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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01
, Ex-TREASURER SENTENCED.
To Serve 70 Years in Penitentiar,
and Paw &:sOO.(()O Fine

o.. and Pay $3OO.OOO Fine.
Omaha, Neb., June 28.-Ex-State
Treasurer BARLEY, convicted Of embez-
element, was sentenced Saturday morn
ing to 20 years in the penitentiary and
to pay a fine of 100000. l 5@.z. IS: 81
3i Lincoln, Neb.,J une 2s.-The supreme
court at a special adjourned session
Saturday night granted suspension OF
sentence in the case of ex-State Treas
urer BARLEY, sentenced to 90 years in
the penitentiary. On furnishing bond
of $125,000 he is to be released pending
a review Of his appeal to the supreme
court #Ssis K Y U.s.. L:S f1 & 90 81 ;sEt+
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01
Receiver. Nam MAI: i ed.

Z Hudson, N. Y, June 28.----A receiver
has been appointed from the Hudson
Iron company. whose plant has been
closed for three years. The assets are
more than 5000 in excess Of the LA
bilities. For nearly 50 years and until
the transfer of the iron industry to
other fields, the company paid an
average dividend Of II y per cent per
annum EssS2 5ss #S IF e III H IA s55 go s5Ss
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Presfdent Pollx's Home Sol,

Nashville, Tenn.. June q. BY decree
Of the chancery court Polk Place, in the
center Of the city, the home Of Presi-f
dent James. x. Polk, was sold Sat,1r-
day for distribution among the heirs;
and brought only $4,000. Il is not
robable the sale will be confirmed,b but
that the property will BE again offered
at public sale. s
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z 81 .9Ez'..s7- y . -gE.,5 Il 8 s.
Killed by the Marshal.

d Coley, the negro who assaulted the
night Waterman Of Newport, was killed.
by the marshal of ] Jordan while resist.
ing. arrest. Coley was known as q des-
perate character in that part of the.
state, and as soon as The assault be-
came known the marshal set bout to,
find and arrest him, when Coley re-
sisted. \.
The marshal drew his revolver and
fred toward the ground to frighten
MIN into submission. The bullet, how
ever, sought the human mark and the.
negro fell over, struck in the navel.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01

The flag is 100 years old. On June IA,
1777, the continental congress adopted
the following: Resolved, That the flag
of the thirteen states be thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white; that
the union be thirteen stars, white in
blue field, representing new constella-
tion." Very much has happened since
then, but the old flag, with few adj
ditions, still waves.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01

A Georgia colored woman accounts
for hard times in that state on the the
DRY that there are "too many loafy
husbands" There is a bare chance
that it will hold good for some other
xectiOns
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01

A New York judge has decided that
every dog has right to bite once. A
second assault makes nuisance of the
canine. One decision like that comes
pretty near making nuisance of the
Judge.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01

The first bicycles came from England,
but American designers and mechanics
have taken the lead and our wheels are
admitted throughout the world to be
unequaled. Their export this year has
increased threefOld.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01
d Attorney Com nafts suici

4 Ottawa, Ill. June 90. leorge$ 3.
.Ladd, attorney, and one Of the promi-
5nent and wealthy business men 81
Peru, committed suicide BY shooting
saturday morning. He waslone Of the
promoters OF the Illinois Valley &
Northern railway. The village st Iadd.
Bureau county was named after him. him.
iii health was the cause.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01
Sugar Beet Factory.

The Sugar Beet Association Of VII
mona is endeavoring to raise $3.50 with
which to engage a chemical and geo
logical expert to- go. there and make
careful analysis Of the soil. This exc
pert is in the confidence of:a.large Ger
mae company looking for q suitable
site to establish a beet sugar factory
and it is believed his Recommendations
would carry considerable weight with
the company. = 81 y r. s. 81
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01

Owned a trick mule in 1875. Owned
y South African diamond mine in 1855.
Owned $500, OOO, 900 in 1895. Committed
suicide in 1897. That is the record of
"Barney" Barnato.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01

Five buffaloes were born in New York
city last week, which probably leads the
record of 1897. The trapper of 40 years
ago is right in saying that times have
changed. tE.-s ~: "a
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-07-01
Miners KilIed.

