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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
SARGEANT MCCARTHY.

Hon. Tim Mccarthy, auditor of state,
came up from the Sumner county camp
fire Friday evening and spent the night
and yesterday morning in the city.
While here he paid his respects to the
EAGLE by making its eyrie a social visit.
He is the same frank, urbane gentleman
that he has always been, and as courage
Gus as the day he boldly walked out in
plain view of the rebel sharpshooters
down on the Chickahominy, below Rich
mond, and across open ground back to the
Union lines, on being relieved from eight
hours continuous picket duty, preferring
to take his chance of reaching the lines in
safety to crawling through the mire and
slum of the swamp in way to escape
the enemy's view. 1t may not be amiss
to add that the enemy, who had kept
up a ceaseless fire up to this time, were
so struck with the manly courage Of the
act that not a shot was fired at him, and
from that time that most trying Of war
experiences, picket dueling, ceased at
that point on the lines. Sergeant Nc
Carthy's war experiences and record is
nor much dissimilar to that of Jim Hal
Iowell's, the boy colonel.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
TIE BuTTERWORTH BILL
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
The passage of the Butterworth bill
controlling the enormous wind sales
of American farm produce will be a
great boon to every producer from
American soil 1t will prevent any more
stuff being offered than the holder and
owners of such produce desire. In this
way supply and demand will again come
forward and fix values, which the far
mer, for years past, has not been able to
do.
1t Is estimated that the farmers of the
United States have lost one hundred and
fifty million dollars per annum from
what they would have been able 10 re-
ceive for their produce were option deal
ing andsales by non-owners controlled
or prevented.
Now seems the proper time for con
gress to come forward and stamp out this
evil. as far as they can, by licensing and
taxing. This law, gong into effect, will
give courage to capital TO come in and
buy all this produce and carry it for an
advance until consumers need It. without
the continual fear of being showed under
by cHques uttering and selling their
promises to deliver what they do not
own. and which they do simply with
view of overlooking and depressing the
market
How VIII the bill regulating and con-
trolling option dealing in American farm
produce effect the planters in the south
and the farmers in the west:
Ii viii prevent any one on the New
Orleans. New York. ST. Louis, or Cmca-
20 boards of trade selling cotton or west
ern farm produce that they do not own.
This NAV draw the purchaser of cotton
out into where the cotton Is grown to
purchase II. but we think they viii be
enabled TO get one cent per pound more
for their cotton when they know that no
one can sell wind cotton against their
actual product.
There Is no question but what ~short
selling" Of cotton loses the south the
value Of one crop out Of every seven
grown.
This i Il very serious question. and
should think would meet with the sup
port and Endorsement OF every southern
and western congressman.
Under the ButrerwoTth bill the farmer
can mortgage his crops, and the owner
can appoint any agent he chooses TO sell
his cotton for present or future delivery.
but the man who has none planted and
none in store. and : not the agent for
any one. he can not sell his promises to
deliver. which he does simply with .
view Of depressing values by these very
large sales being offered IN larger guam
titles than viii find buyers, consequently
prices decline. and the short seller IN
a month or two i enabled - bur hack
his promises 10 deliver at a handsome
decline ia values which furnishes him a
round profit.
Some parties NAV say that when there
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
A BUSINESS BAROMETER.

The New York Financial Chronicle
complies the earnings Of 1J8 railroad
companies for July, and the total figures
show an increase over the corresponding
period of 1889 amounting to almost 8
per cent. One hundred and thirty-One
roads show gains averaging II per cent,
and twenty-seven roads losses averaging
81 per cent. The New York Tribune
complies the earnings Of siXty-One COM
panies for the first week of August, and
the showing is gain of s per cent COM
pared with the corresponding week of
1889. FOrty-eight companies show gains
averaging over II per cent, and thirteen
losses averaging over per cent. The
railroad tonnage of the country continues
TO bear testimony to the unprecedented
volume Of business.
The showing presents an anomalous
condition. The statement shows some
Of the roads earning dividends while
others are operated at q loss. The first
is positive proof that the rates of charges
are high enough to serve the interests of
the road, while the second would seem
to indicate that the rates attempted to
maintained are below the profit produc-
ing standard. AS to the losses, how
ever, a plausible explanation may be
found in rate wars that have from time
to time occurred, the roads showing
profit in the business done not being in
volved in them. Strikes and other labor
complications have also been factors in
bringing about the adverse results.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
GODDARD APPLIES THE ROD.

