tfanuaiy 24, lfc'.5. 7T ) 1 1 ( ! IPE CUnE OF INTKHK8T Let the Function of Ranking Be Ad ministered by and for the People at Coat The Philadelphia Evening Item, a daily paper with 200,000 circulation, publishes the following brave and lucid editorial utterances: "There is a halo of 'glory and renown' around the brow of the bank president which requires analysis in order to un derstand its true worth. ' "In England the halo is far larger than in this country; mainly because we have had so many wild-cat bank presidents in our midst who have thrown considerable 'dirt' upon the profession. "In England the bank president is rec ognized in society as the next door to a lord, and in cases he, in the general esti mation, takes rank with eveu higher titled people. "All this 'glory' is part and parcel of that which belongs to the pawnbroker, neither more nor less. , "Now, the only difference between the bank president and the pawnbroker is the size of the loan; there is no other. "If it is said that the bank president does not charge usurious rates of inter est, it is replied here that such a speaker is not very well posted in the rates charged in this country in the distaflt and outlying districts; a very few years ago (six), 0 per cent was common enough in Texas and elsewhere, and thought all right by neighboring na tional banks; but this rate 'busted' the borrowers in a very short time. During the last few years tlie rate of the same bank presidents has been reduced to 20 per cent, and even 15 in cases, and all these rates were to farmers who gave their property in security, property they then held free from incumbrances; in other words they gave strictly first-class security. "Even the 6 per cent which prevails here in the east is greater than the earn ings of the average industry. Statistics prove this beyond all reasonable question. "This is well known and admitted by any well informed insurance company. "Therefore, what is the difference be tween the pawnbroker who swamps his , victim inside of a few days or months, and the bank president who is gradually but surely sapping the life blood out of industrial enterprise? "It is high time that the 'halo and glory' surrounding the banking business should be relegated to the rear, because it is greatly the cause of the ignorance of the people as to what these usurers are actually doing in their own behalf and at the people's expense. "A large part of the press which sup ports these usurers really toady to this 'glory and halo;' they are now naming it 'conservatism;' but this word is used to denote precisely what the average pawnbroker is doing, neither more nor less. "There is nothing whatever of a per sonal nature in this article, its only pur pose being a clear statement of facts which the people should comprehend for their own financial preservation just as -eoon as possible. "Every one of these money lenders ehould either invest their money in the ; industries of the country and take their chances with producers, manufacturers and traders, or openly retire from the field of money earners, for under the pre vailing system they 'earn' nothing ex except, perhaps, in clerk work, an occu pation that forms a very small fraction of the usury they impose upon all forms of trade for an accommodation which can far batter and at a greatly decreased cost be conducted bv this government. "The dav is not distant when it will be a disgrace to an honest man to demand interest beyond actual cost for the use of loaned money." Patriotism Editor Wealth Makers: The word patriotism needs a new defi nition. One may be a pure patriot and not love his country; for it may have turned tyrant and made him flee for his life. If so, he can not love his country, by which I mean the government and the majority of the people. What matters i if he loves his birth-spot and the few spots where he has lived; he has lost his love for the country and wants a new home. We are taught that all should love their native land that it is their duty to do so, and that they are moral ingrates and monsters if they do not; as if theaccident of birth locality was a binding claim up on their love. The blinded plutocrats eeem to think the masses ought to love their birth land, will love it from tLs mere fact that it is their birth land. Per fect follyl No one can love what is un lovable, whether he did it first or not. Love of country is based upon what good that country is doing for its people. The man who knows that his country pro tects his liberty, aids his industry pro motes his welfare and allows his comlorv and happiness, will love his land, he car not help it. But he who knows that hi country protects others in encroach ments upon what ought to be his liber ties, that it blasts his industry by allow ing others to oppress him in his toil, that it prevents his highest welfare and allows him only misery, will not love his country, and can not love it. He may have a neighbor who can, but that man is only such a fool and brutethat he doe not know what befits a being made in the image of God, and so is willing to toil, like an ass in the stall, for his food and his drink and his shelter. The pluto crat who derives wealth, power, honor, luxury and happiness from such a wrong state of affairs may love his country, (as much as his narrow, greedy soul is capa ble of doing); but all such extortioners will have their part in the lakethat burns with fire. But the poor toiling masses who see in the laws, courts and govern ment only engines to oppress them in the hands of the rich, are blameless if they hate their land. They own no allegiance to the flag that floats on high, dancing while oppression holds high carnival