The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-13
sUNFLowER SIMMER.

, gold discoveries in the Third district Is Al
effort to offset the Washington meteorite
Kansas will probably have five tickets il
! the field-Republican Democratic, Ali
, | ance, Third Party, Prohibition and Re
submissionist. Last but not least"
, John Wannamaker is going to increas'
the size of the postal card. The deluge o
petitions probably made something neces
sary to cut down the bulk of the Kansas
congressmen's mail.
Ex-Governor Click says you can't foo
the farmers one bit by political lodges
this year. This statement can be taken a;
the ultimatum of Mr. Clicks attempts K
board the Alliance boat.
The Harrington Tribune comes along
and tells US that the Mcpherson Daily
Republican published the full proceed
ings of the prohibition meeting at that
place last week and only sold one copy OF
the paper.
DR. T. De Witt Talmage went into the
Jail at Usage City after his lecture recent
| ly and prayed for a wounded burglar.
Some OF the Kansas papers seem to think
the most notable thing about 1t was that
he didn't charge anything.
The original package hullaballoo over in
Ottawa has kind of dimmed the lustre of
the Chautauqua. Yet the ''packagist" is
not staying there for the fun of it Some
| body must be purchasing his packages.
/ Why doesn't the prohibition element of
| Ottawa go for the man who drinks?
| Hook, of the Marion Record, makes the
point indirectly against Eugene Ware
that this is a bad time to send senti-
mental poetical lawyers to congress TO
represent the people. But doesn't Mr..
Record think that little more sentiment
would do some of our congressman goodY
Especially little more of the sentiments
of their constituencies.
The Emporia Republican wonders why
ingalls, doesn't twist the British lions tail.
Senator Ingalls, has not twisted that
beasts tail because he knows the NANTES
tation Of war was made without authority
and by irresponsible individuals Besides
the British lion is too busy keeping the
flies off him with his tail for ingalls, to
catch it if he wanted 10.
An efigy of John A Anderson was hung
to well tower in the court yard at Wash
ington, Kansas, on the 3rd. 1t was the re-
suit of the removal of A. NJ. Hallowell, a
deputy collector under Cy Leland. Some
of the good people of the Fifth district
seem to have forgotten that Mr.. Anderson
was once a minister and hanging him in
effigy is taking liberties with his sanctitied
name.
The Alliance Advocate has excited itself
into writing an alarming article headed
The Decline of the American Republic"
1t is easily disposed of, however. Has the
editor of the Advocate ever read of the
foolish little boy riding in the railway
coach who thought the houses, trees, the
landscape, all were running away Or has
he ever heard of the ballOonist who falls
out of his car and beholds the ground
rushing up to himi
The lieutenant governor, A. J. Felt, on
the original package decision, said in a
speech in Nemaha county recently:
while l respect the mandates of the
supreme court of the United States, con
slider that l owe my first allegiance to the
constitution and laws of my state
Andrew jackson Felt, then, is states
Fighter. Andrew Jackson Felt is not with
the man after whom he was named The
last words old President Jackson ever
said were couched "a regret that he had
not hanged John c.. Calhoun for the multi
tication movement in South Carolina
Elk Governor Robinson has been spoken
of as man sincere in his politics and in
his expressions. In the following any
suspicion of political finesse should be
obliterated by the truthfulness and logic
of the statement. 1t is communication
to the Lawrence Record He says: I'm
a recent issue of your paper you say the
saloon will soon be here. What will our
people do about ity' From this it might
be inferred that the saloon was now absent
and had been for some time. If by saloon
is meant aplace where intoxicating liquors
are sold and drank saloons have never
been absent from Lawrence since Kansas
became state, as drinking men and boys
well know, as do Others who go through |
the world with their eyes open. 1t is true
that it has been fashionable during the /.
last ten years to ignore facts and deny the /
existence of such places, but they have ex-
isted all the same, and while good men /
have slept and ignored the situation the .
young men and boys have become tipplers
in the club room and covert drinking
places as never before in the history Of the I
town. If the opening of original package
saloons Will open the eyes of the people it
will be a great blessing to the community,
FOR their temperance work will take the
place of prohibition talk. When temper
lnce workers assume that every old and
young man can get all the Intoxicating
liquor they can pay for, and attempt their
salvation by reason of righteousness, tenn
Derance and judgment TO come, by educa-
ion and persuasion, success viii attend
heir efforts. But when they attempt 10
,hange the laws of the universe and try to
provide for the development OF character
~ destroying free agency in matters mere
y personal they viii signally fail You
lsk what the people viii do about it when
he saloon shall be here One thing they
will be likely to do, that is to discard the
)oliceman's club as a moral agent An
,ther thing they ought TO do, that is 10
,et in motion the moral machinery dis
arded in 1881. II they VIII revive the
,ledge, Good TemDlar's organizations,
temperance melodies, festivals and talks
* they existed before attempted prohibi-
ion. they will do more to save young men
md old people from intemperance than all
he prohibiting laws ever enacted. VIII I
hey do it;'
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THOSE FARM MORTGAGES.
ron the kansas City Journal.