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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


people during the late campaign that re-
lief should be afforded them from unjust
railroad charges. In this matter prom
ises most specific were made. These
promises must be fulfilled. or this Legis-
lature will go doyn In future records as
having failed to carry out most solemn
ante-election asseverations. In view OF
these facts l desire that responsibility be
placed where 1t unquestionaby rests, to-
wit: On the members of this LEGISLATURE"
He argued the issues involved ably and
at considerable length, quoting extensive
ly from exGov. Larrabee of Iowa, and
strongly urging favorable action. The re-
suits are well known. The law passed
was not all that could be desired. but it
was long step in the right direction.
Gov. Rogers was among others instru-
mental in establishing by law a Board
of Pardons for this state. which rests the
pardoning power in the Governor and an
advisory board consisting of the Secre-
tary of State. the Auditor and the Super
intendent Of Public Instruction. Although
he has the power to do so, the Governor
has not pardoned any one who has not
been recommended by the Board. while
on the other hand he has refused TO par
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with. and the property insured shall be
wholly destroyed. without criminal fault
on the part of the insurer. or his assigns.
the amount of insurance written in such
policy shall be taken cOnCluSively to be
the true value of the property when in
sured ard the true amount OF the loss
and measure OF damages when destroyed.
In case there is partial destruction OF
the property insured. no greater amount
shall be collected than the injury sus-
ta!ned.'
AS a result of the section Just quoted
po!cy-holders know what will be paid
them in case Of total loss. and as con-
sequence the occupation of the unscrup-
ulous appraiser and bulldozing adjuster
The Fusion law $50 provided:
That insurance companies doing bus-
ness in this state. but organized in foreign
cent of the net premium collected in this
state while companies organized in any
OF the states of the Union are required to
AS will be seen. this is a simple matter
or Justice Foreign insurance companies
Keep most OF Iheir assets OUTSIDE OF TINS
ter. and consequently pay no taxes on the
same in this country. Without such a
law our own companies would be required
taxes.
This law has been advocated by insur-
ance men in this country for years, and in
some states 1t has been put into practice
to a greater or less extent. but Washing
ton has the honor of being the first state
an equitable tax law discriminating in IA
vor of home concerns. Iowa has since en-
acted q similar law. Another provision
of the new law follows:
THAT It shall be unlawful for insurance
companies to enter into any. contract or
combine for the purpose of controlling
the rate to be charged for insurance upen
property in this state"
This law forced the comnaries to leave
the question Of determining what rates
shall be charged upon property in the
hands OF our own insurance men. and e.
a result Of it's operation insurance rates
have been reduced in many localities N
this state.
1t will be seen therefore that in this
matter Of Insurance legislation alone. the
Fusion Legislature Is eatitled to the high.
est commcndation. This question of in.
surance Is assuming gigantic proportions
in eur state, and tho Fusion Legislature
was the hrst to appreciate that fact and
to take successful steps to properly safe
guard the Interests Of the assured.
The following figures show the tots,
premiums collected and losses incurred in
the various kinds of insurance written in
this state In 1887:
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State warrants are now
quoted at sl.02.s They never
We're at par under Republic
an rule-never sold for more
than 80 cents. and generally
for 90 or 20 cents. The Re-
publican press ought to copy
this injustice to their readers.
for they told them in '96 that
If the Populists were elected
that they would wreck the
credit of the state. Did they
willfully lie. or were they
simply mistaken? - Ellens-
burg Dawn.
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hdence and respect OF all parties and fac
tons. He has been an able contributor
to political reform sentiment in this state
and his efforts are highly appreciated by
all the elements of the Peoples Party.
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Fusion Cut of One-Half

TIE Fusion Legislature 1897 confined appropriations to the W
sl93464O against s20,2095 appropriated vi
Republican legislature by 10
w
debt placed W
upon Republicans about W
! half
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Improved Political Morals.

