The Wichita Weekly Express from Wichita, Kansas • 1

TIE WICHITA WEEKLY IXPBESS DEVOUD TO LIS LABORING MAN AND HIS INTERESTS. A STAUNCH UNION LABOR PAPER. FALLACY OF TARIFF ISSUE. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE! IN INFAMOUS PLOT! The Redemption of the Masses Demands Immediate Action. The Diabolical Scheme of the SUBSCRIBE AND READ IT.

mite to Moore, Greer told parties upon the streets of Winfield that dynamite was be nig shipped to the U. L. committee chairman. But thanks to an intervening Providence it never arrived, and thus saved the Union Labor party of Kansas from the disgrace of having been foul with dynamite in their possession. Never before in this country has any political party delib-eratiy planed such a devlish scheme.

To feat the Union Lab.r Party Kansas. EXPRESS Everybody. Hon. J. H.

Randall, of Chicago, will address the citizens of Seltwick county at the following dates and places: Valley Center, Monday evening, October 29th. Garden Plain, Tuesday evening, Oct. aoth. Andale, VVedne-day, Oct. 3Tst.

St Marks, Thursday evening, Nov 1st. Greenwich, Friday evening. Nov. 2. Derby, Saturday evening, Nov.

3. Friends of Union Labor will please secure place for speaking and post all bills senr. By order of Coni central committee. D. L.

Moo If the poor dupes who are being led I astray by the fallacy of the tariff issue would but investigate the matter, they could easily see the error of their ways. Take for granted thnt the Mills bill is correct, it but adds to your welfare the exceedingly small snm of sixty-six cents per capita per annum. Great scott! but isnt that an enormous sum Sixty-six cents for yelling yourself hoarse in your mad endeavor to worship the monopolistic Juggernaut thnt is crushing the life out of the Never before, in the history of American politics, has a political party used such desperate measures to save itself as has been used by the Republican party in Kan- hands, they are using every effort to prevent the public from learning the facts. Not only is the venal Republican press of Never before has a political party descended to such depths of infamy to carry an election. And now that the blood of the innocent mother and child is upon their sas ir.

the past week. For the past, two months the unparalleled growth of the the state silent, but the Repn I lican officials of Montgomery county to investigate the crime. Not a ty iable of information has been allowed to pass over the as- year that the poor might grow poorer and soeiated press wires, and the editors of the producing class. Sixty-six cents per year for dooming yourselves and children to everlasting serfdom. Sixty-six cents per the The Republican party ns dynamite ihtowers! Who would have thought it? But it on It shows to what straits the party is driven when its leaders resort to such ei Republican press of Kansas dare not publish a word concerning this monstrous crime.

Every associn ed press agent in Kansas is the editor of a Republican paper, where snrli paper txists, and no information will be allowed logo over the wires concerning this murderous scheme. llow long, Oh, Lord, will the people endure all this i ei every Union Labor man ir, Sedg aide county constitute himself commit-mi tee of t.ne, to be present at tin- polls on election da and work for the success i.f our ticket. less than twenty thousand acres are clear of mortgages. The interest is swallowing up over one hundred farms annually of one hundred and sixty acres, valued at $20 per acre. There is bnt one way to stop the ravages of the mortgage.

The price of produce must be raised until there is a good margin left from the income of field and farm after defraying the expenses of production. Stick a pin here and ask yourself the question how is this to be done There is but one rational way. The value of money must be decreased. This can only be done by increasing the volume. Money is as mnch the subject of the eternal laws of supply and demand as is wheat cr beef, or corn, or pork, and if any combination of wheat raisers were to destroy or limit the volume of wheat that feeds the world, for the sole purpose of personal gain the world would call them barbarians and murderers.

Yet when a lot of political pirates combine to control the volume of money and thereby fix the price of all the productions of labor, squeezing down the price of every species of property and entailing the miseries of poverty npon millions of human beings, to feed the insatiable appetite of avarice, we call statesmanship. If yon have a mortgaged home we ask you how you propose to free yourself from it? Can you do it by a high tariff? Certainly not, for it crept npon you when you were enjoying all the advantages of a high tariff. Do yon expect to remove it by a reduction of seven per ceDt in the matter of impost duties, if so you will find yourself mistaken. Yonr own good sense tells yon thRt so long as prices of produce remain at the present figures the mortgage will stay on the farm when yon cant. Look over the situation calmly.

