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Show A FEW AND STILL THEY COME. IFS. The Indianapolis (Ind.) Union publishes a long list of if s that we would be glad to reproduce in full, would our space permit. We select the following: If it was unprofitable to hold land out of use, would land be held out of use? If the. State should appropriate to the use telephones. This may be set down as one of the State all increased value of land, of the greatest accessions to our ranks that would it be profitable to hold land out of we have had for many moons. We repro- use? If land values are created by the presence duce the article in full: It is a rule of experience emphasized par- and industry of the people as a whole, does it? ticularly in the history of government rail- not this value belong to those who create If a man bought a lot in Indianapolis fifty roads that business can be better transacted and with greater economy by private than by years ago for $500 and, after he had made public management; but this rule has found a the purchase, had gone to China and remarked exception, to which attention should be called, in the telegraph business. Further, mained there, and this lot at present is worth the rule that leading commercial organizations $300,000,000, who created the increased oppose the extension of public interference in value? industry also finds an exception here Lead. If a man has a right to life, has he not ing business organizations in this country also a right to an opportunity to sustain life? almost the only country in which telegraph If all wealth is taken from land and it is business is owned and operated by private are favorable to government necessary for man to produce wealth in order corporations this of to sustain life, have not all men a right to business, ownership The reason is apparent. All governments land? control and operate the postal system, and If all men have a right to land, and we the telegraph is so intimately associated with the mail that the control of both should be find that the greater p rtion may only use long to the same management. Since 1870 land on terms made by a few men who own the English government has owned and op- the land, is not our land system wrong? erated the telegraph lines of the two islands, If all men have a right to the land, then the ruling rate for messages being 25 cents for 20 words, including address and signa- no man or set of men have any right to forture, with the result that the number of mes- bid any man from using land. Our present It seems fcat wonders will never cease. Here is the latest: The Topeka (Kan.) Cap ital the leading daily paper of that State-- one of the most rantankcrous, Republican, Populist-hatin- g papers on earth, a few days comes out with an article favoring govago ernment ownership of the telegraph and sages increased from less than 10 million in 1870 to more than 78 million in 1896, or an increase of nearly 700 per cent, in 26 years. While rates were reduced, the British tele graph has made a net profit in the last ten years of a million dollars. If the government of the United States should purchase the telegraph lines of this country at an appraised valuation (as it has the recognized right to do by existing law) the results would be a reduction of from 25 to 50 per cent in charges to users, a large increase of telegraph offices with small cost to the government, being connected with postoffices already established; an encrmous increase in the use and service of the teie graph and, finally, the wiping out of the annual deficits in the postal department of the government the only branch of the public service that never has paid expenses and never will so long as it is divorced from its natural ally, the telegraph. Under the present system of private ownership the telegraph offices are not increased or lines extended until the owners are satisfied that the extension would pay dividends. If the same rule were adopted by the postal of the postoffices in department, the United States would be closed up and abandoned, for but pay expenses It is rather singular that the postmaster-general- , who devotes considerable attention to the foolish fad of letter postage which nobody cares a picayune about, has nothing whatever to say about government ownership of telegraphs, which commercial organizations . have repeatedly urged, and which offers a rational 'way out of the postal two-thir- ds one-thir- d nt deficits. THE CHURCH OF HUMANITY. Dr, Ravlin spoke to a large crowd at the hall in the Gladstone Building last Sunday evening. His subject was Gods and Men. His subject next Sunday will be The Origin You will miss someand Destiny of Man. fail if to attend. thing good you The Doctor is preparing and will give a public entertainment at Unity Hall on the. evening of December 14. which will be a great treat to all who enjoy a high grade of literary work. Remember the date and don't let anything detain you. JOHN GRIFFITH AT THE GRAND. John Griffith appears at the New Grand Theatre tonight and tomorrow matinee and night in a spectacular version of Goethes Faust; in which, as Mephisto, Mr. Griffith has gained quite a reputation as a tragedian. This is his last season of Faust, and those who fail to see him this time will wait many years before the arrival of another actor who can play Mephisto like this young Griffith. . IT COSTS MONEY to go to Klondike; but this week you can buy all kinds of furniture, stoves, carpets, organs, pianos, chairs, tables, iron beds, sewing machines, cupboards, wardrobes; steel ranges, etc., etc.; two steel safes very cheap; everything will He sold regardless of cost before I go to Klondike. I. X. L. Second Hand Store, 48 East Second South Street. Telephone 44S. P. A. Sorensen. FOR SALE OR TRADE. Weekly paper with well equipped office, - situated in growing Oklahoma town. Will sell cheap for cash, or will trade for small tract of good land. Value of plant, $600 00 Reasons for selling given on application. H S. Foster, 125 Eighth West, Hutchinson, Kan. - TEN MEN OF MONEY ISLAND. We have just received a few copies of S. F. Nortons Ten Men of Money Island the most concise, yet the most