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MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1883. NO. Free Passes, Protective tariff is an unjust tax upon COUNTY CITV llltI2CTOUY. the toiling millions. Protective tariffs serve to benefit the few by impoverishing the many.

The Senate- will not chooso a president pro tem. until after tho holidays. Mr. Anthony's health is very uncertain. In the event of his death, and that of Arthur, Carlisle would bo president of the United States.

However, instead of thl change, we tiro inclined to think-that Arthur will live to be the republican candidate for 1884. Protective tariff has a double power it makes the rich richer, and the poor poorer. Ingcrsoll at the Capital Col. ilobertG. Ingersoll has now become a permanent resident of Washington.

He has purchased a handsome, residence on street, directly opposite Franklin square, and nextdoor to Senator John Sherman's residence. Heretofore Col. Ingersoll has rented a furnished residence, on Lafayette square, llitl now house is not as large as the ouo ho has been occupying, but it is much better arranged and more handsomely located, ifoth the colonel and his wifo have admirable taste, as the furnishing and fitting up of their new homo fully illustrates. The long drawing-room is at the right of the hall; back of this room is a perfect little, box of library, which will not hold one quarter of tl'm colonel's largo and valuable collection. Jinl'e th Judicial District.

II. Austin. County Attorney, 1), 0. Clilpmuu. Clerk District Court, M.

M. 'J Yuuirii. JU-glnter of DeeuV, .1. W. Thompson.

Treasurer, Jcnse H. Kelt. County Clerk. W. W.

Wulker, S-lierill'. John I. Ilrown. County Surveyor, G. P.

Crosby, dSupt, Public Instructions, F. A. liowon, Coroner, Mow Hush. Prohiite Juiljri', C. f.

Wyctli. Count Commissioners, (Jeo. Mackenzie, Ch'n, )I. C. liiMcrbiiek, H.

Z. Towner, CITY omCKHS. Mnvor, Cliin-les Attrlrfge. Police ikIko, W. T).

Thompson, Clerk mid Attorney, C. W. Steplicnson. Miirslml nnd Street Coin'r, Moses Hush. Councilinen, M.

A. Arnott, Pres. H. H. Jiiek, Triplctt, JumesJoslin, I.

W. ShuiRliter. It is the custom in many branches; of business to extend courteous favors to those 'persons whose influence would tend to advance the interests of that business. There is no branch of business in existence which makes a more- general practice, of this method than the railroad companies do in their distribution of free passes, Many of those who enjoy these privileges and profit by the free pass system, feel inclined to think they are not influenced by continually accepting these favors. They may be honest in their way of thinking, but the inherent disposition of human nature Protective tariff enables the rich man ufacturers to sell their goods at exor bitnnt prices.

Protective tariff is a scheme which re quires the masses to enrich the corpo It is officially stated that the prohibition of the American hog being shipped into Germany is not to guard against diseased meats as a great many suppose, but it is to protect German dealers against American competition. Now America would have Germany to remove her prohibition, yet at the same time she has not set the example. rations and foster monopolies. Protective tariff protects manufactur BUSINESS CAKDS. ers against foreign competition, but does not protect the working classes has a tendency to reciprocate favors and the recipients of free passes will almost invariably, show their appreci ation of the kindnesses accorded them Dr.

V. F. ELLIOT, against cheap labor. KXTIST STorDEK BLOCK, IT STAIRS, and although it is not their inclination Of Protection which creates a tariff The independent and courageous expressions of Senator Plumb, relating to the National Bank system has somewhat shocked some of the republicans, MINNEAPOLIS. KANSAS.

to be influenced, the friendly feeling forty per cent, in manufactured good The inmost cure taken In both Surjfiesil nnd Mcc him leal Dentistry. I also keep White's celebrated Pcntriflce Powder. which they entertain toward those who also enables the American manufactur at least those of the John Sherman confer such advantageous benefits wil er to sell his goods that much higher. stripe. Senator Plumb declares that ultimately lorm a conscious or uncon Miss Susan 13.

Anthony is still endeav the government can issue a piece of pa scious bias. If a man accept these fa orinsr to secure suffrage for women per with as much circulating power as vors year after year he must be very un Dr. W. T. MARTIN, HENKY'S BLOCK, VI1 STAIRS.

MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS. keep on hand the Celobmted Glycerine Tablets, for eleunsintr and polishing the teeth. Try them and you will use no other. She says: "The party which espouse the national banks, nnd that the nation in woman suffrage will be supported by grateful if he does- not reciprocate some way. The number of free passes issued ai DanKs may as wen lie jeit out oi account.

