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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25

tion of any Lafayette in our behalf, or
! such assistance as when the United States
offered friendly hand to Juarez to free
Mexico from a European monarch.
What we have a right to demand"
continues Garcia. lis a fair neutrality
from America instead of her shameful al
l;Gnce with Spain by which our friends in
the United States are prosecuted, our ex-
petitions hunted as pirates by the Ameri-
can navy, and our supplies of munitions
seized as unlawful merchandise II
America would permit our friends to send
US supplies without molestation, just as
the captain general could 90 for his army,
within n few months not an inch of Cuban
soil would be under the flag of the king
of CASTLE"
Put even with the United States treating
the insurgents as enemies, Garcia says the
Cubans can yet conquer and then in deli
cate but unmistakable terms he points
out the humiliation which will be the
portion of the country of Washington
when it finds that it has shared in the
odium of defeat put upon its European
ally. One step further and the insurgent
general would have declared that his peo-
pie could lick Spain and the United States
combined. but none of us will take offense
at the boastfulness which has so much
pluck as its handmaiden.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
The Passing of yoorhesr.

From the Boston Herald.
The ending of the public life of Dan
iel w. Voorhees, hardly makes ripple in
public interest now; yet Voorhees, was a
prominent figure in the politics of pre-
man, but he was brilliant orator, and
a power in his own state of Indiana. where
political contests are among the most eX-
citing of those of any state in the Union.
1t is. probably much forgotten that,
though u Democrat of the Democrats, he
went down into Virginia to act as counsel
in the trials that grew out of the John
Brown raid there This was a bold act
and in some quarters Ii was looked upon
as more eccentric than independent Mr..
Voorhees, afterward evened up with his
Democratic supporters by being very much
inclined toward the South during the days
of the war. He has had n long career in
the United States senate, and his term of
on committees to few of which he has
been equal He was personally liked at
home for amiable qualities OF character,
and his fervent oratory kept him in public
life. For reasons which it is not worth
while now to recall he has fallen away in
health and in general efficiency of late and
there has been little heard from him in the
senate for several years. His figure was
tall, and his sanguine temperament gave
forcible effect to his addresses to mixed
audiences. He was an orator of the ear
lier school. which appears to have gone
considerably out of fashion at the West,
as elsewhere
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
MUST NOT GO BACKWARD.

In the course Of a recent article upon the
decision of the ways and means committee
OF the Kansas legislature to report a di-
minished appropriation for the mainte-
nance OF the state university, the Journal
showed by a comparison with other Middle
Western states that Kansas had less mon
ey invested in buildings than any of them
and that her institution educated pupils at
n fess- cost per capita.
Next TO Kansas, the state whose univer-
sity makes the most favorable showing is
Nebraska, and a comparison between the
two viii perhaps better Illustrate the point
VIC have aimed at than a general compar-
ison among all the Western institutions.
Nebraska has invested in her university
buildings S347 900; the annual income of the
institution is $4,000; its attendance it LOO.
and the cost per Rnnum for each pupil is
Sls5. Kansas has invested in her university
buildings S2l5OOO: the annual income is
$lOS.OO0: the attendance is 9t0 and the cost
per annum for each pupil is sl25. In neither
case is account taken OF buildings which
may have been erected by gift or from
sources other than the state.
To understand how Kansas conducts her
school at a less cost per capita than Ne
brasl5a, It will only be necessary to COM
pare the cost in u few of the departments
which arc common 10 both, which is done
in the following table:
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
ALTGELD,S WALL.

