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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
Fifty Cent Wheat.

The Financial Record has dropped
upon stubborn fact. 1t says:
1.-The price of wheat is bound to have
an immense influence upon business
conditions. 1t is, we believe, fair to
say that with wheat at 65 cents in Chi
cago, 1t will yield the farmer at point
of production only about so cents per
bushel, which in turn does not
represent ordinarily so cents per
day for the labor put into
it. Fifty-cent wheat, therefore,
means fifty-cent labor, and portends a
proportionate valuation on all other
things that represent labor. Therefore,
from this time on, the market course
of wheat should be carefully watched
as guide"
We trust that the Chicago Tribune,
the Globe-Democrat and the Portland
Oregonian will not keep still under a
.showing like that. Col. Bryan will
soon have his uniform off and will be
in a position to be questioned about
the relations between the price Of
silver and the price Of wheat. Last
spring, when the Letter deal was on,
all those journals importuned Mr..
Bryan daily to explain why his theory
had broken down. When farmer In
the Mississippi valley sells wheat at 81
cents per bushel he does not realize 81
cents per day for his labor. He does not
clear as much as does the poor and
despised Mexican, who works for IS
cents per day in Mexican money. The
proof Of that is that the Mexican
does pretty well, while the American
farmer has not made cent for five
years, except through the misfortunes
of the outside world.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
Notes.

Coopers won strikes against reduc.
tions in wages in st. Joseph, Mo-, and
Detroit, Mich.
The Salvation Army has dedicated q
farm of 2S8 acres near Cleveland, o.,
to the use Of destitute working men.
The National Brotherhood of Black
smiths offers $40 and the Trunk and
Bag Workers International union Of
fers Sc to organizers Of the American
Federation of Labor for every union
formed by them of those crafts.
A roll of wall paper measures eight
yards and 1t is twenty inches wide.
There are 2O0,O00,0OO rolls of wall pa
per manufactured each year, and the
price ranges from Az cents a roll to
50 a roll. If joined end to end, this
output OF paper would be nearly mil
lion miles long. This paper would
cover an area of 1852 acres.
The Coopers' International union has
decided to admit machine workmen In
slack barrel shops, but not in beer kee
shops. The following national officers
were elected: President, Charles w.
Teney of Milwaukee; first vice presi-
dent, Isaac Miller Of Sandusky; Sec
ond vice president, Joseph B. Ham
mond of Buffalo; third vice president,
Patrick ]. Donnelly Of Boston; treas
urer and secretary, James Gable Of
Kansas City.
A concession has been granted to an
American company-known as the
China Developing company, headed by
ex-senator Calvin S. Brice Of New
York-for the construction Of rail-
way from Canton nearly due north to
Hankow, in the heart Of the Yang-tse-
Kiang valley This line, starting from
the principal port of Southern China,
traverses several of the most wealthy
and populous provinces OF the empire,
for a distance of some 600 miles.
The International Socialist congress
held in 1896, London, England, resolv-
ed that the next congress should be
held in Germany in 1899. The COM
mittee having the arrangements in
charge has notified all concerned that
they could not get permission to hold
the congress under conditions where
liberty of debate and personal security
of the delegates against arrest by the
government would be assured; hence
the congress will not take place in
Germany, but is deferred to 1900, and
it will be held in Paris, France.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Mr.. Charles w. Erdman, United
States consul at Breslau, Germany, has
compiled a report of wages paid in the
city of Breslau and the province OF ST.
lesia generally. In considering them
it must be remembered that Posen'
Silesia and adjacent parts of Austria
are the places where lowest wages pre-
vail. Mr. Erdman finds that in glass
factories blowers get from $685. to
$8.57 week; cutters, from $429 to
ST., engravers and painters the same;
shelters get from $2.S6 to $4.29; heat
ers, burners, sorters and packers, S2.S6.
and binding girls only SLAB. In glove
making, cutters receive from S2.S6 to
s4.29, heaters, sorters from $1,19 to
$1.9O, and sewing girls from % cents
to $1.90. Even the skilled labor is I'M
derpaid. Railroad engineers get from
1888 to 81. GOA week, switchmen from
1915 to $500, conductors the same as
switchmen, firemen from SAT- to $751;,
and braksmen from 1857 to $5.47. Shoe
makers receive from $3.50 to $3.50,
street cleaners from $3.50 to S4.29, la
borers from $3.50 to $3.R7. bakeye from
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
A Great Modern Industry.

