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Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
A PRODUCERS NOTION OF THE SIT
UATION.
ST. Louis, Mo-. Feb, 2S,

ST. Louis, Mo-. Feb %, 1890.
To the Editor OF tho Eagle.
In your issue of February %, the
writer's attention was particularly at
tracted to the communication from q.
Campbell. His review and summing
up of the condition of the farm and
labo-ing classes of the United States is
graphic, truthful and appalling, because
of the magnitude and far-reaching con-
sequences of the issues. With him feel
that some heroic measures and reforms
must be adopted to save this nation from
utter desolation. but do not agree with
Mr. Campbell that the main cause Of the
depression, distress, stagnation and rot,
is the financial policy of the government.
| believe that the trouble is with the
people themselves. and that consequent
IL The remedy, in large measure at
least. must rest with them. They seem
not to appreciate the necessity of elect
ing wise, honest and patriotic repre-
sentatives to represent them in Washing
ton. They appear to prefer some clown
or smart, sChemlng radical politician.
worse vet, one who would sacretce all
other ends for the sake OF some local
advantage for his own township or dis
trict.
II is humiliating to look over the names
of the members OF congress and see how
few broad gagged, intellectual, far-see-
ing. patriotic statesmen there are. to saw
nothing of the suggestions which are
frequently made that money can be used
to as great advantage IN our national
( legislature as it can be in some local
municipal bodies. If this is a fact, it
may be due 10 the mistaken economy OF
paving too small salaries, but certainly If
the people are determined TO have such
men representing them they will be able
to find in every district those who under
stand the needs and wants OF the people.
and who Will legislate not only for their
immediate constituents but for the good
of the whole nation.
Look at the foolishness-if no worse
that has oeen and is row going on IN
congress. Whole months have been lost
IN arguing some rule or IN canyassing
the claim OF soure Office seeker because
OF what he has or has not done for his
party or scheming clique. and what he
may be expected TO DO If he Is success
ful candidate, in place of going 10 work
Ike men 10 save our PEOPLE from poverty
and degradation Why has not the time
been pTotitably occupied in passing laws
TO improve the water wavs and harbors.
10 build navy, 10 encourage mercan-
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
LITERARY NOTE.

Murat Halstcad will begin in the April
number of the Cosmopolitan, the CON
duct of the new department called RE
view of Current Events IN which he
will discuss the leading topics of tho
day with a non-partisan touch. The
same number Will contain several other
important articles. all deliberately illus
trated. The novelette, of the number
will be George Washington's Last
Duel by Thomas Nelson Page
Archibald Forbes, the renowned war
correspondent of the London Graphic, is
preparing for The Cosmopolitan series
OF articles on "Great Battles" in differ
ent periods of thd worlds history. treat
ing them with all the vivid description
of an eve witness, and his comrade,
Frederick NIlliers. Will illustrate them IA
the same realistic stvle.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
ANOTHER THEORY.

BELLE PLANE, Kas., March 3, 1890.
| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
| Now in regard to silver, where would
| the benefit be derived, from an increased
! coinage? 1t is fact that the United
States treasury is overloaded with silver,
so much SO that storage room is no longer
to be had, notwithstan ding the fact that
any tanl or individual can get as small
an amount as six!y-five dollars laid down
| at his door transportation charges free.
The silver must be bought of course. dol
lar for dollar. Could we expect any
thing else if the coinage was doubled,
or would we get two dollars where we
now now get one? Is not the object to
furnish q better market for silver and
thereby enhance its value: As well ask
the government to buy the surplus wheat,
mill it and store the product against
some future contingency. Flour would
be, and is, just as good medium for
exchange as silver, only it is not con-
venient it would be inconvenent to
carry around fifteen or twenty sacks of
flour to exchange for what we want.
So it is inconvenient to carry fifty, sew
enty-five or q hundred silver dollars for
the same purpose. In the one
case a man would have to hire a dray:
in the other he would have to make use
Of a wheelbarrow.
a farmer can take dozen eggs to his
grocer and exchange them for ten cents
worth of groceries. The exchange has
been made, the farmers wants supplied.
tie grocer sold his goods, just the same
as If a new ten cent piece had been
passed. and thousands of dollars worth
of similar exchanges are made every
day.
We are not suffering from a lack of
money. Give us the farmers produce to
exchange and every county in Kansas
would have million dollars brought
into it within thirty days.
What, then, is the trouble? 1t is not
grain gambling, for there can not
be bushel of grain sold that
there is rot bushel bought.
There must be as many bulls as there
are bears, and supply and demand must
eventually fix the price. Speculations
may advance or depress the markets
temporarily but they are bound to seek
their proper level soon or late, as gov
erned by supply and demand.
My theory is this: We have worked
the ''home market" racket until we have
killed our foreign market; we have pro-
tected our Infant industries at the eX
pense Of the western agricultural states
until we have driven our foreign GUS
toners for agricultural products to the
necessity of looking to, and building up,
other countries from which they can
buy without so much expense and an
noyance. The result is the American
farmer has to compete with the cheapest
labor in the world, while our manu-
facturers are protected by tariff that was
never intended to cover anything but
the necessities of war. z. \.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
THE GERMAN LABOR MOVEMENT

