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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-05-27
A Sample Tariff Ripper.

The New York Evening Post SAYS:
"Tke most rapid gain in general bus
mess, according to trustworthy trade
authorities has been experienced since
March 1, and unless something hap
pens to check the activity the month
will roll up records that will surpass
all previous exhibits for that period
The New York Evening Post is a
mugwump newspaper always in favor
of ripping the tariff.
If business is good as described by
the Evening Post, why is it necessary
to disturb the tariff? Why not let
we'll enough alone? The treasury
needs the money and the country
needs the business
Sometimes we think these tariff rip
pers want to disturb the business of
the country to make a crash in order
to buy things cheaper. Tariff ripping
would depress prices and real estate
could be bought much cheaper than at
the present time. Possibly the rip
pers have a speculation in mind, de-
string to bankrupt the country and
thus buy things, intending to hold
them until reason had again asserted
her sway and a high tariff been again
enacted, thus getting the benefit of
the rise
But a careful analysis of the situa-
ton will demonstrate that the people
who are now tariff rippers have always
been tariff rippers- They are not con-
yerts, but old timers. They want
cheaper products and lower wages. A
great many of them are importers who
are in Europe every summer. They
want it so that money will buy more
art home, because they learn all about
cheapness abroad.-Des Moines Capt.
tai.
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action of Congress that would depre
c1ate their value would similarly at
feet the value of animals on foot. :
1t is a notable fact, says the Carroll
Iowa, Herald that the source of this
demand for free hides is in the manu-
featuring districts of New England
where parties interested want cheap
er raw materials" If hides are per
mitted to come free of duty the cat
tie men of Mexico and Central and
Southern America will supply the de
mand and the Iowa farmers will suf.
fer correspondence.
- What may be raw material to the
Eastern manufacturer, may be the
| finished product of the Western Farm
er. The finished products of the West
ern farms are corn, wheat, cattle
hides and whatever may come from
the field or feed lot The farmers
, operations do not extend to the pro
cesses of the factory or the counting
house. His finished products are raw
material to the manufacturers, and
he is as much entitled to protection
under our system of affairs as the
persons who take his products and
turn them into articles of utility for
the consumers.
Before confidence can be placed in
the promise that free hides will not
| result in injury to the interests of the
Western farmer it will be necessary
for advocates of free hides to produce
statistics supporting their contention.
We want to know the probable loss
from removal of the tariff and the
probable gain from the promised re-
duction in shoes and products of
leather.
Then we shall ask for some assur-
ance that we shall get a compensa-
tory concession in the event of the
removal of the tariff on hides In the
meantime we believe that the farm
ing classes are not anxious for a
modification of the tariff that is aimed
directly against their interests.-Tren
ton Gazette.
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ILL : MATCHED PAIR
DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM
HITCH UP TOGETHER
The Democratic Donkey Yearns for
the SociaIistic Steer Pulls Toward
the Fat Pasture of Government Own
ership.

Aggressive Democracy is in the sad
die, we are told. That was the mes
sage delivered by Chicago's new
mayor, Judge Dunno, in his speech
at the Jefferson banquet of April Is.
Here is the new program:
III the Democratic platform con-
tains one plank in favor of the gov
eminent ownership of railways, tele-
graphs and express companies, and
another in favor of the abolition of
the protective tariff, I have no doubt
that it will win.
IF the protective tariff be abolished
and the government takes possession
of the means of transportation, of con-
veyance, of freight express packages,
and information. every dangerous
trust in America will. die a natural
death in five years.
Free trade bitches up with social
ism; aggression and destruction pull
together. How will the combination
work? Free trade will take away the
jobs of some millions of wage earn
ers. Will a national government pro
vide other places for the unemployed
If not, there must come a fearful cut
ting down of wages, which will affect
all lines of employment. Half of the
present rate of pay will have to be
accepted by government employees as
well as the rest of the workers. This
will be pleasing to the free trade half
of the aggressive Democracy team.
To reduce wages and make things
cheaper has always been the chief end
and aim of free traders. But will it
be pleasing to the Socialistic off OK?
Probably not. If anybody thinks this
beast of burden is going to relish
working for the government at lower
wages than he now gets from private
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was provided for by Congress two
years ago. and this year a small ap-
preparation was made available to test
its usefulness. Aside from the chief,
five clerks and a stenographer will be
employed in the work of gathering
and disseminating information pecu-
liarly of value to American manufac-
turers- 1t will work in close harmony
with the census bureau and the Blu
reau of Statistics
Congress also appropriated $4,000
to send corps of special consular
agents abroad, and these will report to
the Bureau of Manufactures of the
Department of Commerce. Informa-
ton gathered from this source and
others will be used to the very best
advantage by the bureau. 1t will per-
form certain portions of the work
now distributed among other depart
ments, and when advanced in opera
ton it should be of unestimable advan-
tage to that large concourse of citizens
who are Interested in the development
of our foreign trade. The field is there
for it, and a short test of it's value
ought to be the means of bringing a
more generous appropriation at the
next session of Congress.-New York
Commercial.
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JUSTICE TEMPERED BY JUDO
MENT.

