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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-09
Another New Party.

1t is not Don Moses Dickinson alone who
| makes new parties to take the place of the
Democratic party. Even Pettigrew the pu-
;rid is in the same line of business. His
usefulness to lanes j. Hill will cease with
the end of his term in the Senate His
patron may and probably will regret the
fact because Pettigrew has never been that
kind of statesman who could be regarded
as an expensive luxury to anybody.
He says that there will be new party!
1t may be socially Democratic or merely So
cialistic; he solemnly suggests that a con-
siderable component of Pettigrew will be
found upon any qualitative analysis of the
compound. II so. the country will never
be the wiser. II Pettigrew only knew what
his fellow citizens, especially in Wash
ington, thought of him, he would scarcely
talk about new national parties containing
himself. 1t is to excresences like Petit
grew that the Democracy owes many OF its
ills today. They have done their work.
They should be treated surgically- rather
! than tolerantly
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
A Spsrrow's Memory.

Last year a red-headed sparrow built
her nest in grape vine behind a
house on Riverside street, and after
a time used to come to the window
every day and rap on the pane of glass
for food. This rapping began by the
sparrow trying to pick up a crumb
that had fallen inside the window, and
ever thereafter one crumb was left in
side the pane so that the morning call
of the saucy little creature would be
heralded by a rapping on the glass.
When fall, with its cold winds, came
all the birds went away, and with
them the two sparrows and their flock
of young. The other morning, while
the woman of the house was busy with
her cares, there came tiny tap-tap
at the window, and there was the lit
tie red head of the sparrow. Crumbs
were thrown out, and little later the
woman noticed that the bird had be-
gun to build her nest in the old place.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31

pend production and fix the price OF
raw material as we'll as the price of the
fir(-hed product the farmer, powerless
20 protect himself when he sells, is
plundered when he purchases. Can
any farmer hesitate to throw the in
fiuence of his ballot upon the side of
those who desire to protect the public
At large from the monopolies?
The fact that the trusts support the
republican party ought to be sufficient
proof that they expect protection from
it. The republican party cannot be
relied upon to extinguish the trusts
so long as it draws its campaign con-
tribution from their overlooking
vaults.
The prosperity argument which the
republicans bring forward to answer
all complaints against the administra-
ton will not deceive the farmer. He
knows that two factors enter into his
income. First, the size of his crop,
and, second, the price which he re-
ceives for the same. He does not re-
turn thanks to the party in power for
favorable weather and bountiful
harvest, and he knows that the re-
publican party has no policy which in
sures a permanent increase in agricul-
tural prices. Since he sells his sur
plus in a foreign market, he Is not a
beneficiary of the tariff, and since he
produces merchandise and not money,
he does not profit by the appreciation
of the dollar. He knows that the
much-vaunted prosperity, of which he
has never had his share, Is on the
wane in spite of the unusual and I'M
natural stimulation which it has re-
ceived during the last three years. He
knows that each month of 1900 shows
larger number of failures than the
corresponding month of 1899, and that
.nere is already marked tendency
toward a decrease in the output Of the
factories. He knows, also, that dis
GOV cries of gold, famines abroad and
war on three continents have not been
able to raise the price of farm products
as rapidly as trusts and combinations
have raised the price of the things
which the farmer buys.
Our opponents have tried to make
It appear that we are inconsistent
when we desire general rise in prices
and yet oppose an arbitrary rise in
protected manufactures or trust-made
ing such remedial legislation as the
toilers need.
In 1896 the populists united with
the democrats in opposing the trusts,
although the question a. that time
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
Her Dog Collar Belt.

