The Broad Axe from Howard, Kansas • 1

i f. BROAD-AXE Every Week. A Vulon-Labor Newnpapor. Subacrlptlon Hates Single Copy, I Clnhi of Ton, 0 00 ot Five, 4 T8 Clutw ol Twenty, 00 OUR MOTTO: "Hew tn the lino, let tho chips tall where they may." AdvrtinliiK Loeul Notice, per Line, Klve OlHplay Ailvcrtlfeuient, Fifty Cent ltd Monthly. -JOB WORK-e Executed with XeatiWM and Ueapatch.

KatUIat tlou Guaranteed. "Hew to tho Lino, Lot tip Chips Fall Where they May," 8. B. OBEHLE.NDER, HOWARD, KANSAS. VOL.

1-NO. 35. HOWARD, ELK COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, SEPT.19, 1888. PRICE, $1.00 UIVE US A CALL, AND TBV US For twenty years after the close of A. W.

KDRBX. JOHN J. PI1JJ, Presideni W. 0. LAMBERT, Vice-President THE UNION LABOR NATIONAL TICKET.

For President, ALSON J. 8TREETER, ot Illinois. For Vice-President, CHARLES E. CUNNINGHAM, of Arkansas. "Toes up, or toes down?" Tho office of tho Bugle Call has been removed to tho Broad-Axo building.

Man, when his roason is guided by BUSINESS CARDS. MICIIOLS JACKSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. HOWARD. Will practice law In all tho soitrU of the state. Office lu the new brick eouil wuBt of tho court limine.

DIRECTORS. J. J. PYLE, A.W.KURBY, W. S.

LAMBERT T. P. CAMPBELL JOHN TRAVILLA. HOWARD, KANSAS. CAPITAL PAID UP, MAKES A SPECIALTY OF MORTGAGE LOANS FOR HEW ENGLAND SAVINGS BANKS, Trust Companies and Individual Investors.

John Stuart Mill says: If the whole volume of money in circulation were doubled, prices would double." And every writer on political economy in tho world says tho same thing. Notwithstanding the great truth, the Ro-publieaus and Democrats have, for twenty years, followed tho miserable scheme of contraction, and tho- result is that the farmers and laborers of our country have continually merged into a worse condition, until nine-tenths of tho farmers will lose their homes with in the next two years if we do not get a change aud not only a change but a radical change. This is not only the case in Kansas, but in all of the tigrit ulturhd states. Falling prices on all that Is produced. Nor is this all.

Real estate in Illinois has depreciated from ten 'to thirty-live dollars pei acre iii the last five years, aud the farmers there almost to a man, want to sell in order to save a little money from tho wrck. Voice. A friend asked us what, lu our opinion, is the reat causo of ever increasing crime, as proven by our Court records. Tho reply is easy. The almost universal cause of crime, eclipsing every and all things else, is poverty.

Behind such poverty we must arraign and condemn all causes oh" said poverty, prominent among which arc the penial of Nature's op-portunites to earn a living, the extortions of usury, the monopoly of land for speculative purposes and the grasping cupidity of railway managers, and as less important wo may mention tho whisky curse, the tobacco habit, These agencies do not alone produce poverty. In their train wo nave mania, murder, suicide, theft, prostitution and hopeless degradation. It is impossible to exaggerate this picture, and tho great measure of relief will be found in making it easy to secure a comfortable living with its consequent leisure and general advancement intellectually, morally, and spiritually. Men unable to obtain necessary food for want of paying employment must choose between three alternatives. They must beg, starve, or steal and human nature is so eonslituteJ that it generally prefers the last, and this will account for the surprising and ever increasing ingenuity of adriot thieves.

American Liberty. pOP.S- BRUCFS. The Old Reliable DRY GOODS 11 1 3 i 3 1 1 I i A- I.I i I i 'it IV i He has just received a large assortment of -stBOOTS AND SHOES- All Custom Made, Which He is Selling at a Very SMALL PROFIT. All persons indebted to me by account or note will please call at once and pay off, if yon want to save cost. tho war the non-combatants, who own precious lives, pulled hair and kicked shins over the "bloody shirt, As the echo of tho last gun died away "the gallant home guards crawled forth from their hiding places and began tho work of cxtcrmina tion.

