The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 2

7 THE TOPEKA DAILY: CAPITAL. SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 11.1894. several counties or me several luim, directors Dare an fclea of where it will we hare believed it donhtfnl vh.th.r in soiling their surplus abroad sell for to Massachusetts and buying back Ght Sopcka EJatln Capital torious, and the Attorney General does not know how to extricate his friend the Governor from his serious predicament. TOrEKA.

KAN8A8. rCBUtBID BT The Topeka Capital Co. 3. Pres. HAROLD T.

CHA6E, DX.LXKE1ZEB, ana Kaltor-ln-Chief. Associate Editor. Business Manager. DAILY EDITIOX: Sy Carrier per Week per month Hall, one year six months tare moaths 6UXDAY EDITION By Mall one year WEEKLY EDITION Sylfail one uu 1 60 $1 60 fl 00 'Payable In Advance. Remittances canbemaflefcy bank draft.

tooital order or noie, or wpriuw. orflerine the Camtal by mall state Issue wanted dally or weekly, giving name city residence, e-ive former address as well as present, ana state wsu p-i iMhm T11K lUfltliA UAMlAb vv I of tbe American Newspaper I'uousner- i iniipiwrwu I ion. 2Da Potter mucins, new iui WHFBF IT fiftN RF OBTAINED The CAPITAL is on saie vn trains end news stands In Kansas, auu the roUowlng places outside the state: Kassas Crtr-B. Click. 635 Wain street.

WasHinQTOir. D. C. -Washington Kwi Sxcuange, rourteenth street, between enn avenue and street. saw YOM-Brentano's, 124 Tilth nue.

CmcAoo-Postofflce News Company, 101 nd 10 Adams street. Wrrnm tbe last few months the Topeka Dailt always a good newspaper, has been vastly improved and now It Is one of the best papers In the west. Any Kansas man who wants a dally newspaper will find in the Capital Just what he la looting for. Besides being a' Kansas paper and 1'ublisnlng state news that no Kansan fhoa do without, It gives as much general news as any of the Kansas City papers and It Is more reliable than they are. We recommend tlie Capital to those of our readers In need of a reliable daily newspaper.

Sedan Tintei-Star. In November, 1894, the vote of the country will be divided into two columns: republican and scattering. The governor is reported to have expressed the belief yesterday that CoL Lease was "unbalanced." We should like to heir the Colonel's argument on that proposition. Ip populist Congressmen confined themselves in political discussion to uchj sound and rational argument as they made in behalf of the income tax they would be in better repute among intelligent people. Mr.

Daniel C. Zercher, the assistant secretary of state, has issued a circular giving seventy-five reasons for being a populist. All right Daniel, we can give one hundred and seventy-five why you hould not be a pop. Lawrence Journal: It is said that Farmer Willits will be a Candidate be-rr rA (1ia nnn frrVnn rtrn trtw crnvornnr. e-' Hr.

Willits, it must be reluctantly con-teased, is a fool. A man must be a fool who has been dead three years and has Hot yet found it out. Kansas has been paying debt for five years. Since 1839 scarcely a dollar of tew money haB come into the state. Our farmers are paying 8 or 10 million dollors less in interest than five years ago and are getting as much for their corn and wheat, cattle and hogs.

Kansas City, Gazette: We trust that there will be no monkey business about the libel suits, suggested by the pops against J. A. Smith. This is a pop row, so that it is immaterial which one, or whether go to the penitentiary. The boodling in Wyandotte county will never end until some one goes to the penitentiary.

Kepeal of the federal election law means that tbe white voters will cast and count tbe vote in the solid south. int. a a( ao. in ng ior me republican party to do is to let tne solid south serenely alone and we predict as a speedy consequence democratic division down there on the tariff that will do more good than a re- publican propaganda. The republican party can't go into the south, but the south can come into the republican party.

In the three textile industries Woollens, cottons and silks the produot ot American factories according to the census for 1890 was 683 million dollars. This was the price of the product. The wages paid were 163 million dollars. This Was 80 millinnn mnr be the wages under the English stand- ard. This 80 millions of extra wages to 11 i per cent of the total prioe ot the product.

