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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-20

A VETERANS STORY.-George Lewis, Of
Shamokin, Pa, writes: ~ am eighty years
of age. | have been troubled with tarrh
for fifty years, and in my time have used q
great many catsrrh cures, but never had
any relief until l nsed DR.. Agnew's
Catarrhal Powder. One box cured me
So. G. Blakely.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-20
WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.
Boston Produce Market.

KS-The quotations given below represent price, !
obtained oy receivers vnoiaie lots mot too6ins
DrieeSJ unless otherw Indicated. Intended
to represent actual a. en-.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-12-20
straw, 10; timothy hay, 10.

straw, To; tlmOIhy nay, IU'
FOR OXEN AT WORK. -
Cornmeal, clover hay and meadow
hay, 10 pounds of each.
Cottonseed meal, 3 pounds; bran q;
clover hay, 8; corn fodder, 20-Galen
Wilson.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

The Philippine war is now costing ST.
100000 day. The wealth producers,
the laborers must pay it. What will YOU
get for what you pay'
A modern railway well equipped
throughout can be built for from $4,000
to $4,000 per mile. How long would it
take at the rate of million dollars day.
what our war of conquest is now costing
us, to construct and pay for such a road
across the continent? Better still, how
long would it take to pay for some one
already built at fair valuation3 How
long would it take to pay for the plant of
the Western Union Telegraph Coz The
Western Union has paid 100 per cent
upon its cost in dividends every year for
years and the United States is the only
nation of any consequence on earth that
does not own and operate its telegraph
system as part of the postofice depart
ment. The reason this money is not paid
out for something productive instead of
this useless and inhuman war is very
plain. Those who are directing the af-
fairs Of this government today, the Hanna
syndicate, want large public debt and
want it continued indefinitely.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

In order to have certain and abund.
ant supply of water, the Rock Island
railroad has built number Of substantial
dams across small streams which it cross
eS every 20 or 80 miles from Belleville
west. Every one of these is now well
stocked with fish and the supply of water
is abundant. If in every township es-
pecially in western Kansas there was one
or more of these ponds and if the surplus
waters of the larger streams were stored,
the whole face of this western country
would be changed. No more hot winds.
A large PORTION of the land could be irri-
gated and the floods in the lower Miss,s-
sippi and the need of government exren-
diture there greatly reduced. All of this
could be done by the government for this
whole region on the eastern slope of the
Rocky mountains for less than the Phil
ippines has cost, giving territory infn-
itely better in every way for expansion
A climate where our people can live
and country where wages are many
times the Ioc per day average paid in the
Philippines. Why not expand this way (?
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

The candidacy of Mayor Jones, of To-
ledo, for governor Of Ohio, on an indie
pendent ticket will do much toward edu-
eating the public. He will run as an in
dependent candidate and lis main con-
tention will be for public ownership of
public utilities. He has twice been elect
ed mayor of Toledo, as an Independent;
has strong personality and has way of
getting himself and his ideas before the
public. His vote will come largely from
republicans who are tired of the Hanna
machine and will result in electing John
R. Mclean, editor of the Cincinnati En-
quirer, who is the democratic nominee
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07
The Flag is There, But Christians
Must Stay Out.

The Mckinley government is firm and
insisted that the Star-Spangled banner
must float from tie flagstaff Of the
harem Of our Suiu chief, and when his
serene highness saw that he must yield
or tight, he prudenly yielded. So as
the consequence of the kind but firm
stand of our most wise and Supremacy
patriotic president, we Americans have
the proud satisfaction of knowing that
our beloved flag has won another glorious
victory. 1t now floats in peace and i'll
loving kindness over a luxuriously
appointed harefn, and out of its foes goes
a command to Christian missionaries 10
pass by on the other side, lest they dis
turb the voluptuous aunexes of the sui
tan's palace or hear the clanking of the
chains of human slaves.-Kansas CITY
Times.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07
Here Be True News.

