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J. E. TALBERT.
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' WE ARE FAB BEHIND.
New Firm
Talbert & Purnel
i diffusion of intelli-
deficiencies in the
lemyooe I condense'
the official report on
WE SHOULO HAVE GOVERNMENT
BANKS AND TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
Successor to
a al
printed in
of the "Consular Re-
1870, ell the
1.4:.
We have decided to offer our stock of
Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Notions,
Shoes, Flannel and Ladies' Hats
At Actual Cost, from To-Day until January IS"
We want to Close out ail Winter Goods before going to Market to buy Spring
Stock- We mean what we say! Come quick if you want Bargains for SPOT CASH!
Remember This Sale Ends January 15,1896.
HISS KSNDALL'S
DRESSMAKING PARLOR UP-STAIRS
Now, at the Racket Store, where she will be glad to serve all-
her friends when they want dresses made.
Talbert & Purnell, Proprg.,
RACKET
HOWAKil ON I . 10\\
AN INTERVIEW WiTH THE POPULIST
' CONGRESSMAN FROM ALABAMA.
r* Will I cHf In ISOfi In (IppMl-
to Fluturru<- - iiow the Sesrrbm
Bcra (°tr«l In Alchaum Thr Kind
of Men Who Arr lv.puliitt*.
ISpnul C'>rr.« vund«K*. 1
Washington. Dm. 30.— Hon. Milford
W. Howard, Populist. representing the
Seventh Alabama tl..strict in this house,
has had a rather fuuuv xperieuce.
There were all sorts of wild talk about
the various punishments he was to suf-
fer, of which social ostracism was the
vary least and being -hot the worst. At
any rate be was to receive a severe phys-
icai chastisement. He came. They took
one good look at his 6 feet 2 of stalwart
manhood and dropped the subject of
chastisement at one and forever. He is
the bean ideal of physical strength and
proportion, with a clear skin, fair com-
plexion and dark eves; has just reached
^ iBfeage of 33 and is good for any amount
of work as wall as self defense. After
dropping 'he idea of violence as afore-
said and making his acquaintance the
savage critics were surprised to find him
a rather good fello.v and quite able to
hold bis own in any opinions be has ad-
Mr. Howard does not deny that
i written some paragraphs with the
effervescence of youth, and that had be
had mote experience be might bave
changed the style considerably, but as
to the lucts be declares that more than
one Wasbingtoniau has said to bim,
"You didn't tell half the truth." In
answer to some general questions from
M Mr. Howard raid:
"The situation has cleared with a
we did not expect, and 1 feel
hopeful now than for years. The
est danger that confronted the ad-
of monetary reform wes that
things would dragon for months or even
for years, the country being very mnch
in the condition of a man with a low
fever which refuses to come to a crisis,
SB invalid whose strength declines so
ahywJy that he refuses to consider it se-
rieanlj We bave got bravely over that
aei very suddenly. The grand old party
boasting for years of the won-
flnancial system it bad built up,
aai the gold Democrats have been tell-
ing as that all we needed wee to stick
basis heroically mid prosperity
Well, their wonderful finan-
was touched—no, it wasn't
it was just pointed
is tumbling about their
at dm ridiculous position of
with n financial system
to all its advocates,
of tbe party in power
point at it. By the
full |
in congress. We)
tor cne vmiaiia pi.itxorm generally, wirn
free silver promincut as the first step.
The silver men in other parties can do
the same of course as to tbeir several be-
liefs. Events are n w driving all thr re-
form elements toward a union. Tiie
purchase of The National Watchman by
senator Stewart is but a symptom. The
oeople feel the pinch as they never did
efore, but not so bad as they will.
Events are showing the rottenness and
.11 just ice of onr present system so thor-
mghiy thaL all aie convinced who are
willing to look at the facts.
"As General Garfield pointed out in
his daV9 of liberalism, the ever present
danger to a democracy is that the plu-
tocrats will cet it in their power. If we
-hould n- w nave a war, with the hanks
and money lords holding their present
yower, the results would be awful be-
vond what tuemost pessimistic surmise.
