The Advocate and news., 1899-02-22
PUBLIC OPINION


| smooth road. The easiest ana cheapest
way to keep the roads in condition Is to
put wide tires on vehicles.
Burlingame Enterprise: The State
Board Of Health issues a circular in which
1t is claimed that Kansas spends more for
the health OF its live stock than for
its human beings Last year the apprO-
priation for the live stock sanitary board
was $4,000 and mileage, while the State
Board Of Health secured but $2,1OO.
Atchison Globe: There is very little
doubt that great deal of wheat in west
ern Kansas has been winter killed. Old
wheat raisers in the west say that wheat
always badly winter kills when the ther-
mOmeter registers twenty below 1t has
frequently registered twenty-five below
in western Kansas during the present
winter.
Kansas City Packer: 1t makes the ef
fete East a bit sore to realize that 1t de-
pends on our great West for its provis-
ions. We will have more than ever to
sell this year, and thank the Lord you
trust formers cannot corral the farm
ers. They are the masters Of the situa-
ton and you must bow to them, CALLING
as 1t may be.
Alva, Kans., Review: We understand
that Milt Munger, the cattle man who has
been occupying the salt plains for range
for the past two years, expects to move
his stock to western Kansas. Scarcity
of range and the probability Of high taxes
IL the county is divided are his reasons
for moving, and we believe the latter is
the best Of reasons.
Solomon Sentinel The most awk-
ward man in the world without doubt,
lives in Tennessee. He recently shot
dog and in explaining the accident to the
dogs owner shot him. Later, in showing
how the tragedy occurred, he shot the
coroner. He is now at liberty and people
avoid him for fear he will try to explain
to someone else.
Pratt County Union: Conductor
Daughtry Of the Rock Island reports that
cattle hides are being shipped along the
route between here and Liberal at the
rate of about seventy-flve day. Many
who have shipped in cattle from Texas
are losing in large numbers. 1t is diff
cult to get these range cattle to eat and
the climate is too severe for them.
Sumner County Star: Senator Level
ling has introduced a bill in which all the
people residing along the Arkansas river
are interested. The measure provides
that the counties and townships adjacent
to the river may levy tax for the pur-
pose Of raising money to protect the wa
ter supply which is ruined annually by
Colorado people who take it for irriga-
ton.
Kingfsher Reformer: Statistics show
that more boys learn trades in the
penitentlaries and refOrmatories than
outside, and it will continue to be so so
long as the middle class of people teach
their children that honest, hard toll is
dishOnorable, that street corner loafer
and crap shooter Is superior being
to blacksmith or carpenter, or a
painter or printer or any follower Of a
respectable trade.
HOlton Signal: The creamery inter
ests Of the State received black eye from
the House Of Representatives, last week,
in the defeat OF measure to compel
oleomargarine manufacturers to make
their product some other color than that
of butter. 1t was a fight between the
Kansas steer and his sister, and the steer
butter as is made by the Kansas City
packing houses will continue to be placed
on the market looking exactly like the
genuine product Of the COW.
Clyde Farmers Voice: There are
about 5000 schools in Kansas, and per-
haps 5000 school children. The aggre-
gate text book bill for year is enormous
and most Of the children are poor. The
POpulist law which reduced the cost of
text books one half was certainly a law
in the interest Of the common people of
Kansas But did the voters of Kansas
appreciate this good law? No. The Pop
ulists stayed at home election day and let
their friends fight their own battles. viii
they do so in 1900?
Newton Republicans: There have been
but few cases OF want reported in this
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