The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-01-09
THE VEArHEs AND WHAT

THE WEATHER AND WHAT
NOT.
The Oldest inLabiisnt is emphatic in de.
claring that it is tie severest winter eve,
known in Kansas. We have become so &C.
customed to sudden weather changes, that
even when the storm closed two weeks ago
With about twenty inches OF STOW fall, We
thought our weather clerk had been perrc-
trating one of his little Jokes and looked for
the snowy maDtle TO disappear in two OF
three days anyhow; We did not think il
worth while to provide any running gear,
even on the cheapest make-shift plan. but
contented ourselves with houndering
through the snow with our wheeled vehicles
To the disgust Of hor-e flesh and waste of
time. But The sno~ came to stay. 1t has
not thswed or drifted to any great extent.
| Two weeks Of continuous sleis hing Streams,
little and big, bridgsa from bank to bank
with Ice foot in thickness. We are estab-
lishing visiting and business relations with
our neighbors over in johnson county, a
thing heretofore impossible, on account OF
the Raging Ksw" such weather
| is surely q novelty in Kansas. Nor is it
to he regretted. IL is fun for our young
and agile folks who own skates; it Is god
| send Tor the ice dealers it is splendid for
winter wheat it is disastrous To the mala-
ria which has been shaking 30 MANY of our
people it calls to mind the merry boyhood
and girlhood days We passed before We left
country homes in New York or New EGG
land where winter always brought with it
more or less sleighing, skating and all
other seasonable cheer. Some OF cur peo-
pie are poorly housed, though speaking for
this locality, there is no lack Of 6re-wood
to be had in abundance for the cutting and
hauling it is hard on tramps, but what
right have people to tramp now that ape
Gle payment has been resumed, and the
country has fairly entered upon an era OF
old fashioned prosperity. There ia no
longer any excuse for the tramp. We have
assurances from President Hayes, from
Secretary Sherman. and from all the bond
holding and banking population that "the
winter OF our discomfort" is forthwith to b.
made GLORIOUS summer" by the MAGIC Of
honest money"
Although much Of the talking which one
hears around the heating stove OF the country
store or the blazing hear tbs Of rural man
sions, is about the weather, now and then
the rustic mind rises to the contemplation
OF themes which occupy the attention of
editors and ct ,tssmen. When the Senate.
rial election is discussed, the prevailing
opinion is that either Mr. Ingalls,, Mr.. Phil
lips, Mr.. Anthony or Mr.. Simpson will get
away with the toga The most people with
whom l converse think Ingalls, has the
best show" 1t is pleasant to know that
the people are taking an interest
in this thing; it is all right; only there
appears TO be very general impression
tina, filthy iucre must needs figure very po-
tentially in the choice Of Senator. PEG
pie appear to have fallen into that way OF
thinking 1t is bad for the people. bad for
the reputation of Kansas. l wonder who is
responsible for this thing. Ia it Pomeroy.
Carney, Caldwell, Lane? Here is prob
lem which l have heard advanced: "Ii
the price of a vote for Senator ak years
sgo was seven thousand two hundred lol-
lars when gold was at premium Of Is
pr cent. what ought sucbla vote be worth
now with gold at parY' have no patience
with questions OF this sort will not
"fgger" on them. admit there is enough
in the history of former Senatorial cleo
tons to suggest calculations of the kind but
cannot help thinking that the day of
merchandise in votes for United States Sen
ator has gone, never 10 return.
1t is thought this Legislature will do
something in the way of reducing the eI-
tortionate freight and passenger rate.
charged by our railroads. A railroad bill
similar in it, leading provisions to the one
early in the session. The X. p and the A.,
i,
duced their rates for passengers the lower
rates taking effect on New Years day.
This is all we'll enough; but temporary
concessions made just prior to the conven
ton OF the Legislature will hardly s,tisiy
the representatives, OF the people Ii the
railroad companies will not deal fairly and
justly by the people OF their own accord, they
must be made to do it. 1t il hoped there
will be enough of that sentiment in this
legislature to secure the passage without
much difficulty Of the bill above men,
tiorei
Temperance legislation is also anticipa-
ted. Many of the members OF this lesisla-
tnre we're elected with the understanding
that they would support a stringent pro-
hiDitory law. Few. if any members were
pledged or committed directly against
such legislation. Even Democratic mem
bers are not necessarily e',opp-d BY any
thing in their platform from goirg the
whole prohibitOry "hog." "Liberty Of irdi-
vidual conducr, unvexed by sunptuary
laws" wa, TO be sure, one of the pisnk-
but liberty OF individual conduct does moi
assuredly mean liberty of individual mis-
conduct When liberty of that kind goes
to the extent OF filling the land with desc |
latIon, misery and crime, and adding al
most insuffersbly to the expenses Of gov
eminent, it ia high time il we're placed IN |
der all possible legal restrictions. To that
no good Democrat should object That,
presume, is what ProhibitiOnists in all the |
parties are aiming at.
There is a suggestion OF irony in all the |
talk about the appointment of George L |
Anthony to the Presidency OF our STATE |
College, unless, irdeed, the
said college is in itself an ab-u.d;ty. The
idea OF man who holds, and publicly de-
clares, that agricultural life and labor is
degradation; that it "clips the wings OF
fancy" and drsgs man down to the Level
Of the OK the idea of selecting such per
son out of whole Safe full of "Williu'
Barkises" to be the head Of an institution
ostensibly for the purpose of
and digpifying the farmers call
ing, would he too ridiculous for federation
anywhere. but in minds which have long
been subject to the s:ultifying Influences Of
Kansas politics.
II. however, a. some people have the
lemerity to think, the Agricultural College
Is not all it purports to be. that there is a
great deal Of what is roughly termed bal
lerdash in the notion that young men and
women can best be rsconciled to a life in
he corn field and coward BY passing sew
raj years in classic shades, amid bookisb
with nothing to do in tn.
way Of manual labor but plying a boot
rush, or drumming government" pi-
mo. If this l say, be a true ard proper
way Of regarding the institution, then, in
Iced. it matters less who gets the Presiden
y, though even in appointments to sine
cures the principle Of not OVERRIDING tn
hing in the case of the "fst goose" ongbt
o he considered ]. A. B.
LoRISG, Jan. 4, 1879.
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