The Mayfield Voice du lieu suivant : Wellington, Kansas • 1

"piT MPs Voice, AYF 8 By LYMAN NAUGLE. At War with Class Legislation and Mal-administratlon. ONE DOLLAR A YEAlt. VOL. MAYFIELD KANSAS.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1894.. NoTsiT" tle-field laid dowr the Wfinnnns nnrt Btundoth God within Mm shadows, I ....111 II a II III mil I I lu t.n.i tt Argoniu. doffed the habiliments of war and re i.uwtw wiiii, Oil. Thoil (r(l( ivllnun lifr. imp Christian Endeavor meets every turned to the peaceful pursuits nf Is inspire us with Thy and make Sunday evening at six o'clock.

ua surong una wise io Keep our Dciovea country free forever. life. Many have since then gone out from this life 'mid scenes of peace while scores of thousands of them yet live. For a third of a century agone The dry weather has Injured the fruit and garden considerable in this POLITICS AND ECCLESIASTICS. vicinity.

Mr. Hill returned from the atrip one The Coming Kingdom ol Heaven on Earth DcUyed by Devlla. day last week and will remain here Don't Tax the Millionaires. Tax the land, tux tlio water, lax the hiiii'h beams, tux tlio air, Tux th earth, tux perdition. Hut don't tax the millionaire! Tax tlio crops, tax the trews, I'ux common people everywhere, Tax thesolioolliouse.tiix tlio eluirehos, liut don't tax tlio millionaire! Tax the moonbeams, tux tlio stars.

lax the plunets where they are, Tax the widow, tax the orphan, lint don't tax the nirrul Tax the llvlnir, tux the dead. Tax the clothing-, tax the hair, Tux the colli tax the gravestone, liut don't tax the millionaire! Tax the preacher, tax the teacher. lax the saints Uiuiiku few and rare. Tux ambition, tux hope of heaven, liut dou't tux the millionaire! Culcugo Sentinel. Since the occurrence of the Belle until harvest is over.

Memorial services were well attcn Plaine incident Rev. J. D. Botkin their hands have been strangers to musket stocks and sword hilts. Their country has not in that time needed of them armed service.

Nevertheless no living veteran has fought all his battles yet. There is still a good fight for him to fight which does not demand such weapons as those he used on southern battle-fields. Wrong that was conquered when it assumed the shape of rebellion has since then assumed other forms and is to-day assailing the interests of multitudes of MEHORIAL SERMON. 'The Battle! That Are Paet and the Battle Thet Are to Come." BV UEV. AKTnUIt S.

HENDERSON. Fight tlio good Timothy, 6-1S. From human history's beginning In the dimness of the unknown past through all the ages to this present day there has been an irrepressible conflict between Right and Wrong. Every human being is involved in that conflict with freedom to choose on which side he will array himself. Sometimes the conflict assumes one form and sometimes another but be the form what it will, it is the same old fierce contest of the ages in which Wrong seeks the supremacy over Right.

At times Wrong has seemed to triumph, but Right, being a divine Erinciple, cannot be defeated and so as risen and asserted itself. Right has its ground in the eternal nature of things. Upon It God's government rests. Wrontr is rebellion against the ded last sabbath afternoon at the M. has been deluged with letters, complimentary and otherwise.

A promi nent district judge of this state wrote him the following letter: Rev. J. D. Botkin.b Wellington. Kan- E.

Church. Mr. France Wheeler who has been very sick for two weeks is reported a little better. Everybody is busy getting ready for harvest the frost and dry weather sas. Dear Sinand Brother: I have lust our fellow citizens and threatening tne me oi tne nation itseir.

He who foueht for the rlirht In the Serious, Curious Comical. COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE. Corbln. Our path master graded our streets up In tine shape. The Corbln mills shippen six car loads of flour to Texas this wcekr The Corbln Anti-Horse-Thief Association has reorganized.

Mrs. J. M. Dennis was visiting west of town at Mr. Hebbo's Sunday.

Mrs. Johnson is some better and has gone to Downs township on a visit. The six head of horses supposed to Lave been stolen from J. V. Dunham were only strayed.

Ben Lyon returned from Carroll county. where he has been since last October. The best binder on the market, the Milwaukee, for sale by H. II. Howe.

Call, examine and get prices. Mr. Mudd and Mr. Brownback went to Wellington Monday to examine the different kinds of harvesting machinery but did not purchase. Corbln has the two best binders on the market, the Hodges by K.

K. and the Piano by II. H. Howe; if you anticipate purchasing a binder give them a call. It was thought that wheat was injured only in certain localities, but all wheat Is badly damaged and some is actually dying, supposed to be caused by the late frosts.

