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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
HoruscurLDs AFTER SILVER.

The report is current that the Rothschilds
have been quietly purchasing large num-
Ecrs of silver mines in the United States
Within the last three or four months. it is
said. they have closed deals whereby they
have secured 127 mines in New Mexico
alone This is supposed tu mean that these
great tinauciers are preparing to corner the
silver Of this country. and when they get all
uf it into their hands. force the money
powers Of Europe to remonetizc the metal
and thereby greatly increase their wealth.
This viii be cheering news Tor the vo-
ciferous free coinage shouters whose lar
ynxes have not yet healed from denuncia-
tion Of the Rothschilds and other hated
money kings abroad and at home. How
will such a procedure appear to the yirtuous
Bryan. the immaculate Altgeld or the he
roic THman2 To think that the unhoIy
hands of the Rothschilds should pol!ute
the white metal by their sacrilegious touch
is enough to drive them to the brink OF
despair. and probably would If the trio
were really sincere in their protestatfons
for silver.
yocates OF free coinage was that the Roths-
childs and other money kings had de-
pressed the price OF silver for the sole pur-
pose of killing it." increasing the value
of gold and fastening the yoke OF bond
age upon the necks OF the plain people
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
Sign of Moral Progress

From the Chicago Tribune.
a wholesome, sign of improving human
nature appears in the record of embezzle-
ments for the year The total amount in
volved in this class of crime was 50. los, ,92l
while in 1895 it was SO 423. POS and the year
before that. SIS H. This marked de-
crease has taken place in spite of the fact
that the business depression in the time
has shown practically no abatement. 1t
may he that part of the good showing is
due to the fac. that the laws for the pun
ishment of defaulters and holders of trust
funds who embezzle have been growing
more stringent every year. Certainly no
effort should be lacking TO make these laws
as nearly perfect as possible
The charitable requests and gifts of the
year tend to support the theory that the
race has been taking stride forward i'm
moral development. Through the year the
magnificent total of S33 670.129 WAS given to
various institutions. In 1885 the donations
of this character amounted TO s2S945,5 $40
and In 1894 they were only H9,967,115 In
two years the total was nearly doubled
The money this year has been distributed
as follows: Colleges sl6.S14, 256; charities,
SD. .S54 73l: churches, s.. lS5. .142; museums and
galleries 81 3,3 800, and libraries, 81 $1,000
The gifts have been distributed with wise
discrimination and have been lavish be-
yond all reasonable expectation in a year
when the cry of hard times"s has been
constantly raised.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05

From the New York Sun.
At the annual dinner of the New En.:l md
Free Trade League in Boston Mr.. Henry
L. Higginson said:
What We want is tariff commission,
non-partisan in its position. We have a
pretty poor tariff now. but we do not
want to change it very much. II
is almost inconceivable that protestion
should so very much longer
As to which remarks OF Mr.. Hgginson's.
il may he worth while to make Others viz:
The experiment of tariff commission
has been tried. and without taking the tar
iff out of politics. Why should that he
taken out of politics any more than any
other There is no such thing as non-par-
tisanship. any way but if Mr.. HiSgiusou
were himself president and should have
the appointment of Il So-Called non-partisan
tariff commit: SION. the moment the r. I'm
mendations of such Il body came before
congress. they would become the subject OF
partisanship. But the notion that congress
should try to sneak out of part of the
proper responsibility by making it over to
a commission will not wash
The pretty poor protective tariff needs
to be changed or added TO sufficiently to
fulfill necessary purpose of any sort of
sane tariff. whatever be the economic prin-
Ciples of its makers. 1t doesn't raise
money enough to pay the expenses of the
government. The change from a protec-
tive tariff for deficit to protective tariff
for revenue and protection is very con-
siderable change. all the difference between
running into debt and paying you go.
As the Democrats have made "A proteC-
tive tariff and the Republicans are going
to make or try to make ;isotier one Il is
almost inconceivabie' that protection
should not so on very much longer
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05

the last campaign in which Mr.. Bryan
was a conspicuous factor.
But if tho eminent Eng!ishman had said
that Bryanism was the result OF unsound
financial and other erroneous ideas held
by a limited number Of the people of this
country. he would have properly gaugeG
the situation. Every socialist with plans
FOR overturn!ng society; every man who
wanted 10 pay II dollars Indebtedness with
- cents worth OF silver and thousands
Of others with wheels OF every imaginable
variety in their heads were FOR Bryan and
were the moving cause that brought 'Bry-
anism1 to view for Il brief period. But
there Is no BryanI<ru now Even Bryan
himself is fast slipping from public notice,
which IS pretty good evidence that she En-
gIishman dida't know any more about
Organism than Bryans followers knew
about Tie needs of the country.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
Best Agricultural Report Ever Pub
lishcd.

