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. ‘, cia, The Butler Weekly Times, yw. VII1. Ip. ay it - Stone's Position Analyzed Patriot ver halt a century the demo- ty, by its illustrious leaders mil banking, insurance, general merchan- dising, etc? But let Mr, Stone te i you in’t! 1 his own way, in his arbitration speech: sortal nestors have denounced “The goyernment can own these nents for their centraliza- railroads and telegraph lines, or own a PE ncies—concentrating un- others just as good. We can be ta tende' masters of the situation it we would. | d power in the general ment—inch by inch, so that! end the ‘‘states and the peo- | “I know what objections would be urged against any effort put tor- | ward with these ends in view. Aside from antagonizing the mighty influ- ences of these corporations which would gather here, many honest and pitnotic gentlemen woud fear the involvement of such an experiment, | and others would object on consti- tutional grounds (which J do not believe to exist) and others be fright- ened away by che vast increase ot Federal power «nd patronage. But I believe all these objections can be overcome. Itis a broad question. ang? public, national necessity, tor It requires time, investigation, thought 0 fetter facility in moving troops | consultation and comparison of views tt. Ki SOL ~.,; to mature it. At all events, 1 am munitions, which at that day | Sure the public good requires that very plausible. and was resisted | these great corporations should be controlled, I believe, destroyed. v | qa to whom all undelegated right | ard} reserved by the constitution, 9 jbe shorn ot power, and our | ic of free states would degen- TS ypieinto a centralized despotism. | extent of the old Whig in- may be guagued by the bank and Cumbertand road, as they went, and even Henry : byput his road bill on the ground | | emocrats as an entering wedge | gre dangerous enterprises. So, this is nota mere wild idea, | The republican party, ir apparent’’ to the Whig estate, | ted somewhat by the disastrous their predecessors) outcome of | U.S. bank question, and they doued that field, but sought to this a Nation with a big N, ¢ as the born of the hasty moment, but a} | deliberate proposition, to ignore the | doctrine of all the democrat fathers, Mr. Stone to | betray the democracy into the doc- and, so far as can, trine and power of its enemies. Mr. Stone in that same speech ed- talarging the powers of the and curtailing those ot the state | says that ‘tevery corporation 1s or- ganized capital, ’ and this fact see fs, and also grasping for more | in his mind to justify the object he more congressional and execu- | has in view. power, through the president, | Sull, Mr. Stone has organized his | the strong protests by the de- | capital in a corporate bank and cor- macy held them in check, some- | porate cattle ranch. t, for they were only in favor of Now, let us see what the cost constitutional when could use the | tion of 1884 we hear no more otf Nation with a big N. We haye us the official fact thatin 1559, power it, and since turtber than to buy up all the rail- Ways, canals, telegraphs and_ tele- | phones, adding to the former ten per cent. over the tables ot they were out of power, they | 1SSo: Strong for state rights, even to | defiance of the federal judiciary, | 0 census Pretended cost of all the railways in the Union, —$6,S03,000,000 by force ot arms, which they | Interest, atS percent, 456,640,000 f of ! d against the authority the tral government. But with all Annua! pay roll, 215,017,455 their tendencies to! Total int’st & salaries, 701,657,455 yipmalization—when in power—if | No officers & employes, 460,845 ever advocated or attempted to | TELEGRAPHS. power by the general govern- | Capitalization, $106.95 5,893 to cover private business of the | Interest atS per cent., 8,556,471 ry, by manufacturing, or as| Employees,say (2,500 mon carrier, or otherwise, « TELEPHONES. arr came to our knowledge. | Capitalization, $50,000, 000 E}We know of no party—no indi- | Interest atS per cent., 4,000,000 lexcept a few cranky leaders | Estimate of officers and the g. b. party—no one high in| employees, 15,000. lic lite that serious ly proposes to | CANALS, f PM this government into a machine Capitalization, $170,025,636 p, brass foundry or any other | Interest, 13,602,296 prise of individual commerce | Offic rs & employees, 15,000 No, miles, 2,926. RECAPITULATION. | Railway capital, $6,083 | Telegraph capital, business, within the range ot te means. None but cranks dagrarian levelers have clamored Grand-Pa government—no one astructing cars, mining coal and} Soing a thousand other things as | 345- This imcludes the presen , h in competition with labor and | number ot government beef eaters. dividual enterprise as convict labor | : Be only ten thousand fold more ex- | # democratic proposition, sive. our present enormous swarm ? But shall we say it?