The Independent from Girard, Kansas • 2

looking on the other side of the prop' lows who profess to be above political intrimie. Take the editor of the Farm fENDENT NEWS. Residence Phones 111 LTERTHWAITE Slashes the Useful Corporations and Brings on Panic, Comes High." We wonder if the Journal has reference to the present panic? With the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad company failing to pay any of their taxes in Crawford county, and the Mis t)r. W.

S. Swart GIRARD. 1 fecial Attention Given to Diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduated at Ban Medical College, St. is, in 1889 t'e Eye- Ear Nose and Throat College-1906 00 Arivate instruction at the Illinois Bye and Bar Infirmary 01 urgery of Eye and Ear; also REFRACTION, under Prof. P.

A. Phillips 1 Iter KANSAS 4 KANSAS 4 or try to wrong another, The Slate Bank of Girard GIRARD, are lot here! to over-reach 4 Xe do I seek ti boost ourselves by tearing down another. BytiQ EST METHODS we shall Seek to gain a reputation-For svESTYj. wiH always WIN in every rank and station. FORD, Editor, (bonoku) THURSDAY.

Jtl Subscription $1 a year in advance Entered in the postofflce at Girard. Kansas, as Second-class Mail Matter. WHY IS IT? Girard is the smallest city in the world with a free delivery mail system. WE WILL HAVE THEM. The Commercial club of Girard is being urged to back a movement to build 100 houses in the town for rental purposes.

Headlight. SOMEWHAT MIXED. Just after Christmas the Headlight man locates Lee Hutchinson, the abstractor in Pittsburg. The item was taken from the News and the location thus reads this at Pittsburg. A CHRISTMAS PRESENT.

The Santa Fe railroad section hands all had a great object lesson this last Christmas. Their pay was cut from $1.50 per May to $1.15. They are at work. What do you suppose they think? IT IS COMING. The Mine Owners' association of Gold-field has filed suit in the circuit court of Nevada asking for an injunction and final dissolution of the miners' union; and it is also asked that the members of the organization be prohibited from picketing or boycotting the said mines.

A test will be made at once of the right to hold meetings under the name of the Western Federation of Miners. This case will be far-reaching in its effect upon the condition of labor in this country and seems to be the parting of the ways so far as peace is considered between labor and capital. DID YOU SEE IT? Did the readers of this paper notice the headlines in the great corporation republican paper (The Kansas City 'Journal) of November 25th? If not, here it is again for you: "Reform, That -J. souri Pacific only paying half of their taxes, when in former years they both paid all said taxes in full before December 20th; we wonder if it is a lack of "confidence" with them, too, or a lack of money? The 'Frisco's tax alone in this county for the year 1907 is $36,000 mora money than the average farmer sees in a lifetime, much less having it, and yet these corporation papers continue to cuss the farmer for his lack of confidence in Wall street). THE UNEMPLOYED ARMY.

also, for many months, been gradually abandoning improvements ana laying oil men. omce nuvemuci ilia have been closins or work ing at reduced speed in all sections of the country, business is Deing curumeu, failures are increasing, men are being laid off or put on short time, commercial activities are lessening, ana ouier evi-lonnoa of industrial retrenchment are multiplying at a more rapid rate, per haps, than was ever wunesseu uy me present generation. Never before was there such a sudden stoppage of industry. Perhaps 500,000 men have been laid off within three weeks, about 100,000 of whom are in the iron and steel industries, and 50,000 or 75,000 in the rail road industry. Review ot Keviews.

N0r NAT MONEY. Ex-Governor John P. St. John has sent $5 to the fund to restore the first capital of the state, and in his letter to Mr. Woolard, ot Wicmta, ne says: "I herewith enclose a $5 warehouse, no, I mean clearing house, certificate, n-hioh in fresh from the nrintshop and free from populistic microbes.

