Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-02-24
UBLETTE, PRorRlrron.
MISSOURI.
IKKsyILLE,
FRIDAY FEBRUARY %. Isss.

u. Depew that a labor Bureau
ould be of value to the working
.lsses is on the line of common
lense and industrial necessity.
The country is in pros
oerous condition financially; but
between President Harrison, MIR.
cleveland and the Populists the
political situation is in bad way. |
1t will take years of the
very best rule the Republicans
can give Kansas to repair the ~
jury she has sustained in the past
two weeks under the advice and
work of a Populist Governor.
The production and circu-
lstion of money must keep pace
with the increasing volume of the
business of the country. When
This condition does not obtain there
must be stagnstion IN business.
Bob Wallace worked up a
primary for Col. Hatch last sum-
mer, and now the people will
work up number of post Office
primaries for him this summer,
Col. Hatch can't go back on the
primary.
-Sherman's bill to Issue gov
ernment bods is in keeping with
some other legislation that benefit
/ ed Sherman more than it did the
country at large. Sherman is 8
back number and should be sat
down upon with considerable en-
ergy.
The new railroad from the
northwest is no longer looked up
on with doubt or suspicion, but as
certainty. The company has
the money to build the line to
Kirksville, and there is now strong
probability that the work will be
done during the coming summer
There is considerable sport
made Of MIR. Cleveland's appoint
ment of obscure men to cabinet
positions. But the obscurest
man ever appointed to cabinet
position was Mr.. Noble, of st.
Louis, and the most obscure man
In the country after the fourth of
March will be the same individual.
Gov. William Mckinley
has been reduced to penury by
becoming surety for a friend The
amount that he will have to pay
is estimated at $4,000. His wife
has declared her Intention to sac
rifice all the property left her by
her father, that her husband may
be able to meet his obligations.
Noble womanl
" The gentlemen who have
i in charge the collection OF fifty
per cent of the artesian well sub
scriptions have made excellent
progress and up to Thursday
morning $500 had been paid. The
amount now on deposit at the
three banks are as follows: Al
the First National, $3.50: Savings
/ band, S305; Union bank. S225.
1t has become apparent tc
both the president and secretary
that the recent and continued de-
msnd for gold was largely arti-
ficial. Now will some statesman
rise up, and tell us how this artifi-
oial demand for gold, brought
about by spectators, can be kept
in check, and threatened panics
prevented when there is no cause
for them.
It is quite probable that the
Baltimore and Ohio railway COM
pany is behind the Sioux City
project. Ii the o, K. line is pur-
chased by the Sioux City. as our
dispatches indicate. and the Sioux
City should be owned or controlled
by the Baltimore and Ohio, it
would, by closing up the gap be-
tween Besrdstown and Quincy,
give this portion of the state and
the entire country along the line
OF the Sioux City, a great through
route to the seaboard.
1t is suggested that a meet
ing be called and committee ap-
pointed to go to Sioux City,
Iowa, and inform the officials
of the Sioux City, Chicago
and Baltimore railway COM
pany of Kirksville's friendly
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