May 30, 1895
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pass away, for it is heavenly, says Prof.
Herron.
The cloning years of this century seem
certain to be years of agitation, struggle
and change. The new, the culminating
forces of truth and righteousness, will
battle with entrenched selfish power, and
progress or retrogression must result.
The Towa Searchlight is the name of a
new Populist paper published at Council
Bluffs, In black letters at the head of its
editorial columns it declares that it
"stands square upon the Omaha Plat
form against fusion." The first number
is a very bright and carefully edited num
ber. The spirit of the. world, of politics and
business, self-ceutered individualism,
seems to have been very powerful in the
Presbyterian Ueneral Assembly which
met last week, at Pittsburg. When self
seeking is justified aS tliesupreme wisdom
of the every day busiuess world itcannot
be kept out of politics and the church.
It must in the main control both church
and political affairs.
A political party begins as a divine
institution, the most divine; it degener
ates into a selfish machine, which in its
workings is the most devilish, most ef
fectively evil, of all forces. A new politi
cal party is of necessity born in pain and
nourished by sacrifice. It is a brother-hood-oi-man
idea movement, its object
being, solvation from the power of sel
fishness. The life of a party to do good
depends on the unselfishness of its mem
bers, their labors, their faithfulness.
0, let us not forget that God is in our
movement to break the yoke of monopo
ly. If it were simply force against force,
money against money, brain against
brain, talent against talent, if there
were not the eternal majesty of Right in
our movement, our cause would be hope
less. But God hath chosen "the weak
things of the world to confound the
things that are mighty." "Be not weary
in well doing." Not by wisdom such aa
lawyers and politicians use, not by power
such us monopolists exercise, but by de
manding justice and laboring to show
men what it requires, will our cause ad
vance. Prebieent Allerton of the Hamilton
Club of Chicago takes the ground that to
sustain a gold standard it would be nec
essary for the government to retire its
greenbacks, treasury notes and gold
certificates, and that this would contract
the currency one-half and bring about a
condition bordering on bankruptcy to a
large portion of the business men of the
country. He said further: "If the gold
mononjetallists meau that we shall main
tain our present circulation on a parity
with gold, it means for the nation to
continue getting in debt. The Tribune
lately had large head Hues, Better Times
Coming Englishmen Buying Our Bonds.
Better times means, according to the
Tribune, that the nation has raised ita
credit and can get more in debt."
THE WI8D0M ABOVE ALL
There is a brief remark by the great
Teacher which contains a truth that
would relieve men of no end of fear and
anxiety if they received it. It ia this:
"But wisdom is justified of her children."
The fact is, no one of us knows enough
to ruu the world, nor even the little
world-circle which our work and words
move in. Some men are swelled np with
the belief that the young man William of
Germany expressed, when he said: "The
State, that is I." But the greatest of
men are mere fragments in their knowl
edge and wisdom. The fragment idea
we wish to bring out and emphasize. It
is not for us to rule as individuals, but
to witness ,and we all need to witness
without restraint as to what we believe
to be true and wise. Then, all having
freely witnessed, truth will take care of
itself and the majority can be trusted to
decide on the best thing to be done under
the circumstances.
It is a very great mistake to try to
force one man's judgment upon another
or others. If done it destroys the indi
viduality of those who are mastered and
ruled, and by so much reduces the wisdom
of the majority by taking away a needed
equilibrium, a balancing of individual
views, ideas, judgments. One idea, an
idea having no branches, ia not large
enough to break down old combinations
and bind men together In a new", success
ful party. And a party that haa several
great ideas or branches of truth in Ita
platform will contain men in it of differ
ing judgments aa to the comparative im
portance of the associated demands.
Some in our party believe the railroad
question is of the greatest importance,
perhaps because they live in localities
where the railroads are the principal rob
bers; Or it may be because they know
more about the railroad question than
any other and in consequeuce magnify ita
importance. Others, the single taxera especially,--
and there are a groat number
of them in our party, men of intelligence
and influence, too, think the land ques
tion of first importance. Others think
the money question the dominant issue.
