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Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
The Lost Two Billions.

From the New York Sun.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson is reported in the
Atlanta Constitution as having remarked
in an address delivered in New Jersey, that
the country cannot be prosperous again
until the farmers, and those who depend
on them, are, in measure, recouped for
the enormous losses they have sustained
since 1893. These losses are estimated by
competent authorities to amount in the ag-
gregate to the vast sum of 5000 900, 900;
two thousand millions of dollars
This is so unphilosophical that we hesi-
tate to believe that the remark proceeded
from a gentleman for whose outgivings
we entertain considerable respect; always
excepting his potage au Plein Soleil, his
alleged lamb briskets, his 5-cent quail, and
his Aladdin puddings in glass jars.
To describe as losses the profits which
might have been made under other cOndi-
tions is the language neither of sound po-
liticai economy nor of common sense.
1t would be quite as philosophical for Mr..
Atkinson TO affirm that because there are
seventy millions of people in the United
States eating every day three meals which
cost on an average, let MS say. 10 cents
apiece. this country has lost" during the
past four years S3,SS2. O,OOO by not using
universally his Aladdin stove. with its g.
cent breakfasts, dinners and suppers.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
Stations,
THE KANSAS EDITORS.

Kansas City never entertained finer
body of men and women than those COM
posing the Kansas State Editorial Associa-
tion. who were the guests of the CONNER
cial Club last night, and who for the
greater part, are editors OF weekly news
papers. OF all the admirable things pro-
duced by Kansas, her country press stands
unrivaled, though this is a transposition
which would read more accurately if we
said that all the admirable things of Kan
Eas were produced by her unrivaled press.
Ii there is one strongly marked character
istie in the Kansas editor it is optimism.
He can stand more punishment and come
up smiling than any pugiIist who ever
donned the gloves. No storm of adversely
ever swept over him which he did not turn
TO cheerful account, and he can find more
cream floating around on the surface of the
skim milk jar than any separator which
ever turned a wheel.
One of the speakers at the association
meeting at Topeka Monday night wittily
illustrated this optimistic trait. He de-
clared that the "short-grass'' editor in
Western Kansas had bIotted the words
idli anu encouragement lEOH MS copy
of the unabridged dictionary. The sun
might roll through the heavens like ball
of fire, the earth might parch, the creeks
run dry and the crops wither. but he never
ceased TO declare that he lived in the midst
of the finest country on Gods green earth.
Reinforcing his trousers with a piece of
gunnysack, he could seat himself I'm the
midst of hot typhoon from the staked
plains of Texas and reel off column after
column TO prove that in the matter of cli-
mate Western Kansas was unexcelled and
that climate was the ultima thule of hu-
manity anyway. To him, ad astra per as
pera meant that crops will be better next
fall.' and for fight it was only necessary
10 intimate that his surroundings were fit
alone for the coyote and buffalo.
But we are depressing from our purpose
which was to assure the Kansas editors
that Kansas City is more than pleased
with their visit, and is glad to have been
able in some measure TO reciprocate the
kindly attentions which she has received at
the hands of the Kansas press. 1t has pos
sibly never occurred to the people of Kan
sas City how much they owe the Kansas
editors. The business we yearly transact
with them in the matter of paper and ink
and type runs into the many thousands of
dollars, but the debt we owe for friendly
journalistic services can not be computed
nj al
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
ELECTION FRAUDS IN yIRCIyIA

The Sound Money and Honest Election
League is an association of Virginia gem
tlemen, whose purpose is indicated by the
name they have adopted-the upholding of
sound financial methods in business and
securing a free ballot and fair count
Under the auspices of this league a :hor-
ough investigation of the methods used in
the last presidential election in Virginia
has been made. with the result that while
Bryan carried the state on the face of the
returns ny a plurality of more than 10000,
this result is shown to have been brought
about by the grossest frauds.
In the Second, Fourth and Fifth congress
sioral districts alone more than 10000 Re
publican ballots were thrown out on fiimsy
pretcxts of one sort or another. More than
1S.C0O affdavits have been secured from
voters who were prevented from casting
their ballots by the interference of the
chaIlengers or by outrageously unfair rul-
ings of the election judges. In jackson
ward. In Richmond, there are $500 legal
voters, and of these but 500 were allowed
10 vote. All sorts OF plans were used 10
keep the colored Republicans from the
polls. White men invariably took the head
of the line of voters ana held it for hours
until the colored men became discouraged
and left Others who were fortunate
enough to reach the polling booth were re-
fused a vote on the most trivial excuses,
and the result was that 2,s0O voters in this
one ward were disfranchised in the inter
est of BRYAN and free silver
These facts show, according to the
league, how Virginia, with a population of
i.s55,sSO AT the last census. cast hut 2ss. .OlS
votes in the recent election, while Wiscon-
sin. with population of 1.eS6,Sso east 49,
4ll votes. No effort was made TO combat
Nirginia's vote in the electoral college, but
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27

