The Peoples Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, July 23, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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POPULAR IN CANADA.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS IN UNI-
VERSAL FAVOR.
They Won<l i Why tlt l'nit*ri niaf* D<>««
S t Mitk* Similar l' e oft lie FofUiltlP*
ldiRRi («* oflh* Ultws .
.
to show tbt occupation of depositors
and ppob«l)ly the comparison* then
made would hold good at the pxesePt
tiiue.
pgrowroi rr.Aasirrrtx
The following table shows t l>e de-
positors by ocvupatiou in 1884:
To credit A ▼ >4
Occupation
Fanners
Na .
ir|iu«ilori claim
14,000 84,r,-.MK)0
*J37
Mechanics
7,8^0
1,4-'-,000
181
Trust ae'ts and
young childrn
5, S00
170,000
31
Laborers, in-
cluding oail'rs
4,rro
724,000
109
Clerks
3,000
S22.000
174
Tradesmen
1,000
4 000
293
Farm aud oth'r
male servants
1,470
377.000
188
Professional
1,573
39-,000
240
Mi scellaueous
1,580
315,000
199
Married women rj,(X>0
2,350,000
199
Single woiueD
10,500
1,275,000
120
Widows
3.L40
708,000
214
$13,245,000
WOMEN LIKE T1IK HANK A.
The large number of accounts held
in the names of women, particularly
married women, is explained l>v the
fact that farmers and artisans frequent-
ly experience ditliculty in leaving their
work to visit the postoflije, the conse-
quence being that account*, are opened
in names of wives or other female
members of the family. Depositors in
Canadian cities, it is stated, consist to
a considerable extent of persona from
the surrounding rural districts.
Mr. Matheson says there never has
been any friction in keeping accounts
since the system was established.
Neither has there been any loss through
the main oflice. In the twenty-nine
3'ears the system has been in operation
there have been six instances of loss
outside the main oflice. In three cases
local postmasters kept the money of
depositors. In two cases money was
obtained by forgery, and in one case a
postoflice was broken into and robbed,
and the savings bank's fuuds were
among those taken.
IIOW THE SYSTEM WORKS.
The process of opening nn account
with the postofliee savings bank is sim-
ple Any person wishing to become a
depositor takes his money to any post-
oflice that has been designated by the
postmaster-general as a savings bank.
Upon signing the proper application
blank he is furnished a pass book by
the postmaster. Whenever he wishes
to make another deposit the money is
taken and the amount entered in the
pass book by the postmaster. These
deposits can be made at any savings
bank office. llesidcs the entry in his
puss book each depositor receives from
the main oflice at Ottawa, where all
accounts are kept, an acknowledge-
ment of the receipt of his deposit. The
postmaster is obliged to report daily to
the head oflice at Ottawa the deposits
received by him, and to send to the
Hank of Montreal, where the govern-
ment funds are kept, money so receiv-
ed by him.
When a depositor wishes to with-
draw the whole or any part of the
money standing to his credit, lie sends
his application to the head oflice on a
blank furnished him by the local post-
master for that purpose. The post-
master-general then mails to the post-
master from whose oflice the request
was sent a warrant for the specified
amount, drawn on the Bank of Mont-
real. The postmaster delivers this
warrant to the depositor, taking a re-
ceipt therefor. If the postmaster has
the funds in his possession he is sup-
posed to cash the warrant, which ho
usually does.
Settle the It. II. 4)ur«tt<*n.
As the Supreme court of the TT. S.
has decided "that a legislature is not a
competent tribunal to judge what a
reasonable rail road rate is," ami that
"the court is the only tkiiuvu. com-
petent to decide what a reasonable rate
is," why not the government build a
trans-continental road from New York
to San Francisco, with a few feeders
north and south to the moot important
commercial centers?
