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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-04-27

It's the little colds that grow into big
colds; the big colds that end in consump-
tion and death. Watch the little colds.
DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup. I'm
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
KANSAS CITY PROSPERITY.

There is no better indication Of the gen.
eral business condition of city than that
which is TO be found in its bank state
ments. Kansas City considered herself ex-
ceedingly prosperous one year ago, when
the deposits of her national banks aggre-
gated S33 119,54l, but the statements Of De-
cember 2 of the present year show that
the deposits of these banks at this time
amount to s43.OlS.l30. q gain of nearly sl0,-
100000 in twelve months. and the demand
for money keeps pace with the increase in
deposits. The loans and discounts of these
banks have increased nearly 100000 with
in the year. indicating healthy condition
OF the money market.
If to the accumulations of the national
banks could be added those of the state
banks. the showing would be still better.
1t is clear that Kansas City is rapidly as
cunning an importance as money center
that is commensurate with her influence
as q trade metropolis. There are, of
course. many minds among many men, and
there are persons in Kansas City who still
make 1t their business to discount not only
general but local prosperity, and for no
other reason than because existing condi-
lions are making good the promises of the
last Republican campaign on national is
sues. But the pessimistic views of these
ultra partisans-happily few in number
are discounted by intelligent citizens and
outsiders exactly 100 per cent.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
THE wHIRLWIND ROAD.

The muses. wrapped in mysteries Of light
Came in rush Of music on the night:
And was lifted wildly quick wings.
And borne away into the heart OF things.
The dead doors of my being broke apart:
A wind OF rapture blew across the heart.
The inward song Of worlds rang still and clear:
felt the mystery the muses. fear:
Yet they went switching the ways untrod.
And hurled me breathless the feet Of God.
/ felt faint touches Of the final Truth
Moments Of trembling love. moments Of youth,
vision swept away the human wall;
Slowly saw the meaning OF 1t all
Meaning of life and time and death and birth.
But cannot tell 1t TO the men of earth.
i only point the way, and they must go
The whirlwind road of song If they would know.
Charles Edwin Markham. In ScrIbner' 3.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

pitifully small. nearly all of our exports
and imports being carried on foreign bot
toms. 1t is an anomalous condition in
national affairs, and it is a condition that
is particularly inharmonious in a nation
that justly prides itself on its resources
and independence. 1t is evident that Amer
lean shipping will not be greatly enlarged
unless the government comes to the aid
of the shipping industry. as other govern
ments have aided their. shipping interests.
1t is most unnatural, as it is most un-
fortunate, that the movement to enlarge
the merchant marine should be saddled
with political prejudice in certain quarters.
1t is a movement that should have the
support of all parties in fact. as it has
had in party declarations from time to
time The ridiculous twaddle about Mark
Hanna in connection with the merchant
marine, absurd as the representations are,
may have some effect in retarding proper
legislation. Whatever is done for the stim-
ulation Of shipbuilding and ship operating
that inducements would be the same for
all capital seeking investment in this
field.
While 1t is not likely that anything can
be done at the present session of congress
toward the furtherance of the canal
scheme. 1t is much to be regretted that
this matter was unnecessarily tied up for
time by the last congress. The president,
remembering the reference OF the subject
to q new and wholly unnecessary commits
sion, has nevertheless again called at
tention to the great Importance of the
project But for the overwhelming amount
Of labor ahead for congress. there would
seem to be a hope of disregarding the new
commission in order that the project might
the more speedily be entered upon. The
building Of the merchant marine and the
construction of the connecting canal should
go hand in hand. and both projects should
| have the hearty support of the whole
country-not the support of one party only
| with more or less obstructive opposition
from other Organizations.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
A Setback for Populi.m.

From the New York Sun.
Populist legislatures. undertaking to re-
duce to practice the theories of their party
platforms, have had to be taught by the
courts that there are such things in exist
ence as state and federal constitutional
limitations upon acts destructive of BUSH
ness and property rights. A stern lesson
of the sort is again furnished to them in
the decision just handed down by Judge
Hook In the United States district court at
Topeka. in the case of the Kansas court
of visitation"
When, after the autumn elections in 1885,
1t became evident that the heyday of Pop
ulism had passed, the Populist governor of
Kansas called an extra session of the old
legislature for the purpose of doing as
much harm as possible to the railroads,
telegraph and insurance companies, and
other business corporations in the state.
before the new anti-Populist legislature
came in office. The old legislature met and
created an extraordinary body known as
the court of visitation to which were
committed almost limitless powers of in
| spection, control and punishment of many
| of the corporations of the state. The old
state board of railroad commissioners was
swept away and both railroads and tele-
graph companies were turned over to the
mercies of the new court Of visitation. To
| that body power was given to fix freight
and passenger railroad rates and telegraph
tolls and to appoint receivers and take con-
troll of the property of corporations which
| might disobey 1t.
Judge Hook holds that it Is evident, from
| a mere cursory examination. that the rates
| which the court of visitation imposed were
| less than the required services actuany
cost, and that, accordingly. the law was of
| the nature of an act of confiscation pure
| and simple. He further decides that the
| legislature undertook to endow its court OF
visitation with judicial, legislative and ad-
minstrative powers that are in gross vio-
lation of the constitution. not only Of Kan
| sas. but of the United states also.
| OF course. an appeal from this decision is
| possible. but it is not likely to be taken
| The Kansas people have recovered theiI
sanity, and it is questionable il there is a
| lawyer in the state of sufficient prominence
| to be consulted. who would advise the
| Populist leaders that successful attack
upon Judge Hooks decision could be made
The decision is a check and warning &c
| Populists, whether of Kansas or of any
| other state of the Union.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT
GagEinE st. Louis.