and extortion crushes with iron hand. No. such a flag, howe'er once glorious, has become a pirates' pennant and a rob bers' rag. Patriotism is not submission to the old banner proudly flaunted by plutocracy's hirelings; patriotism is re sistance to tyrants. With their fore fathers' stern determination and brave valor the masses will rise in their might, tt ilipfiip of oppression wnswt rim, dewn their native land, baptize dm (lug afroMh in blood and wash out the stain of tyranny from its folds, deliver the cap tives of greed, allow industry its full re ward "and scatter plenty o'er a smiling land." . N. IL B. Mr. Debs is Now In Jail. Woodstock, III., Jan. 8. From his cell in McIIeury county jail Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway union, issued this address: "To the American People In going to jail for our participation in the latestrike we have no apologies to make, nor re grets to express. We go to jail not like quarry slaves, but sustained by the con sciousness that we have done our duty. No ignominy attaches to us on acconnt of this sentence. I would not change places with Judge Woods, and if it is ex pected that six mouths or even six years m jail will purge me of contempt, the punishment will fail of its purpose. Can dor compels men to characterize the whole proceeding as infamous. It is not calculated to revive the rapidly falling confidence of the American people in the federal judiciary. There is not a scrap of testimony to show that any one vialated any law whatsoever. And if we are guilty of conspiracy why are we punish ed for contempt? This question will con tinue to be asked with ever-increasing emphasis. I would a thousand times rather be held accountable for the strike than for the decision. The ridicule of the press that we are posing as martyrs' will not deceive the people. We all have homes and loved ones and none of us is here by choice. We simply abide by the arbitrary order of the court. There is a higher power yet to be heard from. No corporation will influence its decision. Our cause is that of conscientious liberty, and we have an abiding faith in the Ame rican people. We accept, our lot with be coming patience and composure. "We can afford to wait. So far as I am concerned I feel that with all the cir cumstances considered it would only have been disgraceful if we had so ac quitted ourselves as to have kept out of jail. Our enemies are entitled to all the comfort they can extract from our im prisonment and our friends need have no concern. Questions of great and grave import are up for decision. Great prin ciples, involving the liberty of the citizen, are at stake. Out of all this good will come. There is one fundamental, bed rock principle that the American people will never suffer to be sacrificed. It may be menaced, as it is now, but when the high court 'we, the people' have passed final judgment, its enthronement will be fixed and secure for all time. We are by chance the mere instrumentalities in the evolutionary processes in operation through which industrial slavery is to be abolished. Then the starry banner will symbolize, as it was designed to symbol izesocial, political, religious, and eco nomic emancipation from the thraldom of tyranny, oppression and degradation." Judge Woods refused to review his own decision and grant a writ of habeas cor pus, and Attorney Darrow has left for Washington to plead before the Supreme Court for a writ. lie said before going: "In brief, the grounds on which the ap- glication tor a writ of habeas corpus will e based are briefly as follows: First, that the court had no jurisdiction; sec ond, that the law upon which they stand convicted is meant for the punishment of railroads, not for the oppression of working people; third, that by the sen tence of the court men were deprived of their liberty without trial by jury, in vi olation of the constitution; fourth, that there was no violation of the injunction charged in the information. "All these are matters of the utmost gravity, and I can but feel that the American people do not realize the mo mentous issues involved in this proced ure. The country was interested for a while in the case of Debs et al., but now it is asleep again. The question we shall raise as to the jurisdiction raises the question of government by injunction. Should our application for the writ be denied it practically puts an end to all labor organizations in this country. We could have obtained the writ we ask from the federal court were the state s attorney's office not controlled by the railways. If vou desire a luxurious growth of healthy hair of a natural color, nature's crowning ornament of both sexes, use ouly Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re- newer. ITEMS f FROM AFAR. London is now trying an apparatus vhich, it is claimed, will abate the tewer gas nuisance by utilizing the fas. The touch of a baby's hand caused he launching of the Ardent, a death lealing torpedo boat, in England, the ther day. In the mountains of Sweden, Nor vay and Lapland all vegetation would Je utterly destroyed by the Norway ats were it not for the white foxes 'hat make special game of the odents. German mineralogists have discov ered that some of the gold mines jvorked by the ancient Romans in 2enral Portugal will yield a hand lome profit still if worked by modern nethods. The Republique Francaise of Paris jas discovered a "sleeping beauty" in the person of Marguerite Bounyenoal f St Quentin. who has slept for iwelve years. The sleep was brought sn by fright. Life is sustained by irtificial means. They know how to treat wife-beat-jrs in Germany. The brutal husband a as to work all through, the week, turn over his wages to his wife on pay day and go to jail Saturday night tnd Sunday. About two weeks of this sort of fun takes all the wickedV aess out of a fellow. How' This! We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for ant cuse ot Catarrh that cannot be cored by Hall' i alarm inre. F. J. CHENEY 4 CO.. Toledo. O. We, the underpinned, bare known F. J. 