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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-09

Observer Thielan received wire
from Washington at 8 o'clock last
evening ordering signal hoisted for
Northwest winds during the night
AID much cooler weather. This
morning he received another teie-
gram ordering signals lowered.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-04-09
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4. p. AZ q & . A,
On every Steamer


Fresh California evaporat. d fruits
prunes, mince meat, pigs : feet, sour
kraut, preserves jeilies, Spanish olives
in kegs pickles, roasted peanuts, cItron
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resh grated cocoanut, cocoanuts. 6nee
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VIII keep on hand fresh ling OF
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a P. BARREDA
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
A Single Tax Absurdity,

From the Cleveland Leader.
Tom Johnson's single tax organ lays It
down as a fundamental axiom Of Henry
Georgeism that "cheep land always has,
always will, and always must mean dear
men"
That is the reason, of course, why a
are so much higher in New York and Bos-
ton. Chicago and Cleveland than they are
in the backwoods of Missouri, for instance,
and why IT is so much easier for a healthy,
Industrious man to clothe. feed and house
n family comfortably in cities where land
Is worth. soy a dollar a square foot, on
the average, than it is for him to do the
same thing in the mountains of Georgia or
West Virginia. where land will not sell for
a dollar an acrei
1t must be the same reason which ex-
plains the comparatively high wages in
London and the extremely small pay given
labor in the Hebrides, for instance, n the
similar differences between Paris and the
rural sections of France, or between Bel
GUM and Russia The land is so much
cheaper where the wage rate is lowest that
1t is as clear as mud that cheap land makes
dear (meaning high-priced) men.
One of the most curious features Of the
single tax doctrine is the effect which II
has on the wits of the men who espouse 1t.
Or Is the natural twist in their minds, as
to matters of logic and fact, the cause Of
their land tax notions?
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24

experience would seem to dictate. and that
was in Seattle in 1885, when a mob under
took to run all of the Chinese residents
out of the city. For two whole lays the
authorities temporized and vacillated, and
then a little band Of citizens organized
themselves on their own account and took
their stand where protection might be af-
forded to the Chinese. With boots and
yeIls of defiance and derision a mass OF
5000 men charged down upon this little
force, only to be received by a volley from
twenty-five Winchesters, every one OF
which was aimed to kill. Before thai vol
ley the mob melted away like frost before
the morning sun, and from that moment
Seattle enjoyed an abiding peace from or
ganized lawIessness.
At the time there was a great deal of
harsh criticism against the citizens who
fired his deadly voIley, but later, when
cool judgment had resumed it's sway, it
was almost universally admitted that their
prompt and effective action aved a vast
amount of property and most probably a
greater number of lives than were lost. 1t
must be palpable, however, hat something
is radically wrong when citizens are forced
to rally for the enforcement of law. 1t is
that officers have been installed who are
too timid or too much in sympathy with
the cause of the rioters to perform their
duty, and thus the whole fault reverts back
to the people who have not exercised good
judgment at thu polls.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24

