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Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
A Crushing Indictment.

The development Of the beet
sugar industry has been SO rapid that
we are near to the time when the
whole Of the hundred million dollars
we used to spend abroad for sugar
will 90 into the pockets Of our own
people. This nation consumes at
least one.fourth Of the worlds total
product; and Of the worlds product
two.thirds are made from beets and
only one.third from cane. II the
counsel and the protests OF American
free traders had been needed we
should now not grow pound Of sugar
outside the cane fields Of Louisiana.
Because the protectionist principle
WIS received and approved by the
people we are about to become inde'
pendent OF outside sources for .
necessity Of existence and to keep
huge profits at home. We make the
machinery for the sugar mills from
iron from our own furnaces; we have
diverted from excessive cereal produce
tion land and human beings to more
profitable occupation, and We have
moved this nation one huge step
further toward industrial independ-
ence. 1t would be difficult to frame
an indictment sgainst the American
free trade propagandists more crush
ing than to quote their own declara-
tions and arguments against the tin
plate duties and the beet sugar boun-
ties.-r The Manufacturer.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
Fusion Il hut Out.

Conner Davies, editor Of the Con.
cordia Ksnsan and one Of the leading
Populists Of the state, says the anti
fusion election law has accomplished
Its pernicious purpose and disrupted
the reform forces in Kansas" The
bill, he declares is free from loop
holes, and that under Its provisions
fusion in any manner is prevented.
He thinks that in order to get to.
gether either the Populists or the
Democrats must abandon their organ
ization and join the other. just
which party will take this step Mr.
Davies is not ready to predict but
thinks that everything will probably
be settled during the coming winter
He says, however, that such apro'
ceeding is inevitable If the reform
forces wish to have any show OF sue
cess at the next election.
The view taken by Mr.. Davies is
much the same as that Of other Popu'
| list leaders in the state. Nearly al
agree that fusion must be effected ant
that to do this the abandonment o.
one party is necessary. There is o.
course some talk Of the formation o.
new party combining all factions
but the plan is violently opposed BY
the Democrats, who insist that th'
Populists must unconditionally sur
render.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
Will Be Here Oct. 81.

Arthur C. Aiston's company in the
charming play, "At the Old Cross
Roads," by Hal Reid. will be the at
traction at the Seelye theatre Oct. 81.
Arthur C. Aston will be remembered
as the proprietor and manager Of
nuessee's Pardner." The attrao-
ton comes to us very highly recon-
mended by the New York Clipper and
Opera House Reporter and theatre
goers may look forward to a rare
treat. "At the Old Cross Roads" was
seen for the first time in Kansas City
at the Grand yesterday and will play
thers Tor one week.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

The returns are nearly all in from
the individuals, papers and societies
whose opposition to good government
in the past made people give oredence
to reports that they slandered the
dead president. Some published res
olutions, some left town, some took
means to proclaim their patriotism.
Altogether it was good lesson and
will serve to make others remember
the loyalty due their country and Its
institutions at all times and in all
places.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
Experience No. Q.

For the Reflector.
Now l am not writing my exper-
ience as an advertisement for any
firm in Abilene, but only to show my
own folly and Of my being deceived
by the great Haunting advertisements
from Kansas City, Chicago and other
places. ] bit at a Kansas City bait
and like others in the county made
out a bill for a lot Of groceries, sent
draft TO the firm and in due time my
goods came to hand. took them to
the cellar and opened my boxes. The
first was hams and dried beef, and, o
Lord, the hams we're as tough and
hard as though they were taken from
the wild hog Of southern Missouri
that are called "hazel splitters, and
their age indicated that they had been
put up during the rebellion to feed
the Quantrell guerillas. Then
the nice dried beef, the great Jehosha-
phat, 1t was dry and had the appear
ance in age Of being some that Noah
had left and thrown out when the ark
landed on Mount Araah Foo tough
to ca. 1t hangs up in my cellar yet.
Did think Of sending 1t down to the
rummage sale but was afraid there
would not be false teeth enough in
Abilene to masticase it. My next box
contained sugar, Scotch oats and
coffee, oats and sugar good, but the
coffee, which was promised to bs 8
pounds Of Mocha and Java for one dol.
lar, only weighed six pounds and was
roasted until black or nearly cremat.
ed. Had I bought these goods at
home | could have seen and known
just what l was getting. While we
may get some good articles in send
ing off the seller is bound to stick
something of on the buyer that he
cannot sell at home. Now here al
hom, in Abilene we have lots ol
stores to choose from and It we can
not get suited at one we can 90 tc
another and they will let Gus have
every thing we pay for. 1t is not like
1t was in my first experience, for al
THAT time there was but one furniture
store in Abilene so 1t was "Hebson''
choice" II those who send of fo1
goods meet with the same luck that
have they will patronize home trade
| have kicked myself forty times io1
my ioolishness and II Upshaw and th'
procerymen will forgive me for m.
ioolishness I will promise them tha
while | live in Dickinson county
will patronize home institutions.
OLD EXPERIENCE,
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

