The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-01

( not sell for as much as they paid for them
In the fall of 1881. under a Republican
administration. we sold twO-year-Old steers
for SO a head; in 1855, under Cleveland IS
administration, we sold equally as good
steers for 50 a head while now. under
HarrisOn's administration, similar stock
sell readily at from S2S to $33 a head and
every prospect of their going still higher
During the last two or three years, you
could hardly sell farm 1T any price in
the state of Kansas. Now, there are buyers
going into Kansas with the view of invest
ing.
Every farm that | bought had TO per
cent. mortgage on it; but, at thattim I'M
der Republican administration, with fair
prices for products, farmers could pay the
| interest on their mortgages, and, II not
able 70 pay the principal when due, could
sell their farms and have something left TO
invest elsewhere. During Cleveland ad-
ministration, foreclosures have been nu-
merOus and many farmers have been
stripped of everything they had.
While the Mckinley bill Is not ali that
| is desirable, yet, If that, or something
equally good is passed and confidence fully
restored, you will find that prosperity VIII
again return, not only 10 the farmers Of
Kansas, but 70 all sections OF the country.
1t seems to me that when you say the
Mckinley bill does not impose p single
duty which viii help the Kansas farmer,
that you could not have considered its
measure carefully, or you would not have
made such "A statement.
Secretary kusk, in answer 10 letter
from Congressman Springer, Of Illinois,
makes the following statement:
In considering agricultural products
which we could raise under favorable con
ditiOns ! Of course excluded from con
sideratIOn the ninety millions representing
tea coffee and cocoa, but Of the TWO
1. 4 1-s . fs q
/ imports remaining. ! can see no reason
why some $40. 90, 900 or $50 0O,0 600 should
not be raised on American soil. provided
we secure our farmers adequate tariff pro
lection"
OF wool alone, we bought sl7 900 OO0 ~
foreign wool growers last year, the largest
portion OF which was carpet woods, on
which the duties are too lOw to admit u
its being raised with profit here The
Mckinley bill increases the duties on this
class of wool We also paid e., 60 90 for
foreign free hides which. with sufficient
protection, our farmers could easily pro-
duce u is true that the Mckinley Dill
has left the duty of from hides. and takes
il of from sugar, but because there are
some imperfectiOus in il. j. no reason why
we should make general onslaught On the
whole bill
Your Pronunciation 81 eastern manu-
factuTer- and the Atlantic money centres
VIII DO neither Wichita nor kau-az and
good What would Wichita aad Kansas
BE- today were IL not for the eastern capital
that has gone IN there and built her rail-
roads, her manufacturing industrle-. aud
her Wholesale establishments When the
yTes' attempts 20 bEht the east b ia max
ing q BIZ mistake especially when e does
il Ira the interest 81 fore IN manufacturer
and importers, and foreign merchants and
producers
The free traders and ths tariff reform
Democrats have taken a1gaufzce q thsde-
preston 20 all kinds ~ husine-- trouZ ht
about b. Cieveland's admluisrssf on. aud
have made many farmers q TIE wet lee
lleye thai TIE bard times auG sCw prices
were caused by CuF hign duties oB foreign
PRODUCES. while the true cause nas been
the want % adequate Trotecflou - hons
products due % Cleveland and h3s par
during their admiB sztrae.OB, aud their f
forts 20 destroy .gch protection Farmer
Alliances have ben organized AL ever the
COUNTRY, aid a tariff reform r.suE iasls teen
inserted ~ their platform egld9rssuZ the
very unsSzlFe that has hsau The prime
cau~e q the low prizes q farm groducts-
an sorry 70 learn thai the EAGLE tzs
been caught IN this tariff reform free
trade net. ! hope tie whtaksF FIng and
the Golden ciub. ALA the TG-ih Reform
club, aIi2s the View IoTk Free Trade club.
alLa- The Auzwum2 DsmocracT, are not
going % esptare the EAGLE and put 4 10
their cage and make pr bird Of T. u
they d.. note the pTsdscf4o8--A bird -
scFoe other color VIII light dgEu ia
Wichita. that VIII come % the dstsuse
q tie party that demands adequate pro
i@cfioa 70 ali American industries AID
good wages for tire working class "a THIS
c0uatry. and II TIE EAsLE - nos toutzd a
dead cock IA the pits IL viii certainly -
IL EinZs clipped 81 Ioas =1Eze - IL tai
feather before the agns - over-
IL tie Mckinley bIlI a1d the s4lgsr bill