The Lyons Democrat from Lyons, Kansas • 2

WINGED MISSILES. LYONS DEMOCRAT. Vs" A v' mMk (ft utilize tne aounaant supply ot silver we have in the west by eonverting it into silver dollars Leavenworth Sun. That money is the creature of law is now admitted by alL The 6-cent nickle coins aro composed of seventy-five parts copper and twenty-five parts nickle. A pound of this metal costs about 70 cents It coins 100 5-cent pieces which makes $5.

Take 70 cents from $-5 and $4.30 remainsall made by law. The Tribune, Cleburne, Tex. The Vermont authorities have got out a map of the state showing its deserted farms Some townships show as many as 10,000 acres of farm lands with good buildings hich can be bought for from $3 to $10 per acre. The worst exhibit of all this is by Windham county, fourteen townships of which are designated as abandoned. Defender, Arlington Neb.

"Truth Is-stranger thau fiction. It is not oft "ii that grown men are seen to weep on the street, yet two men were seen to weep on the streets of Topeka last week. One an educated gentlemanly man wept because his little children and his wife were at home hungry, aud his last hope of being able to give them any supper had failed htm. Another, who had never had wife or child ana is quite old, wept at the thought of vi ng and leaving his fortune of over in Topeka real estate to ra ngers" Je ffersonia n. TMI FARMER AUD THE Kansas City Times.

A few days age the Times received from a rest deatof Topeka a poem, styled Tbe Farmer and the Bobbers." In tbe note enclosed with tbe poem be said: I do not know that yon pay anything for sucb productions as tbe one I send yon, bat if you do and the one 1 send is acceptable to you, I wlab yon wonld send me what too consider It worth, if it is aotblng more then tbe price of a suck of flour. I am absolutely la destitute circumstances, wltb a family of six children, and to find anything to do. In Topeka Is utterly Impossible. I can't go off and leave my family to starve, nor have I anything to go wltb to look for work elsewhere. Ike name of the writer who seems to have ample provocation for the expression of tbe views be tntertalns, la withheld for obvious reasons.

Uir went follows: Upon a box. one pleasant day. Two farmers sat. In front of Dick's. Discussing in a friendly way The markets, times and politics: Wltb tangled beards and unkempt And patches on each breeches kuee.

They spoke of burdens herd to bear And wondered what the end would be. One smoked a pipe of briar wood. Blackened and charred from constant use, A good sised quid the other chewed. And squirted out tobacco Juice. And while discussing earnestly In rough, but bonest, country style.

Their bands were busy as could be With jackknives whittling all the while. For Tankee. one might well be ta'en. Prom bis peculiar speech and nod; The other's accent told quite plain That be waa from the Ancient Sod. The name of one was Thomas Horne, That of the other.

Dan Mdirew, Though patched their clothes, and slightly torn 'Twas plain they knew a thins or two. 'I tell you what," said Mr. Horne; "And folks may say just what they please: But since the hour that was born I never saw such times as these. With taxes grievous to be borne. And int'rest fast becoming due.

And only cents lot corn; I wonder wb-re we're drifting to?" I've lived in Kansas twenty year. And many ups mid downs have seen; To me, in truth, it now appears. such times as these have never been. Why it Is thus I can't conceive. Though some think that the worst is past.

But, Dan, 1 verily believe. From bad to worse we're going fast." medium of exchange based npon labor performed, and not a commodity for gamblers to corner and bankers to charge Interest on; that tax is tribute levied on industry, and can be abolished by using the revenues arising from tbe operation of public ntilities'for defraying the expenses of sanitation and other necessary but unproductive labor. But it doe not etop tcilh holding or believing thete truths it proce.edu to put thenr into practice. It invites all to join its ranks to build up a model commonwealth based upon equity and justice, and by practice demonstrates the feasibility of a higher civilization. The field for its operations was selected by Albert K.

Owen, whose extensive travels in all parts of the world, added to his broad education and liberal views as well ns his thorough knowledge of Mexico eminently qualified him for the task. He chose the Fuerte valley, Sina-loa, Mexico, on account of the superior climate, unsurpassed iu the world; the fertility of the soil; the deep safe harbor, the liest on the Mexican coast; the commanding geographical position; the rich mineral region back of if, with exhaust-less miues of gold, silver, copper, iron, coal, and finally, cheap land, an account of the tindercfnprd condition of thr, e.mtntr;!. In 188J The Credit FoucierCom- tf' ait and dumps tbe profits of a life's toil Into the coffers of some combine. It Is said there are five hundred mortgage foreclosures daily in Kansas; then what must be the magnitude when we consider the whole nation, as It Is In similar condition. Could I but picture this devastation of homes and hopes, as this mighty tempest rushes through the land, and, amid the tumult, near the cries of pauperized mothers piercing the very clouds; maidens helpless chfi-dren, and dimpled babes rushing to and fro, seeking protection from tho rude blast; see the father shrink with horror from the sight, and abandon hope.

