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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15

The frauds perpetrated by the rail-
roads upon the government Of the
United States were clearly revealed by
Jerry Simpson in the house ten days
ago when he spoke on the Loud bill.
The deficit in the postal service is due
to the excessive sums paid to the rail-
roads for carrying the mails. They
ought to receive fully $2o,OO0,O0O less
than they do. The government, how
ever. is under the influence of the men
who own these railroads and as for
the house 1t cannot be induced to take
n,tion owing to the lobby maintained
by the corporations. The postoffice COM
mittee of the house is composed of
special agents of the railroads who may
he trusted to see that their masters,
the corporations, are taken care or.
There are many fayors which Jerry
Simpson has conferred upon his ooun
try but not one is greater than the SER
vice he rendered upon the day he ex-
posed the corrupt jobbery by means Of
which the railroad corporations steal
s25 900, 900 from the treasury every
year. 1t is no wonder that the postal
service of the country has difficulties
to contend with. Thsse same railroads
have so much respect for the mail ser
vice that whenever a strike is on they
put mail cars at the end of their regu-
lar trains. The government thus not
only pays an outrageous sum for carry
ing the mails, but has to order out the
army to see that they are carried at
all.-Twentieth Century.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15

Is there any showing or Increased
prosperity for cattle and hog feeders in
these figures?
Ex-Congressman Towne has been
discussing the money question In Call
fornia before large audiences, and in
Stockton the editor of the Independent
asked him why the price Of wheat had
not recently fallen with the price OF
silver. After explaining that 1t had,
and that, but for the influences of the
gold standard, wheat would be twice
it's present price, Mr.. Towne challenged
the goldite editor to answer AMI dis
cuss, in his paper, the following ques-
tions:
l. Do you believe in the dollar Of
greatest purchasing power?
g. Are you glad that In 1897 certain
American farmers got higher Price
for their wheat than for some years
past?
3. If you say Eyes" to the last ques-
ton, explain why you are glad that the
dollar had less purchasing power" as
reckoned in wheat. than before.
4. If it was good thing that the
farmer got higher price for his wheat.
would it not have been still! better II
Re could have got higher prices for
his hay his cotton, his fruit, and all
his products?
5. If higher prices for the farmer
would be good, why not also for the
other producers?
6. Explain to your readers how the
general level of prices can permanently
rise unless we increase the amount Of
money in which they are reckoned.
AS rule cruelty should be avoided,
but present political conditions make
it 5ustifiable to present the foregoing
list of questions to each goldbug editor
ard orator.
PERCY PEPRON.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15

Now that the Denver papers have
forced the department stores to adj
vertise, the warnings in their columns
about the low wages Sc clerks, the
shoddy gods and fake Taethods Of
these stores to crush cut the nohle lit
tie merchants, are conspicuous ty
their absence. These stores are no
longer menacing monopolies if they
will pay the advertising rates How
little it takes to change "grasping
monopoly" into great public bene-
factor-in the eyes Of the daily press!
To me this looks just like blackmail,
but then l may have queer conceptions
OF right and rong.-Appeal to Rea-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15
PERCY PEPRoN.


The Wall street opposition to Span.
ish war, or in fact to any war Just
now, is based upon the condition of our
financial system, says the Twentieth
Century. The country is not yet upon
a statutory single standard Our money
is what it was when Grover Cleveland
left Office. In the event Of protracted
war it is practical certainty that the
single gold standard and the blessings
accompany it must be shelved for q
time. The Wall street organs are panic
stricken at the idea. They say the gov
eminent may issue greenbaclIs, as 1t
did in the sixties. All these things
are very serious for Wall street. 1t is
this Wall street influence that may
throw us into the arms of some arbi-
tration commission or other at thu last,
moment and putthe Cuban question
CO the diplomatic shelf for another six
months. The country may be told that
Spain has yielded" Yield Spain never
will. If any attempt is made to back
down the administration will cover 1t
under the cloak Of the fiction that Spain
has yielded" But the attitude Of the
Spanish government and the Spanish
people makes such a thing - yielding
impossible.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15
CURRENT NOTES.

