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Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
THE WHISKY TAX.

! Denver Republican.
| One of the grounds for abolishing the
whisky tax Is the fact that at present, in
| every prohibition state the national gov
| eminent aids and abets whisky dealers
in violating the law.
Whatever may be q mans views in re-
gard TO the wisdom of prohibitive legis-
| lation, he must admit that it is morally
speaking. wrong, although probably
constitutional, for the national govern
ment to issue licenses to liquor dealers
in states like Kansas and Iowa
where the liquor traffic is prohibited The
people Of Kansas have a right to pro-
hibit the traffic if they wish to. After
they have done this the granting of
liquor dealers license by the national
government is nothing more nor less
than the granting of a license to violate
a state law
If any man were to engage Ill the sale
of liquor without a United States IL
cense, the United States district attorney,
the marshal and the internal revenue
collector would all be after him. They
would rest neither by day nor by night
until they locked him up. No fugitive
slave was ever chased by bloodhounds
through southern swamp with more
fury than the officers OF the Federal gov
eminent exhibit IN chasing down a per-
son who may have yielded to the temp
tation to sell pint Of whisky without a
United States license.
But notwithstanding these feeders nj
the national CRIB think that the selling Of
LIQUOR without a United States license Is
so heinous a crime, the Federal govern
ment stands in with the men who wish
TO violate the lquor laws of Kansas and
Iowa. For the sake OF revenue il licenses
men to commit crime. Although the
officers OF the state may be trying their
utmost 10 put q stop to the liquor traffic.
the Federal government ignores the local
law and becomes an accessory before the
fact TO its violation.
This sort of hypocrisy the Democrats
wish 10 continue. They are opposed 10
the repeal OF the tax on whisky. Al
though the national government has a
greater revenue than It knows what 20
do with, these alleged Democratic re-
formers are in favor OF issuing liquor
licenses in Iowa They claim to believe
In state rights, but they are willing 20
raise a revenue for the national govern
n1ent by acting IN collision with men
who violate the law Of state.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
ANOTHER PARTY IN INTEREST.

We do not care to enter into discussion
with the Wichita EAGLE in regard to the
action of the Grant county officials III let
ting the printing to a Topeka firm instead
of the EAGLE, but would suggest that the
charge against Mr.. HoiSingtOn as made by
his old enemies at Appomattox is entirely
without foundation. Let the EAGLE place
the responsibility where it belongs, not
on Mr.. Hoisington, who, in looking after
his interests III Ulysses, did not only as
any prudent business man could do, secure
the best returns possible on his invest
ment. The intimation of the EAGLE that
Mr.. Hoisington commanded sufficient in
fluence to control Governor Martin and
effect the organization of the county in
his interest, while not true, Is nevertheless
quite complimentary to his ability and
business sagacity, traits especially COM
mendable in alieutenant governor.
Republican.
If you don't care to enter into a dis
cussion what do you do it for? We have
yet to learn that to influence John Mar
tin equals Immortality, but when the
EAGLE comes to talking about its own
business it presumably is as competent as
an outsider. for that job. The bids them
selves upon their face show whether
there was any swindling job or not. 1t
may be business sagacity to carry petit
ton to Governor Martin with the names
to be appointed in Mr.. HIS interest left
blank, and for Mr.. II. to fill; and it may
be business for Hoisington TO run Grant
county, Ulysses and Governor Martin;
and it may be business to exclude the
EAGLES representative from the COM
missioners' room and permit the presence
of Cranes agent and Mr.. H., while the
the bids We're being opened. and it may
be the business of the Republican to tell
us we don't know our own business when
it comes to jobs set up against us by
jobbers, but all the same we want it dis
tinctly understood by Mr.. Hoisington
and his friends that they can't tell us
anything about the Grant county swim
die
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14