You ask how can this be done, We
would suggest tliat the present Con-
gress, "while it waits," instruct the
President of the IT. S. to order some of
best Army Civil-Engineers, who have
but little to do—and who are drawing
big pay -to at once survey the shortest
and most practical route between the
two extreme point* of the continent,
Ottawa, Canada. June —Postoffiee
savings banks have been in uso in Can-
ada since 18G8, to the entire satisfaction
of the people of the dominion. The
postoflice savings bank here is regarded
as an established institution, whose
existence is not to be questioned any
more than that of the postoflice depart-
ment itself. The proposition to do
away with postoflice savings banks
would receive no more encouragement
here than a proposition to deprive the
postoffiee of its money-order fuuetion
would receive in the United States.
Practically everybody in Cauada ap-
proves of postal savings banks, and
the wonder here is that the United
States should have delayed so long the
establishment of an institution so be-
nificcnt in its operation, so potent in
conserving the welfare of the peopie
and in allaying the spirit of d* cuu-
tent
BUTT. MATIIKSON'S TESTIMONY.
David Matlicson, who is now super-
intendent of the savings bank branch
of the Canadian postoflice, helped to
formulate the tirst regulations for the
coutrol of the savings banks in the es-
tablishment of the system in 1868. For
many years he had charge of the no-
counts. In 1881 he was made assistant
superintendent, and since 1888 has
been superintendent. Mr. Matheson
manifests a keen and painstaking in-
terest in his work. He is probably to-
duy the best informed man on the sub-
ject of postal savings banks on the
American continent. He believes the
establishment of savings banks in the
United States in connection with the
postoflice department would be a great
blessing to the people of that country.
ADVANTAGES CONCISELY STATED.
Mr. Matheson furnishes the follow
ing statement of the reasons for his
belief in postal savings banks:
"Briefly summarized, the advantages
of the postoflice sa vings banks are:
"First—To the people personally:
"1—Absolute security from loss.
"2—Convenience of makiug deposits.
"3—Repayment not afl'ectcd by
change of residence.
"4—Safety against personation and
fraud.
"5—Prevention of poverty or tempo-
rary want by developing habits of
thrift and saving.
"i>—(iives, where no other bank ex-
ists, a means of ready and safe deposit.
"7—Discourages reckless and specu
lative expenditures.
"8—Educates the young and entrain-
ed to a knowledge of the use and man
agement of money.
"Second—To the government:
"1—Prevents the borrowing from
abroad.
"2—Places the money (as a loan or
otherwise) under the control of domes
tic legislatic i.
"Third—To the country:
"1—The people receive the profits
(interest) of their savings when used
as a public investment
"2—The country's wealth is kept
within itself and does not go to swell
the wealth of another community
"3—By the wide distribution of re-
payments money thus invested can
promptly reach points needing it sud-
denly from local causes.
—In reinoto places stringency
from too limited banking facilities is
prevented or lessened.
' 5—The laboring public is taught to
feel a direct personal interest in the
stability of the country.
"6—Sectionalism among the less in-
telligent classes is lessened by contin-
ual and close touch with a common fi-
nancial institution.
"7—By special investment tho peo-
ple's savings may be made the founda-
tion for municipal improvements, or
special national undertakings.
"Wherever postoflice savings banks
have been opened they have been con-
sidered a great boon. In 1808 (the year
of commencement) there were only
eighty-one such banks in Canada, and
the balance at the credit of depositors
then was $205,000; now (June, 1897)
there are 800 banks and the balance
due depositors is $31,000,000. The
whole cost of management averages '
annually one-quarter of 1 per cent on
the balance due to depositors."
ALLAY SECTIONALISM.