It will hardly be claimed that manufacturers profits in these industries are 11) per cent more than they should be. The census for the woollen industry shows, in fact, that gross profits in 1890 averaged about It per cent over cost of production. All of which carries the inference, strong enough to convince any candid American, that the wage-earner recsivss the chief benefits ot protection, tt m- u.u imes exniDited great deal of excitement in double leads yesterday because of the fact that some (treat American factories sell some goods to foreign countries at a lower price than they demand at home. English manufacturers do the same thing this conntrt 'It wsa' ahnnn it was shown in the debate In a. in Congress on the Mertir, k1 I a hnonl nf 1lrrtnr ahull tasve th I power Bi uu terms upon which all stock shall be sold.

ARTICLE XYII. TKANSPOKTATIOJr CERTI7ICATXS. rhn shall ba issued a aeries or trans portation certificates which shall amount to 10 per cent more than the preferred stock of the company Issued, fald certificates shall be issued in sums of nve dollars each, and shall be receivable by the com pany in payment oi one-usii ui iui ronuitu rates for fares or other cnarges aue tue company, at any time, for transportation or the transmission of intelligence, when accompanied by tbe cash pay tbe other half of such regular rates for fares or other charges. They shall be is-ued by the President and Secretary in the same manner as stock certificates, end delivered to the purchaser of preferred stock to. the full amount of the face value of said stock, with ten per cent' premium, when tbe same shall have been fully paid for, and certifi cates tnereror piacea in trust, proviuwu In these bv-laws.

Provided, however, that said transportation certificates shall only be receivable wnen presented to me swuuu agents of the company In payment for tickets, freight and other charges. ABTICLE XVTLI. INCOME COKSTBUCTIOK BOVDS. There may be Issaed series of bonds to be called Income construction bonds, not exceeding In amount per miie, wuicn shall be payable, at the pleasure of the company, after five years, and sha 1 become due In twenty years af tar date and shall draw interest at the rate oi 5 per cent per annum, payable annually out of tbe Income of the company, and shall be Issued only for cash or in payments for right of way, construction work and material or rolling stocK, and shall not be a specific lien upon any property of the company. Such bonds may be used in payment for tick ets, freight and other charges -collectable by tne company at a premium oi a per cenh wnen so used, and when accompanied with an equal amount of cash; said bonds to be Issued in denominations ot 5, 10 and ARTICLE XIX.

FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS. There mar be Issued a series of bonds to be called nrt mortgage bonds, not exceed ing In amount $10,000 per nine, wmca snail be payable at the pleasure of the company after ten ye-rs. and shall become due In fortr years after date, and shall draw 1 ter es at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall De issued oniy ior casn, or in payment lur building ana equipping, or purcnase or. railroads, to the extent not more than 000 oer ml e. and shall be payable in lawful money of the united states, at tne city ot Topeka, Kansas, and shall be redeemed in the order of their Issue out of a fund pro- Tided for that purpose; said bonds to be issued In denominations of Sloo, $500 and $1,000 each.

The total indebtedness of tho company shall never, at any time, exceea the sum of $13,000 per mile of road constructed. It will ba seen by the above that in addition to tbe issue of a bonded debt for the construction and equipment of the road at tbe rato of $15,000 per mile amounting to 836.000.000 for the 2.400 miles, there is also an issue of 120,000 shares of preferred stock, and 60,000 shares common stock, par value of $100 each, amounting to $18,000,000. The corporation has established its of fice at Topena and is send ing its advertising circulars tnrougn- out the territory through which the projected road is to run, offering stock for sale in sums of $5, $10 and $20 bear ing 5 per cent, interest. A blank stock certificate, under a "declaration of trust," for which the sucker has in the language of the certificate "paid therefor tbe par value of tbe same," places the stock "in trust with the directors of the company to be voted" in considers tion for the money, end for the use of the stock the company issues the afore said sucker $110 worth of transports' Btock and these certificates are good for one half the price of transportation when accompanied by. the other half in cash.

One of the beneficent provisions is that all net earnings of the company, after paying expenses, interest, shall be paid into state treasuries for the benefit of the schoool fund of the counties and states through which the road runs. The coir pa ny also has blanks prepared for the sale of mileage tickets, the subscribers 'agreeing to pay for these mileage books as Boon as they are ready for delivery. This, as briefly stated as possible, is the business basis for this latest people's party scheme for popularity. Let the people of Kansas without pre judice look at the facts presented by this great confidence game. Here are a dozen men soberly presenting a plan for raising immense sums of money to build a railroad that is not demanded by the necessities of business, at a time when The tail 1 mAm Vknilf nrrtu A tint I i 9 Duua and equip tnem.