This is a grave story. 1t is one OF
even, near concern to small and great.
! Let it come unshod of sinile, unbusked
of imagery or rhetoric, uuclouded Of any
mists of metaphor. In Wall Street as
this is read the giant Trust of all is FORM
ing. 1t is to collect within itself the
Banks Of New York City. Its core is to be
Standard Oil. Its moving spirits are John
Rockefeller and Pierpont Morgan. With
them in full and close association are the
Rothschilds and their American agents.
Itwas to link the Rothschilds the scheme
thato late took Morgan Europewards
and brought him back again. This Trust,
at its consummation, which is
closed, will pull the lines of
guidance and crack the whip
of domination over two billions Of dollars.
1t will, as stated, be muster of the New
York City Banks. They are to be made
into one force-unifed and brought un-
der one word and one command. There
after they are to say mo" together, or
together stand motionless and mute.
This trust of the Banks is to be the Die
tator Trust: to overload all other Trusts.
The greatest among these latter will be
dwarfed as they stand beside it. We, the
people, are to become the subject of
Bank conquest and suffer the feudalism
of money. This Bank Trust is be our
William Of Normandy. New York City
is to be its Hastings without a blow. 1t
will have, as it were, its Doomsday book,
and the country is to parceled among its
followers. This is true tale. There is
neither guess nor fancy in its telling
Naught but the bald facts are set forth.
This Trust expects to hold the Nation in
the hollow of its hand. As it draws its
self together, this Bank Trust puts but
one question to the Future. and that is
the question of Mckinley. 1t depends
for its life-though not its berth-on
Republican victory next year. The
Republican party had origin to free
the Blacks. 1t is to have final play in
making slaves of the Whites. With four
years more Mckinley (Hanna) the
Rothschilds and Rockefellers and Nor
gans, who move in this black matter,
count this Trust of the Banks secure. In
that time they will have made every
needed fastening, buttressed every cor
ner, loop-holedgotten ready every wall
and battlement of their defenceS. Their
plan is to be the Grand Bank of the
United States; issue at the last its money
and have custody of its credit. Inacrude
day Jackson defeated parallel con-
spiracy; crushed beneath his stern heel
the head of a similar serpant. With this
difference: That was python of seven
and one-half millions, a baby and a play
thing to the one in hand. Now are we
to confront a serpent of two billions; or
one two hundred and fifty times as large.
Standard Oil is to be the heart of this
Bank Trust. There is one known thing
of Standard Oil. It's minimum profits
are least forty millions yearly. How
much more they be is the jealous secret
of Standard Oil and none may receive it.
Verdict.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

The republican party has it in its pow
er through the attorney general of this
state and of the United States and through
its majority in congress which meets in
December, to do something substantial
for the people in the matter OF the trusts.
Idle promises of what will be done after
another presidential election will rot sat
isfy the people. The trusts have grown
up under republican administration and
it will justly be held responsible for
them. 1t can do nothing because the
trusts are its masters.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

The great robber barons of today are
the trust magnates. Each generation
seems to develop new form. The pas
generation could boast of its Goulds and
Vanderbilts who plundered the public
by wrecking railroads and manipulating
railroad stocks and in this way obtaining
possession of an unjust share of what the
labor of the country produced. The
Havemeyer & Elder sugar refinery had
been capitalized at $4,000 but when it
entered the sugar trust it received $751;
ooo, 900 of trust certificates and upon this
the consumers of sugar will be compelled
to pay dividends, the same as the whole
people are compelled to pay tribute to
the railroads rpon their enormous capital
ization and watered stock. In one way
or another this tribute is levied so that
the common laborer receives but scant
share of the benefits that civilization and
the increased productive power of the
individual should give him. A. Rookie
Teller accumulates his $500, 1000, 900 in a
fourth of century. Vice-President Nc
Donald of his company receives a salary
of 500, 600 per year. The Metropolitan
street railway of New York cost 5000
600 and makes SI2, 100000 each year
upon its investment, while it calls int
play the whole machinery of the courts
of the state to suppress strike and CON-
pell its men to accept sI.25 per day for
IL hours work. This chapter might be
prolonged indefinitely.
This world is not getting worse. The
condition of the common man is not
worse than that Of his father. The writ
er of this is an optimist and has great
faith in a more glorious future for the
people of this country and that in the
near future. The moral sense and the
intelligence of this people will not much
longer endure these growing inequalities
and the exploiting Of the masses of the
people by the robber barons of today.
Wealth is being produced as never before,
intelligence and education are spreading
and way will be found to come nearer
doing justice to all than has ever been
done in the past. Old forms and institu-
tons must give place to the new. More
personal attention to questions Of govern
ment by every voter and direct legislation
will in the near future give happy solu-
ton to this great problem Of a more
equitable distribution of wealth.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

