Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-29
POLITICAL PiTH.

Dayton Journal: The old Wings are not so
numerous now, but there's enough Of them
to stimulate the boys
New York Press: For President, Mrs.
Cleyeland's face; for Vice President, Mr..
Thurman's handkerchief; platform, God
save the Queen.
Milwaukee Sentinel: One Of the most en-
barrassing facts of the present situation for
the opponents of the protective policy Is the
prosperity of the country.
San Francisco Post: The voters will have
no difficulty in deciding which party favors
Chinese exclusion. The interests of this
coast will be far safer in the hands Of Mr..
Harrison, who assisted in framing an ex-
clusion bill, than in the hands of Mr.. Cieve-
land, who killed it.
New York Press: 1.-THE object Of the war;"
wrote Cleveland to the Gettysburg cele-
brants, sis the attainment Of peace" The
Democrats can now claim that Mr.. Cleve-
land hungered and thirsted tor war in 1861,
and that this was the reason why he did not
go to the front to attain peace.
Boston Journal: Major Mckinley goes
back to Washington with higher place
than ever in the esteem of the Republican
masses. He is young man yet-he has not
turned forty-fve-and it would not be a bit
surprising If his party should some time
make up its mind to give him very dis
tinguished honor.
Philadelphia Press: We advise the Repub-
lican singing clubs of this campaign to go
back to a war song of twenty-five years ago
whose refrain fits the present situation like
glove. 1t runs:
Up with the stars and stripes; down with the
one:
Their flag is but rag; ours is the true one.
Boston Journal: Governor Foraker is IN
duly sensitive about the story that he was
not faithful to John Sherman at Chicago.
He has no call to defend himself against
such unsubstantial floating rumors, and
moreover they belong altogether to the past.
All that the country expects from Mir. For
aker is to do his share II rolling up an I'M
precedented Republican majority in Ohio
next November.
New York Sun: A tax is a curse. Chicago
Herald: Come, come, this will never do.
Taxes are government, schools, roads, po-
lice, navies, armies. If there were no taxes,
Chicago would still be savage prairie
without water-works, cable-cars and the
Herald Our great blessings and our joys
depend on taxes. This anarchstic senti-
ment of yours must be qualified and re-
nounced, Brother Scott. Just think awhile
before you denounce taxes.
California Post: The free traders may be
right in their arguments that their policy
Will bring more wealth into the world, but
great wealth concentrated in a few hands
to contrast with hopeless poverty IS not
pleasing spectacle. The protective policy
secures more equal division of wealth
than can be secured in any other way. 1t
looks to the welfare Of our own people be-
fore the rest of the world. The working
men will not vote to turn themselves or
their comrades out of employment. They
will not vote to expose themselves to the
competition of ill-pa'd foreigners, who work
for wages that would not keep al American
alive.
New Orleans Times Democrat: Mr.. Can
mons arguments were the same we have
heard for years. He started out with the
absolutely false statement that the produc-
ton of sugar in this country is decreasing
which has been made, time and again, in the
face of the full statistics which show the
very contrary. Equally false is the asser-
ton that the duty is the heaviest tax borne
by the people. In fact, the arguments of
Mr.. Cannon were the old false and worn
out stories that have been brought forward
this industry, and were so weak and de-
fective that the ablest Republicans in the
House came out in energetic opposition to
them.
New York Tribune: When the Chicago
platform declares that protection shall not
be abandoned at the dictation Of the whisky
trusts, it strikes at the combination of dis
tillers and "whisky kings who are max
ing great fortunes every year thu ough the
aid and protection of the internal revenue
system. 1t is for the interest of the whisky
trusts that the existing internal revenue
system shall be maintained, even if Ameri-
can industries languish or perish under
free trade. The Democratic party to-day is
in league with the whisky barons, who have
contributed systematically to the corruption
funds for defeating high license or prohibit
DRY legislation in the States and for carry
ing elections for the saloons. The Republic
an party aims at the heart of that corrupt
combination, while it defends American in
dustry and American labor against assault
from every quarter.