It is 'honest lor you win see oy us date it has not been out long enougn to rob anvbodv. It is 'sound All sound. It is not 'fiat for there is no law behind it. Nor is it 'tainted though it may have the odor of a populist convention. It is.

the outgrowth of the "best financial system the world has, ever and all you have to do to make it go is to linvo 'confidence' I commend it for its loyalty to Kansas, for it is going to help repair and perpetuate the building which the lirst legislature oi me territory met." ELEVENTH HOUR CONVERSION. It is ouite amusins to note how ex tremely anxious the politicians of Kansas nn eettimr over the matter of enact ing a guaranty deposit law for the banks of the state. And even some lei- ite the) business world.the farmers from plantations, I boys and girlsaswell as all their relation tem 2 4 4. i here friendly tie, 1 try, the best we can, NO 1 MONEY loan, ipome in and 1 comfo 13 HALtiEMAIf, President, who-12- ADbAMS, Vice Pres. T-Mi -v; Ml li Mr: est sh S-orfill WEfVK Jputlfdlty tc I I I Ban.

Shi Bfe, am 1 vith ai 1 Sd for i TO jinly 1 Iherj Start the I.I lew Year and explain our own position, to better your condition, BURN, see us. OSCAR SCHAEFFER, Cashier W.M. BRIZENDINE, Ass't. Cash. Right groceries the right your at your patronage, by treating- you from us that is not satisfactory right.

Right" QIRARD, KANSAS. CM I siuon, so to BpeaK, we nna an entu change of scenery. A lurid picture in1 deed! In the making of human history mixed panorama of human' activity is continually in view neither all good nor all bad one continuous round of turmoil and conflict. In the present view' we find on one side an aserecation of official and domineering thieves, usurpers and pillagers, who are conscienceless and merciless and would run the nation amuck for private gain and affluence. On the other side we see the great ma jority absolutely helpless, tossed hither and thither by the mere wan touch of tne nation's gormands.

To verify the assertion one only needs to read the- daily newspapers and look out tor facts. The recent panic, which marks the clos ing year with an unmistakable brand, serves as an object lesson to the loud mouthed defenders of the "fool dinner pail" and "big stick" prosperity. In the present crisis all precedents have been broken by the administration in an elfort to protect the looters of the peo ple pockets and save its own neck, but the system has clearly proven itself incapable of sustaining its own weight, and it looks now if the "best banking system on earth" was in a state of col lapse. To undertake, a review of the misery, want, pain, suicide and murder resulting from the present panic, to say nothing of what the future holds in store for the great army of unemployed, would be a foolish task indeed. The daily papers throughout the land give tne matter more in detail than we can, They are filled with accounts of shutdowns, bank failures, industrial panics, ana are themselves silent monu ments of the disaster the once boasted "Help Wanted" column being almost entirely 'eliminated.

The mine disasters, railroad wrecks and accidents in the mills, shops and factories of the land can only be referred to, they are too appalling to describe even if it could be done. The great labor troubles in the west, in which the gold barons and the na tion's financial pirates combined to wreck the fortunes of the Western Fed eration of Miners, the greates) labor or ganization on the continent, is a shame ful, yet indeed a tragi-coniic drama to be placed upon the American stage in this day of boasted enlightenment. Col orado has been the scene of many foul plots and vile conspiracies, but none can equal that which has been uncov ered within the past year and the end is not yet. Why call up unpleasant recollections, did you ask? Simply because they stand boldly in the line of passing events. What the remedy! There is no remedy until public conscience is quickened and education along economic and political lines has placed, our people beyond the pale of such incorrigible modes of life, Let us all hope for a better and cleaner life during l'JOS.

A presidential cam- pnign is upon us, and it behooves our citizenship to inject into that campaign I all the demands possible for a political change that will give relief. The pres- ut Ile.vcr "'ouf-'l'. let- us wavs strive for the better. The News has no advice to peddle, but we simply submit that for your public duty you have but to join the Army for the Common Good, and for your New Year's resolution you need but to remember that "Whatsoever thou wouldst that men do unto you, do you even so unto them." ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES, Labor The number of men discharged from factory and mine sinee Novermber 20th cannot be arrived at, but the Review of Reviews Magazine says over 500,000. Aleck The people, as voters, do not bring out candidates in Kansas.

