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?#s? CONGRESS. TIMES TROU MAY EXPECTED. Never SInce tbe War Have the People So, Anxiously Turned Tholr Eyes On Wasli ViSf ington—A Voice From the Throne—Law Trampled Down. .1 „rt All Eyes On Congress. Congress convenes August 7. Then 4 look out for some miglitv interesting 'times, Never since the war have so J/many^'ea been turned toward Wasli- 1 ingtdjJtLTUpae are troublous times. The f'OTS-bound to fly when they get do\*h to business. It is authoritatively announced that the sole object of the convocation is to deal with the finan cial situation, especially to repeal the Sherman silver purchase act. We are also told that the powers that be are satisfied thut they have enough force ^lin CSta2g^ to, effect the repeal, else %_ 'thej not have convened that S-uUody. this may be true, as the r£-viftcult of skillful use of patronage and t-' the party whip, it is safe to calculate •f on a lively struggle at tbe extra ses r"7 sion. There will be enough silver men present to make it decidedly interest ing to the goldbugs, whose schemes can be obstructed if not defeated. It is safe at least to anticipate a stormy session, s/' whose proceedings will be fraught witii |iT unusual interest. Grover Cleveland 5 has been forced to call the session by the sweep of the panic to which he has ', heretofore been wilfully blind. This panic, the Nonconformist says, has been ipMseen by two classes of men. The MHat money lords planned it and .-•V brofiB-itit about. They intended to 1 pvoduS^ ]ust the condition of affairs ,. til at nop^f^ist.V The other class saw i.- '-what and raised a warning cry. FoH*\ars 'they told the people that our ffCf«icial system was a pvra- 1 raid standing" on its apex, that our credit system was a row of cards and vv that when one went down the whole (row would fall. Ten thousand times have Gen. Warner's words been re printed: "What is wanted is more primary money with which to redeem paper promises and to pay debts, and nor more promises to pay gold." Both of these classes of men have been stu dents of political economy. Both per fectly understand money and its func tions'. Ons class used .its knowledge to rob the masses and accumulate for tunes which run far up into the mil lions. The other class used its knowl K-V edge in trying to defend the people 'from.this spoliation. Now. at last, has comejjfr^'t&y when erery man must deqSfip^wRimself whether he will thr^K/in fiis lot with the robbers or the Vatriois, whether he will try to save rais land to be the home of free and independent men or whether he will try to make it an Ireland of tenant farmers alid miserable, half-paid wage workers, ruled by 20,000 millionaires. There is no dodging this issue any longer. Tariffs, negro supremacy, re ligious strifes can not longer divide the attention of the public. The great 3st battle of civilization is to be fought. The fate of the nation hangs upon the result. Even now the bugle sounds and the long roll is beating. "Fall in, boys, fall in. Your country expects every man to do his duty." Has Mouth Complaint. The member of Cleveland's Cabinet from Nebraska—he who parts his name in the middle—has delivered himself of a long interview on the Populist ag itation and the financial question in politics. Secretary Morton says the Populist party is disintegrating and that the Democratic party, being com mitted to policies not in accord with the teachings of the Populists cannot have %n alliance with them.. He goes on'ai great length and makes state for downright diabolical nexcelled. being a member of Cleve binet, is one of his chief ad this may betaken as a voice from the throne. He says "the election of Cleveland meant the condemnation of laws placing artificial prices upon commodities, whether wool or metal, tin, or silver." Now, my plutocratic wool grower, take notice: The first thins? this mouthpiece of Cleveland jumps onto,"is wool j' it has been bear ing an artificial price and has got to come down. The enormous and arti ficial profits that you have been re ceiving (22 cents last year) has got to be lopped off. (A writer in the Non conformist got 15 cents for his clip this year and was foolish enough not JO be satisfied.) little further down he says: "All •ihat the plain honest people want is a sound,, reliable currency, sufficient for the purpose of trade and commerce." Yes, and by the eternal, if we had a little of the spirit of 1776 left amongst ns, and a few Patirck Henrys, we would have it. Ah, wp've got it, and She Henrys, too, and we're going to have a so^nd currency and enough of ijfc.-r As Morton says, "the great trouble this question is because jidPEl-of Congress of both parties rfp.