Leavenworth Labor News from Leavenworth, Kansas • 8

ALL OVER TOWN. THE "SINGLE TAX" to jriajsty'-Lof law upheld. JKe Labor JJes; Means the abolition of all taxes unon induslry and the products of industry, and the taking by taxation upon land values irrespective by. but rather seems to be good ground for a suspicion that the job was too big a one and that he wanted another attorney mcnts, of the annual rental ot improve S. Lyons, the pawnbroker, is dead, Ringling's circus will be here May 30, The sportive dog catcher is about due.

A boycott that is half hearted is worse those va.ious tonus LEAVENWORTH. KANSAS, APRIL ai, 1893, to handle it. than a farce. Eva M. Blackman, OFFICE! 331 PAWNER The can't be.

beaten for a ioc cigar. J. Pfiffer, Published weekly, and entered at the Postoffiee value ot all of natural braced un term, land ducts is to To tax land amount will sible for any from others Eriviloge of ounties of which all liv hav an equal use. It will every Individ i natural ties to either ai ueavcmvonn, jansas, as second class titaucr, opportunities em-f tier the genera-To tax labor or its pro, discourage Industry values to their full render it impos-man to exact a price for the using those nature in i ng men right of compel ual control-opportunit-utilizethem mcut of labor TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. "Land Tenure and Monopoly" which was reported in the llo-ton JJrrrilt April 24.

Mr. Haynes urges people to study the land laws In the bible and quoted; "Ye shall not sell the land forever, saith the Lord, for ye arc strangers and sojournersjwith adding, "Thin law does not mean that wc can not own the land as regards our fellow, Wc must only remember that we own it under God, who'owns and our. fellows, An other part of the law was thaat the tinio of the jubilee the land which the original owner had wild must revert to hin or to his children. This wasa means of always holding out a hope to the poor Jt prevented the rich men of the nation get-tiny possession of all the land to the exr elusion of the" many poor. It prevented slavery, It'fostered love of country, of home, of domesticity, because a man could never be permanently impover-.

ished. Could we bring this order of things down to this age Point out how the single tax would answer his question and urge him, to study "Progress and Poverty." 'C. Estklla Bachman, Munch Chunk, Pa. One copy one year 1.00 Club rates, five or more copies, per year .90 Subscribers wishing to change their postoffiee fddress must send the name of the office to which heir paper has previously been sent, or we shall bv the emnlov I I De unauie to comply with tne request. others and it will or to abandon them to thus provide opportunities of work for all men, and secure to each the full reward of his THE UNION PACIFIC DEBT.

Editor Edward Rosewatcr, of Omaha, has been interviewed in New York and spoke of the government's claim on the Union Pacific system, which is due three years hence: He believes the most feas-ible scheme is "that congress let the road go to foreclosure under the first mortgage. Some of the money advanced would yndoubtedly be lost in this way, but what of it? The road would be cleared of all the complications which have btirdened it for twenty years, and it could successfully compete with other roads, thus' greatly benefiting the people as the result of reduced rates. Besides, the development of the western country has more than paid back to the government the money advanced or the difference between that advanced and which would be lost, as the result of a sale. Private individuals and stock" jobbers ADVERTISING RATES. One inch, single column, one insertion, .25 Special rates for display and time advertisements.

Reading notices, two cents a word for first insertion, one cent a word for each additional insertion. labor, ana as a result involuntary poverty will be abolished and the greed, intomperance and vice that spring from poverty and the dread of poverty will ue swept away. If you don't see the cat write to any single taxer, or the editor of this paper for enlightenment. CONTRIBUTIONS, Contributions solicited on all humanitarian subjects, over the writer's own name, Frank Hunt will.sojo.urn to Paris soon and cultivate his voice some more. People tell some funny stories about the Bachelors' club dances, but then the people will talk.

The bridge works started up for a few days Tuesday. The boys will get a month's rest time. Chris Farrell has opened up a new meat shop at his old stand. Give him a share of your patronage. The dummy engine had a serious bilious attack last week and has since been laid up on Choctaw street for repairs.

Work has practically been suspended on the new bridge, but the Missouri Pacific's new freight house is going up rapidly. "This world is but a bauble," the weary poet said, and then he bought some soap and proceeded to soak his head. Nothing has been done in the matter of Decoration day exercises. A big crowd can be brought to the city with proper and timely efforts. The News has added to its equipment a first class job office and is prepared to turn out all manner of commercial, social and lep'al work.