Mr. Matheson lays great stress on
the points that postal savings banks
will give the laboring population a
greater interest in the stability of gov-
ernment, and will tend to cultivate a
national spirit as opposed to sectional-
ism. Postal savings banks, he thinks,
have done much to obliterate provin-
cialism in Canada. A common finan-
cial institution, in which large num-
bers of people have a personal interest
would, he believes, be a powerful fae- used in Canada. Mr. Matheson bu
tor .n cementing together in national always opposed the .nggestion He
unity the people of the different see- j thinks it safer and simpler to confine
t.ons of the United States. | the system to the u>e of pass Took,
The number of depositors in Canada Stamps, he says, cool<1 be easily eount-
at the present time Is about 130,000 erfeited, and with the stamp system in
having 831,000,000 to their credit operation it would be diflicult, if not
There are no statistics on which to impossible, for the head office to keep
base a classification of these depositors a close watch upon the postmasters—
•ooordlng to occupation. In the year something he regards as important
Mi, Uowavar, special pains war* taken In both Cansila and Great Uritaia "' ' *
tm .e union*, benevolent societies and D0STEU ON
similar organisation* are allouel to j
deposit through trustees, or, if they
arc incorporated, through their regu-
lar otticer*.
In Cauada the question of investing
the funds ia not a diflicult one, for the
national debt is large. lu the I nitcd
States the national bunded indebted-
ness is not sufliciently large to form by
itself the permauent basis of invest -
ment for postal savings bank funds.
However, Mr. Matheson den s not be-
lieve the problem oi investing the
funds so serious as to prevent the es-
tablishment of postal savings banks in
the United States if the peopU w*ut
them —Chicago Record.
4E 6b LIE VES COLLECTIVE OWN-
ERSHIP IS COMING.
I Ctimmiinlailr Niai* of Pro trte«l
• •Hih'IiIUiii to Kwrr|>Ovrr lit* Civ III.
«l World Wlihl > Twaitij Fiv Wars—
W illiaut J. It > au Warned.
anil make a report to Congress as soon
as possible of the cost to grade and j jeliefs, so fur as 1 have
bridge said road,
double track road.
Topeka. July 10.—"That was an in-
teresting interview with Wayland of
jirard, in your paper last Sunday,"
3hief Justice Frank D > tier oi the Ivan-
tes supreme court observed to a re-
porter for The Star yesterday after-
soon. "Hut he is husty in his judg-
nent of llryan. iiordou's question was
io broad that 'no' was the only answer
Bryan could make, since he was limit-
d to 'yes' or 'no.*
"Gordon arbitrarily define* Socialism
mean 'collective ownership of all the
neaus of production and distribution.'
Bryan was right in his answer, 'No,*
for 'all' includes a great deal. I am a
Socialist, but I decline to accept with-
>ut modification tiordon's definition of
he term."
Saying this Judge Duster gazed from
i south window of his chambers in the
•hird story of the capltol, and coutem-
)lated the beauty of the summer land-
scape, which stretches in meadow aud
icld to the sky line.
"lint Socialism will work itself out.
►Ye find evidences of that every day."
"What is your definition of Socialism
fudge?" the reporter, encouraged by
sis mood, asked. "But tirst define
rourselt."
"Well, I don't mind telling you my
any,'* lie re-
SOCIALISM. Birmingham and other English cities
by the establishment of public lauud
ries and ba*h houses; in Glasgow, Scot-
land, by the building of street rail-
ways, out of the revenues from which
the city has paid during the last twen-
ty-five years the original cost of the
lines, ami now defrays all her munici-
pal expenses. It is douc in some cases
by the lapsing of corporate franchises
and the consequent reversion of corpo-
rate property to the state.
"An instance of this is the Lawrence
bridge down the nvcr here. Its char-
ter ran out and the court held the
bridge escheated, as it were, to the
public, like the property of a natural
person dying without heirs. Another
instance is that of a railroad in Penn-
sylvania, which forfeited its charter
for some misconduct, and old Judge
Black and the supreme court of that
state held its right of way aud roadbed
reverted to the state.
which must boa jdiedafter a moment's thought "There
Other committees ire many things concerning which 1
to be appointed by Congress, compe- j unve no convictions. Upon others 1
tent and honest, to report as to the aaVe, and very strong ones, too. I
cost of tieing, equipping and com plat- fon't believe, for instance, in hell fire,
ing the entire road with everything ior in human slavery, nor high tariff,
new and first class, the bridges and ,or the standard, nor in million-
culbci ts to be of steel and rock, the ih-es, nor the wages system, nor—well
rails to be heavier than any now in [ cun<t tIlink just uow what all t doQ.t
believe in.
