The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-13
and THE EAGLES CORRESPON-
DENTS.


SPIvEY, KAN, Dec. II, 1890.
To the Editor Of the Eagle
have been amused lately at some OF
your correspondents still singing the
Songs we used to Sing" still telling the
"Old, old story" God bless their bour-
bon souls, will they never learn?
Can they not understand that some of
our dearest idols have been broken, that
the juggernaut of an aroused people has
passed over and crushed them beyond
all hope of mending.
Let us see: one of your correspondents
with irrefutable logic and English fig
ures proves to us that as soon as few
/ thousand more eastern farms are de-
serted, wheat will be higher" In d
few short years we will be compelled to
import wheat" then the tariff will be
blessing to the farmers" as they can
take revenge on the poor devils who are
compelled to eat, in return for the exac-
| tions of the infantile tariff barons.
OF course the fact so logically set forth
that India with her 50,000.000 exports
wheat, cuts no logical figure in the case.
The further fact that our poor are get
ting poorer every day and like the peo-
pie of India must eat something cheaper,
cuts no figure.
The further fact, that the laborers of
free trade England. with only p 900, 900
of people. yet sufficient pay to be able to
buy the surplus wheat of lndiana's 2J0,-
600, 600. of our 90. 000. GOO. of Russias 100.-
600, coo and several other countries, cuts
no figure.
The further fact that the English are
willing to assist him in his logical labor
of love, cuts no figure.
Another one comes to the front. after
some time spent in looking up the mis-
takes of our South American neighbors.
and is more than ever convinced that
any more money in circulation would be
disastrous.
lie also is satisfied that protection has
come, to bless and to stay.
He speaks of the campaign of educa-
ton two years ago" as settling the tariff
for all time.
Saving further the reaction 4 month
ago may be called honorable O. by
some,' but he IS inclined to think the /.
people ''voted like pirates" though they I
talked like grangerS.
OF course they hadn't or'ter
But was it not really the elimination /
of the educational campaign" begun /
two years ago:
Did mt they do it a purpose;
Did they vote as though they thought |
they, the people, wanted more money
wider markets:
Not the poor, little rump, Chinese |
"home market" with al its cOncomit- /
tants of trusts. taxed necessaries. ruined 1
debtor. deserted farms, stalking power
". innumerable tramfs, bursted banks, /
stagnated trad, the strong Tending the /
weak, and the pitiful spectacle of a sec
rotary of the treasury tearing his shirt
TO save the wolves who had. in anticipa-
ton OF e passage of the unholv IcKin-
ley bill gOrged themselves with British
goods
If the people were dishonorable in vot-
ing as they did. have we not the sad fact
staring Us in the face that nearly two
thirds of them should he behind prison /
bars: And does not this fact show the
necessity for the passage OF the Federal
Elections Bill, so that Reed and Hoar
and Edmunds and other patriots may
correct their (the people'sl errors. their
worst in the decal0gue-
and starving the infants,
and clipping the wings OF the monopoly /
Of money:
Hoping you may find room in Your
catholic and liberal columns, always fair
and always power. ! am yours respect
fully, SURE ENOUGH KANsAN.