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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24
HOMES FREE FROM TAX.

Uuder the title Free Land" Gov.
Rogers, Of Washington, has issued a
little pamphlet which evidently will
attract wide spread atten tion, though
the subject on which it treats has not
been sufficiently agitated yet to have
any organized following or show the
strength which will come to it when
ever the issue is thoroughly studied.
The proposition to exempt from tax
alton home of limited amount and
value cannot fail to impress the
thoughtful reader as move in very
different direction from what we have
witnessed as the result of past legis-
lation.
Mr.. Rogers, after outlining the con.
dition existing on an Indian reserva-
tion and showing the advantages to
the people Of having homes in
which they were absolutely secure,
proceeds to recite the good effects of
the homestead law and asks:
why not protect mans natural
right to the soil by exempting from
all taxation a home Of moderate valu-
alton to every family and prohibit it's
sale for debt? 1t can be done and this
great and most righteous reform ef-
fected, so that in due time none need
be without home; done, too without
injury or injustice to any mans per-
son or property. In this way the labor
question can be settled by allowing
each laborer to settle his own ques-
tion for himself, by gradually and fin
ally giving him an opportunity to en-
ploy himself upon his own ground. He
is then master Of the situation and
can accept employment from others
or refuse it. With him then, there is
no labor question:.
ment is offered as means of secur-
ing these rights gradually and with
due regard for present titles Any
state can a1opt it. and enforce it's pro-
isions. Properly it is a matter for
the state and not for the national
government to consider"
Sec. J.. Real estate, land and all
usual Improvements, to the value of a
sum not to exceed two thousand five
hundred dollars ($2,5o0) held, used and
occupied in good faith as homestead
by any usual and private family, the
which family shall be citizen of the
United States and the state of -, is
hereby forever exempted from all tax
alton of every kind and character in
this state. Provided, that all lands
and natural opportunities not needed
for public use or business, as certain
limited and restricted areas in towns
and cities, all mines, forests, water
falls or other natural opportunities
not available for cultivation or as
dwelling places be and the same are
hereby expressly exempted from the
provisions of this article.
Sec. 2. The right of every family
described in section one of this article
to the exclusion Of a homestead, held,
used and occupied as described in said
section one, and valued at sum not
exceeding two thousand five hundred
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24
BRYAN ELECTED.

l.. II. Wilder, our attorney elect, has
studied carefully the results Of the
recent election and given it out as his
deliberate opinion that William J.
Bryan was elected president.
Fl e bases his conclusion upon some
indubitable reasons and seems to
have made out his case from the con-
fessions and admissions OF the other
side.
AS sample of his logic we condense
the main argument as follows:
The Republicans and gold Demo-
Gratis offered as pre.election proof Of
the virtue and merit Of their cause
that if Bryan be elected sundry divers
calamities will ensue; O Financial
failures, (2) business failures, (3) re-
duction in wages, ~ strikes. (5) lock-
outs, (6) ruin of confidence, G) crises.
and (8) numberless disasters to pros
perity unprecedented in history
All of these calamities have fallen
upon the people since the election as
never before recorded. Hence Bryan
must have been elected.
The SyllOgism may assume this form
in rigid logic:
Bryan's election will cause financial
ruin.
We suffer under financial ruin.
Therefore Bryan's election.
McKinley's election will produce
confidence and prosperity.
We have neither.
Therefore Mckinley was not elect
ed.-Norton Champion.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24
HOW CHICAGO WAS CARRIED
There Can Be- Little Doubt That the
Result Was Obtained by Fraud.

