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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09

The usual symptoms Of unrest in the
labor world are apparent. On one side
the employees are resisting proposed
reductions in wages, and on the other
hand employers are resisting demands
for increase The United Wood Work.
ers of the States of Minnesota, Michi.
gan, the Dakotas, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin will make organized resistance to
the efforts of the proposed sash and
door trust to reduce wages and out
gut. The Cleveland tin plate makers
are preparing to resist demands OF
their men for better pay. These are
ameng the evidences of returnins
rrosperity.-Topeka Advocate
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
WORKERS OR OILERS.
WHO MADE THIS NATION AND
ITS WEALTH?
The Way In Which Idleness Fattens
Upon Distressed Industry Equality
of Opportunity Must BE Restored
Warning to the Plutocrats.

Who made this nation, anyhow?
Who built its homes, from its lowliest
hut to its grandest palace? Who made
Its settlements, from it's smallest viii
lage to its mishtiest city? Who built
its railroads that span with glittering
threads of steel this vast continent
and interlock as with fraternal bands
the various states this, the great re-
public Of all time? Who felled the for
est and turned the virgin sod? Who
drew from natures storehouse and
transformed to meet the needs of men
all that furnishes necessities or COM
forts, or supplies the luxurious de-
mands of advancing civilization? Did
islers do it? Did spectators do it?
Not much. These are they who toll not,
neither do they spin. These are they
who gather where they have not
strewn, who reap where they have not
sown, who get while they do not pro-
duce, who curse and burden those who
toll and bless them not. These are the
classes who, since history has chroni-
cled the doings of men, have, in every
land and in every cline, enslaved those
who fed and clothed them and made
them all they are. These are they who
have wrecked and ruined the mighty
empires and republics of the past whose
bleaching bones strew the highways OF
human progress. Today nine-tenths Of
our people suffer in this land of bound
less resources, because idle greed and
sham moneyed aristocracy, jealous Of
It's power, entrenched behind laws
made by themI elves, have stolen from
Gods children their birthright to nat
ural opportunities. How long are the
many to toll like slaves while the few
revel in Injuries unearned? How long
are those who add nothing to advanced
civilization to live like princes on the
proceeds of your toll, while you and
your families struggle in poverty? Il
is time for the common citizen to study
up. Idlers amass wealth by only a few
methods. One is land speculation. One
is interest taking. One is by railroad
ownership. One is by telegraph owner
ship. One is by owning water works.
One is by owning light plants. One is
by owning street car lines. One is by
owning gas works. One is by monopo-
lizing lines of business which should
be open to all. No individual or cor
poration should do any of these things.
Private individuals and corporations
formerly owned the mail system and
taxed the people what they pleased
for carrying mail. They al so owned the
public road and taxed everyone who
Travelled. They owned the school sys-
tenn and none could get an education
except the well-to-do. Part Of these
systems have been changed, to the
great advantage of the public. The
rest must be changed before justice will
reign supreme. We must be entirely
free from public debts. and no individ-
ual or corporation should have the
power to tax the people on these neces-
stiles of civilization.-The Educator.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
And He Was a Good Man, Too.

My lord Fat Purse was a very good
man,
He had houses and lands galore,
And with each new day he had some
new plan
For aiding the needy and poor.
He gave to the churches, he gave to
the homes,
He gave to the tramp by the way.
Yet the terrible curse in the land grew
worse
And the poor grew poorer each day.
My lord Fat Purse was troubled and
sad
That his thought and toll seemed
vain;
But do what can" said this very
good man,
ITO ease the want and pain.
'Tis the will Of heaven that some shall
be rich
And many be poor, see;
can do no more than give from the
That a just God gives to me-"
Yet acres and acres of fertile soil
Lie idle under the skies.
While my shrewd lord waits and holds
his estates
Till prices in land shall rise.
Deep in the breast of these acres broad
Which are selflshly grasped by one,
Lies wealth for many-free gifts of
God,
Like the wind and the rain and the
sun.
Food in the ocean and food In the
soil
Free gifts from hand divine
And who dare hinder the fishers toll.
Or say. "Lo, the sea is mine"
All, my lord Fat Purse, no wonder the
curse
OF poverty hangs like a pail,
When you hold by fraud the lands
which God
Has me ant for the use Of all.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
FROM THE ENEMY.
Some Quotations from Pronounced On
pOnents.

