The Advocate and news., 1898-03-23


AtchisOn Champion: The Champion
believes that where one man makes q
fortune in the Klondike region, ten will
do no better than they have done In Kan
sas or Missouri, and ninety will lose what
little means they have and either lay
down their lives or return to this re-
giOn broken in health and financially
wrecked.
Burlington Courier (Pop.): The
United States SupremecOurt has decided
the Nebraska maximum rate law un-
constitutional on the ground that II
takes property without due process Of
law. This was expected. The COuntry's
needs have OutgroWn the constitution.
That antiquated instrument should be
mOdernized. The initiative and refer
endum would accomplish that result.
Wichita Beacon (Dem.): There is no
doubt that the financial kings of the
earth will decide whether there shall b'
war or peace. II they can make more
money bya war, then the fghtingW be-
gin. II peace is essential to their purses,
then peace will result. When this coUn-
try surrendered it's financial system to
England 1t formed an alliance that it
will take a statesman Of the Bryan stripe
to untangle.
Ex-President Cleveland: Though /
have no wish to be interviewed, you may
state for me, that in common with others
I think every. patriotic citizen ought to
loyalty support the government during a
period Of trial like the present, no mat
ter what exlgencies may arise. l will
also say that hope the present difficult
ties will be settled without bloodshed.
It Is possible that an honorable way out
will be found eventually, and there will
be no war.
Frances e. Willard, in her annual ad-
dress before the National w. G. T. u.
convention, at Buffalo, October 20, 1897:
We favor postal savings banks and dl-
rect legislation, whereby the "represen-
tative government" Of which we have
been so proud and which is becoming the
most colossal failures, can be replaced
by the skillful method invented by the
only real republic in the world, that Of
Switzerland, where the people originate
or confirm their own laws by a popular
vote.
Fort Scott Monitor (Rep.): When To-
peka instructed her representative In
Congress to defeat the Kansas court bill
In order to help few lawyers Of that
place to secure practice that rightly be-
longed to others, they were warned that
the south half Of the State would remem-
Der 1t and they are already beginning to
reap their reward. The Republican State
convention goes to Hutchinson, and the
punishment will probably be continued
until the capital city learns to be de-
cent.
New York World: Since the rates for
mail carrying by railroads were fixed the
railroads have reduced their rates for all
other classes Of freight by not less than
40 per cent. The rates for carrying the
mails have undergone NO change for
nineteen years. For the railroad carrying
of mails alone, not including the pay
ments to steamboat lines, the govern
ment paid, during the last fiscal year,
$2S, ,878, 800, or, including postal car SER
vice, about $34,O0O,0OO. Why should not
Congress get rid Of the deficiency by
cutting down these rates by 40 per cent?
Will any Congressman answer the ques-
tion?
H. w. Jones, Of Alma: If the writer
may be pardoned for his opinion,
there ls far to little thought in song
writing and song singing. To sing Of
love Is as natural as to breathe, but the
song should be such as will ennOble
both the singer and the listener. The
love of sweetheart, Of home life, OF ma
tive land, of truth, of God, are all le-
gitimate themes about which one may
sing and feel himself the better for the
singing. Themes like these have no
place in the variety show, the bar-rOOm,
or the dance hall; for there Is a vast
difference between love and passion.
Then let our songs be pure, let them
contain thought, let them have a pur-
pose; for In every age song has won