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Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

DR.. Talmage, holding forth in one of
the Washington pulpits, preached Il
sermon from the text, Matthew Z, 10,
Whatsoever we would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them" In
the sermon Dr. Talmage said:
"The greatest war the world has
ever seen is between capital and labor.
The strike Is not like that which in
history, is called the thirty years war,
for it is war of centuries, It is war
Of the five continents, it is a war hem
ispheric, The middle classes OF this
country, upon whom the nation has
depended for holding the balance of
power, and for acting rs mediators be-
tween the two extremes, arc diminish
ing; and If things go on at the same
rate as they are now going, it will not
be very long before there will be no
middle class in this country, but all
will be worry rich or very poor princes
or paupers, and the country will be
given up to palaces and novels
"The antagonistio forces are closing
in upon each other. The Pennsylvania
miners strike, the telegraph operators
strikes, the railroad employees strikes,
the movements of the boycottsrs and
the dynamiters are skirmishes before
general engagement, or, il you prefer
it, escapes through the safety valve of
an imprisoned force, which promises
the explosion of society.
You may pooh.pooh it; you may say
that this trouble, like an angry child,
will cry itself to sleep; you may belittle
it by calling it Fourierism, or Social
ism, or st, Simonism, or nihilism, or
communism; but that will not hinder
the fact that it is the mightiest, the
darkest, the most terrific threat of the
century All attempts at pacifcation
have been dire failures and monopoly
is more arrogant and the trades unions
more bitter. Give us more wages cry
the employees You shall have less,
say the capitalists. Compel us to do
fewer hours of toll in o day 'You can
toll more hours, say the Others. Then
under certain conditions we will not
work at all, say these. Then you
shall starve, say those, and the work
men gradually using up that which
they accumulated in better times Uu-
less there is some radical change, we
shall soon have in this country 900, 900
hungry men and women. Now 4,OO0,-
900 hungry people cannot be kept
quiet. All the cnactnents of legisla-
lures and alrthe constabularies Of the
cities and of the army and navy Of the
United States cannot keep 1000, 900
hungry people quiet"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16


While l am of opinion that the fnan-
cial question will be the one first adj
justed, yet it is folly to imagine that
its proper adjustment will restore the
government Of the people. The evil Of
the gold standard is but one Of many
barnacles that have fastened them
selves upon the body polite, and must
all be wiped off before this government
will be restored to those who alone can
maintain and preserve 1.-THE people.
While many have come to conclusion
that representative government is a
failure-and they are justified in that
conviction by the results Of the past
thirty years-yet they all believe that
the government Of the people can and
will be the greatest blessing humanity
has ever known. With the referen-
dunn we will have such government.
With the people in power their right
to life, liberty and the pursuit Of hap
piness will never be questioned They
will realize their responsibility to each
other and declare II am my brothers
kceper,
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

dict of the country therefore is as 10
to Z in favor Of publicly owned plants,
Massachusetts, leads all other states
in her preference for public over pri-
vate ownership Of water supply plants
There remain in that state now only
thirth-eight private against 113 public
workA Not single water supply in
Massachusetts, built by city has ever
been turned over to a private company.
In the middle group of states on the
other hand, there is still preponder-
snce of privately owned water plants.
Pennsylvania has only eighty-two pub
lie to $50 private plants New York
state is almost tie, having liz public
to 40 private water plants.
The set of the stream, however, is so
strongly public ownership of water
plants tqat within ten years at the
present rate of progress there will not
be an important city or large town
left in the country that will not own
its water works And it is we'll known
that in every city where honest man
agement has prevailed the public wa
ter plant has yielded considerable
to the local treasury.
2. Gas and Street Lighting. Twelve
American cities now own and operate
gas plants, the most notable examples
being Philadelphia, Richmond, Wheel
ing and Louisville Over two hundred
American municipalities have expert
mented with public electric lighting
plants. Included in this number are
the cities Of Chicago Detroit, Jackson
vile, Fla, Little Rock, Ark, Bay City,
Mich, and DunlSirll, N. Y.
Philadelphia's gas plant experiment
10 said by the opponents Of municipal
ownership to have been failure 1t
is admitted that its management by
irremovable trustees has been bad.
Yet gas has been furnished steadily
and is today being furnished TO Phila-
deIphia consumers at 25 cents per 1000
feet cheaper than to New York con-
sumers, In 1895 the net balance of
receipts from the public gas service of
Philadelphia was Sis, s53 90, and tho
city used $685., 900 worth of free gas be-
sides, making total net profit to the
city of S754,347, And If the Philadel-
phians had paid s1.25 a thousand for
their gas, as did New Workers., they
would have paid s7ss, $50 more for it
than they did. So, granting that It's
management has not been what it
should be, it is, nevertheless, true
that for the year 1895 the publicly
owned gas service of the Quaker City
saved to its people in one way or an
other grand total of sl,7O9, 100.
Chicago became the owner Of its cleo
trie light system in 1887 Today the
city owns 1854 are lamps, of 1000 can
die power. Their average cost, in
Guiding all items, is sO64O per lamp
per annum. Chicago is, at the same
time, leasing 200 lamps o. exactly the
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

