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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17
Damages for n Runaway.

T. p. Meador brought suit against z. o..
Phelps in the circuit court at Independence
yesterday for $500 damages. The case is
rather an unusual one. Phelps is n farm
er and lives in the country. After arriving
I'm town some weeks ago he left his team in
charge of Joe Carter, while he attended 10
some business. The horses became fright
ened and ran south on Main street. At the
Short street crossing they colliGed with a
horse ridden by T. z. Meador. The inju-
ries sustained by Meador in the collision
were severe. The case is now on trial in the
circuit court and will be resumed to-day.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17
Missouri Republican CIub.

Tho Missouri Republican Club has filed
articles Of association. Thu general objects
of the organization are to improve the So
Cial. intellectual and physical condition of
its members: to provide a fund for a club
house and library; to study the history of
affairs; to Investigate election frauds and
enforce election laws. +. y. KratZ is pres
ident and William ClouEh secretary. As
It is not organized for profit. a special
clause provides that no dividends shall ever
be paid.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17
A CARD.

Will the tall, slim gentleman, who was in our store yesterday
about four o'clock, buying a thin 75c coat and pair OF o5c
duck pants with a blonde moustache who was accompanied by
a large wide lady who borrowed a palm leaf fan from one OF
the statesmen with a tall beaded bonnet of the bargain counter
variety please call again? He left his change. He changed
his clothes in a dressing room and had his old clothes
wrapped up and forgot to take them along. In an effort to
find some address on them, or in some of his pockets, We
opened up the package, and found in a pocket a bill for one
ton of coal dated June 18th, a bill for ice for May, ST. so, a
bill for a suit of clothes from a tailor, $4,000, and a bill for
gum, 75c We suppose that he got hot at the tailor, bought
ice to cool off with, got hot again at the ice bill and bought
the coal of the ice man, and after he had paid for them all
had to chew gum for a week to economics. It's too hot to
talk about clothes. OF course, after such a day as yester-
day it is to be supposed that you know enough to buy thin
clothes and buy them of Nebraska.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

The ladies of the Cumberland P~resbyte-
rian church will serve pper with ice
cream and cake. in the parlors of the
church. Thirteenth and Oak streets, this
evening from 6 TO 9 o'clock.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17
Parallel Convict In Trouble.

Frank Dagget, colored. a paroled convict
from the Joliet penitentiary, was found by
officer Heydon in an clubhouse belonging to
J.. T.. Campbell. of 1912 MCGEE street, at 3
O'Clock Yesterday morning. He said he was
hunting a place to sleep. but the police
think he was bent on robbery. Dagget was
sentenced to six years for burglary, but
was paroled after serving a year, on condi-
tion that he would keep the warden at the
Joliet prison posted as to his doings.
Chief Nallins yesterday wrote to Joliet,
giving information of Dagget's arrest and
asking what to do with him
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

The ladies of the Independence Avenue
NJ. E.. church will give a lawn social Friday
evening on the church and parsonage
A cordial invitation is extended to all. b.
cycles checked free.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

Mrs. Carrie Farwell-Voorhees, Miss Ma
bel Haas and Mrs. Jennie Schultz, s%oloists,
left early this morning for Pertle springs,
TO attend. as delegates. the Missouri state
music teachers convention.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

Miss Laura Laing will leave this morning
for Billings n Helena, Mont, where she
will join her father. They Will take an
ocean VOYAGE down the Pacific coast to San
Diego, Miss Laing will return in October.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

nolds Gordon, has gone to Holden, Mo-,
where they will visit relatives and friends.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

Liver C-omplaints cured by Beeeham's Ems.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

Court Briefs.
Justice spitz yesterday bouni Eugene
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17
PEOPLE IN SOCIETY.