One of the new and important Amer
lean industries that has grown up dur
ing the last twenty years, along WIN
the telephone, the bicycle, and the
amateurs camera, is that of the type
writer. In 1880 the aggregate capital
invested in all four of these industries
was only small part of what is now
employed in the prosecution OF any
one of them. The telephone and Di-
cycle lead in Importance, the type
writer stands next. In 1890 thirty type
writer factories were in operation;
they employed LBS men, and the value
of their product was $3,63O,126 In
1893 one typewriter company gave reg
ular employment to 1890 workmen'
During that year some of the leading
makers were weeks behind in their or
ders. In 1895 careful estimate placed
the number of machines in use not less
than 100000. During the year follow
ing 3,426 typewriters were used in thir-
ty-four Office buildings in New YORK
city. A statement published in the
Photographic World of April, 1886,
showed that in New York there were
then more than 5000 typewriters IN
use south of Fulton street and east OF
Broadway, and that throughout the city
the number of high-class machines in
daily operation exceeded $4,000. Chi
cago, it was estimated, used 15,0Oo;
Philadelphia, 14,500; Boston, 5000; ST.
Louis, 400; Baltimore, 1900; Wash
ington, $500; Cincinnati, $500, and
San Francisco, 5000, while Cleveland,
Buffalo, Pittsburg and Detroit used
more than 1000 machines each. In
not one Of the dozen smaller cities OF
the Union were to be found less than
500, and some of them had as many as
1900. The total number in use in the
United States was placed at 100000
Since 1896 the manufacture and sale
of typewriters has greatly Increased.
No statement of the exact number
made and used at the present time Is
available: 1t certainly exceeds half
million, and reaches perhaps three
quarters of a million. Agencies for
the sale of the machines and dealers
in typewriter supplies are located in
every city, and in many small towns in
the country. The number OF schools
in which typewriting is taught Is esti-
mated to be 1900, attended by more
than 10000 pupils, large majority OF
whom are women. Perhaps no other
distinctly American industry has been
so little affected by foreign competi-
ton as has that under consideration.
Despite repeated attempts on the part
of people of other nations to devise
writing machines which would sup
plant those made in this country, the
American product is today as much
fayorite abroad as it is at home. In
fact, America practically supplies the
demand for typewriters all over the
! world. The expectation Of them dur
ing the past eight years has probably
been about one-third Of the entire pro-
duction. The total value Of the type
writing machines and parts exported
during the fiscal year ending on June
30. 1897, was $1,566,916. Progress clos
es old avenues of labor, but it opens
new ones that are broader, longer and
more remUnerative.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
CURE FOR SOCIALISM.
John Burns Tells How the English
People Remedy the Disease.

John Burns Tells How tho English
People Remedy the Disease.
From the Boston Transcript: John
Burns, M. P, is humorously conscious
Of the kindly strength of the methods
used against socialism in England.
Talking recently with several friends,
he said: IF you are a socialist on the
continent you find people crying Shoot
him down! In this country they say:
You want to manage the world. do
you? Well, here's bit of it; try your
hand at that II he succeeds they
give him bigger bit, and so on, till
he is up to his ears in work and has
no time to think about revolutions.
Oh, the British people are an artful
lot! The difference between Kerr Har-
die and me-" Mr.. Burns added, lis that
he wants to turn the world inside out
at one pull, and he goes on strike If
he's not allowed to do it, whereas If
can get what want bit at time
go on working"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
The Smithsonian Institute.

