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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
The Blair Educational Bill.

The Boston journal
The Blair bill has usually been dis
cussed as if it were a measure relating
solely to the south, but although it grew
out of consideration of the special burdens
of illiteracy in the southern states, it is
national in its application, and if it were
to become law all the states would de-
rive some advantage from its provisions.
1t has been criticised because it appor-
lions the aid which it is proposed to give
on the basis of the existing illiteracy, but
this is on the simple principle of suiting
the remedy to the disease. Proposing, as
the bill does, to supplement the work of
the local authorities, II seems proper that
it should give the most help where
there is greatest need. The bill does
not discourage local efforts in education,
as has been charged, for it pro-
vides that no state shall receive in any
one year from the national government
more than the sum expended out of its
own revenues in the preceding year for
the maintenance of the common schools.
No money is to be given TO any state
which has not provided by law system
of free common schools for all its chill
dren of school age. without distinction Of
race or color. The payment under the
bill extends over eight years, aggregat-
ing 81, 600 900. The sum appropriated
for the first year is 5000, 900. thu second
wear $4,000, 900. the third S15, 600, 600;
after that the appropriation diminishes by
s., 600, 900 each year until the last, when
it is s., 000. 600.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
FALLING OFF.

The total exports of breadstuffs for
the month of January was valued at
IS, 122,277, falling off Of more than
So, 400, 900 as compared with January,
1887. For the seven months ending Jan
airy 81 the total value was ISL, $50, 1j4 as
compared with 500, DOB for the seven
months of the preceding fiscal year. The
total exports of the hog products for the
three months ending January 81 was
$50, GA, 420, a falling off IF nearly three
million dollars, while of dairy products
there was an increased expectation Of
nearly two million dollars, the total
amount being S9,S3S,7 During the
month of January alone the exports OF
beef, hog and dairy products was
$6,S26, 1856. loss of 81 ,300,0 GOO in COM
parison with January, 1887.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
THE TARIFF NOT A TAX.

No greater error can possibly exist
than that which assumes that duty
raised on imported merchandise consti-
tuteS a tax on the people OF the country.
The proper designation is that of a re-
striction on the admission to our mar
kets of the products whose makers or
owners have no share in the support or
direction of our government. The pro-
ducers of this merchandise are members
of another commonwealth, and give
their support to the government to
which they owe allegiance. This is the
duty of every citizen to the government
that protects him, and no man or body
Of men can have any claim to the privi-
lege Of citizenship here without becom-
ing citizen in fact.
1t is a fallacy above all other fallacies
to claim the right of free entry into our
territory. to sell here without payment
for the privilege and to carry off from us
great sums of money paid to these aliens
for such merchandise as they may choose
to bring here. This government would
fail to discharge the first and primary
duty growing out of Its simple exist
ence if it admitted aliens to its territory
and its markets on conditions more IA
vorable than those granted to its own
loyal citizens. Philadelphia Call.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
DANA ON DEMOCRACY.

Chas. A. Dana has been summoning
up the democratic situation as a demo-
crat and he fails to find anything very
insuring. The party seems stuck: to go
forward is death to go back is destruc
ton. The democratic party cannot lose
either New York, Connecticut or New
Jersey and win; and with a free trade
candidate it will lose them all. If Cleve-
land is discarded the 'mugwump is alien
ated and the masses of the party, who
have been taught to believe Cleveland
the inevitable candidate, will be greatly
demoralized. Dana says that from Tues
day. June 5, the date of the meeting Of
the democratic national convention at
st. Louis, until Tuesday, Novem-
Der 6, the date of the presi-
dental election, is twenty-five
weeks. There will be long campaign
A canvass of twenty-five weeks is long
enough, and more than long enough, to
make sure the election of candidate of
the united Democracy on a platform
that Will carry New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut. TWENTY-FIVE weeks,
LloieoFel. VIII Nc loHo cliouSH W MAKE
sure the defeat of free trade candidate,
standing upon a free trade platform,
and depending upon free trade support
in New York, New Jersey and Connect
cut. In fact, twenty-five hours would
answer the purpose quite well. If GER
tain gentlemen within the Democratic
PARTY who are ambitious to try the ex-
pertinent, doubt the truth of this propo-
sition, let them apply for information to
the Hancock canvass in 1880. This is
cold truth, and it is very properly ten
dered before the bad weather sets in.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
EVER LAUNDERING.

