Kansas City journal., 1897-06-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.


1t is hard to keep a bad man down. The
atrocious Turk is up to deviltry again.
Richard Mansfields book Blown Away
is not story of his managers. They were
scolded away.
The senate seems at last to have realized
that the country needs legislation more
than frothy oratory.
The frequency of suicide indicates that
there are people who do not believe those
dawn-of-prosperity stories.
The Washington lawyer who attempted
murder and suicide made the same old
mistake of shooting the woman first.
Liberty cannot die" says George Fred
williams, speaking of Cuba. In Cuba's
case liberty's difficulty is in being horn.
Kentuckians are sometimes eccentric.
The latest neighborhood shooting affray in
that state did not occur on the church
steps.
Mr.. AIdrich would feel decidedly sheep
ish If Western senators should refuse TO
vote for the tariff bill because of reduced
wool duties.
The end of the world, which was pre-
dicted for last Wednesday, md not take
place. Any reports to the contrary are
false and misleading.
'If the wires are done away with" says
the Chicago Tribune, what will the poll
ticians have to pull?" What's the matter
with the peoples legs?
Special Consul Calhoun says It is impos-
sible TO get the truth in Cuba That is the
conclusion the newspaper reading public
came to some time ago.
Uncle Russell Sage might not be a valu-
able authority on the subject of almsgiving,
but when he says prosperity is coming his
words are worth listening to.
The present cool weather may seem a
little unnatural, but it is much preferable
to the sunstroke and mad dog weather
they are having in New York.
Philatelic cranks will be interested in the
statement that the Canadian government
is TO issue a special postage stamp this
year in honor of the queens jubilee.
DIR. Talmage says it is not necessary for
any one TO lose dignity on a wheel. Ger
tainly not. Strap it on tightly to the bar in
front or back of the saddle and it will be
safe.
Mr.. Bailey is quoted as saying that he is
for Bryan in 1900. If Mr.. Bailey could have
his choice he would undoubtedly favor
some good Western man whose name be-
gins with B.
The gold standard is responsible for the
new counterfeit coins. If Bryan had been
elected the value of the dollar would have
been so small that it couldn't have been
counterfeited with good silver.
It may be true. as reported in Madrid,
that President Mckinley has expressed
sympathy for Spain. The president has
possibly heard that Colonel Harriman's re-
cruits are about to start for Cuba.
Kansas has paid off so much indebted
ness. has such fine crops and such fine
prospects OF marketing them at good prices
that the calamity howl has come TO be re-
garded as a huge joke in that state.
Uncle Horace Boies doesn't take much
stock in the direful things the people are
going to do 10 the Republican party next
fall. He says under no circumstances will
he accept the Democratic nomination for
governor of Iowa.
The testimony of Consul General Morss
that American consuls are hard worked
and poorly paid will not diminish the patri-
otic zeal with which so many hundreds of
citizens are seeking opportunity to serve
their country in consular positions.
Governor Leedy says lynching is some
times justifiable. but not often. Except in
the case of some shockingly wicked GRIM
inaI or some railroad stockholder who asks
a fair return on his investment, Mr.. Leedy
thinks the law ought to be allowed to take
its course.
THE situation to-day" says Secretary
Gage, may be compared with that early
in the year 1879. when the most remark
able advance in production and prices ever
known in this or any other country in the
world was close at hand" Secretary Gage
was never known chaser of rainbows.
His reputation is that of a far seeing, prac-