was enc of the most voiuminous ever p,ac ed
on record there, filling some forty or fifty
/ pages.
Ii is an annual custom of the Wabash
management to give two prizes. SO and SIS
! TO the section foremen having the best
| track for the year. For 1896. first and Sec
mol prizes We're awarded TO the east and
west foremen at carrollton.
Three taps of the fire bell at $50 p. m
hereafter will warn Chillicothe youngsters
| off the street.
There is cause for alarm the Springfield
Republican thinks. lest in case that Jim
! Crow car bill with some of its proposed
| amendments becomes law Elder Gibson
| the colored politician. may yet be prohibit
| ed from attempting to ride the free silver
| hobby with the Democrats.
The city marshal in Nevada has pulled
| the United States postal laws on the loaf
ers who are addicted to the habit of hang
| ing around the local postoffce when they
have no business there.
Vernon county poultry expert says he
can spot Il chicken thief at sight by the
way the fellow lifts the fowls from the
| coop, invariably grasping them by the
neck. whereas the honest man will, with al
| most equal certainty, handle them by the
feet.
Libertys new "Taffy Club" ought to
prove an influential organization. a strong
pull presumably being regarded as one
of the absolutely essential qualifications for
membership.
An average of $40 each was what hand
some lot of Poland-Chinas brought at q
hog sale in Maryville the first of the week,
the crackerjack of the herd going at an
even S40O.
Clearmont cribs contain 10000 bushels of
corn owned by the local merchants, who
are patiently waiting for the man who is to
help them let go by Offering a respectable
price for 1t.
The usual order in such matters is being
reversed in St. Joseph, where a local COM
pany is endeavorinS to make a deal with
the city for the purchase of the municipal
electric light plant an offer of $60O1O, pay
able in annual installments of 900 each,
having been rendered.
buchanan county farmers are to hold n
meeting in the court house in st. Joseph
Saturday with the purpose of bringing
about united and effective action in sup
port of a movement for better roads.
Carthage is inclined toward the belief
that well up toward the top of the list of
the achievements most necessary to its
success is the securing of an extension
there of the Chicago G. Alton railroad.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
Professor Wilson's Apology.

From the New York Sun.
Postmaster General Wilson delivered an
address on Tuesday evening before the
State Bar Association at Albany. His sub
ject was the influence of congress upon our
institutions of government; but it is merely
concerning one historical statement, or mis-
statement, that we wish to speak.
Referring to the balance of parties. and
the difficulty of unrestricted affirmative
legislation by any party, he said:
1T is accurate to say that not since the
middle of Buchanans administration, now
nearly forty years ago, has the Democratic
party had such control at any one time of
the presidency and of both branches of con-
gress as to enable 1t to give full effect to
party legislation"
What does he mean by "such control?"
1t is accurate to say that only three years
ago this month the Democratic party had
control of the presidency, of the senate of
the United States by a majority of ever
the Republicans, and of the house of rep
resentatives by majority of 81 over the
Republicans. All three of the factors nee
essary to affirmative legislation were then
controlled by the Democracy.
We cannot believe that Mr.. Wilson has
forgotten this circumstance. for he was at
the time the chairman of the committee on
ways and means and the author of tariff
bill which he desired to enact
That Mr.. Wilson and his boss, the Hon.
Grover Cleveland, failed under those favor
able conditions to procure the affirmative
legislation which they proposed, does not
prove that the Democratic party lacked in
the Fifty-third congress such control of
the presidency and of both branches of con-
gress as to enable it to give full effect to
party legislation" 1t proves only their in
efficiency and failure as party leaders, or
that the legislation desired and attempted
by them was not Democratic legislation.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27