—yea, it is lory now, and must be read, that is “Cyclone Orator’’ of the r2th debt to be added to our present fif tict has done what no prominent | ceen hundred millions. We af mocrat—and no centralization re- publican ever did do—yes, Mr. Stone says “I go farther’? than some txtremes he mentions, and takes the plus ultra of Grand-Pa govern- Ment, for he goes for ‘‘destroying’” all the present railway and telegraph $ystems—peaceably, of course—that is, buy them, water third the reputed cost, but the bi roads would like to unload their tw millions of water on the big-heartec ' generous Uncle S the small, dead best roads, and in and all, or r blocks worthless stocks on generous Unc build others,and the logical sequenc HDR 2 ne pi aniced bust tollow, to add all the canals, the telephones, the electric light Samuel! Plants, gas tactonies, water works, O, there would be a carnival and why not all the farms, the ! fat pickings, if Mr. St his plan in working And never m ler, cheese and slaughtering, beef and Pork packing, all the cotton, Woolen factories finally, wl nor set e and tabr action, and take ch pro- the bending backs of t milhons o BUTLER, MISSOURI, —the party that happened to be in should be consummated, could keep themselves i of doom by the ronage—greater | his lameness (unlike the editor’s who | battle of Cedar Creek, Va., | could not be removed, | consequently carried it would be it the government went no | coo,o00/hel the best in 106,955,893 | market for the money | Purge that the government shall go | Telephone capital, 50,000,000 a buying or making railroads, tele- | Canal capital, 170,028,636 | at. Sam Levy & Co. | Mphs, etc., for all this invoives pasion eee ——_________ ing locomotives, getting out the | Total debt, $6,409,984.529 | ONE DOLLAR telling and sawing the lumber, | Total interest $5 12,798,762 | Total officers and employees, 626,- | will bu Now, isn’t this a pretty lay out for | erbocker eanton flan- which | should add 511,345 office holders to | e ‘ket for the money at | Sam Levy & Co. And what of 64,000 millions of aware thatthe whole 130,000 miles | and some o pecunious telegraph and canal lines could afford to employ a bewitching ne could get ub— oorers that must bend to work out this vast sum of money power when ths colossal scheme n power until the crack id of so vast a pat- than all the political | nt power of Europe! No, no, paying sucha we cuestion the policy of prc: for even so good aman as Mr. a “Crute He Doesn't go os . : : - yt The Stene organ that asks the t question, “How wou'd it look for the 12th conyressic iad district to send man to on crutches?’ probably never saw Judge Gantt. It is true the Judge is a little lame, but cong asks the question) is confined only to his limb, and, tortunately for him- self, he is not compelled to carry a crutch, or crutches. It would be no But that the | above newspaper and the democrats ' dishonor if he were. | of this districe may know the cause | of Judge Gantt’s slight lameness,we publish the following from the Clin- ton Advocate ot May ist, 1854: “In 1864, Judge Gantt, then a boy ot 19 yea l Ss, Was engaged in the | and during the morning of that eyenttul day, the rgth of October, received a | bullet shot in the knee. which, as ail} know who are acquainted with him, resulted in disabling him tor life. | | The wound was such that the builet | p and he in his knee from that day vntil yesterday morn- 3ritts, ing, when, with the aid of Dr. it was removed. It is a great reliet, | | hful soldier, |» caused him considerable pain. The Judge was a yout | having enlisted when but 16 years |i | old, in the 12°h Georgia regiment ot | § Intantry. At the time of his receiv- | ing the wound he was acting as} orderly sargent. A visit tothe Judge | € this afternoon found him resting | W Gos, Clerk bars | without pain trom his knee, suffering from a chill. The bullet. | which he showed us, was badly bat- | | tered trom its contact with the bones | | ot the knee.”” | | to ask our exchange, where was Hon. | |W. J. Stone? Col. Stone, if you} | please? We never heard of him handling a musket when the country jcalled tor help, either North or | South.—Mining Review. ONE DOLLAR ‘will buy [2 yards of] ‘the celebrated knick- | ‘erbocker canton flan-| the ai ; y 12 yards of ebrated knick- ithe cel 1 the best in the mar- WEDNESDAY AUGUST, $1,000,000. Insurance and money Loaning Agency, Butler, Mo. application for a Loan and I will do you good. | will anybody. has |S for it has bothered him at times and NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELECTION 31, on August 25 vote upon the proposition to borrow money and new school ho run from 5 to order of the Probate Court of the county of | ; Sam’1C, Marshall, administrator of the estate In this connection we would like | of Wm. R, Marshall deceased, will on the county of Bates, and during the session of the | Connty Courtof said county of Bates, sell at j ter and 18 acres off of the north side o! | north hal | south half of the northeast | in township 42 of range 32. Ss 11 1886 NO. 37 $1,000,000. nnhhhhhhhhh} hhhhhhhbhhhhhhhhhphoht whhhbhht hhhnbhhhbhhhhhhhhhhhhhbhhhhhbhhhhhhh Tay yyyY MONEY. uuy4yyY SPU E EEUU LLOLCLUCULOLELUCOULUORCLUUT TUT Urn ter tt TT In sums from $300 to $15,000, at the