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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-11-03

\ QUEER STATE or AFFAIES. Trans
grcssions o! the moral code do not ap-
pear TO count for much in Kansas. if
the report OF the clopcment of Rev.
&. +. Dahlkc. Il Baptist preacher, with
his organiSt, Mrs. Augusta Funk, is to
he taken Tor an iudcN Ml@. +. was
the vile 81 one If the most influential
Pennington Times, in abiding to the
affair, SAYS Dihlke WIS arrested in
this city and given a preliminary
hearing at Oaksdalc on a charge of all.
ductlon, and was confined in the Col
fax Jail until Sheriff Graham came ont
from Kansas and took him back to
stand trial in Marion county. Mr..
Funk came after his wife, who claimed
that Dahlke had hypnotized her. The
husband forgave his wife and took her
home. Dahlke was taken back to
Kansas and given trial on the charge
OF abduction, but was promptly ac-
quilted. Mrs. Funk's brother, who
lives near Pennington, is authority for
the statement and he says that prior
to the elopement Funk had decided his
wife a large amount of his property,
which he says is the chief reason Funk
forgave his wife and took her back to
his love and home. lie says the cou.
pie are living together at Hillsboro,
Kansas, apparently happy as ever.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-11-03

10 red bundle exercising intelligence buying goods
1t means buying goods in the best and cheapest market
Keep Your Eye the Red Bundles. They
all came from
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-11-03
a Tacoma Objection.

Ihe Plating of the once famous
" school Section Ii, which lies partly
within the corporate limit, of Tacoma,
by Land Commissioner Bridges, to en-.
able Inn to lease it. in conformity
with HI established policy ior making
the State lands cam some revenue for
the public, has stirred up Il hornets
nest amid: the people who tried so
hard, lew year, ago. t. wrcSt the sec
ton from the state under the clam
that it was mineral land, on manuiac-
turcd testimony and "saltcd' ex-
hibits.
Mr.. Bridges was visited Wednesday
10y Tacoma's City Attorney Pritchard,
who filed decided protest against the
contemplated action OF the Commits
sioner, on the ground that it would es-
tabllsh 4 class of tenants within the
city limits vino would not be subject
to its jurisdiction. Such a PROPOSE
ton could not he entertained for a
moment 10y the city Of manifest des-
tiny.
MIR. Bridges informed the gentleman
that all protests would be of no avail;
that the State was determined to de-
rive some revenue from its landed pos
sessions, and intimated, as a gentle re-
minder OF past history, that the city,
or some OF its people had already had
their day in court, and the equities of
the matter had been quite we'll set
tied.
Judge Pritchard threatens to delay
ii not defeat the leasing OF the lands,
by means of restraining order, but
there is very little probability that he
can seriously embarrass the excellent
work of the Land Commissioner.
The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18

convenient hall for one or two days and
evenings and listen to instructive lee
lures and join in relating their personal
experience upon the subjects and meth
DDS in which they are most directly In
terested. Basket dinners and social visits
add much to the pleasure and cheerful
ness OF these gatherings.
The State Of Kansas never has given
the attention and encouragement to these
schools OF instruction which their i'm
pOrtance deserves. Other States have
provided for such instruction by liberal
appropriations for annual Institutes In
every county, and the results have been
wonderfully beneficial. They have not
only been a great source Of education to
the farmers and their families, but have
put new light and contentment into life
on the farm and checked in no small de-
gree, the too prevalent tendency to leave
the farm and move into city or town.
Kansas ought not to be behind other
States In this important matter. The
Legislature should pass a law providing
for farmers institutes and make an ap-
to furnish suitable instruc-
ton for at least one such institute in
every county each year and for several
in each of the most populOus counties
A small appropriation only would be
required to pay the expenses of two or
three speakers for each institute. The
farmers in each county would be inter
ested and would themselves furnish the
most Of the necessary instruction. But
the State ought to organize the system
and then the farmers would take up the
work and make it a permanent success.
We hope that the present legislature will
do this so that the State Of Kansas will
keep pace with her sister States in the
education Of her farming classes and
add to the contentment and happiness
Of life on the farms.
The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18
FARMhRs, HNsTITuTRs.

