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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
SENSATION FROM THE PULPIT.

A Baltimore minister is making bold
bid for popularity at the expense of or
thodoxy. He has gone so far as to al
most defend Sunday baseball
MY hearers said he in a recent SER
mon, ''the American game of ball is not
in itself immoral or demoralizing. 1t
can not be successfully played except by
temperate men. Sunday can be abused
by the church just as we'll as by playing
ball 1t is an abuse of Sunday to gather
men and women together and tell them
that the bulk of humanity is doomed to
an endless hell. Far better play ball
than listen to these perversions of the
truth"
On top of this assertion comes the news
that Evangelist George D. Barnes, in
recent sermon at Richmond, KY, said
Bob Ingersolls article in the North
American Review stood unanswered, and
that the replies of all the distinguished
statesmen, lawyers and clergymen were
the merest wind.
Evidently the anything for a sensa-
ton" idea is working its way among the
ministers as fast as it is among the news
papers, and is even more to be deplored.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
WPY THIS WASTEP

Auditor McNair, Of the Interstate
Commerce Railway association, shows
The senseless waste INDUCED in by COM
peting railroads, especially in the passen-
ger business. As an illustration, he cites
the passenger traffic between Chicago
and Omaha. He says: THE four roads
contending for the passenger traffic be-
tween Chicago and Omaha run twenty
two trains daily and four trains six times
a week one way, and convey an average
of about 200 passengers Of all classes one
way" He figures that one train each
whole business and save 81, $40, $40 in
train expenses. IUnOw costs $500 to take
a passenger train between Chicago and
Omaha and return. The same figure and
waste apply between Chicago and Kan
sas City as they do to ST. Paul, except
that the cost of running the train is about
800. Mr.. McNair- believes the total
waste in this useless competition through
out the United States will reach $500. 900
600 annually.
II - NoillNllitttA ~ SOiliC ILleiI bilGlt -
no waste in the prohigate policy, that
the money thus expended is for oper-
ating purposes and goes into immediate
circulation through the hands of the
employees of the roads. But that is only
one side of the question. and while it IS
not denied it is met by the query of
where does the money come from: OF
course it comes out Of the earnings of
the roads and it is earned by increasing
the local rates of travel on their lines.
and also the rates of freight, which the
travellers pay in the first instance, and
the public in the second. The system is
all wrong and the principle on which 1t
is operated is pernicious III the extreme.
1t is a difficult question TO get at with a
law, but there ought to be some means
devised by which it might he ended. OF
a truth the railroad question is about as
perplexing as the tariff question, only it
is less universal IN its personal effects
upon the citizen and the community.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
White House Of Times 4 Ross.

acquired. a solidity and weight which
are wanting to his character, as he has
thus far shown to the public.
His order to display the national bunt-
ing from the dome of the capitol on the
Fourth of July was a righteous order. 1t
is strange that no one of the vice presi-
dents, or pro-temPore presidents of the
senate, ever thought OF it before, Mr..
ingalls, deserves full credit for his act,
and the new sargeant-at-arms of the sem
ate, for the suggestion. All honor TO
both of them! The conceit that the dis
play of the national colors above the cap
itol should be limited to the sessions of
senate and house. was the merest Pigment
of congressional vanity. The flag should
never disappear from the roof OF that
holy of HOLES, which, at once a fortress
and a temple, shelters those en-
bodiments of our civil liberty, the legis-
lature and the judicature, on which the
hearts and hopes of the people are per
petually fixed.
Among the many mistakes made by
the leaders of the south in their mis-
taken attempt to establish a southern
confederaCy, there was none more signal
than the abandonment of the stars and
stripes TO the Yankees. In a sectional
we had as much right To it as
they. The gun that fired upon the flag
rang out not alone the death-knell of
slavery, but the doom of the secession
for it united the northern
people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
OCEAN RACERS.