Bank Commissioner Albaugh has
written to the comptroller Of the cur
rency asking that the statement Of
the national banks be sent to him as
early as possible that the summary
NAV be given to the press from his
Office at the same time that the sum.
mary Of the state banks is given out
The statements are called for the
same day but the reports Of the state
banks are summarized and the totals
given out before the national banks
report for the state is made. The
latter comes from Washington much
lsssr snd the object Of the commits
slossr u to show the condition Of oil
I u banking interests Of the state in
a. report.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
RECENT REELEU'IlONS.

The fire plugs were being tested
yesterday for leaks.
DIR. Messick was exhibiting his
motorcycle en- the streets last even.
ing.
Abilene parties are shipping al
ialia hay from Colorado for their
winters feed.
It. +. Dewey has purchased the
southeast quarter Of section 10, Gar
field township.
-Hewell Thurstin, formerly Of Hope
but now Of Arkansas, has been grant
ed pension Of $500 per month.
DIR. Steelsmith's automobile has
been likened by a local wag to a
hearse People are just dying to ride
in 1t.
w. +. Waller, formerly Of Coun'
Gil Grove, and we'll know here, is in
the real estate business at Kansas
city.
Mrs. H. G. Gottshaw, who has
been suffering severely Tor the past
few months, Is seriously III and not
expected to recover.
Tho nre which destroyed Gus
Lords home yesterday started from
a detective aue. Nothing was saved
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
ABOUT PEOPLE.

W. B. Keyser was down tom Man
chester.
E. c. Brewer was in from Banner
and called on the REFLECTOR.
H. A. Kohler,. OF Pueblo, Colo, ID
visiting bis parents at Enterprise. He
is employed in the D. & R. G. railroad
offices at that place.
Misses Mary and Lydia Reed lei'
for Ardmore, l. T., and will assume
charge Of the bookstore which they
recently purchased. Abilene friends
wish them success.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
THE CANTEEN QUESTION.


Pittsburg, Pa, Oct. 1s.--The MEM
bers Of tile permanent committee on
temperance of the Presbyterian gem
eral assembly do nos take kindly to
the annual report of Surgeon General
Sternberg. In it he declares: "Mili-
tary officers may be said to be unani-
nous in their opinioa' that the steady
decrease OF late years of alcoholism
in the, regular army is mainly the re-
suit OF the establishment of the post
exchange or capAeen at military
posts
n do not believe it," said William
c. killey, treasurer of the committee.
"The facts and figures and testimony
in our possession as . committee
sefute the statement ef Mr.. Stern
berg"
One year ago the committee was
very active in presenting petitions
to congress against the canteen.
Now it Is preparing to wage still
more effective warfare against the
repeal Of the present eanteen law.
A large amount of anti-oanteen liter
uture is being prepared in Pittsburg
for distribution among the s9 synods
1t their annual meetings. The per-
manent committee viii address each
synod and through the state commit,
tees and presbyteries will reach the
5000 churches Of the denomination,
From each petition will be sent
through the communities and re-
turned finally to the permanent COM
mittee to be presented to congress.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

A man from near Success, in Rus
sell county, says the Record, was sur
prised the other day to learn that
President Mckinley was dead. he
said he hadn't heard be was sick.
The mans name has been recon.
mendsd to the sheriff for drawing In
the jury list.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
Lawrence Journal Mr.. j, 1. \

Lawrence Journal; Mr.. j, 1. Brad
Icy, Of Sedan, who has been nOminat-
ed by Senator Burton to take the
place OF G. S. Jobes, who has resigned
as national bank examiner has the
reputation Of being most excellent
man, clean and honorable. 1t Is to
be hoped that his luck will not bring
down upon him a horde Of enemies
who will present aIlidavits to show
that he is a rascal, an embezz.er and
a cattle thief.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
Declared II Q Draw.

