Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-14
THE EAGLES ANARCHY.
The Cunning Greed Of Classes VS.. the
Honest Gains Of the Masses.

The EAGLES late editorials, "Mort
Rebellion" and cit is in the Air." re.
bectively, seem to have struck respon
sive chords. of more or less varied ten
denotes and tensions. The amens which
have come from Democratic and Repub
lican hearts seem equally emphatic with
those from men on whom party obliga-
tons rest but lightly. This would seem
to indicate that there is an unrest, con.
viction that partisanship is more for the
dominancy of party itself than for any
! real interest in the tenets of platform
promises. 1t is PROFESSIONALLY true,
touching the matters complained OF by
the EAGLE, especially of those questions
and problems presented by the policies
of tariff. OF railway transportation, OF
option dealing, of trusts. etc., that
neither national party knows what
it wants, nor that both combined
in the two houses of congress can as yet
promise any sure relief to the people and
at the same time maintain intact their
organizations and conserve those inter-
ests which ramify not only both domi-
nant political organizations of the coun-
try, but which touch all the commercial
and industrial life of America, and
which commands congress, cabinets,
legislatures and governors alike, touch
ing and swaying even our courts. Pro-
hibition, female suffrage, the Australian
ballot, single tax, and other issues will no
doubt still be placed in platforms and
urged by politicians for the purpose of
distracting the people. They are but
subterfuges nevertheless, but wiley
promises and Elusive hopes. None
of these things will reach the case,
and nobody understands that fact better
than those who SO strenuously urge
them. So far as the real trouble is con-
cerned, SO far as inadequately rewarded
labor and depressed prices on all that is
produced by the farmer and by the sin
gle handed workman of the country are
concerned, these so called great reforms
are but dust and ashes, are but the lip
promises of men who love the pretended
principles of their own party more than
the pretended principles of the other
party solely because they happen to be
leaders on one side of the political fence
instead of the other. The parties on
both sides of the fence are owned and
controlled by the same interests, which
interests are inimical to labor.
Take the tariff question as it is forced
by the great parties, as a national issue,
and who knows what is desired or adj
vocated by either party as a party? In
the confused cry which reaches us for
reform in the tariff, for protection to the
for free trade to the pro-
Queer, for big wages and cheap food for
the laborer, there is no well defined line
laid down by either party touching
single article. This fact of itself proves
that it is "a great cry and little WOOL"
Some of the party papers of the state
have seen fit to fling the approbium,
'archisr," at the EAGLE. In saying that
we believe the epithet uncalled for, we
will not deny that we would like to see
the people of this country, its great
masses, intelligently aroused to clear
that this government was
not instituted for the conservation of
aggregated dollars but for the prosperity
Of aggregated individuals, not for the
combine but for the family; not for the
wealth owner but for the wealth pro-
Queer, not for cunning greed but for
honest gain. not for classes but for the |
masses whose unit should be recognized |
Is the hOme-the family,