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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-15

There was much virtuous talk before
the Senate met about doing away
with the practice of giving each Sen
atOr a clerk, but when the usual res
Olution came up authorizing the APP
pointment of clerks, it went through
without dissent.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-15

The editor ofthis paper was subject
ed to good deal of ridicule two years
ago because he criticised the extra
vagance of the Senate in the use of
stationery, pocket knives and other
supplies. But we notice that one of
the first resolutions introduced into
that body this session was one to put
stop to that very thing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-15
MANY OF THE BEST BOOKS
EVANS BROS,
lola,

Senator Lamb, of this district. is on
the Judiciary, Education and Enroll
ed Bills committees.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-15
THE FIRST SHOOT.

The lola Gun Club had it's first
shoot at the Fair Grounds last Friday
afternoon, the targets being clay
"pigeOns" thrown from a trap, 30
yards rise. We have been offered
big money to suppress the scores that
were made by the marksmen, but
this paper can not be bullied or brib-
ed, and so here goes the awful record
The number opposite the name indi-
Gates the number of hits out of total
of 20 shots:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-15

A good LII Muslin at
A full Standard Print at
The best light print at
A good Shifting at
A better one at
Dress Goods worth Soc at
Dress Goods worth SOC at
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02
CANNOT DISCRIMINATE
SECRETARY SHERMAN SERVES NO.
TICE ON THE STATE OF IOWA.
Foreign Insurance Companies Must
cerns-Increase i'm Public Debt.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 1.-The attention
of the Department of the State has been
drawn to the fact that the State of Iowa
by statute has attempted to discriminate
against foreign insurance companies do
ing business in the State. AS there were
indications of similar intention on the
part of other States. and the matter was
clearly in violation of the treaties made
with certain nations, Secretary Sherman
addressed the following letter to the Gov
ernor of Iowa:
"Sir-It has been orally represented to
this department by the minister of Switzer-
land at this capital that the State of Iowa
has laid tax the premium income of
European insurance companies greater
than the tax imposed on the premium in
come of American companies. As this ac-
ton operates to the disadvantage of Swiss
insurance companies doing business in Iowa
the minister submits that it is violative
of the treaty rights of Swiss citizens as
set forth in Article 2 of the treaty con-
Guided Nov %. 1850, between the United
States and Switzerland
I'm order that the bearing of the reported
measure on the treaty rights of Swiss
citizens may be duly taken into account,
l have the. honor to quote the, pertinent
provision of said Article 2 as follows: No
be exacted from the citizens of one of the
two countries residing or established in the
other than shall be levied on the citizens
of the country in which they reside, nor
any contribution whatever TO which the
latter shall not be liable.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02
ANARCHIST DEBS.

Eugene V. Debs's speech at st. Louis
shows that he has become an Anarchist.
He calls himself president of the Socialist
Democracy. He does not pretend to be a
Democrat and he is not Socialist Social
lists, in the true sense, hold doctrines which
if mistaken are not vicious or dangerous
They believe that the government should
assume prerogatives and exercise powers
in regard to public lands mineral lands,
railroads, telegraphs and other corporations
which many persons do not think should be
exercised by the government and yet there
is much to be said in favor of the Socialist
view. Whether right or wrong it is far
removed from anarchism. The Socialists
believe in government and a good deal of it,
Anarchists do not believe in government
at all. Mr.. Debs is an Anarchist. In his
speech at st. Louis he said: THE less gov
eminent the more liberty-the only perfect
government is no government at ALL" Other
parts of the speech were almost as out
spoken, but this may stand for all. No
amount of explanation can explain it away.
No Anarchist in Europe, no imported An
archist in the United States, could go fur
Their or show more viciousness. Debs has
not reached this point of outspoken an
archism at a bound. He arrived there by
easy stages. Beginning a railroad fire
man and talking member of a labor or
ganization. he became successfully an agi-
tator, labor leader, an organizer of strikes,
an open enemy of law and ORDER a con-
temner of judicial DEGREES, and finally an
Anarchist. In any other civilized country
of the world such an utterance as that
above quoted would cause him to be re-
garded as a suspect and kept under police
surveillance. This great and free govern
ment, strong in the support of the people,
does not pursue such methods, but healthy
public opinion should brand as an Anarchist
the man who says THE less government the
more liberty; the only perfect government
Is no government at ALL"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02