Tbe eaormens national debt thus creat-
ed, the permanent grip assured to the
banks, the enormous concentration of
wealth and the burdens placed upon the
people by inereased pensiou lists and
other government expenses would be
but the beginning. They would lie
merely the factors needed to create tbe
despotism of a plutocracy. Against this
there must tie a speedy union—a union
of all reform forces."
"On that, I take it, we are nearly
agreed, but the- trouble is we do not as
yet see the process. Whst, in your opin-
ion, is to be the course in 1896?"
"Well, I take it as settled that the
national conventions of both tbe old
parties will declare for tbe gold basis.
A big majority of the Democrats are op-
posed to it, but tbev won't be allowed
to control. Tbe party machinery is such
as to throw tbe control of conventions to
tbe cities and large towns and in them to
the bankers and money lords. It is bare-
ly possible, of course^ that the country,
especially in tbe south and west, will
assert itself, but 1 think not Then will
come tbe supreme test The old party
backs, men like Dan Voorbees, will go
with their party, as tbey always have,
and many thousands who now seem
firm will go with them. Only yesterday
two Democratic members swore to me
that they would bolt a gold platform,
but I know tbey won't. A true Populist
soon learns bow to detect the hollow
ring of a counterfeit silverite. The
thoughtful and sincere silver Democrats
will revolt and so will tbe same kind of
Republicans, though there are not so
many of tb<*m. Then will come the
practical question how to get together.
It can be dona In fact, I may say the
plan is as g id as perfected."
"I quite agree with yon that a war
with England on onr present financial
basis would be an appalling calamity to
tbe producing classes, e>j* j the
farmers. In fact, I consider that within
a score of years, and probably half the
time, after the close of that war tbe
working fanners who are not large land-
owners would practically be reduced to
the condition of a peasantry. But I bave
hoped that all this war talk wee only to
a eoere for ulterior
Tee, this British and Vt
is a good thing to distract the
minds of the
apportion
from tbe companies, who were making
big profits. Till then tbe districts pay-
ing best bad ample service, though at
high rates (as is still the case with us),
while whole sections of the lines of rail
were destitute of telegraphic facilities.
The government at onoe extended tbe
telegraph to all sections and reduced tbe
rate to 1 cent a wovd. Tbe following is
tbe result:
In 1870 under private ownership
7,000,000 individual messages and 22,-
000,000 words of press dispatches were
annually sent. Now that the telegraph
is operated by the poetoffice the annual
number of individual messages *ent is
70,000,000 (ten times as many), and
600,000,000 words of p**ess dispatches
(80 tiroes as many) are used. This at a
glance demonstrates the overwhelming
benefit to the public of the change aud
their appreciation of it.
Tbe press rates have been r«*duced so
low that every country paper can afford
to print the latest telegraphic dispatches
as it goes to press, and a telegraph and
telephone are at every country postofiW.
In Lcudou the telegraph has largely sn
perseded the mail for all the f-mull and
necessary details of life—to announce
that you are going to dine at a ce tain
house or to inform your wife that you
are detained on busiue«> mid not to keep
dinner waiting and the like—over 300.-
000 telegram^ being sent daily in that
city aloue.
The following is quoted from the con-
sul verbatim:
The service is performed with the
most perfect punctually. It is calculat-
ed that the average time employed to-
day in the transmit.-ion of a telegram
between two commercial cities in Eng-
land varies from eeveu to nine minutes,
while in 1*70 (under privat**ownershipi
two or three hours w ere necessary. The
rate of 1 cent a word includes delivery
in city and within a mile tif the coun-
try office. Bevtmd this limit tin* charge
is 12 cents a mile for delivery of mes-
sages.
The average telegraph rate in this
country, by the reports to congress, are
•1 cents per m*mm* three times tbe
poat-
POPUUSTS AND PATRIOTISM.