^lenia&ogues. influenced in their ac tions by the effect upon their pros pects for re-election." There you have it, a frank confession from goldbug authority. Now couple Jay Gould's statement that they, the capitalists, spent millions in getting men friendly with their interests elected, with Mor ton's statement, and you will be. able to sec why 'a 135-cent gold dollar is considered soutfd, and 50-cent wheat and 15-csnt wool an indication of get ting down to a sound basis. Listen. Under one condition silver, the money of the country in every day use, the money that don't hide when panics come, may be coined, says this oracle of the one chance party. "Demonetize gold and silver both." There you are, the thing is done. The few thousands of creditors will then say to the mill ions of debtors, pay us gold, we won't take silver, it is not a legal tender, gold is nominated in the bond, gold we'll have. This means the end of sil \ver, and Cbinese conditions and slav ery? No, not quite. Ui-sie r.re 1,000,- amm ••3^7}.. A-.-j.".', -i. /.i.e.- .ti ... ii-.v. v:.v* '•'•.vv^:: 000 men who voted for Weaver, who will never submit, never! Mr. Morton should be speedily pen sioned for diarrhea of the mouth, and also retired. Such aggravated cases as his should dot require lengthy de bates, much less a veto. Deliberately Lied, During the last campaign the lead ers in the Democratic party promised to reduce the tariff when they got "chance." If they don't they lied. They are not doing it. They promised to put silver on an equality with gold. They are not do ing it. They promised to abolish trusts. They,,are not doing it. They oromised to wipe out the na tional banks. Thoy are not doing it. They promised to "turn the rascals out." They are not doing it They promised to reduce expenses. They are not doing it._ They promised to reinstate Jefferson ian simplicity. They are not doing it. They have got the "chance." They have had the "chance"' some time. Tlicy have not started to do anything they promised. They have lied. Trample Down Law. The leading men of this nation are trampling its laws under their feet. Cleveland has arbitrarily set aside the Geary Chinese exclusion law. Attor ney General Olney, whose sworn duty is "to prosecute railroads and trusts that violate the law, is in the pay of two of these corporations as their at torney. Carlisle is paying out gold on silver certificates from the $100,000,000 reserve created explessly for the re demption of the greenbacks and noth ing else. If such men openly and will fully violate the laws of the land how can it be expected that the people will respect them? We are on the very brink of revolution. Talks* Like a Fool* Lyman Gage, chief of the banking fraternity of Chicago, says: "A bank's safety does not lie in its vast resources, but in the integrity of its credit." Ly man, where a bank has one hundred thousands of liabilities and ten thou sands of assets, how much "integrity oi credit" would be requirbclto make that ninety thousand good There is no statute, we believe, under which a man can be punished for talking like a fool. Save Us! The Government- boarded the Duk« of Veragua at a Chicago hotel one week. The bill was $2,500, and was promptly paid by the Government— which means that much sweat by the producers of wealth—and now the Duke is said to be bankrupt and it is reported that a subscription paper is to be started in tliis country for his relief. This is not only disgusting but outrageous. THE fight is on. THE factory whistle of Western hills is silent. WHEAT touched 61 cents in Chicago last Thursday. THE Denver Bond says it is "free sil ver or a free fight." THE 'first clearing house certificates didn't seem to work. IT is just getting interesting. The big factories are closing down. CoN&itEss will convene August 7. July 7 would have been more business like. "GBOVER'S pxnio" is what a Ken tuckian calls the present "period of distress." PLEASE notice that the "dqllarof the dads" still floats on a par with the golden calf. THE tariff issue seems to be a "the ory" now, and not a "condition" that confronts ns. NATIONAL and State Bank Currency do you want it If you do, get into Grovcr's wpgori. SILVER League and general indigna tion meeting in Chicago August 1st. Get ready for it. You will miss an opportunity to make money if you don't ask for particulars under "agents wanted." ONE thousand silver speeches will be made in the Eastern States within the next three months. The friends of silver are "carrying the war into Africa." BEFORE the election it was "repeal the McKinley bill," and silver was no* an issue. Now it is "repefil the silver (Sherman) law," and the tariff is not an issue. The politicians have got a true bill against the people for being fools, and if the people are not careful they will be convicted of the charge. A Great Streak of Lnck. B. W. Harriiaan, of Eeadfleld, Me., Is known among his neighbors as a lucky man, and it is no wonder, as the follow ing story will show. One winter's day, some time ago, he was driving to his home and had with him a package of $500 in- $50 bills. In order to keep it safe he put it under the seat and sat on it. All went well until he had nearly finished his journey when, happening to arise, a gust of wind scattered the bills all over. By great efforts he managed to llnd all but one, and this he was finally constrained to believe lost for good. One day the next summer Har riman happened to be standing in his baru door when a heavy wind sprang up. His attention happened to be at tracted to a faded green object that