The advocate. [volume], March 11, 1891, Page 5, Image 5

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THLJ .!iDVO0ATEL
CONFESSES HIS HYl'O IHSY.
Tho editor of tho Holloa Pweorder
confemtes tho hypocmy of his party,
arid &eeks justification in tho cry,"you
aro another." Ho has a long screed
in Lin iismio of tho fith in which he
arraigns us for hypocrisy upon tho
prohibition quebtion ami upon tho
question of service pensions. Wo
ronpoctfully plead not guilty, ami ap
peal to tho record. True wo did not
howl ourselves hoarno on tho ques
tion of prohibition, and at the saino
time support a candidates for Gover
nor who was directly ropiionHiblo for
the liconse of tho nalo of liquor in
every city of the fctato contrary to
law. Wo nimply said that prohibi
tion was not an issuo in tho campaign,
and this was trno. We desiro to say
to Brother Bock that when this ques
tion becomes an ismie, as it will
whon a now constitution is submitted
to tho people, ho will hour from This
Advocate, and its voice will havo no
uncertain sound. If he will bo 'pro
pared to go as far as wo shall when
tho proper time comes, ho will go
farther than ho ever has yet.
Next with regard to tho pension
question. Our Teoplo's platform goes
farther than any other platform ever
adoptod on this subject. Friend
Beck complains that nothing was said
upon this subject at Ocala. Wo would
remind him that tho (K'ala conven
tion was not political in its charac
ter. It was a convention of only ono
of tho industrial organizations that
enter into the Pooplo's party. If yon
desire a national declaration upon
this subject please wait for tho moot
ing at Cincinnati on tho 10th of May,
and most especially watch for tho
procoodings of tho convention of
February 22, 1SD2. Don't kick on
national platforms until we havo a
national convention and adopt ono.
After that time you may expend all
your force in the fruitless endeavor
to ovorthrow or undermine it.
Inspecting tho visionary policy of
our party we hero and now defy any
assault upoq ono of our principles by
any more formidable weapon than
that of ridicule and falsification. If
there is anything weak about them
pleaso point out the weakness in a
sensible and logical way. We shall
immediately after the adjournment of
the Legislature begin a systematic
presentation of arguments in support
of tho Alliance demands, and we will
boo if any of ourltepublican or Demo
cratic friends will attempt any fair
and legitimate discussion of our prin
ciples. They never havo done it and
we aver that they do not dare to do
it Abuse, ridicule and falsehood are
substituted for argument, and the
people are asked to feed upon such
husks and bo satisfied. Is it any
wonder that Kansas witnessed a poli
tical rovolntion in November last?
A FEW FACTS.
The Capital, tho Oskaloosa hide'
pendent and a few others have de
lightod rocontly in advertising the
fact that The Advocate is a little in
debt We do not propose to dony the
soft impeachmont, but there are a few
facta to which we would invite the at
tention of those who are just now so
solicitous in regard to our material
welfare. Tho first of them facts is
that tho debt was contracted in the
interest of tho Impolitic! campaign.
It is a result of thousands of copies
of The Advocate sent into missionary
fields during that content They ful
filled their mission. Wo trust 'that
even tho Capital and tho Indepcn
dent will concodo that they were not
altogether a failure. Wo would also
call attention to tho fact that being
in debt wo aro not alone even among
newspapers. Some of those who aro
volunteering this gratuitous advertis
ing of our private business affairs
are so far ahead of us in this respect
as to entirely distance us. Our busi
ness, wo will add, is maintaining all
expenses of tho ofiico and paying our
debts as fust as thoy become due.
How is it with the Capital and
others? Are thoy all doing this?
