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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-04

London, Oct. 3-There is great scarcity of news from South Africa Only few unimportant dispatches were received tonight with the excep- ton of the one from Bloemfontein.
 Lloyds publishes a report that gold valued at G500,000 and in transit has been countermanded by the Transvaal authorities.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-04

The feature of the race which pleased everybody most was the perfectly clear field which was maintained. For the first time this year the government took a hand to prevent repetition of the unfortunate occurrence which marred the race when the accompanying excur- sion boats, in their frenzied eagerness to let nothing of the beautiful spectacle escape, crowded down upon the racers until their back wash impeded the yachts progress through the water and caused Lord Dunraven to file his fa-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-04

nous protest. The government was de-
 termined this year that the course should be protected against unofficial
 trespassers. A flotilla of revenue cut ters and swift torpedo boats, flying the red barred white flags. guarded the course, keeping excursion steamers, yachts and tugs at a perfectly safe dis tance from the canvas clouded racers
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
MORAL TRAITORS.

The Kansas City Journal, Globe Democrat
and other high-muck-a -muck Republican Jour-
mails began a rabid attack on the loyalty OF the
people who do not believe in expansion or the
slaughter of the inhabitants of the Philippine
islands. This attack was simultaneous, and
was evidently inspired by Washington officials.
People who sympathize with the natives in their
struggle for independence are, according to the
Journal, moral traitors, and copperheads. There
may be some nice distinctions hard to make
plain, but we are of the opinion that he that Is
true to the principles of our government is new
er moral traitor, copperhead or anything but
a good citizen. No true American can know
ingly sanction wrong action, even though our
officials be the authors. To sanction injustice,
oppression or any violation of human rights is
moral treason The forcble seizure of the
Philippines and the shedding of blood of the
inhabitants is unjust oppressive and clear
violation of the principles of our constitution.
1t is the other fellows who are moral traitors
and copperheads, not only upon the question OF
expansion bvt also upon many other questions
that are new prominent in American politics
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
A GREAT CHANCE.
Get Ex-Governor Larrabee's $l.@
Book, 1.-THE Railroad Ques-
tiOn," for 50 cents.

The Topeka Advocate and News has
made arrangements to offer the readers
of the AGrTAToR n copy of the $1,3Q
edition of Ex-Governor Larrabec's great
work, "Tle Railroad Question, for fifty
cents This offer is limited to a certain
number Of copies, and when they are
gone the book cannot be obtained tor
less than the regular price, $l5O. This
book is undoubtedly the most thorough
and comprehensive work of its kind OBJ
tainable at reasonable price. Govern
or Larrabcc is man of great practical
experience and unusual ability. He has
made a special study of the railroad
problem and has incorporated in this
book mine of information about this
momentous question.
If you desire copy of this book, give
us your order at once, as we have an ar
rangcment with the Advocate and News
by which we can dispose of limited
number OF copies in this locality. The
book will be sent to you or to any adj
dress in this country you may desire.
ost-paid for fifty cents.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

1t will be recalled that one OF the features of
the great Hanna Mckinley campaign was to
marshal the operatives of the manufacturing To-
calities, give them frse ride to Canton, line
them up at McKinley's front gate, and have
them listen to the mouthings of the little moth
ings of the future president. The people of
one little town in Pennsylvania went through
the grooming process, but afterward bucked,
when the rider was seated and applied the spur
The promised prosperity resulted in reduction
of go per cent i'll wages, and now the little
city of Westmorelaud is overwhelmingly So
cialist. We Gods! Think of it! Hanna and
Mckinley converting the people to social
ism, and becoming first apostles. Melted
horses always resent hard riding. The
American workman is a fine steed, with good
master, but we opine, will not be satisfied with
the crumbs that fall from Hanna's tables.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Music or the Graphop hone

Pew people appreciate the marvellous
powers of the Graphophone as an enter
tainer 1t Is an instrument which,
though it costs much less than the least
expensive musical instrument, willenable
Its owner to have at pleasure music o.
any kind-from that of a bagpipe to that
of grand military band. 1t reproduces
vocal selections and gives one command
Of every pleasure that appeals to the
sense of hearing No investment pays
such large returns in pleasure. Besides
reproducing the musical and other rec
ords made for entertainment purposes,
the Graphophone will record immediate
ly and reproduce at once and as often as
Is desired, your own words or song, or
any sound. By writing to the Columbia
Photograph Co, 72o-722 Olive ST., st.
Louis, Mo, you can obtain q catalogue
that will give full information as to prices
Of Graphophone outfits,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
SOLD HER HAIR TO BUY FOOD.