State to buy a carload to ship East. He
stayed in Bryan's State for a few weeks
ana nnally came home without any horses.
he found the farmers with a. big wheat
ana corn crop on their hands, prices adj
Vanclng-in short they were in high glee--
ana were holding their horses for about $50
more than Clarke wanted to pay.-Nobles-
Vile Ledger.
A well-known Bryanite hired a Republic
an to work for him last harvest and Of
fered to give him a dollar day or two
bushels of wheat He said he didn't care
which-that wheat would never be a great
er price than it was then under a gold
standard. The Republican agreed to take
the wheat, and the Bryanite, when he
threshed hustled his wheat to market at g.
cents a bushel. In ten days the market ad-
vanced until he had lost $3.50 because of
MS tenacious belief in the Bryan silver and
wheat theory and at the present market his
loss is nearly 81, 200. The other day the Re-
puDllcan called for a settlement and the
Bryanlte offered to pay him cash. He
wouldn't have it that way, however, and
demanded two bushels of wheat for each
day. That was the contract and the Bryan
lite nnally gave in-taking the grain from
MS family reserve. The Republican had bot
tea up confidence and got nearly two dol
lars for one, and the Bryanite paid dearly
for his eXperience-Washing Gazette.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02

lacking in common sense. AS a matter of
fact much the greatest part of all that
American farmers produce is consumed in
the United States. and it would be better
If it were all consumed here During the
last thirty years our average annual ex-
ports of wheat have not exceeded 80 per
cent. Of the entire crop. The lowest in any
year was 1919 per cent. and the highest 40
per cent. The exports of corn during the
same period have not averaged per cent.
of the entire crop. The figures show that
the great bulk of both crops is consumed
at home. We export a much larger per-
centage of the cotton crop, but all must
admit that it would be better if every bale
of cotton produced in the United States
were spun into yarn and manufactured into
cloth in this country instead of being sent
abroad. From any point of view that can
be taken the home market is more i'm
portant than the foreign, and it is a prime
duty Of American craftsmanship to pro-
tect the home market against outside in
VaSOn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02

citizens of indianapolis make war upon such
corporations with view of appropriating
the power to rob. The thing that The people
of Indianapolis are implored to do is to sec
to it that no persons rob them in the street.
railway business but those Philadelphians
who now hold a franchise to rob until the
year 1901. We must do all that we can to
prevent the right to rob from passing out OF
the hands of the original parties in the OPP
GRAFTON. We must do all in our power to
make the 100000 of bogus capitalization
sound assets, paying dividends and interest
We should prepare now, or begin to pre-
pare, to prevent a new corporation which
will promise Scent fares after 1901 from get
ting contract to that effect and to. secure
to the present combine" the eternal right
to charge scent fares. Such hospitality for
the foreign plunderer as the DIR. c. F. Smith
party proclaims is really too beautiful for
this wicked world Mayor Taggart and the
street-raIlway magnates should have dis
covered a scheme to get Republican votes
less sweet and ideal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02
VIEWS OF INDIANA EDITORS.

