The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-04-05

takes the vacancy in the regular
army. Gen. Funston is the youngest
Brgadier in the army and stands a
show to reach the head ofthe army.
The Wilson County Citizen inter-
ested itself somewhat in local polit-
les last week.
Fire late last Saturday night des-
troyed four buildings, with their con-
tents, of the Dold packing house in
Kansas City. Several firemen were
severely burned, among them Chief
Hale. The loss is estimated at
$r5o, 900 fully covered by insurance
The student troubles in Russia
seem to have been more serious than
first reported. They are said to have
first originated over the harsh treat
ment of student by the police. The
Car expressed his disapproval of
the student demonstrations, but the
students continued their wild dis
orders, just like they do in America
sometimes. The Cossacks were or
dered to charge them on the streets
of St. Petersburg. Each Cossack
carried short handled whip with a
heavy braided leather lash at the end
of which is a chunck of lead. The
students were dispersed, but twelve
of them were lying dead in the street,
struck in the head with the deadly
sling shot in the hands of the blood
thirsty Cossacks.
Congress has adjourned and left
in the hands of the president the en-
tire control of 'insular affairs, y
which includes both Cuba and the
Philippines. Of course the opposi-
ton is boiling over with manufac-
tured indignation over the dictator
ial powers "assumed by the presi-
dent" but that is all their policy is
able to attempt. They have offered
no better course and propose to re-
main where they have no response
bility to assume, no policy to formu
late, nothing to do but to find fault
They know very well that the presi-
dent urged congress to settle these
problems itself and not leave them
for him to settle, and that if he is
an autocrat he is most unwilling
one.
GEORGE J. GOULD is reported, in
a dispatch from Kansas City, as
having said, in talking to a newspa-
per man of his
They Tell trip through Tex
the Story. as: 81 was much
azed at the
many changes which have taken
place in the Southwest since my Wis
it to that part of the country nearly
three years ago. The prosperity of
the Southwest is marvellous, and l
believe that the same statement will
apply to the West generally. On
every hand l say the material proofs
of prosperity-not booms, but the
solid, substantial prosperity that
lasts. The banks in even the small
towns in Texas and other South
western States are filled with money.
Cotton at ten cents, and high price
for cotton seed, the other good
crops and the great values of all
products tell the story"
1t is true that the "great values of
all products tell the story" of pros
perity in the Southwest, but they do
not tell the whole story. The whole
story is told only when it is made
evident to what the great values of
all products are due. Such things
do not happen without a moving
cause. There is no occult law which |
determines prices and DEGREES that
prices shall be low one year and |
high another year. The high prices
which prevail for cotton and all 9TH
,r products are due to the fact that
he Dingley law made a market for
American goods by securing to
American producers the home mar