And among those who want to talk all
the time about money there are divisions
and subdivisions of opinion. One says,
and this ia our view, that the money
question is the interest question and that
government banks are needed to solve it
But other Populists think that the free
coinage of silver is the big end of the
money question. Now our point is, that
all these varying judgments and viewa
are needed, and are working together foe
the greatest possible good. If those who
think the silver remedy of comparatively
little value, and who fear that the bram
ble bush may get its way and rule over
the trees of the wood, and to prevent this
disparage the popular following of the
bramble, if this class, we sny, should
nave none to stand against them Id
judgment, it would not be so well for ua
as a party.
The greatest results can be obtained
by allowing freedom of expression, by
recognizing the value of radicals, conser
vatives and all shades and variations of
opinion.by the fullest possible discussion,
.etting each witness and work'as God has
jiven him ability, and then let the ma
jority rule. "Wisdom is justified of her
children." She has a place and a work
for all. Even the Pharaohs fit into the
plan for effectually delivering God's- peo
ple from bondage.
"OLD TEN PER OENT"
We hear a great deal about the law of
supply and demand, but how does it
work in the matter of money?
Supply, where does it come from? Who
manufactures it?
The government alone manufactures
it. The government alone should profit
by its manufacture, and as much money
should be manufactured for the people as
they can all profitably use. Money is a
medium of exchange. Monopolize the
medium and exchanges are limited and
the demand for labor is reduced. If
money could be obtained at labor cost,
without going to "Old Ten Percent"
after it, much more of it would be called
for and paid lor, and more work would
be demanded and more wealth created to'
pay for it, to exchange for other wealth.
The supply of money in the past has
been limited to the accidental discovery
of the rare metals, gold and silver, and in
later years to promises to pay gold and
silver. And the currency promises to
pay coin have been in part in the shape
of government endorsed bank notes,
bankers alone being permit ted to obtain
money at labor cost (one per cent). As
the inevitable result money has in all
ages beeu cornered, monopolized by "Old
Ten Percent" more or less and a
power given to its idle monopolizers to
command labor products without labor
ing. The prophets of Jehovah pro
claimed usury unlawful, and the Chris.
tian preachers did the same; and the
Shylocks, the per cent money loauers
were dishonored until after Calvin's time,
Since then the churches and politicians
have set aside God's law, "In the sweat
of thy face shalt thou eat bread," and
kings and people have made laws for
themselves something like this: Thou
may est eat five, ten, twenty ,or more, per
cent of other people's bread, labor pro
duct, if thou canst catch them in or re
duce them to need or ignorance, and so
force a "free" contract out of them. And
the shylocks, the bankers, private
money loaners and pawn brokers, have
sat in the temples and been sent to Con
gress and with wise purchases of power
have elevated themselves as princes and
reduced the masses to hard bondage.
But now there is quite a stir bout it.
What shall we do with the Kliylock pow
er, is the question that the people are
asking. And some say, "Coin all the
silver." Yes, that certainly is a safe
thing to do, having been tried for many
hundred years. But it did not prevent
the cornering of money and the enforced
per cent tributes which we are now
groaning in slavery under; therefore it ia
not enough. How much would the free
coinage of silver reduce the rate of in
terest or the aggregate interest drain,
that is the question. History proves
that gold and silver both accepted at the
mints do not bring the price of bor
rowed dollars below where tbey are
now. We must therefore demand that
the government make us greenbacks and
lend them on good security to us all at
the rate it now charges the national
banks, or thereabouts.
Did yon ever stop to think that the in
terest crop never fails? Good or bad
weather is all the same to it. "Old Ten
Percent" or Five Percent doesn't depend
on the weather or the markets. He at
taches himself to certain members of the
body politic and sucks the blood out of
them. He is exactly like a leech in all
except one thing, viz., lie never geta full
and drops off. Why, here ia a common
sample of his work.
There was a man who owned a farm
near Lincoln. It was attacked by a vig
orous mortgage aud before he could
aweat it off he fell sick, and while he was
aick bis Shylock friends got frightened
and put the court screws on him. They
sold out part of his property for a song
and secured judgments of something like
$5,000 against bis farm, one mortgage
drawing 10 per cent and the other 7 per
cent, and tbey were very contented then
to let the judgments stand and allow the
mortgages to suck him. He succeeded
by great efforts in paying off $2,000 of
the debt, but the interest kept it growing
and growing, and two years ago, with
balf a crop, he could pay nothing. Last
year, with no crop, he was in worse fix.