The farmers comprise by far the larg-
est portion OF the population Of Kansas
They represent the greatest industry in
the State. BY their toll and skill they
add more to the wealth, progress and
growth Of the State than all other in
dustries combined Hence the State is
directly interested in the welfare, the
progress and the prosperity Of the farm
ers. Farming is a progressive science.
It is making rapid strides along new
lines and in the use of improved meth
ods. To keep pace with this rapid ad-
vancement and get the best results from
their farms the farmers must study and
utilize the new methods which are good
and reject and discard methods, old or
new, which do not yield adequate or
profitable returns. The farmers insti-
tute is one of the very best means for
educating the farmers in the use of inn
proved methods that will add to the in
come from their farms and also give
them and their families better conditions
OF life on the farm. These institutes are
farmers schools Of experience where
the farmers and their families gather at
the neighborhood school house or some
The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18
swEATsHOP WORK.

It has been suggested that much OK
the sickness among our soldiers in the
Spanish war was communicated in the
clothing furnished them, much Of which
was made in the sweatshops Of the large
cities, where the germs Of disease are
always present. Four-fifths of the en-
Dloyees in these city sweatshOps are un-
naturalzed foreigners, many OF whom
have only one small room in which to
live and sleep and do their work. Chill
dren are compelled to work in these
sitting rooms from morning till night
and then hear the hum Of the sewing
machine while they sleep, for their
mothers are compelled not only to neg
leCt their household duties, but must
work both day and night to keep star
walton from their doors. Sickness and
death and sweatshOp work are often
close companions and the germs Of the
disease which brings rest to the sweat
shop slave adhere to the garments there
made and bring disease and death to sub
seQuent wearers to whom these same
garments were supposed to give comfort
and protection to health. One Of the
subjects upon which there ought to be
uniform legislation in this country Is
that Of sweatshop goods.
Such goods should all be properly fu-
migated as soon as they leave the sweat
shop so as to destroy all germs of dis
ease. And such goods should all be
plainly marked "sweatshOp goods" They
would then be sold for what they aCtu-
ally are and the heartless contractors
and employers who foster this work
could not squeeze the very life-bloOd of
those poor tOilers into every garment
they make. Now sweatshop goods are
often sold as factory-made or as hand
made in workshops. If they had to be
plainly marked as sweatshOp goods the
sweatshop slavery would largely cease
and suitable workshops would be pro-
vided where the work would be done
away from the sitting rooms where life
and disease and death go hand in hand.
The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18
Direct Legislation.
Prof. Frank Parsons.

Prof Frank Parsons.
Is self government right? If so, the
referendum and initiative follow. be-
believe in self-government for the sake
Of justice, safety, mankind, education,
development, and therefore / believe in
the referendum, the most promising
means OF enabling the people to exert
more real and effective control over
legislation, whereby we may hope to
secure more perfect government by
and for the people.
Direct legislation means simply an
actual, instead Of q mere theoretic SOW
ereignty of the people. We are gov
erned to-day, not by democracy, but
by an elective arlstocracy holding for
q term. The people are sovereign only
at the moment Of electiOn-the men they
elect become their masters for one, two,
four, six years, as the case may be. Self
government is one thing-the choosing
of the men who are to govern you is
a very different thing. A child may
choose it's guardian; a slave might be
given a voice in the selection Of his
master and yet be absolutely subject to
his dominion after the choice were made
Power will be used in the interests Of
its possessOr. II the power of govern
ment is to be used In the interests of
the people they must have continuous
and effective possession of the govern
The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18

ment. We call our legislators agents"
and the people their "principal"-queer
agents who can give away their princi-
pals property despite his protest, and
are not responsible to him during their
term Of service; queer principal that can
not veto his agents plans, no matter
how much he objects to them, nor in
struCt his agents what to do whenever
he sees fit, nor discharge said agents
when they refuse to carry out his or
ders; queer principal who has to obey
the commands of his agents instead OF
giving them orders. Legislatures and
city councils not infreQuently submit to
the people questions of importance on
which they wish to enact an honest
law, but they never submit franchise
steal to the people; when they are en-
acting from honest motives they often
find the referendum very helpful in COM
ing to a wise and just conclusion, but
when they are enacting from corrupt
and selfish motives they have no use for
the referendum. Valuable gas, electric
light and street railway franchises would
not be given away to lobbying corpora
tiOns If we had the referendum.
The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18
Interstate Commerce Commission.