100000 paid to Spain for the Philip
pines so that there would be a pretext
for war. A war brought on without
reason or excuse for the purpose of get
ting the remainder of the 500, 1000, 900 in
bonds and 100000 standing army. No
possibility of gaining anything desirable
by war that could not have been obtained
by peaceful means. Those are the rea-
sons why this inhuman, unchristian and
useless war is now in progress. If "War
is He'll" what shall be said of those re-
sponsible for itl Bonds there must be.
Cleveland and the democratic party have
been criticised too severely for issuing
bonds in times of peace to repeat il, hence
this means Of obtaining them.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

Here is what the Globe-Democrat said
in advance of the election in the Sth
Missouri district:
"a light republican vote next Tuesday
would be a verdict of indifference, and
that is form of reprimand. Democrats
would glory in it. 1t would second their
platform by showing that republicans
are stless and inactive when the course
adopted by the president is censured."
All of tie leading republican papers
gave utterance to the same statement and
the best thing about it is, it is true.
There was a very light republican vote
cast
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07
Our New Story, ain His Steps

Not since the days when Harriet
Beecher Stowe published Uncle Toms
Cabin, has there been story which &C.
casioned so much discussion as In His
Steps" the first chapter of which will ap-
pear soon in the VOICE. Tell your
neighbors of this. We have the entire
book in plates and it will appear in this
paper. The book was written by a Kan
sas man, Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, Of
Topeka, read to his audience by chapters
and then published. The first year it
sold at the rate of over a thousand copies
daily. Three million copies were sold in
four months and the latest reports were
that twelve millions copies had been sold.
Everybody Is talking about this wonder
full story, discussing and criticising it,
and we want the VoICE readers to have
the best that's goirg. The author prac-
tices what he peaches, and las declined
$4,000 year salary TO go east. The
royalty, or most of it on the book is be-
ing expended in charity, and much of it
in helping the "Eennesseetown" color
ed people of Topeka to learn to work
and live better lives. If millions of peo-
pie are buying and readiag this great
work you ought to read a few chapters
to get in touch with what the literary
world is discussing.
25c pays for this paper until January I.
Get us up club.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07
The Clouds are Gathering.

Some of us are republicans and some
Of US are democrats, but We are all
Americans. The country's good is more
important than the success of any party.
As Americans we are about TO make a
mistake in making the war party issue.
Republicans who are party men without
hope of reward should insist upon the
war being disposed of. 1t is very ex-
pen,ive and very discreditable. If the
republicans make an issue of the war,
and expansion, they will lose at the next
presidential election. The people have
been patient and cheerfully paid war ex-
penses they do not believe in, but when
they go to the polls they will vote their
real convictions on the war question. Il
the republicans want to win, they must
see that the professional republican poll
ticians handle the war question with or
binary common sense, and show an ordi-
nary desire for saving the people unnec-
essary expense. The grumbling about
the war is becoming omnibus. Rain
never falls out of clear sky. The clouds
are gathering, and republicans are dull if
they do not heed the warning .-Atchison
Globe, Republican.
The above is we'll and truthfully stated.
Every local election this fall will be in
fuenced by the views of the independent
voter on the wisdom or unwisdom of the
administration policy. The election last
week of a democrat to succeed Congress
man Bland in the Sth Missouri district by
an increased majority is one of the many
straws which show which way the wind
is blowing. FusionistS in Sumner coun-
ty have every reason to feel hopeful and
they do. 1t is in the air. Victory is
certain throughout the state this fall.
Ad to this the blunders of Stanley and
the apparent sympathy of Goddard for
the trusts ard the general worthlessnesS
of the state administration throughout,
and there is abundant cause for the detect
ed look and hopeless expressions appar-
ent on the faces of republican politicians
and candidates in this county.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

