The Iola Register

Editorial Notes.

The Kansas Knight and Soldier is publishing a history of the 10th Kansas Infantry.

There are more banks in Kansas than any other State in the Union, Pennsylvania ranks second in the number of banks.

The old Libby prison building in Richmond, Va., has been sold to a Chicago syndicate for $23,000 cash, and will be removed and erected in Chicago.

PAUL said of himself: "I have learned, in whatsoever State I am, therewith to be content."

The great Apostle probably never visited the State of Missouri

The noblest democratic Roman of them all, Allen G. Thurman, is putting in his time these days prosecuting democrats for election frauds and forgeries.

And he is getting them convicted, too.

The Bronson Pilot appeared last week with a new editor, a new form and much improved, editorially and typographically. We trust Mr. Holeman will receive the support his excellent work deserves.

There are 800 newspapers in Kansas and only 177 in Georgia.

Georgia sends ten representatives to congress and Kansas only seven. Yet Georgia cast only 143,000 votes for president in 1884, while Kansas cast 265,843.

Having collected over $700 on subscription during December, the Fredonia Citizen went right ahead and collected $500 in January.

We wish Bro. Gilmore would quit publishing these details of his private business: they harrow up our soul.

Nearly every daily paper in the country printed John Sherman's tariff speech in full, and still it is in great demand, 175,000 copies of it having been printed up to date by the Public Printer. Wonder how many copies of Senator Voorhees' "reply" to it were published?

You will find it true everywhere that all the preachers who participate actively in politics, are republicans.-Abilene Gazette. (Dem.)

The Gazette evidently intended the above as a slam at the preachers. To a man up a tree it looks more like a knock-out blow at the democratic party.

John Walruff in his circular to the whiskey traders this month says: "It will pay well to establish a third party paper in Topeka. Our committee has already received liberal subscriptions for that purpose."

This item is commended to the thoughtful consideration of our third party friends.

We judge from the rush to No Man's Land that the title to land there is in dispute. There is nothing the American "mover" likes so much as to settle on land which he may lose at any moment. -Newton Republican.

The Republican talks like it had lived in Allen county and was acquainted with the "Settlers Protective Association."

Two weeks ago we published articles from the pens of intelligent young men of the county on the subjects of tariff and finance. The articles were widely read and pretty thoroughly discussed. -Democrat Courant.

We observe, however, with sorrow, that the "intelligent young men" have not yet replied to the questions modestly propounded by the REGISTER.

Nearly all of our exchanges have published a paragraph stating that since Bent. Murdock became blind his pension has been increased from $15 to $52, the "maximum for total blindness."

The pension allowed for total blindness is $72 a month. Application has been made to have Mr. Murdock's pension raised to this amount, but it has not yet been acted upon.

It is a matter of statistics that cannot be disputed, that wages in the leading industries in the United States are now from 25 to 100 per cent higher than they were in 1860, the last year of the free trade era. This is a fact that should be kept in mind. It will answer pretty much all of the arguments that will appear in free trade journals during the coming campaign.

In its recent screed against preachers in politics, the Abilene Gazette expresses its conviction that politics are disgraceful, that politicians are ignominious rascals, and that association with them brings disgrace upon the church.

For a paper that was conceived in politics and brought forth by politicians, that lives and moves and has its being in political maneuvering and wire pulling, these are strange remarks.

The Anniston Hot Blast says that "of 177 newspapers in Georgia, all but four favor the repeal or modification of the internal revenue laws." Who would have thought that so large a proportion of the papers of Georgia are republican? And yet it must be so, for the Allen County Democrat-Courant wants us to keep it in mind that it is the republicans only that want to remove the tax from whiskey and tobacco.

Keep it in mind that they [the republican party] demand that the tariff be removed from tobacco. -Democrat Courant.

They [the republican party] demand that this unjust and oppressive law, [the law which places the tax on tobacco] which is more repulsive--both the law and the manner of enforcing it--to the institutions of a free government than is the Crimes Act and its operation in Ireland, shall remain on the statute book. -Abilene Gazette (Dem.)

Dress up! Dress up! Somebody's out of line there!

The Pleasanton Observer announces officially that Hon. R. W. Blue, of Linn county, will not be a candidate for Congress this fall, preferring to remain at home and gather in shekels by the practice of his profession.

"Dick" Blue is a strong man, an able lawyer and a popular orator, and was really the only formidable competitor our present representative had in the District for the Congressional nomination this fall. His withdrawal from the race makes Mr. Funston's renomination practically a foregone conclusion.

Aside from the Lincoln History, which of course everybody reads, the article in the February Century that will attract the most attention doubtless, is "Ranch Life in the Far West," by Theodore Roosevelt. The article tells just the things one wishes to know of the subject, and is fully and vigorously illustrated by Frederic Remington, who himself has had experience as a cowboy. Mr. Roosevelt says in conclusion: "The present form of cattle-raising on the plains is doomed, and can hardly outlast the present century."

A committee was recently sent to Washington to protest against putting zinc on the free list. The spokesman declared that while the industry was now in a thriving condition it would be killed by a tariff reduction.

Investigation revealed the fact that zinc was already on the free list. To say that the committee was astonished would but it very mildly. -Altoona Journal.

But zinc is not on the free list. It is protected by a tariff of 1 1/2 cents a pound equal to about 30 per cent. ad valorem.

The Journal's "committee" must have got its information from a democratic newspaper.