complete, exposition of the money question ever written by any one at any time. Send us five t stamps and we will send you a will not referet it. You copy. two-cen- No true Populist has any sympathy with the cry lor metal money of redemption. He knows that if the government can make a dollar out of 42 cents' worth of silver, it can make just as good a dollar out of 1 cents worth of paper. In fact, it is a better dollar, because a hole punched through it does not affect its legal tender qualities or affect its purchasing power. So long as the paper dollar can be recognized as a major portion of its former self, it will buy too cents' worth of merchandise or pay any debt on earth. Ex. It is not generally known, yet it is a fact, that the country owes to Henry George the beginning and the vigorous prosecution of the movement which culminated in the almost universal adoption of the Australian ballot. It was Henry George and his disciples who were the pioneers in this great reform; and the same forces are today working on the Initiative and Referendum, which would end the rule of minorities and restore government to the hands of the people. Johnstown Democrat. When ? will we obtain the free coinage of such a thing ever occurs, it will be at such time and under such circumstances and conditions as will enable the gang of treasury looters to get all the benefits which may accrue; then, and not until then. The people are not in it, nor will they be. The man who supposes that there will be anything done at any time under present condiland system give men this right. If it is wrong for men to monopolize the tions for the people is a poor, superannuated air and the sunshine, is it not also wrong for fool whose brains (if he ever had any) have men to monopolize land, for all three, are the long since ceased to act gifts of nature to men all men. Senator Frank Cannon has declared for If a man take a fish from the sea, is it his an equitable If protective tariff or none. fish? If it belongs to him, have we any right Senator Cannon can frame an equitable to take a part of it from him? tariff measure, he will have accomplished a If the monopoly, of land has driven men more wonderful achievement than was ever away from natural opportunities land and before performed by human being. The Alhas thereby forced them to compete with mighty himself could not perform such a each other for access to artificial opportuni- feat. In the very nature of the case a proties capital would not the abolition of land tective law must rob one class for the benefit monopoly destroy the power that capital has of another class. Park City Patriot over labor? It is quite common for people to say that If we were to abolish all taxes and take the people are to blame for the present conthe rental value of land for the purpose of affairs. We deny it emphatically paying public expenses, would we not be dition of it. What have the people to do with using a fund that belongs to the community deny laws? What part did you indifor the payment of expenses made by the making the vidually play in the making of the last batch community? qr any other batch of laws passed by ConM'KINLEY PLAYS DOUBLE. gress? If the people had the right to vote It has recently come to light (but in a way on all laws passed, and they should vote for that admits of no doubt) that President Mc- bad laws, the case would be very different. Kinley, while playing the role of an international bimetallist by sending his commission The only essential difference between abroad, was secretly, and did secretly and Cleveland and McKinley is that Geveland that he clandestinely take steps to forestall anything was so bullheaded and hot that might be accomplished. It, to us, seems did try to lie out of his devilment, while for for one the presiMcKinley has not reached that point. Ocve-lan- d disgrace enough year of this advertise like had a character that wouldnt show dirt; Nation to dent a great to the world the fact (or, rather, what he McKinley imagines that his would, and so, pretends to be a fact) that this Nation is not while Cleveland committed his traitorous big enough to attend to its own business, by thefts in open daylight, McKinley does what sending a commission abroad, as he did; but he can for the. gang in the dark. when he stoops to play the double role of The editor of The Herald (whoever he is) traitor and hypocrite, it .is time for decent satisfied with the natural progress he was not people to object The Silver-- Knight Watchman publishes an article under the heading, making in proving to the world that he is a The President a Sneak, in which it shows consummate ass, decided a few days ago to that while this Wolcott commission was doing hurry the matter up just a little; so he wrote what it could, and had actually perfected an an editorial opposing postal savings banks. He may be surprised, however, to learn that agreement with France that France and the United States should open their mints to the no one was surprised. to 1 free coinage of silver at the ratio of Everybody seems to feel warranted in upon condition that Great Britain again open saying mean things about Chinamen. Polithe mints of India and the Bank of England ticians take especial delight in it, and do you of its reserve in silver, that a know why? It is because keep they are not voters secret meeting of McKinley and his cabinet Let the Chinamen once decide to become citwas held and Embassador Hay was instruct- izens and voters and it will not be a month ed to do what he could to prevent the thing until the politicians will refer to them as our being done. Mr. Hay was successful and the Mongolian brethren. whole thing came to naught. The Silver-KnigA New Yorker has just been awarded Watchman claims that it can substantiate all it says by documentary evidence. All 300.000 acres of land in Virginia, Kentucky of which goes to show that the present ad- and West Virginia, by a court decree. This ministration is completely in the grasp of the decision will render homeless half the citizens of six counties. And yet there are peogang. ple who oppose the Single Tax because they THOSE POP MEETINGS. fear it will take the poor