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Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

Mo-. ]. I. Reynolds Is vIsItlng in Wichit
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

Mrs. A. ]. Barr has returned from a Wis
to relatives in Richmond, Mo.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-17

Mrs. George Carkener and Mrs. VIII
Croysdale are summering in Golden City,
Col.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01

The situation presented by the In
dian rebellion against British rule is
becoming more serious daily. The
news we receive is colored on the side
of the English government.
As all our news from the war in India
comes through government channels,
1t is fair presumption that it does not
make the situation any worse than it
really is. Judging from the general
conditions and dangers now menacing
the British empire, the suspicion is
justified that reports from the scene of
hostilities do not tell the whole truth.
The other day we were advised that the
contract Afridis troops, who were garri-
soning the forts in the Khyber Pass,
defended them bravely for hours, and
only surrendered before fierce assaults
Of vastly superior numbers.
Details given of the movements and
counter movements in Northern India
are somewhat confusing, and it is not
likely that the British military author
tiles are any too anxious to pass accur-
ate information to the outside world,
which includes at least some enemies
to the empire. The admission that it
will take 10000 troops to subdue the
Afridis is highly significant. 1t is said
to indicate that the uprising OF the
northern tribes has become general.
Doubtless it conceals an unpleasant
truth. The 10000 troops to fight the
Afridis will not include any force that
it may be necessary to send against
their fierce neighbors and allies, the
Orakzais, who alone can put $1,000 we'll
trained men in the field, and these be-
hind the rocks of their almost inacces-
sible mountain Businesses, are match
for good many English and Sikh
troOps.-EX.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01

The New York World of recen,
date contains an item that shows how
this wave Of prosperity is working in
that goldbug city. The World says:
From day to day the World has been
telling of the cases of starvation in this
city. There is another index of it
the line in front of Fleischmann's
bakery, just below Grace church, on
Broadway. Every night at midnight
the proprietor gives the bread left from
yesterdays baking to all who ask.
Three hours earlier the hungry line
begins to form. The poor wretches are
willing to wait for hours to get their
food five minutes earlier. Some nights
the line is two blocks long.
Il never saw it so long before" said
the policeman on the beat, "and this
is summer, too, when the tramps are
gone. The people here are all deserv-
ing"
In the bakery it was said the line
as this year.
The World also prints picture of
the long line Of men waiting outside
the bakery. In another column of the
same paper mention is also made of a
young man named Frank Kanapa, who
died from starvation in Bellevue Hos
pital after losing several positions and
then seeking employment which he
could not find.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01
What Are the Rights OF Majorities

No one measure will secure "equal
opportunities for ALL" Indeed nc
dozen will. The struggle for the eco
nomic and social emancipation of the
people is to be long one, and success
will be impossible until an intelligent
majority not only asserts, but exercises
its right to govern. A majority has the
right to do whatever any government
can rightfully do, and no minority has
a right to say that it shall not-no mat
ter what dead men may have said to
the contrary.
A majority has the right to tie its
own hands-surrender part of its own
rights-but 1t has no right to tie the
hands, or surrender the rights of any
other majority-and much less the
rights of every other majority, through
all time, and without regard to
changed conditions. Constitutional
and statutory laws intended to do this
are usurpations of power which the
people have the right to ignore-and,
when they realize that the nations
welfare demands it, they will ignore
them, provided they have not entirely
lost the spirit of freemen.-Topeka In
dependent.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01

youngstown indicator: That there
is steady and prolonged effort to con-
vince the country that times are pros
porous and that business lis flush and
active, is known and felt by all men
given to reading the newspapers. 1t is
nevertheless true that those who do
not read the papers are strangely ig-
norant of the wave of prosperity said
to be sweeping over the country.
With all this effort to beget Conf
dence" on the part of publishers whose
business it is, or ought to be, to fur
nish facts, statements are strangely at
variance and contradictory. Dun's Re-
view, said to be perfectly reliable"
and gold organ, reads like tale from
that great conception, Arabian
Nights" when recounting the glories
of present prosperity"
On the other hand, Bradstreet's.
more conservative and also reliable
takes less roseate view of conditions,
but still says prosperity is here. Dun
quotes business in Boston to prove all
he says, and states the local trade is
large and increasing" Bradstreets
quotes kilograms from the same city.
as saying, "the outlook continues IA
vorable, but general trade is yet mod
erately conducted"
That there is activity in the specu-
lative grain market is true, and it Is
also true that prices have advanced in
almost all kinds of manufactured
goods protected by the Dingley tariff.
But is this an evidence of prosperity?
Has there been any improvement in
real estate values? Has there been
any advance in the price of labor cor
responding with the higher prices ask
ed by manufacturers for their goods?
Advance in the price Of protected pro-
ducts, with decline in wages, only
means augmented riches to proprie-
tors with added hardships and increas-
ed poverty to all who labor. This is
not prosperity.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01
In Dealing With Europe.

