The Kansas Headlight from Wichita, Kansas • 2

THE BUSINESS DEPRESSION. The Kansas Headlight. BETTI8 ROBERSON, Editors and Publishers. WICHITA KANSAS. THE TARIFF HILL.

The President Firm to Let It Become a Law Without His Signature. 1'RESSUKE KXKttTEDON HIM LOOKOUT FOR BIRDIE. Hard-billed birds are thoso which-live on seed. Sorr-BILLKD birds do not Hire on seeds, but on insects and prepared food. IPkbd very little sweet stuffs, it spoils the digestion, and then the bird's.

health Is gone. birds need littlo for food besides seed und occasionally a bit of lettuce, apple or celery. Moulting cannot I it disease since It Is a natural process of providing the bird witli new plumage. A bird should bo given its bath, its food and a clean eago at the same hour each day, and by the same person. Aftki; a bird takes his water bath ho 6hould have a sun bath if there is a spot in the house where tho sun shines.

Cuttlf. bone is nn important article of diet for hard-billed birds. There ll a salty taste to it which seems to be a tonic for feathered bipeds. The health of all birds depends upon three tilings, regularity in being foil and given its bath, good food and absolute protection from draughts. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS.

LABOR HAS NO RIGHTS IN THE COURTS OF LAW. Labor nsks for justice and is sent to jail; it asks for bread and is given bullets; it tries the ballot and is counted out: What will the harvest be? POINTS FOR THE PEOPLE. The "devil's looking glass'' is a smooth stone formation one hundred feet wide, and rising two hundred feet out of the Nolachucky river in Tennessee. The Hindoo god of marriage is represented with a human body and elephant's head, seated on a throne resting on a circle of human skulls. Thirty-five years ago Mrs.

Milton Stevenson, of Georgetown, ran a piece of broken glass into her hand. Last week the glass was taken out at the elbow, The New Jersey society of Cincinnati devotes the income of a fund of thirty thousand dollars for the marking of places in that state made historic by the war of the revolution. There is a wild flower in Turkey that is the exact image of a humming bird. The breast is green, the wings are a deep rose color, the throat yellow, the head and beak almost black. At the lunch given by the municipality of Rome to the physicians who attended the recent international congress, six thousand bottles and three hundred and sixty flasks of wine were consumed.

-ITTLE CURIOUS THINGS. The of the Faii-AmerieaB Bi metallic League Una at Iteinedy for I'Hiilra. Wahiiinoton, Aug. 17. President A.

C. Pisk, of the I'un-Amerioan Bimetallic league, on behalf of that organization, bus sent a notable statement to the special committee of the United States senate investigating the Industrial depression and the remedy. He says: One or two more uunlcii will llndtlils country In tho condition of Koine and other exllnot republics when they went down. There was no necessity for Issuing a government bond and everyone Issued, whatever the purpose might have been, results In the robbing of tho peoplo to tho full extent nT the issue. Why should we be taxed from to 4150,000 a your for thirty years on bonds In order to maintain a banking system, which wan concelvod in slti.

born In Iniquity, nurtured in conspiracy and rlpefted Into treason? Why should we bo compelled to use a demonetised bank lull Hint a demonetized treasury note when tho government has the power to Issue full legal tendor money! With an honest Issue of money the people could not be plundered a billion or more dollars each year and there would be no occasion to pay those who conspired to have this nation the repository of their surplus money four or the millions a year for taking caro of their Imaginary gold reserve. The bonding of nations und the Issue of demonetized currency are recent Inventions, but many nations of late years havo fallen proy to this new device; they must In consequence repudiate or return to barbarism. Tho creditors who are Confiscating tho property of the nation cry "Inflation" when the oppressed debtor asks for honest money with free coinage of silver and the remonrtizatlon of the paper issues. Inflation, indeed, with 35 cent wheat, 5 cent cotton, 2 cent beef, 50 cents for a day's la bor, our money will be "staple" when the American farmer, planter and luborer are reduced to the condition of tho serfs of other countries uader the financial dominion of Old England. It is sincerely to be hoped that congress is in earnest In its efforts to secure the cause of the present disturbed conditions, and Is ready anJ willing to apply the proper measures for relief, and that DO further attempts will be made to deceive tho people by distracting their attention from the real issues, as has been done by discussions of the bloody shirt, the seal question, tho force bill, the Chinese question, the Canadian railroads and canals, the omnl resent tariff and the proscription of one religious denomination, known as the A.