I might arouse an opposing current to check its ravages The cause of all this disaster Is apparent to any thinking man, but Jt ezems that the masses of the people are so loyal to their political parties that they will bear all manner of persecution and go down to tbe grave in rags rather than abandon their old party. It is also apparent that while these dupes stick with the tenacity of a leech to their idols a subsidized Eress holds them there. No one nows this better than the Blade, but it appears that Mr. llagaman never learned there was anything going wrong until tho union labor party reduced the republican vote from down 240 aud 400; since then he has has found that trusts and combinations are robbing the people. Mr.

llagaman, look along the lino and see what your party has been doing the past twenty-five years and you will readily see the cause of our disasters To begin with, the republican party created a bonded Indebtedness wholly unjustifiable, to the amount of about We have paid on this principal about Wo have paid over fiOno.OOO,-ono in interest, and will pay more iu interest before the debt is paid, and before the whole debt Is extinguished it will have cost the eonle fully lie-sides this, that party has levied a tax on the people, in the shape of tariff, that unnually wrenches from the sweat and toil of labor That party put the exception clause on the greenback for no other purpose than to depreciate the people's money. Then sold them for forty cents on the dollar and your party took them back at par for bonds and then burned thrni up. Tho liond were payable in tho same kind of money paid for them (greenback); tbe republican party made them pay-nblo in cold. Your party demone "KANSAS BEN." Vicc-rresidcnt National Farmers and Laborers Union, President Kansas State Alliance. President Cowley County Alliance.

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rviea ever? fnoday at Mt maml Of this ruthless despot, there ''r be placed, by the agent of his mm satanlc majesty, victims brought from a foreign land, and soon such Iris not generally known tbal Iex- I as now feel secure, will flud them-fcobas a public school sjstcm which I selves strangers lu the land of their protUIes iostructioa for tbe children birth, surrounded by thoe having no of atl IncluJio; the Indian aympathies In common with them tribes- I and no ties of kinship or neighborly Mioa is now being used as an electrical insulator. Roumania has 209,030 gypaies, and Hun-pa ry 80,003. Seventy-one towns and cities in Indiana are using natural gas. The Kalamazoo celery crop last year realized $503,000 for the growers. Salt dissolved in alcohol, it is said, will remove grease spots from cloth.

"Esculent repository" is a Philadelphia man' name for a grocery store. Portland, has a musical prodigy. He is a blind boy named John Foley. lielva A. Lockwood has announced that she will again run for president in 1893.

According to the Herald, there are upwards 10,003 professional beggars la New York. Paterson, N. has a club composed of young men who have an inordinate fondness for onions. The surest test of a frozen orange is its weight. If it is heavy in tbe hand it has not been frozen.

It is estimated that $300,000,000 worth of jewels are burried in the royal vaults at Constantinople. Miss Ida Sweet, formerly pension agent at Chicago, has formed aa ambulance system in that city. Tomatoes were only raised for ornament fifty years ago. and were called love apples, and not thought tit to eat. The only survivor of thj class of 1S2S at West Point of which Jeff- Davis was a member, is now Brevet Brig.

Gen. Robert Clary. A remarkable little animal has been added to the London Zoo. It is a deer, though in size but a trifle larger than a full grown cat. Prof.

Tucker, of Andover, limits the orig- iual thinkers of America to three Jonathau Edwards, Benjamin Franklin and Nathan iel Hawthorne. There is a charity association ia Brooklyn devoted to the training of young girls between twelve and eighteen for domestic service or trade. Dora Pedro is wandering aimlessly about the old world, a king without a kingdom. He was clever enough to have resigned and led the revolution, Berlin now has 1,530,030 population, to which should be added the suburban popu lion of 175,000, making a city considerably larger than New York. Mme.

Carnot, wife of the president of the French republic, is a supremely happy being. She is the best dressed and most charitable woman iu Paris. A skull has been found in Rome in a tomb of the fourth century before Christ, the lower jaw of which contains a case of gold with four false teeth in it. Mark Twain works only three months a year, and then does his writing on a farm, near Almira, where he has au octagonal glass room in which he composes. Somebody has discovered that the berry of the Florida palmetto shrub is an excellent remedy for soreness of the throat, cough, catarrh and colds in the head.

There are three spans to the new Mississippi river bridge at St Louis. Each is bl4 feet in length, resting on four granite piers. The superstructure is of steel. The.best paid magazine editor in New York is probably Editor Gilder, of the Century, who is said to have a salary of 10,00) a year besides au, interest in the magazine. A canney at Pomona, CaL, has made a contract with an eastern house to deliver annually for four years 625,000 quarts of peas, apricots, peaches, nectarines and plums.

The cxpresss charges on a car load of dressed turkeys shipped from Paris, to Boston were $300. The consignor thinks he will drive the next lot across the country. Gov. Joseph C. Yates, of New York, was buried iu 1S37 at Schenectady.

The other day the body, when taken up for re-burial in New York city, was found to ba petrified. Tho duke of Westminster is believed to be the anonymous doner of half a million dollars for a convalescent hospital iu London. The duke's income is 55,000 per day, chiefly from rents in Bclsrravia. A Chicago lady gathered some moss in Florida and brought it north with. her.

