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Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Rev. Nor.
man Skinner, psstor.-Morning worship at
IL o'clock; subject OF service-'They went
to their own Company" evening worship
at 7:s0; subject-"The Mystery OF the
Gentiles." Sunday school at 9:46 q. m.
Society Of Christian Endeayor at 6:45 pm.
A cordial welcome to all people having no
other church home.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

FIRST M. e. CHURcH.-9:45 am, Sunday
school review; II am, Preaching by the
pastor: Topic-"How can wa grieve the
Holy Spirit" 1915 p. M, Class meeting
Q pm, Union children's temperance meet.
ing, held by Mrs. Denny; $3.50 p. m, Ep-
worth league; Topic-"Prayer for Mission
aries" Bro. Norton, leader; s pm, Uaion
Gospel temperance meeting in the Baptist
church.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

Chief Justice Smith sis at homo from
Santa Fe.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27
PLACES OF WORSHIP.

WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CHuRcH.-First
mass At $3.50: second mass at 8; high mass
at 10; Sunday school and Benediction at ..
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27
Metropolis Miscellany.

Walter Dubree is unwell.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

Juan Clancy feels pale and looks sick
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

L,OR SALE-At a bargain, four corner
a residence lots on the hill. facing south
and east. Inquire Of Wise q Hogsett. 9ltf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

EoR sALE-At a bargain, e2k varas;
Il within a mile OF city, on Hot Springs
road. Inquire OF Wise & Hogsett. 94,tf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

EyOR sALE-At q bargain, 800 acres on the
Jann Dlos; suitable for sheep raising.
Inquire OF Wise & Hogsett. 9lsff
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

E0RsALE-Canary birds, 81. so to So; Mrs.
A. j. w. Pearce, Railroad avenue. 169-6t
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

InOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-For Las We
IL gas lots, 800 acres OF imber land; with
In 80 miles OF Houston, Texas. Inquire OF
Wise & Hogsett. ea-tf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

UyANTED-A COED, round horse, weigh
w ing ! 900 poun 8, o. good appear
ance, for Iiaht delivery wagon. Wheeler &
McHendrie, New Optic hotel.
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

nor HENT-Five-room houss on 1ildol
4, %ltreet; enquire Of New Op ic. l2l-st
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

EOR RENT-A four. room house, unfur
~ nished apply TO Graaf n nowles. lle.tf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

dor SALE-At a bargain, three corner
~ residence lots fenced; sidewalk plenty
OF large shade and fruit trees; water laid
on lots. Inquire OF Wise & Hogsett. gitf
Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

VXTANIED-s2. 900. or. more, two TO I'VE
w years, s per cent. interest, on Inn.
proved city real estate, wei rented and
East Las vegas, N. N. l08-tf
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dor SALE. Native box elders, for shade
trees; nifty cents up; apply corner I'll
den and Eleventh streets. 1000
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Republican COMMITTEE for the Fourth
Ward.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
THE BRADLEY MARTIN BALL
SCORED.

MiddletCwn. n. Y, Feb. Is, 1851
The Rev. David Evan, rector Of Grace
Episcopal Church, In this city, and
formerly rector of church in New
York, severely criticises the argu-
ments used in support Of the Bradley
Martin ball.
In his sermon last evening the rec
tor declared:-"The miserable crea-
ture who spends his weeks wages in
liquor instead Of giving it to his wife
to buy the neceSsaries of life puts
money in circulation. The bank clerk
who applies the savings Of contidng
depositors to his own illicit pleas ures
puts money in circulation. The de-
bauchee who filings his gold recklessly
into a hundred immoral channels puts
money in circulation.
ITO seek to defend extravaganza Of
any kind on such grounds is no better
than what has been called an ami
able sophistr and a monstrous i'm
pertinence,' seeing that the gambler
and the roue, equally with the shoddy
millionaire who in time OF profound
social unrest and general poverty is
am bilious to revive in Democratic
America the worst tradition Of VauX-
hall, can plead in eXtenuation of their
vices that they too put money in Cir.
culatiOn, ~
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
MUNICIPAL GAS PLANTS.