Under the changed order of things and
by virtue OF an honest. energetic Peoples
Party government the state has been ele-
waited to a high state of political morals,
and its public business Is being improved
daily. Already state warrants are selling
at a premium. and so are warrants in
many of the counties. while in all Of them
they are at. or above. par. In q few n
cash basis has been reached. and In a
short time at the present rate of progress
and improvement state and county debts
will be wiped out altogether. Teachers
are paid in cash. or in warrants which
they can Immediately convert into cash
at par or at a premium. 1t is the same
with all public employees. and with per-
sons having claims against state or coun-
ty on any account whatever.
This improved condition of things has
been noted in other states and In the
East particularly. from which quarter i'm
migration IL being revived with good
prospects for the future. History does
not record of any other state that has
been thus overriden by political tricksters
and "boodlers." and so promptly redeem
ed from the thraldom of ring corruption
as the State of Washington.
The people lost confidence in the profess
sional politicians. but they had conf
dence in themselves. and in 1896. break
ing away from party affiliations, they
banded together. not for Office. not for
spoils. but for reform. They selected
men to administer government from their
own ranks and with very few exceptions
in a county here and there. and none
whatever SO far as the State Government
Is concerned. their selections have turned
out we'll
This state has never been SO we'll gov
erned in any period Of its existence as
since the Fusionists assumed control. He
who denies this falsifies the truth in tho
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ADMINISTRATION departments

Grand Work Done Under the Fusion
Bannerin Administering Law. Re-
ducing the Public Debt, and Re-
deeming the Honor aud Credit
of State and County.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

Will ID. jenkins, Secretary Of State
and Ex-Officio Insurance Com
missioner and Ex-Ofllcio Member
of the State Board OF Land Com.
missioners, State Board of Par.
dons, Etc, Etc.-Horatio Allinr,
Chief Clerk.
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Redeeming Our Credit

Legislature the statute books
N country Il. conpeis
~ places the belonging to the
~ ouand
w abroad below premium.
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The Tide Land Fund.
Educational interests

Republican pervaded the en-
SYSTEM State Inver
their
lowest ebb
has
at premium
and fourishing.
n
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The duties Of the Secretary Of State
were greatly increased by the Fusion Leg.
islature of 1897. but no additional compen-
saton was attached to the office. He was
made member of the State Board of
Land Commissioners. and given a post
to which formerly had been attached
salary OF $1,000 year. without a dollar OF
extra pay. but with all the arduous duties
OF the position. He was also made n mem.
Der OF the State Board OF Pardons with
out pay.
In consequence of these changes the Sec.
rotary OF State Is an over-worked and
an under-paid officer. but he is not COM
planning. He is found at his offices most
OF the time early ard late, a plain unas-
Stunning. hard-working man. who applies
the rules OF commercial business to the
conduct OF his department. He Is ably
assisted in the Insurance department Nv
Deputy Insurance Commissioner c. q.
Heifner, thoroughly practical insurance
man, and In the general department by
Horatio Alling. the chief clerk, who is
recognized as one of tho most efficient,
methodical and industrious men in the
state building.
In the work OF the insurance department
or the office much credit has been earned
e, l1rgr number # UISlI' am.
agents have been compelled to pay the IL
cense tax that formerly escaped altogeth-
err thereby depriving the people of a just
source of revenue.
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Fees OF the Department..

