Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-06-15
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.


EDITORIAL BRIEFS.
It is not necessary for man to
travel very far to make an ass of him.
self. Not even I so miles.
It was f.ne audience that assem-.
bled at the Normal Wednesday night.
Itis to be regretted as much cannot be
said of the address.
Wanted by both parties good,
real, live issue: must be warranted not
to kick, buck or balk, of sufficien,
: strength to carry the owner through
the next campaign. Apply at head
quarters.
1t would be well hereafter to give
the politicians the 60 by and select
literary or educational talent to deliver
Commencement oratlons and Annual
Addresses.
I'm connection with the school
house question we commend the fol-
lowing remarks by the St. Louis Re.
publican. It says: 1.-The panic in a
New York school from the buzzing Of a
dragon fly" makes it tolerable plain
that danger from fright in a crowd
may spring from very triling causes
or no cause at ali. 1t is not easy to
bar out mice and flies, yet one of these
may stampede school. These facts
admonish parents that too great
numbers should not be crowded into
one room or be forced to use tae same
stairways and entrances, and that all
places where frightened children may
be thrown from one floor to another
should be as securely guarded as posi-
bic.
The rapidity with which the public
domain is being taken up by actual
settlement is truly startling. In ten
years more there will be little, if any
good government land 10 be had. The
vast tracts donated to railroads is also
rapidly passing into private hands.
There will soon be no "west" in the
sense of land where homes can be
had by the landless and moneyless.
or course it may require a generation
yet 20 thickly populate these broad prai-
ries and rich valleys, brt the time is
n1t iar away when The star of Empire
whose course is westward Will have
made the circle of the earth the tide
of emigration which for twelve hundred
years has followed that star will have
met the east, and be rolled back. And
into what new channels will this sur
plus energy then vent itselfs Did you
ever think of it 2'
Free government has made rapid
strides in the past century. Govern
ment for the people, of the people and
by the people IS the dominant growing
principle of the age. Civilization
means this lift means anything. Hence
1t is contemplate in this country at
least, to turn our backs on the struggles
of advanced minds in other lands when
they demand a recognition of the prin-
ciples Of constitutional government,
The plain facts are that his high might
ness. the Emperor of all the Russias
Notwithstanding that priestly hands
have anointed and crowned him, is
after all only an usurper. robber and
a royal bully ruling by brute force and
not by right. Our fathers wisely made
no provision for titled drones here, and
theywould be an impossibility on our soil
but there are invisible, intangible, yet
powerful despots that have seized the
peoples privile ges and ii not throttled,
vii! by and by sap the foundations of
our republic-we mean the monopo-
lies which have sprung into existence
and under the guise of vested rights |
and chartered privileges grown to such
threatening proporitio MS. Let them
be jealousy watched by the people. |
They will bear watching.
More than ten years ago the
writer advocated the control and own
ershlp of the telegraph system of the
country by the government. 1t was
good republicanism then-ard we be-
lieve it is just as good now. In India' |
in Australia we believe. and in sever a !
countries OF Europe the railroads