inree airec- tors gravely assure the public that this Rreat line oi roaos, zpw mues long, wiU beloD to th P0 after ia built and ready for operation. How could the "people" get possession of the road except with a majority ot the stock? The constitution plainly forbids the Btate from running or operating rail roads, and does any Bane man imag ine that a two-thirds vote of any legis- lature could be Becured. to sub mit a change of the constitution on this point, or that a majority of the people of Kansas would vote to permit the state to go into the railroad business? Some of these "promoters" of this wild pat scheme are telling the people that it is expected that the states will largely in vest their school funds in the bonds of this railroad. There ia no fund more sacred to the people of Kansas than the fund set apart for the edncation of their children, and no impecunious adven turers will ever have the opportunity ot robbing this fund to build or sustain useless railroads. The trouble with Kansas and all tbe west is that there are too many railroads.

-more than the nf iv. mn.t Look at another phase ot this bunco railroad schema. Suppose these direo jtors sell "common" and "preferred" stock "mileage books" to the! amount of and the road fails to m.teri.l, it m. What ot this money? To whom are i -v'wmvui becomes 4 ues ATL. recra responsible? They are under I 1 individually and collect- ively they are not responsible for 850- reepooBio.e ior a dozen man who are I not financiers, nor even expert or successful business men, without ex- I It I I I 1 I I what they can get THE GULF AND INTERS STATE BAH- WAY COMPANY.

The citizens of Kansas and other western states will soon be called upon to subscribe for Btock in "The Gulf and Inter State Railway company." The scheme is one of unusual magnitude. involving an outlay sufficient to build and equip over 2,400 milss of railway. Had the enterprise been projected dur ing a season ot; general prosperity, it: would have attracted attention because of the immense earn of monpv reauired to mane It successful, and also because of the ex travagant promises of the projectors and the sentimental reasons offered for the building of the line. But at this time, when railroad property is rapidly passing into the hand of receivers, ana ora fmm e. Ion? continued national Dnsinasa oppression, i i i me proposition to uuuu raiiruau uou Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, to be owned and operated by "the challenges an examination 1 of its aims and objects, the responsibility of its projectors, and the plans for expending the millions of money that must come from some source.

After a careful examination of the charter, bylaws and plans of the scheme the Capital, believes "The Gulf and Interstate Railway Company" is the most visionary and impractical scheme ever devised to rob the people of money. Let us look at tbe plans as 6et forth by the present officers of the organization. Thd charter, which was taken out January 12, 1894, says: Second: That the purposes for which, this corporation was formed are to construct, onlld, equip, acquire by purchase, lease or otherwise maintain and operate a line, or lines, of railway ot standard gauge, telegraph and telephone, (wires above or underground) In connection, when necessary, with other corporations or associations of slmlllar character and pur. poses, formed under the laws or the re spective states herein mentioned, from a point on the Gu of Mexico, in the state uf Texas, across said state, the Indian Ter ritory, Oklahoma territory, and the stated of Kansas. Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota, to some point near the south line of Manitoba in tbe state of Nortt Dakota, and such branches or connecting lines as may here after be agreed upon.

And a similar line from a oolnt on the above line In the state of Texas across ld state, and tbe states of Arkansas, Missouri. Iowa ana Minnesota to a point on Lake superior, toge her with such branches, laterals, switches, side tracks, depots, station houses, round houses, rolling mills, bridges, machine shops, car shops, buildings and other structures In connection therewith, as necessity or convenience may demand, and to acquire, by purchas or other wise, such real estate as may be necessary for the purposes of said lines; and quarry, mine, develop and operate any stone, or other Teln or deposit of valuable minerals. Qlis or substances, on any such real estate as may be necessary or desirable ror the purposes oz sucn raiiroaa, telegraph and teleDhone lines. Said railroad. telegraph and telephone lines are to be con structed, equipped ana operated in the in teres tor the public uBlng the same, and shall be held In trust and operated by this corporation for the use and beneflt of the school fund of tbe several counties of tbe state of Kansas, and of such other states as said railway may traverse, as hereinafter provided, until nve or more of said states shall, by appropriate legislation, provide for the acceptance, maintenance and ope ration or said lines, with equal representa tion in the control thereof at which time the same shall be surrendered and turned over to such states so providing, to be managed and operated as provided tor them jointly, and each state thereafter passing similar laws shall be entitled to eoual representation In the control and operation of said railways In the interest of the people using the same.