And still the mortgage keeps on drawing
its ten per cent out of him. Ita suck now
is bo large that it will keep ahead of even
good weather and gather all the increase
of toil. And the owner says hia money
ia worth more than the ten per cent.
But if the money had been borrowed of
the government the debt would not have
grown. Do you see what a difference it
would have made?
PROPERTY PL AGED ABOVE MAH
H00D Thirty-four years ago the flag of our
country was fired on at Fort Sumpter
by men who claimed that slavery was
right and slaves their rightful pro
perty. They. cared more for property
than they did for country. To save
slavery they vuld destroy the Union.
And they at heart were not more selfish
than the northern men. They were ready
to sacrifice and die upon the field of
battle to retain their slaves. Four years
of fearful carnage followed, the fight
being all about property, property they
had bought and paid for and were deter
mined to get profit out of.
And are not the hearts of men as firmly
fastened to property today as ever? Are
they not as determined to retain all the
monopoly power (the power of industrial
masters over slaves) they have secured
legal titles to, as were the southern
slaveholders to command the toil of their
black chattels? Are not the men who
draw incomes without labor from the
sweat of renters and borrowers and
wage-earners, and those who decree
freight and passenger rates and gas and
water and oil and coal prices and the
prices of all other monopolized services,
as intrenched behind laws aud the
courts aud as determined as the slave
holders were to retain their power over
human workers? Do they not defend
their so-called "vested rights" as vigi
lantly, as successfully, and is not their
power as oppressive in its demands on
labor as any slave power that ever
existed? Consider the condition of mill
ions today, dying in sweat shops, poison
ed in the pestilential air of crowded tene
ments, turned into mere machines that
must be kept running at utmost tension
turning out wealth for others. How
hard, how barren, how empty are the
lives of half the people of our land! And
we have millions who arc much worse off
than chattel slaves, in that they cannot
even find a master to allow them to work
for food. The black slaves of the South
did not, could not, suffer as men suffer
now who are out of employment and out
of money aud loved ones looking to them
them for food and shelter. Families were
broken up by the white masters of the
south. They are separated uow by no
less cruel masters.
Who are the slaveholders of the pre
sent? Where are our masters and what
is their power to command service? The
following, clipped from Monday's Associ
ated Press reports gives a glimpse of but
two families of the class who produce
nothing, yet command moreservice than
princes of the old world:
New Youk, May 26. The opening days
of June will bring the richest people in the
land to Lenox, among the Berkshire
Hills. Greater wealth will be represented
at the marriage of Adelo Vanderbilt
Sloane to J. Abercrombie Burden than
the weddings of John Jacob Astor and
the Count Boniface de Castellane com
bined could boust.
This wedding will be a . notable on
notable in the gathering of multi-millionaires;
notable in the millionaire broth
ers, sisters, cousins and aunts of both
bride and bridegroom; notable in the
lavish exenditure in the preparations
for the wedding; notable in the luxurious
wardrobe of the bride, and notable iu the
amazing.list of unusually extensive wed
ding presents.
The little town of Lenox has been
bought up for the occasion, aud aecial
truius and special coaches and private
cara will be run up without expense to
the guests. The wadding will out-million
anything that has ever beeu seen in this
country.
There will be a gathering of the family
of Vanderbilts Cornelius with his $100,
000,000; Fred and George each with $20
00(1,000 or more: Mrs. W. Seward Webb,
Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard and Mrs. II. Mc
Kay Twombly, each with easily $15,000
000 or more, and Mrs. William 11. Van
derbilt, the grandmother of the bride,
who is rated as the richest American
widow. The wealth of the bridegroom's
parents exceeds $10,000,000, and that
of the parents of the bride is conserva
tively put at $30,000,000. It will be one
of the most magnificent weddings of this
century. William Douglas Sloane has
engaged two of the large hotelsat Lenox
for the convenience of visiting guests;
Cornelius Vanderbilt has engaged a man
sion there particularly for the event, aud
George Vanderbilt aud Fred Vanderbilt
have each done the same. It seems to be
the intention of the Vanderbilts to dissi
pate the family cloud by a brilliant burst
of extravagance.
Miss Sloane has a most generous sup
ply of jewels with which to bedeck herself
upon her wedding morn if she so electH,
for gifts of jewelry to the value of $500,
000 have already been bestowed upon
her. The exquisite trousseau entire has
been made in Paris. It cost $40,000.
