The Union Labor Banner from Abilene, Kansas • 1

NION LABOR BANNER THE "LABOR IS NOBLE AND HOLY, AND TO DEFEND IT IS A WORK WORTHY OF THE NOBLEST OF THE HUMAN RACE." iLr. -fat: DlCKITSrSOlT COTJ2TTTT, KLA.2STSLST FIDJLTT 5, 1S3S. "VOL. 1. THE! HAYE COME THEY ARE HERE.

OFFICIAL DIllETOltr. ONE REASON. Why do we favor the abolishment MASS MEETING! of the present banking system, is a question asked. We will give one reason one which is of vital interest to the people of all agrietulural districts. The mortgages upon the farm lands of this country virtually vest the title of the land in the hold At Abilene, October 6, 1888, Where the Political Issues Will be Dismissed by the Ablest Men of the Day.

STATE OFFICERS. JOHN A. MARTIN Lieutenant 0 overuor A. P. RIDDLE Secretary of State K.

11. ALLKN Treasurer S. 1'. HOKE Attorney General S. B.

BRADFORD Sunt, of Public Instruction J. M. LAWHEAD Auditor of State TIM MCCARTHY COUNTY OFFICERS. Sheriff D.W.Naill Attorney G.W. Ilurd Clerk W.

H. Bert Treasurer J. J. Cooper Clerk of the District Court M. V.

Brillhart Probate Judge P. SeedB County Superintendent John 8. Ford Register of Deeds W. D. Nichols Coroner George lloisington Surveyor A.

C. Komig COUNTY COMMISSIOWtlW. J. W. BAKE It, HENHY KAKDT, SIMON STKIN.

County Commissioners regular meetings First Mondays in January, April, July and October. ers of these securties. The rates of FEAST OF LOGIC AND REASON UKION LABOR PARTY PLATFORM. A discussion of the "tariff question" does not pay the grocery bill; It does not pay house rent; It does not pay for coal; It does not pay taxes; It does not pay the interest on the mortgage; It does not buy bread, for the children; It does not keep the wolf from the door; It does not give employment to a million idle men; It does not sell the merchants' goods; It does not start up the factories; It does not bring about the longed for "good The apathy and indifference of the people over the "tariff question" is fairly paralyzing the leaders of the two old parties. The people do not "catch on." The.

rank and file don't "enthuse" worth a cent. An old Greenbacker can talk half an hour to an audiance of Democrats pun Republicans and twenty -five per cent, of them are ready to join the Union Labor party and hurrah for Streeter and Cunningham. A small sized Labor paper an make more converts in a single week than a "prominent" Hessian can make in a month. I The "tariff" is too thin fodder for mortgage cursed farmers who are paying fiom 10 per cent, a year to 5 per cent, a month for the use of money, while they are only getting 15 cents a bushel for oats and 50 cents for wheat. The jig is up! The light is breaking! The light isdawnig! The people are arising I On with the fight.

And Must American Cltlzen9 Pay Tribute to the Proud Britons? Never 1 Junction City Tribune. Some time ago there was a story written here at Junction City.by Mrs. Sarah Mabie Brigham, a member of our Ladies Reading club, entitled, "Waverland; A Tale of our Coming Landlords." The story was a good one and has had a wide circulation in the columns of over fifty newspapers, largely in Kansas and Illinois. Well the landlords have come. They have foot holds in half a dozen states and territories.