Mr. Altgeld is still smarting under the
severe drubbing he received at the last
election, when the people of Illinois turned
him down with a majority of 100000 votes,
ana he is now pursuing the usual tactics
of discredited candidates and bowling
fraud with all the strength of his Iusty
lungs. He declares that it is certain Nc
I<inley did not fairly win in Ohio, Indiana,
Kentucky and California, and that it is
doubtful if he carried a number of other
states counted for him. But he admits, al
though grudgingly, that Mckinley did
carry Illinois, but only by a small ma
jority." In Ohio, for instance, he says
there were nearly 100000 more votes count
ed in 1896 than in 1892 indicating an in
crease of population of 100000 in four
years, which he thinks is too much.
But Mr.. Altgeld knows very well that
the vote of Ohio in 1892 was not nearly
the full vote of the state. This is shown
by the fact that Bryan got nearly 5000
votes in that state more than Cleveland
did four years ago. Both Parties used their
best endeavors TO get out every vote and
succeeded better than ever before in the
history of the state. 1t was the same way
in Illinois and in most of the other states.
But instead of Illinois casting 2I5OOO more
votes in 1896 than in 1892 she cast but III. 200
more, and of these Bryan received nearly
1000 more than Cleveland did. The same
general increase is shown in every state
in the Union, and Altgeld might as well
make the charge of fraud general and in
clude the whole United States.
In many of his statements the repudiated
executive is wrong in his figures. In say
ing that Mckinley carried Illinois by a
small majority" for instance. he de-
parted from the truth of history in a
marked degree. The official returns show
that Mckinley received H., 4sS votes more
than Bryan, and that Tanners plurality
was over l13,OOO
Altgeld may salve his feelings by charg-
ing fraud. but he deceives nobody and
only corroborates the general opinion that
he can exhibit the length of his ears on
very slight provocution
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
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NICARAGUA AND THE TREATY.

The animated, not to say redhot, debates
in the senate last week over the Nicaragua
bill did not just happen along by chance.
They were introduced very much on pur-
pose by certain senators who are some
thing more than suspicious of the new ar
bitration treaty prepared by Lord Sails
bury and Secretary olney, and which is
now pending action in the senate.
The canal project is for an American
waterway across Nicaragua, to be built by
Americans. to be owned by Americans. and
to be under control of the United States
government For nearly a century England
has been seeking n foothold upon the mar
row strip of land which joins the two
American continents. For part of the
time she has held It in the guise of a pro-
tectorate over the Mosquito Indians. There
is nothing to prevent her at any time from
1omenting revolution down there, which
would result in the overthrow of the con-
cessions for canal purposes now held by
the Americans. and by the same process
she might readily secure concessions of her
own. 1t goes without saying that the
United States government can never con-
sent to England owning and controlling a
canal across Nicaragua. When once con-
structed it would become the gateway be-
tween our possessions on the East and
West, and it is manifestly impossible
that we could agree to the installation of
a foreign gatekeeper.
Assuming that England sets up some sort
OF claim for the right to operate in Nicara-
qua, we can do nothing but submit the
case TO arbitration under the proposed
treaty. That the senate does not mean to
consent TO this is very much to be in
ferred from last weeks debates, and wheth-
er or not the canal bill is passed it is al
most certain that the treaty will be so
amended as 10 remove the Nicaragua ques-
tion from arbitration and again give formal
notice to the world that the Monroe doc
trlne applies to all rights of way between
the two great oceans.
There is also feeling that the Alaskan
boundary question should be excepted from
the operations of the arbitration treaty.
The American people can hardly consent
10 submit question of their own territor-
ial limits TO King Oscar or any other for
eign arbiter. 1t might resolve itself into a
question which could be satisfactorily
solved by arbitration, but as a principle
each nation should be allowed TO decide
for itself, as such questions arise, whether
St will fight, take water or arbitrate.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
MIR. Mckinley Is Not n FnctionIst.

From the Cleveland Leader.
There are all sorts of rumors with re-
spect to the president-elects interest in
the Republican situation in various states.
and almost daily attempts are made to
show. that he may do this or that at the
request of this faction or that in the
selection of his cabinet advisers and i'll the
distribution of the federal patronage.
We do not believe anybody but Mr.. Nc
Kinley knows what he will do. As a mat
ter of fact. while the president-elect is de-
sirous OF promoting harmony in the Repub-
lican party in all parts of the country, he
will not permit himself to be drawn into
the factional quarrels that have divided
the Republicans of various states. No at
tempts ought to be made to involve him in
that way, and none will be made by those
who have the best interests of the party
at heart or who desire the success of the
administration of the president-eIect
Mr.. Mckinley has thus far shown dis
position to select for members of his cab
net men who are not active as faCtional
politicians, and we believe he would be JUS
state in which there is a factionaI quarrel
unless he is certain he can name man
who stands aloof from factions. and whose
appointment would not give offense to a
considerable number of Republicans
We believe Mr.. Mckinley will succeed in
his purpose to avoid the intensifying of
factional strife, and we belie"e, further
more, that he will have cabinet that will
not only suit him. but will be satisfactory
to a majority of the people.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
A Bright Outlook for Cyclists.

