Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-17
NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
The war was inauguratcd without the
consent Of the powers. and the Turk is
clearly Of opinion that it can be kept going
in the same independent and saucy way.
The ground upon which all Democrats
can unite. says Amos Cummings. is COM
mon sense. But that is untrue. There are
still many enthusiastic and determined
Bryan Democrats in the country.
The more Democrats complain of the
hardness of prosperity the more they adj
vertise the paraIyzing effects of Demo
cratic rule. The sickcr the patient the
longer it takes him TO recover.
Mrs. Langtry's divorce was not so much
for advertising purposes as to unload a
husband whom she was supporting at long
range.
\ Chicago editor calls on President Nc
Kinley to resign. 1t is likely the president
Will not act on this advice until he has
given it u few days elaboration.
The Turkish commander boasts that his
soldiers commit 10 atrocities in war. 1t is
in peace that the Turk is atrocious and
diabolical.
Members of the serate are preparing to
deliver some of the highest-priced speeches
ever made in this country. Every week
consumed by the senate in s~peechmaking
on the tariff bill will cost American bust
ness interests millions of dollars.
What President Mckinley wishes to do is
TO relieve the distress of Americans in
Cuba, meet the demands of public senti-
ment at home, and avoid giving affront TO
a friendly foreign power. 1t is a delicate
task. 49,
While asking for peace the Greeks are
proving that they are still capable of war.
They are making it decidedly interesting
for the Turk.
Speaker Reed is the kind of presiding Of
fcer who would just as leave sit on a shall
low-witted member in golf stockings as on
one in any other garb.
The fact that n large number of offices
have been placed under the civil service
rules doesn't afford much relief to the
president. The men who want office are
just as numerous and clamorous as ever.
and more of them have to be disap-
pointed. -
The insurance companies which Webb
McNall is trying to drive out of Kansas
are annoyed and temporarily embarrassed,
but they are suffering no serious injury.
They will be doing business in the state
long after McNaIl has been kicked out and
forgotten. : IC-
Love not only laJghs at 1ocksmiths, but
profits by their ingenuity. An clipping
couple in Kentucky locked themselves and
a magistrate in the vault at the court
house and were married without Interrupt
ton from pursuing relatives.
Vacant houses in Kansas City are re-
markably scarce. New buildings going up
are numerous. These two facts together
tell an unmistakable and interesting story.
There is not much sympathy for the. UNI
pire that was mobbed in this town the
other day. An umpire who would cheat the
Kansas City team out of 4 game would
steal butter from a blind mans bread.
a month of war has cost Greece 800, O00,- |
600. But the Greeks have had quite a run
for their money.
The end of the war in the Levant will not
bring universal peace. Captain General
Weyler has quite a number of hospitals to
burn yet.
England is boasting of the greatest in
dustrial and commercial prosperity she
has experienced in many years. Thousands
of unemployed ~workingmen in this coun-
try know where she got it, and how she
got it.
The Kansas City ball team Is now safely
at the bottom of the list and prepared to
hold its own against any and all Corners.