The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-14
MURDOCK'S REBELLION AND THE
ALLIANCE.
VI ". MURDOCH. Fdoo-.

"In attempting to rob Marsh Murdoch
of the me of being a prophet when he
declared that there would he a rebellion,
the Hutchinson News says there Is about
rs much relation between the rebellion IN
80 and the Alliance fight of 80 as there IS
between a compound syllogism and a
dephlogisticated rat hole kansas Clty
Gazette
We had not noticed the News criti-
cism, which, from the above, was, doubt
less, but a scurrilous ebullition, or other
wise wall of admission, chagrin and OF
disappointment But for a level-headed
man, who reads the EAGLE as closely as
does George Martin, by the reproduction
of bumptuous squib, like the above, to
intimate that the EAGLE failed to cite
the causes in its neutrality-suspicious., Is
a little hard Of compression. There Is
not a man in the state who read our
editorials declaring that rebellion was
inevitable in the absence Of some
sudden but seemingly impossily reforma-
ton, that does net know that we not
only enumerated but dilated on the
causes. We said that there was rebellion
and that it would show itself in Novem-
Der, 1892. We said "the mortgage
consumed farmers of Kansas, who work
as a class from sun up till sun down
year in and year out; live scantily; 60
poorly clad. and yet, are sinking deeper
into debt. We said that there is too
much legislation for the classes, too little
for the masses; that everything was
made to favor the creditor and to Cypress
the debtor; that the machinery of the
government was too much for the CAPT
talist and against the laboring man."
We said that congress was refusing an
adequate supply of currency, 10y from
one TO two hundred millions, through
the influence of Wall street We said
that farmers and tradesmen. country
and town people, alike, We're tired of the
old ring and Of political bossiSm in Kan
sas. which ring, through the legislature,
were erecting costly and unne cessary
state institutions, creating useless offices,
and harassing the people with multitud-
inous restrictive laws in the name of
Home, God and Morality, while, all the
while, it was but an insane species of
hypocritical demagoguery INDUCED in AT
the expense of the people, whereby the
old crowd might continue in office. We
followed these articles with denun-
Citations of shameless booding at Topeka,
with others on option dealing, column
after column, in which we declared. and
tried TO show, that all this dealing in
wind was at the expense of the farmer
In the same connection the trusts and
combines were pointed out rs disastrous
TO the producer and his market
1t now appears that the editors of the
papers referred to were not the only ones
whoifailed to read what the EAGLE really
did say; but that many Of these articles
were afterwards. months afterwards, read
i'm many of the sub-Allilnces throughout
Kansas and heartily endorsed we happen
to know, whatever the Hutchinson News
may say, or the Kansas City Gazette in
innate, to the contrary.
As for other matters that proved later
factors of the rebellion-which rebellion
was well nigh a revolution, those of re-
submission and the Mckinley bill.-the
EAGLE was the first Republican paper in
the state to declare that the people had
a right TO be heard again on the ques-
ton OF prohibition. and that the Repub
hcan party must concede thatright That
was last September a year. And the
EAGLE, further, was the only RepubI-
can paper in the state of Kansas 10 de- /
nounce the Mckinley bill, no other pa
per in the state saying aught against it,
except as a single feature, until after
Senator Plumb's open attack in the SEN (
ate.
And, finally, it makes little difference
TO us what the papers may say of the
Murdock rebellion, so called. one way or
the other, so long rs the knowledge is !
ours that fifteen or twenty thousand /
daily readers of the EAGLE know exactly /
what we did say and exactly what we
predicted. and knowing these, know. |
also, that it it all came to pass.