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Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-01-19

n ouitoE VI buo LhDdhh nhu tuc
pleasure OF visiting Benton City,
Mo-, In company with the Mexico Odd
Fellows last Saturday. Benton City
is q prosperous little village in the
heart of Q fne farming community
and some Of the best people In the
world live in and around that town.
Among the Mexico Odd Fellows who
attended the installation of officers at
Benton City we note the following;
J. N. Gross, L. Phillip,
H. q. o. Tucker, VIM. Pratt,
A. N. Trimble, J. J. Weimer,
J. T. Ricketts,, L. q. Powell,
Ed Wade, Isadore Wargel,
J. II. Roberts, 8. J. Sanford,
O. L. Staples, T. A. Chopper,
Thos. Riley, Ed A. Hicks,
8. NJ. Gilbert, L. W. Wells.
The installation work was done by
the following officers: Grand District
Deputy VIM. n. Treloar, assisted by
R. 8. Mckinney, @. W.; J. D. Pratt,
q. 2. g.; Joe. ofutt, @. g., and DIR,
M. e. Crawford, q. T. The installa.
ton was public and was highly appre-
ciated by ali who attended. The OH
GERS Of the Benton City Lodge installed
were a. follows:
R. Il. Brown, N. q.
Frank Pearce, ". @.
Thos. Hicks, Rec. Sec.
j. 7. johnson, P. Secretary.
]. LANG, Treasurer.
]. J. Apple, Warden.
Chas. Cunningham, Conductor.
A. B. Erisman, r. 8. N. @.
W. M. Dufins, L. 8. N. g.
John Hotelen, L. @.
Frank Mcclure, First 8. 8.
Chris Erisman, Second 8. 8.
q. L. Oahoon, Chaplain.
After the installation a banquet was
enjoyed which was presided over BY
the wives Of the Odd Fellows Of that
lodge and all present, especially the
Mexico visitors, pronounce the spread
magnificent. After all had been fed
there wss plenty left for as many
more. The ladies of Benton CITY
know how to entertain and were al
their very best on this occasion.
Benton City hospitality is all right
ana the Mexico boys had a royal good
time. Some time soon the Mexico
Odd Fellows hope to entertain the
Benton City brethren and to some
extent return their hospitality.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-01-19
BENTON CITY ODD FELLOWS.

Mexico Brethren Visit Them and Have
Royal Good fime-A Prosper
ous Little Village In the
Heart Of 9 Splendit
Farming Section,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-01-19

RIoKErrs 3 EMMoNs D. q. 90.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-01-19

~ Blankets, worth %. go for
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-16
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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-16
The JolIy Musksteer. -

The fourth and last of the big comic
opera productions of '9s-99 was present
ed at the Broadway theatre. New York
city. on November IA last, when JEFF
ferson De Angels produced. with a
splendid supporting company, Julian
Edwards and Stanislaus Strange's
latese work, "The Jolly Mus
keteer" This opera is notable one in
many respects, first Of all i'm the point
OF it's libretto. which, Is said To differ
entiate from any other work of its class
in the fact that, whereas "a clever story
legitimately constructed. on reasonable
dramatic lines is unfolded with rare
ingenuity and interest and sanely and
sensibly concluded. thereby destroying.
one would think, what has come TO be
considered i'm some quarters the very
essence and atmosphere of comic opera,
contrary-w this opera Is said to be,
and was laughed at in New York and
other big cities as one Of the most bub-
bling, breathless and spontaneously
concentrations of comedy that has been
seen in the shape of comic opera for
long time. That THE Jolly Musketeer"
is notable I'm the department of its mu-
sic is best attested by the reviews of
New York. Brooklyn Philadelphia and
Washington, which declare that almost
every single number IN the opera earns
it's quota of enthusiastic encores every
evening. while some Of them are rede
manded as many as eight and ten times
by the delighted auditors. Such a song
Is woman, Source of All Our Bliss"
which we are told is so infectious that
the gallery at least insists on helping
the company out i'm its rendition at al
most every performance.
The first regular production Of the
opera i'm New England will occur at the
Providence Opera House tonight The
engagement is for seven performances,
including an only matinee Saturday.
Manager Harrington of the Star The
atre has secured for his attraction this
week. opening with tonights perform
ance. one that is likely 10 crowd his
house. II is Hal svTteid's new play
KNOBS o. Tennessee" Mr.. Reid him
self will appear in the leading role. that
of Joe Preston, the moonshiner. Those
who saw him i'm Human Hearts can
testify as TO his ability both as play
wright and an actor. This Is tho hrst
appearance Of this company I'm the east.
hut II comes horalded ~ one of the best
performances of the season 10y TIA" press
throughout the south and west. the
supporting company II said To be the
best Mr.. Reid has ever had. and the
scenery both beautiful and appropriate.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-16
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Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
KILLED AN OLD WOMAN.