The home market is the best market in
the world for the American farmer.-l4o-
ganSport journal
The farmer is now turning the soil to
put in another wheat crop. He whistles as
he plOWS.-MadiS0n Courier.
Silver is the most ungrateful metal on
earth. While Bryan hattered silver silver
flattened Bryan.-Fort Wayne Gazette
Mr.. Bryan may be a bright young man,
but his prophetic bump received a pretty
severe puncture when wheat went to dol
lar.-Attica Ledger.
Mr.. Bryan will doubtless agree that one
result of the prosperity boom has been a
considerable enlargement of the area of
the "enemy's country."-Vlncennes Com
mercial.
The European nations who are grumblng
about the Dingley tariff bill are overlooking
the fact that it was enacted in the interest
of United States people and not for Euro
peans.-Goshen Times.
Everybody warmly welcomes the unmis-
taxable wave of prosperity that is now pass
ing over the land. 1t has been a long time
coming and that, perhaps, is, one reason
why its coming is appreciated so much.
Mount Vernon Republican.
If the leaders allow themselves to be car
ried away by the idea that open defiance
should be offered to the courts and the laws
it. will be sorry for the strikers, and will
hut postpone the time when they must be
given fairer treatment and better wages.
Lafayette Courier.
OF course it was the gold power which
sent Statistician Mulhall over to this coun-
try to show that our prairie States upon
which the free silverites built their hopes
of last year produce five times as much
food per each person as in the most ad-
vanced sections of Europe--W abash Trib-
une.
Four years ago business was dead fac
tories saw no prospects of opening ahead,
bank failures were frequent farmers were
discouraged and the federal government
was borrowing money to pay expenses.
Contrast that with now Everything is diff
ferent; everything is better. 1t is long
and rough way from Cleveland to Mckin-
ley.-Anderson Herald
James r. Arthur. a prominent farmer of
Harrison township and also rampant
Populist and free silver advocate, certainly
believes that prosperity is no hoax and
that the Dingley bin is already doing the
farmers a power of good. Saturday he sold
forty-seven head of cattle at 500 per hun
dred pounds. The lot averaged $65 per head.
Verify. prosperity has struck the land.
Washington Gazette
John G. Clarke. of Westfield. who has
been buying horses for the indianapolis
market heard that horses were selling for
q song out in Nebraska and so went to that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02

WASHINGTON, Sept. There is no dis
position among officials here to question
the correctness of the statement in the
dispatches from Hawaii to the effect that
Minister Hatch hurried to Honolulu with
the special purpose of securing annexation
action by the Hawaiian government in adj
vance of the meeting OF our Congress.
There is no rule in diplomatic practice that
would forbid Hawaii first acting on the
treaty and the treaty itself does not indi-
cate which government is TO take the initia-
tive in the ratification. While it is regard
ed as desirable in the execution of the pol
icy of President Mckinley towards Hawaii,
as laid down in the message transmitting
the treaty to Congress last June that the
document shall be ready in all respects for
the action of the United States Senate at
its next session, it is not believed that the
President has any intention of calling a
special session for the purpose of ratifica-
don. Indeed, conceding the fact that If the
Hawaiian Legislature acts with the great
est promptness upon the treaty 1t can
scarcely complete this action and return
the ratified convention to Washington be-
fore October at the earliest. 1t would APP
pear to be unnecessary to advance the ses-
sion OF Congress by such short space OF
time as would intervene between that date
and the date upon. which Congress meets
In regular session.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02
Negro Mechanics.
Atlanta Constitution.

Negroes are rapidly filing the trades.
AS carpenters bricklayers. plasterers,
blacksmfths, wheerights, they are growing
more numerous. and making it more and
more difficult for white men to prosper in
these fields of labor A glance at the white
schools and the negro schools of the South
will show that the negro schools are teach
ing their pupils more of the practical needs
of life, and fitting them to earn a livelihood
better than the white schools are. For
every white chronological school the ne
groes have half dozen with Psychological
and industrial features. Every yeAr young
men are being turned out of the negro
schools in the South who have been taught
carpentry, shoemaking. printing. the gen.
eral use of tools scientific farming, in adj
dition to the usual academic courses, and
young women who are taught cooking
washing, sewing. dressmaking. nursing and
housekeeping. When q young negro man
or woman leaves any one of more than a
dozen schools in the South he or she is
equipped for earning a livelihood, and for
advancing the standard of the race.
Our children need arousing to the impor-
lance of chronological and industrial educa-
ton. We want educated hands as we'll as
educated heads
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02

