Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-19

| with our immense acreage OF the pubic
! domain unoctupied and unimproved, Il
is folly to talk of free trade. When we
have reached a population of four Oh
| five hundred millions free trade may dc
no harm. / am with Mr.. Randall III
this fight. Like all men who conceive
| themselves men of destiny Cleveland
| thinks he can run counter to the geniu;
of the age in which he lives, but in thi:
case the fatal step is taken. | think the
Republican ticket will be elected
The Abilene Gazette has resolved itself
into sort of "dissolving views" insti
tuition of late No less than four com
binations have controlled it in SO many
months. The last change leaves it in the
hands of Park Warren and Henry Lifts
Rohrer is very artful manipulation OIL
Democratic journalists.
Now the true inwardnesS of the pro
lection given by the Mills bill to Million
aire Scott is apparent. Scott is made
chairman of the campaign committee
and agrees to give $1,OOO,0OO to elect
Cleveland. The 70 cents tariff which the
people pay Mr.. Scott on each ton of Goa
will soon make it up. This will come
principally from poor men.
While General Harrison continues to
make speeches that challenge the admi-
ration of the country, Grover Cleve
land continues to veto pension bills and
tries to convince the publict that he didn't
mean what he said in his memorable
message. The attitude of the former is
significant of victory, that of the latter
of defeat
Editor Murdoch, of Wichita, has again
broken out against the woman suffragists.
Kansas City Times.
There is no trouble about getting along
with our home crowd, they being de-
lightful coterie of aspiring ladies, but il
was threatened Iowa importation of
one Matilda Fletcher, Of whose age and
antecedents we know nothing, which SUI
perinduced the break.
Millionaire Scott gives cool million to
elect Cleveland. Now how much will
the British manufacturers give! 1t was
proven that they gave $4,000 in 1910 to
beat the hero of Tippecanoe. How
much will they give to help the free
traders this time! They are much richer
now. Mills and Scott ought to make
them come down to the tune of about
$5,000,00
Democrats say that the Mills bill is
not a free trade measure. For the south
it is not. 1t protects rice, sugar, cotton,
southern fruits, and Millionaire Scott S
coal mines. In the north it proposes
free trade for wool, fruit, vegetables,
grain, lumber, salt, fish, and many of the
minerals. No, it is not free trade ele-
ment for the south, but Oregon has given
very decided opinion about what it is
in the north.
Alex Butts. the kansas Notes. man
of the Kansas City Star, with all his
witicisms at the expense Of this state,
rarely ever makes a mistake IN the state
ment of fact in relation thereto For
instance he makes The brief resume of
the situation and outcome of the state
canvass: please remember that there
is difference between John A. Martin
and John Martin. The one is governor
of Kansas and the other never will be-"
AS ''women are better than men why
not treat them as well, asks Mrs Stephen
st. CLAIR. Has our dear friend lived long
enough in this world to get married and
to become a mother and not know that
as rule the men who are opposed to
female suffrage, place a greater estimate
upon womanhood, that they more highly
respect and deeply love women as
class than the cold male theoretical
cranks who effect long hair and advocate
female suffrage?
Wichita has abundant reasons for
being thankful over the bounteous rains
which have lately fallen throughout the
territory more Immediately tributary, as
good crops make good trade, and good
trade means good times. The yield of
wheat, oats barley, mlllet, and other
hay-grasses, have been indisputably
large, and all kinds of live stock are
healthy and promising. These facts
reinforced by a big corn crop, and there
can be no doubt of satisfactory results.
From developments reported from
Chicago, in yesterdays dispatches it
would apDear that the National Army of
Rescue would have good big job on its
hands at iberating dynamiter5. The
new crusade inaugurated against the
bomb brigade in that city by Inspector
Bontield will be prosecuted with the
vigor and persistence that characterized
his course in the Haynarhet incident, to
whom was largely due the successful
issue of that prosecution. There were
some good people who honestly believed