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AH ADDBESS.
To Qjflcen and Mmbers of N. C I. A.:
The election is over. The people have
spoken. The proof is ample that the
people can rule if they will. Democratic
success is due to discontent and distrust
under republican rule rather than faith
in the democratic party. The November
election was the alpha and omega the
beginning of the People's party and the
end of the republican party.
As trophies of the recent conflict we
have control of six states, have doubled
our representation in congress, hold the
balance of power in the United States
senate, have over twenty electoral votes,
count over a million popular votes, as
seed sown broadcast over the land to
spring up and bring forth an abundant
harvest in the future. The principles
which these votes represent are as
eternal as the everlasting hills.
Unless the incoming administration
meets the issues of the day with fairness
and firmness and gives the needed legis
lation it will realize that the power that
gave has power to take away, and the
scepter of government control will be
given into more worthy hands. Unless
the party goes beyond its platform
promises we may watch and wait in vain
for needed relief at its hands, for but few
reforms are pledged. The people de
mand the abolition of national banks as
banks of issue, the equality of gold and
silver as money, an increased volume of
currency with facilities for furnishing it
directly to the people, a graduated in
come tax that the rich may bear their
just proportion of the burdens of govern
ment, postal telegraph and savings banks,
the abolition of the Pinkerton system,
the election of United States senators by
a direct vote of the people, government
ownership of railroads, protection to
American labor by restricted emigration,
and the preservation of American lands
for American homes. Until these de
mands are crjstalized into law the work
of agitation, organization and education
must be continued. The harvest is ripe.
The nation is our field and the patriotic
reformers are the husbandmen. The N.
C. I. A. has done much good work in the
past It can do more in the future.
Where our order is strongest the beat
results have been accomplished. We are
not new and untried as an organization.
We are thoroughly established with two
year's experience and effective work, and
should now renew our zeal and energies
to cultivate the field and improve the
opportunities before us. We are at peace
with all the world, save plutocracy and
monopoly, and have no conflict with other
reform organizations, but gladly welcome
and join hands with all who are striving
to liberate the masses from the oppres
sion of a monied olagarchy and central
ized wealth.
The campaign of 1896 must begin at
once. Educational work must go on.
Local assemblies of the N. C. I. A. should
now take the place of the People's party
clubs, silver leagues, and other tempo
rary campaign organizations. The time
for successful work was never more pro
pitious. Meetings are being held and
applications for organizers and organi
zations are pouring in from all parts of
the country. Each local assembly should
now make renewed and more aggressive
and determined efforts. Warm up the
old and gather in new recruits. Adopt
new and more systematic methods of ed
ucation. Fill up your ranks, strengthen
your forces, and be prepared to send
good reports and fall delegations to the
annual meeting which will be held in
Washington, D. C, in February, with
suggestions for the improvement of plans
and the advancement of our wort We
exnect to make some wholesome changes
in our laws at the meeting of the national
assembly, of which full notice and par
ticulars will soon be given, and there be
better eauipped for aggressive, effectual,
educational efforts. In our organization
we guarantee equal rights to all, irre
spective of sex; hence the noble women
who have done so much in this reform
movement should have a full representa
tion with us, and aid in our effort for
universal liberty. Let us rekindle the
fires of patriotism and love around the
altars of our liberty and make a special
effort to make the N. C. I. A. a power for
good in the land, and a school through
which the people of the towns and cities
may graduate into full-grown reformers,
ready to vote for industrial freedom and
the riehts of the masses. Begin the re
vival land preparation for the annual
meeting at once. Fraternally yours,
Noah Allen, National President.
Kansas City Stock Yard Notes.
Holcomb & Snyder report a good busi
ness from Advocate readers, and an
nounce their ability to make extra good
sales if they are given the opportunity.
The Gillespie Live Stock Commission
Co., of Kansas City, are offering the Ad
vocate free to their customers. It w
one of the oldest and best firms in the
exchange. They hope to receive many
orders for the Advocate and do muoh
business with its readers.
There is no end of predictions now as
to what price top hogs will go to before
the spring crop commences to influence
the market The prevailing opinion yes
terday seemed to be that they would
reach 7 cents, and there were not as many
dissenters from that opinion as could be
found combating a 6 cent opinion some
weeks since.
Hogs are as good as gold. Friday they
went as high as $6 40. A year ago top
hogs brought so much less that there is
no comparison. This is the producers'
season, for the demand comes from every
quarter. The Santa Fe took another
trainloadof fat porkers to the city of
Mexico yesterday, and reports say that
the buyers down there want a good many
more.
Complaint is made that much of the
stock contributory to the Kansas City
market is sent to Cnicago, thus assisting
in causing the frequent gluts in that
market that lower the prices here. Pack
era have cot been able to run to their
full capacity from lack of suitable cattle
the past week. In fact, some houses are
usir, g too many feeders. If more cattle
were sent in here, instead of Chicago,
the distribution would be better and no
slumps would occur from sympathy with
Chicago.
Mr. Ira O. Mitchell, a ranchman of
Meeker, Colo, is in Kansas City. During
bis stay he expects to make arrange
ments whereby the stockmen of western
Colorado can ship their stock to this
point Until quite recently the Kansas
City market was unable to secure much
trade from that section on account of
the excessive freight charges, but Mr.
Mitchell states that the competition be
tween the Colorado Midland and Rio
Grande roads has become so great that
it is almost as cheap to ship to Kansas
City as it is to Denver. "Heretofore the
stock in western Colorado has gone to
Omaha and Chicago yards," said he,
"but from now on the bulk of it will
come to this point Quite a number of
shipments were made to this market
this year, and all the shippers were grat
ified with the prices they received. At
Rifle, a small station on the Rio Grand
and Midland roads, over 100,000 head of
cattle have been loaded during the pres-
OfttStant Cumirah & Warrick Cnfo Co.