During the bloody-shirt era a horde of thieves and robbers were pillaging tho treasury. It was a bond purchasers'' para disc! A land si calers picnic! A banker's carniva! A dress parado of political prosti tutes! A feast for office-seekers! A riot of robbers! A perfect holiday iJt thieves! It is safe and assert that during the period occupied in wrangles over the bloody shirt indulged in for the purponsc of distract ing the attention of the people from the wholesale plunder that was going on not less thau fifty per cent, of the prt perty of the United States fraudulently and feloniously passed out of the hands of the wculth producers into the possession of the robber clauses! Having worn thread-bare the ensan guined garment, a new "issue" trust be raised The "bloody shirt" was abandoned! The "tariff question" was taken up! And it is under cover of this am buscade of senseless twaddle that the thieves hope to not only continue 'heir depredations, but retain undis puted possession of the boodlo which they have already captured! But the indications are that tho people ate not going to be fooled any longer by the cry of "wolf." A discussion of the "tariffquostion" does not pay the grocery bill; It does not pay house rent; It does not pay for coal; It does not pay taxes; It does not pay tho interest on the mortgage; It does not buy broad for the children; It doc3 not keep the wolf from the door; It docs not give employment to a million idlo'tnen; It docs not sell the merchants' goods; It does not start up factories; It docs not living about the longed for "good times" The apathy and indifference of the people oyer the "tariff question" is fairly paralyzing the leaders of the two old parties. The people do not '-catch on," The rank and file do not enthuse" worth a cent. Au old Grcenbacker can talk half an hour to an audience of Democrats and Republicans and twenty-five per cent of them nre ready to join the Uhion Labor party. A suu-Il-sied Labor paper can make more converts in a single week than a "prominent" Ilession daily can make in a month.

The "tariff is too thin fodder for mortgaged-cursed farmers who are paying from ten percent a year to five percent a month for the use of money, while they are getting only fifteen cents a bushel for oats and fifty cents for wheat. The jig is up! The light is breaking! The day is dawning! The people are arising! On with the fight Chicago Sentinel. Under the present financial and social conditions of the country the in (joci we Trust on tue dollar lias the same meaning as that "In God we Trust" would have playearded on a murderer's and robber's back. "In God we while we rob labor, starve his children and drive all into a promaturo grave. While in the United States Senate John A.

Logan uttered these terrible words: "We want reduction of the tariff. We arc taxed on every inter est; blood is not only extracted from Uie linger vemi of the body politic, but it is bound hand and foot and covered all over with galinippcrs who are allowed to suck blood from every vein. Tho Buffalo Express, ouo of the leading representative Republican journals of tlis country, is the latest expounder of the union labor principles, having racently declared in favor of Streeter and Cunuingham and the union lalior party. One by one our ereat journalists arc begin-ing to seo the light of day. Such encouragements lends hope to the cause and will surely be the result of sweeping the country at the November election.

The slaves could not voto in 18G0, that's why Lincoln was elected. If the slaves could have voted us they worked, they would have voted for their masters and been chatties yet. Now the slaves can vote, tho slaves of the money power as well ns the former chatties, and the wage slave will vote for their masters just as they work. If not A. J.

Streeter will be elected, lie stands to tho wage slave as Lincoln did to tho chuttle slave. It remains to bo seen whether oue is so much more intelligent thau the other or riot a sense of justice, has tho power for the accomplishment ol immortal good Lifo, with all its energies, is but a waste, if there is not a principle of pure, active character that will defy opposition. The Caney Valley Fair Association will hold its fair at Grenola, Sept. 2(1, to 29. A prizo of $100 will bo given to tho best band.

The last day will bo union labor day, The most brutal instrumentality of the nineteenth century is the news paper which misleads the Ignorant and appeals to the prejudices of the selfish. "Hello, Courant!" There are certain men in tho world so contemptably mean and elfish, that had they the power to do it, would get a corner on fresh air, put it in bottles, and sell it at so much a smell. The Union Labor vote in Kansas last year was 32,500 in thirty-five counties there being no party or ganized in the remaining counties. Mark tlte prediction it will be above 100,000 this year. Union Labor Convention.

A township convention will be held at the McKey school house, Liberty township, Saturday, Sept 22nd, at 2 p. for tho purpose of nominating township officers. By Order. Tho Armour Packinfi company arc discharging all their old hands and replacing them with Italians. The discharged workers will have time to electioneer for the "grand old parties" protection to American Labor and Chinese Harrison.

