The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-08-31

working classes; the Department OF
Agriculture has been established and
the head thereof made a Cabinet Of
ficer; seeds costing $3.50, 900 annual
ly are distributed free to the people;
it is made misdemeanor in many
of the states to blacklist poor man
who has been discharged from SER
vice or has failed to pay his debts,
and it is made a misdemeanor to
threaten by postal card through
the mails to sue a debtor or by the
use of any devise to reflect upon
him.
TO PROTECT THE IMPRUD-
ENT AND UNWARY.
In order to protect the imprudent
and unwary the use of the mails is
denied to those who would operate
fraudulent or lottery schemes thro'
this medium; postages have been re-
duced, entailing loss to the govern
ment of So 900, 900 annually in car
rying the mails under the operation
of which the people get the country
newspapers free of postage, and the
best magazines and periodicals have
been made so cheap as to put them
within the reach of the poor; poll
cies of life insurance and shares in
building and loan associations are
made non forfeitable for non-pay
ment of premiums or dues after a
limited time; banks, whether state
or national, are subject to public
supervision and their accounts to
public inspection; the employees in
the public service are allowed leave
of absence with pay for thirty days
in some instances and fifteen days
in others, and an additional thirty
days for themselves or families, the
coolie trade, the importation of la
borers under contract, the labor of
convicts of the United States, the
further immigration of the Chinese,
importation of convict made goods
and the peonage syrtem have been
forbidden by law; boards of arbitra-
ton, state and national, have been
created.
THE PUBLIC SERVICE.
Those employed in the public
service are allowed payment for the
national holidays-January I, Feb
ruary 22, Decoration day, July 4,
Thanksgiving day and December
IS. Homesteads have been given
to those who would 60 and settle on
them, and other lands have been
given to those who would plant and
grow trees thereon; the Australian
ballot law and other laws for the
protection of the people in their
right to vote, unmolested and un-
awed, have been passed; 1900, 900
slaves have been freed, by which
hundreds of thousands of property
owners were impoverished; public
hospitals have been multiplied for
the care of the sick and poor; $40,
900, 900 is annually paid out of the
public treasury to the soldiers of
our wars, their widows and orphans,
and last, though not least, public
schools have been established, so
that now the annual expenditure In
them is more than SI6o, 900, 900,
and for buildings, interest on loans
and other expenses probably the fur
ther sum of $40 700, 900 or more.
GIT is DEMAGOGIC."
Mr. Thomas further says that
'the history of our country for the
last quarter of century shows that
men and women of all classes of life
have taxed their ingenuity to the ut
most limit to devise laws for the
benefit, education and elevation of
the masses of the people. :. There
is no question that the trend of pub
|lc opinion among our people has
been for many years in that direc-
ton, and 1t is demagogic for any
one to assert, for the purpose of in
flaming the minds of the poor
against the rich, that legislation
mas all been against the former and
IN favor of the latter"