In dealing with Europe, whether d.
rectly or indirectly, we would Tin CASE
of free silver coinage without consen
of Europe) acquire every advantage
which silver-using countries have beer
enjoying, but in much greater degree
for, while such nations as India, China
Mexico and even Russia have thus fal
only been able to compete in small
way, and in a few staples, the United
States could compete with Europe Oh
a gigantic scale, and in almost every
imaginable line Of industry. We could
undersell Europe in the Oriental mar
ket, because we would take silver
money at its face value and without the
discount which comes from converting
it into gold. We could even invade the
European market with the same ad-
vantage that the Indian and Japanese
have enjoyed, unloading upon 1t a
quantity of goods that would literally
paralyze the industries of that CONT
uent.-National Bimetallist.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01
Killing Organism.
"Ha, hal"

Ha, ma!
Col. John Jacob Astor's mirth could
be heard for blocks.
"It's the revival of prosperity that
delights me" he explained to William
c. Whitney. Ever since the hard
times I've had to get along with two
private yachts. Now / can afford
three"
"And l." replied Mr.. Whitney, "have
been able to afford but one banquet a
week to my political supporters. Now
l can give them two"
ITO what do you attribute this great
revival of prosperity" inquired Col.
John Jacob Aston.
ITO the high price of wheat and the
low price of silver" replied William c..
Whitney.
do you think" asked Col. Aston,
that the revival of prosperity will
prove the death-blow of Bryanism?"
"Do ~ said Mr.. Whitney. "Of course
I do. Why only last month dreamed
l was voting for Bryan, but 1 haven't
had nightmare since times i'm
proved"
"Then," said Col. Aston, I'VE want
to enjoy ourselves all we can, and the
spectacle of prosperity that.we present
will prove blow to Organism from
which it cannot recover"
He Immediately began preparations
for grand ball.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01

Current Events: The money mongers
OF America, as well as those Of other
countries-for they are banded togeth-
er-are seeing to it that glowing re-
ports of the discovery of gold in Alas
ka, North West Territory, California,
Colorado, South America and other
places too numerous to meltion, are
kept up. They fondly hope and lmag.
inc that exciting reports of this kind
will ALLEVIATE the affections of the peo-
pie from silver coinage, and bring
about state of lethargy among bimet-
allists.
If gold was really being found in the
enormous quantities that these great
financiers would have us think, there
would be a large sized panic among
these very manipulators-much of in
somnia, perturbation of spirit, and
crashing of teeth. Plenty of gold
would be as calamitous from their
standpoint as plenty of any other kind
of money. What these mongers want
is scarcity of real money, and there
fore dear money. The great common
people Of the whole world would re-
joice exceeding much if great quaint
ties of gold should be discovered; for
the common people are honest and
single of purpose and simply advocate
volume of money sufficient for the
worlds needs. That volume is insult
ficient and probably ever will be under
gold recommendation. 1t would take
many Klondikes, even such as the gold
bugs are picturing, to furnish enough
of the yellow metal to emancipate the
people of the world from the tyranny
of mammon worship.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01
Shall We Balk Their Game?

