Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-04-27
FRIDAY, APRIL 81, 1894.

If the city council proposes
TO accept any bids at all for put
ting in the water works plant. why
not let the bidding be general, and
give more than one firm a chance?
The revolt in the Democrat
ic party and the mmistakable
trend of public sentiment against
the Wilson bill have so discourag
ed the free traders in the Senate,
that it is believed they will aban-
don the present tariff bill, drop the
income tax and substitute some
thing like the old Mills bill for the
Wilson iniQuity.
II. V. Hall, representing the
Consolidated Engineering Compa-
nv, of st. Louis, has made prop
osition to the city council to take
the pumps, boilers, mains, and
other material they have contract
ed for. off their hands at prices
paid for them, and put in the wa
ter works plant entire for 81. 900.
This proposition may be reason
able. but if bids are to be allowed
at all, consistency would say that
all should have an opportunity to
bid.
The first number of 1.-The
Weekly Phonograph" is on our
table. 1t is edited and published
by n. j. Scurlock, of Schuyler
county, the poet, and all around
writer with Bill Nye flavoring.
The paper is not published "to
fill long felt want" but, as the
editor gravely asserts, for one dol
lar per year. 1t is neat five
column quarto, and is full of sun
shine. No family need have the
blues, not even deacon's family,
where the Phonograph is a visit
or. Residents of Schuyler coun-
ty should subscribe for copy, and
pay cash, and thus insure an
obituary they may feel proud of.
The increased passenger
and mail service soon to be giver
the people by the Quincy, Omaha
and Kansas City railroad, is al
most entirely due to Mr.. B. II
Lowenstein, of this city, and vii
be appreciated by the people along
the entire line. For nearly a yea
he has been working for this re
suit, and to his efforts in this di
rection may be accredited the visi
of Mr.. Gilman, of New York, ant
Mr.. Jacobs, of Hartford, Conn.
trustees of the road, who in con
ference, with the officials decided
last Tuesday to put on the extr;
train. The GRAPHIC congratu
lates Mr.. LowenStein on his tina
triumph. If one man by untirin;
energy and industry can accom-
plish so much for the benefit o
every town on the O. X. line, wha
could be done for Kirksville by ;
united and unselfiSh effort of al
her business men.
The bimetallic league o
Great Britain has invited a mum
ber of prominent bankers anC
tinanciers of this country to JON
them in a movement for a doubl,
standard of money. The silveI
movement is not only growing IL
this country but also in England
the country that has held the fate o
silver in its hands for many years
In their efforts to force mono
metalism the English financier.
have gone too far, and they hav,
pressed some of the Central anC
South American countries till the,
are not able to meet interest pay
mentS. In their effort to get gol(
or nothing they have fixed thing:
so they are liable to get nothing
When these countries borrowed
money from England their silveI
was worth more than a dollar al
ounce, but the value of silver a!
compared with geld has been beat
en- down to fifty cents, and nov
they find it twice as difficult t.
meet interest payments, and som,
of them are not able to meet then
at all. This has caused the none,
lenders of England to stop ant
consider their policy, and the,