Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-20

liar notions. He Is firmly convinced that
the Creator intended the area lying within
the boundaries Of Uncle Sam for farm
and nothing else-that all Yankees should
be farmers, all married American women
| farmers wives. every urchin farmers
boy and every girl a farmers daughter.
The idea that Yankees should follow any
other occupation he regards as prcposter-
GUS In fact, Yankees, u his opinion, COM
nit the greatest Of sins, if they dare to do
any thing but till the soil. He admits that
some cheap salt is produced in this country,
but that is wrong; salt should be imported.
He admits that we have some coal, some
iron and copper and gold and silver and
every other metal to be found in the bowels
of Gods earth; but he believes that it is
wrong to touch them. Every thing of the
kind should be imported. He admits that
under this cursed system of protection
American industries have grown 70 be the
most important in the world. But that IS
| just what makes his liver assume all the
coloFs of the rainbow and finally creep up
through his throat. Nothing should be
manufactured here. The busy hustle Of
factory or shop scares the free trade crank
out Of his wits. He will never be happy
until the broad American land from ocean
to ocean is populated by oxen drawing
plowS with farmers behind them.
The free trade crank believes that there
is but one country in the world which knows
how TO think and work, viz: England; but
one country which has a natural right TO
establish manufactures, viz: England. In
his Judgment the highest honor Of an Amer
lean citizen is TO buy goods from England
and not to know how to make toothplcls
himself. Honey was wanted for the pur-
pose Of being sent TO England. All the raw
materials of the world was made for the
use Of English factories. What John Bull
viii not make the United States can not
make, and what John Bull makes Americans
were made to buy as long as they had any
thing to buy with.
1t naturally follows that there is nothing
in the country the free trade crank hates SO
much as high wages to laboring men. The
very sight of a well paid and independent
American worhing-man makes him turn
yellow from envy and rage. That is not
English you know. In England every
seventh person is a pauper supported by
/ the community. That is the ideal state Of
affairs. That is what he wants in this coun-
try.
Consequently he pours into the ears OF
/ the wOrkingman this glorious truth that he
can live like prince in idienesS and luxury,
/ If England were permitted to make every
thing for him. Could any thing be more
plain, convincing and tempting If the SOW
/ ereign American citizen becomes tired
of his idleness and empty stomach, why
/ don't he hire out as farmers hand or d
cowboys
The free trade crank believes that Amer
lean factories are bane and curse; that to
work for the prosperity and progress Of
this country is crime; that American
! patriotism is nothing but disguised disloy
atty TO England. He will not be satisfied
until Uncle Sam will have to beg his pennies
from John Bull, and this country is so
abundantly blessed with weak kneedness,
want of back, lacerated manhood, imported
/ economical heresies and soft Brains that
the free trade crank has the most brilliant
/ prospects Of being able to rule every thing
/ to suit himself and the paupers Of Europe.
The Plain Issue.
/ The Democratic conventions Of Wiscon-
! sin, Iowa and Nebraska have resolved in
! approval of Mr. Cleveland's denuncation
of the protective system as 1.-THE unjust,
/ illogical and iniquitous source of rcvonue.n
This is strange, for had there been a pro-
tective system there would have been no
prosperous State Of Nebraska, and not
much prosperity in Wisconsin or Iowa.
The influx of population to these great
Safes has, says the Chicago Inter Ocean,
been in great part consequent upon the de-
veloplnent Of railways, nd had there been
10 such development of commerce as pro-
lection has fostered there would have been
no such development of railways as the last
quarter century has witnessed. Moreover,
had there been no such wonderful, almost
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and industrial centers as the last quarter
century has witnessed, there would have
been no home market to consume nine
tenths of all that the farmers of these
States produce.
And, furthermore, had there been no such
homo market TO give certainty of profit to
farming pursuits there would have been no
millions CT capital to loan to men who wished
to buy or improve Western farms. Capital
is not now seeking investment in farm loans
in the Southern States which reject the
facilities for creation of home markets
which the protective system offers to them.
Alabama and Virginia and Georgia Dem
ocrats arc not resolving against the tariff
system, as their brethren of Iowa, Nebras-
ka and Wisconsin are; they are growing
wise By experience, and are inviting those
facilities for securing farm loans which
their Western political brethren are reject
ing. They are indorsing Cleveland, because
their hatred to Republicanism is not yet ex-
tinguished, but they are not indorsing
Cleveland message. Nor are they likely
to send representatives to the next Con-
gress who will vote for killing the tariff
goose that lays the golden egg.
Who VIII Got Them?
The number of delegates to the Repub-
hcan National convention will stand thus
From each Congressional district of a State,
2; from each State at large, /. and from
each Territory as well as from the District
OF Columbia, 3 This viii make the number
as follows:
District delegates. ........65o
State delegates-at-large. Is:
Territorial delegates IS
iOI3i.-- - - -.-...S<Z
Necessary TO choice, 4l2.
In a Republican convention q majority
vote nominates, while a two-thirds vote is
necessary in Democratic convention. The
following shows the number of delegates
which were at the Republican National con-
ventions since the party was founded
Years. Delegates. Years. DslegGtes.
1876 $50 lS.2..... 952
1850 ls.6.................75i
1854 1sSJ..........-.......75 6
1Sts. ......6So 1854