The Smithsonian Institute at Wash
ington was founded on bequest left
to the United States government by an
English gentleman named Smithson.
He left the use of his money to an in
valid nephew, with the provision that
upon his death it should be bequeathed
to the United States of America, to
found at Washington, under the name
of the Smithsonian Institution, an es-
adjustment for the increase and diff
fusion of knowledge among men. The
contingency anticipated by Mr.. Smith
son occurred in 1885, and the United
States fell heir to property worth half
a million dollars. 1t is little Singh
lar to note that this bequest and the
only one ever made directly to the
United States government. was from an
Englishman. The Smithsonian insti-
tute was opened in 1888, and in respect
to public usefulness, has been mere
successful than perhaps Its founder
dared to hope.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

s4.29 to 1924, policemen from $4.b3 10
s7.14. electricians from $4.29 to 1882,
blscksmitls and horseshoers from $4.2s
to STA, machinists from $4.29 to $5.7l,
boiler makers from $2.S6 to $5.95 and
so on.
Mr.. Erdman asks how a country
where unskilled labor is paid at the
rate Of from s1.25 to So day Is to CON-
pete with skilled labor receiving as
little as so cents.
Some American firms have taken ad-
vantage OF conditions in Silesia. mus
Mr.. ErdmAn reports that the AT
buckles coffee people placed a $oo,ooo
order for posters there, because they
got lower price than American print
ers could quote Several printing hrlns
have solicitors for American trade.
Many factories Of different kinds are
running day AMI night on American
orders.
While this is true of the district
where Mr.. Erdman is stationed, the
trade report of the German empire -
a whole tell different story. IL IL .
fact, as shown by the recent treasury
bulletin published in Washington, tna'
German importations have, to marx
ed and material extent, fallen on tnis
year. From 1894 to 1897 inclusive, tax
ing the fiscal years of each year lyear
ending July y German expectations 10
the United States steadily increaseu
each year. In 1894 they amounted 10
$50 ,O0O,O 900, in 1896 to $S1,O0O,Ooo, IN
1896 to 1914, 100000, and in 1897 to $lll'-
OO0, 1000, the high mark. Last year the
fiscal year recently ended, there was
a decline to s69,000,000, falling on OIL
forty-five per cent. Other countries,
it is true, exported less TO the unlteu
States, last year than in some OF tne
years preceding, the decline OF Frehcn
imports being about twenty per cent
compared with 1897, of British imports
about thirty per cent, and OF HOLLAND
imports about five per cent. Ter
| many's excess of manufactured proa-
ucts is increased and diminished ny
the market for "cheap-made goods
and the present industrial conditions
of the United States are not, and &c
not seem likely for many years to De
favorable to a large sale OF manufac-
tured articles in the American market
The American exports to Germany
| for which German goods or their equl-
valent are exchanged amounted to $s7'-
900, 900 in 1896, s125, 900 in 1897, and
s155, 100000 in 1898. The chief article
of American expectation to Germany
is cotton. Lard, oil cake, hides anu
timber are other items. There is also
large expectation of American tooac-
co TIC Germany, and of copper in bars
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

The United States consul at Vienna,
in . report to the state department on
the trade Of Austria Hungary for 1897.
ascribes the general decrease In ex-
ports to this country to the fact that
the same goods are now manufactured
in the United States and can be sold
there at the same or lower prices than
the Austrian goods. The report is that
American silk is being sold in Lyons,
the real silk center in Europe, and
that French manufacturers are buying
1t in large quantities, especially that
used for lining purposes, to take the
place Of that formerly imported from
Austria and Germany. There Is fall
ing off in the demand for pearl goods,
and for glassware, due to the popu-
larity and superiority of the American
product. 1t is frankly admitted, the
consul says, that the American cut
glass Is finer and more elegantly cut
than any manufactured in Europe. The
American bicycle, according to the con-
sui, is finding favor with the wheel
men, notwithstanding its higher price
over those of domestic make. He
thinks that IL United States manufae-
turers desire to get their wheels into
the foreign market they should be sat
isfied with a little less profit and try
to make easier terms for their agents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
A Womau's Idea.