mans land away. Those. little parlor Pop meetings of which Wilmington Justice. we have had somewhat to say of late, are We wonder what percentage of the Dembecoming more and more interesting as the weeks go by. The meeting last Friday even- ocrats of Utah sustain The Herald in its noning was addressed by Mr. H. W. Lawrence. sensical fight against postal savings banks? If It was well attended and everything went ofi in A No. 1 style. The next meeting will that be a part of the Democratic dogma, then be held this evening at the rooms of Mrs. the Pops have been in worse company than Pierce in the Constitution Building. An we had supposed. elaborate program, consisting of recitations, We venture to say in advance that Presmusic and speeches, has been arranged. The speech will be made by Mr. Alexander Rog- ident McKinleys message will not contain ers, who will discuss the Initiative and Ref- one word or suggestion which, if carried erendum, and Proportional Representation. would inure to the benefit of the masses out, Those who are able to attend may consider the of Now will hear wait a few days and see. themselves very fortunate, for they people. something that will be both entertaining and Charity is indeed a noble and beautiful instructive. Why not arrange for this sort virtue, grateful to man and approved by of meetings in all the wards? God. But charity must be built on justice. Any man who favors the retiring of the It cannot supersede justice. Progress and greenbacks may be safely set down as either a traitor or a fool. Poverty. silver? f case-hardene- one-fift- li ht d TIIE UNION PACIFIC. SYNDICATE DEALS HERE AND IN HONDURAS. Corporation Ownership of Central Amorim ! Duplicated Frartlrallp la tba United State Wiping Out of (lovornmant. Honduras has fallen a speedy victim to the bond system which Is more deliberately but no less surely getting its grip on nearly every municipality In the United States, as well as on the nation. Late in the sixties that state Issued 125,000,000 of bonds, to borrow Itself out of a debt, but speculators grabbed them In such a manner that only $1,000,000 was realized, leaving the state hopelessly In debt, and having first jumped from the frying-pa- n Into a alow fire, she now jumps Into a quick one by turning over all the custom-housand banka to a syndicate of New York millionaires, who will bleed Honduras at every pore under pretense of discharging its debts, and throw It away like a sucked orange when nothing more can be got out of it, says the San Francisco Star. This is all of a piece with the past acquisition of twenty-od- d great railroads and any number of small ones by a similar (or perhaps partly Identical) combination, some or all of the members of which are In the deal to snatch the Union Pacific at a pretended competitive auction. The grabbing of the Honduras -houses Is based upon the same principle as corporation railroad combinations that of Individuals and companies usurping the legitimate functions of government Carried to Its logical conclusion it would involve contracting out the entire functions of government to syndicates. The Honduras grab, though more flagrant In appearance. Is no more repugnant to ever principle of a popular government than is our present railroad and telegraph system. . es custom- Trout Aba. Byron W. Holt, of New York, In a recent speech before the Boston Reform Club, presented a Btartllng array of figures showing the enormous profits of the sugar trust under the oper- - ' ation of the legislation secured st Washington in Its favor. He said that the retail price of granulated sugar, which constitutes about of all the sugar consumed In this councents a pound, or 18 try, Is about pounds for $L When a family invests In sugar It pays out ' about $1 55 cents for sugar and 45 cents for tariff. At present out of this 45 cents the government is getting about 20 cents, the refiners monopoly 20 cents, and the sugar growers and wholesale grocers the remaining five cents. Next year, when tie refined Is made from the raw sugar on which the present duties have been paid, the government will get about 25 cents end the refiners about 15 cents. Of the $18 which the- average family will spend for sugar this year $10 will go for sugar, $4.50 to the government, $3 to the sugar trust and 50 cents to sugar growers and wholesale grocers. As our sugar account amounts to abou. $200,000,000 a year, the sugar trust will this year pocket about $30,000,000 of our sugar tax. It will he seen that the sugar trust is getting by far too large a proportion of the sugar duty. Consumers, knowing the revenue necessities of the government, would pay the duty with equanimity If they knew that a proper proportion of it was going Into the national treasury. It was reported at the time the tariff bill was pending that the trust was able to get about what It wanted at the hands of congress, and this appears to have proven true. It accounts In a great measure .for the rise of more than $50 per share la the sugar trusts common stock. ntne-tent- bs . Degenerate Republicanism. The Republican party, as It exists today. Is the same party in purpose, in the bulk of its membership, as was the p&ity that stood out in resistance to the spread of slavery, that elected Abraham Lincoln to lie president, that took the lead In preserving the union of the states from destruction. The charge has been only In its organization. Its srganizatlon has brought the money power to bear upon elections; It has treated boss-shiin tho greater states )f the union; It has subjected the party in those states to the rule of one nan, who has governed it in the spirit f A despot, and has made It thp for the corruption of public morality. ps tabor the Bent. Sioux City Tribune: The better paid and more intelligent the labor the better the products of that labor and the more easily they can compete in the world's markets. That is a business fact which the American manufacturer dlvovered long ago, and it would result in still higher wages and more employment if all trade restrictions were removed. High wages and corresponding skill are economical and free trade would simply emphasize the ITIgb-Frlc- truth. ed |