The G. O. can't tell which from has Injured the wheat some but it is hoped that nothing more will hinder from reaping a bountiful harvest. read in the ruoruing papers that you have been lecturing la a church at Belle Plaine, and that you said something that savored of politics. My brother! I am afraid ithat "the gospel" has been bestowed upon you in vain.

Are you not one of the and have you not been cruel- dark days of the civil war should Join with his sons and the sons of his comrades and with all loyal citizens and fight for his county just as bravely now. 'Twill not do to look always The Fire Company will give an Ice government of God. Hence, while cream supper and ball Wednesday backward and think that the battles which have been gained and the issues nea to the worldi1 if called out from wrong exists tnere can De no ceasing from conflict. The issue of this age night. The boys are preparing to that have been settled assure our 'The Klnit Is but a an as I inn.

The violet smells to him as it doth to mo. The element shows It to him us It doth to me. All his senses have but huuiau conditions. His ceremonies laid by, In his nakedness he appears but a man." PHAKKHHEAHE. Its coming.

Boys, don't you begin to sec? Congress Is still doing nothing. The daily Mail has an itching sen give a sham lire in the evening and country's future. The present has its battles and the the world and crucified to it, why In the "deuce" don't you let the world alone? When and where by either precept or example did your Lord and Master say or do anything contrary need of earnest patriotism and loval- will test the engine everybody invited to eat ice cream and dance if they like. long battle is not uncertain. Right will ultimately triumph, but the battle will not be soon or easily gained, for while human nature is sinful and Imperfect, wrong, though conquered in one form, will stubbornly assert itself In another, striving ty is as urgent now as it ever was in 1801.

The programme for decoration day Do you ask what form wrong as sation. to tne course or tnis world? Are you trying to crucify Him afresh and put him to an open shame? Was not His mission on earth to have the world to form and prescribe the conduct of the sumes to-day that there is need of de for the mastery or numan Hearts ana will meet at Argonia in the morning march to the cemetery to decorate the fending our country against It? It lives, and of human society and assumes not ohe form but many. The graves and then go to Milan where church? And did He not at all times. time would fall me to tell of all. The time came in the course of our the programme will be finished in the They are legion.

There is the bitter ness into which men have fallen which causes them to deny the pat afternoon taking their baskets full of good things to eat, a good time is expected. Come every body. country's history when wrong assumed the form of an unholy rebellion and our country was compelled to pass through the horrors of civil war. Men in defense of unlust principles without a single exception, hobnob with the rich and green carpet gentry, pat them on the head and call them "bully Did He not at all times coquette with the oppressors of the world like a street harlot plying her trade for the geld there was in it? As a minister of the gospel you riotism of those who differ from them on political questions and which causes them to magnify the difference and unholy institutions lifted their Resolutions. WnEKEAs, It has pleased Almighty hands aeainst the nation's lire.

io until they lose sight of the Interests they have in common; there Is the political corruption that is abroad in certainly kuow that the Lord never gratify sectional pride and selfishness, to preserve vested interests in human flesh and perpetuate an institution the land that enables demagogues to sit in the places which statesmen only reouked tne world or any person in it? Did He not always proclaim that the world was exactly right, and that lie simply came ta continue its right-er- and order of things which bound a race in the chains of a bitter bondage, they sought to dismember our country and erect a new nation embodying the principles of Wrong in its basis and superstructure. Don't you know that our loving and merciful Lord never exorcised any person? In fact, when He saw the perfect righteousness of the world "dident" He say that he was surprised that his father had sent him to it? War is always terrible and men who love the right will not engage in war save when the interests of hu And did He not tell his disciples not to pray "Thy kingdom come, Thy will manity are in peril and then only as be done on earth as it is in heaven" a last resort. But in that hour of gloom and dark forebodings, Wrong The golden rule is good only when It is practiced. Let no grass grow under your feet keep moving. Keep off the grass means keep in middle of the road.

The Chicago Daily Times is the Door man's friend. Cannon are made for no other purpose than to kill men. Women who would be coarse in politics, are just as coarse in seciety. The man who wins, the world makes a hero butGod recognizes heroes who lose. What does all this disturbance mean, if It is not the coming of dawn.

The discussion of tariff has cost the country more than the receipts from, the same. If conviction necessarily proves guilt, then Christ was a criminal. Prison Trusty. Depositors loan their money to bankers free, and take no security but confidence. The purchasing power of a day's labor grows less as its producing power grows more.