PHILADELPHIA Feb 24.-Jennie Abrahams, who has two
little girls years old and the other infant sought
relief at police to-day and said she starving
Her hair cut off. On inquiry, it found she had
food. She has husband out of work. Her story was
found to be Relief promptly given to her and
her family.
The above was clipped from the Topeka
State Journal. This woman was doubt sui
fering under deusion-a belief that times are
hard Otherwise, she would not have sold her
hair for dollar These little children only
THOUGHT they were hungry, and the husband
and father only IMAGINED he was out of work.
She should have been supplied with Dun's
weekly reports, telling of the wonderful wave
of prosperity, and how well labor is paid. All
that was needed was a restoration OF conf.
dence" Dun's report would have accomplish.
ed the work in fine shape, and the woman who
THOUGHT she was pennless he husband ort
of work and her little ones starving could have
subsisted on "conhdence' until they ale starry,
ed to death
This reminds us of another poor, deluded
woman, in Illinois, who, in letter to friend,
says that her family has had no meat i'll the
house for six weeks; that they haze subsisted
mainly on mush and potatoes Twenty years
ago, they were we'll off, and had an abundance
of everything. Shrinkage in values and
growing mortgage debt swept away all, and no
chance now to earn a dollar. And this woman
thinks times are hard. She seems to forget
that we have the gold standard and high tariff
left, and that our national credit is good-so
good that we are enabled to increase our ma
tional debt at the rate of 5000, 900, 900 year.
She utterly ignores the fun children will
have in carrying this debt. She even forgets
that this is CHRISTIAN nation, and that our
government is just now, in order to prevent the
ehervescent, light-headed Filipinos from as
cendng to ST Peter gate unprepared, engaged
in the business of filling their bodies with sane
tilted lead, so as to hold them down until we
can treat them to sufficient number of hypo-
dernic injections of our Christian civilization,
with Mauser rifles, to make 'en
good, like Alger, Quay and Hanna.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
A TRUST BEATER.

A Chicago Record dispatch says that Kansas
has set out to beat the Irvine trust. Glad to
hear the news. We would live on bread and
water to beat trust and march barefooted
through a Dakota blizzard to fight one. To
have Kansas convicts make binding Irvine is
sood scheme, but we are doubtful as to winning
a fight against a trust-and there will be fight.
It depends on who controls the raw material.
If the trust controls, the raw material will be so
high that even convicts cannot compete; and II
the trust does not now control the price, 1t Will
procure assistance of Hanna and Mckinley
possibly the supreme court
For state to compete with trust through
the labor of its convicts is menace to quite
number of those very healthy organizations,
and at the rate our criminals are increasing, the
time may come when our state prisons can man
ufactule about all the goods the outsiders Will
stand in need Of; but, we shall not expect any
trust will succumb till skilled labor is cut to 2 Il
cts per day.
A trust is great fighter, and we have limited
at only few of the possibilities Besides OBJ
tanning leave of Hanna to corner the raw ma
tera1, or having the supreme court declare the
act unconstitutional, there is still left an appeal
to the roarers. An appeal by the roarers to the
roarers is nearly always successful. Opposition
to convict labor may prove to be as grand
scheme to the roarer as "honest money" and
"protective tariff" and then it may be expect
ed that the labor of the Kansas legislature IS
lost; also the money invested in binding twlne
plant We may a. least venture upon the pre-
diction that if the binding-twine trust turns
loose the political roarer two years hence,
no Republican of any prominence will be in ia
vor OF convict binding Irvine, and every Repub-
lean who voted for the home plant measure
will be off to the Philippine islands.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
MORE PROSPERITY.

