Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-16
REPUBLICANISM AND THE PRICE OF
WHEAT.
WICHITA, Kan, May 10,


TIC the Editor Of the Eagle.
''Forgiye them, for they know not
what they do" 1t is not necessary to
tell the readers of the EAGLE by whom
the words quoted were spoken IN Wich-
tia last Saturday, nor need surprise be
felt, that the divinest words ever spoken
should be used in mockery of the men
now battling for the protection of mil
lions of American laborers against the
purchased and insidious attack upon the
industries by which they earn their daily
bread, for we are told that Satan was
apt in quoting scripture.
As TO the correctness in the cOnnec-
ton with which it was used it may seem
to a Democrat who cannot see. beyond
the narrow confines of his own state to
be all right, for self has always been the
motto, individual prosperity their sole
aim, the needs and requirements of toll
ing millions of other states are to them
as naught; they have never advanced an
idea or advocated plan for the better
ment of the human race; when they can
not control they try to destroy, and such
has been their history from the begin
ming.
On the other hand, the Republicans are
not afraid to do right even though it
seems against their own interest, and as
usual find that good actions bring their
own reward. Today if Kansas could
should be obliged to dispose of her
,ofc tba no
small, wheat 81 cents in New York
against 10 cents in London, speak louder
to the Kansas farmer than the catch
word of political demag and
tells him that protection does protect the
farmer as well as the artizan, and that
the price of his products does not depend
upon the requirements of the foreign
markets. a glance at the market re-
ports will show, that for weeks grain
has not been exported, for better prices
can be obtained at home; as to the de-
moralizing effects of the attack upon the
revenue laws of this country, we need
not look very far to see that from the
moment the president transmitted his
message, of one idea, TO congress that
the industrial interests became paralyZed
ironworks closed, the wooden mills sus-
pended, the coke ovens grew cold, money
like snail withdrew from sight,
the building of railroads ceased, the in
vestment of money in real estate all over
the country became thing of the past,
and this not on account of the surplus,
for we had surplus in the treasury a
year before, when the country was pros
porous.
1t is because of their knowledge of
these facts, and of the deadly effect of
free trade upon the toiling millions that
the Republicans of Kansas are III favor of
protection TO American industries. 1t is
because they take a national view of the
question and not sectional one. 1t is
because Kansas sees in looking back over
long series of years OF trials and hard
ships such as no other state ever en-
dured that in the great manufacturing
centers she always found her true friends,
and not i'll the party that is now trying
to entice her into the selfish policy OF
free trade 1t is because Kansas looking
into the near future can see the smoke of
the factory mingling with that from her
farm houses, and can hear the busy hum
of the wheels of industry upon the banks
of every stream within her borders max
ing at home the goods she requires, and
in the future as in the past she will ex-
tend welcome hand to all who come,
and when to the weary toiler no more
can a good farm be offered she can in
vite him to employment in her numerous
manufacturing establishments, at good
wages, and supply him with the fruits of
the earth at profit to both.
This is the reason that Republicans
dread free trade and favor protection
and not because they know not what
the do. ID. p. NJ.