Ask yourself what do the Republican and Democratic parties offer yon What can you expeot from parties made np of bankers and lawyers? What have you my Republican friend in common with the sixty-seven bankers who are rnnning for office in Kansas on yonr party ticket? What interest have yon my Democratic brother with the bankers and other capitalists and lawyers on the Democratic ticket? Is it not a solemn troth that their interests and yours are directly the opposite? Is it not true that yon wonld not entrust one of those gentry to trade off a blind horse for yon nnder like circumstance? Why then will yon elect them to make and administer laws for yon Think A Staunch Union Labor Journal, Devoted to the Interests of WHO ARE THE CONSPIRATORS? The Republican party should be closely watched in Kansas this full and not bo permitted to destroy ballot boxes, as the leaders will stop at nothing in their desperation to defint the Union Labor parly. The Union Labor Party. Kefuuhcans what do you think of your party now? How do you feel afler all the howling about anarchist 'hat your party has indulged in to be the first and only simon-pure party of bomb making conspirators in the Un.ted States. Union Labor party has excited the apprehensions of the leading publicans in this stale, and various methods were adopted to counteract it. Personal abuse of the vilest character has been heaped upon the party; every wile word that could be usud by the tongues of their speakers has been burled against Union Lauor.

Still, the ranks of the grand young giant not only remained unbroken, but continued to extend until the last poll of the state made by the Republican state central committee showed that the Union Labor party had grown from sixty thousand in August to ninety-five thousand on the tenth of October. The situation became desperate, and whilst the Union Labor men expected that heaven and earth would be moved, iu a political sense, to defeat them; yet few believed that any scheme would be resorted to that would end in murder, and when the awful news came that a plot had been entered into by the state central committee of the Repub- lican party iu Kansas, which had ended in the death of two persons and the fatal injury of a third, it fell like a thunderbolt from a clear sky. Below wili be found a full account of the hellish scheme to blast the fair name of the Union Labor pa-ty, and which ended in the death if Mrs. Up-hara and daughter, at C' ffeeville, Montgomery county, on the night of Thursday, October 18th. Some two weeks ago the Winfield Courier (Republican) published an account of iving unearthed a hot-bed of Anarchists with headquarters at Winfield, Kansas, devoting somo eight or ten columns to this pretended exposure, and connected therewith the editors of the Conform.

READ AND REFLECT! Farmers, Mechanics, Artisans and Men, will find in it just what they wat. hy don't the Eagle inform its readers that a package of dynamite sent through the Pacific express from Coffeeville by ti state central committee of the Republican party to be used as evidence against, the Union Labor party exploded and killed an innocent woman and seriously, if not fatally, injured her daughter? The infamous scheme of the Republican leaders is reacting with lie force of a clone. The better disposed Republicans are beginning to see that their leaders will resort to any measure to perpetuate their power. In years past when laboring men faavo organized for mutual benefit they have always been met witli the cry of conspiracy. Labor, the dumb patient ox, has stood throughout the centuries whilst capital has organized on every hand, until to day liberty justice is crushed to earth and organized greed rules the world.

Every where society is divided into two classes those who live by labor and those who live off of labor Everywhere enn he seen an idle aristocracy dressed in robes and the patient toiling millions clothed in rags. Everywhere can be seen the many truckling to the few. Brawny aimed labor begging of aristocracy the privilege of laboring and living on Gods earth. The few living in palaces, the many dwelling in hovels. The hand that takes usury growing fat and slick, and the hand that holds the plow and wields the hammer sinking into poverty, and we ask who are the conspirators? and, Valuable Literature, rich richer.

Will the eyes of the working masses ever be opened sufficiently to enable them to see their true position to realize that they are bnt puppets in the hands of the gold-bng jugglers? We bo-lieve in evolution, and believing thus, it looks to ns as though the majority of mankind had evolved as far ns the jackass and was making no effort to reach a higher plane. They will shut their eyes to truth, close their ears against the words of wisdom, and rnsh pell-mell down the high way leading to social destruction. It is actually painful to look upon the thousands of hard working people who are being led deeper into the meshes of monopoly by the fallacy of the tariff question. It reminds ns of the excited individual who, upon discovering his house afire, threw his looking-glass and dishes out of the second story window, and carried his feather bed carefully down stairs and deposited it in the front yard. In a political excitement they lose all judgement.

Now let ns look at the condition of the people in Kansas. Here the farmers are groaning benea'h farm mortgages that foot np in startling figures to the enormous sum of $263,000,000. Place this at seven per cent, interest and we find them paying $18,410,000. Add to this $41,000,000 in chattel mortgages, at thirty-six per cent, per annum, and we have the farmers of Kansas paying as interest the enormous sum of $33,140,000 annually. This in corn, at twenty cents per bnshel, is eqnal to 165,700,000 bnshels, or 5,700.000 bushels larger than any com crop ever raised in the state.