Their tracks are deep aud devilish worse than anything before seen in America! Thev American blood in' the Maxwell grant last month in Colorado. Illinois is afflicted with one piratical Scully, of London, Rome, and other points where his palaces and harems happen to be located. The people of Illinois have read "Waverland," and have taken steps to abolish Scully. He now shows his hand in Kansas, where he has established two or three considerable dukedoms in Dickinson, Harvey and Marion counties. We call attention to the following from the Manhattan Nationalist: The following notice, a copy of which has been served on every merchant and grain buyer in Marion county, gives a better idea of Scully's ways than much generalizing: Adopted at the National Convention Held In Cincinnati, May 15, 1888.

interest are so high that the capitalists of the east and England get the entire profit from the products of the soil, making it impossible for the farmers to throw these yokes off, and by the capitalist extending the mortgages from time to ti'jie (riiaking the farmer think he is still proprietor, instead of tenant) works as a main-spring to his energy. This is a more satisfactory manner of collecting rents than they have in England. There the land is owned, in fact, by the landlord; but we see no difference in the result, save that under the system in vogue here the farmer works harder and takes more pride in the general appearance of things around him, the cause of which is a pride born through this supposed proprietorship, and that he is more prompt with his rent for fear of being turned out of liis(?) home. Now, could the money be loaned direct to the farmer at 2 per as loaned to our national banks, lie could avoid the 18 and 2G per cent, he is paying and live in the hope of some day saving enough to clear his farm from incumbrance. Also, if the money could be furnished at a low rate it would stop in a measure, this brokerage business, compel cap-tal to seek investment in manufactories, thus furnishing employment to idle workingmen.

We cannot expect capital to seek investment in legitimate business pursuits while the present avenue to wealth is open it is too easy and rapid. Millions of capital are now placed upon the industries of Dickinson county in this manner, which must have their per cent, or premium, before the producer gets his and yet people want to know what is the cause of our hard times. The loaning of money direct to the people, by the government, instead of through the banks, would prove an entire remedy. Meetings Will be Held Both Afternoon and Evening, at the Court House. Everybody Should Come Out.

The Union Labor mass meeting, to be held Saturday afternoon and evening, October 6th, will be a meeting whieh no public spirited or thinking man can afford to miss; Addresses will be delivered by Hon. P. P. Elder, Union Labor candidate for governor of Kansas; Capt, L. B.

Todd, candidate for lieutenant-governor; Col. S. H. Kellogg, of Vermont; Hon.John Davis, of Junction City, men of master intellects. Mr.

Davis lias long been conceeded the best posted man Kansas, upon the finance of this country, and the others have reputations equally a3 good. The tidal-wave is sweeping over tins land! Men have commenced to read and think, and are being carried along by the tide! From every quarter goes up the cry for speakers and newspapers! Come and hear wholesome truths from men who have so much truth to tell they have not time for lying, i Office of F. W.Fox, Agent fok Wm. Scully, Marion, Kansas, 1888. To Sir.

1 herewith below ptesent you a list of tenants of Wm. Scully, and beg to notify you that their crops are subject to Mm. Scully's lien for rent, and that you must not them for any crops, or parts of crops, until such rentis paid.or I shall be obliged to hold you respensible F.W.; Fox, Agent. Kansas is now trying to amend her constitution, so that we too, may expel the British tyrant from our soil. Every true citizen should vote for the Anti-Scully amendment at the coming election.

Vote the tyrant down and save all further trouble! We can do it! THE CAMPAIGN LIE. Ottawa Journal. As a specimen of how the campaign is to be conducted by the lie-publicans, the late purported interview Hon. P. P.

Elder, while returning from the Wichita convention, is a sample. The Governor states that he had no talk with any that the "interview" is a pure creation of the wrilers' a campaign lie, only published to affect the ignorant and bigoted of the men of ordinary intelligence will at once recognize it as a falsehood. The republican campaigns for years past have been made on this basis to cheat the voter, either by false information or by keeping him -ignorant of matters affecting his welfare. General discoutent prevails on the part of the wealth-producer. Farmers are suffering from a poverty which has forced most of them to mortgage their estates, and the prices of products are so low as to offer no relief except through bankruptcy, Laborers are sinking into greater dependence.

Strikes are resorted to without bringing relief, becausa of the inability of em. ployers in many cases to pay living wages, while more and more are driven into the street. Business men find collections almost impossible, and meantime hundreds of millions of idle public money which is needed for relief is locked up in the Lnited States treasury or placed without terest in favored banks in grim mockery of distress. Land monopoly flourishes as never be-f oie, and more owners of the soil are daily becoming tenants. Great transportation corporations still succeed in extorting their profits on watered stock through unjust charges.

