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Show aggregate of mortgages is not more than one-fourth of that number. Hut what is aa Alliance- orator that he should suffer his faucr to ie hamperca by facts- . SPIRIT Of THE PRESS. Capital It -lJS Soared O.T by Politics. New York Press. The constant reticration in tho democratic demo-cratic and mugwump press of assertions asser-tions and predictions that the Mclvinley bill will be repealed have their natural sequence in reports that come from abroad about the frame of mind of manufacturers and capitalists who uuder ordinary circumstances would have been over here immediately after its passage to erect factories and invest in-vest money. Au Associated Press cable dispatch tells us that capitalists "are shy of laying out money to erect works in America which a popular vote might at and time render useless. " This an--nnuncumnt is highly significant. It ail'ords good reason for sustaining the republican party this fall and thoreby iiiak'ug it deiinilc'.y known that wa are, not to have auy tarill tinkering in the direction of free trade. Ths Latest ,lnaa. fechem.. Wichita I :i('lc. Tim latest idiom with the alliance, and ono that bids fair to supercede the sub-treasury and government-control-of railroad sebum' s, is the co-operative store scheme. There is nothing new about it, aud from the experience of scores am! hundreds of honest but deluded de-luded fai'ineis in the tamo line, several yeais ago, during thu reign of the grange, it would scorn that there could not be found enough simpletons with moaey to put it in op;-ration. But it is one of tlm peculiarities of the human race not to heed the advice founded upo.i experience from others, but to insist in-sist upon having personal experience. The current r.iove can have but one ending failure. Th. lrrlgatiua Congr.s. D nver N't w-s. tait Lake City is mftkiurr active preparations pre-parations for the reepptu n and entertainment enter-tainment of the delegates to tho great irrigation convention which meets thero ou Tuesday, September loth. The congress promises to be cno of the laigest that ever convened in the West, and it will consider a topic of interest to every inhabitant of the transmis-souri transmis-souri country. The storage of water, thu preservation of tho water supply, toe cuosi ructions of reservoirs and the reclamation of the arid lands are questions ques-tions of almost personal interest to every man in the West, and their considerate discussion by the congress cannot fail to exert a beuelieial influence. in-fluence. "-gsnndny Oasatiun at th. Fair. Denver Kopul'Ue in. The question of opening the World's fair ou Sunday is under disscussion. It is a question regarding which intelligent intelli-gent people may well differ. Much may brt said on both sides, and the commissioners ought not to reach a conclusion too hastily. It docs not fol-lo-v from the fact that a man prefers thst the fair be opened on Sunday, that he has no respect for religion and for church influence. Undoubtedly a very great many excellent cuurch people think that an institution so elevating aud benetie'ial in its inlluenees should, like a public pr.rk, be throwu open on Sundays as well as on other days. ft. turning; to th. Fold. Emporia Republican. The Marion s says many alliance man of that country have gone back to the republican party. The same kind of report comes from a good many counties. There is soraethiog of that sort going ou in this county. A former sub-alliance president sat as a delegate in the republican county convention here Saturday, and wo have heard a number of other Lyon county alliance men who are goiug to vote th republican repub-lican ticket. Fancy V.rsns Fa.U Boston Journal. Senator l'elfer goes right on declaring declar-ing that the people of this country are groaning under nine million mortgages, when the census statistics show that th. |