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gleefully that he had actually taken it.
| The announcement was somewhat
premature Burton did not get Bris-
tow's scalp, and it looks now as though
Bristow would outlast Burton 1t ap-
pears that Bristow really wanted to
begin this probing process more than
year ago, but was overruled by his
superiors. But all things come to him
who waits. 1t must do Bristow a lot
of good to read the extracts from the
leading newspapers of the land. With
out Il dissenting voice, he is hailed as a
public benefactor What Senator ].
Ralph Burton thinks of it ali no man
may tell, for no man knows Down in
the bottom of his heart he is perhaps
more eager for Bristow's scalp lock
than ever, but it is by no means a pro
pitious time to be talking about taking
it, If he should issue pronunciamen-
to on that subject Bristow might take
it into his head to run for United
States senator himself in lieu of Hon.
J. Ralph Burton, and then the tables
would be completely turned. Bristow is
long, lean, Cassius-lilSe Kansan. who
looks as though he would make as
good a race as a jack rabbit or hazel
splitter. Keep an eye on Bristow.
Jew Batting.
If the Russians who permitted or
were responsible for the massacre of
the Jews at Kishineff will patronize
a clipping bureau they will soon dis
by the civilized world. Jew batting is
the most senseless performance of
modern times. In America men are
sometimes lynched, but it is always
because an atrocious crime has been
committed and the evidence shows
that those lynched are guilty-at any
rate, tends to show it. But nobody is
lynched here on account of his race
or religion, while Jew batting is per
secution for conscience's sake or be-
cause the victims are of Semitic ex
traction. The violence is not inflicted
upon an individual sinner, but upon all
the race representatives within reach
upon good and bad, male and female,
old and young, rich and poor, sick and
healthy.
What have the Jews done to merit
such outrages? As rule, they are the
most quiet and law abiding citizens.
They are industrious. They are eco
nomical. They are rerely in the Grim
inal courts or almshouses or jails or
penitentiaries. But they are merci-
lessly prosecuted in many countries.
In England and America they appear
to be free from actual violence, and in
these countries alone
There is no question that Captain
Dreyfus OF the French army was tried
on bogus charges, convicted and sent
to DEVILS island because he was
Jew. Yet he was of the same race as
Gambetta. the most brilliant French
man of the last half of the nineteenth
century. Civilized nations should per-
suade the Russians to treat the Jews
justly. That's all they ask.
Amazed?
Senator John G. Spooner of Wiscon-
sin must be amazed at the condition in
which he discovers himself. Lord By
ron declared that he awoke one morn
ing and found himself famous. Spoon
er awoke not long ago and found him
self a multfmillionaire, according to the
press reports. He hadn't made dollar
overnight; but. according to the imag-
NATIVE scribes, he was rich as Cr@sus!
The truth is that the senator had pur-
chased at small figure one of those
abandoned farms in which New Eng
land abounds to use as a summer home.
This modest investment of the Badger
statesman was magnifed into a large
game preserve. etc. See?
First Voters.
The American Economist organ of
the American Protective Tariff league,
having announced that the league is
securing lists of first voters to whom
to send literature to indoctrinate them
with the ''stand pat" idea. the Wash
ington Post, consistent advocate of
high tariff, remarks:
The Post would not presume to inject
advice into the leagues councils, but it
begs leave to offer, with due respect and
Difference a few suggestions relative to
the literature that is to be mailed to the
new voters.
We take it for granted that the states
man who has been at the head of the Re-
publican national committee during five
successive victorious campaigns is an au-
thority on the party's creed. its policies
| and pledges. He has made many deliver
ances on the tariff. He has declared GER
tain schedules to be utterly indefenSible
on protection grounds, and he asserts that
the new congress comes in pledged to
revise the tariff. VIII the league send his
| utterances to the young men whom 1t
proposes to educate? VIII the league let
the youngsters hear, also, from Senator
| Dolliver that some of the Dingley sched-
| ules were Intentionally made too high in
| expectation of almost immediate reduce
| ton through reciprocity? win 1t also
send out some of the eloquent speeches of
| Governor Cummins of Iowa in advocacy
| of tariff revision? VIII William McKin-
| leys plea for reciprocity figure in this
| great educational enterprise? If not,
| why not2
This will suffice for the present but as
| time wears on the Post humbly hopes to
| be graeiously permitted to offer other
| suggestions pertinent to this great work.
Good.
To those who are blase or dying of
! ennui we commend, not as joy for
ever, but as JOY for one brief, feet
ing moment, the following paragraph
from the Press-J Journal of Louisiana,
Mo-, edited by Isaac Newton Bryson:
peter Karageorgevitch was proclaim
ed king of Servia Monday, under the
title of Peter ]. That he will eyentu-
ally peter out under the strain is not to
be doubted"
Speaking of this Servian matter,
| there is no question that Russia was at
the bottom of the bloody taking off Of
King Alexander, Queen Draga and
/ their chums, just as she is at the bot
| tom of most other disturbances in the
Balkans The soul of Peter the Great
of Russia, like that of old John Brown
of Ossawatomie, still goes marching on.
He got it into his noggin that he want
ed Constantinople, and he put that am
bition into the hearts of the Russian
| people. From that day to this every
car has dreamed of possessing the
| great city of Constantine, and that
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