From the New York Sun.
We find in the report of Special Agent
Enos S. Harnden to Secretary Morton
some interesting statistics and COmputa-
tions regarding the distribution of vegeta-
ble seeds for the last fiscal year.
The packages We're sent out between
April % and June 6 inclusive, and there
were over 100000 of them. filling nearly
100 mail sacks. The total weight was
465 $50 pounds. so that the cost of postage
on them, at the regular rate for seeds as
paid by private persons, would be about
SASH. Thirty mail cars were needed TO
transport them, Looking at the kind OF
seeds distributed, there were enough TO
plant q ,03S acres of cabbages, while Sec
ond and third on the acreage list come
lettuce. 1876, and tomatoes, 1912, the
former thus winning by few heads. Corn,
cucumbers, melons. beets. and other vege-
tables follow, making enough for a total
of SSH acres.
This in another form is an area of over
1l5 square miles of ground or. as Mr..
Harnden computes. it would be equivalent
to "a strip one rod in width and 36S17
miles in length. or nearly one and one-half
times the circumference of the earth. and
fast express train travelling at the rate of
sixty miles per hour along this garden
patch would require fifty-One days, three
hours and fourteen minutes to pass from
one end to the other; or, had the seed
been planted in single row, it would be
1881 miles in length, more than seven
times the equatorial circumference of the
earth"
If these seeds had been used equally.
each senator representative and delegate
in congress would have had enough to
plant more than 1882 acres of garden truck.
The mail packages spoken of do not rep
resent all the different packets of seeds
purchased, as these amounted to 10, 125, 900,
the cost being $4,000. Adding the esti-
mated cost of mail transportation, merely
at the figure above given, the total expense
is $l29.52I. Scores of closely printed and
tabulated pages show by whom and TO
whom seeds We're sent. Besides the 2025-
600 packages of vegetable seed, each con-
tanning five packets, there were 100000
packages of flower seed distributed, those
also containing five packets each.
During the present year the free seed dis
tribution, it appears, is to be greatly in
creased, seeds costing $l3OOOO having been
contracted for, a decided increase over last
year. Since the prices are lower, IL is he
lieved that congressman will be able to
send out twice as many seeds rs last year.
and, in fact, enough to emct0y about sixty
mail cars and to plant an area OF u out
230 square miles.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
That Dispensary Decision.

From the Washington Post.
\ widespread misunderstanding exists as
to the recent decision of the United States
supreme court in the South Carolina dis
pensary case. A number of newspapers.
and some of the inquiring correspondents
of the Post. appear to believe that the dis
pensary act itself has been declared uncon-
stitutional. but nothing of the kind has
happened. The act prohibits the sale of Ii
duor anywhere in the state except in n dis
pensary. and that provision is left intact.
II also undertakes to prohibit the importa-
ton of liquor into the state for private use.
and that is the provision which the court
propcunces unconstitutional In 1890 the
court decided in a case brought from Iowa,
that liquor imported into a prohibition state
could be sold there in spite of the local law
so long as it remained in the original pack
age To mitigate the effects of this decision
congress passed an act making all liquor
imported into state subject to the police
power of that state Immediately on its ar
rival.
The state authorities of South Carolina
and tho state courts held that this act
gave the state the right to seize liquors
brought into South Carolina for private
use. The court decides. Mr.. Justice Brown
alone dissenting. that while citizen may
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27

tion of pressing Importance at the mo-
ment that demands the Immediate ratiiica-
ton of the treaty without the lunest and
most complete discussion. 1t is the part
of wisdom to be sure that the treaty will
make for peace and not for war. There
should be no doubt about any of its pro-
visions. If it is so clumsily drawn-as il
seems to be-that even so astute d man
as Secretary Olney does not understand it,
then it should be amended.
And, while the subject is up, it might
not be Il bad idea to have the debate car
ried on in open session in the senate. We
should then find out just how many great
orators there are in the upper branch of
congress. This would give opportunity for
Mr.. Lodge. who has recently stated that
the newspapers are in league to prevent
the publication of the speeches of the ma
ticnal legislators, to air himself on a great
question. We should find out how much
there is of undying oratory. and how much
of common sense also, there is in the
senate,
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27

tained and in the seductive chink of some
of Uncle Sans golden eagles she might
find solace for the loss of a throne. In
this and other pleasant ways did Grover
seek TO make some amends for his failure
10 restore the monarchy in Hawaii. AS
he evidently believes that the republic has
come to stay, and knows, therefore, that
Lii hasn't the ghost of a show to resume
the queen business, he has put her up 10
the little game of being u claimant before
the next congress. and in the event of
failure in that direction she will probably
bring suit in the courts. Thus does Grover
nobly uphold the cause of liberty and free
institutions. to his own everlasting honor
and Elory-nit!
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27