Young women frequently wear belts
that were manufactured to go around
the necks of dogs. They show thus
how slender their waists are, dog
being big enough to clasp them. Phil.
osophers can dig out no other reason
for this fad. In Philadelphia the otuer
day young woman wore an engraved
dog collar belt which she had bor-
rowed for the time from her fathers
stiff. The engraving was of a mas
tiff's head, and around it ran the
words: Il am John Browns dog.
Whose dog are your Smiles and
sneers were handed out to the young
woman from those who read the belt,
and she appeared to be delighted with
the attention she was winning.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31

this country at sixteen to one, the ra-
ito which has existed since 1884. They
were defeated but that did not end
the discussion. The democrats were
defeated in 1888, but that dad not put
an end to tariff reform. The repub-
licans were defeated in 1892, but that
did not permanently overthrow the
protective tariff. Defeat at the polls
does not necessarily decide a great
problem. Experience and experience
alone settles questions. II an increase
in the volume of the currency since
1896, although unpromised by the re-
publicans and unexpected, has brought
improvement in industrial conditions,
this improvement, instead of answer
ing the arguments put forth in favor
of bimetallism, only confirms the con-
tention of those who insisted that
more money would make better times.
The republican party, however,
while claiming credit for the increase
in circulation, makes no permanent
provision for an adequate supply OF
standard money. 1t denies the neces-
sity for more real money while it per-
mits nationa, banks to expand the
VOluHe VI paper piouioCo w PoJ
money.
If the populists felt justified In OPP
posing the republican party when 1t
sought to conceal its gold standard
tendencies under the mask of inter-
national bimetallism, the opposition
should be more pronounced in proper
ton as the republican party more
openly espouses gold monometallism.
In 1896 the reform forces charged
the republican party with intending
to retire the greenbacks. This charge,
denied at that time, has been con-
fessed by the financial bill, which con-
verts greenbacks, when once re-
deemed, into gold certificates, and ex-
tends new privileges to banks of issue.
If a populist opposed the republican
party when it's hostilities to green
backs was only suspected, mat oppo-
sition should be greater now, since
no one can longer doubt the purpose
of the republican party to substitute
bank notes for greenbacks.
1t is true that the populists believe
in an irrideemable greenback while
the democrats believe in greenback
redeemable in coin; but the vital ques-
ton at this time, so far as paper
money is concerned, is whether gov
eminent or banks shall issue 1t. There
will be time enough to discuss the re-
deemability of the greenback when
the grsenback itself Is saved from the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
DO DOGS THINK?
Some Thinking Dogs Observed by Herr
Steiner drummer.

Do dogs think? Yes, replied Herr
Steiner Drummer, the landlord of the
Hotel du Glacier at Meiden, in the
Turtmannthal Herr Drummer left his
mountain hotel during the last winter
under the guardianship of Waterman,
whose only companions were couple
of dogs-a French "griffon" and little
"spitz" A month ago the Waterman
was cutting wood in the neighborhood
of the hotel, when he was suddenly
overwhelmed by an avalanche. The
two dogs were with their master, and
must have seen him thus buried by the
fallen mass of snow. Unable to get at
him for his release, his two canine
friends, either with or without holding
counsel together, rushed down the
mountain (Which stands at the height
of 1900 meters above the sea leveD and
made their way to Herr Burners house
in the valley. There, by snorting,
barking and other signs of excitement,
they made the landlord understand
that something extraordinary had oc-
Cured at the summit. The host, with
three men and two dogs, assembled to
the Hotel du Glacier, journey which
occupied them nine hours. When they
arrived at the spot where the accident
had happened, ''it was as clearly in
dicated by the conduct of the two dogs
as If they had said in words, This Is
the place The Waterman was soon
excavated from his snowy grave, and
quickly recovered himself. AS he could
give the exact time at which the ava
lanche had fallen, it was calculated
that the two dogs had made their
downward journey in little more than
an hour, and during a heavy snowfall
London News.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
A TOUGH GERM.
Remarkable Vitality Shown by Plague
Bacilli In Tests.

