Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-04
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From the display of straw hats in shop
windows it may be inferred that spring is
not very far off.
The Endorsement of the Chicago platform
by the Kentucky Democrats simply means
thar the alliance of the Republicans and
sound money Democrats in Kentucky is to
be perpetuated.
The senate has been a bar to legislative
progress and the return of prosperity, but
It Is turning over se.eral new leaves. They
are leaves Of the tariff bill.
The first official act of the new Spanish
ministry should be the recall of Weyler
and the distT button of provisions among
his starving victims.
The story hat Speaker Reed has hired
detectives to guard him is probably false.
Such a precaution would not be amiss,
however. The cranks are undoubtedly after
him.
Commissioner McNan complains that the
insurance companies :eae a great deal Of
money out of Kansas. McNall's idea seems
to be that the companies should take
enough poor risks to guarantee them a net
loss on Kansas business.
Kansas and Missouri did not feel the
recent earthquake shocks, but they are
feeling their oats just now and will soon
have shocks of a much more satisfactory
kind.
The societies which have been passing
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menia should pass a few for the distressed
ice cream and soda water dealers.
The most encouraging thing about the
senate's work on the tariff bill is the reg
ularity with which Vests amendments are
voted down. The less of Vest a tariff bill
contains the better it is. for obvious rea-
sons.
1t is unfortunate hat the rules will not
permit the house majority to follow a good
California example and turn the hose on
Jerry Simpson.
The queens jubilee is not going TO be an
affair of unalloyed enjoyment. Mrs. Lease
has already written a poem on It.
The cheering information comes from
Western Kansas that a good rain has fallen
and that the wheat crop is now saved. The
farmers are julibant.
The presidents talk to the doctors at
Philadelphia was only two minutes long,
but that was long enough to assure them
hat good times would come IL they only
had patients.
II is understood that Envoy Calhoun is
| coming back from Cuba loaded with raw
meat to feed to the senate animals.
The latest movement of those who believe
that man was made for the Sabbath, and
not the Sabbath for man, is to prohibit the
milking of cows on Sunday. 1t must be
a source of great worry to these truly good
| people that there is no practical way Of
compelling the heart and lungs to quit work
on Sunday.
An enterprising astronomer might make
considerable reputation now by advancing
| the theory that the sun is losing its heat.
Mckinley is so pulled up with the pride
of office that 1t is quite likely he will not
regard the election of a Democratic con-
gresham in a Democratic Missouri dis
| trict as a great popular rebuke to his ad-
ministration.
'It is the marriage institution that Is en-
Shaving women" says Emma Goldman.
How does Emma explain breach of promise
suits?
Although It turned him down, Mr.. PEI
fer still has an earnest regard for the well
fare Of the Populist party. He opposes
another session of the Kansas legislature.
AS a public lecturer William ]. Bryan is
not a success. This was clearly demon
strated last winter. But the platform en-
ables the ambitious young man TO keep
himself before the public, and notorie;y he
| feels he must have at any price. He needs
It in his business. Being a professional
| candidate for the presidency, there is
nothing so painful to him as not being
noticed. The ten weeks lecture course
upon which he has started will not bring
him much money, but it will give him
advertisement. 1t will enable him to bask
in the plaudits of his admirers and revel
in the sweet intoXication Of railway station
receptions. The receptions may not be as
| enthusiastic as formerly, but they will be
preferable to sinking into oblivion.