From the Topeka Mail.
The tenth biennial report of the state
beard of agriculture was issued this week
by Secretary COburn. Probably more than
am of its predecessors it is planned to be
an "agricultural'' volume instead of an
immigration document II IS intended to
he Helpful in promoting the prosperity and
advancement of the population the state
already has, rather than to persuading the
millions of less fortunate strangers that
the mere fact of coming hither with un-
Gltera bic ready made views of Kansas peo-
pla and Kansas agriculture means a life
of ease. perpetual June weather a steady
diet of milk and honey. monotonous politi-
cal harmony. and tirclsss pursuit of lucra-
tive offices of everybody whomsoever. The
Us ually very fun statistics of acreages and
values of the various agricultural products
and the number and values OF live stock
by counties, for each year of the biennial
period are given. are also the figures
as to population compiled from the de-
Ccanial census of 1875 A combined table
showing the agricultural output OF the
state for the two years is presented. and
in srite of unprecedentedly low prices OF
many products it points to the very graft
fyinE net increase of sSs67.253l1 in value
as compared with the productions of the
preceding two years.
The report includes SD pages being the
largest ever issued by the beard. IL is by
far the most interesting and most valuable
agricultural report ever gotten out by the
state. credit for which is due entirely to
Secretary F. d. COburn. the most capable
man Kansas has ever had at the head of
its agricultural department The report
sEculd be in the hands of every farmer
in Kansas. Those who want the volume
should communicate with their senator or
representative.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05

From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The state of Kansas proposes to cele-
brate with special prominence the 29th of
January the birthday of the state The
aspersions cast upon the honor of the state
have aroused popular indignation, and all
the people-Republicans Democrats and
Populists-prOpose 10 make a grand and
non-partisan demonstration. turning the
day into sort of midwinter Fourth of
July
There is no doubt that Kansas is greatly
misunderstood. This is primarily due to
general misapprehension as TO the western
portion of the state. The old idea of the
great American desert was all wrong. so
far as concerned the eastern part of it
and the public came to think that the mis-
conception was all wrong: that Western
Kansas. like Eastern, only needed to be
plowed and planted to yield generous har-
vests. This was n great mistake. The ele-
ment of irrigation came in as n prerequi-
site of safety. Occasionally good crops can
be raised without irrigation. but not regu-
larIy.
There are good many counties which
never ought to have been organized and
bonds issued which never can be paid The
mortgages on those remote and arid farms
cannot be expected TO be paid. A great
deal of money has been lost which can
never be recovered by foreclosure But
the state as whole is not responsible
The fault is not in the laws.
a few days ago a gentleman whose busi-
ness II is to make farm loans, and whose
home is in Kansas City. was in Chicago
and in conversation gave n leaf from the
book of his own experience. which shows
where the fault lies in case OF losses on
Western farm mortgages. He has been in
the business there five years. OF course
some of his loans are in Missouri, some in
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
EQUIPPED FOR THE JOURNEY.

Ar aged Kentuckian died last Sunday
morning full of years and possessed of
much wealth. He was not an eccentric
man and his long life had been peacefully
spent in the bluegrass region. adding 10
his patrimony from year to year and pur-
suing the even tenor of his way as Ken
tuck farmers usually do. Some years
ago. knowing the infirmties of age, he
had constructed neat and roomy sar-
CorEagus wherein his mortal body was to
find quiet resting place when he had
done with the burdens of life. It was made
OF good blue limestone and warranted not
to leak When he had his tomb prepared
b. purchased at the same time a barrel
OF the finest and purest old bourbon that
cculd be made by the most famous disti-
l,ry in Kentucky. and left positive orders
that at his demise the mountain dew
should he poured into the stone sarcopha-
gus and his body laid therein.
1t has been fifteen years since that
whisky was bought and all of that time
it has been getting mellower and mellow
err its bouquet growing more and more
ira grant as the old man ripened for the
crave. In accordance with his last wishes
the soothing liquid was used as directed
and received his frail and cast-off tene-
uent, 10 preserve it until the resurrection
mcrn-when he will probably want TO take
another drink. As it was the custom of
the noble red man 10 have buried in the
same grave with him his horse and imple-
ments. OF war and of the chase to have
them handy when he reached the happy
hunting grounds, so this thoroughbred
Ecutuckian passed into that bourne from
which no traveller returns, with enough
OF the ardent to last him through the
Journey Another instance of the ruling
passion strong in death.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
Done Up by His "pocuments.,

