Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-10-30
MISSOURI

A mighty good way to keep
town booming is not to allow the
hoom to "slop over"
~. S. Hall is ventilating
tie land-loan and sub-treasury
scheme, and the Farmers Alli-
ance is ventilating U. S. Hall.
There seems to be about as much
virtue in one as the other.
Sympathy is cheap, and
Democratic platforms are CORES
pondingly liberal in dispensing
it. Democratic leaders profess
to love the American working
man, but they greatly prefer to
wear coat made by the working
man of Europe.
1t is a fact of some import
ance that nearly ell msaaaaff affs ctured
goods are lower than year ago,
print cloths nearly third of a
cent, shirtings 1ae while sheet
ings, cotton hosiery eud knit
goods are much lower; blankets
are lower by 4Oc per pair, fannels
by Sc yard, and boots and shoes
have lost the small advance effect
ed about year ago.
-Kirksville has made more
extensive, and more valuable I'M
provements this summer than any
other town of like population IN
the state. The improvements
have not made one dollar of H.
debtedness to the town, for they
were paid for out of the property
owners pockets. A careful and Iu-
dicious policy will continue these
improvements indefinitely.
The decided action Presi-
dent Harrison has taken in de-
manding prompt reparation from
the Chilian Government for the
murderous assault upon unarmed
American seamen in the streets of
Valparaiso, Is heartily commend
ed. All patriotic citizens, Fire
spec.ive of party, stand ready to
support the Government IN the
vindication of American honor
abroad.
The range of prices since
the enactment of the Mckinley
law has been such for the different
classes of products as to contrib
ute to an equalization of condl-
tions among the various Industries
and thus to the largest measure of
general prosperity. Prices on all
farm products have ruled compar-
atively high, in striking contrast
with the previous state of affairs
in the agricultural industry; while
on the other hand, manufactured
goods have sold at very small
margin of profit to those engaged
in their production. The country
is in state of vigorous prepara-
ton for better things and the pros
perity among the farmers, such as
is now setting in upon them, never
fails to diffuse its benefits broadly
and distinctly in every depart
ment of human endeavor.
In no other country on
earth does the working man
hold, socially or politically, the
same position that he holds in the
United States. Every intelligent
American workman carries IN his
hands the possibilities of future
distinction. A country in which
the great majority of wealthy and
successful merchants and manu-
tscturers began their career as
poor young men, has a hundred
avenues of achievement that are
open to every man of industry.
temperance and intelligence
There is no land where the poor
mans s capital-his brains and his
muscle, finds SO many opportunities
for remunerative investment. The
returns which labor, both mental
and physical, bring in,,the Unite d
States, are many fold greater than
in Europe. America is the one
country in which the working man
and the millionaire cannot be dis
tinguished instantly by their
dress. 1t is the one country in
which the average worker may
possess cozy home of his own in
which he NAV live on the bes. food