Bacilli In Tests.
DR.. M. j. Rosenau, director Of tho
hygienic laboratory Of the United
States marine hospital service, has
been making experiments to find out
how tough an animal the plague bacil-
lus is, says the New York Press. He
finds him to be one Of the toughest of
the bacillus family. He says: 1T Is
the experience of all observers that
the bacillus cannot live long outside
the body when dried at temperature
Of 30 degrees centigrade or over, but at
temperature lower than. this and I'M
der 20 degrees centigrade 1t has been
kept alive 60 and rs days. The Ger
man plague commission found that the
organism always lost its power Of in
fection when dried. within eight days,
In India, but after returning to Ger
many could be kept alive after drying
2S days, at Is degrees to IS degrees
centigrade. My own experience indi-
Gates that the organisms, which dried,
will die quickly If the temperature
reaches q degrees centigrade, but that
at 20 degrees it may live much longer"
Some bacilli, it is thought, are harder
than others, Just es some persons are.
The doctor put some bacilli on little
squares Of crash and set some of the
pieces of cloth to dry in dark corner
Of the laboratory where the tempera-
ture ranged from 20 to 81 degrees CEN
tigrade. Other inoculated pieces of
crash he placed In cool room with a
temperature of about IS degrees cent?
grade. Still other pieces were placed
in a Photographic dark room where
the temperature was about 20 degrees
centigrade. The bacilli from the diff
ferent pieces of crash were tried every
once in while to see how lively they
were. After 10 days the bacilli on the
pieces of crash in the dry dark corner
of the laboratory, where the tempera-
ture was high, ceased to grow, and
were pronounced dead. But bacillus
from the cool chamber was strong
enough, after being there 4S days, to
kill a mouse inoculated with 1t. The
mouse died in three days. A bacillus
which stayed in the dark room for 48
days killed mouse in two days. The
same experiments were tried with pine
wood infected with plague bacilli, and
it was found that they did not flourish
as well as when placed on crash. The
bacilli in the laboratory died after four
days, those in the cool chamber after
eight days and those in the dark room
after II days,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31

humiliation which now threatens 1t.
The republican party is now COM
mitted to a currency question which
necessitates a perpetual debt, while
the populist finds himself in agree
ment with the democrats, who believe
in paying off the national debt az rap
idly as possible.
If belief in an income tax justified
populist in acting with the demo-
cratic party In 1896, what excuse can
re find for aiding the republican party
now when even the exigencies o. war
have not been sufficient to bring that
party 10 the support Of the income
tax principle?
Pcpu!,sts believe in arbitration now
as much as they did in 1896, ans are
as much opposed to government by
injunction and the black list as they
were then, and upon these subjects
they have as much reason for CO oper-
alton with the democratic party to-
day as they had four years ago.
Democrats and populists alike favor
the principle Of direct legislation. II
any differences exist as to the extent
to which the principle should be ap-
piled, these differences can be recon-
ciled by experiment
Democrats and populists agree that
Chinese and other oriental labor
should be excluded from the United
States.
Democrats and populists desire to so
enlarge the scope of the interstate
commerce act as to enable the COM
mission to protect both persons and
places from discrimination, and the
public at large from excessive rail-
road rates.
The populists approve the demand
set forth in the democratic platform
for labor bureau, with cabinet Off
Ger at it's head. Such an official would
keep the administration in close touch
with the wage earning portion OF the
population, and go far toward secur-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
Mr.. Chairman and Members of tn

Mr.. Chairman and Members Of the
Notification Committee:
In accepting the presidential nom
ination which you tender on behalf
OF the populist party, l desire to give
emphatic recognition to the educa-
tional work done by your party. The
populist party as an organization, and
the farmer alliances and the labor or
ganizations from which they sprung,
have done much to arouse the people
to study Of econmic and industrial
questions. Believing, as l do, that
truth grows, not in seclusion but in
the open field, and that 1t thrives best
in the sunlight of full and free debate.
have confidence that the discussion
which your party has compelled will
aid in reaching that true solution OF
pending problems toward which all
honest citizens aim.
desire also to express my deep
appreciation of the liberality of opin-
ion and devotion to principle which
have lead the members Of your party
to enter the ranks of another party In
the selection Of candidate.
While l am grateful for the conf
dence which the populiStS nave eX-
pressed in me, am not vain enough
to regard as personal their extraordi-
nary manifestations of good will. The
ties which bind together those who
believe in the same great fundamental
principles are stronger than ties OF
affection-stronger even than the ties
of blood; and cooperation between.
the reform forces ia due TO the fact
that democrats, populists and silver
republicans take the side Of the peo-
pie in their contest against greed, and
agree in the application Of Jefferson
ian principles to the questions imme-
diately before us.
In 1896 the money question was OF
paramount Importance and the allies
in that campaign united in the de-
mand for the immediate restoration of
silver by the independent action OF
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31

