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Show DURRANT AND T1IE PRESS. WOl'LD GLADLY TELL YOU. CAN IT BE DONE? We clip the following excellent communication from the Kan Francisco Star: Editor Ktar: I want to think you a thousand time's for your forceful humanitarian article in last week's Star entitled Making War on the Dead.' Asa physician of the Durrant family, I have been so disgusted with the newsitaiiers treatment of these unfortunate people that 1 often ask myself, Is not our boasted civilization a superb failure? The church of which young Durrant was a prominent and honored member to the moment of his arrest., deserted him horse, foot, and artillery, at the first scent of danger, and even after death is howling like a hyena over his remains. If its members liad a scintilla of the spirit that characterized Him whom they pretend to worship they would have proffered him religious consolation, innocent or guilty; but instead, at the first moment of his arrest, they fled like ignominious cowards. The two religious mountebanks, Rader and Davis, apieared at the last moment, ostensibly to offer religious consolation to Durrant and his heart-brokeparents, but in reality to secure, us is generally believed, a bogus confession Durrant has never acknowledged his guilt to any one to be sold and published exclusively ina sensational morning journal. Hut, at the eleventh hour, their fiendish duplicity was discovered, and they were deposed. After Durrant's death, the sensational jmpers, to gratify morbid readers, hounded his anguish-strickeparents The following letter was received at thisoilice last Saturday: Bingham Canyon, Jan. 19, 1K9S. Warren Foster, Editor Living Issues: Sir: When did John G. Carlisle die and who was his successor, please answer through your next issue, and oblige. A SUBSCRIBER. Unfortunately for a uttering nation we cannot tell you. Had you asked when be ought to Live died we would reply with iromptness, that he ought to have died tefore be was born. Should you ask when ought he to die, we would answer at once sooner if possible. The lamentable fact is that so far as physical death goes John G. Carlisle is not dead, ut lives in New York City, where he is reaping the reward of his jierfldy, and getting his pay for selling his country into Wall street bondage. In some resects he is dead. He is dead to everything, honorable, truthful, upright, pure or good. This death dates from the time that he first began to associate with his partner in perfidy, G i over Cleveland. Ilis successor as Secretary of the United States Treasury is one Lyman J. Gage, who in point of eussedness, bids fair to excell liis The desire that is uppermost in the uiiiid of the editor of Living Issues is to see it the leading impel1 of the country. All that it iuhhIs is tlie assistance that tlu cause it advocates merits. For over three long years lias tlu editor striven against tlu fates almost, to maintain the jaiiier, and keep it going. We have succeeded after a fashion. We have borne tlie burden almost alone. We can continue as we have, hut why should we devote our time and energies getting out only two pages of original matter, when a very little help would enable us to fill six iwiges? It is like attaching a engine to a coffee mill. forty horse-poweof waste a It is energy and time. We are tired of being thus cramiied. We want an opportunity to give ourselves full sway, or nearly so. Could we do this there is no question that tlu puKr would soon be but would make not only money. Have you any idea what a very small amount of money it would take to do this? Well listen now while we till you. For $25 ikt week we can pay for setting the type for six of these pages. We can get it done at either tlu Tribune, Herald or News office, for that sum and have about $7 iki week to play on. It hardly siems reasonable, yet we know exactly what we are saying. There would not be a dollar invested in machinery or supplies of any kind, hence no wear and tear, no extra rent, no extra press work, no extra help. In fact in the above computation weave leaving Willard, the present printer out entirely. He would only have to look after the makeup and the mailing list. This would give tlu boy a much needed and much merited rest. It majr be news to some to learn Willard Foster, the publisher of this paper is now only .17 years of age; that lie left school directly after he was 14, and from that time till now he lias done all the mechanical work on this aiKr. The fact 1 hat t he paHr exists at all is due wholly and solely to this boy. He is taking a rest this week for the first time in nearly three years, and will not see this until after it is published. The boy should be in school, and the only way to send him to school now is to discontinue the publication of the paiKr. You do not want to see that, do you? We do not. The lwst years of our life have lieen spent in this week, and it is our desire to stay with it until we see these great questions settled and n n with their neioved (lead, and manufactured and circulated falsehoods to prove that the Durrants were in toto an abnormal family. These ghouls even attempted, in the early hours of the morning, when the dead body lay in the parlor of the Durrant home, to enter through the street window's and steal the corpse. The foul stories that have been circulated about the mother, and bandied from mouth to mouth