! American Manufacturer.
! Among the most remarkable and sig
nificant signs of the times are the recent
| utteranceS of the German emperor on
| the labor question. Ia his rescriptS to
| two of his ministers the emperor declares
| that 1T is the duty of the state TO SO reg
ulate the duration and nature of labor as
| to insure the health, the morality and
| the supply OF all the economic wants of
/ the workingman.
This utterance is the most singing and
staggering blow that the iaissez-faire has
ever received iii Europe. 1t IS in COM
! plete opposition to every precept of the
Adam Smith and Manchester school Of
! philosophy; it is the announcement of
/ the adherence of the most absolute, with
| the exception of the czar, of the civil
Ized monarchs of Europe to the new gos-
! pei OF labor and Its relation to the state.
| The theory Of the English school OF
| philosophers concerning the functions
| and actions of the state not only in rela-
| tion to labor, but to all other condi-
! tons that il was assumed were purely
| personal, has been absolutely non-inter-
/ ference-laisseZ-faire They have con
demned direct interference of the state
with labor as an interference in the IN
for years was the spirit of the laws not
I only OF the continent of Europe, but OF
England as well But England has
gradually, in the face OK its theoretical
doctrine Of Iaissez-faire. been placing
upon its statute books a body Of legisla-
ton that Is in direct opposition 10 this
theoretical idea. How great has been
this movement Stanley Jevons shows in
his remarkable little book, The State in
Relation to Labor" and there lays down
what it seefus to us is the true limit OF
legislation III this matter, VIZ: that mo
laws, 10 customs. no rights of property
are so sacred that they NAV not be made
away with ii it can be- clearly shown
that they stand in the way Of the
greatest happiness In the place Of
that metaphysical incubus. Iaissez- Iaire
English legislation, and American Iegis-
latIon too, has been following the higher
principle. saius poDuli. regarding this IS
the lex uprema-higher even than the
so-called universal and unalteTable rule
Of laissez-falTe.
In this country, so far as concerns the
individual labor. we have not yet placed
upon our statute books as many nor 50
modern provisions for their health and
morality as has been done IA England or
IN some OF the continental nations; but
but in a broader and better sense we
have placed among our laws provisions
that so concern the welfare or the Iaborer
as 10 place him IL position of such in
dependence As 10 demand and enforce
methods that shall ensure his health and
safety. This we have done IN the sys-
TEN Of protection Il at gives our work
ingment such wages and such degree
Of independence that they can insist
upou those provisions IN connection with
their work tina, stall provide for their
safety and their health.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
THE YANKEES LEAD.