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The Bishop did not obligate him self to touch thesubject. This little inci dent (which happened in Nebraska I be lieve) has its repetition all over our great land, the ministry in both high and low places insisting upon "sticking to the gospel." Now the question naturally arises what is the gospel?" The usual ortho dox answer shuts both John the Baptist and Jesus Christ out of the list of gospel preachers! The ministry very generally, too, is given to placing great emphasis upon the sentence, "To the poor the gospel is preached." Prof. Geo. D. Her ron has been emphasizing giving as liberally the gospel to the rich. He more than intimates that they (the rich) need if And the writer says "Amen." Some of us are getting tired of hearing the poor lectured on laying not up treasures upon the earth, while the rich are visited, toasted, praised for their prosperity, even when these same prosperous people, like Trinity church in New York, have robbed the poor to accumulate their evidences of thrift (?). We have but to mention usury to draw preachers (many of them) into a defense of interest-taking as necessary and equitable "under our system," not even attempting to show the wrong ol the system itself. The open inconsistency of preaching to the wealt hy congregation a congratulation sermon on "Prosperity in Christian Progress," in the momma, and "Laying up Treas ures in Heaven" to the lower town mis sion congregation in the afternoon, is known, and read and interpreted by all the common people, and this inconsis tency in the conduct of the ministry is doing more to develop infidelity than all other combined efforts. The either in sincerity or cowardice of preachers leads the people to question all their teaching. Hut this sticking to the gospel phase of clergy proclamation is but a little short of ridiculous when we come to ex amine themes announced for Sunday ser vices in the great cities and the small. The sermons themselves are usually even farther from revealing the simple gospel. The knowledge of practical things in the great body of the clergy is almost sQ meager as to cause a hod carrier tQ wonder whether the ministry knows much about, "religious" things matters religious not being considered practical, of course, the Trinity Church Corpora tion, in its recent reply to charges pre ferred by the public, giving a very general view, that the business side is not relig ious. Of course the Sermon on th Mount delivered by Christ, the Orator was a practical and religious discourse once, but that was when our boasted civiliza tion had not progressed far enough to rule the Decalogue, the Sermon on the Mount and common honesty out of all places of authority in both church and state. The times demand an all-round gospel, the revelation of Divine Fatherhood and as divine a brotherhood, demanding the same severe dealing with all sin that in sults righteousness and outrages hu manity, whether the sinner be in or out of the church, whether the sinner be rich or poor, whether the sinner be a politi cian or a common man who simply sins. The poor, the weak, the outcast does not object to preaching judgment upon sin ners, but discriminations in favor of the fortunate and against the weak and un fortunate is rightly condemned in hell, earth or heaven. Our warped, money influenced, "kingdom-coming" pulpit teaching even goes so far out of the gos pel lines that a wretched God-forsaken congressman whose chief distinction came through ruining a love-sick, all-too-confiding maiden, could be received back into the fold of the church, while the world looked on, at the same time having only words of condemnation for the fallen woman, as in the days of the Christ when the churchmen dragged a poor woman into the Master Man's pres ence to be destroyed. These lines are but rugged utterances to provoke readers to think for them selves and find righteousness which shall apply to all. A ministry is needed to preach a genuine gospel, revealing the application of a righteous law to man's every relation. Sticking to the "gospel" that permits God's every law to be out raged is simply "holding one's own" us a time-serving, place-seeking salaried of ficer of the church, and such a preacher is not God's leader of the people. Yes, let us have the gospel, an all round, humanity-loving, iniquity-reproving gospel, a gospel that brings "good news" to every hearth-stone, prosperity to all who obey God's law of work, and judgment to the evil doer. We want peace, a genuine peace, and a standard of universal good for all. The age calls for a ministry that keeps informed on earth matters, goes into politics, preaches righteousness, rebukes lust and covetousness and never "trims" for any man. Such a leader God's great common folks will follow. "God give us men." The persevering use of Ayer's Sarsapa rilla will certainly cure chronic catarrh. Creamery Package Mn'fg Company, DEPT. E We Carry ths Largest Engines and Boilers, from 2 to 75 horse-power, Feed Cookers, of any desired capacity, Cresnery Supplies, Etc. of every description, atciv nil tctd atph ciTiiAinti PgrtttillitABiilltr. upon application "Enrgka" Ftd Cooker When Writing to this Advertiser, Please say you saw their Adrb la this Paper. 