The charter provides also that the directors shall have "full charge, manege tnent and control of the construction, equipment and operation of said rail way, telephone and telegraph lines," and it is provided that the line shall not be mortgaged to exceed per mile. It provides that passenger rates shall be 2 cents per mile, freight rates shall be so arranged as not to secure to the company more than 5 per cent inter' est per annum upon the cost of the road after paying operating and all other expenses. It further gives the direction of the road within the state thus: "Said railway, telegraph and telephone lines shall be constructed across the state of Kansas, beginning at or near the southwest corner of Cowley county, and termi nating at or near the northwest corner of Marshall county, crossing the counties oi Knmnap PnttlAV fctr1 crwi pV PnMor VI a rvor I "oiiV McPnerson. Wabaunsee: Clay, Kiiey, l'ottawatomie, wasiiington C. It" I r1 r'A tho capital stock of the corporation shall be 818,000,000.

Fifth That tbe number ot trustees, dl rectors or managers of this corporation shall be thirteen (13). and the names and residences ot those who are appointed tor the first year are: Fred J. cl se, Topeka, Albert Grifflu. Manhattan. J.

H. Whet' stone. Pomona, Kan, E. Stoddard, umana, ad. v.

j. Kunaeu, wayne, eb. K. K. Carpenter, Canton.

S. Dak. C. Jones, Perry, O- T. M.

11. Klmpton. Foit Worth, L. D. Featherstone, Forest City.

Ark. ll. M. Dake. Brookfield.

Mo, Halvor Halvorson, St. Paul, Minn. A. westfall. Sargent's Bluffs, Alonzo waraau, xopesa, Kan.

In the by-laws ot this corporation we find, after detailing the duties of the offi cers of the organization, the following re latins to the stocks and bonds to be issued: ARTICLE XV. CAPITAL STOCK. The capital stock shall be divided Into i2u, ow snares oi prererrea and 60,000 shares vi uumiuuu tuin, oi me par value of one hundred ($100) each, and shall be Issued by me president una auesiea oy tne secretary wiin tne seal oz the company thereon. The purchaser of preferred stock shall be en. I1 10 for each ui.ea to receive with saia stcck the sum ot snare thereof In trans.

ovldea, wlhsald portatton certificates, as hereinafter stock shall be bui.scriDeu ror. issued and accepted by Bald etr.nV rAl'l Y. meat mat tue same shau. by proper ufuuuiv cjifi agree- power oi attorney, proxy ana deed of trust be piacea in the hanas ot the board of mreciors or mis company In trust for the use nuu oenent oi such stockholders to be uem oy sucn ooara as nis trustee, irrevoc- aoie untu the lines and property of the company shall be accepted and turned over to the respective states as provided in tue charter, with full power In said board tohoid and vote said stock, by a majority of said board, for all purposes for which stock wuid be voted by such stock- holdor. with th.

Mm. bolder, with the same force and eect T1 i voted by the said' sotckhoider in person. to the management and control of the the use ai benefit of the scho, i te several states as provided, in said ll! common stock ot the TOmpany shall accepted by tne purchaser thereof with tha agreement andjanderstanoing that, whenever tbe several states through which this express CTuipaaj unes or roaa are Duut and operated, shall nrnvtrto ttr I mAnaSement and operation of said roads! I as provided In the charter of ihtammn.n the board of directors shall have fall power 52 lii property, rights and franchises I J-, over to sucn states, so pro shoes with a net losaot profits and freight both ways; of shipping wool to Philadelphia and buying back clothing; of exporting nearlr all the wheat re duced in the state and importing floor in flour bags made in some other stats; of exporting fruits snd vegetables and importing millions ot dollars worth ot canned goods, and so on through the ong catalogue ot unwise expenditure and dissipation of resources. There are some maaofaotures iaths atate, turning out a produot last year ot ome 90 million dollars' worth' of goods, but this is a small begianing. The time has gone when any great immigration movement ot farmers is expected or desired.

What the state needs is not more farmers but a larger home market for what the farmers pro luce. In every city ia the state there must be an effort to establish factories suited to tbe raw materials and the local market Tbe manufacturing output ct Kansas before the end ot the century ought to be doubled. A common effort to this end will enhance the value ot every kind ct property and make Kansas one ot the most independent, wealthy and prosper ous communities in the world. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S COX- PLAINT. Mr.

Little, the attorney general, has a grievence. In an interview published in the Kansas City Times of Friday con cernmg tne unanimous decision ot the supreme court in the Lease-Lewelling case be says: The decision Is unsatisfactory to me, and will prove unsatisfactory to the pubUc. The main question involved In the case was In regard to the proper manner to be pur- sued to remove an officer appointed by the I Governor. We thought a demurrer to the petition raised that lesson clearly and were anxious to know wherein the power was vested for the removal ot the Governor's appointees, if he had not that power him self. Now, I have unlimited confidence In our supreme court, and I think It should have In this case pointed out the true way for the removal ot an officer appointed by the Governor.

