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The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-09-01

Our Milliner, MISS AMELIA
LINKHAw. is row iii the North
ern markets, selecting our stock
OF Millinery Goods. She will
have the assistance of an Ex-
pert Trimmer this Fall, and the
ladies Of Robson, Baden and
Columbus Counties viii be
shown the very latest STYLES and
designs Ill this department.
The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1897-09-01

! Our stock was selected with :
view of having the Latest
Styles, and we feel that we have
! as Nice, Neat and Fresh Stock
! as will be shown in Lunlberton
this Fall.
We aSh an inspection Of our StocB
aad Prices.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
The Trust. and the rnrin.

The manner IN which the Lexow
committee is stirring mp the trusts in
New York is attracting the attention
of the whole country Another sipni-
ficant fact is the number of these
organizations which are going to the
wall. The inside workings of these
organizations is. fortunately being
brought out at "a time when the col
lapse of so many of them suggests the
possibility OF stamping out all of these
combines in restraint of trade and of
industry.
1t is well esta blished now that the
only excuse which these trusts have
for existence is to prevent competition
limit production and raise prices. 1t is
also known that their members and
promoters are all ardent advocates of a
high protective tariff. 1t is argued that
a high protective triff stimulates pro-
duction and thereby makes work for
manufacturers and also cteates a mar
lSet for the farmer Then to control
production and check competition the
trusts are organized If tariff is nee
esssry to increase production, why is a
trust necessary to limit it2 Between
their arguments for tariff and their
defense fthe trusts there is sad var
lance which the ordinary mind IL not
capable of reconciling.
Evidently trusts are only possible as
profitable ventures under high pro-
tective tariff, An increase in customs
duties raises prices. The trust steps
in and by skillful combination so
manipulstes the market that these
higher prices roll into its own Golfers.
This is the actual working OF the
Whols huninsaA Ia tayl& sheAla hs
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
Wages and Trusts.

The Illinois stee! (steal?) company of
Chicago and Milwaukee has been re-
ducing the wages of all its worlxmen
under the pretense of hard times and
low prices. OF course the reduction
did not affect the men BELONGING to
strong organizations showing that it is
not protection but organization that
keeps wages up. The Illinois steel
company admits this by its action after
fooling its men for years with the pro-
lection humbug- 1t belon ged to the
steel rail pool which keep up the price
of steel, but which went to pieces this
week.
On last Tuesday SIS ton was asked
for steel rails in Chicago and in Pitts
burg the rate was S12.25 ton. Mon
day the price in Chicago was Sa6 and in
Pittsbnrg it was SIS.
A drop of IS ton as result Of the
collapse of the pool shows that these
legal robbers have not only defrauded
the people out of eight dollars a ton
on rails, but they have deliberately
defrauded their workingmen by saving
that hard times and reduced tariff
compelled them to reduce wages.
In other words these corporations
have been obtaining money under
false pretenses. And all the members
are honorable" men, many of them
pretending to be christians too
Kick them out of power by enacting
proper laws.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
SOMETHING WRONG HERE.
The Population ia McKiniey's states In
creased too Fast.

creased too Fast.
A glance at the map shows that Mr..
Bryan carried tho states comprising
the largest area Of the country and
the highest and lowest order of intel
igence. Nebraska lands at the head
for general intelligence. In the states
where the deficiency in intelligence is
prevalent. none are permitted to vote
who are unable to read or write, and
1T is therefore reasonable to assert there
was bat little if any difference among
the intelligent voters at the election.
An analysis of the vote shows some
peculiar revelations. In Vermont the
increase in population for twenty
years, from 1870 to 1890, was 1.s7O. In
the four Years ending 1896, the increase
was over $4,000 as shown by the vote.
For the same four years the vote shows
a decrease of $4,000 in New Hampshir e
brings the population of Pennsylvania
up to within 5000 of New York, and
shows an increaBe of 1000, 900 each,
more or less, III Ohio and Illinois.
600, 900 in Kentucky and $4,000 in
North Carolina. In 1895 the state-cen-
sus gave Iowa population of 2,05S. 900
but the vote increases it to 2,344, 600
an increase of ESQ, 900 in one year,
against an increase of 2S9, 900 for the
ten years ending in 1890. The Ne
braska vote was normal, representing
present population of l, ,543, lO4. That
of Kansas was also normal, showing a
population of 1875 while that
of Missouri is 454,556 above the nor
NAL.
In two states, California and Ken
tuckey, the electoral vote was divided
Bryan receiving one vote in each, leav-
ing % solid states for Bryan and %
for Mckinley.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

