Hutchinson Times du lieu suivant : Hutchinson, Kansas • 1

TIME VOL. 1, NO. 17. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, FltlDAY, MARCH 28, 1890. $1 PEH YEAR.

THE HUTCHIN SON MONEY. Hall, abstractor, No. 8 West Sherman street: David M'ller et ux to Clare Mil Gi.lt DEPARTMENT. a daily with favorable pension news and you'll be right in a sua of dolightfulnoss and can almost hear their hearts flap ing tho endless round of manual labor necessary to produce the grain and the vegetables, the beef and the pork, the butter and eggs, and all th nthr to tho people and save uh the one or two per cent, a moUh, that wo are paying to build up a horde of money monopolists to be Bupiwrtod by the hands that toil, while they are stripping tbera of tho comforts of homo, and in many cases the necessaries of life. Brethron supiwse ten persons were to take nine dollars in property and one dollar In money each, and go to some secluded IhIo far removed from any human habitation, and there commence the business of life, and found a State of their own.

In the various occupations they would have to follow to produce the necessaries of lifo, some would have to do one thing and some another; and to carry on business among themselves it would bo necessary for one at times to have more than his proportion of the cash. Now that this end might be easily and satisfactorily attained they make one of their number thoir bankor. To him they give all tho cash and the rest take the other property. They agree that he shall loan the money to them at twelve por cent, per annum, and as fast as his interest accumulates that ho shall loan this to them at the same rate; and should they at any time bo unable to pay their indebtedness, that they will give him their bonds for the amount, drawing four per cent. Interest and he shall issue notes to the amount of nlno-tenths of the bonds, and loan these as money the same as the other cash.

At the end of twenty-five years they make an Inventory of their worth and find that ler, lots 8 40 41 42 blk 3 In Grandview add 400 David Milleretux to A Cooper, lot 0 bile 17 lots 20 21 bile 20 Gandviow add to Hutch 800 Turon Town Co to Tribble, lots la blk Turon oo Chus White et ux to Funnlo Eaton, lots 2 4 Oblk 11 town of Riverside 1000 II Vesper et ux to John Mul- vane, a lots 8 1) blk 10 Tutor-btiugh's add to Hutchinson. 1000 John Brown et ux to Samuel Hunter, wdnhfnwqr 11-25-6 1000 Thos Anderson to Jos neqr n-Zi-H 2000 Odell to Odoll.qc lots in utieu 1st add to Arlington 440 Jefferson Huston et ux to Geo Cooter et ux, acres in so qr 2-22-5 75 Jacob Eagley et ux to Clemerd Mahoney, a qr 13-22-9. 5000 St. John Marsh Co to Simeon Coonor, lots 3 4 a blk 45Nlukorson 2500 Christian Miller et ux to Miller, hf hf bw qr 25-24-5 100 Same to same, und half in terest in hf nw qr 27-24-5. 100 Thos Anderson et ux to Hall, wdswqr 20-23-5 8000 Mulkey et ux to and Hall, 5 lots in Hutch.

7000 Thos Anderson to and Hall, lots in Hutch 4000 WHS Benedict et al to Tal- bott, lot 4 blk 41 1000 Robert Fernie to John Fernie nw qr 12-24-6 3000 Arnold et ux to Fair, a lots in Mckerson 5407 Saran Baker et al to Sarah Baker, sw qr 33-26-8 3000 Arnold et ux to Fair, nwqr 27-25-8 3000 Fenton Hammond et ux to Jas Roxroad, ne qr 36-24-7. 2000 Joseph Painter et ux to YY iluams, lot 67 and hf 65 on First ave west in Hutch 3500 Thompson Jr et al to 1 hompson br, wd land in twp 22 range 4 13452 Thompson Sr et ux to hompson Jr, a land in twp 22 range 4 6726 Handy et al to Handy, lotB in Hutchinson 1000 to Wm Shoup. se qr 35- Zb-v 200 Wm Shoup et ux to Joseph sprowl, se qr 35-25-9. 2000 Joseph Colling wood to John A Collingwood, hf sec 6 sw qr 18 and bw qr 35-26-6 500 Shay to Mary Sibley, lots 18 19 blk lee's 1st add. 700 Park Inv Co to Swoetzer.

