Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-05-22

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five per cent, all owing to the Nc
kinley tariff.
The case of Commissioner
Rsum's son furnishes new ex-
ample of the danger of public
officials appointing members of
their own family to positions OF
trust under them.
The Welsh American lin
Plate Company has been organlz-
ed with a capital of sl,00O,OO0 for
the purpose of manufacturing TIN
plate in Eastern Pennsylvania,
The capacity of the mills will be
1000 boxes of tin plate a week,
and it is expected that the capaci-
ty will be increased to 10000.
The Government of China
may not be able to tell In advance
the good points of an American
sent to them as minister, but it
knows good chance for advertis-
ing when it sees it, as it has Just
shown by requesting the Depart
ment of State to see that ample
space was reserved for its exhibits
at the coming Worlds Fair. China
is N advance of Kansas.
Henry Watterson, thelDem-
ocratic platform writer, says that
the Democratic platform of 1854
must be taken as the model for
1892. That means that the Dem
ocratic platform of 1892 must
read like free trade to free
trader and protection to protect
ionist. Mr.. Watterson's "strad-
die" platform will not fool the
people second time.
The English Golden Club,
seems to be getting desperate. Its
members begin to see that the
prospects of converting the world
in general and the United States
in particular to free trade for the
benefit OF Great Britain grows
darker each year. The club has
decided to forego its grand annual
banquet, and deYote the money it
would cost to forwarding the free
trade work in America and else.
where.
A wealthy English firm en-
Gagged in the manufacture of al.
pacas and plush goods at Salt Air
England, had its goods shut out oi
the United States by the late tar,
iff law. The firm built a factory
at Bridgeport, Conn, and brought
over six hundred of their employ es
who are now at work in the Brjdg-
port factory. These operatives re-
ceive on an average, double the
wages they received for the same
work in England.
In cities, it is only here aud
there one who makes a brilliant
success. Where one makes great
record thousands remain in OBJ
security or die in the desperate
struggle for life which is constant
ly going on. On the farm any
young man of industry and good
habits is sure of competence and a
position of influence among his
neighbors. His children have fair
opportunities to learn what is
taught in schools, and little op-
portunity to learn the vices which
plant themselves on every corner
in the large cities. Health COM
petence and good social position
are at the command ofevery one In
the country. In cities, few reach
the higher grades, and then only
after struggle which costs more
than the prize is worth.
The whining which is
heard in certain quarters over the
decision of the Nebraska Supreme
Court in regard to the Boyd -Thay-
or contest, is certainly i'll advised
and unworthy an intelligent peo-
pie. The Supreme Court decided
that Boyd is An alien, and that
an alien cannot be Governor Of
that state, though he received a
plurality of the votes cast. The
judgement is as sound in princi-
pie as the judges declare it to
be in law. Under any other con-
struction the newly arrived immi-
grant would be eligible for office
without naturalization. The at