The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-26

Co., 49, S
REASONING WITH REED.
yards of Mount Katahdin, or in some
clover enameled pasture Of the mighty
Pine Tree State, great big coarse car
would be born, whose influence would
be felt throughout Europe and as far
back as Rome City, Ind, would have
heSitated in selecting Maine as site for
my own birthplace.
Had known that there, where beneh-
cent sunshine wooes from its hiding place
the scarlet which mantles TO the brow Of
the wintergreen berry, and where the
crystal sap of the sember spruce tree
comes forth to gladden. the heart and
stimulate the saiEary glands of na-
tions yet unborn; that in the quiet of
some hotbed of shingles, where the
white birch spool is made, or where the
scream Of the sawmill or the snore of
the single mill salates the balsam bur-
dened air, would spring up, with blood
in his eye and side whiskezs on his front
teeth, a cruel and cerpulent car who
would enjoy biting old people, would
have controlled myself and been born
elsewhere.
Maine is the hotbed of progress and
American freedom. Everything in Maine
Is free except rum. The work Of giving
70 the colored man the divine right of
voting, as he was requested, was inaugu-
rated and assisted in Massachusetts,,
which was then part Of Maine. Free
L.. IL - -
MRine-freedOm TO be, 10 do or to suf-
fer; freedom TO be born there and then
go west to grow up with the country;
freedom to remain there and behave
ones self or go away tosome other state;
freedom to fish, cut bait or go ashore,
and freedom to utilize her hallowed
precincts as birthplace, provided they
be returned in good order as when first
received.
Ii is, then, to me most serious and
most bitter truth that comes to me now
knocking for admittance at the storm
door of my recently reItted and refur-
nished temple of reason. 1t is the great
sorrow of lifetime to know that in
Maine, where the only true, deep and
earnest dried apple pieof the great work
aday world was first discovered, there
should arise middle aged car with
1nout in one hand and an OK CAD in the
other, at the end of which is a sharp
brad three-fourths of an inch in length
And what is it to be car? Ask Of
the blood spattered history of Europe.
where you cannot even trust hen to
lay for you a pupe and noble egg. ASK
the man whose life is today imbittered
by shiFering fears and the chilling hor-
ror that even his own long trusted hens
must be watched hest they insert some
deadly poison IN an egg Wilde prepar-
ing it for use. Ask him 1T night as he
cooks his own supper over q kerosene
oil stove because he dare not trust the
hand of his slave. ASK ham as he TN
laces his sheet iron corset aud hangs it
on chair, or jumps iEte his Mosler
folding bed and screws the copper COW
erlet down so that people cannot stab
him in the night. Ask him as he runs
his eye careleSsly over tins column
which am now writing, and then bots
it out by means Of his macilaginous
roller and q handful of black sand, re-
gardleSs of a deep and earnest kick Of
our entire list Of shocked and outraged
subscribers in his empirei
This is not IN the nature of a threat
but in order 70 lead mp to the great ques-
lion whittier are we tending. Is the
time coming when one man is to have the
responsibility of this mi ghty government
upon his sbouldersl Is the day at hand
when one man will have TO be respon-
Gble and have 70 personally pay all the
bills Of the government. Are we to be
ruled BY one man who will not even al
low Us to think disrespeetful thought
of him without danger of the knout?
Think of the time. dear reader, if it
must come. when a moe. pleasant old
gentleman hike Mr.. Holman. of Indiana,
may become the parent Of a diEeSpect-
full thought regarding the czsr In fancy
4 can see William now, brought fcrcibly
along the aisle. clutcliRg eagerly and
yet impotently at the desks and clothing
Of members as he Is dragged to the desk
of the speaker. with ms tongue hanging
out like that OF a hunted stag at stag
party Then in fancy sac bin CON-
PEELED 10 remove his Prince Albert coat
and vest. and then remove sufficient Of
his shirt 40 that the czSr can get At il
with his knoutl Then I hear the loud
and echosng plank OF the knout as il de-
sends upon the Sqinsl zylopnone Of the
great Objeoto-,
On. it Ia 100 terrible % think cfI II is
TOO SD 10 antcjrate, Let Us hope that
the day may be longer in coming than
some of the papers go on TO state
What is the general tendency Of the
hour in other countries Is II not towRrd
the dissolution u empires and The dis
rup1on Of dynassieS: Most sselnedly 1t
is Moreover, the monarchs themselves
are not at all feeling well. The king @!
Holland is quite ID. HIS vietusis IL
stead of doing him gecd seem to be prc