Kritie. W. II. Harris, Moliuo, was in town Monday, and made this office a call. He informs us that ho will be in attendance at the fair with a full line of campaign badges, and fine photographs of Streeter and Cunningham, which only cost ten cents a copy.

Wichita is writhing under the pressure of a lumber trust. To be sure it is one of Jim Blaine's "private affairs," but somehow the people up there don't propose to stand the racket of paying a half dozen limes what it is worth and are buyin their lumber away from home. The Bugle Call, our new A. R. paper will not be issued until the 22, as tho publisher is compelled to select a day the most convenient to have his press work done.

We hope Mr. Bird will be liberally patronized as he is worthy and will give his patrons a strictly non-partisan paper. Why is cot a farmer as good as a banker in the eyes of Congress? One is offered a twenty years loan at ono per cent, the other is offered a blank cut-throat mortgage for him and his wife to sign and swear to and then sweat under the shadow of it until sweating won't save them. Ex. Severy, Sept.

17th 1S88. Editor Broad Axe. We have completed arrangements for a joint discussion between the Union Labor and Republican parties at this place on the 29th of Oct. Question: Resolved that the laws and systems built up by the Republican party are absolutely destructive to the welfare and prosperity of the masses. By order of com.

J. M. Duvnli, sec. The newspaper that is defending trusts and Mr. Blaine's defence of them says that "if a trust makes very much money, other trusts will rise up to compete with it." Oh! Will they? Why does not some trust "rise up" and compote with the Standard Oil, which has absolutely controlled tho market for this product for years past and has made multi-millionaires of its many members.

A trust is an organized conspiracy to kill competition and rob tho community. To say that it cannot be hindeicd is to say that the people are helpless victims of extortioners. We don't believe it. The Indianapolis Journal sometime since offered $2000 for proof that Gen Harrison threatened the railroad-strikers with the bayonet. The proof is abundant and the money has been claimed, to be applied if received, to the K.

of L. relief fund. The executive board of that district charges Harrison with having threatened the men with death if they did not return to work, and that although ho said $1 a day was enough for any working man, he swore that his own services were worth $1,000 for five days and that ho received that amount, that lie received additional foes for prosecuting the strikers, and, worse than all, that he prosecuted an innocent man, using manufactured evidence against him. The charges are publicly made and proof cited and if tho record is not black enough to arrnv workingmcn everywhere against such a man they deserve to be irround down into serfdom. Thq, workingmcn who i win vote to Dlaco tins ariHtoernl would be butcher at the head of this nation deserve all thev will pet at th hands of those who would shoot them down like dogs.

And they call him a Christian! Can mockery go farther. 3. i CONGRESSIONAL. For Representative, III Congress'nal District, W. H.

UTLEY, of Labcttc-co. First District Alonxo J. (trover, Muscotah. Second )istrlct--Dclos Walker, Greeley. Fourth district John Ileastnn, Council Grove, Fifth District John A.

Anderson. Mauhattau. Sixth District II. A. Hart.

Stockton. Sevcuth District 8. II. Snider, Kingman. COUNTY TICKET.

For Representative, JOHN" HUGO, of Howard. For Clerk of the Dfstrlct Court, ED OBR, of Libei ty. For County Attorney, JOHN MARSHALL, of Howard. For Trohate Judge, J. A.

SMITH, of Loiigtou. For Connty Superintendent, S. M.DAVIS, of Grenola. For Commissioner Bnd District, JOHN HUGHES, of Howard. Election on Tuesday, November 6th, 1888.1 Circulation 1900 Copies It is a shame and will be the disgrace of the age and country in which we live, that an educated people, a people where so large a propor-tionof them can read and write, should ever have permitted the outraogus class legislation that now exists.