Ledger accounts of each depositor
are kept at the head office at Ottawa.
Deposits are received only in amounts
of SI or multiples theieof. Interest is
paid on deposits from the first day of
the month following tin* day of deposit
and ceasing on the first day of the
month in which deposits are with-
drawn.
Interest is added to principal on June
30 of each year. Depositors are ex-
pected to send their books to the main
oflice once each year, in envelopes fur-
nished them for that ppurose by the
postmaster, to have the books compar-
ed with the ledger accounts, thus fur-
nishing a check on postmasters. At
this time accrued interest is added iu
depositors' pass books
The rate of interest to start with was
4 per cent It was reduced to 31;, and
now to 3 per cent The limit of depos-
its which a person may place to his
credit in any one year is 81,000, and
when the amount becomes S3,000 all
told no interest is oaid on sums in ex-
cess of that amount There is some
criticism that this limit is too hijrh,
and places the postolfit-e'savings bank
to some extent :it the service of a rich-
er class than those for whom
designed.
In (treat Britain small deposits are
received in the form of adhesive stamps
attached to cards. Stamps are not
use, tho cars a#nd engines capable of
twice the capacity of those now in use.
All this, including a well equipped
telegraph system the entire route,
would not cost to exceed 8100,000,000.
Now Congiess should authorize the
Secretary of the Treasury to issue said
amount, whk h should be made full le-
gal tender lor all dues and demands
whatsoever within the U. S. Now hear
some machine say "O, going to set the
printing pre.-s running and grind out
some *liat' money to Hood the country,
eh?" As National bank currency, or
fiat currency, is good, and redeemable
in the present greenbacks, (as they are)
which greenbacks ate not a full legal
tender, then surely tho new issuo
would be as good as the n. b. currency
now in use; and if one dollar and forty
cents would be too great an inflation,
if this machine could not stand this ex-
pansion, then let's call iu and destroy
an equal amount of national bank cur
rency, that gets in circulation only by
drawing interest and is not a full legal
tender.
This done, I would set some of the
idle men in every county from New
York to California grading, tieing aud
railing this double track, people's road,
and pay $1.25 or Si.50 and board, pei
day, for eight hours' work. Such a
home market as has never been dream-
ed of would be established from end to
end of this undertaking.
Can you comprehend how many men
could be employed aud how this money
received for honest work would get in
circulation and be expended for sup-
port of families, etc., instead of by be-
ing loaued over a bank counter, draw-
ing interest, or usury only to the bank-
er.
Men should be set to manufacturing
the very best steel rails, cars, engines,
etc., and building substantial, but not
gaudy depots, and other necessary
buildings. Space is too limited to elab-
orate as to the extra demand for all
eatibles, as well as materials, which
would boused in construction. Imag-
ine the road all finished with the finest
trains and everything- complete. Now
I ask, what lias it cost? What indebt-
edness, what has been accomplished?
It has cost what the paper aud press-
work would be to issue the S10. .000,000
or no more than the expense would be
in issuing the same amount of bonds
or bank currency.
1 here is no indebtedness, no watered !
stock or bonds; but 8100.000,000 of ae j
tual wealth has been added to the na ;
tion and it belongs to the people. Next
Uncle Sam should invite the best rail
road and telegraph men in ttie nation
to go to work at the highest wages
paid by any similar employers and j
1EL1RVES IV Till; TEN COMMANDMENTS.
"I do believe, however, in the Ten
Commandments anil iu the Golden Rule
in the initiative and referendum, and
evolution, and woman suffrage, and
I'm edgiug up toward Theosophy and
Christian Science, and am open to con
net ion in favor of any vagrant fad that
nobody will admit believing iu until
snough do to make it respectable.