Minneapolis Messenger: In a well-considered article Hon. A. R. Greene has shown up the foolishness of the capital removal scheme, whereupon the Abilene Gazette denounces him as a politician, a member of the Topeka ring, an office-holder and pap-sucker.

Great Jehovah! The Abilene Gazette, meaning thereby United States Pension Agent Glick, United States Attorney Perry, United States Marshal Jones, and a dozen other Federal office-holders in Kansas, denouncing another man as an office-holder!

It's a spectacle for gods and men.

W. C. WAY, of Schmeckleville, says the Leavenworth Standard, is a successful Kansas tobacco grower. He stated recently to a reporter on that paper:

"Tobacco can be successfully raised here, as this pile of mine amply evidence.

The great tobacco secret lies in the curing. Many allow tobacco to lie in piles on the ground and 'sweat' while it is yet green. I believe this is wrong, for by first drying and then sweating it on a barn floor I procure a flavor equal to North Carolina tobacco.

I raised, this year, three quarters of an acre, and suppose I have 300 pounds. I raised it entirely for my own use, and expect to have enough to last me at least ten years."

About a year ago the then editor of the Yates Center Sun accused the REGISTER of prevaricating because it alleged that the Rev. Richardson, of Lawrence, had brought reproach upon the cause of prohibition. This paper proved its case so conclusively that the Sun had no reply to make. We make these remarks for the benefit of the present editor of the Sun, who seems to think that no one can be a good prohibitionist unless he bows down and worships the Rev. Father Richardson.

We may remark for his benefit also that if he should attempt to claim anywhere in Allen county that the REGISTER was on the fence on the question of prohibition (or any other question for the matter of that) the people would laugh in his face.

According to announcement, ex-Gov. Geo. T. Anthony, with a few modest words, assumed editorial control last week, of the Ottawa Republican. The Governor is an old hand at the newspaper business and his return to it is regarded with very general satisfaction by his fellow craftsmen. Under his management the Republican will doubtless assume the exalted position that its location and support ought to command

An exchange very aptly asserts that if protection raised the wages of working men every employer would be a free trader. --Eureka Messenger. (Dem.)

Could not your exchange have asserted just as aptly, "If protection lowered the wages of working men, every workman would be a free trader?"

There are some things that sound like argument that are not argument for the simple reason that the premises are both false and the conclusion is illogical.

To a committee of glass manufacturers who recently called on Mr. Randall and expressed their apprehension that a change in duties might be made that would be injurious to their interest, the great Pennsylvania democrat replied: "You can go home and make yourself at ease on this subject. There will be no legislation in this Congress which will destroy or injure any American industry. There is a majority in the democratic party who would like to do some of these things, but it is not in their power to do it; not even in the House of Representatives!" We call the attention of the brethren particularly to the words in italic.

Nearly every letter from Washington has something to say about one or the other of the Kansas Senators.

Here is a sample paragraph from a letter in the Topeka Capital:

Speaking of books it is hard to appreciate what the world has lost in the burning of Ingalls' library, and the unfortunate Senator tells me that all of a novel which he had written was consumed by the flames. He lost also the notes for a history of his times. and anyone who has read Ingalls' writings can appreciate what a loss this is. Ben Perley Poore used to say that Ingalls was the best fitted of any man in the country to be a great editor and he was right. Ingalls' mind seems to be crowded with ideas on every subject under the sun, and they fly out at you in a language as characteristic as that of Thomas Carlyle. He has the same horror of cant and the same originality of expression,

-A Washington correspondent of the Kansas City Journal comments as follows concerning one of the "gentlemen from Kansas."

Equidistant from General Hooker on the republican side of the chamber sits a smooth-faced gentleman clad in a business suit. He has dark hair, parted on the side and thrown over his head like cradled grain. His eyes are grey and his face is bronzed by Kansas suns. He wears a tricolored button in the lapel of his coat. This gentleman is the Hon. Bishop Wesley Perkins.

He frequently commands the attention of the house, and always with a coat buttoned to his throat. He talks rapidly but distinctly, as though endeavoring to funnel a volume of thoughts into the ears of his bearers within an allotted time. He enforces his ideas upon the attention of the house with dramatic gestures, and never spares invective whenever he deems it necessary.

"Keep it in mind" that the republican party is just as much in earnest now as it was in 1884 about having the tariff revised and its inequalities corrected; but it wants it done by the friends of the system and not by its foes. -Register.

Ah, there's the rub. "We will not allow an evil to be corrected because someone else may get the credit." We asserted some time ago that the protectionist policy was the quintessence of selfishness, and now their own words prove it. -Democrat-Courant.

If our neighbor would use as much ingenuity in defending its own position as it does in misconstruing and misrepresenting that taken by the REGISTER, it would fare better. Our paragraph bears no such construction as is put upon it. It simply means that the republican party wants the tariff revised along protection lines and not along free trade lines. Is that plain enough?

Ft. Scott Monitor:

The Southern Kansas Tribune, published at Independence, the home of Hon. L. U. Humphrey, brings that gentleman out as a candidate for governor.

Judge Humphrey, as a candidate for this important office, undoubtedly has many strong points. He is a man of unquestionable integrity, has had considerable experience in public life, having served as lieutenant governor, State Senator and in many other positions of trust, and is a man of fine ability and most pleasing manners, last, but by no means least, he has a record as a Union soldier of which any man might be proud. Such a record, with the many other admirable traits of character possessed by Judge Humphrey, taken together with the fact that being a distinctively Southern Kansas man, a part of the State that has never been so honored will insure him a strong local following, and starts the Judge in the race neck and neck with any gentleman named for the place.