The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-16

nave COSb NH w dlIOAc d SAOdI OC1l lOoO
than S1s, 900, and would probably have
afforded him and his friends a great
deal more satisfaction in the long run,
if it had been kept filed with fresh
buttermilk or something of that kind"
UNDER recent decision of the in
terstate commission, railroad compan-
les are required to make no discrimina-
tions unfayOrable to colored passen-
gers. If a negro purchases first class
ticket, he must be given first class ac-
commodations. A separate car may
be set apart for his use, but its equip
ment and accommodations must in
every particular equal those occupied
by white passengers travelling on first
class tickets. Separation with these
conditions is not discrimination as the
courts have frequently held in school
cases.
THE supreme court declared in the
late beer case that Intoxicating liquor
is not contraband, but an article of
trade and traffic like other merchant
able commodities. 1t is SO because of
the proviso III the law which admits
of its manufacture and sale for the ex-
cepted purposes. Enthusiastic gentle
men therefore, who love to denounce
it as the rum fiend'', Liquid damna-
tiOn,' etc. will please take notice and
be little more respectful in their Ian
guage when referring to an article of
Interstate commerce whose value for
medical, mechanical and scientific pur-
poses is SO well known and appreci-
ated.
CORPORAL TANNER is not such an
aWfully bad man as we are sometimes
led to think. At the convention of
Scotch-Irishmen recently held at Co
lumbia, Tennessee, he said, referring
to the old soldiers of the confederate
army:
Now, on the other hand, / claim that
it is the moral and religious obligation
of the states of the south, who passed
the ordinance of secession in the mad
heat of passion, and led the enthusiast
tic youths of our land into this war-it
is their duty through state legislation
to enact such laws and to make such
appropriations as will provide for them
| in their declining years, and here and
now I am so presumptuous as to de-
clare that every 3Omrade who wore the
| Union blue and who since the war has
cast his lot among you, whose material
possessions are with you, will cheer
fully submit to his pro rata share of all
taxation which NAV be necessary In
these states to see that the wolf of
want and gnawing hunger shall
knn ynv1N ho Of he
men who, on hundreds of bat
tie fields, felt the horrors of war to
the last extremity. Common decency
demands this action on the part of the
Legislatures Of the states who passed
the ordinance of secession, and freely
declare that in all the great northland
the voice of no decent man or woman
will be raised in protest at such action.
He not only thinks that ga moral
and religious obligation rests upon
the southern states to pension the dis.
abled veterans of the confederate army
but that each survivor of the union
army whose possessions and property
lie in those states, should contribute
his share to that end. The magnan-
unity of that speech is a trifie uncom-
mon, and such as may not sound pleas
ant to the ears of some incapable OF
cherishing noble or manly sentiment
WE frequently read in the news
papers homilies on the kind of men
that ought to be sent to congress and
placed In other high official positions.
1t is lamented that the public offices
are filed with lawyers and capitalists,
to the exclusion of business men, me-
chanics and farmers. And yet when
we get business man or a farmer
into an exalted Office these same papers
are the first to turn upon him with a
volley OF ridicuIe. They taunt him
with his former business and endeavor
to convert him into public laughing
stock. In the case OF POST
master General Wanamaker, for
instance, this disposition is very
clearly shown. There are a number OF
papers in Kansas, and one
two In Emporia-which never refer to
the postmaster general except to caIl
him q ''bEeeehes Maker a dealer In
sshand me down" or to cast some SIM
liar slug upon him IN connection sIth
his unofficial occupation. This, - say