The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-12-21
MISSOURI EDITORS
what They are Saying i'm Thei
Papers.

t~1lIlgenCer, mas TINS 10 say III 10 TIT
manncrin which the state debt is being
paid off,
"At the end of the year, 1889, there
will be redeemed and cancelled S7l2,
600 of the bonded indebtedness OF the
state. OF this amount $4,000 not yet
due remains to be paid. Next yeaI
only S2lS, 900 of the state debt will
mature. AT the end of 1890 the bond
ed debt of the state will be IS 600 900
Editor Munford, in his wIde-awake
paper, the Kansas City Times, does a
little figuring as below:
at is a little hard to see just how
the republicans are going TO make botn
ends meet it they carry out all their
schemes. The surplus now amounts
10 about $57 ,000, 900 and the president
proposes to repeal the internal tax on
tobacco, which would leave only about
Sl7, 100000. Then there are about
BY GOO 900 more wanted for the pen
sion department, and a good man Y
millions for steamship subsidies, the
Blair educational scheme. additional
river and iarbGr appropriations and
Il dozen other republican plans for get
Ting Il whack at the treasury. We can't
see just how they are going TO do il
ALL"
The Cass County Democrat takes mp
the Globe. Democrat with a round turn
thus:
"The St. Louis Globe Democrat says
nathan Vact al (r,ck roll oun hn hpaInn
for the u. S. senate while they both
i've, except by a republican. This is
equivalent to saying they both have a
lie lease Oh the office"
~
Mr.. j. Il. Mcdonald, the editor OF
the Johnson County Star, who, by the
way, is a nephew OF our former fellow
citizen of the same name, gives us this
piece of news regarding our congress-
man:
congressman Ia, sney, of this dis
triCt, drew the same seat in congress
that his brother Tim, of Michigan, oc-
cupied last year."
Editor Jones, in the Republic, tells
of a change of heart that seems to be
going on in Mr.. Powderly:
st is gratifying TO observe that Mr..
Powderly, who was at one time more
than suspected of leaning towards re-
publicanism, is gradually making his
way into the full light of democratic
truth. He announced in Atlanta a lew
weeks ago that he has reached the con
viction that 1.-THE policy of protection is
n wrong on labor; the laboring classes
are not protected, only the manufac-
turers.' He announced further that he
| has discovered that'the rich receive the
protection; the burden of the tariff
rests its crushing weight upon the
POOR In his speech Thursday night
lie showed that he has accepted the
democratic doctrine on several other
points. as tor example, the Australian
secret ballot system and the negro
question. He said, thereby taking
uirect issue with Harrison's message
l'We believe the southern people are
capable OF managing the negro ques-
IiOn for themselves The indications
are that the Knights OF Labor and the
farmers organizations will soon find
themselves in full accord With the
democratic party on nearly all ques-
lions or public policy, If not identified
with its organization. The principles
which the democratic party are fighting
Tor constitute the only hope for the
producers and the toiling masses of the !
country"
Editor McMullin. who always has a
level head, says III the Jefferson Demo
crat:
"When the average republican editor
needs some copy to fill up with he
writes an editorial about how much |
this state would be benefited if il could
be placed under republican control. A
stranger TO our people n institutions
would be led TO believe, by reading
such illusions, that democrats are all
ignorant, immoral and degraded, W bile
%"epublicans are intelligent, moral and
refined; that the affairs of our state,
under democratic management, are all
in almost hopeless confusion, and that
the only remedy is to place them in the
hands of the highly moral republicans.
After such stranger would live here a
while and learn who il is that consti-
.ute the great bulk of w-breakers, he
soon would change his opinion.
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Editor Kerby grows eloquent in
d%enunciation of one DIR. II. q. Nunally,
for some of that PERSONS irregu' arities
at West Plains, and winds up very
earnestly:
But one thing in this connection,
readers of the Gazette. Whenever a
mau comes to you, or into our midst,
wearing long hair, tucked up like a
woinan's, set him down, then and
there, as a fraud from top to bottom.
Did you ever see u ong-haired man
who Wasn't a deceit and a deception?
In our briet but somewhat varied life
we have never seen an exception to
this assertion. Touch not, nor have
anything to do with, a long-haired
man. Forget it not, forget it not"
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Then Mr.. Kerby, having wrought
himself up a little, gives us this elo-
quent picture of the loveliness of the
Howell county winter climate:
"Men and brethren, fellow-citizens
generally, go back in your memory
and call up all you ever resd or heard
saw of sunny skied Italy, and then
compare it with the weather we are
now having in Howell county, Mo.
All put together canno compare with
this climate. The brown eyed child of
the far famed Italian CLINE, sitting con
teniedly picking the harp and drawing
music from its easy going violin,
would no longer be couteDted with it's
surroundings could it but get a glimpse
OF this paradise on earth.
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Editor Childcr-, OF the Troy Free
umcovors II masculine weakness
did YOU v ask a man the time
just after ite had inspected his watch
and put l; in iii' pocket? |, 81. did you
ever receive All answer before the man
pulled his watch ont and uoh another
at il? Just why it is that this is
would be difficult To tx plain, int
if yon will ask yOdr friend The time the
next time you observe him scruiinize
his watch and snap the Iii You will
find that he will inkc auo her look at
the dial before g%i.iiIs an answer
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Editor Bradshaw opens his long and
interesting account of the meeting of