The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-12-27
For the Eagle.
The Financial Question.

81 read those economic fal,acies with
rising indignation and contempt, and
at the end swore by the living God l
do not believe an intelligent, honest
aud sane man can entertain such senti-
ments and be sincere" DR.. Mintara.
Whoopee. what tremendous that
from the lofty casemate of rising in
dignation and contempt-a slight tam
tologe-registered in heaven b. ter
rible oath. Sec Woodman and all The
hosts Of the opponents Of the right
eous, holy cause of Wall street cover,
retire and hoist the flag of submission
as it shrieks through the air aud cx-
plodes in their trembling ranks. Be-
fore the opening of that grand column
bad The army of ignorant, dishonest,
insincere lunatics had hoped that. by
some process, legislative or otherwise,
their shrunken values might be re-
stored, business regained, aud the tide
Of prosperity once more set in. But
now miserable, ragged hosD you feel
that even that vain hope has vanished
like dew in the morning sun.
Please, Mr.. Woodman, don't pro-
woke his ''rising indignation and con-
tempt" further, utter annihilation
would be the fatal result. A lover of
the vast sublimities of nature, softly
rcposing on some lofty point of OBJ
servation, might enjoy the ebullitions
of his wrath as he would the eruption
of vulcano, but to the ordinary sub
scriber, one of the majority of your
readers, who is not only too poor TO
take any other paper, and too poor to
pyy for that, the consequences would
be dreadful indeed TO contemplate.
We had supposed that our civilization
ment that the majority Of the readers
of the EAGLE wanted facts not lead
ing strings. Vain supposition. Now
do, Mr.. Editor, give us four-column
leader every week teach us 10 know
how little we do know, and show us
the fatal results of our blind wander
ings in this financial fog. II matters
not to us that business is paralyzed !;
that bankruptcies are becoming the
rule, not the exception; that in sim
gle small State the failures aggregated
nearly three millions in the first six
months of the current year; it mat
tiers moi TO us that every species of
property shall have shrunk from fifty
10 seyenty-five per cent; that the
amount of circulating medium is only
about ten dollars instead of flf,y-five
ten years ago. 1t is no concern of
ours that manufactures are idle all
over the whole country land thousands
of our fellow-men are "begging leave
to toll" Train us, Mr.. Editor, to be
happy and contented, even if we do
have to sell wheat that costs us $l.50,
for seventy-fve cents, while our wives
and daughters are shlyerlnS In unplas-
tered shanties teach us 10 rejoice that
noble gentlemen who "'toil not, neither
do they spin," can 1.-Two in palatial man.
sions; enjoy sparkling wines; drive
fast horses, and float in the faster flood
of luxuary and vice. Or, better still,
satiate our hungry intellectual vision
with empyreal light from Wall street.
In fond anticipation, | turn to this in
tellectual feast and rejoice that my
thoughts have been trained in the
Fright direction"
Facts are stubborn things which we
Of the masses are not capable of as
similating.
Thanking your correspondent for
gently, gently recalling you, Mr.. Edit
or, TO the path of rectitude, and hop
ing that no further articles will appear
which causes the "rise of indignation
and contempt" of
ONE OF TIE MAJORITY OF Your
SUBSCRIBERS.