The United States senate has become an open scandal, its membership being purchased by the rich in pen defiance of the popular will. Various efforts are made to squander the public money, which are designed to empty the public treasury without paying the public debt. Under these and other alarming conditions we appeal to the people of our country to come out of old party organizations, whose indifference to the pub-lie welfare Is responsible for this distress, and aid the Union Labor party to repeal existing class legislation and relieve the distress of our industries by estulishing the following: LAND. While we believe that the proper solution of the financial distress will greatly relieve those now in danger of losing their homes by mortgage foreclosures, and enable all industrious persons to secure a home as the highest result of civilization, we oppose land monopoly in every form, demand the forfeiture of unearned grants, the limitation of land ownership and such other legislation as will stop speculation in lands and holding it unused from those whose necessities require it. We believe the earth was made for the people and not to make an idle aristocracy to subsist through rents upon the toils of the industrious, and that corners in land are as bad as corners in food, and that those who are not residents or citizens should not be allowed to own lands in the United States.

A homestead should be exempt to a limited extent from exocution or taxation. TBANSPOBTATION. The means of communication and transportation shall be owned bv the people as is the United States postal Bystem. MOMRT. The estallshmcnt of a national monetary system In the interests of the producer, iustead of the speculator and usurer, by which the circulating medium in necessary quantity and full legal tender, shall be issued directly to the people without the intervention of banks and loaned to citizens upon land security at low rate of interest so as to relieve them from the extortion of usury and enable them to control the money supply.

Postal savings banks should be established, and while we have the eoinage of gold we should have free coinage of silver. We demand the immediate application of all money in the United States treasury to the payment of the bonded debt( and condemn the further issue of interest-bearing bonds, either by the national government or by states, territories ormunicl-palties- I.ABOR. Arbitration should take the place of strikes and other injurious methods of settling disputes. The letting of convict labor to contractors should be prohibited, the contract system to be abolished on public works, the hours of labor in indus-trialestablishments to be reduced commensurate with the increased production by labor saving machinery, employes protected from bodily injury, equal pay for equal work for both sexes, and labor, agricultural and co-operative associations be fosteredand encouraged by law The foundation of a republic is in the intelligence of its citizens, and children who are driv-eninto workshops, mines and factories, are deprived of the education which should be secured to all by proper legislation, PENSIONS. We demand the passage of a service pension bill to every honorably discharged soldier or sailor of the United States.

INCOME TAX. A graduated income tax is the most equitable system of taxation, placing the burden of government on those whe can best afford to pay, instead of laying it on the farmers and producers, and exempting millionaires, bondholders and corportations, UNITICD STATES SENATE. We demand a constitutional amendment making United States senators elective by a direct vote of the people. CONTRACT LABOR. Wedemandthe strict enforcement of the laws prohibiting tne importation of subjects of foreign countries under contract.

CniNESE. We demand the passage and enforcement of such legislation as will absolutely exclude the Chinese from the United States, WOMAN SUFFRAGE. The right to vote is inherent in citizenship irrespective of sex, and properly within the province of state legislation. PARAMOUNT ISSUES. The paramount issues to be solved In the Interests of humanity are the abolition of usury, monopoly and trusts, aud we denounce the democratic and republican parties for creating aud perpetuating these monstrous evils.

PRE-EMPTION LAW. The law, known as the pre-emption law, which allows citizens of the United States, or those who have declar ed their intention to become such, to acquire a title to 160 acres of land by six months residence, and the pay: ment of the government price: $200 on minimum and $400 on maximum land, was one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated upon the people of this country. It not only took vast quantities of money out of circula tion, but it opened an avenue whereby the public domain is fas passing into the hands of speculators. Half the land of western Kansas has The demo-republican party is making "Rome howl" over the tariff on foreign goods. To read its papers one would suppose that there was no other issue, and that the country is bound to sink unless the question is settled, and that speedily.