The New York World has gone to
considerable expense to compile stat
istics in relation to the increasing
growth of public opinion in favor OF
municipal ownership of natural mon
opolies. Tho result Of the investiga-
ton showEs greatly and continually
increasing demand for public owner
ship. The World says:
Municipal ownership or control by
conditional leases of public services
that are in their nature monopolies-
water supply, street and house light
ing, street railways, and the like-is
the issue that is forcing its way to the
front in all American cities.
Facts are the indispensable basis OF
intelligent discussion. Without stop
ping here to consider the open ques-
ton Of whether or not on grounds Of
public policy it is wise or expedient to
enlarge the area of municipal enter
prise, the first large fact that con-
fronts us is that within the past ten
years the scope of municipal enterprise
has been greatly extended.
l. Water Works. -When the war
closed IS per cent of all the water
works in the United States were pri-
vate properties. No one now thinks of
Directing to municipal ownership Of
water works, that it is socialistic or
obnoxious to American principles of
government, but twenty years ago the
objection was raised, exactly as 1t is
now, against the municipal ownership
of gas. electric or street railway SER
vices. Even as late as 1890 only 1919
per cent of the water works Of the
country were publicly owned. Today
the balance is not heavily with mum.
cipal water works, only about SO per
cent of the water supply plants of the
United States being publicly owned.
Very significant, however, is the fact
that in the chief cities public owner
ship has become the rule by large
majority. OF the fifty largest cities in
the United States only nine are now
dependent upon private companies for
their supply, namely, San Francisco,
New Orleans, Omaha, Denver, Indian
apolis, New Haven, Paterson, Scran-
ton aud Memphis: The changes from
private to public ownership Of water
works have been very rapid since 1890.
The strength of the tendency 10 shown
By the fact that while 200. cities and
towns have changed from public to
private ownership, only twenty shave
Rads .the rsIOsae change The YER
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

To the casual observer 1t must ap.
pear strange that in the discussion OF
the results Of the Ohio campaign, 1t
has been taken for granted that Re-
publican majority in the legisla ture
was equivalent to the election of Mark
Hanna to the United States senate.
The newspapers of the country in glar-
ing headlines said Hanna is elected"
or, Hanna in doubt" as the varying
reports from the field came in. Not
"the legislature is Republican," or,
"the legislature goes to the Demo-
Gratis" but "Hanna's men" were elect
ed or defeated az the reports might in
dictate
Now that is indicative to very bad
state of affairs, very serious condi-
ton, indeed. Not because it is Mark
Hanna, but because it presupposes the
domination of the "boss" in everything
which the forthcoming Ohio legisla-
ture may do-and one "boss" is just as
bad as another Who elected the mem
bcrs Of the legislature? The people
To serve whom-the public? Not at
all; just to elect Mark Hanna to the
United States senate. According to
the Republican program, the members
of the Ohio legislature are lot of
marionettes with a string to them and
when Mark Hanna pulls the string the
little automatons will move and per-
form as he disects.
Out upon such politics! Lei us have
an end to the election Of puppets to
our legislatures, and let us send men
who dare to act in accordance with
their consciences and the desires of
the people regardless OF party or per-
sonal interest How else may we eX-
pect to have good laws and honest
framed in the interests of the people?
How can we in good conscience find
fault with the legislation such men
give us when we ourselves have chosen
them to be our lawmakers? The pco-
Pile need to arouse themselves to their
responsibility in this matter, to place
the blame for political corruption just
where it belongs-upon the citizens
who vote with and for the "boss" and
his machine Farmers Voice.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16
Thoughtleasneaa.

