rvizm ADVOOATS.
II WAS CHILLY.
(Contlnueo from 1)
the rights of man against the despotism
of banks and bonda ia possible.
"Abandon the folly of marching an un
armed multitude of starving laborers
against the modern appliances of war
under the control of a -eoulleaa money
trust Such folly will augment the
power of the oppaessor and endanger
the safety of the ballot itself. Disorder
is all that ia required to insure the su
premacy of the armed forces of the
money powers at the polls. The consti
tution of the United States is our char
ter of liberty. It has been subverted by
an oligarchy of concentrated wealth.
False agents of the people have betrayed
their trust and brought misery and want
when abundance and prosperity seemed
assured.
"Traitors to human rights have usurped
the powers of the government through
the machinery ot Xty and the arts of
demagogues Hurl them from power.
"V . '"lint. r man nrhrt htiM nnA rlaoaivArl vnn.
States administer for and not against
the people. Use the ballot to protect
liberty, justice and equal rights, and not
to elevate to power the agents of banks
and bonds to perpetuate the rule of an
oligarchy of wealth."
A Heavy Pre' sure.
Washington, March 25. The letters
and telegrams which, for the past week,
have been pouring in upon the president
in regard to his action on the seignior
age bill continue to fill the Whfte Ilouse
mail bags, if anything in increasing
numbers. As has been the case from
the first, these communications are very
largely appeals to the president to exer
cise the veto power. It is stated, in fact,
there are ten requests for a veto to one
asking the president to sign the bill
The seigniorage bill was taken to Mr.
Thurber late Monday evening, March 19.
Mr. Thurber receipted for it under that
date, and in the evening told the presi
dent of its arrival.
Tuesday morning Mr Thurber took
the bill to the White Ilouse. The ten
days at the expiration of which the bill
would become a law, ehould the presi
dent take no action, begins from the day
of the receipt given by the president's
private secretary. Sunday, however, is
not counted in making up the ten days.
The president may, therefore, hold the
bill until Friday, March 30, and on that
day return it to the house with his veto
or signature, as the case be. The indi
cations are, however, there will be no
occasion to count the exact number ot
hours or even days, as the president will
cot allow the ten days to pass rnd the
bill to ;become a law without executive
action.
The Far West Contingent
San Ahtomo, Texas, Maroh 120. The
Southern Paciflo offioiala here received
word last night that tne United States
industrial army of 700 men were put off
the trains at a sliding near Finlay'a sta
tion on the EL Pas division and that
trains were run through without stop
ping. The so-called army broke the look
on a switch and threw it open, causing
the next east bound train to take the
sliding.
The men climbed upon the can and
Conductor Martin pulled them to Fin-
lay, where he tied up the train pending
the arrival of orders from General Super
intendent Van Fiick. The orders came
for him to keep the train tied up, as the
company had decided not to carry the
men. Sdveral other trains have arrived
at Finlay since and all are tied up, as
th3 army shows no disposition to let any
cl U3 trans dap&rs without them. Fin
lay is in an isolated section and the
army will starve oat if they remain there
a few days.
From Classic Boston.
Boston, Mass., March 26. The move
ment started by Coxey to bring an army
of unemployed to Washington, is re
garded as a brilliant undertaking by the
800 people who attended the regular
outdoor meeting of the unemployed of
Boston Common yesterday, and Massrs.
Swift and Casson were instructed to
write "General" Coxey and assure him
of the sympathy of the Boston unemployed.
It was voted to petition the legislature
to pass the bill for a commission of the
unemployed, and to have a commission
of five appointed, and also ask that the
salary for the year be definitely fixed at
$900.
The Colorado Mndd!e.
Denver, Colo., Maroh 26. On Satur
day Justice Ooddard of the supreme
court rendered an opinion to the effect
that while it was the right and dut of
the governor to order the removal of
persons from certain offices under cer
tain circumstances, h had no right to
proceed toward the enforcement of such
orders other than to submit them to the
courts. The opinion virtually sustains
Governor Waita in his recent action so
far as concerns the removal of Orr and
Martin from the police board and the
appointment of Mullinf and Barnes to
succeed them. Therefore the substance
of the opinion is of the usual modern
order, namely, the court arrogating to
itself jurisdiction ot questions that
would not have been considered by any
court a few years ago.