She hung it on a chandelier in her parlor and it bloomed in the room. The moss retained its vitality for over a year. The fact that aluminium is easily worked has a low specific gravity, and is practically non-corrosive lnalccs it an ideal metal for compasses, transits, field aud opera glasses, hand levels, and so forth. The discussion of the advisability of colonizing Vermont ami New Hampshire with Scandinvian immigrants has directed attention to the fact that Maiuo made a successful venture of this kind twenty years ago. A monument to Victor Noir, the young man who was killed in by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, has been completed by the sculptor, Dalou, for a committee, which intends to erect it in some part ot Paris.

A physiologist in France has been observing the working of flies in flying, and has arrived at the conclusion that the wings of any make about 830 beats a second, and that such a fly can travel at the rate of 3,50 feet a minute. Plymouth, has a young ladies' protective society, whose object is the protection of the matrimonial interests of the young women of the place. Only girls between the ages of 17 and 30 are eligible foi! membership. Captain Trevier, the French explorer who recently crossed from the west to the east coast of Africa, is of the opinion that no commercial ventures are possible in those portions of the country through which ho traveled. Experiments in oilinjr the waves have been so successful that all life boats in England will be required to carry a gallon of vegetable or animal oil and a distributor of approved pattern for throwing the oil on the sea in rough weather.

A jilted youth has sent a young lady ol Carlisle, a bill for 4100 for twenty two yards of silk dress goods, two gold brace lets, a diamond ring, and other articles which he presented to her. They were not evidently very valuable of their kind. John Holland of Leadville pleasantly chewed off L. S. Woods' ear.

Woods died from blood poisoning and was buried in a packing his head having swelled too large to fit the ordinary casket of civiliza" tion. Holland's jury was out nineteen hours aud convicted him of high misdemeanor. Lepers are still numerous in Norway. The number is upward of ono thousand, most of whom are found in the scacoast districts. There are four leper hospitals.

Leprosy, once common in Europe, has maintained its hold in Norway louger than in other countries, but is gradually being exterminated there. An electric appliance indicating tho names of stations has been put in English railway cars. A magnetic apparatus turning a roller on which aro printed the names of stations in good visible letters, is fitted over the window of every carriage with an electric bell to call the attcution of passengers to tbe change. James Robinson, a farmer living near Jeffersonville, Ohio, is the owner of a carnivorous horse, wiiich wants nothiug better for a good, square meal than a fat pig. henever the horse sees a pig that it can get at it grabs it by tho back of tho neck and shakes it to death, much as a dog would shake a rat.

The horso then devours the pig with great relish. Mr. Robinson is very careful to keep his pigs away front this horse as far as possible. Andrew Twaddle, who died rcceatly at Morristown, Ohio, aged seventy-four, was the last of a famous family of nine children born without the optic nerve, therefore stone blind. The state deeded thcui a section of land for a farm.

could go anywhere alone, did all the farm work, cut timber, build fences, ran a grist mill, drove horses, told the color of animals and denomination and genuineness ot paper money by touch. Thcy were Vef al and wealthy. tract" when the 6-20 bonds, whtcn the "contract said were payable in "lawful money" of the country was refunded Into gold-bcnring Interest bonds and made payable lu gold. All these infamous things and many others were done when the businessof the country had adjusted Itself to established monetary aud every change in the "contract" was made to rob labor of Its reward and give it to elegant Idleness Was it an "impairment of the contract" to secretly erase the word "for" and insert the word "after" In tho "contract" for the payment of the now existing wcries of bonds, In order that Shylock might demand of the eople the enormous premium they are now paying on bonds and robhinjr honest toil of many mil- linns? And now our distinguished senators write back to us that the "conditions are such that legislation will do no good; that the basis on which the combines and trusts rest is so indefinite that legislation can not reach them; that we must bo more economical and industrious; that we must not tell our hogs and buy meat, which means that we must sell our hogs (and give the pricc'the 'combine' sees fit togivo us) to Siiylock for interest, protection to "home Industries" and premium on bonds and let our families do without meat, and that is just what thousands are doing. He further says that we have the heartfelt sympathy of the entire administration and the majority in congress; and this too, iu the face of the fact that this sympathetic administration obstinately refuses to coin any more silver than the least amount allowed by law, and are lendlujr every energy to a further infamous sehemo to contract the currency still more, while the blessed privilege of raising corn costs the Kaw farmer at least to 10 cents a bushel.

Illiitrious senator. I tell you this: 1'tditieal "sympathy" on a "gold Iwisis1 is the thiuest diet a hungry family was ever fed upon, the scantiest clothing they ever wore, aud the slowest fire they ever attempted to warm by. Thus Hie work goes on. The and his children cry out, "give ns breath" The farmer says, "save my home." Tho congressional investigating committee says "give me loodle," and iolitical shysters echo the demand and ns the farmer ami his wife walk out of the loan nuetits office, after Wing compelled to sign away their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Shylock strokes his massive paunch and orders his servants at the different icnt4 of government to "bring in another boss." Continually yours It. II.

