Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-02
THE EAGLE SCREAMS.

ILL 0A040 oO0k4AMOs
The Wichita Daily Eagle, which has
as large circulation as any other
republican daily in Kansas, the other
day contained the following editorial,
under the head of:
''sOME MORE REBELLION"
"The editorial we of the Edole is all
out of sorts this morning. We are
mad. Something has gone
wrong. Everything seems wrong.
Money is scarce: Times are hard. The
laborer does not receive his hire value.
The farmer is getting nothing for his
work, and nothing for the money in
vested in his farm or appurtenances,
and nothing for all that be raises or
does. In short, none of the wealth
producers of the country, the Drawn
and muscle, have anything to show for
all their exertions. There are too
many trusts and too many combines,
too many politicians and too many
officers. There is total want of in
terest or of sympathy by the classes for
the masses. There is too much boodling.
There is no adequate comprehension
upon the part of our law makers of the
needs of the people, nor of the abuses
of the seemingly privileged. The
of the United States gets
farther and farther away from the
people, and higher and higher in their
own estimation. They talk only to be
heard and legislate only in their own
interest and that of their natural allies
and friends. Instead of stopping the
flow of untold millions of surplus, all
drawn from the people, they only study
ways and means to get rid of it, to
squander it, so that the treasury may
not absolutely absorb the last solitary
dollar of the country. They create
and worthless officers,
special agents for this and superin-
tendents for that by the hundreds and
charging duties here and
spreading expenses there. Chicago
CANDLES on the sweat of the west and
grows fat on the life blood of our peo-
pie, while New York in turn CANDLES
on all of the realty values of the
country as represented by bonds and
stocks, and rules the peoples rulers
through the power of their gold. Com
bines and trusts, and steals by fore
closure, and robbery by option dealing,
are pauperizing the nation, yet con-
gress for the next nine months will
discuss ballot-box stufing and race
inequality in rounded periods and
wind up by shoveling millions upon
millions of dollars of the peoples
money into the pockets of useless Of
ficlals, into the bags of contractors,
into the bottoms of shallow creeks and
mud bays and bitches. A thousand
unseen and unknown agencies are,
with the insidiOus suck of vampires,
fattening off of a treasury which is
kept ever and over full by legalized
They even talk of building
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full surplus may be kept down. What
does America with not single foreign
OF d single detached
dominion to protect or care for, want
with a navy? 1t is to protect her
commerce on the high seas? Where
are the seas and what the commerce?
Then, let alliances organize, let
labor unions organize, let trades socie-
ties organize, let oranges and wheels
and farmers protective associations
and let all these organizations
combine and when combined call TO r
a hearing and settlement with the
cognizant and as well as with hidden
powers and springs, and mainsprings,
which all stand combined on the other
side, and which have held the innings
long enough -