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The police law and the election law
fastened upon st. Louis by the last leg
islature are partisan measures wholly.
They can never rise higher than their in
tention. They were contrived to give DEM
ocrats ascendency in a city where they
have long had the fewest votes. Finding
themselves. year after year, in a minority
at the ballot bax, the Democrats of this
city went to the legislature and asked
and worked for the passage of these two
laws to beat the voters. All the perfumes
of Araby can not sweeten them. They were
dug up from the depths of Democratic
cunning to make the party machine su-
perior to the ballot box. They fit together
perfectly, are two parts of the same thing
The Democrats of St. Louis. beaten in
elections for ten years, and beaten worse
each successive year, demanded from a
Democratic legislature the succor of these
laws. looking solely to the advantage of a
beaten party. They got them, and will
use them to the utmost according to the
original design. The laws would never
have been passed but for this purpose
The faint upon them is ineradicable.
When the citizens of st. Louis are no.
titled that the state supreme court pro-
nounces the police law constitutional and
facilitates the operation Of the election
law they are reminded that the remedy
for such laws, subversfve of all the fair
ness that should surround American cit
| iZenship, rests mainly with themselves.
The people make legislatures, and when
| authority of their own creation seeks to
deprive them of the rights of freemen,
the power of public opinion and of man.
| hood still remains. The ballot box can
not be struck down except among those
who are willing to be robbed of their lib
critics. Should all impediments to these
| two laws be removed, and they be put
| in full operation, their rank injustice will
arouse general resentment and stern op-
| position. They were not framed to help
| ST. Louis. but to gag. pluck and degrade
| 1t. When this work begins citizens will
not stand by in Indifference. They will
| be the sufferers. 1t is their votes that
will be shorn of their true weight and
value 1t is their money that will be
| wasted by boards in whose selection they
| have been deprived of voice. The denial
sequent abuses will be daily and hourly
reminder of the wrong inflicted by this
party scheme.
| Though it be pronounced constitutional
that a board appointed by the governor
| may draw upon the municipal treasury
for an unlimited amount, the people can
correct the abuse. Though all the cleo
ton machinery of st. Louis be controlled
by Democrats, there is still the assurance
that Goebelism in St. Louis will be no
more successful than Goebeiism in Ken
lucky. The former election law worked
equitably. 1t was cast aside because It
was fair and registered the true will of
the people. What has taken it's place is
part and parcel Of the Democratic ma
chine. It is a gross abuse. but the people
are not helpless under abuses. This Is the
main fact to remember. though the state
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

is planning for a canal from the Baltic to
the Black sea. She also has some rivers
which can be used in precisely the same
manner as the French rivers, and her en-
gineers figure that such a water route
for the deepest draft ships would cost
only S100O,OOO. 1t is not impossible that
within the next twenty-five years England
will find two new entrances to the Med
iterranean. neither of which she can con-
troll.
1t is worth while to consider these 81
gantic undertakings. They are not the
dreams of dreamers. Their magnitude is
not out of harmony with the spirit of the
age. The tremendous activities of the past
thirty years promise future achievements
even more bold and towering. The day
has dawned or is dawning when man will
master the reluctance of the seas. the
barriers of the earth. and the secrets oil
the Skies
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
MOONLIGHT IN DECEMBER.

The moon above the eastern wood
shone at Its full: the hill range stood
TRANSPORTED in the silver food
Its blown SHOWS flashing cold and keen.
Dead white. save where some sharp rAvins
Took shadow. or the somber green
OF hemlocks turned to pitchy black
Against the Wilderness At their hack.
For such world and such 4 night
Most fitting that unwarming light.
Which only seemed where'er 1t fell
To make the GOODNESS visible.
j. c. Whittier.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
A Humorous Editor.