Money is tbe blood
values mid obligations
it; therefore, it should
safeguards thrown around it It should
not be subject to control or manipula-
tion by private parties or
The reeaone are
painfully obvious during the
men. The banks have
•t
taittifaliy. and if tiu-y bave a sparic < 1
gratitude they will stand by him. He
will continue to do all bo can for them,
but he i* a woefully ignorant mau and
his whenies of *-n miscarry. His state
paj* rs ar so carefully overlooked by
belter informed m«-n that his ignorance
seldom shows in them, but in his out-
side talk, in spire of all his dull com-
monplace*. he occasionally lets slip a
word or two showing that of all this
country wwt of the AHetrhames and
south of the Potomac 1m* knows less than
a scboolbtjy. If 1 had not already too
much the reputatiou of a sensationalist,
I would bring in a resolution to impeach
him. Several DeintKrats have assured
me they would support it. He has groes-
Iv violated the law ?n several particu-
lars.'*
"What is the situation in Alabama?"
"Well, it i . mixed. Historically the
ca*e is like this: There was a split be-
tween the Bourbon and Jeffersouian
Democrats ami tha< with the rise of the
Farmers' Alliance made the Populist
pariy, but the old Bourbous used tbe
black counties to retain controL It is
the same way Alabama was taken out
< f the Union, the black counties having
two or three times as much political
streugth as the whites in them were en-
titled to. Yancey cursed the men of tbe
hills as savagely as be did tbe Yaukeea
—in fact, he said they weren't fit to
have a voice. When one of onr men ap
pealed to him to let the people vote on
secession, he said: 'D—n tbe people!
If they vote up there, they'll stay in tbe
Union !' This black county business is
tbe queerest twist in all history. Firt
the negrties in the black counties were
enumerated for representation and used
to rule tbe state for slavery and tben to
take it out of tbe Union; in reconstruc-
tion they were used to bold down tbe
Democrats, tben there was another rev-
olution and the Democrats used them to
hold down tbe Republicans, and after
beating the home Republicans and using
the negroes to heat the northern radicals
at their own game, tbey turned in and
used the negroes to beat each otber and
finally to beat us. And wbat they will
n-e them for next God only knows. It's
a queer round. Northern people, bow-
ever, need not flatter themselves that
they are done witb the negro question
just yet.
"I see you recently wrote about the
big proportion of working landowners
and skillful laborers among tbe Popu-
lists where yon bad been. Well, it'e the
same everywhere. Go where yon may
in tbe United States, men of tbe old par-
ties will talk about tbe Populists being
a set of ne'er do wells who haven't made
anything for themselves and want otber
people's property, but ask them how it
is in tbeir neighborhood, and they will
always say, 'Oh, the Populists around
here are first rate men.' Now, I'll give
you an interesting feet I have made
many public speeches and attended many
more, and I never was interrupted by a
drunken Populist or saw it done, though
I have been by Democrat or Republican.
But to conclude, emphasise the feet
that union is tbe immediate end
ing duty and that onr
themselves opened a great and
door for us."
Tbe singular action of the:
in attempting to floet
scheme on tbe wave of
ed by his
taiuly the most extraordinary condition
ever reached in a laud with unbounded
resources aud au intelligent pet>ple. I
will particularize on one point only.
One year ago the de{iurttnent of agricul-
ture announced the lowest general range
of prices ever known and confidently
promised an advance. Ou the 1st of
December it issued a bulletin showing a
very great decline in everything except
wheat, hay and cotton and a general av-
erage so far below that of a year ago as
to make that report, viewed in the re-
trospect. seem like a halleluiah ]tsalm.
Within three weeks tbe decline had been
so great as to r nder tbe report of Dec.
1 obsolete.
On the 1st of December tbe average
on everything cbowed a decline of about
20 per cent aud tbe advocates of tbe
present system assured us that tbe bot-
tom was reached at last and tbe protn-
f ,ed land almost in sight. As near as I
can make out from today's paper, there
has been a decline of at least 8 per cent
more, and the end is not yet. Tbe farm-
ers having no money, there is very little
market for manufactures, so skilled la-
borers must suffer and gold must be ex-
ported because at the present low prices
our exports will not pay tbe debt; tbe
export of gold paralyzes tbe market and
leads to a further decline, and so tbe
vicious circle goes on. We are paying
England twice wbat we agreed to when
we borrowed tbe money and at tbe same
time threatening to figbt her. And these
fellows who talk tbe loudest about fight-
ing England and being independent and
patriotic will go to the polls next fall
and every numbscull of them vote for
English financial domination. Was there
ever, since God mede man in bis own
image end endowed bim with
aay people who voluntarily voted
eslvee into such a fix?
