The Kansas Commonwealth from Cherryvale, Kansas • 1

VOLUME II. CHERRY VALE. KANSAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. 1891. NUMBER.

22 ft where many other equally reckless reports regarding the standing and credit of the United States treasury have disappeared during PUBLISHED THURSDAYS. 11 No nation on the face of the earth has ever floated at par a bond bearing as low a rate of interest as 2 per cent. Yet this is what the Republican administration at Washington intends todo; and, furthermore, its effort promises to meet with success. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

the last 12 months, The 2 per cent loan instead of i HERRYVALE, KANSAS. being an admitted failure is an i4 assured success. Of the $51,000,000 4 per cent niiiiimii publishing tram. President Harrison's dec bonds now outstanding there have already -been presented for continuance at 2 per cent over laration in favor of an honest dol BOUTBIHN KAi.wd Fahmkii.Estabmrhed lHflO. Kahsas Commonwealth, Established 1891.

Combined with Shield of RKCii-nnciTY. 1R91. 000,000. Ot the amount of 4 lar is received with enthusiasm by the Republicans everywhere, and not a few of the Democratic per cents still held by the national banks as a basis for circulating notes, $3,000,000 will undoubted organs have been forced to yield SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Tear, in advance 1 fin. Biz Months 75.

Three Months 50. a grudging praise to the frank ly be presented for continuance. and in disproof of your assertions. As an old citizen of Kansas and one that had been active for twenty years in bringing the state from a wild to a rich, populous and productive commonwealth, and, being a zealous and active promoter and defender of the People's party of Kansas, I felt it my duty to make an effort to rebut the effect of so monstrous a declaration that could only do our state and people an almost irreparable injury. In my reply, I showed that the total bonded indebtedness of the state of Kansas, her counties, townships, cities and towns were only, $316,096, and that the total of the indebtedness of the people of Kansas, on real estate mortgages, notes, was not more than $85,000,000, or a total of $122,116,096.

I showed from the records, (after taking the crop record of 1889, only a fair crop year, and that of 1 890, a crop year almost a total failure, and striking an average) that in 1890 the actual value of the farm products and live stock, and farms and city and town lots was, total debts, assets Of the remaining $28,000,000 of ness of his attitude. Sound mon-ev is the Republican platform for 4 per cents a considerable por Official Organ of tion, held by estates and invest 1892 Senator Gordon, of Georgia, of Reciprocity. ors with whom the absolute safe Protection to American industries, reciprocity in trade and an honest dollar are the essential points of Republicanism. THE Ohio campaign will be a vigorous one, and from now until election day Maj. McKinley will make it warm for the Democratic leaders and calamity-howlers of that state.

READ General Rice's reply to an article published in the National Economist a short time ago. It brands the author of the villainous article as a liar and a defamer. It is well worth your perusal. Ierry Simpson sailing around in oalace cars and Mrs. Simpson onthe Kansas farm cooking for the men harvesting his 6oo acres of wheat is a beautiful picture of pleasing domestic life, in "mortgaged Kansas." Chicago Inter-Ocean.

The per capita debt of the United States is smaller than that of any other great country in the world, as Mr. McKinley says. Moreover, it is growing smaller rapidly, while that of nearly all the other nations is growing larger. The price of wheat at Chicago is advancing again and is pretty well up to the level reached last week. With the biggiest crop of golden cereal ever gathered and as high prices as on the short crop of last year the average Al RESFiCE, ASPICE, I'ROSPICE.

ty of the principal rather than the rate of interest is an important consideration, will be presented between the present and the day of maturity in September. However, the condition of the has been obliged to run away from the farmers. He has been posing as favorable to the Alliance and was incautious enough to attend the Alliance convention. In his presence a resolution was passed asking him, before the adjournment, to declare himself on the Ocala platform and the senator at once took to his heels. At long range he gave out a letter to the Alliance, in which he expressed surprise that any further expression of his views should be connected with this matter now clearly show to me that your editorial, which was wickedly false and maliciously slanderous, was intentionally published for a base and devilish purpose for its political effect, regardless of its injury to us.

