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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
HOW ONE STATE DOES 1T,

The question of how TO attract desirable
immigrants and induce them to settle down
as permanent citizens is one with which ev-
cry enterprising state concerns itself in
greater or less degree. mthe West especially
this has been 4 live question for years in
some localities, and is still regarded as
highly important. Many thousands of dol
lars have been spent annually in advertis-
ing climate, resources, business conditions.
educational facilities. etc. and In many
cases the returns from such advertising
have been large.
The bids for homeseekers however, have
not been confined to the West Even some
of the very old states of the Atlantic sea-
board maintain their immigration bureaus
and participate in the contest for new pop
ulation. Among these is New Jersey. New
Jersey IS not boasting particularly of her
climate or undeveioped resources, but she
expects in short time 10 have the best
system OF country roads in the United
States. Money * being spent freely for
road Improvement. both by the state and
by the different counties. The state com
missioner of public highways has asked
the legislature for 100000 for road i'm
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
Stations. Lp.- Up nI9, p-0 .ru..h.-
4 LEssoN IN rATERNALIsM.

In the course of the debate in the Kan
which well illustrates the evil of class
legislation. and at the same time points
out the utter futility of trying to invoke
!by law a prosperity which will hit all
alike.
J. It was proposed by one of the senators
to give a hearing 10 the railroad opera
,tives who desired to protest against a re-
,duction OF rates which they felt would re-
suit either in the discharge of many of
them or a decrease in their daily pay. No
sooner had this proposition been made than
a senator representing a farming COM
munity was on his feet with an objection.
lie could bring more farmers, he said, to
advocate the passage of the proposed
measure than railroad men could be found
who would protest against it
Here, then, is the whole story of the
anti-railroad legislation in a nutshell. 1t
is proposed to suspend the ordinary rules
of business and enhance the value of the
farmers product by forcing the railroads
10 carry it to market at less than cost.
This is not an exaggeration, for the bill
now pending would reduce the revenues
of the railroads TO less than operating ex-
penses.
II is automatic in gambling circles that
no one can make winning without some
one suffering a commensurate loss. IL the
farmers are given an enhanced value for
their crops at the expense of the railroads,
the latter must make themselves whole in
some direction or go out of business. The
only avenue which is open TO them is a
reduction of expenses, and this means loss
of jobs and wages to the men who do the
railroad work.
In short. when with paternalistic legisla-
tion II Is sought 10 divert or overthrow
the great unwritten laws which have gov
erned the relations between producer and
consumer since the birth of the world, an
irrcconcilable conflict is bound to arise and
the advocate of paternalism must take his
stand with one side or the other. This was
strikingly marked in the recent presiden-
tial campaign, when the silver orators
sought 10 show the farmer that a cheap
dollar would enhance the value of his
crops. and at the same time assured the
consumer that he would suffer nothing.
1t is plain enough to be seen that the
Fopulists Of the Kansas legislature are
getting into a labyrinth of perplexities.
For the first time they are confronted with
the impracticability of their dreams and
illusions. Until the railroad empIoye rose
up in arms 1t had never occurred to them
that in subscribing one interest they might
destroy another. Dimly they are awaken
ing TO the knowledge that the problem of
government Is stupendous one and full
Of almost bcwildering intricacies. BY and
by they viii learn that the dynamics which
they unIoosed in their little school house
campaigns are not powerful enough 10
move even the edge OF the world.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
RAILWAY REVENUES IN MISSOURI.

