Show BMW buildup up agriculture the present secretary of agriculture known to the farmers by the nickname of tama jim bas many good ideas in regard to building up the agri agricultural cultural pursuits of theamer thea mer ican people his latest design is to have agriculturists associated with foreign embassies who c can m make intelligent tell igent observations and specially relating to agricultural and horticultural conditions of those countries for the benefit of the american farmer in enabling him to know what he has ha to compote compete biti abroad and at home the secretary is right 0 other her countries have their representatives of agriculture here batchin watching 9 every experiment and development amona I 1 our agriculturists and trait fruit growers with a yiew to utilizing information gained for the benefit of their conn countries tries but we are behind them in this respect the consequence is that this country annually imports millions of dollars 7 worth of products which our farmers could raise themselves if they had bad authentic iii information formation on the subject A WHITES in the philadelphia ledge I 1 ascribes the reduced republican I 1 m majorities a josities jori ties this year to a rebuke of bossism boa that is probably true in a certain sense for the bosses in distributing patronage of course could not satisfy every everyone one there is nearly always dissatisfaction with the pa party rt T in power the next election after the inauguration the best criterion of the public criticism of an adminis is the congressional election at the middle of the term next year the american people will proclaim at the polls what their opinion is of william Kc Rinley as president we feel it important that he h e should do ao something for silver THE press is generally laughing at a 4 WJ bryan for claiming that the tammany victory in greater sew new york was a vindication of the chicago platform the chicago inter ocean remarks in greater new york the democratic I 1 candidate who utterly lenored the chicago platform got over votes and won the day and the democratic candidate who thorough thoroughly bly indorsed endorsed indor sed the chicado platform Wat forra received hut but about votes or only sper 3 ner cent cant of entire vote cast ifor if mr bryan con eiders these results a vindication of the chicago platform he must be even more flighty than has generally been imagined IT really would be better to have bave I 1 I 1 a straight out partisan election for members of the board of education than to have a double p partisan artisan del deal such as is proposed by the partisans viz a divis division I 1 on of the offices between the parties let the people come together and name candidates for the school board on the high ground of 0 patriotism and not partisan ship provos proves school s system y stem should be entirely ont of politics ALDERMAN AIDEKMAN N of chicago has bas introduced a bill to prohibit football in chicago 1 o when he was asked why y he did it he replied why do I 1 in introduce it because it is an inhuman garne game a game that should have bave been stopped long ago somebody gets hurt badly every time a football game is played and many have been killed it is forty times worse than prize fighting id rather see a prize fight any day than a game of football it teaches school children to be brutal 9 SENATOR cannon comes home and opposes his fathers views of nonpar non par in local affairs the senator thinks that the voters should be kept marching all along the line with i ban banners ne ra flying for free coinage we fear li the be ecret news will be getting gettin 9 after the man of poetic and prophetic destiny dea deRti tiny if lie does not stop talking talk i ng in that strain 72 TIM THE gold bugs of tile the east have come too to the conclusion aba that t this country must discard its silver and go on to an absolute gold basis because the first attempt at bimetallism failed ebey ey anay find themselves guista mistaken before the administration gets through 0 th the silver question k z 5 I 1 I 1 I 1 IT is to be 19 expected that democrats will deny that the dingley law has anything to do with the return of prosperity to the country MP ME BRYAN made numerous speeches during his recent tour tou r through ili ohio hut but reading one was reading them all tim THE freight traffic of the west keeps the rails bright railroad Eail road rails rail snot not Popo ropo cratic rails against prosperity how ABOUT abour that dingley law chi nese wall it dont interfere alpar antly with our export trade |