Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-04
WORD ABOUT OUR POLITICAL SIT
UATION.

Once more in the circles of our polit-
ical history there has come a time when
political foresight and craftsmanship
must be brought forward and brought to
bear upon our political policies and the
governmental fabric of the times.
The next half decade will. mark
another very pronounced and prominent
epoch in the political history of our
country, and will show how able or de-
ficient the chief executive representa-
tives and senators are to cope with great
and vital questions which naturally
arise in country governed by its own
people. The result wi largely depend
on whether an earnest desire for the
comfort, prosperity and well-being of
the people is considered or whether par
/ tisan prejudice will be allowed to reign
paramount.
In this day of peace and prosperity in
America an unbiased feeling and desire
for the building up and protection of the
homes and firesideS sof our own people,
/ should permeate the heart of every
American. and this can only be
/ done by fostering and MAIN
/ tanning the same principles of
protection to American industries which
/ secured our present prosperity.
! In order 10 perpetuate our peaceable
relations with each other we must so
| legislate as to conciliate. alleviate, and
not impose ignominy, suffering and sor-
/ row on our citizens. Our aim should be
! the development of our national re-.
/ sources, the building up of our national
greatness, industries and manufactures.
and thus defend and maintain the ma
tons honor and the dignity and nobility
Of labor
America stands today the grandest.
most honOred and most wonderful gov
eminent the world ever knew. 1t was
once said of Rome as she sat on her
seven hills in her most palmy days and
ruled the world. ITO be Roman is
greater than to be a king" but we say
today: To be an American is greater
than to be a Roman or king.
Let us hold and maintain our vantage
ground. Let us begin by placing in
nomination and electing one of the most,
if not the most distinguished scholar,
political historian, statesman and parlia-
mentarian the nation ever produced.
who indeed might be nameless and still
recognized by the above, so well fitted is
the man to the age, with
ont designating him as the
''Plumed Knight the man from Maine.
James G. Blaine. Had Mr.. Blaine oc-
cupied the presidential chair at this time
there would not have been imposed upon
congress and the United States mes
sage whose narrowness is apparent to
every unbiased mind.
There would have been strong and
able state paper issued, instead of the
most feeble message that has been writ
ten for fifty years. 1t has been Gus
tomary in the past for presidents to dis
cuss the various political policies and
questions Of vital interest to the country. /
showing its general condition and peace |
able or hostile relations to other nations,
and recommend to congress such meas
ures and methods as he may deem ex-
pedient and necessary. In Mr.. Cleve-
land message we find no discussion OF
the navy, coast defenses, postal depart
ment. internal Improvement, condition
Of American labor or the educational /
interests of the country. He was not
even courteous to foreign nations, not
even a well wish or Il send YOU /
greeting" The only foreign demonstra-
ton comes of late in his paving !
homage to popery, the head of
priest-ridden oppression. 1t would /
he about as appropriate to send the /
Koran to T. Dewitt Talmage and about
as nearly in accordance with his policies /
and teachings.
Bids may be either sealed or open but /
it lily becomes the president Of the .
United States to send bid to Catholic /
ism through the pope for American .
votes. In truth the presidents message /
taken as a whole would make a fair .
average Democratic harrangue delivered /
on country stump. In it we find the
same sophistries and incongruities that
have ever marked Democratic policies
on the subject of the tariff.
We first find him unadvisadiy sound
INK the tocsin of alarm and foreshadow-
ing wide spread disaster where there is
no immediate danger, and where little
wise and timely legislation will remove
every shadow OF danger from our
financial and monetary system. Instead
increases that would immed-
y.
he with worthless and vandal hands
strikes directly at the foundation of our
national prosperity.
He suggests the reduction of the tariff
instead of internal revenue as a means of
the people from the burden of
taxation, burden which they
DO not feel as they are fur
nished the means TO bear the
so-cailed burden. Every man. woman
and child that labors. whether a pro-
Queer or not. received the same benefit
from the effects of the tariff. just in pro-
portion to the amount they have to sell.
They sell their labor on a high general
market. y market made high by the
general influence of tariff laws. Under
free trade the same laborers could not
perhaps one-haif the price for
their labor as they can under protection.
Aence. ii they do have to pay higher for
tie things they consume under protec-
ton. they have the means to do it with
furnished by protection.
The difference of 4 man working for
TWO dollars and fifty cents per day and
paying two dollars for an article or
whether he works for one dollar and
twenty-five cents per day and pays one
iCllar for the same article. lies in the (
act that the condition of affairs that
the payment of two dollars and ]
ifty cents per day, maintains the dignity
If labor. thus making our country the
most desirable for laborers cf any coun- ,
ry on the globe. Keeping American la {
'or far above the pauper labor of Eu- :
ppe. j
Besides free trade or any considerable 4;
'eduCtion in the tariff would break I