We hear a great deal about the cute
ness of Yankees, and by Yankees we
mean Americans, as all Americans are
supposed by foreigners to be Yankees.
An idea of their cuteness as seen in their
inventive genius may be had from a
comparison of the patent statistics of
several nations. In 1888 the number of
patents applied for at Washington was
30, i91 and the number granted was 90
500. This is a remarkable advance over
1864. when 6,932 applications We're made
and 5,025 patents granted. Next to the
United States comes Great Britain,
where in 1887, the latest year for which
statistics are given. 1851 applications
were made and 9,4l0 patents were grant
ed. In 1865 the applications numbered
$3.50 and the patents 1904. In Great
Britain, as will be seen. the advance has
been proportionately about the Same as
IN the United States, both applications
and grants having more than quadrupled
during the interval since 1864
Next to Great Britain comes France
where the increase in the number Of pat
ents granted has not been in anything
like the same proportions as in the
two first mentioned countries. The
grants increased from 5,653 in 1864 to
S,G69 in 1883. Belgium ranks next to
France as regards the mum Der of patents
graGted The increase in that country
was from 1888 III 1864 to 4,10 in 1888.
Alter Belgium come in close proximity
the German Empire and Austria-Hun-
gary.
Next TO Austria Hungary. and before
any of the other European countries.
comes Canada, where the grants of pat
ents have grown from l46 III 1864 10 2402
in 1888. a most remarkable increase.
Italy, which follows next in order after
Canada, granted 1850 patents in 1888, as
compared with 5ii in 1861. The other
European countries show no great &C
tivity, though in all a considerable in
crease is shown for the period under
consideration.
But with all our surprising cleverness
in the matter of invention, and notwith-
standing the fact that We have led the
world in the practical utility of many of
our inventions, the preponderance of the
new devices upon which letters patent
have been issued never come into gen
eral use or serve any benetcent purpose
Take for instance the simple matter of a
railroad coupler; although hundreds of
patents issued not one of the devices has
yet come into general use.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

tile marine and cheaper transportation,
to rescue our low lands from overfiows
and so give employment TO our mechan-
les and laborers? Why not use the ma
tlonai surplus for these purposes and
stop paying our national debt (which pos
terity ought to be willing to help pay
| until we have more money TO spare:
Laws should be passed which will IA
cilitate legitimate enterprise and stamp
out ali distractions, among which one
of the greatest, if not the greatest, is the
pernicious system OF wind selling of
farm and other products of the Uni.ed
States under the false name of future
dealings" We do not need anything OF
this kind, but we do need new markets,
your own merchant ships, reciprocity
treaties with our neighbors. and a ma
tional navy sufficiently large to protect
our honor and interests abroad.
There is money enough in the country,
and if there is not it can soon be made
by turning United States bonds into ma
tional bank notes, and this would be
done very quickly if money was worth
Z per cent in bank notes instead of per
cent. in United States bonds.
Before this blight Of ''option" and ''fu-
worth 10 to l2 per cent. per annum;
farm produce was worth twice as much
as it is now. labor was scarce and we'll
paid for, and we all made money and
were happy. Destroy this gambling in
farm products and force those who live
by their wits on the labor of others to go
to work and earn an honest living in
some public institution, and you will
ind hor of
enough but less dissatisfaction among
the people.
II this system of "option" Gealing-in
not only farm products but in every arti-
Gle of value produced in this country
is not stopped, it will not be many years
before small body of men will own the
entire country, and the feudal lords of
Europe would be princes and gentlemen
compared with the shoddy masters that
would govern the United States.
Yours very truly. PRODUCER.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
PEoToNE ALLIANCE RESOLVES.

To ite Ed!:or o. The Eaz,s-
The Peotone Alliance and Industrial
Union was organized on February l, 1890,
and now numbers over seventy members
and stsll they knock for admission. At
q regular meeting held on the lst day Of
March the following resolutions were
read and adopted and ordered sent to the
Wichita EAGLE with request that they
be published;
Whereas, ! short time ago conven-
ton composed of 100 delegates represent
ing the retail implement dealers Of Kan
s.ss met in Kansas City for the avowed
object Of forcing US TO buy our irnpse-
mcnts from the retail dealers, and in
furtAerance Of said object they resolved
TO boycot all Wholesale dealers and mar
ufactures in order that they would not
trade with Us at any terms; therefore
be il
Resolved. That we, the Psotoue sub
alliance OF Sedgwick county, do fully
agree that We viii not trade with any
person or firm that took any part IN the
above convention. and further, we here
by pledge ourselves 20 stand sy any Per
son or hrm that IS disposed 10 stand by
US MILLER DqsEIS. S4cy.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