CtOVER. Another Lctlcr from Crank. Hkrek. Kanhas Jan. 10, Cf.nti.emkn: Seeing an article in your valuable paH-r copied from the Concordia JUmlr, Mr.

Haga-man'tf paper, and a republican at that, in which he says: "The present is portentlous with a coming storm." This statement originating in the editorial rooms of a progressive republican, I desire a spuce in the Noscox. with the view, if possible, to east a ray of light Into that seem-ina-ly dark abode. He goes on and tells ns about the injustice of African slavery; he tells us all about the money power; the trusts combines, Ac, asnhongh he had made a new discovery, just lately, and was anxious to warn the people of npnroai-inor danger. Now, if the liladeis published to enlighten the people and to mould popular scntlmenttud keep them posted on current events and has just found out there "is a nlgcer in the woodpile," ho Is absolutely too slow on trigtrer to "ketch" much game. Yes? Mr.

llagaman, the signs of the times Indicate stirring events In the near future. We are confronted by the graves questions that ever demanded solution in any age. Our generation has surrendered more of its Inherent rights more of the advantages of process more that sustains pride of rac9 and national cnaracter, tnan was ever wrenched from any people by the strongest army ever marshalled; and If we would rescue a portion of what has been lost, or save a portion that remains, brave, prompt, and energetie action is required, and that speedily, as apathy means ruin. The question demanding solution is whether farmers and laboring men have any rights that capital must respect; whether they have the light to life, liberty, and the pursuit ofhapplncss. Or whether they must quietly submit to the dictation of corporate power, and cry-talize Into serfdom.

These are the dangers that darken the hopes of the farmer and they roust be met. The storm that the Blade mentions Is here already. For many years this threatening cloud has hung over our fair land like a pall of death, and tho men who have been waroiug the people of the approach of disaster are denounced as cranks anarchists, and revolutionists Yes! The storm is here! And for the evidence of Its havoc, look at tho mortgage foreclosures sheriff's sales destitution, waut. misery and distress on every hand. Like a mighty cyclone it is sweeping the land; It swoops dowu, takes a farm, strips the family aud tumbles them In the gutter; as it approaches a loan and trust company, it raises, passes over, then drops again, catches a farm, horses cattle, an WHAT IT Jtr.AXft.

BY IU II. flJlVKIi. Editor No.vcon.: Not long ago I rrot ivca primed cirrui.ir iiom par- tiff who an booming th reubnil-- lon qufstirtn. The clrcularsi wer Ions; Ht nml lo.iri accnt. After rf-ltiiig the great In ninn to llio f.innpN ami IalHrtr4 l.V vlujf ojfli taloniif tjie9e jtfc ntl.

i). ii fa 1.1 "Wo in order to eet foreign em Now, what forciRii emigration mean to the mortsarhMen farm- 'f9 of 11 that came here and made Kati.1 the Cirdelt Ht of the fworhlare to drl-en from their home to give Iare to a cl.i. who. I am told, make more tractable ten- ant. It mean that the homes already taken from their rightful own er ohall have many, bidding for a chance to eke out a mfeerabto existence thereon, and that Shy lock may have tl pound of flesh from nearest his victim' heart.

It means that the grist now grinding through our courts, may have ready dipoal when the final decree Is granted. It means that those whoyetare hoping against hope, and are yet continuing the unequal struggle will finally If? compelled to give it up and acknowledge the authority of King Mammon as their ruler. It means for such as may survive the crash, that ti their rich t. and on Interest. What dttejt it mean for tluwe who may le indued to route, under guise or coming to free America? "the land of the free and the home of the brave They are brought here.

placed on th'M-once happy home. by the landlords a millstone of debt hanged aliout their necks, and they are ordered to burden the transportation line with freight to pay tri1-ute to legalized tnoiiooly, and bow their necks In m-eK submission to the yoke of ami the pir deluded creature at lat awakes to He awful reality that he has only changed toasters. He is ordered to compete with and drive out th American farim-r jithI curb his proud spirit. for ho has leen extravagaut wnnlril hU to havp an tion; Wiintrd his daughter to have a chaie to learn something besides the d.iily round of toll; he hoped to his family comfortable; he ha Wen known even to go so far as to buy a buggy and attend church In the city sonieli'ii'. "This Is outrageous," says King Cold, old three per cnt a mouth must not contaminated by sneh plebian asoeiations.

Protect our farmers but flood our farming districts with competition for farmers. IIid high the banner of the transportation trust. Starve tbe toiling million of Europe and eastern cities and rob the farmers of their homes; put in their places tenants from tho starving hordes of Europe aud call it "developing the country." These servants of the money devil seem to be utterly unconscious of the infamous thing tuey propose wbcn thcy ask ns to pay on to 9ta- at oastu Garden to send those poor deluded creatures here to be tho unconscious tool In the hands of monopolistic greed to rob ns of our homes. Home of these Jndases, I am told, attend church on Sabbath days and sing and exhort their brethren to "keep their eyes on They go to their pet Sunday school, and with a hypocritical whine that would put the devil to flight, they sing: "I am Jesus' little lamb, happy all day long I am," while thousands of their victims and their children are barefooted, half naked and hungry. Thousands of mothers' hearts are aehiiigaud theirconstant thought Is: "What will become of my darlings whn the dear old home Is gone?" The farmers of Kansas ask that the strong arm of the law li wielded In their 1 half.