lots in second Park add to 700 Joseph Miller to Marcellus Hall, hf qr 32-24-4. 1800 Arthur Stickel et ux to Pierce, lots 1 2 blk 2 Spear- water's add to 200 Hutchinson IAv Co to Charles Burns, wd lot 12 blk 1 I Co's 1st add 150 Same to Anna Hirshev. lot 16 oik in same add 150 Same to A Hirshev, lot 14 dik in same add 150 Smith to Ed Bernhamer lot 29 blk 9 Chapman's add 500 Gilbert Mank et ux to Wm Van- Sickle, land in 27-24-4 800 Fred Doherty to Smith lot 29 blk 9 Chapman's add 500 Wm Brown admr to Harriet Belt, admr deed lots 3 5 and hf qr 19-26-8 1500 Willie Thompson et ux to Jno Spiva, ne qr 30-24-7 400n Methodist Conference. The M. E.

conference closed its labors last Monday, having enjoyed a very pleasant and profitable session. While considerable work was accomplished it was mostly of a routine character, Following are the names of those ap pointed to work in this, the Newton district, of which J. T. Hanna is the presiding elder: Annelly- Harvey Llndley. Arlington To be supplied by C.

W. Gaither. Burrton F. D. Sheets.

Chelsea W. R. Rollngson. ElDorado J. C.

Hall. Elmer H. McMillen. Florence O. B.

Shaw. Halstead Robert Sanderson Heston To be supplied by L. J. Van Landingham. Hutchinson Aveuue F.

C. K. Wood son. First church To be supplied by J. W.

Summerville. Leon J. H. Pracht. Maxville J.

W. Kirkpatrick. Newton J. W. Martindale.

Nickerson W. A. VanGunday. Partridge F. M.

Romine. Poabody Hoyte. Pontiac To be supplied by R. G. Hammond.

Potwln D. S. VanGundy. St. John R.

B. Engle. Sedgwick A. T. Burris.

Seward-J. L. Mills. South Hutchinson I. B.

Case. Sylvia To be supplied by J. G. Wilkinson. Valley Center J.

M. Archer. Walton and McLain H. C. Wharton.

A. Hoffman, missionary to New Mexico. up and down liko collar doors in a country town. These are fearful congresses as full of noise as an onion is of odor. Whenevor you waut to hoar bold pension legislation don't full to leave the iron snortor at Leavenworth and get in among us 'border ruffians' at the Home.

Tho wav we do finish up and oxhaust a subject is enough to make 'Rome and thus it ever finds us ready and waiting for unother world to conquer." We huve an idea that when these old veterans of tho Home turn looso or resolve themselves into a committee of tho whole on the Btate of the union, something has got to come, burst or break a hame-string In the attempt. Langdou Letter. While the talk of the day is nearly all about alliances there is also a little said about soldiers pensions. It is quite amusing to notice what some men have to say about giving the' old soldiers a pension. It is wonderful how some of the young chaps, who were not yet born when the war closed, have the audacity and brazen cheek to say, when they are asked to sign a petition to give the old soldiers a pension, that th th they have had their pay.

Another man was asked to sign the petition, a man of considerable prominence. He answered with a ha, ha, they have had their pay. Yes, from thirteen to sixteen dollars a month, which amounted to only five or six dollars a month in money while this same ungrateful creature avers and declares that he would not take less than $75 a month for his time Now he is enjoying the fruits of the soldiers' hardships, privations of food, privations of home and home comforts, camping wherever night overtook them, cold, wet or otherwise. Hungry or disheartened oft' times after march ing or fighting all day, at night laid down on the damp ground and hugging their guns to be ready at any moment in the dead of night to give battle. Yes, for five or six dollars a month they faced the music of musketry and artillery, set themselves up as targets for the rebels to shoot at, and how many noble men both young and old have offered up their life-blood to save this nation from usurpation and thraldom.

