Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-05-16
MISSOURI
FRIDAY. MAY 10 i@,.

WIG OhSh SN Oy OhS Va oui CohiSs-
pondents under the caption OF
"a New Society
The Congressional investi.
CATION of the Clayton ASSASSINATION
in Arkansas, has already revealed
the fact that Clayton had 27t
majority.
The tariff debate has done
one good thing at least. 1t has
shown the great mental superiority
of the Republican side of the
House.
There was meeting of the
Farmers Alliance in this city
Monday. The meeting was secret,
but it is understood that no bust.
ness of political nature was
transacted. The farmers are toe
shrewd to be dragged into politics
on short notice.
-U. S. Hall, who has been
lecturing and posing cs the friend
of the farmer, and expressing his
disgust with the old parties, has
been elected as delegate to the
Democratic state convention. The
opinion is gaining ground that U.
S. Hall is great hypocrite.
During the year 1889, the
number of cattle exported reached
329,27l, which is greatly in excess
ofany previous year. The largest
number sent abroad in any pre-
vious year was in 1884, when l9O,-
DIS were exported.
-Postmaster General Wana-
makers suggestion that postal saw
ings banks be established in the
post offices of 10000 towns where
such facilities ale most needed is
eminently wise, and its adoption
would lead to the extension of the
system to every portion of the
country.
Geo. 2. Funkhouser, pri-
vate banker at Plattsburg, made an
assignment Wednesday. His liza
bilities are given out at $4,000,
and his assets at $4,000. A large
amount of the assets is in real es-
tate, on which it was impossible
to realize, and this is said to be
the cause of the suspension.
We do not believe that any
pledges should be demanded of
for office. Some of
the aspirants for the office of
county judge, however, might,
with propriety, be privately re-
quested to give an opinion in regard
to keeping a COW pasture in the
center of the business portion of
town and calling 1t a park.
Perhaps the most notifying
fact to the people of Missouri that
the census will lay before the
country is the total absence of say
ings banks in this state. Statistics
gathered in 30 states and terrific
ries show $40 such institutions
with 4,O2l,523 depositors and
81 ,425, 230,349 deposits, an average
Of s354 for each depositor, or S2S.5 56
for each man, woman and child
in the states named. From these
figures the great need of savings
banks in Missouri is shown. TAX
lng her estimated population such |
backs, if established, would have
10000 depositors and 93,32O,OOO
deposits in the state.
The advocates of Free
Trade tell US that trusts and COM
oinatiohs to control products and
prices are fostered by the Tariff.
But every one knows that some of
he most gigantic and oppressive
rusts in this country were formed
@ deal in articles of purely do
nestle manufacture, the prices of
which are not affected in the least
~ the Tariff; that others are form
I'd to deal in articles which are
free; and that still
'thers are formed to deal in arti-
les which are both imported and
Produced in this country. The
ruth is that the Tariff has nothing
whatever with the question of
rusts.