Dear Friend Frank: had
quite an experien that still haunts me
although am pretty well hardened
now. / was scouting, and was shot at
from a clump of bushes. l dropped
down and laid still until caught sight
Of a nigger moving around in there.
got a good bead on him, and hit him in
the stomach. I then started for his gun
when a young girl came running toward
me She grabbed me by the legs, and l
had a hell of time getting away from
her.
went over to see the man, broke his
gun over a rock He kept yelling tor
water. There was an old woman also
there. stopped to see how bad he
was hurt; also give him drink and pick
his pockets.
] laid my gun against a rock, hap
pened to turn arouRd the old woman
ha ! my gun, but she didn't quite under
stand how to work it. or | would be
planted here now But quick pulled
my revolver, and gave 1t to her in the
right eye, through the rain. The young
girl came up and gave me devil Of a
fight. biting and scratching and biting,
but a good punch IN the nose settled
her,
left the three in a pile. The man
died in the excitement These women
here are devils. fight like men. This
was thu first one l killed, though,
didn't like to but had to.
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
The Basis OF an Issue

| Attorney General Griggs, in hi
very interesting interview, ex
pressed the decided conviction
that "the trust issue is not polit
ical one"
We think Mr.. Griggs will fine
himself mistaken.
The enormous multiplication oi
trusts since the Republican party
returned to power will not be de-
MED. They are ten lines more
numerous and a hundred times
more powerful in controlling pro-
duction and fixing prices than they
were when Mr.. Mckinley was in
augurated.
Neither will it be disputed that
the trusts have uniformly increased
prices and diminished greatly the
number of men employed in the
industries which they contr d.
Nor can there be successful de-
NAL Of the truth, obvious to all and
confessed bv Mr.. Havemeyer, that
"the mother of trusts is the customs
tariff bill" Nine -tenths OF all the
trusts in this country are in arti
cles protected against foreign COM
petition by the highest tariff in the
world averaging SO per cent.
That this "protection" is no longer
needed tor Legitimate purposes in
our principal industries 10 demon
strated by the rapid increase OF
our export trade in manufactures.
That duties intended to give and
actually creating a monopoly of
the home market offer a direct
premium upon combinations to
reap the advantages OF this mo-
nopoly is a self-evident truth.
All this affords the basis tor as
clean cut a political issue IS this
country has ever seen. The op-
p.essive trusts are the fruit of the
Republican tariff. he Demo-
cratic party is opposed to high
duties and to monopolies lostered
by them. The Republican Ad-
ministration has done nothing to
enforce the law against these "con-
spiracies in restraint of trade" 1t
made trust lawyer Attorney Cen
eral. The Democrats will nomI-
nate a candidate for President
pledged to the abolition Of trust
breeding duties and to the selec
ton OF an Attorney General who
is the enemy OF trusts instead Of
their apologist and defender.
The issue is already fixed. 1t is
too late for the Republicans to
evade it.
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
.StaRaayd-London, June 6.