The White Star steamship Teutonic
now ranks with the City Of Paris as the
second vessel that has crossed the At
lantic in less than six days. The record
of the Teutonic Is over two and half
hours behind that of the City of Paris.
but her captain figures out that she
steamed more miles than her competitor.
and therefore is entitled to be considered
the faster boat. This claim. the New
York Star thinks, viii probably be holly
contested when the City of Paris gets on
the ocean again, after the repairs that
she is undergoing are completed. But
isn't this last statement in the nature of
a compromise of the claimed advantage
possessed by the fast steamer: If these
ocean racers must undergo repairs,
doubtless necessited by the strain upon
the vessel 10 break the record, thus re-
ducing the profits of the trip and also
losing time from service. true business
economy as well rs greater safety 10 its
passengers would seem to demand 4
lower rate of speed. If the contest for
supremacy between the two vessels is
continued, look out for an ocean horror
shortly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
GIANT ENGINES.

From the Topeka Democrat
The "J.W. Strong the huge IocomO-
tive engine recently purchased by the
Santa Fe, has Just completed its first
trip over the eastern division, having
taken the san Francisco mail and ex-
press west Saturday, returning last
night. This engine was invented bvJ.
W. Strong and built at the Schuectadv.
y. y. locomotive works. 1t is sixty feet
long. weighs sixtv-scveD tons, an :
warranted TO pull train of fifteen pas
senger coaches eighty miles an hour. II
cost the Santa Fe SIC, 900, and it Is stat
ed that SIX more of the same kind viii
be constructed Immediately.
The drive wheels are set under the
center Of the big double boilers and are
five feet, six inches in diameter. The
engineers cab i Immediately over the
drive wheels and az least twelve feet 10
front Of the fireman's cab. The engine
runs at but little more than the usual
cost Of running passenger engines, and
Is calculated 70 create somewhat OF
revolution in the rate Of speed over
Kansas lines The Strong VIII run for
awhile between Kansas City and NICker-
son. and Just a soon as improvements
are made IN bridges and culverts. Be-
tween this point and Chicago. When the
others are completed and IN operation,
the Santa Ee proposes 10 run them BE-
tween Kansas City and Chicago and re-
duce the time from fourteen huTs 10 tn
hours
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
THE EAGLES PRINCIPLES.

The Wichita EAGLE defends the Repub-
lican party against Democratic charge.
The EAGLES preiudices are all right if its
principles are not.-Emporia Republican.
Yes. it is a pity about the EAGLES
principles. The EAGLE nearly two years
ago took up the Kansas freight question
as dominated by the Missouri river bas-
ing line foolishness, out of which came
all the subsequent discussion and action
on the question and which is now about
to eliminate in a decision from the inter
state commission. No other paper in
the state dared to discuss the subject or
to make the demands made by the EAGEL
at that time.
The EAGLE was the first paper in the
state to boldly attack the trust and
! combine principle which was running
rampant into everything and over every
body-the first paper in Kansas to de-
mand of the Republican party legisla-
ton for the masses as well as for the
classes. Now these papers are all at it.
The EAGLE was the first and only Re
publican paper in the state Of Kansas
that dared raise its voice against the
Mckinley bill and for free coinage. For
that ''break" every leading Republican
paper in the state of Kansas denounced
the EAGLE as having gone over to the
Democratic party, head, claws, tail and
feathers; yet hardly four months have
elapsed when three-fourths Of the people
of the entire state are with the EAGLE
on the Mckinley swindle and for free
coinage, and so will the papers soon be
which were doubling our loyalty to
party.
The trouble with the Republican pa
pers of Kansas will be found in the fact
that the EAGLE declared that the people
of the state had right to a rehearing
on the prohibition question, and that I'M
less the Republican party conceded
such right the Republican party would
encounter rebellion and defeat. For this
declaration the EAGLE was at once de
clared to be heretical, by the ring organs, !
and by the political bosses and by Office
holders everywhere; and. but for the |
fact that the EAGLES editor had never
boIted or failed the Republican party in
twenty-seven years of editorial work he
would have been summarily read out of
the party, and read out by fellows who
had all more or less frequently kicked |
clear over the traces themselves.
The EAGLE is not asking anything of |
the Republican party in Kansas, and |
further, when it comes to those matters |
which it has denounced in the name of /
the rights of the west, and to battling for
the simplest rights of the people, as
against the schemes and jobs Of the few,
we snap our fingers in the faces Of all or
ganS of all bosses.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23