Some eight or ten years ago, Republican
congress raised government expenditures to the
sne-third billion mark immediately thereafter
the Republican papers and politicians were
thanking God for a "biIliondolar congress-"
The appropriations OF the present congress car
ry $3.50, ooo, 900, aud will so far exceed reve-
uues as to probably call for all issue of bonds.
It is now in order to thank God for two-bil-
lion-dollar congress That the thanks
their way to the throne of the god of the OPP
pressor. can scarcely be doubted. Great is the
god of Hannaism, and contemplate are the
men who worship that god-and not only con-
temptible, but execrable. We cannot forseethe
future, and, therefore, can make no predictions,
but we believe that if the present reign of cor
ruption, extravaganza, greed and extortion is
not oyerthrown in nineteen hundred, the days
OF our republic are numbered, or else bloody
revolution will come.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
Our Breetch-Clouted Brother.

The press reports say that the Fillpinos did
great execution with bows and arrows against
American rapid firing guns. That is the kind
OF people Americans propose to civize.
America proposed to civiize the Indians here at
home. Was one ever civilized? Of course
not. They lie around the reservations and eat
government rations and drink surreptitious
whisky and die uf scrofula. The Indian schools
do nongood. The graduates go back to the
blanket.
Civilization can no more be decreed by teach
ing then it can be by procamston 1t is
matter of heredily
The Filipinos will be burden on America.
They will have to be murdered off Just as the
Indians were. The most humane solution of
the Philippine question now that we have them
on hands, is to give them lots of American
whisky and let them drink themselves to
apeedy and hilarious death. If that is not done,
we will be shooting them from mouths of can
mons inside OF five years, our brethren, the
English, shot the natives in India during the
Sapoy rebellion.
The question which now faces the American
people is not how to civiize the Filipinos.
That cannot be done. The question is what is
the most humane way TO murder them or to re-
duce them to docile slavery. This is brutal
talk, but it is based on human experience with
savages. We have taken up "The White
mans burden" Now the question is shall we
lubricate it with whisky and scrofula, or papd-
firing guns and the blood of our young men?-
Emporia Gazette, (Republican,)
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
lean paper of Kansas J

WHEN this "cruel war is over" it will take an
almighty powerful microscope to discover "Free
Cuba" The Wall street vultures, with the aid
of brother Abner, are gobbling everything of
value in the Inflated isle. What mockery to
talk of free country when all the meat is
plucked by band of wolves--backed by armed
force, and the natives left with only a little
soup-Abeline News
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

OF course it is Kansas paper that complains
that difference between the charity of Helen
Gould and that OF John d. Rockefeller lies in
the fact that the fares on the Missouri Pacific
are not advanced every time Miss Gould makes
a contribution to a worthy cause Users OF
coal oil and gasoline always know when Rookie
Teller is abovt to endow church or college
News Note.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

Brother Benjamin, of the Lexington Stand
ard, wants to know what the present Repub-
lean administration has done foi the Negro.
Why, that's dead easy. 1t has held him up
for his vote. What more do you expect?-
Fair Play, FIT. Scott (leading Colored Repub-
lean paper of Kansas).
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

WE are making great war debt and in every
way increasing our national expenses. On the
other hand, there is nothing being done 10 In
crease the circulating medium to meet these ex-
ira demands, and the administration also wants
to cancel and destroy the greenbacks.-West-
phala Times
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

THE Filpinos claim that they have 600
American prisoners, who will be removed 10 the
interior The insurgents are throwing up in :
trenehments at Caoocan, and preparing for
fight
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

THE house Of representatives passed bill
repealing the fees ana salary law enacted by the
Populist legislature We are net surprised at
this action of the Republicans. 1t shows that
the salary is all those fellows arc after. How
ever, the Populist senate stood in the way of
the repeal of the law. BY tn. way, ]. G.
Reese, the representative from Ailiersoncounty,
lodged, and was counted among the "absent or
not voting" ]. D. Stevens vas always on
hand to vote on any measure of Importance. 1t
was a mighty pool swap-Stevens for Reece
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

No ONE ever hears of Senator Baker father
ing or chanpioping any great measure, but
when there is any official pie to dish out Baker
is always on hand Westphala Times.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

MRS JOHN A. LOGAN is dying of la grippe,
at Washington. Mrs. Logan is noble woman,
and her death will be deeply felt by the nation.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03
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GIVE US A SPOONFUL.