God is not to blame. He has done his part in giving the land and the increase thereof. In New Zealand the rich pay the taxes; in America the shoe is on the other foot. Rap. The Army of the commonweal does for the simple reason that God's will was being executed on earth perfect forced the conflict and right was justified in striking with armed might ly? In our words did He not tell his disciples not to worry even a little bit God, in His infinite wisdom, to call from our midst our brother and coworker, Brother M.

D. a kind and loving husband, consistent christian and honored neighbor; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the members of Avon Center alliance, No. 244, recognizing his high character and usefulness as a member of ability, realize that in his death another honored man and useful member has been transferred from this world to the better land. Besolved, That our alliance has by his death suffered an irreparable loss and the cause of the alliance an ardent supporter and friend. Resolved, That we tender to Sister Covell, his bereaved wife, and relatives our heartfelt sympathy in this hour of deepest afflictiou as our tribute of loveiand esteem.

And be it further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to our sorrowing sister and his relatsves, and that they be spread on the records of this alliance, and that they be furnished the papers for publication. AV. J. Pkesnell, Thomas White, A. Logak, Frank Rhodes, Committee.

against the treason and disloyalty can till and gives "The Boss" supreme power in the decision of elections and the formation and policy of administrations and put municipal governments under the control of the worst elements; there is theanarchial spirit and teachings of certain classes of the foreign population which unrestricted immigration has added to our great cities; there is the increasing differentiation of classes caused by our unjust social and economic order which enables a few men to lay hold on and control the wealth of this country without producing a dollarof it, while those who do produce it get but the merest pittance of it; there is the hell born tnifflc in rum which is the most prolific source of crime and corruption; and which leaves to mark its track corrupted courts and governments, tears and broken hearts and wasted lives and ruined homes, and prisons and blood, and graves. In all these and a thousand other forms wrong Is striking at our country's honor and her life. Against these things every loyal American's heart must burn with indignation. The battle against these evils is on now, and the time about uod's will on earth, out simply try and get out of the world, into which aimed by lorce to destroy tne nation's honor and life. When the some "happy hunting ground" or some Elysian field, or indescribable heaven, ana that the highway of starvation was a very pleasant road of news flashed through the land that on American soil men had renounced their citizenship and that on Fort Sumpter's flag-stafl treason's banner had supplanted the stars and stripes, how every loyal pulse quickened and every loyal heart throbbed.

Then came the call to arms and forth from farms and factories, from workshops am sorely afraid that you are getting as cranky as the Apostle Paul when he said that he was always "froward" to remember the poor, and will soon like him be exclaiming, "that after the wav thev call heresy and stores, from the halls or learning so worship I the God of my fathers." and from every occupation in wnicn men were engaged came a mignty 1 nave taken this special interest in you, Brother Uotkin, because the host of men, some of them the best and bravest of the land, and arrayed themselves under the old flag to de- "Book" says that "he that turns feud the ritrht if need be with their lives. They left fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, wives and children, or maidens sweet and fair to whom their troth was plighted and sinner from from the error of his way hide a multitude of sins and thereby save a soul from I beseech God not to let you fall from grace, or stand in the way of sinners, or sit in the seats of the scornful, or walk in the way of the ungodly, but may He give you the Spirit of our Lord to speak and spare not. Yours for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. not appear to be discouraged by signs the sweets and loys or home me to of keep off the grass. There is surely a suffragist in the Murdock family, familiarity with endure the hardships and privations of the camp and face the horrors of the bloody field to preserve their country from the peril that assailed her then.

A grander army never whom-has bred contempt. Gentlemen, say what you please marched to martial music. On a hundred dreadful fields 'mid hurtling talk is cheap bnt there is a disturb shells and bullets speeding on their mission of death, 'mid the mangled ance brewing which words will not quell. The Colorado strikers are not right tother of the financial planks of their respective parties of '92 and it makes some of them mad if you give them such a task. Eugene Preston and Dr.

N. Stiles went to Arkansas City to look for Preston's horses, which have been missing for some time, having beard there was a band of horses at that place in the marshal's charge. For the benefit of the preacher who thinks the Voice a dirty sheet for stating the truth as reported to us by a church member, we will say we have never called him a dirty little preacher, but will if he doesn't keep a preacher's place. We went to Lamont, O. last Saturday.

There Is quite a large crop out, in the strip, consisting of wheat, corn, oats, millet, beans, flax, sorghum and kaffir corn, the most of which was looking fine, in fact we saw on the claim directly south of and adjoining Lamont the finest corn we have seen Blowing this season. Belle Plaiue. Mr. Davis's child is very sick. How dare a democrat, ask for fusion this year.