will be done by the poems Of whom 1 in
tend to become the master. Every Kansas
man will be welcome, but no Colorado man
who is not worth q cold million in his own
right can become my guest. I will bar
my doors to every old Colorado 'has-been'
Ill myself who makes his appearance. I
have sat around Colorado with the has
beens' discussing our several cruel fates
until I have learned to hate the class. I
leave nothing behind in Colorado that is
worth the mentioning. I am mixed up with
some deals that may come to something,
but $4,000 would buy my every interest.
II the United States had not struck down
silver I would be worth S4,0O0,000 to-day.
Good-by, but remember one thing always
in Mexico 1 am going to play myself for an
aristocrat and m Ia the devil take the poor
mani"
In accounting for the fact that he had
never said an unkind thing in his paper
about c. c. Shawver, a well known Demo-
cratic politician OF Sumner county, Andy
Richards, Of the Wellington Mail, tells this
story:
On the night of that day in March, 1850,
upon which the Southern Kansas railroad
track reached Wellington. the tracklayers
came into this city to take the town"
There were thirteen open saloons in We'll
lirgton then; there were more h a hun
dreG of these Irish Paddles" as tough a
gang as ever struck any town; they all got
bowling drunk and started out to take the
town in great shape.
{. c. Shawver was city marshal at that
time. He had had occasion to handle some
of this gang rather roughly on former &C.
~casions. They openly stated that they were
after his meat house." and did anything
and everything to bring on a conflict. The
climax soon came. One fellow, after finish
ing a schooner of beer in Little Docs"
saloon. hurled the beer mug into the mirror
on the wall behind the bar, smashing 1t
into smithereens. He ran. There was a
crowd of a hundred or more of those
drunken tracklayers in the street in front
OF the Sherman block, where E. Z. Pember
is now located. This fellow darted into their
midst.
Charlie Shaver went after that man
alone. He carried, neither gun pistol nor
club. The writer stood in a stairway and
eagerly watched the whole proceeding. AS
Shawver reached the outer edge of that
crowd Of drunken, wildly yelling toughs,
not less than two score of revolvers were
drawn and leveled on him. Those nearest
him were literally stuck into his face and
showed against every part of his body.
With absolute GOODNESS and elaboration,
Shawver showed those revolvers aside with
open hands, as he did others at every step,
until he forced his way into the very midst
of that crowd. He arrested his man.
brought him out of that moi absolutely
alone, and locked him up in jail, with more
than twenty of his fellows who were ar
rested tina night.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
THE RAID ON t

Tit fact about the Populist raid on rail-
road rates is that 1t has back Of 1t prac-
ticaIly no popular demand. People who
pay the freight and know what is fair pay
for the service rendered are finding little
fault. 1t is almost entirely the political
schemer who is contorted with agony over
present tariffs. The people who are seeking
TO build political foundations under them
selves are the only hard kickers. They
are the only people now found who claim
that railroad rates generally are extor-
tionate.
Every clear headed business man o
that In this Western country, where char
tiers are free II the country is open and
level, railroad building has been overdone
and railroad business has become far from
remunerative, as compared with other lines
of business. In Kansas the Santa Fe'
Frisco. NJ. X. &. T., Union Pacific, North
western, Kansas Central and many smaller
roads are, or have been, in the hands or
receivers. The roads which have not been
In the hands Of receivers have been kept
out by the earnings Of other parts OF the
systems. IT needs only a glance at the
railroad map to discover the absolute phys
zeal impossibiIity for the Kansas lines to
earn any but the lowest return, with popu-
lation, wages and business conditions as
they now are.
We have asserted tina the people who
actually pay the freight and who actually
know what is fair play for the service
rendered by the roads are not seriously
complaining. For instance, take the coal
business. II the coal rates are 20 per cent
too high. as claimed by the Kansas com
missioners, the coal merchants certainly
know it. and they certainly know that
such excess prevents their doing a large
volume of business which they would do
with the rates lowered. It is not suppos-
able for one moment that the coal mer-
chants would not make life a burden to the
traffic men IL they were sure the present
rates are 20 per cent or any other per cent
too high.
II grain rates were reduced Is per cent,
as asked, It is possible that the selling
price for Kansas farmers would be a mere
triie better. but the chances are that the
only effect of consequence would be to give
consumers a little better prices. compel
railroads to cut wages and disbursements
and leave the producers either just where
they are now or else in a worse condition
by reason of ~over-supplied markets and
consequent broken prices.
Clearly, the demagogues must find some
other source Of subsistence. The railroad
lemon has been squeezed dry.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
LiI,uokalanf,s Only Chance.

