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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09
WE ARE THE PEOPLEi

We of the United States are Ameri-
cans. We are the people. But are
not the Canadians and Mexicans also
Americans? Are they not also the
people?
Europeans have long said Yes"
We of the United States have long
said NO
Now comes Archibald R. Colqu-
houn in his Greater America" to for
tify us in our answer. He writes OF
the United States of America and its
dependencies alone, and he speaks OF
them as America" without qualifica-
ton.
There is no other country" he
SAYS, (which could be spoken of as
America"
And that is true. There are Next
cans, Canadians, Brazilians, Chilians,
etc, but these are Americans only in
the geographical sense. In the politi-
cal and national sense only the peo-
pile of the United States are Ameri-
cans.
The name is ours, and ours alone
by right of prior use and example to
the rest of the Western world. But
for US the names of the other Ameri-
can republics would have no national
meaning at all-would be mere geo.
graphical expressions.
We made the Western hemisphere
politically different, nationally differ
ent from Europe. We made it distinct
in fact.
For those who have followed us we
have every respect, but at present
there is only one American people
only one American nation-and we
are that people.-Chicag Inter
Ocean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09

the present time than the wireless, we
do not know what it is. The amount
of service rendered to the public by
the telegraph sixty years after it's
practical inception may be gagged
from the fact that in only four or five
of the leading countries 400 100000 or
SOC, 900, 900 authentic messages are dis
patched annually, exclusive of those
handled by leased private wires. In
this country the record is now prob
ably about 100,000,0O0 a year, while
Great Britain does not fall very far
behind that. Germany and France
together are good for another 100, 000,-
900, while Russia, Italy, Austria and
Spain will probably account for an
other batch of equal magnitude. The
telephone to-day has asserted for itself
the function of knitting closely to-
gether the various communities in
which it is used, but it is still the
proud boast CT the telegraph and the
submarine cable that they have been
the great instrumentality in annfhf-
lating distance, promoting intercourse
and commerce and bringing the ma
lions together"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09
SPIRIT OF REckLEssNEss.

Many, probably most of the acct
dents on American railways of all
kinds are due to recklessness. The
same is true of accidents from other
vehicles. Manifestations of this dis
position are to be seen on every side.
Coachmen exhibit it by driving heavy
carriages at full speed around the
most busy and crowded corners of
large cities. Messenger boys show
it by propelling their bicycles like
mad whenever they get where there
seems a good chance to run anybody
down. The automobile chauffeur acts
as if it was no part of his business
to look out for people ahead of him,
and apparently thinks that the man
or woman whom he runs down re-
ceives only his or her deserts for get
ting in the way. Everybody who oper-
ates any sort of vehicle, from the
locomotive engineer to the laborer
or clerk hurrying to his work on a
motorcycle, seems to have become
possessed with the idea that it is his
business to go as fast as he can, but
no part of his business to take care
that he doesn't kill anybody This
combination of speed madness with
recklessness is causing more casu-
alties in the United States than all
other causes together.-Kansas City
Journal
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STATISTICS DO MISCHIEF.

The announcement that the direct
or of the Yale commons" has been
obliged to put up the price of meals
to $3.50 a week henceforth and that
at the old price of dollar or so less
the college has lost $4,000 a year,
will doubtless fill the hearts of many
patient housekeepers with unspoken
gratitude. For years the American
housewife has been suffering from the
baleful activity of the man of Stats
tics, who proves conclusively in the
columns of endless periodicals that So
a week will feed anybody royalty, and
that a delightful dinner may be given
for $3.50, including flowers. A periodi-
cal ostensibly devoted to the interests
of the American home once published
statistics showing how a man and
wife and two children had lived COM
fortably on 5000 a year. The misery
caused by those statistics, over the
whole broad land, was beyond compu-
tatiOn.-Harper'S Bazaar.
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:eChink" Pet of Whites