BY virtue Of laws enacted by the Fusion
Legislature the revenue Of the department
of state has been greatly Increased. The
new law providing for the collection of
fees from corporations generally Is as
follows:
Every corporation Incorporated under
the laws OF this state. or OF any state
or territory of the United States. or OF
any foreign state. having capital stock
divided into shares. shall pay to the Sec
rotary of State. for the use OF the state.
the following fees: Every corporation
to be due and payable upon the filing of
the articles of Incorporation in the office
of the Secretary of State. and no such
corporation shall have or exercise any
corporate powers. or be permitted TO do
any business in this state, until the said
fees shall have been paid. and the Secre-
tary of State shall not file any articles
OF incorporation or their equivalent or
give any certificate thereof, until the said
fees shall have been paid.
Every corporation desiring to file ar
ticles amendatory or supplemental, or GER
tifcate of increase or decrease OF capital
stock, shall pay TO the Secretary of State.
for the use of the state. the fee OF ten
dollars.
1.-The fee for furnishing a certified copy
Of articles Of incorporation. with the seal
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This shows a loss ratio on all kinds Of
business of 80 per cent.
AS soon as Deputy Insurance Commits
sioner Heifner was appointed. he placed
his department In order for active work
and his administration Of the law has
sides securing a substantial revenue TO
the State Treasury. The tax income in
1897 from insurance companies on the
fees Of this department for the past year
were IS, Is. making a total of $2O5l39l
The taxes collected this year on the
fees will reach $1,000. while the annual ex-
pense Of the department does not amount
to 1890.
This record Is In keeping with every
department of the state government, and
is an important feature of the good work
of reform which commends the admins
tration OF the Peoples Party to the con-
fdence of the people.
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sell them at large discounts to Republics
an office-holding warrant brokers. The
credit of each and every county was we'll
nigh exhausted. Even the states paper
was a drug on the market, Its warrants
being at a discount OF from per cent to
10 per cent Many of the counties had
gone thousands and hundreds OF thou
sands Of dollars. through the extrava-
gance OF Republican county officials, be-
yond the limit Of constitutional indebted
ness. and their warrants were unmarked
able at any price. Bankers became war;
rant brokers. Officeholders went into the
business of specializing with public money
In state. county an school warrants,
pocketing large sums OF money that right
fully belonged to the people. So brazen
and daring did they become that to be
a defauIting Republican officeholder in the
State OF Washington was a certificate OF
an honored. trusted. and respected men,
Der OF the fraternity. Some Of them were
tried by Republican juries (for a baccili
had go infected the jury system that few
men not Republicans could be found on n
jury and discharged by Republican
Judges. Others fed to climes more con-
genial Some committed suicide, while
others pleaded the statutes of limitation.
and a few settled. or had their friends
had been brought u. ght"
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Good Results.

BY the provisions of this statute large
volume of extra work was imposed on
the Secretary OF State. but the people have
been rewarded by an increase of revenue
from a source abundantly able to contrib
ute II az a consequence.
These results are forcibly set forth In
the following comparative tahulated state
ment taken from the records Of the de-
narimont:
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-07-09
UNFORTUNATE C0LoRa


The man with the yellow jaundice leaned
up against the drug store at the corner of
Harrison and Halsted street and wiped the
preparation from his forehead. He was
badly out Of. breath and he consequently
talked rather spasmodically to his friend.
Il tell you, I've had mighty narrow e.
cape" he gasped.
why, how's thaty asked his companion.
They purity near mobbed me Just now
down here on Blue Island avenoo.
'Mobbed you? Why, what in the deuce
are you talkin' about? ~
near DID, fRsy just ted x e got ' my p eH
tell you-an hadn't done thing, either"
What did they have agin you
GU see that red necktie got on? Well,
that was the cause of the whole trouble /
was goin' along down Blue Island when
came to gang out in front of a saloon
talkin' war. 1stopped to hear what the
here in the crowd" Everybody turns on me
an brick just grazes my ear. / says: !
amt no Spaniard; what you talkin' about?'
"sYou bet he is; he's. got the Spanish flag
on i'm right now, yells another. But
didn't catch on yet. That's right shouts
another man, the yaller's on his face and
the reds in his necktie-lynch him. The
whole crowd made for me and cut for this
corner. ! give 'em the dodge two or three
times and got away. But say, I've got to
wear q different colored necktie till / git
over these yaller janders. Chicago Chron-
icle.
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wonderfully relieved and was satisfied that
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tinued taking them.
After taking four boxes of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People / am restored to
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Subscribed and sworn to before me, .
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+. ADAM. POUTSZONG, Notary Public.
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impure OF impoverished blood.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-07-09
The Causes Of Paralysis.

In late number of q French medt
cal journal writer of note gives some
facts on paralysis and its exciting
causes which throw new light on the
subject. He says That overexertion
and inaction after life of activity are
the n prolific causes of this disease.
In patients who have been busy during
the greater part of their lifetime, and
who, having made fortunes. retire to
take life easily, paralysis is among tho
most hopeless of maladies to combat.
Persons who are fairly 9ctiye, without
being subjected to undue mental or phys
ical strain, are not likely to have paraly-
sis 1t is extremes of bodily or menta:
fatigue which are the predisposing
causes.-N. Y. Ledger.
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Greatly Recommended.


