The Randall News from Randall, Kansas • 1

Wo buy and sell farms, ranches, city property and make farm loans Morris Woolscy, lianriall, Kan. BANBAI NEWS Vol. 6. Randall, Kansas, Thursday, January 3, 1907. No.

15 MM I I (0) ft I We are busy inyoicing' and haye no time to write an ad. Next week our ad will appear as usual. In the meantime keep in mind the fact that our store is chockful of bargains in all lines. The best at the lowest price is our aim and we stand back of every article we sell. The Randall Mer.

Co. I I I 1 There are plenty of coal cars and plenty I 01 coal now, since tne rauroad-coal-com- bine has got the price hiked up a dollar each added forecast brings Bome new ideas. Here in Kansas we are chiefly concerned with the results of the late election. Here is, indeed, a great chance a ton. The coal famine seems to have that the mass of the voters are not sufficiently interested in party politics to vote the ticket if the candidates don't suit them.

The indifference of the public to party issues has been frequently hoggish, yet we believe in giving the devil his dues. Just because everyone is giving the railroads a kick is no reason why a retail dealer should rob the people and then accuse the railroads of being responsible for it. Every man that has a graft wants to hang it onto the railroads. Signs of the Times. We make no claims to being a prophet or the son of a prophet, but we do make bold to say a few things concerning the near future from a political standpoint.

Political prophesying is not new, but been made to order. The coal famina is caused bv the rail- for applied prophesying. road themselves, which now haveaeon- The vote at the last election shows I trolling hand in the coal combine. All 1 dealers place their summer orders for I nnnl Vtllt rVAtl.1TIOP a. pnn.1 fomino fVia price is advanced and the coal shipped under contract is diverted by the rail roads to dealers who are willing to pay 1 more money for it.

Eventually the dealers who have contracted will be forced exhibited, but never more so than at the last election. Instead of taking conclusions as premises upon which to base an argument, the facts should first be fully understood. In the opinion of the writer these but serve to confirm the position taken by the voters. But did the voters, take that position? Why did Governor Hoch run neck and neck with Harris? Why did several republican candidates lose out in the county? Kansas is a Republican state, Jewell county is normally republican by 500 majority. Why did any republican candidate suffer defeat? That's the question.

Whose To or not to lbs: fault is it? ifamine" will be over. This is the way jthe retail dealers have it sized up. 'Jewell Republican. The above roast on the coal and rail- oad companies would sound very well if it represented the facts in the case. He is in error in every statement made in th article.

There has been no ad-vancein the coal rate for a year, and no advance in the price of coal at the mines for nearly two months. Instead of coal being worth $8.50 (the price charged by the Jewell dealers) the best coa! is Helling in Randall for $7.50 per the same price that has been charged for some time. The that the coal companies shipped coal to other parties at advanced prices while other old con We are bowing down before various pre-hunting political gods and electing men to office who couldn't tell the federal constitution from a dimn nmi We are sending street corner economists to state and county conventions to evolve from their innate ignorance and gild with their supernal gall political platforms which we are pledged beforehand to accept as the essence of all tract; at lower prices were still unfilled that is the question. (Whether 'tis nobler in the end to suffer the cares that poverty brings us or to succeed in life by starting a bank account and by regular deposits become well-to-do. QTo the man who is wise and careful, there is only one way to succeed.

The one way is to make a start by opening a bank account; even if it is small at first, it will grow. You will enjoy watching it grow. QA bank account is an excellent help to the man with a determination to save his money. is also i isleading. The facts in the case arc these: No coal company in the west, fitter July 31, will sell coal at a fixed price, but all coal is invoiced at the price in effect at date of shipment, no matter when the coal was bought.

All prices made during the summer become void on July 31, and after worldly wisdom. Our patriotism has been supplanted by and now all the politicians are for a party and none are for the state. On July 4 they shout for the old flag and all the rest of the year they clamor for an appropriation. The man who is kicked by a nightmare while dreaming of the draft demands a pension and every politician wants a fat office. And while our ship of state is threading with unsteady course the stormy strait between the dangerous rocks of greed and need; its canvas torn by contending winds; its decks swept by angry waves, the politicians boast of what their party has date market price prevails.

Everyone Knows tnat tne demand for coal is greatly increased and the price advanc ed during, the three or four winter months. During the summer the com panies make a special price in order to get enough coal out through the coun try so th( can handle the winter rush. done and will yet do. The men I who stored their coal are not But the mass of the voters have caught on and there will be a radical suffering from a coal famine or an advance in (rice. But thf thing that makes us weary is for iQ dealers in Jewell City to stick extrfy dollar per ton profit on ac-of the shortage and then sec Bro.

State Exchange Bank W. E. Carnahan, Cashier. change in the near future. Mark our prediction.

We are no prophet, but just keep this forecast in mind and rehearse it the day after, election in 1908. it. TtTl.I1- A car of "Sunshine Maitland" coal at rUHRl 111 laulUOUO J.UI lb. ULIV ze that the railroads are a bit Joslin'a lumber yard at $7.50 per ton-.