The Chicago Tribune insists that
Altgeld insults the Democratic regis
tratiUn judges and clerks of the Chica-
go precincts in charging that most of
the increase of llS, ,274 in the register
ed vote Of that city was fraudulent.
Perhaps. But figures are cruel
things, says the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch. AS soon as the paralleied
registration increase in Chicago was
announced the Post-Dispatch declared
it unaccountable in view of the fact
that the last preceding Chicago school
census, in spite Of desperate padding.
had revealed stationary population.
The Tribune says that the increase
in the heavy Democratic wards and
precincts was as marked as in the Ra-
publican ones. In fact, it was more
80. When the registration was com
plete, the Democratic managers point
ed to these as evidences of coming VIC
tory. They claimed to have registe red
most of the new vote in these wards
and precincts The election returns
did not bear out their boasts 1t
would be an "insult" to question their
integrity, but from the Chicago point
OF view, would 1t not be greater Sim
suit" to say they were deceived?
Mark Hanna eSta blished himself at
Chicago with the premeditated pur-
pose Of corrupting the election in that
and adjoining states. The Australian
ballo. law made successful corruption
in blocks Of five impossible. The work
had to be done at the registration
booths, and that is where it was done,
and not at the polls.
The Tribune is right ia the assump-
tion that united Democratic resist
ance to false regis tration would have
made it. impossible. There is no es-
cape from that conclusion Insult or
no insult. the truth must be told. 1t
must be told not only to prove that
Mr.. Mckinley is not the righteously
elected president, but to arouse the
country to the menace of money
power which is sapping the founda-
tlons of free institutions.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24

dollars (f2o00) shall not be abridged OF
denied by reason of any contract.
agreement, mortgage or other instru-
ment or promise whatsoever, verbal or
written, made or executed by the pos
SeSorS OF SaiO homestead after this ar
ticle shall have been adopted in proper
form by the people of this state.
Sec. }. The legislature shall have
power to enact all laws necessary to
carry into effect the due intent and
meaning of the provisions of this ar
ticle.
The passage of this amendment
would in time restore to the people of
a state the birthright of which man
has been defrauded."
There will be many criticisms offered
in regard to any such proposition and
the people who would be benefited to
the greatest extent. will be the most
difficult to convince of it's Justice and
propriety.
Gov. Rogers has done good thing
by giving it the attention he has, and
if the state of Washington will this
winter pass law making a home, to
a limited amount, free from tax, there
will be an immigration from other To-
calities to that state which will make
1t the most prosperous commonwealth
in the union for many years to come.
AS the homes become exempt specu-
lative interests will pay an increased
tax and land will only be in demand
for homes.
For speculation it will be valueless,
but the state will become an empire
of home owners and 1T will have made
gigantic strides forward before other
states of the union see the point.
There are thousands of people in
Washington who have studied the
land question and ought to be a bic to
see that this proposition will cffectu-
ally settle the land problem and settle
it in the interests of humanity.
Homes free from tax is the true So
luton.
Organize clubs on this line and in
sist on legislation favorable to home
owners.
We have had legislation long enough
favoring pet manufacturers, corpora
tions and large spectators.
1t is time now for change and leg
islation in favor of home owners is the
change we need.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24
JOAN OF ARC.
HER WONDERFUL STORY
ICONTINUATION,