1t is bold enterprise on which the
President and the Premier have started,
and one for which there is the most
abundant justification. Impartial OBJ
'ervers abroad can only congratulate NJ
Loubet and M Dupuy on their courage.
and hope nat it will be thoroughly
indicated by success. Recent events
have shown only too plainly the nature
Of the canker that has eaten into the
institu ions OF France. We have it
formally put on record by the judgment
of the highest Court Of Law in the
country, thst Wholesale corruption and
dSnO esty have prevailed al The Head
quarters Staff of the Army. Fraud,
forgery and conspiracy were encouraged
or inspired by the chief officials. Every
patriotic Frenchman, one might have
supposed, must blush tor the exposure,
and wish Tor the punishment of the
criminals. The honor Of the army itself
d, mands il, One result Of these painful
revelations has been to leave a cloud
upon it Gallant men and good soldiers,
as, no doubt, the vast majority OF
French officers are, they must, never.
theless, feel that Trey are, to a certain
extent. sulied in their professional
character by the baseness Of some who
stood al the head OF ;heir profession
] The army must be purified by the
expulsion and punishment OF those who
| have dispraced its uniform.
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
Times, London, June s.

Whatever be the ultimate issue OF the
proposal to prosecute General Mercier,
the Introduction of the bill authorizing
his prosecution and the official publicity
given to the judgment upon which Il is
based will suffice, at any rat, to brand
with infamy such an act as he IS LEGGED
TO have committed and all those who
have aided and abstted IT, Though it
is clear that the passions which the
weakness, or worse, OF successive
governments has allowed to rage round
the name Of the unfortunate CAPTAIN
Dreyfus are not yet by any means
quelled even IN The Chamber, it is
satisfactory to note that the disgraceful
attack to which the President of the
Republic was subjected on Sunday by
the fashionable rowdies who masquer-
ade as the champions of the army met
with almost universal reprobation =
Stormy as the atmos phere in Paris still
remains, there are, at anv rate. more
substantial grounds than could have
been anticipated only a lew weeks ago
for hoping that the eloquent article
entitled Justice" from the pen of NJ.
Zola. which appeared in the AHrOys,
heralds the return of brighter days with
the same intuition OF prescient genius
as his famous letter "TaCcuse" outlined
the whole story of perfdy and crime
which the recent proceedings before
the Court OF Cessation have laid bare,
| Justice is not done yet, but the way has
been prepared for Justice. We
have pleaded the cause OF Dreyius IRON
the moment when we had reason L
believe thatin so doing we we're pleading
the cause of Justice, and we neve
despaired Of it because we could neve
bring ourselv, to think that IN a grea
and generous country like France tn
cause Of Justice would rot ulumatel
and inevitably prevail.
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
rho Twin Censors hips.

1t is now IN evidence that the
Administration has been and Is
operating two censorship" -one
at Manila for suppressing the truth
in newspaper cables and news let
ters, the other at Washington ior
injecting into garbled official des.
patches such false and misleading
sentences as situation improving
daily" and "signs OF insurgent
weakness more and more appar-
ent
The engagements a. Las Pinas
and at San Fernando have aroused
the people rudely. They reao ol
these worst battles OF the war,
coming when the alleged official
dispatches had just assured them
that the insurgents were "disin
tegrating." They looked at the
maps, They saw that both places
are nearer to Manila than is the
Harlem River to The New York
City Hall, and that both are within
the territory which our troops held
last August.
MendacitY could not deny the
conclusion, prejudice could not
evade it. And now the bulk of the
imperIalist press is calling upon
Mr.. Mckinley to send 100, 600
troops to Luzon and the experts are
saying that even with thai number
the war will last for several years.
AS we have possession OF the
only telegraph;c outlet to the
Philippines, as the insurgents could
not possibly benefit by any news
which might be cabled back to
Hong Kong and sent by boat from
there, the two censorsh ps can have
but one meaning:
II the truth about the conditions
in the Philippines we're laid before
the American people the outcry
would be so tremendous that the
Administration would be com
PEELED to repudiate its policy and
to repudiare itself.
No; the censorship at Manila,
the lalsl6cations at Washington
were not established and are not
in operation to keep news from the
Filipinos, but are to keep the truth
from the American people.
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
CowARDLY OFFICE s