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Ayer's Cherry Pectoral S Received Highest Awards AT THE WORLD'S FAIR X ooooooooooooooooooooooooi THE POPS, O, the Fops they are a-popping; And yoo bat, there'll be no stopping, Till yon bear ol something dropping, Like a thousand tons ot bricks. Ton can toll It by tbs bamming Ol their voices, by ths drumming Ot their cohorts they are coming. And are coming double quick. From tbs country they are swarming, From tbs shops their ranks are forming; And their hosts will soon be storming Tbs proud walls ol Mammon's might, Ton can flout It, yon can scout It, But they'll get there, don't yon doubt It; And tbsy won't be long about It, When tbey once begin to light. TIs the rising ot the masses. In the struggle with ths classes And the plutocratic asses Better get in from ths wet; And the men who live by plunder They had better stand from under; For there's going to bs soms thunder liaised when ones ths ranks are met. 'Tie the conflict of ths ages. It has been foretold by sages. And on poets, prophets, pages For a thousand years or mors, . It Is coining. We are near It, The taint rumbling don't you hear It? Gird your armor, do not fear it, 'Tie the last and final war. When the hosts of toll from slumber Shall arise In strength of number, And shall smite the foes that cumber. Earth wltb ancient forms of wrong; When the evils shall bs righted, And, above the lands benighted, Freedom's beacons shall be lighted, And the earth Is filled with song. 0, the Pops are up and coming, Ton can hear their voices humming. Ton can bear their cohorts drumming, As they line up for ths fray; You run w their tote-trout gleaming, ion can see their banners streaming In the dawn-light on them beaming, From the new and grander day. J. A. Edoebton, In Nonconformist. Five and one-half tons of diamonds, valued at from $150,000,000 to $200, 000, 000 have been taken from the famous Kimberley (South Africa) diamond mines since their discover in 1871. Stand by the 'Whole Creed Penvbh, Dec. 28. At the meeting of the Colorado State Alliance today a reso lution was adopted condemning the for mation of a party which only the silver plank, and urging that the Populist party be maintained as originally con stituted. The resolution was telegraph ed to the St. Louis conference. Almost all of the Alliance members are Populists. Do you want Thk Wealth Makers uext year? Have you the dollar to pay for it? If you have not, solicit two new subscriptions for us, send us $2.00 and we will extend your subscription one year tree. Is not that liberal enough? CHARACTERISTICS. More public money Is spent for brass bands than for schools in the Argentine provinces. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. Stock la the Vest of Irrigated Farm Lands -IN FERTILE SAN LUIS TEHE SAN LUIS VALLEY, COLORADO, ia a stretch of level plain about as large as the State of Connecticut, lying between surrounding ranges of lofty mountains and watered by the Rio Grande River and a score or more of small tributary streams. It was the bottom of a great sea, whose de posits have made a fertile soil on an average more than ten feet deep. The mountains are covered with great deposits of snow, which melt and furnish the irrigating canals with water for the farmers' crops. The Climate is Unrivaled. Almost perpetual sunshine, and the elevation of about 7,000 feet dispels all malaria, nor are such pests as chinch bngs, weevil, etc., found there. Flowino artesian wells are secured at a depth, on an average, of about 100 feet, and at a cost of about f 25.00 each. Such is the flow that they are being utilized for irrigating the yards, garden and vegetable crops. The pressure is sufficient to carry the water, which is pure, all through the farmers' dwellings. Irrigation. Already several thousand miles of large and small irrigating canals have been built'and several hundred thousand acres of lands made available for farming operations. Irrigation is an insurance against failure of crops, because suc cess is a question only of the proper application of water to them. The loss ol a single corn or wheat crop in Nebraska, for instance, wonld more than equal the cost of irrigating canals to cover the entire state, so important is the cer tainty of a tall crop return to any agricultural state. The San Lais Valley will grow Spring wheat oats, barley, peas, hops, beans, potatoes, vegetables and all kinds of small fruits and many of the hardier varieties of apples, pears and all kinds of cherries. In ths yield of all these products it has never been surpassed bt art other SECTION ON THE CONTINENT. Forty Acres Enough Land. Fobtt acres is enocoh land for the farmer of ordinary means and help. Bo sides the certainty of return, the yield, under the conditions of proper irriga tion, will average far more than the 160-acre farms in the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, and the outlay for machinery, farming stock, purchase money, taxes, etc., are proportionately less. There are a hundred thousand acres of such lands located in the very heart of ths San Luis Valley, all within six miles of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, convenient markets and shipping stations, for sale at $15.00 per acre. Most of these lands are fenced and have been under cultivation and in many instances have wells and soma bnildings, everything ready to proceed at once to begin farming. A small cash payment only is required where the purchaser Immediately occupies ths premises, and long time at seven per cent, interest is granted for ths deferred payments. A Specially Low Homeseekers Bate will be made you, your family and friends. 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