Just think of it our vast corn crop not being sufficient to pay the interest on onr mortga- tions in Kansas have decreased nearly forty millions of dollars within the past year? There is a remedy for this, but it must come through the Union Labor party. We propose to limit interest at three per cent. But yon cant do it, the old parties cry. Now lot ns ste. The government loans the peoples money to the bankers at one per cent, per annum, besides paying the banker interest upon the seourity he furnishes the government.

If you can buy wheat at one dollar per bushel and sell it for three, arent you making a large profit? If the government loans money to the banker at one per isnt he making an enormous profit when he loans it to the people at three? It is the peoples money, and the people have the us inter That Union Labor men are a reading and thinking class of people, is shown by the fact that there are not less than eighty Union Labor papers published in the state, with new ones coming into the fold every week. Before election day there will be one hundred papers in the state t-dvoea-ting our principles, which means one hundred thousand votes for the U. L. cause in Kansas. Filled with Truth.

it over. CAT OUT OF THE BAG. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1 00 PER YEAR. Let us be honest with ourselves. All 1 1 4.

CUi Jit. lo i Up Ri Let JLliliO- The following dispatch was received at Winlickl, which lets the cat out tf the featiLTS:" Sr. Louis, Oct. is, 18SS-To Ed Greer, Winfield, Kansas. Defer go Gallagher.

I am far enough aivay to be safe. (Signed.) Poobman. WICm COIL COMPANY Wiien the nation was in trouble and call- I ed upon her brave sons to defenH 1 Houtiey and Healey remained at home, but Parkhurst was am mg the first to volunteer. The voters of Sedgwick county now want a senator. Shall it be Five-Thonsnnd-Dollar-a-Year Bentley, the railroad attorney or Pat Healey, the national banker, or will it be J.

P. Parkbnrst, the farmer, who lost an arm in defense of his HALEY, THE LIAS. 5 crats or Union Labor men and look at the situation as sensible eople, whose happiness and welfare is at stake, and ask who is it that conspires to monopolize the earth and reduce humanity to the conditions of teuantr Monopolize the coal that must warm the children of earth. V' bo is it that conspires to monopolize the oil that God is stored up for countless centuries with which to bless his children? Who is it that conspires against the highest interest of mankind nnd monopolizes all the means of transportation, and like a band of robbers las tribute upon each and all? Capital! In every directn that humanity turns its face some monster combination of capital obscures the view. Statesmen tell us DEALERS IN HARD AND SOFT COAL.

Al! Orders For Coal Promptly Fil ed. 618 Douglas Wichita Kas. On Monday evening last, as a number of Union Labor men from Talleyrand and Duck townships were marching in procession, with lighted torches, through the streets of Freedonia, on their way to Blume Rink, they wore assailed with a shower of aucieut eggs, and some half dozen or more of the men (one of them a Grttnd Army man), were hit with the antediluvian hen fruit. Good Republican argument. 1 uffalo, Kansas, Express.

Not content with their damnable dynamite scheme, the Republicans are resorting to every possible means to injure the Union Labor party. Tho Eagle, one of the loudest-mouthed organs of the dynamite plotters, has been dreadfully mum upon the dynamito question since their vile plot resulted in tho murder of an innocent woman and child. But the underhanded work is still going on, as is shown by the following letter which Baldy Ber.tly wrote to a man whom he supposed was a dynamite Republican, but proved to be a staunch Union Labor man. Omitting tho name of the man to who the letter was sent, we publish it in fu LAvggncE op Bexttey, Bskthky, f-123 North Main Street. Wichita, Oct.

8, 1888. Mb. Goddard, Kansas. M'NAUGHTEN MILES. Dealers in and Makers of Everything in the Line of that this is business and can not be fered with.

And when an enslaved people fight to dictate how it shall be disposeu cry loud for relief they are met with the of. Now then let us see what effect it charge of conspiracy. But the day of deliverance is at hand, and the events of tho past week in Kansas, in which the great capitalistic political party conspired to bring disgrace nnd dishonor upon the -rv ft BOOTS AND SHOE Union Labor and which Party, The Republican party, iu Kansas, has lost the respect of all liberal thinking people. In its desperation to win it has committed acts that should forever banish from itB ranks all law abiding persons. It has become the anarchistic party of the state.