For an answer they are poirlcd to the derNioii of the Judiciary committee of the last UffUiutmre. They are told that any-thing that would give them relief and help thetn save their homes would be vncomtittilionaL Lord! That would be an "impairment of the contract." It was no "impairment of the contract' to pay the soldier, lu money depreciated at the command of bhylock, when tho "contract" said he should have gottl. It was no "impairment of the contract' when the war ended to burn the peoples money and Issue gold interest bearing bonds when the "contract" said the debt was paid with greenbacks. It was no "impairment of the con The Knights of Labor did a good work at Marslialltowu. Wc confess we had grave fears that the school Itook ring might capture enough of the le locates to declare lor the trust plan of district purchase, but the result shows that the delegates were not caught on that hook.

They declared against Allison for United States senator, in favor of uniform system of school books and the Australian ballot system. Jet the good work go on. The Farmers Alliance and the Knights will make it hot for the bosses of monopoly vet. Indus- i trial American, Creston, la. At present there are employed in the penitentiary coal mines about SOO conviets.

producing daily from 0.000 to 8,000 bushels of coal which is supplied to state institutions and other consumers in competition with the coal mi ncd in this section by honest men who are not able to work in full time because the demand for coal is not equal to the supply. What offence has our coal miners committed that the punishment inflicted upon men guilty of crime shall be visited upon tliem and their unoffending families? Leavenworth Suu. The absolute indifference of our representatives in congress to the demands of the people for some measure of relief from the uuiversal distress shows that these old timers have little faith in the continued unity and stability of organizations of the industrial classes Every imaginable kind of legislation is proposed except that which the majority of the people want; and days weeks and months are consumed 'in the discussion of measures of little moment or such as have in view a continuance of the infamous financial policy of the past, and in a senseless struggle for petty party triumphs. These political wiseacres evidently expect that when the band begins to play, und the torch light procession moves, the people will all fall in line, as they have done in the years that are past, and' with a whoop and a hurrah, vote the same old ticket they have lMjen voting heretofore- Possibly they may wake up some day and find that they have leeii fooling themselves. Advocate Topeka.

OCR political god-fathers never weary of tendering advice to the laboring community about their extravagance. What for an example do they set In their management of public affairs? From statistics in the National Economist we observe the expense of conducting the government in ISiiO was equal to $2.07 per capita. To-day it is nearly $6., and ho asked for by Secretary Wiudom is equal to JtOj- per head add it ional. In 1S00 farmers were not in debt; businessmen were not going to the wall on every baud; nor was tho district court and sheriffs' business a circumstance to the present Something wrong, gentlemen; something v.rone:. Ex.

Aliiance-Union Notes. OFFICIAL. DIRECTORY. OF THE NATIONAL FARMEKS ALLIANCE AM INDUSTRIAL UNIoX. Polk.

North Cnroltun. B. 11. Clover. Vice I'rctdent Kansa-.

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H. Hlrkiunn. 'rensww Missouri. Ben. Terrell.

Lerlurer Texas. Kxcrntlre W. Mncuue, CliQJ.l A.Wv- drill, anl J. Tillman. JiKllrlnry IK-imrlment it.

Tatty. Isaaa MrCracken and Kvnn Jones. A bill before tho Massachusetts Legislature fixes hours as a day's work on railroads. The Australian ballot system is coming and the paid election "striker" is going. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.

The farmers are falling into line-Hurrah for the farmers! We like to see the under roan iu the fight come out first best once in a while. Allen, Tidings. "Jimmy, stir up the lire and put on sumo more corn, I want to read tho terms of this mortgage." An object lesson which few farmers will fail to comprehend. Nebraska Farmer. The federation between the farmers' Alliance and tbe Knights of Labor is the grandest union ever formed, and commands three million votes.

It is the heel of the people on the head of the viper. Industrial West. In forming your resolves for the year of 1890, let one be to work in the cash system. If wheelers would all make the resolve and live ud to it- the mortgage merchant would soon retire from business Faulkner Wheel. When farmers work together to en force their own rights, they will get tbem.

but how in the name of common sense they expect to achiove that end by electing to office millionaire bondholders is beyond our comprehension. Our Own Opinion, Cambridge, Neb. If all the reform factions in this country were to unite, they could revolutionize the whole world, but the fact is, the leaders of the two old parties manage to keep them from doing this, so that they, the masses, may the better be robbed. Day to Workman. The state officers of tho Kansas Farmers' Alliance have recommended to the sub-Alliances throughout the state, that, considering the fitct that corn is so cheap and coal so dear, that they burn corn this winter.

Nebraska farmers will not need a recommendation of this kind. Defender. WHEAT IN FINE SHAPE. Topeka, March 4. Secretary Moliler, of the agricultural department, has received no report of damage done to wheat crop.