An enthusiastic partisan admirer of
the noble Roman. Thurman, attempts TO
contrast him with the grand old German.
Bismarck. He says Bismarck is in the
seventy-fourth year of his age, but he is
neither as healthy nor as hearty as
Thurman; since his nomination at St.
Louis he has become gayer and more
youthful in spirit than he was before; he
is wiser man now than he was in any
past year. etc. This estimate is not very
complimentary To Mr.. Clevelands pre-
science and ability to judge men by
their life history and characteristics.
The president gave as a reason or excuse
for not appointing him 10 position In his
cabinet in 1885, that he was too old and
decrepid for the duties of such position.
The people are inclined to accept Mr.
Cleveland's estimate Of nearly four years
ago, and are encouraged in that inclina~
ton by the handana hero's semi-siIly
utterances since his nomination. The
old gentleman entertained the same
opinion OF his physical and mental con-
dition UP to a recent date, for only
little more than year ago he declined
position on the interstate commerce COM
mission, assigning as a reason that he
was too old and feeble.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
WHAT SHALL WE DO ABOUT 1T

! To the Editor of the EAGLE.
Has your attention been called to the
condition of the Arkansas river, the non
arrival Of the "June rise," the reason of
its absence, and what it portends?
If the tapping of the river above with
bitches for purposes of irrigation Is the
reason for the absence Of water here in
the abundance hitherto as certain as the
melting Of the snow in the mountains.
is it not time that the EAGLE sounded
immediate steps to challenge the right of
any body Of mon to rob US Of what Is in
fact the waters Of life for all the lower
valley?
The right Of those who occupy the
valley lands and the banks of streams to
the water that naturally belong and
flow therein needful for their uses
is as old and older than civiviliza-
ton. When as in the present case
they also have the right, by reason Of
antecedent use, the privilege of its con-
tinuous enjoyment, l believe. as we'll es-
tablished in usage, common law and well
settled decisions as anything in human
right.
And yet companies, one after another,
have been formed for the purpose of
withdrawing the waters of the great Ar
kansas river from their natural channel
to which they are never returned, until
now, when all the valley lands should be
feeling the benefit of our famous Sub
irrigation from the river bank-full with
the June rise, instead we have a measly
dry channel and vegetation-even trees
showing evident signs Of the absence of
the having waters which should be run
ming everywhere underneath. Is not
this a matter too serious to be allowed to
pass without notice?
There is such thing as slumbering on
our rights, until others who are allowed
to proceed unchallenged, acquire new
rights which they will claim from the
fact of our silence to be as solid as ours,
when if we had acted in due season no
question of our superior right could have
arisen. understand that bill is now
before congress looking to the formation
of dams at or near the headwaterS of
western rivers-among others the Ar
kansas-to store the waters from the
SHOWS of the mountains and let them out
for the purpose Of irrigating the nearer
and more arid lands now devoted to
grazing. We, here in the lower valleys,
are justified in claiming that even the
government has no right to destroy us in
order to make habitable less favored area
If the water is distracted from the chan
mel of the river above. it will grow up
with willows below. And if those who
build the dams and defect its waters
may do so unmolested, what is to hinder
their turning them on again at their
pleasure? If they do not so turn them,
accident in giving away Of dams some
times will, in which case. with the chan
mel filled and obstructed with vegetation
what must necessarily follow: What
but floods and devastation, a thing which
never has happened before.
Ought we not to put in the hands of
our representatives in congress our most
earnest circumstances against such pro-
posed action, and to place ourselves on
record so as to be in position to demand
there and in the courts all our reserved
rights. S. Z. JOCELYN.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
Oh, HO?

The London Times of July 6, COM
menting on Mr.. Cleveland's letter tc
Tammrny Hall, says:
1t wonld hardly be possible to put the
free trade case more clearly or more
strongly, and yet President Cleveland
shrinks from the use of the term free
trade and. in fact, declares that those
who taunt him with being a free trader
are deceiving the country. 4
1t is certain that the arguments which
President Cleveland urges are those
which Golden used to employ forty-tive
years ago and which any English free
trader would employ now. Such pro-
positions as that taxation ought to be
strictly limited by the needf of the coun-
try; that it is unjust to tax the whole
community for the benefit of special
classes. that import duties stihe produc-
ton add limit the area of a counsry's
markets, are pdrely free trade argu.
ments. As such we are very glad to see
President Cleveland using them.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
ENGLEWOOD ExCEPTS.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
1t may be chestnut to you to hear
from every section when it is recipient
of copious rainfall, but last year S
drouth filed all with so much doubt
that every rain is looked upon as GER
tainly the last. Yet this region has had
quite sufficient supply of rain. Last
night we were blessed with another fine
one, and in many cases quite suffi-
cheney to insure good corn crop. Our
farmers are very happy eating roasting
ears and shipping their extra beef cat
tie. Also Mr.. Collar shipped twelve car
loads yesterday, and quite rush in ship
ments will from now, including several
months, be the order of business.
Bush, Friend & Co. sold several lots
today for cash at good figures. Real es-
tate is demanding more attention.
A party from this place in pursuit of
thieves in the territory returned yester-
day. While gone one of their number,
Jack Smith, by accident, caught his gun
in the brush and shot himself, causing
his death in few hours.
Col. Perry has finished harvesting 40
acres of oats averaging, perhaps, fifty
bushels to the acre.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
THEIR OWN TESTIMONY.