live. 1t is said they invariably make
away with a cripple, on the theory
that he is taking the place in the
world of a better Chinaman. This
old fellow at Quesnelle was working
in mine some years ago, when he
was blown up in an explosion of
dynamite. One leg and one arm were
so badly mangled that they were am
putated. Knowing the popularity of
the Chinese, and liking the old fell
low, the whites of the town served
notice on the Chinese colony that
if the man was molested in the slight
est there would be a general running
out of all the Chinese in the camp.
Then the whites took the man under
their protection and started him in
the water business. He seems afraid
to go near his own people, and con-
sorts entirely with the whites.
Last winter he accidentally fell
into the river through the thin ice
and came near drowning. The whites
heard his cries, formed a rescue party
and saved their waterwOrks. When
left there the old cripple was still
doing business, healthy and happy"
Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09

Did you ever see a one-armed or
one-legged Chinaman?" asked George
~. Otterson, the hydraulic engineer
yesterday. OF course, you new
err did. They are rare. 1 have
lived in California, in the Hawaiian
Islands, and in China, in all of which
places there are some Chinese, but
1 never saw a crippled Monaghan
until 1 went to Quesnelle, b. c., last
winter.
There one of the chief characters
of the town is a One-armed and one
legged Chinaman, the pet of the town.
He is the Quesnelle city waterworks.
Being without a pipe line of any. cnar-
acter, the people of Quesnelle have to
draw their water by bucket from the
Fraser river. This old Chinaman has
built up a substantial trade drawing
and carrying water for them. His
regular customers number the inhabi-
tants of nearly every house in town.
There is a quaint little story in
his being there. AS all who have
lived among the Chinese know, they
object strenuously to crippled mem
Der of their race being allowed to
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HuMoR TO CURE NERVOUSNESS.

DIR. B. LaQuer, of Weisbaden, has
published a pamphlet upon THE
Proper Nourishment of the Brain -
in which he puts forth the opinion
that many medical procedures employ
ed in the treatment of nervous dis
eases are and should be merely in
tended as vehicles for the real method
of cure, which is psycho-therapeutical
For nervous debility DIR. Lacquer rec
ommends light, soothing poetry,
steady, moderate sport, the observa-
ton of nature and everything which
tends to improve the senses and
muscles. Three main characteristics
of the physically unstable, he says,
are abnormally increased self-analy-
sis, fear and lack of will power.
To combat these he recommends
books of travel, history, biography
and especially humorous works. He
is even kind enough to point out some
of the brands of humor which he con-
siders to be especially adapted to the
soothing of troublesome nerves, and
for those who read English only he
specifies the works of Dickens, sJer-
ONE K. Jerome and Mark Twain.
OF course, it is not probable that
DR.. Lacquer thinks he has exhausted
the subject in his pamphlet If he
were to pursue his studies further he
would probably be able to furnish
prescriptions for the various kinds
of nervousness. Dr. Laquer owes it to
the humorists and to the public to
go ahead with his researches, so that
the world may know what brands of
humor should be kept on hand and
ready for use by the people who are
doing the worlds work in this nerve
racking age.-Chicago Record-Herald.
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Work of Sixty Years

The Electrical World and Engineer,
in an article on eSixty Years of the
Telegraph" says: 1.-The past week
has witnessed the sixtieth anniver
sary of the electromagnetic telegraph,
it being May 1, 1914, when Prof. Morse
was able to demonstrate the use of
his invention in reporting at Washing
ton the proceedings of the Wing con-
vention at Baltimore. Since that time
the history of the telegraph in this
country and elsewhere has been one of
universal benefit. 1t is certainly
moot question whether of late years
the telegraph has advanced as rapidly
as it might have done, and whether it
has not become more or less crystal
lied and fossilized in its apparatus and
methods. Yet even this statement
must be made guardedly, for, while
the great telegraph systems the world
over appear to look askance on auto
matte and machine methods, the wire
less telegraph inventions have been
generally taken up and pushed with
great success; and if there is anything
more wonderful and more stimulating
in the domain of electrical advance at
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MYTH THE WORID'S A
H. BEST WRITERSA
MZI
THE Y. M. c. A.

