The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 30, 1890, Page 1

The Butler Weekly Gi vOL. X11. BUTLER, MISSOURI, ‘and could not realize on it just at | sooner or later find that he is a can-! Missouri State Bank OF BUTLER, MO. CAPITAL, $110,000. Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and does a General Banking Business. In the Real Estate Loan on Real Estate on long or short time Department. Make loans at lowest rates without delay. STOCKHOLDERS irs. Levina Hardinger, WN ase No T C, Physician Burk, Monroe Farmer Ballard, J = Farmer a Brown Levy.Sam Dry Brow, Te imund Farmer Morrison. C H F: ¢helf, H. B. Farmer Miller,Alf Farmer Garathers. G A Farmer Norton, J A Bank Clerk Christy, J M Physician Owen, M V Farmer Clark, Robert Farmer Pharis, John Grocery Courtney, J MStock Dealer Pharis, C F Grocery Deerwester, John Farmer Patton, M Physician pavis, J R Foreman Times officePowell, Booker Ns : eets.R C Con. & Res’t Pigott, H H Bank Clerk Diekeneh Prof Normal Sch Rosier, J M Farmer A Circuit Judge Rankin, J L Farmer Radford, Chas R Farmer Reisner, J W Insurance wy Sullens, J L Pres Judge Co.Ct Willia: Dutcher, on eee goha Farmer Everingham, J Physician Griggs, Wm M Farmer cH d,D president vice-president BOOKER POWELL T. C. BOULWARE Sm Hickman,G B Furniture dealer Smith, John T Lawyer Jenkins, J R Ass’t Cashier Kinney, Don Bank Clerk oods & ClothingTucker, W_E Dentist ‘armer Tucke: Fa: ith, GL Liveryman | Starke, L B Deputy cirenit clerk ‘urner, Mrs itali E Capitalist | r, J M Capitalist Tyler, W B Farmer ; Voris. Frank M Farmer | Vaughan. J M Capitalist } Woods, F M Farmer Wyatt, H C Lumber dealer Walton, Wm E Cashier? Wright, TJ Capitalist Weiner, Max Boots & Shoes Walls, Wm Farmer | Walton, G W Farmer { Walls, J T Physician ple. N L Physician ms, RV Farmer | . | Farmer cashier asst. cashier WM. E. WALTON J. R. JENKINS and wvitations, Visiting (100 for $1.80) and thousands of los: eh ye Mounted Precious Stones, Sterling and Plated Potteries, Bronze CHLLD OF THE GRANGE. THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE FARMERS’ ALLIANCE MOVEMENT. 4 It First Saw Light in Texas in 188 —How it Came to Supplant the Grange—Evolution of the Or- der—Theortes Which have Proved Delusive— Quay’s Hand. 1 By telegraph to Post Dispatch. Paris, Tex., July 26.—The Farm- 4g ere’ Alliance which is now looming up as such a great factor in politics, had its origin in this state. Itisa child of the old grange or patrons | of husbandry which was the favorite fad of the farmers some fifteen years ago. The grange was the first se- eret organization gotten up by the | farmer to the exclusion of other members of society. It reached its | growth in 1878, when it undertook | to dictate the democratic nomination for governor. Failing to do so, it soon began to languish and languish- ing did die. Then came the alliance. There is a legend to the effect that in Octo- ber, 1881, the first lodge of the farmers’ alliance was organized in _ Jeekeon county, Texas. Its decla- @ ‘ation of principles were very simi- tar to those of the grangers, but it had fewer degrees, its lodge work was simpler and its initiation fees 4 ind dues did not cost so much. Its gtowth was gradual until the fall of 4 1885, when missionaries were placed in the field and its doctrines were ; rig ed. Lodges farmers all —_ si were organized in every neighborhood. Themen who went diseminating the gospel to the farmers, it was noticed, had been Active workers in the greenback par- » Which had been laid under the ies only a few years before. ior to their conversion to the greenback doctrine they had been chronie office-seekers in the demo- | cratic party. These ex politicians } in their new role as lecturers made Speeches, when they spoke in public | Were mainly a tirade against the old Parties. Statistics were made to order and fi skillfully juggled 40 show how the farmer was being | Sppressed and ruined while all oth- ®r classes waxed fat and prosperous. | Here and there a newspaper made | bold to warn the farmers to beware ofthis new craze; that it savored Strongly of communism and other leas incompatable with their inter- ‘sts. Then the cry would go up | that the newspaper that offered : these words of warning was corrupt fad had been paid to oppose the in- containing sam- ples of our C Table Ware, i] AU TaMS terests of the farmer, and therefore must be boycotted to the death. HOW THE IDEA TOOK ROOT. The idea was industriously pushed that all other classes were useless and some of them not even orna- mental, and that the farmer, who was the rightful lord of all, had be- come a mere hewer of wood and ) drawer of water. He was advised to assert himself and force all other classes to pursue his own calling. It was argued that the farmer was ab- solutely independent and all others were dependent upon him, and non- phos a The wildest theories were given credence to and the teachings of political economy were ignored. There were those who hooted at the idea that our high civ- ilization and the complex condition of society demanded a division of labor. They did not seem to realize that before the farmer can fence his ground or