Both the bride and groom will be started
in life with a million apiece, and after the
bridal tour they will return to a splendid
mansion, furnished completely from gar
ret to cellar, fully equiped with servants
and stores, and added to this will be the
royal allowance of $50,000 a year, the
portion which comes to each grandchild
of William H. Vanderbilt upon hia or her
wedding day. The groom is rich by in
heritance and has a magnificent home on
the Hudson, near the iron works which
have made the Burden millions.
Do we get any adequate idea of the
perpetual slave-making power which this
one company of millionaires possesses?
Their crops never fail. Their kingdoms
are never invaded. They neither totl nor
apin, yet outshine Solomon in all hia
glory.
Now all this shows that slavery is not
dead, that the wealth makers of this
country are not free, and that we have
an agitation and a fight before ua against
a far greater, richer foe than confronted
our freedom loving fathers. Did the
soldiers whose heroic deeds we celebrate
today die in vain? Most assuredly they
did ii the families of plutocrats are to
rule over us all as the slaveholders of a
generation ago ruled over their alleged
human flesh. Property today in hu
man muscle and skill, by the monopolists
commanded, is as real' today as ever.
Property is set in its legal claims above
manhood and womanhood. How long
before there shall come deliverance?
Suppose the crops this year should be
a failure, by what right, equity, justice,
can creditors demand interest on their
money? It makes no difference whether
the crops fail or not so far as the harvest
in case of harvest, being produced by
others than money loaners, and therefore
not by right theirs; but can not men see
that interest, or usury as it used to be
called, is outrageously unjust and
wicked? The money loaner demands the
product of those who toil whether God
rewards that toil or not, and when crops
fail he keeps chargyig up interest, law
made increase of debt, and the law allows
him to take not only what he lent, but
what the borrower had previously pro
duced and saved besides. Thegripof the
usurer is upon this land and if we lose
another crop the interest added to his
loan and additioual loans where the full
limit of security has not been reached
will bankrupt three-fourths of the people
But if the government were to step in and
loan the people money at two per cent
or less the interest would not eat them
up and they could stand several crop
failures and not be ruiued. The trouble
is, though, this is not now a people's
government. The bankers cry out
against such dangerous lunacy as that
in the Omaha platform which demands
money for the people at cost, at not to
exceed two per cent. And the bankers
are on the throne now. They will not
willingly step down, either. The people
must free themselves from their power,
if they do not wish to be slaves. Aud to
do this they must get together in the
People's party.
By unanimous decision of the Supreme
Court Debs, Howard, Keliher, Rogers,
Burns, Hogan, Goodwin and blhott.
president, vice-president and directors of
the American Railway Union, are sent
to jail.' Their offense is that of leading a
etrike, merely refusiug to work, in order
to help their starving fellow-workers at
Pullman to secure living wages. Tbey
are guilty of the crime of loving their
fellowmen, of exercising the spirit oi
humanity. The court says that the
ballot box and the courts are the tneaus
to secure the redress of all wrongs, but
the courts do not now dispense justice
for the poor, and the bullot-box route is
too long, too much obstructed by par
ties and too uncertain of results for the
destitute unemployed to look to it for
relief. The people are not intelligent
enough to unite at the ballot-box, there
fore they must suffer starvation, seek
work in vain, and when finding work
accept just what prices and wages the
capitalists, landlords and usurers decree.
Oliver Wendell Holmes illustrated
the effect of a new idea by comparing it
to what follows the overturning of A
stone in a Add. He says:
"But no sooner is thestone turned and
the wholesome light of the day let in up
on this compressed and blinded commu
nity of creeping things, than all of them
which enjoy the luxury of legs and some
of them have a good many rush round
wildly, butting each other and everything
in their way, and end in a general stam
pede for underground retreats from the
region poisoned by sunshine You
uever need think you can turn over any
old falsehood without a terrible squirm
ing and scattering of the horrid little
population that dwells under it Every
real thought on every real subject knocks
the wind out of somebody or other. Aa
soon as his breath comes back he very
probably begins to expend it in hard
words. These are the best evidences a
man can have that he has said some
thing it was tiin to say."