Buffalo, N. Y, Oct. 15.-Kid Broad
and Dave Sullivan fought q 2O-round
draw in the arena Of the Internation-
al Athletic club at Fort Erie last
night. It was their fifth encounter
in the ring, and, though opening
slowly, II finished as fast as could bs
desired. In the closing round the
boys were mixing hard and fast in
the center of the ring with ten Sec
onds to 60 when Chief Griffin stepped
into the ring and stopped the bout,
saying that 1t was degenerating from
q boxing match into q fight. The
referee declared II . draw.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

The guide was guiding guy AS
the guide guided the guy the gulde
guyed the guy until the guy would
no longer be guyed by sguide whom
he had hired not to guy but to guide.
So the guyed guy guyed the guide
No wonder every one guyed the guy
ed guide guiding a guyed guy
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

1t was expected that the fusionlsts
would growl and kick because they
were prevented by the new election
law from buncoing the people in the
chase for office, but it seems strange
to have proiessedly Republican papers
take up the growl. 1.-THE last leg's-
lsture did no other good it at least
v,ped out a neiarious business.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

Rev. Mr.. Cooper, Clay county
'eacher, Of the United Presbyterian
church at Idana, has two horses, one
called Dewey because any woman
can handle him, and the other called
Aguinaldo because he runs away
every time he gets an opportunity
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
The Worlds Fair Commission Meeting.

St. Louis, Oct. 15.-The members OF
the worlds fair national commission
arrived in the city yesterday. At the
formal meeting OF the body called for
to-day matters of vital Importance to
the exposition company will be taken
up for formal consideration. The
plan and scope Of the exposition, as
drawn up and adopted by the board
of directors, will be submitted by the
local company and If 1t is approved
by the commission, as II doubtless
will be, the framework Of the enter
prise of 1903 is established, and the
vast amount of work on the details
may begin without further delay.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

Lawrence Journal: It Is talk that
Ed Little will accept the FUSION or
whatever else it may be called nom
instion for congress in the Fifth dis
trict. 1t is likely he can get the NOM
instion II he goes after it. Nomina.
tions on that ticket will be around
looking for men next year. just as the
old fashioned Pops claimed nomina'
lions always should do.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
The Tracy Matter.

Senator Burton OF Kansas has acted
with good sense and good taste in re-
fusing to discuss the failure OF b. H.
Tracy to be appointed United States
district attorney Of Kansas. 1t is
immaterial to the issue In hand to go
into the details Of the story. 1t is
enough to know that the attorney
general OF the United States did not
see in Tracy q fit man to appoint.
Whether or not the attorney. general
erred is hardly q matter for Senator
Burton to discuss. The senator
knows that be did what he considered
bis full duty to bis friend Tracy, and
he did it At the risk Of irritating the
attorney general with too much pro-
testation. But very likely the at'
torney general sdmirss the traits Of
persistent - though misdirected-
courage in Burton, and certainly the
idle gossip is absolutely untrue that
Senator Burton has lost any standing
with President Roosevelt on account
Of the Tracy business. The president
and senator merely had a friendly
difference Of opinion about q candi-
date for office. That was oil there
was to 1t. Burton has the full
strength Of all bis senatorial prerogs'
tives at the White House. He is the
only Republican in Kansas who can
have the slightest word to say about
the patronage Of the state. Burton's
good taste and good sense in accept
ing the presidents dictum in the
Tracy matter as a gentleman should
accept 1t, will make him stronger
at the White House than ever.
There is nothing surer than that
the defeat Of Tracy and the appoint.
ment OF Dean was not a Leland vic.
tory. Cyrus Leland had nothing to
do with the defeat Of Tracy, nor did
anyone else who is recognized as Le-
lands friend. The only person who
organized the fight on Tracy and won
the victory--ii 1t may be called that
Is r. M. Chilcott, editor OF the Wa.
mego Times.
When Chilcott started this fight the
Gazette-not knowing the facts-pro-
tested against it as unfair. But ap-
parently the attorney general thought
otherwise. rhe president was guild
ed entirely by the opinion Of the at
torney general in the Tracy matter
and any attempt to use personal IN
nuence-without facts and document
ary eyidence-would have discredited
whoever would try it. Roosevelt is
not man to try to put in Leading
strings. Any Kansan or any citizen
of the United States may g. to Pres''
dent Roosevelt with public or polit'
ical business and will get just SC
much audcnce,and consideration as
his evident statements deserve. There
ia no kitchen cabinet in the White
House. And whoever explains his
political defeat by asserting that there
is back door policy there makes II
less likely that he will ever retrieve
his lost fortune.
The Republicans OF Kansas lcal
have but one official head at Wash
ington, and that head is Senator Bur
ton. 1t is the duty Of all Kansas Re
publicans to put their cases in MI
hands and to trust to the good sens
and good taste Burton has displayed
in not talking OF the Tracy matter u
carry them through to sucoess'u
conclusion in their political adven
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

