The Iola register., 1890-05-23
AS OTHERS SEE HIM.

The National Farm and Ftreside,
an agriculture paper published at
Washington, ID. c., has in its current
issue, an excellent portrait of Hon. E.
H. Funston, with the following edi-
torial sketch of his life and work:
Hon. T.. III. Funston of Kansas. the
chairman of the Committee on Agri-
culture, of the House of Representa-
tives is farmer. His whole life hasbeen
spent upon farm, save the time spent
at the New Castle Academy, and the
Marietta Ohio College, and in the field,
during the war of IS61-5. His home
is on the farm he located on in Allen
county, Kansas, in 1867, then a virgin
prairie. In connection with the labor
ious duties incident to the opening of a
new farm, he did not neglect his books
but continued the habits of the student
and applying himself to questions of
political and domestic economy. The
method pursued by him in sitting and
solving perpleXing questions is, if not
peculiar to him at least characteristic.
He never on the spur of the moment
condemns a proposition nor accepts it
when first presented for his consider
alton. but thoroughly and patiently
analyzes it examining it from
every point of view until he is its
master. When a subject has once been
mastered in this way, the man must
be one of the most superior attain
ments who can maintain an opposite
view, adopted by him. His thorough
knowledge of the subject, renders al
most invincible the statement of his
case, and his repartee is quick and
penetrating. Painstaking in every
subject to which he directs his atten-
ton, the position he assumes is one of
honest conviction, and is not adopted
for the purpose of trimming to the
pupular clamor, but to subserve the
best interests of his country, and his
people to whom he is directly respon-
sible, and whose special interests he
constantly has in view. On the silver
question which is now occupying so
much of the attention of the country,
he is an earnest and enthusiastic ad-
vocate of free and unlimited coinage
and opposed to any plan that requires
gold as basis for its value; beliey- |
ing in the inherent value of silver as a |
currency and insists upon its equality |
with gold.
Mr.. Funston has been upon the
Agriculture Committee of the House,
for number of years, and during the
50th and 5lst Congress we have watch
ed him closely land probably bored
him considerably but we take great
pleasure in stating that no man in
Congress has stood more closely byl
the Agricultural interests than he.
Being a farmer and member of the
Grange, he fully comprehends the
needs of the people of his class, and
not being political trimmer he has
the manhood to stand up for his con-
and the interest of the far
mers of the country. The editor of
this paper differs with Mr.. Funston
but OF all matters relative
to the interests of the American far
mers, we have found him as sound as
the silver dollar he advocates and as
true as the farmers are to the general
of our country. AS Chairmanl
of the Committee on Agriculture, mol
has been presented for the
of his Committee that
affects the interest of the farmers nOti
alone of Kansas, but the entire Union
that he has not been found honestlyi
and bravely battling for its success.