IF the masses were now enjoying
general prosperity they would certainly
know it, would stop complaining OF
hard times. and would rejoice in the
industrial revival. At least they would
quit making assignments, tramping,
cutting wages, striking, begging, sui
Gliding, starving and pauperizing If the
causes for such conduct were removed.
Consider the widespread rauperiza-
ton and ask yourself what 1t means.
The American citizen is institution
ally ayerse to asking public aid. He
will not do it until ne has exhausted
his resources and his credit. and fire.
quently he actually starves rather than
make himself pauper.
And yet in Massachusetts,, the rich
est state in proportion to population In
the Union, last year-the year Of re-
stored prosperity, 1S97-85,00 families
received public relief. Eighty-five
thousand families should represent
population Of 524,O00-enough people to
make city just about the size Of Bos-
ton. And they still call 1t the "com-
monwealth of Massachusetts"
The above figures are startling
enough, We should think. to shock tho
most callous Hannaite. Our authority
for them is high class Republican
paper. the San Francisco Argonaut.
The halfway decent price Of wheat,
obtained by the farmers because Of a
worldwide shortage and in spite Of the
tendencies Of the gold standard, has
given a little temporary relief But
the price for next falls crop will drop
to goldbug basis. where all other farm
products have remained. Then we shall
really begin to feel "the existing gold
standard"
Cotton Is lower than ever before in
the history of this country. To those
goldbug organs that indefinitely claim
big prices for hogs and cattle as re-
suit of Mckinley confidence, we desire
to quote some figures from the Kan.
sas City Daily Drovers' Telegram OF
January 81, 1898. That paper has tablr,
lated the average top prices for several
years. l. e., taking the higest price paid
for cattle and hogs each day, has struck
an average of such top prices for each
year, as follows:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15
Jefferson tho Visionary.

Every man and woman who hae
brain of superior quality is vision
airy. 1t is only the dull, senseless clod
who has no visions of higher fed hui
manity; Of an international brother
hood Wherein there shall be no soldiers
and few policemen; of holier church,
better judges and better laws. These
were some Of the visions of Jefferson.
M. M. Trumbrls
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15
debt and interest, off the firing hands
of labor. CLARKE IRVINE
POINTS FROM THE PRESS.

It is limited that the president and
his cabinet are feeding up on starch
to stiffen their back-bones.-Bodie
Miner-Index.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15
PROSPERITY NOTES.

After more than two months hard
hghting, the Globe shipyard strike at
Cleveland, Ohio, has been declared off
and the men compelled to acknowledge
a defeat, which may mean the total
disintegration of their local union.
The Globe yards are owned by Senator
Mark Hanna.
The employees of Seyfert's rolling
mill at Gibraltar, Pa, have been in
formed of reduction in their wages
the puddlers from $2.4O to S2.25 per
ton and the men in the plate mill
about 10 per cent all around.
The appeal of the New Bedford,
Mass. textile workers, now on strike,
sets forth that 400 families, comprising
1000 men, women and children, are
slowly starving to death, and that I'M
less aid is forthcoming within short
time the strike will have to be aban-
doned.
All the street car lines in Saginaw,
Mich, were tied up Friday. The nine
ty conductors and motormen went on
strike. The men demand regular
hours and pay for overtime. They
have been working fourteen to sixteen
hours daily.
Arthur Hamlin, a grandson of Han
nibal Hamlin, vice-president of the
United States when Lincoln was presi-
dent, was arrested in this city on Mon
day last and charged with vagrancy.
Hunger drove him to desperation, so
he went into restaurant, and after
eating a hearty meal left without
paying. The proprietor of the place
made the charge. The "culprit's" de-
tense was that he was without either
money or friends, had not eaten for
days, and could not obtain employ
ment, which he had earnestly sought
for long time. Judge Conlan, very
properly, dismissed him, but, probably
ironically, commanded him to secure
a situation" Can the judge secure 1t
for him? Hundreds come into our Of
flee every week looking for that very
thing, and we can say-because we
know-that even most highly educated
and refined men are grateful II they
can secure place" even as com
mon laborer," which, in most cases, is
impossible, for the market" Is glutted.
San Francisco Star.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15

Is there any showing Of increased
prosperity for cattle and hog feeders In
these figures?
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-04-15

