The Western Economist from La Crosse, Kansas • 1

TERN JffiCONOMI np JL VOL. 2. LA CROSSE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1892. NO.

33. WES Stand up for the west, must be the battle cry of this campaign. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. The Topeka Capital, as reported in the Clarion last week, gives a short extract from Jerry Simpson's letter to ihe National Watchman and makes it a text for abuse of Simpson and misrepresentation of the. facts contained in the Although the editor of the Capi'zl claims to The Chieftain of last week tries, in a number of to give expression to the perplexed feelings of its editor, but he still seeks to avoid a discussion of the issues between the People's party and the Republican party by selecting individuals in the People's party and trying to ridicule their peculiarity of speech.

AND BA.UB3SO iTiH AT KENNEDY'S GROVE BUSiTCENTEE, This method of warfare, although it could under no circumstances reach the judgment, would have a better appearance if the editor wonld make his own views public in language approved by the rules and examples of Murray and WhateJy, We nave a Sle of the Chieftain for some time back, and if the editor insists on having the campaign conducted on the plan of a grammar school, we will have his able? editorials ana lyzed and the result published for the amusement of our readers. He also seeks to avoid a discussion of the questions in dispute by making war on some individuals iu the Peo ple's party, or persons classed by him as People's party men. This is as manifestly unjust as for us to hold the Republican party responsible for the eccentricity and demagogism of the editor of the Chieftain. Only two years ago he was a delegate to the Republican congressional con vention and assisted in getting up calamity platform and inaugurating a calamity campaign. Now, it would not be right to hold Republicans, who are Republicans because they desire to have Republican methods prevail, responsible for this Dodge City effort for free silver and other demands of the People's party.

It wonld be interesting to hear what Hale, Sparks and other stalwart Republicans think of -that heroic effort to break into the ranks of the reformers, But a party can riot be held responsible for the opinions and acts of every member. The real issues of to-day are placed before the public in the Minneapolis Republican platform and the Omaha People's party platform, and on the propositions contained in these public declarations the question should be decided, and the politician or who seeks a settlement by appeals to prejudice is not seeking the good of the people but a perpetuation of existing conditions through supposed- ignorance of the masses. The editor of the Chieftain now seems to want to debate some imaginary questions, but when he had a chance to debate the real questions with Lovitt and Senter the people remember the result and smile at the thought of the pressing business that kept him fro "standing up for Kansas" on that occasion. If he wants to have a discusssion of the actual questions on which, the parties differ, either in public debate or through the pre.s, he csn have it in any desired quantity. If he simply wants to show that he is a better rhetorician than Mr.

Lovitt we presume a commission could to determine their respective merits. Notice These Prices. Cylinder Oil i 60 cts. per gal. Castor Machin3 Oil Eldorado Oil Raw Linseed Oil Boiled Barn Paint 50 30 65 70 70 The rays of the setting sun beck ons the civilization of our country to feast from the grandest store-house of mineral wealth in all the world.

Can there be a man in all Kansas so blind as to be indifferent to the opening of the gateway that leads to his magnificent palace of prosperity? such there be he is certainly en titled to sympathy cf humanity. His superstition will be amusing even to himself when two years hence he ob serves in all its glorious effects and advantages that much desired act of congress authorizing the free and un limited coinage of silver. Last week the cracked brain ed itor of the Chieftain in several ar ticles is doing his best to stir up strife in the People's party with the hcpe that the republicans may gain some advantage. Now Mr. Anderson cool your head.

You have not ingenuity enough to accomplish your designs. The People's party is onto you. Your hope will not be grat ified. The People's "party will meet in convention, no doubt, as they did two years ago and bring out their candidates by an informal ballot and then continue to ballot until a good man is nominated for each office. Then these men, whoever they may be, will receive the hearty support of the People's party.

Your wily schemes to cause dissension in the People's party will not work. The farmers are dead onto VOU. You can not out general them in that way. Your hog wash that the bosses are after the scalp of some person is too thin to go down with men of sense. But wa think you are excusable, we know you and your political associates are desperate, and we know that the numerous articles in the Chieftain for the.

past four months have informed the People's party just what you want and that you will not get. Resolutions of the Rush county Institute as passed by the teachers, August 25, 1892. Waereas. We the teachers of Rush county, having passed- a profitable and enjoyable time during the past tour weeks be it Resolved That we express our thanks and gratitude to county Sup erintendent Frank Reed and to the Conductor and Instructors for the able manner in which they have con ducted this Institute and for the interest they have manifested in the students. Resolved, That we believe our present county Suprrintendent to be an efficient and impartial officer and therefore recommend him to tne peo cle of Rush county as one who is fully qualified to perform the duties of his office and who is interested the promotion of educational work.