Thoughtlessness is at a discount In
this practical workaday world. An
employer once asked a clerk why no
failed to take advantage of an oppor-
tunlty to make a good sale. 81 didn't
think, sir" was the reply. THAT IL
no excuse" very justly reJoined the
merchant; you are paid to think"
Perhaps half the failures to achieve
succesD in life come Of thoughuess-
ness. Brains were created not for or
nament, but for use. The man who
thinks wins the race.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

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Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

The Chicago News has got out
book entitled Glow to Feed Babies on
10 Cents Day." Babies are met at
the threshold of life with demand
that they do not cost much or else
they must perish. Thousands of them
are annually killed by the conditions
induced by the competitive system and
from the fact that largo newspaper
has seen ft TO issue a book on how to
raise babies at low cost, it would
seem that there is demand for cheap
babies as well as cheap labor, cheap
raw material, cheap men and women.
All in harmony with a cheap civiliza.
tion. Coming Nation.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

same power from electric lighting
companies, and pays sl37 per lamp pei
pear for them, Here, then, in the same
city, it plainly appears that municipal
ownership saves to the taxpayer, $40. :
10 on every lamp. On tho 2,954 lamps
which Chicago owns it saves, there
fore, over $50, 900 year, calculated on
the basis of the price it is actually
paying for the lamps it leases from
private corporations.
In Wheeling, w. Va, the private gas
works were bought by the city many
years ago, and paid for by the sale Of
bonds. All the bonds have been re.
deemed out of the profits on gas with
out levying one dollar on the people,
and the public service is now yielding
yearly net income of about S25, 900 to
the city treasury, besides supplying
the people with gas at rs cents thou.
sand. The books of the city for 1905
show that besides supplying gas to the
people at the price named the city it.
self burned $4,000 worth In its own
public buildings for which it paid
nothing. The S25,OOO profit made on
its gas receipts more than suf1iccd to
pay the entire cost of lighting the
city's streets with $50 arc lights OF
Q, 900 candle power each. 1t thus APP
pears that Wheeling is able to furnish
Itself with electric light ut about $50
per lamp, or less than onc-halt the
charge made by private lighting cor.
poration to other cities.
The number of cities that have found
it to their interest to substitute public
for private ownership of gas and cleo
trio lighting are too numerous to men
ton in one short article, but enough
has been shown to prove conclusively
that public ownership of these, as well
as all other monopolies, tends to inn.
proved service, and also TO q better.
ment of the conditions of the masses
of the people. Where all share equal
" in the bounties of nature and the
natural advantages accruing to com
munity there can be none very rich,
neither can there be any very poor.
While the great populist principle OF
postal sayings banks is being pushed
by both republican and democratic
politicians to an apparent speedy vic
tory it is the time for the true friends
of the measure TO watch for the inser-
ton of the deadly poison in ths bill in
the shape of provision for the deposit
of the funds in national banks for
loaning purposes. Thore IS no posi-
BILE doubt but that strenuous efforts
will be made to so frame the bill as TO
make the government savings banks
a mere adjunct of the great banking
and trust corporations. These inter
estS have always controlled congress.
The exception clause in the greenbacls,
the special contract addition to the
Bland-Allison act are witnesses. They
win not be idle while measure of 50
great Importance to them as the posta'
savings bank is pending H. OOugreas
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16
THE DOCTRINE SPREADS.
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP DOCTRINE is
RAPIDLY TAKING ROOT.