The question of the expediency of
municipal ownership of gas works hav-
ing again been raised in several of our
great cities, the latest facts as to Phil
adelphia's experience in this business
are interesting. 1t appears that for
the last year the receipts of the Phila-
delphia gas bureau at 81 per thousand
feet, were SO, ,155, 1856. The currentOex-
penses were S2,9s5,514. This leaves a
net profit of S17O, 443, of which S54, $50
was expended in permanent improve
ments in connection with the gas plant
and SIZES was added to the revenue
of the city available for other depart
ments In addition to this, the city
gets it's gas free to an amount which if
sold at the usual rete, would have ad-
ded TO the city treasury S63s, 49S. 1t
will have to be allowed that this ia an
altogether favora bic showing, not only
for the municipal ownership of gas
plants, but for the dollar gas az we'll.
Labor World.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

At Amsterdam, in Holland, the water
and telephone companies have been
obliged to sell out to the city within
the year, and the gas company was in
formed that at the end of this year it
will be forced to do the same. There
is also probability that the city may
control the railsoads. Warnings have
been issued to British investors inform
ing them that companies based on mu-
nicipal concessions are unsafe, because
the price offered by the city, when it
decides to take control of company,
is unreasonably low.-National Ad-
vance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
England Waking Up.

So great a farce has Parlia .uentarv
Representation (so-callcd) became that
it is perhaps, not too much to say tha {
no member of the House of Commons.
however democratic he may be in in
tention, records more than one vote in
would do were the test of the rcfcren-
dunn applied.
For eight centuries the history of the
House of Lords in one unbrol<en re-
cord of progress ARBITRARILY arrested, of
injury upon injury heaped upon the
people. And that which has been is
that which shall be, so far as this
branch of the Legislature is con-
cerned.
And how much better are we off
with the elected chamber; sometimes
facetiously called the Peoples
House?" 1t is almost wholly run by
landlords, mine-lords, railway-lords,
usurers- lawyers, professional army
and navy murders, ET HOG GENUS oMNE.
Indeed, the British Legisl ature has
at last reached a stage of senile de-
crcpitude when no cure short of crcma :
tion will be of any serious avail.
And may it not we'll be that the
Nemesis of the derclict water-logged
hulk is the initiative and referendum
of enlightened Switzerland-that here
we have that engine at the door,
which shifting once shall smite 10
more;"-Weekly Times London, Eng
land.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
To Do Away wlth Nepotl.m.

TOPEKA. Kan. Feb. 27.-''An act
concerning nepotism, and declaring
certain appointments Illegal" was
the title of a bill introduced by Repre-
sentative Taylor in the house. The
bill catches all kind of officers. It
prohibits state, county and city officers
from appointing to any position of
trust person who is kin to such off,
Ger by affinity or consanguinity within
the third degree. No person receiving
such an appointment shall receive any
compensation for any services rem
dercd.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
William p. st John.