| From Tom Watson Histoi Of France.l
/ will submit to the church."
At once they read her a short form of
| recaDtation, contained in six or eight
lines Of writing, and asked her to sign
| it.
II cannot read nor wrte," she said .
The secretary Of the English king
| took her hand and guided it to wr te
| her name.
1t was base trick. What she signed
| was not the simple form Of abjuration
| as read to her, but was confession Of
the long list of impossible and absurd
| charges made against her at the trial.
She was ordered buck to prison.
The English soldiers were enraged
at her apparent escape. They even
threw stones at the judges.
The English Earl of Warwick COM
"Do not fear, my Lord" said one
Of the judges, "we shall soon have her
again.
The judges went into Joan's cell,
| compelled her to take off her male
clothing and to put on woman's cloth
Ing in their presence.
| She spent the next two days in tears,
amid the insults of her jailorS, three
of whom staid in her room at night.
Sunday morning she begged the
| guards to unchain her ankles that she
might rise from her bed and dress.
Undoing the chains, they took away
her woman's dress and threw her the
mans suit she formerly wore.
''Sirs. you know that | am forbidden
| to wear that" pleaded Joan.
Until noon she lay undressed, beg
ging for the clothes they had taken
| from her. But in vain.
! Then natures necessity compelled
! the misera BILE child to rise and put on
the dress which she knew would be
taken as proof that she had relapsed
into heresy and guilt.
to ensnare to doom pure and ten.
| der woman!
SAT once the soldiers spread the
news.
''She has relapsed!" was the cry.
Think how unutterably she must
have snffered-aS woman, as Chris
| tian, as a prisoner as martyr!
| Her judges came to see her next
| day.
'Forlorn, weeping, bruised and dis
| figuredn'
Thus they found the heroine of
France.
| LET me die at once rather than suf-
fer longer in this prison." she prayed.
II have never done anything against
| God or the faith, whatever you have
made me revoke. / did not under
stand what was in that deed Of abjur-
| alton"
But her fate was sealed now.
The judges all agreed that she had
relapsed into her heresy and must be
| burnt.
Gravely the Monks showed her the
dreadful reality that faced her.
She wept piteously and tore her
| hair.
"Oh, appeal to God against the
wrong done to mel"
They wanted her to "retract' again.
But she yielded no more.
Master Peter, where shall l be to-
night?" asked the pale, anguished
lips, speaking to one Of the monks who
seemed to look kindly on her.
"Have you not good hope in God?"
he asked.
"Ah, yes; and by Gods grace l shall
be in paradise tonight!
Let the judges go-and come nc
more.
! The record is made up--made un for
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24

Fusion in this state is not only
dead, but stinketh. TO be fusionist
is to be an internal. impious, atrccious,
nefarious and diabolical ms strume Mt
in the hands OF plutocracy. brazil
Und OrthonOmiC Era.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24

The restoration OF confidence Incl
dent to the election Of Mckinley
seems to have strange effect upon
national bank officers. They are sui.
Gliding at the rate one per day. We
suppose they die for joy.-Ex.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24

The Rings steal hundreds ~ miIl-
Ions annually from the People. One
tenth Of the plunder IL used to con-
troll the daily press ana buy up the
leaders Of the two old parties, to
Garken intelligence and make the
voters poor. blind and incapable Of
eelf-defense. Strike before 1t II too
late.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-02-24

We will send a copy of Bryan's
Book Free, to any one sending us
Five yearly Subscribers.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1897-07-16
KEYTESvILLE. MISSOURI. FRIDAY. JULY I6. 1897

by justice No. I, and in the afternoon
justice No. 2, with no more legal au-
tho1ty, tries the case without 4 so.i-
tary witness aud disposes of it without
fining the prisoner OIe oEzf for the
benefit Of our county,
Second, How can any jAil-keeper
disregard the commitment OF justice
No. and regard the commitment
issued by justice No. 4.
Third, Can any prosecuting attor-
ney in this state dispose Of a case,
which was turned over to the grand
jury, before that body has taken ac-
ton thereonl
Fourth. Which justice is entitled to
his fcess Let US hear.
CHAs. w. STEIMAS.
Justice Of the Peace Bowling Green
Township.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1897-07-16

ties for sins against the nature tf
things
The same inexorable law follows u
into the family relation. The pareu'
becomes an example to the child. We
cannot escape the law If We would
The child naturally and inevitably
looks to the Eather and mother as its
examples. They watch and initiate
unconsclously, the general bent of our
characters. We may deceive others.
We cannot deceive our children
Their natures are like ours, and If we
would not harm those natures we must
walk IN accordance with the law of
our own being. II we would be
agreed with them we must be agreed
with that which brings our own high
est good.
The very same law applies to our
walk with our fellow-men. We are
not independent Of them because such
independence is opposed to the nature
of things. To be agreed with them
because of this law we must look after
their interests as well as cur
own. love thy neighbor as
thyself" IS not al arbitrary
command. IL was announced be-
cause 1t accords with ou, own na-
ture because the living by 1t Will
bring both to us aud to our fellows
the highest happiness. Aud Its viola
ton Will bring disagreemcnss aud
s,Iifes among mankind The very
highest earthly incentives, then, are
found for Christian lile-for the hfe
that Christ led, who alone Of all the
men who ever lived on the earth ever
yielded perfect obedience to this per-
feet Law.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1897-07-16