looked like a leaf and was coming dancing in his direction. Harrlman watched it, and saw it flutter directly coward him, and finally sail into the barn like a swal'ow. He caught it and examined it It was faded and worn, but through all tbe wrinkles of time he discovered the beautiful features of.the $50 that blew away from him the winter before. Corsets for Warmth. "Every now and then," said a gentle man, "fun is derived from reference to men who wear corsets. It is taken for granted that these individuals wear these articles in order to compress their waists and. assume an aristocratic car riage. This to entirely erroneous. The idea of wearing a waistband so as to promote warmth in the stomach is an old Southern idea, sworn by and proved to be good by thousands of people. Keeping the digestive organs at a uni formly warm temperature makes diges tion easy and provides against half the ills of humanity. J3' -I •**,. *v I OYER SEYENTY DEAD. TERRIBLE RESULT OF THE IOWA CYCLONE. Greatest Severity Felt at Fomcroy, Where the Cyclone ltagcd for Only One Minute but Left Fifty Dead and One Hundred Injured in Its Wake. Wrought Awful Havoc. More complete details from-the cy clone-swept section of Northwestern Iowa do not diminish its horrors. The latest reports give the number of dead at seventy-four, and it is said at least five more will die, while the injured number considerably over one hun dred. A conservative estimate places the whole number that were either killed or injured by the tornado at 250. At Pomeroy alone over fifty are dead. Five blocks of residences were com pletely swept away, not more than kindling wood being left of them. The disaster is the most dire one that has occurred in Iowa since the Grinnell cyclone. The loss of life at Pomeroy is not so great as at Grinnell, but the destruction of property, will be more complete. At 6 o'clock Thursday even ing a thousand happy people sat down to their tea-tables chatting cheerily, unconscious of impending danger. Fri day morning more than half of them were wandering about homeless and half crazed, depending on charity for food and drink, while strangers were winding the grave-clothes around their dead. Every house left standing was a IOI/X Cm f€^fye.,. S Tfl TX I OSCFOtA weWNSON EMMET OBRltN COURSE OF THE STOEM. hospital. Every citizen of Pomeroy mourns the loss of a relative or friend. Two hundred families are homeless, many having lost all they owned. Hun dreds of people poured in on every train to view the ruins, and to every one of them the completeness of the havoc Wrought by the tornado was painfully apparent. Sixty-five acres of debris is what is left of Pomeroy now. Imagine a gigantic pile of lumber scattered in every direction over a broad prai rie and you have a good pic ture of this wrecked Iowa city. Nothing but tho occasional shat tered remains of a wall or the half destroyed gable of a dwelling rise above the level of the ground. The numerous SOLE SURVIVOBS or AN JSNTIRB TAMIX,T. trees that surrounded the town have 'been swept away so completely that it Should be difficult to believe that one ever grew there. One hundred and twenty-five residences, most a story and-a-half or two-story frame seven churches, all frame one brick and a half-dozen frame business buildings constitute tho total of buildings that were wrecked. Of course, the loss on these is total. All the. other business houses, probably fifty," wero njoro or jless damaged. Those who are compe- ~t§g about the streets shouting and gesticu lating. The cyclone struck the town at IUO southwest, among. the scattering' houses in the outskirts. Roofs and shingles and sides of buildings were wrenched loose and were thrown to one side. On to the more densely populated district the monster of de struction swept, leveling all before it and leaving in its wake a cloud of splinters and wrecked homes, death and demoralization. The people were panio stricken and fled here and there amid the flying timbers until stricken down to the earth, manglod, torn, and dead. While the tornado lasted it was pitch dark, except for the vivid flashes of lightning which lit the weird and'awful scene. The rain came down in torrents, the roar of the thunder and the storm was deafening. The air was full of sticks, stones, mud, horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, houses, machinery, bricks, human beings, and everything that was unable to resist the force of the terri ble tempest. It was all over in a few seconds. Oh, what a piteous spectacle greeted the eyes of the agonized sur vivors! Dea4 people, were on every side. Husband and wife lay on the ground, their glassy eyes turned heavenward ana the bodies rent and torn in the most cruel manner. Mothers and their little babies were found stark dead, with their brains oozing out of thoir crushed skulls and their life blood soaking the sod beneath them. Rescuing parties at once set out, and the dead and wounded were brought in as fast as men could work. Tho telegraph and telephone linos were blown down, and Ed Masterson set out on a horse to Manson for help. He succeeded in flagging Vice President Hai-ahan's KOSSUTH