General Dick Taylor, son of President
Taylor, and one of the most brilliant
Confederate leaders, said in his book on
the war that the first step which the
southern leaders took to bring about the
disruption of the union was to pass the
tariff act of 1857, which was designed
not only to cripple the treasury but to
PROSTATE the manufactures of the north
and thus put this section in condition
where 1t could not successfully prosecute
war to prevent secession. K..gontin-
ued General Taylor, in effect, the tariff
bill of 1S47 had been enacted ten years
before or the armed attempt to set up
the Confederacy had been delayed ten
wears, the north conld not have defeated
the south.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14

The expression Of opinion by ex-Gov-
ernor Click that the Republican candi-
date for governor will be elected this
year, doesn't necessarily imply a bolt, or
even indicate lack Of harmony in the
Democratic party. In that opinion we
presume he is in perfect accord with a
majority of his own party, certainly with
the universal conviction outside. The
expression of such conviction is no
doubt trifie aggravating to Boss Tom
linson, but it is not sufficiently provoca-
tive to warrant flourish of the dreaded
shelaleh that the aforesaid B. T. keeps
lying handy for use upon the obstreper-
n1IS
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
OH. THE CRANKIsM cRANKs.

The Meade Republican criticises the
EAGLES position on the search ana
seizure" craze, by saying, in effect, that
| such a law would IN no way interfere
| with the law-abiding citizen, nor with
any one who did not violate the law.
| That's a very weak argument, and
very -unsound position. When it was
fashionable. and legal, to hang people IN
England for any theft to the value of a
shilling, did that law in no way interfere
with the rights of the law-abiding: How
about the feelings, for instance, OF the
father and mother of the child executed
for pety-larceny? If there can be no
such thing as extreme laws, and ex-
IRENE punishments, let us at once, and
for all, do away with three
fourths the expense of civil gov
eminent, abiure constitutional and all
inalienable rights and suddenly, and for
good, reform all society, and put 1t
where there will be little or no violation
of law by simply enacting a single
crimes act, for whose entire list the pen
atty shall be instant death, in every case.
In such an event all there would be left
to do would be to set around and study
how not to get shot, and how to save
those dependant and who had not arrived
at the years of accountability, from the
same swift and sure fate. SO deserved by
all violators of law. If the good Lord,
who made, and who preserves us all,
should enact that kind of law, with
accompanying penalties, there wouldn't
be any editor of the Repub lican left on
this earth week hence, nor anybody
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14

The Democracy, with characteristic
modesty @, unblushingly assert that
that party, during the control of the
present administration, has restored to
the public domain millions of acres of
land wrongfully held by railroad corpor-
ations, and attempt to make some politi-
cal capital out of the assertion, while the
facts are that they are entitled to no
credit for what has been done
in that direction because moth
ing has been done but what
was provided for under the acts making
the grants, further than to cause the en-
forcement of the terms of such acts, and
in this Republican representatives and
senators have taken quite as CONSPICUOUS
part as the Democrats in those bodies,
both in speaking and voting for such
measures.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
AN IDENTITY.
Kansas City Kansas Dallv Graphic.