The loss Of the hair Is sSe Of the most
serious losses q woman ceN undergo.
Beautiful hair gives many ? woman q
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scanty. 1t Is almost as serious a loss when
the natural hue of the hair begins to fade.
and the shining tresses of chestnut and
auburn are changed TO gray or TO a faded
shadow of their former brightness Such
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-07-09
HERE AND THERE.

Anything q farmer buys that he
can grow on his own land with his
own labor costs him more than he can
afford TO pay, regardless of the price.
Live stock and dairy farming is
what it must come to sooner or later;
therefore, farmers should be making
the change required to place ttlIen-
selves en-rapport with the spirit, of the
times.
s "A good road will increase the SELL
ing value of q farm; perhaps more than
the Increased taxes will be. 1t will be
discouraging IL your real estate agent
has to advise you TO wait until the
roads settle before he brings you .
buyer.
IS weet potato vines thrust into the
corn rows and between the stalks OF
corn, about the middle of June, will,
il the season is favorable, make fine
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must be given ample distance. But
thin land makes thick potatoes.
There is point in the lives of al
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Of profit. The successful grower keeps
constantly turning OF young animals
and supplying their places with others
still younger, never permitting any
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Moss clop6r fields will produce seed
If the arst crop Il eat Oh sufficiently
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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-07-09

At the opening of the German reich
stag, the government was interpellated
regarding Germans secret treaty with
Russia. The chancellor, Prince Hohen-
lobe, declined to give information on
the subject, but he declared that tho
distrust occasioned at first in other
countries by the recent disclosures had
disappeared. The minister for foreign
nffAirs denied that Germany had ever
made any agreement inconsistent with
existing treaties, and declared that she
would faithfully adhere TO the triple al
lance. and would also cultivate friendly
lrelations with Russia.--Youth's COM
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In working farm teams, either for
blowing, cultivation OF the land, or
heavy loads, there sre at least
two prime requisites demanded for in
surtrg satisfaction to the driver and
the greatest amount of ease and COM
fort TO the horse, says the Indiana
Farmer. First, they should be evenly
matclled a. to size, speed and spirit:
and in the second place the harness
and whifilctrees be so balanced and adj
1ustesl to the load that an even pull
will bear equally upon the weight to
Is drawn The average plowman is
nnh1f to overlook the Importance Of
this equal adjustment system. and it il
mot Uncommon to see the end of the
l1nubletreo TO which the furrow
horse is hitched several inches, often 8
Efeot, lower than the other as the team
1 pulls the p1ow along; this not only
ndds labor and friction, hut = throws
1.-The roaming of the pillow outof balance.
making Il harder for the plowman and
for the best class OF work
Ito be pcrforned. The whifIetxees. or,
- they are known to some, the doubts
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tBiot. a Il too o(teq the oaaA en-
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lntniA IA y WIZ lee hfEee
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All admit that the existing laws and
practice of working roads are very de-
fective. No class of people are more
interested in having good roads than
farmers. No class of people use them
more. For reasons political or other
wiseit seems well-nigh impossible to
secure effective legislation on the sub.
ject, or to get the laws in existence
fully executed. Would it not. there.
fore, be to the interest of farmers in
every neighborhocd to combine and
work the roads near them with their
own labor? We have seen this done
with excellent results. There are
many times when the fields are too
wet to work, and at such times farm
labor could not be employed more
profitably than in working the roads.
Under existing road laws in Georgia
and perhaps other states--there u ;
pretense of working the roads twice a
year. But the roads can not be kept in
good condition by working at such
long intervals. A wash or mudhole
needs to be looked after as soon as it
begins to form. Very little labor is
required then to correct the trouble;
1T is pre-eminently case in which a
stitch in time saves nine. Properly
looked after and attended to in season,
very little labor will be needed to keep
roads in excellent condition. --Southerr
Cultivator.
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