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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
rs IT AN AGREEMENT
THE PROTECTIVE TARIFF CON-
sIDERED AS A CONTRACT.
Have Not the Government and the
People Entered Into a Covenant
That. All Labor and Industry Shall
Enjoy the Benefits of Proteetion7

With satisfaction the American
Economist observes the attention de-
voted by the New York Tribune of
July rs to the suggestion that before
taking action on the pending Cuban
reciprocity treaty Congress will do
well to carefully. consider and accur-
ately weigh certain important argu-
ments against the contamination OF
that project. The Tribune had commit
ted itself to the opinion that there
was nothing to consider in this con-
nection; that the case was all settled
and the legislation necessary to start
the reciprocity wheels should take
no time at ALL" 1t seems, however.
to have discovered that there was one
phase of the question worthy of at
least momentary thought, for in a
leading editorial article of consid-
cradle length it goes to the trouble of
taking issue with the position of the
Economist. The subject, to be sure,
is treated in a fiippant, sour and super
fetal manner; but it is better that it
should be treated in this way than not
treated at all. Among the points sub
mitted by the Economist for consider
alton by Congress at the extra session
to be called Nov. 9 for final action on
the Cuban treaty was the following:
Does it not involve the violation by
the government of a contract of agree
ment with certain producing interests
of the United States-namely, the
Dingley tariff law?'
This suggestion, as is evident on its
face, was put forward tentatively, not
as an assertion of law or fact, but
with view to drawing attention to
the question of moral obligation OH
the part of our own government
toward our own people. So much has
been heard as to our moral obligation
toward the people of Cuba that it
would seem only fair to take some &C
count of the duty which the govern
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

the Waldorf are pleasantly curtained
by the large plants which, rise from
the sunken pebbled border on the Fifth
avenue side.
But love of flowers is not confined
to Murray Hill and to the district ad-
jacent to Fifth avenue The extra
wearied eye finds relief more than
ever this year in the number of plants
which face the elevated trestles.
The display on Cherry Hill has
waxed in its turn. One of its most
interesting features is the quantity OF
tiny rubber plants, tropical and DON
key-eared, for which, it is said, an as
sistant priest of ST. James is to be
thanked; first for having two years
ago given a single shoot to a sick boy
and then for having introduced the
science of growing plants from slips
to the minds of Cherry Hill youth.
In the same way nearly every tene
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
BEAUTIFYING A CITY
HOW PoRcHES AND WINDOWS
ARE FRIGHTENED.
Flowers in Pots and Boxes in Evidence
Everywhere in New York-Due to
the Efforts of the Municipal Art So
ciety.

The second floor balcony of West
Forty-third street club presented last
week an emerald phalanx, says the
New York Sun Palm sears pointed
diagonally skyward; ferns extended
green-bladed creeses. Two streets
south, again, brownstone fronts were
splashed with the pink and red of
geraniums, while East Thirty-ninth
street stoops showed a line of pink
hydrangea heads
In the poorer districts sills and fire
escapes had each their show of flowers
in pots and boxes. Elevated railroad
passengers, glancing up from their
extras, caught sight of an occasional
vine spray doing a gentle giant swing
from over a tenement house parapet.
New York, in fact, was going in as
never before for what Londoners call
"the spring business and Fifth ave
nue. florists more pompously term lex
terror floral decoration"
The fad for which Londoner and
florist use such different phrases is
new to New York. 1t would probably
never have existed at all had not the
Municipal Art Society, last spring, re-
minded many citizens that what is
prettiest in the oft-visited old world
cities is the dainty flowers which grow
outside almost every window. Last
year the society's chief attention was
given to Brooklyn, where a block
beautiful was made in Henry street,
between State and JoralemOn streets.
This spring the work has broadened.
More trees are being planted in both
boroughs. Back yards are being tidied
up How widespread is the interest
in the movement can be judged when
a recent article in Harper's Bazaar in
spired no less than thirty-six clubs
throughout the country to write letters
to Miss Milhau, secretary of the Mu-
nicipal Art society, asking for sugges-
lions for the Frightening of their win
dows and porches. Neighborhood
clubs, too, are being organized, the
object of which is to throw meager
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
AN UNMAILED LOVE LETTER.
Trivial Oversight That Wrecked a
Promising Life.