So far as he can leara it to la QtmsuaUr good condition. pany was organized; a call for one hundred men to go to the front and begin the construction of irrigating ditches building of houses was Issued. Instead of only a hundred qualified men going forward, there was a rush of men, women and children. Persons not members of the Credit Foncier Company, others, I who, though members had no per mits hurried pell mell to an imaginary paradise, paying no heed (iu their mad rush to get something for nothing,) to the protests c-f Mr. Owen and the board of directors.

The result was disappointment, hardships, faultfinding on the part of those who had disregarded every counsel and had gone there without knowing what they wanted. Then the capitalistic press attacked the Credit Foncier, villlfied its promoters denounced Its principlesand lied about tho country. Rival towns notably Guaymas and Mazatlan, decried every effort to found a city at Topolobampo. Rival railroads and colonization companies intrigued with "the powers that be," to put obstacles in the way of success Returning colonists who had gone there for no good purpose, took pains to ruin, if possible, what they could not rule. And yet, notwithstanding nil these difficulties trials hardships treasons and falsehoods the noble band of heroes at tbe front for three years have not only maintained themselves but have built themselves homes and are daily adding the comforts of life.

More than all, they have demonstrated the correctness of the principles of Integral Oo-oieratkn. The writer spent several months in the colony, and never has it been his fortune to find a community whom the equities of life nnd the principles of justice were bo well observed. The count a nt or der of tue colonists is that the people of the north so long remain indifferent to the magnificent natural resources of Siualoa, and they hope that tho reform element will possess itself of these broad, fertile plains In order to secure these lands for Co-operation, the Kansas Siualoa Investment Company was incorporated. It was found that inducements had to lie one red to those who had means but did not wish to go to Sinaloa, in order to raise the necessary funds to buy lands at the present low prices The Kansas -Sinaloa Investment Company offers these inducements: It invests all tho money realized from the sale of its stock, in Mexican lauds and them, or ueh portions ns are wauled by thf'redit Foneier Company, at. prices whit-li are low com wired with the intrinsic value of the land or with the specu lative price, ami yet tie reel at a good profit to investors.

It is of the utm si i in porta nee that all the laud uectsary for the dertiopmcntof Integral Co-operation be secured in Ihe near future, otherwise prices will mount beyond the reach of the laboring classes The Kansas -Sinaloa Investment Co. has now been at work for only three months nnd yet has secured, in spite of the hard times, enough subscriptions to pay for over 26,000 acres of the most desirable land. This is certainly encouraging and should stimulate friends to increased activity. We want 2,000,000 acres This will compriso about all the land directly reached by the main irrigating ditch and traversed by the railroad from the harbor to the Fuerte. Now, before the ditch and railroad are built these lauds can be bought and irrigated for five hundred thousand dollars! After the railroad and ditch ore built, it will take twenty million dollars to buy tbe ditch and lands.

Of these three hundred thousand dollars can be done in work by the people after they are there. -Have tbe workingmen, fanners and mechanics of America the foresight to possess themselves of this grand opportunity to build homes for themselves upon their own lands free from rent, interest and tax, or will they waste their strength in futile attempts at political methods until capitalists buy these lands and employ wage slaves to cultivate them for tho benefit of the owners thereof? "And they shall build houses and Inhabit them: and they shall plant vineyards and eat tbe fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit they shall not plant aud another eat" Isaiah. Ik Hoffman. taterprwa, Kai-, Feb.

AJIOXO OUR The Farmer's Alliance propose as a measure of relief In the present hard times the "free coinage of silver." The "farmers are wisely in Avor of the dollar of our "dadles," E-tore cf and Eroooss in That something's wrong." said Pan McGrcw fair inded men must all agree. And what we farmer folks will do is really more than I can see. Whatever stuff we have to sell. Will scarcely pay for horde's feed; tell you tbintrs are going- to Or getting there at railroad speed. When wheat Is only forty cents And oats go begging at a dime, I wonder what's to recompense The farmer for his toil and time? The time has been when cattle paid And steers a fair price would command.

But now there's nothing to be made At raising stock or farming land." "Why things should be so very low. 1 neither know or yet pretend. But for my life why it is so is more than I can comprehend. Some say It Is tue syndicate That keeps the price of products down But this I know, at any rate. Meal sells at fifteen cents a poena "Now figure by the rule of three.

And 'tis susceptible of proof, Wltb meat so hlxli a steer should be Worth more than two cents on the hoof. And wheat we need not figure twit-e l-'ntll we very pininlv see. That flour at its present price. Is double what it ought to be." "I tell yon what," continued Dan, "Tis worse than slaves wc are to-aar; To think that he who tills the land. Can't raise enough his tax to pa v.

Here I'm a tiller of the soil. With scare a boot or shoe to wear. And ali the products of my toil. Must go to feed tbe millionaire." Said Mr. Home: "It seems to me We're governed by a set of knave.

