The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-04-19
MISSOURI EDITORS.
what Thcy are saying I'm TheII
Papcrs,

what Thcy are saying I'm Their
Papers,
Editor Theo. Fisher, of The Farming
ton Times, thinks that:
"The next general assembly ought to
amend the election law so as to cover
the whole state with the Australian
ballot system. 1t seems to work well,
and there is no reason why 1t should
be confined to incorporated cities OF
5000 inhabitants and over. There are
lots of places outside of such cities that
need the SYSTEM"
Editor Mccullough, of the Globe
Democrat, is evidently hedging. He
now says:
"rhe pension expenditures have
grown to such dimensions that it is
necessary to establish limit and TO re-
fuse appropriations which are not
needed TO relieve actual wants. In
short, the idea of service pension is
impracticsble al this time; and those
who favor it will have to wait until
the government shall be in better con-
dition TO stand the necessary outlay
1t is true that Garfield said pension
charges should diminish when they
reached S39, 900, 900, and that this year
they will be nearly $l00,000,000 in
excess of that amount, but what right
has the Globe Democrat to murmur
when it demagogued like the veriest
political drab against Mr.. Cleveland,
when he pointed out the approaching
condition OF which it now complains3
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Editor Cochran, of the ST. Joseph
Gazette, thus aludes to the philosophi-
cal discussion going on in this educa.
tional era of the world Oh the social
question:
"There seems to be wide difference
of opinion among our contemporary
sociologists as to the chief causes OF
poverty at the present time, If we may
Judge from the results of symposium
on this subject obtained by the New
York World. Mr.. Atkinson says the
causes of poverty are ignorance and
incapacity. DIR. Depew says il is in
| temperance, and he is supported in this
view by Millionaire Rockefeller and MIR
Russell Sage Prof Sumner adds vice
and folly in general to this cause,
while John Boyle O'Reilly strikes out
and declares that our present clviliza-
ton is organized injustice and intellec-
| tual barbarisn, and that the rich have
usurped all the rights which belong by
right to the poor, who do not under
stand that the world belongs to its liy-
ing population. Until there shall be a
some what closer agreement as to the
underlying causes OF poverty, there
doesn't seem to be much of chance OF
eradicating it,"
Ignorance and incapaoity have much
to do with tho unequal distribution oi
the good things OF the world; so has
intemperance; SO, unquestionably, have
vice and folly. MIR. O'Reilly's reason
as given above is not reason at all
it is not cause but an effect. How.
ever, taking all of them as being true
We become more and more convinced
that SO called socialism offers no relief
and that further amelioration of th,
lcondition OF mankiud-for il has al
ready been much improved-mus
come from mental and moral culture
and, instead OF an aggrandizement Of
the state, reducing Of its powers t
the minimum, with ali elimination O
all class lcgislation-all favoritism b,
and through the law In other words tn,
Jefiersonian doctrine OF tho least posi-
bic government, with thorough educa
ton OF the citizen. Alter all Thoma
Jefferson was the greatest origina
thinker of our country, which is on
reason why the democratic party which
is founded upon tho tenets inculcato,
by him, is immortal.
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Editor ii. A. llutchisou. of the Room
vile Advertiser, is evidently l.'rht il
this statement;