Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-08
EDITORIAL ETCHI NGS

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A LONDON syndicate is inspecting the min
;ng country in South America with a view to
buying their mineral lands.
THE Indiana legislature is wrestling with the
woman suffrage question, with good prospects
that the women will be given their rights.
THE war department wants $4,000 recruits,
but finds it difficult matter to get the them.
The report from the department says "they are
hard to iud."
THE editor of the Railway Age, published at
Chicago, seems we'll pleased with Kansas law
creating a railway commission Railway at
to,ueys also express satisfaction,
SENATOR CARTER, of Montana, talked the
river and harbor bill to death, thus preventing
a most gignatic steal. The nation is under
GREAT obligations to Senator Carter.
TIE supreme court will have to decide upon
The validity of the new biennial election law.
The attorney-general will not vouchsafe an
opinion, but says it is matter for the supreme
court to decide.
THIS weeks Industrialist, little weekly
magazine published at the Agricultural College
at Manhattan, contains an excellent article on
uPoor. Farms as Experiment Stations" The
ideas therein contained should be put into prac-
tice in everv county having poor farm.
THE price of window glass has been advanced
az per cent, with another advance in view.
The prices of iron and steel products are stead
;lv advancing. Nearly every staple article is
on the up grade. Wages remain about the
same. Prosperity is here--for the manu-
facturers.
MRS. MIcHAEL DECKARD, of Elnora, Ind,
wife of the leading salooE-keeper Of that place,
took her little Ratchet and started on smash
inc expedition. She said she is firm believer
in the adage, "charity begins at home," SO she
first went to her husbands saloon and she
smashed everything that slnashable
CONGRESS was asked to appropriate a good
round sum to aid the St. Louis exposition.
The promoters of the scheme desired to keep
the show open on Sundays in order that the
iouor dealers might reap the benefit. Senator
Teller was opposed to the Sunday opening
scheme, and he made mp his mind to defeat it
and defeat it lie did.
THE anti-topers of Kansas committed another
murder last week 1t was a woman. Fanat
G., Ct all classes resort to murder 10 accomplish
fin, If ends; also to burning at the stake in
Gods name-City Front News San Francisco
But it wasn't the antitopers who killed the
woman, although the Associated Press sent out
that kind of report. The fight at the saloon
in Lcavenworth county was between the sa-
loon-keeper and his friends on one side and
scme old.time enemies on the other side. 1t
was the result of an old fued, and both sides
we're full of whisky.
SENATOR ALLEN, of Nebraska, told the
Democratic senators that if they would stand
b, him, he would talk the Philippine and Gu
han resolutions to death--would talk till noon
on Monday, the 4th. Not single Democratic
senator would promise to stand by him, but
fhe majority voted with the administration Re-
publicans. Some of them sold their votes;
taat is they supported Republican measures in
r. turn for Republican votes for local measures.
Even Senator Tiilman voted with the Repub-
1icans in order to get votes for public building
"a Senator Tillman's home town. How can
Vie Democrats expect the Populists to go into
the Democratic party in the face of such a
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