Wichita eagle., 1888-09-22

cratic side, towit: 167. and, therefore, 81
members in this caucus control the
Democratic party in the hou'e. In the
| present house of the Fiftieth congress
there are III Of these Democrat. who
are from states where slavery existed at
| the day the proclamation of Abraham
| Lincoln went into effect Every one of
| these one hundred and eleven was either
a Shareholder, a son of Shareholder,
| or sympathizer with the slave holder.
! What does that mean? What terrible
| significance does it have? Simply this:
| That each one Of these one hundred and
eleven at one time believed in slave labor
and was opposed to the free labor of
| America; believed that to earn your
bread by the sweat of your brow was de-
| grading: believed that all kinds of man
ual labor performed by the hands should
| be performed only by the hands that
were bound in slavery's chains. Is it
natural, therefore, for labor TO expect
any sympathy from such a source? 1t is
true that slavery has been abolished: that
human labor has been dignifed and up
| lifted: that the brand of "mud-sill''
placed upon the brow of the northern
laboring man has been washed out in
blood; but you cannot change the intrii-
tons, instincts and teachings of human
nature in the same generation. You
cannot naturally expect that the man
who has been your mortal enemy shall
have the same friendship for you that he
has who has always been your firm and
lasting friend. There has never been a
caucus of that party in the house out
that these former advocates of slave
labor and enemies of free labor con-
| trolled it by their votes. This very ele-
| ment in that party now has twenty-four
majority in the Democratic caucus
of the house. Yet, l hear some
adherents Of the Labor party
say: What has that to do with
me or with my organization" 1t has
nothing to do with it, l respond, unless
the leaders of the Labor party SO act as
| to give aid and comfort to these very
enemies of labor. But if
THERE ARE WOLVES IN SLEEPS CLOTHING
that have come from foreign states
into your own, and have professed
to be the friends of labor and the
friends of the farming population,
when they are nothing more than the
allies of slavery and the allies of free
trade, then l say to you, that you are
interested in the question. and that you
have something to do with it.
Against the candidate of the Labor
party in this district, personally, have
not word to say. He is citizen of
our grand state of Kansas; he is neigh
Dor of yours and of mine, and is in
terested, l hope, equally with us, in the
up-building of this glorious common
wealth. He has the right to aspire to
any official position within the gift of
the people of this state. [ submit his
claims, his qualifications, his motives,
and his prospects for success, to your
careful and CONSCIENTIOUS consideration;
but when man comes from another
state, man who has no interest in
Kansas, who has no feeling i'll common
with our people, who has known nothing
by experience of the hardships
and privatioIs of the settler upon
the western domain; who has not
heart throb in common with the priva-
lions of the laborlng man, who is the
landed aristOcrat, with bank account
running up into the thousands. whose
thousands of acres of land were trebled
in value, by the sacrifices, the priva-
tons. the hardships that you and | en-
dured IN the army; a man who rejoiced
when we We're defeated, and who
frowned when victory perched upon our
banner; who never furnished a dollar
willingly to help our cause or a word of
encouragement or symhathy to cheer us
upon our way; who was the ally of the
slave owner and the Democracy in those
dark days of the war; when such q man
invadeS our fair state-the child of the
war-a state made to bloom and blossom
by the hand Of labor, by the privations
of the settler, by the sacrifices and suf-
feringS of our citizens who have builded
her walls and adorned her ramparts;
when such man comes among the peo-
pie | represent and processes a friendship
which L know he does not feel, and a
sympathy which l believe he does not
possess, [ should be recreant to my duty
if | did not expose him and his articles,
HIS DECEPTIONs AND HIS FALSE PRE-
LENSES.
Who is this A. J. Streeter? He is
landed aristocrat of Mercer county,
Illinois. He owns there, in one body,
over twenty-five hundred acres of land.
which, prior to the late war was
not worth 10 so per acre, but which, by
the success Of the union cause-a cause
which he despised-becane worth $50
per acre, and in the year 1888 was APP
praised at the low appraised value, as is
testified to by his neighbors and friends,
of $40 per acre, and you all know that
lands are never appraised at anything
like their full value. This professed
friend. therefore, of the poor farmer and
laboring man, has landed possessions in
one county in Illinois to the amount Of
800, 900 at its appraised value. During
the last days of July or the first days of
August, about the time he was parading
through this state, he had in addition to
this a cash account in one bank. of
which he was a stakeholder. of five
thousand and upwards. In addition to
this he has 1900 acres of land in Mis-
souri, worth so per acre at very low
figure He is the man who professedly
assents to the doctrine that no man |
should have more than 1G0 acres of land, |
and yet, when asked to donate little |
strip of his lauded possessions for the |
purpose of making highway for the /
convenience of the neighborhood, it is |
said he absolutely refused, and the only |
way by which it could be obtained was |
by proceeding in CondemnA- !
ton under the laws Of the /
state. a man who EFFORTS 4
from his tenants the last farthing, and /
who deducts from the days Of his laborer |
every rainy hour, who never associates !
with the labering classes even though he /
may be their employer, nor visits them |
when sick. nor contributes TO them out /
of his pletboric purse when IN want. /
These are some OF the characteristics OF .
this aristocratic landlord Of Illinois, who I
comes TO Kansas for the purpose Of /.