Valparaiso, June 2s.- sTwenty-six
miners have been killed by fall Of
rock IN the lLabrars mines, ii the prov
ince Of Atacama. s. BE- Is ssss
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THE EAST.

At the intercollegiate boat race on
the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie, N.
Y, Yale defeated Harvard and Cornell,
going the two miles in nine minutes
and 1914 seconds.
In Boston F. R. Cordley & Co., stock
brokers, failed for $15O,O0O.
An appeal has been issued by the
Cuban league of New York asking for
financial aid in it's patriotic efforts in
behalf of struggling Cuba.
At the leading clearing houses in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 25th aggregated
$979, 1868, 1888, against $1,054, 145,233 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1896
Cornell defeated Yale and Harvard
in the four-mile boat race at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, the time being 20:34.
Yale was second.
Dispatches from various portions of
the country say that there is no step
backward in business. Improvements
continue gradual and prudently eau
CAouS az OSAOASs oACAOuSA III
branches evident where no signs of it
appeared few days ago. +.
In educational league the percentages
of the baseball clubs for the week ended
on the 9th were: Boston, .725; Balti-
more, 200; Cincinnati, .653; New York,
$40; Brooklyn, $40; Pittsburgh, 500;
Cleveland, 400; Philadelphia, .463;
Washington, 400; Louisville, $50; Chi
cago, 1868; st. Louis, .2O4. -,.a ID"
The famous animal painter, Wilbur H.
Lansit, died in Dorchester, Mass, aged
AZ years. /
Rudolph Lauricks, of the Bay State
Wheelmen, broke every American anna
teur record from six to twenty-five
miles in Boston and created new marks
from rs to so miles.
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FOREIGN INTEL IoENcE.

Native 4 troops massacred Baron
Dhanis, the Belgian leader Of the Congo
expedition against the Mahdists, and his
force Of 6, 900 men: @ s'ss d 5Sss3
Some 5000 denizens Of the slums Of
London were guests Of the princess Of
Wales. It was the occasion Of the jubi-
lee dinners to the poor. At Windsor
the lords Of the admiralty and all the
adnnirals Of the foreign ships were re-
ceived by the queen. Thecelebrationsis
virtually ended. n s55 5sl<
Advices say that nine villages have
been looted and wholly or partly
burned by Turks in the province Of
Thessaly. !. Y. ssz@.... nav . st 7.
Russia will not, it, is said, join in
Japan's protest against the annexation
OF Hawaii by the United States. >s #s' ii
The famous novelist and historical
writer, Mrs. Margaret o. Oliphant, died
in London, aged 20 years. III g. .., 81 s. 4
The Christians were attacked by Mus
sulmans in Crete and number were
killed on both Sides ;t {t% -tE'@.
The celebration of Queen, victoria's
diamond jubilee closed with magnifi-
cent naval display. S. Z.
The plan of The New York Herald to
raise funds to pay Mark Twa1n's debts
has been rejected by the humorist.
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says the Moon Ii Planet.
Lima, Peru, via Galveston, Tex. une
.2s.--Prof. Aarporath, Of the Cord OBJ
servatory, asserts that the moon is not
"a satellite of the earth sbutta planet. s2
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
Prosperity with Blow Holes In I.


The estimated value OF all the prod
ucts Of Kansas this year, exclusive of
live stock is placed at $4,000, 900 by
the boomers, which is probably more
than 1t is, even including the live
stock. But for the sake of analyzing
the matter let us assume it is correct,
AS the population Of Kansas is 1,OOO,-
600 this means that the average is only
$685. per family! A wonderful pros
perity, that. Not enough to buy a
collar for some Of the pet dogs of the
plutocracy. The census of 1890 gives
the value of the lands, fences, buildings
and machinery of Kansas farms at
$578,595, 1886, it means that a family
with skill and a capital of $2,225 are
only able, in the most prosperous year
to get gross income from their labor
of $685.! Wonderful prosperity! Then
when you take into consideration that
a large part of the population are nom
producers and get the largest income
this will still further reduce the mag
nificent prosperity of the bloated. plu-
tocratic farmer. When the farmers pay
the salaries and expenses of the thou
sands of officers. the interest on $685.
1000 Of home and farm mortgages,
they can give fancy balls that will
rival the Bradley Martins-I don't
think. The farmer is expected to be
prosperous on r''~Ntv little.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
An Unreasonable Money system.