John A. Murray. author of the Murray pro-
| libition law. aid one day Murray sent him
down TO Caldwell to prosecute a long
| haired Tennesseean for stealing a load of
barb wire consigned to Windsors ranch. 1t
| was Il dead easy case. as the culprit was
| arrested while he was disposing OF the
wire.
1T was Il preliminary trial, and was
brought before Squire Rowan, who was
a government freighter, but who had been
elected because-well, no one ever knew
why he was elected. Harry Bone proved
the Tennesseean guilty beyond Il doubt.
Smelling offered no testimony, but depend
ed on his oratory. In five minutes he had
Squire Rowan in tears. When he con-
cluded, Harry Bone who is no slouCh of
an orator himself, rose to reply, but the
squire told him to take his seat, he
didn want to hear any more. My judg-
lnent is, said he, that the defendant is
innocent: that the wire is John Windsors.
and that he can have it if he pays the
costs. Harry Bone asked for fresh air.
'ohn Windsor almost tainted and Smelling
called Rowan a Gecond Daniel.
IN iSSi Mr.. Smelling was elected mayor
OF caldwell and served for two years, after
winch he went 10 Anthony and formed Il
co-partnership with Isaac Love. He was
the hepublcan candidate for judge two
SN"to ''So III oppOSltlon to Judge MCkay,
VINO went from the plow to the bench.
IL L am not mistaken he was beaten by
TWO votes only. The last time saw Shell
ing he was delivering an eloquent speech
renominatinS Chester l. Long for congress
himself, and he didn't do thing when he
went home but turn Populist.
smelling is fine orator, a great logf-
clan, profound lawyer. Il classical schoI-
ar and Il most cOmpanionable fellow. but
lie lacks ambition. His indifference to fame
mas always made me mad when l thought
OF 1t, and how easily he could grasp it
IL he only half way exerted himself Some
body told me once that while yet youth
ne fell in love with beautiful girl; that
she died, and that he, in consequence, lost
all his ambition.
If | am not mistaken, he attended the
college that William ]. Bryan attended.
one thing l know, and that is, he grad
uated first in his class after II rigid ex-
animation by David Davis, who was then
conspicuous figure in national politics
He is about IS years of age and L believe.
q native of Eastern Iowa. He is a man of
strict honesty, a high sense OF honor and
OF the best moral habits. He is all right
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
Needs an "Afidavy, or Two.

From the Chicago Tribune
Or. Powell. of California, and late of Mis-
souri, is still clamoring for fresh diseases
to overcome. He wants some aggregation
of trustworthy physicians to fill him up
with the most Industrious bacilli so he can
show the world what a small chance ba-
cillus has with the Powell anti-disease cure.
Dr. Powell claims TO have harbored large
quantities of the propaGating elements of
all the notable affiictions from tuberculosis
TO ltprosy, and he has not felt any un-
pleasant results from the unusual associa,
ton Now he wants some more of the same
disease germs and any other disease germs.
and he appeals TO the medical world to
supply him with bacilli and a corps of ply
sicians to insure the trustworthiness of the
tests. This latest DIR. Powell statement
comes from district which gave birth re-
Gently to picturesque airshp made en-
tirely OF air. and a few affidavits will be re-
quired before the authenticity of the Pow
ell affair can be established.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
The st. Joseph Postofice Plum.

