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Show SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Tha tanners' AUIanca 1 New York Sun. The stale of Kansas has suffered I somen hat in credit am! public estimation estima-tion from the pernicious activity of tho farmers' alliance, i.i no other state has the alliance shown such recklessness, reckless-ness, crankiness, and fatuity as in Kansas. The wild bellowing of tho Kansas alliance cranks for government loans has given rie l the impression that ajrrieiilliiio in the Siiullower state is in a bad way, lh fact being that the tanners have iieeti extending their business busi-ness on iitsiillicieiit capital. The attacks at-tacks of the nlliance, in the state house of representatives, upon the security of debls, hae also tended to make invest ors feel a certain timidity about their Kansas hiihlin!?s. Sensible Kansans are naturally di-gusted that the whimsies of the alliance should even temporarily create a suspicion of the solvency and the prosperity of the slate. I'rrtiili'nt iul Trips. New York Mail and Express. It. is a good thing for the president to p;o about in the country during his (fi in f ollice. Most of our presidents hav e done it more or less. Washington did il. and was viciously accused of making a "royal progress" Kver since his time there have been some discontented discon-tented and carping critics who see in ev cry journey of the president some sinister design, and who cavil ami sneer at it, no matter when or for what purpose pur-pose it is undertaken. That there are such carping critics in this case is a matte of course, but that need not Irouble auvbodv: "It is their nature to." film ool Ite.ult. NVw York Mortiltiir Journal. it. is clear thai wo are to be fortified against the Italian navy ami any other unmi'la on the Long Island sound side, at least. The legislature has rushed through in douhle-ijuick time a bill giving giv-ing the state's consent to the purchase of the necessary land at Sand's point and Hew lett's point, and mortar batteries batter-ies are to be placed there. On the west-ei west-ei u side of the channel batteries have been in construction for some time. If we have no serious unpleasantness with any maratinie nation for the next six mouths, we shall be in pretty good position posi-tion to defend all the chief approaches to the metropolis. |