Write us for estimates. Dolde have opened a new OPINIONS OF OTHERS. Wo demand the adoption of the graded and parole system in the Kansas penitentiary, by which the boys shall he separated from the hardened criminals, and discharged prisoners be provided with situations until they get a start toward an honest living. Finest lines of tobacco and pipes in the city at J. C.

Pfiffer's. Oh, when we get to voting. How proudly we will stand Right close beside our husbands With the ballot in our hand. We'll vote for home and And against intemperance, too, Then we'll place in every office Brave men, and women too FariiteKs' Wife. have fattened at the people's expense, owing to the Union Pacific deals, but all possibility of that would be stopped by the foreclosure of the property.

I think this view will be largely in accord with sentiment in the west." "Nothing lost but the people's money, loaned to the company and the stock cigar store on the corner of Shawnee and jobbers fattened," is in effect what Mr. fifth and hereafter will manufacture Rosewater said. For a cold blooded, and sell'first class goods and their reputation will insure them a good trade. white livered, even handed steal, this Union Pacific matter is in the lead. In the first place, years ago the United In this column everyone is invito! to give views on matters of public interest in short, to-the point, articles, but anonymous' communications and personalities will not be tolerated.

For want ot space an interesting communication from Mr. E. C. Clark, of Hutchinson, in reply to Mr. Hunt has been omited but will appear next week.

Single Tax Letter Writers. Divisions! and Daniel Buck, Mankato, is a judge of the supreme court; a Democrat in politics, Divisions and D. R. P. Hibbs, Albert Lea, is a banker, very liberal, very democratic arid anxious to learn.

Please show both the above that the single tax would taxes Jgss on the homes, farms and industries of the people and higher only on land" speculators. Point out alscf how it would open up opportunities for labor, and destroy land monopoly. Divisions A and Joel J. Hoyt, 314 West econd street, Jamestown, N. a leading People's party man and a worker from worif' go." He has spent much time and money for green-backism.

He does not antagonize the single tax; thinks reform of our land system quite important. In writing Mr. Hoyt care should be taken not to disparage "free or greenbackism but submit for his consideration the neces buccess. Dolde job printers, have moved their plant to Arkansas City, and from States government took a first mortgage on the road for some paltry millions that point will issue a paper for the Cherokee strip. This is the first instance on LABOR ORGANIZATIONS.

Trade and Labor Council Meets every other Monday night at Walkenwitz hall. Joe Eckert, secretary. Cigarmakers' Union, No. 56 Meets at Walkenwitz hall. Otto Faulk, secretary.

Faintehs and Decorators Union. Wm. A- Doidge, secretary. Tailors' Union, No. 14.

Meets first Monday of each month. Joe Eckert, secretary. Typographical Union, No. 45. Meets at Walkenwitz haH, second Thursday in the month.

Robert Davis, secretary. Carpenters' Union J. G. Earner, secretary. Barbers' Union, No.

Meets every Friday night at Walkenwitz hall. Thos. Judge, secretary. Clerks' Union C. E.

Mann, secretary. KNIGHTS OF LABOR, L. A. 3809 Meets at Walkenwitz hall Wednesday of each week. I.

Lang-ham, M. Jerry Murphy, R. S. L. A.

10383 (German) Meets each Saturday night at Walkenwitz hall. Y. M. C. A.

306 and 308 Delaware, up stairs Always open. Meeting Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, for men only. Bible class Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. You are welcome. loaned to build the road.

Upon the rep Have we an attorney general in Kansas at this date? Oncerp.on a' time the Topeka Pttilist''' was as mild mannered a sheet as ever swore to circulation list but now it seems to think that it has a grievance. Wonder what it wanted Marsh Murdock was iii Topeka this if he ain'tseeing the young crowd, still claiming to be one of the boys, albeit he has held office in Kansas when the young crowd weroJin the milking business. The Kansas Republicans think it will not do for the Populists to elect the county clerks this fall for the reason they are judging the Populists by themselves and are afraid of the lessons they taught last fall in Finney, Ness, Grey, Kiowa Chautauqua and Coffey counties, and there is nothing, from their point of view, equal to a county clerk in an election return. A Republican editor without 'baggage came into the Dutton house the Mb'W, day and grew very. indina.t atjM.

