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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10
Enough for All.

The social regeneration of the masses
by the wholesale process will be found,
believe, to be easier than by the usual
retail methods. 1t will also be more
economical, and will furnish to the
world an imposing object lesson in
"pauperology," if l may be permitted
to coin the expression. 1t will thus be
possible, if l mistake not, to prove to
the most Malthusian mind that, after
all, God is not mistaken in allowing
the existence of so many human be-
ings. that Mother Earth is still big
enough and fertile enough to provide
food and work for many times over
her existing family, and that the worst
form of folly and extravaganza is that
which treats as waste and superfiuous
matter the glorious browning piece of
creation which bears the impress and
the image Of its Master Mind.-Rooth
Tucker in Forum.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

main point. Many of them are de-
vised by the enemy to amuse us. Even
II we succeed at elections they will
outwit us in the scramble over SO many
question:, and long years will pass and
civil war will finally come out of the
despair of the masses. Something
must be done. Make the building OF
these great roads by the government,
as proposed herein, the one grand and
immediate object. The combine will
say as did Hannibal under like des-
perate circumstance, Nov, indeed, do
I feel the fate Of Carthage"
CLARKE IRVINE.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

The donkey editor of the Chicago
Times Herald glories over the fact
that the price of the leading American
product (silver) is going down constant
ly. "Silver as a money metal Is done
for" exultingly remarks the long cared
writer, what will the cranks do for
an issue now?" The traitor who Is run
ming the Times Herald needs to worry
over what the silver people will do.
They will go right on advocating sill
yer until the question is finally settled
to the entire satisfaction Of the Ameri-
can people. The decline in silver Is
wholly caused by legislation against
it. This proves the truth Of the silver
plank in their national platform.
Legislation in favor of silver will re-
store it's price.
But right now we desire to remind
the long cared editor that he need not
worry about an issue. II he had a
spoonful of brains he ought to know
that the financial plank in the Demo-
cratic, Populist and Silver Republican
platforms is after all chiefly directed
at the national banks. 1t is the total
abolition of the national banks that Is
aimed at when we advocate the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at 16
to 1. So even should the silver ques-
ton be eliminated, which it will not,
the fight against national banks would
20 right on. The humiliation of the
national banking system is now and al
ways has been the central idea in the
silver Observation-Disclosures Democrat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10
SILVER AND WHEAT.
Gold MonometaIIists Are on In Their
Reckonlngs.


Reckonings.
Because silver has been falling in
bullion value of late and wheat rising
gold monometallists are jubilant and
think that they have an unacceptable
answer to the bimetallist contention OF
a correspondence between the general
fall of wheat and silver prices during
the past twenty years, as indicated by
the index numbers of Soetbeer ana
other economists.
The truth is in a nutshell. one OF
the chief reasons for the decline IN
market value of American wheat mas
been the competition of silver-using
countries like India and Argentina.
While the wheat production OF both
for years has been advancing with rap
i'd strides, and the exchange value Oh
silver in London has been dropping
continually, the silver value of agri-
cultural labor and products in those
countries has been stationary. In IN
dia and Argentina an ounce OF silver
would buy bushel Of wheat IN $780,
when an ounce of silver was worth,
say, so cents, exactly as it would be IN
1885, when it was worth dollar IN
gold.
Here is, where the British CONNER
cial shrewdness came in to crush the
American agricultural interest ana
make it the toiling, payless slave OF
English markets. AS soon as Great
Britain succeeded in destroying the
parity of American silver with gold
London began to buy our deprecated
bullion and exchange it for East IN
dian and South American wheat.
Every cent that American silver fell
per ounce was a cent saved on the
purchasing price of wheat. But the
demand for our silver for this purpose
of exchange served to keep 1t at q
higher value compared with the price
of wheat at Liverpool as long as that
demand lasted. Naturally, when the
crop failures occurred in India, and
the comparative shortage OF recent
time in Argentina, the demand fell on
and silver became further depressed,
while necessary resort to the wheat
production of the United States to
make good the shortages and failures
of wheat elsewhere in the world, en-
HANGED the price of that commodity
compared with silver bullion.
It is to the advantage OF the Ameri-
can farmer that cosmic crop conditions
are likely to preserve, perhaps to in
crease, that disparity for another year
to come. At the same time 1t Is not
we'll that he, or the rest of us, should
allow himself to be confused or deluded
by specious arguments of the gold in
terest. When, in the course of ma
lures providence, normal conditions
return, and the competitive power OF
other wheat-producing countries is at
work again, we shall see the same old
state of things. England will bear our
silver and buy it to exchange for the
wheat of silver countries, and so re-
commence the former operation OF de-
stroying our farmers.
The illustration presented In the cur
rent and doubtless temporary rise OF
wheat and fall of silver is one of the
strongest arguments for remonetiza-
ton that we'll could be conceived
National Democrat.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10
Mr.. Flower on Trusts.