From the New York Sun.
Despite the efforts of the Woman's Res
cue League of Washington to dissuade
young women from bicyiing. and despite
similar endeavors on the part of other
well-meaning persons. the new year prom
ises to eclipse all others in the number and
variety of its wheeling enthusiasts. And
why not? Never before was the sport of
cycling so well understood; never before
were it's healthful advantages. for males
and females alike, so thoroughly appreciat-
ed: never before was so much attention
paid by the proper authorities to the pro-
lection of the wheels natural rights: and
never before We're bicycles so Well suited
in strength weight and equipment to per-
sons of distinct or unusual requirements.
In short, it is safe TO conclude that ex-
perience has enabled the manufacturers to
greet their customers at the beginning of
this year with better looking, easier run
ming and. we believe, more serviceable
wheels than were ever before produced.
What new makers may do in the way of
furnishing cheap wheels is largely mat
ter of conjecture, but it is known that the'
older manufacturers have been wide awake
to the necessity of supplying their ma
chimes with every device and attachmfn MT
and every change in construction Which
seems likely to meet with the appl9yal of
wheelmen. For example, larger and, better
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25

things. The salaries now paid are less
than in any other Western university, with
the exception of Idaho. The average sal
airy for full professors in the Nebraska in
stitution is 81 80; in Kansas it is 5000. In
associate professors the two institutions
are the same, but in assistant professors
Kansas shows an economy of 500 per an
mum. Within the past few years Kansas
has suffered the loss OF no less than eight
professors, who have been attracted else
where by higher salaries. and there are
several in the present faculty who have
time and again refused advance offers from
other colleges because of their love and
loyalty to Kansas.
The other alternative. of reducing the
number of teachers. is even worse than re-
ducing the salaries. Commencing in 1866
with fifty-fve pupils and four professors,
this institution has grown steadily year by
year until now, with 960 pupils and fifty
two instructors. it is the pride of the state.
A reduction anywhere along the line means
n backward movement in education, and
We will not believe that any considerable
number of the intelligent and taxpaying
citizens of Kansas are in favor of it.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
QUEEN LII IS AFTER HIM.

The dispatches announce that Iiliuoka-
lani. the dusky ex-ruler of Hawaii arrived
unexpectedly in Washington Saturday
| morning. 1t was also remarked as a curl
GUS coincidence that Mr. Cleveland left
Washington post haste the same day,
bound for the jungles in the neighborhood
of Quantico, Va. Apparently the doughty
president gathered his effects together and
fled incontinently, as the redoubtable Cap
tain Cutie once fled from the blandish-
ments of Mrs. McStnger He stayed not
upon the order of his going, but went at
once.
What the deep, dark designs are that
Mrs. Dominis has upon Grover are not
known, but that she has designs of some
sort is clear, and her intended victim evi-
IDENTIFY knows it. Else why this hasty re-
treat, armed only with a shotgun, and
possibly a sandwich and a little other re-
fresEment to temper the bleak winds to his
portly frame?
On more than one occasion, it will be re-
membered, the president sent her royal
higbness letters, official of course, in which
he addressed her as his great and good
lFltnu, ana gave similar evidences OIL per-
fectly proper and official esteem. But now,
for the second time, he makes a hasty
hegira and leaves his great and good friend
to cool her dusky heels in the executive
ante-room, while he revels in anserine
slaughter many miles away.
But it may be that the deposed queen is
going to camp in Washington this time I'M
I'll she can collar her 0uOndam friend and
ally and see him face to face. If this is
her purpose, Grover might as well return
at once and give himself up.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25