ponents.
There is too much freedom in this
country rather than too little.-Indian-
apolis Journal
If the workingmen had no vote
they would be more amenabe to the
teachings of hard times.-Indianapo
News.
Give the strikers the rifle diet for
few days and see how they like that
kind of bread.-Tom Scott.
Hand grenades should be thrown
among those who are striking to OBJ
tain higher wages as by such treat
ment they would be taught lesson,
and other strikers could take warn
ing from their fate.-New York Trib-
une.
The most wealthy must govern in
every state. AMI will regardless of any
attempt to deprive them of that right.
Richmond Wing.
We now have arranged the program
for both parties, and now we are will
ing the dear people shall have their
choice OF mani. Buell., secretary of
Bankers association
There seems to be one remedy and
that must come, a change of owner
ship of soil. that is tenant farmers on
the one side and landlords on the
other, like that which has long existed
in England and partly in our own state
OF Califoi MIA. Everything seems to be
ripe for the change, half the farmers
Of the country are ready to be sold il
buyers would arpear-New York Trib-
une.
It is astonishing, yes, startling, the
extent to which faith prevails in
money circles in New York, that one
ought to have king.-New York
Tribune.
would give two million dollars IL
we could elect Grant as king in
New York.-Jay Gould in 1876.
Fifty men IN the United States have
it in their power by reason of the
wealth they control, to come together
within twenty-four hours and arrive
at an understanding by which every
wheel Of trade and commerce NAV be
stepped from revolving, every avenue
Of trade blocked, and every electric
key struck dumb. Those fifty men can
paralyze the whole country, for they
can control the circulation of the cur
rency, and create a panic whenever
they will.-C M. Depew
The tramp has no right but that So
ciety may see fit of its grace to bestow
upon him. he has no more right than
the SOW in the gutter-Scribner's
Monthly.
We need stronger government
The country demands l.. Capital
needs protection. Without bloodshed
and rivers Of it there will be no polit-
ical change Of administration. The
moneyed interest for self-preservation
must sustain the Republican party
The railroads. the banks, the MANU-
facturers and importers, and all classes
Of business in which millions are in
vested will sustain the supremacy Of
the Republican party To avert fear
full bloodshed, strong central gov
eminent should be established as soon
a. possabla-Ssuat0s Sharon
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
Armed men prevent uhe passage

AIMED men prevent The passage of
citizens along public roads in Pennsyl-
yania. Ware Web, not exactly. The
private owners Of mines up there want
to prevent their men from organizing
and demanding more wages, and
hired assassins to prevent any COM
munications of the white slaves with
outsiders. No, 1t isn't war, but it
ought to be. If necessary. to put. an end
to s1Sh Internal tyrAaV.-Uhee San.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
Sign of Weakness.

"I want to borrow money On this
corporation stock" said the depositor
THAT stock isn't worth much" ans
wered the national bank president.
isn't the corporation solvent3
yes, but it's not a strong corpora
tim. 1t has to obey the law."-Twen-
teth century.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
A MlsnOner.

The United States government is rap.
idly proving the assertion of our crit
les that democracy is necessarily the
most extravagant form of government.
-Harper's Weekly.
How little magazine and great
daily" writer's really know! The United
States government is not democracy.
nor anywhere near it.-San Francisco
Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09