thus ceded should extend as far west as
the sovereignty of the United States,
which extended two degrees west OF what
is known as the outlet including this
country.
Judge l.. d. Bailey has some remarks
that while spoken of Kansas may be both
interesting and beneficial TO the Okla
noma farmer. He says that he raised
cotton il Douglas county during the war
OF 1868 and 1864 and got fabulous prices
for it, selling it in Boston for $50 a
pound. Judge Bailey says that cotton
raising is profitable IN Montgomery and
Chautauqua counties on the southern
border OF Kansas because there are large
numbers of negro immigrants (exodusters)
from Mississippi and Texas there, who are
familiar with cotton growing aud have
swarms of children to help in the picking.
He advises Kansas farmers uuaccustomed
to cotton TO "hasten slowly" and try but
small experiments at first.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

The good effects OF the work already
done by the State Immigration Bureau are
being seen and felt in ali parts of the state
Already letters OF inquiry are pouring in to
the state by the thousands, ana most all
of them are asking for reading matter de-
scrlptive of the state. Let the bureau
hurry up tie state book, and satisfy the
restless population OF the east, who are
looking westward, that we have the best
country in the worid--GaTCea City In
print
The directors of the bureau have the
matter III hand and are pushing the
work of preparing the state book with
the utmost expedition. 1t must he re-
membered that the interchangeable
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
4 Tramp's Ready Wiz.

. .IFf Us "a y -'NHa-
A few mornings ago n seedv tramp
approached house IN Tetreii and asked
for something 20 eat. The good lady
cut big slice of light bread and present
ing il 80 the traveller. said. Il don
give ven this for your sake. but for
Jesgs'- sake. The tramp closely scan-
ned the bread. turning II over ard gsV-
ing IT a close inspection, them. gracefully
passing il back - the lady. ssiE Then.
FOX Cod saGe. pat = ltgl. butter On II.
The lady plastsre 10 all oyer with butter
aud returned the bread 10 sne tOuTisi.
who, smiling. rsfreated 70 the street ard
took ne course towards the great west.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

Annie Besant, the English Socialist,
says she is coming over to see how
woman rule is worked in Kansas. She
will not find woman rule as it Is found
outside of the home in the most flourish
ing condition, but let US tell her that she
will find the most intelligent set Of
women in the States in Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
Perish the Thought.

From the LOU Utu9Cfat-
Senator Ingalls, mas introduced a bill.
"by request, 20 prevent the shipmsE; 81
liquors INTO prohibition states. This
leaves the Forum article as unenIight-
ened as ever.-EAGLK.
General james =. Underwood. Of this
county, by the way, is the author of the
bill. Wonder II General James i. also
wrote the Forum article.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

State Treasurer Noland of Missouri,
according TO the dispatches yesterday
morning, is in trouble and the Fort
Scott Monitor suggests that it was all on
account OF the fact that the Kansas City
Times has given all OF its attention to
keeping the Kansas ringsters straight
and neglected matters al home.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

Nellie Bly, is about to leave the New
York World because she cannot get a
raise in her salary. Miss Bly's triumph
is likely to be shortlived. The admired
and courted of New York journalism at
present is the fellow who wrote that
most affecting obituary in all Chin
panzee literature Miss Kitty's Demise. "
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
Bes. Of - Newspapers.

From the lyons Democrat.
As the Democrat mas great many Re
publican readers. we have arranged club
bing rates for their benefit with the best
of Kansas newspapers -- the Wichita
EAGLE, hereby we can furnish our sub
scrIber5 that excellent journal.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

1t is now announced that English
capitalists want to buy the worlds far.
The list of belongings of English capital
increases daily in this country. The
only thing we will have left, If this
keeps up. will be Yankee Doodle.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

Russia is now provided with gun
that will shoot eleven miles at a cost OF
81 800 per shot. But when that comes
lution-a thousand eleven mile guns
will avail her nothing. Just at present
she would crafty an indignant world by
turning the big gun on some of those
Siberian officials.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

