Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1890-07-04

need watching should he be elect
ed. This is pretty plain talk but
we believe every word of it
Kirksville Journal.
Does the editor of the Jour-
nal remember that the only Office
he ever held In his life was gotten
by deserting the Republican party
and running on the Granger"
ticket? In passing judgement
melt upon other men who do the
same thing, does he use as stand
ard the estimate he has placed up
on himself?
A man who permits his name to
he used on a ticket in opposition
to his party, nine times out of ten,
digs his political grave whether
elected or defeated. There is
something more than Office hold
ing in republicanism or democra-
cy, and the people usually form a
very unfavorable opinion of the
individual who deserts his party
for a chance at an office. --.Kirks-
vile journal,
The above is sminentlS
correct and was certainly learned
in the school of experience. There
is certain class, however, that
won't learn in any other place.
The Granger" ticket was bad
thing, was it not?
The Disability Pension bill
was signed by the President on
Friday last and full justice to the
soldier, SO much talked of by poll
ticians great and small, may now
be said to have been done. In
deed, under liberal construction
of the law by the commissioner of
Pensions, there are very few of
the old soldiers who cannot hon
estly claim pension. A service
pension, it was claimed by its op-
ponents to be, and service pen
sion it practically is, for disabili-
ty in any degree, if from the per-
Torrance of manual labor, is entl-
tied to at least six dollars, which
may be increased to not to ex-
ceed twelve dollars. The widow
of every soldier not now on the
pension rolls, will be entitled to
eight dollars per month and de-
pendent parents to twelve. The
estimates given for the necessary
increase to meet the new law, thirty
five millions per year, are low, for
it is safe to say fifty millions will
moi more than cover it.
1t will be remembered by
the farmers of the country that
Senator Vest was engaged few
months ago in. investigating the
cause Of low prices for cattle. He
made much ado at that time about
"beef combines" and railroad cor
porations, and grew eloquent as
he spoke of the treatment received
by the farmers at the hands Of
these great, and INSCRIPTIONS
monopolies. In a recent letter be
indirectly puts all the blame feT
low prices on the cattle raisers Of
the country, and says that there is
no excuse for a panic in the prices
of cattle, and that, if the cattle
ralsers are true to themselves,
there is no combine on earth that
can keep down prices in the future
Marketing SO many COWS an6l
calves he regards as the wors t
feature of the cattle market as it
gives a supply greater than tlle
demand, and breaks the mark ct.
The fact is, when Mr.. Vest beg an
his investigation he Lad gr,lve
fears that Missouri democr acy
would repudiate him, and thai. he
would lose his place in the Sci late,
and like W. Fl. Hatch when hc got
up the "bogus butter" bill,
thought he must do somethi ng to
get the attention and synpat by of
the farmers. Now that it has been
fixed up that Mr.. Vest is to 60
back to the Senate, if the Demo-
Gratis can put him there, he is
willing to tell the truth abo ut the
cattle busines. His entire letter
is simply declaration that the
low prices which have prevailed
were the result of an overI',.lpply.
The vote on the W. 1or works
proposition last week /ie de-
cided surprise to both IT,, friends
and nnnnnanfa Il n,as axnaatoI