The death of William p. st. John of
New York will be sincerely mourned
by men of all avocations in life. Mr..
st. John was president of \ national
bank in New York city when he, with
others, was selected to obtain facts and
figures to be used by New York S
chamber of commerce in com ba tting
the growth of the sentiment for bime-
tallism Mr.. St John went to work with
will, but after several months inves-
tigation, instead of having obtained
any serious argument against bimetal.
is IN he was himself converted to that
doctrine. lie became famous as the one
national bank president in New York
city who was an ardent "16 to 1 man. :
When one organized raid was made on
the federal treasury and the govern
ment was in great need of gold St John
deposited $500, 900 in gold in the sub
treasury at New York and accepted in
exchange currency. At acother time
when the demand for gold was even
greater st. John deposited $500, 900 in
gold at the sub-treasury accepting cur
rency III exchange. He made no noise
about either of these acts and when
asked by newspaper reporter why he
did it he replied: ''The government
needed the gold. had the gold Any
of Uncle Sans money is good enough
for me and while l do not ap-
prove of the administration yielding to
these organized gold raids inasmuch as
the administration has yielded l re-
garded it as my duty to go to the gov
ernment's relief to the extent of nv
ability"
Some time previous to the demo
cratic national convention at Chicago
Mr. ST. John addressed a silver mass
NEE ting held in the city of New York
On that occasion he was selected to go
to- Chicago to work for 10 to plank
in the platform. The directors of his
bank gave him the alternative of re-
signing the presidency of the bank or
refusing to go to Chicago as the repre-
sentative of the silver men. ST. John
insisted upon going and he promptly
resigned his position at the head of one
of New Yor<'s strongest banks.
In the campaign Mr.. st. John was an
active worker and his council was of
great advantage to other leaders in the
fight.
Such \ man as William P st. John
needs no epitaph. His life's history
speaks for itself. He was an honest,
manly man. Successful in business
himself he was broad enough to know
that others than he had right to live
He might have profited by the gold
standard, but he knew that that stand
ard would eventually be disastrous to
his countrymen and he abandoned sell
fish interests for the benefit of the peo
pie. e.-World Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

The Kansas metropolitan police law
has lodged the power of appointing
police boards for certain cities in the
hands of the governor. Experience
has shown that it does not work we'll
and the law is in process of repeal.
The Kansas house has voted for a
repeal by decisive ma jorlty 1t is be-
ing found everywhere that the best
way 70 govern cities is to let them gov
ern themselves The wave in the on
posite direction which passed over the
country few years ago is rapidly cb-
bing. Rocky Mountain News
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

The most painful and humiliatinR
fact in connection with the present po-
litical condition of the country is the
apparent hclplessncss of the people in
a republic, the people are Supposed to
to be the sovcreigns. They make the
laws through their representatives,
and administer them thfEnghs their
servants. This is the theory, and it is
a theory which has been sometimes
pat in practice much to the moral ad-
vantage of the average citizen. But
most of the time, and now more than
ever before, the people of this repub-
lie have little to do with choosing
their representatives and servants,
and less TO do with the enactment
and administration of the laws under
which they live-Harper's Weekly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

should be est blished throughout the
country, and each of them made the
custodian of $4,000 belonging to the
people, when the demand came for any
portion of this vast sum, or all of it, it
would be Forthcoming, to tue last nick
ell, without discount or rake-off. But
this system would compel tens of thou
sands of people, who now fatten and
thrive upon the labor of the depositors
to seed some other mode of livelihood.
For this reason the money system is
proposed TO be put into the hands of
the banks, and rob the people of many
millions of dollars annually.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
STOLE asoo.ooo.

CAIRo, Mich, Feb. 27.-E. Durand,
alias Fisk. Dickinson aud Wilson, un-
der arrest here, is wanted At Portland,
Ore, on charges of forgery, under
which he was indicted in 1894 The
prisoner admits his guilt 1t is stated
that he rictimized Oregon business
men to the extent of 5000, 600 by vari-
Gus schemes for borrowing money.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
Had Gang Hun Down.