One of the interesting pieces of ap-
paratus recently shown at the Royal
society soiree at London was clock
which was controlled from distance
by means of wireless telegraphy. The
signals were transmitted by Hertz
waves, and there was a short vertical
wire, a coherer. relay and local bait
terry, which worked the mechanism OIL
the clock. 1t was stated that with the
use of standard pendulum and this
apparatus all the clocks in town
would be kept alike without the uss
Of wires.-Indianapolis Press.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
Laborl's Lecture Tour.

The principal object of Maitre La.
boris lecturing tour of the United
States next winter, it is said, is to re-
cuperate his fortunes, destroyed be.
yond repair in France by his connec.
ton with the Dreyfus case. Not only
did his defense of the prosecuted cap
tain bring him no return for his serv.
ices, but lost for him his expenses,
his neglected clients and any prospect
of professional success in the future on
account of the unpopularity of his sue
cess in the "grande affaire."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
Nothing in 1t.

An old Chicago detective says:
Don't take any stock in stories OF
people being chloroformed in open
rooms by burglars. Chloroform in an
open room is no more effective than
it would be out of doors. Its unpleas-
ant odor usually awakes sleepers and
keeps them awake"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
Only Two Left.

DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes prophe-
sled that there would be only one sur.
vivor of the Harvard class of 20 by the
end of the century. He came near it,
for there are only two-Charles Storer
Storrow, of Boston, and DR.. Edward
Linzee Cunningham, of Newport, r. l.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
The Gackwar's Son al oxford.

The eldest son of the Gackwar of Ba-
roda, Prince Fatteh Sing Rao, is to
enter Oxford. He holds the command
of a regiment of cavalry in the army
of the s~tda state.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1900-08-31
Mr.. BRYAN TO POPUL|STS
What He Said in Reply to Notification of His
Nomination for the Presidency.


Imperialism is Again Presented as the Paramount ISSUE But
the Trusts Come in for Lengthy Discussion
Contentious of the Republicans Shown to Be a De-
fusion and Snare-The Farmer Robbed and
the Capitalist Protected.
The Winslow mail., 1900-07-19
g with pain, and trying to get on his

ing with pain, and trying to get on his
feet.
'"Take my arm and see if you can't
stand" said Tom. care you badly
hurt?"
'My right arm is helpless, and my
head goes round like a top" was the
faint reply; "but I'm coming round all
right, guess. got nasty clip from
one of them cutthroats. I came to just
as that chap pulled his gun on you, and
1 tried to get up, but everything swan
round so 1 couldn't. You're a plucky
chum-"
"Can you get up?" interrupted Tom,
hastily. eff you can I'll just find that
pistol and we'll get away from this
place. If not, I'll leave you the weapon
and go after help. I'm cut in the side,
but I don't know how bad it is"
A moments search discovered the
weapon, and after assisting the in
iured man to his feet they were NOV
ing slowly up the wharf when bright
ray of light suddenly penetrated the
darkness and a tall policeman appeared
before them, throwing the searching
beams of dark lantern upon them.
whats going on down there?" he
demanded. Didn't 1 hear shot just
a moment ago?"
Tom was about to reply when his
companion exclaimed:
"Two men knocked me down and
1,,,t 70 Ii
here, who pitched into them. They
both ran up this way"
81 passed two men," said the officer.
Zone was tall and the other short. We're
they the ones?"
Upon receiving an affirmative reply,
he turned on his heels and dashed off
in pursuit of the evildoers, who by this
time had made good their escape.
AS the avenue was reached herdic
happened along and Tom hailed it at
his companions suggestion.
''Take us to the police station on Bat
terry street." he said to the driver. and
in few moments they stood before the
official in a well-lighted room telling
their story. A physician was in attend
ance upon prisoner and he soon made
rapid examination of their wounds.
ga few strips of plaster will fix your
scalp all right" said he to the elder
man, ''and your arm is only numb from
the blow You'll be all right to-mor-
row." Then turning to Tom, he added:
''You have had very narrow escape
from death, young man. That knife
was meant for your heart. As it is, it
glanced on a rib and there is no damage
done. 1t is only a slight flesh wound,
which will give you no trouble what
ever"
The Winslow mail., 1900-07-19

