Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1891-01-09
FRIDAY. JAN. . 1881.
The town council should be-

GIN at once to devise means Ior
having the town thoroughly clean
ed at the first opening of spring
The disgraceful condition of many
of our streets and back alleys
should not longer be tolerated.
DAMS trade review shows
1890 to have been a booming busl-
ness year, the volume exceeding
that of any other year by at least
ten per cent. Reports from the
cities as to the present condition
of business are uniformly conf
dent In tone.
-Adair ard Putnam counties
should move in the matter of
another railroad. At the south
end of the line remarkable energy
IS being displayed and over S40,-
600 have been raised toward build
ing the line from Monroe City to
Shelbyville.
The cities cannot continue
forever to grow at the expense of
the country. There is bound to
be swing in the other direction
some time, and with nearly one
third of the people in the cities
now, the time cannot be very far
distant. Farm lands are probably
lower now than they ever will be
again.
The tariff on tin takes effect
July L. By that time st. Louis
Chicago and Pittsburg will have
TN plate factories in successful
operation. In very short time
the Industry will become one of
commanding Importance, paying
out millions of dollars for wages
and material, and giving employ
ment to thousands of people. But
this will not be all. The price of
tin will 60 lower than it has ever
been, and the much talked of din
ner pail, tin cups and roofing will
be cheaper than it has ever been
in the past. Yet, wnen all this
comes to pass, the free trader
will still be going about the coun-
fry crying that the tariff is a
tax"
Ohio and Michigan farmers
refuse to endorse the platform of
the Ocala convention. The Michi-
gan farmers oppose the PROPOSE
ton that the government shall
initiate the money of the country
by issuing l,000,000,0O0 dollars of
legal tender notes and lending to
the people at a low rate ofinterest,
and In convention assembled give
their reasons for this opposition in
the following language: "That the
issuing of 81, ,000,000,00o treasury
notes." and loaping to the people
either directly or indirectly at a low
rate of interest, would lead to wild
clamor for credit, every intelligent
person must admit. That no sys-
tenn could be devised or it's opera
tlon SO guarded as to prevent par
tiality or favoritism in its distri-
button, first to personal friends Of
the loaning agent and next to his
p olitical associates, every thought
fll man must See. That it would
create a feeling of helpless de-
upon government aid by
those whom it is designed to
benefit, thereby RELAXING their in
iividual efforts, destroying their
Energy and self-reliance and ZEN
them helpless mendlcants of
charity, every obse1v-
r of human nature must know"
Says the Lincoln (Neb.)
ournal: "The United States had =
'etter be putting its house in |
eadlness to meet some of the
harpest competitors in the food
rade OF the world that has ever
cen known. To say nothing of
ne development of the wheat q :,
elds of Russia, India and the O
outh, there are over 100000, 900 p
cres of wheat growing lands in Il
'urkey and Asia Minor that will !, !,
ome day Se sending grain to mar $, s.
ct. 1t is told that in some OF the O
rovinces the bulk of the crop s.
oes to waste now because of lack Il
means for Transporting it to 7 Z
he seaboard. Those needed rail- u
dads WILDE built before the cent D
ry is rounded out, and there is s,
0 use talking about sending "
merican wheat to Liverpool in II II
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