From the Washington Post.
Over at the agricultural department they
tell a good story upon Il Kansas congress-
man. who shall be nameless because with
him it is no joking matter. A series of
farmers bulletins. giving advice on all
manner of agricultural topics are distrib-
uted each year TO the number of 1900 to
each congressman. Among those published
last summer was one entitled Weeds, and
How to Kill Them This particular con-
gresham sent his out in bundles of 100 to
900 each without paying much attention to
the character of the bulletins or their con-
tents. 1t was not surprising. therefore.
that ne sent a big batch on Peanut Cult
ure'' to section of his state little calcu-
lated to raise the toOthsome gOOber. or that
a large supply of Cotton Growing in the
South" was deposited in 4 community
which depended chiefly upon mining and
poker playing for its living. But the thing
that killed him. politically. was that inno-
cent little pamphlet on Weeds" The whole
supply of the latter was dumped by Uncle
Sans mail into a town which once had a
boom and something like 10000 or 1900 in
habitants. Now there are not so many
hundreds. and the grass grows green in
the streets for a goody portion of the year
The fellow that received them was some
thing of Il wag, and he distributed them
carefully, as far they would go. The
town took it as a deadly insult. They did
not make much of a fuss about il to the
world and didn't burn the congressman in
effigy, but they showed him under at the
polls. IL any more farmers bulletins are
distributed this year this congressman
won't leave the sending all to his clerk.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05

GrueSome as the topic may appear, there
is an Irresistible fascination in the sta
ristics of mortality. Victor Hugo is cred
tied with the saying that the best place
10. the study of human life is in a morgue.
Death is the last act in the drama of ex
istence and tragedies and comedies alike
must end with it, On the cold slabs of
the dead house may be witnessed the last
tablcaux before the curtain of infnity is
runE down. and in the mortality statistics
may be read an epitome of the play in
which al humanity engages.
We have before us the annual report Of
the coroner of the county in which Gin
cinrati is situated. and find it interesting
not only from the more or less morbid
cuTio sity which everyone feels in such af-
fairs. but also because it displays in an
Ineligible manner the pitfalls which await
humanity within a great city. During the
yea" Just closed the coroner held inquestS
ove~ G99 bodies. of which he decided that
50l come TO death from natural causes and
so through violence. At the head of the
latter list stand the suicides. their num-
be- being 50. Next come those who were
Killed BY the cars. 20 being attributed to
the steam railroads and u TO the electric
and cable lines Following these come Is
who We're drowned. and then. in order, IL
who were killed by falling off high build
iugs or other places. Next in sequence
were the murdered ones. p in number. all
of whom came to death from gunshot
wounds with the exception of two who
were stabbed. one who was beaten with
rock and one who was strangled Boiler
explosions killed II, and 26 died from burns
and scalds inflicted in a variety of ways.
Accidental asDhyxiatiOn from Illuminating
gas carried off y, and got their medi-
cine bottles mixed and died from taking
poison. Excessive heat is given in the
cases of 16, and are attributed to an in
ordinate love for the wine cup. Nine fe-
males died from the effects of criminal
operations. and mad dog is credited
with one victim. Then comes a long list
OF accidents which are grouped under the
head of miscellaneous but nearly all of
which were from causes peculiar TO
large city.
There is one thought which cannot fail
to strike the reader of such list as this.
and that is the comparative immunity
Possessed by the people who dwell on
farms or in small towns from the causes
which produce so much violent death in
the cities. There may not be much life
or sparkle in the existence of the agri-
culturist, but think of the cheer and
satisfaction he may lay to his soul as
he remembers that he is not in danger OF
being run over by trolley car, or of fall
ing off a seventeen story building. or of
being blown up by steam boiler. Within
the peaceful precincts of his suburban
hcme there are no steamboats, to sink.
no elevators TO drop. no railroads with a
hundred tracks to cross, no gas to blow
out. and no gin mills 10 allure him into
the realms of the fantastic iim-jam.
All in all, we are convinced that Rus
ticus holds considerable edge over his
cousin. Urban. and if these few morgue-
like facts shall aid in reconciling him to
his condition their mission will have been
performed.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
Venezuela and the Treaty.