!
| In two bills now pending before the leg
| islature of Missouri-one to reduce passen-
ger rates TO cents per mile. and the other
to tiX Il maximum freight rate equivalent
to a reduction of about 80 per cent-there is
| a very serious menace to the material
| prosperity of the state.
In Kansas, where the Populists have con-
troll of the legislature foolhardy assaults
| on corporations are not surprising. The
! Populist party is organically a menace 10
| business interests-especially to corporate
| business interests. But Missouri, which has
not yet been victimzed by the party of
destruction, should spare itself the odium
and the injury of unjust laws.
Next TO the agricultural interests the rail-
way interests are the greatest in the state
! of Missouri. The builders and operators of
these lines of transportation have done
| more than any other class to advertise the
state. Yet 1t is fact that for the past
three years not a line entering this city,
for instance, has earned what would be Il
fair rate of interest on its Indebtedness. In
fact all lines have been obliged to retrench
chases of supplies have been decreased and
the number of employees has been reduced.
If such rigid economy has been necessary
under present freight and passenger rates.
what would be the result of such a radical
reduction of revenues as is proposed in the
pending bills? 1t would be still greater re-
duction in the forces. still further decrease
in the purchases of supplies and Il neglect
of the passenger service, which, in spite of
small earnings. has been kept up to a high
standard. 1t is a fact worthy of mention
here that the trains and service used for
local travel in the West far surpass in
comfort those used for similar service in
the East, where travel is greater. 1t is i'm
possible to make a reduction of % per cent
in the passenger rates and not greatly in
jure the service.
The railroads would suffer by such legis-
lation. but they would not suffer so much
as the general public. Reductions in freight
rates do not materially affect the price of
goods to the consumer; but to throw thou
sands of men out of employment would not
only deprive those men of a livelihood, but
would seriously affect all whose business
depends upon the earnings of the masses.
Statistics show that the aggregate
shrinkage of railway revenues in this coun-
try between 1890 and 1895 was 800. .OOO, 900:
that in 1890. $4,000 people were directly en-
ployed by the railroads, and in 1895 only
10000, representing loss of s15O,OOO, 900 in
wages.
The proposed legislation is not only un-
just to particular industry, but its oper-
alton would be injurious to the people at
large. While on the face it appears in the
light of public benefit. no intelligent busi-
ness man can give the matter his consider
alton and draw any such conclusions.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
An Old Time Candy Pull.

When the wintry stars are winkin'
Winkin' at the brink o. night.
An the pale, cold moon Is sinkin',
SInkin' slowly out of sight:
Then n bIinkin' thro' my glasses,
My heart gets swellin' full,
An 1 mind the lads and lasses
At an old time candy pull.
Thar was Mandy Jones. the parsons gal
Land sakes how my heart jumps!
An Tommy Brown. as stout a pal
As ever took lifes thumps;
An Betsy Smith an Jimmony Hill.
An Sam and Mary Dowd,
Whose daddy owned the OIL grist mill
An lots more Of the crowd!
I mind We met at old Dowd's place
His kitchen was the best
An the music O. the OF mill race
Kept time to Guip an Jest;
Then when the 'lasses was billed down.
tell ye IL was fun
To pull it TO a golden brown
Till It was proper done!
Then how we danced the 'Giny reel,
Chock full of snap and spunk-
All hands around now-toe and heel!
Each lassie with a hunk
o. yellow 'Iasses candy
Betwixt her laughin' lips
Eth? bedtime! Dear me. Mandy,
Don't it beat all how time slips?
New York Sun.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
The Senatorial situntinn.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The election of George Turner PopuIlst,
to succeed Senator Squire, of Washington,
and the election on the day before, in Ida
no, of Henry IIeitfeid to succeed Senator
Dubois, leaves but five senatorial vacancies
yet TO be filled, viz, oregon, Utah, South
Dakota. Kentucky and Florida. Beside
these there is the Delaware contest to be
settled and the successor to Senator Sher-
man TO be appointed. There are forty-two
members of the next senate already chosen
who count themselves and are counted
firmly within the Republican allegiance
This excludes, of course, Senators Teller,
Cannon, Mantle and Pettigrew, who may
vote for the tariff bill because, like McEn-
cry, Democrat, of Louisiana, they are pro-
tectionists. but cannot be relied upon to
support any definite Republican policy
The Republicans may get three more SEN
ators. from Kentucky, Delaware and Ore
gon, respectively, which, with the vice
president. will give them the control nf the
senate. Should the Republicans fail TO get
the senator in any one of these states
there will be no party having a majority
in the next senate.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
The Bankruptcy Bill.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
There is great likelihood that the Torrey
bankruptcy bill will be taken up by the
senate this week, and the prospect of sts
passage is very good. Senator George,
who has hitherto opposed it. and proposed
Il bill of his own, containing the volun-
tary proceeding only. is now i'll and un-
able TO attend the senate. He has sent
word, however, that he does not desire TO
oppose putting the Torrcy measure TO u
vote. When the question comes up, there
fore. that measure will be offered as a
substitute for the George bill. and it will
probably be adopted.
1t is important TO the business interests
OF the whole country that this wise and
well digested bill should lind a place on
the statute books. y commercial country
without a bankruptcy law is an anom-
ally in modern times, and it is particularly
so in the United States, where there are
forty-tive different systems of insolvency
laws in operation in the different states of
the Union.
The law is framed to protect both debtor
and creditor, and it has the sanction of the
great majority of the boards of trade and
the business men of the nation.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
Picnic plntitudcs Don't Go.