Dutton's request for pay in as is his usual custom, as of all landlords, with rtcnnlp withnnt h.icrtrmrp. hut IVff. record where a country had a paper prior to its existence. W. B.

Lewis, the 6oldier who recently got out of a worthless check scrape, committed suicide at Kansas City. He was highly esteemed and was at one time engaged to be married to an estimable young lady here. The policy joints have been closed by the police. No greater streak of luck could befall the poor people of the city who in desperation would risk their little all in wooing the fickle goddess, even though the chance to win is I ih 300. Mr.

William Goeris, of Springdale, has recovered from a serious attack of lung trouble. Mr. and Mrs. Goens have begun raising fine grey geese from imported Leavenworth county will soon have a reputation or first class stock. The new terminal depoti contracts indicate that the structure will not be completed a year hence, The old Southwestern hotel iij to be remodeled, and used for offices and Mil' creek is to be straightened 'and' 'a culvert placed over it.

sity of complementing reform of our resentation that the line must be improved and that money enough could not be raised on a second mortgage, congress kindly gave up its first lien and accepted a second mortgage, worth a few millions less, perhaps, but what of that? The people had to lose it and the poor stock jobber must be provided for, you know. And now. comes Mr. Rose-water and says that to throw off a few millions more "will greatly benefit the people, by greatly reducing freight rates and stopping Union Pacific deals." Railroad deals will only be stopped when freight rates are reduced to a minimum governed by the cost of construction and operation; when stock watering is punished as a greater crime than horse stealing, and then only when the government owns the roads. Mr.

Rosewater knows, and So does any man who has a grain of senee, that were the government to donate every dollar of the Union Pacific debt to that corporation the present tariff sheets would still rule the freight rates, The way is being paved for another Union Pacific steal. financial system with tax reform and the securing of a just land system; if justice is to ba done, to all the producers and land speculation is to cease. 1 Show how Editor was unable to see it in that light and drawing a large draft upon his editorial hunor and wrapping his dignity as a mantle around haughtily, the single tax would beheht farmers arid t. 1 if possible enclose tract bearing on farmers anrt -the singjtf tax. DivisioisB and A.

J. Bailey, 153 St. Stephens ''street. Boston, Mass. Property owners in Dorchester (which is a part of Uostoh and largely composer of vast areas of vacant land) appeared The Council the city printing business to the committee on wiriting.

before a committee of the Massachusetts legislature. on April 10 attd argued that As it is cut an! dried that the Times, shall have it, wjiat is the use of staying off the evil If Mr. Dodsworth they were being assessed unjustly for the rew improvements they were receiving. City Solicitor Bailey appeared for the city and said; Was true thai the owners ot property paid the entire sum to improve the new part of Dorchester, as the law provided, but It Was ho more proposes to make his administration a shining mark beside his predecessors, he should advertise for bids and allow the lowest to take the plum. Messrs.

Frank Ryan and "Red" Kern engaged in a tm round glove contest bunday. Kyan "win because Kern than right, as they were getting the benefit and not the people. Their property was increasing in value every time that a dollar was spent in improving the streets and they were the ones who should pay 1IU1U IUC UI1IIC, WC1U HU1I1C IU got out all his b'? D's and proceed to demolish the Duttpneven as Averg tiyftjt Walls of Jerir hQybjifyiVing his horn the Dutton stilWtands. H. C.

Taylor is one of the leading: Republicans of Rice county; he also in secretary of the Implement Dealeii' association ef Kansas. He has 'made an exhaustive study of the rates ot the west, particularity. in. to implements. Hear what he saysV "It ii my belief that the di'ecnled bill would not have stood the test of the courts, if, when the rate had beeh made by the commissioners, it had been sufficiently low to cause the railroads td fight it.

The maximum bill being a copy of the Iowa law, except that the rate made was somewhat higher, Wfc cohsti tutional, and had stood the test, of the courts. Thd drechlee bill left it to three commissioners to be elected to name the rate," Mr. Taylor could give Hudson, Muf-dock, Anthony et Al. several lessons on the rate questidn that Would open theif eyes. The Topeka Capital say "Noah." Now please don't ask Us to explain.

Wd were never godd at riddles. Smoke the "Margerette'1 ioc cigaft Pfiffer makes them. "handler" had misplaced his "gaffs," and Ryan's "mit" came off once. When the "mill" was Over they got some "booze" and proceeded to the city to attempt to it. uniy wnat was rignt naa Deen done and many streets had been improved there.