Why it is that party prejudice should ever have so far controlled the people that they have permittid the enactment and enforcment of these terrible laws by which the earnings of the great mass of toilers is taken from them and given to a few, is a problem hard to solve. It is more than we can understand why so many cannot see the cause of tins state of things, when our country is black with mortgages, when a despariug people are unable even to pay the interest of the mortgages on thousands of homes, and yet we find seemingly good, intelligent men working and struggling to maintain the very laws that are crushing the people to the very earth. Why will not men stop and think? Why will they not investigate aud know for themselves the truth concerning these things, and then act? Why will not ths men of this country arouse themselves from (heir lethargy and throw off this yoke of bondage? Do not say "we cannot." You who cringe and say the people cannot free themselves. think of patriots who in the past have dared to face death for liberty's sake You who have the right to the ballot just ask your selves how it is that thousands of homes are slipping from those who hayc toiled to make them, and passing into the hands of those wlu never earned a dollar. Just for once reali ze thai it takes the toil of thousands of lives to create the wealth of some of tho millionaires of our country.

Then ask if there can be any principle of right by which this weoith, which should go to make comfortable happy homes for those who have created it, can be taken from them aud hoarded or squandered, while you are left in poverty and want. My country, men, to the rescue I while yon yet have the right of ballot, use it. Use your influence, your pen your voice; use every energy of your being. You who love mankind come to the rescue before it is too late. Sacrifices must be made.

The few ure always left to lead mankind to better conditions. Will you bo one of the few? Do not say "I cannot. God and humanity demaid of you what you can do, and not what you cannot. See to it that your duty is done now. In the name of eternal right and justice, act now.

Governor Alger, one of the million-aire bosses of the llepublicon party, made his millions by having his lumber cut. hauled and Hawed bv imnorb. Cfl Canadians at seventy-five cents and one dollar a clay. Those imported laborers spend all their earnings in Canada, where their homes are. Thnv took the place of native born American laborers who got $1.50 to $2 per day until they were discharged by hundreds to make room for imported laborers Ex.

The government made the soldier receipt for a dollar ahd gave him a bill worth fiftv cents, and then the fifty cents they stole from the bol-dier to the bondholder, bv fun rrnrfit. strengthening act, which also boomed tho bonds above oar. and urn nnw buying tho bonds, paying a premium thirty cen's on the dollar, for bonds which were originally bought at a discount of fiftv cents on the dollar. 'Rail for Cleveland and Harrison, hie I Thevwho first ask wlint. nnhlin opinion is or will be, before they act, may have the adulteration of the rabble, bnt they can never guide men up ine pianie ot Human progiess.

J. B. Welch will speak at busby, Saturday, Sept 22d' at 7 p. jj. Come every body and hear what ho has to say on the lue issues of tho day.

On every hand we see want am. icty and care, weary limbs and aching hearts, saddened faces and ill clothed loruis wrtn wretched homes. J. E. Dust, an old resident of Tfow.

ard, but now of St Louis, lma our city during ttic week ou brined. jQR. J. COSTELLO PHYSICIAN SURGEON. Offers Ills gervises to all the afflicted in and nrotind Howard.

Office 1st dooi west of the Post Office ROB'T SIMONS. mSURtHCE WENT, Lawyer, Justice of tho Peace, and Collecting Agent. HOWARD KANSAS A Large number ef Farms for sale or Trade, and am always ready to do anything in my lino. PEASE SELF HEATING SAD- inon, JEROME OATT, AGT. Howard, Elk Kansas, HARNESS SHOP ByL.DeWitt, HOWARD, KANSAS.

We keep a lull line ol Ueavv and Light Saddles, Whips, Blankets, and In (net a targe stock ot all kinds of HORSE GOODS. GIVE US A TRIAL. George Riekert, SHOEMAKER, REPAIRING WILL BE MADE A SPECIALTY "McFarland," THE FINEST HAMBLETONIAN STALLION IN KANSAS- I'EDIOREK. McFahland, by Chas. Caffrey (1042) dam Rosalind sister of Goldsmith Maid McFarland's d'm Eva, by Tippoo Bashaw sire of Da-quesnc Second dura, Sweetheart by Messenger Duroc (sire Elaine 2:20.) Third dam, Lizzie Walker by American Star, (dam, Startle, trial 2:19 and sire Majolica, This is an inbred Hambletonian by a sire that has shown better than a 2:20 gait and his first and second dams are by sires of 2:20 perfomers.

McFarland's dam was out of a Messenger Duroc mare, and as one of his daughters produced the greatest yearling to date (Norlaine we may expect McFarland to show extreme speed also. For terms of service apply to S. B. OBERLEHDER, Howard, Elk County, Kansas. TURNER'S EMANCIPATOR itVWM Expose fraud wherever found.