tubing will be used in the frames of bicy-
cles where it has been found desirable:
better chains will be employed brakes will
be of styeS more welcome TO the rider; and
saddles. the source of so much discomfort
will be offered in greater variety and more
pleasing shapes, and at lower prices than
formerly. There will be wide saddles and
narrow saddles. those that are hard and
those that are soft. some that tilt and some
that don't, and others, all designed to sat
isfy
In the new wheels. patent devices will be
introduced to prevent the accumulation of
dust in parts where it has caused annoy
ance in times past. Many minor changes,
also, Will be made in the new models,
which, while scarcely noticeable TO the eye
OF the purchaser. are intended to add con-
siderably to the general qualities of the
wheel. As regards tires. there seems to
be very little radical change II is noted
that gears will probably be higher this
year than heretofore. Whereas five or six
years ago gears of 81 inches and there
abouts We're not uncommon. those ranging
from 20 to 50 inches are expected to pre-
vail for 1897
The prophecy of certain persons last fall
that chainless wheels were TO rule the day
during the coming season seems TO have
missed the mark. While machines of that
type will be made, the product. to all ap-
pearances, will be small 1t was also pre-
dtcted by some that the aggregate output
of bicycles for the present year would
not exceed one-third of the production of
1896. The indications at present. however.
point to little or no decrease in the number
OF wheels of the new models. In other
words, 100000 or more wheels will prob
ably be made between now and next Oc-
tober.
Precisely what effect the numerous fell
ures last fall will have on this years ont
put of cheap wheels remains to be seen.
Al all events, tie :lTluence of - v-Tricrd
bicycles has already doEe much toward
bringing the price CT wheels ,lown TO a
rational and up-to-date igure; and 1t is to
be hoped that the day Is not far distant
when so, in sound, Mckinley money, will
buy the best bicycle in the market.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
PLUCKY GENERAL G,ncIA

We have remarked before that whatever
may be the diversity of opinion upon the
business Of the fnsurgent cause in Cuba. no
one can withhold admiration for the pluck
OF the iusurgent leaders. Among them one
OF the bravest is General Caiixto Garcia,
who has just issued something in the
nature Of an address to the American peo-
pie, in which he sets forth the demand of
his people upon our government and de-
cIares that without any further assist
ance than a fair neutrality the Insurgents
will whip Spain of the island in short
order.
I'VE do not need the help of any other
country to achieve our independence.
says General Garcia. I'VE can fight the
spaniards alone and drive them out of the
island, Notwithstanding their superiority
in numbers and resources. Interference on
the part of the American nation is there
fore unnecessary. We can have the glory
of being an American country that can
win its freedom without any aid from
abroad. We do not expect the intervea-
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
Doing Things backward.

From the Springfield Republican.
Missouri sometimes does things back
ward and the proposed bill to appropriate
So, 600 for the Nashville, Tenn, exposition
is cne of those things. If the legislature
does pass it, and then refuses to make an
appropriation for the Mississippi ex-
position to be given at Omaha, the state
will be doing herself a great injustice. If
we have money to throw at the birds II
might be we'll to make an appropriation for
both expositions. but if We have only
enough money for one it is quite evident
that the one at Omaha would bring far
greater returns than the one at Nashville.
1t is rare, if ever, that Missouri receives
emigrants from the South. On the other
hand, the whole Northwest country is just
now ready to dump her entire population in
Missourfs lap. With Il little judicious ad-
vertising in that section, such as an exhibit
ton at Omaha would give, this state could
be flooded with homeseekers from that sec
ton of Uncle Sans domain. During the
past four or five years there have been
many thousands of people pouring in from
the colder regions of Nebraska, Iowa, Min
nesota and the Dakotas. 1t is true that
many of their friends are following them
and many more would do so if they could
only be made to see the vastness of our re-
sources and the wonderful products of our
soil.
There is not a state in the Union which
contains greater diversified wealth and
richness. Not Il state in the Union that
has a more healthful climate or a more
productive soil. Nor is there state in the
Union that can offer as good inducements
to homeseekcrs. We have all kinds of
lands and all sorts of prices. 1t is the place
for the man of money as we'll as for the
one of small means. We can furnish him
land for 500 an acre adjoining townsite
or send him out Il little further for $50. or
Il little further for S25, or still little fur
ther for $40 or So per acre. If he mas no
means we can send him to the United
States land office in Springfield, where the
agents of Uncle Sam will make him 4
present of 100 acres, with only the condi-
ton that he live upon it and cultivate the
soil.
With such advantages, there should be
an effort made to secure the Northwestern
people who are dissatisfied with their
present location and the cold winters. They
are the most desirable class of people in
the world. They are energetic, progressive,
educated and intelligent. The citizenship
of such people is worth the effort to Sc
cure If the Missouri legislature desires to
benefit the people of the state let it see to
it that all the appropriations do not so to
Nashville
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25