The efforts being made by the Law
ice people to preserve the historic
ndmill at that place should be
slwntd with success. The windmill
one OF the landmarks in Kansas
istOrv.
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17
THURSDAY, OCT. II. 1901.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

The only dubious thing about next
Ar's wheat crop is that Prophet
OPT predicts that It will be a large
Abilene weekly reflector., 1901-10-17

New articles are coming in all the
tine At the Rummage sale.
Evening star., 1901-04-10
Ants Were Gold -Brick X ed.

from tne fnlldueipnla fTeSS.
Probably better not come" was the an
swer the petty little clique of anti-imperial-
lists of Boston sent to George L. Rice, the
deported editor of the Manila bulletin, when
it learned that he would not deliver red
hot anti-administration, anti-eXpansion
speech In Faneuil Hall on it's invitation.
This disappointment of E. Winslow and E.
Atkinson and their crowd is one of the
keenest they have encountered. They ex-
pected, a matter of course, that Mr..
Rice would be "agin" the administrat ton,
and their humiliation when they heard that
he is not and is besides eXpansionist can
be easily imagined. AS he refused to serve
their purpose they did not want him. 1t is
probably for the same reason that none of
the letters from returning soldiers in reply
to E. Atkinson's circular, sent out year
ago. has been printed. E. Atkinson prom
ised to publish them. but the public is still
waiting. If they had served the purpose of
these Boston copperheads the letters would
have seen the light long ago. 1t is the
same with MIR. Rice. He would have been
paraded on the platform of Faneuil Hall If
he had been willing to deride the admins-
tration and condemn it's policy in the Phil
ippines. He is not willing. and he is ad-
vised accordingly: Probably better not
come"
Evening star., 1901-04-10
PfeferShurR Taken

Ihe capture of Petersburg by the British
forces Is regarded in London as an I'M
pCrtant stroke in the direction of peace
IN South Africa Petersburg has been the
Boer capital since the occupation of Pre-
toria by Lord Roberts 1t is the ter
mlnai OF a railroad line running northwest
from the Delagoa Bay line at Komatipoort
II Is nearly 80 miles north Of the Trans
vaal capital. Its chief strength has lain
IN It's Isolation rather than any marked
natural difficulty of approach, for it lies
close TO the edge of a great plateau sloping
gently from Pretoria northward. The pres
ence of rowing bodies of Beers in the in
terVening country has rendered the ap-
proach dangerous, however, and so Peters
burg has received comparatively little at
tention previously. Its capture now doubt
less means that the Boer forces have been
materially diminished, or else that Botha
has decided to relinquish his definite head
quarters and to assume some such role as
that of De Wet, whose HEADQUARTERS are
in the saddle" The capture of a capital
means but little in this campaign The
British have taken two already Peters
burg In the hands of the British probably
means only that the warfare will proceed
henceforth more definitely upon a guerilla
basis Whether it will lead to a shorten
ing of the period of hOstilities is to be an
SWered only BY events
Evening star., 1901-04-10
ParOchiaI Statesmen.