1t Is limited that the president and
his cabinet are feeding up on starch
to stiffen their back-bones.-Bodie
Miner-Index.
William Dean Howells is undergoing
severe criticism in the English literary
weeklies for saying, in recent paper,
that the masses are the great arbiters
of letters. Macaulay, in his essay on
John Bunyan, declares that great
books find favor with the superior few
before they are welcomed by the
masses. Had this been so the world
would have lost Homer. But Macaulay
cared more about the English literary
organs than Mr.. Howells does.-Twen-
tieth Century.
Just stop a minute and then ask
yourself this question: Why, after
farmers raise food to feed the nation,
and laborers manufacture i. goods,
houses, tools, furniture and all articles
of luxury, is it necessary to stand idle
until few grains of worthless sand
can be dug out of the bowels of the
earth to be used as a medium to ex-
change all these varied products one
with another ?-Faribault Jeffersonian.
We trust that in the expenditure OF
the $50, 100000 defense appropriation
the administration will not let itself
be imposed upon by its alleged friends
who helped it to gain power. All con-
tracts should be let to the lowest bid
ders. We make this remark on &C.
count of a news item stating that
Hanna's company secured a contract
to supply $4,000 tons of coal. Keep
an eye on "jobs. Silver Knight
Waterman.
Doubtless Mr.. Hanna recalls the
fact that Spain is one of those enlight-
ened nations of the earth that have the
gold standard and is unwilling to dc
anything likely to cause a departure
from that financial policy.-Omaha
World
When we shuttle off this mortal coll
we will not regret what we have done
for the material welfare of others, and
all that we have done to promote our
own material interests will be lost. We
will then, If not before, be able to
realize that in the last analysis, the
good we do is all we gain" And
when this truth, in its full import, is
taken into consciousness of the living
all will have an abundance of material
blessings. This was what Jesus refer
red to when he said: Seek first the
kingdom Of God and his righteousness
and all these things (material bless
ings. food, shelter and raimenD shall
he added unto you. The New Nation.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-09-02

q. A. Hickox, distinguished son of
Washington, in an article on Golden
Times in Judea,n says: FOR eighty
years the Congregational church, its
pastors and its leading men, had govern
cd the Judean society. For 40 years
they had governed the town Of WASH
ingtOn. Judge Brinsmade having
exercised, through most Of that time, .
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1898-09-02

Selections frsm an Article in the Connecticut
Quarterly by Permission of Its Publishers
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13

II, -Droste, .nG =; --d,ton, a.; Gf@tb;
dale, H.; fIoward. r.; johnson, r.;
Joyce, r.; kcmper, Ind. r.; Lane, Ind.
r.; Leeper, T., Leland, RI Loye, II
Mccormick, H.; McCurdy, r.; Mckin-
SMIp Means T." H. Tn%% Morrow. r. e. NoTrs %TrSnf r. Par
ker, r.; Rankin, Clark, r.: Rankin,
Fayctte, r.. Redkcy,. r.; Reynolds, r.;
Roberts, RI; Shaw. r. Smith, Adams.
R.; smith, Delaware, r.; Snidor, H.;
SNYDER, r.; Stewart, Clark, r.; stewart.
r.; Taylor r.. Wuddcll, r.; Alexander
r.. Blake, r. Gable, RI Carpenter, T.,
Crandall, r.; Dodge, r.; Garfield, r.;
Lut2, r.; NAV, r.; Plummer. r.. Riley,
r.. sheppard, H. sullivan, r; Voight,
Ind. r.; WiRhtman, H.. Williams, RI
Wolcott, r. Total, AZ.
Mckisson-Adams. ID, Agler d.; Bart
low, d.. Bolin ID. Booth, d.; Bower D.;
Bracken, D.; Bramley, r.; Cline, D.
Connolly, d.; Cox, D.. Deran, d.; Gay
man, d.; Goard, D.; Haiden, D.; Hater
D.. Heyde, D.. Hull d.; Hunter, y;
Jones, r.; Kemplc, D.; Kennedy, r.;
Laml, d.; Ludwick, d.; Mac cBroom, D.;
Monter, D.; Niles, D.; o'Ncil, D;i Otis
s. r.; Payne, D.; Piper. D.; Powell,
Ross, D.; Rothe, D.; Russell, d.. Rutan,
r.; Schneider, d.; Scott, r.. -smalley,
D.; Spellmycr, d. Stivers, D.; swain, D.;
Williams D.. Speaker Mason, r.; Burke,
r.; Brorein, D.; Cohen, d. Cromley
D.; Decker, D.; Doty.- D.; Finck, d.;
Harper, d.; Jones, D., Kennon, d.. beet,
D.; Long, D.; Miller, d.; Mitchell, D.;
Nichols, D.; Pugh, D.; Robertson, u.
Schafer, D.; Valentine, d.; Hess, ID.
Hazlett, ID. Total, 20.
Wyley, Democrat, voted for John j
Lentz, Democrat, and Cramer, Demo
crat, was absent on account of serious
illness, the total number of senators and
Representatives being lao.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
BOYER is CONFIRMED.
Senate Also Adopts Nominations of Som,
Ohio Postmasters.