up, and, lifting his smaller opponent
bodily from the ground, he shook him
as a mastiff would terrier.
Hands off" painted the helpless
man, fercely. Curse you, what are
you trying to do?"
He was not long in doubt, for Tom
hurled him against the side of stone
building with such force that he fell in
an inert heap and lay motionless.
Tom turned to see what had become
of the taller man, but at that instant he
felt sharp pain in his side and strong
hand seized him by the throat and bent
him backwards, while hoarse voice
Kissed in his ear:
Take that for your pains, you med
ding fool!"
With a desperate effort he twisted
himself free from his assailant, spring
ing aside barely in time to escape an
other lunge of the murderous knife he
had just felt.
Again the fellow lunged viciousiy at
him, but Tom caught his wrist, and q
desperate struggle ensued. Although
much the stronger man, Tom found il
no easy task to avoid the blade, and the
two swayed back and forth over the
snow, the man trying to free his hand
for decisive stroke, and Tom bending
all his efforts to prevent it. Soon, how
ever, his iron grip began to tell, and he
felt his enemy's muscles relax Putting
all his strength into a supreme effort,
he wrenched the knife free, exclaim-
ing:
GIVE got you now, you murderer, and
1 don't leave you till you are behind the
bars!"
But even in the moment of his victory
he felt cold ring of steel pressed
against his ear, and these ominous
words sounded behind him:
Hold up your hands, mister, or
you're dead man! Quick, 7 say, or I'll
shoot!"
It was a moment of fearful peril.
There was murder in the mans tones,
and Tom felt it. He released his grasp
slowly, and the larger man pushed him
suddenly backward, crying:
"Shoot him, you idiot!"
His action saved Toms life, for the
other man pressed the trigger at the
same instant, the bullet passing a foot
in front of the young mans face, and
fattening against the wall at his side
Tom still retained the knife, and with
a quick slash he struck the hand which
held the revolver, causing the owner to
drop it, with yell of pain, and dash off
toward the street at full speed, followed
by his companion, who had evidently no
desire to face Tom alone.
AS the men disappeared he turned, to
find the stranger he had rescued groan-
The Winslow mail., 1900-07-19
A DANGEROUS ISSUE.
The "Straight-Out" American VotS
Policy Would Make 1t Warm
for Mckinley.

How much enthusiasm can be
aroused, for instance, over our demand
upon Turkey for indemnity to the mis-
sionaries whose property was destroyed
several years ago? When it was init
mated recently that fleet might be
sent to collect the indemnity one-half
of the country expressed amusement
and the other half disgust. Mr.. McKin-
ley would not gain thousand votes
by coercing the sultan. AS for the
Monroe doctrine and Germany's alleged
hostile intentions, it is plain that no.
body takes the hysterical utterances of
Secretary Root and Senator Lodge seri-
ously. The German government de-
clines to say or do anything which
would enable the adminlstra tion to put
a chip on it's shoulder and pose as the
champion of the doctrine. If these is
sues are the best that Mr.. Hanna has
in stock he is an object of pity. A New
York paper recently intimated that If
the foreign vote" in the United States
became too much wrought up over the
destruction of the Boer republics by
imperial Britain and threatened in
jury to the republican party the admin
istration might make an appeal TO the
''straight-out American vote" Now
this, it must be admitted would be an
issue that would stir the country.
Fancy the effect upon the people of the
country of a revival of know-nothing-
ism by the administration. If Mr. Nc
Kinley really wants to "make things
hum" he will abandon the Turkish
mess" and the defense of the Monroe
doctrine against Germany and go in
for know-nothingism. He would have
the liveliest experience that any presi-
Dental candidate has had for many a
year=Baltimore Sum-