The special committee OF the Board
of Aldermen appointed to inquire in
to the question Of the municipal own
ership Of gas plants held its public
session in the Council Chamber Of the
Board yesterday and listened to many
theories by learned men. The Alder
men did not take great deal of in
terest in the theories. They expected
more likely developments ii the COM
mittee gets $4,000 from the Legisla-
ture to Investigate the gas trust.
Professor Goodnow Of Columbia Col
lege believed the city should have
power to rescind gas franchises at
will, in order to break down monop.
Olies.
He compared the methods in vogue
in other European cities with the lib.
erty given the gas companies in New
York. In Germany, he said, ASP cities
owned their gas plants, and in Eng
| land forty one per cent of the cities
and twenty-one per &C Mt of the towns
and villages. La 1889 the towns and
cities Of England received as their
share from the profits Of gas plants
| IS, OOo,OJ0.
Bolton Hall argued in favor OF
municipal ownership. He knew, he
said, that the gas companies of the
| city are making enormous profits.-
Boston Herald.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
COERCION BY EMPLOYERS.

l call the attention of your honora-
BILE body to the coercion of employees
by corporations and other employers
of labor, with view to influencing
their political action. Such coercion
raises a question more serious and
more vital than the money question,
the tariff question or any other econ
onical question, hover important, di-
viding political parties. The question
it presents is whether a free popular
government shall be main tanned In
America. II coercion, moral or phys
ical, such as we witnessed In the last
campaign, Is to 60 unrebuked. govern
ment by the people is nearing It's end
and we are entering on an era OF gov
ernment by an olgarchy OF opulent
employers. 1 recommend the enact
ment of such laws as wi II not only pro-
tect the voter in the free exercise Of
his franchise, but will make it peril
Gus for any man to interfere with this
right.-Gov. Stevens of Missouri.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
THE ANDERSON BILL.
Who Is Responsible il 1t Is Knocked
Out by the Courts and the Rail-
road Lands are Not Taxed.

Out by the Courts and the Kali
road Lands are Not Taxed.
If the Anderson bill Is knocked out
or held in suspension in the courts
during the next campaign, the Repub-
lican party will not be held guiltless,
and the heaviest blow will fall In the
Sixth Congressional district.-Bede's
Budget.
The only ground on which there is a
pretense of claim that the Anderson
bill will not be sustained is that Frank
Day was de facto senator during the
the legislative session Of 1895, when
the bill was passed by the constltu-
tional majority on his vote. But this
is a weak and idle contention. for the
resolution unseating Senator Day de-
clareS that his seat was vacant from
January 1st, 1896, and so annuls his
vote for the Anderson bill. 1t Is an
express dictum Of the senate, OF which
the courts must and will take cognz-
ance, and it is so intended to be by
the land grant railroads whose vul-
lures of the lobby had more influence
with a dozen or more senators than
did their obligations and duty to up
hold the validity of the Anderson law.
The fact is notorious and 1t Is merely
palaver and sham to attempt to
whitewash it. The Anderson law is
dead, and those who are responsible
for it will be forced by the people to
ans wer for the consequences.-Alb bert
Lea Standard.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
FOR THE UNEMPLOYED.

We are in receipt of Senator George
Campbell's bill No. So entitled, IAN
act to enable cities and townships to
employ idle labor and to pay for the
same in treasury notes; authorizing
counties to issue said notes and pro-
viding for their redemption by the
state of Kansas" and have examined
it closely. 1t appears to US that
should it become law it will place
Kansas far in the lead Of her sister
money supply and furnish our people
with labor, to the benefit Of all.
The meas ure has been reported ia
vorably from the judiciary committee
with recommendation that 1T be pass
ed. 1t has been carefully drawn with
view to making it constitutional,
and while it is not all the author
would like to have it we're our consti
tuition different, yet it is a measure
that would afford great relief to the
people.
The bill provides for the issue of
county bonds In small denominations
81, 81, 50, 81 and SIS res pectively,in con-
venient form for circulation, bearing
per cent interest, payable at the ma
turity at the office of the state treas
urer at Topeka, Kas., and exempts
them from taxation. Said bonds to
| be issued by the county commission
ers Of the several counties in sums not
to exceed per cent Of the assed .valu-
alton of the property of said counties
in any one year, and provides farther
| that the total amount issued by any
! county shall neYereXceed 4 per cent of
! the assessed valuation.
These notes shall be signed by the
board of county comm issiOners on the
part Of the county and by the state
treasurer on the part OF the state.
The bill goes into detail as to manner
and form, making them Of the same
force and effect as county bonds now
are. with the additional security Of
being backed by the state.
They are merely notes issued by the
| state (the same as notes now issued
and circulated ty the national banks)
upon which tue people pay per cent
per annum to the state instead of
per cent to the banker for their use.
These notes will not be legal tender
for all debts, neither are the bank
notes, but they will circulate the same
as bank notes without profit to the
banker.-Ft. Scott Lantern.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03