They are offering all kinds OF induce.
ments for us to reenlist in the regulars,
but no more in mine. Our
regiment is all shot to pieces, and we
expect to be home IN Iuly. These
tat headed officers are trying to make a
big war out Of this, so they can get
promotion, glory and a chance to rob
the Government. II they would
give Dewey his way this war would be
over in a month, but they don't want il
over so sooa-good graft Tor a lot OF
- -, who SIT in Manila AMI
never go near the firing line. II they
would once come out Of their holes /
think we would have some new generals
here. King was the only one here any
good, ana he got disgustsd and went
home. Our Colonel, w. n Wholley, is
now brigadier general, but they won't
let him do anything.
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
In kentucky.

William Goebel is the most in
teresting of the Democratic candi-
dates. He has introduced a new
personality into Kentucky politics
1t is true that he partakes in some
degree ofthe style of the Kentucky
politician OF the old school. He
has killed his man. The affair
happened in CoYington, where he
and William Sanford, political
adversary, engaged in a gun play
in front OF the courthouse, which
resulted in the death of Sandlord
and left GoebeI with a coat per-
iorated with bullet hole. which
he treasures to this day as proof
OF the fact that he dropped his man
in fair and open conflict, He is
reputed to wear a coat Of mail-and
this anecdote, though it has be n
denied, is stock in trade with the
Hardin followers. Goebel is o.
Pennsylvania Dutch extraction
He is a cool, calculating, nevel
perturbed thinking machine. Hi
politics are politics OF force, bu
not OF brute iorce-rather braiI
D force.
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
NO 50

were assured that the Republic had
changed all that-tbat her officers were
devoted TO their country and to their
| profession, that they we're as scientific
as the Germans, and as hardworkinR as
II they were common soldiers. Most Of
us believed these things, and in that
belief we rated the French army high
among the effective forces in Europe
Tor good or evil-and on the whole il is
not in the interest of Europe or OF peace
that France should not be strong. But
what have we now? We have a revela.
ton OF rottenness at least as bad as
anything that was ever proved of the
Third Empire. We have a state Of
things in which mere fools arrive at
positions ofhigh trust, in which scoun-
crels who are capable OF any crime are
employed for the most responsible
work, and in which even the best known
and INST esteemed Of "the generals"
are either unable or unwilling to see
that anything is done as il should be,
On every side we have sidellghts of
corruption-corruption by misappr0pri-
ationof the secret service money as we'll
as corruption lead ng to the Madagascar
disasters
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24

cause, but the fact remains that
in the present case at Least, VIC
tory Tor the ProNibitioni'ts would
have been victory for crime and
degradation at every army post
within our borders. The Assist
ant Secretary Of War, Mr.. Meikle
John. is therefore to be congratu.
lated by all who have at heart both
the welfare OF the army and the
interests of civilization. And what
he loses through the resentment
of the disappointed liquor dealers
and the denunciation Of the mis-
guided Prohibitlonists, he will be
repaid an hundrediold in the res
pect and confidence of enlightened
men
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
Irish-Republicau Revolt.

