Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-12

recognize manufactures by raising q
Miller to the supreme bench; but he
evidently is resubmissionist, for he
picked on Kansas Brewer.
THE old saying is: ''As the first three
days of December are, so will be the
first three months of winter" If the
saying holds good in this country we
will have an exceedingly mild winter.
How MANY Kansas Prohibitionists
would sell their corn for fifteen cents,
knowing that it would be made into
hominy and corn meal mush, when Of
fered twenty-five cents for it by the
brewer? Wichita Journal.
SILcoTT, the cashier of the House of
Representatives, at Washington, who
skipped for Canada with $4,000 that
did not belong to him, ought to have a
gold medal for being the checklist
skipper of all the shippers.
THE Fifth Avenue hotel in Topeka,
refused to feed the jury in the U. s.
circuit court, one day last week, be-
cause the jurymen were in charge of a
negro bailiff. But then, republican
Kansas loves the colOred man as
brother, and thinks it wrong that the
white people of the southern states
arefuse to be ruled by him.
The Hutchinson Ne,vs is growing to
be . greater wind-bag every day of its
existanee. Not an issue comes out but
is full of mis- statements and highly
exageratiOns intended to be-
fuddle the minds of its readers either
on the question of resubmission or
concerning the puff ball enterprises(?)
within the corporate limits Of its town.
BROOM CORN is one of the most
profitable crops in Mcpherson county
this year. The assessors returns show
a little more than 1000 acres planted,
which produced not less shan 1900 tons.
The quality of the brush is excellent
and the average price is $1,000 per ton,
making the crop worth sos. 100000, or
$4,000 per acre. This year it is more
profitable than corn at II cents or
wheat at so cents per bushel.-Mc-
PhersOn Democrat.
Resolved that the prohibition law
should be resubmitted, was the ques-
tion debated last evening by VIM.
Zieber, John Hall and Mike Sweeney
fnr h<a nAH u ~
John Lindas and Joel Miller for the
negative. What was the result, do
you ask. Bro. Stoke? Another dead
ener on resubmission-the sentiments
of our sconstituents.-Pawnee Rock
THAT do settle it. When ''resub-
mission the sentiments of our con-
stituents' gets such an awful deadener
as that the people Of the entire. state
ought to "take water"-but they don't
They still take their beer and redeye-
the anti-prohibs, openly and when they
wantit, and the anti-resubs. on the
sly and when some one else pays for it.
THERE . is nothing in President
HarrisOn's first message to congress
worth criticising," is the comment of
most leading papers, 1t is simply a
lengthy, twelve column rehash of mat
ters well understood by the general
public, with faithful adherence to
the republican policy rs set forth in
the party platform of 1885, 1t sets
forth nothing sdefinately, but simply
rambles laboriously over large
conglomeEation of public matters in a
manner that suggests the idea that the
p4esident considered he had to lengthen
it out in order to demonstrate his own
Importance. The paper would have
been much more readable had he per-
mitted Boss Blaine to prepare it.
GREATLY minds differ, frequently,
if not Oftener. During the campaign
which preceded the election of Har-
rison, when all the protected monopolies
were exerting every effort to bring
about the success of the republican
party;i when trusts were being charged
by the democratic party with con-
tributing millions of dollars to the
republican campaign fund, Blaine,
the acknowledged brains of their party,
said that ''Trusts are largely private
affairs, and should not be interfered
with, even by the president of the
United States" Not having been
''interfered with" they have grown so
powerful, so grasping and grinding
upon the poorer and middle classes of
the nation that even liberal repub-
lican papers are crying out against
them. Harrison sees the necessity of
saying something concerning trusts, in
his first message to congress, and this
Is what he says: Trusts ''Are dangerous
conspiracies against the public good,
and should be made the subject of
prohibitory and even penal legislation. -
Will the republican congress and the
republican president bring about any
'prohibitory or penal legislation" that
will antagOnize such dangerous con-
spIracies against the public good'' as
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