Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-01-31
-Organize a Business Mems
Association without further delay.

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The year of grace, 1890
should be the most prosperous
year that Kirksvil.a has ever had.
Whether it will be or not depends
entirely upon our business men.
A bill to remunerate SOL
diers for the difference between
the value of gold and greenbacks,
and the service pension bill should
receive the prompt attention of
Congress.
--Reports from seven of the
principal livestock producing
states show moderate increase
of cattle and hogs and greatly
improved condition compared
with last year.
--Provldence and the Repub-
lcan party are harmoniously and
industriously at work downing
the trusts The warm weather
has thrott'ed the coal barons, and
the courts have knocked out the
sugar trusts. Warmth and sweet
ness will come cheaper in the
future.
A Business Mems Associa-
tion is badly needed in Klrksville.
BY concert of action number of
new industries can be successful
ly established in Kirksville, and
for this concert of action we can
only look to Business Mems AS
sociation. Let there be move
toward organizing one at once.
The year 1889 was by far
the most prosperous year that
klrksvllle has ever known. But
prosperous as was the year 1889,
the year of 1880 may be doubly
SO. Concert of action, a liberal
patronage to home industries and
a knowledge of Kirksville's worth
and advantages made known
abroad, will bring this about.
Senator Ingalls, has intro
dueed a bill in the Senate granting
arrears in certain pension cases.
The bill provides that any person
who has heen granted pension
by a special act of Congress may
apply to the Commissioner of
Pensions for increase or arrears
of pension, which shall be granted,
If upon examination it appears
that the disability, or injury was
incurred while in the line of duty.
"A petition has been present
ed to Congress, asking that the
seat OF Congressman Bland be de-
clared vacant. Mr.. Bland was ell
ected from the Eleventh Missouri
District, and when the state was
re-disricted a Democratic gerry
mander attached Galloway county
to the Eleventh District, to make
1t go Democratic. Galloway coun-
ty not being contiguous to the
other counties of the District, but
separated from them by the Mis-
souri, River, the petitioners claim
that Galloway county can not be,
constitutionally, a part of the
Eleventh District. Leaving out
Galloway county, Thomas Musick,
the Republican candidate for
Congress, had a majority. Mr..
Muslck, has waited too long to
contest Mr.. Bland's seat, hence,
the prayer of the petitioners to
have the seat declared vacant, that
special election may be called to
fill the vacancy.
The advantages of the West
as a location for manufacturers
can not be placed in tco strong a
light The American system con-
templates placing manufactures
and food production side by side
wherever the natural advantages
permit it. The abundance of fuel,
the cheap food, grown in fertile
soil, the growing market resulting
from the rapid increase of popula-
ton, and cheap transportation, all
invite the manufacturer to the
West. Cheap coal is abundant in
the West, and the iron ore must
go to the coal because it takes
more coal than ore to make ton
Of finished iron. The manufac-
ture of iron would give us blast