well remember one case before .
justice in which l acted as respondents
counsel in a criminal action and in
which an older and well-known attorn-
ey was my opponent AS I thought
then, and as know now. the law and
the evidence was well in favor Of my
client, and at the close of the argu-
ment I looked with great confidence
for a prompt acquittai.
Judge of my astomishment when my
unfortunate client was found guilty
and sentenced to thirty days in Jail.
1 promptly entered an appeal and
furnished securities to prosecute the
same
Before 1 left the courtroom the
justice took occasion to take me aside
and say: Young man, 1 kinder
thought We ware right, but 1 knowed
Judge W (naming my opponenD is
sight older'n you be, and a sight
better 1awyer'n you be, and so, OF
course, l gin him judgment. Les
lies Magazine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-05-27
NATURES ESSENCE.
Extracted From Forest Plants

Natures laws are perfect II we obey
them, but disease follows disObedi0nce.
Go straight to nature for the cure, to the
forest; there are mysteries here that we
can fathom for you. Take the bark of
the wild-cherry tree. the root of man
drake, stone root, queens root, bloodroot
and golden seal, make q scientific, nom
alcoholic extract of them with Just the
right proportions and YOU have Doctor
Pferce's Golden Medical Discovery.
It took DIR. Pierce, with the assistance
of two learned chemists, eight years OF
hard work experimenting to make this
vegetable extract and Alternative Of the
greatest efficiency.
just the sort of spring remedy you
aeed to make rich, red blood, and cure
that lassitude and feeling of nerve ex-
haustion. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery bears the stamp of PUBLIC
APPROVAL and has sold more largely in
the past forty years than any other blood
purifier and stomach tonic. The refresh
Ing influence of this extract is like
Natures infiuence-the blood is bathed
In the tonic which gives life to the blood
the vital fires of the body burn brighter
and their increased activity consumes
the tissue rubbish which has accumu-
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A SONG OF THE FIELDS.

The green fie1ds-the green fields, and
fields with cotton white
Like a dream of sunshine river OF
delight!
The joy of all the past time, that
thrilled the world along,
Is nothing to the joy ahead-the halle
lujah song!
The green fields-the green fields,
with all the corn brigades,
Glistenin' in the sunshine an wavin' OF
their blades!
The promise of the harvest all bounti-
full and sweet!
The gold of gracious Autumn just
showered at your feet!
The green fields that bless us-what
wonders they unfold!
That feed the famished millions, and
clothe the world from coldi
That keep the cots in comfort when
winter chills the sod
The green fields forever-the green
fields of God!
Frank L. Stanton.
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The American Heart.