J. H. Baowm
probably af-
of business.
a uniform rate of !5 cents, ss the average .
cost oi a message is sbout 3 cents. Ac- !
cording to experts, the telegraph plants
ntiw in use in the United States could
be superseded by the government with
s superior plant it $12,000,000, while I
present sorporatbw* &re strangling com-
merce to earn heavy dividends on a wa- !
tered stock of over $150,000.000—Penin-
sula Farmer
fnitkt Train Ha* Arrived.
In the seven states from which Popu-
list returns have been received their
vote is 170.154, against 140,ATM in the
last corresponding elections and 147,-
034 for president in 1892. This is a bet-
ter showing tn«n expected. It should be
remembered that there was a very ma-
terial falling off in the vote, even tbe
Republicans losing votes in spite of
tbeir victory. If this it< remembered, it
will be recognised at onoe that the Pop-
ulists. although tbey have elected fewer
of their candidates than heretofore, are
stronger tbsn ever in the important
matter of votes.—New Orleans Times-
Democrat
IT ror II
Next year tbe reformers of tbe coun-
try should mass their forces and com-
bine on a man who could and would
carry Ithuriel's spear aud force tbe can-
didates of tbe old parties to unmask
themselves before the people. The real
meaning of this social battle must be
brought out if possible next year.—
Progressive Age.
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two.
credit,
and collapsed entirely in
km of
gold and the government has increased
tbe interest bearing indebtedness for
more gold.
If we had government banks all over
the country, the depoeits of tbe people
would be a source of financial strength
to tbe treasury instead of to tbe banks.
The New York banks were burdened by
an enormous surplus while tbe treasury
was depleted. Isn't it strange how
tbiugs are allowed to go? Yet we are to
blame If we don't try to change tbe
laws. We vote for party, and those tbst
we elect are busy keeping themselves
and their friends in office, and so be-
tween tbe two—we, the electors, and
tbey, the elected—tbe principles and sci-
ence of government are scarcely thought
of. It is little wonder that things get
into such a tangle and schemers can get
such advantage*.
Every advanced civilized couutry ex-
cept ours lias government savings banks.
Such an arrangement is at once a
strength to the government and a secur-
ity to the savings of the people, but we
haven't got it. We spend too much
time pulling tbe eagle's tail and boast-
ing of the "greatest country tbe sun
shines <m "—the government of which is
falling so far behind that of otber civi-
lized countries.
Postmaster General Wanamaker work-
ed hard during his term for postal sav-
ings t anks, but congress was too busy
with politics and had neither time, dis-
position not* ability for statesmanship,
or shail we conclude that the banking
iut* re*ts had control of congress? Lob-
byists know well how to smother or
cripple bills in committee. That is gen-
erally easier than defeating a bill cm the
fi"«ir.
Private or corporation telegraphs ex-
ist only in the following countries: Bo
livia. Cyprus. Honduras. Cuba. Hawaii
and the United States. All tbe rest of
the civilized w or It I has government tele-
graph. Even in Egypt, a few years ago,
1 seut a telegram from a station pretty
wel! up tbe Nile to Cairo for leas than
10 cents. It was transmitted and deliv-
ered with military faithfulness and
promptness. We can't bavs such service
in this country, because concentrated
capital, witb its large income, watered
stock and immense profits, must be pro-
tected regardless of tbe interests of the
people.
They ti t it by using newspapers that
depend on the telegraph company for
news, aud by giving free telegraph priv-
ileges lavisiily to t-ongressmeu, and by
uo end of other little arts well known
to them. The average trongressman
seems urpnsjugly susceptible to these
arts. Astonishing, isn't it? When shall
wo have a change'- For 20 years or mure
the poatoffice department has been ask-
ing that the telegraph service of tbe
ctmntry betaken by the government and
made a part of the jxwtal system. Post-
master General Wauamaker work' < as
hard for this as for the poatal savings
banks all during his term (see his re-
ports >, but ail to no purpose, for he was
not sustained by congress, nor by a vig-
orous public sentiment. Tell everybody
you know bow far behind tbe rest of the
world we Are in this respect aud let
us determine to demand a change. Peo-
ple frequently need the telegraph serv-
ice to summon physicians. Let us have
tbe cheapest aud the best Have we not
paid tribute to private monopoly long
enough? Now let us bave it at coat, like
the postal service.—Dr. C. F. Taylor.
