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Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
LET UP ON KANSAS CATTLE.
From the Kansas City Gazette.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
We wonder if it is possible that the
Kansas legislature will spend the entire
winter in abusing Kansas cattle, placing
them all under suspicion IN remote parts
OF the country, simply because single
handed butcher cannot compete with an
establishment possessing facilities 10 do
the work, costing half million? There
are four classes interested In this fight
the man who raises the animal, those
who eat it. the National Butchers asso-
citation. and the dressed beef combine, as
it is called. The fight is made by the
butchers association against the dressed
beef combine. We. fail TO see any ref
erenoe to the man who raises the animal.
and the consumer is equally ignored
We do not understand how this
improved mode of doing the butch
or business is to be resisted or
the animal has been out of luck for a
number Of years, because OF depressed
prices, bad seasons. etc. But his luck Is
no worse than that of the real estate
man. who made town lots beyond all
need or reason, or the coal man. who
this winter cannot Eossibly unload. The
other class more largely interested. the
consumers. have been greatly benefited
by the improved quality OF the meat and
Its more extensive use In certain parts
OF the country this dressed beef Is rap
idly suppianting hog meat, while It's
preparation Is extending Its use among
the commoner classes OF society every
where. This increased demand certainly
is in the interest of the man raising the
animal. Mr. Swift. in his interview IN
the Gazette of few days ago, showed
that the facilities and advantages Of the
dressed beef mode O. doing the business
had greatly relieved the gint IN the
market.
But if this unreasonable and inconsid
crate fight Is to be keps up until the whole
country becomes suspicious Of Kansas
cattle. the only victim viii be the Kan
sas farmer and cattle raiser. There are
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

Let up on Kansas cattle. The plants at
Wichita promise after awhile to equal
those of Kansas City, Kan, and there will
be market for all they can turn out.-Kan-
sBs City Gazette.
One of the finest and richest fields on
the continent for the production of cat
tie is southern Kansas. The question is
will the cattle raiSers of this section be
permitted a home market or must they
be compelled by unwise and short
sighted legislation to pay freight on this
product to some eastern point to be there
locally inspected before being killed:
And then, too, cattle market and pack
ing plant means something for the state
The capital employed and the men en-
ployed, and the vast buildings and ma
chInery to be taxed, must all these be
lost to the state only that local butcher
may be given the opportunity TO skin his
own animal?
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
Looking Toward the Rising sun.

When a Southern Governor vetoes bill
that was framed ID the interest Of sectional
prejudice or race hatred. he deserves TO be
commended, says the iowa State Register
Such occurrences are not so common that
they can be passed over lightly. Governor
Gordon, Of Georgia, has just honored him
self by an act OF this lind. The recent Leg
islature passed a bill intended 10 strike a
blow at the schools for the colored people
by Gripping them in their support II pro-
posed TO discriminate in the expenditure OF
money received from taxes, so that white
people only should get the benefit of the
taxes they paid, and negroes get the benefit
only Of the taxes they paid.
Thus when II came TO appropriations for
school purposes the colored people would
find that their share of the school fund was
exceedingly meager and insufficient 10 give
their children the common advantages
which white children enjoyed The Bour-
bons in the Georgia Legislature passed
such an outrageous bill as this and tried in
this left-handed manner 70 cripple the
schools for co4ored children and carry out
the old-time prejudice against teaching a
negro 10 read and write. Governor Gordon
had the courage and the conscience 20 veto
the bill He holds that 1t is against public
policy and a violation of the spirit Of both
the State and Federal constitutions. There
Is some hope for Georgia with a Governor
who thus turns his back on the Bouroonisu
ana the barbarism OF the PASTOR they
mean about the same.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

We learn in holy writ that ''the wicked
flee when no man pursueth." We are
reminded of this by preparations that
are being made in the south for an an
ticipated raid on the part of the incom-
ing administration. Texas has MAORI
ty of $50, 000. Yet the senators and rep
resentatives in congress from that state
are advising the governor to use his in
fiuence with the Legislature to have law
enacted separating the time for holding
state and county elections from the time
for holding elections for members of con-
gresS and presidential electors. They
fear Republican congress and admins
tration. under pretense of regulating
congressional and presidential elections,
viii undertake to control state and local
elections as well. 1t is said that the gov
ernor entirely comedies with the sugges-
ton and will recommend that the legis-
lature make the change.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