The announcement that young wo-
man Of this city has found an occu-
patton for herself In the preparation
Of music for invalids is easily cred
ible. Experiments In hospitals have
been frequently made to show that mu.
sic possesses a distinctly soothing and
indirectly healing power. The difficult
question is the style of music suited to
Individual complaints. AS such must
be determined always by actual expert.
ment, 1t can hardly be expected that
tunes can become regularly classifee
in therapeutics-New York Evening
Post
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

/. was a Chicago man who sold his
affections to a woman for about hun
bred dollars and then repudiated the
woman; and it was a Chicago judge
who ruled that she could not recover
the money because a mans love could
not be estimated in dollars and cents.
It might have occurred to the judge,
one would think. that the man was
swindler; and If that failed to bring
satisfaction there ought to have been
a horsewhip-not for the judge, per-
haps, but for the man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

The Cunard Company has lately
given an order for new steamship,
which will be the largest ever con-
structed. She is not to be passenger
boat, and is not to be built for speed,
and accordingly she will attract less
general interest than her smaller sis
ters, the Lucania and Campania, which
register only thirteen thousand tons
apiece. The biggest vessel now afoat
is the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse. o.
the North German Lloyd. She is six
hundred and fifty feet long, and reg
listers more than fourteen thousand
tons. She will not long be the levi
athan, Of the Atlantic liners. for In q
short time the White Star Company
will have the Oceanic on the water,
and she, with her seven hundred feet
length, will be twenty feet longer thai,
the Great Eastern. the wonder OF the
last generation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
Tho Exasperatinp Cubans,

The conduct of the Cubans in per
sisting in expressing gratitude to the
Americans for their deliverance from
the cruel yoke Of Spain, and proffer-
ing their assistance to organize a sta
BILE government, is calculated to ex-
asperate the American combine who
have so diligently sought to provoke
them to such rash action as would
furnish an excuse for the United States
to set up government over them, and
put the members of the combine into
positions that would enable them to
plumber Cuba.-Silver Knight-Watch-
man.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
No Outaide Domination.

The battle of 1900 will be fought and
won for home-rule and against i'm
perialism in the control of the curren.
cy; for home-rule and against i'm
perialism in the government Of the
states; for home-rule and against i'm
perialism in the government Of the
world.
That fight cannot fail. The mil.
lonaires and their retainers are
against it; but what are they against
the laws of Almighty God and the love
OF liberty divinely implanted in the
hearts of all Northumberland Of
Agriculture.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

According to letters received from
members of the First Kentucky regi-
ment, which landed at Ponce, Porto
Rico, on the transport Alamo, the
greatest hardships were endured by the
soldiers during the voyage. The men
were quartered in the hold with foul
air to breathe, and the diet consisted of
canned beef. raw tomatoes and coffee
once q day. A guard is said to have
been kept around the officers kitchen
to keep the starving men from taking
food sy force. The steward Is alleged
to have made money by charging high
prices for ice water and bread. The
eternal monotony Of the same food Is
enough to drive a man crazy, espe-
cially canned food. No moro trans
ports should be sent anywhere without
q proper variety for the men aboard.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

The Wall street organs assert that
the country is experiencing wonder
full revival of prosperity. They also
assert land print tables furnished by
the treasury department to prove iD
that the volume of currency is now
being expanded more rapidly than
ever before. Than how can a believer
in Wall street political economy deny
that currency expansion and prosper.
ity 60 hand In hand?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO, 81

LUCAS COUNTY,
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he IL the
senior partner OF the firm Of F. J. Cheney & Co.,
doing business In the City Of Toledo, County
and State aforesaid, and that said firm VIII pay
the sum OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS Tor
each and every case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use Of Halls Catarrh Cure.
FRANK ]. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this 9th day Of December, A. o. 1854
fSEILj A. w. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, ano
Acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
Of the system Send for testimonials, free
f. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, u
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
Hawaii and the philippines.