In referring to a
port of the Monroe
Ion of
It has been said in thie
local organisation, that it dealt simply
witb certain international grievanoee
that it was composed of a class cf peo-
ple who bed no conception of govern-
ment beyond their own immediate
and pressing demands. I desire to correct
that opinion, if I can do so, by saying
that in my judgment the Populist party
is as thoroughly committed to tbe Mon-
roe doctrine as either tbe Democratic or
Republican party.
I was delighted yesterday to listen to
tbe eloquent speech of my friend from
Illinois, Mr. Cullom, in which be said
America should be for Americans, but I
did not hear tbe senator say anything
about tbe millions and billions of Eng
lish capital that have been brought into
this oountry. I did not bear him refer
to tbe fact that English money had pur-
chased our great Souring mills, onr great
railway systet a, our breweries, our
stockyards aud tbe great majority of
the important industries of this country.
I did not hear tbe distinguished and
brilliant senator from Illinois yesterday
discuss tbe question of seeming partner-
ship existing bet .veen tbe Democratic
and Republican parties in this country
and the money lords of Lombard street
and of tbe east.
If it's important for us to watch tbe
British flag when it is placed indiscrim-
inately upon the islands of tbe sea, does
it not occur to my distinguished friend
that it would be important for us to
watch tbe financial partnership existing
between cei tain financiers aud statesuu i
of England and other foreign countries
and certain financiers and political par-
ties in this country?
We realize that Great Britain is in
our midst not with her armies and her
navies, not fierhaps with her flag, but
sbe ia here for the purpose of dethroning
American institutions.
Sbe is here for tbe purpose of Angli-
cizing the-je states and this couutry aud
controlling tbe policy ttf our nation
and tbe policy of our government in
every branch and department. It has
become a popular thing nt.sr fcr an
American citizen to become an English
lord or tbe lord of some other country,
and I do not know that it would be im-
proper for me to refer to tbe spirit of
madness which seems to exist in tbie
country by which even American women
are perfectly willing to waste them-
selves upon foreign mendicants. It seems
to me these subjects should have attract-
ed tbe attention of the senator from Illi-
nois.
The echoes of tbe reading of tbe pres-
ident's message bad scarcely ceaeed in
tbe halls of oongress before measures
were introduced looking to tbe issue of
bonds as a means of providing funds for
arms, munitions and armaments.
That a war or prospects of war will
be seized as an oportunity by the money
oligarchy or bondocracy to saddle upon
tbe country bonds mountain high there
ie not a doubt
That the tribe of interest suckers will
expect the American people in the event
of war or prospects of war to forget
their own grievances may be confident-
ly looked for, but that tbe level heeded,
intelligent, thinking classes are going
to lose tbeir beads and allow the Shy-
looks under the guise of petri otism to
loed the country with an enormous
to believe.
i "Everything for defense, but not
oqpt for tribute to an intereet sucking
; bondocracy," should be the motto of ev-
: sry loyal, petriotoo American oitisen of
our country.