SS,42s S6s.T46

It will be observed that in each OF these
thirteen departments Nebraska spends
more money than Kansas. and in total the
sum Is nearly one-thiId greater. This diff
ference in favor OF Kansas becomes even
more marked when it is remembered that
Nebraska has only about half the assessed
valuation of Kansas and that her popula-
tion Is one-third less.
The proposed cut OF 20 per cent in the
maintenance appropriation for the Kansas
university can only result in one of two
things; either the salary of teachers must
be cut down or some OF them must be dis
charged. We do not believe the people OF
Kansas are demanding either OF these
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25

support the mayors decision. There is
nothing in the constitution to grant i'm
munlty to palpable and distressing nui-
sance simply because it is perpetratad by
woman, and there is considerable in the
law that expressly declares that no rer-
son shall be denied the equal protection
of the laws" which means among other
things that women cannot obstruct the
view in theater unnecessarily any more
than men can.
There is an intimation that this mayor
has the reputation of being well versed
in law. This may be intended as a Joke,
but the point is lost when it is used to de-
fend his absurd Reputation of the rights
of large majority of the citizens of his
CITY
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
Wisdom in the Nest

| From the New York Advertiser
If the painstaking historian is not at
fault, 1t was a Missouri statesman who
some years ago, offered a bill in the leGis-
lature of that great commonwealth which
provided that grounding day should be
made a national holiday The bill was
ably supported but while there was a
clear majority in favor of the measure IL
was deemed wise to vote it down for the
reason that the attorney general had ex-
pressed a doubt as to the right of the Mis-
souri, legislature to pass a national law
This was, of course, q mere technicality;
but it was enough to defeat the sublime
object of the BILL inasmuch as q careful re-
search fails to discover that the matter
was even taken up by congress. So ground
hog day remains simply an annually re-
curing event with a highly important
bearing on the state of the weather for the
gal status to speak of.
Perhaps the same plea, or something
equally trivial, has been advanced to defeat
that equally wise measure proposed In the
California legislature the other day to
erect into national holiday that day of
days which witnessed the defeat of the Pa
cific railroad funding bill in congress. At
any rate the California legislature has so
far failed to take action on this measure.
III would not De surprising, however, IL
some hireling of Wall street had either
stolen and carried the bill bodily off or in
some other clandestine way disposed of the
same.
These We're two wise, patriotic and con-
servative measures, as the most obtuse can
see at a glance. But there are others.
Kansas has contributed several, and the
Legislature out there is occasionally holding
night sessions. The latest advices from
Topeka are that up to date sixteen bills
have been introduced which have for their
purpose the reduction of the legal rate of
interest. Sixteen bills of this nature in the
Kansas legislature present coincidence
that brings the 16 to l theory home to
mems business and bosoms" in a very en-
phatic manner
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-25
shook the Corn From Its Hus,ss

From the New York Mail and Express
Alas. poor PETER! He has been hanging
on to a senatorial chair by the strands
of his whiskers 10! these many years. and
now even that frail support has given way.
The dull, sickening thud of Peffer's down
coming is violent enough to shake the corn
out OF its husks in the remotest townships
ofkansas