There is no longer any disposition
to scott at the Young Mems Christian
Association and among intelligent
citizens everywhere its potency as an
instrument of personal and civic mo-
rality is gratefully recognized. DR..
Mabie has not exaggerated its claims
to respect in saying:
Whatever may have been the de-
fects, either in quality or in manage
ment of the association in the past,
it has become a model of high and
effective organization. 1t is an ex-
preston of the religious life which
fits the temper and the need of the
day and it is therefore fundamentally
the right expression of that life. 1t
is religion of action, contrasted
sometimes too sharply with the re-
ligion of meditation, but pre-eminent-
ly, in spite of its occasional over
emphasis on action, the religion
which the modern world needs and
which can do the most for the re-
demption of the modern world. 1t
stands for the broad conception OF
life into which the young man of to-
day is born. 1t demands the health OF
the body as well as the health OF
the spirit, sanity in out-of-door life
as well as integrity in social and bust
ness life
The word sanity is well applied
to the activities of the association
1t makes no appeal to mawkish senti
ment, and takes no part in the cult
walton of a merely emotional religion
Its business is to foster clean and
wholesome living, to encourage a de
sire for moral and mental growth
among its members and to put with
in their reach such means of rational
enjoyment as most of them would
otherwise lack. 1t is an admirable in
stitution, managed on sound prin
ciples and productive of great results
New York Tribune.
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SHELTER FOR TRUSTS
THE BIGGEST OF THEM SEEK RE-
PUBLICAN DOWNFALL.
Havemeyer, Belmont and Other Mo-
nopoly Magnates Are Working Hard
for the Election of a Democrat as
President of the United States.

Will the free trade newspapers and
trying to make a counter-issue with
the cry that protection is the shelter
OF the trusts" explain why, then, the
trust interests are so furious with the
Republican Administration and party !?
Isn't the protective tariff law to-day
what 1T was year ago and two years
ago and three years ago? If the shell
ter of the trusts was, in fact, the
D1ngley law before, ought it not to
give the Belmonts and the Havemey-
ers and the other hackers of Judge
Parker as good a thing" now as
when they were selling printed paper
calling it securities-at fancy
prices, or trying to sell it? What is
to-day and one two years ago? If
the Dingley tariff enabled shipbuild-
ing monopolists to put hundreds of
millions of value into watered stock
a couple of years ago, it is strange
that it did not enable them to keep
that value, or any value, in those ''se-
curities." So with the common steel
stock. So with any inflated stock that
was tipped off" to be Standard Oil
duplicates, but which has proved, tar
if shelter or no shelter, to be waste
paper.
The truth about the trusts which
have f1ourished is, of course, as Sena-
tor Gallinger stated the case in the
upper branch of Congress on April %:
Under, but not because of the tariff
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09
NEED OF THE FARMER.

The farmer must learn to place
cash value upon his own time and
labor and know where they are eX-
pended and what results they pro-
duce. He must learn to think of the
dairy COW as a machine for manufac-
turing clover, etc, into milk-a ma
chine that will do its best work when
kindly treated, sheltered from storms
and fed a balanced ration. The small
plots of idle ground should be made
ITO produce something that will sell in
the market or supply the family table.
The waste products of orchard, gar
den or grain field should be turned
into pork, mutton or poultry, while
everything that can serve no better
purpose should, if possible, add fer
tility to the soil. Rotation of crops
should make summer following I'M
necessary and SO worth of apples
should not be lost for the want of 81
worth of spray.-Portland Oregonian.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09