From the Boston Herald.
Mr. John Kendrick Bangs Is encounter
ing the usual fate of people who are
famous for their excellent humor. Be-
cause he has achieved 4 reputation as a
humorist there is good deal of aston
ishment at the announcement of his ap-
pointment as editor of Harper's Weekly.
And yet the new manager Of the Harper
establishment is popularity credited with
being a good judge of talent. and the
chances are that he knew what he was
about when he designated MIR. Bangs
for the editorship of the Weekly. No
doubt he will achieve as marked a sue
cess in the editorial chair as IL he were
a solemn prig who never smiled himself
or caused others to smile. AS the editor
of the Harper publication called Litera-
azure Mr.. Bangs has shown himself to
be possessed of sound judgment as well
as journalistic enterprise.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
The Dyspeptic.

Tell me not Of autumn glories,
When the frost is in the breeze
Murmur not those oid-time stories
or the gold and purple trees.
Tell nc not about the table,
Which is filled with yiapds rare.
When my stomach is unable
To digest the bill of fare.
What are all these brilliant tintings
OF the forest and the lea.
And the gastronomic glintings
OF the future unto me?
What to him-oh, sad position
Is this menu. fine as silk,
Who is told by his physician
He must dine on mush and milk.
Washington Star.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
we.,ber Foreca.t for rhur.day.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-For Oklahoma and Indian
Territory: Cloudy Thursday; probably rain or snow
and colder Friday; easterly winds.
For Arkansas: Fair Thursday: Friday. fair. except
probably showers in southwest portion; easterly
winds.
For Iowa and Missouri: Fair Thursday and Friday;
fresh southerly winds.
For Kansas and Nebraska: Fair Thursday and Fn-
day: winds mostly westerly.
For Colorado: Fair in western portion; probably
snow In eastern portion Thursday; Friday. fair:
north to east winds
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
A WESTERN SCENE.

The land puts on a hagsard look;
For branehless boles of trees uprise
In struggling groups. In tragic wise.
Black. weatherbeaten, God-forsook.
Upon the plain. in high relief
Against wide heaven. you may see
Them naunt spectacular misery.
Stamping summer scene with grief.
Yet soniewhile In the long ago
Blossomed and bloomed an Eden-show
or beauty here-where now Is this
Bleak picture OF wilderness.
Richard Burton. in New England Magazine
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
One ON John Allen.
From the Memphis scimitar.

From the Memphis scmitar.
A good joke which Representative John
Allen is supposed to have sprung on him
self during the recent Mississippi senate
campaign Is now going the rounds. He
is reported to have been telling about a
visit to his old home, where he met one OF
the old family servants.
'Lawsy. Mars John. Use glad to see ye.''
said one old negress. IAN so glad to know
dat you'se got yer same old posishun.'
whats that?" asked Mr.. Allen.
why. runnin' fur office, O. co'se"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
New Foolkiller Needed.

From the New York Mail and Express.
From the list of persons who have been
victimized by the swindling "syndicates'' of
one sort or another 1t is clear that this
years crop Of American fools is somewhat
the greatest ever harvested. The returns
strengthen the belief that the foolkiller is
liable to impeachment.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

supreme court. rising for once above the
proverbial laws delay. finds no legal i'm
pediment as far as their decision extends.
Whatever course this matter may take.
the voters of st. Louis can not be perma-
nently gagged and disfranchised.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
The Natives Alone to blame.


AS the stories of church dissertation in
the Philippines are s!fted out the onus in
each of them is shifted to the natives.
The Catholic Monitor, of San Francisco
0he paper which has been abusing Funs-
ton), says it has in its possession splen-
did gold chalice brought over by Private
John While, of the Ottawa company, in
the Twentieth Kansas, and it has the JUS
tice TO clear Mr.. While from all blame.
He purchased the chalice from Filipino,
not knowing its sacred use, but upon being
informed he turned it over to the Catho-
lie authorities at San Francisco And this
reminds us that a well known lawyer in
Topeka has a solid gold figure of Christ
which he procured from one of the return
ing soldiers. Originally this gold figure
had been attached to silver cross, but
the parts had been separated and the SOL
der did not get the cross. The value of
the figure (by weighD is SAT. 1t was pur-
oner captured at Malolos. The lawyer
in Topeka is a Catholic. He condemns, of
course, the dissertation of the churches.
but he says no more blame is to attach
to the soldier who purchased this relic
than to himself, who also purchased it.
To Topics he said yesterday: when this
figure stood on the altar in a Philippines
church it was an emblem of worship and
religion, and the man who stripped it from
that altar was desecrator. But, passing
from hand to hand, the crime of desecra-
tion does not follow. 1t is now simply a
work of art, like that picture of the holy
mother hanging over there"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Too Severe a Test.

From the Chicago News.
Admiral Dewey, Governor Roosevelt and
General Funston are popularity ranked as
veritable heroes-men who know not the
name of fear. 1t is more than doubtful.
however, If any one of the three warriors
named could wear silk hat past a crowd
of small boys in SNOWFALL time and not
look around to see if volley impended.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
PoLYGAM1sr ROBERTS.