From the New York Sun.
When Mr.. PETER. of Kansas, was speak
ing at Il basket picnic in the palmy days
of the Farmers Alliance, he emphatically
protested against officers remaining in Of
fees for more than one term. The Kansas
legislature has taken him at his word
Cedar Rapids Republican.
Mr.. PETER is justified in protesting
against being bound by words lightly ut
tered at a basket picnic in the palmy days
of the Farmers Alliance. The songs of
the Kansas Farmers Alliance wefe full of
maddening resonance; and when the bas-
kets had been emptied and the brain duly
stocked, even the grdvest of men were liable
to break into rash speech. Remarks made
at a basket picnic should not be allowed to
count, If the audience survived In declar-
ing for one term officers Mr.. PETER meant
other officers than himself, just as the
Hon. Grover Cleveland believes that it is a
bad thing for the country for anybody but
himself to be president for more than one
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC DEFENDER.

THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC DEFENDER.
Miss Clara FoItz, of New York, has asked
the Missouri legislature TO create new
ofice-the office of public defender. The
plea should receive the respectful consid-
Grafton Of the members of that body. 1t
would seem but just that where there is
public prosecution there should also be
public defense.
In a general way the laws of this coun-
try have made liberal provision for the pro-
lection Of the oppressed. Every large city
has a city physician, or several of them, a
corps of police surgeons, and many of them
have free hospitals. Thus provision is made
for the treatment of those who are unable
10 pay doctors bills.
In certain way gratutous legal counsel
is even more necessary than gratuitous
medical or surgical attention. An arraisn-
ment for crime carries with its mental suf-
fering the possibility of disgrace. 1t is a
fact that many a poor creature has heen
sentenced TO Jail or to the gallows for want
of adequate defense. The irregular man
ner of providing counsel for the impoyer-
ished should be remedied. There may be Il
better way than the creation of the Of
flee of public defender, but that would at
least be an Improvement upon the present
method
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

From the New York World.
The Homeopathic Medical Society OF
Brooklyn is volcanic over the course OF
study in the girls high school in that
city. We consider the curriculum too
severe and eXaCting." say these doctors.
1t requires too much of the delicately
organized students who fail because they
do not get the fresh air and physical ex-
erCise that the boys do"
The remedy for this. as the wise doctors
declare, is not fresh air and exercise"
but lowering the educational standard so
that the girl who does not take proper
care of her health shall be put on an
equality with the boy or girl who does.
The doctors are evidently bidding for the
approval of those social reformers who
agitate for a premium upon ignorance,
car eiessnesS, laziness and incompetence,
and tax upon sound sense. assiduity,
energy and capacity.
That was a great day when some one
discovered that civilization means the sur
yivai of the unfittest.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
"Great Masters" for a Song.