IST VlSTfi^ it' ,r __ _]# J! special train, which flew back to Man son,. and help from all the towns along the line was soon on hand. Fifteen surgeons wore soon caring for the wounded. The Good Templars' Hall was turned into a hospital, and the old postoffice building did duty as a morgue. The shrieks of the wounded and the groans of the "dying were mingled with tho agonizing moans of those so sud denly bereft of their dear ones. It waa a sight that beggars description. Sweep of the Storm. As shown by the accompanying map, the tornado started a short distance west of Cherokee and followed closely the Illinois Central Railroad, cutting a swath from one-quarter to one-hall mile wide and completely demolishing everything in its path for a distance of sixty miles. All along1 this strip, in addition to the devastation wrought at Pomeroy, Fonda, Storm Lake, and other towns in its path, are wreckod homes and ruined farms. The actual loss of life in the path of the storm through the country cannot yet bo accurately stated, but it is known to bo great, and the damage to property is tremendous. Thousands of acres of corn alond have been destroyed. In many hugo fields of corn nothing is left but the roots, and in some instances they havo been torn out. It is difficult to estimate tho loss, but it will reach far up in tho thousands. Not a barn, or a house, or shed, or fonco, .or treo in tho path of the storm stands. A swath was mowed through tho biggest part of tho woods. Hugo trees wore torn out by their roots and others equally as la«ge were bro ken off at the placo where their cir cumference was largest. Ten farm houses and all their barns and outhouses between Pomeroy and Fonda have been wrecked. Only splinters of the largest buildings remain. Gov. Eqlcs ppeals for Help. Gov. Boies was telegraphed as to the scope of the disaster and appealed.to for aid. Whereupon the Governor im mediately took tho train for Pomeroy. THFL HAUL SON CAVE. WHERE TWENTY-TWO LIVES WEEE SAVED. tent to judge say tho loss in the city will not be less than a quarter of a mil lion. Ail in a Mlnnte. The storm did its terrible work in one minute's time. Just before dark great banks of black clouds massed in the southwest and an other in the west. About 7 o'clock tho two threatening piles moved toward one another and then joined. The clouds took on a green tint, which was pierced with the sun's rays for a moment. Then darkness set in rapid ly. The elements seemed to form about the combined clouds, though scarcely a breeze stirred the tree-tops in the streets of Pomeroy. Those who twere watching the phenomena say that a column of smoke like a cloud dropped to tho ground and gath ered in strength as it advanced toward the town. They recog nized it as a cyclone and gave the alarm. Many sought shelter in cellars 'and others mounted horses to flee from the path of the coming destruction. There was a dash of hail, a blinding flash of lightning and deafening-- peal of thunder. Men and women ran wildly On arriving there and looking over tho desolate waste, ho issued the following proclamation: To the People of Iowa from a personal examination of the rein wrought by the storm of last evening I llnd that forty-two are already dead and upward of 1C0 are seriously injured in this town, which had a population of 1,000 souls. The great bulk of ths residence portion of the tewn Is completely destroyed and hundreds of fami lies are homeless and destitute, la Jit least one town west of here eight or ten ore said to have been killed and many Injuied. The ne cessity for aid Is imperative. Tho good peo ple in towns adjacent t« Pomeroy have sup plied immediate wants for board and cloth ing, but it is Impossible for them to supply all that will be needed In the future. Money, however, is the great necessity of the hour. We must not only help these people to live, but we must aid them to rebuild their de stroyed homes. Permit me to recommend that in every city and town of the State immediate steps be instituted by the Mayors and munici pal officers to organize relief committeos and promptly proceed to collect and forward aid. This may be directed to the "Eeltof Committee of Pomeroy, Iowa,* which will bo organized during the day, and will consist of thoroughly responsible persons of this and other towns so that aid will be fairly and equitably distributed to all who are in want. Citizens of Iowa, it is no exageratlon for me to say that no more deserving appeal was ever made to you for aid. Be sure that you are bcth prompt and liberal. HOBACE BOIES. -4*.... Governor of Iowa. ,.. SJjmf»•' wjfe .i TUB LAW VIOLATED. AND THE OLD PARTIES ARE THE VIOLATORS. Instead of Redeeming Treasury Notes In SUver, the Republican and Democratic Administrations Have Ruled That They A re a a In In League With Spoliators# President Cleveland, on April 21, 1893, authorized the publication of the following statement: "Inclination on the part of the public to accept news paper reports concerning the inten tions of those charged with the man agement of our finances, seems to justi fy my emphatic contradiction of the statement that the redemption of any