It is said that the governor will now
agree to submitt the matter to the die
triot court.
Later Judge Flynn in the district
court to-day dismissed the contempt
case and quashed the injunction against
Mayor Van Horn and fire and police
commissioners Barnes and Mullins, and
empowered the latter to assume the
duties to which they have been ap
pointed by Governor Waite at once.
Immediately after the deoision had
been given Barnes and Mullins, with A.
J. Rogers, made a demand upon Messrs.
Orr and Martin to surrender the office
This was refused for the present, and
the new board went into ths mayor's
office, where they organized, and ap
pointed J. A. Farley, chief of police.
Unless the old board surrenders there is
a possibility of the city enjoying the
novelty ot two fire and police departments.
Sugar Trust Wins.
Philadelphia. Pa., March 26 Judge
Dallas, in the United States circuit court
of appeals, to-day affirmed the decree of
the circuit court of the eastern district
ot Pennsylvania in the case of the United
States trovernment against the sugar
trust, to the fleet that the absorption of
the Philadelphia refineries by the sugar
trust was legal. Thie is a viotory for the
trust
Leavenworth County Alliance.
The next regular meeting of Leaven
worth County Alliance, will be held in
Tonganoxie, Saturday, April 7, begin
ning at 10 o'clock a. m.
At this meeting business of great im
portance to the Alliance of this county
will be transacted, and each Sab-Alliance
is requested to have delegates
present. T. H. Gallagher,
County Secretary.
Apply at once to the Advooats for
special club terms.
Dittos Souit.Toptxa, Ks.,n.tt-IU3 par fiajr
TREACHEEY TO EX-80LDIXB3.
Why All Members of the O. A. B. Should be
Populists.
Editob Advocate: How any old soldier
can still adhere to the republican party
after the insults, injuries and spolia
tions they have suffered at its hands for
the past thirty years passes my compre
hension. Let us glance briefly at its
broken promises and its infamous treat
ment. First It promised to give all old sol
diers a homestead on the free lands of
the west, if they wished to settle there,
making a merit of the so-called privi
lege ot deducting their term of service
in the army from the five years' settle
ment required by law of all other citi
zens. What was the result? If a sol
dier had served four years and took ad
vantage of the time, he simply had the
privilege of paying taxes four years
longer than a non-soldier neighbor; yes
and of mortgaging and losing his land
four years earlier. Great privilege,
Great party 1
Second He was promised that if he
went west and established a home ha
would be protected by a grateful govern
ment. How was he protected? First
the government chartered railroad com
panies to build lines of road near his
home, instead of doing it itself as the
constitution clearly requires it should
when it says, "Congress shall have
power to regulate commerce between
states and with foreign nations," which
right claarly carries with it the duty of
doing so. But instead of fulfilling its
duties in this respect, which would have
protected the soldier in his new home, it
turned the commerce of the country over
to the corporations with the privilege of
charging whatever the traffic would bear,
which they promptly set about doing.
Result: The loss of 15 to 20 cents
a bushel on every bushel of wheat
marketed abroad, as a difference be
tween what railroads charge and what
the government could have carried it for
if dene at cost. As an illustration:
Barton county, Kansas, raised in 1892
four and a quarter million bushels of
wheat, shipping much of it eastward via
New York to Liverpool and paying the
Santa Fe railroad 33 cents per bushel
freight, where the government, if it had
done its duty would have constructed a
road, say to Galveston COO miles, alonjf
the natural avenues of commerce, and
could have carried it for 5, 6 or 8 cents
per bushel at the outside.