And we who boast of being free Are nothing but a race of slaves Slaves to trusts and corporations. That daily on the people prey. Slaves to thieving combinations That rob and steal from day to day. And then about election time home great nabob will sound tho note. And fellows come with cheek sublime And tell ns farmers how to vote.

Ton know, McGrew, we haven't hitched. On politics in years gone by. But now I say though I be switched. You have been nearer right than I. Republican I've always been.

One of tbe strongest kind at that. But things are so corrupt, I ween. I'll turn and be a democrat." A democrat," said Dan aloud, Some, to that, might make ol-Jcctlon Because you always led the crowd, la advocating high protection." Confound protection." Horne replied. No greater wrong have we to bear; Do wolves protect the be cried. "Or honnds tbe frightened, hunted hare Declare it by what name you luoy.

"lis fraud but with another name; I do not care what others say, Protection, theft, are tue same. "Ask the farmer who's protected. He'll answer with the price of wheat. Ask working men how they respect it? They'll say protection is a chest. Protective laws are only meant More riches to tbe rich to give: Tbe sons of toil must be content That they're allowed the chance to Utj.

Tis tariff this and tariff that. Spec! He and ad valorem Tariff on coat and tariff on Lai, And tariff to pay for jorum. There's tarlfl low, and tariff uIk'i. Tariff on all the rags we wear. And next we hear, no doubt they'll try.

To place a tari ff on the air." A standerby broke In to say Your language, sir. Is rather strong. And though emphatic in your war, I think you're altogether wrong. Protection made us what we are: And surely, sir, you do not want. To 1 laee our workmen on a par.

With Ill-paid foreign mendicant." TIs right you are," responded Dan. And here examples yon may sec. Of bow protection helps the man. Who labors iu this so free. Under what you call On us the pauper's doom will fall.

Aided by lu twin contraction. The poor house soon will get ns all In vain for work mechanics seek. And workmen idle must remain. And yet some fellows have tbe cheek To say that we should not complain. Of pauper labor they will prate.

Who never soiled their dainty hands. As though it helped our wretched state To say they're worse in other ands." "Come Dan," said Horne: "time flies spare; These fellows yet may be impressed That freedom still flnds resting place Within the AugloSaxon's breast. Tls little that Is left us now Worth righting for, I must confess; And here, most frankly I avow. That litUe'e fast becoming less. "Oh that some champion might be found Who would tho people's cause advance.

Untie the bands with which they're bound And give the poor man half a chance; Put down the trusts, reform Uic laws. From corporations set us free. Defend tbe people's r'g'iteous cause. The cause of right an I liberty. POOR THINCSC?) There are more second hand firinting outfits for sale in Kansas, o-day, than ever were know in any state.

They are the ones started for the purpose of encouraging eastern suckers to come west and invest The ones whose editors have had the-happy experience of calling thinking people "anarchists" They are for sale now. The eastern men have come to Kansas They found Kansas all right, but the laws by which the producer is handicapped from get ting for his products what they cost him; the protection granted to the rich against the lowly, is what has caused the despisable looking wreck that finds the adornment, "for sale, cheap," tacked on every corner. As for tne editors and their papers ho for years have been misleading the public, let them totter. Even when In their craze, they cut across the corner of the field, in order to jump in ahead of the procession with banners flying; let them yell; the music of their own voices will soon weary them. Poor things? their families are all that deserve pity.

Nou Con. It seems to us that after all the petitions that have been sent to Congress and the of letters that have been written to different members by the laboring men, that the laboring men would learn that they need expect nothing from this Congress and would let them alone, give them rope enough to hang themselves and turn their attention to organizing and educating and TAKE at the ballot-box what they will never get by beggary. Colorado Workman. SHEET2 INDICTED. KASSAS Citt, Mo March 4.

James L. Sheets was Indicted at Liberty, today for murder in the first degree for the killing, a month ago, of John Lewton. The icasa had attracted great attention, Sheetz beingex-eounty attorney and well known throughout this section of the state. The. munler occurred dnriog a quarrel over Sueeix' alleiced criminal intimacy with Lewton's wife.

CALDWEtL'S NOMINATION CONFIRMED. Washington, March Tbe secate confirmed Uenry Cal dwelt to be judge of tbe United States court for the Eighth judicial district. tized silver to prevent tho people from pnylng their debts in order to perpetuate usury; yotirparty funded the debt In order that the people could not pay if they wanted to; the renublieaii party has given to rich railroad corjtorations over acres of the people's land, a territory of 330,000 square miles and in extent, larger than Kngland, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Hweden, Germany and Franco combined. In addition to this that same party appropriated to these corporations in 6 per cent, thirty year bonds and having guaranteed the interest which they were to pay, the people have had to pay it, which amounts to over 1,000.000 maklnd a total of Uy the various schemes of this traitorous party they have engulfed the country in debt to the amount of at least and through their currency contraction schemes have depressed values on the products of the country until the whole of it will not cancel the debt Now can Mr. llagaman or anyone else fail to sec what is the matter.