POpulIam is becoming firmly fixed IN the
cities and the demand that the public
OWnputliO utilities 10 rapidly spread
Ing.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

"This government by injunction is
the most absolute despotism, and the
most fragrant usurpation known to or
ganized society. The powers of the
federal judges, as construed by them
selves, is greater than the constitu-
ton or the fundamental rights Of
man. 1t suspends the freedom Of
speech and of the press. 1t destroys
individual liberty 1t exceeds In pre-
tension and in performance the ex-
ploded doctrine of the divine right Of
kings. No greater menace to our lib-'
critics could be advised than the feder-
al judges arbitrary assumption of om-
impotence and infallibility. Ohio Law
Journal.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16
Stable Currency.

We hear much about stable cuE<
rency" and an "honest dollar" ItiSA
significant fact that those who advo-
cate single gold standard have for
the most part avoided discussion of
the effect of an approaching standard.
They take it for granted that the gold
standard is not only an honest stand
ard. but the only stable standard.
denounce that child of ignorance and
avarice, the gold standard under a un-
iversal gold standard as the most dis
honest dollar which we can employ.
1 stand upon the authority of every
intelligent writer upon political econ
omy when assert that there Is NOT
and never has been an honest dollar.
An honest dollar is dollar absolutely
stable in relation to all other things
1 say that dollar approaches hon
esty as its purchasing power approach
eS stability. If borrow thousand
dollars today, and next year pay the
debt with a thousand dollars who
will secure exactly as much Of all
things desirable as the ono thousand
which borrowed, have paid in hon
est dollars. If the money has increas-
ed or decreased in purchasing power I
have satisfied my debt with dishonest
dollars. While the government can
say that given weight Of gold or sill
yer shall constitute a dollar and in
vest that dollar with legal tender quail
tiles, it cannot fix the purchasing pow
err of the dollar. That must depend
upon the law of supply and demand,
and it may be well to suggest that this
government never tried to lx the ex-
changeable value of dollar until 1t
began to limit the number of dollars
coined.-W. ]. Bryan.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-12-16

The issue has been clearly defined
by the executive committee of the
"Sound Money League" in an address
issued on Tuesday. In that address
the committee declares that "interna-
tional bimetallism as world possibili-
ty is dead" and concludes: "We invite
the friends of sound money and all
who would contribute to the we'll be-
ing and safely of our commercial life
to join in bringing about the unmis-
taxable declaration that now and
henceforth the monetary system Of the
United States shall rest on the single
gold standard" That this will be the
line of action taken by the friends Of
the national bankers in the forthcom-.
ing congress is not doubted; that 1t
will succeed is not believed possible,
while Teller, Pettigrew and their fell
lows remain in the senate, But il
conpels the currency issue as the ques-
ton to be fought out in 1898. That
the friends of bimetallism will take up
the glove thus thrown down and fight
TO a finish is certain. We hope by 1900
the larger and more inclusive question
of private monopoly will occupy the
thought of the friends of the people. -
Farmers Voice.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-24
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-24

Christian tst 81 a StekeuiuE tale
0f a feaftal night &n AcoG0tv 8aG-
Night III horror wEta s. ,hs Ha4e
~ TIE Holy CatY il Lancaster
Five human bciaeS iu rotten den
Treated Ike dogs ia>te1e ot taeQ
P2cEed iiSc hogs Is Stalking yen
Ia TIE Holy CITY of Lancaster
we fr1uA u1lt we re IL ut ease
This iteA8nE we know Is not from IDEAS
Have we becu catching tnc rlcE disease
TAataDfect> the csty 81 Lancaster
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-24