Secondly The same party that loves
the soldier so, or claim to, as soon as
they were established upon their homes,
commenced systematically and willfully
contracting the currency of the country,
thus reducing the price, as they knew
and admitted it would, of all the prod
ucts raised, so that whioh, instead of
bringing $1.50 or 12.00 per bushel, the
price it was worth at the close ot the
war, and the price they had reason to
believe it weuld be maintained at, and a
price that would have rendered them
independent financially, it shrunk with
the shrinkage in the volume of the cur
rency steadily, until to-day the soldier
farmer in central Kansas is selling his
wheat at 36 cents a bushel one-fifth of
the price he received thirty years ago.
This was done by the party whioh claims
to love the soldier and is working for his
interest, and is asking him to continue to
support it on its record. By all means
let us have the record.
Again, the partisans of this party claim
to be the friends ot the soldier by grant
ing and securing him a pension. Now
there are but two aides to this pension
business. Either we are entitled to a
pension or we are tot. WhicKhcra ct
the dilemma will XW g. o. p. take? If
we are eatitltd to it they are not en
titled to any credit for giving it to us.
It is simply paying what is due to us,
and whoever dreams of praising anyone
for paying his honest debts. It on the
other hand we are not justly entitled to
a pension, then it must be intended as a
bribe. If so, then give the bribers all the
credit they are entitled to. Whioh side
will you take? But the worst indict
ment of all is that they have systematic
ally and wickedly deprived the nation's
defender cf his home, and rendered it
practically impossible for him ever to
secure one. Deep down in the heart of
every good citizen, man or woman, is
implanted the love of home. The obj ect
ot all our efforts in life is to obtain a
home, where we may pass the declining
years of life peaceably, comfortably and
without fear ot the poor house. And
any government that does not make it
possible and reasonably practical for all
of its citizens to have and retain homes
is unworthy the name and should be
changed as speedily as possible. Now
we charge, and the official records of the
government as prepared by the republi
can census takers prove, that a large pro
portion of the people ot these United
States are practically homeless; and we
make the charge without fear of success
ful contradiction that not one soldier in
five in the state ot Kansas, aye in the
United States, owns his own home.
Think of it! With thirty years earnest
effort, the beet of their Uvea gone, and no
home. If they had failed the past thirty
years with all their strength and health
and ambition to win and retain a home,
how is it possible for them to succeed in
fcVl A fntnr VMfo nVian fkan oiu ilo
downward path of life, with failing
strength, enfeebled health and shattered
hopes? This is a terrible indictment to
make against any party, and if true
should condemn it in the eyes of all good
citizens, and particularly of all old sol
diers who fought to save their homes. I
claim that the party which they have so
long been loyal to has systematically de
prived them of their homes.
Now don't misunderstand me when I
say that not one soldier in five owns his
own home. Some there may be who live
in a home that would be theirs if the
mortgage was paid, but a man who lives
in a mortgaged home does not live in a
home of his own. He is simply a tenant
at will, paying the taxes, insurance, in
terest, repairs, rent, and when the day
comes, as come it will, that it is more
profitable for the other fellow to take
poEseesion, he will be turned ruthlessly
into the street, for it is impossible for
the people under the present financial
system to ever pay their debts. Hence
none own their homes except those who
have them clear of encumbrance. Think
it over, comrades. Run over the list of
all the old soldiers you know and see
how many you know who live in homes
of their own. Shame on the party and
shame on the government that will thus
neglect and defraud their country's gal
lant defenders, aid then attempt to bind
their hands and gag their tongues by a
threat ot depriving them of a pension
that is justly theirs,, to keep them in line
while the robbing process is going on.
The knowledge of these things makes
me a Populist. Ho wis it with you, com
rade? Porter's census shows that in Kansas
in 1890 there were in force 203,83") real
estate mortgages, amounting to $243,
146,826; population, 1890, 1,427,006; num
ber ot persons to each family, average,
At; number of families in the state,
65,519, or a little over one real estate
mortgage to every family. Great is the
g. o. p. and its wonderful system for de
spoihxj the people.
Aloszo Wabdall.