till the soil that he must first go to the manufacturer to get his tools; that he must go to the miller to have his grain ground into bread and to the manufacture again to have his wool and cotton woven into cloth; that physicians are nec- essary to look after the health of himself and family; that the lawyer must be called on to decide points of difference between himself and neighbor; that the teacher was es- sential to develop and improve the minds of his children, that the preacher had a duty to perform in pointing him the way to a country free from care, vexation and toil, and that even newspapers werenecessary to furnish him information and in- tellectual gratification. But their pet aversion was the middleman or the merchant. Here their ideas of political economy were again at. fault. They never stopped to consider that the mer- chant as an agent of exchange was as necessary to society as money is as the medium of exchange. The merchant was a vampire sucking the life-blood out of the farmers. He must be driven out of business and relegated to the ranks. To meet the demands for an agent of exchange every farmer would be his own mer- chant by establishing co operative stores in every town of importance in the state. Every member of the alliance was requested tu take stock and shares were placed at $5. This made it possible for every member to takestock. Then some mar was elected to manage it. These enter- prises were started out with great mp andceremony. It was soon learned that goods had to be paid for there just the same as at other places and were just as high, if not alittlehigher. Merchants who were at firstalarmed soon saw all their old customers back, many of them asking credit because they had tak- | stoc AL ;told them so. | gers left the state. | over the state also succumbed. that time. THE 4 EXCHANGE. The co-oper e stores did not the manipulators of them of an- | s an alliance | The idea | sale and This -udous scale. were ask- | naugurate | xehow it} eded.the given. So! from cation showed | had put up a dollar of | ragers coolly | 2s so far as the | farmers were concerned a cold-blood- ed, heartless corporation. The af fairs of the concern were hastily wound up, and some of the mana-! The projector and leading spirit of this enterprise is now in Washington City editing a paper called the National Econo- mist. The little Alliance stores all In this way the farmers of Texas were humbugged into throwing away millions of money. They were swindled and robbed by the very men who insisted that other classes were useless and asked them to as sert their manhood and declare their independence. These financial reverses gave the alliance a black eye, so to speak. Many of its best paying members became weary of well-doing, and their faith became weak. But the order still lived. Every little coun- try school-house still remained a renezvous for the faithful. ANEW SCHEME. This year those theoretical farmers who had prospered by the former misfortunes of the order and who ived in fine houses in town with car- peted floors and such furniture and surroundings as becomes the wealthy be thought them a new scheme. They had made money easily enough out of the alliance why not satisfy the longings for public life by gal- vanizing 1t into life and play upon the credulity of their former vic tims in another way. Agitation was begun. The farmers who belong to the alliance were told in the strict- est confidence that their temporal redemption lay in their political emancipation. Information was given oracularly and authoritatively so that it could not be gainsaid. They were told that other classes were ruling and pillaging them, and as they were in the majority they should assert their rights and elect men of their own rank to make and administer the laws. The farmers were told this and many believed it, in the face of the fact that his in terests are better protected by the laws of Texas than those of other pursuits. He is allowed 200 acres of land and all the improvements thereon; all farming implements he may require or desire, two horses and a wagon, five cows and calves; twenty head of hogs; twenty head of sheep; all household and kitchen furniture; all. provisions and feed necessary to maintain his business; all wearing apparel; all books and pictures and many other things too pumerous to detail. All these things are exempied by the state constitu- tion from forced sale. The man who has capital invested in merchandise has no such protection. A creditor can swoop down on him any day and take every dollar he has in the world. This is not all. A farmer may have $10,000 worth of grain and wheat on hand the first of January and it is all exempt from taxation. But if a man in some other calling has $1,000 to pay for his supplies from time to time as he may need them he must render it for taxes. Yet other classes do not complain of this. If left to a vote of the bankers, merchants, la and all other classes they would leave the exemption laws of the state just as thev are. They know that Texas is pre-eminently an agricultural state and that its prosperity depends up on the farmer. There is, then, no just cause for complaint on the part of the farmer. CLASS PREJUDICE CREATED. If anyone protests against the star chamber methods of the alliance some Office seeker, perhaps a lawyer will assume an air of benevolence and declare that the farmer has as much right to go into politics as anybody. Thus a false idea is pre- sented and the farmers’ prejudices are inflamed. Watch the man who tt en stock in the co operative store|makes such remarks end you will WEDNESDAY JULY 30. 