P. A. move ment: but that laws have been enacted which will bring prosperity to all the people instead of a very few. It would seem that congress has already legislated In the interests of the creditor class far beyond the bounds of safety, and should take warning lest the people, who are fast becoming aroused to the real cause of the difficulty, may take matters Into their own hands nnd elect both a congress and a chief executive who will be their servants not their masters. With that day will come real prosperity through the introduction Into our statutes ol justice to all classes, which may be partially and briefly summarized as follows: The remonetization of silver to laVs to 1.

All money Issues by the government direct. All demonetized money to be culled in and full legal tender money issued in lieu thereof. One money for the bondholder, creditor, debtor, officeholder, importer and banker. The establishing of postal savings banks. The adoption of the initiative and the referendum.

This would prove fatal to that political evil the lobby. Bribery would bean unsafe investment when the people themselves instead of a corrupt legislative body held the decisive ballot. The power to coin money and regulate the value thereof to be taken from congress by a constitutional amendment. History has demonstrated that it is unsafe to entrust a legislative body with the power to pauperize and enslave the people. In like manner the power to enact tariff legislation will be taken from congress, a commissioner appointed free from all influences to draft revenue laws, which, when finally adopted (by the voico of the people) they cannot be modified, changed or repeated by a given period of time, and then only by a direct vote of the people, thus allowing tho business Interests of the country to adjust themselves to its provisions.

This will prevent syndicates from combining to elect presidents of the United States and a congress with the understanding that certain tariff legislation will be enacted. The last general election is an awful warning against this pernicious practice, when one syndicate was promised the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman law, that It might speculate not only with silver bullion, but with every other commodity, Anothet syndicate with options on the surplus In wool in some foreign country wool was to be placed on the free list, that a profit of 10 cents a pound may be secured to the syndicate. Anothet combination secured options on tho coal fields of Nova Scotia and British Columbia and coal was to become free. Still another with options on the iron mines of Cuba: this country was to be treated with free iron, that this syndicate might reap larger proilts from the foreign operations. So on through tho list of the Wilson bill, including the bounty on sugar.

The rights and liberties of the people are imperilled so long ascongress has the power to destroy the Industries of our own people, to enable a gang of plunderers to become rich in a single day. even though the slave driver's whip is cracked over tho heads of the law-makers by the chief executive. President Fisk says the views submitted express the sentiment of 105,000 members of the association. Mr. (lrvclinil Attltmlr Our Df l'lillcm Ustsntng Preparation for Currying the Now Hill Into Kffect uoIiik Forward.

Washington, Aug. 24. The presi- lent, it is positively declared, remains linn to liis purpose to let the tariff bill beoome law without his signature. J'his. as was stated by the Associated press Jilt the time, was his intention when he left Washington for Gray tiiibles and there is excellent authority for the statement that, since his return last night, he has indicated that he is the same opinion as he was before he left.

Great pressure has been and is still being exerted to induce Mr, Cleveland to forego his present purpose and to sign the bill either with or without Dome message expressing his views, hut he has no encouragement to those who have pressed views of this nature on his attention and has indicated that lie will allow the bill to become a law by the expiration of the ten days' clause of the constitution. The persons most urgent in suggesting to the president that he sign the bill are members of congress who have represented very strongly that a signature of the bill will help them considerably in their defense of it in the coming campaign, and that should it not have the measure of presidential approval indicated by Mr. Cleveland's signature their position on the stump will be embarrassed to some extent at least. Speaker Crisp and a number of other congressmen have expressed this view of the matter, and the speaker saw the president to-day on the matter. So far as can be learned the president's attitude has been one of patient listening and consideration of the arguments presented, but he has refrained carefully from making any promises or giving encouragement to congressmen who wish the bill signed.