The run on the bank of the govern
ment at Buenos Ayres has ceased. In
vestigations have brought to light very
novel method of banking. The minister
OF finance has publicly admitted that
clandestine issues have been in circula-
ton, embracing notes of the issues cur
rent before the free banking circulation
replaced them" 1t is admitted, too,
that these clandestine issues were author
lied and endorsed by the minister of
finance. 1t is urged in excuse of this
breach of the banking law that the ex-
IRENE necessity of the case authorized
the action. The Buenos Ayres Standard
says: ''All the financial troubles have
been due to reckless banking and abuse
of credit. The new minister of finance
is determined to put his heel on this
kind of thing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23

Governor Boise of Iowa has pardoned
MUnchrath, who was convicted OF com
plicity in the murder of DR.. Haddock
and sent to states prison for four years.
He had nearly served out his term. but
this does not save the governor from Sc
we're censure for exercising his clemency
in this case from some Of Haddock' ;
jealous followers. They would have
had the full term Of the sentence served
out and the convict thus outlawed a a
citizen. II Is a rrite old saw that circum-
stances alter cases. and this may b. one
IN which the extreme penalty was not
only justified but demanded for the best
interests Of the community
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
PRIVILEGE VS.. RIGHT.

The treasurer of Maryland stole s15O,G0 of the
money He plead guilty ana mas Pee
$4,000 a year. There are plenty OF men who would
CKan,j Republican.
Perhaps so, and if so it needs no argu-
gument to prove that the communities in
which they hibernate were infinitely bet
ter off If they were thus separated from
honest people. And we doubt the re-
straining effect upon those 50 inclined by
the publication of declarations like that
quoted.-Wichita (kan.) EAGLE.
The first of the above paragraphs is a
good example of the ideas of conducting
a newspaper which some editors possess.
If only something can be said that will
set the unthinking into laugh, it makes
no difference how absurd or injurious
the idea advanced may be, when sub
jected to sober, serious thought.
The author of the paragraph probably
wrote the first thought that came
into his mind, after noting the lightness of
the sentence, and that fact is contirma-
ton that among mortals second
thoughts are the wisest." The second
paragraph is an example of thoughts
that grasp the true situation and fOresee
the evils which such ideas might work if
allowed to 90 unrekuked. There is
tendency in the times to sheer at
honesty and uprightness of character
when placed in the balance against
wealth, and the conductors of news
papers, who are the moulders of thought
for the nation, should be careful that
none of that evil tendency is traceable to
the influence they WELD. Money is a
good and useful thing to have, but
man who can walk the streets uprightly
has something which is purchasable only
with years Of right living.-Lynn, Mass,
Transcript
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
THE VEIL LIFTED.

a few days ago the EAGLE stated upon
what it regarded as authentic informa-
ton, that the Democrats of the southern
states had corralled the Alliance. That
statement is confirmed by the following
from the Charleston, IS. c. World:
IF in the various states the fact was
recognized that Democracy must cult
vate and retain the most intimate rela-
tions with the agriculturists, as in that
way alone can the Democracy hope to
discount the powerfully organized vote
which the Republican party is welding
together by means of pensions into
solid mass to use in 1892, we would not
in any southern state try and keep out
of politics those who can best help us to
draw to the Democratic national stand
ard, the Republican farmers of the west"
The situation in the Palmetto state Just
now would seem to contradict the state
ment that the Alliance and the Demo-
cratic party are one and the same even
in the south, but when we come to I'M
derstand that the wrangle there is be-
tween factions in the Democracy over
which shall have right-of-way, and that
they all ''stand in with the Alliance the
delusion is dispelled. 1t remains to be
seen to what extent Kansas Republicans
are willing to forego their political con-
victions and party affiliations in order to
secure an intangible something that
promises no substantial benefits even if
secured.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23

The letter to Mr.. Frye" says the New
York sun" is the most important and
valuable letter Mr.. Blaine has written in
the whole course of his varied and vicis-
sitdinous career. Its political conse-
quences are matters Of speculation. but
its practical craftsmanship Is not subject
to question" Perhaps this explains why
some persons were inclined to discredit
the contents Of the letter. but Mr.. Blaine
does not seem in the least alarmed at
the possible consequences in any contin-
cency; ne Acknowledges that he indited
il with his own proper Stilus, and affixed
his signature thereto.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
ONE OF THE ONE HUNDRED BEST.