Republican politicians are anxious tc
sidetrack the money question, and to
make the next campaign on the tariff,
but monetary reformers are not likely
to be unwise enough to permit them to
do so.
The Dingley bill is now law. The
Republicans do not propose to make
any essential change in it, and their
opponents cannot do so while McKin-
ley is president. 1t would, therefore,
be the height Of folly for us to waste
any time on that questionable more
especially as large number of those
who are heartily with us on all other
issues are as strongly Republican on
this one-many Of them even still be-
lieving it to be the most important of
all.
But the money question is not even
temporarily settled. Car Reed GO
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01

adopt any bill the Money Power orders
the House to pass, but the Senate has
not yet been entirely enslaved. and is
not likely to beat least. not until af-
ter the next election.
If tie anti-monopolists are wise
enough to allow the Republicans to
lombard the air with tariff talk with
out reply, devoting their whole time
to the necessity of abolishing special
privileges that build up monopolies and
trusts, and practically snslave tbs
masses, they can elect the next House
and materially weaken the enemy in
the Senate
1t is, therefore, very much to be
hoped that our people will force the
issue Of economic reform and equal
opportunities for all.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01
MEXICO FOR SILVER.
A GREAT MEXICAN PAPER GIVES
GOOD REASONS.
Silver CannCt He COrnered--It Makes
Business Profitable and Attracts Capt.
tal-When VIII American Business
Men Learn?

Mexicos great journal, The Two Re-
publics, gives the following reasons
why that country will not accommo-
date the money power by adopting the
single gold standard:
We consider the silver standard a
blessing for this country, and do not
prefer the gold standard for Mexico.
We do, however, prefer it for the Unit
ed States, for the reason that our inter-
ests and our welfare are now bound Up
in this Republic, and Il Is the interest
of Mexico that the United States con.
tinue on its present basis. The advan-
tage which otherwise might accrue to
, that country now is commencing to
come to this. While the one is stand
ing still, or retrogressing, the other is
forging ahead at a tremendous pace;
and that progress, though it might not
be altogether stopped. would receive a
serious check were the United States
to make change in the monetary sys-
, TEN.
1--WE found our faith upon what ap-
pear to us to be substantial reasons
We consider the silver standard a
blessing for Mexico, because:
ut is furnishing a currency which is
not constantly approaching in value,
to the detriment of all other forms of
wealth.
1T Is furnishing a currency which
cannot be cornered, manipulated and
controlled by the few to the injury of
the many.
ut is enabling the producing classes
of the Republic to realize from their
! products more than the cost of pro-
duction.
1T is setting in motion the wheels of
progress and attracting to this country
by reason of the immense advantage
afforded by the difference in exchange,
the idle capital of the gold standard
countries.
1T is the main and paramount cause
in the awakening of the nation; in
enabling her to take on new life and
activity; in overcoming the effects of
ages of oppression, strife and turmoil;
in taking her stand on an equality with
the nations of the modern world; in
short, it is the main spring which is
setting in motion the other workings.
And there are other reasons"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01
Ingratitude.

The princely ]. Pierpont Morgan
plunged madly into the cabin of the
gorgeous yacht Corsair, and pulled lock
after lock of his silken hair from his
eonine head.
stop thatr' shouted Cornelius Van
derbilt, zone would suppose this place
was a sofa cushion and you were try
ing to stuff it."
MAN aliver shouted the princely ].
Pierpont Morgan, have you been read
ing the English papers lately?"
mo"
"You ought to. They're full of edi-
torials saying the rich are grinding the
faces of the poor in the United States,
and that the vast corporations have
combined to wiring the hard-earned
money of the toiling masses from them
by means of extortion."
Cornelius Vanderbilt smiled and gaz-
ed upon his delicate white hands, man
toured in Paris.
"Oh!" said he, "the English papers
are madly Populistic, and they have
fallen into the hands Of demagogues
and blatherskites. Well have them
attacked in the columns of our own
chaste and cultured press"
The princely ]. Pierpont Morgan tore
out more handfuls of his slken locks.
That's where the shoe pinches" he
shouted. "The money that floats our
watered stock comes from England,
and, If we denounce the English at
lacks on our corporations and combines
the reservoir of cash may dry up"
Mr.. Cornelius Vanderbilt gasped.
"And this" said he, sis English graf
itude. The corporations have sold the
country to the British only to be met
with treachery."
He swooned.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01
Coming Along.

