The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-28
PLUMB AND THE WEST.
The Tariff, the Silver and the Railro

touching these material questions there
is conflict between the interests of the
east and those of the west. Any tariff
law which can be enacted that viii
abundantly protect and conserve all the
interests of the manufacturing east must
inevitably prove a burden and an In
justice to the producing west.
Any monetary measure that will
meet the appreciation of the money loan
er Of the east must necessarily increase
the sweat and physical turmoil of the
producer of the west. All legislation
seeking to protect and render OF par val
ue the stocks Of western railways, which
railways are owned in the east, is an
effort upon the part of the national law
making power to cut from nearest the
western mans heart 1.-The pound Of
/ flesh. Though a western David be
made king a Gold Goliah is ever found
entrenched in the star chamber of Wall
street as 1.-The power behind the throne"
whose mandates are those Of the
supreme tribunal of the land. All
the mighty engines Of modern develop
ment on this continent are welded, and
all the wonderful powers Of eliminating
enterprise marking the triumphs of this
country since the war, have been direct
ed by greed-masters of the Atlantic
states, for whom the free sons of the
west have become ''hewers of wood and
drawers OF water" and upon all Of
whose homes and holdings, upon all Of
whose labors and savings tribute has
been Laid by gold-pOtentates, the spirit of
whose ruling giant hovers about and Sc
cretly manipulates only within the i'm
penetrable and Unfathomable environ
ments of Wall street.
A hundred years, with the closing of
this week, viii have been counted
since the peoples Of the United
States were first enumerated. With
the first day Of June the west will have
completed It's days of minority and of
subsection. There is to be a new count,
and a new adjustment, between the
eastern master and the western servant, |
an economical as well as a political
settlement In which struggle between /
right and wrong, between manhood and !
greed, viii take place whereby the rela-
tive value Of sweat and blood upon the |
one hand and that OF cold gold upon the
other viii be determined.
In one end of the balances has been
dumped the classes with their protected |
gold, protected stocks and protected /
manufactures. The need Of the hour is
leader who can place in the other end |
Of the balances the rights of the masses.
The fight over the tariff and of silver
Classes and gold-has already COM
menced, and it is with no small degree
of pleasure that we note from the heart |
and center Of the great west comes a
man in the person OF Senator Plumb of
Kansas who gives notice that for one he
shall demand a fair and equal division.
As was seen in our dispatches of yester-
day morning he calls for ''show down."
and a balance sheet. He gives notice
that if the Mckinley bill with all
its brthens is to be saddled
upon the people of the west
that it shall not be done blindly, nor vet
under false pretenses. He demands
report, showing in parallel columns the
figures imposed by the present tariff bill
and those proposed by the Mckinley bill,
by his words and attitude
that while Reed may count a quorum,
when it comes to the Mckinley bill in
the house, he cannot count the senate on
that unrighteousness. But he does not
stop at this. He gives further notice
that touching the longer and further pro-
lection of gold by depreciating silver
and by restricting the currency, a halt
must be called, to which end he
a bill embodying the coinage
set forth by Banker st. John (
at the annual meeting of bankers last
year at Kansas City, which proposition
met with almost unanimous endorsement
by western people, but which the gold
bugs have assiduously fought ever since.
1t is hoped and expected that Senator
ingalls, viii stand by his colleague in
these demands made in the name of the
west. and which are in the interest of the
people of all sections, the whole people,
Wall street and its many Mammon mon
lrchs excepted.
With final victory browning the =
efforts and demands of the west for their {
rights and simple justice in the matter Of 5
money which shall be paid them for their +
products, and the price which I
hey shall pay for the products
If others, there viii remain but
me other outrage and abuse which
n remedying, all trusts and combines. all +
strikes and alliances VIII cease to exist
md disappear forever. And this last /,
,emedy can only come from, through
md by the power of the representatives &
# the producing west. We refer to