Way for Scientific Money.
What If a man has discovered the
process of making gold? 1t is nothing
really surprising.
Nature makes gold out of certain
substances transformed and fused to-
bether by the volcanic action say OF
fire and birthstone.
Gold doesn't necessarily come from
hell because it is made in that way and
can be cornered. If the constituent
parts and proportions Of gold have been
discoy cred by chemist named Brice,
and if he has applied his furnace and
poker according to Hoyle, he has made
gold.
If little Preston, of the United States
mint, says Brice hasn't made gold, that
is nothing to the point. Preston was
appointed by Cleveland to say and do
what the gold thugs ordered, and he
has said that American silver was de-
monetized in 1853 instead Of 1873. Pres
tons word is commodity worth about
as much as "a dicer's oath" or a har-
lots kiss.
That Lyman Gage says there is moth
ing in Brice's gold discovery proves
merely that the Rothschilds and the
Anglo American bankers don't want
any more gold. Gage has given him
self away, for both fiat and rascal,
by declaring that the artificial produc-
ton of gold, if fact, ought to be sup
pressed. This, of course, means moth
ing more and nothing less than that
Gage wants gold kept scarce and dear,
for himself and his criminals
who are robbing, impoverishfng, and
enslavlng the world by the gold stand
ard. Three cheers for Brice. the gold
maker, unless he, too, is as big a hum
bug as Gage and Preston! He can't be
a bigger one, anyhow. II he is honest,
he has done the best thing Of his age.
Good by, Intrinsic Value with all
your fools. Good-by, Rothschild, with
all your knaves. Come in. Scientific
Money, and take a sea--Silver knight
Waterman.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

Havemeyer IL going to build
miniature Venice on his estate on Long
Island. says the Chicago TribAne.
Everything will be named as it Is in
the Italian city. The bridge over
which the public at large, who still pay
a dollar for eighteen pounds of best A
sugar, will pass will probably be
called the Bridge of Signs. Jour
nal of Commerce.
Mrs. Custer says the Cheyenne up
rising was caused by the fact that the
indians have not enough work to do.
The white man is in the same predica-
'ment, and 1t Is time our statesmen
were learning that idleness is a dan
ger signal.-Salina Union.
Shall the people control the money
issues Of the country, or shall the
money control the people; shall the
people own the railroads, or shall
railroads own the people, in short, is
this to be a peoples government, or
plutocracy's and monopolys govern
ment? These are as great and vital
problems as people were ever called
upon to solve, though they yet seem
inconsequential to myriads of persons.
Farm. Stock and Home.
Fourteen savings banks, with to-
tai Of $4,000 depositors, have failed
since President McKinley's Inaugural
ton. Let's see, what was it the banks
said would happen if Bryan should b,
elected San Francisco Star
1t is getting so that big monopolists
are struck dumb with establishment
when they hear it even mildly sug-
gested that they do not own the coun-
try.-Farm. Stock and Home. -"
The Kansas populist supreme court
has just refused to allow a county in
its jurisdiction to repudiate it's bonds,
Notwithstanding there are plenty of
technicalities on which to base such
decision. Pops are honest if they do
want to stop plutocracy from robbing
and enslaving the masses.-Iowa
Farmers Tribune.
The now famous three cent car fare
law, which federal judge pronounced
null and void in Indianapolis not long
ago was. on Friday of last week, de-
clared perfectly constitutional and
binding by the Supreme court of In
diana. That fact will not, in all prob
ability, amount to very much. One
federal judge, subordinate though he
be, is of far more Importance that the
whole Supreme court of Indiana Still
1t does seem odd to have the law
banged around in this way.-Twen-
tieth Century.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
THE POLITICAL DRIFT.

The Ohio Valley Bimetallic League
held convention at Cincinnati June
% and 23.-The object of the conven-
ton was to. perfect an organization OF
all those in favor Of the free and I'M
limited coinage Of gold and silver. All
clubs In the Ohio valley and contin-
uous territory in Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky were invited to send dele
gates.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09

A Lesson for Dingley.
Make the home trade ana exchange
correct. and the foreign trade or ex.
change will take IT'S proper subordinate
place.-AMkrand IN. Is, Forward.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09

Some people consider it hard to be
poor, but the majority d us find It
lead eaa.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09

Nature makes gold out of certain
substances transformed and fused to-
bether by the volcanic action say Of
fire and birthstone.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
WHAT OF 1T?