Lawyers seem to differ as to the proper course to be pursued, yet a decision of the supreme court would settle and put It at rest; but this decision decides nothing. Mr. Little does not question tha cor rectness of tbe decision snnounced or the law as thsrein stated, but thinks the court should have gone further and pointed out to Governor Lewelling the wsy for the immediate removal of the "Queen of tha Pops' from the office aha now holds. He seems to think that the decisioa decidea nothing, but it be has read it carefully, aa published ia this pa per, he will perceive, if he is cot a fledge ling in the law, that it decides all that was at issue in the case. Tbe decision is that the court had jurisdiction of tbe case; that Mrs.

Lease was entitled to which she instituted the office for her action, and that the born, was more was Governor defendant, Mr. Frea-limply an usurper. What necessary? Neither the nor his representative! the Attorney General, claimed that any proceeding upon the bearing had been taken under any statute to remove Mrs. Lease, and the court, there fore, was only called upon to say whether the petition waa sufficient against the general demurrer. In deciding that tha petition waa sufficient, tne court waa necessarily compelled to decide that tha governor could cot remove a member ot the beard of trustees of the charitable institutions arbitrarily or capricionaly.

Whan tbe court had decided that much tha whole matter was ended. Mr. Freeborn was then in duty bound to step down and out of an official position he had usurped. Mrs. Lease waa then entitled to tbe office to which she had been ap pointed and confirmed by tha state Senate.

The real grievance with tha Attorney General is that he is in trouble as to what method to pursue in dethroning "the uncrowned The Governor wants her ejected, Out tha Attorney General says "that the lawyers differ as to the proper course to be and he wants the supreme court to open a law school and instruct him concerning his duties in the futura We msy gently bint to him that there is a law sohool in operation at Lawreoce in connection with the State university where such instruction ia freely given. This lsw school has an ab'e corps ot instructors, including an ex-member ot the supreme court, and if tha Attorney General will take one or two' regular courses of study at that school he msy be ia a condition to understand his duties and how to advise the governor to remove aa officer. If, however, tbe Attorney General has not time to attend the law school at Lawrence wa do not object giving him a few free lessons in lsw ourselves. If Mrs. Lease has in any way misbehaved, cr been guilty of sufficient mis-conduct to be ousted, why doesa't the Attorney General proceed in tbe usual way in the courts snd hsve bis charges against her properly and heard and determined? Quo warranto is good action by which to oust aay officer guilty of mis-condact, malfeasaace or confesses ce.

We are afraid tbst the Attorney General wants to oust Mrs. Leases a o-marily without scy cause or reason. But even if the supreme court wsnUd to declare tbe wry In which aa oScar msy be ousted, it is cot probable that it could instruct the Attorney general as to tha meaner cf procedure until it first kasw tbe charges or grounds for tbe sllaged rsacovaL Nona have been riled io tbe supreme court, sod sstil filed, it is aot probable that the court will coosome its valuable time ia opening op a law school to teach lav amateurs. Tha trouble with tha Governor and the Attorney Geseral ia that the deci-a'on of the Suprema court ss lifted them both "out of their boots, and tbey are wUdly exclaim leg where are wa at?" Oae thing iscsrtaia, the Qutea is vic- begia Or end On the Golf of MEXICO. Of wnere It Will land on the Canadian line.

is the most monumental folly to ex-1 pect that the people will build a road, tne necessity of which has never ap- pealed to practical railroad men nor men who command the necessary capital. This whole scheme belongs with the I other dead enterprises that came with the people's craze. four years ago Hundreds or the mem bers of the people's party who had be come infatuated with Peffer's and tie's fiat money schemes and Bellamy's ideas. imagined that the whole business fabrio would be reorganized at once with the aid of co-operation and "cheap" money. They are not even disoussed today, because they were neither practical nor possible.

This railroad company, with its fantastic methods of raising money, is one more effort in the line of fiat and sentimentality. It has no business basis, no responsibility or money behind it, and every man who invests his hard- earned money in it will simply con-. tribate to the most gigantio humbug that the people's party has given birth to. It is expected, of course, on the part of the promoters of this fraud that the farmers who are members of the people's party will subscribs for stock. The Capital, that has been the friend and advocate of every improve ment and enterprise that promised a benefit to the people of Kansas, believes sincerely that every dollar put into this Gulf Interstate railway' scheme will be lost.