SEATTLE, Wash. Feb. 27.-The ar
rest of Mack McAlpin, William Laurie
and Charles Hussic, the latter a l6-
year-oid boy, has led to the discovery
by the police that they have run into a
nest of counterfeiters and wholesale
thievex
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

benefit TO the people, they are rob-
bed of said benefits by the operations
of the trusts.
If there be no other actual results
from the LeXlow committee than the
exposure of the manner in which
trurts are organized and couduct their
busines and reap their profits. great
service will have been performed for
the public. With the facts officially
esta bliShed, it will become more diff
cult to enact tariff law which raises
prices for the benefit of the wealthy
few to combine in order to gain for
themselves the benefits of such legisla-
stion. The whole system is one that
should be wiped ont of existence
Rocky Mountain News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

Some years ago cry of indignation
went up from one end of the country
to the other because Henry Ward
Reecher said "a dollar day is enough
for workingman. Today many mil
lions OF them would be glad to get y
dollar day: and yet the unmitigated
god bng liars told the fools they were
getting higher wages now than ever
before. Milwaukee Advance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

1t is disgusting to note how the lead
ing daily papers of the country lament
over the fact that some society women
have by failure of investments been
obliged to earn their own living, and
yet they can with cumplacency uphold
system which forces tender women
TO toll in factories for long hours for
little pay, OF else compsls them to sell
their virtus fer the price q bread. -
SilYet Knight
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

Nothing like the horrible famine in
India has occurred during this century.
just think of i'll A tropical land. where
little shelter and no clothes are neces-
sary, where fruit grows almost spon-
taneously, which exports many millions
of bushels of grain, has many million
human beings suffering untold agony
because they are hungry. And the
same cursed British system that is
causing the horrible famine in India is
bringing misery and starvation to
many millions in our country. Yet
the poor starving wretches are led to
praise the hand that smites them in
Indian and to vote for it in America.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
senator Harris ReslEns.

Topeka. Kan, Feb. e6.-Colonel w.
A. Harris yesterday rendered his
resignation to Governor Leedy as Sem
ator from Leavenworth county in the
state Legislature, to take effect to-
day. His resignation is due to his
election as United States Senator.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

Congressman Walker, in recent
speech IN congress, estimated the en-
tire indebtedness of the United States
at S0I. ASS. .Ooo. 600. The entire gold Of
the whole world is only $4,000. .ooo. 600,
SO that our various Indebtedness il
eight times all tho gold that the wsrld
possesses.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
Two Foreign MI..Ions.

OSHKOSH. Wis, Feb. 27.--It is said
nere that Colonel John Hicks of this
-ity has received assurances that he
will receive the appointments as min
ister to Peru and that Richard Guen-
ther viii be sent to Mexico.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03
a Pioneer Dead.

MARSHALL, No., Feb. e7.- James
Blair. aged so years. died at his home
near Salt spviHgz, this county, t0zday,
He was a pioneer and highly sesptuted.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

If every depositor in national banks
in the country were to make demand
for his money to-day. these depositor-
les would all be closed tomorrow from
inability to meet the demand upon
them, Il s.csO postal sssiaes banks
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

What possibility is there of real, per-
manent reform SO. long as the natural
resources, given by a generous Crea-
tor to all mankind. are held by few?
There are some grounds for honest diff
ference of opinion as to the many mat
ters needing reform. but there can be
no doubt that so long as monopolists
own and control the coal, iron, gold,
silver aud copper mines: long as
few men own the forests: so long as one
coteire of men practically control the
petroleum output of the .nited States,
and do not hesitate to spend millions
to corrupt legislation to serve their
purposes, all reforms which permit
this sort of thing TO continue will
prove ilnpotent.-Farmers Voice Chica-
90
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

In retiring from the Office of mayor
of San Francisco a few days since,
Adolph Sutro delivered thoughtful
address. Among other suggestions
and recommendations. he Md: The
curse of our large cities are the wealthy
corporations, which own nsarIy all the
public utilities and by the unscrupu-
lous use of wealth have succeeded in
gaining control of the political man
agement of municipal affairs. If the
city owned its water, gas, electrical
and other public works as well as it's
street car lines, the saving per annum
would amount to millions and might.
in time, make it possible to dispense
with all direct taxation, besides remov-
ing the greatest source and occasion of
corruption.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