Chairman Mills of Texas, did not make
a great hit in his advocacy of free trade
at Providence last Saturday. As an il
lustration of the benefits of free trade he
spoke of seamless stockings. 1t could
do no harm, he said, to import these be-
cause they are made by a secret process
and the foreigners will not allow anyone
to witness the manufacture. To this
statement Lowell man replies that the
machines for knitting seamless goods are
a Lowell invention, and all such goods
made abroad are made on American na-
chimes. Moreover 80 per cent. Of all the
seamless goods worn in this country are
manufactured here. Mr.. Mills did not
make much of hit, but possibly he
learned something.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
CASSICS M. CLAY.

That old time Republican of Kentucky
whose voice in times past was raised for
the Republican party when it cost some
thing to be a Republican, Cassius NJ.
Clay has written letter to a friend on
the political situation Of the times. which
we give below.
WHITEHALL, KY. Feb. 1S.-My Dear
Friend: Yours of the 14th instant was
received yesterday. In continuance of
our correspondence-even crowd upon
us which bring not only surprise. but
anxious thought. The most brilliant
and representative leader Of the Repub-
lican party declines the nomination for
the presidency, Whether his motives
are political or personal it is not for us TO
inquire-and without further light we
are left only to speculation.
| have sometimes felt that Blaine
could carry New York while no other
Republican could. In this | NAV be
mistaken-but one thing is sure. no ag
gressive rival OF Blaine can carry New
York or the nation. All history proves
that the passions of men are stronger
than their Juk Sments; and this our partv
must. now the field is clear for decision.
MOI iOtStt. dSIeS W III bu llldl ltUDSFI
I. Lincoln is the man to win. He has
no rivalries and no enemies. If any man
beside Blaine can carry New York. Lin
coin is that man; and more. he is the
only Republican who can carry a south
ern state. So that without New
York even he could be elected
l have for many years been of this
opinion. | believe in the breed of men
as well as dogs: and Bob Lincold is good
stock on both sides of the house. as all
of us know. am for him because he is
the son of his father-not that he is as
great as the immortal Lincoln-a cen
fury Of time Is needed for the generation
Of such another. But ne has lived long
enough 10 prove his own right to the
love OF all men who believe that noble
sentiments as well as principles are the
sure foundation of a living party. Yes.
! agree with you-Lincoln can be elected.
Your lifelong friend
CASSICs NARcEuvStCLay,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

Chauncey Depew said or our chief
magistrate, in his speech on Washing
tons birthday: The present executive is
an officer highly esteemed for singular
honesty and directness OF purpose, and
remarkable for inexperience IN the du-
ties of the government and for ignorance
of the great issues before the country.
This reminds rs of the eulogistic notice
we once read on local political speaker
In Illinois. Mr.. kretsinger is the worst
casS on a speech we ever had the dis
gushing pleasure OF listening 70. New
ton Republican
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

The leading Democratic paper of
Kansas under couple of clasped hands
at the head of its columns, places the
names of Hill and Randall for president
and vice president. Mr.. Randall is for a
high protective tariff and Hill has no
views on the subject. Both men are
from adjoining states which have
domineered the politics of this country
too long. What is there in this ticket to
recommend it to Kansas people:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

The Evening Dispatch, of Arkansas
City, enters its protest against the people
of that city for regarding the rite of
baptism as merely a performance given
for entertainment. That paper does not
say whether they cheer the performance
or not, but does not hesitate to say that
the tumultuous noise at the Baptist
church should not be allowed during the
administration of baptism.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

1859 by cutting off the western third OF
the territory given her by the organic
act. Her original boundaries extended
to the crest of the Rockies and included
the present cities Of Denver, Pueblo,
Leadville, Colorado Springs, Canyon,
Greedy and Trinidad and many more. 1t
was then a months journey at least
from Topeka to Denver. Now there are
three railroads by either of which the
trip is made in twenty-four hours. Gar
den CITY Sentinel.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

The substance of the latest officia!
utterance from st. Petersburg is, that
Russia wishes little Bulgaria well and
doesn't harbor any designs against her
liberties, but that young Prince Ferdi-
nand must get out, and that the sooner
he does so the better for all concerned.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

band. at least some fellow signing his
name as ID. T. Livermore writes a letter
blowing up Ingalls, in Mary's behalf.
Guess ID. T. don't amount to much; if he
does, he is the first man with that style
of female genius that ever did amount
to a row of beans.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

ga genial active fellow-a sort of Kan
sas sugar plumb, on the new centrifugal
process" is the way Bill Nye described
our junior Senator to Topeka Capital
reporter,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

An exchange has recalled tho fact that
the month of February, 1866, was the
most remarkable in the worlds history,
inasmuch as it had no full moon; the
only time this has happened since crea-
ton, and according to astronomers, it
will not occur again for $780, 900 years.
All right, now let us keep a lookout and
see if it does come around at the time in
dictated,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

A Missouri congressman wants Okla
homa opened to increase the trade Of
Kansas City. Wichita will take care of
the trade of that sunny land, land the Re
publican party will take careof the SEN
ators and congressman and electoral vote
when it becomes a state.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

1t is no longer denied, by even the Pa.
cific coast papers, that smallpox is COM
uniting terrible ravages in California,
and that the death rate additional from
typhoid fever is alarming.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Sound Advice.