II any man of average intelligence
will wake up, break through his pre-
judices and take square look at the
financial situation in the United States,
he will see that our monetary system
is based on an irrational and danger
GUS foundation; and having made this
discovery concerning affairs at home,
he will be prepared to extend his view
and see that the rest Of the world is
just as we are in that respect. For 20
cents we buy copper blanks enough to
make 100 1-cent pieces; for 80 cents we
buy enough scent blanks to make
$3.50 worth of "nickles." And these
coins are legal tender for rs cents.
The bullion in our silver dollar is
worth-say AZ cents now, yet the coin
goes everywhere in the United States
for a full dollar and nobody questions
its right to do so. And then We have
greenbacks and treasury notes and sill
yer certificates, with no intrinsic value
whatever, passing from hand to hand
as current money with the merchant"
like Abraham's shekels of silver; and
yet, with billion and half dollars
worth Of these many kinds of money
in the country, 80 per cent of the bust
ness done over bank counters is done
with drafts, checks, promissory notes,
bills of exchange, and other forms of
private money.-ToDeka Advocate.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
Results of Land Monopoly.

without land man is absolutely help
less. without land labor can accom-
plish nothing. Why, our very bodies,
this flesh and blood with which we
clothe it, comes from the land and, to
the land it returns. Therefore, it is,
that labor without land is utterly help
less. Therefore 1t is that as advancing
civilization increases productive pow
er, it cannot absolve men from the
necessity of using land, and, therefore.
If there be one class who own the land
and another who have no right what
ever to use land without the, permis-
sion of the other. advances in ciyilizaE
ton must give greater and; greater
amounts Of wealth to the landowners
and make more and more s.helpless
those who must obtain someone else's
permission to live or to work.-Chat-
tiers Towers. Aust, Eagle. .. /
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

Whenever the dolorous condition Of
poverty begins to be pointed out by the
friends of humanity, the enemies of
humanity pick up the complaint and
say three things in answer. First,
they say it is lie; second, that it was
always SO, and, third, that the good
God loves his poor children and will
take care of them. In this attitude
toward the poor stands the high up
and powerful world to-day, and in this
attitude stands in particular pervenu
American ristocrats.-Ridpath.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

Isn't it about time the Washington
Gazette, Vincennes Commercial and
other Republican papers should Begin
to expose the naked fraud of McKin-
ley's administration in its inability to
restore confidence and prosperity to
the many idle industries here at home
as well as its inability to pass a tariff
bill that would prevent constantly
growing deficit? Honor bright, now,
gentlemen Shoals Referendum.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
VERSES OLD AN } NEW.
IL,
Rings.

Rings.
with apologies for ringing)
Ring os,t. free press, across the SKYE
Old Mac is cringing in his fright:
The truIt is dying in the night;
Ring OFT. free press, and let it die
Ring out the gold, ring in the new,
Let silver to the people flow,
The bonds are going, let them go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the Confidence, the Wave,
The promises begat by gold;
The lies which gave the Plutes hold;
Ring in the votes which free the slave.
Ring In the days. full near at hand
Which Mark" The passing Of the
ghoul,
Ring out the strains which now befoul
The banner of our Trusted land.
j. SYME-HASTINGS.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
Money Is the Life-BIood.