He asserts that the Unitec in the people. The emancipated woman will be even more devoted than the States do not need to keep up a nation the United States aggregate a much emancipated negro." ai ueut lor tne purpose oi keeping up a larger sum than is generally supposed national bank system. Sir. Plumb's ar W. A.

JOHNSTON. W. FREKMAN. FREEMAN, LAAVYKItS NORTH OK OLD I'OST-OFFICE MINNEAAOLIS, KANSAS. Next week the Current will be en Those who receive this free transportation arc: The leading state officers guments are in the interests vt the larced to ten pages and both sides West.

The agents of the nationa members of congress and all inlluentia oi dooks. i wo or tnre.e large book eases stand at the back of the hall, while, the colonel's cheerful private office in the basement is lined with books. Hack of the library is the dining room, with, a small conservatory filleu with plants; leading out of it. The floors of tho first story arc of hard and covered with beautiful rugs, of which the colonel is very fond. Modern art furniture and draperies are placed wherever there is room for them.

Tho walls aro covered with pictures. A lino pietutes of the colonel hangs at one end of tho room, bung by Mrs. Ingersoll in spite, of the colonel's objections. At either end of the fireplaces of the drawing-room is a bust of the two daughters. A piano and a perfect wilderness of music are at the lower end of the draw-ingroom.

A billiard room is fitted uo on the upper floor of tho house. Col. Ingersoll has as many callers as any ono of the cabinet officers. Indeed, there is not any man in private life in Washington, not even Mr. Blaine himself, who is so much squght after as is Col.

Ingersoll. There is a perfect, throng of frieds, office-seekers, aud strangers visiting the city who are anxious to meet the great infidel, from morning until late at night. Every ono is welcomed in a simple, unostentatious manner. Mrs. Ingersoll is as popular as her husband, and always stands ready to ueoond him in all his undertakings.

She is a handsome woman, above-the medium height, with full, matronly figure. In complexion she is a brunette, with bright, dark gray eyes. Her morning receptions during the winter are very largely attended. It has also been tho custom of Col." and Mrs. 1 Ingersoll to be at home one evening in trie week, when any one who wished to visit tliem Mas welcomed.

Kansas City Star, the paper will be printed at home banks, sent to Washington to seek leg politicians, it is also understood to in Owing to limited upaee much impor islatiou to perpetuate that system, wil tant matter is crowded out this week find the senator from Kansas amply elude the state judiciary, United States marshals, attorneys and clerk of higher courts. Still there is another grade of Give us your patronage, aud we wil D.C.CHIPMAN, A TTOKNKY at LAW, AND COUNTY ATTORNEY, MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, I collect all claims nnd make prompt remit tenees. Ollico In ytoudor block. able to down thera in this issue. give, you the best local paper in the officials who receive free paasee from The iron, nail, and steel manufactur west.

rail road companies of their own states ers oi rennsyivania nave suspended senators Voorhees of Indiana, and and will not resume again be BALLOU 1IOUSH, L. M. I5ALL0U, ruoPRiETOR MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, Plumb of Kansas, are reviving green backism in as much as they favor pay fore next March. The protected ruanu or as it is, sometimes confined to their own section of country. Eacli officer or influential politician who receive the free puss is importuned by friends and factum who has accumulated a collos Kven thinir tlrst-elass.

Free bus to and ing off the national debt as speedily as sal fortune under the high tariff law can from nil trains. Uood sample rooms. possible, though the national bank sys relations to use their influence to pro stand this suspension, but the poor la tem may be wiped out. 1'ho senators cure free passes for them, which they borer will be obliged to submit to a con do, and as they continue to receive ad R. F.

THOMPSON, A TTOKNEY at LAW, OVKU BANK OK J. W. SMITH CO. MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, are right. There is no more wisdom in a perpetuation of the national debt than dition of poverty.

The rich manufact ditional favors from the railroad com urer will gladden the hearts of his family by presenting thera with costly hoi pany, the more interested they become there is in an individual persistently keeping in debt when he can easily pay I collect olainiH und make prompt remittances. in the interests of the company's wel may guts, wlnle the poor laborer can but listen to the cry of hunger in his fare, and ultimately become fixed tools off his debts and thereby curtail the in terest. family. This is tho usual scheme of Dr. J.

MILLER H()3I (EPAT1 IIC 11 1 YSICI AN, OFFICE ON SECOND STREET MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, Hesidence S. W. corner Public Square. of these corporations, and work to advance their interests, much to the detriment of the general public. Every of manufacturers.

