The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-06-21
CAPITAL NOTES.
Y TAsHlNGTON, D. c., June
\Af 14th, 1s95-It is an adage as
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President never hears the TRUTH. As
a rule your correspondent takes little
in adges and maxims, but unless every
body else is getting the situation wrong
the President isn't hearing the truth
about the silver situation. Mr. Cleve-
land is being assured by every member
of his party who visits the White House
that the sentiment in favor of silver is
ON the wane in the south. and, with
echoes of the big silver convention at
Memphis, participated in by some of
the most prominent southern leaders of
his party, still ringing through the
newspapers, he accepts their assuran-
ces as true. 1t may be true that silver
sentiment is dying out in the south,
but it seems strange that hundreds of
prominent men belonging to all parties
who come to Washington, but do not
call on President Cleveland, should
have failed to make so important Il
discovery. The President is also being
assured that Secretary Carlisle's efforts
have made it certain that the free silver
men will be defeated in Kentucky, and
he will leave on his summer vacation
with that belief. A few weeks will
show whether he has been told the
truth in that case; the silver men Say
no.
Uncle Sam will soon have a consid-
cradle bill to present to China, on
account Of property belonging to Amer
ican missionaries recently destroyed
by Chinese mobs, and, if later advices
shall confirm first reports as to the
murder of American missionaries, the
affair may become more serious than
the presentation of big bill for
damages, actual and exemplary. The
State department is waiting official
dispatches from our representatives in
China, before deciding upon what
action shall be taken.
Quite little furry of indignation
has followed the discovery that among
tha ninety-nine clerks dismissed from
the Pension Bureau, in accordance
with legislation enacted by the last
Congress, was Miss Elizabeth N. Key,
a granddaughter of Francis Scott Key,
author of 'sThe Star Spangled Banner''.
Miss Key has been clerk in the
bureau since 1881, has fair record for
efficiency, and is the sole support of
her mother, who is blind. A strong
effort is being made to secure Miss Key
reinstatement and it is believed that it
will succeed, for Notwithstanding the
propensity of the average American to
any s'there's no sentiment in business -
everybody knows him to have a vein of
sentiment in his nature, which once
aroused thoroughly dominates his
action for the time; and if the idea of
turning out women descendants of the
author of 1.-The Star Spangled Banner"
to starve, or to exist ON the charity of
the world, doesn't reach that vein
of sentiment its outer coating must be
growing dangerously hard.
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Attorney General Harmon agrees
with President Cleveland on the
financial question, as Mr.. Clevela nd
probably knew before he made HIM a
member of his Cabinet. Speaking on
the subject Judge Harmon said: "In
the present situation it seems to me
mere folly TO talk about the free COIN
age of silver. The only way We float
the silver we now haye is by attaching
an applied greenback to every silver
dollar, if necessary, to keep the two
equal. = Of course there is very
narrow limit to the governments
ability to do that, besides L know of
no reason why it should do it. If
there were free and unlimited coinage
of silver the government could not
| keep the two metals on a parity very
long, and the result would be, by the
law of money, that has bean settled
from the time that man had money,
the gold would all disappear and there
would be only silver basis''. Need.
less to say that silver men do not agree
with either the Attorney Generals
argument or his conclusions.
Flag Day. is being universally
observed in Washington to-day, by a
display of the National .colors upon
buildings public and private, business
and residential, and upon the persons
of men, women and children. It's a
good thing, and the Sons of the Rev
olutio:, deserve credit for Their efforts
to have the anniversary generally
observed. 1t is impossible for any
people to love their flag too much, and
not Il few Americans have shown &
disposition to love ours too little.