From the indianapolis News.
THE world has not taken Stanley at
his real worth. He has been a man
physically able to cope with the elements,
the world has said, but 50 far as being
a literary man the world has not needed
him. He now cOmpel5 the admiration
of those who admire a fine, clear nara
tive, In Darkest Africa being no clum-
silly rendered sketch book of a traveller,
but the vigorous story of a noble under
taking nobly told. Without waste Of adj
iective the explorer is always vivid. and
without tedious iteration of the personal
pronoun retains his personality. And
withal these two magnificent volumes
are text books in heroic endeavor; they
bring us face to face with a man who
has had the sublimest courage.
Grant paused at the gate of death al
most to give Us the wonderful story of
his life; Sherman. the grim American
Won Moltke, surprised Us by his nara
tive; that most genial of testers, Joseph
jefferson. to cite another modern in
stance. Is giving us ingenuously and
the story of his life. Stanley
has further verified our faith III art
springing to the aid of men who dared to
DO something. He has written d book
that must go upon Ruskin's catalogue of
books for all time
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
CUT DOWN THE PUBLIC EXPENSES

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
Who is responsible for this state of af-
fairs? In the last proceedings of the
commissioners of Harper county, bills
were allowed the sheriff of that county
from eighty-five to one hundred dollars
for each trip land there were severaD for
taking convicts to and from the state
prison. Also for taking insane persons
to the asylum. Why do the people con-
tinue to pay their public servants such
prices, for doing what could be procured
to be done by good and responsible per-
sons for one-fourth this amount? The
actual expenses in making these trips is
about S25-the balance from fifty to
seventy-tive dollars is the profits. Would
not the actual expenses and say five dol
lars per day be more just arrangement
between the people and the peoples ser
want? Again everybody knows Cat least
most of u.s. how expensive it is to get a
case through the district court. A case
appealed to the district court from a JUS
tees court if dismissed the day after APP
pealed will cost the litigant from ten to
fifteen dollars for the appeal. This is
certainly not as it should be-
Would it not be good idea for some
of our refOrmers, and our alliance
friends, to insert a revision of the fees
so that the officers will not be quite so
desirable, and so that a man in Office
will not get five times as much for doing
a certain service as he would get for the
same thing if private citizen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23

The Hill organs are still trying to stock
up on the alleged incident at the unveiI-
ing of the Hendricks monument at Indi-
annapolis recently. notwithstanding Mrs.
Hendricks has denied most emphatically
that she played the part ascribed to her
They are now engaged i'll getting the
opinions of the noted women of the
country in regard to what they term
Mrs Hendricks nomination of Governor
Hill. But unless the women could be
counted on to lend substantial aid at the
polls we fai. to see what benefit this CON
sensus Will result in to any candidate
except in Wyoming.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
WILL IT STAND.

From the Topeka Democrat.
United States District Judge c. G.
Foster says regarding the original pack
age matter now before the national house
Of representatives: Il presume that
congress will shortly pass a law, either
the Wilson bill or something of that ma
ture, giving the several states the right
to regulate or prohibit the introduction
of liquors from other states. When
that has become a law the next question
which will arise TO plague the courts in
these original package cases will be
whether that act of congress of its own
force and effect will validate and put in
operation the prohibition laws of Kan
sas, so far as the importation and sale
of original packages is concerned,
or whether it will not require
some further action on the part of the
legislature of the state, passed in pursu-
ance of the act Of congress, before the
importers of and dealers in this class of
goods can be punished or interfered with
for engaging in that business. This pre-
sents a very interesting legal question,
and upon which, Of course, have no
opinion to express, as trouble comes soon
enough without anticipating it. |
am informed. also, that some lawyers
claim that congress can not constitution
ally delegate this power of regulating in
ter-state commerce to the several states,
but must hold and regulate this power
itself"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
The SIZE Oft

