Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1899-02-24
EDITORIAL ETCHINGS.

EDllOklAL ElCHANUS.
A COMPANY has been organized to develop the
Philippines, and congress is asked for conces-
sions.
PRESIDENT FAuRe, of France, died suddenly
last Friday. A new president, M. Loubet, has
since been elected.
F. B. DAWES has his seat in the Legislature
because there were seventy-two votes cast Tor
his opponent which were not counted.
THr supreme court has given GODDARD another
black eye, by deciding that the special session
of the legislature was legal. Poor Godardl
Tom REED will retire from public life at the
end of his present term in congress, and will
engage in the practice of law in New York.
TIE Oklahoma legislature passed two bills IN
forty days The Kansas legislature has done
no better, with the exception of lot OF inslg-
nihcant local bills.
For six years service as rear admiral, Dewey
will get $a8, 900. For six years. "punish-
ment,". Eagan will get $4,000. Comment is
not needed. -Kansas City Times.
THE governors Of Nebraska and Texas have
demanded the return of the troops OF those
states. They say that, the peace treaty between
the United States and Spain having been rati-
fed and signed. the war Is over.
Would any father or mother in this count y
be willing to give his or her son for all OF the
Philippine islands? Is not the life OF one OF
our bows worth more than the Philippines
What are we fighting for, anyhow
REPUBLICAN, papers say the reason why the
farmers are not more prosperous is that they
take too much interest in politics. Railroads
and other corporations take great deal of in
terest in politice, and yet, they are doing quite
we'll, thank you
THERE'S fight on between Tom Reed and
Mckinley. Tom declares he will hight all Of
McKinley's war measures and his expansion
policy. McKinley's friends will oppose Reed
for sneaker of the lower house next session.
Some fun is promised.
CvL1FoRN1A has law against election brib-
ery, and u S. Grant stands good show of
being elected to the penitentiary if he fails to
get into the senate. The Filipinos have lots to
learn about politics before they will be capable
of self-government.-Ft. Scott Lantern.
MCKINLEY says if the present congress does
not pass the war bill and some other measures
(amonq them the destruction Of the green
backs), he will call a special session. 1t will
then be in order tor Attorney General GODDARD,
of Kansas, to decide that the special session is
illegal.
"THE Pops will have to go.' That is the
order regarding the Popuist state employees.
The Kansas City Journal admits that many of
these employees ere honest and efficient, and
that better persons cannot be found to take
their places, but they must 60, simply because
they are Populists.
The United States is the first country in the
worlds history that ever bought war-an old,
fraxzled, second hand war that has been in use
for over hundred years, but the latest news
frem Manila shows it to be almost as good as
new. The thing costs $50, 900 COO and list OF
hundreds Of dead and wounded American sol.
der. to begin with, and fair prospect of its
costing Ave times that much money and an In
definite number of lives each year for all time
70 come.-Pittsburg Kansan.
HHpEArrHR, state penitentinry con.icts will
manufacture binding twine iGstead of mining
coal except that which is cec4samed by the
,tate institutions. The act is q good one, and
Is the only one of Importance, Of general ma
wire. that was passed by this legislature. And
we understand that the Republicans propose to
r,ate their next campaign on Il is law. Since
.hs ponul;st senate had a hand in enacting the
..sosnre we fail 70 see how tie Republicans
have any edge on US in this respect