The whole financial system is a swindle; the tariff is a swindle; the two old parties are swindles and the whole combination of corruption and rasealitv should be obliterated at tho next election. These two old frauds have Kttccceded In cornering tho laud, the trade, the money and the transportation. Now, they have got to cornering sugar, coffee, lieef, corn, wheat, oats cotton oil, fuel, white lend, twine, the forests mines and minerals and, I understand they am arranging to corner eanuts What next? aow, what is the result of all this scheming against labor? It is this: have about one thousand Vanderbilts and Coulds who own more than half the country and hold mortgages on the remainder, and who now propose to foreclose. Tho whole combines have plunged into a mad scramble to gain fortunes by cunning nnd craft Instead of by honest Industry, every one for himself and the devil for tho hindmost, and he always gets him; and every time he is caught he turns out to be a farmer. Yes, the farmer is nnd has been the victim of avarice and greed sinco history left its trace oh the first written Page; liecause they are influenced by a subsidized press and an army of hireling speakers whose only aspirations are tho spoils of office.

This monopoly system inaugurated by the two old parties makes merchandise of men, slaves of women, beggars of children, and outcasts of all; und then holds itself inpower by oen britery, falsehood and fraud. Now, what is to be doue to break up these plundcrinc schemes inaugurated by the two old parties? There is but one reined and that is a consolidation of all farmers and other laborers as well ns all business men who are not associated with these combines and vote for men and measures that will put a stop to the hole busiuess Then let us pull together; stand by the farmer and laborer; for they are the ones who create the wealth and pay the taxes Stand by them first, last aud nil the time; sink or swim; live or die. Stand by the Alliance; the justice and humanity. Vote for no one who will not stand squarely on our platform and sustain its principles I am a farmer, a rebel from republican ring rule; and, hence, A CltANK. ABOUT THE CREDIT FOXCIER COMPANY ASD THE JN VESTMENT COMPANY.

THEIR RELATIONS TO EACH OTHER CLEARLY LET OUT. The Credit Fonder Company is a colonization company based upon the I principles of voluntary integral cooperation. It has been carefully organized, and numbers among Its active members some of the clearest brains and warmest hearts that ever devoted themselves to the betterment of the condition of mankind. It is predicated on the proposition that the physical and material well-being of the people Is essential to the growth of culture, art, good morals and an exalted spirituality. It assumes that the home is the foundation aud citadel of all real progress; that poverty can bo abolished, and exists wherever its curse is felt, because of the usurpation of common rights of all by the cunning few, by means of certain well-understood semi political economic taws It accepts the highest results of the investigations of the now almost past century on land, money and It holds with Proud hoii, Karl Marx, Henry Ueorge, and Pentecost, that the land fall the term Implies) should be free to eaeh person held in trutt by the community for the free of it member i that money Is a Jcttx Victoki Is a very fearless woman.

Although republican mutter ings are plainly audible on every side, abe anoouoces her Jntentioo to Issue another volume of extracts from her private journal. Said a Chicago wife: it is real mean for Charlie to be so good to me 1 want to get a divorce and go on the atage; tut he is so kind I can not help loving him. and that is what makes me hate him so." Spaxiaeps are predicting that Spain would soon be a republic if the baby king would die. The people of that -ouotry seem to stand in awe of one little sickly royal infant It is hard to get away from old traditional notions, It a matter of current belief In i jrooKiyn ion naruiy a puouc coniract is awarded there upon which tho con-t racier must not divide his with the ring which controls the entire government of Brooklyn and Kings county- Wntx a man savs he does not care a "curse'' he means that he does not cure a cress, tho lingual mototheais here being similar in that which makes gooscl'ffrTie," out of gorseborries. "axe1 out of ask.

and wapsc" out of wasp. Tut Indian who commits a murder to die for it if he Is caught, and he takes his punishment stoically, lie has no excuses to offer, no pleas for mercy to make, and be knows nothing of the emotional insanity dodge. Some people, suggestively remarks sharp critic, are so busy meddling with other people's business that it would not be surprising at the general resurrection to find some of these erer- lasuog snoops geiun out oi somcooay else's grave. It can scarcely be said to be creditable to the literary taste or to the moral eaiture of the ngtlsh speaking world that the noretlst Ouida has made as much money with her off-colored pea aa Paul has made with her three thousand dollar-a-alght voice. Mcjcicax hotels are said to be very poor, the best of them not being equal to third-class houses la tho United States.

Tourists, although tfetigbtcd with the country, do not stay there acy length of time because tbe comforts peculiar to American hotels are not obtainable anywhere in Mexico at any price. Ckimm against commerce merit heavy punishment. The time has gone rrben they can be regarded Hgbt'y. Overissues of stock, convenient failures, chicane of any kind ougLt to be drastically treated. Tbe community will be tbe better for tbe experience.

There will be fewer fail-ores and more honesty la commercial Intercourse. A MorxrAtx of clam shells has been discovered about three miles east of Mount Vernon. It Is over GOO feet high and has surface of soil nearly a foot thick. Underneath this clam shells abound to the level depth. There are trees growing on the mountain which show aa age.

Judging by the j-ings about the heart, of from 150 to i.