From the New York World.
At the recent sale of the Marshall o.
Roberts collection of paintings the works
of great masters" which had cost thou
sands of dollars sold for hundreds Pro-
| testing in consequence that good pictures
are cheap because bad pictures are in fash
ion, virtuosos insist that as ordinary peo-
pie who buy pictures know nothing about
art" experts should be hired to do their
buying for them.
If ordinary people bought pictures for
speculative purposes. they do coal and
cotton. or merely to talk about as Is the
fashion of virtuosos. this would be good
advice. But when an everyday person with
an everyday intellect has bought picture
with a thought in it so expressed that it
appeals TO his sense of the beautiful. and
takes hold the higher life in him. he
has done the best that could possibly be
done through picture-buying-for himself
for the fine arts and for the world he lives
in.
1t does not follow because 4 work bears
the name of a great master that it is a
great work. 1t may have some suggestion
of his mastery in II, but in spite of every
thing may not be worth having. The same
Milton who wrote Paradise Lost" wrote
an intolerable amount OF political and the
illogical articles hardly fit to burn. The
great writer's of the time of Queen Anne
who are supposed to represent the highest
standards of literary finish, wrote hun
dreds of volumes which. though still seen
in every gentlemans library" are never
read by anyone, gentle or simple. because
they do not deserve to be. 1t is so in all
literature and in all painting. Work that
is fit to survive comes only after long
struggle and repeated failure.
The failures of great artist may be far
inferior to the best work OF mediocre tai
ent. This is so true that unpretentious peo-
pie hardly need to be told of it. They leave
such failures to virtuosos, buying for them
selves successful pctures-pictures which
succeed because, having something TO say.
they say 1t clearly directly. truly. so that
it is Ineligible at once. Every picture which
does this is successful picture regardless
of its signature or of its price
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
Their Just share and No More

From the Cleveland Leader.
The supreme court of the United States
yesterday settled for good the controversy
as to the constitutionality of the Nichols
law. for the taxation of telegraph. teIf.
phone and express companies within the
state of Ohio.
The decision rendered yesterday affirms
the constitutionality of the act. and is in
line with the opinion rendered several
weeks since in the suit of the Western
Union Telegraph Company under the same
law. The act was passed in 1893 and was
amended in 1894, and the express and teIe-
graph companies at once contested the
payment of the tax levied under IT. The
cases growing out of that contest went
through all the state courts, to the United
States circuit court, the decisions being
uniformly in favor of the law. and now
the highest court in the land has sus-
tained it.
This is one of the first of several laws
designed by Republicans to shift part of
the burden Of taxation from real estate
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
Reflections of n nncheIor.
.nm the New York Press,

From the New York Press.
Don't believe all the good you hear.
The more there is to a woman the easier
she Is to understand
The older man gets the more respect
he has for himself when he was a child.
Where a man would say, Il could have
kicked myself" I wonder what a woman
would say?
When a girl wants to get you to hold
her hand she says: "Oh. do you know any
thing about palmistry?"
AS soon as a girl finds out that a man
hates to see her cry she begins to practice
making the tears come into her eyes when
she wants TO.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
Legislative Aid for the Lie-Nniler.

From the New York Sun.
A bill has been introduced into the Mis-
souri, senate providing that it shall be a
misdemeanor to make, publish. or dictate
false charge or statement against a per-
son holding public office or against a cam
didatc for public Office" The legislator
from whose brain it comes thinks stump
speakers and curbstone orators should be
more careful in what they say during
campaign" Undoubtedly some of them
should, but why should the fist of law try
to hammer veracity into those too imagin-
ative poets of the canvass? There are or
ators incapable of facts: orators and even
candidates whom facts positively hurt. The
campaign lie and the campaign liar are
already sufficiently punished by inexorable
custom. The lie is promptly nailed in most
cases, and in others it is stamped. The liar
always has his own falsehood hurled down
his black throat or foul throat. according
to the taste and fancy of the hurler. What
further vengeance can offended truth de-
sire? What is fine OF not less than SiOO
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

from the Chicago Post.
1t Is scarcely credible that President
IieNeiand has intimated his intention to
Veto the anti-immigration bill should it
come 10 him in the shape in which it has
passed the house of representatives He
Is SAID to base his objections TO the bill
because 1t is un-American, because it
would tend to divide families and because
OF the provision prohibiting Canadians
from coming to this country temporarily
to labor while maintaining home in
Canada.
With the general proposition of the bill
TO apply an educational test that will ex-
Clude only the illiterate 10 Whatsoever
nationality they may belong the president
is said TO entertain no opposition. If this
is so he will scarcely be justified i'm Veto
ing it because of minor details upon which
there may exist Il difference of opinion.
The bill has been well considered in both
houses of congress, has been before con-
feI nee committee and now only awaits
the concurrence of the senate in the bill
as it came from that committee. When
it gets to the president he will probably
swallow his personal objections and sign
1t or let it become a law without his
signature,
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
"And the Cnt Came Bock :"
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post.
The kindly old gentleman had been tell
ing them a story, but the bad boy. after
the manner of his kind. had not been par
ticularly attentive.
And after many years" said the kindly
old gentleman. "Enoch Arden returned to
his home
Ohio" exclaimed the bad boy. suddenly
waking up to the fact that something
came back: Il never knew the name Of
that cat before
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
KANSAS TOPICS.