Rain makers are at work again in Wichita and other parts of Sedgwick county. Senator A. G. Forney cut his alfalfa last week, he has more bay than he can handle. Miss Belle Osborne of Slate Creek wasYisiting friends here the first of the week.

O. Haythorn Is in Wichita this week attending to the estate of Wallace Luttrell deceased. Attorney Fred Bailey of Perry O. T. visited the family of Senator Forney Monday and Tuesday of this week.

Special Bargains in Fast Black Organdies this week. Best 25c quality only yard. ii i. t.K Pl aine Mercantile Co. About sixteen couples of our young folks intended to have a pic-nic at the mouth of the Ninnescah to day if the weather pi mits.

The ball between the Belle Plaine and Wichita boys resulted in twj best out -if three in favor of Belle Plaine. Mrs. Perry Hatfield united with the church at Palestine last Sunday and was immerst the mill-dam at five o'clock in tiie afternoon. Memorial services were held in the Hall Sunday owning, the house was packed to ovti flowing. Rev.

W. V. Burns pnached the discourse. Arthur Widicic of Palestine and and Miss Minnie Chafer of Ft. Scott were married one day last week, but we failed to get further information concerning the eveut.

The Voice joins in extending congratulations. The wheat In this locality is damaged much worse by the late frost than people thought it was. Some farmers are cutt their wheat now and stacking it lor cattle and horse feed, others a re turning hogs on it. No less than twentyflve of our best citizens have n-ked to have Rev. J.

D. Botkin rec.nit.ii to this city. To whom 1 other who wish to Vina him we will gar that we will to. neither are the conditions that dead and the groansof the dying, and blood running like water, they fought a good tight for liberty and right. They knew that right and justice demanded the preservation of the national unity and honor, and though to do it took the hearts blood, and desolated their hemes land broke the true hearts that loved them, they did make brutes of what God intended to be men.

Twenty-five thousand men who own 75 per cent, of the wealth of the seventy million people pay 3 per cent, of not hesitate to make the sacrifice. The editor of the Voice seems to have been drawn into the Belle Plaine church muddle, growing out of Bro. Botkin's lecture. For the benefit of those who think we had any sinister motives toward the peace and quietude of the good people of that city by our attendance at the M. E.

church on that eventful evening, have but this to say. We had frequently heard of the excellent lecture given by Bro. Botkin on "Our Country's bnt had never had opportunity to hear it. We learned only a couple of days before its delivery at Belle Plaine of the appoint ment there and determined that if nothing prevented we would go down and hear it. Accordingly we drove down to Belle'Plalne Monday evening for that purpose.

Col. J. W. Forney seemed to be very much surprised to see us thereas hestated In the Belle Plaine News last week. Well, wc were there by the merest accident, and as we try to doat all public meetings we behaved ourselves as best we knew how, and we are of the opinion that if Col.

Forney had done the same there-would have been no excitement there on ithat occasion. We were very much pleased with the lecture and glad that there are men that have the courage to pattern after their blessed Master in condemning evil in high places and in dissenting from the trighteousntss of things as they exist simply because they do exist. And what was the result? After four the taxes. "All ou account of the years of internal war such as would tariff" we presume. have shaken tne iounuauons oi any ether government under heaven victory crowned the national arms.

Four pages of war news fm I The volunteer soldiers who donned column of hooting, a little humor, and a Sunday school story comprise the contents of the average daily paper of the present day. the livery of war and went forth to battle, not from love of war, neither as the hireling soldier goes, but only to preserve their country's free insti The Chicago Inter-Ocean says: tutions and defend what they held has come when the veterans of the civil war and their sons and daughters and fellow countrymen, inheritors of their spirit, should rise and fighting a good fight, smite these evils dead. The veterans need not be concerned about the past. The record of their deeds is written on the imperishable page of history. When tablets of brass shall rust, and the tallest marble shaft that ever kissed the clouds shall crumble under the touch of Time, the record of their patriotism will still be bright.

I pray you then, Veterans of hard-fought battles, by the patriotism that moved you then, by the memory of comrades fallen on the bloody field' by our country's present need, and in the name of God rise against every evil and fight a good, fight now. The welfare of every age and sex, of those who now live, and of the generations yet unborn, justice and God, demand it. Then yours will be a double honor, honer for past deeds so glorious and honor for present service nobly rendered. To the generation that has arisen since the civil war, you are teachers of patriotism, but the best way to to teach them is not alone to turn back and recount what has been done trut also to fight a good fight now against the evils that beset us. The issues of war time are irrevocably settled.