"Now, as to Socialism. If I may be
permitted to give my own definition of
Socialism, I am a Socialist "
With this declaration the successor
jf Albert II. Norton turned his cold
face upon the reporter. Possibly
recollection of Morton, who is his anti-
podes iu political creed, passed through
his mind, for lie left his chair and walk-
ed to a west window, which looks out
npon the ex-chief justice's handsome
home on Harrison street Standing
there a moment, Judge poster con tin
led;
"It used to shock the people of Kan-
as to hear this declaration from my
.ips, for, you know, I have been an ad-
rocate of Socialism all my life; but it
leeins that they have gotten over it"
This was a gentle allusion to his re-
sent elevation by the people to the su-
preme bench, and there was a trace of
pride in his tone. The reporter smiled
In sympathy, but instantly he was froz-
en with a look, for vanity is not oue of
the chief justice's weaknesses.
DOSTER'S DEFINITION OF SOCIALISM.
Seating himself again he resumed:
"You ask what my definition of Social-
ism is. My definition of Socialism is
not original. I saw it somewhere; don't
remember just where. It read: "So-
cialism is the faith or doctrine of those
who would organize society upon a
more fraternal and co-operative basis.'
"I have read many definitions of So-
cialism. They have all passed out of
my mind, but that one. It includes
them all. I am that kind of a Social-
ist. Ain't you? Anything wrong with
that? Wouldn't you organize society,
if you could, upon a more fraternal ba-
ns; upon a more co-operative, that is,
i mutually helpful, basis?"
"Does your definition of Socialism
propose a change of property tenure
trom private to collective ownership?"
"To begin with, let me say that every
freat principle will work out its own
letails of application. If it be right it
tfill possess within itself enough ex-
pansive and propuUive force to cover
;he field belonging to it It don't have
m be brought about; it brings itself
ibout
GOVERNMENT RAILROADS AND RANKS.
"Preseutly another instance will be
the foreclosure of the government mort-
gage on the Union Pacific railroad and
the buying it in and operating it by the
public. Another instance will be the
expansion of the money order depart-
ment of the postal system into savings
banks for the deposit and loan of funds
and the consequent elimination of the
business of private banking; and still
another will be tho condemnation of
the railroads under the power of emi-
nent domain and their conversion into
public highways in fact as well as in
name. In short, as fast as things be-
come of sufficient public concern, either
nationally or to those locally affected,
they will pass into the hands and un-
der the control of the general or local
public, and some fine morning, if you
live to a good old age, you will wake
up and find yourself living in an al-
most communistic state of society, liav-
ing gotten there by transitions so easy
and natural you didn't realize their oc-
currence until the job was done.
"You don't see the profit there would
bo in all this to you! The devil you
don't! Well, neither do Joe Hudson,
Grover Cleveland and other ruollusks.
Neither do Rockefeller, Huntington, J.
Pierpont Morgan and other licensed
bandits. Neither would Ilobin Hood,
Captain Kidd or Jesse James, if living.
The profit to you, my dear sir, consists
in keeping the other fellows from mak-
ing their profits off you, and saving
them to yourself
"As society is now constituted we
live by making profits off each other;
that is, taking away from each other
portions of our earnings. It is suppos-
ed to be the only way we can live. Ac-
cumulation of profits begets power,
confers ease and happinftss and draws
admiration to the taker; consequently
everybody is striving for the most that.
can be gotten; and every way short of U8 formerly, nor because wool is twen
and magazines published nowadays are
given a Socialistic flavor and have a
Socialistic moral.
'•Give me a book list, and for every
half dozen publications in the last half
dozeu years, in advocacy of the old
time political economy and the old
time competitive order of things, I'll
pick you out a thousand of the oppo-
site teaching or tendency.