The nomination of General John II.
Palmer for United States senator BY the
Democrats of the Illinois legislature was
probably meant by them as compli-
ment and, as far as ii would go. some
thing Of compensation TO him for his
efforts in the party's behalf as its candi-
date for governor last fall. But aside
from the compliment it is understood TO
carry with it considerable political sig
nlticance. Ii summarily retires Mr..
VIM. r. Morrison from the leadership of
the party in the state. Nh. Morrison's
tactics as party leader were very much
hike those which are supposed TO charsc-
terlze. a weak bull in China shop. His
capacity for smashing things and pro
duclng general CONSERVATION, during the
short period Of his assumption OF the
leadership, was wonderful He was
selfish, conceited and arbitrary. With
him permanently retired and General
Palmer at the head of the party, the
more conservative members thereof are
beginning TO take fresh courage for the
future. In any event the honorable
William +. is placed in a politically
horizontal attitude and is ready for the
catacombs.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
Wheat and Flour Next.

Kansas City Sgar.
4 bill has been introduced in the Penn
svlvania legislature to provide for more
thorough inspection of meat before it is
offered in the market. 1t is claimed
that such q measure is demanded in the
interest Of proper sanitary regulation.
but the real animuS of the measure ap-
pears in a clause that declares that to
offer for sale any kind Of fresh meat be
fore it has been inspected alive in the
state shall be deemed a Inisdemeanor. 1t
is very patent that this feature of the
proposed law contempiates an embargo
upon the importation of western dressed
beef, in the interest of local stock
raisers and butchers. In a very fair
and intelligent article on this question
tine Philadelphia Press points out the
danger to the legislature of thus edging
upon ground forbidden by the constitu-
tion Of the United States. and pronounces
the action of that body in relatian to this
question as an attempt To regulate com
merce between states Just as mush as
would be an effort to shut out Dakota
wheat ground into -four at Minneapolis.
1t would be interesting now to know
whether Kansas has adopted the Penn
sylvania idea of protection in this case.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
COAL.

cit may seem a .reductio ad absur-
dunn, said Prof. J. S. Newberry, of
Columbia college, in recent lecture, ''to
attribute such mighty powers to sub
stance so common, so soOty, and In some
ways repulsive, but little thought will
show us that it is scarcely more interest
ing in its practical value than In its
history. Few of you have realized the
magnitude and dignity it is doing in the
world, and fewer still have thought that
it is really the sunshine of by-gone ages,
and that it has once composed the It's
sues of various strange plants, some Of
which are among the most graceful and
beautiful of vegetable forms. Buried in
the earth or covered with water, vege-
table fibre decays or oxidises slowly,
forming IN successive stages of decompo-
sition peat, Ignite, coal, anthracite,
graphite, the hydrocarbon gases and
petroleum. By regulating and CONTROL
ing the further oxidation of these we
are able to utilize the resulting force as
light or heat or motive power.
ITO help you realize the potency of
this wonderful substance, coal, let me
recall to your memories the measure
ments OF the power evolved in its COM
bustion. 1t is estimated with the aver
age engines now in use, about 800 900
foot pounds are practically evolved from
the combustion of a pound of coal, and
are available in the performance of any
work done. Now this is about the power
exerted in a days labor of an average
man. Hence a ton of coal is capable of
yielding an amount of force equal to that
of SIX and two-thirds men, or of six men
and a well grown boy, throughout the
year. Or the annual production of coal
in this country and Great Britain is
equivalent to a thousand million men
for year.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
TOOLS AND NACHINEa
According to an Old Mechanic Th.y Grow
Tired just Like Men.

