Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1892-12-09
FRIDAY DECEMBER . ,spa.

NdltI NOI
The price of silver Tuesday
was only one.hslf cent per ounce
above the lowest price on record.
The monetary conference does no,
seem tobe beneftting silver.
The young mems Business
association wants every man who
is interested In the future prosper
ity of kirksville to become a men,
ber of the ASSOCIATION. Send 10
your name, and lend your support
to the organization.
The argument in favor of
good roads is again with US.
Good hay is worth $40 per tor,
and while there is an abundance
for sale, very little of it can be
brought to marketson account of
the bad condition of the high
ways.
Senators PETER and Kyle,
the two Alliance members of the
Senate, pray 1.-The Senate to sp-
point a committee to investigate
the existing combine of railroads
and warehouse men to deprsss
the price Of wheat, and for the
postponement Of the snti-optlon
bill until the results of the lnves-
tigstion have been laid before the
Senate.
-Senators Kyle and PETER
have taken the right step in the
investigation of the causes that
depress the price of wheat. When
the combine Of the railroads and
wsrehousemeu has been thorough
ly investigated it is quite proba-
bic that there viii be no need of
an snti-option bill. The combine
of the railroads and warehouse
men do not deal in wind, but in
the actual products Of the farmer,
and in some instances they are
able to regulate the prices at will.
Had Mr.. Hatch been acting in the
interest of the farmer instead of
playing the demagogue, he might
have made this discovery long
ago.
The meeting to hear the re-
port of the artesign well commit
tee last Saturday night inaugural
ed the movement that will un-
doubtedly give Kirksville q sys-
tenn OF first class water works. A
number OF letters from persons
OF large experience in the artesian
well business we're read. In one
OF these an offer was made to sink
an artesian well at $3.50 per foot,
and II water was not obtained the
work would cost the company
nothing. This would certainly
indicate that men who have made
this wo-k a study, have faith that
an abundant supply of artesian
water can be found in Kirksville.
Before the meeting adjourned a
stock company with capital
stock of $4,000 was organized, and
number of shares were taken by
those present. The remaining
shares are being disposed of, and
the company will be ready at an
early day to make contract for
sinking the well.
-Eyidence accumulates that
the Brussels monetary conference
signifies little more for the Unit.
ed States than transatlantic va.
cation for its delegates. England S
participation, as was limited at the
outset, was to be nothing but an
act OF courtesy to the American
government and the less interest
ed powers. Her representatives
were to make no pledges of bind
Ing or sweeping character. but
were to be absolutely directed by
the government at London. 1t
was a violent assumption in the
hrst place, to suppose that an
agreement looking to the rehabili-
tation of silver could be reached
with the creditor gold-owning ma
tions. This is an era in which
the financial policies of countries
are shaped, not with regard to the
of general business
and business men, but solely with
a view to enhancing every dollar
invested in bond or mortgage.