Artificial Gold VIII Simply Clear the
Way for Scientific Money.
What IL man has discovered the
process of making gold? 1t is nothing
really surprising.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
FOR ONE DOLLAR.

Beginning with this issue, the sub
scription price of the REGISTER will be
one dollar year. We have just given
to our patrons practically two years
for one subscription, and it seems to
us that it will be a very unreasonable
person who will kick on paying dol
lar for the REGISTER now. There are
few papers in this section that are as
low in price, and we think no one will
regard dollar as extortionate.
The REGISTERS subscription list is
larger than at any period in its history,
and we take this opportunity to thank
our friends for their support. We ap-
preciate their interest, and we promise
to DO our best to give them a paper
well worth their money.
The REGISTER will continue to have
ideas and SO express them. 1t will re-
main a Democratic newspaper, but it
will be more liberal in its tone and
more independent in its views. Our
highest purpose shall be to make it
worthy the support and confidence of
all its readers.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
The Wonders of Science.
Lung Troubles and Consumption Can be Cured
An Eminent New York Chemist and Scientist
Fiakes a Free Offer TO Our Readers.

The distinguished New York chemist. r. A.
Slocum, demonstrating his discovery OF re-
liable and absolute cure for Consumption
pulmonary Tuberculosis) and all bronchial,
throat, lung and chest diseases, stubborn
coughs, catarrhal affections, general decline
and weakness. loss OF flesh, and all conditions
OF wasting away, will send THREE FREE
BOTTLES (all differently OF his New Discover
les 10 any afflicted reader OF THE REGISTER
writing for them.
His New Scientific Treatment" has cured
thousands permanently by It's timely use.
aud he considers H. n simple professional duty
to suffering humanity 10 donate a trial OF his
infallible cure.
Science daily develops new wonders. and
this great chemist, patiently experimenting
for years, has produced results as benefic ial
TO humanity as can be claimed by any mod
ern genius. His assertion that lung troubles
and consumption are durable in any china te
is proven by heartfelt letters OF gratitude"
filed in his American and European labora-
tories in thousands from those cured IN AL
parts Of the world.
Medical experts concede that bron chial,
chest and lung troubles lead - Consumption,
which, uninterrupted, means speedy aud GER
tain death.
Simply write to t. A. Slocum. VI. C., 70 Pine
street, New York, giving posioffice and ex-
press address, and the free medicine will be
promptly sent Sufferers should take instant
advantage of bis generous proposition.
Please tell the Doctor that you saw his offer
In The REGISTER.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
Robbing the Dentists.

And now it is the dentists of West
Virginia who are being "held W" and
forced to contribute fat fees to glut
the greed of some hungry politician
of the Republican party. Under the
law of 1881 hundreds of persons paid
their six dollars to the Board of Den
tai Examiners and were duly licensed
to practise dentistry in West Virginia.
But now comes the Republican party,
by its Legislature of 1897, and enacts a
new law which requires every dentist
who has been engaged in the lawful
practise of the profession to register
with and obtain another certificate
from the newly constituted Dental
Board, for which he shall pay a fee of
$2-failing in which "he shall be fined
not less than $50 nor more than 5000
or confined in the county jail not less
than one nor more than three months,
or both. This Of course is gross
violation of the States contract repre-
scented by the license granted these
gentlemen under the old law, but what
consideration is to be given common
honesty when offices and fees are to be
provided for party spoilsmen "What
is the Constitution between friends 2
There are So counties in West Vir-
ginia, and $50 would be small esti-
mate Of the number of lawful dental
practitioners in the State. But the
eleven hundred fattening gold stan
dard dollars wrung from this source
makes a very tidy little sum where
with to feather the nest Of the Repub-
lican birdEngs.
The primary purpose of this piece of
legislation was to wipe out the old
board and provide berths for more Re-
publicans and at the same time to IN
crease the examination fees from So las
formerly to $40 for the profit of the
new members. In all conscience, could
not the Republican Legislature have
been satisfied with this without going
further to deliberately breaking the
plighted faith of the State and coolly
rob a very useful and deserving class
of the States citizens, enforcing the
command to stand and deliver with the
insolent threat Of the jail ?-The Mo1a-
roe Watchman.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only way to cure deafness, and
that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an intlamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube When this tube is in
famed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed, Deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed for
ever: nine cases out Of ten are caused
by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, 0.
Is Sold by druggists, 75c.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
CHURCH NOTES.