Tired just Like Men.
IL is a common complaint among mechan-
les that their tools do not serve them "a
well some days "a others.
A correspondent of the Iron Industry Ga
zette says: Tools, ike men, grow tired.
have seen a first-class chisel get tired and
act as though It was possessed Of the KING Of
sheol. II would not keep its edge, end the
more sharpened it the sooner il would lose
its edge.
/ called the attention of shop-rnate, q
griZzled ola veteran, 70 the curious be-
havIor Of the chiscl He looked 10 over and
handed il back 10 me saying; "The tool is
all right, only u little tired Lay II away
and let IL rest. IL win come ont all right
again, just like a man who ia tired" did
not believe the old fellow, and really
thought he was crazy to talk OF tool
getting "tired, but as there was no help
for it, the tool was laid away. I do not 70
member how long IL was left To rest, bat
when il was again sharpcnod and used IL
appeared 70 hold its keenest edge as wc1
as IT dld before IL got tired. BARRIERS tell
me their razors in constant use get tired IN
the same way, and wood choppers say their
axes sometimes seem 10 get soft all at once
Possibly constant and hard usage may
cause changes ia capitalization that would
account satisfactorily for the popularity
alluded to. Locomotive engineers often
observe peculiar misbehavior ia their ma
chimes, which may possibly be the result
Of continued heating, frictsoG and pounding
When a tool gets "tired " or a machine
"balsT" give each rest
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

systems of weights and care in Shipping
that might be enforced with profit to the
cattle raiser, but clearly he has no inter
est in whether one man has better facili-
ties to butcher than another beyond the
effect that might be produced on the de-
mand for that which he has to sell. That
the beef combine, so called, has lncreas-
ed the demand there is no doubt. That
their facilities for slaughtering and han
ding the animal have greatly improved
the quality of the meat there IS also no
doubt. But the absurdity Of this fight
Is the incessant clamor for inspec-
ton, the idea conveyed through 1t all
being that the cattle are faulty. A tight
as to who by or how this business is to
be handled is reasonable and maybe JUS
tifiable, but in the face of the rigid in
spection practiced at the stock yards and
packing houses at Kansas City, Kansas,
and which has been repeatedly shown
up, this talk about inspection, which
has become SO reckless as to indicate
that every farmer should have an in
spector for his particular herd, Is a
boomerang against the most important
and innocent to the fight, the man who
raises the cattle.
The market for dressed beef is east
and not west, while the supply comes
from the west. Establishments for the
handling of this business, it will be no
ticed, have for some years been moving
west, while the present inclination is 10
scatter farther into the cattle regions.
The plants at Wichita promise after
awhile TO equal those at Kansas City,
Kan, and there will be market for all
they can turn out.
The facilities for carrying on this i'm
proved mode of handling the butcher
business should be encouraged rather
than hampered. 1t takes a great deal of
assurance on the part of the local
butchers to asked the cattlemen and
farmers to help them resist the improve
ments that brains and money have
brought into this business. 1t is a trifle
fogyish TO demand that we shall return
to the old time slaughter house facilities,
Or killing ''critter" turn about for the
while patents and new
lines of business enable every scrap of
bone, hOof, hide, hair and tail to be
A great deal of this is thrown
away by the individual butcher, who
must make his profit out of the meat.
In view of the history and the effects
of all patents upon business, we are sur
prised at the viciousness of this row. No
invention or improvement has yet work
ed disaster to the people, or any line OF
trade. This is purely row of self-inter-
est, and we make this prediction, that the
Kansas farmer and cattle man viii be
the victim. Civilization never goes back
ward. The same fight was made against
barbed wire, and a score of other improve
ments we might mention.
But let UP on Kansas cattle.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
KANSAS KOLLARY.