The secretary of the Uganda pro-
tectorate, Mr.. Cunningham, who has
just arrived from Uganda, has given
the following interesting particulars
concerning the present condition of
the protectorate:
The latest news that give you of
Uganda" said Mr.. Cunningham, lis
that there has been an extraordinary
development of tourist traffic on the
Uganda railway. When I was at Nom
bassa it had been found necessary to
duplicate all the trains from the coast
to Lake Victoria in order to carry tou-
rists and intending settlers. 1 should
number of tourists to be looked for
during the coming season.
THE scenery is unique and there is
about fifty miles of geological gardens.
teeming with wild animals. On my
way down country at the Kapiti plains
we passed through a herd of fully 5O,-
0G0 zebras; we saw twenty ostriches,
some rhinoceroses and giraffes in the
distance and the plains simply swarm
ed with gazelles. The zebras, whose
stripes shone in the bright sun, were
massed on the railway line and mere
1y divided to let the train pass, a few
scampering away for one Hundred
yards or so. Nowhere else in the
world can such a sight be witnessed.
'And then to many people the ma
tives are still more interesting than
the wild animals or the scenery. Here
in London you have the twentieth CEN
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09
True Test of Prosperity.

The chief result of the tariff in re1a
ton to American industries at thi:
time seems to be to permit the larger
manufacturers to charge more for the
same goods at home than they de
abroad-a condition which will al
ways be annoying to the home con
sumers who are unable to believt
that they profit directly from such un
fair ACKNOWLEDGMENT Free Press.
The Free Press knows, or ought tt
know better than this. The chief re
suit of the protective tariff since 1879;
has been prosperity and national sol
vency. 1t is undoubtedly true thai
some concerns sell their surplus pro
duce abroad little cheaper than they
do at home, but they are compelled
to do this in order to compete will
is far better for the American consum
ing public to pay a little more fol
manufactured goods at home than the
same could be purchased abroad, anc
at the same time secure steady EN-
ployment and higher wages than car
be secured in Europe. 1t is better fol
a workingman in Kalamazoo, for ex
ample, to pay SIP for a suit of clothes
and at the same time earn So a day
than to live in country where the
same suit costs SO, but his wages are
only 81 day
The American protective system
has increased enormously the consum
ing and purchasing capacity of the
mass of the people. This is the true
test of perity.-KalamaZoo Tele
graph.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09

now in operation, great industrial con-
Germs, commonly known as trusts,
have been built up during the past
four years. Not because of. the tariff
has the Standard Oil Trust been built
up, for the reason that there is no tar
iff to shelter it. Nor the Anthracite
Coal trust, which no tariff could shell
ter If the wall of protection were for
ty leagues high, for the reason that
there is no other coal anywhere in
the world to sell in this country with
the product of the American anthra-
cite fields. Yet who viii, say that any
where else in the United States there
are two trusts to match both the alb
solute monopoly privileges and the
enormous profits of those two trusts?
Because of the tariff this country
has prospered; unQuestionab1y. The
trust which had genuine value and
reasonable opportunity took it's share
of the added prosperity, just as the
non-trust industry did, as the wage
Garner. the shop-keeper, the farmer
did. The trust which sought to make
something out of nothing, whether be-
cause of or under the tariff, failed, as
any individual would have failed, no
more and no less. The interests
WHICH were HOT Whichever lu0y
had anything of real value. prospered
under the tariff prodigiously, and they
are prospecting to-day. There is no
other prosperity anywhere in this
country, there is none in the world,
like the prosperity OF the American
farmer. There is no agricultural
trust.
In England, where there is no tariff,
trusts fare. exactly as they fare in this
country, where there is tariff. Gain
ing a monopoly of a rich field, by
agreement among competitors or by
exterminating competitors who will
not combine, they wax fat and op-
pressive. Where competition can be
maintained or where the trusts COM
NIT an economic folly, they go to
smash, so far as any inequalities of
advantages are concerned, tariff or no
tariff. In the United States one of
the richest and most INSCRIPTIONS of
all the trusts in existence is the Sugar
trust, which is managing Judge Park
er's New York campaign, with Mr.
chairman of the Democratic State
Committee, and Senator McCarren,
It's legislative agent, chairman of the
Executive Committee. This trust
overfiows with riches because it abb
solutely controls the cane sugar re-
filming industry here and the cane sug-
ar market of Cuba Yet it is barred
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09
EDWARDS FOOT DOWN.