Mr.. Flower has the intrepidity Of
his interests, which is the modern mill
lionaire politicians substitute for the
courage of ones convictions. Having
Wall street operators interest in
trusts and monopol'es, the ex-governor
quite naturally finds much good in
them.-New York World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

The members of the sugar trust, beef
trust, lumber trust, ct al, are not 60
ing to the Alaskan gold fields, for in
the fulness of time they will get all
the gold that comes from there.-Farm,
Stock and Home.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

treaty with the Hawaiian Sugar Trust
The present Republican Congress has
voted against sugar bounty to Ameri-
can farmers. The present Republican
Congress has voted in favor o. sugar
bounty to Hawaiian farmers. The
present Republican Congress knows
that the Hawaiian farmers are the
Hawaiian Sugar Trust. The present
Republican Congress has made favor
able rates on nearly every product
which is controlled by trust. And
now the present Republican Congress
has by its legislation enhanced IN
value the stock of the Sugar Trust by
$50, 0O0,0 900.
"The Argonaut is pretty good he
publican paper, and always has Deeh.
but it freely admits that 1t does not
quite understand how the Republican
party can go before the people with
these indictments against us. There
has always been more or less sus-
picion in the minds Of the people con-
corning the affiliations Of Republican
administrations and Republican lead
ers with trusts. The Republican jour-
nails have always repudiated these sus-
picions with indignation, but what can
they say now when confronted by
Democrats with these accusations! Is
there any reply to be made to them?
II so, we do not know what 1t Is.
1--WE can not understand the action
of the Republican Congress, which ac-
ton seems to be approved by the he
publican administration. To us 1t
seems like the action of men bereft or
their wits. One thing is sure-it will
drive the Republican party from pow
err. Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad"
There is not much in the tariff issue,
but what little there is amounts to
this: The new tariff is designed to IN
crease the price of the trust-manu-
featured goods farmers have to buy
while the products they have to sell
will continue to fall in price. AS the
prosperity of the nation depends on
the prosperity of the farmer, the Ding
ley law is a measure for the promotion
of the hard times which have been
caused by the gold standard and the
monopoly of the market by trusts.
Crop failures abroad give the farm
ers a chance this year. But next year
look out! The largest wheat acreage
ever known will naturally be planted
next year, and with the good crops
which are probable the price will drop
lower than the lowest ever known here
tofore.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