From the Washington Post
Representative Crowther, of Missouri
and Representative-elect Cochran. who
will succeed him. are both watching with
great deal of interest for an appointment
which Mr.. Cleveland is expected to make
within a few days of postmaster at St
Joseph Mo. This Office is worth to the in
cumbent about $500 a year. and has heen
held by a Republican for the past seven
years. Captain C. F. Ernst. an ex-J'nion
soldier, was appointed by President Harr!-
son, and died after holding the office for
three years. while Mr.. Harrison was still
president. The present postmaster. Frank
Atkinson, was appointed December = 1852
and was confirmed by the senate January
IL, 1875. so that his four years was up a few
days ago. Now Mr.. Cleveland is expected
TO make an appointment. II the new ap-
pointee shall be a gold Democrat 1t is about
dollars to doughnuts that he will not be
confirmed. In fact, it seems likely that the
senate committee on postoffices and post
roads may avoid the issue regarding many
of these appointments, in order to make a
few more offices for the Republicans when
Nj. Mckinley comes into the White House,
in exchange for all of those which Mr.
Cleveland has placed under the shelterinS
aeSts of the civil service after they were
filled with good Democrats
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
The Poster Craze.

Through the ochre-tinted haze
OF these blue mi1winter days,
In the pink of prime condition,
See the poster people gaZei
See their oDalescent hair
Sparkle in the misty air.
With the rarest. rich suspicion
OF a greenness, frail and fart
And their gold and purple eyes
What a rainbow beauty lies
In those eyes with ebon margins
And their looks of lush surprise!
How their yellow-carmined lips
Meet in mutual eclipse,
While the pale. pink moon afar grinS
On the high horizons hips;
And the swirl topped orange trees
Stiffen in a slate hued breeze
That. entranced hangs palpitatinE
Over endless brazen seas,
OH we madly love them all,
With their curves impossible,
And their colors. agitating
As massic maddened ball!
~
But maid with livid skin
And a purple dimpled chin.
And costume wove of clotted blood,
Lures like a painted sin,
In a mad. prismatic maze
We pursue, with lurid praise,
Though feeling far too green and gooC
For this darling poster craze,
Chicago Record.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
Science to the Rescue.

From the New York Press
The Kentucky murderer faced the mob
who had assembled to lynch him without
flinching. "One word,'' he cried.
With the moose about his neck they
paused.
TT is not to beg for mercy" he said.
''that 1 ask you to wait. No! 1t is with a.
far nobler object"
He waved fragment of a newspaper
before their eyes.
TT Is to tell you that 1t has Just been dis
covered that fine grade of whisky can
be distilled from hemp
With mad yell the mob rushed upon
him. tore the precious rope from his neck.
and, oblivious to his escape, fought for the
fraE ments.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
Reaectiona of n Bncheior.

From the New York Press.
Love is a disease and marriage Is gen.
elally its best anti-toxin.
Application is the ability to do work;
genius is the ability not to.
When girl is 20 she writes love with
an exclamation point; when she's 30 she
uses a question mark.
A girl may assert that she has never
been kissed. but she will never admit that
no man ever tried to.
When a woman says something mean
about man. she always says: II like
him, you know: If ] didn't like him so well
l wouldn't say that
If a man doesn't kiss his wife when he
leaves her in the morning she thinks he
doesn't love her; If he does. she thinks he
feels good to be getting away.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27

From the n. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Some OF the peace-at-any-price editors
are throwing fits over the DELAY of the
senate in acting upon the arbitration
treaty. They want it ratified at once.
They want neither amendments nor dis
cussion. 1t is enough for them that the
treaty has received the Endorsement of I'M
thinking people in this country without
any examination as 10 its real merits ur
dement's.
Let 1t be stated again that there can be
no opposition whatever 10 an arbitration
treaty that amounts to something. A vast
majority OF the people of the United
States are in favor of peace. A consider
able proportion are against war, no mat
ter what the cause. But there is no aues-
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-27
A Conuette Conauered

Yes my hat ez had ez stone
Go way, Sam. an lemme lone.
No; | amt gwine change my min
Amt gwine may you-nuffin' de kin.
Phiny loves you true an deah?
Go may Phiny; whut | keer?
Oh, you needn't noun an cry
l don't keer how soon you die.
Got present, Whut you got?
Somef'n fu' de pan er pot
Huh. yo sass do sholy beat
Think don't git 'nough TO eat?
Whuts dat un'Reaf yo' coat?
Looks des lax a httle shoat.
'Tain't no possum! Bless de Lamb!
Yes. 1t is, yo' rascal. Sam,
Gin 1t to me; whut you say?
Amt you sma't nowl oh. go way!
Possum do look mighty nice,
But you AK too big q prize
Tell me- is you talkin' true,
OATS de gals whut males you?
Come back. Sam: now whah's you gwine'
Co'se you knows dat possum's minei
Paul Laurence Dunbar.