Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-03

The crowd who imagine Inst tits for thet1
political interest TO picture this country a.
In the last agonies Of financial dissolution |;
the home OF few score niflfonaires and Of
uncounted starving paupers, are fond Of
saying that all the alleged miseries under
which the country labors. are the fruits Of
"Republicsn rule"
We would like to ask any man Of forty
years old and upward, who has no personal
or selfish or partisan end to subserve in de-
flaming his own country, IL he remembers
what sort Of country this was before the
beginning OF Republican rule, say In the
years 1S47, 1858 and 1859:
The Government Of the United States
was not administered by Republicans then.
We had Del ocracy aud the rule.o James
Buchanan then. Every department Of the
Government was Democratic !; every Official
IN every department was Democrat then.
The tariff was q Democratic tariff; and the
financial policy OF the Federal government
was such as Gen. Jackson had left 1t.
Looking back on that time does any one
wish its return? Does anybody wish re-
turn of the currency of that time; the
State bank money, the wild cat bank bills,
the red dog and blue and yellow dog
'money," so-calledf Does any farmer
wish q return of the prices Of 1858, when
10 Illinois corn was hauled through faith
omless mud for twenty miles and sold for
ten cents q bushel "in trader Is there
any man in his senses who would care to
have the United States put back where it
was thens Would our people like to have
the railroad system Of this country reduced
to the limits Of 1852 They would be rid of
the monopolies, perhaps, but is there money
enough on the earth to hire an American
citizen to consent to have his country re-
duced to the condition IL knew in the years
preceding the Inauguration Of Republican
rule. Why, even in the midst of struggle
for national existence, which the towards,
sneaks and traitors who controlled the
Democratic organization in those days
were fond Of calling Republican War;"
the country was more prosperous than it
had been in the days of Democratic peace.
1t Is true there are more milliOnaires th an
In the ante-bellum Democratic days, but
that is the result Of the increasing wealth
Of the whole country, under "Republican
rule" Men have got rich out of railroads,
but are railroads built in distressed and i'm
poverished countriesf Men have grown
rich out Of mines. Are mines developed
by population Of paupers? Millions have
been made out OF manufactures. Are iron
works and cotton factories and rail mills
evidences Of popular distress! And il hum
dreds Of men have become millionaires, has
it not been through the employment Of
labor, and has labor suffered by this EN-
ployment3
People who are eternally croaking about
the evils Of Republican rule" should be
prepared to say that they favor return of
Democratic rule; that they would like to
see James Buchanan Chief Magistrate
again, surrounded by such Democratic
patriots as jefferson Davis. Ii they do not
like the National bank currency, they
ought to pray for the return of the style of
bank that prevailed in Democratic times.
II all the Republican party has done in
twenty years has been wrong, these critical
gentlemen ought TO be consistent, and say
that they would like 70 see IL undone.
There is not man in the country who
would say it, anu retain his reputation for
sanity.
The United States Of 1888 is immeaslIra-
bly, In advance OF the United States of 1858.
There Is less poverty, there is more pros
perity; there are in proportion to the pop
ulation, fewer poor people than then.
There is more wealth, and it is more widely
difused. We are uncharitabe enough to
believe that the men who are continually
talking about the impovershment of this
country are willful and conscious liars.
they do not believe their own statements.
They are simply demagogues quacks who
would fain make q man believe he is sick,
for the sake OF robbing him in the shape OF
fees for suppositious cure.-CAdmpion.