The longer Wolcott ct al. remain in
Europe the more humiliating Is the
spectacle to Americans. AS If the peo-
pie of this nation must beg favors OF
England, and especially the favor OF
being allowed to do manly act
Boulder Herald.
Republicans have no other uses for
the state than to have it act as col
lection agency, and to keep on hand
a well-drilled and ever-ready posse to
carefully and promptly protect cor
porations in their raids on the people.
Pittsburg Kansan.
We must either decentralize the
wealth of the country out of the hands
of monopolists, by class legislation
which will offset the class legislation
producing the monopolists, or change
the constitution of the country so that
the natural resources of wealth cannot
be monopolized. This is no DREAM
Omaha Labor Bulletin.
OF course, times are hard, but 1t can
not be said that good Mother Earth
is not kind to the whole human race.
If the millions of children OF men are
in want, they have only themselves TO
blame, to the extent at least that they
meekly submit to the rule Of monop-
oily; to the Commands who appropriate
the generous gifts of nature and from
the pulpit and press have 1t preached
that divine Providence is responsible
for our poverty.-Johnstown Daily
Democrat.
Direct legislation and effective vot-
ing would make Doodle legislatures ana
corrupt courts mpossible.-P1ttsbIrg
Kansan.
"They" tell the masses to "econo-
mize." Economy will starve the
butcher. the baker and the CANDLE
stick-maker, but it may prolong the
lives of the they; namely, those who
ESSAY to furnish us our religion, poll
tics and bill of fare ready-made to
our hands, and call us anarchists
and paid agitators' if we don't swal-
low the whole dose at gulp and say
"thank you."-Bige Eddy, in Seattle
Populist.
lust how a country can be in an
ideal condition for prosperity in all in
dustries and yet be restricted by gross
errors in it's financial policies is being
illustrated in the United States at the
nresent time. With splendid crops,
and unlimited demand by reason of
the failure of foreign crops, times con-
tinue hard. This education of the peo
nile will not be without permanent eff
fects.-Boulder Camera.
Speaking about the sale of poisons
used for suicide, Washington drug
gist says: I'VE are now compelled to
sell it merely on the representation OF
the buyer. Why? Because If one
druggist declines to make sale an
other one IWO oQudiSo ohA WAi Wv ~.
It may be CHASTITY sort of competition.
hut the facts are as l have stated
Washington Star.
A dispatch from Washington on
Monday reported the amount paid to
depositors by the receivers of defunct
national banks, the figures running
from five to twenty-five per cent.
Most of these depositors are people
who have only small amount of
money and that saved only by the
strictest economy. There can be but
few blacker crimes than swindling
these people out of their earnings, yet
IT is done every week, yes, every day
Of the week; and then just to hear
the politicians declare, Its the best
banking system in the world. "-Chica..
20 Express.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10
REPUBLICAN PROTEST
THE TARIFF FOR TRUSTS
is NOT POPULAR.

Governor Piugree of Michigan vigor-
ously Objects-"One Thing 10 Sure, 1t
VIII Drive the Republican Party from
Power"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10
Is NOT YET TOO LATE.
BUT THE RAILROADS ARE
TIGHTENING THEIR GRASP.

Let the Government Take Charge Of
and Operate the Union Pacific and
the Monopoly OF Carrying Will BE
Destroyed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

The Dingley tariff, through which We
we're promised prosperity in spite OF
the gold standard, is found, on analy-
sis, to furnish high protection to those
industries that are controlled by pow
erful trusts. and to none other.
Strong opposition to the law has de-
veloped among the Republicans them
selves.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

The longer Wolcott ct al. remain in
Europe the more humiliating is the
spectacle to Americans. AS If the peo-
pie of this nation must beg favors of
England, and especially the favor OF
being allowed to do manly act
Boulder Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

We must either decentralize the
wealth of the country out of the hands
of monopolists, by class legislation
which will Offset the class legislation
producing the monopolists, or change
the constitution of the country so that
the natural resources of wealth cannot
be monopolized. This is no DREAM
Omaha Labor Bulletin.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-09-10

Republicans have no other uses for
the state than to have it act as col
lection agency, and to keep on hand
a well-drilled and ever-ready posse to
carefully and promptly protect cor
porations in their raids on the people.
Pittsburg Kansan.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

The law passed by the legislature
Of 1895, permitting payment Of real
estate taxes IN Two installments,
becomes effective January l, 1898,
and is applicable to payments Of
1891 taxes. The law provides that
one.half of the real estate tax may
BE- paid OF or before June 1 and #
the other half be paid before No.
vember following no penalty
will attach. If anyone does not
pay any part of the tax before
June l, however. a penalty OF 10
per cent attaches. The personal
property tax is payable on or be-
fore March /; after that penalty
of 10 per cent attaches.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31
Has a Future.