The English legation in the Servian
has been vacated and the staff
dispersed to other capitals and the
British Minister, Sir George Bonham,
will go elsewhere. King Edward VII.
informed the Servian government that
Great Britain did not consider the pro-
motion of the officers personally con-
cerned in the assassination of Kin e
Alexander and Queen Draga from
their posts at court to higher Offices
in the army and in the state. as a sat
isfaction for the outrage perpetrated
last summer. After long suspen-
sion diplomatic relations are now per-
manently closed. This is an example
which other powers of Europe may
have to follow. The awful murder
and the protection of the murderers
by the man who was the beneficiary
civilization. King Edward will be re-
spected in all sections where decent
people thrive, for delivering this re-
buke. There have been kings of En-
gland who have been bloody and re-
vengeful, but they were long before
the days of Edward VII, and very lit
tie of their blood runs in his veins. Ed
ward is a modern king. The longer
other rulers postpone action as to
Servia the harder will it be for them
to wipe out the disgrace which is al
ready sticking to them.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald-
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TREATMENT OF coNvIcTs.

One of the curious phenomena of
the present day is the agitation which
is being conducted by life-term con-
victs for the virtual abolition of life
imprisonment. by providing that
those so sentenced shall be liberated
after fixed number of years of good
conduct. There are doubtless some
life prisoners who are proper subjects
of clemency, but there is another
class whose members cannot be out
of prison a week without committing
crime. The public safety demands
more and not less severity to habitual
criminals, and there is grave reason
to doubt that the discretion of our
prison authorities in permitting and
apparently assisting in this appeal to
maudIin sentiment in favor of gem
eral Jail delivery.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-07-09

by protection from an into1erable op-
preston of and unmitigated extortion
against the sugar consumers of the
United States. 1t is barred by the
tariff law which by enabling the indie
pendent beet sugar industry to be-
come established and to flourish in
this country has created and main
tanned competition with the Sugar
trust.
If the tariff were the shelter of the
Sugar trust why should the Sugar
trust be managing Judge Parker's
campaign for him on free trade prin-
ciples, while yet declaring for non
interference by the Federal govern
ment with combinations in restraint
of trade? Why should the Sugar
; trust have spent oceans, of money try
ing to buy the repeal of the tariff duty
on raw sugar from Cuba? Because
with a free entry for the Cuban raw
material, which it absolutely controls.
it could wipe out the beet sugar in
dustry in this country-extermina
competitors. And having done that
the Sugar trust, controlling the stiua-
ton here as perfectly as it controls
it in Cuba, could work its own pleas
ure under free trade with the Ameri-
can consumer, as the Standard Oil
monopoly, unsheltered by the tariff.
as the Anthracite Coal trust, unshel
tered by the tariff, work their sweet
will with the American public which
consumes their products.
The trusts which are running Judge
Parker for President, in the hope OF
preventing interference by the gov.
eminent with their combinations in
restraint of trade, and the Democrats
who are accepting him plastered over
with the trust and free trade declar.
atoms must think that the American
people are fools-as big fools as Mr..
August Belmont plainly takes them tc
be-to give them such arguments as
they are putting out at the opening
of the national compaign of 1904
which is to determine whether the
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Our Long Suit.

It is difficult to predict just what
issues the desperate Democracy will
force to the front in their effort to dis
place and to repudiate those which
they declared to be of paramount i'm
portance il 1896 and again in 1900.
But so far as the tariff is concerned
Republicans need have no fear. II
the tariff is to be trumps in the COM
ing game of politics, that is our long
suit, and we may safely count on both
points and honors, when the score IL
made up.-Pueblo Chieftain-
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voters of the United States shall elecf
President Roosevelt and go on man
aging the nations affairs for them
selves, or elect Judge Parker and Ii
cense the trusts to manage all the af
fairs, public and private, of all the
American people, even to the songs
they may sing and the prayers they
may say-New York Press.