Clifton Review.
We repeat that those fellows who are
thinking of leaving Kansas will miss it
if they go. Nearly every one SO far who
has gone, inside of six months has
wished himself back. We think Kansas
has drawbacks, but other states have
more drawbacks than Kansas. Better
stay where the sunfowers grow big and
hloop,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

Sam Jones has undertaken TO close the
saloons in Kansas City on Sunday. lhis
is clear case of a man biting off more
than he can "chaw.'
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

The Wichita EAGLE is DESTROYS of hay
ing an attractive, if not beautiful new
Jail. Attractive to whom?-Champion.
Attractive to the men not for whom it
must be built, but to the men who must
build IT.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

THE Wichita EAGLE latest presidential
ticket is: For president r. b. Hayes; for
vice president, John 2. st. John. The
EAGLE does not seem to be aware of the
fact that it is an exceedingly bad form to
joke about people who are dead.-kansas
City Star.
How would Doctor Burchard and w.
Pitt Kellogg strike you, then:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

What the people of Kansas want is
good all around candidate for governor.
A man is not necessarily a statesman be-
cause he is a rabid prohibitionist.-kins-
lev Mercury
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

For president, Robert t. Lincoln Of
Illinois; for vice-president, Chauncy NJ.
DePew of New York. Platform patriots
before party bosses.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

Despite everything, even the threat to
open the Indian territory, the prospects
of southwest Kansas were never SO flat
tering for prosperous year.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

Up to the beginning of the year 1887
Wichita CLAIM to being the first city IN
the state in population and wealth was
contested by two or three Of the bright
and t1ouIishing cities of the state. Now,
however, the distinction is conceded by
all and the concession embraces every
thing that goes to make up a metropolis:
enterprise, prosperity, wealth. But this
proud position, while gratifying, is not
satisfying. We cannot afford, and do
not, think to rest on our laurels and trust
20 our prestige for the future. There are
grander achievements ahead of us than
those we have attained to that call for
the continued exercise of the same spirit
of energy and concert of action on the
part of our people that has wrought out
what we now realize and enjoy. This
may be depended upon in every contin-
gency. And outside confidence in Wich-
ita's solidity and future development will
attract, is attracting. every day flow of
solid capital hither to be employed in
building up each year more solid and
more substantial city, the fame of whose
enterprise and beauty extends to all
corners of the world.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

by breaking entirely with the proprietors.
1t is system like that. not the system
of equal rights, that puts premium
on vice. In countries where
women have most freedom and
most education they are generally
" most yirtuous. Give woman legl-
innate means of influencing politics, and
she is the less likely to have recourse to
an illegitimate one.
In closing her article, Mrs. Corbln says
that there are other weightier argu-
ments against woman suffrage than
those she has mentioned. They should
be weightier ones, indeed, to justify the
denial of suffrage. As Mary Stuars said
when her rebel barons offered to pledge
their word and honor for her safety,
These are too slight and unsolid; add at
least handful of thistle down to give
them weight in the balance! A. 5. b.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

Pratt County Times: The Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy people and the
Rock Island have placed orders for more
of the Burton cars than they can possibly
fill this year. The company will have
to double the size of its plant and will,
before July, have 1000 men at work.
Wichita drew the capital prize in Secur-
ing the location of that company.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
aailg r eagle
MARSHALL N. MURDOCH, EDITOR.

George III. Corliss, the inventor OF the
great engine named for him, is dead.
He died at his home in Providence last
week.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

Senator Plat has introduced bill to
establish national grass and forage
farm for the purpose of experimenting
in that line of agriculture. We quite
agree with the Atchison Champion in
the observation that such an undertaking
is an unnecessary piece of business, so
long as Kansas with her millions of fer
tile acres is annually determining by
practical experiments carried on ny her
million farmers. the relative value Of dif-
ferent kinds of grass and forage.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

There is a good deal of quiet indigna-
ton in Washington over little social
matter. Mrs. Grant recently visited
Washington, and while there visited the
mistress of the white house. The visit
undoubtedly was a painful one, for it
must have revived many painful MEM
cries. 1t was paid, no doubt, by the
wife of the dead soldier and president
under sense of what is due to the of
fetal position of the mistress of the
white house, rather than from any desire
to cultivate her acquaintance. Naturally,
too, it would be expected that Mrs.
Cleveland would have been quick to
recognize this graceful courtesy by re-
returning the call. But she did no such
thing. She failed even in the common
courtesy of leaving her card for the wife
of the illustrious soldier and president.
Neither the president nor his wife ac-
knowledged, in any way, the presence Of
Mrs. Grant in the city.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