From the Kansas City star
Chairman Goddard has recovered his
mental poise and is timing the roads right
| and left for violations of the agreement.
The illinois Central is fined for issuing a
half fare permit to a student in Addison
college at Cedar Rapids. who was at
tending normal school instead of the
theological. \ penalty of one first class
fare between Cedar Rapids and Chicago
was assessed.
The Santa Fe charged the Alton with
having made, in July, reduced rate be-
tween Chicago and Joliet of 10 cents for
a first class limited ticket, whereas the
one IN effect was 80 cents. Goddard ad-
Judged the Alton guilty of violation of
agreement and assessed a penalty of $500
The Alton charged the Wabash with
violation of agreement in having cut the
rates between Chicago and Jacksonville
for the occasion of the encampment of
the Illinois Sons of Veterans and sold
tickets at 50 each for the round trip. the
round trip being $3.50. The Wabash adj
mitted the charge. As the other roads
suffered by the Independent action of the
Wabash, Goddard found the company
guilty, and decreed that it should turn
over 10 the association an amount equal
to what it would have earned by the car
riage of the Sons of Veterans between
Chicago and Jacksonville if the full
agreed rate of $3.50 each had been
charged. The Wabash carried $50 per
sons at the So rate and the penalty
amounts to 81. 33750.
The fines will not be paid voluntarily
and there is no way by which the asso-
citation can compel the payment All it
can do is to let things drift or put the
road out of the association.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

year or two the work of that character
would be so well advanced that the
necessary amount to carry it on to COM
pletion could be reduced gradually until
it would reach a nominal figure. In
stead of that, however, the amount asked
for each session has steadily increased
until now, with the exception of
the pension account (Which don't
count any mOre) the river and har-
Dor appropriations comes pretty near
heading the list of appropriations for a
single purpose. This is simply shame
full, and it is going to raise a howl all
over the country that will prove to be
very unharmonious music.
The people, that is large majority of
them, are not opposed to public improve
ments, but heartily favor the policy
within reasonable limits; but they do not
approve of policy of profligate waste
of their money in this or any other direc-
ton. At the rate of increase in the
yearly, or bi-yearly appropriations for
rivers and harbOrs (Which in many cases
Is but another name for jobs that has
prevailed for several years and up to the
present moment, it will not be long I'M
til the amount asked for that purpose
will approximate the pension account.
1t is not only the province but it is the
duty Of congress to exercise the strictest
surveillance over all appropriations, and
unless that body performs that duty
with greater scrupulousness, not only as
to rivers and harbors, but all other OBJ
jects, tidal wave will swept out the
present makeup and tide in new set.
The country has been promised retrenCh-
ments i'll public expenses every year for
a decade, and the reform of certain
abuses in the public service, but instead
of fulfilling these promises the thing has
constantly grown worse, and-the truth
might as well be told--that is the cause
of the present universal unrest in the
popular mind and the strong inclination
to break over party lines and try means
of admitted doubtful expediency to cor
rect the evils complained of.
The present congress had been in ses-
sion long enough to have done much in
this direction and it must be admitted
that but little has been accomplished.
But it is not too late yet to do so if there
be such a purpose. Two months remain
until the opportunity is gone, and if it is
not improved now the chances are that
it will not again be given the present
majority party to do it; certainly not to
a majority of the present house of repre-
sentatives-and the senate, too, as the
people shall have the opportunity to re-
place them with others.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

Tea and coffee rank among the worst
narcotics used by civilized peoples Al
cohol may be placed at the head of the
list. tobacco next, tea and coffee next
and then opium. ! do not mean TO say
that in IN individual instance the use
of tea and coffee is usually TO DO regarded
as worse than the Uss IF opium. but that
the aggregate Of evil arising from the
use Of these narcotics IS very greatly %
the side OF tea and coffee.
Both of them contain an AkalOid
known rs theme or caffeine The sub
stances are identical IL each and the two
names arise from the fact that two die
fereHt chemists We're making analyses
about the same time, the one on tea and
the other on coffee. aud each gave Q
name 10 ms own discovery. Ii is n curb
ous coincidence that the same substance
should be found IN the seed of the coffee
tree auj IA the leaves OF the tea plant
the one growing in Arabia and tho otha1
III China. DR.. !. IL. Kellogg Lecture
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
KANSAS CITY, THE TOLL-GATE OF
KANSAS.