Senate Also Adopts Nominations of som,
Ohio Postmasters.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The senate
has confirmed these nominations Henry
X. Boyer of Pennsylvania, TO be super.
intendent of the mint at Philadelphia;
7. +. Penman, to be collector of internal
revenue for the Twelfth district of
Pennsylvania.
Ohio postmasters-F. Yeager, Perrys.
burg; G. w. Wilkinson, North Balti.
more; Q. II. p. Waltz, Delta; L. p.
Webster, Gambler; w. r. Tyler, Huron;
B. II. Trescott, Alliance; T. ID. Shep.
herd, Norwalk; f. 1. Snyder, Colum.
biana; j. j. Robinson, Port Clinton; II.
A. Roether, McComb; w. d. Powley
Monroeville; j. @. Metzger, Oak Har,
Dor; J. b. Kagey, Louisville; G.. w
Holman, Plymouth; II. A. Huffman
Bradner; M. B. Everitt, Payne l.. s
Ebright, Akron; /. j. Davis, Miles, @
S. Dunn, Lockland; w. S. Brigham
Wauseon; H. Barnhill, Wellston.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
WOULD APPRECIATE GOLD.
Statement Regarding n Bill Denied b.
Both Democrats and Republicans.

Statement Regarding Bill Denied by
Both Democrats and Republicans.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.--There was
also lively debate in the house over the
provision in the urgent deficiency bill
requiring the owners of bullion here.
after to pay the cost of transporting
bullion from assay offices to the mints.
The western members and the free sill.
yer advocates generally took the position
that this change of policy on the part of
the government (Which now pays these
charges) would discourage gold produo.
ton, appreciate its value and might re.
suit i'll driving the gold to foreign mints
The Republicans and some of the
Democrats, including Mr.. Sayres TEX. },
denied that it would have any such effect
and mean simply the repeal eff a bounty
granted to miners since 1879. The mo
tion to strike out the provision was de,
feated-110 to 1926.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
CALLED oe AamoNo a scoLo.
Joe CanDon's Reply to An Attack by the
Missourian.

Joe Cannon's Reply to An Attack by the
Missourian.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Thc house
passed an urgent deficiency bill carrying
81 ,7Il ,S43. One of the items authoriz-
ing a further expenditure of $500, 900
for the Soldiers home at Danville, Ills,
for which sl50,000 was appropriated in
the last sundry civil bill, was by Mr..
DeArmond dem, MOI used as basis
for bitter personal attack upon Chair
man Cannon, whose home is at Dan.
vile. He charged the chairman of the
appropriation committee with having
used his powers and position to secure
the location of the home at Danville.
Mr.. Cannon, in reply, branded Mr.
DeArmond as common scold who
would have been ducked under the town
pump had he lived in the old days. He
said he would stand or fall on his rec
ord. The house, by vote of 1873 to "a
sustained the appropriation
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
PITH OF THE NEWS.

Some vandals entered a cemetery at
Williamsport. Md, and desecrated
nearly 100 tombstones, causing loss of
about $4,000.
1t was decided that electricity should
be put upon the New York Elevated
road as soon as the arrangements can
be made.
Mayor Van Wyck of New York
vetoed the resolution appropriating the
old hall of records, in Central park, to
the National museum, to be used as a
museum for national relics.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
I'm oLDEN TIMES

People overlooked the importance of
permanently beneficial effects and were
satisfied with transient action; but now
that It is generally known that Syrup Of
Figs will permanently overcome habitual
constipation, well'informed people will
not buy other laxatiyes, which act for a
time, but fnallyinjure the system. Buy
the genuine, made by the California Fig
Syrup Go.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
BRYAN APPOINTED TO BRAZIL.