EDITOR COURIER My attention
was called to an article in last weeks
COURIER, state OF Missouri against
Henry Hopson (,houh be Hopkins)
Charged with house-breaking and as
sault on VIM. Asbury, a Missouri
township negro. Who was tried before
Justice DeMoss Of Keytesville tor dis
turning the peace and sentened to two
days in the county jail for the ofense
and FIVE days in Jail for costs
Nov the facts about this care are
as follows Last November, Wm.
Asbury appeared before me and made
IN affidavit staung that one Henry
Hopkins broke into and entered his
dwelling after night and assaulted and
beat him and his wife with intent to
kill. A state warrant was issued, but
Hopkins. Ike the Kansas auship that
stole the farmers COW, Immediately
disappeared from view until a short
time since. when the constable o.
Bowling Green township. knowing his
whereabouts, went over to haIsi.aIl.
Saline county, and fouud the man in
question aud brought him back and
lodged ain IN jail until Juy 7th, the
day set for hearing the defendants
case. On that day Hopkins was
brought before me and pleaded mo;
guilty." Mr.. CoiIet, the prosecuting
examined the Witnesses and
asked the court to turn the case over
70 the grand jurv and said he vas pos
tive felony had been committed and
that Hopkins would land N the peni-
tendiry. The justice court after duly
the evideuce pr1 aud con,
was OF the same opinion and he'd the
prisoner for the grand jury Eos further
action and committed him 70 Jail To
await the action of that body.
Now. IT seems, by some special act
Of the legislature or other~iSe. in the
afternoon Of the same day Hopkins
was taken from jail after being CON-
miiied, rs above stated, and brought
before Justice DeMoss for the same
oifense- But now. Lord Hopkins
thought he had better plead guilty to
disturbing the peace Of the family Of
Asbury rather than risk hrs health in
ne hands Of the grand jury.
BY reading the above statements
my one would come to the conclusion
hat country justices must he small
potatoes, and Of the iguoramus vari-
,ty, 4" OF else there is something wrong
n Egypt WIZ some legal IA. h. cf
county please explain
First, How 4 case can be tried in
lried IN the forenoon and disposed OF
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1897-07-16

Alex Cover VS.. Charlton County
Farmers Mutual FIRE Insurance Co,
debt; jud gment by agreement for
plaintiff for 81 900 with six per cent
interest from ttis date.
George w. Cunningham ct al VS.
Arthur Cunningham, ct al, partition:
order of publication for Edna May
Bessie L., Hattie L., John, John F.
Madge and Josephine O. Cunningham
minor defendants, in Charlton COUNT,
RepH6lilan, and cause continued.
Robertson Moore VS.. Lynus Gheins
ejectment; transferred to circuit cour,
at Key tesville as per stipulation filed.
l.. S. Curry VS.. Equitable Loan ant
Investment Co., Injunction; continued
c. O. Houston VS.. Gus. Emerich ei
al, suit to quiet tide, p. ID. Mitche.
appointed guardian al Hlem for Gus
Edward, Bertha and Albert Emerich
MINOR deffndzntS
L. ]. Moore vs.. b F. Moore, debt
defendant permitted to file answer
and by agreement cause is referred t
]. c. Crasley to hear and decide SAINT
and report At the next term.
Hettie v. Elliott VS.. Des Moines
Life Insurance Co., debt trial by Jury
and verdict for plaintiff in the sum OF
$5,SI2-5o. A large amount of inter
est was taken in this case md every
inch of the legal ground was ably con-
listed by the opposing counsel. The
plaiutif was awarded a verdict fer
the full amount sued for, with six per
interest, the original amount being
S. 600, the face value of a life insur-
snce policy, held by plaintiffs daugh-
ter, Miss Coda Elliott, in the defend
ant company. Miss Coda Elliott
died by her own hand at her home,
n ar Salisbury, in March, 1896 She
held two other HE insurance policies,
oiatly amounting to $ra, 900, $4,000
of which was carried IN the Massa-
chusetts Benefit Life association. and
the other for $4,000 In the Safety
Fund Life association OF onroe City,
No. Mrs. Eliot, has also brought
suit on these last named policies. The
attorneys in the case just tried are:
1. II. Kinley of Kansas City, A. w.
ohnson of Salisbury an | Hammond
& Son for plaintiff, and Stockwell &
Lamb Of Salisbury and Maj. K. B.
Bristow and w.. T. Ragland of Monroe
City and A. Fl. Evans Of Des Moines,
Iowa, for defendant
Same VS.. Massachusetts, Benefit Life
sam :; change of venue
granted on application of defendant
to circuit court of Howard county,
Mo. Costs of this term taxed against
Same VS.. Safety Fund Life associa-
tion, same; same.
CRIMINAL CASES.
State OF Missouri VS. Burl Jones,
grand larceny; grand jury returns a
true bill. Defendant "; ives formal
arraisnment and pleads net guilty.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1897-07-16