He lies in his throat he lies in his heart; he lies in every
hair his head and every pore OF his body; he lies wuy
deliberately, Intentionally and maliciously.
That is what General Eagan said about Cen
eral Miles; and for saying it, President McKin-
ley relieved Eagan from duty, on full PAYS,
500 annually, for six years. Nov, we hereby
solemny declare that the present Republican
administration lies in its throat; it is hypo
critical in its heart it is corrupt in every hair
of its head; the stencil of rotten beef comes
from every pore of its body; it is, to-day, will
fully, malicously and cruelty crushing the
hopes and liberty of poor, helpless, half civ
lized people, whose only crime consists i'll de-
Tending, as best they can, their humble homes
against foreign invasion Now relieve us from
labor for six years; and, to show that there is
nothing small or mean about us. we are willing
to accept onehalf as much pay as Eagan gets
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

THE Fiipinos demand 81, 900 900 for the re-
lease Of the Spanisi prisoners held by them.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-03-03

Why should the United States yearn for all
"alliance" with England? One sees readily
enough why England SHOULD. ally herself with
us, but where do we cut coupons on these
bonds! If England feels mad impulse to pum-
mel France there's no American objection. She
may let her hair down her back, emit her wild
war veil and wade in. May heaven speed the
fray! If she huugers to mix it up with the
Kaiser in any 6ght-to-a finish fashion she has
our full consent to jolt that added monarch
when and where she listeth. May heaven TO-
ment that fray, also! But, So far as The Yer
dict is able to pierce the situetion, it can dis
cover no argument which favors out taking part
in such lner1ynaking. An alliance with Eng
land would be an alliance with loss. We
would pay the freight. There is nothing III
this alliance business for us, and we might bet
ter keep out. We're not going to turn grind
stone for England, and we've no axes of our
own that need III edge. We may with profit
and safety stick to our own affairs.
Now and then ones ears are snlote upon by
the braying of some sanguine ass full OF grass
and ignorance, who feels moved to heehaw! at
the doctrine of the dead Monroe. 1t has been
good medicine in its day. We might better
stick to it. There's wide chance that it
would more than equal as remedy any inter
national Koch's lymph or blue glass treatment
to which a link NJ up with England would in
troduce Us. When the Aug American alliance
is voted on, The Verdict proposes to put III a
black all--The Verdict New York.
The times., 1899-01-26
Captain Bucky O,NeiII.

Theodore Roosevelt in Scribner's Magazine
Most Of the had simple souls They could
relate facts. hut they said very little about what
they dimly felt. Bucky o'Neill. however. the
iron -nerved, iron-willed fighter from Arizona the
sheriff whose name was a by-word Of terror to
every wrongdoer, white or red the gambler who
with unmoved face would stake and lose every
dollar he had in the world-hc, alone among his
comrades. was visionary. an articulate emotion
ali-t- lie very quiet about it, never talking
unless he sure OF his listener; but at night,
when leaned on the railing to look at the
Southern Gross he was les apt to tell tales OF
his hard and stormy past than he was to speak
Of the mysteries which lie behind courage. and
fear, and love, behind animal hatred and animal
lust for the pleasures that have tangible shape
He had keenly enjoyed life. and he could breast
its turbulent torrent a. few men could; he was
practical man who knew how to wrest personal
success from adverse forces. among money-Inak-
ers, politicians, and desperadoes alike; vet down
at bottom, What seemed to interest him most was
the philosophy OF life itself, OF our understanding
Of it. and OF the limitations S.t to that under.
standing. But he lar is possible from be-
inG mere dreamer Of dreams. \ stanchly loyal
and generous friend, he was also exceedingly am
bitious on hi> own account. Ii, 10y rishing his
life. matter how great the risk, he could gain
high military distinction. he was bent on gain
ns it, lie had taken 50 many chances when
death lay on the hazard that he felt the odds
were now against him; bur. said he, ''Who would
not risk hi, lite tor stare Had he lived and
had the war lasted he would surely have won
the eagle. ii not the star.
The times., 1899-01-26
The Algerian. in Danger.