the place of the slave, and the Plutoc-
racy. of which Senator Miller has al
ways been a consistent champion, Is
the patrician slave owner.
But give H. J. his private grave
yard that his last repose may not be
disturbed by any anarchistic Populist,
and on the principle that the Devil
should have his due, let us thank the
honorable senator for what he does in
the cause Of humanity. even II inspir-
ed by selfishness or forced at the point
of the bayonet.
Taking into account these two ex-
amples Of the power of organizations,
let US get together in solid phalanx
and demand our just rights, and force
the powers that be to recognize US,
and not sit tamely down like lot Of
sniveling, whining. craven towards,
without courage to make an effort to
help ourselves. L. @. LONG.
MAGNOLIA Mimi
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
PROTECTIVE FRAUD.
Tariff on Wheat and Cotton-Tom
WatsOn's Views.

The movement to get a tariff put
upon cotton beats anything that the
well supplied curiosity shop Of polite
al humbuggery has ever yet offered to
humbug-loving people. The cotton
of the United States meets in foreign
markets the cotton Of all the world.
The price Of the cotton sold abroad
determines the price Of that sold at
home. Is it not perfectly clear to our
farmers that tariff on cotton is
mockery and a snare? How can the
American congress frame tariff law
which will keep the cotton of other
countries from competing with ours
in England, Germany, Holland and
France?
American tariffs are laid for the
purpose Of giving American goods the
monopoly Of the American market.
This can be done and, practically is
done for our manufactured products.
The manufacturers Of England, Ger
many, France, Holland, etc, can only
compete with ours at dlSadvan tage.
Whatever the tariff duty on foreign
goods may be, is the disadvantage the
foreign manufacturer labor under
when he brings his goods here to sell.
To the extent cf that duty against
foreigners, the American manufacture
er has an advantage.
| This advantage he enjoys at the ex-
| pense OF the American consumer OF
| his goods. We must pay the Ameri-
can mandatory his own price and
| lose the benefit of competition be-
| tuoop hi m pd fnrniOn "a pifa1
But how can this principle apply to
cotton and wheat? We raise more
than we need, and we are compelled
to seek markets abroad. The cotton
and wheat we sell abroad reacts upon
that we sell at home, and regulates its
| price. How then can an American
tariff influence the price OF cotton and
wheat in foreign markets? 1t is nom
sense.
The scheme is TO get the agricultur.
al classes tied on to our Internal tariff
system. and made parties to the crime
Of class-legislation.
What do VIC care for the beggarly
boat load Of Egyptian cotton which
the protectiOniSts have been fetching
over here for the last few years? The
$780, 900 sacks OF Egyptian cotton has
no more to do with the price OF our
9,OOo, 900 bale crops, than the Wander
ing Jew had to do with the Bradley.
Martin ball.
L our people think it good states
manship to enact laws shutting off
the competition Of foreign capital
against American capital, let them
support the policy with their votes.
But they ought not to allow them
selves duped by the mokcry Of tar
i'll on cotton.
Let us be wrong. If you please, but
don't let us be ridiculous.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03