From the New York Sun
The return of Minister Andrade and Mr.
Storrow from Caracas may be accepted as
an indication that President Crespo's gov
ernment has heartily accepted the Olnev-
Pauncefote protocol. since the procuring
of that acceptance was the object of their
visit and their stay. 1t is true that the
Venezuelan congress. which meets in Feb
ruary, will have 10 ratify the final arrange
ment. but the chief instrument submitted
to that body for its action may be the
formal treaty between Great Britain and
Venezuela. based on the Olney-Pauncefote
protocol, for the drawing of which by Mr..
Andrade and the British ambassador at
Washington, the way now seems to be
clear.
1t is not worth while to forecast the atti-
tude of the congress at Caracas. but it IS
well to point out that President CresDo is
popular and potent in Venezuela and his
influence in the congress Is likely to he
great. II is. certainly suggestive that no
attempt was made to excite an uprising
in Venezuela on this ground. although the
republic has long been famous for the fire.
quency of its revolutions and its many
overthrows of successive governments
The statement of Mr.. Storrow. the coun-
sci for Venezuela, is that at first some out
cry was raised against the protocol as ig-
noring the rights of Venezuela but discus
sions in the press ensued and when he
and Mr.. Andrade left Caracas. the arrange
ment was generally commended and the
country was both tranquil and pleased
Then, as to the title by fifty years sf
occupancy, a Venezuelan paper. the Hfr-
aldo, concludes that the provision OF this
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05

From the New York Advertiser.
Reasonable people everywhere will COM
mend the recent decision of the Missouri
supreme court that declared unConstitu-
ttonal that provision of the Kansas City
charter that imposes fine or Il tax upon
every citizen who declines TO exercise his
right at the polls. Ii is a CneapeniDS of
the franchise 10 place it upon the footing
OF compulsory sidewalk cleaning or tn"
payment of a dog license. 1t is impossible
to estimate the cash value 10 the public OF
vote. and even if it We're not this charter
provision that set such value at $50 was
arbitrary and ridiculous.
The court holds that taxes may be levied
either in money or in services having a
money value. but that the person who pays
cash does not have to pay any more or
less than the individual who performs Ger
tain services. and vice versa. 1t also de-
clares that il is degrading TO the franchise
10 associate it with the idea of money val
ue. This appears to have the support Of
good sense well as that of law. albeit
the Philadelphia Record insists that the
exercise of the elective franchise in 4 re-
public is not merely a right but a public
duty. and that. If it is not legal TO pun
iSh citizen for dereliction in the perform
ance of that duty. it ought to be-
Why? Can a municipal charter take away
personal rights? Can it compel man to
vote any more than it can compel him to
eat or pray use the sidewalkS2 The
proposition is absurd, To vote is a duty,
but only patriotic duty. II is not compul-
sorry any more than the giving of aims.
Every good citizen says the Journal. of
Kansas City-the municipality saved from
q threatened blight by this judicial decis-
sion-"shOuld and does feel a concern in
the affairs of state and nation which moves
him to record his will at the ballot box
but it is an infringement of his personal
rights to make him vote if he does not
want to.
Leave it to ward politicians to make vot-
ing a matter of dollars and cents. Good
citizens prefer to keep 1t where il is
where they may use it or not, as they
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
They VIII BE bered.