The successful candidates in the mayor
atty races this spring are the subjects of
considerable newspaper notice. and two of
them-Mr. Johnson of Cleveland and Mr..
Harrison of Chicago-are described by their
admirers as of presidential size and prom
ise. They are expected to repeat Mr.. CIeve-
lands success, and advance very rapidly
from the chair of mayor to that of Presi-
dent of the United States. But are the
conditions such as warrant this expectation
with regard to either of them?
Mr.. Cleveland made an excellent mayor
of Buffalo. but his record in that office
had little to do with his success as his
party's candidate for governor of New
York. which secured for him the nominal
tion for President in 1884. The republicans
of the empire state had the game in their
own hands that year 50 far as the govern
orship was concerned. but when it was dis
covered that Judge Folger had been NOM
mated through the aid of a forged teie-
gram they deliberately threw the game
away. Their candidate was an admirable
man, and had had no part or lot in the
fraud that discredited his nomination. but
he was cut right and left, and Mr. Cleve-
land was elected by nearly two hundred
thousand majority
for the presidency. The democracy was in
hard lines. The demand was for a man
who could carry New York and Indiana
The solid south at that time could be car
ried by any candidate wearing the party's
label. So that New York and Indiana,
Joined to the south, would be able to turn
the trick. Who could carry them? The
old leaders were. for one reason or an
other. all stale Mr.. Tilden was old and
1nfirm- Mr.. Bayard lacked popularity
Judge Thurman was aging, and had lost
snap. Mr.. Randall. by all odds the ablest
man of the lot, was too pronounced in his
protection views. Colonel Morrison was
not strong in New York. Mr. Carlisle
lived south of the Ohio river. Mr. Hem
bricks was shopworn. There was not a
man among the old leaders who filed the
bill.
This situation developed the sagacity of
Daniel Manning. pupil of the Tilden
school and a good mixer, he said to the
party managers, II can name a man who
can carry New York. Somebody else name
one who can carry Indiana, and our prob
lem is solved This invitation of itself
named the Indiana man, and so the ticket
became Cleveland and Hendricks. Mr..
Hendricks resented the placing of his name
second to that of man so new to national
life, but party pressure brought him into
line, and the ticket, by the narrowest of
majorities. squeezed through
1t may be seen. therefore. how indirectly
ana remotely Mr.. Cleveland's career In
the city hall in Buffalo is connected with
the White House here in Washington, and
now little comfort there is in study Of
1t Tor a mayor situated as Mr.. johnson or
Mr. Harrison is, If the presidential bee is
buzzing in his bonnet
Evening star., 1901-04-10

the belief that 1t win only result in demon
strating the strong hold OF the dynasty
upon the affections OF the people. The
popular sentiment In China is not factor
to be considered as against armed men and
political and diplomatic intrigue. Probably
no other country In the world has SO little
national spirit. The hatred of foreigners.
skIlfully fomented last year by schemers,
represents virtually the only coherent ma
tonal sentiment of which the people Of the
various provinces are capable. Loyalty to
the Tartar dynasty. patriotism. reverence
for the gorernment-other than that in
duced by fear-are almost unknown among
the common people.
Evening star., 1901-04-10
The Chinese Revolt,

The rebellion in China, of which the news
Is just beginning to come, is natural re-
suit of the unsettled conditions. 1t may
prove, after some trials, a wholesome de-
velopment. leading to final settlement Of
the difficult problem. The threat of re-
bellion Is calculated to force China into
closer relations with the allies represented
at Pekin. If this revolt is not itself Chi
nese trick. devised to create a diversion, it
may send the court to Pekiu for protection
or lead to call from Sian Flu for inter-
national help.
The reputed leaders of the revolt are well
known as chiefs of the Boxers. Prince
Tuan and Gen. Tung-Fu-Sian are among
the most violent of the anti-foreign agita-
tors AS far as known. their armed fol-
lowers are regular troops, indicating that
the imperial establishment is threatened
with complete submersion in the insurrec-
tionary movement.
Cinnamon of intelligence are reported as
deploring the insurrection, but expressing