Up in the wilds Of Beltrami
county, Mint, is a TOWNSHIP
called Walker Brook. On that
townsite is lone settlers shantv,
and in that shanty is the printing
outfit of the Beltraml Eagle. The
editor liyes on wild meat and
hopes. While the wind blows
through the cracks of the shack,
h Utilities it to frisk the sheets Oft
as he rints 'em on an old army
prcss-also to blow up hli sub
scriptlon list and fill out booms
for the town that is to be. He
has preceded clvilizatio onto the
stamping ground ofprima' Amer
ic an liberty, and as the sough OF
the pines lulls him to rest on the
imposing stone, that editor has nc
fear of the future. He owns it,
E. Grand FORKS Courier.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

Cyrus Erskine left Tuesday on q
cruising trip for the Hennepin Paper
company. He is looking up spruce
timber for pulp wood and will go to
Crom well on the Duluth and Brain
erd branch OF the Northern Pacific.
The Hennepin Paper company is now
buying in it's years supply OF pulp
wood and is buying considera bic
poplar and some spruce from the
farmers OF this vicinity. Large guam
titles are being shipped 10 over rail
from points north Of here. Kintop
Bros, Of Randall, have gone up in the
northern country and will put In
camp and haul a large amount of
spruce to the railroad for shipment
to.the Hennepin paper mills here. y y
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

On Christmas night some OF the
residents otlBroadway, inst east Of
the !railroad.: :thought there r were
energetic burglars IN the city. For
some time q man tried to get into
the dwellinglhouses, and the intox-
icated reveler,, was finally brought
to his home In the center Of the city.
That is all there was to the burglar
story that has been in circula ton
for the past few days. 81
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

Henry Frlnk. q st. Cloud merchant.
says: January and February are
usually looked upon by the average
merchant as two of the dull months.
This having been my experience, /
feel that there ia all the more need
of placing goods before the people
upon the small profit and quick sale
basis. When business il dull printers
Ink II used right il never failing
restorative. For this reason I have
doubled my space in the Journal
Press for the next sixty days. ..'
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

FL. A. Conner. who came down a
few days ago to spend Christmas
with his family. returned Tuesday to
the lumber camps of the Pine Tree
Lumber company near Leech lake,
where he ia looking after the cutting
of the timber. Mr.. Warren also left
today for a visit to the camps Of the
Pine Tree company in the vicinity IT
Park Rapids. Before returning he
will visit nearly all of the camps OF
that company in the northern part
of the state.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31
DOUBLED ON NovEMHEF
The Northern Pacific Earnings
r. Show a Big Increase 5s
Last Month. .

J.. The November statements Of
the Northern Pacific just pub.
lished, offer much food for re.
Fiction. The net earni:gs Of the
company for the thirty days are
reported double those Of year
ago. The November business it.
self increased 81 per cent. At the
same time remarkable ratio of
operating expenses to income has
been maintained. The figure is
80 per cent. - '%i "t..
For the five months ending with
November the net earnings have
been pushed up so per cent.
The company has just ordered
some new equipment, sixteen new
Schenectady engines, twelve Of
which will be for the passenger
and four for the freight business
of the road. These new machines,
which will cost in the neigh bor-
hood of twelve thousand dollars
each, will be ready for delivery j.,
three months, and will be what is
known as compound engines, two
of wh1ch-one passenger and one
frieght-have been tested on the
line since last June and found
quite satisfactory.
The November statement and
that for five months ending with
November, including the gross
earnings, the operating expenses
and the net earnings, is reported
as fol ows: 81
Inc. Per.
November. 1895. 1881. Cent:
Gross earnings 81 632,S77.32 $264O,4S?.5 6l.7
Operating exp. sS5.6@l5 1917 , 6A.8 H9
Net earnings. 7H,1s217 40 III
Five months ending Nov: a. -. .
Gross earnings So, 498, 80 $1l ,604.996H Q,2
Operating exp. 5,318,515.24 5,410,1738 ~
Net ealnings."-. 4,1SO.14.n 6,lN,SA66 MI
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