itAA- % 4A44 p q tt4HEs - }-st4lt-b4 = atttg4
ney and L. ". Howe. OF BoscobeL ha,
been retained IS the village The
case viii be tried at The Oetooei tern
Of circuit court
An assault aud Battery case from
NJ Hope was tried in Justice Geo p
Wheeler-s court in Lancaster on Tues
day afternoon and evening Of This
week. Nr John NJ Day. Is wears old
caused the arrest Of Orlin E Adams.
just past q years 81 age. Atty Geo
Clemeutson appeared for the state,
and Atty Dan Needham for defend-
ant Adams The following jurors
were worn III. Me.srs Jas T Webb.
A q Knapp. c W. RAY, 5. r Greene.
Harry Barnett, Henry Ressmeyer
Witnesses for pIaintif were John N
Day. " H. sheppard Willis Peacock,
John Ccufman. Prof Chas Shearer:
for defendant we've Orlin + Adams,
A. A Adams Walter Knox The case
grew out Of a difficulty about the
ownership Of the grass in the school
yard From the evidence il appears
that one 81 tie school board Mr.
White told young Adams. the de-
tendent that he might cur the grass,
which would make perhap. = half ton
81 har The school yard fence was
open in places and Day. the plaintiff,
hat been ia the habit Of going in and
cutting feed Of grass for his horses.
On the sth day Of June. 1897. between
> add + o'clock n the evening, Day
was cutting grass for his horses not
knowiat. be testified that White had
given the bay to Adams, when Adams
came 10 him and ordered him to stop
Iii tie difficulty that ensued Adams
iabbed Day in the calf Of the leg ten
or dozen times. inhicting painful
and dangerous wounds. and Dav
swore the jabbing was done on pur-
pose aad Adams swore be did not do
Internationally The jury returned a
verdict OF guilty and Adams was fined
one dollar. which together with the
costs amounted to about $50 Adams
has appealed the ease to circuit court.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-24

Ian. OF Milwaukee. IS plaintiff 5 artor-
ney and L. " Howe. Of Boscobel has
been retained by the village The
case Wi. be tried at the Oetooei tern.
OF circuit court
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-24
In COURT RND Jill
Some County Prisoners -Fsnaimore Sued-h
Pitohfork Ro~ IN Mt. Hope.

Today the Grant county jail con-
taius five inmates whose crimes are d
the minor sort. The Herald reporter
in his rounds Of gathering local news
paid the jail a visit aud talked with
the men. The prisoners had been
busy washing out the jail and were
painting the iron work and floor, aud
the building is now in more whole
some condition than we ever saw il
before
The leading character in the jail Is
Hill. the Burton burglar While wait
Ing for his trial in circuit court he
seems 70 accept the situation cheer
fully and heads the cleaning-up bri-
gade.
On Saturday last the institution re-
eeived q new inmate 10 the person of
v H. Atkinson, a young farmer Of
Livingston. who has to serve l. days
fiji a,saultiug George Drinkwater
Atkinson had Drinkwater arrested
and lodged IN the county jail about
two weeks ago "a the charge 81 assault
ing hi~ (Atkiuson . two LITTLE girls,
aged and years When Drin6
water cot ont Of jail he went home to
Livingston and the two men had ali
alteration which ended in Atkinson
taking Drinkwater.s place in the coun-
Is JAIL Atkinson i 20 grieved over
the matter that he cannot sleep nor
eat He said ,the boys promised to
come down Yesterday and bail him
ont; but they have not done % yet.
He says be knows something bad on
Drinkwater and that when he gets out
~ will make it sultry for him. He
say, his grief is mostly occasioned by
the fact that he mas 10 acres Of corn
going to weeds
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-24

pated June q is97 9owS
Herman Bucarer attorney FOR Petitioner
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-06-24
Suffered Eighteen Years.
Pains Departed and sleep Came.

Mrs Julia A. Brown, OF Covfngton, Tenn,
whose husband has charge OF the electric
light plant at that place. has been great
-a1e-er. Her ailments and speedy cure
are best described by herself. as follows:
"For Is years 81 fered from nervousness
and Indigestion. tried every remedy rec
ommended By family and friends, but
could get no relief at all. Two years ago
while being treated by three local physl-
clans. Drs. Barret Maley aud Sherod, they