The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-08-08

Telegraph company. Some of its |
statements of facts are disputed. and |
his original ideas with respect to re-
duct ON of rates reaffirmed, but with |
far less positiveness than at first. The |
question is left open by the secretary,
and a proposition invited from the COM
pany on a basis of reduced rates.
THE destruction of Spokane was due
to the absence of the superintendent
of water works at the critical moment.
With sufficient pressure at the begin
ming, the fire would have been eXtin-
guished and loss of millions averted.
Another significant lesson for those
discharging responsible duties. For
want Of nail the shoe was lost, etc.
Thus do great and disastrous events
from trivial causes flow.
THE LeavenwOrth Times has re-
| duced the price paid printers for com
position from thirty cents to twenty
| five cents per thousand. The Union
printers promptly left the Office and
the printers now employed are nom
| Union men.-Topeka Journal.
The editor of the Times, Colonel
Anthony. roars daily in his paper about
protection to the laboring man. The
colonel's theory is excellent, but he
takes care to not practice it himself.
Ditto. the prohibition theory,
A COMPLIMENTARY allusion to the
late legislature from the Lawrence
Tribune: ''It seems that among other
things that the late assembiage of
Kansas ignorance did, was to neglect to
make an appropriation to pay sheriffs
for taking prisoners to the peniten-
tiary. Perhaps the brilliant iegisla-
tors thought all the fellows who de-
served to go there had legislative
passes"
THE politicians and real estate men
are denying the reports sent out of
short crops and deStitutiOn in Dakota,
but Kansas man who went up there
to sell harvesters came right back, and
says that they have had but one rain
in twelve months and that starvation
is staring the people in the face. The
wheat crop is "a failure and the people
are discouraged. Let them come to
Kansas, where the greatest crops on
earth can be seen.
AS WE said some days ago, the move,
ment that will bring about tariff re-
form will get its greatest Impetus in
, New England. The result of the last
presidential election indicated as
, mach. Now comes Senator Blair OF
New Hampshire, who says:
Il am earnestly in favor of suct
changes in the present law as will adj
NIT free of duty into this section OF
, the country iron ore and coal from the
provinces. We cannot afford to see
the industries of New England para
} lyZeo for want of cheap raw material
T There are some of the finest iron mines
in the world, so understand, right al
the door of our furnaces, but in Cana
dian territory, and it seems as though
we ought to have the benefit of them.
MIR. PAT COMFY of Topeka was s,
elated over the receipt of Il letter from
Ingalls, that he must go about Topeki
reading it to Tom, Dick and Harry
He read it to J. X Hudsonof the Capt.
tai, E. 4. Wagner, II. L. Wakefield
/ ex- Governor Click aud several others
: These gentlemen say that the copy o
the letter printed in the Topeka pa
pers is substantially what the senate
wrote. His enemies will of cOurs
make the most of it, and Jay Bun
ton, Congressman Anderson an
: possibly Geo. w. Peck, who has tn
? senatorial bee buzzing in his bonnet
: will wake up and smile sweet!y on tn
5 brethren. But let us wait until job
: J. puts on his war paint and sails int
: the rebel brigadieTs or some one c
I them, as he did when he charged upo
Voorhees,. Instantly the banks of th
classic Kaw as well as of every streaI
and duck pond in Kansas, will reve
- berate, as they did last summer, wit
r the shouts of applaudiDg Jayiiawker
John J. has way of turl
ing the tide in his favor that is peci
liarly his own. He has no patent on
- either, yet he fears no infringement
especially from such fellows as Burto
y ct al.