Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-29
For the Eagle.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

IN the coming year, year, year!
Is life so sweet or time SO dear
That some one is not to sacrifice to be
mayor?
Voices sweet, dear and loud,
Have named a promiscuous crowd
Healy and Allen, Corbet and Lee,
English and ''Nieder," and Buck" "the
busy bee."
In all this array, array array,
We smell an ARRAY. ARRAY. affray;
Canvass the matter and come to a conclu-
sion
That we may unite without confusion,
Melting in a mass of homogeneous fusion.
RAILROAD GATES.
There should be gates on First and
Second streets and man TO look after
them
CATTLE AND PASSENGERS.
How queer, how funny it is that we
have state law that makes a railroad
company absolutely liable for killing or
manning cattle, horses, sheep and swine,
and yet gives them years to pay for
passengers carcass. The hog or steer has
a chance to get out of che way, but pas
senger is fried, fricassed, roasted, boiled or
toasted, killed or MANNED and years roll
on, decades pass away, centuries intervene
before the litigation over the carcass of the
passenger is ended.
The writer hereof has often thought that
the care for the hog and steer and neglect
of the passenger was caused by the fact
that the legislature that passed the law
were farmers, who did not ride on rail-
roads, and were more interested in cattle
and hogs than passengers.
1t is suggested that some of our solons
get law passed that passengers, their
heirs, administrators, personal representa-
tives and assigns shall be paid in some
definite time t. be fixed-say five years
and that in default thereof they be entitled
to attorneys fees in addition to damages,
to be fixed by the jury, and that the amount
draw per cent. interest from date of in
jury, and also that no court shall grant to
exceed fifty continuances, and that unless
the judgment is paid in less than ten years
from its date then that the railroad shall
pay II per cent per annum on the same
from late This is but simple sugges-
ton, and looks fair on it's face. The time
for paying passenger injuries should be
shortened I'D, but the law as suggested
looks reasonably fair and just.
METROPOLITAN POLICE.
This has bad features, but there
is one good feature, viz:
that a police force appointed by some
non-elective body is better than a force
who are appointed by an officer who de-
ponds on the hoodlum vote for election.
There are but few men who are insensible
to the claims of friends and their allies
after an election. The law was enacted
through malicious motives and should be
repealed on that account alone; yet the
power of appointing police commissioners
should be taken away from any elective
Office and vested in a body who are
free from the demagogue the bum
mer. the hoodlum or his friends
And this body should be appointed
by the mayor and confirmed by the coun-
Gil, and should consist of three men, one
appointed for one, one for two and one for
three years. This would make them
practically Independent.
The present mayor | have confided in,
but there have been mayors in whom
had no confidence, and as time goes by
there may be others.
Therefore, it is our Judgment that the
appointing power should be taken away
from the mayor and vested in non
elective body of citizens. by an elective
body of citizens.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
AS prosecutor there is no attorney in
Kansas who is superior 10 Eugene Stanley,
and the office has been held by few men OF
his equal.
A NEW COURT.
New court, new judge, new jury. Where
is the court room that the court will occu-
py? This is worthy of consideration.
CONsTITUTIoNAL CONVENTION.
There ought to be one. The politicians
all favor it; the demagougues ell favor it,
the statesmen all favor it.
The prohibitionist opposes it. He sees a
speck, a cloud in the sky. Every political
moral coward in the state sees it. Bust
ness men are Indifferent. Conservative
element oppose any and all Change of
every kind. A new constitution viii give
the weathercock chance to play hot and
cold, and vote as the crowd does. He will
be as the vote is after announced. A new
constitution seems to be the only way to
resubmit the whisky amendment
There never was such a demand for a
constitutional convention in any age.
BY all means let us have the noise and
stink. the obloquy of bitterness, the
preacher and the hummer, the long hair
and the ''short hair element, the male
woman and the female man, once more in
our midst, and let the cauldron boil and
bubble.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
The EAGLE is not patriotic in this viz:
Every reference to Kansas City. Mo, should
have the word Missouri in capitals /
after the name of the city-every reference
to our own X, c. should be in capitals. 1t
1t is the duty to Kansas, and every man
with the EAGLE should be iu-
structed TO that effect
PUBLIC PARKS.
New York City, with over thirty parks. |
has voted to expend 81 900, 600 more to buy !
seven little patches of ground for park |
uses Is there not some food, some /
thought in this worthy consideration of (
our council? ANON. /
PIE bY HILL EUCHRE CLUB.