A veto of the bill, however, is not even suggested. It cannot become a law without the presidential autograph until next Monday, this being the case the adjournment of congress will hardly take place before next Tuesday. Speaker Crisp told members of the house who were anxious to get away that he thought the session would last until next Tuesday. Preparations for carrying into effect che new bill Are going forward at the treasury department with all possible speed. Secretary Carlisle has already prepared a blank form of license for custom house brokers provided for in the bill and it is now in the hands of the printer.

Several clerks are hard at work preparing an index for the new bill. This will occupy about twenty pages in the new tariff volume which, for the convenience of customs officials, will contain both the new law and the McKinley act of 1890. It is expected that by the time the new bill becomes a law all preliminary work, save that of issuing instructions to customs and internal revenue officials, will have been done. newapapers have been imprisoned in several instances for contempt of the courts in the exercise of that liberty of the press expressly guaranteed by the constitution. Recent instances of this kind will be recalled in the case of Editor lose water, ol the Omaha Bee, and of the editors of certain Oklahoma papers only a short time ago.

That such outrages are not resisted by force is owing to the fact, before cited, that these judicial usurpations have succeeded each other by such gradual and imperceptible steps that the people have been schooled to submission. It must not be presumed, however, that there will be no end to this submission. The soil of this continent is not adapted to the perennial growth of despotism. Either the people must arouse themselves to the dangers of the situat ion and provide a peaceable remedy for them through the ballot-box, or the inexorable logic of events will pre scribe the remedy that eventually over takes all despotisms in the course ol the world's progress. The problem now pressing for solution is whether the remedy shall be applied peaceably or otherwise, and the events of the re cent past afford a forcible remindei that its application, if it is to be practicable, must not be much longer de layed.

Topeka (Kan.) Advocate. TnE first oil well in America was discovered on a small mountain farm in Wayne county, in the year 13-'9. In the year 1201 a tithe was laid upon all Wales' tongues brought into liayonne, they being at that time highly esteemed as food. Indian corn, or maize, never has an uneven number of rows of grains, because it has opposite radicals of growth from the cob center. Delplaine gives figures to prove that the planet earth has supported 06,627,842,237,073,200 human inhabitants since the beginning of time.

According to M. Flammarion, the great astronomer, the mean temperature of Paris for the past six years has been two degrees below the normal. Stonemasons will probably get a better idea of the immense size of tho Great Pyramid when then they learn that it consists of cubic feet. In Persia the women of fashion paint black circles around each eye and ornament the cheeks with figures of various small animals, bugs, etc. Tho republican party and republican policy Is primarily responsible for these hard times.

The best place for workingmen to settle their differences with capital is at the ballot box. Dissatisfied democrats who leave their party to join the republicans are "jumping out of the frying pan into the fin1." Independent All reformers are handicapped by temporizers who study results which they cannot foresee, and forget principles which never fail. William Lloyd Garrison. The Kansas City Journal says the "white man's party" in Alabama is the Kolbite party, and the "nigger lover's party" is the regular democracy. Politics truly makes strange bed-fellows.

If the democrats would only tell the people of this country what they have done with the chance they got from them. It looks as though they had given it to the corporations or English bondholders. Industrial Union. Hanker Walsh, of Chicago, owns both the Herald anil Inter Ocean, one democratic and the other republican. His hired men preach low tariff through one and high tariff through the other.

It is thus the "parity" is maintained. --Clay Center Dispatch. Had the same effort been put forth to compel the railroads and the Pullman company to deal justly with their employes, as was used in calling out the militia to awe the laborers and break up their organizations, the strike could have 1 ecu settled without the loss of a single life. But then the corporations are on top. Independent.

--The Chicago Times says that Attorney-General Olney made the following statement to a western senator: 'I'll break up every labor union in this country with the anti-trust law before we're through, or 1 will make every strike the basis for locking up every man who counsels, or is concerned in it." That is precisely the purpose for which Sherman designed this anti-trust law Bnd nothing else. It was never intended to affect -Advocate. Speaking Of the activity of the government in its wild desire to punish Debs, the San Francisco Examiner says: "That is why, in viewing the remarkable efficiency of the new anti-conspiracy laws against strikers, many citizen-, whose sympathies are with the strict enforcement of law believe thai labor is not getting a fair show. When Havemeyer, Huntington and Pullman are in the dock the public will view with equanimity any punishment that may be legally visited upon Debs and Howard." At a preliminary hearing of A. R.