In the event of war or in the
tion for such there is no
Carlisle'* tJ
The following is taken from sn edi-
torial in tbe Boston Courier devoted to
one of Secretary Carlisle's New York
chamber of commerce speeches:
Tbe slogan set up by Mr. Carlisle to
divert attention from the ugly but vital
fact that for the past two years tbe ex- j
penses of the government bave exceeded
its income is tbst "the government must
go out of the bunking business." Very
well, if that means tbst the government
shall issue no more notes payable on de-
mend for use es money, tben it certain-
ly cannot by parity of reasoning secure
the promises to pay of thousands of
banks scattered all over the country by
its own promises to pay instead in an ex-
igency- If the former can be called go-
ing into the banking business, mnch
more may the latter be so called. But
the mere issue of promisee to pay by tbe
government to be used ss money is not
in any rightful sense. It was
so thought of when greenbacks
first made their appearance and never,
in fact, until this combined manifesta-
tion of a purpose to get them out of the
wsy for another scheme. ▲ treasury
note of the United States ought by this
time to be held es good for actual money
as the Bank of Ssgland notes the world
over or the notes of the Bank of France,
not to speak of tbe issues of the other
governments. The issues of
i just as much money as
ie the mining of metallic money. It ie
la M
"Money is the fiat of tbe government,
and w hen impressed upon some material
it becomes legal tender. Tbe fiat is tbe j
raul that vitalizes or gives the mone"
quality t > gold, silver, paper, leather or
to any material upon which it is im-
pressed. As only the government has
flat power, all money must proceed from
tbe government, and when it uses that
power in the interest of private corpora-
tions, it violates its obligation to the
people. Money has representative value,
and being used in exchange for property,
its volume should increase or diminish
in tbe same ratio that property increases
or diminishes. —S. E. V.
Only recently two Populists of Fill-
more county, Minn., subscribed for 600
copies of Ignstius Donnelly's paper, The
Representative of Minneapolis, for next
year, and now comes a Popuhet commit- j
tee in St Paul with a movement on foot
to subscribe for 5,000 copies of that pa-
per, to be given swsy until tbe election
in 1896, and a similar movement is on
foot in Minneapolia My, my, my! If
tbe people ell over the oountoy would
get this kind of a move on them, would
not tbe old party fur fly in 1896?—
8ound Money.
As tbe full returns o
that tbe Populists made
in the local elections in
signal victories ia
strongholds. A dozen or
that were carried by the opposition
year west Populist at
by large majorities. The Populist lead
ers say the stats is srfi for
Hon. George Moman, the well
Republican, baa
Growth of
in addition to all the other trusts
formed and beiug formed, there is one
in tobacco. These organizations will
continue, doubtless, until their power
becomes so grest and tbeir influence so
oppressive and exacting in their de-
mands upon the labors and liberties of
tbe people that governmental control or
ownership of all these vast concerns
will be a necessity. At least the tend-
encies of tbe times along these lines
indicate the confirmation or tbe demands
of the alliance by this slow but certain
process of evolution now going on in this
oountry.
One great trust paves tbe way and
makes necessary another, untii railroads
will be made one, banks in the same or-
ganized condition, and every important
branch of industry thoroughly organ-
ised and controlled by one central head
This process of evolution slowly but
surely makes way for tbe centralizing
and focalizing under vc*y few different
managements of the varied interests of
this great country.
These forces will continue their cen-
tralising powers until tbe people, by tbe
veiy force of circumstances, will be
obliged, through tbe power of tbe gen-
eral government, to take charge and
control tbeee powerful organisations of
this country.
Thus railroads, banks, telegraph, tele-
phone and ail these centralised organi-
zstions will be forced under govern
mental oontriL
Whet revolutions, political and other-
wise, will have occurred in tbe mesn-
time, no one can telL Tbe closing yesrs
of the nineteenth century are fraught
with ominous, portentous forebodingsf
the bettering or making worse the cou
ditions of mankind generally. Which?
Time alone will reveaL—Cotton Pleat.
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Insteed of there being
of the "recent period of haid
" there is but one leading cause,
end that—avarice—is only e coarse, an
sympathetic manifestation of selfishness,
en inherent attribute of human nature.
