Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1893-11-24
T. E. suBLETTE, PROP.

POcAtiOu W COmmouo VIC obeoheAo''
of literary people.
Uncle j erry Rusk, ex-Sacre-
tary of Agriculture, died at his
home near Viroqua, Wisconsin,
early Tuesday morning.
1t now seems that members
of the Cabinet are blamed for all
the acts of asinine stupidity that
have characterized the present ad-
ministration. Who selected that
Cabinet anyhow?
1t becomes more apparent
every day that Mr.. Cleveland COM
mitted an egregious blunder in
his dealing with the government
of Hawaii.
Prof. F. P. st. Clair. presi-
dent of the Christian college, Col
umbis, Mo-, died Tuesday after
noon. His wife will succeed him
as the head of the college.
The responsibility of the
Hawaiian blunder has been shift
ed to Mr.. Gresham. AS a result
the Secretary OF State is not in
the best of humor, and is liable to
resign at any moment.
The rumor that Senator
Vest had committed suicide was
rank fake. The news came from
Chicago where the Post published
a dispatch from Kansas City that
the Senator had suicided. There
is no truth whatever in the rumor.
The next time Mr.. Cleve-
land takes Hoke Smith aside and
quietly informs him that his
pension policy is unsatisfactory,
Hoke should retaliate by remind
ing the President that he once
wrote 8 learned thesis to show that
there wes no connection between
sore eyes and chronic diarrhea,
and gave this as his reason for
vetoing a worthy pension bill.
--Kirksville is without any
means of fighting fire. The Ma
con steamer has been returned to
Macon, and the old man-kjlling
hand engine is broken, and to re-
pair it would cost more than it is
worth. If we get water works
the purchase of steamer is un-
necessary; but the city does need
at the present time better facilities
for fighting fires. Moberly has
offered to lease its steamer to
Kirksville at a very reasonable
rental, and it would, no doubt, be
good business move for the city
council to arrange with the Mober-
ly authorities for it's use in Kinks
vile until water works are in
operation.
Mr.. Cleyeland has conf
dentially informed Hoke Smith
that his pension policy is very un-
satisfactory, and that it has done
the administration great injury
When Hoke Smith went into pow.
er several months ago and with q
flourish of trumphets announced
that he would purge the pension
rolls, Mr.. Cleveland was a quiet
spectator and it is Nowhere limited
that he ever informed HoLe
Smith that he was making a fool
of himself. The fact is Hoke
Smiths pension policy ls quite IN
line with the ideas advanced by
Mr.. Cleveland in his vetoes of
special pension bills during his
first administration, and it will be
difficult to make the people be-
lieve that Hoke was doing any
thing but the bidding of his mas
ter.
The maintenace of high
wages on a falling market is q
feat not yet accomplished in the
history of trade. This economic
lmpossibility is, however, one of
the demands of too many even of
the most intelligent men In indus
trial life. Examples of its incon-
sistency and failure are almost as
numerous as the trades and in
dustries of the country. 1t goes
with the saying, that it would be
equally interesting, both with the
manufacturers and their employ
es, if prices and wages could be
maintained; but in this neither
have an option. but are compelled
to accept economic decisions as
masters of the situation. That