The matter was carefully thought over when the law was created and it was deemed the proper way to make the improvements. It was not right that the owners of property in the city of Boston should pay for the improvement of property in Dorchester, which was made valuable by the laying out of rtew the streets We can tell Mr. Bailey that all improvements increase the value of land The "Henrietta" Is the finest Cigar in the City. Call at I'nffer's and try it. FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

When banking is done by private individuals in the interest of the bankers. When it is run by the government, it will be riln in the interest of the people. Spectator (Fresno, Cat.) Elsewhere we publish an article from the Leavenworth Labor News, showing up the Greenlee bill. You know the Republicans are making great ado because the Populists would not pass this bill. The bill would haVe retained Anthony, Mitchell and Green, and give them sble power to fix rates.

Note the figures quoted in the articla For instance if you want to ship to Manly, '(181 miles) you pay but 40 cants per hundred. But if you ship to Rosalia, Kah.f. the same distance, you have to pay 6 cents per hundred. And if the roads wanted to charge what is permitted by the official rate fixed by Anthony and Mitchell, you would have to pay 70 cents' per hundred. Or, in other wordst where you now Have to pay 58 cents, you wonld have to pay 70 cents if the Greenlee bill became a law.

Ottawa Janrnal. The Iola Register and other high born Republican journals insist that if Funs-ton had voted against the anti-option, bill and said value should pay the cost of 'rM "make seben. these terms were garnered from the conversation of a couple of well known so the gentry will undoubtedly Understand just what happened. COUNTY CULLINGSj. HIGH PRAIRIE.

Mr. James McCune is at home for a few days on a visit. Dame Rumor says that a wedding is in prospett In this neighborhood soon. Central school closed last week and Skaggs and High'PratKe close this week. Quite a county teachers attended the tCactiers'me'etiffgH- at Hol-ton.

Miss Delia Frank says she wishes she had just returned from ft. visit t' JaCkson county. Mrsi Ferguson expects to go oh an extended visit to her children in various parts of the state. Miss Maggie Hyde has just returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Uhl, who resides in Jackson county.

There is to be a "rainbow Siiprjer1" at Central school house next Thursday evenihg under the attspides of the alliance. A fine large time is expected, Since the. happy results from the attendance of Miss R. Uhl and Miss Aggie Prather at the nrarlpmv at Tnncrannvip Dispatches report that the men in the Homestead works of Carnegie are secretly organizing. Mr, Justice, "6t Kansas City, is in Olathe and will soon issue the first number of a Populist paper.

Fiat justitia! It is no longer possible to doubt that as legal Jugglers the Kansas supreme court jugglers are ahead of anyone in the profession, The new city administration Beems to be inclined to clean up the city and its efforts in that direction 6hould be heartily seconded. The Leavenworth Timei very sensibly points out the fact that the rotten odor from the late Republican state administration completely everwhelmed the fume6 of the liquor sold in Kansas. Let every labor union place itself on record as opposed to seven day labor of any kind. There are enough men idle to make such exertion unnecessary. Let us cut down the hours and thus afford an opportunity for more men to have employment.

DRi McGill, assistant surgeon at the soldiershome under Dr. Wever, has been dismissed because of refusal to give a treatment which he believed was injurious, to patient. Talk about sumptuary laws and the Russian czar. Every line of trade now has a bosses' union which meets once a week to condemn union labor and cut down wages. The boss carpenters have just had their constitution and by-laws printed in the Only non-union job office in the city.

The supreme court of Kansas has followed' the weight of public opinion in busting Railroad Commissioner Mitchell, says one hi the Kansas City papers. The Republican leaders have been carefully Watching the under current of public opinion, the past few weeks the result Is, Mitchell and Anthony must go. Colonel Anthony has dropped the Greenlee bilh What's the matter, colo-hel; was it hot? The truth is, the Greenlee bill was art abdrtidn produced by the Republicans in order to force the Populists to either accept it and the old commissioners to hold over, or lay them-seltes open td the gross misreprese nta-tion which has been so freely used in Republican papers. Put politics! lies are no strangers in those sheets. ThB new city attorney, Mr.