Conger Induced to Change to the Chi
nese Post.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The president
has sent the following nominations to
the senate:
Mark S. Brewer of Michigan to be a
civil service commissioner Edwin H
Conger Of Iowa to be envoy extraordin
ary and minister plenipotentiary of the
United States to China ; Charles Page
Bryan of Illinois to be envoy extraordin
ary and minister plenipotentiary of the
United States to Brazil
Conger is the present minister to Bra
zil. He was induced to change to China
so that Bryan, who was nominated fol
China, but objected to by certain sena
tors, could be placed.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
Lndia. nn Wcar shoea

One size smaller after using Aliens Foot
Ease, powder to be shaken into the
shoes, 1t makes tight or new shoes feel
easy; gives instant relief to corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort dis
covery of the age. Cures and prevents
swollen feet, blisters, callous and sore
spots. Aliens Foot-Ease is a certain
cure for sweating, hot, aching feet. At
all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial
package FREE by mail. Address, Allen
s. Olmsted, LIE Row, N. Y. 4
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13

COLUMBUS, Jan. I3.--The third ma
tional convention of the American Anti.
Saloon League and the fourth state con.
vention of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League
are holding II joint session in the Column
bus Auditorium One hundred and
twenty delegates are present from ont.
side Ohio. This state has several hun.
dred delegates.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
LndN SYkos on Trial.

LONDON, Jan 13.-The case Of Daniel
Jay, n moneylender, against Lady Jes,
sicaS Sykes, IA relative of the Duke of
Portland, to recover 100000, with inter
est, loaned to her, is on trial here. Sir
Tatton Sykes, husband Of the defendant,
alleged that the signatures to the notes
were forged by his wife. The money
was used in speculation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13

New YORK, Jan. l3-The charge of
murder against Charles Zanoli, the
barber, accused of poisoning his fourth
wife, has been dismissed. He was held
in 81 900 bail on the charge of grand
larceny, in having defrauded an insur.
ance company by collecting the insur.
ance on the life of William Schmidt by
fraud
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
Deaths From the Plague.

BOMBAY, India, Jan. 13.-During As
hours there have been 154 deaths from
the plague and l67 fresh cases.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
spanish omeiaI Dead.

MADRID, Jan. l3.-General Gonzalez
Munoz, the new captain general of
Porto Rico, died Immediately after his
arrival there.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
CINCINNATI, Jan. II.

HOGS-Market active at S3OOG3.65.
CATTLE Market steady at SO. .25CGi65.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Market for sheep
steady at $27594.65. Lambs-MarlSet steady at
$4.0OCg5.75.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
INlGMpH ON HANNA.
Elected Senator For Short and
Long Terms.
BUSHNELL SIGNED COMMISSIONS.

The Senate Passed a Resolution to Inves-
tigato the Otis Bribery Charge-House
Postponed Action--Banna Made a
apsech--Dodge Refused to Run.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13
PITTsBURG, Jan. IL.

fITTsBUHG, Jan. IL.
CATTLE-The receipts were light and
market steady. We quote Prime, SlgO
6G5.OO; choice, S4.70G4SO: good, $4.5Od146O:
tidy, $49OG4.4O; fair, s3.s5tB4.25 common, 1926
g3,6O; heifers, S3.25G44O; bulls, stays and
cows, $20OCG3,7O; bologna cows, Ss0Ogl5OO;
fresh cows and springers $90,OO@50.OO.
HOGS-Receipts were 8 loads the market
was active at unchanged prices We quote
as follows: Prime medium weights and
heavy Workers., $3.7Oa875; heavy hogs, S8.65ld
370; common to fair Workers and pigs, $1,000
B.65 good roughs, $3.0Og325; common roughs,
$225H2.75.
SHEEP AND LAMBS-Supplyl light; market
slow We quote as follows: Choice sheep, $4.GC
(Di70; good, S4.IOg4.5O; fair, $i,OOGl,3O; com.
mon, S3.25CD375; choice lambs $5.75G5.S5; com,
mon to good, $4.5OG5.G0; veal calves, SG.5Oq7.25
heavy and thin calves, S3,O0G4.0O.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1898-01-13

The little folks love DR.. Woods Nor
way Pine Syrup. Pleasant to take; per-
fectly harmless; positive curefo coughs,
colds, bronchitis, asthma.