Through its damnable schemes it has murdered an ini ocont woman and little child, rotten egged peaceable citizens, mobbed political gatherings, and conducted itself in a manner befitting the Ku-Blux Klans of the south. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. We Challenge the World has destroyed two innocent lives, will do much toward forcing this question home to every candid mind? Who are the conspirators? Let labor be patient and true to itself, and remember that it has a great battle to fight, that sober good sense at the ballot box is the place to wage its warfare against the organized conspirators of mammon, nnd it will yet stand before the worltl honored, nnd respected That it will yet wear the crown which it has earned through all the ages past. 1st, one of me leading Union Labor papers of the stiite, and also H. O.

Moore, the i chairman of Ibe Cowley county Union La- bor central committee. Little or no at- teution was given to the matter nt that time, Union Labor men generally regard- i iug it ns but one of the many methods the Republicans had resorted to to disrupt the Union Labor party, and contented themselves with wondering what wculd come next. The Repnblican leaders, recognizing thnt something liko seventy thousand of the more intelligent and law-abiding members of their party had left it and joined the U. L. party, knew that they could be brought back into the Republican fold if they could be made to believe that the new party with which they had joined their fortunes was a lawless and Anarchistical party.

Therefore it was decided that the cry of Anarchy should be raised against the U. n. party throughout the state. To this end the editor of the Winfield Courier (Republican) visited Topeka and met with the state central committee of the Repub lican party. Arrangements were immediately made to have the Couriers first article published simultaneously in all the leading Republican papers of Kansas.

To this end stereotyped plates were ordered from Kansas City and sent to all the Republican daily papers in the state. On the morning of Friday last, October lfflh, the pretended exposure of the Anarchists was published throughout Kansas, being dated as dispatches from Winfield, Oct. 18, the day prior, notwithstanding the fact that a week had been required to complete the plates from which it was printed. The inability of the general reader to distinguish between plate matter and composition was relied upon to hide the lie. In being arranged to spread the cry of anaroliy against the leaders of the U.

L. party arrangements were bong made to furnish the proof that such an organization did exist nnd was ready to use violence, accordingly on the night of Thursday, October 18, the day before the publication of the alleged secret work and ritual of the anarchist, a package was handed in nt the Pacific express office, at CoffceviLe, Montgomery county, Kansas, marked to II. O. Moore, infield, Kansas. The package was marked Glass handle with cure.1' The express agent took this package with others to his home for safe keeping over night, and in throwing them upon the floor a terrific explosion eccured, tearing out the side of the house, maiming himself, wife, daughter and step-daughter.

The wifo and child havesince died and the step-daughter is wounded beyoncj all hopes of recovery. On examination it was found that the package consigned to H. O. Moore, U. L.

chairman, contained over one hundred dynamite cartridges. On the following morning the deputy sheriff (Rep.) of Montgomery county, from where the dynamite was shipped, appeared in Winfield and went at once to the Courier, office and remained closeted with Greer, the editor, for more than an hour, Prior to the arrival in Winfield of the train which should have brought the dyna- will have upon the state by redacing the interest to three per cent. At three per cent, the interest wonld amount to but $9,120,000, thus saving to the farmers of Kansas tho round sum of $24,020,000 annually. Wo will say there are one million persons in Kansas, thns yon see this saving iu interest would be equal to a little over twenty-four dollars per capita per year. Now can't you see the fallacy of the tariff qu stion? Dont you see that it is but an issne of the old parties to dodge this important monetary question? They are trying to pull the wool over your eyes, and whip you back into the old party ranas.

The old parties are wedded to the banking interests, and dare not mak a move against them. They have been howling tariff in order to divert your attention from the most important question. To sum it all up, the Union Labor party proposes to relieve the working masses from the burden pf taxation, and place twenty-four dollars per capita in circulation, against the yoke of bondage and sixty-six cents offered by the ta-iff reformers. Figures wont lie, and yon cant deny these facts, so what are you going to do about it? Will yon continue to bow down before the golden images of the old' parties, or will you assert your rights of citizenship, join the Union Labor party and destroy the golden calf that is being worshipped contrary to the laws of God and man How was the monopolistic empire formed? By what means does that great power hold iu bondage the known world? How is it that a despotism is established? How is it that the few enslave the many? How is it that the nobility live on the labor of the peasants? The answer is in one word organization. The organized few triumph over the unorganized many.

The few hold the sword and the purse. The unorganized are overcome in detail, terrorized, brutalized, robbed, conquered. Ingersoll. The Rattle of the Brave Engineers. To Equal Our Fine Calf Dongola $3.

hos! Button, Lah or Congress. 7 DIFFERENT STYLES TOE. Deab I have been carefully examining the strength of the Union Labor men in this county. I put their voto this fall at 150 in this county. It lias leaked out that they are drawing their campaign money from the Democratic committee.