We feel that we should fail in our duty to tne people of Kansas we failed to sound this note of warning. SOME M0EE ABOUT THE BOODLE CHARGES. The populist lawyer, J. A. Smith, who made serious charges against Gov ernor Le welling and the police commis sioners at Kansns City, has been arrested.

The Capital published on February 6th a portion of Smith's letter, which was really only a particulariza- tion of the charges ot corruption made by Mrs. Lease. Tbe impli cated in Smith's charges have bad him arrested for criminal libel and the Press of this city, which is the cuckoo organ of the administration, expressing its pleasure over the arrest of Smith, Bays: It could be made still further interesting and tbe condemnation more sweeping If the editor of the Capital had been Included in the arrest and forced Into a court of Justice to tell why he so willingly lends the col umns of his paper, to the promulgation of all the vilest emanations that are born of political malice. From a standpoint the editor of the Capital Is an amenable to the charge of libel as Is Smith, and morally he Is even tbe greater offender, because the re sult ot Smith's action was confined to him' self and a few co-consplrators, while tbe editor of the Capital ubllshed the scandal to the world. It would be a racy thing If those who have preferred these charges against Smith and it him In Umbo, would invite the good major into the courts of Wyandotte county to expurgate himself if he can, or suffer tbe consequeuces that seem to threaten his unfortunate co worker.

While Mr. Smith's letter may have been incorrect in some ot its details we believe it was in tbe main correct. That the lottery and gambling ring ot Kansas City, Kansas, has had to pay large sums monthly to officials to secure the privil ege of plundering its victims, there is no question of doubt, and that this same ring paid money to prevent legislation last winter cannot be denied. Just who gets the money it may be difficult to de termine. If the state administration win ted the lottery business stopped it would be an easy matter to appoint police commissioners who would stop the attorney general can make the present commissioners do their duty if he desires to do so We wish to say to onr fence straddling contemporary, whose thin and ucsub etantial whitewash of the pop adniinis- wauon aoa 118 PPOWtees rails to Hide their trae colors, that If the parties mentioned in the Smith letter wish to pro36cute the editor oa the Capital for criminal libel, they know exactly where to find him every day in the week.

Bring on your libel suit. SHALL WE HAVE AN EARLY SSPDB LI CAN CONVENTION 'xnere seems to do a general wisn ex pressed among the republicans that the state convention be held earlier than usual. It is conceded that the machinery for a republican campaign wili not be provided or. set in motion until sfter the state convention has been held. To at there should bo a strong.

active campaign ot an aggressive character is also urged. The temper of the party in this stale is to make its own platform and ticket regardless ot what the other parties may do, and to begin early to present the claims ot re publicanism to the people. All this in dicates tbe spirit and interest' that pre sage victory. Kansas, as a state has Buffered so greatly in name and credit by reason of the calamity wave with all its patent nostrums that the people are heartily tired of jingo reformers who are ranged under the banner of populism. That there will be a strocg attempt by tbe populist United States Senators.

I-- Congressmen, state officers, appointees and emnlovea. to brine about fusion. goes without saying. Just what the democratic party will do it is difficult to rrt a eV sm. A m' empw 7 force outside of hades to defeat ita ancient enenjy is so great that wa may exrieet fusion, it expect iuaion, ticket, then in th not with the state tha representative) du tricts to capture the legislature, Many democrats declare that there will but experience suggests a campaign that cromises a rood old-fashioned po- liekini? to all oDDonenta of repub- lies ism.

While there ia wuhin the democratic party a strong protest populism, that lmant annlrf nM In mtmnrr anouh ti force nominations for state and county tickets. Regardless of the dissensions in the other parties the best course for the re publican Dartv to tmrsue is to cut itself into shape to begin early to preach the law and gospel ot the old party of ideas throughout all the land. A SUNDAY 8IRK0W. At a meeting of the Ministerial union if Topeka last week a psper was read by one of the most earnest and most nrac- tical ministers in the city, whose labors in behalf of better education and a higher standard of living for the poor are worthy of hoaor. The subject of the paper was the failure ot legislators to meet the crying evil and injustice of the times the greed and arrogance of the rich, While Congress discusses for months snd years party issues which seem petty to this Christian philan- thropist, tbe corporations, trusts, com bines and gamblers are permitted to grow fat and DOwerfuL The universal remedy for the evils of society, the writer otthe paper declared.

is to be found in the precepts of the Christian religion. It may be said that this is a common place, that it goes without saying; and that it is impracticable. We must treat things, says the practical skeptic, as they are. Of course nice-tenths ot the suf fering and the failure ot society would be prevented if Christian citizenship prevailed; but what Of it? How are you going to make it prevail? The propo sition is substantially as if one said the evils that afil ct society would be ban Ished if they were wiped out of exist ence, or that bootety would be faultless if it were perfect. People do cot live up to Christian precepts and that is all there is to it.