Fro-- ne AtetIs1l FatF1.t
II appears 70 10 that Topeka has
worked the prohibition racket about
long enough, and that the people ought
20 begin ~ understand that she works r.
for profit. Il is a Bag thing for Topeka
boarding house,. newspaper. and people
generally 10 have two or three couven-
tons every month, ard il doesn't matter
whether the meetings are in favor q
prohibition or against H. The de1 j. Is
get the people ~ come 10 Topeka and
-peud their mourv there. Every bi=
gathering d people hold in Topeka &
big money IN her Tocket.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
What PiqueS Them

From the Winfield Courier.
The Winfield Courier comes out in .
column article in favor of Bishop Per
kins for reelection TO congress. There IS
no doubt in Ed Greer's mind but that
Bishop Perkins will get back again all
right. but he wrote it just to pique the
opposition. Wichita EAGLE.
True, as to the first proposition. but
not necessarily correct as to the latter.
The knowledge that Bishop W. Perkins
VIII be reelected Is what piques the OPP
position, and the opposition Is Demo
cratic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
Lake Pepin

I0Il I-lE N7lI1l3sI IFIUILlF-
The waters Of Lake Pepin are very
deep. In some parts it Is said the
soundings reach ninety-five feet The
lake Is really q widening OF the Nissis-
sippi river. Beginning about thirty
miles south Of the mouth of the 81.
Croix river il curves around Ike a biE
letter - from two or three miles ii
width ana fourteen long. The Missis-
sippl river flows into and through Il,
and at Its lower end the Chippewa joins
It's current 70 the Father Of Waters.
\ number Of pretty villages line the
base Of the bluffs on the shores Of Lake
Pepin on both sines. Tie west bank L
in Minnesota, the east IL Wisconsin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23

The six largest cities in the world are
these, and the cities and the figures of
population are for 1890, being, except in
the case of New York, estimates based
on the increase in the past twenty years.
New York's figures are from the census
just made public: London, 4,250,0 900;
Paris, 100000; New York, 1,513, 600;
Canton, 100000; Berlin, 1900, 600;
Toxic, 1900, 900; Vienna, / 100000.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
INGALLS, AND TIE FLAGS.

Henry wa,;srs0z Z Csszrlsr goeg--ai
Il i not always thai I ind myself AZ
issue with senator Ingalls,. On soma
points We are IN occasional agreement
The senator is DO fool. and If he could
bring himself 10 trust more 70 his aoill-
us and lesa % partisan clap-trap. he
would add TO the reputation q indlsput-
able briliance and spirit which be has
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
WILL ABIDE THE RESULT.

Senator Bentley. in an interview in
the Hutchinson News. sums up as fol-
lows:
while I would sacrifice not a little TO
rid this state of prohibition, am in IA
vor of making a square out AMI out fight
for resubmlssion plank IN the next Re
publican state convention and abiding
the result.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23

a recent invention con >ists of a fender
for street railway cars run by electricity.
1t presents a platform capacious enough
TO receive a victim so unfortunate as to
be caught upon the track before the car.
At slope before it is heavy four-ply
rubber betting, pliable enough TO pass
over paving stones and similar objects,
but sufficiently rigid to prevent an arm
or leg from being drawn under the
fender
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23
Yea Verify


7 ~ -" ~ I-IlHI-
General Clinton =. Fisk. last Prohih3-
ton candidate for president, died sud
denly, ~ New York. We.lne-dav fore
nom. Whenever l. Pieaaes God 10 take
ms pEedecessor 90 the ticket the people
Of Kanszs are PREPARED 20 cay. The
Lord giveth. AID the Lord t4keih aWay
Blsssed b. the nAule u The L0Td.7
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-23

The Boston Advertiser says: "Down
where, all sentiment aside, they appre-
ciate fully that it is not Louisiana, but
the rest of the union, which supports the
lottery, while it is louisiana that profits
most by it And all sentiment aside
everywhere, that is about the facts in
the case.