The time has come when Kansas
should stop paying tribute to Kansas
City. Why should one city of 10000
people dictate to state with / 800, 000
people what rates shall be made on its
productions and so direct the shipment
of its product as to pay toll at this one
point as against all others? That Kansas
City cannot do the business Of the state
on an even basis with all other points
in the state, is acknowledged by its bust
ness men.
The best evidence of their inability to
do business at even rates is the fact that
they were compelled to put on line of
steamers on the Missouri river in order
to force the railroads to cut their rates.
The interstate commerce commission,
if compelled to acknowledge that a river
can be used to reduce the rates of
freight on railroads, they are
in duty bound to extend
those benefits to all sections directly in
terested in the traffic carried over that
route. But that city like Kansas City,
which is not a consuming market but
merely a toll gate, should be allowed to
use a river as club over the railroads to
force such rates as will compel Kansas to
pay tribute to that point is preposterous,
and should be remeded.
The question of discrimination is what
the interstate commerce commission
have to deal with, and that discrimina-
ton IS made against the state of Kansas,
this commission is cognizant of.
The reason that the rate Of 75c per 100
pounds on packing house products from
Wichita, Kan. to Fort Worth, Texas,
a distance Of 325 miles. is made, to COM
pete against 45c rate to New York, d
distance of 1000 miles, is because the
commission have not ordered an adjust
ment to be made But it must be done
justice demands it, and Kansas will not
rest until it is done.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

II Is great deal easier ~ understand
what Is being sad when we have some
idea q what The speaker IS likely 20 say.
Persons VINO ere making taeir hrst visit
- q bank and are unfamiliar with the
directions which are sp. 10 - given
them sometimes hear very croozeGly IN
their beziide-meut.
An VIII ye tel me where Is the eel
lar windy inquired q woman Of one Of
the officials n Boston savings bank
Last week
The cellar window What do you
want Of the cellar window: There ism :
any that know Of, 90 replied the aston-
Ishcd gen. lugu.
Wei. told gte gintleuan OYER there
that I wanted Ter 1--we Kay money here,
an he saId. .Ta-seI ter tue cellar windy,
al I'm Iook!n' FUR It now
On ye-. ! see. tine next window here.
That's the place yol want and the
quick wl.ted and ezperencsd o@cial
pointed - -le te.ers window
Net lsnz af-e-warl ne same gentle
man was agproaclei with tA-s inquiry:
Where Is the telegsouez
We haven't Eot telephone. Per
haps. If you GO
But ! thought there was one hsyei
/ want 70 pat ny money IN il. / was
told
All yes. zee. this next window Is
what Won are looking for. and one more
dspositor was safely p.lo:ed - and made
acquainted with tbs te.-ers window
Youth Con pa-lo.-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

Il VA IN thzt parsof tls hotel fHrthane
bsn0vod frufa toe street fi<s III stzrs
lsy took up Rs ABIDE. Hszs h hasa ,
fne suite q FDons en- ths gEOorAGoo7,
v1J handsoEaely faTE4shsd IA css GIt
sutzl Style 4 large. KY raoe1o17
room and "a egzAgy lsrEs aod hszdk
so<ns dining re0z.- La thsss he rers4vsd
soans Of tie most important CT mot px1
rist--t u LIS may callers. but - g r1na
he saut hIuse4 up n hls Ssdrooz. sn4
thsro rs v-r0ts from e&xiy ElezIdrg 70
lzts a. EiT4f. sd 400 os-L1o Euy ors
who vertursa rzz-sked INTO t1lS sarE1uzz,
lie vsry rEe3y went ct. sTsa fer q
styul rUard tee gardsz.
His vhols hear aud so1i wsrs CEN
terod On ais ~ozk he hsd -. hsEnzztl
. csz1ain tax. zrs1 he had dztxr1nxnsd -
oGnplets il % rs eTeiuzaon q s~wxr
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81 have 50 uaz1y pagez 20 vita IknGzs
tnzt y J D. u. cJaplsts slzss wcrk ~ Q
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duties are Irapossd up0a Ens. saG2
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& a--a-u gslslser1, then I XII tax vita
yo1. --7~.1 VIZ yo1 saf play with yUa
- fzae 7s1-h yo1 u ycu- hra-s's coztezas,
-: les re z.C-s uoE. fer Heaysu,s
tx ~ Las. a. 12zzt1a "a acr1S1sz1s-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

