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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17
TRUSTS

The trusts are benefit to the coun-
try; they greatly simplify business and
sell cheaper than you could buy before
the trust system was inaugurated. y
This is the kind of argument you can
I hear every day among the old moss
backs. We are reminded of Pope:
Not one looks backward, onward still he goes
Nor yet looks forward farther than his nose
The poet must have had the political
moss back in mind when he wrote
these lines. The man who SAYS that
trusts cheaper what the people buy is
SIMPLY wofully ignorant. There are
times, it is true. when trust will sell
goods cheap, but that is only when a
small competitor must be crushed and
when this is accomplished, up goes the
price. Recent inventions have lowered
the cost of production almost immeas-
urably, patents have expired so that
the actual cost of machinery is insig-
1ifi cant compared with what must be
paid for it before it leaves the trusts
hands. Admitting that some things
can be purchased more cheapIy than
they could twenty years ago, it Is still
fact that these same articles cost sew
eral times more above the cost of pro.
duction now than they did then. But
how has it been during the past few
years? Go to the hardware store and
try to buy farming implements. wire,
price he paid year or sixteen months
ago. Go to the lumber yard, the coal
bins, and try 1t. You Will find prices
advanced. Has there been an increase
in the cost of production? No. La
borers work more hours for the same
amount Of money, raw material is
made cheaper and the sole gamer is the
institution which controls the goods.
The man Who can not see these
things is certainly not intelligent. He
is surely specimen of the lower in
stincts of humanlty-either a hopeless,
ignorant slave or selfish, heartless
being who has sufficiency of wealth
for himself without least concern for
posterity or suffering humanity of the
present generation.
Talk as you will, theorize as you may,
unless governments take some radical
step to protect the masses from
the rayishes of combined wealth there
will be such oppression and slavery as
has meyer yet been recorded in the an.
nails of history which can eliminate in
nothing less than revolution IN COM
parison with which the French episode
will fade into insignifcance. A ballot
in the hands Of a Wise, humane voter
can prevent such catastrophe-noth-
ing else.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

Secretary Ga &c after, max
ing Rockefeller's bank the
national depository without
authority from congress or
anybody else, was severely
arraigned by resolutions in
PRODUCED in the senate by
Senator Allen of Nebraska,
and in the house by Con.
gresham Sulzer of NewYork.
The secretary replies that he
did it to ward off a panic and
adds that he is justified by
precedent and by law. He ar
CUES that the money in Rock
efeller's bank is counted the
same as in the treasury while
at the same time it is employ
ed in the avenues of business
thus preventing a panic
which boarding in the treas
ury would cause. The Sec
rotary, however, is remarka-
bly, silent on the fact that
Mr.. Rockefeller makes a clear
gain of an average of S16,.
600, 900 a year by reason of
this favor and that the people
who borrow are the sufferers.
The question naturally arises
again, if the government can
give money to a capitalist to
loan to the people at an enor-
nous rate of interest why
can not the government it.
self loan the money to the
people at reasonble rate of
interest. Paternalism did
you say9 1t is the rankest
type of paternalism to show
this special favor to one mil
lionaire and compel the in
dustrial masses to pay the
bill. The republicans will
please quit bowling Populis-
| tic paternalisn.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

Under the new financial
law the national banker will
not even pay the govern
ment one-half per cent inter.
est for the money he borrows
and loans out at a usurious
rate of interest. The bank
er can take individual depos.
it's and buy bonds with it
and when he deposits them
with the treasurer, the COY,
eminent gives him money to
do business with, for the full
face of his bonds. The bank.
er is strictly in it-even
moreso than he has been be-
fore.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

CATTLEMEN will probably not secure any re-
lief from the increased freight rates until the
legislature meets. The action of the special
session of the legislature in 1897, in abolishing
the board OF raj lroad commissioners left them
without any remedy.-Cresset.
You mean that the action of the fed
eral court in abOlishing the court of
visitation LETT them without remedy.
The Board of Railroad Commissioners
was simply fgure-head. The rail-
roads ignored it and the courts sustain
ed them. 1t had no executive power
anC was only an institution to make
room for political demagogues. Maybe
some day the people will adopt a sys-
tenn of government ownership and
then they will have relief that no court
can deprive them of.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