their vices instead Of their virtues.
They know this: and they know also,
that social rupture shat would trans
form you into miiliOnaires at their ex.
pense would be the greatest possible
calamity. For these men, selfish as
they are, have necessarily-withOu
intending or desiring to do sO-bene-
fitted the race throughout by their
enterprise. They have built railroads,
and made the different races of men
one nation. They have utilized your
dumb energies to serve mankind in
serving themselves They have used
you as machines, employing your serv-
ices at the lowest cost compatib BILE
with the preservation of your lives
and your muscular power, until at
last they can supplant you with the
cheaper material of wood and iron.
And all because they could do it-be-
cause you have permitted it.
They have done you but simple JUS
tice, blindfolded though it were. You
were and are as Wor thless as the dust
under your feet, except for the power
Of physical contraction, extension and
fiexion of your muscles. You ,riW not
think. The moment one of you begins
to do this, he ceases to belong to that
class to whom these words are ad-
dressed. Your faces are prone to the
ground to which your labor-wOrn
bodies are rapidly fastening. You
plod and delve from day TO day, never
casting upward an admiring look save
when your masters, with liveried at
tendants, splash mud upon you from
from their carriage wheels as they
pass in naughty splendor by.
What are you going to do? Your
muscles-the only part of you that
thinks when the lash Of oppression is
laid upon you-the only part or you
your master ever nesded-haye been
largely supplanted by the more econ
omical appliances Of machinery. Are
you willing any longeE to cumber the
ground as useless lumber, or do you
mean to come up to the dignity of tull
grown manhood among your brother
tollers, who, physicply, mentally and
morally-body, soul and spir.t-are or
| ganiZlng for rself-prOtection?
There only two ways for you. Your
muscles are superseded. The demand
for them becomes con tinualiy more
limited. The worlds call on all mer
now is for brain. 1t asks you to think
that through it may develop the finel
and as yet uneXplored forces OF true
manhood. If you neglect or refuse tt
respond to this call, there remains bu
the other alternative; to die, and give
place to a race OF men who are suscep
tible to the noble impulse of more
| retined ace
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
SOME SENSIBLE REFLECTIONS
Be Tolerant of Everything But
Treachery.
Robert Schilling Gives Some Good Advice to
the Jealous Men Who are Tearing
Each Others Hair Out.
milwaukee Advanced

lMllWaukee ADVANCE
Anumber Of good Populists through
out the union are getting into state
OF mind without any good cause or
reason.
The president Of the Reform Press
Association, Paul Vandervoort, called
the meeting Of that body to meet at
Memphis, Feb. %. Then A. Rozelle,
the secretary, got out call for a
meeting on the same day at Kansas
City. and j. A. Edgerton, secretary Of
the National Executive Committee,
called a conference of Popuiists at the
same time and place and expects
Chairman Butler TO indorse it. who re-
fuses to do SO however.
AS result there is quite breeze
blowing In some of the papers and
they are turning the thing into a row
between the fuSiOnists and the middle
Of the readers.
Now boys remember there is no elec-
tion OF any general importance this
year; that there is lots of educational
work to do and we have got to do it.
Don't fire at one another but turn
your editorial guns on the common
enemy.
The average fool voter still believes
that confidence, which was to appear
with the advance agent of prospe rity,
has only missed the train and will
surely arrive when Mckinley gets to
to White House depot.
Now what's the use of conferences
and conventions? What good are they
going TO accomplish unless it be to
give few men chance to vent their
spleen on personal enemies.
So let up on your raising row with
others who believe as you do, but
think they can get to the goal little
sooner by taking different road from
yours. All roads, you know, lead to
Rome, and If one Of the boys thinks
he can get there little sooner by
taking another road, don't stand and
swear at him. SWearat the fools who
are not in the road at all or that are
going in the wrong direction.
Let us all work together harmoni-
ously and pleasantly agitate for prin-
ciple until the next election comes
around. Then let US get together
and settle on the best road, but at the
same time let us be very careful who
we put in to drive the team
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03