But is that all there is to it? Isn't something gained if it is conceded that a certain rule or life would remove cine-tenths of the evil in the world? Isn't it worth something to know that Christianity is a specific and a panacea? Suppose every man who concedes the principle that the Golden Rule would re generate society should bind himself to be guided in tbe whole conduct of life by his conscience, how long would it be before the conditions of society changed for the better, before the scheming and manceuvering to rise at the cost of dragging others down and of squeezing the poor or the weak and taking. advantage of the misfortunes ot fellow men, would give place to a broader and mors generous rule sction that would tend to equalize con ditiona? The trouble with tbe critio of the theory that Christianity is the curs the evils of society is that the critic has nothing to offer and no hope to hold out for something different. It ia cot enough to say that men are not, and will not be, guided by conscience. Men are, and sucn men Are by no means always unsuccessful. The idea of competition which regards selfishness as es sential in the competitive system is shown to be false by the success of men who in rising lift others with them instead of elbowing them out of the way.

It is brains, not meanness, that brings success. It is a fallacy to assume that a view of ills which regards everybody but me as my enemy is the prerequisite to success. Such a view of life is aa false as it is mean. Tbe most efficient thing in the world is faith; and enthusiasm, though the cycio smiles at it. is more productive than cynicism.

It. is faith that has done everything that has been done in tbe world snd skepticism has done nothing. It is the faith of the inventor and the discoverer, in all lines of progress, that has moved tbe world forward in spite of the sneers and doubts and indifference ct skepticism. Faith is fundamental ia Christianity and gives it vitality. Tbe faith and enthusiasm of the apostles of good citizenship and of the rule of conscience are all tbe hope that society has for the cure of evils ia society.

The preacher was right when he said that Christianity, or as we might say, Conscience, is the only remedy for nine-tenths of the misfortune in the What society needs is not converts to this theory, but disciples to make it the practice of their lives. And it would be well if tbe pulpit would let theolcgy take care ot itself and preach the conscience, which in this age is Christianized and souad enough in theology and ethics. THE OUTLOOK FOE KANSAS. For three years Kansas has indulged in the mazy figures of tbe political ghost dacco and her industrious citizens have quietly "sawed paid their debts and waited with some snxiety for the outcome. It is the universal opinion that tha atate has about pissed through tha worst period in her history and that we have already suffered shout all that we will have been called upon to suffer by reason of the boom snd the populist reaction.

And Ksnsas has borne tbe ordeal in a manner to inspire courage and confidence in tbe destiny of the state in every citizen. The season of trial has shown the state what it can do when reduced to Its own resources, independent of foreign capital and even of tha credit which ita material condition warrants. Tbe experience should not be lost upon tha state. There so me things that we need and can gat which will reader us icdependent of tbe world. With more than all tbe i rod- nets of the soil, both vegetable and ani mal, that the people ever require, Kansas has but oee thing to consider that ii the cn tail men cf what it haa to buy of other states.

It is time the pecple ia tbe leading citiea of Kansas took some -riou. thought of the waste La ehirpirg hides Perhaps he had better consult Mrs. Lease herteitV sbV is a good lawyer, ar muoh better one than the Attorney General. SEASON PARTIALLY RESTORED- Zaasas City, Kansas, Gatette. Rsasoa certainly is- returning to a number of our populist friends, or rather their livers are being restored to tha exercise of their proper functions.

Thf Washington Republican an ardent but despondent pop psper, speaking of thl thirty-third anniversary ot the admission of Kansas into the ears! "She has but little state debt and that is nearly all in the school fund. Her faraa anil city mortgage debt ia large, bnl proportionately smaller than her neigh bor's, and in the hard year ot 1803 her people off thirteen millions cf dollars owed to tbe banki ot the atate and held ur their hands so that thai banks are in position to hold the fort ith the beat of ths country." It con tinues ia the same strain: Kansas has, provided for her unfortunates la a way that would pat to shame many off the older states; her Imbecile, her Insane, ter bad boys and her bad girls have eaehf asylums and. schools cf their own; her blind and her mutes have every advantage for education possible to be given them her criminals are shut oat from the world. The public buildings, both state and municipal, are objects of pride, even lftny have been the nucleus for numerous Kan sas fortunes. Thanks to the republican party, whose first-born Kansas is! Hers are some sane ideas from tha Brooklyn Standard-Union on the canaea ot the decline in wheat and what ought to ba dona about if.

