The Advocate and news., 1898-03-30

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boarded money into circulation, will in
crease the actual capital Of the country
by one-fOurth and will reduce the cur
rent rate Of interest.
Sedgwick Paragraph; No hoax OF this
generation has surpassed that of the
professional expert. He has confused
our courts and befuddled our practical
people. He has fiourished at the public
expense, but seems as II passing un-
der eclipse. The HindOO juggler can
deceive everybody, but nobody believes
in him.
Howard Citizen (POp): The Supreme
court of the United States has reversed
the former decisions Of members OF that
body by deciding in the maximum rate
case from Nebraska that corporations
are persons" Heretofore it has been
held that they were creatures of the
laws of the States under which they
were organized.
Caldwell Advance: The civil war is
certainly over and we are all Ameri-
cans together. Kansas has an ex-COn-
federate in the Senate and he is making
one Of the best the State ever had And
there Is ex-Confederate Fitzhugh Lee
representing the Mckinley administra-
tion Of foreign policy. The time has
come that there is no North, no South.
1t ought to be that way.
Wellington Journal (neutraD: Mu-
nicipal ownership is, therefore, no new
or OVer-radical thing. 1t is neither So
cialistic, cOmmunistiC nor POpulistic. It
Is feasible and practicable. 1t must be
at least reasonably successful, and II
cannot be attended with any greater po-
lltical evils than the no more universal
municipal ownership Of docks, ferries,
bridges, markets and water supply.
Minneapolis Better Way: The Topeka
Capital says "The only political friend
the war veteran has ever had is the Re
publican party, which sustained and en-
couraged him in war and provided for
his needs and his old age in peace" Yes,
verify; it encouraged and sustained"
him with 3S-cent dollars, while it ex-
Ceeded the terms of its obligations to
bondholders by paying them In gold.
Kaufman Leader: If you will take
one cat by himself and pinch his tail
he will bite and scratch your hand. But
take two cats and put them side by side
and pinch both their tails at the same
time and they will bite and scratch
each other. Plutocracy has learned this
trick. So it gets the people arrayed In
two parties and then pinches their tails
and they fight each other. Like the cats,
they never turn to fight the hand that
pinches them.
Independence Star and Kansan: To
pay all the life insurance policies in force
in the United States now would require
$14, 900 ,000, 900, or about One-fiRth of all
the property in the country. It takes
1924 100000 to pay the annual premiums,
and the losses paid each year are about
half that amount. The insurance men
do business on the cent-per-cent basis.
For every dollar they get from the pol
iCy-holders they return them 80 cents.
And they did lots of bowling in 1896
about paying debts in 5O-cent dollars.
Caldwell Advance (Dem.): We do not
believe that Spain Is foolish enough to
go to war for she knows, or ought to
know, that she will get the "stufln'"
whipped out of her. Spain Is already |
bankrupt, and clash with the United |
States would make her burden heavier.
She is a great big bluff, and when Uncle |
Sam gets ready to bring her to terms
she will "crawfish," and don't you forget |
1t. She is built that way. But for the
great crime of insult and murder Spain |
must make proper amends. Without |
credit, without funds and without friends |
Spanish treatment Is surely on the road
to punishment.
Medicine Lodge Index (Pop.): The
fact that the railroads downed the Me-
braska maximum freight rate law in the |
court of last resort--the United States
Supreme COURTS, Of course, discour-
aging, but 1t should not overcome the
courage Of true Americans The way to
win is to keep everlastlngly at 1t, and
the opportunity is before us at every |