Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1895-01-04

N>S W SAihN. dhu III al SuOlt
time it will take $50, 900, 600 more
of bonds to fill the hopper.
-Brashearis to have cream
cry and canning factory. For push
and enterprise Brashear is ahead
of any town IN North Missouri.
THE Treasury is now in so
helpless acondition as to invite at
ta,ks from gold spectators from
all quarters. The last issue of
bonds was she elimination of what
looked to be a confidence game
played on the President by a thrift
ty friend and financial adviser.
The idea of the couutry at
large is that the proper function Of
money is to facilitate the exchange
of articles of true value, rather than
for investment in bonded debts
which its own scarcity forces. For
these reasons the prospective
postponement of currency reform
to the next session of Congress
can be borne with a good degree of
patience by the common people.
The Report of the Strike
Commission on the recent labor
trouble in Chicago has attracted
much attention and criticism, but
the most scathing denunciation of
it which has yet appeared has been
written for the January Forum by
Mr.. Harry Perry Robinson, editor
of the Railway Age" under the
title of ''Ihe Illuminating Report
of the Strike Commission" Mr..
Robinson reviews the events of
the late stike and points out the
many misstatementS and inaccura-
cieS contained in the report.
The present condition of the
Treasury, makes the necessity Of
reforming the currency pressing.
This is unfortunate as urgency
may prevent the full consideration
which should be given to so i'm
portant question. 1t was hurry
and the pressure of selfish and
noisy interests that repealed the
Sherman law Internationally Sim
liar precipitate action on currenc!
reform may be forced at this seS
sion of Congress. However, present
indications rather point to the new
Congress as the body that will have
to be looked to for a solution of tn,
currency problem, and this prospec
is not disconcerting to those VIII,
hope that currency reform will b,
wisely and safely ordered
The year 1894 has gone int
the void, where its predecessor
have vanished. Into that bottom
less abyss time has dumped it
centuries, and 1894 is only one O
the disappearing series. To u
who were here at its coming ant
are here still at its going, it mean
more than 800 days or the rotation
of the seasons. We are the bette
or the worse, the wiser or not, wit
more to answer for than when tn
bells rang in the New Yea
and rang out the old. Everyman il
his own individual life has h is owl
tale to tell of regrets and errors. O
failures and lost opportunities, 0
lightsand joys that have gone ou
of his life and of success or miSfort
uneS that have crept in. On thi
private scroll, with its indellibl
ink and unfading page, every MAJ
has written a section of his bic
graphy, and it would be well fo
him TO review his own privat
diary of the year, and what it ha
of lessons to teach him, of advic
10 whisper in his ear, or of warn
ings that hang tn cir red lights owe
dirk places, pitfalls and traps. !
might be by so doing, the paSsin
years with all their faults wouL
not be without Sheaf of whs a
among the weeds, springs in th
desert, and gold among the brok e
quartz If this is possible. and W
arei onvinced tha, il is, if indviiG ua
cilalastrr can lie cleaner and or
manhul and closer TO its highe
models hy taking ;hc lantern ligh,
ed IL ~ 10 guide the yet III
t,Gdu,n laiis. Il backwar | loo,
Oh the year. just closed, may / el
I. br .l.ivn ;hc Yet unwritten pag