"Pig Iron" Kelley wil the Postal The death of Congressman Haskell necessitates a special election to till the fractional Currency vs. Notes. soonlie.on the stump advocating the fieer who procures gratuitous favors for vacancy. The clause in. the constitu necessity of a protective tariff, but wil his friends and relatives must be able tion of the United States pertaining to The people have asked for a reissue not consider that during the years of ligli tariff, the few have been made to exert a controlling influence on them which is sufficient to pay the railroad this matter reads as follows: "When vacancies occur in the representation F.

L. FLINT, niacoisT, AND FRESCltlPTlONIST, MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, The oldest established Prux Store in the Solomon Valley. North side second street. of fractional currency for convenience; in transmitting small sums through tho mail, and the last congress, in order to rich while the masses have been kept corporations for the favors they have oor. ippeaso the people, went to work and of any state the executive authority thereof shall issue notice of election to rendered.

hatched out as a substitute what tliev Our judges, our law makers, and The Japanese method of dealing with till such vacancies." N. F. Aeers, the denominate a postal note, payable to bearer, no safer in any respect than J. It. HANNK11S, Notary Public.

1'. (TMMINS, Notary Public. most of our journals arc to a great speculators, especially those operating candidate oi the democrat party in measure kept in control by corpora in food products, is to arrest all the of 1882 will probably lie renominated. The fractional currency, and at an extra charge of three cents on each note; and' when it arrives at its destination it is not money, but siniblv.an order on election of 1882 was Haskell 23,001, CUMMINS HANNERS, ATTOKNEYS at LAW, REAL ESTETE AGENTS, Special attention jdven to collections In Ottawa mid Lincoln counties. Ofllee in Hank.

tions who bestow such favors as free passes. This method of exerting influ fenders simultaneously. Tho police inspectors receive their orders in the morning of the day fixed, and together Aeers 19,110. some postoffice for money, and dies a-natural death if not presented for pay ence has developed into such a deadhead aristocracy that it should bo done Hon. D.

C. Haskell of Kansas, died at with strong attachments of specials, ment within three months" from date ot issue; whereas fractional currency was Washington, 1). on the 10th inst. Mr. away with or the people will always be proceed to the exchanges in disguise.

trampled and robbed by corporations. Haskell was a very able man, and was a reooirniml leader in his party. As When all are suitably stationed, the de tectives sound their whistles, and in al E.CROSBY, PHYSICIAN, OLD STAND OPPOSITE OPERA HOUSE, MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, I have also a lartfo stork of fresh Drug und Medicines, Fancy and Toilet articles. How happy one of these dead-heads must feel when he produces his free money on the start at its face value, and money at its destination, and did not die a natural death (if not used)- by any law of limitation. A mixed fractional currency, both metal and paper," is what tho people want for conveni most an instant tne speculators are se- soon as his death occurred, the wily politicians began to scheme for the succes-sorship.

Some of the republicans wish njred and cast into prison. In one pass to the conductor while his worthy friend, an honest hard working farmer who sits by his side, produces the ticket for which he paid his cash his hard raid of this kind some weeks ago, it is stated that 700 delinquents, who had ence; out a reissue oi iractional paper O. Thaeher of Lawrence, to become a candidate for the vacancy. Thaeher money would bo giving countenance to a government issuo of paper money. been speculating in "margins" were ar KAY LINE, (TIAPEN I51U).

Proprietors, MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, Four teams constantly running, floods delivered In any part of the city or adjoining country, at reasonable rutes. is, indeed, a fine specimen of a politi rested, and nil their books, records, earned money. cian, to represent the people of the Sec If free passes are not used to promote and papers were taken possession of by the police. Legislation against specu- and that is what our bankers and bondholders will avoid as long as possible, regardless of the convenience and best interests of the people. People living remote from a postoUice, and especiaf ond district.

He has for years been a the interests of rail road companies, why should they not grant them to any railroad attorney, and he. would no ating in margins is now in order for DE LM )N I KESTA ANT, C. C. STEEHS Proprietor Meals 25 Cents, -f5f Oysters served on short. the people of theUnited States.

Gam a money-order olnce, as very many doubt oppose the bills introduced by our worthy representative, John Auderson. body that applies for them? We think by an examination Into this matter, they exert a material inlluchce in behalf of Ming in food products has been carried on in tuis country more extensively people do. will be very illy 'aeconimo' dated with this postal-note, subterfuge as a substitute for fractional currency. A few. millions of fractional reissued and placed in the oostolliees, the rail road company.

than it has in any other. The most publications in any slate in Take state and other conventions and W.R.SMITH, WAOON BIAKEK, SHOP ON FIRST STREET, All work promptly done nnd warranted to jrive satisfaction. Wive me a cull. In the central offices of the telephone to be sold to the people in like manner the union are published in New York, the aggregate of which are 1,411. Illinois comes next, 1,017.

