The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-06-20


Q ton to suit themselves, with perfec
$ safety, and "what are you going to d.
about it % Kill of lot of their poo
victims ct their bidding? and Great
more debt and more bondage? or shall
f the people rise up in the unanimity
} and sovereignty of their power ant
, demand sweeping and radical reform
in the conduct of tie Government
, not doled out in stinginess, handful
at time, but bountiful, heapiDe
measure, such as the distressing con.
dition of the times demand? | have
read Of the lower order of animals at.
, lacking their kind when wounded and
suffering, but think that man was Gre
ated for higher and nobler purpose
than to kick and trample upon the I'M
fortunate of his race when they are
down, and we might say had little or
no instrumentality in bringing about
their misery.
| Allow me to quote from new book
on strikers, tramps, ETC., by Allen
Pinkerton, Chief of Detectives, per.
haps the best authority in the United
States: ''Ever since the war, circum-
stances and conditions have been con-
tinually arising to transform respecta-
bic people into tramps. 1t is also true
that the growth of tramps has been by
no means confined to the working
classes, although they have suffered
greatest. | am personally cognizant
of scores of cases where men occupy
ing the highest of positions have, in
some way, fallen and in time Joined
the brotherhood of strollers.'" He
then cites instances of editors, lawyers
and railroad men who have thus fall
Ell. And again: "The tramp, with
few exceptions, is more unfortunate
than vicious, and should not be refused
a crust, or even cold potatoe."
When ! hear some people talk as
they do, am left in doubt as to wheth-
er they are lost to every sense Of hui
man feeling or not well posted but /
am willing to give them the benefit of
the doubt, and believe that they are
blessed with an abundance of lack of
knowledge in regard to the true con-
dition Of affairs.
had written to say that look upon
so-called communism as a breaking
out of corruption accumulated in the
body polite, requiring to be rcmedied
not aggravated which, if the cause
were removed, would die of starva-
ton, etc. But l will substitute the
following from Gen. Butler as coming
from far higher authority than ],
which have just read: ais there no
disease in the body polite, and does
wealth equally and properly share in
just proportion and nourish all the
members of the body of the Nation,
and circulate equally and steadily
through every vein and artery, or is it
stagnant and corrupt around the head
and heart. leaving the arms and feet |
cold as in death and the whole body |
ready to perish? Woe to US if fever
sets IN and the paralyzed arm becomes |
uncontrolled by the will and strikes
home, scattering confusion, riot, and |
death.
DIT is claimed that we must have a
large standing army 10 repress the pos
sible outbreak of the laboring men, to
put them down with the bullet and
bayonet, the machine-gun and cannon,
if they quit work and strike, and bad
men should band together and take
advantage of their necessities to iuau-
gurate violence and wrong. Remove
the cause and then you viii not need
the army.
"Your regular soldiers cannot be
depended on any more than the mi
itia, and the whole history of the ar
mics of the world tells you the regu-
ars fraternize with people when the
cause OF the mob becomes the cause Of
the people, and the action of the mob
S revolution against their oppressors |
who take away their liberties and their
lights"
The above quotations are in keeping
With what | have heretofore written
upon this subject, aud | would say in
Ill earnestness and kindness, that if
'ou take us for a fawning political pau
Ter you have made mistake, and any
.iIorts at reputation are entirely
brown away. Twenty-three years :
go those who espoused the Republi-
an cause were stigmatized by those
Vho claimed that capital should own
Is own labor, as black republicans,
bolitionists, amalgamationists, mig t
er thieves, etc. To-day capital uses t
ewly-coined names to suit the times
nd brighten the timid. =
On my tiny banner is written "Uni. [
ersai Liberty" ] stand by the dig $
nal platform of the Republican party;
consider it broad as the universe and a
lsting as mankind have seen its o
rinciples gloriously triumph, and o
Therever the party has met with re- a
erses it has been when it departed =
ON the principles. The present is a
ark and threatening, but | think ! C
se the dawn of a brighter day, and /
ope to live to see those principles h
gain triumph with more brilliant a
ld lasting victory. But whether or Z
ot, there propose to stay, if stand a
J the solitary survivor of the ship CT
reck upon the floating raft, and go n
own into political oblivion amid the II
lrshing of the storm. Your most m
1edlent servant, VIM. Ross. al
RIVERSIDE FARM, June 10, 1873. IL
in. THOMAS RYAN WRITES A LETTER te
ON KANSAS, ns