Resolved That we thank the peo-pbof La Crosse' and vicinity for their school building; for their kindness and hospitality towards the teachers and for their liberal patronage to our public entertainments. Resolved, That we send a copy of these resolutions to each of the county papers for publication. D. Riley, Earnest Yeomax, Orrie Ogle. fair premium list.

Department A. Standad bred horses. Class No 1 should read: First premium $5 and diploma. Second premium, f'4. Best one year old, 83, Best brood mare, 83, yf Best mare or gelding, Best mare or gelding 1 year old, 82.

Best sucking Classes Nos 2, 3, same as, above. Loyd McNemee, Sec. Republican county convention to-day. What do you think of C. Wood David now? The- countv commissioners will meet on Saturday.

13. E. Miriek, of Plaasasant Dale township was in the city to-day. Little Bros, have placed a beautiful sign on the northern portion of their office. Everybody should attend the People's party picnic in Kennedy's grove Monday.

Don't abuse Republicans. They are good citizens and will soon be with us to help build up the west. Farmers are being put to eon siderable trouble to-day Because of the scarcity of cars in which to ship their wheat. John E. Frazer, who was for many jears a resident of Rush county but for a few years of Halstead, is in the city this week.

'V. -Jack Sweetland, an old resident of Rush county, who hunted buffalo on the plains of western Kansas many years before it was settled is in town to-day shaking hands with his friends. T. R. Brooke gives the lie to the statement that he is a republican He says he knows ten old soldiers in Rush county who went to the reunion good Republicans who returned converted to the Pea "'pie's party.

The Republicans nominated the following county ticket to-day Representative, S. I Hale; Probate Judge, Alex Walker; Co. Attorney L. Anderson; Supt. of Schools Frank Clerk of Dist.

Court Earnest Yeoman. TO "WHOM IT HAY COXCEBN. I am ready to receive bids for restaurant privileges on Fair grounds Loye McNkmee, Sec. Two or three communications that should have appeared in this issue of the paper are unavoidably carried over to next week. "Falling straws show which way the wind blows.

"Coming events cast their shadows before. "Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined." The following was one of the questions on history in the recent teachers examnination: "Mention six important events in American history since 1876." Seventy-five per cent, of the applicants mentioned the origin of the People's party as one. The following is a list of those securing certificates at the regular teach era examination held at the close of the Normal: i FIEST GRADE. Manie Cone, E. E.

Cone, Addie Adkmson, J. D. Eiley. SECOND GRADE. Myron P.

Isabell, Mittie Britt, Laura Coofer, Mary Galbreath, C. E. Yoeinan, Emma Ogle, Frank Russell, W. Riley, FredH. Hyman, Mary Hain, W.

W. Anderson, Helen Torrey, Fannie Jameson. THIRD GRADE. Emma Gearhardt, W.F.Newton; Carrie Brooks, Stella Hill, Sadie Tope. Clara Walker, Winnie Delaplain, Mary Prior, Lavina Fudge, Cora Harris.

Elmer Fry, OllieFry, Belle Armstrong, Momie Mulroy. Katie Wilson, 'Alice Mulroy, "Minnie Springer, 3tt, E. Jessoph, uive had the letter before hi in he suppressed that portion which telle of whom the quoted statements were made. The Capital also misrepre sents when it says that in speaking of the letter at the Wichita reunion Simpson "tcok refuge in falsehood." On that occasion Simpson reiterated the language of the letter and the falsehood was located with those who had misrepresented his statements. Wo published the entire letter a few weeks ago, but to give Jerry's adversaries food for reflection we give be low an extract from the letter includ ing that portion to which exception has been taken and follow it up with an extract from the great speech of John J.

Ingalls in the U. S. Senate, January 14th, 1S90, which contains laDomacre as clear and forcible as any. portion of Simpson's letter and conveys precisely the same thought that the Capital and others of its class condemn in Simpson. After our congressman's critics have seen the language used by Senator Ingalls they can not, if they are honest, condemn Simpson without including Ingalls as equally at fault.