Rilthcr-tord; has decided that the polire board has a r'ght to ray the force without the locality of art appropriation ordinance, the opinion is in the line Of common sense. Mr. Dasslcr's action in this mat-can hardly be attributed to a desire W23tor BreWirxg Gbmparxvj, Brefti'rS Sht! beliefs Of the Celebrated JOHN RYAN, AmnU 9 1 9 SHAWNIlS STREET. as didjerry Simpson, the Pobulist3 would. government.

1 ne single tax wui carry his argument to its logical conclusion. Diyisions and Rev, Edwin Brown, D. pastor of Memorial Baptist church, Broad and Master streets, Philadelphia, is a social student and author and lately took an active part in the church movement in Philadelphia to abolish the slums. At a meeting of the Moral Workers' he denounced improvidence and shiftlessness'aS cause of such poverty. We should teli' hiiti that these are in great part the fruits, the effect and not the cause of poverty; that the real cause and root of the evil is the denial of the equal right of all to God's bounty, free access to the land, in order that everyone could produce for themselves the necessaries and comforts of life.

Divisions Governor Sylvester Pennoyer, Salem, Oregon. Governor Pennoyer was a "target" a short time ago and in replying to a letter sent to him by one of our members, he writes 1 "Ths single tax advocates demand that taxation alonC should be had on land according to its value, that they would tax the money value of land, or, what is the same thing, the money invested in land. Nbw when they can show me the justice of taxing money invested in land and exempting money invested in anything and everything else, will pay good heed. Taxation should be just and equal. There should be a law limiting the holding tf land but there should be no law intended (as I fear the Bingle tax would be) to deprive citizens of owning A and rigid income tax i really the most We should try again to convince him of the justice SWIFT, jsqet'Emi have become khdWn Miss Rosa Franit wishes she could attend also.

RELIABLE and RlONARCri FROM LANSING. We have added the letter to the GASOLINE The best goods madei warden's name. The Republican, strike did net mater REFRG)RATORS ialize as advertisedi Itbejrins to look as though Frank Ga LAWN MOWERS WJREvCLAEL KINDS. ble was left all around. Hon.

S. M. Scott, of the state board of have set up an awful roar of condemnation. We think it highly probable that if Mr, Funston had voted against that bill the Populists would have Condemned him, arid we will say that, while" it is late in date, we condemn Mr. Simpson just as heartily for his inexplicable course as we wonld nave done had Mj.

Funstoh pursued the same couf ses Once, r. Simpson voted for the bill, but when th last vote was taken in the house, he voted against it. His course can hot be explained satisfactorily to our mind. He was virtually pledged to anti-bptidn, and the Populist party, as a whole, sufcpoits that as well as all other" measures of like import. Jerry Simpsbn may be a or the atmosphere of Washington may have poisoned his moral make-up; or jerry, starting inW his firs' campaign without socks, arid ending with silken hose, may havS had his Main affected thereby or It is possible that Jerry changed his iriirid.

Jrry is a Wheat raiser an1! may have been led to believe the false cry of th Sfecuiators that dealing iri futures was a benefit to the grain rais-eiS; or, what is triore Jerry being an did sea captain; he vas used to variable currents and could not, from habit, stand a wind all in one direction. Kansas Agitaton public works-, wis in Lansing Mohdayi IST'Gas'Jline arid VaF ranted; by ah Experts Mr. j. M. unman has taken his position and will be a credit to the new administration.

Forty-thres new faces are Oh duty at the prison how, and stilt there's mofe to The editor of the Trailv ohe of olic of tKc Sisters of TOPEKAs KANSAS; Leavenworth's brightest newsreader men and it is said that his sentence is an Unjust one. A firtiriol curliUtvely Kijrfl lc1 rr-ident ti-Rrhers. ') Hitniled iUipiK if of the single, tax and should show him how it would hclj1 citizens to own their homes instead of depriving them of that comfort. Mr. HurdlC.

who h-ifl tYit.rfc r.f ftcrcs in corner of Ti'pcUa, tilt; clothing department, and to whre influence the J'rison Trust owes its ex Divisions and O. Re v. Emory J. istence, has moved to Leavenworth and Haynes, 556 Columbus Avenue, Boston, BOARD AND TUITION, 4300 A YEAR- Address, Rt. Rfv.

K. S. Thomas, Resident I 'rincipar Of MissChiotth K. Brim hn, Vice frincir-'' will ta'tnch Republican weekly paper. I Annl 23.

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