Wichita eagle., 1889-08-25

Returning to the grain question, be thought
$1,000 farmers in Washington would cause
congress TO take some action in the line OF
relief On leaving the stage Mr.. Whit
taker was heartily cbeered. His speech
was listened to with the greatest interest
and seemed to please the farmers very
much.
Mr.. J. S. Mckinney Of Butler county
was presented and said he should say
| something for the farmers of the Alliance.
The object was to look after the interest
of the farmers. The Alliance was formed
against monopolies and could be felt in
| electing representatives TO congress The
Alliance he said was politics and politics
all over but no partyism. In eastern cit
| les and in Wichita he had heard men say
that the corn crop can be bought
for 10 cents per bushel.
"Lhey tell the farmers to sell
now for later on the farmers will be COM
| PEELED to take less" The speaker said be
was sorry to observe farmers divided into
examinations. In unity there was strength
and in his opinion it would be better to
| have only one organization.
The speaker was asked what he meant
by that great principal" when it was an
swered the object was to fight monopolies
and elect representatives in congress to
do our bidding and not as they pleased. "
| Mr. W. j. Wilson, Of the Arcade" was
! introduced and said he had taken some
part in trying tor organize farmers fair
and had been met with the statement that
| former fairs had been dishonest schemes.
| So far the men interested had been OF the
| best business men and above reproach. A
A subscription lad been start
| ed in Wichita and money
enough raised TO warrant the
assertion that the premiums could be paid
even before the fair commenced. The
| speaker explained the organization and
said the chief object was TO demonstrate
! to the people of the east that Kansas could
| raisecrops. Wanted the townships to give a
corn display, and the one giving the finest
| display SO and the best personal display
| S25. He hoped that the farmers would
unite in making the fair success.
Concerning the questions relating TO
| farmers tie speaker said Wichita ought to
have more elevator capacity. 1t was to
! the interest of the farmers TO create q
| home demand and increasing the size Of
| Wichita was increasing home demand.
The farmers should not allow outside
sources to dictate prices for anything
After some talk about grain pits" he
swung around to the fair question and
urged assistance from the farmers.
Inviting any one desiring TO ask a ques-
tion to do SO, he was asked why it was the
| banks charged two per cent per month for
money. when it Was replied that an in
crease of risk on loan increased the per
cent. In his opinion the exemption laws
of Kansas greatly increased the chances of
non-payment of loan, and to that source
he attributed to some extent the high rate
of interest in many instances charged.
Mr.. II. l.. Pierce, secretary of the board
of trade was introduced and insisted that
he had not made a speech in his life, not
even attempted it. He had recently tack
| led a picnic dinner and like extensive pic
mic dinners it had injured his speech max
ing powers, provided he had anything Of
that kind on hand. He referred to the
fact Of having fine board Of
trade rooms and would like to
have one ear of corn from each farmer who
called and that many would call. BY this
the eastern visitors could see the exhibit
and it would help the country and include
the farmers. This would enable the
board of trade to make an exhibit in other
cities when called upon.
On concluding his speech Mayor Clement
interrupted by saying Mr.. Pierce was
single man, representative man of Wlch-
tia and hoped the young ladies would re
member his 'bachelorship" and insist on
their papas taking exhibits to the board of
trade rooms. By this time Pierce was on
the south bank Of the Cowskin going out
OF sight and was not seen during the re-
mainder OF the day and it is confidently
believed he walked home, provided he is
home yet.
Judge W. p. Campbell was presented
and said be wanted to complement the
dinner and also the patience Of the crowd.
He thought the laws in Kansas enabled
the creditor to give the grand bounce 10
the debtor as quick as the law in any
state. As to the interest question he
thought if everything was normal high
interest a good thing as at least a good
indication of the condition Of things High
interest in Kansas at present is due in his
estimation to the boom" when people got
rich by "moonshine." Speculation in his
judgment was the cause of trouble. He
thought something should be done other
than "Quack measures aud he insisted on
natural liberty in morals and finance in
spite of Laws" This caused an old gentle
man in the crowd TO burst out in a loud
roar and repeat I'm spite of the laws"
After another roar he said, You
had better quit" This caused
the crowd 10 roar and che
Judge seemed to think he was getting the
worst Of it and proceeded to look around
at the whooping crowd and finally backed
to the far end of the stage and jumped off
without a word more. The fellow who
knocked the judge off was known rs Mat
thew johnson, a farmer who lived two
miles west OF the grove. The idea seemed
so ridiculous to him that he laughed and
was little nettled in addition. This was
decidedly the most amusing thing of the
day. For an hour afterwards the kids On
the outside Of the crowd could be heard
quoting Mr.. Campbell, and the old Ger
man who gave prompt injection to the
doctrine evidently appeared to him most
ridiculous.
The chair called on Dr.. Minter to eX-
press himself on the fair question, and said
there had been so many schemes connected
with fairs that he did not want to enter
on the business any more
Mr.. Wilson asked: Because fair asso-
Citations have been doing bad business in
the past should no more effort be made TO
hold fair;" lie wanted an expression on
the question and an understanding.
DR. Minter then said IL would be a
good thing to have fair and If i: could