/ remember an instance when | was e
DR.. Depews house at o'clock one even
ing He was Ia deliver one Of his moss
important addresses that evening at 9
O'Clock. lie had not written hne>of IL
He talked l',sUrely with me as If there
was not % thought on his mind. AZ 7:f6
o'clacE Ua went into Ei, library; At 7.Je
O'Clock l.e was reading over has manu-
script eJIrriy Ia has own writiIgl In
ten minutes more hs was wheeling
through the streets 20 the hall, and ut
$40 o'clock he was on his feet taldnsA
glancing at MS manuscript only three
times during the entire address Of fortyA
five minutes duration.--Buffalo CourieA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

special car always got so. He neve1
gave less. whether the time was . dag
or a week, and never gave more. Il was
invariably q fifty dollar bill. President
Arthur always gave the porter twu
twenty dollar notes or two twenty doh
lar gold pieces. He was also liberal -
other minor railway officials. President
Hayes useI n special car pretty often
He tipped the porter g. When Garfield
travelled special the porter sot Only -
and considered himself lucky - get that
Garfield was always very close about
money matters. He saved money whila
III congress on . salary that few others
were barely able 10 live upon. Pitts
hnrg DISPATCH.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
THE TAN ON TIN.

Brief reference was m de in these col
umns a day or two ago TO the tin in
dustry in this country and the new mines
and proposed mammoth plant in the
Black Hills country, with the observa-
ton, intended to be made in a facetious
way. that this Is one of the infant in
dustries that demands to be protected. =
The Lawrence Journal-Tribune quoted
the paragraph and made the last sen
tence a text for quite an extended dis
cussion of the proposition on its merits.
We will not quote the its article, for
the reason that it Is N substance in line
with the EAGLES position on the ques-
ton. with which its readers are of course
familiar. The Journal concludes its ar
ticle with this statement: The ques-
"tion of tin is one in which every man in
1.-The country is tOa greater or less extent
interested and it Is cheaper now to pay
1.-TWO or three millions in bounty than to
pay fifteen millions in duties.
This Is a statement of an economic
proposition that is simply irrefutable.
To the beneticiarieS there Is no difference
in the effects of the two methods so long
as they may remain in force. The rea-
son why the bounty system is objection
able 10 them Is because being more of a
direct tax upon the people its effects are
more noticeable and a demand for its
discontinuance more likely TO be made
and acCeded TO at any time
The question involved is a momentous
one and demands serious consideration.
and for this reason our esteemed cotem-
porary was misled into taking our refer
ence to 1t. in the paragraph referred to.
in that strain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24


The Wichita EAGLE thinks Senator
Plumb ought TO know what he Is talking
about when he discusses tin plate. a. he
ate off one for number Of years after
coming 10 Kansas. But the senator's plate
then cost him ten cents. Now. owing 10
the effect Of protection he can yet two for
q nlckel.-Emporia Republican.
Precisely, and the senator might have
made that, in so many words, the basis
Of his argument for a lower rate of duty.
The tariff-granting that Is what did it
having brought the price down to a rea-
sonable figure Is not needed longer. Ii
the removal of the duty on tin plate Will
have the effect of raising the price, then
it Is unquestionablv TO the interest Of the
infant industry in this country that it be
removed. Tweek. brother:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

His Holiness Pope Leo XIII does not
consider the ne - tobacco as n vice, cls9
b. would scarcely nave conferred tina
Golden Eoss on 70 InyetcTsts and oons
frmed vottrles OF the weed as Qusea
Christina aaa the eI-crown princess 4
Brazil Indeed there IL every reason 70
believe that. like many ether enlightened
spirits. BE- rtllyis the objection 70 cigaa
cites IS mere smoke after Rn.-Paria
Letter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