For your article has greatly injured our credit; it has prevented, and will prevent many of our people from extending their loans; it will cause the foreclosure of many mortgages and will be the direct cause of turning many men with their families out of doors, when otherwise, they might have weathered the storm. Your statement, that the people of Kansas owed on real estate mortgages $232,000,000 was, I believe, a malicious lie. Your statement, that they owed on chattel mortgages, deeds of trust, bills of sale, notes, $232,000,000 more, was another monstrous lie. And your statement7tKat the state of Kansas was bankrupt and her people ruined, "was not only a monstrous, slanderous falsehood, but was an uncalled for and mean, devilish libel upon the people of a whole state, which if uttered against individuals, would consign you to the four walls of a prison and which, ought to consign you to infamy. The total indebtedness of the state is less than and the people of Kansas are neither bankrupt nor ruined and cannot become so, only from the frowns of providence that will blight our Crop, or the folly of political harlots, like yourself, that would utterly destroy our credit for a political argument to bolster party.

Our people do owe about They will pay one-half of this in the next year. But if it takes years they will pay every dollar of their indebtedness. Money is very scarce with us now and has been, because there is not enough in existence, and we have had nothing to sU. But treasury is such that if the holders of the 4I per cent bonds do not care to accept a 2 per cent rate of interest they may present their bonds for redemption and receive the par value of the securities. SUPREME LODGE OFFICEKS, Supreme Judge Hon.

Jesse Taylor, Garden City, Kansas Representative to Supreme Lodge from Kan-ansae Hon. 8. Peters Representatives to Supreme Lodge from Missouri Hons. 1), B. Morrison and Isaac Isaacs.

MISSOURI GRAND LODGE OFFICEKS. Grand Judge D. K. Morrison, Kansas City, Mo. Grand Treasurer W.

H. Harris, Kansas City, Mo. Grand Clerk Isaac Isaacs. Kansas City, Mo. Grand Marshall Geo.

Price, Lexington, Mo. Grand I. B. C. A.

Clenton, Duller. M. Grand 0. 8. Malum, Adrian, Mo.

liCANSAS GRAND LODGE OFFICERS. Grand Judge D. M. Frost, Garden City, Ks. viraud Treas K.

C. Bailey, Great Bend, Ks. Grand Clerk B. F. Stocks, Garden City, Ks.

Grand Marshall T. J. Norton, Newton. Ks. Grand I.

B.Adolph Click, Dodge City, Kb. The treasury surplus yesterday was $55,600,000, consisting of over liabilities, $630,603,365. nearly $20,000,000 in immediate In addition to this, we have demanded. The sub-treasury is ly available funds, $16,700,000 on the stumbling block in the path deposit i in national banks and furnished over one-third of the actual cash (in form of bonds) that built across our prairies 8,500 of Senator Gordon, and it looks very much as though he had trip $19,000,000 in subsidiary c6in. uranau.

b. u. fry, uirneu. m. The surplus has shown a large in miles of railroad; we have built ped over it.

crease since the first of July; and to Organize a Lodge of Knights there is no doubt that any holders I of Reciprocity. 9,000 school houses; 2,600 churches; splendiuly endowed a common school system, built the third finest state house in the Union; erected splendid university liance man of the west is surely A 'person seeking admission into the Order "Knights of Reciprosity," before his name is considered, must make the who may be unwilling to accept the 2 per cent bond can surrender their 4A per cents and receive an object of special favor. payment for them. buildings, normal college and ag ricultural college buildings; provided most bountifully for our deaf, dumb, blind and insane. This has been done in thirty years, and every dollar for the The Memphis Avalanche says: "That blatherskite, ex-Congressman Kelley, of Kansas, has adan-doned the Republican party and cast his lot with Peffer and Simpson, the leaders of the third party.

He will do a great deal to promote the defeat of that organization. It is enough to discourage even Peffer. The following was handed to us by one of our business men, taken from a letter he had received from a former resident of this place, but who now lives in the south: "Weather hot and rebels just as hot. Why, you old soldiers of the north don't know half how bitter these southern Democrats are toward you. On the 4th of July the rebel flag was plainly floated, and it can be seen floating from an occasional school and business house here.

