The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-26
The aaiea naiu eagle SUNDAY 9aorimg october 2e

! but the mistakes that can be seen now
looking ar it from safe distance OF
| twenty-five years-by somebody VINO was
! not there
Fellow citizens. we are asked TO believe
/ that the government of the United States
| Is going TO do something that no govern
| ment ever did. and that, make Oolu 10
say, no government ever viii do. In order
to help people out OF an emergency, whlca
seems TO be the result of misfortune or
/ otherwise, Is going to lend money 10 the
people at per cent. or , per cent, or at no
( per cent: but N some way it Is going 70
I pay the mortgages. Lat me say whoever
wastes one day OF his time upon that prop
4 OSltion has detrauded his farm out Ot ten
\ hours good, honest work
In the first place, If the government ever
/ loans money TO one man it will loan it to
| every man who wants 70 borrow il. There
\ fore, all loans must be by the government.
/ Ii the government loans 1t. il must get il in
! one of two ways: Ii must levy it in the
/ shape of taxes on the people, or it will
print it. How do YOU suppose IL Is going
/ to levy it in the shape of taxes when the
majority of the people don't want to bor-
row it, What will the majority be doing
while they are enacting legislation to col
/ lect this money in the shape of taxeSs
! And. for example, suppose 1t did? 1t
would take year or two TO collect the
]
who wanted TO borrow it. what would they
! be dOings sitting around the street cor
ners waiting for it TO come Or trying
! to get appointed TO the Office OF dis
| tributing agents III it Is TO be printed,
and therefore issued without cost TO the
people, why of course we Will all Of US
| have plenty, because, il the government
can give Us money without cost, 1t Is Just
as easy to print a "a 900 bill as II is 70 print
| 81 bill. And heavens curses upon him
who wouh take a 81 bill!
Does any one suppose that il YOU and /,
and all otus, were 10 commit the govVn-
thnent TO the policy of lending its money we
would not be Asff1lfb ehoug Oh toefAtt men to
congress who would forgive the de1C2
Do you think il WOULD be. more respect
BILE forthe government TO Neil a'haf4A uu-
der mortgages than il would be To have
the sheriff sell it at the instance of a pri-
vate individuals Don't you know aud |
know that the choice things OF this life
the only things worth anything
labor aud with costg Are the mon
VINO do business in your town, the
successful men, the men who inherited
thar money? | venture TO say there is not
one in hundred of them that did not
make his own money. And as he made 1t,
dollar by dollar, or ten by ten, or hundred
by hundred, he grew in manhood : stature,
in the ability 70 take care of it; his percep-
tiOns widened, and he Is in every way
strengthened in the duties of good citl-
ZenShip.
1t is not worth while TO argue it, because
it never can be done; and there is no sensl-
bic, self-respecting man who would be will
ing to be tried on the question of sanity on
that proposition.
do not complain that these matters are
talked of, for men in distress will catch at
straws But | complain of the men who
set some things in motion to deceive
the people, that they in their dis
tress may be induced 10 forego
the labor with which they have
cultivated their farms IL Is not only
bound TO be futile. but TO end in leaving
them all. except those who take up the
collection. Just that much poorer.
1t has been q serious time in western
Kansas-in all of Kansas. And yet dur
ing my thirty-four years residence in the
state have seen worse, and l have seen
men get out of IL. just aS a man got
through Kanesaw charge told me today
on the train, as he pointed out the wounds
that the bullet made on his face. He
didn't speak Of that 10 lament his dlhguTe-
ment He stood straighter and higher as
ne told about that sacrifice and that great
service of his
And so | have seen men and communi-
ties in this state down in debt, over
embarrassment and bankruptcy put their
teeth together, tighten their belt, and win
the fight, and be glad afterwards almost
that they had a chance to make the fight.
SO | say now, the darkest hour Is just before
day. | venture the assertion that the man
who is living on his farm next July in the
state of Kansas, hopeful in doing his best,
will say. if he looks back TO his feelings at
this period, especially if he has been culti
waiting the blues, that he Is 100 per cent
better off than he is today.
One extreme follows another. We have
been in depression, partly the result of
bad legislation. We have had extravagant
state governments to u certain extent, and
local governments, made by the people
themselves, carelessly. inadvisedy or other
wise But they themselves have voted the
taxes. What shall they dO2 Try a new
eXpedient: waste time in trying 10 get the
government to do something it cannot and
will not do, as they must know; or shall
they do as the ScOtchman did who had
leaped hedge into an orchard TO get some
apples, and wheu he alighted found the
proprietor there, who said 10 him, Where
are you gohgt" As he put his spring-pole
on the ground 20 leap Back again, "
said he.
Now, fellow citizens. IL is the time 10
halt and 20 back again; but 10 i not the
time to launch into a sea OF uutried expert
the last state must be worse than the first.
| know some OF this may seem uugTacious.
/ do not mean IL 30. More than thirty
years | have lived in the state OF Kansas
and | have not through all that time
bIeathed a breath that was not loyal 90 n.
from beginning 10 end. ] saw the people
pass TO the west, and ! knew what they
had TO contend with on the frontier. !
was not surprised that many of them
came back, nor was ! surprised vixen
came down here 10 find that level headed.
industrious, sensible. hard working men
had staid and laid the foundations for
fortune.
Sometimes these men have made mort
gage and come 20 know how much easier
il is 10 spend money that is borrowed than
money that is earned. Let them. II such
there be. 20 back again J speak out ot the
fullnesS Of this experience, that Kansas
has stood by the men a. "A whole who have /
stood by her. and that the men who have I
stood by her in this time Of trial will find /
their great and exceeding scward in the !
near future.
The country is on the thres hold Of better 7
things. The government Of the United T.
States, administered by the Republican 4.
party, will do its part, A. 10 ha. promised /.
10 do and has done At the recent session ot I
congress. And then every individual has /
got 70 do MS part No mau can /
tune j. 10 he mAde by some direct apphca- .
tiou Of government bounty. but be must 4
realize that he is in the swim. and must 4
take that which comes 20 all alike
One other thing has disturbed me. (
know shall b. accused of partisanship- /
not always, but now. The wonder 70 me I
has been that the farmers of Kansas. level 1
headed, industrious. Intelligent, from the I
north. should have made - -pift an ALI 1
ance with tte organization known a. the I