ae in our week way we ere
to epeek of things, I will
mention three greet facts out of which,
or through the operation of
fort, es of lend, fuel,
on the one and stamped on the
thet give to eeeh their distinctive
So that this
, of the
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to
in the
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nle at Itapaka, on the 10th i
>60 000 000 n <mlv a little
at In
a
7,000 votafcte
Ohio 5,000 -votes, ia Kentucky 16,(
votes, in Kansas we bave not tbe
vote, but they gained 24 county
in the city of Denver stone tbey
7,000 votes, snd in Utah they
more than 1,000 votes. Looking
sqnsrely in the face, we believe it I
policy to be able to be s pert of tbe
grest young perty of the nation than to
simply be a ta:. to tbe People's Party
, kite That is all tbe silver perty could
hope to bo as after tbe People's Party
bave held their convention it would he
suicidal for a silver party to put a
ticket in tbe field in opposition to i
It would be tbe very thing the
lican party would want to
Farther than this, tbe People's Party
1 deals with the railroad question and tbe
land monopoly question. Surely both of
these questions are vital questions for
Utah. We are being most unmercifully
fleeced in this valley in the matter of
! freight rates, and land monopolies sre
fast gobbling up tbe public domain, and
1 our small farms are fast passing into
the bands of the usurer. After looking
at tbeee questions from every side we
have concluded to unfurl the People's
Party banner, nail to our masthead,
Finanoe, Transportation, Land,
Silver and Death to Into
Bonds, and abide by the result—Utah
Democrat, Ogden.
Nothing has prevented or now
vents the full employment and
compensation of labor but tbe monopoly
If money and unjust rates of interest
Our producers are continually endeav-
oring to overcome their poverty by their
industry, but while rv.r frrrcr.t rrtci rl
interest prevail capital will continue to
take tbeir surplus earnings and leave
them |u*or.
When any nation shall adopt a just
monetary systen, tbe abundant supply
cf comforts and the good will, peace and
happiness whicli will ensue will form
such a contrast to the present condition
of society as to astonish the worid.—
Edward Kellogg.
Black
•«u
generally thought to be of
evil omen by tbe supersti-
tious, ere considered lucky visitors on
New Year's day.
In Wales fires are frequently
on Jan. 1 to purify tbe bouse for tbe en-
trance of the new year and the ashee of
these fires sre often kept mart sacredly
from year to year. Tbey are supposed to
possess special medicinal virtues, being
particularly efficacious against "falling
sickness" or fits.
Janritea with
The peculiarity of tbe date at 1896 is
its involved cor.nection with tbe digit S.
As that numbt r is regarded by those
who bold superstitious belief es a pro-
verbially lucky one, from its ssmrislion
with certain Biblical events, it is to he
hoped that the coming annual cycle may
prove this one particular theory to he
true, and lust Jan. 1 will usher in an
auspicious season of material and finan-
cial prosperity.
Tbe number 1896 is equally divisible
by 8. So is tbe sum of its digits, 1 plus
8 plus 9 plus 6 (and tbe reverse ie nao-
essarily the same) equaling 24, which,
again united, 2 plus 4, equals 6. Sepa-
rating its hundreds from the tens, 18
and 96 or 81 and 69, they are still mul-
tiples of 8. Tbe sum of the first and
last digits, 1 plus 6, equals 7. Added Ie
the two middle figure* tbey produce 96,
which is the last two units of the date,
being equally divisible by S, as is its
sum, 9 plus 6, equals 15.
The centuries 18 sre divisible wholly
by 9, 6 and 3; tbe number reversed, 81,
by 9 and by 8, by tbe product of tbeee
two numbers (9 multiplied by 8)87,
and tbe sum of the digits, 1 plus 6,
equals 9. The sum of tbe drat two fig-
ures in the date, represented es digits,
equals the third. Eighteen plus 88
equals 114, and 86 minus 18 equals 78,
over which the mystic 8 has full con-
trol, as it does over tbe sam of the digits
in these latter numbers, 1 plue 1 phm
6 equals 6, snd 7 plus 8 equals 18.
And 15 minus 6 equals 8, while 16
6 equals 81, tbe sum of
8 plus 1, equals 8. Tbe product of the
digits in the yeer, 1 multiplied by 8 hp
8 by 6, equals 488, a
tbe sum of the unit figures, 4
plus 8 is 8. Eigbtsen minus 8
and 8 minus 6 equals 8.
From this een be derived tl
ble rule that when tbe sam 4f
of any number is eqe
For instance the numbers 88t f
and 8441 (equals 13)
be eqaally divisible by
factor 8. At—— P,
ihf.
f-*r Ssthm*.
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Thompson, F. C. The Democrat. (McKinney, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1896, newspaper, January 9, 1896; McKinney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth191893/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Collin County Genealogical Society.