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& uSCtlOu WIFI tlle INVESTIGATIONS now De-
Ing made into the post office scandals
and malfeasances Fourth Assistant.
Postmaster General Bristow has
grown several cubits. He is looming 1
up on the horizon as one of the big
kansans. Readers of these letters will
remember that more than year ago
attention was called herein to the fact
that Senator ]. Ralph Burton had
sworn to take Bristow's scalp and that
Burton's adhercnts were announcing
gleefully that he had actually taken 1t.
The announcement was somewhat
premature. Burton did not get Dris-
lows scalp. and 1t looks now rs though
Bristow would outlast Burton. 1t APP
pears that Bristow really wanted to
begin this probing process more than
a year ago, but was overrnled by his
supcriors. But all things come to him
who waits. 1t must do Bristow n lot
Of good to read the extracts from the
| leading newspapers of the land. With
out a dissenting voice, he Is hailed as n
public benefactor. What Senator J.
| Ralph Burton thinks of it all no man
may tell. for no man knows. Down in
the bottom of his lleart lle~is perhaps
more eager for Bristow's scalp lock
than ever. but 1t is by no means a pro-
pitious time to be talking about taking
1t. II he should issue pronunciamen-
| to on that subject Bristow might take
1t into his head to run for United
States senator himself in lieu of Hon.
j. Ralph Burton, md then the tables
would be completely turned. Bristow is
a long. lean, Cassius-like Kansan, who
l looks as though he would make as
good race as jack rabbit or q hazel
splitter. Keep an eye on Bristow.
Jew Batting.
4 II the Russians who permitted or
were responsible for the massacre of
! the Jews Mt Klshinef will patronize
a clipping bureau they will soon dis
cover in what detestation they are held
by the civilized world. Jew batting Is
the most senseless performance Of
4 modern times. In America men are
sometimes lynched, but 1t is always
i because an atrocious crime has been
committed, and the evidence shows
! that those lynched are guilty-at any
1 rate, tends to show It. But nobody is
1 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 outrnges? AS Il rule, they are the
most quiet and law abiding citizens.
i They are industrious. They are eco
nomical. They are rerely in the GRIM
inal courts Or allnshouses or jails or
penitentiaries. But they are mercl-
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 a
Jew. Yet he was Of the same race as
Gambetta, the most brilliant French
man of the last hnK of the nineteenth
century. Civilized nations should per-
suade the Russians to treat the Jews
justly. That's oil they ask.
Amaxed2
Senator John @. 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
or invoke not long ago and found him:
self q multimillionaire, according to the
press reports. he hadn't made dollar
overnight; but, according to the imag-
NATIVE scribes, he was rich as Crnsus!
4 The truth is that the senator had pur-
chased at small figure one Of those
j abandoned farms in which New Eng
Il land abounds to use. as summer home.
4 This modest investment Of the Badger
statesman was magnifed into a large
game preserve. etc. see3 :
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 ana
Difference few suggestions relative to-
the Literature that u 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 1--WE
successive victorious campaigns Is an au-
sor1ty on the party's creed. its policies
ana pledges. He has made many deliver.
| ances on the tariff. He has declared Ger.
tain schedules to be utterly tndefensible
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 It
proposes 70 educator VIII the league let
the youngsters hear also, from Senator
Dolliver that some Of the Ding1ey 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 revision7 VIII William McEsin..
ley's plea for reciprocity figure in this
great educational enterprise7 II not,
This WIN suffice for the present. but al
time wears on the Post humbly hopes To-
pc graciously permitted to offer other
suggestions pertinent to this great work.
Good.