Nevada the the free pass is tendered through influential politicians who manipulate the as stamps are, would augment tho vol system, the service is performed by ladies during the day and by men at night. The communications during the issues and procure the nomination of least, 87. Kansas has 370, twenty of which are dailies. The Chicago Trib ume of money to the amount of such is suancc, would serve the than any other device yet nit upon for transmitting small sums through the mails, and, with the subsidiary coins now in use, the fractional paper would such men as will favor the interests of the company, and if a member does not lay are much more numerous than lOMMEKCIAL HOUSE, J. TKOM, Poi'RIETOR, MINNEAPOLIS, KANSAS, (Jood hoard, good rooms.

Free buss to nnd from all train. une receives 26,000 a year for a column of advertisements. The New York Her those transmitted at night. It there wish to be called a bolter he must sup lort the party leaders. The result of ie mostly used, in the postal' service, fore requires much more attcntiveness and dispatch to discharge the duties of ald receives for its lowest priced column nnd for its highest $348,000.

such influences is the election to office, and would not interfere to any extent with tho ordinary business of the day. railroad attorneys and others who are The New York Tribune for the lowest Justin Ayers in the Notional View. governed by rich corporations. $29,754, for its highest $85,643. How the office during the day.

We suppose this is the reason why women act in this capacity during the busy hours of the day; however, this does not appear to Dissolution of Partnership. Tho partnership heretofore existing Local journals as a rule are governed the free pass, and the result is often under the firm name of; MeOonnell, does this compare with the "exhorbit-ant" charges of a country newspaper, the columns of which are held as high as $80.00 per annum. Weckcrly is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All accounts and give entire satisfaction to the fair ones since courting by telephone has become tho order. The communications transmitted at night have excited their notes due or past due must he paid seen in its influence on the community, which vote bonds to build roads, and when it is too late awaken to the fact that thcyjware not only, deceived hut have brought an incumbrance upon tbewthatis oppressively burdensome.

Topcka is determined to enforce the without fail to McConnell Welsh before January 1st, 184. curiosity, and in some cities have laws. It does not only deal roughly with the violators of the prohibitory amendment, but they make raids on the determined to discontinue their service unless they are granted" the ni ht ses 1). II. MCCONNELL, II.

J. Weckerly, A. J. Welsh. Minneapolis, Kansas, Dec.

1U, 1884. Ure Is where the people pay the rail road companies for free passes that are gambling houses. Last week they MoneY" TO HjO-AJSr ON Improved Farms At Lowest Rate WITHOUT COMMISSION, No! iippmiser, no expense for ex ami nation, no ileliiv In eloslnir up loans, where security Is good and title slraiRlit. lNSUKANCE AGENT For the following very reliable and time tried companies. Old Plucnix (103 years old) n.

ltsin 15,610,208.40 (icnimn of Frecport asset ts in 'H2 1,008,386.29 Paul Fire and Marine, assets in '82 1,061,703.00 L. D. Moore, with County Attortej, 1). C. (Jhipmau "took in" forty-six persons who were granted to the few whose actions are The Kockford Watch.

A line of these celebrated Koekforsi sion, appear tbat thece operators can har very 'dintinctly all rommuni-cations transmitted through the central office and that come of them at night ftre inttnaely interesting. Court- governed. Incorporations. in the gambling dens at the time they made the raid. Among the number were citizens who had the reputation of The Ccurent is truly independent in entiment and does not appreciate nor even tolerate the free pass pynioni, but ng byelfphone has become so popu-ar in metropolitan circles that an in will favor any measure that will abolish it.

being model men, but even they did not escape. Two were good deacons of the church at Burlingame, but this did not excuse them. They had to pay their genious electrician has designed and movements can be seen at my place of business, which I will sell on six months trial with privilege of exchanging for one of any other make, if, with fair usago it proves unsatisfactory. 1 make tb" above very liberal offer'feeling positive that if you onco carry the Roekford you will not part with it, and will recommend it to all your friends in preference to aay other American watch made. II.

M. Goccheis. Downs' Drug Store. Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, aud Tyn- lall aro the "big four" among great commenced work cm an apparatus by which kisses may be transmitted by telephone. The only query that now oc fine, which they did like little men.

Model citizens, may sometimes mingle with bad company, but there is a curs to the anxious mind is, ill they men; notwunsianaing tins, tne Canadian government prohibits their orks being sent to that country. seem real. great risk of being exposed..