From the Washington Pest.
There is force in the suggestion that ex-
Queen Liliuokalani should go to Mr.. Cleve-
land and not to Mr.. Mckinley with her
protest against the annexation of Ha-
wall. Mr.. Cleveland is solely responsible
for any n~onsensical ideas that Mrs. DOM
inis may still cling to, and TO him should
be assigned the task of soothing the dis
appointment resulting from them. II Mr..
Cleveland had done, in 1898. what Mr.. Nc
EinIey is doing now, Liliuokalani would
nave been Invested then and there of all
the false hopes and foolish expectations
which she has nursed for the past four
years. and the civilized institutions set up
by Sanford B. Dole and his compatriots
would have been spared untold peril and
embarrassment. If, instead Of sending
Paramount Commissioner Blount to en-
courage sedition and to keep the deposed
queen in a fools paradise of absurd ex-
pectaucv. he had taken the American view.
the enlightened and the moral view of the
situation. the Dole government would have
been securely i~ntrenched and Liliuokalani
nermanently convinced of her removal
from the scheme of Hawaii's political prog
ross and development. Mr.. Mckinley
owes Mrs. Dominis nothing. Neither he
nor anv other representative Republican
has ever given her the smallest reason to
believe that her pretensions would, under
anv circumstances, be considered by the
marty. II has always been understood that
the Republicans favored free institutions in
Hawaii and the eventual annexation of the
ieIands- Mrs. Dominis should transfer the
embassy to Princeton. Her great and good
friend ia living in hat city now.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
EDUCATION BE BLANkED.

That was a robust and ragged bluff which
the Populists of Kansas made for so long
a time as to their love for education
higher and lower. They were ready to kill,
fire, burn, Stay, until they came to the
schools, and then with heads uncovered
and eyes rolled upward 20 the Gods of
Learning they knelt in reverence before
them and begged to know their innermost
wishes. Colonel Mollie Lease pointed with
pride to her son in the state university,
and the rest of the crusaders Joined in the
chorus of praise for schools and school
people. Many observers felt that this in
~clination towards education was a sufficient
sign of saving salt in the new party-a
sufficient sign that it would in time get its
eyes open to facts and possibilities in pub
lie matters.
But this uncovered the ears of the an
imal, in educational as well as other mat
teIs, and showed it to be an ass with the
disposition of a wolf. The reasoning was
simple and conclusive, thus: The purpose
of government is to pay salaries; the Pop
ulist party has no use for the government
unless the salaries go with it; the educa-
tional salaries are as good as any other
salaries; the Populist party must have the
educational salaries. Then they yelled
scat to Fairchild, Snow and other splen-
did men who have done more for Kansas
than can ever be paid for in this world. In
order to drive out some good men WIN
could not be reached otherwise they cut
down salaries, and men like one of the re-
gents OF the state university actually be-
sought the legislature to reduce the sal.
aries of the professors of that institution,
although such ~salarie- were already less
than the salaries of first and ~second-class
| clerks In many lines of business, and less
thar the salaries of men in similar posi-
lions all over the country.
The hypocrisy of the PopulIst party or
the educational question was all that re.
manned to be proved against it. Every 9th.
er weakness and iniquity had been fully
established. The Kansas institutions will
recover some day from the Populistic as.
sault, but the time wasted is precious be.
yond computation. The Populist senti.
ment. education be BANKED" fully trans.
lated means Kansas be banked" In due
time the verdict will be "Populists be
banked"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
A NEW PARK DODGE.