Mister Prosperity's comm along
OATS what de rich folks say!
Blown trumpet en- ringin' gong
OATS what de rich folks say!
Say he's a-gallopin' over de State
OATS what de rich folks say!
But, pears ter de po' folks he's power.
full late
Stop fer ter res by the way!
Hope dat dey'll shake him en- wake him
in time
Help him along on de way!
Amt seen a dollar, en- can't get ;
dime
OATS what de po' folks say!
Frank Stanton in Atlanta Constitu
tion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01

The receipts of the government for
the month of August, under the Ding
ley tariff law, were $6,53S,5S2 less than
the receipts for August, 1896, under
the Wilson tariff law. 1t may be that
the claims of the republicans as to the
revenue-producing qualities of the
Dingley tariff will be realized at some
time in the future, but the above figures
show that they are, as yet, long way
from being realized. The expenses of
the government for July. the first
month under the Dingley bill, exceeded
the receipts by 81 100000. And there
was another deficit of fourteen million
for August, the second month.-Ex.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-10-01
iAPAN'S MONEY POLICY.

1t Is Not ut All the Lombard Street
The st. Louis be-Democrat of Sep
TENDER has letter from Mr.. Mutsu,
secretary OF the Japanese legation at
Washington, in which he gives an ac-
count Of the adoption Of the gold
standard BY Japan. We copy the fol-
lowing from the letter:
"The bill thus introduced adopts the
gold standard as the unit of value, and
limits silver as legal tender to 10 yen.
and nickel and copper to yen. 1t also
closes the mint to the free coinage of
silver The problem of securing par
ity between gold and silver tokens Of
value is solved in way unlike that
adopted in the United States. No at
tempt is made to legislate the silver
yen up to the value of the gold yen, but
1t is provided that the gold Yen shall
hereafter be coin of one-half the
weight Of the present coin, and shall
be equal in value to the present silver
yen. In other words, new coinage
ratio of 80 to is established.
1.-THE bill further provides that the
government alone shall have the right
to coin money, and that the coinage
shall consist of gold, silver, nickel and
copper coins. A weight of two fun of
pure gold equal to 11,574 grains) is to
constitute the unit of coinage, and to
be called yen.
THE bill passed the house of repre-
sentatives on March II, and the house
of peers on March 49, 1t received the
signature of his majesty, the emperor,
and became law on March 26, and is
to go into operation on October of the
present year.
1t will be observed that the new
law provides making a yen of gold out
OF one-half the amount of gold the
present yen contains. The present
yen of Japan is substantially the same
as the United States dollar, but the
new gold yen will be only one-half the
weight of the United States gold dollar.
Had the United States, when it took
two dollars of greenbacks to buy dol
$50 Va Sciu' PuooNu q lu6
value of paper and gold dollar by re-
ducing a dollar of gold to one-half its
size, it would have done about the same
thing Japan has DONE
But the policy of our nation was diff
ferent. 1t decided to require all debts
taxes, national dues, ETC., to be paid in
the full weight gold dollar or its equiv
alent, making paper dollar as dear
as a gold dollar by contracting the vol
ume of paper money. Ours was ruin
Gus policy; it disregarded the interests
or the masses of the people and heaped
unearned wealth into the Golfers of
Shylock. Japan's adoption of the gold
standard, with the gold dollar cut half
in two, shows that the government has
some consideration for the masses OF
the people. Had Japan adopted the
gold standard on the basis of the old
yen, the debtors would have been rob-
bed, just as they are being robbed In
the United States. While we believe
the people of Japan will regret the day
they adopted the gold standard, we
must admit that cheapening the gold
standard to one-half before adopting IT
shows desire to be fair not exhibited
by the powers-that-be in this country
for a third of century.