"You must understand that the lies
told about Socialism and Socialists
have about s^nt their force. You
have l>een taught to believe that So-
cialism and Auarchy were one and the
same thing; whereas they are direct
opposite*. You thought Socialism
meant tearing down the llagand break-
ing up the Union, confiscating property
and repudiating debts, makiug the
other fellows divide up and running off
with another man's wife, trying to live
without work and raising hell gener-
ally. Well, it don't mean auything of
the kind It simply means the collect-
ive ownership of the natural monopo-
lies and public utilities."
"That brings us back to Bryan's re-
ply to Gordon again. Don't you be-
lieve that lie is opposed to what you
call collcctivc ownership?" the report-
er asked.
"No, sir, I don't so interpret his let-
ter. Ho was asked whether he believ-
ed in Socialism in the sense of tho col-
lective ownership of all the agencies of
production and distribution. He said
'nik' All the agencies of production
and distribution take iu a great deal,
and I don't know but I would auswer
the same as Mr. Bryan did
WILLIAM J. BRYAN WARNED.
"But if Bryan means to say that he
is opposed to the public ownership of
the public agencies of production and
distribution he may as well right now
withdraw from the race of 1000. There
are more than a million Socialist votes
in this country which would be cast
against him were he to mako such an
avowal."
In conclusion Judge Doster said:
"Young man. Socialism is the coming
power. Make your peace with it, and
be quick about it. It is an oncoming
tide which will sweep over this and
every other civilized land in tho next
twenty-five years, and drown every
party and politician that tries to im-
pede its flow."—Kansas City Star.
Overproduction.
We want Our Folks to contemplate
the picture on the next page. It rep-
resents the starving inhabitants of
India. Mortgages on land in that coun-
try have increased something like three
hundred per cent within a few years,
and this is why the people are naked
and why they starve.
They are not naked because cotton is
seven oents per pound instead of fifteen
ty cents a pound instead of forty.
They do not starve because India is
our great competitor in wheat grow-
ing, nor because of the world's over-
production of wheat, nor because corn
in Kansas is unsalable at fourteen
cents per bushel, nor because the great
development of modern machinery, nor
because of a glut of money in financial
centers, nor because our government
has oniy 81''J8,000,000 idle money in its
vaults.
Oh, no, nothing of that kind, but be-
cause India is being impoverished as
Ireland was ruined, and as the farmers
of England are being destroyed. And
it is our turn ntxXy unless we curb the
he.irtless usurers of Loudon, who are
plundering the United States by the
doubling of American debts through m
change of the money standard forced
upon the world, by reason of whifch
they control American finances, dic-
tate to the American government, fore-
close American mortgages, wreck
American railroads, buy American
farms, mines and factories at half their
cost, close American mills, rob Ameri-
can farmers, and blast the prosperity
of the American people.
Shall it be our turu next?—Farm
JouruaL
eight hours should constitute a
work.
"However, I'll tell you how it is com-
_ (Ing about. It is coinin<r about through
carry ' ^ the
freight and passengers cheaper tlmn pU 'nt s' at is' tlie passing
roods mortgaged for twijc wlvnf, ti,is >*er from private to public ownership,
one cost, and bonded fur three or fm,r through legal forms and upon just
to rharjre? j terms of all those institutions and
possessions which Judge VVaite classi-
I tiO'l as 'clothed with a public interest..
times as much move. 1\
1'oti I yon think this wcn.d :>-ttle tin
W . , f;-' i ht.and P"ss nsfer rate question'
Lucie Sam would say to lhe wheat
corn, hog- and cattle nii-ers, "ship over I
your own road; it has no debts,
terest, no taxes, no dividends, no liti-
Xow, don't ask me what things are
no ,'n" I slothed with a public interest. 1 can
pation, no high salaried officers
and I will carry everything at the low- itist 18 subject to additions as society be-
est possible rate, only exact ing enough Mines more complex, and as mechani-
tassfeWjT-s; •* "•
tear and any accidents." Whoever be- " hcnv 18 to done. I
lieves rate* would necessarily be mora an,t figure out the working details of
Mian K to 1 cent per mile for passenger ] future events.
