The Advocate and news., 1898-05-11
Democrat Bulletin: TT
gross earnings Of II
IN
GENERAL.


cEMEpAI gross earnings of the
VG"EnAL' Pennsylvania railroad for
1897 were $12S,OOO,OOO, fully one-half Of
which was clear profit, but by the appro-
priation Of a large slice Of that amount
In fat salaries by the big officials, only
$20,000,0O0 is returned as net earnings.
1t is safe to say that the trackmen, brake
men, tiremen and engineers did not get
in increased wages their proper share of
these immense earnings.
Caldwell Advance: Uncle Sam will in
wade Cuba with bread in one hand and
the sword in the other.
Emporia Republican: Uncle Sam wants
potato patch and is now negotiating
with Spain for Cuba. The Cubans say
they will tend 1t for him on the shares.
Fredonia Herald (Pop.): A soulless
corporation has no more heart in it than
highway robber, and operates under
the advantage Of having no fear of the
police.
Minneapolis Better Way (Pop): II
Spain's honor is such a warm article that
she must starve, ravish and murder her
buDJCCJS III OAuCA w buDLulh H. ouO WOuAu
better put it in cold storage.
Fredonia Herald (Pop.): The cruelties
of the Spaniards are barbarOus. So were
the cruelties Of the Pennsylvania dep
uties who murdered so many unaTmed
coal miners by shooting them in the
back.
Minneapolis Better Way (Pop.): While
we are denouncing Spain for the slaugh-
ter of innocent Cubans, 1t might be well
for us to remember that the blood Of
the Hazelton miners is still crying for
| justice.
Pittsburg Daily Tribune: Lincoln and
Chase, in the hour of war, taxed the
incomes of the plutocrats and had a
supreme court to sustain. With Shiras
and McKenna on the bench the Repub-
licans dare not follow LincOln's war tax
plan.
Minneapolis Review (Pop.): The man
who is willing to compromise with wrong
simply because the wrong has been done
by some representative man In his own
party may be called a good wire puller,
but he is damage to any cause he pre-
tends to advocate.
Atchison Globe: We have a prediction
to make: that the great hero of the COM
ing war will not be Bob Evans, Sampson,
Schley, Lee, Miles, or any OF the leaders
talked about. It will be some humble
man whose presence at the front has not
been considered worthy press dispatch.
Lawrence World: The cat that plays
with mouse before killing 1t has always
been looked upon at brute. The lesson
in this Is we must not prOlong this war
with Spain. The Spaniards are human
beings even If they do not act so and
they are clearly entitled to be killed with
out unnecessary delay.
Pittsburg Daily Tribune: We hear Of
cowboy companies, farmers and mer-
chants companies, but that millionaire
company of Wall street Is to be filed
by typewriters, clerks and bookkeepers
The only real patriotic cry you can get
out of a millionaire is one OF exultation
when he gets a gold bond for money
loaned to the government.
Spring Hill (Kas.) New Era (Rep):
Instead OF putting a tax on so many
things the consumers must use, as is pro-
posed in Congress, we would favor lib
eral issue of greenbacks as temporary
war measure. If $500,000,OOO OF new
money is found not sufficient then let
us increase the circulating medium first
before increasing our living expenses.
Parsons Palladium (Dem)i The gov