1t is gratifying to note that the mass
meeting called to further the interest of
those who would like to sell the grounds
known as Exposition park to the city for
permanent park purposes resulted in the
attendance of only some twenty residents
of the East park district. This movement,
which is certainly characterized by very
little motion thus far, is only another eff
fort to disturb the plans of the park board
for the North Terrace park. In spite of
the fact that the board has emphatically
and officially declared that nothing will be
permitted to interfere with its plans in this
direction. there are still certain DIRECTORS
and personally interested property owners
who make these picturesque endeavors to
bring about dissatisfaction with the city's
commissioners
1t would be impossible to supply every
section Of the city with a park. The distri-
button of pleasure grounds. as made by the
park board, is probably as wise and equita-
BILE as could be devised under the limita-
lions set upon this class of Improvement. 1t
is but natural that property owners of par
ticular localities should prefer different ar
engagements, but these objections generally
come from those who have property they
would like to sell to the city or from those
representing such owners.
The Inconsistency of the obstructionists
is strikingly illustrated in the several
movements designed to defeat the North
terrace Improvement. For some time these
DIRECTORS ave urged the substitution of
grounds far out of the city limits, beyond
the reach Of all who cannot pay for trans
portation. Now they come forward and
urge the sacrifice of a part of North Ter
race park in order that the people of a
particular part of the city may have pleas
ure grounds nearer their doors.
The obstructionists change tactics. but
their motives are always the same. They
do not want parks in any locality nor at
any price. The only genuine desire for
parks among them Is to be found in those
who have park property to sell.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
II COST OF RIOTS.

Since the decision of the United States
circuit court upon the constitutionally of
the Illinois state law, which provides that
cities or counties shall be liable for three
fourths Of the damages inflicted by a mob,
Chicago is in a position to fully appreciate
the evil Of electing a demagogic agitator
to office. Under this decision the city will
be compelled to pay something like two
millions of dollars in settlement for the
destruction of property in the great rail-
road riots of 1894 loss that might have
been avoided If Governor Altgeld had been
inclined TO do his duty.
Speaking of the costliness Of encourag-
ing riots, the Philadelphia Times declares
that the lesson received by Chicago is not
a new one. Philadelphia paid dearly for
the same bit of experience more than half
a century ago. 1t cost Pittsburg and Ale
gheny county about three millions, twenty
years ago, to settle the damages in a rail-
road riot, and New York expended as many
millions as a consequence of her draft
riots during the civil war. I'm each OF
these instances" says the Times. there
was more or less public sympathy with the
rioters; in each the local authorities failed
10 maintain order and prevent rioting and
the destruction Of property, and in each
the taxpayers were finally compelled TO
foot the bills. II the authorities OF New
York. Pittsburg and Chicago had prohted
by the earlier experiences Of Philadelphia
IN the matter there would have been less
rioting and smaller bills for damages in
each case; but every generation seems TO
be compelled to pay for its own experience.
1t IS pertinent just now TO suggest to those
who must pay the bills that it Is the best
economy to have order maintained and
the law enforced at all times, and that the
best way for the voters and taxpayers OF
suy cIty to insure themselves against the
payment Of riot losses is 10 vote for state
and city officials who will maintain order
at any cost"
When one pauses 10 reflect. It is strange
foo. that this lesson must be learned by
practical experience. for riots are all alike
So long as the officers Of the law temporizt
with them they grow in extent and in,
crease in violence. Kindness and reason.
ing have never been known TO quelI a riot
Force must be brought against force, and
this remedy ought TO be applied at tn,
very start when less OF II is required. A
mob engaged in rioting is a frightful thinl
10 contemplate, but at heart 1t IS a great
coward and will weaken before a small
but determined resistance force. We know
of but one riotous assembly in this coun.
try that was handled after the fashion thar
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24