The American Heart.
We have heard much about the
American stomach and the American
nerves, but we are just awakening to
discovery that there is being rapidly
developed a form of heart disease
which, if not peculiar to America, may
at least be said to be more prevalent
in this country than in any other part
of the world. The heart-weakness re-
sulting from the use of tobacco and
alcohol and from a sedentary life on
the one hand, and extremely violent
exertion on the other hand, is no long
er rare condition, but has come to
be one of the most common affections
with which the physician has to deal.
large proportion of the men reject
ed in the army examinations are re-
fused on account of heart weakness,
A large proportion of the public men
who die suddenly die as result of
the failure of the heart The same
may be said also of many of the
cases in which the cause of death is
reported to be pneumonia, typhoid fe-
yer and other affections in which spe-
cial strain is brought to bear upon the
heart, and in which the failure of the
organ to meet the emergency is one of
the most common causes of death. The
cigar, the cigarette and the pipe are
probably the most common cause OF
this growing frequency of cardiac at
fections; but the neglect of physical
exercise, overeating, the use of condi-
mentS and excuses of all sorts are
also to a large degree responsible for
the rapid incl ease of this grave NAL
ady.
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Coming to the Front.

Secretary Shaw is gradually com.
ing to the front as the leading advo-
cate of standing pat He is telling the
people that, while tariff tinkering will
bring a change, it will be a change for
the worse and not for the better He
is driving this logic home with special
force in Indiana and Iowa, where the
revision sentiment is particularly
strong. The secretary's argument Is
that it is more desirable that the agrf-
cultural communities of those states
have protection for their crops than
low duties on manufactured articles.
Brooklyn Eagle.
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lated during the winter. Doctor r. Y.
Pierce, the founder of the Inva1fdss
sician Of large experience and practice.
was the first to make up an otterutirs
extract of roots, herbs and barks, WITH
CORES, which purifes the blood and
tones up the stomach and the entire
system in Natures own way. The
"Golden Medical Discovery" is just the
tissue builder and tonic you require
when recovering from q hard cold,
grip, or pneumonia. No matter how
strong the constitution the stomach is
apt to be 1out of kilter" after a long,
hard winter; iu consequence the blood Is
disordered, for the stomach is the labor
atory for the constant manufacture Of
blood. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
in shape to make pure, rich blood-helps
the liver and kidneys to expel the poi
sons from the body. If you take this
NATURAL BLOOD PURIFIER AND TONIC
you will assist your system in manufac-
turing each day pint of rich, arterial
blood, that is stimulating to the brain and
debilitated condition which so many
people experience at this time of the year
is usually the effect of poisons in the
boils appearing on the skin, the face be-
comes thin-you feel blue" Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery cures all
that makes ono vigorous. strong and
forceful. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery STANDS ALONE as the one
medicine for stomach, liver and blood
disorders that has the ingredients printed
upon the wrapper of every bottle leaving
the great laboratory at Buffalo, N. "
which cures in natures own way; not
only does 1t STAND ALONE in respect
to its ingredients but also as the only
spring tonic and reconstructive which
absolutely contains no alcohol.
II was taken with . severe cough. weak
ness In my back. q gimmer' over the eyes,
had bad breath. and stomach was out OF
order" writes 81. adds of 1923 South Tanna
Avenue. Tacoma. WASH II felt sluggish.
did not care for anything had no life. 1t was
almost misery to move appetite very poor:
L read DIR. Pferce'S Common Sense Medical
Adviser and went right away and purch ascd
two BOTTLES OF his Golden Medical Discov-
cry. and before had taken all of one bottle
| felt better. II any doubt the truth of this
testimonial they may write to me-"
DR.. Pierce's Pellets Cure Consultation.
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THE TARIFF AND THE WEST.
Farmers Not Eager for Revision Thai
Is Against Their interests.

Farmers Not Eager for Revision That
Is Against Their Interests.
We must confess to a disappearing
ardor for tariff revision when we see
leaders in the agitation direct their
efforts against farmers, the leading
business men of this great western
country. For farming is a business.
just like the making of shoes or fab
RIGS, and whatever removes protec-
ton from the products of the farm is
apt to affect the industry in the same
way that it would to put manufacture
ed goods on the free list.
There is an unconcealed effort to
get hides placed on the free list. We
are told that cattle are sold for their
meat value and that hides are no por-
ton of the animals as they are passed
to the block.
But everybody knows that hides are
an important by-product and any
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-05-27
Fashion and Consumption.

