The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-23
EDITORIAL RRRVIrIRS

while he is on top.
1.-THE president" says an exchange,
made a wise selection in choosing
John Jarrett to be consul at Birming-
ham," Yes, in the sense that a man
does a wise thing when he pays his
debts. Mr.. jarrett earned that or its
equivalent by his activity in the ''soap"
business.
THE indications are that Montana
has gone democratic. That is what
comes of Rustic Harrison exhibiting
himself in the east for several months |
instead of rustling for votes in Mon
tana. The young man has not quite
caught on, it seems, TO the trick of /
western methods.
GENERAL WILLIAM WARD, head of |
all the knights of Pythias in the world,
will attend the annual meeting of the |
order in LeavenwOrth next week. Ma
jor General Carnahan, head of the |
Uniformed Knights of the United |
States, will also be present. The an
nual meeting begins Monday. and lasts
four days.
IT is now said that literary fell
Ter" somewhere in Massachusetts
wrote Chuncey Depew's famous CEN
tennial grafton, which everybody
thought so fine because Chauncey de-
livered it. The fellows who were each
ambitious to be known as the greatest
orator in America, - will enjoy the joke
on Chauncey.
THE editor of the Wichita Eagle is
surprised to find that an official count
treasury at New York discloses the
fact that it was all there, or accounted
for. A deficit of few millions would
be double blessing. 1t would reduce
the surplus so much, and what is
equally as desirable, give the doughty
colonel an excellent opportunity to
walIop somebody.
THE people of Atchison never get
tired of telling about a man in that
town who is very fond of beer, but has
such a reverence for the law, that
since prohibition went into effect in
1851, he has not touched it. 1t is
thought he would have accepted big
salary from Barnum long ago, if his
friends had not been SO anxious to
keep him by them as living proof that
prohibition prohibits.
THE Cincinnati Commemorate aZette
thinks that our tariff is not only the
cause of unbounded prosperity in this
country. but of the great strike now on
in Germany. That is certainly a very
humane and philanthrOpic view to
take of it. Nothing good can befall
this country but is attributed to Il for
ty-seven per cent tariff, and nothing
evil, it seems, can happen elsewhere
but is caused by it. If you have birth
erto failed to see this point in It's favor,
make note of it.
IT has been decided by the supreme
court of Florida that state railroad
, commission has no right to reduce
rates to point which forbids the prof
| liable operation of any road. But
Judge Cooley says'that the interstate
commerce commission has power tC
2 fix rates which may throw particular
i road into bankruptcy, provided ma
: jority of roads make profit. 1t is very
: certain that in neither case was thu
Q law intended to destroy the value o.
+ railroad property under any circum
stances, nor do the people desire an in
justice of that sort in any instance.
TALKING about political honesty il
= party organ, here is rare sample o
IS it. The Topeka Capital, abiding t,
d the Bald Knobbers who we're hung tn
o other day, sneered at them as fair sam
= pies of the Missouri democrat. A dem
If Capital by telling it what it ought t
l. have known, that the Bald Knobber
= were republicans. Yes says tn
Te Capital, $50 they were, and that is th
N reason why they were hung. If the
n had been democrats they would now b
y running at large" A party organ tina
y can't wriggle out of blunder in
u more decent manner than that is
ze poor concern indeed.
Az THE farmers of Coffey county, BIT
b. lieving that they are not getting exat
al and equal justice, and that the
~ rights and interests are being disr
ct garded, and will continue to be so III
he til we organize for self-protection
1g are taking steps to do something fl
.ae themselves by union and association
ne This is queer break for Kansas ia
n, mers, who said at the polls last fall
NJ an astounding majority, that the
1 were the most prosperous people in Il
n world, all of which was due to the d
ne ternal and fostering care of the GOV
ne eminent. These Coffey county fe
a a lows must be very unreasonable
" What do they want? Nobody HI
touched the tariff since last fall. Ger
eral Kelly should read them lectul
on decency and good behavior. Sue
conduct as theirs is utterly prepostel
ferrous in Kansas.
ID THE visiting druggists at Atchiso
le were entertained Wednesday night b
in their local brethren ut grand banque
w in which chairs for 80 guests weT
N placed. Champaign" flowed freel
,e so we read, and that good man aud al
dent prOhibitionist, DR.. krohI
- presided and responded to
d toast. OF course everybcd
D will see at a glance that a col
st water symposium would never do OF
o such an occasion. Trust q druggis
: for knowing what is good for digges
i ton. He may not dispense the hes
r, quality of stimulants for that an
q kindred purposes, but his business il
!. to comply with the law in dealing wit
: the public, and not to play the goo
5 Samaritan. Although he has du