The Advocate and news., 1898-09-14
Wichita Beacon: It must
be plain to the average

IM Wichita Beacon: It mus
NemspA1 be plain to the average
WENGnAL' reasoner that corporation
attorneys are not the best kind OF public
servants. No man con serve two mas
ters.
Atchison Champion (Rep.): After Sec
retary Alger tried the food and water al
MOntauk he pronounced them good
Then he was taken seriously Ill and re-
vised his opinion.
Wichita Beacon: How absurd 1t is
for $4,000 people to allow smaller corpo-
rations to furnish them light and water
II it is profitable to a few it will be
equally profitable to the many
Wichita Beacon: Water and light are
sanitary necessities in large cities. The
city is responsible for defects in side
walks night and day alike. The mo-
nopoly that furnishes the street lights
cannot be held for damages because their
lights go out.
Ex-Postmaster General John Wana.
maker: / have been a Republican since
1860, but our party now stinks in the
nostrils of any decent man. If the peO.
pie are willing to uphold this corrup-
tion and dishonesty, God save the coun-
try.
Erie Sentinel The Arkansas City
Democrat calls attention to the fact that
there is nothing being said by the Re-
publican press about the gold standard
being the best for the farmer; neither
q ra %haVy M 11{uo, attention, IN Rha c{v,0iIoV
ity in the prices of silver and wheat.
st. Marys Star: People are beginning
to speculate already as to when the war
tax will be repealed. It is very doubt
full If it will ever be repealed as long as
there is a Dingley bill to create def
cheney in the revenue while prohibiting
the importation of goods from abroad.
Girard News: The law declares the
death Of patient, when plainly due to
inexcusable neglect and incompetency
of his physician, to be "manslaughter. "
In like manner the death of soldiers
when due to the inexcusable neglect and
incompetency Of officials is no less man
slaughter-and ought to be punished ac-
cordingly. Incompetents ought not to be
permitted to trifle with the lives Of
American soldiers with impunity.
AtchisOn Champion (Rep): We think
all fair-minded people will agree with
the Chicago News that there Is some
thing wrong somewhere when the Sec
retary Of War and two political friends
are riding in a railroad presidents pri-
vate car, filled with good things to eat
and drink, while half hundred sick SOL
diers are humping toward Iowa in a
second-class car depending upon contri-
buttons from the train hands for depot
sandwiches.
Winfield Tribune: The new revenue
law puts a tax ON beer, and it becomes
necessary for those who deal in the arti-
Gle, to keep up the regular margin Of
profit, to use smaller glasses, holding
the same quantity OF froth and less
beer. The Indiana Goblet and Tumbler
Company has been compelled to enlarge
its works to supply the demand for new
beer glasses, and Republicans point with
pride to the new prosperity consequent
upon increased taxation.
w. G.. Brann (late editor of the Icono-
clast, Waco, Texas: The dollar is in
deed almighty. 1t is the Archimedian
lever that lifts the ill-bred man into
select society and places the ignorant
sap-head in the United States Senate;
1t makes Presidents OF stuffed prophets,
Governors of intellectual geese, philoso-
pliers OF fools, and gilds infamy Of su-
pernatural glory. 1t wrecks affairs Of in
nocence and pOllutes the face OF the peo-
Pile; breaks the sword Of justice and