Thousands of the brave soldiers are crippled and maimed for life and eking out a misera ble existence, while others came home with their health impaired, thinking that in course of time they would out live this or that complaint, and be all right again, but the longer they have waited the more their disability in creases; and after the lapse of so many years they can't find possibly all of the proofs they are required to give accord ihg to law, which was enacted with so much red tape and controlled by those southern brigadiers, to deprive the de serving old soldiers of their just and honorable dueB, while they are enjoy ing fat offices obtained by bulldozing the poor negroes election times. But, thanks to the All-wise Ruler, they have been check-mated in this Fifty-first congress, and things will assume a dif ferent Soldiers, I think, will be cared for. There are also a great many: old sol diers who came back apparently well but their exposures finally told on them in after years, and are becoming more disabled for work from year to vear. must say to my sorrow that there are a great many of those southern sympa thizers in our midst enjoying the pros perity of this blood-bought free country saved by the self-sacrificing spirit of the union soldiers, and when we meditate on the absurdity and ungratefulness of these benighted creatures we feel to ex claim in the language of Uncle Sam ye ungrateful and perverse creatures! How long will I have to suffer and endure with such rebellious refu gees who are dealing deceitfully with my people. I have delivered them out of the land of bondage, and they will not conform to my laws, i I have shown them mercy, but they have trampled upon my statutes.

They have not proven themselves worthy to livejin my domain. For, behold, I will bindthem hand and foot and throw them into outer darkness, where there shall be wall ing and gnashing of teeth." If they had had a little taste of King Jeff Davis' prison life for three or six months, and had also a little fighting for a change, as some of the old soldiers had to go through with, they would think that fifty dollars a month would hardly be enough. They would also want a section of land from Uncle Sam and the Indian Territory thrown in as a goose pasture. I will conclude by saying, Hurrah for Uncle Sam and his boys, An Old Soldier. Keal Estate Transfer.

ine loiiowmg are the real estate transfers recorded at the register of deeds office from March 12 to March 18, inclusive, as furnished by Chas. articles necessary to supply the iumatos of the stately palaces with all th necessaries and luxurlos of life, and thoir reward in many instancss a eanty subsistence. Wo listen to the murmurs of discontent thut come to us like the sound of a gathering storm from those wno nave been stripped of the products of thoir labor by the combinations, and trusts, and monopolies that accomplish the work of oppression in many ways that the cupidity of individuals could not. We ask the cause of all this? Why those bear so few of tho burdens of life? And yet Solomon in all his glory was scarcely clothed or fed better than they. Or why these are bowed down with toil and care, and crushed with the weight of poverty that they are unable to bear? Ia it because the rich are by nature any worse inun tne poorr jno, human nature Is very much the same whether we And it in costly mansion, reclining on cus- sionsof velvet, surrounded by all the luxuries wealth can buy, or Buffering through the winter of want "in the little old sod shanty on the claim." We all live in the hope of the hotter times coming.

These are looking forward to the tune when they will have more abundance, and can nestle deeper- in the lap of luxury and ease. And thos to the time when tho dark clouds will have rolled by and the bright sun of prosperity shines above their horizon and pours down its life giving rays till they can enjoy the fruits of their labor in their own house and home. The cause of these wide extremes is principally duo to our false financial policy and other class legislation. Brethren, we aro all very largely the creatures of circumstances, and adapt ourselves to our environments until our condition becomes so dark as to extinguish the laet ray of promise from view. Those by inheritance or skill took passage in the golden ship (class legisla tion) and it carried them Bafoly to the heaven of wealth.

These sailed in the good ship labor, and it ran aground on the quicksands of contraction, and the waves of financial depression rolled over it and swept many of its passengers and crew into the sea of destruction, and they sank to rise no more, and the rest have been trying, but vainly try-lug, to rescue their ship that is sinking deeper and deeper in the treacherous sands as the years pass by. WilL the survivors give up the ship, or will they perserve until we Bee it floating safely and triumphantly on the sea of prosperity again. It we do our duty labor will triumph and in a short time the laborer will again be considored worthy of his hire. The causes that have drlvon us to form the Farmers and Laborers Cooperative Union more than any others, are tho cost and scarcity of money among the working people, and the consequent low price of manual labor and of farm products, the excessive rates of profit our dealers charge' us in their efforts to keop even in the race for wealth with the money loaners; and the multiplicity oi middle men that devour the proceeds of our labor and become a burden for us to support. We must weaken the money before it crushes us by reducing the rate-of Interest nearly to a jmr with the increase of wealth, We must cut the profits of our dealers by posting pur- selves in regard to the prices of the things we wish to buy, and then reius-ing to deal only through our exchangq, or with those who will sell to us at a reasonable rate of profit.