Notes of commissioners pr ceed
ingS; The application Of Mike Dpnn
van, the Hunnewell jointisl, to be
released from the county jail. nss
refused. Mrs. Nichols WAS al'owcc
to redeem lots l and 2, in block a.
wellington, upon the payment e.
S7....The question Of the iu,ur,
maintenance OF the County High
school was ordered submitted to ht
voters at the general election 20 l.,
held November I, in-accOrds7cp VIII
the provisions Of On pl.r 80, Supcis
Session Laws OF 1898.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

The republican campaign for next yeal
has begun. There are about six hundred
employees in the different institutions and
every one is assessed 21z per cent on theil
salaries. Put up Or get OUT is the
word. With this fund of $500 or more
per month added to the much larger
amount contributed by the trusts there
will be an ample booale fund The leaders
think to buy Stanley a second term.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

1t is now IS months since Captain Car
ter was convicted of misappropriating
$780, 900 of public money by unani-
nous verdict of courtmartial of four
teen army officers presided over by Gen
eral Otis. Carter was sentenced to dis
nissal from the army, to five years I'M
prisonment and in the publication Of his
disgrace in the papers of his native town
for one year. President Mckinley is
still withholding the execution of this
Just sentence and refuses to tell why.
The reason is plain. There is a syndicate
composed of Hanna, Brother Abner, ct
al, who are today footing the treasury of
large sums. If Carter is pushed he would
squeal. Never in the history of the civil
war were such glaring frauds perpetrated
in war contracts as are going on today.
Over $50, 900, 600 per month war expenses
and the amount growing constantly.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07
Does Farming Pay.

at ravs the road that hauls the grain,
1t pays the agents when they sell,
1t pays insurance very well,
1t pays the banks that make the loans
1t pays the man the mortgage owns.
1t pays the shops that make machines
1t pays the tax, federal and state,
1t pays the trust to keep up rates,
1t pays everybody so grand,
Except the man who farms the land
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07
d. Pays for This Paper
ZOC until January fst

This will include all of Rev. Sheldon's
famous book, "In His Steps" which we
now have in plate and will begin running
soon in place of ou- serial story which is
nearing its close. This book has had the
largest sale of any book o. modern times
and is worth more than the cost of the
paper which you need any way. Tel
your neighbor of this proposition. Gel
up club, stamps taken.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

Rev. A. O. Ebright, aceompdul q b,
Ms. A. Ii. Griffin, went 10 MIan1r",
morning to conduct a,missioupp cu
ventiOn. Rev. Ebrigbt Is secrr.arl q,
this district, having been artoac
as such by The NJ. E. cnt,r 5ce
They wili be at Bethe, ch p aI
Rome tomorrow night, atEuIr. 100
a convention will be he'd. Mrs
Griffin Is 90 the program f0r AGO Fl"
dress at each Of these meetings.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

Over 100 new paid subscriptions to the
VOICE since the last issue. Many Of
them come through the mails. Let the
good work 60 on.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07
&C, Yards Of Lace
q! &c a Yard

We have just received one lot of IS pieces, or $50
yards of LACE, including Torchon, Valenciennes,
Normandie, Cuny, and Black and Cream Silk Laces in
widths from II inches to inches, and you can have
your olCe of them scents per yard Some of them
are cheap at 20 cents.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

Eagan disgraced, found guilty by a
courtmartial, still draws his 5000 Per
year for doing nothing He must be
pacifed and kept quiet.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

D. W. Sacket aud famil, OF Crawn
Springs, are visiting in the civ -
day.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07
WIN. STRYKER, Edl,or and Prop.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 1899
OUR TICKET,

For County CT rk,
w. Z. WOOD,
of Conway Township.
For heri@
C. SHAVER,
of Wellington.
For Treasurer,
J.P. WIMER,
OF Greene + wrsnip.
For Register OF Deeds,
W. NJ. JACKSON,
Of RYAN Township.
For Surveyor.
GEO. C. STATION,
of Osborne Township.
For Coroner.
DIR. J. G. REID,
of Wellington.
For County High school Trustees,
A G.. LAMBE,
Of Avon Township.
J. A. RYLAND.
Of Falls Township.
For Commissioner First District.
J f. G00CH,
of Conway Township.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