While the Roberts case has not yet been
disposed Of the end is clear and inevita-
ble-the polygamist will not be permitted
TO represent his district in the national
house of representatives. Fortunately for
the good name of the country, opposition
10 Mr.. Roberts is not confined to one party.
and fortunately the sentiment against him
is almost unanimous. It is reasonably
certain that the final vote to deny him a
seat in congress will be about the same as
that by which the Taylor resolution was
adopted. There have been several instances
in which amnesty has been granted to
officials who at one time or another had
lived polygamously, but there is no prece-
dent upon which Mr.. Roberts can base a
claim, for he has openly and persistently
defied the laws. The widespread and out
spoken sentiment against seating the Utah
representative is an unniistakble evidence
OF the respect in which the American home
is held. The ready acquiescence Of large
majority of the house in this sentiment
shows the value of popular appeal when
the appeal is based upon right. Mr..
Roberts will wait for conclusive action. but
SO far as his congressional prospects are
concerned. he might as well take his
clothes and go.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
A FAN Bereavement.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
please. sor. kin l git of? Me gram
mothers dead"
"Ah. who is going with you to the foot
ball gamer
me grandfather. sor."
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
DON'T Ann Speak at Once.

From the New York World.
The question now is, How many other
clergymen would give up their pulpits for
100000 brides, as Rev. Mr.. Sherman, OF
Bridgeport, did?
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

now enjoying ought to be evidence enough
to convince anybody that the financial pol
icy of the present administration is all
right on that question:" This man was
elected as Democrat to congress a year
ago. yet he now declares also that the
president is right in his policy of territorial
expansion. The two declarations together
look as IL he were going over to the Re-
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

In speaking of those who started the re-
port that he was trying to intimidate the
state election board Governor Bradley uses
language that would sound rather start
ling from a high state official elsewhere
than in Kentucky
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
A Question of Endurance.

From the Washington Post.
If the coat tails of the Hon. William
Jennings Bryan will but hold out, the
Hon. Joe Johnston feels sure of an cleo
ton to the United States senate.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

From the New York Sun.
The Bryanites continue to look fondly
upon Kansas and believe it theirs. The
fusionists carried six counties, straight, in
the recent election; the Republicans car
ried twenty-nne.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
. Remarkable Conversion.

From the Boston Herald Qnd. Dem.)
We have seen no conversion more re-
markable in the recent transition state
of political affairs than that of Congress-
man Sibley, of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Sibley
is a man Of great wealth and considerable
intellectual capacity. He took the free
silved disease in its most virulent form.
and has been nominated as the candidate
for president by some Of its more extreme
Populist adherents. his position being that
of the Populists rather than Of the DEM
ocrats Yet Mr.. Sibley is now reported as
saying: Free silver is no longer an issue.
The great prosperity which the country Is
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

1t may be true, as Boston writer says,
that the sad wall of the poor will be heard
as long as earth lasts. but happily the vail
of the political calamity bowler is grow
ing weaker and less frequent.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Crowding the Limit.

There certainly is such a thing as carry
ing things to extremes. For example. the
universal determination in Kansas to lay
something by against rainy day does not
justify that Fort Scott young woman who
swallowed a half dollar
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Appalling Ignorance.

From Judge.
Mrs. McLubberty lin the midst of her
reading)-"Phwot's a palfry?"
McLubberty-"Hear thot. now! 1t bates
the divil how little some women know
Begorra! hoy yez niver seen a church,
stayple?"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

The state election board in Kentucky is
in no hurry. There is a large amount Of
dynamite in the situation and the board
is picking its steps very carefully.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

Mr. Roberts. of Utah, is getting some ad-
vertising, but we hardly think he will
cash it in on the lecture platform. Eggs
will be much cheaper after the holidays.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

The surprising thing is that Consul Mac
rum, an Ohio man, resigned, not that he
was succeeded by another Ohio man.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

With the aid of negro and a torch,
Kentucky has made an early response to
Mr.. McKinley's remarks on the subject
Of lynching.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07
Proved.

From the Chicago Times Herald.
Yes, the Bibles all right, all men are
liars"
what makes you think so?''
81 have never yet asked a guest at my
house whether he liked dark or light meat
best without being told that he had no pref
erence"
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

1t will probably be quite little while be-
fore the presidents message is read and
digested in all parts of the national do
main
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

NOR stick to n round, sleek. perspiring man
like Mr.. Hanna.
Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-12-07

President Mckinley will be greatly crest
fallen when he receives his copy of the
Kansas City Times and finds that his mes
sage was weak, bungling and defiant"
1t was the presidents fond hope that his
effort would please the esteemed Times.