and believed by many, sfieak of a depravity more fiendish than .lie murder of the poor girls in the church. My intimate association with the family as physician has proven to me that there is no abnormality, physical or mental, iu any member of that unfortunate household, and that the iron nerve of the Durrants, of which the iiapers speak, is nothing but a consciousness of their own innocence and an innate pride to conceal from a curiously morbid public tlx-ir pent-u- p feelings. As the Ktar is the only paper, excepting the Monitor, in this city that has called a halt to the hellish war against this family. I want, to express to ts editor appreciation of liis manly and courageous words in their defense. Gratefully MARION TIIRAKIIEE, M. D. yours, Kan Francisco, Jan. 1.1, 1898. woe-stricke- n The Knights of Labor Journal says: The power to declare war and draft men into the army can be delegated to private corporations with just as much consistency as can the power to issue money be delegated to private corporations. And nothing truer1 was never said. But, when we come to think of it has not that jiower lieen delegated to corporations? No, it hasnt; it is only the power to use the men after they have been drafted that 1ms l(Hn given to the corporations. The Government drafts the men and pays the bills, but the only use to which they are put is to assist the corjHjrations in robbing their employees. If the corporations will agree to ia.v the bills we see no great harm coming from the change, tha is no greater harm than under the present system, and it would be far more consistent. Take for an instance tlie Pullman strike. In that case, which is a fair sample, the Government furnished the soldiers paid nil the hills and Pullman reajted all the benefits. : The Peoples church will next Sunday Thomas evening celebrate the birth of Paine with appropriate ssches am other services. There are a number of prominent shakers on the nrogranime. It you are not altogether tK narrow of mind to listen to u few wares of praise come for the real father of this country out Sunday evening. The speakers announced for the occasion are IV. Ra lin, Lawrence, Warren Foster and H. others. WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. Statistics tell iis that for every days work by each wage worker in tlu United States our wealth is increased $10. Statis- iuter-moiintiii- n tics also tell us that tlie average paid each wage worker is $1.27. Where does tlu other $8.82 go to? It goes to the robbers of tlie 10th century landlords profit takers and usurers. The Retriever. The Bauk of France maintains tlu iwrity of silver and gold by Kiying out either for tlu redemption of injHU money. It don't jiermit tlie note bolder to sjiecify and demand rcdcyiptiou money in the metal lu wants. France maintains about twice as much silver Hr capita as America docs, and slu dont have to issue bonds and create an (aidless debt to do it either. Iml(Kndcnt, ('reton, Iowa. r Tlu State Board of Bank ('oniniission-er- g, The Herald has procured another county officer as a soliciting agent for its columns, in tlu Mrson of Thomas P. Lewis, the Sheriff. He seems to have fallen into the habits of Mr. Dunbar, and now when an attorney or bis client wants to publish a Sheriff sale he informs the said attorney or his client, as the case may he, that he ns Sheriff is the sole custodian of the people's affairs, and, that the Herald is the only paier in which he has any interest, so the Herald must make the publication. The little matter of paying the bill is the only thing in which the client can liuve any interest, and he lias no say in that, it has not been shown as yet that this is the outcropping of a great and growing conscience, as is the case with Mr. Dunbar. Whether it be conscience or commission is not shown, the effect is the same. It will not be long until the citizen will have to ask the county officers where they are to buy their groceries, and what hotel they are to put up at. One is as logical, as fair, and as just as the other. Dont the Code provide that the County Clerk and Sheriff shall say at what store the counties supplies shall be purchased? Well it ought to to be settled right. Now are you not willing to put your shoulder to the wheel and give our cause If the Populist party made a mistake a lift? We ask pardon in advance, but hist year when it indorsed Bryan, it was beg leave to say that if the friends of would sacrifice one dollar to where nearly the whole party that did it, and one to blame but themselves. we have sacrificed a hundred that inside have no This attempt to saddle the whole thing of two weeks Living Issues would lie the onto such men as Jerry Simpson and best paper published west of Chicago. cm cinfwyp vbgkqj-Jaine- s Now are you not willing to do something uADtbr bbo sN-B. Weaver, bespeaks the acts of a in that line? This is not begging; it is fool much more than that of a patriot. apjieuling to you to do your duty. This We happen to iiersonally know both men work must be done. If we do not do it i and before wi are prejianul to believe tlie others must. of out ado let all lay off the Now without more them sold charge that either party or forsook a single principal of their coats and go to work. If jour Populism there must Ik better and neighbors will not subscribe and pay for stronger evidence than such men as John tlie jiaper pay for it