Others have arisen for settlement and those who live to-day must meet them. Were it a physical contest where men must stand against the shock of charging squadrons, the veterans of to-day, aging rapidly as some of them are, broken some of them by the hardships and exposures of the past, wound be unfitted for the battle; but in molding public opinions to despise partisan bitterness and sectional hatred, and political corruptions in opposing the impious, traitorous teachings of foreign demagogues who are misusing the liberties accorded them in this land; in combatting the heartlessness of greed and in the reconstruction of our social order; in helping to rid our country of the rum traffic; in opposing wrong in all its forms they can still fight a good fight and teach as grand lessons of patriotism as they did on a hundeed fields of blood And let me say to all present here to-day, if ou would fight the goad fight best of all put yourself under th Captain of 'he Lord's Host. fie must be blind to the teachings of life's events who does not seethe hand of God in the history of our beloved country; who noes not recognize that His providence has been over all. It rlgh' sustained by Jehovah's power and obedient to His Chosen Captain we shall triumph over Wrong whatever form it assumes or wbere-evei it may intrench itself for dim unkiiuwn dear, had indeed fought a good fight. "Thank God for our standing army." But in righting it thousands in the very strength of their manhood were Better thank the devil, who is responsible for the conditions that make standing armies necessary.

f. overcome by the rigors of the march or camp, or fell where steel crossed Vexation and Mirth. Topeka Dally Pross. It is an old story and the time is wasted when a newspaper advocates tolerance. The Rev.

Botkin at Belle Plaine took occasion in a lecture to condemn certain things which seemed to him oppressive. His listeners in several cases became vexed and left the house. When an audience goes to hear a lecture or speech, it is to be expected that some things will be said which do not meet the views of all. Because a man sits quietly and hears the speaker out, no one can accuse him of accepting all that he hears as the truth because he does not protest then and there. As well might a reader throw his newspaper or bosk into the fire because he reads something contrary to his preconceived notions.

Differences of opinions are necessary. If everyone thought alike there would be no room for investigation. The race would die mentally for lack of fuel to sustain the intellectual growth. A liberal education consists in the ability to hear and reason without prejudice. Tolerance is the nearest synonym which can be expressed for a liberal education.

The man who cannot sit and listen to a new thought, or false reasoning or even false statements without losing his temper Is an object of ridicule. No wonder the church was filled with smothered laughter, where grown men interrupted the speaker and urged the audience to leave the building while Rev. Botkin was proclaiming a few of his harmless hobbies. Speaking. Senator A.

G. Forney will svnk at Jackson Center school house in township, next Tuesday evening, June 5. Everybody invited. Tell your neighbors to come. steel and bullet and shell found their victims.

We are bidden in Holy Writ to "render honor to whom honor is due." These deserve our honor. If our country's cause had been a wrong cause and men had died for her, de fending that wrong cause they would not deserve our honor, for no true Do you suppose the men who tried to bribe senators to vote for a tariff on sugar, are philanthropists? Do they want to protect labor? Not much. A "protective" tariff, would be so much in their pockets. Ex-Governor Anthony writes Jack Downing a letter congratulating him upon entering the drug business "that branch of trade wherein the net profits exceed the gross receipts." K. C.

Star. We are glad to learn that Mr. Anthony has lit on earth again. This isr the first time he has been heard of since he ran for governor but hold on where did he write from Did he drop a line from the air? Let the reader glance over the history of the French revolution, andf see if he discovers any resemblance, between the signs of times preceding? that memorable conflict and thosc presented by the daily papers to-day, and say whether these signs Jindicat danger. Toptlia Advocate, At the populist state convention of the People's party in Illinois Tuesday the chairman severely denounced thestate militia andcalled "cigarette" and "counter-jumping" soldiers, to maintain which the people of the state were taxed.

Last Sunday morning we received a copy of "Stockwells Bad Boy," by mail, then went home, laid down on the floor and read it through before dinner. We read it again in the afternoon, and stuck It in our hip-pocket where it is handy to read over and over. The book cost only 10 cents, and is worth at least one hundred dollars to the man who has little man's arm should be lifted in a wrong cause, but in this case the cause was just and nobly championed and those who fell certainly should be held in honor by a grateful people. We should not laud them to the skies nor speak of them as if they had no faults as is often done, but we should always remember that In our country's cause they fought a good tight and quit themselveslikemen, and did this duty as true men do, and died in doing it. We whose heritage of liberty they preserved should always be grateful for-their loyalty.

We hold this service to-day in their memory. But to think only of the dead without gaining inspiration from their lives and deeds to make our own lives grand and useful is an empty honor to them and unprofitable to us. When the war was ended and wrong in the form of rebellion was crushed, those of the great army who had survived the l.aidships i.uJ juiiis ud bat call biiu to ieik the whole truth' without fear ol molestation..