The Newton Republican seems TO be
grieved at heart at the departure Of so
many Republican papers of this state
from the faith once delivered to the
saints, so TO speak, on the tariff question.
Really the esteemed has the EAGLES sym
in its present predicament. As far as its
moral lecture on consistency applies to
the EAGLE, and we presume ii Is in
Guided in the class of truants referred 10.
we can only say, though not in an often
sive sense. that wise people sometimes
change their opinions, but fools, never.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

The counsel VINO defended ths Ru.gtan
nihhsts recently seAtenoed ia FrzncS
said: People may call them u1SdnUs
Yes, perhaps they are; bat IL - huStzs
nate for "a that there were siu1lzR
HAdHea n France. Tor 20 soch noAdzuEn
we owe the liberty sad JnztSes e1zsr~a
enjoy IN $50 The prsaens D~dmRQ
dream u procuring thu same bAezz4pEs
for the.r country ChicAge Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
Rare Consideration.

London Letter
George Meredith. the novelist. looks
younger than ms years, which are g.
In addition to his novel writing he Is a
reader for a big firm OF publishers in
London. He Is the most iudulgeut of
readers and often enters into c0rrespou-
dence with the ambitions authors and
gives them advice. He Is the more
disposed To DO this bv reason Of mis- own
sad experience, for when he began his
literary career lac encountered the most
terrible prIvations. being AT one time 30
utterly poor that for months he lived on
oatmeal, being unable % afford any
other food.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
Evading the ave and No Vote.

From the New York sun.
Twentv-six millions for rivers and har-
bore, with an unexpeuded balance Of
$1,000, 900 still remaining frcm ;he last
appropriation bill,
And this, as Senator Edmunds pointed
out. in the full knowledge of the fact
that at the end Of the present fiscal year
the treasury deficiency j. likely 10 be
$50 900. 600, even if the sugar duty IS not
abolished.
No wonder Mr.. Edmund- does not care
to bear his one-eighty- share Of the
senate's responsibility for such mad ex-
travagauce. No wonder the senators
who cLeerfuliy and almost hilariously
passed this bill Of doom did not care 10
90 on record in an aye and no vote.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
THE LIMIT IS REACHED.

The river and harbor bill now before
congress appropriates about So. 600. 600
for that ostensible purpose. \ few wears
ago when the amount asked for was
about half as much the people held up
its hands in alarm and protest AZ the ex-
travagance, but they were promised that
if that amount were expended then, in a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
Correct Advice.

Charles and George have both pro,
posed 10 me. I don't know which z
take"
us George richT'
mo He has e. 800 a year"
How much does he EpendF'
"SI 800"
How much has CharlesZ-
$50. COO wear"
Bow much does he spendY'
1912 eco"
Take George '-Harper's Bazay.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

Can the EAGLE prove that there has been
one direct importation of foreign goods TO
Wichita within years-Fort Scott
Yes, several. But if there had been none
it would not affect the question of Wich-
tia being the proper place for a port Of
entry to be established for the conven-
fence Of the state, for the reasons re
Gently set forth in these columns and
which 1t Is not necessary to repeat now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

is no actual cotton for sale and parties
are anxious to buy some, that they
should be accommodated. They can be
accommodated by those owning the
growing crops, but they can not be ac-
commodated to the extent of tens of
thousands of bales Of cotton at prices
that do not please the producer or his
merchant.
And what is true of cotton is equally
true of tobacco and wheat and corn and
every other product of the farm.
w
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24
Here's Sma-tCess.

From the T0peka Capital
Commodore Murdoch Of the EAGLE
and Charley Finch Of the Lawrence Tn
bune are talking about the ACCESSIBILITY
OF Kansas farmers planting wheat Tins
l. all right for an old tar ike the com
modore, but Finch ought 10 tse enough OF
a farmer 10 know that wheat Is -'Sowed.
not planted, IL agricultural parlance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-24

The comment of the Sumner County
Standard, whose editor was secretary of
the Pratt convention. upon the action of
the convention and the present political
outlook in the district, Is contained in
this brief statement: AS this Is emin-
emily farmers year the chances are
favorable for Hallowells defeat