Another fact to which we would
invito attention is that we started
this enterprise in August, 1K.H0, with
out a dollar, and any newspaper man
who will take tho trouble to examine
our books and our plant and fran
chise, will pronounce it ono of tho
raoit valuable in tho stato to-day. It
has grown from its small beginning a
little over u year ago to a national
circulation and a reputation and
rocognizod standing unprecedented
in consideration of its age in the
nowspaper history of the west. It is
fully able to take caro of itself finan
cially and othorwiso. How is it with
tho Independent f With tho ago and
exporienco of many years it has not
as many subscribers as it had a yoar
ago, and it has never seen tho day
that it had three thousand names on
its list. It is safe to say its list will
grow smaller in the future. It has a
rival now that will take what littlo
patronago it has had horetoforo on
account of its location at the county
seat of JolVerson county.
Don't worry about The Advocate,
gentlemen ; it will pay its debts and
be on deck 8gain in 181)2.
lMl'OUTANT MKKTIN&.
Tho board of diroctors of tho Kan
sas Allianco Kxchango company, tho
co-operativo store managers and bus
iness agents of tho stato held a meet
ing at the board of trade rooms in this
city, February 21, for the transaction
of important business and the estab
lishment of closor business relations.
A large representation was present
Resolutions were adopted approving
the work done by tho agonta of the
Kansas Allianco Exahange company,
and pledging their continued sup
port; requesting them to obtain the
name and location of tho co-operative
stores of the state and the amount of
business done by each; favoring the
passage of Houso bill No. 713, relating
to eloction of board of railroad commis
sioners and regulating freight rates,
and thanking the board of trade of
Topeka for use of rooms for mooting.
Anotiikk foolish and expensive proceeding of
tho state Legislature was tho CofTeyvlllo dyna
mite Investigation. OWf Trihuna.
Yes, expensive to the Republican
party. It will cost them what little
respect they still retained among do
cont people irrespective of their po
litical affiliations.
THEY CONDEMN TUX HUTCHINSON "NIWN."
Wo aro in receipt of a et, of rr (solu
tions from Lincoln Allianco No. 122
of lteno county soverely censuring
tho Hutchinson News for its "misquo
tations, misrepresentations and unfair
criticisms of Senator BctTer's speech
before tho lioform l'mis annociation
at its recent meeting at Hutohinson."
We aro of tho opinion that tho Neien
will learn, eventually, that it will pay
better to correctly rojort what it un
dertakes to report than to misrepresent
for partisan purposed. Tho New$
misrepresented tho proceeding of
tho Press association as well as tho
Senator's speech. We were present
from tho beginning to tho end of
every session of the association and
tho first indication wo saw or heard
of any wrangle we saw in tho columns
of tho New. Tho report was a false
hood, pure and simple.
ANOTIIKK OUTUAOK.
The American Live Stock Commis
sion company, which tho Kansas Alli
anco Kxchango company had mads
its agent for tho salo of live stock, has
boon expelled from tho Kansas City
Exchange. Why? Tho Live Stock
Exchange has fixed a certain arbitrary
rato of commission which shall bo
charged for the sale of stock, by
which immense profits have been
realized at tho expenso of stock men.
Tho American Livo Stock Commis
sion company is a co-operative com
pany which pays a dividond to its
stockholders from tho proceods of its
business. It violated no rule of tho
Livo Stock Eichango. It charged
tho same commission as other sales
men. Tho members of tho Alliance
being stockholders in the company
through tho Kansas Allianco Ex
change company were allowod to par
ticipate in the profits of the business.
For this the company is expelled, and
an attempt is made to organize a boy
cott against it among tho buyers of
livo stock. This gives tho screw one
moro turn. We repoat our quotation
of a fow weeks ago: how long will
such things bo tolerated under tho
laws of this country, and how long
will tho people submit to theno out
rages? KVIDKNCK IN THE COmCYVILLE DYNA
MITE CASE.
A correspondent from Barnard
writes to ask if we will publish the
evidence taken by the committoo ap
pointed to investigate tho Coffeyvillo
dynamite outrage. He states that
their banker up thore says the Vin
cents havo been proven guilty.
In reply wo will say: this testimony
will make a book of from fiO.) to 1,000
pages and we could not theroforo pub
lish it very well. We shall publish
the finding of the committoo when it
i? reached.