About the most scathing
roast which has appeared in
Kansas in years is that given
A. A. Richards of Yelling
ton by the Topeka Capital.
Richards has been throwing
mud at Hudson and Hudson
loaded up his big gun with
a foundry and let her go.
ingalls,, in his bitterest days
never fayed anybody as I'M
mercifully as the Capital did
misunderstanding Eagle Gre,
publican).
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

You can scarcely name an
industry or an article of
commerce that is not con-
trolled by a trust to the det-
riment of the public. And
yet politicians will say that
the government has no right
to m eddie with them, and
many people who are being
devoured Dy these morally
illegitimate concerns are just
foolish enough to believe
such iniquitous doctrine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

Under direct Legislation
you could vote for such laws
as you might desire no mat
ter where your partisan pre-
JUDGE is. It would make
the voter independent and
fearless and simplify and
purify politics to an incon-
ceivable extent.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17
The Ohio Supreme Court

The Ohio Supreme Court
has dismissed the bribery
suit against the Standard
Oil Company, in which the
Attorney General testified
that he had been offered
100000 to dismiss certain
suits which he had brought
against the syndicate. Mon
cite was turned down in the
republican convention for
fighting this big concern
and the supreme judges had
no doubt read the handwrit-
ing on the wall.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

LONG should revise Andy Richards
letters more carefully. In recent one
in which he claims for Chester the hon.
or of opening the hemp ports of the
Philippines, he Inadvertently, or some
other way, prints a letter from the as.
sistant secretary of war in which the
matter is mentioned as having been
taken up with Otis some considerable
time previous to Mr.. Longs efforts.
Deliver us from our frIends.-Anthony
Republican.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

There is real prosperity in
the land but the fellows who
enjoy it are, unfortunately,
the ones who least deserve it.
They are comparatively few
in number, vicious in charac-
ter and detrimental to the
general welfare.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17
John KOrnstadt. the DO,

John Kornstadt, the boy
murderer of Harper county,
was found guilty of murder
in the first degree, at Antho-
ny last week. This will give
him life Imprisonment. Korn-
stadt is only 16 years old, but
is a notorious example of
a cold-blooded monster even
at0 that youthful age. He
ravished and murdered his
13.year old cousin last sum.
mer and threw the body in
an old unused we'll. The boy
was removed to Wichita af.
ter it was learned that he
committed the awful crime,
to prevent his being lynched
by the citizens.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

We are glad to learn that
DR.. E. P. Miller, himself a
capitalist, who owns large IN
terests in Barber county, and
who had a habit some years
ago of airing the views of his
class of people, through the
columns of the Cresset, has
thrown off his republican par
tisan spirit long enough to
say that the new financial
bill is wrong. It is not often
that the heart of a capitalist
beats in unison with that of
the masses, but this instance
in the Dr.'s case seems to be
an exception. However, if
the republican party does it,
he will convert himself into
the belief that it is all right.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17
he FOOLED THE SURGEONS.

All doctors told Renick Hamilton. of
West Jefferson, o., after suffering Is
months from Rectal Fistula, he would
die unless costly operation was per.
formed; but he cured himself with five
boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The
surest Pile cure on earth, and the best
Salve in the world. Is cents a box,
Sold by j. r. Z Dung Druggist.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

The Supreme Court last
week knocked out the law
taxing judgements. Capital
lists must be exempt from tax
alton even if the courts must
be resOrted to.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17
sTOCKMEN ATTENTION,

l have feed for 400 head of cattle.
Plenty of fresh water and good range.
Call and see me at the Orion Nursery.
miles southeast of KlOwa, or address
me at Kiowa, Kans. F. 3. ORION.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