Habvey. of Coin's Financial School, ra
his discussion with Prof. Laughlin on bi
metallism states the demands of bimetall
ism 10 be "first free aud unlimited coin
age of both gold and silver; these two
metals to constitute the primary or re
demption money of the government." If
the obscure single plank of the bimetallic
party means that we must have a metal
redemption money, and we fear it does,
it is totally at variance with the teach
ings of Populism and should be encourag
ed by no true Populist. We want
enough money to do business with, and
while we want all the silver our mints
can coin we do not want to restrict our
volume of money to such a email base.
Further we want every dollar to be a full
dollar requiriug no redemption. Sledge
Hammer.
Our Pennsylvania contemporary baa
called attention to a very important dif
ference between the Populist free silver ad
vocates and those of the very numerous
Harvey school. The Wealth Makers
has seen the danger of allowing outside
ailver leaders to lead us away from our
basic principles ou the subject of money.
We believe in free silver, for good and
sufficient reasons. We also believe in
greenbacks, that have stamped on them
full legal tender power. We cannot give
up greenback legal tenders for any sort
of so-called primary or redemption
money.
Justice Brown of the Supreme Court
in hia dissenting opinion on the Income
Tax decision said:
While I have no doubt that Congress
will find some means of surmounting the
present crisis, my fear ia that in some
moment of national peril this decision
will rise up to frustrate its will and para
lyze its arm. I hope it may not prove
tbe first step toward the submergence of
the liberties of the people iu a sordid des
potism of wealth. Believing as I do, that
tho decision of the court in this great
case is fraught with i in measurable danger
to the future of the country, and ap
proaches the proportions of a national
calamity, I feel it a duty to enter my
protest against it.
The commission of the church was to
unite the divided, contending families of
the world, making of them one great
family, in which we should recognize
one as our. Father and all men as broth
ers, with interests never divided, never
antagonistic. The church has gone to
saviug individual "souls," and does not
save lives, which must be saved together
by bringing families together in unhired,
unbought service, making their interests
common and so destroying the pursuit
of self-interest, property, power to com
mand service.
Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court
with earnestness and bitter sarcasm read
his dissenting opinion for the American
people to hear, and in closing said: "If
this new view of the Constitution shall
become accepted and fixed, the American
people cannot too soon amend their
Constitution.
Governor Holcomb has heard the evi
dence and pleas, pro and con, and has
found Dr. Hay and his agents guilty of
acts which require his dismissal from the
place as Superintendent of the Lincoln
Asylum. But Hay is holding onto his
job with teeth and toenails.
It seems that State Superintendent
Corbett should have some horrifying
night visions of a woman and two chil
dren drowned, as the result of his bad
faith with her in the last campaign. The
World-Herald calls upon him to resign
since Mrs. Notson's body has been found.
We call attention to Populist party
matter on our second and seventh pages,
a new feature. George C. Ward's matter
is always of the very best We expect
this to be a permanent feature of the
paper.
"The practice of modern parliaments,
with reporters sitting among them, and
twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, lis
tening to them, fills me with amaze
ment," said Carlyle. -
Labor pays all the taxes, those paid
by the idle or plundering rich, as well as
those assessed directly against the work
ers. Professor M V. Rork's Viewa
Padccah, Ky., May 15, 1895.
General Vandervoort:
My Dear Sir: Today I read your arti
cle in the Non.Cou.iu regard to thesilver
movement and want to say, "thems my
sentiments" exactly.
Money is astampof a govenment with
a law compelling a creditor to release a
debtor from as many dollars of debt as is
named in the stamp presented. No man
ever saw a cheap dollar, a dollar redeem
ed, a gold dollar at a premium over a
paper dollar, nor did auy man ever see a
dollar. And through the goWbug press
of Paducah. I offered $5.00 to any one
who would prove thecontrary. At first,
the goldite howled, but silence followed,
broken only by, "no one ever claimed a
dollar could be redeemed."
Why then all this noise about silver'
It is mere delusion, a pretense that Dem
ocrats can and are offering the peoph
lief. It serves simply to switch thi
people away from us, and if we can not
turn the tide from Coin's slush about
primary money, to the fact that there ia
but one kind of money to the fact that
what he calls secondary money is not
money at all, we are lost.