The twelfth annual report of the In
terstate Commerce Commission has been
prepared. 1t makes the usual complaint
that the law as it stands at present is
dead letter. In previous reports to
Congress, especially those of more re-
cent date, attention has been called to
the vital respects in which the act has
proved defective and inadequate Some
Of its provisions were early seen to be
imperfect, while others were so uncer-
tain or ambiguous as to give rise to pro-
tracted litigation, resulting finally in
authoritative construction by the SUI
preme court Of the United States. The
commission has taken much pains to
explain the various questions that have
thus been decided and the effect Of these
adjudications in defeating the purposes
of the act. To state that the law, in
it's present condition, can not be en-
forced is only to repeat what has al
ready been said. Until further and i'm
portant legislation is enacted the best
efforts at regulation must be feeble and
disappointing.
This subject was fully discussed in
our last annual report, and we are un-
able to add anything to the presentation
then made. In that and previous reports
we have not only set forth in general
terms the necessity for amending the
law, but have formulated and proposed
the specific amendments which appear
to us positively essential. With the re-
newal Of these recommendations, no du-
ty of the commission in this regard re-
mains undischarged.
Meanwhile the situation has become
intolerable both from the standpoint of
the public and the carriers. Tariffs are
disregarded, determinations constant
ly occur, the price at which transporta-
tion can be obtained is fuctuating and
uncertain. Railroad managers are dis
trustful of each other, and shippers all
the while in doubt as to the rates Sc
cured by their competitors. The vol
ume of traffic is so unusual as to fire.
quently exceed the capacity of equip
ment, yet the contest for tonnage seems
never relaxed. Enormous sums are
spent in purchasing business and secret
rates accorded far below the standard Of
published charges. The general public
The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18

age Of silver There may be a slight
modification as to the ratio, but the
Democratic party is overwhelmingly 10y
al to the free silver cause The question
of expansion will hardly cut any figure
in the next national campaign, for, In
my opinion a fixed line of policy Will
have been established in that direction
before the next presidential campaign
opens"
William j. Bryan has also said that
silver will be the issue In 1900. He Is
inclined to think, however, that the ex-
pansion question will not be settled by
that time, and that the Democratic party
will be against the Mckinley policy OF
expansion and the increase of the army
and navy.
AS far as Kansas Populists are con-
cerned, 1t is very evident that the same
arrangement will be made in 1900 as
was carried out in 1896. The leaders in
the Populist party seem to be confident
that fusion will again exist in next years
campaign, however distasteful this may
be to some Populists and also to some
Of the Democrats. What the issues will
be will be decided on later. The State
platform will undoubtedly give more
room to silver than 1t did last year.
The Advocate and news., 1899-01-18
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OF KANSAS.
Published Every Wednesday, at Topeka, Kansas.
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ISSUES IN 1900.

ISSUES IN 1900.
AS far as PODulsts and Democrats are
concerned the issues for the campaign
Of 1900 are somewhat mixed. The Pop
ulist party will be dependent on the
action of the Democracy even more than
in 1896, and everything seems to point
to fusion in Kansas in 190O which will
give the Populsts the State officers and
the Democrats the national electors.
This, OF course, unless the Croker wing
OF the Eastern Democracy Will secure
such hold on the Democratic party that
there will be no room for the Bryan
wing. In this case Mr.. Bryan, ev-GOv-
ernor Altgeld, David Overmyer and the
rest will be forced to one Of two alter
natives; they must either come into the
Peoples party or else unite in the forma-
tion OF an entirely new party
Richard Croker has issued statement
representing the stand Of his faction In
which he says that the free coinage OF
silver at the ratio Of 16 to / is an en-
tirely dead issue, and he declares him
self, and this means, of course, his fol-
lowers. too, an out-and-out eXpansionist.
He cites Jefferson as an expanslonist and
claims that the millions Of dollars spent
annually for foreign missions can come
back to us If spent in our own posses
slOns. I'VE have" he says, "a popula-
tion of SO,OOO,OOO people; the country
teens with young men full of life, hope
and an ambition; why not give these
young men a chance to develop our new
ly acquired possessions and build up
country rivaling in grandeur and patriot
ism our own United States. l say by all
means hold on to all the rights that be-
long to us"
Ex-Governor BOies has also come out
with @ declaration that the cause of free
silver is hopeless. At a Jackson day
banquet in Iowa last week he said; we
already know that majority Of the
electors of the United States are opposed
10 the unqualified and free coinage OF
silver at the exact ratio Of 16 to with
gold. The first duty in this hour OF
peril, as view 1t, rests largely, If not
exclusively, upon the friends of silver
The plan they have heretofore present.
ed for its restoration to its rlghtful place
in our financial system has been repu-
dated by the majority of the electors OF
the nation. There is not, in my Judg-
ment, the slightest prospect that this
popular verdict will be changed in the
future. If we are to save anything for
the silver cause Its friends, in my mind,
must change their plans, They must
yield gracefully and willingly to the
Judgment of the superior numbers.
On the other hand, Mr.. Bryan, Senator
Jones, Coin Harvey and others who
are known as strong silver men, reit-
crate that silver will be the leading issue
OF 1900. Regarding Croker, Senator
Jones says emphatically; "Mr. CrOker's
vision on such questions does not extend
beyond the limits Of New York city.
Those gentlemen who are pronouncing
eulogies on the death Of free silver may
be disappointed when the next national
Democratic convention meets hap
pen TO be in position to know that
free silver as a Democratic issue is not
dead, neither is 1t sleeping, and am con-
fident there will be reafflrmation OF
so much of the Chicago platform as
declares for the free and unlimited coin
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-04-18