We have too many lawyers to support and we must drive some of them out of their profession by cultivating a spirit of brotherly love among ourselves and settling our disputes amicably or by peaceable arbitration. We feed the families of too many liquor dealers. We muBt 'enforce the prohibition law and drive them Into some useful employment, by shunning the tempting array of bottles, the glittering lignis, ana tne uewij sparkle that lures so many on to destruction. To reform somo of the abuses wo complain of we must go into politica. 1 Not astheminious who can be driven at the end of a party lash, or the servile tools that fawn for the sake of favors, but as men of sense and reason who know their rights and have the courage to maintain them.

It has been our custom to select for legislators, lawyers, bankers, railroad eliicials, or thos'o whose special inter-osts of life training are such as to blind their eyes to the real condition, and wants of the people. As long as we do tnis we can expect but little wholesome legislation of a general character. 1 1 think we should try to secure Judge Peters' place for an Alliance I If we will make the effort, I believe the press of the district as well aa the good thoughtful men of nearly every, business and profession will recognize the propriety of our move and warmly second our provided we put up a man of ability, who could be rolled upon to guard and protect bj rights of aU, Qur jbm should know the grievances of which we complain, but he should be broad enough to lenow that others have rights as well as we. He should be a brave but cautious man who would go forth to the impartial discharge of his duty, fearing no one but God above, daring to do anything but wrong. Shall we organize a new party? The prohibition party will no doubt do much to promote the cause of temperance, but there is no likelihood of its becoming a great national party for many years to come.

The union labor party has many good things connected with it, but it has many things that are chimerical and neither democrats nor republicans will accept them. So I think the battle will have to be fought in one or the other of the old parties-most likely the republican. But no matter who the successful candidate may be, let us see to it that he is a man who fully underetan ds the condition of the farmers and laborers of the country. W. B.

HOLMES, KD1TOH. Geu. Alger wt Wichita. Wo, as special representative of The Times, had tho satisfaction of hearing Gen. Algor make his spooch at Wichita, on luet Tuoaduy, tho 25th.

It was just about what we expocted to hear, judging from what tho genoral said at Indianapolis a short time ago, and this last speech he told us was in substance what he did say at Indianapolis, and that he would stand by, and roitorato what he had said, leaving us to infer that his speoch was udt what the old vetorans had expected to hear from him in regard to service pensions, and that they had given him to understand this. The general made a very nice talk at Wichita. He told us about the great work done for this country by the old Boldiers; ho told how needy so many of them wore now and that they were desorving of all that this government could do for them. He said that he was willing to resign his position if some one could be found more acceptable and who could do more for the old veterans than he could do. He said that wo must all work and urge our congressmen to use thoir best efforts to give us better pension legislation.

The general told us that he was powerless to do much, and that his influence at Washington was but little. We think that tho gonoralhas been seen and fixed up for the little trip he is now taking throuffh the country. The whole tone aud tenor of his remarks led us to be' lieve that he is but carrying out a scheme fixed np at Washington whereby he is now trying to conciliate the people and smooth over the rough places so that we might believe it impossible for this government to do what we know it can do if it has the inclina tion, the will, and a desire to relieve the country from the present strin gency of tho timos by dealing justly, and as it ought to do as speedily as possible, toward the old veterans. Instead of showing us how easily the government could provide for a service pension bill, or telling us some way of his own for doing this, the general gave us some big figures showing the amount of income of the government, the amount of expenditure, the amount paid for pensions during the last fiscal year. He told us about the surplus and how it was about all used up.

Now this kind of talk is no doubt intended as a scare crow to startle us into tho belief that this government is on the verge of bankruptcy, and cannot possibly sur vive and pay service pensions now if it ever does. Gen. Alger was quite sym pathetic during his speech. He gave -us some vivid pictures of the late war, showing us its horrors and what the men had endured and suffered to con quer the rebellion, and that while the government can never repay the men who had done this, we must still take the best we can get now and remember that we do not expect to be ever paid for what we have done. Our department commander, Ira Col lins, followed Gen.