To commerce money occupies the
same relation that blood does te the
human system. A healthy commercial
system prevails when money circulates
freely, but when it becomes congested
or insufficient in quantity commerce
becomes inert.-Dublin Progress.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

With decreasing revenues and in
creasing expenses the Republican ad-
ADMINISTRATION will soon be compelled to
anront the people with another issue
OF bonds to meet the running expenses
OF the government.
Thus the money-changers will reap
their profits as we'll as the protected
trusts, and all Of those who contributed
funds to elect President Mckinley will
receive their reward. The function Of
the people, in this arrangement, will
be the payment of additional interest
upon bonds. And where will the
treasury get this interest money?
Why, by selling still more bonds.
Republican statesmen and politicians
claimed all during the campaign that
the cause of all the hard times and
trouble was the failure of the Wilson
bill to produce revenue sufficient to run
the expenses of the government. That
the government short OF money made
the people short Of money too. They
did not show why the Wilson tariff
er Mckinley high tariff bill which also
failed to produce revenue sufficient to
run the government.
Now the Dingley bill is on trial as
the acme Of the wisdom of republican
statesmen, says the Referendum. 1t,
however, failed in August to meet the
expenses for that month leaving de-
felt Of over s13,00O,000. The Septem-
Der deficit is not so great because the
expense of the government was the
smallest Of any month Of the year, be-
ing only $25,96S,S15; still the deficit
for September is $3,435,717, or at the
rate of about s4O,0O0,00O per year. The
cause of this deficit is what we have
before pointed out, viz: the falling off
of imports because the prices in Amer
lea are generally so low and so many
of our people have been so long idle
leaving little money in the hands of
the producing classes, who themselves
have the wants but not the money to
satisfy them with. Consequently our
home market is unattractive to foreign
importers, and down goes the efficacy
of any sort Of tariff depending for its
revenue on imported goods. Goods
will not be imported in any CONSIDER
able quantities when the money supply
is too small to sustain the home mar
ket and when as consequence of the
same scarce money conditions the peo-
pie have had no chance to earn money,
giving them the ability to pay for (de-
manO imported goods.
Again If goods were imported in any
considerable quantities now, they
must be imported in competition with
similar home made goods and would
soon supply any little demand the peo-
pie with money to pay for them could
make, and down would close the fac
tories.
The republicans can't raise the nee
essary revenue to run the government
without an increase Of the circulating
medium. Their doctrine is like the old
Calvinistic theology,
You shall and you shant,
You will and you won't;
You'll be damned If you do
And you'll be damned II you don't.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

A. leading daily paper deplores the
lapse of the American thrift that for
merly resulted in a competency for
every Industrious citizen in his declin-
ing years. That editor would be more
sensibly engaged in deploring the ex-
istence Of the 10000 persons who own
half the wealth of the nation, making
the universal completeness impossible.
Farm, Stock and Home.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
Government by Injunction.

We have been ruled by a king, we
have been governed by an aristocratic
parliament, we are now apparently en-
tering upon a government by judgasb
the worst form Of autocracy. next ! to
that Of hierarchy, of which the mind
Of man can conceive.-Cleveland Re-
cOrder.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

Inc Elysium OF the MART
Slow fades the pageant, and the phan.
tom stage
AS slowly filled with squalid, CHASTITY
forms;
Here, over fireless hearths. covered
shivering Age
And blew with feeble breath dead
embers; storms
Hung in the icy welkin, and the bare
Earth lay forbidden in Winters char
mel air.
No careless childhood laughed disport-
ingly,
But dwarfed, pale mandrakes, with
century's gloom
On infant brows, beneath a poison tree
With skeleton fingers piled CHASTITY
loom;
Mocking in cynic jests life's gravest
things,
They wove gay king-robes, muttering,
What are kings?"
And thro' that dreary Hades to and FRO,
Stalked, all unheeded, the Tartarean
guests;
Grim Discomfort, that loathes the gods,
and Woe,
Clasping dead infants to her milkless
breasts;
And maddening Hate, and Force, with
iron heel.
And voiceless Vengeance, sharpening
secret steel.
Can such things be below and God
above?"
Faltered the king. Replied the
genius, NAY,
This is the state that sages most APP
prove;
This is man civilized. the perfect
sway
OF merchant kings, the ripeness of the
Which cheapens men-the Elysium Of
the Mart"
Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Paint and Appeal.
Lookest thou down from thy homo
above,
Or knowest thou, William Penn,
That in thy land Of "Brotherly love"
They shoot down hungry men?
Thy brothers board is starkly bare,
No sunbeam lights his den,
For the earth is owned by the million
And they shoot down starving men!
But there's an production they
say,
Luxuries wasting all around;
Yet thy brother has barely bread for
pay
For toiling beneath the ground.
What food for soul, I ask, and vet
We know he has this to mind
That he may be buried alive in the pft
And his little ones left behind.
My sickening soul the scene abhors.
Great God. was this thy plan
That a few should gather up thy stores
And starve their brother man?
Amy B. Everette.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
G. J. HILLYER.
Alas for King George.