Cause continued on application of
and at cost of defendant. lones rs
the young man who was in
dicted for the theft of 900 pounds of
wool from G. B. Hurt, farmer living
seven miles southeast of KeytesyiIIe.
on The night of June 2Ist 1907.
Same vs.. James Lewis, felonlous as.
Sault with intent to kill; grand Jury re-
turns true bill. Defendant valves
formal arraignment and pleads Gull v.
Punishment assessed at two years In
the penitendary. James Lewis is the
salisbury negro who kno cked lanes
Pearon, COL. on the head with large
lub or stick OF wood on the night Of
the 9th of last May.
The special grand jury, empaneled
tuesday, adjourned Wednesday mo,n-
ing after having returned six indict-
ments as follows: Burl Jones for
grand larceny, Hollis Hayes, col, for
petit iarceny; James Lewis, COL, for
feiooious assault with intent to kia,
and three indictments against Robt.
w. Green for rape. These three in-
dictments against Green are in addi-
ion to two indictments of the same
character. one Of which was returned at
keytesvllle and the othtr at Salisbury.
1t will be remembered that the de-
fendant was tried on the in iictment
at Keytesville during the last April
term of circuit court. his trial resi- It.
ing In hung jury, which stood nine
for conviction and three for acquittaI-
The three indictments returned against
Green at the present July term of cir
cult court charge the defendant with
having ravished Grace Green (his
daughter) on the following dates. On
Sept. 18th, 1893, on May 10th, I8e4,
and on March Ist, 1896. 1t IS
alleged by the prosecution that as a
result of two of these last three crirni-
nal assaults, viz: On Sept. 5th, 1893,
and on March Ist. 1896, Grace Green
became a mother. The defendants
attorneys say that they intend to an
swer ready for trial in each case, and
are putting on bold front, posing as
though their client was was an injured
innocent and victim of persistent,
outrageous persecution.
Same VS.. Hollis Hayes, petit lar
ceny; grand jury returns a true BILL
Defendant valves formal arraignment
and pleads not guilty. Hayes is a
dusky denizen of Salisbury, aged I6
years, and is charged with the theft of
a silver watch belonging to c. F. War
son of that city.
The grand jury failed to find true,
bills against the following parties and
the defendants were all discharged,
Everett Bennett, charged with felo-
nious assault with large knife on L
A. Vanderford, near Brunswick, ON
the 73rd of last May; Dan'I Williams,
COL, who was in the tolls for felonious
assault on George Ball. another negro.
with pair of brass knucks on the
2Ist of last May at Keytesville, and
Jos Fristoe, COL, who had been 10 the
county jail since the 3rd of July await
ing the action of the grand jury for
assault with intent to commit rape ON
Missouri Harris, I4-year-old girl,
the daughter of Cliff Harris, COL. of
near Shannondale on Sunday, June
? 9TH. An account of the attempted
outrage was published in the last issue
of the COURIER.