Kansas City (Kansas) Daily Graphic.
| We reproduce in our local columns an
article from the Wichita EAGLE. which
raises the question, can Kansas City,
/ Kansas. assert herself or maintain an
identity: This a very serious question,
and one which the Gazette will make an
effort to solve. Commercially speaking
all this place at the mouth of the kaw is
one great city, and we do not reproduce
the EAGLES article in any sense of ami
| mostly toward any portion of this won
derful gathering of people, wealth and
business But the article expresses the
disappointment if not bitterness which
exists out in the state of Kansas, over
the fact that the natural drift
Of their trade has built up a
city which is mainly in another
state. This throws quite responsibility
on that portion of the city on the Kansas
side Of the line-two fold in character
first to the great state from whence
comes all this prosperity, and second, to
the city in general of which we are but
a part. Can and viii the consolidated
city west of the line appreciate and rise
to the importance of this duty? The
principal portion Of the industries which
of Kansas. Here is located the second
greatest stock yard in the world, the
largest packing house in the world. with
seven or eight others almost equally as
large, turning out from SOC, 900, 900 to
S'O, 600, 900 annually of meat products,
and Kansas City, Mo-, gets credit for all
of 1t. We have the only city in Kansas
possessing cable street car line and an
o tAH nd No.. = IL. i
fighting for space by the inch at from
six thousand to twelve thousand dollars
per acre. The principal movement in
real estate and fine buildings is on this
side OF the line. But the great mass of
the people Of Kansas have no knowledge
that they have any such interests here
They are III a constant state of churlish-
ness because they think that all their
trade goes to build up Missouri town.
1t is to the interest of the mouth of the
Kaw that this side of the line can do
much toward cultlvating better feeling
toward Kansas City in general, and can
also do much toward the consolidated
city asserting itself. But the newspaper
cannot do it all. 1t cannot exist without
patronage. The EAGLE, from WHICH we
quote, contains twenty-one columns of
home advertising, the Topeka Capital
runs fifteen columns. An empty paper
IS dead give away to any town. 1t is
too late in the day to argue the benefits
of advertising. Men of smartness and
success advertise. If there are no direct
individual results to advertising,
bright, live and fresh lot of business ad
vertisementS attract attention to any
place, while paper full of plates -.
If the consolidated city of Kansas City,
Kansas, from Armourdale north, will
furnish the Gazette with about two pages
of fresh advertising every day-and there
are enough to do it without special cost,
we will give you something fresh, make
things howl and soon find out whether
Kansas City, Kansas, can have an iden-
tity.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14

The late severe attack that prostrates
Hon. Sam Randall, and from which his
recovery seems to be slow, takes him out
of the presidential campaign this year,
whether to his sorrow or satisfaction
certainly to the regret of his party. as it
had been calculated, up to the time he
was stricken down, that he would subor-
dinate his private convictions and render
S, m much needed assistance in localities
where it was supposed he could do the
most GOOD.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION

The Republican county convention for the pur-
pose Of nominating candidates for The following
once TO be Oiled by election this fall, to-wit;
Probate Judge.
County Attorney.
Clerk of the District Court.
Superintendent of Public instruction
State Senator and CoronerL
Will be held at the court house in the city of Wich
ia the 18th day Of August a. d. ISIS at II o'clock
There will asobe held at the same place a1d;imme
diately after the adjournment of the Republican
county convention, convention to nominate a can
didae for representative for the Eightyhrst repre-
seAtative district
SAere will also be held at the same place and i'm
sSeiately after the adjournment OF the Republican
county convention a convention to nominate can
didae Tor representative FOR the Eghty-second rep
resentative district and for the purpose of nomi-
mating candidate for the Office Of county commits
sioner for the second commissioner district
There viii also be held in the city OF Wichita or
the West side O'Clock p, M, the 24tn day OF
August a. ID. ISIS. a convention TO nominate "a can
iidae representative for the Eghty-third repre-
sentative district
said conventions are called by order of the Repub
lican county central committee. and the townships
and wards viii be entitled TO the following number
OF delegates and aifernates in said convention,
wit: one delegate n large for each township and
ward and one delegate for each twenty five
votes and major fraction thereof cast for
Timothy McCsrty in fan of $50. which APP
port toned among the several townships and wards
would entitle them to the following representation
which includes the delegate at large:
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
As evidence of the plentifulness O,