Half century ago a young English
man, while travelling, met a beautiful
girl and promptly fell in love with
her. A few days later he returned
home, and his first act was to write
her a love letter. In it he told her
that She could not be happy without
her and that if she regarded his pro-
posal favorably he would expect a re-
ply by the next mail.
To this letter he received no answer
and so disappointed was he that from
that time until his death, which oc-
CURED recently, he shut himself up
in his home and lived like a hermit.
Most of his time was spent in reading,
and the day after his funeral the heirs
began to search the books in his Ii
brary, for they thought it quite pos
sible that the eccentric old man might
have hidden some bank notes in them.
They found none. but in a tattered
old pamphlet they found another kind
of note, the love letter which was
written fifty years ago. and which the
writer had forgotten to mail.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

beyond the border line of fair and
courteous controversy; we had not ex.
pected to goad our neighbor into the
vicious free trade filings embodied In
the extracts just quoted. Not forget
ting that the Tribune was among the
first and dercest champions of. Mr..
Hayemeyer'S benevolent theory of
moral Obligation and that it has
fought strenuously and necessarily for
the realization of the Sugar trust
dream of cheaper raw sugar from
Cuba as a means of destroying the
competition of domestic cane and beet
sugar, we were not prepared for quite
SO Innch heat and temper. 1t is an
exhibition of strenuosity that seems
to denote much pressure and strong
urgency in behalf of Cuban reciproci-
ty. Viewed in this light the episode
is at once suggestive and instructive.
After all, is not the Dingley tariff
very much in the nature of a contract
of agreement to which there are two
parties, the government and the peo-
pie? Have not the people and the
government entered into an agreement
that all domestic labor and industry
not merely a part-shan enjoy the
blessings and benefits of protection?
There can be no contract without
consideration, says the Tribune. True.
Then what was the consideration, and
who paid it n the case of the Dingley
law? The consideration was loss of
employment, hunger, privation and the
drawing Gown of vast sums of money
out of savings banks attendant upon
the terrible period of tariff reform
from 1898 to 1897, and it was paid by
the wage earners of the United States,
by the farmers of the United States,
who lost IS ,0OO, OOO. 900 in depreciation
of values of farm products and farm
properties, and by every person who
suffered the pangs of sWflson-Gorman-
ism The wage earners and the pro-
ducers of this country paid a high
price for the Dfngley tariff. 1t II
theirs by right of purchase. Who has
the right to take it away from them
without their consent being first had?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
A Madison Avenue Balcony.


back yards into a single central court,
with broad f1agstones and well-kept
flower beds.
From the society information is con-
stantly being given out. A leaf1et tell
= ing where trees can be got and how to
plant them is now ready for distribu-
ton. The plant most highly recon-
mended by the society is the rose pink
ivy geranium, which grows like a weed
and has an almost vinelike suppleness
and grace. The nasturtium is another
favorite. AS to the boxes themselves,
they should have an outer cover of
cork bark, should rest upon layer of
pebbles, which in turn should be set
in a well-drained zinc basin. The
wooden bottom of the box should be
perforated, and the plants, if exposed
to a parching sun, should have their
roots-but not their leaves-well wat
cred daily at 1 o'clock.
The balcony of the Century Associa-
ttion is a mass of green East Forty
first street has several handsome dis
plays, while those in East Thirty
fourth street are still more numerous.
Examples of boxes filed with pansies
are to be seen in the windows of Fifth
avenue and West Thirty-fifth street,
while the same thing in nasturtiums is
found along the dining room windows
of the Holland House on the Thirtieth
street side. A display of pink gera-
NUNS and one with which the Munich
pal Art society is particularly pleased
is that at 3 West Thirty-ninth street
All six windows of the nrst two floors
of that house have luxuriant boxes
The society does not stop short at
flowers. 1t is also studying methods
for setting them out most artistically,
and giving attention to the balconies
and lodges on which they are placed
According to Miss K c. Budd, the
most attractive and effective decora-
tons along this line are to be seen in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

it is unlike a mirror because 1t In
transparent. On the back of the
transparent or translucent plate is q
coating, which consists of silvering
material, amyl acetate, gun cotton and
fusel oil. This coating is also trans
parent or translucent, and by means
of it the plate is made reflective. Thus
the glass, while retaining it's trans
parency, possesses all the reflective
properties of mirror.
No notable improvement has been
made in mirrors for a long time, and
for this reason the news that a new
method of coating them has been dis
covered is of more than passing inter-
est-New York Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