pocket of the supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, Sept 1.-The docket for
the next term of the United States Supreme
Court which will begin on the 18th of Oc>
tober is being prepared 1t contains to
date 446 cases, showing an addition of sixty
three cases since the adjournment of the
court in May. OF these cases 12S are from
the state courts, 119 from the new federal
courts of appeal, forty-nine from the United
States circuit courts, forty-six from the
territorial courts, thirty-two from the courts
OF the District of Columbia, twenty-nine
from the Court of Claims, twenty-six from
the Private Land Court and seventeen from
the United States district courts. There
were 595 cases on the docket when the court
convened in October, 1896. This year the
number will be fully one hundred less. The
constant falling off indicates that the court
will soon be quite up to date with its busi-
ness The diminution of cases coming to
this tribunal has been caused principally by
the creation of the United States courts or
appeal, causing a falling off from 1000 to
1900 cases per year in the cases brought
to this court from the United States Circuit
oa1l
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02
THE RAroHFoRD NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


President Ratchford need not be so per-
sistent for the meeting of Congress to de-
termine whether or not labor has any rights
in this country In all the bills of rights
of States and in the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence the personal rights Of individuals
are clearly set forth: "All men are created
equal, with certain inalienable rights,
among which are life liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness" If the pursuit of hap
piness' of one individual does not lead him
to interfere with the rights Of any other in
dividual there is no limit to his enjoyment
and there would be no call for government
by injunction. The difficulty with the
Ratchfords is that they cannot see that
any men who do not believe as they be-
lieve have any rights whatever. Mr.. Ratch-
ford DEGREES a strike in ali the coal mines.
The most of those who belong to his or
ganization obey his orders and strike. A
large number of miners do not belong to
the Ratchford organization, and in the pur-
suit of their individual happiness conclude
to continue to mine coal
Here is where the difficulty begins. The
Ratchfords in the past have insisted that
these people who do not quit work when
they ordered them TO do so have no rights
BY continuing to work they are outlaws
Constitutions and laws hold that these men
have a right to work without the Ratchford
consent. The Ratchfords not only deny the
right of these men to work, but assume
that it is their constitutional right to pre-
vent them from working by force and vio-
lence if necessary. Bills of rights constitu-
tons and laws make no such distinction.
All men have the inalienable right to labor
or quit, and not the Ratchford men alone.
The courts, knowing that miners are
killed every other year, when the Ratch-
ford strike occurs, to save the lives OF
those who choose to work in the pursuit of
what seems to them to be their happiness
have forbidden the Ratchfords from en-
tering private grounds, as they have in the
past, and assailing with force and arms
the men at work. The courts have said to
the Ratchfords, You can hold meetings
in proper places to persuade these men to
quit and otherwise hold out inducements
to them to leave work. but there must be no
resort to threats and violence, because this
is an unlawful interference with inalienable
individual rights"
And now, because the courts will not per-
NIT the Ratchfords to make war upon the
non-Ratchfords as they have in the past
the former conceive that their rights have
been interfered with! This means that, in
the opinion of the Ratchfords, they have
full right to interfere with the rights of
others, and because they are forbidden they
are bowling for Congress to meet and
confer upon them rights which would in
volve the power to deprive all who are not
Ratchfordites of all rights of all pursuit
of pleasure and even of the right to labor
without their permission. Really, Mr..
RatchfOrd asks too much
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02
West Doesn,t Need Monex.