They have great faith in what the Alliance expects to accomplish. There is a great deal to tell of the infamous schemes to deceive the north if it was writ The new canimander-in-chicf The Republican national administration in the past two years and a half since March 4, 1889, has paid for and cancelled over $250,000,000 of the national debt. Perhaps it may be called upon to purchase some $20,000,000 more of the national bonds still outstanding. It is a grand treasury policy of which the administration may justly be proud. Over a quarter ot a billion dollars of treasury 4surplue has been expended, not in "congressional extravagance," but in reducing the national debt.

Now the administration intends to float at par a 2 per cent bond, an achievement never yet attained by any government in the world. KANSAS DEFENDED. of the G. A. Captain Palmer, lives in Albany, N.

Y. An Albany newspaper tells us that his platform on the pension question 1 affirmative answer to the following questions: 1. Are you in favor of the perpetuity of our Union? 2.1 Are you in favor of just and liberal pensions to all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Republic? 3.1 Are you in favor of the protection of the American industries? 4. Are you in favor of fair and equitable reciprocity between all uations on the American continent? 5. Are you in favor of fair and equit-j able reciprosity between all interests in our Nation? I 6.

Are you in favor of an intelligent ballot, honestly cast and counted? 7. Are you in favor of disfranchising 1 every citizen who offers or accepts a bribe to influence a ballot? When six or more persons have been secured who are willing to subscribe to the abeve declaration of principles, to "i- Bign petition addressed to the Grand i Judge of the Order, asking that a pensation be issued for the organization of a lodge, first agreeing upon a time I I aod place, when and where, they desire to organize. On receipt of said petition I by the Grand Judge of the Order, he 1 1 will issuse a dispensation authorizing 1 vj the organization of said petitioners into I a lodge of "Knights of Reciprocity," and at the same time designate a lecturer or organizer to meet with the petioners at the time and place named, who will give luhem the necessary instructions relating ftt the same. The lodge so organized 'iSiiall meet the necessary traveling and ten up." What do you think of consists of two planks: "(i) All the money needed to meet the just claims of the old soldiers, it? And yet they say the Alliance is not an annex of the southern democracy. Bosh! Maj.

McKinley in his speech at Niles, Ohio, last Saturday, said: "When the attempt was and (2) not a dollar for claim agents of the rascally variety, or any other would be plunderers of the treasury." A mighty good platform it is too. "Reciprocity according to the democratic version is free trade, made in 1867 by the leaders of but then when this nation applies the party that now stands in opposition to the Republican party to repudiate the national debt, or pay it in depreciated currency, the soldiers stood with the party which represented good faith and swept back the tide of inflation and repudiation. They were this epualizing measure as between protection and free trade, it is customary to do so with -Jther expenses of the lecturer in going ana Horn tne loage ne so organizes. 8 Cost of dispensation, rituals coiistitu countries from which we get nothing free from duty that we state institutions has been paid. I gave these recited facts in refutation of the statements in your editorial, and demanded of you, as I had a right to do, authority for your bold statements.

In behalf of our people and in behalf of truth and justice, I challenge you for your proof. I did not assail the honesty of your motives, for I said in my article, "I do not attribute to you intentional falsehood or intention to harm us, but rather that you unwittingly allowed yourself to be imposed on through your zeal in the advocacy of your party." I respectfully asked you to publish my communication in your paper, as the least you could do to undo the great wrong, and I furnished you with a copy of it. I have been absent in Texas for five weeks, and on my return home I found my article returned to me with your message that you declined to publish it. You did not condescend to give a reason for your refusal. You doubtless read it, but you have not had the courage to reiterate your charges against us or the honesty to say in your columns that you were mistaken.

As a citizen of Kansas, jealous of her character and the interests of her people, there is but one thing left for me to do to pocket this insult, and remain silent, and allow you to slumber with the idea that your importance exempts you from being called upon to explain or retract such articles, and that your position exempts you from criticism or else to denounce your editorial, which I now do as the most diabolical attempt to intermeddle with the business interests of the state, and destroy the credit of a whole community, that the world has ever known. All the facts ourselves do not produce, giving I Otns of Grand and subordinate lodges other necessary supplies made by lecturer or on application to i Olnnr) r.Wlr. willing to wait for their pensions until the great money obligation was provided for. The Government credit was, therefore, sus The Slander and Slanderer of the State Rebuked. Fort Scott, Aug.

