so dominates Kansas City that last year it sold, in the
city, many thousand papers a day in excess of the num-
ber of houses there. Other papers have been started
to combat it, but without appreciable effect. The
"Star" continues upon its majestic course, towing the
wagon of Kansas City.

To me the greatest thing about the "Star" is its en-
tire freedom from yellowness. Its appearance is as
conservative as that of the New York "Evening Post."
It prints no scareheads and no half-tone pictures, such
pictures as it uses being redrawn in line, so that they
print sharply. Another characteristic of the paper is
its highly localized flavor. It handles relatively little
European news, and even the doings of New York and
Chicago seem to impress it but slightly. It is the or-
gan of the "feed lot," the "official gazette" of the capital
of the Southwest.

While contemplating the "Star" I was reminded of a
conversation held many weeks before in Buffalo with a
very thoughtful gentleman.

"The great trouble with the American people," he de-
clared, "is that they are not yet a thinking people."

"What makes you believe that?" I asked.

"The first proof of it," he returned, "is that they
read yellow journals."

It is a notable and admirable fact that the people of
Kansas--the State which Colonel Nelson considers par-
tiularly his own--do not read the "yellows" to any con-
siderable extent. ("I might stop publishing this pa-

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