Editor Tomlinson, of the Kansas Dem
ocrat, is a good loyal Democrat and
thinks the country has been greatly ben
Gifted by a Democratic administration.
That great and good man, however, re-
Gently visited Washington and dis
covered that five hundred Kansas Re-
publicans still hold down positions in
the departments at Washington, while
there is only one Democrat. and now he
is all broken up. Bro. Tomlinson,s DEM
ocratic friends in Kansas consider him a
great liar,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

the country began to straighten out their
spinal columns in way that really led
the people to hope that for this once the
Democratic party would prove equal to
the occasion. But what are the results:
Three months of the present session of
congress have passed and the clustering
Democracy are only now coming down
and showing disposition to calmly talk
over the situation. The buster and
bracadocio of last December is about
subsidized. Like the clustering black
guard who goes away up the road and
hangs his coat on the fence, and makes
a vicious demonstration in front of some
imaginary enemy, but when the enemy
appears thrusts his hands into his peck
cts and commences calmly to talk the
matter over, the Democratic party now
seems inclined to do likewise. This is
the only new feature in the situation
that gives us any hope that the present
congress will be able to reduce the sur
plus.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

1t is said the Wichita Eagle and Kansas
City Times are subsidized by the Oklaho-
ma boomers. If true, subsidized organs
are for once championing the cause ot the
people and right.-kingman News.
The glibness with which YOU state
your premises and draw your conclu-
sions screens the bad and swamps the
good alike. Leaving out of the question
the ability of the boomers to subsidize
anybody and overlooking the fact that
yours is the first instance in which this
paper was ever charged with being inhu-
enced by money or the promise of it. we
desire to enter our protest to being yoked
up with Democratic paper, especially
with Missouri Democratic paper.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
BLACK eros .-GRAINS!

pieces black REGATTA eros Grain Wew sell this
SO sold
than % We sell four PIECES lie any merchant would
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1885, cashmere sublime at ILL.,
2 THIS is an UNUSUAL chance to purchase black SIX cheap $50
yards black 81
Satin extra heavy at 46 cents cheap at Is cents One lot Satin
Rhadame fine and heavy So price
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29
A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER FROM
JOHN j. INGALLS,.

The following characteristic letter from
Hon. John j. ingalls,, sizing up Henry
George and st. John. was received a few
days ago, by c. C. Lynch, of this county:
WASHINGTON, d. c.
Feb. 16. 1888.
DEAR Mr.. LYNCH: George is an anti
monopolist for revenue only. He be-
longs to the anti-poverty society as st.
John belonged to the prohibitionists in
order to get something to sell. They
are both less respectable than Judas Is
CARROT, because after having got their
silver, they have not committed suicide.
Your Friend. JOHN j. INGALLS,.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-29

800 wegt at 90 cents regular This
have this grade It IS bargain 275 yards utrous black
175 24s yards black Peaiser at l6 cheap LOO viii be
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-13
DISCUSSION OF MINISTER'S.
The Presbyterians Speak on Revivals, and
Methodists on Family Worship.

At the Presby terrain ministers meeting yester
day Rev. G. G. Mitchell read paper. entitled
Work in Churches Preparatory to Revivals!n
The first essential. be declared, was that the
pastor should be thoroughly awakened. Then
he must not expect results too soon, become
discouraged. if they did not Immediately mani
fest themselves. The paper was dis
cussed at length DR.. Edison declared
that the idea SO often expressed
that church should be expected to maintain a
state of spiritual exhiaration" all the time was
a mistake In ali nature there were periods of
rest well as of activity, and SO there were
times when the steady preaching of the gospel
and the teaching of it in the Sunday-school was
all that could be done. There might be long
periods with apparently little result, but it was
a time of sowing, and the harvest was sure to
come. Another speaker called attention TO the
historical fact that there was a strange regu-
larity in the recurrence of periods of great re-
vivals.
At the Methodist mestirg, rev. w. r. Jordan
read paper on Family Worship" He said
that while the Bible did not specifically direct
this practice. it taught it by example in many
places. as in the history of Abraham and the
patriarchs. The great value of family worship
was that it impressed the children at that period
when they easily influenced After
some discussion the paper. the question of
administering sacrament to infants arose. Rev.
Mr.. Tincher and DR.. Tevis declared they never
found children too young TO receive it.