F. E. Reed, of Newton, won the first
prize for oratory at the state university
contest.
Wichita seems TO be the main corn
market for this section of country
Burden Enterprise.
The annual meeting Of the Trans
Mississippi Press association was held in
Topeka "Wednesday.
The Presbyterian church Of Horton
will dedicate their house OF worship on
Sunday morning, January 9Th.
The ffteen-year-old son Of Dr. No
back. of Hiawatha. had both feet crush
ed while trying to board freight train.
at Atchison the costs in a suit over a
$50 pig were si5o. The losing party
will probably provide himself with a
copy Of Donnelly's cryptograIn-
The Leavenworlh. Topeka and South
western, which has been owned jointly
bv the Union Pacific and Santa Fe, has
passed into the hands Of the latter.
Its small matter but nevertheless
wortkr Of note by the honorable law
makers al Topeka, that a Lawrence
butcher has been arrested for selling dis
e2sed meat
Two OF the young savages whom tha
government Is trying TO educate az Has
Kill Institute, Lawrence, proved 10 b 50
refractory that they had to be taken
back to the terrstory--Lawrence Jour
nal
& fatal disease IS raising havoc with
the hogs il this SECTION. Some claim Il
is cholera. while ctRers are confident
that il Is kidney worms We hope II Is
checked before IL spreads any fartlser.-
Cunningham Herald
The nsrdsInus proceedings IN the su-
preuse court against TIRE county clark Of
GRAY county. which was sei for hearing
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

Strange as it may seem, the time was
when a territory asking admission into
the union as state, congress did not
halt and hesitate and make It's admission
depend upon how its people would prob
ably vote after it became state. In
those days congress looked only to the
requirements of the constitution-that is
to say, whether the territory had suffi-
cient inhabitants and whether the con-
stitution its people had ordained was re-
publican in its provisions. And strange,
too, as it may seem, the country got aong
very well under that policy, better, if
anything, than it does now that terri
tories are kept out Of the union year
after year because a majority of their
people may vote with the Democrats or
the Republicans, and strengthen one
party or the other in congress or in the
electoral college.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
Brief Tribute to BurneS.

Atchson Patriot
The death of Congressman Burnes re-
moves from earth man who has filled
an important position in the western
country for many years. He has been
intimately connected with the business
and political affairs of Missouri and
Kansas and exercised an influence that
few others could or have done. He was
an early and long friend of Atchison:
had constructed more buildings here
than anyone else. He owned buildings
and vacant lots in many portions of the
city and several farms. Altogether it Is
probable that Mr. Burnes estate in
Atchison city and county will aggregate
not less than half million dollars. He
was public spirited to large degree.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

The Veteran association, Army of
Northern Virginia, held its annual re-
union and banquet in New Orleans
Wednesday night. Jefferson Davis went
over from Beauvoir to be present, and
made few remarks, entirely lacking in
the political suggestions that used to
characterize his utterance. Entering
upon his S2I year in 4 few months age
is telling on him, though he was repre-
sented as being In the best Of spirits. He
was somewhat fatigued, however, at be-
ing compelled TO write his autograph on
the menu card of each of the 800 persons
present. Ii may not be out of place to
remark in this connection that the de-
crepid old man would do better, at least
so far as he Is concerned personally, to
devote the remnant of his days and
whatever of physical energy he may be
able TO summon, to the pleasant ITO HIM
task of writing his autograph on menu
and other cards, than TO undertake to
exculpate himself, as the embodiment of
the Confederate government, from re-
sponsibility for the Undesirable horrors
of Andersonville prison during the latter
part of the rebellion. through one OF the
magazines, as IS announced his intention
There are too many men living today
who have an intimate knowledge, from
vivid personal experience in that con-
nectson, for him to shift the response
hility unanswered. Such an undertak-
ing on his part will only serve to invite
personsal attacks upon himself and pro-
woke volumes OF vituperation that had
better remain closed, while no possible
good can come OF it.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
THE RUSH COUNTY MATTER.
RUSH CENTER. Kan. Jan. %, 1888

RUSH CENTER, Kan, Jan. %, 1889.
Editor EAGLE: The following from the
EAGLE Of this Date is not correct:
The committee on elections in the house
nela a meeung today, and considered the
contest case from Rush county. Andrews
is now acting representative from that
county and Smith, Democrat, is con-
testing A member of the committee
told an EAGLE representative soon after
the meeting that it was very close case
and there is some doubts as to the result.
He seemed to think the committee would
spare no care to make thorough investi-
gatien aud, of course, would make a re-
port In keeping and in accord with the
facts"
MIR. Andrews is and always has been
a Democrat. The contest is brought by
Smith, lifetime Republican, in the in
terest Of Ed. c. Tritt, also Republican,
and the regular nominee of the Republi-
cans of Rush county under the fraud
law (elections) of 81. -
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

