Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-07-19

fense would make him very popu
lar. That being the case it i,
probable that Mr.. Eustis will re
main in Paris, unless he gets mac
at being reprimanded and resigns
as be may do. 1t has been whis
pered ever since that Londor
speech that Mr.. Eustis has presi
Dental aspirations.
oh, humbug !! one OF thy name
is certainly Hoke Smith. A New
York paper has started a popular
subscription for the benefit of Miss
Elizabeth Key, granddaughter OF
the author of "The Star Spanglet
Banner" who was on the first o1
July dismissed without cause IRON
the petty clerical position which
she had filled for fourteen years in
the pension bureau, and rhe aged
and invalid mother. Among the
Washington contributors to this
fund appears the name of Secre-
tary Hoke Smith, the man who has
1t in his power to restore Miss
Key to the position from which
she was so cruelty and mercilessly
dismissed with his approval, thus
enabling her and her crippled
mother to live Independently in
stead of having to eat the bread of
charity. Mr.. Hoke Smith would
find it difficult to convince any un-
predjudiced person that any feel
ing accompanied his donation to
the Mickey charity fund; it was
merely conscience contribu ton.
If he had either feeling for the
Keys, or the patriotism which
every American should have, he
would reinstate Miss Key and save
her the humiliation of accepting
support for herself and mother
from the newspaper charity fund
donated by the public.
Agricultural department officials
cannot brush away the accusation
that spectators get advance infor
nation of the departments official
crop report by referring to them
as "old stories.'' Old or new, it
does seem strange that certain big
spectators should always be able
to lay their bets in the market
Just before these reports are issued
in way to make money and to
make it appear to other people
that they were acting upon actual
knowledge. Perhaps these specu-
lators only guess but it seems just
a little odd that they should al
ways guess right, while others
as intelligent continue to
guess wrong right along.
Members of the administration
are having a difficult task to rec
oncile the promise that a demo-
cratic tariff would open the mar
kets of the world to the producers
and manufacturers of the United
States with the cold, hard figures
in the official report of
the Bureau of Statistics figures
compiled by democratic officials.
During the eleven months ending
May 31st, exports from the United
States fell off as compared with
the same period ending May 3lst,
1894, when the Mckinley law was
in force, nearly s75, 900, 900 in val
le-to be exact, the expectations
or eleven months under the Nc
kinley law amounted to 1913, ,547,-
S66, while the expectation for the
same period under the democratic
5arlff amounted only to $739, ,651,
'75. These are the sort of facts
which have convinced those who
the great business inter
ssts OF the country that it is not
safe to have the democratic party
n control of the national govern
nent, and which will not soon be
orgotten, but will stand like
stone wall over which the demo-
'ratic party cannot hope to get
Turing the life of the present gen
ration.
CROP BULLETIN.
The Weather Crop Bulletin issu-
a hv the Missouri waathar Sarvio.