kind of treasury notes, except in gold, has at any time been determined upon or contemplated by the Secretary of the Treasury, or any other member of the present administration." This statement has never been con tradicted, and of course it mudt be ac cepted as the purpose of the adminis tration to pay outstanding treasury notes in nothing bv.t gold coin on de mand. The President has construed the Sherman act of 1890 as giving him the authority to do so. That act' pro vides: "That the Secretary of the Treasury shall each month coin two million ounces of the silver pur aliased under the provision of this act, into standard silver dollars, until the first day of July, 1891, and after that time he shall coin of the silver bullion, pur chased under the provisions of this act, as much as may be necessary to provide for the redemption of the treasury notes herein provided for." The Southern Mercury says that this act cannot bo construed to mean anything else than that the Secretary of the Treasury should coin enough of the silver bullion purchased under this act, into standard dollars to re deem all the treasury notes issued un der said act. The Treasury notes re ferred to expressly say on their face, "The United States will pay the bear er on demand——dollars in coin," and are endorsed as follows: "This note shall be a legal tender at its face value for .all debts, public and private, ex cept when otherwise provided for in the contract." In other words, it means that it is not a legal tender for any debt contracted to be paid in gold, l't is given in payment for silver bul lion and is redeemable in silver dollars on demand. Up to July 31, 1891, there had been coined under this act of 1890, $16,584, 350, and for the year ending June 30, 1892, $8,329,467, "while the purchases of silver bullion under it, according to tho report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the month ending May 21, 1893, $143,189,874 leaving un coined and unavailable as money $118,296,057, which is simply that much retired which amounts to a con traction of that amount, hence, it is evident that this law has been ignored by both the Harrison and Cleveland administrations. Instead of redeeming these Treasury notes in silver, the Republican and the Democratic administrations have ruled that they are payable in gold, and have permitted alien agents to collect them in gold, which they have shipped to Europe, and in this manner pave the way for the issuance of more gold bonds. It is, therefore, plaiu that the administration is in league with these conspirators to spoliate the people. Who has demanded that these Treas ury notes be redeemed in gold Did the taxpayers of this nation do it Does not the law specially say they shall be redeemed in coin silver dol lars? What is the history of that class who are now manipulating our Govern ment? From 1866 to 1872 the people of this country were more prosperous than ever before or since. These very same schemers obtained control of af fairs and, under the lead of Secretary McColloch, produced the panic, of 1873, as well as the present infamous conditions. So bold have they become that a Republican and a Democratic President ignores a plain, positive law of the Government. This autocracy manifests also by the appointment of a representative to a foreign Govern ment, while the Senate is in session, without the approval of that body, also by dictating to a Governor how to en force the law in his own state. Care fully peruse Cleveland's statement, and tho law quoted. The Farm mortgage Lie. Time and again we see the denial of the statement frequently made that millions of homes in America are in the clutches of the money lenders. As a specimen of such rot we reproduce the following, from the Farm and Home, the leading agricultural journal of New England: "The Western farm mortgage lie has about run its race. It has' caused un told injury by the shock given to the credit of "Western farmers. It -has caused the security of farms to be viewed askance, and obliged money lenders to loan on farms only at high er rates of interest than prevailed on city real estate. But now comes Ed ward Atkinson with these conclusions,, based on the Federal Census of farm mortgages: "More than one-half of the Western farms are free frsm mortgage of any kind. Less than one-half are subject to a mortgage which on the average amounts to less than one-half the val ue of the mortgaged land. One-half the money loaned on mortgage has been loaned by citizens of the same state which the mortgaged farms are situated. The average life of the farm mortgage is less than five years. Ninety per cent, or more of the money borrowed on mortgage has been for the purpose of buying or improving the land. The indebtedness on mortgage of Western farmers to Eastern capital ists, or others who do not dwell in the same state in which the farms are, is less than 12i per cent, of the true val ue of the farm lands of those Western states. The Western farmer is to a greater extent creditor than he is a debtor." Does the Farm-and Some suppose that no ono reads th& reports of the IT.' Si Census Bureau? How it can