roboration Of the other statistical signs of
improvement is afforded by the increase Of
railroad earnings for May. The reports
of 127 companies. with 5000 miles Of track,
or about three-fifths Of the entire mileage
of the country, show a gain in gross earn
ings as compared with the same month a
year ago of 5 per cent. This might not
be SO good If the earnings last year had
been small, but the contrary is the case.
The earnings for May, 1896, were "a per
cent greater than those for May, 1895, while
the latter were 61z per cent above those for
May, 1894 so that the month under review
shows a steady rogress from the low
water marks Of 1894, up to the present
time, with a total gain of between % and
IA per cent. Taken in connection with the
other indiciae the evidence OF steady gain
Is Conclusive.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
Stick to the i. and n.
rom the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
No sooner have the middle-of-the-road
Populists Of Mexico, Mo-, a furnace OF Pop
ulist mind, decided to save the country and
the rest of mankind by means of the initia-
tive and referendum than the middle-of-
the-road Populists of Milan county. Tex,
another furnace of Populist mind, hold a
mass meeting and vote against the "initia-
tive md referendum and imperative man.
date" Phonology turns a fiery, reproving
eye upon Milan county. The cause of En-
glish pronunciation is glued inseparably to
the initiative and referendum. There is
nothing else so mouth-flling, so useful as a
gymnasium for the vocal company. Back
in the dust must be tossed the suggestion
Of a New Haven correspondent, "Ormsby,"
who writes as follows:
I'm place of initiative and referendum and
n~unciation, l ask leave to substitute this
quotation from Shelton's translation Of
Don Quixote:' The most Purtiediferous
Don Quixote of the Manchissima and the
Suuiriferous Sancho Panza.'"
Too long and too artificial, and has not
the rich rolling. yet soft, lulling maJes-
ty of initiative and referendum and imper-
alive mandate. Why. these magic words
are used as a lullaby in most middle-cf-
the-road nurseries, and are also a sure cure
for suffering, hoarseness. and speakers
croup. Shelton's words are simply big; the
others are soothing even in their difficulty.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-24
Cupid I'm Kentucky.

From the New York Press.
Kansas and Kentucky seem to be the
special localities in this part of the world
where King Solomon's wall that there Is
nothing new under the sun receives its
most frequent setbacks; possibly because
these magnificent states represent polar
extremes of policy, Kansas being noted for
it's austerity in drink and Kentucky for
its cocktail output and and input.
For several years we have watched these
sovereign sisters with an eye judicial and
statistical in their race of human pictur-
esqueness, and we were almost on the
point OF awarding the palm to Kansas.
But the recent romance from Greenup
compels us to declare that Kentucky has
forged to the front and is now in the lead
by a full neck.
Here are the lovely. ardent facts on
which decision rests: The Widow Berry,
40, had, and still has. a fair unhusbanded
daughter. Matilda, just Is. One Whitley, a
prosperous widower of 30, for some time
has been singing about the pair a Ken
lucky variant of Horace's famous line, 20
Matre pulchra Fila pulchrior!" but the
beautiful mamma, while permitting him
to visit her beautifuller daughter, always
refused to consent to his marrying the
maid. Hence the lovers planned an elope-
ment on a dark, moonless night. and
"Je6ge" Morris, of Grayson. "Cyarter"
county, was engaged to fasten the tie on
his porch at midnight or later.
But who can fool a widow? Soon after
dusk on the fatal night-'twas a Friday,
by the bye-she stole into her daughters
chamber, bound her hand and foot, put a
gag In her mouth, dragged her to an
other room, tied her to the bedpost, to
make assurance doubly a paid up policy,
and then lay down in her daughters place.
Tap at the blind comes the binder lover.
Down the ladder, with cape over her head,
slips the widow into his arms. Into the
buggy they nestle, "snug as a bug in a
rug" Away through the darkness flies
the steed mettlesome, or any other sum,
for all he's worth. Not a word the widow
utters, but softly sobs against the shell
tering shoulder. The official house Is
reached, the sleepy squire summoned to
the porch, the knot tied, the fee-a gilt
edged demijohn-handed over and the pair
are driven to the County hotel.
There in the glare of candles at his side
the bridegroom starts to find the widow
is his bride. But he yields gracefully, de-
claring hat he always did admire his
s~weetheart's handsome ma. The daughter,
unbound by a neighbor next morning, like
wise with superb nerve announces that
she only thought she loved Mr.. Whitley,
and hereafter will be lust a daughter" to
him. So Cupid reigns undisturbed, and
while congratulating Kentucky and all
parties in interest, we commend to Amer
lean novelists, ~dramatists, poets and opera
bouffists this glorious new situation for a
billing and cooling coup de theater.