Government ownership of
monopoly or monopoly owner
ship of government-which
will you have? 1t will soon
come to a showdown.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

The expenditures at the
state penitentiary during
December were $469.56 great.
er than the receipts. Not a
single republican paper has
referred to the fact.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

PREsl ENT........WI WILLIAM MCKINLEY
United States senators 80. ... D.. l.. Baker
of Kansas. W. A. Harris
Member of Congress 18th Dist C. l. Long
CoDgreSsman-at-lar9e w. J. Bailey
Judge of Gath Judicial Dist.... Z. b. Gillett
Judge OF Appellate court. A. w. Dennison
State Senator. 31th District. A. }. Titus
Representative, nth District. w. G. Millar
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-01-17

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20 cents per hundred.
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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
THREE-SCORE DEAD.
An Appalling Accident to an Ex-
cursion Car at Tacoma.
Car Plunged into a Guich 100 Feet Below
and Was Sma~hed into KtndIng, and
The Occupants We're Crushed
and NanCIed.

Tacoma, Wash, July 5.-Nearly 100
people, passengers on a car bound
for this city, were plunged down a
gulch at Twenty-sixth and C streets
shortly after eight o'clock yesterday
morning. Those who were standing
on the platforms dropped off only to
be bruised and wounded by the heavy
body of the coach, while others inside
were killed and MANNED before they
knew what had happened. The car
jumped the track and was smashed to
hndling wood in the bottom of the
chasm over 100 feet below. The dead
will number nearly three score, for
there are many of the injured who
will never recover and who are eX-
pected to die at any moment and
there are at least 60 of the passen-
gers of the car now in the various
hospitals and under the care of their
own physicians.
It was one of the most appalling
accidents that has ever occurred in
this city, and it came at a time when
it was least expected. Here were
happy people, residents of the nearby
towns Edison, Lakeview, Falkland,
LIKE IdTh anu OJnef pldceS-coInInS
to Tacoma full of joy and patriotism
to spend the Fourth of July. Their
journey was nearly at an end when
death interfered and claimed them
as his own in a most frightful man
ner. He gave no quarter. Neither
man, woman nor child was spared.
Crushed, manned and mangled the I'M
fortunates were dragged from be-
meath the wreck of the car and ten
der hands ministered to them until
conveyances could be had to carry
tenn to hospitals and to the homes of
their friends.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
SILVER REPUBLICANS.
The National Convention Meets-Chair-
man Towne's AddreSs-A GaveI Pre-
sented to Senator Teller.

Kansas City, Mo-, July 5.-The ma
tional convention of the silver repub-
lican party met in the Auditorium
theater yesterday. The delegates
were rather slow in arriving. It was
some time after - o'clock, the hour
fixed for the convention, when Chair
man Charles A. Towne's gave1 fell and
the party formed in ST. Louis four
years ago was launched on it's first
regular national gathering. Twenty
four states and territories were rep
resented at the convention.
In closing Mr.. Towne introduced
Senator Henry NJ. Teller, temporary
chairman of the convention, and pre-
sented him with a gavel, the head
made of an elm planted by Abraham
Lincoln and the handle made from
a board in the floor of Lincoln's home
in Springfield.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
AMERICAS GIFT TO FRANCE.
Statue of Lafayette, Paid for by School
Children of the Untted States,
Unveiled at Paris.

Paris, July SIN the presence of
the president of the republic, M.
Loubet, the United States embassa-
dor, Gen. Horace Porter, and bril-
liant assemblage of representative
Frenchmen and the most prominent
members of the American colony
here, the statue in honor of Gen. La
fayette, the gift of the American
school children to France, was pre-
scented to the nation by Ferdinand
W. Peck, president of the Lafayette
Memorial commission, and was ac-
cepted by President LoLbet in behalf
of France.
The American flags and trophies
in French and American colors were
displayed on numerous buildings and
on OF over American houses through
Paris, and the stars and stripes ffoated
from the pinnacle of the Eiffel tower,
thus dominating the whole city. The
location of the monument is within
a small railed-in garden, which hence
forth will be known as Lafayette
square, and which lies in the center
Of the quadrangular Place du Ca
rO1JSaI
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
Five women Drowned.