They establish bureaus and manufacture their own booms. Grant Ilornaday and W. Stuhhs are both rich men and Cy Leland is of the same builu. The farmers did not start their booms. To-Lit-i-cus-No; when the Kansas City Star mentioned (Doc) J.

T. Moore as the possible receiver in Kansas of the Missouri Pacific railroau it was con-will probably be appointed for the g. 0. p. of Kansas.

Pcr-Cap-Iter The world's yearly production of gold is now, in round numbers, $100,000,000, of which Africa produces, otu.iit fcinnnnnnnn tho Tlnitil Stntr' about $95,000,000 and Australia about I S85.000.000. New Zealand prdduces about $10,000,000, and Russia, Mexico and Canada are considerable producers! 01 the yellow metal. Remember, it doesn cost anv more to get the best printing than it does tin poorer kind. We turn out the best, at least that is what some of our customers and when you get ready for that next job bring it to us and let us tell you what we 11 do it lor. give just what you want and what you pay tor.

7 1 Tf7 1 For First-class Nursery 'Stock 1 of all kinds go to the GIRARD NURSERY, 'J. A. WHITESIDE SON, Proprietow. ers' Mail and Breeze, for he is exceedingly enthusiastic over, the proposition to enact a guaranty law. The memory of some people is almighty short.

In 1898-09, when John W. Breiden-thal was bank examiner ot Kansas did everything in his power to get the legislature to pass that very kind of a law The populists controlled one branch of the legislature and passed the bill, hut the other branch being republican killed it. In fact the continuous- record of the republican party in the state legislature has been against the enactment of any such law. ihe editor ot the Mail and Breeze was in Topeka all this time, but he did not wake up to defend the law until our new Bister state, Oklahoma, had taken action. And now all the republican politicians, who are shivering in their boots for fear of the result of the next election, are urging Governor Hoch to call a special session of the legislature.

Even the bankers, who have heretofore scoffed at the- idea, have become con vinced that it will not do to let the Ok' lahoma banks be made safer for deposit ors than the Kansas banks, and many of them want a special session also. Elev enth hour repentance is quite amusing as well as gratifying, there is even some hope that Beth ells and Phil Campbell may turn tariff reformers be fore the twentieth century closes. Erie Sentinel. PASS IT ALONG. And now the price of false teeth has been raised, by gum.

Atlanta Georgian Millions of dozens of eggs have been laid away in cold storage, by hen. Columbus (O.) Sun. And it is claimed we are bound to have a war with Japan, by jingo. IIous ton (Tex.) Tost. And the hickory nuts have a heavy shell this fall, by cracky.

Springfield (Mo.) Leader. And it's time to get ready for the Christmas turkey, by gravy. Topeka Capital. And the unancial panic uuint scare Santa Claus, by dad. Newton Journal Now we say to the sweet girls "Elappy Aew l.ear," by way of jolly by golly! The skating, rink reigns supreme dur ing the school holidays.

Six hundred poor people w-ere fed in Pittsburg on 'Christmas day by the Sal vation Army. State Mine Inspector Gilday reports a find of a big coal vein in Greenwood county, this state. The mud prevented many Christmas gatherings in the county, but the Christ mas tiirkevs were eaten just the same .1 (l nf IVnlwulv. whn to be democratic national committeeman again, tells a story 011 an Oklahoma Irishman who voiced hi complaint ngainst existing things something alom; this line: "The Dimmicrata have closed all the saloons; the. raypublicans have closed all the banks, and what is a mon to do! He can have neither pleasure nor PASSING OF TNE OLD YEAR.