The handsomest and loyyestpriced u our
ornamental stones, and one whoa has been
introduced most extensively, is the 50
called Mexican onyx or tecall, as i wa
first called, from tue town Of that name in
the State Of Pueblo. Menco. where It 10
found. The deep colors are richer thas
those of auy marble known, AID It's Way
stalagElitic structure and the align polish
winch IL can take, have made II popular
throughout me whole civilized world. Win
a meta mounting the effect "a greatly
enhanced. 10 occurs IN almost unlimited
guam titles, and fully E11,ooo worth has
beea used in the gElsed States for -aols
tops. nantes, vases, sc.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

The dressed meat question seems to
be developing lively interest in all sec
tons of the country. Ii is well that the
people should awake to the Importance
of the question. for its involvings are
more far reaching as affecting the we'll
fare Of the people than casual observa-
ton would seem TO indicate. Legisla-
lures cannot afford to act hastily in an
swer to the demands of a comparatively
few interested persons III certain locah-
ties in disregard of the interests and
rights of the community at large. AS
for the Kansas legislature, as before re-
marked, its members are credited with
to much good sense and wise discrimina-
ton TO act otherwise than for best in
terests of the greatest number, and this
they will have little difficulty in dis
corning upon careful investigation.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26

The Topeka Democrat calls on Con-
gresham Mills. of Texas, or Samuel ].
Randall, the great Pennsylvania. TO
strike the keynote TO Democratic action
on the senate substitute for the Mills
tariff bill within the next fortnight in
the house. and as sort of starter for the
statesmen named the Democrat suggests
that inasmuch as half loaf is better
than no bread, il would be wise thing
for the house Democrats to accept and
pass the substitute. under protest that it
does not come up to the Democratic idea
of tariff reform. All of which sounds
magnanimousC9, only we would remind
our esteemed contem. that in this case il
would be like exchanging, for their part.
a stone for whole loaf of bread, full
weight.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-26
KANSAS SCHOOL BOOKS.
Another Field Worthy the Attention Of
Our Legislators.

ANY enactment of our law makers
which upon its face promises to tighten
the burthens of the people in general
and universal way is hailed with pleas
ure and commentator. The EAGLE is
| pleased TO note that the matter Of school
books Is likely to be taken up. Kan
sas is pre-eminently a state of schools.
Her common school system is matter
of pride and congratulation. But the
| question Of uniformity Of text books, the
oft repeated changes, practically forced
by interested publication houses, etc.,
have proved vexed questions. 1t is true,
no doubt, that the school book question
is more serious one for the average
family than that of the school tax.
However, as publisher, we know and
we take the pains to assure our repre-
sentatives and senators at Topeka, that
here is field worthy their serious con-
sideration. The school books of
Kansas need not cost the people
over one-half what they are now
compelled annually to pay. This may
seem startling or broad if not a
loose statement, but a systematic en-
quiry into the matter will verify its &C
curacy. We would not, without fur
Their looking up the matter, make a
statement of the gross sum which could
annually be saved to the state if the
books were all published by the state
or under some law of, or contract with
the state, but. it would be very large
For every ''block'' of ten people. say,
there is one family and for every family
at least one set of books per annum and
you have one hundred and fifty thous-
and sets of books costing several hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. To say
that the Kansas Legislature, by the passage
of carefully guarded law, could save to
the people of this state one hundred
thousand dallars annually is a very con-
sentative statement We don't care
what the drummers, lobbyists and
agents of the great eastern book publish
ing houses may declare, or
how much they may attempt
to discourage, Kansas can
puDiiou Hcl O"ii SChOOl DOCKS anu put
them within the reach of every child in
the state at uniform price of about one
half that which people are compelled to
pay under the combine" and trust"
rule under which the state is now served, |
which rule leads to bribery and corrup-
ton. AS for the class of work, printing, |
binding, etc, Kansas can do as good |
work as the world can show. Exactly |
the same materials now uSed are in the |
market everywhere, and the same appii-
ances, in their perfection, are owned in
the state. But even ali these aside, it is
within the power of the legislature to
save to the people of the state, in round
numbers, one-half of the money annually
expended for school books.