Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-02-26
The House has adopted ,

Iesoiution not 20 appropriate any
money for the State University
until the question of location is
finally determined.
There was a decided senss-
ton in kirksville Wednesday af-
ternoon, caused by the sun shin
ing out for a few moments, the
first time in seven days.
Next Monday closes the
month of February and three i'm
important personages--George
Washin. ton, st. Valentine and the
ground hog, will get rest.
The nearer the farm and
factory are to each other the great
er the home market, and the
greater the home market the
greater the value of the farm.
The nearer producer and
consumer are brought together
the more the prolific the producer,
the less the cost to the consumer,
and the less profit to the middle
man.
The records of the Probate
court narrowly escaped obstruction
last Thursday night when fire
broke out in the millinery store.
Adair county needs safe place
for the county records.
Good honest dollars and
good honest sense is a big enough
platform for any political party,
and the party that is true to this
platform may be safely entrusted
with the interests OF the country.
Since the Cotton States are
able to sell their great staples
abroad for gold, they are entirely
content to have other sections take
the risks and dangers of unlimited
silver coinage at home.
The present condition of
the roads offers the strongest ar
gument in favor of road improve
ment. Country roads are now
next to impossible, and trafc be-
tween town and country has been
almost wholly suspended for ten
days.
Free traders claim that
trade balances like pair of scales.
"You can SELL" they say, "no more
than you buy Then how did we
come to sell S44,O00,000 more in
November last than we bought:
Why is it that the figures of 6
treasury balance sheet can never
be got to harmonic with the the.
cries of the free trade professors
At a recent meeting of cot
ton growers at Atlanta. Georgia, {
proposition to petition Congress;
for a protective duty Oh cotton re
ceived warm support and was de
feated only after a heated depat,
and number of strong speeche'
in its favor. The lesven is begin
ming to work even in the cottor
States.
- The Democratic caucus il
in session in Jefferson City, ano
the Industrial Conference is il
session at St. Louis. The former
is being held at the States ex.
pense, however, under the guise Of
a special session, and will there.
fore be able to hold out much
longer than the Industrial Confer.
ence.
The New York Post, Demo
cratic. in summing up Hill'scareer
says: GAS a Democrat he never
allowed another Democrat to be.
come leader or get into power
Sooner than permit this he woulG
unite with factions of the opposite
party. He is first for Hill anc
second for the Democratic party
and rather than yield to Other
leaders he will disrupt his party
He has debauched the politics OF
our city, and built whatever pow
er he has from the most disrepu-
table elements of the party by
means of money and bribery"
Three hundred old soldiers,
Union and Confederate, delegates
to the Industrial Convention, now
in session in st, Louis, met early
Wednesday morning and organlz-
ed a bury-the-hatchet club, and
then marched to the auditorium
arm in arm carrying the stars and