The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-05-23

radical of the fire alarm species, and
is believed to entertain liberal views on
tariff reduction. Such combination
in Kansas congressman is something
to brag about.
ACCORDING to report of the in
ternal revenue collector of Iowa,
licenses for the present year to sell
liquor have been issued to such an ex-
tent that there is a liquor seller for
every 500 of the Inhabitants. In Phil
adelphia the.number of liquor sellers is
limited to one in every thousand of the
population. That is not the only diff
ference between the two places, for in
the Quaker city the thirsty get their
drinks on the ground floor, while in
Iowa they have to climb the stairs for
them, and in payment for their trouble
take three or four drinks before COM
ing down.
WE are indebted to Charley Scott,
the whilom editor of the Lawrence
Tribune and war correspondent of the
Topeka Capital at Washington, where
he learned lots of things-for the as
surance that the hand of death is on
Secretary Blaine. The marble pal
Ior,'' to quote the classic diction of
Brother Scott, ''of his face, tells the
story" Now that the ex-correspond-
emit has begun to tell what he knows
about life and death and such matters
in Washington, it is supposable that he
1 -
tain us benighted folks of the west with
delightful "reminiscences of his stay at
the capital.
| DEMOCRATS are kicking themselves
because they did not have a candidate
in the field yesterday. That is, some
democrats are, the enthusiastic fellows.
Well, Brother Kelly did not enthnse
the brethren very much, Ills true. Gen
eral Apathy was against him, and that
old hussar is always a daughty and
formidable antagonist. But would a
Iden0cratic candidate, Overmeyer, for
Eexample, have Jared any better at the
hands of his friends? We doubted it.
Look at Heaston and his union labor
with zeal, anti-monopoly zeal, anti
national bank zeal, the zeal of the neo-
Iphyte and the ultra radical reformer
were they not also small potatoes, and
few in hill? The fact of the matter
is that the democratic is the only
Iparty that does not feel ashamed to
day of the part it played yesterday.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE has been
telling NewYork educational society
in lecture that the mechanism of the
public schools is bad. The children
are crammed with facts instead of be.
ing taught how to learn. All study at
home and the marking and examina-
ton system should be abolished. Nc
child should be seen on the street with
"a book under its arm. The domestic
arts should be taught. Mr.. Hale says
the children are required to spend too
many hours by half in the school room.
Parents should not be relieved from
looking after the moral training of
their children. One thing to be re-
lmembered is that boys leave school on
the average before they are thirteen
years old. which shows that the aver
age parent believes that boys can be
better prepared for life in shops, stores
and Offices than in the public schools.
/ SAYS the Atchison Globe: B. T..
Walker has been appointed United
States Marshal for Kansas. Mr..
Walker is big, fat, pretty man, whose
chief claim to the Office is that he is a
political fixer. He first came into mo-
toriety as a political fxer for the Rock
Island when that corporation entered
Kansas. It was Walker who manipu-
lated the Rock Islands right of way
bill through the Indian Territory, in
ducing Senator ingalls,. with honeyed
words, 10 let the bill pass, promising
that Atchison should get the big end
Iof the road on the Missouri river.
Later on, Mr. Walker, for some reason.
dissolved his relations with the Rock
Island. and became ixer for the
Santa Fe. which position he still holds.
The only dangerous rival Mr.. Walker
had for United States marshal was w.
=. Buchan OF Wyandotte. who, If poll