Communion services will be held IN
Kearneysville Presbyterian Church
Sunday at 1880 a. M, if Providence
permits, with preparatory services
Friday at p. m. and Saturday at
1880 a. m. Rev. j. E. Tnplett, of
Duffelds, will preach Saturday morn
ing and Sunday morning Services
in the shepherdstown Presbyterian
Church Sunday night at 7 o'clock.
NJ. E. Church South Church con-
ference at Bethesda pa. m; COM
munion services at Uvilla II a. m.
and at Bakerton 8 p. m, preceded by
the quarterly collection.
Rev. Clayton R. Chrisman, who was
formerly assistant to the Episcopal
rector at Charlestown, has accepted a
call from an Episcopal church in Mem
phis, Tenn.
Public worship will be held in the
Lutheran Church of Shepherdstown
next Sunday morning at 1870 o'clock.
Christian Endeavor service at $50
o'clock.
There will be service in the Re-
formed Church on Sunday in Shep-
herdstown at 1880 a. m. and at Kear-
neysville at 8 p. m.
NJ. E. Church services Preaching
at Mt. Wesley at 1870 a. m, Shep-
herdstown at 7 p. m. Epworth League
at Shepherdstown at 6 P. m.
Rev. Lewis Reiter, pastor Of the Re-
formed Church at Roanoke, Va, has
resigned and will accept call from a
church near Pittsburg.
There will be called meeting of
Winchester Presbytery at Charlestovn
next Monday.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
Stands at the Head.

Aug J. Bogel, the leading druggist
of Shreveport, La, says "Dr. Kings
New Discovery is the only thing that
cures my cough, and it is the best sell
er l have" ]. F. Campbell, mer-
chant of Stafford, Ariz., writes: "Dr.
Kings New Discovery is all that is
claimed for it; it never fails, and is a
sure cure for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds cannot say enough for its
merits" DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is
not an experiment. 1t has been tried
for a quarter of century, and to-day
stands at the head. 1t. never disap-
points. Free trial bottles at any drug
store.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-09-23
West Virginia News.

Two Italians, a man and woman,
were run over on the B. & o. railroad
near Grafton and will die.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis is build
ing a church at Elkins, which he will
present to the colored people.
Thompson Leach Buckley, aged SIX
teen years, of Parkersburg, committed
suicide by taking chloroform. No rea-
son is given.
J.. R. Clifford, colored, publisher of
the Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, has
been appointed principal of the colored
school at Keyser.
Governor Atkinson has pardoned
from the penitentiary J. NJ. Weir, who
was sent up from Ohio county at the
September term of court for five years.
A young man named Mart Cross
was shot and killed Sunday in Wetzel
county. 1t is said his ofense was
throwing a small stone on the roof of
a house.
Miss Edith Pendleton, daughter of
Mr. Edmund Pendleton, of Berkeley
Springs, and Mr.. Alfred Cooper Row.
land, of Montclair, n. j., were mar
ried at the former place last Wednes-
day.
Frank Riley, Baltimore and Ohio
brakeman between Wheelingand Cum
berland, found box containing six
diamond rings on train. He turned
them over to Superintendent Sheets,
at Grafton.
October goth will be West Virginia
day at Nashville exposition. An in
teresting programme is being prepared,
and prominent West Virginians will
make addresses. Governor Atkinson
and his staff will attend.
Captain Robert A. French, super
visor of trains aud engines on the
South Branch division of the B. g. O.
Railroad, died last week in Cumber-
land, aged II years. Captain French
has been in the employ of the railroad
for forty-eight years.