U. strikers accused of train-wrecking at Woodland. John W. Lasher, a witness of the Southern Pacific company, was forced to admit on cross-examination that he was to get for testifying in such a way as to implicate the strikers. There is nothing unlawful about that, is These corporations have such a high regard for law and order that they are willing the whole military force of the United States shall be brought into service to secure their proper observance by the other fellows.

They are even willing the army shall be increased as much as Gen. Schofield desires in order to insure this result. Advocate. THE FASHIONS. JUDICIAL USURPATION.

The Courts Are I sni ping the F'uuetloiiH of the Legislative Branch of tbo Government, In the recent interview with Judge Brewer in this city he was asked, among other things, respecting the truthfulness of the charge made by populists of the usurpation of power by the federal courts. In answer to this question he said: "The courts have no more power than they had under the first years of the constitution in most respects. The acts of 1S07 and enabled a man to sue his creditor wherever found and made some changes, but in general the powers have not been enlarged. The change is in the great increase in the volume of business and subsequent enlargement of the corporations handling the same. Formerly we never had such great transportation companies as the Santa Fe system, with 9,000 miles of railway tracks.

Receiverships were just the same, but the amount of property handled was much less. The courts do not find the receiverships of railroads a very pleasant task. Why, when the Santa Fe company was placed in the hands of receivers, I wrote to Judge Caldwell and congratulated him upon having the work in his charge, at the same time assuring him that I did not intend to come out and handle It in any way. There is simply an increased amount of work and much vexation to a judge in taking care of property placed in the hands of the courts in this manner, and they are not anxious to assume the burden." It is undoubtedly true, as Judge Brewer observes, that the courts have no more power under the constitution and the laws than they had during the early years of the republic, but this does not answer the question propounded to the judge, lie was asked concerning the usurpation of powers that do not belong to the judiciary, not concerning the legal or constitutional enlargement of those powers; and this question he is careful not to answer. The powers exercised by the federal courts to-day would not have been thought of a few years ago.

and if attempted would not have been tolerate 1. It is only by encroachments that have been so gradual as to be almost Imperceptible in their successive steps that the people have been schooled to submission until there is scarcely a safeguard of constitutional liberty that has not been set aside. The courts to-day are supreme, and their despotism is equal to that of the star chamber in the days of the early English sovereigns. Neither the constitution or the laws empower the federal courts to order the arrest of American citizens without warrant duly and legally issued, but they do it nevertheless. Neither the constitution or laws empower the courts to re-enact the penal laws of the general government or of the states in judicial injunctions under which arbitrary arrests are made for contempt of the courts, but these things are done at the behest of corporation attorneys without the least hesitation.

Neither the constitution or the laws empower the courts to try American citizens for penal offenses without a jury, but it is done in all part of the country every day, and the people tamely submit to these usurpations as though they involved no danger to the liberties guaranteed by the constitution. Judge Brewer is right when he says that the legal powers of the courts have not been enlarged: but that they are exercising powers that do not belong to them is the point in question, and upon this point he is silent as an oyster. He indicates clearly enough the induence which inspires these usurpations when he speaks of the great corporations which have grown up in recent years. The judges upon the bench to-day have been selected from the paid attorneys of these corporations and are as much their servile tools now as when they were acting in the subordinate capacity which led to their promotion. This is the secret of the usurpations of the federal courts, and in the great contest now in progress not only the direct power of the corporations but the power they exercise through the courts also must be destroyed or human liberty is lost It is full time to speak in no uncertain tones upon this subject There has grown in this country a judicial oligarchy which is an absolute despotism.

Already it has sought to curtail the freedom of speech and the liberie oi the press. Editors of Laboring Men in Politics, Washington, Aug. 84. W. Hayes, of Philadelphia, general secretary-treasurer, and B.