Old papers for sale at the VOICE Office.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

Are you going to make Comforts this fa If Won are YOU
Will need Cotton Batting. We can sell it to you
at &c, Sc, lOc and 15c per roll
We also have Calico cents per yard that will make good
tops Tor them and will pay you to before buy
ing any Qfyour fall supplies.
Did you say our 36nch UnbIeached Sheeting at cent
was the 6eS that you saw at the price! well we
have plenty oft So come and get it. Cur Bleached
Muslin at cents is good one and will please you.
What about Slices? We haue 500 pairs that we are selling
at SOC on the dollar So buy your school shoes now
and get the benefit of the reduction.
MEMS Shoes. We have big stock and the prices are
right.
Just received, new lot of premiums to redeem
the cards standing out Come in and bring YOUR ticket
before the assortment is broken
Respectfully,
RItAARD5oN6@
LA ~ Washington Avenue, Wellington, Kansas
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-09-07

Are you going to make Comforts this al If yon are you
will need Cotton Batting. We can sell it to you
at5c, &c. lOc and / SC per roll
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-11-30
The Cotton Markets.
NEW YORK COTTON MARkJ

NEW YORK COTTON MA RKET.
New York, Nov. 29.-Thc heavy long
interest In cotton was reduced very
materially to-day under Il scramble for
profits by the investment public. The
opening was weak, with prices 10 IL
points lower, followed Immediately by
n further drop Of 4@S points. Through
out the first hour great Excitement pre-
vailed, with speculation very active and
mainly OF a bearish nature. Suisse
quent events, however, proved the
opening prices to be the lowest of the
day. Teactionary movements carried
prices upward some 10@l2 points higher,
and sentiment once more favored the
bull side.
The initial break was caused by a
poor response on Liverpool's part to our
advance OF yesterday and on renewed
estimates of an II. 900, 600 bale crop Tie
latter served to intimidate smaller
holders, whose selling the local crowd
was unable to withstand. Stop orders
were reached. liberating enormous lines
of January. March and May cotton. a
bad break in the New Orleans market
soon after the opening added to the
nervousness here, as. did n sharp tum-
bic in futures abroad. So far s.the po-
eition OF the market WAS concerned
conditions were unchanged from those
of the past weeks, and many leading
traders bought throughout the decline.
Receipts continued light and spot mar
kets South were reported firm. But,
naturally, investors reduced holdings
In view of the possibility of unfavorable
Developments abroad during our holi-
day tomorrow. The market was
finally steady, with prices net S to II
points lower, the latter on December
only.
New York, Now 29.--Cotton futures
opened weak: .Jqn.,' 7.52: Feb, 7i9;
Mar, T.52; Apr, 7.4o: May. 7.52; June,
7.62; July, 7.52; Aug, 7.49: Sept, 7.os;
Oct, G. 9S.
Futures closed steady. Dec, 1893;
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-11-30
COTTON RECEIPTS.
AMONG OUR COTTON MEN.
rh q N q vi IN Cal Lou, 7, u
NOrrOik Va

AMONG OUlS COTTON MEN.
Thanksgiving Day-Cotton Exchange
closed.
Bar silver, London, 81 5-16d., advance
OF Lied. against - 7-1Gd last year
Spot cotton in Liverpool declined
1-32d. Sales, $4,000 bales. Future con-
tracts declined 1 to l}s points. closing
quiet.
Future contract market in New York
declined 10 to II points on this crop and
points on new crop. closing steady.
December, 7.33 to 1874: January. 7.43 to
7.40; May 7.52 to 1853; August, 7.4S to
7.49; October. $50 to co. Spot quota
tons reduced JIG.
u. S. port receipts yesterday were
42.1l9 bales. against 72,i1i last year and
32,462 in 1896.
Receipts at New Orleans to-day es-
timated ut $4,000 to $4,000 bales. against
1920 last year and 9.172 In 1896.
January contracts in New Orleans de-
clined 10 points. closing at 7.19.
Receipts ut Houston. Texas, to-day
estimated at 5000 to 5000 bales. against
1855 last year and 1920 in 1896.