The Advocate and news., 1899-04-05
PUBLIC OPINION.
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Madison Index: Mr.. Mckinley find Geor.
gia pleasant now, but he has never been
there during the watermelon season.
Emporia Republican: A Spanish paper
bewails the fate of Cuba and the Philippines.
1t had better devote little space to the
fate Of Spain.
Cherryvale News: The lola Register says
a man registered at a hotel there and gave
his occupation as councilman" AS gen
eral rule the professional Office holder is no
good.
Yates Center Advocate: In order to
eradicate politics from the State Agricul-
tural College the administration will dis
charge all members of the faculty not Re
publicans.
Blue Mound Searchlight: With a coffin
trust and tombstone trust it begins to look
as though the capitalistic robbers did not
propose to shut off at the death bed of one
of their victims.
Democratic Record: All men make some
mistakes but some men never make any
thing else The biggest mistake any man
ever made was mistaking other peoples
business for his own.
Humboldt Union: The Forest Oil Com.
pany has advanced the price of Kansas oil
from so to 65 cents per barrel. What good
does that do the farmers around Hum.
boldt, with the wells shut down?
Jewell County Republican,: Another
Jewell county jointist was sent to Jail this
week. County Attorney Mcbride says no
towns need tolerate joints unless joints is
what they want. He is ready to get right
after them.
TurOn Press; Here is brief story of the
freedom of the press in Kansas: The editor
of Washington county paper the other day
roasted a gambler. The church element ap-
plauded. The subscribers smiled. The
gambler called and licked the editor.
Financial Record: Crop reports are con-
hicting, but as matter of fact it is yet
too early to get any reliable news about
them Enough warm weather to start
growth and show the bad spots is necessary
before definite information can be had.
Meade Globe: The last relic Of the once
prosperous town of MOntezuma has disap-
peared. The old Congregational church
building was moved to Fowler, Meade
county, this week, where it will be used as
a house of worship by the Congregational
lists.
Southern Mercury: The will of the late
William Black the Scottish novelist, left
$l50,O00 to his wife and children Truth
may be stranger than fiction, but the bal
ance side of the ledger is overwhelmingly in
favor of the latter, as every politician, as
well as the novelist, knows.
Fort Scott Monitor: If the present good
roads movement had been started twenty
five years ago, there would now be good
paved roads to every part of the county
with the expenditure of less money than has
been wasted in that time in working the
roads.
Kansas City Packer: Combinations of
farmers for the proper marketing of their
products violates no law and should be COM
mended. Keep the spectators out and the
combinations will bring farmers more mo-
ney, provided man of sense is put at the
head of the marketing committee.
Wilson County Sun: The corporation
which has bought the gas field and smelter
interests of Allen County was chartered in
New Jersey, where all great trusts are now
chartered on accouna of lax laws. There is
no longer any doubt but that this smelter
corporation and the Standard Oil Company
are controlled by the same head.
The Commonwealth: A ballot box that
cannot be stuffed has been invented by q
Kansas man. What is even more greatly
needed is voter who cannot be stuffed
with false promises, bad whisky and par
tisan enthusiasm. A dishonest ballot box
is menace to popular government, but a
purchased voter is a great menace.
Cherokee County Republican: That sui
eide is "pernicious habit that obviously
tends to shorten life," is the defense set up
by life insurance company in a case where
the heirs of the suicide had brought suit to