Cleveland, o., July Give persons
were drowned by the capsizing of the
yacht Idler in a squal six miles from
port Saturday afternoon. The yacht
belonged to John and James Corrigan.
The six members of the crew and the
infant granddaughter of James Cor
rigan We're saved by a tug. The dead
are: Mrs. James Corrigan, wife of
the well-known vessel owner; Miss
Ida Corrigan, Miss Jane Corrigan,
Mrs. Charles Riley, all daughters of
James Corrigan; Miss Eta Corrigan,
daughter of Capt. John Corrigan.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
WANT TO ENLIST.
Hundreds of Young Men Inform the War
and Navy Departments They Are
Ready to Fight the Chinese.
decree.

Washington, July 9.-Hundreds of
applications are being received daily
by the war and navy departments
from young men in all parts of the
country who want to fight in the
ranks of the army or navy against
the Chinese. In many cases the ap-
plicants offer the services of whole
regiments. In the absence of con-
gressional authority none of these APP
plicatiOns can be acted upon favor
ably. Neither the war nor navy de-
partment will authorize the enlist
ment of men especially for service in
China.
The officials will not admit that
war with China is probable and they
declare that even if war were declared
men would be enlisted only for gen
eral service, to be assigned as each
department sees fit.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
ROOSEVELT AT CANTON.
Enthusiastic Greeting for the Republican
Vice Presidential Nominee by Mr..
McNinIey's Fellow Citizens.

Canton, o., July THE home city
of the president yesterday accorded
to his colleague on the republican ma
tiona1 ticket an ovation almost I'M
precedented in Canton. It would be
hard to say whether the citizens of
Canton voiced a more demonstrative
welcome to President Mckinley or
Gov. Roosevelt, yet it may be said
with truth that Canton did not dis
criminate in yesterdays demonstra-
ton, the first occasion on which the
republican candidates for president
and vice president personally met.
President Mckinley and Gov. Roose-
velt were in conference most of the
evening, but nothing could be learned
as to the matters discussed. The gov
ernor left for New York at 1880. He
refused to discuss the Kansas City
platform or the candidates.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
CAMPAIGN IN PHILIPPINES.
in the Past Weeks ScOuting-InSur-
gents Slowly Accepting Amnesty.

Manila, July 9.-The past weeks
scouting in Luzon resulted in IL
Americans being shot and killed and
16 wounded. One hundred and six
teen FiIipinos were killed during the
week, and eight Americans, who had
been prisoners in the hands of the
rebels, were surrendered and 100
rifles were turned over to the United
States officials. The enemy ambushed
wagon train between Indang and
Naic. The Third infantry lost nine
men while on an expedition to pun
ish the Ladrones in the delta of the
Rio Grande. In the Antigua province
of Panay running fight of three
hours duration resulted in the killing
of 70 of the enemy. There We're no
casualties among the Americans. The
insurgents are slowly accepting the
amnesty provisions. In some instances
the Americans are suspending opera
lions in order to give the rebels an
opportunity to take Advantage of the
decree.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
CONFERENCE AT LINCOLN.
Adlai e. Stevenson Reques- ed by Mr.. Bryan
to- Attend a Conference-TowneW Will
ing Withdraw.

Minneapolis, Mimi, July 0-In
obedience to a telegraph request
from Mr.. Bryan, Hon. Adlai E. Steven
son left here last night over the Oma-
ha road for Lincoln, Neb. When seen
at the depot just before his depar-
ture Mr.. Stevenson would say but lit
tie, except that he was to attend a
conference at Lincoln regarding the
plan of campaign, in which Senator
Jones, chairman of the democratic
national committee, and Mr.. Towne,
populist candidate for vice president,
were to take part.
From another source it is learned
that Mr.. Towne is awaiting the YER
dict of the coming conference as to
whether it is better for him to with
draw as the populist candidate for
vice president. 1t is said that he is
ready to do just what Mr.. Bryan
thinks best under the circumstances.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
SCHEME TO COLOMBO BoERs.
Agents of the Afrikandera Considering
Proposition to SertIe Their Country
men In Louisiana and Texas.