fare, and one third what is now chart'- 1
ed for freight rates, lias studied or UOW IT 18 TO COME
thought on the transportation question | "Nevertheless, I see how it is beinc
ra^^^tofalrlre WoJfd"^ f d°" ^
no discrimination either to persons i y out W!i'er works' gas and elec-
..... L WQald Ur; ] trie light works, or buildin
tell yon some, a good many; besides the
downright larceny is considered legiti-
mate- The boldest, most forceful and
unscrupulous get the most, and they
use what they have as a leverage to
obtain more. You say that is all right;
I say it is not A score of good reasons
can bo given why it is not
TJIR "80CIAX FUND,"
•Til mention only one, and that is
that these great accumulations of
wealth are almost entirely drawn from
the 'social fund,' as we call it Never
heard of the social fund, you say. Well
I suppose not The social fund, sir, is
that excess of power, that additional
production, that accumulation of val-
ues, which occur through organized in-
dustry, through the socialization of tho
industrial forces. Two men working
together can exert greater power, can
accomplish more than they can work-
ing singly—that is to say, the result of
their joint efforts is greater than the
aggregate of thoir individual efforts.
Now, the excess of what the two work*
ing together can accomplish over their
united product working separately,
constitutes what we call the 'social
fund,' or part of it There are some
other ingredients entering intering in-
to it, but I'll not take time now to ex-
plain.
"Young man, to whom do you think
that social fund, the existence of which
is only possible through the efforts of
men working to gether and not singly
to whom do you think it in good con-
science belongs? I think it belongs to
the men who made it It is iu large
part a heritage to us from the past. It
exists in the form of inventions and
scientific discoveries, and in the ad-
vantages and opportunities and insti-
tutions of social life which co-operative
effort alone has made possible. It
therefore belongs to society as a whole
as much so as the natural elements of
earth and air and ocean do.
"However, as things now go it is a
storehouse from which the loot aud
plunder of the world's great fortunes
have been drawn. Socialists say that
by tho Eternal this pillage of tho al-
ready overrich upon that common prop-
erty of all must cease, and do you
know, sir, they are the only faction or
body that is numerically on tho in-
crease.
SOCIALISTS INCREASING IN NUMBER.
MThey haven't organized as a party
and may not do so; but they are to be
found in all parties. This day a ma- ! Bones will accumulate about the
jority of the voters of Kansas are dis. farrn and every one should be saved,
tinetly tinctured with Socialism and ** cannot be applied to quick
hold to a greater or less extent to So- flowing crops, they can be very read-
cialistic ideas. Even your own paper, j into shape for use as a fertilize!
The Star, is advocating the municipal— 1 fruit trees and grape vines.
We told our readers some time ago
that the great object of the two old
parties was to obscure and crush out
all discussion on the money question
and bring the tariff issuo to the front
again. They have about sueeceded,
and the Democrats—the great silver
Democrats—have been as active in the
scheme as anybody else. All wo hear
from Congress now-a-days is the tariff.
"Prosperity is stealing upon the
country" is the announcement of some
big goldbug manufacturer. These
goldbugs seem to be unable to think of
anything or say auything without hav-
ing some connection
"steal."
with the word
There is nothing that pleases the
housewife more than to have some con-
venience added to the milk room.
When buying a new appliance for tho
barn or farm offset the deal with
something to lighten the dairy work
in the house. There are many little
articles that will add materially to the
saving of time and turn out better but-
ter.
A man will work harder to get tho
ization of such public utilities as water |
^ . .. , ftbcm flr,t work*- uleutriu Jifrllts' etc- That1. So- of a petty quarrel with a'neigh-
kand themselves. It was do*, over ia .laliw. Why, sir, nearly alUlie book* bor than for anything else on aarth
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