County Attorney Lyon was called
prosecution in an assault case In the
Justice court there tOaay. The COM
Dlainant Ia Frank Wise and the d..
PENDANTS are a man named Kehr ana
another named Edwards, The par
ties to the suit BECAME mixed up in u
fight ON the road between Royalton
and Buchanan last Wednesday, and
Wise got the worst of the row.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

Mondays Minneapolis Journal:
Iro II making in Minneapolis was
com menced in earnest todny at the
rolling mills at Columbia Heights.
The furnaces were started early
and the rolling was under way to
a greater or less extent all day.
It is not expected for few days
to make SEIZED lle speed or turn out
the full capacity of the mills even
for the day run; but by the end Of
the week everything will undoubt'.
eddy be under full swing. The
Minnesota Iron and Steel company
is receiving much encouragement
in the way of unexpected orders.
The demand for goods made in
Minneapolis promises to he very
large. Already the company has
been obliged to refuse orders for
immediate delivery. All this con.
firms the theories and facts on
which the enterprise was based
AID is most gratifying to the
management.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

An editor was the official head
of two banks that failed in Phila.
delph1a last week. The editor will
p,y the few millions of dollars the
banks owe. He will issue the
b,nk creditors some newspaper
stock. Cert ,inly. How can he
fail?
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

The Minnesota delegations in
the two houses Of congress had a
meeting on Monday, to arrange
plans for working together to Sc
cure the legislation needed for
this state.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

The boycott OH the Metropolitan
theatre at St. Paul has been de.
clared off. For years men have
stood on each side of the theatre
entrance at every performance and
given boycott notices to all who
passed.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

"Bob :Fitzsimmons" has just
received $4,000 from Dan Stuart
as his share in the profits of the
Kin etescope pictures ofthe Carson
City prize fight for the past three
months.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

Mrs. NJ. Gaguier and daughter.
Mrs. J. Cries, Of Lincoln, Mich, ar
rived In the city Thursday on y visit
to relatives. Mrs. Gaguier IL 4 sister
Of Felix Rocheleau, Oi Belle Prairie,
and they have not met In thirty
years. Her visit here was a pleas,
ant surprise to. her brother. who had
not heard from her during the last
fifteen years, and supposed that sh-.
was dead. KS.
At the annual election OF officers ot
Martha Washington circle, Ladies
Of q. a. r., the following were elected:
President Mrs. Elizabeth Sheldon.
Senior Vice-Mrs w. E. Harting
Junior Vice-Mrs. Scott.
COn.--Nrs. Geo. Keller. ,, g..
Treas. Catherine Ball.
GUARDIANS. Chas. Latham. U.s..
Installation will be held at tirs'
meeting in January. - .-.- 4
L
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

The committee on arrangements
for tho New Years ball which will
he given next Friday evening by the
Junior Order United American Me-
chanics. is Meeting with success IN
it's efforts, and there is no doubt hut
it will he a successful and pleasant
social affair. The next annual meet
ing III the state council will he he'd
in this city next April. and there will
be about $50 delegates in attendance.
This ball is given to assist In raising
the necessary funds for the entertain
ment of the visitors. and deserves
the patronage NJ all our citizens.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

The Sault Ste. Marie canal made
a new record for business this year.
The value of the freight passing
through was $3.50, 900, 900, and the
tonnage was nearly $4,000, 900.
It was much the largest in the
history of the canal.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

Citizens of the United States
have filed claims of nearly twenty
million dollars against Spain. The
poor old kingdom is never ex-
p. cted to pay them.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

One of the latest news items
from Dawson city is that jim
Crmg's saloon was robbed Of $780,.
900 GU the night of NOV. Is.
Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-31

A Duluth court has decided to
appoint a receiv er for Lon Merritt.
After the settlement of his cases
against Rockefeller he took his
money and went to Mexico, where
he is engaged in mining. The re-
ceiver Is appointed on petition OF
the St. P.ul National bank.