The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-11-21
EDITORIAL WANDERlNGs.

should be two Presidents-one to
shake hands with the people and one
to attend to the affairs of the Nation
The hand shake is not a trife. In it
there is respect and reverence; and
tee hearty clasp of the hands indi-
Gates a warmth of love and friendship.
1t is token of brotherly kindness
But the hand of the cowardly assassin
has barred the way to the cordial en-
brace of our Presidents.
President Roosevelt is setting aside
some forms of official etiquette,
which may tend to set the politician
on the keen edge of disappointment.
Some inovat1ons in patronage dispen-
-sation are needed. The manifesto
ton of the Presidents sterling char
acter will add to the virtue of the ex-
ample he places before the American
people.
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The marked contrast between Kan
sas and Missouri Is shown os soon as
you leave the border of the Jahawker
State As a travelling companion
said to us, the homes of Missouri
farmers show the effects OF slavery.
No difference is observed in the style
of building, and there is the same
tumbled-downness that there was 35
years ngo. Now these Missouri
farmers are worth from $4,000 to
100000, said our informant. and
yet this lack of pride in home com
fort is a sad commentary on the pro-
gressive spirit of the age. As you
approach st. Louis where new blood
has been infused in the population
lore are evidences of thrift and cul-
ture. But there is a sadness in the
lack of becoming architecture. Any
cheap and convenient plan of build
ing easily adopts itself to the needs
CT the Missouri denizeu. The com
monplace is less marked in the older
parts of Kansas There is a fresh
ness and newness which inspires the
beholder with admiration. The in
fuences which govern us are well
marked in our abode, whether there
be an abundant OF q lack of means.
Political ard social conditions tend
to fix traits of character and we are
no better or no greater than our en-
virOnment.
Railroad travel is one of luxury
aud ease. Western roads, it is said,
have tho best equipment. The com
fort one enjoys in one of the Santa
Fe's palace cars is to be envied by
less fortunate travellers. We found
the same ideality i'll Wabash coach.
The we'll balIasted road-beds on their
roads, the firmly built and practically
constructed coaches, makes travel d
a smoothe movement. Even the or
dinary swaying motion of the car is
avoided in the new design of passen-
ger coach. Added to the steady
movement of the trains is the gentle
manly conduct of the train men, and
the traveller feels at home where po-
lteness is the rule.
Under the influence of city life is
the best development of human ener-
gy and culture. st. Louis Is not re
sponsible to the 'seffects of slavery.
The war wiped out the old order oi
slaveocracy. There was time when
st. Louis was more of the Southern
drift than the Northern thrift Slav
cry had fastened its fangs here, but
the famous Dred Scott decision had
foreshadowed the fall of the slaye
auction block and the aristocracy o
the South. Teutonic blood was shed
that freedom might dominate And
it saved Missouri and the West to the
Union. But st. Louis is one of tn.
progressive cities of the United
States Its enterprise in the Lousi
ana Purchase Exposition shows it.
public spirit