ment owes to those of our own pro-
ducers who claim equal rights with
other domestic producers to the pro-
lection guaranteed them by law. The
Dingley tariff law is in the nature of
a covenant between the government
and the people. 1t is rather more than
that. 1t is the mandate of the people
framed into law and promulgated by
their servants, the Senators, Repre-
sentatives of the United States Con-
gress and the President of the United
States-a mandate that must remain
in full force until revoked by the peo-
pie, through their servants, in the
same manner and by the same process
by which it was originally placed upon
the statute books. The manner and
the process are clearly defined in that
clause of the Constitution which pro-
vides that all legislation affecting the
revenue shall originate in the House
of Representatives. In the case of
the Cuban treaty this process has
been reversed. Legislation affecting
the revenue by a reduction of 20 per
cent In tariff duties has originated in
the Senate and now goes to the House
for dna1 concurrence This is why
the proposed amendment of the Ding
and unconstitutional; this is why it
has been suggested that the Dingley
law should stand as covenant be-
tween the government and the people
until it shall have been in whole or
I'm part abrogated by the people.
The suggestion as to equity and
good faith on the part of the govern
ment toward domestic producers
seems to have irritated the Tribune
into a frame of mind not conducive to
calm and logical discussion. 1t has SO
nettled the journal founded by Horace
Greeley, Protectionist, that it employs
phrases and methods of expression
which are curiously similar to the vein
in which free trade writers assal the
doctrine and policy of protection The
tariff Is q tax" these free trade propa-
xandists have been telling us for
many years Evidently the Tribune of
to-day, unlike the Tribune of Horace
0resley's time. holds the same view
Il says;
The obligation of contract is often
invoked b. corporations to avoid new
taxes ne franchise holders of New
Yak srs Just now appealing to the SUI
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
|H[lJNl0R|
|OF HE DkN'

Their Use.
What 1 don't see,'' remarked the
cheerful idiot, is the use of scien-
lists discovering new metals like
radium and polonium, that costs thou
sands of dollars an ounce"
1T is done for the benefit of the flu
ture trillionaires," replied the wise
guy They can get rid of some OF
their money by building yachts, auto
mobiles and airships out of those met
ais
Now They Are Strangers.
Edyth-That handsome reporter for
the Weekly Zazoo paid me a pretty
compliment.
Mayme-Indeedi
Edyth-Yes. In his account of the
reception I vas mentioned as being
among the most beautiful girls pres
emit
Mayme-Why. of course, now that
you mention it, l remember seeing
you among them myself
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

certain houses in West Thirty-seventh
and Fifty-seventh streets, where elabo-
rate wrought iron work balconies are
entwfned with vines and filed with
eyererrens and where window boxes
fastened to the top of the guard rails
of windows let down ivy in such pro
fusion as to make curtains useless.
Other attempts at identifying a
neighoornood by means of flowers and
shrubs are to be seen about the clubs
and hotels The little plots of the
New York and Calumet clubs are laid
cut with pansy beds. while diners At
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

We hope that some good old mother
In Israel will turn around before en-
tering the pearly gates and admit to
the children that no one ever had fits
through eating orange peel. or secured
curly hair through eating the crusts-
-Atchison Globe
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

On a vacant lot of land close by the
electric road. in Medford, a big sign
board reads This land for sale, en-
Quire within" As there isn't q house
in sight Whereabouts, it may puzzle the
would-be purchaser to ascertaiM just
where he is at
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

A bridge across the Tennessee river
was partly destroyed by fre early in
the month An engine was crossing
the bridge, having a nice time blowing
out sparks, and one of them fell into
a sparrow's nest on one of the spans
of the bridge This quickly began to
blaze ana for some time passengers
we're taken across the river in boats.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
On a Charger.

On \ Charger.
Teacher-And what was the request
that Herod's daughter made in respect
TO John the Baptist?
PupilLShe asked to have his head
brought in on horseback
Teacher-Where did you come by
that ridiculous idea. She asked to
have it presented on a charger.
Pupil-Well, and amt a charger =
horse, I'd like to know?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

The Duchess of Marlborough Is
much vexed at the report that the
English authorities dared to summon
her to a vulgar police court for fast
motor driving. No one can be SO
naughty as duchess raised from the
ranks.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
AS Good as His Word.

The Sultan of Jingjangju frowned.
Much as it pains me-" he remarked
TO the abject subject who has dis
pleased him, 81 must make an example
of you"
Adding something about subtracting
the sum from his salary, which had
been recently multiplied, the Sultan
drew his sword and neatly divided the
subject.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

They have discovered immense de-
posits of sulphur on Unalaska island,
mar the Arctic circle, which will dis
concert those people who somehow
always associate sulphur with a hot
place.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

The King of England has caused
to be circulated privately that he con-
,siders that his health is as much hon.
ored by those who drink it in water
as by those who drink it in wine.'
Well, 'ere's your 'ealth, Ed'ard
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

A Philadelphia man has gone In
sane because of too much study over
chess All, what a noble sacrifice!
1t could hardly have happened any.
where but in Philadelphia.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
Turned Out.