There is a woman at Shelbyvilie, Ind:
who has Just married her ninth husband
When Annie Besant comes to Kansas to
see how" woman rule is working. she
might stop over in Shelbyville and spend
the afternoon,
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

Andrew Lang, the great English critic,
will move to America. His reason is
that literature pays better in the States
than in England.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

Until within few years a curious
rustom has obtained III Switzerland,
which is illustrative of the Swiss inge-
nuity to deal with the medGling outside
influence which is most often to blame
i'll domestic difficulties. When husband
and wife expressed desire for divorce
they were required TO enter room and
live therein together for a fortnight,
during which time they were neither to
see nor to converse with anybody else:
their food was passed to them through a
narrow opening in the wall, and all COM
munication with the outside world was
shut off. If al the end of fortnight of
confinement together, the couple still
clamored for divorce it was granted
without further ado.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
The Friend Of the Masses.

From the Co!dwa,er Review.
The EAGLE is making a strong fight
fo- the Kansas farmer against burden-
some monopoly, and every farmer in
southern Kansas should aid 1t in It's good
work
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

Colonel MurdCck, of the Wichita EAGLE.
objects 10 the new two-ceuu stamp because
he thinks that IL is English. you know, F"
both AS to size and color. 1t is strange
that light compleXioned man should find
fault with the hue OF sunset.-NeWton Re-
publican.
Strange, Why, its the most natural
thing in life. Who ever heard of a
brunette taking aEfancy to one of the
same cast!
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05
same cast

A pastor at Newton, Sunday, preached
a sermon OF ''Tomfoolery." There is a
growing ten ~ on the part of the
cloth in this country to run to the sensa-
tional and by the PRONUNCIATION of
''catchy" themes to gather in a crowd
the suiting Of whose taste must surely
result to the expense Of religious dignity
and the neglect Of the simple story that
lie died on the cross for our salvation.
This is to be regretted. The duty of the
clergy is to teach morality and exhort
to Christian life, and a departure there
from to the liking and satisfaction Of a
craving for sensationalism is not for the
best. for Things sweet to the taste,
prove, in digestion, sour
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

The proceedings in the senate Monday
upon the nomination of the president of
Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana, to
De collector at the port of New Orleans,
were exceptionally novel as to their po-
lltical feature. Warmoth has been an
exceeding obnoxious Republican to
southern Democrats ever since the war,
but his appointment was endorsed by the
senators of that state and five others,
while several leading Republicans stout
]y opposed him. This all occurred in
executive session and the details are not
given, only the facts stated Neverthe-
less, the arguments pro and con would
no doubt afford mighty interestin' readin'
to the public if it could be had.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05


\ day or two ago the EAGLE expressed
the apprehension that the effect of To-
eating the worlds fair for 1892 at Chi
cago viii be To turn the tide OF emigra-
tion from the west and southwest largely
10 the northwest, as well as to cause the
city by the lake to oversbadow all the
other cities within a radius of at least
five hundred miles. That this will be
the logical effect if the cities and sections
interested do not take steps to counteract
and overcome that preponderating infiu-
ence we still believe. The case as 1t
stands, therefore, presents an imperative
demand that this state and its chief COM
mercial and industrial metropolis, as soon
as it is definitely determined that the fair
will be held there, take prompt action
in such way as that our interests shall
not suffer. The work of the State In
migration bureau ought 10 provide for
this as far as IL comes within its pro-
vince. and this it will no doubt do to the
best advantage.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-05

Having originated the Worlds fair
idea as an appropriate manner of cele-
hrating the discovery of the western
hemisphere by Columbus. ST. Louis don't
propose TO abandon the undertaking.
even if congress has chosen TO locate the
commemorative event at another place
st. Louis already has the largest and
finest statue of the great discoverer set
up in that city, donation TO that city
by the late Mr. Shaw, the owner of the
celebrated garden bearing his name
This statue Is to serve as a sort of necleus
or railying point for the prospective un.
dertaking which Is to be merged into
the annual exposition and festival coca
sion for that wear. If the Central city
turns herself loose ami shall put the mil
lions into the undertaking that she pro
posed to put into the Worlds fair, she
viii produce Il show that will be worth
travelling half around the world to see.