The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-20
SLUSS' INTERVIEW.
The Mckinley Fraud and Republican Re-
sponsibility.

any editorial reference to it. AS the
same suggestion has reached us from
two or three other quarters we will en-
Tighten their ignorance and at the same
time relieve their evident misconception
if possible.
The EAGLES estimate and belief was,
and is, that that interview spoke for
itself. That interview had no uncertain
sound. Its language was plain, its con-
illusions unmistakable, and both accorded
with the well known political life and
sentiments Of the man who uttered them.
We saw nothing more inconsistent in
the views, as expressed by Judge Sluss
as Republican, than were
the protection ideas and principles
maintained by Samuel Randall as a
Democrat. No man ever questioned
RandaIl's Democracy, no more can the
Republicanism of Sluss be doubted or
shaken. There IS not a fibre of Sluss
life nor has he a conviction or an ex-
perience, that is not Of the cast and
fervor of that kind of Republicanism
which throbbed in the breast and fired
the brain of the mighty Lincoln. Sluss
went into the army a mere boy, and
through the entire war, not with straps
but with a musket on his shoulders, and
whatever may be his view on the tariff
or whatever his religious convictions, he
is and can only be politically Repubi-
can.
1t may be barely possible, however,
that our friend, the Democrat, and the
individuals alluded to, desired a SAY"
from US with the idea that we would not
indor5e the enUnciations of Judge Sluss.
If that was the incentive we will further
proceed, and about as follows:
The EAGLE is aweary of abuses I'M
corrected. and of demagogy undis-
guised, in the Republican party, and it
has not been slow to point out some Of
these and to punctme others. And still
the EAGLE is as sound Republican as it
ever was, To come down to some
Of the topics touched upon
by Judge Sluss; The burthens
heaped upon the producing classes
OF this country by corporate powers
alone are monstrous enough to incite
revolution. Let us cite just a single in
stance: The people of the United States
we mean the producer and consumer
are paying dividends and interests on
railroad stocks and bonds in amounts
three times the actual original cash cost
of every mile of such roads in the United
States.
The economic questions of the day are
more important than the political ones,
is an idea that the EAGLE has hammered
at for months, and if the Republican
party don't soon take hold of these in
reformatory way the Republican party
viii 90 to the wall, as it should. In
touching upon these, editorially,
last fall on several occasions we
received responses from members
of all parties and from all parts of the
state. By the enunciation of simple
honest convictions the EAGLE thus
touched the hearts of the people not only
but received direct proof that it had
done so.
While we have got somewhat better
''times" now than we had six months
ago, they effect, in a large measure, only
people who have nothing to sell. We
are entitled to better times, and we want
them, want them now, want them to-
morrow, and want them six months and
next year, and for years, and but for
corporate tyranny backed by political
demogogery in both political parties we
would have them.
Free coinage of silver, for instance,
would relieve the monetary stress of the
nation the moment that President Harri-
son put his signature TO the bill. VIII
the Republican party pass it, or Presi-
dent Harrison sign it? We doubt both
But both must know that the present
volume of currency is not half as great
as the business and developments of the
country demands. just think of it!
None of the platforms of last year said
a word about the way Cleveland had
fought silver in the interest of Wall
street-where he has since gone. and
from whence Window came. Political
parties may come and political parties
may go to the White House and to the
capitol. but in the control of the vaults
of the national treasury. Wall street goes
on forever. No platform protested
against the unnecessary millions which
he boarded up in the treasury. But
everybody howled about hard times,
while the goldites, the TRUSTEES and
taritites laughed US to scorn.
The last report Of the secretary of the
treasury touching the question of cur
rency per capita, or the present volume
of circulation, was an insult to the in
telligence of the American people. if the
Associated Press did not misrepresent
that functionary. and his excuse for not (
withdrawing the national bank surplus
deposit for the purpose of redeeming
bonded Indebtedness, the most himsy of