The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-05-23


What is Butter-worth?
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The Mckinley tariff bill passed the
House by u strict party vote Wednes'
day and is now ready for the Senate.
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Hon. JOHN G. CARLISLE, of Ken.
lucky, was nominated for U. S. Sena-
tor to succeed the late James B. Beck.
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THE Fourth Annual session of the
Winfield Chautauqua Assembly will be
held at Winfield from the Gath OF
June to the 4th of July.
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IF the Republicans would remove
the tax from whisky, Vice-Presidents
Morton's sales would be greatly in
creased, but President Harrison would
be greatly puzzled to know what could
be done with so many officeholders
thrown out of job.
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THE Turon Headlight now comes to
lis under new management. Mr.. E. F.
Koontz having leased the entire outfit
will retire from the newspaper business
and engage in the practice of law. We
wish the Headlight, under its new man
agement, and Mr.. KoontZ the best OF
success.
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GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN was started
March 18th, 1890, on a trip around the
world, accompanied by S. w. Wall,
editor of the TOcoma Ledger, by the
city of Tocoma, Washington. He is
expected home tomorrow, making six
ty-five day out, beating all previous
globe-circling records.
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THE opinion of the supreme court,
rendered Monday without dissent, that
dressed beef has the same rights as the
local butcher, will be accepted every
where but in this state, some of whose
citizens have recently expressed the
belief that a supreme court decision
isn't very good law anyway.
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THE legal papers necessary to the
transfer of the st. Louis s. San Fran
cisco to the Santa Ee have not as yet
been signed, but the probabilities are
that they will be signed to-day. This
deal adds /, 400 miles of road to the
Atchinson system, besides giving it
absolute control of the Atlantic s. Pa
cific railway.
IT appears that Mr.. Mckinley was
mistaken as to the reason that promp-
ted fifteen hundred thousand farmers
to stand at the door of Congress.
They were not there to ask for relief,
which they knew would be refused,
but only to admire the nerve of Mr..
Mckinley in relieving the men that
had furnished the fat in 1888.
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THE older our protected industries
get the more infantile they become, or
senile, as you like it. The protective
tariff bill drafted by Alexander Hamil-
ton. more than century ago, when
our manufacturers were sure enough
infants, provided for an per cent pro-
lection; the present law is Al per
cent protection, and the Mckinley bill
will afford it so per cent, or more,
protection on the general average.
Somebody does pay, and must continue
to pay, all the protection, and that
somebody is the consumer of tariff
taxed articles.
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The Republican party, which is the
friend and patron of American labor,
resolved yesterday to stand by the Nc
Kinley bill proviso that Mexican ores
containing lead must be subjected to a
duty of one and one-half cents a pound
when imported by this country. Pract-
ically this means that none will be inn
ported. If the Mexican government
will now raise its import duties on Kan
sas cerals anothsr notch or two we shall
witness most happy illustration of
how the theory of protection operates
to promote the interests of the farmer;
and if the great Argentine smelter
banks its fires, we may also perceive
in what way this admirable principle
viii protect the 500 American Iaborers
whose bread and butter the Mckinley
bill proposes to take from their mouths.
AS the Bulletin reporter was out
looking for an item one of the windy
day last week, sweet and neat young
lady opened her purse when gust of
wind blew out the following newspaper
verse which fiuttered in the air and fell
at the reporters feet:
The devil sends the wicked wind
That blows our skirts knee hikhi
But God is good and he sends the dust
That blows in the bad man's eye.
We will not tell the name of the
young lady but she can have her proper
ty by calling at this ofice--FIorence
Bulletin