for him. Let us F. Willitts of Kansas can give. We hap- whoop it up all along the line. We askei pen to know Willitt too, and know that as can it be done? We answer it can. a limn he is as nothing compared with either of the other two. A tall, cadaverous-appearinyoung neck with and us a face, thin rail, man, coal with dus; hands and dirt, begrimed THE GAY MATINEE GIRL. and soot, walked into the county agents office at Chicago, Tuesday morning and The famous Comedians Monroe & Hart, asked to he sent to the jMiorhoust. The Send me lo the produce their comedy, the Gay Matinee request was refused. Girl, at the Lyceum all next week, with bridewell or to jail, then; for Godj sake, matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. send me to any place where 1 can pc: to eat. liis name was Joseph Judging from reports this is one iff Ihe something but 17 years old. In anwas Shea and most successful comedy's on the road. swer to questions lie told them lu line There are 121 jicople iu the eoiniNiuy, not eaten since Kafuradv. liis apjieor-aiie- e did not belie liis words. He saol lie described as 7 Great Comedians, 4 Real had liis borne in Fitchburg, Mass., in left Actors and 10 mil actresses. search of work, .lie has no in This play should have gone to tin August found any work which seems very strange Grand, hut could not get the dates. Our under McKinley prosperity. Appeal lo friend Scott. Anderson lias undertaken Reason. Hu management of the Lyceum for this Tlisit is only half the story. They did success. we him wish and every show, not for they could not send him to jail for the reason that he had not committed ary Give a boy or a mau a gun and he at crime. Tlie only way he could get into once begins to look about for something jail would Ik to do some overt act. That to shoot at. ( I i ve a lmt ion a big navy and is one of the inducements the government it at once begins to l(Kk for trouble with offers for crime. other nations. If tlie gunboats were all Foverty may Ik set down as the cause sunk in the ocean wars between nations would cense at once. We say sink them. of crime ten times to where it is once the result of it. Lt America set tlie example. re-.for- m w g : i I s rejMirt that, tlu 157 commercial hanks of this State have money on liaiul to the amount of $4,49(i,870.K2 and owe their dejiositors $24,482,929.(12. If culled ujioii they could pay about twelve cents on the dollar. Tlu savings banks could not do so well. These ait tlu institutions which oppose jKistal saving banks, which would Ik able at all times to pay all depositors on demand. Civic Review, Los Angeles, California. JlST RECEIVED. We have just received a large consignment of copies of Ten Men of Money Island, which we are muiling to any address, post jKiid for ten cents, in slumps. If you really want to understand llie money question, that is tlu qustiin of what money really is, yon should not fail to read this wonderful little work. It makes the question so plain that a wayfaring man though a reader of the Tribune cannot ere therein. SECOND WARD MEETINGS. The Populists are having some good meetings in tlu Second ward meetinghouse. The first meeting was held He to two weeks ago last night. There was a good crowd iu attendance. List Thursday evening Mr. H. W. Lawrence addressed a still larger crowd there. There is to be nuothcr nueting there this cuing which will be addressed by the (alitor on tlu land question. It is the intention of the friends of the cause in (hat to keep up tlu weekly till spring or longer oil meetings right possibly. - neck-o-the-woo- Isnt it astonishing how much patriotism these bankers have? They are terribly afraid the government will lose a big lot of money it it goes into the banking buisness and are even willing to protect poor old Uncle Sam by standing all these losses themselves. Such patriotism is enough to bring tears to the eye of a redheaded crockodile. Chicago Express. The Federation ot Labor has passed resolutions denouncing Gage's plan for the retirement of the greenbacks. But last fall they voted to elect the plau by voting for McKinley But nothing better could be expected of a set of fellows who would permit such a tool as Gompers to preside over them. Way-lanAbpeal to Reason. ds A landlord as a landlord produces nothing. He lives on the labor of others. AH the wealth he enjovs, the houses, furniture, clothing, ornaments and food, are produced by others. But you say he buys these things with his money. Yes; but whence comes his money? He does not produce it. Men, his tenants, labor and produce things which they sell for money, and give the money to him. He gets without giving. He lives on the proceeds of slave labor. From an Exchange. 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, $6oo oo. Reasons for selling given on application. H S. Foster, 125 Eighth West, Hutchinson, Kaii. SILAS HOOD. There out which sails under the modest name of Silas Hood," that, if is a new book reports be true, is the Uncle Toms Cabin of the age. Such papers as The Chicago Express boldly say the book will revolutionWe have sent for a few ize the country. copies of it. The price, as we understand, is 25 cents. EQUALITY. We have on hand a few copies of Edward The book Bellamy's last book, Equality. is having a large sale possibly larger than his Looking Backward. The price, $125, is too high, but it is as cheap as it can be had for. |