this costly victory than they were
faced with an unexpected condition or
affairs in Oregon, where they felt sure
of electing gold senator. Under the
constitution of that state, tWO-thirdS
of the members elected are necessary
to organize the legislature. Over one
third Of the members were POpulists.
SO until this hour the legislature Of
Oregon has never been organized. II
this deadlock continues then the Re-
publicans will be short one vote. This
caused Hanna and his agents to turn
to South Dakota, where they made
desperate efforts to deadlock the leg
islature of that state, and to prevent
an election in the event they could
not elect Picker, the Republican eau
Gus nominee. Their purpose was to
offsett the Oregon situation and thus
control the organization of the next
Senate. In short, the desperate bat
tie which they fought in North Caro-
lima was transferred to South Dakota.
These significant facts began to be re-.
allied by the contending factions of
the South Dakota legislature. and
they had determined to get together
and elect a successor to Senator Kyle,
before Hanna and his agents could
make further headway in their
schemes. This would have been done
within the next few days, but it seems
that Hanna and his emissarles, learn
ing this, and knowing that it was i'm
possible to prevent the election Of a
FopuliSt, threw their solid support to
! Senator Kyle, trusting in some way to
| profit by disSensiOnS that might be
raised in Populist ranks. OF course it
was great surprise to the PopuliSt is
| in Washington to learn that Kyle had
been elected by the help Of solid Re-
publican vote. The Associate Press
charges that Senator Kyle got these
votes under pledge to help the Re
publicanS reOrganize the Senrte, but
that he was left free to vote for free
silver. We can not believe this. In
Kyle should vote to help the Republi-
the gold men in charge of every com
mittee, and then neither he nor any
one else would ever get chance tC
vote for any measure in the interest
of the people. No such measure could
ever be passed through any commit
tee No one here believes that any
secret deal has been made between
Senator Kyle and the Republicans,
though all admit that the affair does
not look we'll on its face. The chances
are, however, that the Republicans, in
desperation, threw their votes to Kyle
SO as to claim that they had some
hand in deciding the result before the
Populist factions could get together
The Peoples party has gained two
| valuable additions in the election o
Senator Heitfeldt of Idaho and Sena
tor Turner, of Washington.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-03
HARD WORDS.
Willing Slayes of the Nineteenth
Century.


Century.
THE following article is from the
pen of Helen Wilman, and appeared
many years agO-tirst in the Irish
World, then in the Chicago Express
when she was engaged in writing up
on labor reform. 1t fits as we'll today
as 1T did the day it was written.
know the slave driver, and l know
the slave; and | mean to say that the
slave driver, selfish as he is, is gen.
tleman in comparison with the slave.
There is nothing in all the world SO
ignoble as the slave. He is in his true
position as slave so long as he will
ingly bears his servitude. He is fit for
nothing else.
Why should 1 care that his back is
bent under the burden Of another?
Why should l be distressed at his
wrong? His wrongs are his just due
so long as he bears them in tame and
cowardly submission. What would be
the wrongs of a freeman are for him
just deserts.
mean to speak the truth from this
time on. l have cOddled the slave and
called him man when l know there
was no manhood in him. | will do so
no longer. On the contrary, hereaf-
ter, l mean to assert everywhere and
on all occasions that he who wears
fetter needs it; that he who bears a
kick deserves it.
wash my hands of spirits that are
so mean and SlaviSh as to take part In
the justice that is crushing them
down. Moreover, l say that the bent
back of the toiler, the horny hands,
the coarse, distorted features, and the
confession Of his own sins in abet-
ting the sins Of his master!
| desire to speak face to face with
you-the slaves of the nineteenth CEN
tury; 10 tell you how l have seen every
effort made by philan throphists for
your benefit fall fruitless to the
ground because your own base influ-
ence was against it.
There are labor papers working for
you for whose support you have never
contributed the cost OF plug of to-
bacc0 or a drink of whisky. l haYe
seen more and worse than this-that
you have no respect for any man but
the one that kicks you. and no regard
for any power but that which tramples
you down. You are the obs Stacle-the
only obstacle-in the way of race
emancipation.
Your masters are handful; you are
| legion. Your masters are intelligent
many of them considerate and just,
as the world goes; and though they
will not voluntarily relax their selfish
grip on the good things Of life, not
one Of them would dare to refuse you
justice if you had - in you to take a
brave and manly stand for your rights.
But you are more befooled by the
| far-off dazzle Of their gold than they
are by it's possession. They have sane
moments, when they reflect how their
money has been gathered at your ex-
pense-moments when they almost
wish that the system which fosters
robbery and makes gold king, which
puts in allegiance every noble impulse
could be changed for some better
and more righteous way.
But you-you adore the system. You
doff the ragged cap and bend the serv-
lie knee before the baser part of these
mems nature. and your only desire for
liberty is for the sake OF emulating z