From the New York Times
What We're the pre-eminently memorable
deeds and events of the year 1896? We
should make up the list in this way:
Fnst-In international relations: (al
The negotiation of a treaty of arbitration
between Great Britain and the United
States (b) The successful application cf
the Monroe doctrine in the boundary dis.
pute between Great Britain and Venezuela,
frs. asserted by Mr.. Cleveland on Decem-
Der II, 1895 but carried out during the
past year.
Seccnd-Domestic politics. including al
countries: The defeat of Bryan and his
platform.
Thrd-In science: The discovery of the
so-called Y rays by Professor Roentgen,
of Wurtzburg.
Fcurth-Tn literature: Rudyard Kip
lings volume ,of poems, THE Seven Seas
Fifth-In commerce and industry: (a)
The distant. application on large scale
of the electric power generated by Niagara
falls. tb) The opening of a canal through
the Iron Gates of the Danube. making
that river navigable to commerce from the
Rlack Sea to the Bavarian frontier.
SiXth-ln affective dispenSations: (a) The
great tidal wave in Japan, on June 10.
which destroyed 27.OOO human lives and
devastated seventy miles of coast line
(bI The trampling to death of 500 persons
on the Khodynsky plain during the coron-
alton fetes at Moscow on May 30 (c) The
cN clone at st. Louis. on May o. by which
5oJ persons were killed. Id The sinking OF
the English steamer Drummond Castle, on
June II. drowning pa persons.
Seventh-In exploration and discovery:
NaEsen's journey over the ice to a point
only 225 miles distant from the North pole.
In the religious world there has been
nothing: in painting and sculpture nothing:
in music and the drama nothing that so
oNcrtops other achievements as to make
the prediction safe that it will be remem-
bered down the ages. JameSon's raid and
the tragic doings of Turkey in Armenia
and of Spain in Cuba NAV claim at least
a fOCtnote on the page which history de-
votes to the year 1886
\ word of caution may be appropriate
as to our estimate of the permanent rank
OF Mr.. Kipling's poems. 1t would be un-
safe to besDeak for them now an exalted
place in the whole body of English liter
ature. We assert of them simply that
they display more elemental force than
any other book produced during the wear
In the English language, in French, in
German or in Italian.
There will probably be no dispute abour
the two treaties negotiated and now await
Ing signature as the result of Mr. CIevc-
lands Venezuelan message and Mr.. OIL
ney's arguments. No future historian will
be likely TO overlook them.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05

head will uproot British Jurisdiction along
the Orinoco and in the Cuyuni watershed.
and leave it only in the small tract be-
tween the EsSeQuibo and the Pomaroon.
II would be remarkable if the final set
tlement should he o. that Morocco line
which Lord Aberdeen suggested more than
forty years ago. or on one still more favor
able TO Venezuela. And certainly she may
we'll hope, under the pending agreement,
TO lose nothing on her side of the ESse-
GUIDO. except that minor tract running
perhaps two score miles up TO the Poma-
room, comprising an area on which there
appear to be vestiGes OF Dutch forts and
settlements
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
having purchased the interest of his for
mer partner, W. J. Hutchinson.

having purchased the interest of his for
mer partner W ]. Hutchinson.
A neigbhoring nane- suggests that Se-
GaIia COULD probabI,. rantrr. some of the
ssccuudrels who have been assailiug wom-
en- 50 boidfr-ir tjtn streets there re.altlv.
lice officers in cemale attire and having
them promenade the di-aly lighted thor-
-oughf fares after nightfaH with pocketbOok
in one hand and a revolver within easy
reach of the other.
a-@
The sv-ipIrfpa f,I,irs who successfully
uorls suckers viii, ~. announcement that
tbe,- "v-a,,r ora ~, two ,o,,n.r men in each
,o1,r+,- IN ,srras.,,, .,,s ~. nriyate derec-
tf,-as .rs advartjsir,o- in olIftr 4 number
of NTi-sor.ri na,,srs nov
,,,.-... ,,...,.--. ,....o,;.
SWIM, 7M-"T d., =, lia-gt,,u
.Io'i ne7itI~ ~, ~ iltt' '.a' - - t
uisplaa u
Iii - 20 sc iI i,,,ost
e.,
The Missouri hen lays Eolu'ii esSS 10Y
her owner. A liaiisvilIe man reallzeu E', E7'.UV
on one Gay Sale from ms i'oui.IS Hatu
i'Si "TFh' an" HoeSH 'ohsi"et 1t " VI III
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05

Now ii seems these pIutocrats are scheming
to raise the price of the product for their
own private gain. Just as the mine owners
OF the West We're trying to 10 when they
backed Bryan in his recent campaign. This
places the bonanza silver kings and the
hated RothSchiids in the same boat. and
the l6 TO ! fellows in a tleIicate position. -
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-05
Had No chance to Observe.

From the Cleveland Leader.
DO you believe there is anything in the
saying that 1t is always darkest just before
dawn"
Il don't know anything about it. We've
got a baby at our house and have to keep
the light burning all night