Alger in a short speoch during which he did not allude to the pension question at all and gave us nothing to show that he was aware that this matter was up for discussion now. He told us that 20,000 old sol diers were in poor houses, and that he had been instrumental in getting one old union soldier, a negro, out of the poor house, and his wife also, and had them sent to a soldiers' home. An old Comrade writing us from the Soldiers' Homo at Leavenworth says "I have read with considerable interest your articles in the G. A. R.

depart ment of The Hutchinson Times, and think the G. A. R. boys with you are pretty active fellows. The Home el lows are even noiser than ever.

Never heard such rattling fellows before. We have a little 51st, or rather fifty-one congresses every day. Every group of Comrades you see, and you see several at one time any day (in one time and one motion) are agitating the pension bureau fearfully. To hear the boys work the front entrances you'd think they had gutta percha nerves aud steel sinews. Their faith in the 51st congress of the United States is stronger than patent butter or kick of a young cow, and when some old rooster works his main entrance to the extent that every fellow is to have a pension before the 51st congress puts up the shutters and goes home to fix up the fences for the 62d tho little curb-stone congress is just happy enough to lift itself by the boot-straps to the height of a church steeple, and sensations of exquisite joy go cracking through them like little cohorts of ants through an army crack er.

Never saw or heard such agitators before. It's the same thing over and over every day, with a big matinee ev ery Sunday. Let some loud fellow read he Financial Question Discuss ed in an Able Manner. A Farmer's Views of this Very Complex Question. Continued.

from lad week. The buHiness of the country as well aB the notions of the people demand that we have some kind of banks. The Increase of wealth is approximately three per cont. per annum. So that a five per cent, rate would give the bank er and money loaner fully sixty-six and two-thirds per cent, tho advantage of labor in the race of life.

This would be sufficient to continue enough good cautious mon in the banking business for every legitimate purpose. But it may be said that if the increase of wealth is only throe per the rate of interest should bo no higher. But crime walks boldly through the land, and the risks of losing one's property are probably more when it is in money than when it is in lands and some other investments. Hence heavy walls, strong vaults and costly safes are necessary to the protection of money; so I think the advantage of a five per cent, rate would give them what would be about right. All wealth is produced or made avail able by labor.

Any rate of interest that allows one class to accumulate wealth, by loaning, faster than it can bo produced by labor is unjust; as it tends to enrich the few by absorbing the wealth produced by the labor of the many. We pay our national bankers directly from the treasury of tho United States as Interest on their bonds, a rate that is far in excess of the increase of wealth, whether we use their money or not. If we use their money we pay an additional rate of two or three times as much. We have been doing this until there Is scarcely a dollar in circulation but what some one is paying interest on. We have reached the point where a few own and control the circulating medium and have it in their power to bring on an artificial scarcity of money at will; and thus strip the poor of the products of their toll, blight the pros perity of the producer, and reduce the masses to a state of dependancy Vast fortunes and the glitter and show of wealth dazzle our eyes on one hand, and abject poverty with its concomitants, want, misery and crime, stares us in the face on the other.

If this state continues, it will menace the safety of our free institutions, and reduce the masses in time to semi-slavery, though bearing the title of freeman, just as surely as the Irish are in slavery to-day from similar causes. Brethren, it is the duty of the Al liance people to post themselves in regard to this matter, and see that no one is elected to Congress who does not fully understand and appreciate the condition into which we have been forced by the cost and scarcity of mon ey, and the trusts, combinations and monopolies, that have grown up in consequence. In a little talk in a neighboring Alliance a few nights ago, I suggested the propriety of electing an Alliance man to fill Mr. Peters' place. A brother answered: "We have men among the farmers with ability and integrity to fill the place acceptably, but we can't raise the mon-ev to elect one of them." If we have got to that depth of political corruption that no one but a railroad attorney, a national banker, a millionaire, or some one who has wrenchod from the hands of toil enough to buy our political leaders and have enough loft to enable him to live in luxury and ease while he leg islates to crush the hands that fed him, I say God pity the poor.

