Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-26
THE PEOPLE BEING ROBBED.
The House Consents to the Giving
Away of Fifty Thousand Dollars.

So great was the excitement attend
ing the campaign last fall that about
two-thirds of the candidates who were
elected to the Kansas legislature evil
IDENTIFY imagined that they were rum
ming for congress. That probably
would have mattered little had these
fellows, aftcrs, reaching Topeka.
been able TO divest themselves of the
idea that thew were actually seated in
the national capitol with four humid
red million surplus TO vote away. Set
ting beneath gorgeously froscoed cell
ings, with boys to wait on them, and
enjoying three straight meals OF
Topeka hash per day, constitutes Il
career which has evidently completely
turned their pumpki" heads
and each imagines that the central
screw of his cane seated chair runs
down into the apex of the recently
finished Washington monument from
which sublime altitude he makes such
a disclosure 30 the world as is onl:
offered by The monkey who success
fully turns the top of the pole. Ut
terlv oblivious 10 the fact that but a
few shor: winter days have elapsed
since he himself was selling wheat at
foriv-five cents bushcl and taking
his pay in a hand-me-dOwn suit which
yet covers his swelling importance. h.
runs his arms down into the peoples
money up TO his elbows and with Il
prodigaliiv that would stump the
pension bureau At Washing ton.
losses il ont To every fool or knave
who may happen to apply. The pet
tifoger who, through the long hoi
DAYS of sst summer WAS wont 10 ham
mer the stitching and glue out Of the
compiled statutes in some justice
off ce: from nine a. IN. till SHUTDOWN.
for retainer OF two and half, be
comes on the floor of the Kansas leg
islature this winter, Daniel Webster.
the cells of whose brain are only re
positories for embryo magma charters
and undcveloped fundamental laws.
The day before yesterday the house
voted. sixty-scven to fifty, TO donate
Leavenworth City fifty thousand dol
lars of the peoples money, which sum
had been pledged 10y Leavcnworlh to
beat Wiriita, FIT. Scott and other
growing towns in the -cramble for the
National Soldiers home 10 be located
in knMsas IL would have been more
satisfactory 30 the other localities
that wanted a chance at that insiitu-
ton for The legislature 10 lave invest
ed that $50. 900 in the Louisiana lot
terry scheme Had Wichita under
stood that the highest local bid was to
be accepted and tia; the state Of Kan
sas would, before even survey of the
grounds were made. rciinburs" the
successful bidder. Wichita would have
bid twice what LeavenwOrth did. and
given fonds to pay At least half of
the amount herself
In the name of the tax PAYERS of the
state the EAGLE wants TO ask The le@iS-
lature if they really know what they
are doing! Leayenworlh as locality
has not only q United States military
plant. which includes fort and school
and the state pcnmiientiary. but pri-
yate and Seciarian a-ylum>, which the
slate has been called upon repeatedly
10 aid. The legislatures of the state of |
Kansas have ia the past made appro-
priations for the orphans home, the
Catholic widows home. or home of |
similar name, the bad woman's home |
md how many more homes we don't |
know, but all purely private in>titu-
lions located at Leayenworth. One or |
two legislatures went so far Is 10 take |
The hard-earnCd money of the people |
to erect or help erect a building for |
>ne of these Leavcnworth institutions
Ia the name of icceIcy and all that is
air. what will Lcavenworth next ask
orr 1t would have been money
n the pockets of the tax PAYERS
o have coded the county and city 10
Missouri. If >he keeps on il would bc
,hcaper 10 fence her in and feed and
Hottie her entire population out of the
,eople's treasury. Fifty thousand
iollars more this winter. If George
!. Anthony, the champion of This COB
hould cone up with such bill he
would veto il before his attorney gem
raj could get half way up stairs. Pri-
ate a>ylumS upon every street. the
upon one side. the mill
airy establishment upon the other. all
Gstaiued by public moneys. and now
he state IS asked TO pay fifty thou
and dollars for another tcat for Leay-
nworth 10 suck.
The cid political bosses of the pocket
ave decrecd it, aud the men
rho misreprescnt rural Kansas
With alacrity has voted il. but if anv
nan who voted 10 take that amount
f money out of the state treasury
ot less than two thousand dollars of
which will come out of the people of
edgwick county, should ever be re-
urned to the legislature, or in any
lanuer be trusted by the people with
responsible position. we shall have
psi a part of our faith in the people
themselves.
HE SUPERIOR COURT BUSTED.
A private letter from Topeka says
hat the EAGLES items, of SUNDAY.