Read the statements of both men and then see if you have little enough regard for common fairness to denounce one and applaud the other: In the great cities the poor huddled together in garrets and cellars, like cattle, without the chanqe to practice the common decencies 'of life. Children are born and live a few short months in the stifling atmosphere and then give up the unequal struggle, or if escaping death, they live only to become criminals, and prey upon'society, while those who have denied them the right of life, by denying them the land to live on, roll in wrealth and luxury, which plunges them into excesses of all kinds, that finally enervate, weaken and destroy. And Oh, Watchman, while your post has been vacant a great store of mineral wealth, which was reserved in the earth for the use of man, has been taken by the enemy. Tne coal, the iron, the copper, silver, salt and oil have all passed iDto the hands of the foe, and labor has to beg leave of those who have robbed them of their inheritance for the leave to work. The poor privilege of producing wealth is graciously granted with the understanding that they surrender the products of their toil to those lords of the nation, and thousands denind this poor privilege go clothed in rags, wanting the necessaries of life.

Under these conditions, life becomes a fierce and terrible struggle, men sell their honor, women their virtue, children become criminals and outcasts, in a land where the forces for producing wealth are so enormous that, if the people could obtain access to this vast storehouse they could feed the world and then have abundance left. Jerry Simpson to the National. Watchman. So it happens, Mr. that our society is becoming rapidly stratified, almost hopelessly stratified, into a condition of superfluously rich and helplessly poor.

We are accustomed to speak ot this as the land of the free and the home of the brave. It will soon be the home of the rich and the land of the slave. A financial system under which more than one-half of the enormous wealth of the country, derived from the bounty of nature and the labor of all, is owned by a little more than 30,000 people, while 1,000,000 American citizens, able and Avilling to toil, are homeless tramps, starving for; bread, requires adjustment. A social system which offers to tender, virtuous and dependent women the "between prostitution and suicide5 as an escape from beggary, is organized crime, for which some day unrelenting justice will demand attonement and expiation. John J.

Ingalls in U. S. Senate, January 14, 1891. I very much desire that those having an account on my books will call and settle the same. T.

A. Manlet. Ladies' yacht all colors, at W. A. Gates'.

Monday, Sept. 5th, 1882. HON. JERRY SIMPSON, HON. j.

M. SENTER AND OTHERS ivill be present and iiddress the people of Rush County on THE LIVING ISSUES of the campaign. The committee is making elaborate preparations for the comfort and enjoyment of all who will be present. THE COMMITTEE WILL FUR NISH COFFEE, LEMONADE AND BARBECUED BEEF FREE. Parties will bring Bread, Pies, Cakes and whatever thev see DroDer.

A 1 Dinner will be at 12:30 in the grove. MUSIC. The famous Quenomo Glee Club will be present and furnish vocal music. The Liebenthal and the Banner Township Brass Bands will be present also. There will be speaking in the evening at 8 o'clock RtLa Crosse? in the Court House by Jerry Simpson and M.

Senter. All are cordially invited to attend and hear the issues cf the day from a People's party standpoint. D. M. Rothweilee, Pres.

Joilx Rexjjer, Sec. Have you called on the new firm of Oneal? If not now is time while their stock is crowded. Must thin out some of it. Dont forget the one door north of the post where you will find anything you want in the way of summer hats. If you are in need of plows, har rows or sod cutters inquire of G.

L. Woodward, La Crosse, Kansas. Price of the Hapgood tricycle plows, 16 inch, $32 and freight. First published August 25th, 1892. Notice of Application to Purchase School Land.

The undersigned hereby gives notice that lit will, day of September, 102, make an Application to the Probata Court of Hush county. Kansas, to purchase the following described school land, sitiiEted in the organize County ot Kuali and elate of Kansas, The s-w qr s-w qr, s-e qr s-w qr, s-w qr s-e qr and s-e qr of tin-9-e fir of section 14, township 17 south of IV 'vest of the 6th P. 11. in Kanens. He names the following persons to prove hi settlement, continuous residence, and improvements, viz: Peter Gillig, residence Hison, Kansas, and Henry Schwinut, residence Bisonr Kansas.

Done at La Crosse, County of Bush, Kansas, this SUth day of August, UVZ. Henry Foos, Petitioner. E. L. P.othrock.

A. i. Hush. ROTHROCK RUSH, D15NTISTS, Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All ko: guaranteed to give satisfaction.

Office over Semple's Drug Store. SDKEWS, AXDEP.SON, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW. Office over the First National Bank. LA CROSSE, KANSAS Q. R.

McKEE, Attorney-at-Law. ATTENTION GIVEN LA CROSSE, KANSAS, Most durable house Paint in Market 1.20 Yours for mutual benefit, Semple Drug Co. Go to W. A Gates for pants and overalls. i.