The Democrats are making a still hunt over the county. Our ticket I think will be elected by a very largo majority. I trust that you will early at the polls, and do your best for me and the ticket. I will be out soon, and hope to see yeu. I write this in confidence.

Yonr friend, O- FI. Bentley. Bentley knew he w-s a liar when he wrote that lette; He knew he lied when he stated, that tho Union Labor party was deriving its campaign fund from the Democrats, and he wilfully lied when he said the Union Labor party wonld poll only one hundred and fifty votes in the county. Evidently he forgot to count the man he wrote the letter to. or he wonld have estimated the strength at one hundred and fifty-one; but most likely he would never have written that letter at all had he been posted in regard to the party strength.

This man Bentley, the representative of a railroad syndicate that expects to use his services as a Kansas senator at five thousand dollars per year, is the lying hypocrite that is asking the honest farmers of Sedgwick county for their votes votes to put him in a position where he can legislate laws in bqhaif of the railroad syndicates, and add to the already heavy burdens ej tnx onr farmers are bearing. Down with such scoundrels, and give them to understand that the people, and not railroads, will make our laws hereafter. The firm of Bendy, Hatfield tfc Frisco railroad need watching. Warranted to Equal any Four Dollar Shoe in Existence. The great struggle cf the brave Knights cf tho throttle agninst tho soulless and tyranical O.

B. fc Q. It. R. is still waging.

Millions of treasure are being sacrificed by this heartless corporation, in the way of smashed engines and wrecked trains all to defeat the bravest men that ever faced danger. No doubt but hundreds of persons have been crippled or killed the wrecks and accidents on the C. B. fc Q. since the strike commenced through the incompe-tuncy of the scab labor emplowed, but what cares the railroad for loss of life.

Theirs is death struggle and they feel that they must win at all hazzards. And every conceivable method has been resorted to. Dynamite plots have been planned for blowing up trains and laid to the striking Brotherhood of Engineers, bnt so far all efforts have failed to weaken the Brotherhood and may God give them strength to light to victory. SPECIAL RATES TO ALLIANCES AND CLUBS 104 West Douelas Avenue. First door West of Cor.

Main Dooglaa. On Saturday last the Uuiou Labor people of Clietopa township erected a handsome pole, from the top of which they flung to the breeze a brand new regulation American flag. During Saturday night somebody attempted to blow the pole out of the ground with dynamite, but failed. During Tuesday night, a party of men returning from a Republican demonstration at Neodeshn, sawed the pole down and tore the flag of the Union into ribbons. Good Republican argument! Buffalo, Kansas, Express.

What are You Going to do About It. J. R. HOLLOW, Deale In Fancy And Staple Groceries. All Goods Sold at the Lowes Prices Gah.

Farmers what are you going to do about that mortgage? It is eating away slowly. Yon may think but it is like the cancer, it eats while you sleep constantly and incessantly. This question is got to be met and settled soon, and the time is at hand when there will be no possible way of evading it. And the answer must come from you. You are the one that must an swer the question.

Yon ho'd in your own hand your social, political and commercial destiny. And whatever the result may be yon alone are responsible. Let us look at the situation calmly and with an unprejudiced mind, taking our own county as an illustration. We have in Sedgwick county over 500000 acres of farm lands and How many men in Wichita are patronizing Ghiucae laundries? A large number we should judge or so many bias-eyed devils could not remain here. How proud a man must feel when he walks to one of those vile stinking dons and pays to a sif-f rat eating, skunks the money that many a poor American mother would be glad to earn aq a menus of feeding and 1 clothing her little ones.

what fine spec imens of manhood those fellows are who howl for protection to American labor and then march off lo a Chinese laundry to i have his work done, The more we see of 6uch men the better we like dogs. Goods Promptly Delivered to any Portion of the City Immediately upon Recript Cf Order. Do you patronize Chinese laundries? If so, this is for you. Six American girls have called and asked for employment at the Star steam laundry iu the past three days and had lobe turned away. At the Guam time within two hundred feet of the Star laundry theio were enough clothes strung upon the lines of Chinese laundries to have given employment to all those girls.

Here iu a fine opportunity for those who are crying so loud in favor of protecting American labor. Hon. S. II. Snider's Appointments, Hon.

S. H. Snider, Union Labor candidate for congress from the seventh congressional district, will speak at the following places in Sedgwick county: Wichita, Saturday, October 27th. Colwich, Monday, October 291,,, Capt. S.

B. Todd, candidate for lieutenant governor, will also be present and participate in tho speaking at Wichita on the 27 th our In First-class iota aM Fall Weiftl UUU, 227 East Douglass Avenue. fc.