In all American cities and most of
the larger towns promiscuous expec-
toration is prohibited. There are or
dinances and rules against splitting in
public conveyances, on the floors of
assembly halls and on the sidewalks.
OF necessity, however, this cannot be
prevented in the cutters and on the
pavements.
BY educating the tuberculosis pa
rtient himself in regard to his duty to
his fellow citizen much more can be
done. A careful consumptive is a
good citizen; a careless consumptive
is an enemy to society and the state.
Even with the civil and self-imposed
precautions, the dust of the highway
and crossings is teeming with various
disease germs. 1t is practically i'm
possible to eliminate these beds of
filth. In the cleanest streets such col
onies of germs are present
The use of long, dragging skirts on
the average highway is the height of
folly. 1t is worse. 1t is absolutely
dangerous. The sweeping cloth picks
up dust and dampened particles car
rying tubercular germs. They are
thus transplanted into the very house
hold. In this simply yet sadly effec-
tive way, the children, so carefully
guarded, are exposed to the dreaded
plague The entire family, satisfied
with their fancied security, are
stunned when tuberculosis claims one
of their loved ones
1t may not strike the family circles
The household servants may be al
fected. Many of the deaths of domes-
tics have their explanation. The mis-
tress, after a shopping tour. leaves
her mud-bordered skirt for the maid
to clean. In the cloud of dust arising
from the brush the fatal bacillus
turks. The girl, already weakened
from too long hours indoors, sue
cumbs. A few weeks later she is
forced to stop work and waste away
in hopeless dependence on her over
burdened family or at public expense.
Another, girl is easiy obtained and
the careless mistress never suspects
any connection between her foolish
fashion and the doomed domestic's
sad fate.
Expectoration on the streets can
never be stopped. The streets cannot
ha kent clean But this can be done
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PAINFUL SCIATICA
EVERY SUFFERER WANTS THE VERY
QUICKEST CURE.

Mr. Donovan Thinks the Remedy Used by
Him with Such Remarkable Success
the Best-Cured by Five Boxes.
"Men who have to do difficult and
dangerous work on electric lines at any
hour of day or night, can't afford to have
anything the matter with their health"
said Mr.. Donovan You can imagine,
therefore, how much was alarmed one
winters day in 1902, whe I was seized
by pain just behind my right hip that
made it difficult for me to walk home.
1t was SO bad by the time 1 reached the
house that I was obliged to go straight
to bed"
Did that relieve You? ?"
"No, the pain grew more severe and
kept extending downward along ny leg.
I sent for physician. and he soon de-
cided that had sciatica- In a few days
the whole nerve was affected, and the
least movement brought ON terrible
agony"
Ibid your condition improve under
the doctors treatment"
"Quite the contrary. At this end of
two months wasn't a bit better, and at
times I feared that I would never be
able to leave my bed"
"How did you get out again? ?"
"When was lying in bed, unable to
move and wasting away in flesh, a friend
visited me and told me about the won
derful cures brought about by great
blood and nerve remedy, DIR. Williams
Pink Pills. He strongly urged me to try
them, and luckily had sense enough to
| take his advice
Did You mend quickly ?r
Eyes, that was the astonishing thing.
noticed slight Improvements before I
had quite finished the first box of the
pills, 1 could get out of bed while was
on the third box, and 1 was entirely
cured by the time had taken five boxes. !"
Mr., Joseph A. Donovan is living at
Plaistow, New Hampshire, and is line
inspector for the Haverhill, Newton and
Plaistow Electric Street Railway. DR..
Williams Pink Pills are the remedy to
use when the blood is thin. as in anHmia;
or impure, as in rheumatism; or when
the nerves are weak, as in neuralgia; or
lifeless, as in partial paralysis; or when
the body as whole is ill-nourished, as
in general debility. They are sold by
oil druggists.
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DEATH IN TRAILING SKIRT
Danger That Turks in Present Day Obedience
Fashions Whin