New York Letter in Philadelphia Press,
In the latter part of June President Tap
pen and President Hepburn, formerly con-
troller of the currency, the manager of the
clearing house and other bankers Of the
highest authority and inclination, in re-
spouse to question respecting the rate Of
interest for money, declared unanimously
that 1t would harden early in August since
in that month there would come a great
demand on New York banks for money to
move the crops. 1t is, of course, trite to
say that such demand has always been
experienced, since American crops were
moved at all in the West Every one here
who had experience with our markets dur
ing the four sad years of CleVeland'S adj
ministration remembers with what desper-
ate ingenuity the New York Clearing House
Association banks responded to the demand
that came from the West often piteousy
made, for money during the money famine
in 1893 This year the West seems, so far,
at least, to be in no need of money! The
bankers have been waiting rather eagerly
for the CALL but they have not yet heard it.
The fall is open, and the West and South
seem by some mysterious dispensation to
have all the money they need. The cry
of the agitators in the last campaign has
Deen retuted, since there seems to be no
money famine anywhere. Even Kansas,
10 longer bleeding Kansas, is rubbing its
eyes in astonshment, since there is little
demand at it's local banks for loans. The
New York banks, to their establishment,
find that, instead of depletion. of re-
serves, they actually have made gain of
more than 100000 900 in the middle OF August,
an unprecedented experience. All sorts Of
explanations are given, but the common
belief is that the simplest one is the best
and that is that the farmers and the bank
ers in the rural districts find that they have
currency enough to start their crops along
toward the seaboard without going TO the
financial centers, which they have always
done in the past.
Whatever may be the cause of this I'M
expected and unprecedented condition, one
of it's results, doubtless, is to delay the
outward move of gold from Europe to this
country, and it said to-day that this
single fact had probably done more to re-
tard the expectation of gold than all of
the undertakings that the Bank of England
and financiers of Europe have in concert
attemnfed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02

An elderly writer in the New York Post,
whose childhood was spent in a house near
where the Grant monument now stands in
dulges in some "reminiscences of his youth
and Of the neighborhood, and incidentally
gives some horticultural information. The
house next to his home had been built by
General Gage, the British commander, and
occupied by him in the years before ana
during the revolution. He owned quite Il
tract of the surrounding land and was an
enthusiastic gardener. Among other fruits
and plants he imported the Queen Claude"
plum from France and was very successful
with it. BY what the writer thinks is a
curious localism," the plum of that kind
is still known about New York as the
'greengage." 1t is much more than local
ism, for the greengage plum has d far
wider territory of its own than the New
York neighborhood. 1t bears that name in
regions remote from the metropolis, ana
probably retains it wherever it is grown in
this country. But the origin of its name Is
interesting.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-02
Anenf CoI. LehmnnnMskv.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
Colonel John Lehmanowsky was a resi-
dent of Knightstown, Henry county, for
number of years during the earlier half
of the century. Only a few years ago the
older citizens could still point out the log
house that he occupied. I think that my
father knew him personally and / have
heard him repeat many of his stories of
war and adventure. He was a, Polander and
was man of stalwart frame and COM
handing appearance. He claimed to have
taken part in eighty pitched battles and to
have served in all varieties Of climate from
the burning sands of Egypt to the arctic
winter of Russia. 1t was his boast that in
all his long military career neither a drop
OF any intOXlcant nor an oath ever passed
MS lips. He claimed to have been in COM
mand of the body of troops that Stormed
the Spanish Inquistion and released the
prisoners confined in its underground cells,
ana ms sketch of the place and it's horrors
when were so great that they provoked
the soldiers TO frenzy of fury that proved
to be wholly uncomfortable, was a piece of
VIVID and powerful writing. He was a great
champion of temperance, and lectured in
behalf of total abstinence long before the
days of blue ribbons" and ''crusadeS,
ana prohlbltory amendments. He devoted
himself, however to preaching the gospel
and it has been thought that, beyond the
necessities of plain life, he devoted all
his little income from the lectures on Ma
poleon and other sources to the advance
ment of the cause that was nearest his
heart
L have heard that there were some reIa-
tives who lived with him, and kept house
for him in the Knightstown home, and
there are certainly those still living in that
little city who remember much concerning
the man and his life Like your other cor
that Colonel Lehmanowsky must have been
the author of The Life Of Napoleon that
is attracting attention
New Castle, Ind, Aug. 81.