The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-26
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EDITORIAL BHEVrTI Is.
WYOMING TERRITORY ought to be a
woman's paradise. They are allowed
to vote at all elections out there.
THE president is still Juggling at
Warner, and may yet succeed in pull
ling him into the pension Office.
DIAMONDS are advancing. Now is
the time to lay in a supply. If you are
too poor, then heaven help you'll
THERE is general complaint of
scarcity of farm hands over the state.
Why it should be so, is not very, clear,
but so it is. For this reason farmers
are finding it difficult to gather their
crops.
II AM tired of hearing this talk about
my mouth. My mouth has been my
best friend" Sosays Corporal Tan
ner. Without doubt the corporal is
right. Without mouth were would
he be when it comes to eati1g2
Mr.. GLADSTONE told Chauncey De-
pew that the past fifty years was a
period of emancipation, and that the
next fifty years will be period of con-
struction and therefore of quackery.
The Lord help us, if there is to be any
more quackery than at present.
COLONEL CRISP has signified his
willingness to be present at the Ellis
worth state reunion October 1 to g..
The colonel has become great favor
tie in Kansas since he expressed con-
tempt for jeff Davis. 1t will not be
a great while, we suppose, before he
will be formally received into the grand
old party and have the holy oil of re-
generation poured over him.
If Private DaIzell would make any
Roadway in getting revenge, he would
better come to Kansas and join the
| Murdoch rebellion. His clustering en-
ergy may infuse slife enough into0the
rebellion to make it go.-EMPORIA
NEWS.
Which would b3 about equivalent to
| joining the current of One-hOrse pow
er dynamo to a thunder bolt from
heaven.-Wichita Eagle.
Indeed, has it got so bad as that?
Then the Lord save usl
UNCLE JERRY sat on the baggage
truck at the Liberal depot yesterday
and talked sugar to the boys in his
well known soft and mellifious strains
Your Uncle Jerry has hobby that
will take like the measles in Kansas
1t is line or number of lines of sugar
factories at intervals of two miles
across the state. If his schemes sue
coed, he will be in time, greater mar
in Kansas than Tanner ever was.
If IN the course of the next two OF
three days, you see a handsome. portly
and bewhiskered gentleman saunter
ing about town, with his hands claspeC
behind his back like tired granger
that is your Uncle Jerry Rusk, secre
tary of agriculture and member of the
c0binet. DO not hesitate TO approach
and give him your hand. You vii
find him most agreeable and kindly
soul, ready to converse with you upoI
any topic. But if you would hear hin
at his best, just mention sugar to him
3 THERE is afunny condition of thing
: down at Wichita. The town need
) paving, but can't get it. If the coun
Gil decides to contract with the asphal
: people, the vitrifed brick payer
Q threaten to enjoin the mayor iron
signing the contract. If the bricl
men are about to obtain a contract
: the asphalt or the sandstone gan
r threaten to smash their schemes wit
Y an injunction. And SO it goes, an
e the people go too humping and found
!. ering along for lack of decent paving
e Poor old Wichita!
FOLLOWING, Minister Ryan's war;
/ ing letter from Mexico, comes anOthe
II from the American Minister at th
/ Hague, informing the state departmeI
o that the states general of Holland
{. now considering bill imposing PR
u tective duties on imported breadstuff
l, the object being to shut out America
o wheat and flour. Thus are the Eur,
IS pean governments, one by one. closin
a their doors against the American ia
3 mer. And thus, more and more, is
IS being restricted to the home markt
Z whose benefits and advantages he wi
q ere long be brought to appreciate,
u he has never yet d ne. Instead
: shipping his flour and wheat to Ho
p land, England and other foreign port
N thousands of miles away, and payiI
re heavy treightage, he will dispose of
nt in the home market, even though
al may have to cram it down the throa
L of eastern consumers and compel the
rs by force to pay him fair price for
% DUN's Commercial agency tells
~ thae 30 900 head of cattle, 100000
n pounds of dressed beef and 81 ,OO0, o
oI pounds of cured or canned beef ha
~ been, shipped to England in the pa
four months. This extraordinary shi
ment is unprecedented. and is proof
rs the extraordinary demand and nj
prices paid over there for Americ
II beef. Now let us suppose that En-
land should follow the example of OF
lis er European countries and By prot'
us tive tariff boycott American beef. th
'es what2 That she may do so, is not
lg- all improbable. She has had abunda
is provocation, and there is strong pan
IL over there in favor of such retail
10 tory measure, just as there is in HI
'es land. If this latter country shuts b
as ports against US as she probably W
er before long, may not England do so
ed well, in order 20 protect her sto
an raisers2 France and Germany ha
at done ls, as well as other Europe
lis countries. Let Great Britain, whe
II the bulk of our export cattle go, folk
ng their example, and what is To be do
IS with our surplus live stOckp Sell it