Chicago, July 1.-THE Record to-day
says: Land and immigration agents
of the Southern Pacific railroad are
figuring for colonizing Beers in unset
tied territory in western Louisiana
and eastern Texas. Agents of the
Afrikanders are in this country con-
sidering propositions for colonizations
and conditions connected Herewith.
The fact that the general climate of
Louisiana and Texas is much warmer
and better adapted to the conditions
of the Dutch farmers than that Of the
northern sections of the United States
have been of such weight with the
Boer agents, and it is said that a deal
whereby thousands of the Afrikanders
will invade the southern states within
the next few months for a peaceful
conquest of soil is practically settled.
The Southern Pacific, it is reported,
practically has offered to give the
lands to the settlers and to do every
thing within it's power to develop the
country.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
KILLED.
Shanghai Tells of the Massacre of
Foreign Ministers at Pekin.
After the Buteherie- the Victims Were
Burned-Japaa, Wan AZ. ume th" Task
of Restoring Order /" the Flaw
arY KINGDOM

London, July 8.-The massacre of
the foreign ministers. the women and
the children and the European guards
after 10 days of hopeless resistance
is confirmed, says a dispatch from
Shanghai, dated July 6 and received
in London. when the ammunition
and food were exhausted" continues
the dispatch, ''the Chinese iends
closed in upon the legations and
butchered all those who remained
alive. Afterwards they set the lega-
ton buildings on fire, in which the
remains of the victims were con.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
Great victory for American si,E.
The Most Effective Preaching.

In an article in the Homilet Review
Joseph Parker draws the line sharply
between the preacher and the es-
sayist who reads his pulpit address.
According to the London clergyman
the effective preacher is not the one
who delivers a set grafton. Mr.. Par
loer considers Beecher, Sturgeon and
Moody the three best preachers he
has heard, ranking them in that or
der. Beecrer used the fewest posi-
bic notes, which gave no hint of the
store of eloquence which they would
suggest to him.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
Statue TO Con. Alber, PiI,a

Within the next few days there win
be erected at the national capital a
statue of the late Gen. Albert Pike,
for 43 years the sovereign grand com
mander of the Scottish Rite masons,
a man known and revered wherever
the Scottish Rite is a recognized in
stitution. Gen. Pike did more for his
order than anyone else of the time.
This statue will be the second to
mark decided departure from the
war and navy heroes which adorn ev-
cry accessible triangle and square.
The first was of Daniel Webster.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
COL. PETIT ACQUITTED.
Webb Haye-' Former Commander Cleared
by Court Martial at Manila of Any
WrOnR-D Doing.

Washington, July 9.-The follow
ing cablegram was received at the
war department from Gen. Macarthur
at Mantle: Col. James S. Petit,
Thirty-frst infantry, acquitted by
general court-martial.'' Col. Petit
was tried on a charge of having
turned over a native prisoner to a
dato in Mindanao, who cruelty exc
cuted the man. The court-martial
was founded upon a charge that Col.
Pettit's conduct was unsoldierly and
tended to bring the American arms
into contempt.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-12
OFFER MORE TERMS.
FIIpinos willing to COncede Almost Any
thing TO the United States Except
Their political Liberties

Ottawa, Ont, July 8.-The local
agent of the Filipinos publishes an
other resume of terms upon which
they will terminate the war. It leads
off with a proposition to pay back
the $4,000, 900 the United States paid
for the archipelago; grants coaling
stations; no monopolies permitted,
and says the FiHpinos 'are ready to
entertain whatever terms the United
States may desire for themselves, so
long as they do not infringe upon
Filipinos' individual and political lib
critics or upon the integrity of Filipino
nationality