The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
EVENTS OF THE YEAR.

close has been a year that will be mem
orabIe in many lands, but in none more
SO than in this the greatest of republics
and the chief division of the western
hemisphere.
In the first month of the year 1890,
the great Brazilian republic was rec
ognized by the United States govern
ment, and the last vestige of monarch
ial government faded out of existence on
the Columbian continent
In the second month was filed the re-
port of the Parnell investigating COM
mittee, and with it came the collapse OF
the attempt of the English conservatives
to destroy the Irish leader.
In month of March, an event of far
reaching importance took place; 1t was
the resignation of Bismarck, the great
chancellor of Germany.
In the month of April the great leader
of the protectionist Democrats, Samuel
]. Randall, passed away and with his
death the Democratic party became ao-
solutely and entirely identified with the
principles of free trade and opposed
to the principle of protection, which the
Republicans favored, thus drawing the
lines sharply and distinctly between the
two parties on an economic policy.
In the month of May the Republicans
introduced into the house of representa-
tives and passed to the senate the Nc
Kinley bill as a measure representing
the partys policy on the tariff question.
In the month of May also, in the city
of Richmond, the last great assemblage
of Confederate soldiers with an -enthusl-
asm born of the knowledge that they
would never meet again, gathered In
great numbers from all parts OF the
south in honor of the unveillng OF the
statute of their illustrious commander,
Robert f. Lee.
In the month of June fierce struggle
was waged in congress for the mastery,
in which party lines were loosely held,
over the bill providing for free coinage,
in the course of which the most elaborate
and erudite of silver arguments which
had ever been made on this subject were
delivered, while all through the United
States there were heard the first muir
murs of that great upheaval of the agri-
culturists which from that period stead
lily increased.
In July a revolution broke out in the
flourishing Argentine republic which
later revealed the miserable political con-
dition of that.cothtry.
In September the attention OF the gen.
eraI public became engroSsed with the
excitement which from that time speed
lily arose over the Georgia senatorial
election, in which the Alliance, by that
time generally accepted as a new and
powerful force in politics, again COM
menced to play an important part.
In Kansas, too, and many other west
ern states it became apparent that an UNI
usual movement was on foot, while IN
Ireland John Morley, together with
O'Brien and Dillon, created some excite
ment by coming into collision with the
British government and in so doing iden-
tilted. in a measure, the Liberal and Irish
parties.
In November in the cOngressi, nal cleo
tions the Republican party was over
whelmed at the polls with the greatest
rebuke a party has ever received, and II
became evident that there had been a
great popular uprising throughout this
land which had carried away from thelI
accustomed moorings, on its swelling
tide, millions of votes, and broken up all
previous calculations as to the political
strength of parties, while just at the
the same time ireland was thrown into
a perfect fever of excitement, the Irish
party rent in twain, and a condition pro-
duced in British politics which it would
be difficult to describe, by Gladstone's at
tempt to retire Parnell.
So the year of 1890 draws to close
Germany having gotten along perfectly
well without the guiding voice of the
/ great chancellor who twenty years age
called into existence the united empire
and who had ever since sustained anC
! fostered it. France has at last cast on
! into oblivion that colossal fake who rode
the nation as a nightmare, Boulanger
while of Great Britain and the United
States it is hardly possible TO forese,
what may in the next year come from
the present confused condition of poll
tics.
In the domain of science meanwhile
! DIR. Koch has with rare self-sacrific
made public this year his important dis
covery with regard to the cure for con
sumption, while at the same time it ma
been revealed by the Jameson horror T.
what depths of ignominy the pursuit o
scientific investigation may lead tn
most cultivated men.
These are only a few of the many not
able events and occurrences that hav
taken place, complete memorandum o
which, even for this country alone
| would fill many columns.
The year of 1890 has indeed been
most remarkable one.
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