Two noteworthy indications Of
the trend of public sentiment on
the question OF military conquest
ofioreign peoples were lately given
by the Hartford Times. One was
the report in its East Hartford col
umn of the Memorial Day address
by Judge John A. Stoughton, and
the other was the expression Of
the views OF Capt. O'Farrell, the
we'll known Connecticut Grand
Army man, now a pension attorney
in Washington.
Capt. O'Farrelrs communica-
ton is worthy OF note not only be-
cause Of its trenchant style, but be-
cause he undoubtedly speaks for a
large number OF men who have
been in the habit OF voting the Re-
publican ticket. Capt. O'Farrell
himself is we'll known as a work
ing Republican, and imperialist
fllpperty- gibbets, like the Spring
field UNi0H, will do we'll to pause
for moment and consider whether
they do not hurt their own cause
by applying opprobrious epithe's
60 such men. Among other things,
Capt. O'Farrell says:
find that my Irish Republican friend:
all over the country are in open revolt
In fact, we are utterly disgusted with
this new idea OF imperialism, and yor
know that ave earned the title o
Republican" but feel that this is no
the kind OF RepubIIcanIsm that w
had under Garfield Grant and Lincoln
who taught US that no man was gooC
enough to govern another man withou
the others consent, and no nation i
good enough 10 govern another peopl,
without their consent.
This is the first time in the hlstor,
of civilized governments in which tn
ally ofan oppressed people turns aroun'
aud tells the oppressor. "Iust you stel
out; you have been trying to conque
these people for the past three hundred
and fifty years, You could not do il
lust let us step into your. shoes w
have better killing machinery than you
ana you will see how soon we will lie
them"
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
ChrIst,aAInise OrientaIs.

II China and Japan ever adopt
Christianity as their national relig-
ion, the So called Christian nations
will be somewhat embarrassed to
explain why so many evils exist
among them despite the prohibi-
tions and admonitions ofthe Chris
tian's text book, the Bible. "To
what extent" the Chinese and the
japanese may ask, "are the funda-
mental principles OF Christianity,
which you have persuaded us to
accept, adopted in your own ma.
tional life, to regulate and control
the actions ofindividuals or groIps
OF Individuals Have you one set
OF principles to guide you in your
private lives and another and a
conflicting setto govern your busi-
ness relations, your social condi-
tIons and your politics1 Many
abuses exist among Christian ma.
tions which the residents Of Chris
tian countries deploTe- They
would not be tolerated # the prin
eiples you have induced us to adopt
were accepted by you in practice
as in theory. AS they do exist,
however, notwithstanding your
Bible explicitly declares them TO
be evil and inhunan and un- Chris
tian, is it not fair conclusion that
you are not thoroughly Christian
lied yourselves, and that in many
instances your religion is not per-
mitted to conflict with your inter
ests, 1t matters not how heavily
others may be oppressed 1t is
hard to be rsbuked by those whom
we regard as heather, but if the
truths Of Christianity we're always
the controlling influence in the
national life of Great Britain and
the United States, there woHld not
be so great a field for sionary
work at home. There is scarcely
an evil or form Of oppression in
heathen lands that does not exist
in some degree among Christian
nations. Should we not Christian
ize ourselves before we send armies |
and fleets to shoot Christianity |
into the benighted heathen7
Washington sentinel., 1899-06-24
Commercial Travellers ana Trusts

When Mr.. P. +. Dove, president
OF the Commercial Travellers Ma
tonal League, states that thousands
Of travelling statesmen have been
thrown out Of employment by the
trusts. it must be acce pted as ex.
pert testimony. Mr.. DOVE gave
figures to prove his assertions be-
fore the Industrial Commission in
Washington.
This is only one class out Of
many shat the great combinations
OF ,apital have deprived OF a means
of livelihood. But it is a very in
fluential class. The commercial
traveller has the qualities that
command success. He is a good
judge OF character, He makes
personal friends OF his customers.
He talks we'll, is plausible, win
ming, energetic and irresistible.
Three thousand of these men
were dropped in one day by lie
Tobacco Trust. What they and
their fellows in many lines Of trade
will have to say on the subject OF
the inquiry of trusts will be worth
hearing, And it will reach a large
and sympathetic audience.
Mr.. Mckinley will hear from
them on the subject. The Re
publican party that stands fol
these menacing aggregations o
capital will hear from them. 1h'
character and extent of the inhu
ence of the commercial traveller!
on the next national election will
be worth the serious consideration
ofpolitical managers.