With respect to tho Vincents being
proven guilty, in cur judgment the
shoe is on the other foot The testi
mony shows one of tho blackest con
spiracies against the Vincent's and
against the UnionLabor party by lie
publican loaders that ever was cou
coctod by any set of pirates that were
ever permitted to run at larga The
testimony read from the manuscript
of the stenographer doos not road
like tho Capital report of it by a long
way. We shall refrain from any et
tended report of thij matter until tho
inve'iiig&tiou is corapkto and wa h.tve
time and opportanity to examine the'
evidonco carefully. Tlun wo shall
ondewor to give a fair summary of
tho facta and if wo have heretofore
done any ono injustice in onr nfW
enco to thin subject we shall atono for
it Those who appear as tho guilty
parties, however, must bo hold re
sponsible for this crime.
TH C HANKS.
Tho Capital in tho gratuitous ad
vertifjflmfUt of our basinefis affairs
as usual utterly mistakes tho attitude
of The Advocate towards the banks
of tho city of Topoka. We aro con
tending against systems and policies
and not against individuals. We be
lieve that banks, outsida of those rep
resenting the intoreuts of tho great
money power of Wall stroct,aro suffer
ing from the money stringency and
that many of them will fail as a result
of it bofore a chango is effected
in thd financial policy that pormits
this condition to exist They are fail
ing evry day in all parts of tho coun
try; and wa know bankers who ar
to-day heartily in sympathy with tho
People's party and active supporters
of the financial policy it proposes to
inaugurate If the Capital will look
after iU own financial obligations wo
will endeavor to look after ours, cud
time will toll who will square accounts
with thv world first.
THE KANSAS MERCANTILE ASSOCIATION.
Chief Justice Hortcn, in his decis
ion declaring null and void tho char
tor of ex-Attorney General Bradford's
church festival guessing match, says;
The testimony of V, W. KHuo, the general
manager of tho association, show that the ob
ject la obtaining the charter wan to enable the an
HiH'latlon to carry on tho Identical business which
the evidence discloses Is carried on by tho asso
ciation. After citing tho testimony, tho laws
and decisions relating to lotteries, tho
chief justice continues:
Clearly, the bushiest In which the association In
ongngod In "a icheino for tho distribution of
prized by chanco." It ha ill tho essential feat
ures of a lottery and should be so construed. A
purchaser of a certltlcute or ticket from the usm
elation dooi no with the hope or exportation of
drawing a prize. Ills purpow) U to try hi luck
at "fortuno'i wheel'' and not to gut a load pencil.
Within the definition of Webster and tho
authorltlc ctted, the purpose of the annotation
and It officers and agjut I to eslahllub and
carry on a lottery. Tho purpose expressed In
the charter of tho association shows that pur
chaser of morchandUo from the association
with premium numbers, were entitled to tho
selection of other article, that I, prize. There
fore It I) evident that the parties tiling tho char
ter and organizing tho association intended to
carry on "a scheme for the distribution of prize
by chance," thut li, to establish a lottery. Thl
I unlawful. Such a scheme or business ha no
warrant or authority from any statute, and Is In
direct violation of tho constitution of the statu.
Kvcn If there I uo itatute prescribing fine
and penalties to be Inflicted upon the person
engaged la carrying on lotteries In the stato, yet
the constitution la so far self executing that uo .
charter can bo granted or corporation organized
In the stato for lottery buslncus, or the iuvIo of
lottery ticket. The alleged charter of the de
fondant will therefore be declarod null and void,
and all of the defendant are hereby prohibits!
from transacting the biiHtnos or "lottery" do
ci1hed In the petition.
Judgment will be entered accordingly agalnat
the defendants with coot,"
It will be soon from the foregoing
that this institution is enjoined from
farther transaction of its nefarious
business and the good citizens of
Kansas City, Kansas tbould eoe to it
that tlsy obey tlio injuction.