seventy-two and
g. 100 acres, more or less, situated IN the
parish OF Grant, La. and described as
follows: Beginning on the west bank OF
the Bayou Darro at a post where the
quarter section line of section l15) fifteen
intersects the west section line OF section
(l5) fifteen, thence east on said line 45
chains to post in the woods, thence
north-easterly with the woods to section
line between sections (10) ten and (15)
fifteen, thence east on said section line
to a stake on section line Of ll6) eighteen,
township five (5h north range, two ~
west. thence north % degrees east to the
southwest corner of the Raymond Es-
trada grant, thence north "A degrees, 30
minutes west with the west line OF sald
grant 40 chains 40 links to stake,
thence north 81 degrees west chains,
thence north So chains to stake on the
section line north of section No. 8, thence
west with said section line 43 chains to
the Bayou Darro, thence south with the
meanderings Of raid bayou "a chains to q
conventional line. bearing north 62 west.
thence with said line south g. degrees
east to the section line between sections
and 8, thence south with said section
| line 81 chains to the north line OF the
Adam Huffman tract, thence north 81
degrees west with said line to the Bayou
Darro, thence following the meanderings
of said bayou to south line of the Adam
| Huffman tract, thence with said line
south 81 deg. east 81 chains to line divid-
| ing lots 2 and in section 10, thence
south with said line AZ chains, thence
west to the section corner OF sections 10
and Is, thence south 40 chains to the
beginning (being the same property des-
cribed in the petition Of the Equitable
Security Company in above styled causel
Terms-C Cash without appraisemeut.
G. d. KEMP,
Sheriff Of Grant Parish.
Colfaz, Ia Feb. Z, 1885
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The Winfield Comrade calls attention
to the killing of several thousand pounds
of meat by Mr.. J. ID. Wright, and felici-
tates itself upon the fact that this all &C.
Cured in VIM, Populist parish. It
ought to be fair enough, however, to
state that Mr.. Wright is a Democrat,
and, like all good Democrats, he keeps
ahead by thrift and industry.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22
Their First Christmas Tree.

It was regular Christmas times with
the editors Of the Populist newspapers
on Saturday last. The Christmas tree
was erected in closed room in the Ex-
change hotel, this city, and the Pop. Rep.
candidate for governor, Capt. j. N. Pharr,
was present and acted in the capacity OF
Santa Claus. The tree was brilliantly
lighted and filed to overfowing, and
Andrew Hero told the reform" editors
that Santa Claus had told him. confiden-
tidlly, that the display before them was
only a starter. The Populist quill driv
ers have been hungry go long it must
have done Santa Claus good to see them
make away with the candy and nuts,
oranges, apples, etc., ETC., etc. B'r Tets
ate and ate, and was only satisfied when
told that it was Christmas Tree No. l.
that No. 2 would arrive so soon as the
Nat. Reps would get their wagon
creased. The reform" editors were
doing business at the Exchange until II
o'clock Saturday night, and did not leave
until o'clock Sunday morning.-TowD
Talk (Aiexandria.)
Capt. Phsrr, Tom Cages political man,
Friday, spent Saturday and Sunday at
Alexandria seeing" the Populite news
paper editors who had assembled there
by previous appointment just how
much it cost the Capting to 'see" his
crowd we shall perhaps never know, but
as he is reported to have an abundant
supply of the "swag," and some of the
Populite editors have appeared to be
awfully coy of late, there is every reason
to believe that the captains wad was
much smaller when he returned to New
Orleans than it was when he sailed forth
upon his glorious mission to redeem
Louisiana" The unsophisticated old
"Capting," with his overweeninR vanity
and his plethoric bar'l, is decidedly the
softest snap the "chappies" have struck
in many a campaign.-Baton Rouge Ad
vocate.
Wonder if those Populist editors who
have heretofore opposed Capt. Pharr viii
continue their opposition since they me-
the captain in Alexandria last week ant
held their little pecuniary conclave
Doubtless the would-be governor con
WINGED them that there was more in i
for them to support him than for then
to continue to hang onto the coat tail o
Booth.-Boyce Enterprise.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1896-02-22

Tho Youths Companion of Feb. 18th
publishes an unusually valuable article
for young men, by the Lord Chief JUS
tice OF England, on 1.-THE Bar as Pro
fession" Sound advice, taken from
long and varied experience, and wise en-
enlargement are given to young and
prospective lawyers. 1t is as readable
as story, yet Will bear careful study.
For the next issue of the Companion,
the Washington's Birthday Number,
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the able
inheritor of great name, has written an
interesting supplement to Lord Russell's
article, presenting the subject from an
American point Of view. Appended to
the article are brief rejoinder by Lord
Russell and final comment by Mr.. JUS
tice Holmes. Each issue of the Com
panion contains one or more articles Of
exceptional value. written by the ablest
men and women Of the s9e.