Oh, If King George had only under
stood the uses Of an injunction! George
lived a century too soon for his own
good. Just wave piece of paper with
some marks on 1t before crowd and
see them stink off with fear. Afraid
Of a piece of paper! Was ever super
stition carried to more absurd
height?-Reno Plaindealer.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

Did you ever seriously think over the
fact that the men who gather up what
is produced live easier and better than
the men who produce it? 1t would not
be this way If the producer had his
rights, and the reason he hasn't them
is, that he acts the simpleton and votes
for the fellow that don't produce any
thing. Are you doing this?-Jackson
Economist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

But Not Enough for Plutocrats.
1.-TWO hours and fifteen minutes daily
work by each able bodied man, il
systematically applied, would produce
all the food, clothing and shelter the
people need.-C. D. Wright, o. s. COM
Of Labor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
TARIFF DEFICIENCY.
MORE BONDS WILL SURELY BE
ISSUED.

Tho Failure of the Republican Expedi-
ont Is Ccrtain-An Increase of the
Circulating Medium Is the Only Way
Out.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05
AS REGARDS PARITY.
A QUESTION BETWEEN CREDI-
TORS AND DEBTORS.

Why the Goldbugs Look With Horror
Upon the Present Legal Ratio of
Sixteen to One-Would Release Their
NlgOtten Gains.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

How?-By Investigation?
make the poor content and the rich
yecure. "--Benjamin Harrison.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

the hands Of monopolizing class who
make use of the power thus given them
to exploit an entire nation; and this
power given the banking class over
money is rapidly assuming the
strength and dominion Of an oligarchy
which is tramping the people down
In poverty, dominating courts, dictat-
ing acts of Congress, and virtually
making laws that no despot at the
present day has power to do.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

Bryan is the hope Of India" says
Professor Chosh of the Calcutta Uni
versity. This is pleasing thought.
1t shows how when the common pro-
ducing people Of all nations understand
the facts they will realize the oneness
of their interests and that their friends
among public men are those who try
to increase rather than diminish the
supply of legal tender money.-Better
Way.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

The person who cannot understand
how man can afford to accept pub
lie Office that 1t costs more to secure
than the salary amounts to will never
be known and honored as statesman.
Newcastle Qnd.) Courier.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

Apropos the massacre Of miners at
Hazleton, the coal operators lay par
ticular stress upon the fact that the
dead men were all foreigners. And yet
many of these men have sent their
daughters abroad with fat purses and
instructions to marry into the titled
families of these same foreigners. The
millionaire operators wealth purchases
the foreigner in either case, hence the
superstition that he has the right to
destroy that which belongs to him.
Benton Harbor Times. Mich.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-11-05

This being true, why should govern
ment permit such an outrage on society
as the monopoly of this necessary arti-
Gle, and by that monopoly rob the pro-
ducers in sums aggregating hundreds
Of millions of dollars annually, out of
the fruits Of their labor? 1t is one of
The many abuses which have grown up
with society out of its primitive condi-
lion, and should be abolished. The
system has become an abuse in our
present advanced state of society. In
a cruder state of society there might
have been plea of necessity advanced
for what has become an abuse only.
Government, the creator of money
for the use Of the people, should be
the custodian and distributor of that
essential medium Of trade and indus
try, and never permit 1t to remain in