"Wkut never so low before. That ought to mean cheap bread. Why ia wheat ao low that much farming ia without proSt? Because the railroada and their cheap transportation have brought within reach vast wheat regions. 2. Machinery has plowed and sown snd reaped snd threshed wheat so as to reduce tha demand for labor; that is, cost of prod action ia down and tha quan tity increased at tha same time.

3. Uur industries are net snfficlently diversified. We should have more oon-Burners for our farm products; and the way to get them is to have more manufactories more skilled labor la shops. There is competition in India ia wheat growing, "also in Russia and Hungary, as there ia competition in oil from Russia, and in cotton from India and Egypt. Under tha MeKinlev law there wn very large increase in tha production ot barley, which reduced to that extent the "plM wheat crop.

Our tariff reform ers are moving in tbe wrong direction. The Evening Journal doesn't like the management of tha Associated Charities. This is too bad. Wa had hoped that tha Associate Charitiea waa on 9 thing that the Journal might feel as a particular favor, to honor with ita. approbation, or at least that it would tolerate the management as though ot course cot up to the JournaVt standard.

Bat our hopes are blasted. The Associated Charitiea will now kindly disband after joining ia the hymn: would not live alway, I ask not to stay. AU Beady. my little children, said the Sun fay school teacher, "all of you be very still while I tell you about it ao still that you can hear a pin drop." All was silence till a little boy shrieked out, "Let herdropr'--lIarper'a Bazar. Orleans, lad.

Good Reasblfor Failfi Cured of Gcrofula by Hood's Scrofula permeates humanity. It Is thoroughly Infused into the blood. Scarcely a maa Is tree from it, la one form or another. Hood's Sarsaparllla cures scrofula promptly, sorely, permanenCr. Thousands of people say sc.

Fcr Instance, read this: am Justified In thinking flood's SarssparHA a splendid medicine by ova experience wtta it. I was a great sufferer from scrofula, fcav- lag dreadful sores In my ears and on ray sometime like large boiis. discharging all th time. My nubaod lntistM that I take Hood's SarsaporiUa. Oi the first feotJa My Appetite Improved, and felt somewhat So I boogataooOser bottle, aad by the tine ft was half goae tha scrofula had entirely disappeared.

aas Hoo'd'sCures aaw esUrely free from scrofula and was aever In better health, flood's EarsaparC also cured me of a trrrTMe psJa fa Try side. earned by tbe Lrt. A Hiduxi, Orleans, ladiaaa. Mood'e Pi! cure liver His, eonstlpaOoa, tUloasaese, jaandlee, skk headache, ladlgesttoa. LID CitHy, CslcUy, ftmuxzUy Hssisrri.

ofrwt, sit (bm, worry. xxi ieo gie te iT orfTua s4 portion of itatttKlr. fetattK, I u-al IieniL. 4.1 late latmrmMi tailor iarpoacble. 2jKu rfrroc.

Hut.k. aad proof tnst4 (seaied) treeV CEDI CAL 3., Ef fils, OeY, Sy waaoeee, Xrrrsetom, ell UUe triad VC trows early error cr li.Oi MU. i A I jvim vgw lua, oviu, itiutin are sent to I enu wiia iuu power to turn tfce Dronertv. thieeountrvandanlrl.tn 'rights and franchises ot thS conyTvJr hi uj rauroau uuuuing or any i be co runner sacriucw oi pnn-other great enterprises, and wlthnnt I in with 'the rjotmliata. e-ooui one-tnira i are that the fabrics of a ot style at noma and price.

The reasons were somewhat out of style at home and were surplus stock. American manufacturers sell some ot their goods in South America and other countries not only for less than they get here but for less than cost, id order to cleanup their r. surplus. Lry goods Stores are coing the same thine this week in ToDeka. ihri thing to Kanaas City.

Manuf ws suppose tney are doing the samel cepital, inviting the people of the west to buy stock in acms of tlO.1 30, and $100 and mora, ia a rod ror which there has never been a pre 1 tne control, management and.