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The first British recognition of Besse.
mer 5 work came from the Institute of
Civil Engineers. which awarded him a
gold Telford medal for paper on his
steel process read before it in 1863
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-04-18
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DncSs don't need water to thrive.
There are many duck raising plants in
this country where thousands of the
fowls are bred each year for market and
where there is not even puddle fol
them to founder in One of these farmf
Is credited with an output Of 30. 00f
ducks year
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-04-18
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Cripple Creek is great ON etiquette
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whose family he is very intimate and
ttid
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The little miss drew herself up and
replied
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phone. Boston Globe
The Florence daily tribune., 1899-04-18

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IL tons. with aRout 900 fathoms Of ca
BILE.
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their fathers and mothers mail has arrived
at Havana since last Wednesday,"
But, said the correspondent. almost with tears
IN his eyes. that would not be the same. The
soldiers did not expect their fathers and mothers
and, besides, fathers and mothers from America
do not travel in mail sacks"
The censor and the Interpreter again retired for
dellberation. The censor began to pound on the
desk with his fist and point exctedly at the letters
while he spelled out; -Soontcy C-l-a-u-s
-tloos. Cararba! Carambau Caramba, ~ The
correspondent shuddered
santa Claus must mean something horrible in
Spanish, he thought. The interpreter turned to
him.
Santa Censor he says that SOontey Cloos is
q code word That il means something you fear
10 write out. Something about the Spaniards that
ought not to be sent out"
The leaned across the table and bran
dished the copy at the correspondent His words
rolled out in a torrent.
The correspondent gathered that he being
accused OF base treachery against the Spanish
crown; that the censor by his diligence and erud-
ton. had discovered the crime of the nineteenth
century: that the words Santa Claus" were prob
ably declaration OF war a signal for somebody
TO touch off mine and blow up the remnants
OF the Spanish navy The interpreter sank down
weak in chair.
Il cannot tell all he says" murmurcd the inter
prefer, brokenly. at would take a month-a year
lie Is mad, horribly. He says you are trying what
you call in lngsc a trick" The censor ended his
philippe with a hollow cech-"CARAMBA,ttr
He dropped into his chair and plunged his pencil
right and left upon the fearful sentence containing
tn 0minOus words Santa Claus" Then he gave
# to the correspondent. And the clock struck ten
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15

the mean man could get about 10 sual 4,
damages The defendant was shrewd enourA =
demand a jury trial. and the case was tried "a,
good deal more than 1t was worth.
The purport Of the verdict was that the plalnts
had been found guilty Of assault and battery M
intent to do great bodily harm. In vain Il Va
urged that the plaintiff was not on trial that -
determined was whether the prayer Of the mess
man for damages should be allowed. The justis.
solemnly accepted the finding of the jury He W.,
further. pronOuncDg II righteous verdict a.
combing the plaintiff down in way that wosl
have driven a less sensitive man distracted. Tia
there was nothing on earth he could say why ~
sentence Of the law should not be pronounced al
fined him MOO with an alternative II thirty lays
iail The mean man settled.