Bitter Creek is in Pottawatomie county,
but there is no evidence on hand that the
higher up you get the worse they are.
County Treasurer Darby, of Washington
county. has taken Joan in the person of
Miss Alice Hallowell.
Woolheater & Chitty, who recently sold
the Dighton Idea to the Lobdells. have gone
to Indiana and purchased the Mitchell
Commercial.
1t is reported that Judge Fitzgerald, that
fine old Irish gentleman who went into
the Pop party without losing any of his
Republican friends. is on his deathbed at
his home in St. Mary's. The judge was a
candidate for representative last fall, and
the exposure of the night rides in the
campaign is said TO be responsible for his
illness.
Isabella Hogg, OF Ottawa, has filed suit
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
Satisfied Anyway.

From the New York Press.
~ drink in inspiration from your facc"'
he cried.
However. as he had previously professed
a bibulous preference for a mug. she gave
him the stony stare.
At which he murmured that a stein
would do all right.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

to. which guarantees US the right TO pro-
tect our foreign and domestic policy, is
surely broad enough to take the Nicaragua
question away from arbitration, whether or
not England fancies she has rights under
the old treaty
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

provement the coming year, which sum,
when supplemented by the appropriations
by counties or towns" will make an ag-
gregate of more than sl,0OO,OOO this little
state will spend on its public roads in the
next twelve months. The state commits
sioner, in his annual report, frankly says
that the purpose of this expenditure lis to
attract millions of capital for investment
and thousands of progressive citizens for
permanent residents"
Thus. while Missouri, Kansas and other
Western states under Democratic or Pop
ulist control are harassing and driving out
capital and business with unfriendly legis-
lation, states in the far East, with not a
fourth of their natural inducements, are
plying their energies and taxing their in
genuity TO gather in all the capital and
population they can attract.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

and place it upon corporations which en-
joy valuable franchises as a gift from the
state, and the decision of the supreme
court ought 10 open the door to other
legislation along the same line. Care should
be taken by the legislature, however. not
10 make such legislation unnecessarily op-
pressive. The object should be to compel
the privileged corporations to pay their
Just share OF taxation and no more.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
Couldn't Re Worse.

From the Detroit Free Press
Isn't that Featherbrain the freshest
young fellow you ever saw?"
so absolutely fresh that there's no salt
in his tears"
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
Even I'm the Doyecot.

The male bird grumbled as he clutched
Ills perch with II firmer hold
And said tc his mate: Don't come so close!
Your feet are awfully cold.''
Chicago Tribune
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
why Coal Is Dear

From the Washington Star
No doubt many of the coal monopolists
have long ago written checks to alleviate
the sufferings of poverty in such weather
as this.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

The Mugwumps are chuckling over Mr..
Goge's independence, although Mr.. Gage
specifically declares he never failed to vote
the Republican ticket but once in his life.
But it doesn't take much to make people
chuckle who have been suhsisting on dry
crumbs for a long period of years.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04
TIE WEATHER.

Washington. Feb. 3.-For Oklahoma and
Indian Territory: Light Iain or snow;
winds shifting 10 north; colder.
For Missouri: Generally cloudy weather;
light rains or snow. east Winds.
For Kansas: Light SHOWS; winds shift
ing to north.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

1t is understood that the wife of the
gov ernor of Texas has high admiration
for the governor of Nevada.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-04

Ii is said that tobacco causes blindness.
This may explain why smokers so often
fail to see how much they are annoying
others.