AS evidence of the plentifulness of
money In the country, particularly in
the east, we note circumstance of few
days ago that took place in Boston in
which company was formed and a
million dollars paid in to the capital
stock for the purpose of building air
ships, otherwise balloons. Peter Camp
bell is the inventor Of the device, by
which he claims that the air may be
navigated as safely and with as much
definiteness as the waters of the ocean.
Peters plans are no doubt as plausible as
are keely's for the wonderful motor,
which twenty-five years Of experiment.
ing has not brought to perfection, but
which has brought the inventive genius
unlimited financial support and encour-
agement. The chances are that Camp
bell will meet with equal success in
every particular as Keely, though it is
extremely doubtful if successful voy-
age is ever made in his air ships.
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14
KANSAS KOLLARY.
nway Springs is to have a business

Conway Springs is to have business
college.
a society belle at Atchison has the in
| appropriate name OF Zero.
The Leavenworth papers plume then
! feathers over a bran new hearse, wortl
$1,000.
Only $50 Fort Scott dogs have taken
out checks, and the police are preparing
to make the remainder pass in theirs.
The Randall Register remarks thai
corn has grown two feet since the nonn-
nation of the next president at Chicago
CLAY Center Times: There comes time
when Kansas people withdraw all obIec-
tons to mud, and that is in the month OF
June.
Cawker Journal: The stockmen Of thi:
county are buying up steers to feed.
Their confidence III the corn crop has pat
them to work.
Commercial travellers report that tho
corn crop from Atchison TO the west
line Of the state has never been equa'led
in its history.
Howard has not had circus for two
years, and the small boy has allowed his
ca,esthentics and geological studies % run
down shamefully.
Downs Times: What beautiful wealth
err we are having with rains regularly
twice week and the corn fairly Jump
ing toward the sky.
He is a queer specimen, the country
correspondent, with his profound logic.
l. T,L,.r1v4s.gz -+-f1 oil
tossed together in half column.
The announcement that the yelling
ton glee club Will attend the Republican
convention at Topeka, viii probably rem
der hotel accommodations more plentI-
full.
Brown County World: 81. Filling. a
respected citizen Of this county. aged 81
wears died Yesterday. he has been q
resident of Kansas since the territorial
days.
1t is with a sad smile Of increduIity
indeed, that the average Kansas editor
reads the item about the Colorado editor
using a $l2.000 gold brick rs a paper
weight.
The Leavenworth Times says it is en-
tirely safe 10 assume that nine out OF
every ten Kansas newspapers steal from
Alex Butts Kansas column IN the Kan
sas City Star.
The Atchison commission houses are
overcrowded now with early apples, ard
several thousand barrels are packed and
shipped every week. The apple crop IS
the best ever grown in that section
The Republican river one mile above
Concordia threatens 70 break through
the bank form a new channel. and leave
that towr two miles from the stream,
and render splendid bridge that now
spans il, va!ueless.
Fifteen years ago, says the Atckison
Globe. John J. Ingalls, was beaten for
councilman in his ward by Gdss r.
Buck, and il was generally said that he
coald never recover from the blow.
Look at him now.
Ths most important events OF TIE vgeel.
IN Leon were the efforts 70 establish q
creamery al that place and the appear
ance Of three nzidenly "Ayeshas nd
ing through the main stree: on horse
back and man fashion.
A Grnely county man. while cut hunt
ing lear WInorEa lazt week. found the
body Of fine looking. heavily built.
middle aged man n dug0sit with 51I-
lst hoie through ms brain lie u sssppos-
cd 70 have KILLED himself.
George Leescn. II Cuusmingsriiie, yes
teF9sv pleaded guilty IA The district
court 70 tz~o counts u tie information
charging him with violating TIE prohibi-
tory isw. De was fred $50 and sen
Wichita eagle., 1888-07-14

II there is no extra enthusiasm at
Leavenworth and Wyandotte over the
Democratic state ticket or platform" as
Is admitted by credible Democratic au-
thority, what must be the feeling in al
most every other locality and portion of
the state: The two places named are the
recognized Democratic strongholds. so
TO speak, of the state, and would natur-
ally be expected to make at least some
show OF enthusiasm. The campaign in
Kansas, both state and national, as far
as the Democracy are concerned. prom
ises TO be remarkable for its lfelessness
and lack interest.