The Dime Savings bank of Chicago
which recently failed is paying its de-
positors 80 cents on the dollar. Were
an individual to thus withhold 20 per
cent of money entrusted to it's care he
would be arrested and prosecuted for
embezzlement. But corporations die
tate the laws of this country and
hence are exempt from prosecution for
what ought to be denominated a
crime-receiving money on deposit and
not returning it. A remedy lies in re-
quiring banks to give security for de-
posits. But have the people the
strength and courage to apply this
News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-03-03

The Illinois Steel company offers TO
make a,mor plate for $40 ton and
asserts that it can make money at that
figure. The proposition is a result Of
the war among the members of the late
steel trust. To carry it into effect the
Illinois Steel company will have to
put up plant costing So, 100000. The
price now being paid by the govern
ment for armor is S563 a ton. This is
S323 a ton more than what Mr. Gates
of the Illinois company says is fair
price. On 10000 tons this is So, 23O, 900.
Is it any wonder that the people are
becoming weary of the rings and
trusts?
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-26
"A Sweet Revenge.

1t is claimed that this story originated
in Cleveland, claim which NAV very
well be true, because Cleveland. and
especially the east end, has more pre.
cocious children to the acre than Bos.
ton could boast of in her palmiest DAYS
This particular precocious infant lives
on pretty cross street in that favored
locality. Not long ago she was troubled
with an annoying and persistent tooth
ache. Finally her mamma took her to a
dentist, and the dentist interviewed the
troublesome tooth.
After examining il he told her that
the best thing to do under the circum
stances was to have the tooth extracted
as it contained very large cavity, and
this was the seat of the trouble.
Bracing herself firmly in the chair,
she babe him go ahead and remove the
acher. After the operation was over she
carefully wrapped the tooth in paper
and declared she would take it home
Next day her mamma noticed that
she was an unusually good girl, and,
upon looking around, located her in a
window seat industriously poking sugar
into the cavity of the extracted tooth.
Her mother demanded the cause of this
strange proceeding.
why" she said, "Im poking sugar
in the old thing just to see it ache. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-26
Tom Paine In Paris.

IL 1902, at the Cafe Jacob, in the
Rue Jacob, an obscure cabaret in an OBJ
scure street, was frequently to be seen
the once redoubtable Thomas Paine,
then about 65. Contemporaries repre-
sent him at this date as not only fallen
upon evil days, but dirty i'll his person
and unduly addicted to spirits. That
the general appearance of the author of
the Rights of Man" was ''mean and
poverty stricken" and that he was
much withered and careworn" Rain
bach admits, and he moreover adds that
he had sunk into complete insignifi-
canoe and was quite unnoticed by the
government. But he also describes
him as fluent in speech, of mild and
gentle demeanor, clear and distinct in
enunciation and endowed with an
exceedingly soft and agreeable voice"
words which, in this connection,
somehow remind one Of Lord Popping
toms philosophic eulogy of Miss Hoy
den. Certainly they scarcely suggest the
red nose and dilapidated parsonage who
drank brandy and acclaimed against
religion in his cups with whom modern
records have acquainted u.s. - Long
mans Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-26

"That installment of your new story
was very interesting, said the editor
of the story page, "but there was one
thing about your manuscript that
failed TO understand. / thought for a
minute that you were forgetting how to
spell"
IF there is anything pride myself
ON, it is being good speller. / have Of
ten wished that had put in the time
spent in acquiring the art of spelling
words of six syllables in learning to cal
culate compound interest.
81 know that. Your reliability in
that respect made the sentence that
refer to all the more mysterious.
Maybe it was a slip of the Tyre
writer.
Possibly. 1t would have looked alb
surd if had not happened to catch it.
At the bottom Of the last page, instead
of writing, TO be continued in our
next as is customary, you put, To be
continued in our necks.
And you changed it?"
'Of course.
I'm sorry you did. wanted this
story to be something particularly real
istic. wrote it in our necks' because
that's where we writer's of this style of
fiction invariably get it from both the
publishers and the critics. detroit
Free Press.