"Our colleges turn out some pretty
good men nowadays" remarked the
elderly gentleman.
YES" replied his son gloomily, "our
college turned out the man who was
sure to have won the 10O-yard dash
for US next year-just because he
didn't pass any of his examinations"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Some skeptical people deny that
kissing will cure hysteria; but nearly
everybody is willing to Int it go at
chat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

The treasurer of the Preachers Aid
Society, who served twelve years with
out pay and embezzled $4,000 of the
society's funds, has no doubt got all
that is coming to him, unless it is a
term in prison.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

This is such a prosperous age that
1t is possible for a man to have mil
lions of dollars and never be suspect
ed. Still, they generally consider such
a case worth mentioning after the
man dies.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

A California man has just succeed
! cd in operating a flying machine for
ten or fifteen minutes without an ac-
cident. Science simply will not be
stopped.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

The fact that Mr.. Edison is touring
on an automobile propelled by his new
battery, warranted to run 100 miles,
gives hope that automobilists gener-
ally may enjoy the same blissful priv
ilege before very long.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
Merely Amusing.

You may talk as you please" said
the man who thought he was in soci-
ETY., "but it is ridiculous to pretend
that the masses are not interested in
the reports of the doing of the swell
set"
'Of course they're interested" re-
plied the plain man; "everybody's in
terested in good JOKE
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

/ The discussion concerning the food
value of alcohol continues, but it
need not disturb anyone who wants a
little nourishment. There can be no
question about the nutritive qualities
of bread and butter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Russia has leased a part of Korea
and promises not to put up any tele-
phone wires. Probably, however, it
will put up barb wires.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
THE LATEST IN MIRRORS.

Transparent Glass Which May Be
Used in Two Ways.
Here is a glass which apparently
can be used either as a mirror or win
dow. 1t resembles a mirror because Il
has the ordinary silvered surface, yet
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

1t is not right to shoot landlord
when he calls for the rent, as did a
Chicago tenant However, while you
pay him it is allowable to treat him
with silent scorn.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

' Seventy-three hours for a train
from ocean to ocean, climbing over
i.iree mountain ranges. That ought
to make the old world sit up and rub
its eyes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
Another Phase of the Problem.

Yes, Mary Ann demands every
afternoon on during the summer"
Can you stand that?''
Il suppose I'll have to stand it. The
worst of it is that when she is on
both afternoon and evening she
doesn't get up the next day until
noon"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Chicago is threatened with another
laundry strike. Chicago is patiently
waiting for somebody to invent shirt
that will not require washing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

To judge from current news the
people who don't know how to behave
in a boat are pretty well monopoliz-
ing the summer resorts--and the obit-
luary records.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Those men with large families who
brag about them seem to forget that
their wives are entitled to some of
the credit
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Our old friend Abdul Hamid de-
clares that he is very sorry for the
assassination of that Russian consul,
and for once in his life he is probably
telling the truth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Congressman Mudd of Maryland.
who jumped out of the window, was
lucky if he lighted on a kindred bank.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Gen. Gomez captured 5000 Mausers
when Ciudad Bolivar fell-a supply
which should furnish ample material
for a hundred revolutions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
Argument Ii Wasted.

To wage earners: When q man tells
you that free trade is good thing for
you, coax him into an alley and tell
him he is fool.-Davenport (Ia-) Re-
publican
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Twelve districts in Macedonia are
said to be in open revolt. When one
more joins them it will be an unlucky
number for Turkey.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Panama is doubtless longing for the
day when Uncle Sam will be the gov
eminent and it can smoke it's ciga-
rette in peace.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

England and the United States are
getting so thick that by next Fourth
of July King Edward may be setting
off cannon crackers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Charlie once said that there was
nothing he liked better than a good
fish dinner. This would have been
rather conceited of Charlie had he
known at the time he himself was
destined to be one
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
Not Yet EafrIx startea.

He says he's in business for him.
self now. manufacturing automobiles .,
YES"
"And he claims not one Of his ma
chimes has ever been known to break
down on the road
That's right; he hasn't sold any
yet"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Winding your business is all right,
but the lawyer gets rich mindlng
other peoples business.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Side.
ment house has it's fire escape gar
den. Occasionally even a vine strug-
giles up from a box of thin earth try
ing to soften the fan of pickets that
separates one roof from another.
Throughout the whole city a flower
cult seems to be spreading, fostered
either by the conscious effort of those
who know or the unconscious longings
of the simple
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

A good many people have discovered
to their sorrow how narrow even what
looks like a wide margin is.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29

Think how many people Uncle Rus
sell Sage and Aunt Hetty Green have
lived down.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-29
So MANY Kinds

well. l declare, Anotber Turkish
atroctty- Rug. cigarette or massa,
cre?-Puck.