If money at any given instant equals
it equals .
ire can be
1 business f
be debt )
the business of that instaut, there
no debt aud no interest. If the
exceeds the money, there must
and interest. We have $40,000,000,000
of debt and $2,800,000,000 of annual
interest.all through a lack of money, and
our yearly products of the farm can not
meet the interest by about $1,000,000,
000. Populists believe in plenty of money,
no interest and the people. The old par
ties believe in gold, Dank notes or debta
drawing big interest, and bosses. The
farmer, the manufacturer and the bank
er are permitting nay compelling 4,-
000,000 unemployed men.
We say, let the government make a pile
lent make a pile
if it chooses, j
jive the govern- f
1 get $1.00 of
e whole people
of money to the moon
Then let the unemployed give
ment $1.00 of labor and
money. This enriches the whole peopl
and the laborers, who in turn will enrich
the merchant. If a man prefer, let him
give t)he government $2 security, get
$1.00 from the government and pay 2
per cent tax for the trouble. This tax
enriches the peopleand keeps down other
taxes of the borrower. This is co-operation
or fraternal socialism. It blesses all
and curses none.
The old parties believe in stamping
only a few graius of gold and 6ilver,tbua
keeping the money supply as it always :
has been far below the business demand
and compelling labor to pay bankers big -interest.
This plan gives the unemploy
ed no work and compels labor to pay all
it can earn to the banker who thereby
gains double strength to oppress.
Suppose money is 6 per cent and rail
road stock is 6 per cent, then $1.00 of
money equals $1.00 of stock. Mow make
money scarce so $1.00 of money bears
12 per cent interest, then $1.00 at 12 per
cent equals f z 01 stocK at o per cent.
That is Z2.UU of stock will buy si.uu
money. That is, $1.00 of stock is worth
50 cents. No money, no price, no wages,
and two billions, eight hundred millions
of interest. For relief, Coin offers us a
grain of silver for primary money. We
can coin paper money cheaper. Friend,
the battle is simply between tha ability
of this government to compel a debtor
to release a debtor on the presentation of
a stamp, and the "intrinsic value" of
gold. Populists alone believe in the
majesty of law, and we demand no lawa
except those that bless all and curse
none, hence the sooner we stop talking
about metal money, a thing that never
was, the sooner we will become consistent
and convince the world we are right.
Gold or law, monopoly or the people,
that is the question. In this sign we
conquer. Other sigus Populists have
none. Very truly,
M. V. Rork.
THE BOYS' BRIGADE
For the consideration ot lots ot onr so-called
Christian churches:
I want to be a soldier.
Ana witn tne soldiers stand.
A cap upon my forehead,
A rifle in my band.
I want to drill for service,
With military skill.
And master modern tactics,
Tne most approved to kill
I want to face a battle
Where bristling sabres gleam.
And bear tbe wounded shrieking;
And see tbe lite-blood stream.
I want to wear a starry coat.
And ride a prancing steed,
And write my name In history
By some heroic deed.
We're drilling now In church and school.
The loyal Boy's Brigade;
We represent the highest type
Ol soldiers ever made.
That error, "Love yonr enemies,"
That has so long been taught.
Would wreck the state, and surely bring
This government to naught.
And that stale nonsense-beaten spears
Made into, "pruning-books,"
And "swords to plowshares," allly stuff.
How weak and tame it looksl
Peace Conferences must be set back;
The Sermon on the Mount,
For special drill ot Boys' Brigades,
Most surely will not count.
We'll help the Church to march in line
With tbls progressive age;
Ring out tbe old, ring in the new,
With Bghtlng on tbe stage.
Rule out tbe pa tient Naiarene:
Rule out the Golden Rule;
And base our creeds and catechisms
On tbe military school.
We'll file around tbe pulpit steps.
With spear, and sword, and gun.
And sing and shout In Sunday School,
"Fight on! Oght on!! Bght on!!!"
M. E. Beck
It is definitely settled that Western
normal college ot uncoin, weDrasKa, j
will close its doors at the end of this
spring term, June 6th. Mr. Croan, the
proprietor, has located at Anderson, In
diana. The frienda ot Lincoln Normal
University will be careful not to confusa
the two schools. Lincoln Normal Uni
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versity ia growing in popularity with
the people of the state, and is the leading
Normal School of the west today. Read
the advertisement on another page.
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