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SOLDIERS' H0ME3.
Among the public institutions of
this oountry at the present time, not
the least important are the soldiers'
homes. Millions of dollars haTe been
expended in purchasing and beauti
fying grounds, and in the erection
Bud furnishing of magnificent build
ings to serve as homes for the old
veterans who are disqualified by
wounds, by disease, or by the infirmi
ties of age for labor whereby to pro
vide for themselves and families in
their declining years. In the rules
and regulations of these institutions
are to be seen some of the evidences
of republican statesmanship and grat
itude to the defenders of the nation.
For the soldier who has no family,
the home is perhaps all tht could be
desired. It oould hardly be other
wise, except by mismanagement,
which is a fault common to most pub
lic institutions. Among them all,
probably the soldiers' home is as free
from evils arising from this cause as
any institution in the country. It is
not to criticise in this respect that we
write at this time. There is a defect,
however, in the laws governing these
homes that is a disgrace to the Ameri
can people. The old soldier who is
no longer able to provide or care for
himself may be admitted to the home
where the comforts of life are sup
plied, but what of his wife? She who
suffered the horrors of anxiety and
suspense, and who nevertheless
nerved and inspired him with forti
tude and courage while in the field,
and who has walked by his side all
along the subsequent journey of life
the devil may take her now. In
order to become an occupant of the
home, the soldier must abandon her,
and she must shift for herself.
A visitor to one of these institu
tions, in conversation with one of the
inmates who was so crippled by
wounds and by age as to be incom
petent to care for himself, spoke of
the comforts with which he was pro
vided as a source of gratitude. The
answer was: " Were you a soldier,
how would you like to be separated
from your wife, and simply be wait
ing here to diet"
This rule relative to admission to
the home is another of the evidences
of republican regard for the old sol
dier. They love him; oh, how they
love him for his vote.
JUDICIAL ANARCHY.
In another column will be found
an article by Mr. G. C. Clemens upon
the subject of the late charge to the
grand jary of the supreme court of
Pennsylvania in which it is held that
the members of the Amalgamated
association who resisted the invasion
of their homes by Plnkerton thuga
were guilty of treason. .There is
matter in that ruling of the court
that should command the most care
ful and unprejadiced consideration.
The Pinkerton army consists of
about 35,000 men, regularly enrolled
as a private military force. There is
no law upon our national statute
books, or upor the statute books of
any state in the Union, authorizing its
existence. It is a lawless band of
mercenaries subject to hire of million
aire corporations, to murder trouble
some employes who conceive the idea
that they are. entitled to the common
rights of American freemen. Mr.
Clemens clearly points out the fact
that during the recent labor troubles
the courts were all open and unob
structed, and yet that no attempt was
made to maintain the peace or to
arrest offenders by the civil authori
ties; but, in time of peace, this pri
vate army was employed, not to
enforce the orders of any court, but
to overawe and subdue by an unau
thorized military force men who had
offered no violence, who had them
selves protected the property of their
employers, and who were simply de
manding justice to themselves and
their families. Resistance to this
band of assassins is held to be treason
by the supreme court of Pennsyl
vania. We cannot add to the force of Mr.
Clemens' article by any comments of
our own. We desire simply to call
attention to it and ask every voter,
and especially every laboring man, to
give it a careful reading.
LOOK OUT FOB FAKES.
As election day approaches the ser
vices of the republican fake editor
become more valuable in accordance
with the great law of supply and de
mand. Although the supply is by no
means limited, the demand is very
great, and the few days, that now in
tervene before election will witness
great activity in the market How
ever great the demand, there is little
danger of any one selling short, and
no failures in business may be antici
pated except as a result of the retire
ment of some of the speculators after
November 8.
It is important for voters to be on
their guard now for these fakes, in
order that they be not deceived by
them. The purported interview with
Mrs. Lease which has filled the col
umns of the republican press, and
filled other columns with editorial
comment upon it, is a case in point
All the insulting allusions to Mrs.
Lease that have been of daily occur
rence since the beginning of this
movement suddenly disappear from
the republican editorial paragraph
er's column, and she has become all
at once a most wonderful woman. It
is highly necessary that this should
be so in order to give force to the fake
interview.
Other fakes will follow this, and
must be looked for by the people.
Will the intelligenf voters of Kansas
be fooled by them? Well, hardly.
Not this year. Don't let anybody
take the trouble to write letters ask
ing if there is any truth in them.
Assume them to be false on general
principles. Anything that has any
truth in it that could injare the Peo
ple's cause would be brought out ear
lier in the season in order that it
might have more time to work injury.
The religious administration cam
paign committee in Colorado,which is
working altogether for the election df
Harrison, because the state ticket cuts
no fingre with them, has adopted the
plan pursued by Bnchan at Kansas
City, and Hallowell at Wichita, only!
on a much larger scale. They are as
sessing the gambling houses $500 each
for the Harrison campaign fund, and
collecting it, too. The News has ex
posed them and brought forth the in
disputable evidence. But what does
such a gang care for exposure?
