The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-05
GREAT REVOLUTION.
Congressman Daniels OF the
Buffalo District,
Thinks a Violent P0lltlcal
Change is at Hand.
MUST ALL BE CHANGED
The Whole Financial System
Needs Overhauling.

ed with a request TO urge IL through Gull
fyress, an application for pension which
beats the recorC--that is If the record can
be beaten His appealing constituent Is
an old fellow who volunteered April 3,
1865. and received large bounty. march
cd to the county seat and no farther, as
the news was then and there received that
General Lee had surrendered on the SCh
The recruits remained at the county seat
and vicinity SO days, when they were mus
tered out under the general order The ap-
plicant never fired a shot, so far as can be
learned, even at target, never stood
guard, never marched 10 miles and was
never out of his county while in the service
In fact, his 50 days term was a long and
probably agreeable picnic, recruits OF
that kind put in most of their time pitch
ing quoits wrestling, running foot races
and swapping lies, I" as the phrase goes In
West Virginia
After being discharged he returned to
his labor, and having continued at it for
nearly a quarter of a century he finds him
self somewhat feeble in health and fancies
that said feebleness was fastened by expo
sure while sleeping on the courthouse
floor, in an old shed and in various places
occupied by the recruits He modestly
asks Mr.. PendletOn to introduce and have
passed through congress . bill granting
him a pension, as his 50 days term was
just one day toc short to enable him to
come in under the 90 days clause. OF
course he needs the money, and although
congress is very generous it is safe TO say
that if he depends on Uncle Sam he VIII
continue 0 aeed it,
The Political whirligig.
Mr.. Pendleton's majority for the present
house was only 200 over his Republican
opponent. while the Prohibitionist candi-
date got /, ass votes and the Populist 697.
Nevertheless, he got only 19 majority
in 1855 and was unseated in $780, he thinks
he may say thar he is gaining strength,
and if we only had fairly good times or
prosperity would return before NOvenb Der
the district would be secure The state of
feeling in West Virginia, he thinks, is very
much misunderstood in the north. 1t Is
not a great iron making state Coal is the
only product which could be affected by
the Wilson bill, and to that he is posi-
tive the people are in no such state of mind
as represented THE state is surely Dem
Ocratic, business is slowly reviving, and all
is well except that agriculture cannot be
prosperous for a long time, at any rate I'M
til it has had time to turn itself"
1t was quite interesting to hear few
minutes later an opinion from the Cana
dian border Hon Charles Daniels of the
Buffalo district gave il as his opinion that
"A great political revolution is at hand
But as to practical legislation he thinks
there is much TO be done which this house
as at present made up cannot do The
whole currency system of the country must
better and more consistent system estab-
lished- This is a view, by the way, which
seems 20 be gaining adherents rapidly on
both sides of the house. The silver men,
Of course. are in an almost savage state of
mind and declare that the last veto ends
the attempts TO come to any accOInmoCia-
ton with Mr. Cleveland and emphasizes
the sectional division In further CONVEX
sation Mr. Daniels said:
Revolution or Evolution.
81 have been very much interested of
late in the present condition and future of
the negro, and am highly gratified at the
signs that he is reasserting himself in the
south and making progress in every re
spect- 1t is too soon TO say whether the
reconstruction act providing for universal
amnesty and universal suffrage was or
was not mistake Only % years have
passed since it went into operation, and
surely everybody must see that the whole
existing condition in the south is abnor-
NAL and temporary
II cannot believe that it is long to go on
SO. The southern men tell me that where
the educational test Is applied the ne
groes are striving hard to qualify them
selves voters, and SO do not find so
much fault with that test as some do. All
this talk about sending the negroes to At
RIGA or anywhere else is bosh- They must
stay in this country and must develop along
with the white race, but 1t Will be in the
wake of the whites 1t takes long, long
time for a race TO develop. and. while I
would not say that equality between the
races is utter impossihility. yet if it
ever comes it must be at a time so remote
that we need not now consider it. Suffice
it TO say that If the southern people give
the negro a chance to develop the best of
his ability they will be let rione in so do
ing and probably little criticism be made
And as to finance, satisfied that we
have got to reopen the whole thing on en-
f1--l-- = T.
perhaps, but ct any rate make a complete
change in the system
Cur Patent Laws.
The house committee on patents has be-
fore il two very important measures intro
duced by Mr. Hall of Minnesota, but the
patent lawyers of Washington differ so
radically on the effects OF these measures
and there are 50 many minor amendments
to be considered that it viii probably be
some time before the bills can be reported
The first is a very comprehensive bill re
organizing the whole patent legislation.
IL gives better effect to the recommended
ton of the commissioners at the World 5
fair on foreign patents 1t also provides
Tor the representation of this country at
the coming Brussels conference ON patents
SO that the United states can get the full
benefits OF International treaties
1t also provides for facilitating the
transfer OF foreign patent hts to Amer
lean citizens. fer making the rights of pat
entees and assignees the same and con
tains very stringent provisions against an
abuse which has grown up Of making in
dividual buyers liable for the infrinrement
of patents The citizen who buys an ar
ticle for his own is not TO be liable and
the patentee must proceed against the nj
rating manufacturers The other bin
makes very fun and careful provisions for
the registration and protection of trade
marks and labels ON payment OF a fee of
SIS and codifies the existing legislation
and decisions on that subject, making the
practice uniform Mr.. Hall was a mem
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