1890. rupt the democrat party all over the! s HAS— south. The seeds have been sown HERS ES : sive President “— : WE | J. K._ ROSIE , Vice-President in Texas and there istroublecoming. | S. 2a Vice-President. An open fight in Texas against the ERINGHAM son eetats > Becretany democratic party was useless and Beak Attorney foolish. The democratic record in Texas is impregnable. From the DIRECTORS. NO. 36 oie moe TARE NIP didate. Farmers ought to study | polities more than they do. News- | papers are daily asking them to in-| a vestigate the iniquitous tariff and yy liance man goes to his lodge, closes OF BATES COU NTY q the door and shuts his ears to rea- b } ip pension laws that are systematically | " - . . - . son. he alliance, it is believed, is —— ig robbing them, but instead the al- y being artfull d by | 4 ted the republics machine tots CASN Capital. $50,000.00 bankrupt condition the republican | party left it in by its drastic recon- | struction policy, it has prospered | under democratic rule until to day | its credit is better than that of the} Federal government. But a majori- | ty of the farmers do not belong to | the alliance, and the most thrifty do | not countenance its schemes of | finance and politics. These are wel! | informed,in nine cases out of ten are | democrats. Many good men are in the alliance, and if it comes to the test they will stand by the democrat party even should it mean the death of the order. AN INCONGRUOUS FEATURE of this political movement is to have the farmer and the laborer unite. The absurdity of this lies in the fact that the farmer wants labor as cheap as he can get it. It is nat- ural; it is business. The truth is he cannot afford to pay high wages. On the other hand, the laborer wants all he can get for his work. Their interests will make the issue. In Texas it is the farmer who employs most of the labor. It remains to ke Judge Clark;Wix, Farmer and stock raiser. R Hurley, of R. J. Hurley Lumber Company. J a Rosi er, Vice-President » nd Farmer. iersey, Farmer and Stock raiser. A. Bennett, of Bennett, Wheeler & Company and 2ud Vice-President. P. E. Emery, Real Estate Investor. M. G. Wilcox, Farmer and Stockraiser E, M. Gaily, Farmer and Stock Raiser. M, R. Lyle, Farmer and Stockraiser. D_N. Thompson, President, farmer and stockraiser John Steele, Farmer and stockraiser. J.J. McKee, Farmer and stockraiser. E.D. Kipp, Cashier. Receives Deposits subject to check, loans money, issues drafts, and transacte general banking business. Your patronage respectfully solicited. Te TURLINGTON FOUND GUILTY. On July 29th the Mo., Pacific wili sell round trip tickets to Galveston, Tex., at one fare for the round trip. For the Missouri Chautauqua as- sembly at Pertle Springs, Mo., Au- gust 5th to 14th, the Mo. Pacific will sell round trip tickets at one fare for the round trip. To those desiring to attend the state reunion of ex-Confederate vet- \erans of Missouri,August 20 and 21, at Nevada, Mo., the Mo. Pacific will sell round trip tickets at one fare for the round trip. _ Tickets will be 3 on sale August 19, 20 and 21. Good = to return until August 23. For the National Encampment of The Killing of Sheriff Cranmer Wilfal | Murder—The Man’s Excuse. Boonville, Mo., July 25.—Turling- ton was convicted this afternoon of the murder of Sheriff Cranmer and sentenced to be hanged at sunrise September 11. Turlington walked into the court room this morning with a nervous, quick — but did not appear to be much affected. Deputy Sheriff Frank Moore being recalled testified that the pistol used by Turlington was a Reming- seen whether the saving common |ton 44-caliber. The one used by A. : sense of the people will triumph or | Cranmer was a Smith & Wessen,eelf pores erage rm Mo. — whether they will follow these polit-| cocker 38 caliber. - will sell round trip tickets as low as any of its competitors. For routes- and limits of tickets apply tothe” undesigned who will take pleasure in making any special arrangements passengers may desire. ‘ For the season of 1890 round trip tourist tickets to Hot Springs, Ark., Pueblo, Colorado §; Denver and many other Colorado points,San Francisco, Los Angelos, California, Portland, Oregon, St. Paul, Minne- — and many other northern and eastern summer resorts will be furnished on application. For full information relative to routes, rates and limits of tickets etc, call on or ical jack o’-lanterns until it leads them into the camp of the south’s worst enemy—the republican party. McELREE’S Wits v. c.