have the cheek to make such a statement as, the above when the official census re turns for 1890' show that the per capita farm mortgages of sixteen average ag ricultural states is- as follows "Ala bama, $26 Connecticut, $107 Illinois, $100 Indiana,. $54 Iowa, $104 Kan sas, $170 Mainey $^9 Massachusetts, $133 Msssouri, $80 Nebraska, $126 .. New Hampshire, $50 Oregon,.. $73 Pennsylvania, $117 Rhode Island, $106 Tennessee, $23 Vermont, $84." By placing farmers at 50 per cent, of -the population, and one-fifth to be adults, the indebtedness on each farm in Kansas is $1,700. This looks like prosperity!: Its the old tale over again, "fix the agricultural and relig ious press and we can then enslave the people," which we see is being done. Is not the Hon. Mr. Atkinson one of the fixers? Shylock Did It. Who wants a gold or singlo stand ard? The money-lender. Who wants to demonetize silver The money-lender. Who wants to retire tho greenbacks? The money-lender. Who wants dear money and cheap products? The money-lender. Who wants national and state bank currency The money-lender. Who wants a system of finance which is subject to manipulation "to the ex tent that panics can be 'produced? The money-lender. Who holds the majority of mort gages? The money-lender. Who crowds the mortgagee and fore closes mortgages The money-lender. Who bids in the property at a very low price The money-lender. Who gets the benefit of the sacrifice made? The money-lender. Who makes landlords on the one side and tenants on the other The money lender. Who is reponsible for the process which crowds more of the products of the soil and of labor into the. dollar? The money-lender. Who controls the national indebted ness of the entire civilized world The money-lender. Who ruined Australia The money lender. Who ruined India? The money: lender. Who has his clutches on the'throat of the world's industries? The money lender. Who caused the downfall of Egypt 5 The money-lender. Who caused the spark! of life to de part from Rome? The monev-lender. AVho caused the collapse of Babylon The money-lender. Who put the exception clause on the back of the greenback? The money lender. Who passed the national banking act The money-lender. Who contracted the currency in 1866-67-68? The money-lender. Who demanded the credit-strength ening act? The money-lender. Who demonetized silver? The money-lender. Who caused the panic of 1873? The money-lender. Who dictated the resumption act? The money-lender. Who opposed the Bland silver law The money-lender. Who forced the passage of the Sher man bullion law The money-lender. Who took gold out of the country The money-lender. Who is responsible for the present money panic The money-lender. Who will be the gainer in the finan cial race for existence that is now be ing run? The money-lender. Who is ever looking out for No. 1 and himself? The money lender. Who must the people dethrone in order that they may gain complete in dependence? The money-lender. SIMON HATCHETT. The Ohio Ticket. The People's party of Ohio met in Columbus and nominated a full state ticket. Over four hundred delegates from all parts of the state were pres ent. A splendid ticket was nominated and unbounded enthusiasm prevailed. Everything went off harmoniously. The principles of the Omaha platfortn with some additions were reaffirmed. Considering that it was right in har vest, the number present was a sur prise. Following is the ticket: Gov- Tiior, E. J. Bracken, Columbus Lieu :efiant Governor, M. B. Coolev, Yin ton Treasurer, W. H. Taylor, Cham paign Attorney-General, J. H. Rhodes, Fremont Supreme Judge, C. T. Clark, Columbus Dairy Commis sioner, T. N. Hickman,'Morrow: Mem ber Board Public Works, Matthew Barber, Allen County. And Tliis Is Jeflersonianisin. The Duke of Veragua's hotel bill at Chicago was $2,600! Just tbink of it, reader! $300,000 of the people's sweat money taken from them by taxation and spent on two prigs of that incest uous royalty, that has blighted the earth and enslaved mankind for thou sands of years! It -will take 7,000 American girls and boys twelvemonths in debasing drudgery to accumulate this $300,000 thrown away on the rep resentatives of that class which our fathers drove from this country at the point of the bovonet, but li'ttle more than a hundred years ago. They are returning like the locusts of Egypt to eat our substance and enslave our sons and daughters at the request of a so-called Democratic administration! Are They I'ools? This nation has in wealth over sixty thousand million dollars. It haa over s»ven hundred million in clean cash lying in its treasury vaults. It only owes eleven hundred million, and yet there are men who are trying to create the impression that our credit is suffer ing and we ought to issue more bonds to sustain it. Are the people fools That's Different. An association of bankers has re cently offered a large reward to any one who will kill a bank robber, ft the people will now get together and offer as much to any one who will kill a robbing banker there will be a chance for some follow to kill two birds with one stone.—Lamar (Mo.) Review. '?*FF $ -.1 §T-