THIS IS SARCASM.
The Kansas bankers are meeting in To
peka to-day. These are the men who have
to bear the brunt of the onslaught by the
Populists, and yet they are the men who
have in the past so managed the monetary
affairs of Kansas that to-day she is the fore
most western state. They hare always stood
up for Kansas, and they always will. State
Journal.
This is fine-spun sarcasm. The
bankers have always stood up for
Kansas, and you might add, for the
United State?, just as the Jew always
stood up for Venice. When civil war
burst upon the country with all its
dreadful calamities, there was the
patriotic banker, ready to loan Uncle
Sam his cash provided he could get
as security gold-bearing bonds, while
the soldier took his $13 a month in
depreciated paper. When grasshop
pers and drought visited Kansas,
spreading desolation far and wide, the
banker was there furnishing money
to keep starvation from the door, at
18 per cent, per annum. But there
are some good bankers some excep
tions to the rule, although the good
ones don't seem to prosper as well as
the other kind. There were a few
who went into the array or helped to
care for the widows and orphans at
home instead of scheming to rob the
government, and there were those
who have assisted the unfortunate
in Kansas. If we could only regulate
the system so that honesty in the
business would not be discouraged,
the banking fraternity would be one
of the best in the world.
HOW THEY AEE GOING BACK.
The Lawrence World of the 16th
published a communication from
Hngh Cameron, who, the World says,
has heretofore been an ardent Peo
ple's party man, but who now re
nounces the faith and returrs to the
republican party. We happen to
know Hugh Cameron. He is a long
haired crank. He has never been a
People's party man since the organi
zation of the party. He always pre
tends to be one in the early part of
every campaign, and always gets
back to vote the republican ticket on
ejection day. He has a conceit that
his periodic returns to the republican
party in the midst of a campaign will
oreate a sensation. It might create a
sensation of shame in himself if he
were susceptible of such an experi
ence, but it would never be felt else
where. Mr. Cameron is undoubtedly
one of the men with whom the re
publican leaders have agreed to re
turn to the party just before election,
and "arranged for interviews with re
publican papers" to make it known,
in accordance with the program pub
lished in the Advocate last week.
Sincx Fire Alarm Foraker shot
athwart the Kansas sky and disap
peared in the dim distance toward
the Orient, those who heard him are
congratulating themselves that Kan
sas, with her Ingallse?, Perkinses,
Humphreys, Smiths and Bartons, is
not the only state that has reason to
be ashamed of the men who have
represented her at home and in
Washington for the quarter century
prior to 1891. Ohio has her frauds
and disgraces, too, and one of the
greatest of these is ex-Gpvemor For
aker. A communication in this issue
is good evidence that this demagogue
knew he was lying when he talked
about the prosperity of his state.
AN" HONEST BALLOT AND A FAIR
COUNT.
If there is one thing in which the
republican party manifests more un
adulterated gall than another, it is in
their denunciation of fraud in elec
tions, especially in the south, and
the plea they enter to be continued in
power in order that the people of the
country may be assured of an honest
ballot and a fair count In the name
of conscience, if the people are not
now assured of these things, whose
fault is it? If the republican party,
after thirty years of power, has failed
to do anything to secure an honest
ballot and a fair count, is it not about
time for it to stand aside, and let
somebody else try for a short time?
How long are the people to wait for
this boon, and how long are they to
be fed upon promises?
ANOTHER REPORT - OF A COMMIS
SIONER OF LABOR STATISTICS.
Our republican friends have taken
great delight in quoting from the re
port of a certain democratic commis
sioner of labor statistics recently. In
another column will be found an ar
ticle under the title of "You Can't 4
Acre Us," in which the report of a
certain republican commissioner of
labor statistics is freely quoted. This
report is not as recent as Commis
sioner Peck's, but inasmuch as it has
not heretofore been brought to the at
tention of the people, we recommend
republican editors to make liberal use
of these quotations. They are not
copyrighted, and there is no penalty
attached to their reproduction.
OLD STRAW.
"His arguments on the tariff ques
tion were of unusual force."
The above appears in the Wichita
Eagle's report of Senator Perkins'
speech. There is no longer any force
whateve&to a protection argument in
this state. Kansas is a free trade
state to-day if a campaign were con
ducted upon that single issue, and
yet this stand-up crowd is still
threshing over that old protection
straw and hoping to win by it There
is no wonder they can get no crowds
at their meetings.
Kansas asked the advice of no
other state when she took the initia
tory step for independent political
action. She did not wait to inquire
whether any other state would follow
her lead. She took this step because
it was right, and she will not now
turn backward through any external
influence or at the behest of the local
minions of plutocracy now prosecut
ing the boodle campaign against her
uuzens.