Its editorials arc snap, (ringer and nitroglycerine. If you are a laboring man you want It! If your farm Is mort-eatsed, or you cannot get work you want it. A strictly Labor paper. Only SB cents a year. Komi for it.

Address "Turners Emancipator," Lone Oak, Hates Mo. NION SewinoMashine The only Machine that will sew backwards as well as forward? without turning tho goods under the arm of the machine. THE WONDER OF THE AGE Quiet, Light Running, Adjustable In All Its Parts. No one can do himself Justice without seeing this machine. First Prize and Gold Medal over all Competitors at tho world's Exposition at New' Orleans.

JilON MANUFACTURING COMPANY 918 Olive St, Louis. 0 Needles, Oil and repairs for all ma-ehines. Sewing Machines repaired ty a competent workman. 41. W.

JONES HOWARD. KANSAS PH A Li 4 tp t'JV-v. -D1-AI $32,600 i.gswr:.- KR8 IS- Stable. Transfer LinerCQ KANSAS. I COAL Mm Anthracite, Can, Illinois, Osage end Ob Coals, Office and Yauds nt th corner of Wabash anil Auiuns streets.

C. A. BEURGAN, Manager. WLBOM SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION! At Uuion Ceuter, Sept 29th 1888 IN CRAIGS -GR0YE- PROGRAMME. 1 Called to order by president, at 10 a.

in. 2 Song by Cleer Creek S. S. 51 Reading Scripture lesson by S. J.

Bascom. 4 Opening prayer by "Row Parker. 5 Song by Happy Ridge S. S. 0 How to teach the S.

S. lessou. Rev. Carey. 7 Song by Union Center S.

S. 8 Dinner 12 m. 9 1 ,:50 p. m. singing by congregation, America.

10 Bible reading, conducted by Rev Parker. 11 Song by Elk Valley S.S. 12 The relation that should be maintained between S. S. and churches by Rev.

McClauc. 13 Song by W. P. S. S.

.14 The importation of tho S. work, Rev. Cooper. 15 Song by Fair view S. S.

10 Essay by Mis. Wm. Taylor. 17 Song by Star S. S.

18 How to successfully teach S. S. Lesson, S. C. Brilhnrt.

19 Song by congregation. 20 Quaitcrly review, by Rev. Cooper. 21 Song by forest S. 22 Report by secretaries of schools 2iJ Business.

APPOINTMENTS. W. H. Utlev. the Union didato for congress, will speak in Elk county as follows: Oak Valley, Monday, Sept.

24 2 p. m. jjusuy, Monday, sept. L'4 8 p. m.

Elk Falls. Tuesdav. Sent, 25 2 Longton, Tuesday, Sept. 25 8. p.

m. i iuoune, isopt. zu p. m. Ui)i)Cr Pawmvfl 'Hi Craigs Grove, Sept.

27 1 p. m. orenoia, inurs. Kept, zl p. m.

H. A. White, tho Union Lnlinr mn. didato for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court will speak at Howard Saturday, Sept. 22nd at 2 p.

m. and at Union Cemter Saturday, Sept. 22 ai, o. p. m.

There will be a basket uirmr nt. Craig's Grove in Union Center town. shin Thursdav. 27. Willi nhim.

dance of good speaking both before ami aner dinner. Local committees will make arrangements accordingly. Tho monrietors of tlm Pn nrnn fnr. ricr and Windom Elltni'lirlsn linvn have formed a partnership, moved tho two papers to McPhcrson and consolidated them under the name ot Our Opinion. MARK McBEE, Prop'r.

Buss To And From All Trains. RATES: SI. OO Per Day. DR. S.

F. OLNEY. Druggist Pharmacist. rroacriptiong Carefully Filled Day or Night- A Full Line of Paints And Oils. Also has tho Finest, Largest and Best Selected Lino of Gold and Silver Watches, Plated Silverware, ant! Jewelry cvor opened In Elk County, which they arc offering at prices that cannot bo Dupliofttod Anywhero in Howard, Kruiaw.

Livery CP" Omnibus and Wo have new Buggies, New Harness, Fine Horsos, and are prepared to give first-class turn outa, with or without drivers. We Board horses by the day, week or month on tbo most reasonable -terms. We defy COMPETITION. Call and give us a trial. HOWARD.