Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-07-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.


mand at Chicago on the Sth inst.
The faculty of Agricultural col
lese of the State University announce.
that they will hold a series offarmer'
institutes the coming year.
The ifFqueshon is just nov
haunting the dreams and breaking the
slumbers ofour democratic leaders.
The saloon keepers of St. Loui
are in bad way over the closing o.
their, "places of business" on Sunday
and from the amount of space and
consideration given them by the city
press we would judge their interest.
stand paramount to all other Indus
tries" in the city.
The Anti-Monopoly convention
in Chicago seems to have been a very
lively gathering. We give their plat
form and proceedings in this issue.
We notice the leading.newspapers treat
their utterances with the usual flIppan-
cy ard sarcasm given all new move
ments by the city press, Yet the re-
publican party which has held and
shaped the destin les of this country for
nearly aquarter ofa century, was just as
crude, and just as cranky in its early
formation, and received pretty much
the same treatment-bus worse-at
the hands of the press as does the
present movement. The idea that
nothing good can come of Nazareth"
is an old one. There may be a germ
OF life in the new movement that will
yet upset the calculations of the w,sest,
and clear the way for political earth
quake in the near future. One thing is
sure neither the republican nor the
democratic party can afford to stand
still or 20 long rest their claims to favor
on their past alone. They must take
up and face the issue of the present,
fairly and honestly, or yield the whole
field. The republican party has al
ways been the live, aggressive. and
progressive party Of the country, and
ifthe managers" the trimmers, and
the time-servers do not choke the life
out Of it, it will continue to be the
party of the future. Otherwise 1t must
yield to successor. There is food for
reflection in this fact, for every honest,
earnest and progressive republican.
From the Sacramento Union. How
party men and organs differ! Said
Mayor Carter Harrison, when he ex-
ploded his political dynamite shell at
the Iroquois Club dinner. Make free
trade OF your tariff for revenue plank
in your next resolutions and you will
split the Democratic party. You do
not win from the Republican party one
single one of its adherents." Said the
San Francisco Examiner of Saturday,
"a level headed tariff man goes in for
revenue only" Says Mr.. Watterson
for the democracy of Kentucky, IRE
fuse US free-trade plank in the plat
form and the south is los,." Says Mr..
Randall for Pennsylvania, "The strug-
Cling industries Of the country must be
protected" Says the New York SIN.
abandon all tariff planks; it is not to
be made national issue in a Presi-
dental campaign with safety to the
Democratic party" Says the Nash
vile American, "The Democracy of
Tennessee want no free-trade plank
forced upon them" All these men
and papers are insincere. What they
desire most is the success of party.
The welfare Of the country is a seconda-
ry consideration, and hence their
"trouble'' so early in the day as to the
formation of platform. Mr.. Harrison
let the party cat out of the political
bag when he exclaimed, "When we win
the Presidency We will have time to
Jock at true reform in the policy Of
tariff but don't put tree-trade plank
IL the platform now"
The Brook. .fela Gazette gets off the
following, which is good enough to re-
publish whether true or not: ''ln a
town not a thous and miles from here
there lives groceYman, who is learn.
ing something every few days. Notlong
since he visited the City and purchased
from a dollar store, a castor which he
took home with him and after putting
a tag on it marked S14, made pres
ent of it to the Methodist preacher,
whose church his family attended. The
willy reverend took the package home
opened it, and examined the contents.
The next day he took the castor with
the tag attached) back to the grocery
man, and said to him; II am too
poor in this worlds goods to display so
a castor on my table, and if
you have no objections, ] should like
% return it and take $14 worth of gro
,eries in its stead" The merchant
could do nothing but acquiesce, but
his feelings.
Why "WOmen's Suffrage" Lives.