~UUl for Weak Nerves —<_ Turlington was next asked to take the witness stand. As he did so al- most the entire audience stood up. He testified as follows: “I suppose I fired the shot that killed Cranmer. I did not know Cranmer was wound ed until I was arrested the day the shooting occurred. I walked up to him and said, ‘Old man throw up your hands. Iam going to leave here.’ I was very much excited and pointed my gun at him. I moved rapidly out into the jail hail when I stumbled and fell, and as I was fall- | ing my gun went off. Then Cran- mer shot. The flash was in my eyes HIS SECOND MAN. James Bowman Kills Tom Young at Lexington, Mo. Lexington, Mo. July 24.—Tom Young, a policeman, has fallen the second victim of the carelessness of James Bowman, who for 16 years Es and my gun went off before I knew -C was deputy and 4 yeare sheriff of |i, 7 1a no idea of hurting Mr. address, W. —- : Lafayette county. For a numer of | Cranmer or any one else. I thought : Butler, Mo when I put my gun on himhe would let me pass and I would get away. I had the pistol cocked when I point- ed it at Cranmer. It went off acci dentally.” Two other witnesses swore that three shots were fired. A loud re- port was first, then two small shote. The case then closed. The court asked Judge Shirk if he had any more testimony in rebuttal. The judge: “I believe not. We have | more testimony, but it is in thestate of Tennessee. i Georeg W. Johnson, prosecuting | attorney, opened the arguments, and Judge Shirk, counsel for the defense, followedin an eloquent and 2 . flowery speech. ot —— In the afternoon the Hon. John ONE ENJOYS Cosgrove made the closing speech | Roti; the method and results when in a very able and impressive man-| Gyrny of Figs is taken; it is pleasant aoe : : i and refreshing to the taste, and acts The case was given to the jury at | pontly yet promptly on the Kidneys, 3:15. After being out an hour andj fiver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- a half they returned a verdict of | tom effectually, dispels colds, head- guilty of murder in the first degree. | aches and fevers and cures habitual The hanging will be private at sun-| constipation. Syrup of Figs is the rise September 11. The right to) only remedy of its kind ever pro- have an appeal was granted. duced, pleasing to the taste and ae- Judge Shirk asked to be let off| centable to the stomach, prompt in from defending Wesley Hensley, | its action and: truly beneficial in its pleading pressing business and the | effects, pre only from the moet- court discharged him. healthy and agrecal le enbteneis ie OF CARDUI. aTonicfor Women. | Many excellent qualities commend it Qa" WINE OF CARDUi, « Tonic for Women. i to all and have made it the mest popular remedy known. years ithas been the practice of Bowman when he got drunk to flour- ish deadly weapons around in a dan- gerous way. This he has been al- lowed to do without arrest. Last night he and Tom Young met and were talking in a friendly manner when Bowman asked a son of his who was standing near for a match. The boy replied that he had none, and Bowman said: “Why don’t you carry one like this?” at the same time pulling a pistol of big calibre from his pocket. Young was at that time standing several feet from Bowman. Hardly had the pistol been produced than it was discharged, Bowman says, accidentally. The ball struck Young just above the navel and ranged to the left side, from which position it was extracted. He is now ina yery critical condition. The killing of Deputy circuit clerk Arnold Ewing accidentally by Bow- man is still fresh in the public mind. Buwman and Ewing were members of a posse who went in search of horse thieves, and upon emerging from a hotel in Higginsville, after eating breakfast, Bowman carelessly threw his Ballard rifle over his shoulder, cocked it, and pulled the A Package House tur Carthage. | trigger. The result was the instant| arth: Mo. July 24—An| Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50e death of poor Arnold Ewing, who|,..._- read oh is bein and $1 bottles by all leading drug- ied i ‘original package house 6 | gists. Any reliable Foals a who was to have been married in a short = es time. Bowman comes from one of| fitted up on the south side of the| may not have it on will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any” -ubstitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRAKCISCO, CAL. ” LOUISVILLE, KY. _ WEVE YORK, BP.” John Atkison’s equare by an East St. Louis brewing company. In the basement arestau- |rant and reading room will be pro- | vided. It will be in readiness Sat- jurday morning. Carthage is one of the cities which, iby a large majority, adopted the | ilocal option law and much interest jis excited at this attempt to sell liq- | iuor and opinion is divided as to the the first families of Missouri, but is himeelf a worthless fellow. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoris. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castoria Mr. Blaine’s recent communication ! result. P ) A | easion Apeney. to Senator Frye in regard to the! St. Paul has a pious gambler. At | eee « ty ae Sayeed least he keeps aciean mouth. He; Over Dr Everingham’s store rooms writer since his correspondence with never swears nor utters a vulgar | West Side - Butler, Mo. Mr. Mulligan. | Word. :