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ton due to the railway strike the Treas
ury has postponed the shipment of mon
ey to Chicago for the pensioners who re-
ceiye their payments in that city. Inas-
much as the pensions are now due and
| thousands of old soldiers are in actual
need of the money the government
might ask Dictator Debs for a special
order to permit the cash to be sent
through the lines.
The platform of the Kansas Democrat
/ a. DU..oO UOnIOAviUu uutD4s VAv who's
ground. 1t endorses the Chicago plat
| form of 1892; it endorses the Wilson bill
also the Senate tariff; it endorses the
Cleveland Administration and demands
| free silver. Clearly the Kansas Democ-
racy is an omniverous party. 1t swal-
lows everything it can get its feet on.
A we'll known lawyer on circuit in the
north of England, curious to know how
certain juryman arrived at his verdict,
meeting him one day, ventured to ask.
SWELL" replied he, "rm plain man,
and 1 like to be fair to everyone. don't
go by what the witnesses say, and l don t
go by what the lawyers say, and / don't
go by what the Judge says; but look at
the man in the dock, and l say, He must
have done something or he wouldn't be
there, SO bring 'em all in guilty" AR
gonaut.
1t is estimated that the stock of
whisky in bonded warehouses is 200, 900,
600 gallons, and if that estimate is cor
rect the Senate has given the Whisky
Trust just $40, 100000 by increasing the
tax from 80 cents to S1.10 gallon. The
tax on the whisky now in bond will be
~o;I 1,n 30 L
will make barrels of money. Great are
the trusts under this Democratic Admin
istration.-Springfeld Union.
There is still some opposition down
in Connecticut to the new method of
making every murderer his own execu-
toner by means of the new automatic
gallows. But the main thing, after all.
is to get the murderer properly punished
for his crime, and it makes but little real
difference whether he himself or the
sheriff starts the mechanism in motion
which performs the work of justice.
1t is reported that among the men
who fell before the soldiers and police in
Chicago during the roting were Gaje-
winski, Faller, Kleugerberger, Srzceiz-
tansk and Kozzminick Further than
this, of the nine men arrested at Ham
mond for rioting but three were rail
road men, and two of these, it is said,
were not citizens of the United States.
1t is a waste of words to make any com
ment upon these facts,
Oh, no, Mr.. General Master Workman
Sovereign! When you say that ''every
fibre in our civil structure is strained to
the breaking point you exaggerate.
The civil structure is tougher than you
think for It's the public patience that
is suffering from strain at present, and
you'd much better quit fooling with it,
Hartford Courant.
With McKane in State Prison, Suther-
land in the penitentiary and Shea under
sentence of death, the business of carry
ing elections by fraud and violence is
discouraged in degree hardly hoped
for few months ago.-New York World.
True enough, but it ought not to escape
the attention of the World that these
election criminals whom it names are
all Democrats, and that the elections
which they carried by fraud and violence
were all carried for Democratic candi-
dates and to promote the great cause of
reform. boston Journal.
1t is singular that, having made such
successful efforts to secure protection on
everything they produced, the South
should not have taken thought of the
fact that the tin plate consumption of
this country represents 100000 tons of
pig iron annually, and that this is plum
they could not afford to throw away
We think they will awake to the realiz-
ing fact that in number of cases it is
not enough that their crude materials
should be sheltered by heavy duty,
while refusing proper protection to the
manufacturers of the North, which con-
sumo these roducts.-Boston CONNER
cial Bulletin.