II. Martin, of Minneapolis, of the executive board of the Knights of Labor, who have been in Washington for two days working for legislation in the interest of labor, declared that labor organizations will take a larger part in politics this fall than ever before. Records of all members of the house who will run for reelection this fall are being compiled and their votes on questions pertaining to the interests of the laboring classes looked into. A REGULAR SCHEDULE. THE FIRST CONSPIRATORS Why Not Enforce the Law Against tin Kich, as Well its Against the Poor.

Those who are so anxious to condemn railroad men for quitting work and Wins stopping the United States mails and paralyzing commerce would evidence a vein of good judgment should they bestow at least a share of their condemnation on the conspiracy entered into by the General Managers' association of the railroads. Those worthies are they who are really responsible for the obstruction of mails and the blockade of business. The railroad companies are, and were when the strike was declared, under contract with the government to carry the mails and there was then as now a law to punish those who might obstruct mails, yet these self-styled "general managers" assemble! together before the strike began and formulated and published a wicked conspiracy to obstruct the movement of the mails. They then announced that unless their employes would handle Pullman cars no mails should be transported on their trains. Thus came the first threat to violate the law.

It came from the "general managers" and was an open, defiant and wicked declaration that under certain contingencies they would obstruct the mails and wilfully disobey and set at naught the federal laws. That con tlngoncy arose and the conspirators have carried out their criminal com-pac t. The federal laws to provide foi sab- and speedy mail service was made to apply to all classes of citizens alike to the class of "general managers" well as to the dirtiest dago that might pull a coupling pin or throw a stone The "general managers" were the first offenders. Prosecution against them should be vigorously pressed and the law rigorously enforced, but as yet, oul of all the babble that has becu raised, the voice of authority has scarcely beer heard to condemn the conspiracy of the "general managers." The representatives of labor have been subject to ar rest, but corporate defiance goes un punished for its insolence while it con tinues to dictate the policy of the gov ernment. It is time for the people tc awake and demand that justice be done If arrests are to be made let there bfl an end to the practice of discriminations in behalf of wealthy "genera) managers." Iroquois County (HL1 Times.

Out of Work. In Boston 10.000 laborers are out of work. In Worcester 7.000 are unemployed; in New Haven, in Providence. in New York city, 100, 000; Utica is a small city, but the unemployed number 1G.O00; in Paterson, one half the people are idle: in Philadelphia, 10.000 in Baltimore; 3,000 in Wheeling; 6,000 in Cin cinnati; 8,000 in Cleveland; 4.000 in Co lumbus; 5,000 in Indianapolis; 2,500 in Terre Haute; 200,000 in Chicago; 25.00C in Detroit; 20,000 in Milwaukee; 6,000 in Minneapolis; Vicksburg, St. Louis, St.

Joseph, Omaha, Butte City, Mont, 15,000 in San Francisco. White satin and white chiffon is the ideal combination for a bridal petticoat. CHINESE muslin is a pretty new material, and it comes both plain and ured a la pompadour. The autumn bell skirt will be fuller and wider than the original model, but exactly like it in other respects. Braiding will be a very favorable garniture in rich dresses next season, as well as on tailor gowns and utility costumes.

The new poplin coats take the place of the dress waists. Some are Van-dyked on the sides in deep points, but are shorter than any of the coats worn a year ao. WINDOW-SHADE HINTS. Always place roller in brackets with shade rolled up. If the shade is tacked on properly it will hang toward the window.

Always fasten the round-hole bracket on the right hand side of the window. To fit a shade to a window with in-Bide shutters, measure inside molding next to shutters. If the spring is too strong, removo I roller from brackets with shade rolled up, unroll a few turns and replace. To strengthen th spring, draw the shade down a few revolutions, remove roller from brackets, roll up shade and replace. In replacing a window shade that has been torn from the roller, use nothing but one ounce tacks; longer tacks injure the spring.

Tdomas Gormlet, aged 104 years, was knocked down and had his shoul-! der broken by a horse car in New York recently. Notwithstanding his great age, Mr. Gormley is said to be in such splendid health that he will recover from the accident. Awards Offered by the Chinese (lovernmenl for Japanese Heads and Ships. New Yokk.