Iaoorporated, fliyxfl paid op. BacmivBES and SHirrsss. 1 1 1 1 1 , 1
EicJiinss Building. Kansas City, Mo. Ui II AS U
fcrfereneet! Missouri NadoiuJ Eauk: Our Grain Trade. Consignments Mid correpoJidene
solicited. Mendon this paper.
GRAIN
GEO. C. PRITCHARD,
(Graduate Ontario Veterinary College.)
Te'sphont 319. SIS QUINCY ST.. T0PEXA, KANSAS.
ent year, and the indications are that
double that number will be loaded there
next year, as several large ranchmen
never made any shipments whatever this
season. The bulk of the shipments will
be made to Kansas City, as the cattlemen
consider this by far the beet market,
freight rates to all points being equal"
Larimer, Smith & Bridgeford report
that the general cattle market continues
to hold up well, and receipts show but a
slight falling off for the two weeks of
this month compared with the same
time last year, while the total gain for
the year is very large." Dressed beef and
shipping steers bring good prices, and
the supply is well cleaned up every day.
Bulls, especially good ones for feeding
purposes, are rather scarce, and shippers
will find a ready market for that class of
cattle. Poor stock does not sell so well.
The feeder trade has not shown quite so
much activity during the past two weeks
as in the two preceding months, owing
to the fact that prices are rather Btrong
on desirable cattle, and bIho because
stock hogs cannot be found to follow
them. From the number of feeding cat
tle which have gone from this market,
we are inclined to think that there are
not as many on feed by 20 per cent, as
there were at this time last year. This
is probably due to the fact that stock
hogs cannot be found, rather than any
disinclination on the part of the feeders
to buy the cattle. However good feed
ers can always find a ready sale at this
market at good prices. We cannot im
press upon our customers and friends
too strongly the fact that all desirable
stock finds ready sale here, and think
holders of thin cattle, who have reason
ably cheap feed, will do better to put it
into the cattle than to market them in
their present condition. We look for
better prices for all grades of good
slaughtering and feeding cattle, as out
lined in our circular of the month of
September.
Naturally the good prices prevailing
cause old timers to tell many stories re
garding the hog business. They recall
many incidents of former high markets
and how some of the "wise ones" got
squeezed, but the story that distanced
all others was told by .W. E.
Ford, of W. E. Ford & Co., Excelsior
Springs Mo. That firm Thursday ship
ped a mixed load of hogs and sheep to
this market. The sheep were thin and
didn't carry more than enough wool to
keep them warm this weather, but the
hogs were of that hungry and ambitious
sort that grunt and keep their eyes open
for opportunities just the same when the
ground is frozen as when rooting is good.
When the car containing this shipment
reached the yards Mr. Ford observed
that some of the sheep were missing.
He, remembering that they were thin,
and that their wool wasn't long enough
to get them much tangled up with
splinters, thought they might have fallen
through some crack and thus perished
by the wayside. But that theory was
scarcely born when it was dissipated by
the appearance of wool about the snouts
of the porkers, some of which had whisk
ers the size of those worn by adult goats.
That gave Mr. Ford, who is something
of a business man, an idea. He ordered
the oar closed.
MVhat!" exclaimed the yardman,
amazed at the order, he having taken in
the situation, too.
"Let them fight it out," said Mr. Ford.
"Close the car."
4,But you don't want the hogs to eat
all your sheep, do you?"
"I think I know what I want," said
Mr. Ford, very much, like a man who
understood i is business. "Slim sheep
worth 75 cents a head hogs
worth 6 cents a pound," he continued,
"let'em go; I don't care anything about
selling sheep anyhow."
For Sale.
A first-class weekly newspaper with
job office in a growing North Carolina
town of 5,000. Paper has been published
for sixty years and stands well. A rare
chance for any person desiring to come
south. Will be sold at a bargain. Good
reasons for selling. For particulars ad
dress, "Newspaper," Box D, Kaleigh,
N. C.
Veterinary Surgeon.
An efficient veterinary surgeon i9 often
needed by the farmer and stock man at
this time of the year. It is satisfactory
to present such a man as Geo. C. Pritch
ard, of this city, whose card appears in
to-daV's issue. Dr. Pritchard has been a
general practicioner for five years past.
He graduated from the Ontario Veteri
nary college with high honors, and has
since added greatly to his reputation as
a surgeon of skill and ability.
THE MARKETS.
Chicago
December 19, 1892.
Mav wheat opened 76 Mah 76:H low76o,
cl"'ed 76'io. closed Haturday 76!4c: December,
69t a; July. 7l. Mav orn owned 46 7' e; iilffh.
46'c: low 4CV; closed 46Wls; cMed Hat
urday. 47c December, 415v:; July. 46&461itC
My oats, 34'.o. ivUv pork, 1 10.20. AUy rlDi,
18 42. May laid, 8'J 92.
B antas City.
December 19, 1892
CTTi.i-R-lpts, 3,000. Shipment, 5,200.
Market tin w r more active and unchanged,
(orders arrive and Arm.
H- os-ReeelpU, 6.500. 8fltpwrnr, l,aoo. Mar
ket 10' l -wer. All grades f4 76(16 35; bulk,
I81R3S6 35. ,
SHRii'-Kecelpts, 200. Shipments, 400. Market
stedy
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most convenient house In the city. Central
location. Dav Bord the beat In the state for
the prlc-3 75. Room ard Board, 15 per week,
if two oouupy the room. The Commercial has a
larger patron than any other hotel of Its price
In xopeka. write us for alignments to good
room. FRANK LONG,
636 and 628 Kansas Ave., lopeka, Xaa.
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