4, '91. Dr. C. W. McCune, editor National Economist, Washington D.

C. Sir: On the 6th day of June last, you printed in your paper an editorial on the financial condi-dition of Kansas, in which you said: "The recorded mortgage indebtedness of Kansas was and that this only told one-half; that the indebtedness by chattel mortgages, deeds of trust, bills of sale notes and other debts of like character, would give $232,000,000, more, which added to the real estate mortgages, makes a total indebtedness, of $464,000,000." our peep'e not repuu.ationists because they are not scoundrels. We have some cranks as every country has, but they are not all in Kansas, although, like yourself, they do us much harm, not only materially but politically. For only one thing can keep the People's party from power in the state for a decade that is the howlings of a dozen or two impracticable cranks in Kansas and their fool backers, like yourself, in other states, who seek to promote party purposes by a calamity howl. Do not imagine that becaure I have devoted so much space to this matter that you are personally of importance.

Not so. Your capacity fer injury is wholly due to the fact that you have wormed yourself into the position of editor of the National Alliance paper, and because so good a man as President Polk sustains you in a position that your private conduct long since disgraced. You may slander your own state of Texas Texans can take care of themselves but your position gives you no right to slander Kansas for political effect. Your foolish publications not only injure Kansas, but you injure the People's party also. The education of the people up to the point of changing our financial system and policy is a vital question for our future prosperity while these exaggerated "calamity howls" only bring our party into contempt.

Respectfully yours, John H. Rice. tained, and over two thousand millions of the great debts have been paid off in full legal dollars. Now the chief creditors of the gi'Svery male or female over the age of I jhteeii years is eligible to membership. the organization ot the first nlge in a county, some suitable person Jould be selected and recommended to He Grand Judge for appointment as puty Grand lecturer for said county, ifhose duty it would be to organize ali i lodges in his county that may properly 't petition for such organization, in which work he may be aided by brothers from a neighooring lodge.

Organize and help aid and sustain a school of political ed-f ucation. It is just what is most needed ft at this time. The people are honestly seeking for knowledge and are anxious to be informed on the leading and more advanced issues pertaining to our gov- Government are the soldiers. Is it right to force upon them a dol in return those articles of manufacture which free trade countries would like to supply. The American version of "Reciprocity" is FAIR TRADE.

Lookout. The publication of the National Economist that Kansas people owed $464,000,000 was a monstrous falsehood but not more foolish and damaging than the statement of Senator Peffer, that 9,000,000 farms of the United States are mortgaged. Senator P. ought to know better. Such a rediculous statement is a serious reflection upon the intelligence of any man, and much more on that of a United States senator and an aspirant to the presidency.

More than this, it is an outrage upon the people of Kansas who repose confidence in his good sense, to be compelled to suffer damage, by such foolish statements from hka. Lantern, Then after you gave a lot of i erumeiu. is just ine uhuk neeueu oy I the people before they are called upon to lar worth 80c when other creditors of the Government were paid a dollar worth 1 00c? For one, 1 shall never consent that the soldiers shall be paid in any poorer coin than the most favored creditors. The Two Per Cent Loan From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat The Democratic claim that the 2 per cent government loan to be issued in retiring the 4J per cent bonds has already been demonstrated to be a failure is no longer heard.

It has passed into the limbo select tneir canuiaates in poiiucoi conventions assembled, so they may act advisedly and vote intelligently. It will five us abler candidates and more capa-le officers. It will serve to broaden our views politically; more charitable to one figures drawn from your fruitful imagination with a flourish, you rech the tremendous conclusion and make the declaration: "The plain facts are, the State (of Kansas) is bankrupt and; her people ruined." On the 1 7th day of June thereafter, I prepared, with much labor and care, a communication for your paper in defense of Kansas and the credit of her people, another; better citizens anu more loyai to the government. A government sustained and maintained by the intelli- Eence of the people. When it may be I borle, by the people, and for the peo- 1 Tor further Information apply to B.

F. A Stocks, Grand Clerk, Garden City, Ks..