The following short story from the
Woman's Journal is very timely in the
warning given against trailing skirts:
Only a little dust, almost impercep-
tible dust, caught on the rug on the
floor of the handsome hall.
II was a Turkish rug, lying on the
perfectly waxed, hardwood floor, in a
faJl where neatness seemed to reign
along with all the appointments of
wealth
ceptible dust. How did it come there?
If you had ears that could hear its
voices it would tell you. 1t would
say that it had clutched fold on the
beautiful lady's gown and come in
from the street
1t was a beautiful gown as well as
beautiful lady-a tailor-made gown,
and its fashionable bias founce trailed
stylishly on the ground.
Everything was stylish about tue
lady, from her fair face, with
rather deep circles below the eyes, to
her slender and handsome walking
shoes. She walked trailing her gown
properly, dust or no dust. Indeed, she
ignored the dust of the street; but will
the dust ignore her?
Let us listen. if she will not, for
this almost imperceptible dust moves
and acts with fearful force, and if we
listen possibly We may understand its
language.
Soon after coming in on the beauti-
full 1ady's gown, other steps followed
and other gowns helped to move the
dust along farther into the mouse; but
it had a fancy for the beautiful lady.
Her frailness attracted it and it fol-
lowed her to the bed chamber. Her
feet had never trod the 1oathsome
precincts whence it came, but it came
to her on her gown
Soon there came to the chamber a
little child, sweet, rosy cherub. In
its romping it stirred the dust about
Then the dust began to be sepa-
rated, being formed of many particles,
and these talked among themselves.
AS they talked they danced back and
forth, Waiting, swirling, caperfng,
with every motion of the child and it's
mamma, the beautiful lady.
A scientist could have understood
them if he had caught some of them
under his microscope. He would have
called them germs With what
alarm he would have recognized the
diphtheritic, and with what dismay
would he have seen the tuberculous
germ approaching the frail lady.
Back and forth, dancing, capering,
Waiting, the germs kept time while
baby, in its mothers arms, said, as
thousands of other little ones were
saying
Now lay me down to sleep.
/ pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If 1 should die before I wake,
I Lord soul to take
This baby was saying it for the last
time.
When night came again, thousands
of little voices sent up the baby pray
ers, but this one was gasping out its
little life on mammals bosom-de-
stroyed by a germ.
A yellow card at the front door
warned all corners against diphtheria-
The beautiful lady vainly sought
health for a year or more, then found
rest beyond the sorrow and the part
ing"
Broken hearted it was said
Found death in the dust of the
street. said the microscope. A vic.
tim of the long skirt.
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corporations he had best think again;
he doesn't know the Socialist animal.
The Democratic donkey might stand
for it, but not the Socialistic steer.
So it appears certain that there Is
trouble ahead for aggressive Democ-
racy. Its program of smashing pri-
vate rights of ownership and at the
same time smashing public prosperity
possesses some features of interest, to
be sure; but it has it's drawbacks.
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To Help Manufacturers.

The new Bureau of Manufactures in
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor, it is announced by its chief, J.
Hampton Moore, is in operation and
Is prepared for business. Its duty will
consist principally of the promotion of
American interests both at home and
abroad, and publicity will be no small
feature of the enterprise. This bureau
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The Philosopher of Folly.

'I have noticed" said the Philoso--
pher of Folly, that the men who are
constantly spouting about woman's
only true sphere being the home, and.
who laughs at the women who think;
they have some other mission in life
Il have noticed that the majority OF
those fellows are bachelors who turn
pale when the subject of marriage Is
mentioned to them.-Cleveland Lead
er
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made after a Bulgarian recipe and
called "yaghurt." is now a Partisan
fad and is believed to be a remedy
against growing old. A correspondent
who has tried it, says he would prefer
to die young.
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Iakino No Chances.

Mo1ly-Papa, 1 wish you'd close the
door of your room when gentlemen are
calling on me. Your SHORES are some
thing fierce!
Dad-Well, it won't hurt 'em any.
Molly-Perhaps not, but they might
think it's hereditary! Cleveland
Leader.
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Room for improvements.

Il have here, said the agent, "aR
alarm clock that will kindle the fire
in the kitchen range and start the cot
fee boiling. Can 1 sell you one?''
NO" yawned the lazy man, "but
when you find one that will pour the
coffee out and bring it upstairs 1 will
be pleased to consider its purchase"