lowest rate of interest, at J. M. CATTERLIN’S - FARMERS be sure arid see me before you make oan you money or sell you a Buggy cheaper than J. YE. CATTE | OUR STOCK OF Undertaking Goods bays larger than any time since we have been in Butler-q@a Coffins, Caskets and Hospital Cases, WALNUT, ROSEWOOD, CLOTH COVERED AND METALIC. BURIAL-:-ROBES-:-A-:-SPECIALTY ! P. J. JEWETYT, OPERA BLOCK. CATTERLIN & LEGG, Want to say to the Farmers that they are determined to sell their superb stock of | HAND-MADE BUGGIES SES" ARMGES IND SPING WAGONS Per Cent. interest, on long time AND NOW OFFER THIER with privilege ot pay’ $165 LIVERY BUGGIES AT $125. if desired. We do not send borrow: | And will Give 3, 6, or 9 Months Credit Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cnts . Uleers Salt Rheum, Fever : » Piles, Chilblains, Corns, ved Hands, and ail skin erup- cures piles, or no pay . teed to give pértect action, or money refnnded. — Prive * cts For leby John ,G Notice is hereby given that an election will be held in District one of township 40 and range at the west school build- ng at which election the jualified voters of said district will be asked to sue bonds therefor to the amount of twelve nousand dollars, for the purpose of building a in said district, said bonds to years, and such election to lock a.m. A. H, Lamp, President. rommmence at] Administrator’s Sale. Notice is hereby given, that by virtue of an Bates, made at the August term thereof, I, 6th day of September, 1886, at the court house door in the city of Butler, t Faults auction all the interest of Wm. R. | arshall deceased in and to the following de- } scribed real estate, to-wit: The northwest quarter and the west half of the northeast quar- the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 28, in township 42 of range 32, and the if of the southeast quarter and the juarter of section 15, , forcash in hand. . C. Marsnay, Administrator. 37-4 —$——— $$$ er’s applications away for approval, | but decide on them here without de- | lay, and furnish the money at once. | We have a large amount of money , on hand to be loaned on land. Par- | tres wishing to borrow please call and | | get our terms. We can furnish the; | money at once. ! | The Warton & TUCKER { | Land Mortgage Co., Butler, Mc. Lumber Lumber of al! kinds and | at prices that defy competition. W. McVeicu, North Main street. Order of Publication. J. | STATE OF MISSOURI, \ $8. County or Batrs, | In the circuit court of Bates county, June teim, 1855. : | alice Crouch, plaintiff, vs. ‘BAPTIST FEMALE | s, We have just re- i] of railways could be built tor one-| ceived 1133 vards of g Ss ‘knickerbocker canton 1,/ flannel that we offer fe] S sale at 8 1-3 ot le = R : successively, the last Insertion to be at least © best eanton flannel rerwurroe dav Vie | REGH MEATS | tesrrecttbelot ti sec fay utinenent rm . } WANT. cut-off tool, “4 babs ‘Girenit clerk. ver r "1¢ce The best tor ue copy from the record. Witness ts o ever soldat that price, Otall Kinds_and A Srne comy, me Seat ot tae iron . 7 - " ares i 1 Sear { court of Bates eounty, this Zid day dont fail to get you! . wa) ofdune, 158. J.B, Seman, } ne 1 est price at. , Sam Levy & Co during our clearing cents per yard, this is the part forthe very low- COLLECE, Lexington, Mo. Kansas City by Mo. Pac. or Wabash 2d year Sept. ist, Art Samuel Crouch, defendant. ‘ Now at this day comes the plaintiff herein by { her attorney, William O. Jackson, Esq., | files ere tire and affidavit, alleging, amo other things, that defen: i dant, Samuel Crouch. | @hrs east of | is not a resident of the state of Missouri: train: Begins its | sae. Instraction THoroven. Musicand | by Sprctatists. Elegantly furnished. Lighted i Pil per gee ep by ped pager wien boeing pee tiff has commenced a suits it him in this Terms Low. Address, 35-St JOHN F. LANNEAU, President, | court, the object and general nature of which is to obtain a decree of divorce from said defend- ant upon the grounds of desertion and that the defendant has failed to provide for plaintiff,and that unless the said defendant be and appear at this court, at the next term thereof, to be begun MEAT MARKET, First Door South of Arlington Hotel. L. §. PADDOCK, Prop’r. | | "7 E Send six cents | APRIZ etor postage, and | receive free, a costly box of goods which | will help all, of eithersex, to more mon- ye right away than anything else in the i world. Fortunes await the workers ab- Isoutely sure. At once addresss True & ‘ sta, Ma ot | and holden at the court house in the city of | Butler, in said county, on the first day of | November next, and on or before the sixth day of said term, if the term shall so long continue | —and if not, then on or ee ered < said term—answer or plead ie jon — cause, the a eps cabs n | and judgment will be rendered accordingly. And belt further ordered, that a copy hereof be published, according to law, in the Batler Times, a weekly newspaper printed and pub- lished'in Bates county, Mo., for four weeke $429, $550, | Spelemeiieae Seven SESE Ba AAIFLZTELECRAPHIC 23> insTiTUTE! sone SES i! CHENEY DETROIT MICH.