The grotesque Alger Relief Commission
has added to the gayety of ribaId nation
by opening and tasting canned meat in
The Earish light OF day, in semi-pubIic
session. The dramatic spectacle was en-
joyed by only a few favored persons but
the newspaper reports spread the grin from
ocean 10 ocean. Besides the medical mem
Der of the Commission, there were four
physicians within call armed with stomach
pumps and many antidotes. The Commits
sioners held the pulses Of one another
under the table for some time after they
had swallowed the stuff. amid silence
that was solemn and oppressive. The
Commissioner who runs a hotel was the
first to assert his belief that they would
survive and there was a general shaking
OF hands and sigh OF relief from spec
tators as well as Commissioners. We OBJ
serve disposition on the part of the pub
lie to ridicule the proceeding as idiotlc
but probably this is due to the general
contempt for some Of the members as in
yestigators. Medical men have done this
sort of thing and have been elevated to The
heroic plane They have-taken unknown
drugs and swallowed suspicious microbes
~ htltIIullt AltlI why SnOull
We withhold admiration from the Alger
Commissioners for a similar devotion to
duty? 1t is no little thing to face the
danger OF dysentery 10 defend Mr. Alger
and the meat barOns.
1t is terrible shcck to learn that the
sigh OF relief and the mutual congratula-
tions are premature. II is by no means
certain that this sacrifcial band will sur
yive the experiment. The Commissioners
may be spared long enough 10 make their
report. but unless they have surreptitiously
taken drugs TO prevent ii. they may yet
. fall victims to their rashness. Their OBJ
ject was 10 convince the public of the
harmessness of the particular cans of meat
they sampled, under the mistaken notion
that if poisonous ii would act Immediately.
like slungshot But the public is in
formed that it takes time for the microbes
TO get in their deadly work Unless the
Commissioners should consent to place
! themselves under the care of a trust
worthy committee which would see that
they got no curative treatment in private,
the test could not be regarded as conclu-
sivc. When the dramatic scene was de-
scribed to an expert physician and bac-
teriologist, he said: Great Scott, Did
the Commissioners expect 10 drop dead
oil the spOt?" He declared that they can
know nothing about the beef until the
ptOmaines are well distributed in their
systems. Then" he exclaims they will
discover whether it is the paIatabIe health
giving food they apparently wish the pub
lie 10 believe il is"
We can imagine that this discovery that
there may be untamed microbes with claws
and waving tails multiplying in their
blood and feeding on their red corpuscles-
microscopic dragons with the venom of
Spaniard and the clutch of n Michigan
oficeholder-will disturb the serenity of
their quiet lives. II takes more nerye--of
The times., 1899-01-26
The ROundIess West.


Urom the Chicago Times-I s-Iicraldl
The West Is the governing factor in the
nations politics by force OF numbers, and its in
iueicc i, increasing every year because it is still
the growing part Of the country. Therefore what
it wants in Washington it is likely to get. and
it wants naval dominion, for the very simple req
that naval dominion viii facilitate trade.
Though the West is inland, it Is constantly
looking forward, because il is i tremendous pro-
duccr Of exports And its vast resources are
further developed the diversity in it, exports
which has begun already will increase and com.
pei a recourse 10 stil wider and wider markets.
It, is natural therefore, that the West should
look forward eagerly to time when American
commercial supremacy shall be fortified iy mari
time supremacy and when the American flag Will
always be supported by adequate force wherever
il may wave