They forget that there is a tariff on home industries that beats the tariff on foreign good in about the same proportion that the light of the sun at noonday exceeds that of a tallow candle. There is the national bank tariff; the gold and silver tariff; the usury tariff; the railroad tariff; the telegraph tariff; the land-steal tariff; the standard-oil tariff; the coal tariff; the speculating board of trade tariff; and the trust tariff all these are levied on home productions and are doing more to rob the people and drive them into bankruptcy in one year, than the present high protective tariff, or absolute free trade could do in ten years but it is blind as a bat and dumb as an oyster on all these crying evils, but yelling itself hoarse over the lesser evil, in order to divert the attention of the people from the greater. Torch of Liberty. been "proved-up" under this law, or by the commutation of homestead ou-tries, which is Che same in effect, the past three years. The land was settled upon by young men and specula BEHOLD THE DAWN.

For twenty years after the close of the war, says the Chicago Sentinel, the non-combatants, who hired substitutes in order to save their own precious lives, pulled hair and kicked shins ovei the "bloody shirt." As the echo of the last gun died away "the gallant home guards crawled from their hiding places" and began the war of extermination. During the bloody shirt horde of thieves and robbers were pillaging the treasury. It was a bond purchasers' A land stealers' picnic! A bankers' carnival! A dress-parade of political prostitutes! A feast for office-seekers! A riot of robbers! A perfect holiday for thieves! It is safe and reasonable to assert that during the period occupied in wrangles over the bloody shirt indulged in for the purpose of distracting the attention of the people from the wholesale plunder that was going on not less than fifty per cent, of the property of the United Stales fraudulenty and feloniously passed out of the hands of wealth-producers into the possession of the robber classes! Having worn thread-bare the ensanguined garment, a new "issue," must be raised. The bloody shirt was abandoned! The ''tariff question" was taken up! And it is under cover of this ambuscade of senseless twaddle that thieves hope not only to continue their depredations but retaia undisputed possession of the boodle which they have already captured! But the indications are that the people are not going to be fooled any longer by the cry of "wolf." tors who kept up a constructive resi 1 dence by visiting the land once ev THE HAZZARD CIRCULAR. "Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power and chattle slavery destroyed.

This, I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor, and carries with it the care of the laborer; while the European plan, led on by England, is capital control of labor. "This can be done by controlling the money. The great debt, that capitalists will sen to it, is made out of the war, must be used as a measure to control the volume of money. To accomplish this, the bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting to get the secretary of the treasury to make this recommendation to congress.

It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate as money any length of time, for we cannot control them." The above circular was issued in 1862 by English capitalists and "confidently" circulated among our American bankers. If carefully read, no one need be at a loss to solve the mystery of the finance legislation following and in whose interest congress has been working all these years. That it is a true copy, we are ready at any time to prove, even! though the old parties, in the person of their politicans, are always ready to deny. Copies of the original can be furnished. It is as capable of proof as any document in the history of our country.

ery thirty days for six months who would never have thought of trying to acquire title to public land had they been compelled to comply with the requirements of the homestead law. After their making proof this land was immeditely mortgaged for its full value, and will through the The republican toadies hail James G. Blaine as the "uncrowned king," aud the Democratic toadies call Mrs. Cleavland the "uncrowned queen," and each of the old parties refer to the other as unconvicted knaves; but the people hold the trumps, and if they do their duty they will put an end to the game and a stop to the disgusting- farce by electing honest workingmen to take control of the government in the interest of justice, labor and humanity, Southwest. regular process of law, pass into the hands of eastern capitalists, who now hold their mortgages.

This is one instanse of the wise legislation our brilliant corporation attorneys have been giving us. By it millions of acres of land have been placed out of the reach of the poor people of this country, and which should have been their free heritage. IR. 1ST. Siivcrn-i, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND Prompt Attention given to business In all Courts, Collections a Specialty.

Senator Harkness has a man to beat this time, in the general.