Aug. 17. A dispatch from Shanghai, via London, says: The governor of Formosa has published a schedule of rewards for Chinese who capture or destroy Japanese ships or kill or capture Japanese soldiers or sailors. The soldiers or sailors may be taken dead or alive. The governor offers taels for the destruction of a big Japanese warship.

For the destruction or capture of a small warship he promises 4.000 taels, or about 1,200. Two hundred taels will be paid for the head of a Japanese officer and 100 taels for the head of a Japanese private. Five Persons Hon Down ami Killed. Pabis, Aug. 24.

The north bound passenger train on the Paducuh, Tennessee Alabama railroad struck a wagon near Hazel, this state, last evening. Two Misses Ray, two Misses llarmans and Mr. Ray were killed, and one Ray boy injured. The parties were crossing the railroad at a steep grade, when the horses became frightened at the train and ran down the track into a cattle gap, when the train overtook them. Charles Bitter, an experienced and careful engineer, was in charge of the train.

A Fatal Fire. Akkon, Aug. 24. The explosion of a dynamite cartridge in the cylinder of a thrashing machine on the farm of tieorge Witner yesterday caused a fire which destroyed the large bank barn and several thousand bushels of grain Michael Myers, 50 years of age. of Newark.

went into the barn to save the horses and mounted one. The animal refused to move and man and beast were burned to death. Andrew and Rollind Witner were seriously burned. Conference of the Bimetallic League. Washington.

Aug. IT. The necessity of immediate and thorough organization to push bimetallism to the front was discussed at a special conference of the American Bimetallic league, which convened here yesterday. Thirty or forty members of the league from various states were present. Gen.

A. J. Warner, president of the league, acted as chairman, and among those present were Senator Stewart, of Nevada; Congressmen Pence and Hell, of Colorado; Judge Shelton, of Connecticut, and C. S. Thomas, of Colorado.

The sultan of Johore wears an light in his shirt front Deadly Kleetrie Wire. Mkmctiis, Aug. 24 Bailey Harrison, a traveling salesman, was electrocuted early this evening. A guy wire from the electric street railway line hangs across the yard. It had become loose and sagged low.

Harrison accidentally came in contact with it. He was found dead with a great hole burned in his neck. He was 30 year? of age and leaves a family. Government Hank. A government bank would be the people's clearing house where one obligation would cancel another, and when there was a balance the bank would furnish the money on good security at a minimum of cost to square the books.

With such a banking system the property of the people would be the only security required on which to issue a full legal tender money on demand, equal to the demands of business. With such a banking and monetary system, panics with all their consequences would be unknown, and labor would be the standard of all values, as the actual values created by labor would at any time constitute an ample basis for the issue of money to make every necessary exchange. Hence labor, instead of gold, would always be in demand as the basis of all values, and in the last analysis the only medium for all final payments. It would be more than a legal tender token, either metal or paper, as the most profitable use that the token, money be put would be to employ labor in the production of wealth. Missouri World.

Weak and Weary Overcome by the heat or extraordinary exertion, the physical system, like a machine, needs to be renovated and repaired. The blood needs to be purified and in vigor 1'S Hood' Cows I'olftoned by Chinch WiNFiEi.n. Aug. 17. A number of citizens have been pasturing their cows in a pasture south of the city.

Tuesday the cows were turned off the pasture where they had fed all summer and put into a field of sorg-; hum. In a few hours the cows began to get sick, and a number of them have died. The entire herd is affected more or less, and the cause of death is at-i tributed to chinch bugs, of which the sorghum was found to be full. It is said that the chinch bug is very poisonous when taken into the stomach, and many farmers claim they have lost cattle in a similar manner. ated and the nerves Cures and musi'les strength Want to Arbitrate the Strike.

Boston. Aug. 24. The state lxard oi arbitration has notified the New Bedford manufacturers and their striking employes that it will gladly undertake to settle their differences, but as yet has no answer from either side. The lo.ir.l cannot take a nation in the matter until some noUoe is received from the onte tants.

ened by Hood's Sarsa-narilla which creates The republican party plays a great confidence game by pretending to favor free siItt eoiatge. an appetite, removes that tired feeling and gives sweet sound, refreshing sleep. Hood's PllioreUUTwUla,.