The Advocate and news., 1898-12-14
IN
GENERAL.


O,..,ED., Let the reform element
dENEhALa take courage The time ol
their success is just ahead.
Winfield Free Press (Pop): Repub-
lican newspapers are unanimous in the
opinion that the Populist party ought tc
disband. That is one very good reason
why it ought not to. A political enemy
never gives honest advice.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.): The Lord
only knows whittier we are drifting as
nation. The sugar trust and oil trust
damnable as they are, are benefcent
measures compared with the money trust
which President Mckinley asks Congress
to create.
Wichita Beacon (Dem): The issuance
of postal checks payable to bearer will
add to the currency Of the country. II
will also enable people to remit money by
mail. At present currency is so easily
detected in a letter by experts that little
is risked without registration.
Minneapolis Better Way (Pop): The
assertion of Mr.. Stanley that none but
men Of exceptional moral qualifications
will be appointed to Office sounds very
well until he couples on the statement
that Mort Albaugh can have anything ne
wants.
Nebraska Independent (Pop): For the
last thirty years the Republican party
has been telling us that we had the best
banking law the world ever saw. Now
they say it is no good and that we must
have another and entirely different one
Which time did they lie, or did they lie
both times?
Seneca Courier-Democrat (Dem.); II
is said that Mckinley will recommend
"civil governors and no statehood FOR
our new colonies" This is the same kind
Of government enjoyed by our forefathers
in the thirteen colonies before the Revo-
luton. Have the American people for
gotten the Declaration Of Independence?
Lecompton Sun: Like a speckled ap-
pie in a barrel Of good ones is an idler
in a community Of workers-powerful to
produce similar condition in others and
that only. Loafers are enemies to So
ciety, for they do not suffer the loss of
moral backbone alone, but they flash the
discovery before their fellows that 1t is
possible to scramble through the world
without much effort.
Wichita Eagle (Rep.): Both the Pres
ident and the Secretary of War recon-
mend the maintenance Of an army Of
100, 900 men. 1t is probable that Congress
will authorize the enlistment of such a
force and will reorganize the army. Here
after the army will be force to be
reckoned with in American politics. AS
soon as it gets to be large enough it
will give some trouble at home. That is
the history of all armies, especially in a
republic. No one believes that the army
will be left at 100000 men.
Mound City Standard (Pop.) Blessed
are the peacemakers," for we are pay
ing them now in Paris each $3.50 per day
salary and $3.50 per day each for ex-
penses, with couple dozen Of seCreta-
ries, clerks, translators, etc, 800 per day
each and $50 for expenses, and they seem
to be nursing their job. Most Of this is
paid by Western farmers, who always
vote for the party that taxes them high
est, probably because they are so pros
porous that they could not take care OF
all their money II 1t was not taxed away
from them.
Nebraska Independent (Pop.): Seeing
that the people haven't sense enough to
do it themselves, kind Providence may
lend q hand in saving civilization from
the wreck planned by the money lenders
and usurers. If the,great increase in the
output Of gold continues for few years,
the money question may be settled In
that way. Hendrix, the great gold bug,
clearing house banker, and their member
of Congress, is already sending up cry
Of alarm. He says that this tremendous
output Of gold is much more serious
question than the silver question ever