Yet this brings to mind the very pertinent doctrine of the Wichita banker set forth in his post-prandial at the bankers feast, when he gave his colleagues to understand that the national banks have nothing to fear from the murmurs or uprisings of the people so long as they can make the wisest pates duck to the golden fool. A hill has been introduced in the present Congress to issue $300,000,000 interest bearing bonds to be used as security for a national bank circulation. We ought to defeat this measure by petitioning Congress, or some other way, and save ourselves and those who in their turn shall follow us, from the blighting, withering curse that the support of a moneyed aristocracy would heap upon us. To use a quotation from that spicy little sheet that is trying so hard to serve the Interests of the people; the Hutchinson Times, "this a nice little scheme for the rich folks!" If we must depend on the integrity, stability and power of the government for the value of our paper money, then the government should issue it directly thoir property has increased at an an nual rato or three per and that it is now worth $200 instead of $100, and had they fixed the rato of interest to correspond with the increase of wealth, and had each performed his propor proportion of tho work, and exercisod the sumo degree of economy, they would now bo worth $20 apiece. But how has the banker fared? In a little over 8i years his wealth would double, in twelvo and a half quadruple, in less than nineteen be eight fold, and at the end of tho twenty-live be sixteen times what no started with, or MHO.

This is the way wo are going under our national banking system. Our wealth increases three per cent, our money costs us over twelve. This Is tho way we have boon going until thousands of our peoplo are broken up in business, thrown out of employment, and stripped of thoir homes; and three-fourths of the farms are heavily mortgaged, many of them beyond the hope of redemption. As our Imaginary banker in twenty-five years absorbed threo-fourths of the wealth of his colony, and reduced his people to poverty, so our bankers and money loaners have absorbed a large portion of the wealth of our country and reduced many of us to a Btate of dependancy. The division of our peo ple into the rich class and the laboring class, and the great extremes of poverty and wealth are chiefly due to the laws that compel us to pay such exces sive rateB for the use of money, and other class of legislation which the intelligence and patriotism of the Al liance ought to remedy since they have the balance of power in their hands.

Brother President, the cause we are engaged In is a righteous cause. The obligation we have taken upon our selves is a sacred obligation tnat cannot be broken with impunity. We are a fraternity bound together no more by the ties of self-interest than by the hope of promoting the general welfare of the toiling masses of humanity. The people who have lived and grown rich from the labors of the agriculturists and other toilers have long talked to us of the independance and prosperity of the farmer. They have never ceas ed to eulogize the happy lot of the honest yeomanry.

They nave shown us to their entire satisfaction that no one has so great cause to rejoice and be happy as we. And they would have us believe that contentment is a virtue that we alone are entitled to pos But when I have listened to brethren at break of day as they went forth to labor in the early dawn, and remember that they toil by the light of the morning star, and that the shades of night fall dark around them before they can rest their weary limbs or seek the night's repose they have so well and when I hear them complain of the burdens of Interest they have to bear that are weighing them down, and stripping them and their families of the com torts of home while their hairs are turning prematurely gray, lean- not but think there is a darker shade to the picture than our eulogists have yet discovered. We look on every side and behold the vast temples of trade stocked with their many thousands of dollars worth of goods the possessions of our merchants, and we admire the wisdom, the energy, the perseverence that has enabled them to accumulate all these. We view with pride the palatial residences that are the homes of our lawyers, bur doctors, our mer chants, our bankers, our business men of almost every profession, and we are led to exclaim what smart mentney must be, how business like, what plucl they must havej what confidence in the country that they dare to invest bo much in these stately piles of brick and stone, and the richly carved furniture. the costly carpets, the elegant wardrobes, the snowy drapery and all the other articles of use and beauty that make up the homes of luxury and ease.

We look again and behold tne mothers of toil as they drop on their knees late at night by their pallets of straw, and with a reverence born more of fear than faith, thank God they are yet permitted to linger within the hovels they call home, yet trembling while they pray least their strength should fail for a day and they be, cast into the street to suffer from the blasts of heaven while their children suffer for want of food, and the sons of toil with the great drops of prespiration glistening on their brows, as they mix the mud, and mould the brick, and quarry the rock, and dress the stone, and cut the timbers, and saw the boards, and build the stately mansions for others to dwell in, while they and their's may never own a home, and the fields filled with busy toilers plowing and sowing, and reaping and mowing, and perform.