Many Pages of Significant History Will Relate to 1908. the Year Just Clased. The old year, 1907, passes into the erstwhile in several respects the most eventful year in the history of our nation. To review tue significant events of the last twelve months would require several complete issues of a paper the size of the News, but to fail in giving the old year a passing mention would not be in keeping with newspaper custom. On the one hand, we find that we have accomplished many things for which we should be justly proud.

We have witnessed a most favorable season from the standpoint of agricultural production, and our garners ore full nigh unto overflowing. Nature has opened her palms, as it were, and lavished upon us a bounteous supply of her treasures. From the standpoint of education and molality, progress and enlightenment, the dawn of 1908 casts a rosier hue athwart the threshold of our progress than did that of 1907. General rottenness prevailing in our public and official life has been uncovered slowly but surely the people are being aroused; the mask of olUcial deceit has been rent in twain and ere long, if a prediction is pardonable, the great mowses of the people will rise up in their wrath and demand their own, which is nothing more nor less than freedom, the world's old dream. Signs like these are encouraging indeed, and we should ltnil them with joy and delight, In the progress of things of national import another star has been added to our constellation of states, and throughout the length and breadth of the entire galaxy there are few, if any, that shine brighter than Oklahoma, "the land of the fair god." As to the moral awakening we have only to point to the rapid strides of prohibition throughout the continent.

We have se.cn the traffic more or less restricted In all the states, while not a few hnro been placed completely under the ban by. constitutional amendments and state-wide prohibition enactments. Kven Kentucky! "Kentucky, oh, Kentucky, how I love love thy classis shades, -Where flit the fairy figure of the bright-eyed Southern innidsj Where the birds are sweetly singing 'mid flowers newly born, Where the corn is full of kernels and the Colonels full of corn." But she's dry I Dry as a powder house, so far as the word implies under present-day governmental tactics relative to such laws. We of Girard, however, know that all laws are not obeyed, yet, the great sentiment of reform that is sweeping the country is ft straw that shows the way the wind is blowing and no ono can doubt that it will eventually crystalire into an adjustable form that will redound to the final good of our oWillmtion. ,1 1 I I am now offering several cockerels of the following breeds: White Wyandottes and uff Orpingtons, at prices that should move ythem at once.

For further particular write or call on f. d. 2 Qeo. F. Beezley Phone E4 Farm one mile west of town, Girard, Kans.

By getting re that areiht prices. I we win endeavor to mSent ri(ght. Should you get anything rVght, tell us and we will mike Vt "II 1 Is i nar forJ it s. WHEN YOU BUTCHER Corhe in and get a Warranted Butcher Knih for 50 cents, and see my line of Meat and Food Choppers, from 50 cents to $1.50. R.

L. SULLIVAN E. Decker "Good ThifWs to Eat" Everything in Hardware West Side Square 1 fill IT I 1e GIRARD ELECTRIC MILL 'we removed to our new building one-half block North of the Northea corner 0f tne Square and we have installed new and modern macl operated by electric power, manufacturers' of, MEAMRA1VM and CHOP and carry a full line of FLOUR AND FEED imn Ami meal will be exchanged or eround for cash. ifta Gerken, Proprietors. Hilt January Clearing Sale, at BEADLE'S jw IJcal foorvear for men or wom- bfyff jf? 80 easy oa ne feet, absolutely non- Jr JtJ 111 Iwr nJ mad in, fast colors.

A box LsfH JikJJJoi half a wen pair is guaranteed for six vi IVyAy montKs thlnld of it twenty-six weeks I wkk kalf yr. If a hole, rip or i 1 tear comes in ft pairim tnat time, all I ftt- w' you av BCa em Dac ML I I nl et a new pair absolutelJlr free rn. "i I they're guaranteed to last. yx'tSv I A box of six pair guaranteed dS''yyr' 'l I hi remember costs $2.00. yrON.

I jl H. PGRUND Cloaks one-half price All Winter Goods REDUCED E. BEADLE N.W.Cor.Sq. Girard, Ka. Start the New Yeir Right and Subscribe for THE WEI On the other hand; changing from the optimistic view of.

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