Send four cents lin stamps) for an
illustrated booklet issued by the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway,
the direct route across the American
Continent to the New Trans-Pacific
possessions Of the United States. Full
Of latest reliable information and val
liable for reference. Can be used as .
text book in school. Address Geo. H.
Heafford, Genl Pass. and Ticket
Agent, Chicago, Ill.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
The Greatest Lay.

The greatest bay on the face of the
earth is that of Bengal. Measured in
a straight line from the two inclosing
peninsulas, it's extent is about AGO, 600
square miles.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

The habit of virtue cannot be formed
in a closet. Habits are formed by acts
of reason in a persevering struggle
through temptation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Some are rich in money only; how
poor are they! To hold money is MOTH
ing, to use it for the highest good Is
rapture.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Human action is a seed of circum-
stances scattered in the dark land OF
the future, and hopefully left to the
powers that rule human destiny.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Hens should scratch for all they
get" Why not make trust-builders
and stock-waterers do the same thingY
Farm, Stock and Nome.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORkMEN.

The Modern Typewriter Industry-Soms
Labor In Germany Extremely Poorly
Rewarded-General Notes Pertaining
to Labor.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Cervera is a nice enough man; but
we are glad he has gone home, be-
cause otherwise the plutocrats would
want to run him for president of the
United States. There are so many
people who can never learn to stop
whom they get through
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

any fever-haunted islands to obtain
II. 1t 10 easier. cheaper and more In
accord with our. protested religious
principles to increase the purchasing
power Of people here at home.
An ordorless onion is advertised.
aud the seed will be eagerly bought
by those who believe that M. A. Han
ma is the boss Of an anti-monopoly
party.
Evidently the railroads will own the
government before the government
owns the railroads, but the conditions
will be reversed before many years
pass.
This Is an awakening Of the people
which will become a great uprising
in 1900.
How could our troops be properly
fed, clothed, transported and cared for
in the hospitals when the staff officers
who had charge of these matters were
brainless and dissipated young dudes,
the black sheep Of the families Of plu-
tocratic millionaires, with no knowl-
edge Of either. warfare or business
methods? These incompetents were
appointed by President Mckinley
not by Secretary Alger. The privates
In the ranks Of the volunteers anu
their friends will settle with Mr.. NC
Kinley two years hence.
1t will pe admitted by observing plu'
tocratic politicians that there is, after
all, an intimate relation between Sill
yer and wheat. AS the price OF wheat
decreases the free silver vote in
creases.
1t is a fact that great many men
who are in favor of the abolition Of
monopoly vote tickets dictated by
monopolists, and known to be so
dictated. This is strange, and 1t may
not always be true.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Books are the best Of things well
used; abused among the worst. What
is the right use? What is the one end
which all means 60 to effect? They
are for nothing but to inspire. Every
book is good to read which sets the
reader in a working mood.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

The meaner a man is the harder no
tries to lower his record.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Some people try to console them
selves in the hour Of their misfortune
by saying "There are others"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

There are no professional women
divers. 1t Is impossible to talk under
water.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

The tramp is always glad to get a
steak. but he draws the line at chops
in the wood shed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
INHARMONIOUS IDEAS.
GOLD STANDARD FIGURES AND
THEORIES.

claims OF Rapid Increase In the Volume
Of Currency Together with Prosperity
Inconsistent with Opposition to Fur
Their Increase In the Money Per Capita.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28
KANSAS.

womenI shoes are naturally tight
when they are full.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

The prettier the girl the more atten-
tion she seems to think she requires.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Tho detective who rides a wheel
should indulge in track exercise.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

A woman seldom throws at anything
until she is so mad that she can't see
straight.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

Probably most people think you are
as foolish as you think they are.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-10-28

No man can endure with patience q
woman's slur about his clothing.