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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
THE SERVICE PENSION BILL.

| If the Kansas congressional delegation
| are disposed to carry out the wishes OF
| their constituents they will exert them
selves to pass the service pension BILL
| AUchson Champion.
There seems to be considerable pressure
| from many quarters in favor of the
passage of the service pension bill intro
duced by Mr.. ingalls,. Tie proposition,
as a proposition, seems grand and
natriotic one. But there is a difficulty
in the way. of which we have seen no
solution. The bill would nearly guadru-
pie the present pension appropriation, or,
in other words, it would take one hun
dred and thirty millions of dollars an
nually to meet the provisions of such a
bill. 1t would necessitate an increase of
the revenues of the country in sum of
about third of million dollars per
day. Where in the world is this money
to come from? Already the farmers
of the country, owing to hard times,
are demanding reduction Of the tariff
and a decrease Of internal tax,
which prayer, if granted, will not only
wipe out the surplus, but necessitate a
topping off of many present expenses,
including the river and harbor enter
prises. Where and how are three hun
dred thousand dollars per day extra to be
raised. We see one fool editor suggests
the coinage of silver dollars to that
amount. But he don't suggest where
the silver is to come from, or who is TO
buy it. The mines of the world do not
produce such an amount over and above
that already put into coin. NO doubt
the Republicans in congress are anxious
to do everything desired by the soldier
patriots OF the country, SO long as they
can see a way to do it. But if we are to
cut down the tariff and tighten the reve-
nues in the interest of the consumer, IN
the interest of the poor man, then how
can we at the same time raise one hum
bred and thirty millions of dollars per
annum over and above the immense
sum now raised:
This is asked in no captions spirit, but
in one OF honest inquiry. For our own
part, we acknowledge, that after think
ing the matter ever since it was first
suggested we have been unable to see
how the industries Of the country
could stand such burthen, or even COM
prehend how such vast sum could be
raised without an industrial and tinan-
cial revolution. Will the Champion,
who talks so confidently, please tell Us,
and also inform the delegation which 1t
calls upon for action, we assuring that
paper that no one will more gladly ad-
vocate the patriotic proposition than
ourself if we can but be made to under
stand that it is feasible, or even possible.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
a PROMINENT KANSAS FARMER
SPEAKS
EMPoRIA, Kan, Feb. 12,

EMPoRIA, Kan, Feb. 10, 1890.
Hon. NJ NJ MURDOCH Wichita. Kan.
Dear Sir-I wish to endorse your criti-
cisms upon the present conditions of our
country-especially the agricultural de-
partment of it. / feel that.when editors
and proprietors of our leading journals
speak out boldly and expose wrong doing
in high places they should be endorsed
by all the people. 1t is not difficult to
see to what and whom we owe our pr s.
Encouragement ruin, financially. Sen
ator Stewart tells US that we are in the
midst Of a monetary famine, brought
about by the holders of realized wealth
In Europe and America in the shape of
interest bearing securities, organized in
a secret conspiracy to rob the labor of
of the United States of the first rewards
toll: this speech was made two years
ago. Senator Plumb tells US, March q,
1888, the same thing, though he at
tributes much of the difficulty to the ac-
ton of the national banks in retiring
their circulatIon-correct, too. Then
comes a multitude of trusts and COM
bineS which no man can number,
all organized for the express purpose
of taxing labor. Professor Walker, in his
work entitled ''The Science of Wealth, "
tells us THAT we have the English sys-
tenn OF taxation adopted in the United
States, which is the most intricate sys-
tenn the world has ever devised, a system
by which labor may be taxed TO the
verge of starvation and not be able to
determine wherein they are taxed at
all. The system has effectually robbed
to death every people, tribe or nation
where it has been applied. When the
East India company first set foot In In
dia it found one OF the richest, most ad-
vanced, as well as happy and prosperous
people on earth, but how is it now: Rob
bed of wealth, lands, homes, of liberal
manhood: starved to death by millions
every few years as the result of the
English system of taxation, the indirect
but most effectual method of robbing by
taxing. We of the United States Of
America. as wealth producers, have
been robbed of more wealth in the past
twenty years than any nation on earth
was ever before robbed in century, and
| think it would be safe to say 1000
wears Who has the S34 900 .0o0, 600
which is claimed TO have been added to
the wealth of the United States since
1870: Labor creates the wealth; but no
one will claim for a moment bat we, as
a class, have become very poor and OPP
pressed in the last nineteen years.
Yours, truly,
p. 3. NAXON,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE Law

THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE Law.
From the Kinsiey Mercury.
1t may be broadly stated that when
any law fails Of enforcement for any
reason and remains upon the statute
book dead letter, whether throughout
the jurisdiction of the enacting power or
any portion of it, the whole body Of the
law has received blow more or less Sc
rious, according to the Importance of
the law and the extent of territory IN
which it has fallen into ''innocuous des-
uetude."
The fact that one law may be violated
with impunity tends to throw all law
into disrespect and to encourage law
breaking of every description. Under
every form of constitutional government
the law making power that would have
its laws respected and obeyed has been
chary of enacting laws that the senti-
ment of the people would not enforce.
For, after all, it is the sentiment of the
people that enforces laws, not the
Judge and the sheriff. The jury
is the court of last resort
upon every question Of fact that arises
in criminal prosecutions, and unless the
conscience of the people approves law
no jury will convict man of violating
it. In England, when there were 10
offences punishable by the death penalty,
it became impossible, when the con-
science of the people had outgrown this
barbarity, to convict an offender OF the
minor crimes, and parliament was
obliged to modify the severity of the
penal code to meet the awakened
leniency of the juries.
So it is with the prohibitory law. To
have it upon the statute books, and fail
of its enforcement to any considerable
degree, is derogation of all law, and
we have a right to demand that it shall
be enforced or repealed. 1t will not do
to say that it is as well enforced as the
law against larceny, no man ConBersant
with the facts will say that.
No man doubts that larceny is crime;
many men doubt that liquor selling is,
even in Kansas, and SO long as that Is
the case violation of the law against
LIQUOR selling can not be punished with
the CELEBRITY and certainty that viola
ton of the law against larceny can be.
1t is not in the nature of things that it
should be otherwise.
For this reason, if no other. we have a
right to demand that the law be en-
forced, not here and there, or now and
then, but every month IN the year and
every day in the month, in every coun-
ty in the state. and in every township.
If it be answered that ia some counties
it can not be enforced. then that is a
potent argument for It's RELOCATION to
local coutroI, and an abrogation of that
system under which the state undertakes
to regulate matters of purely municipal
concern.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

Mr.. Murdoch, of the Wichita EAGI Z, can
step out OF the ranks and taste of the al
Turing fruits by the wayside, aud get
quietly back into line again with grace
and ease unexceiled by any Kansas man.
All in ali Mr.. Murdoch and the EAGLE
would be sorely missed from Republican
ranks in hansaS.-Lawrence Journal.
\ ''cruSt and contentment there
with may be all well enough for the
hopeless slave, yet they lack the fat
producing elements. There Is no dan
ger of the EAGLE being lost to the Re-
publican party of Kansas: still, however.
and nevertheless, there is no sense in the
Republican party Of kanses dying OF in
anition, with stall-fed kline without
number and herds In abundance upon
everv hand 10 be had for the taking.
Again. it is wholly g question of what
constitutes the Republican party. The
EAGLE does not believe the headers TO be
all there is of the party. nor that disa-
greement with their methods necessarily
consicns conscientious member 10 the
tolls OF obstructive Democracy.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

A Minnesota farmer says: 81 can make
more money raising hogs at cents a
pound than raising wheat yielding thirty
bushels per acre. An acre of clover will
support eight hogs, each of which will
gain one hundred pounds in a season,
making an income of $24 an acre. |
save expense of seeding and threshing,
and at the present price of gram my hog
crop comes out far ahead of my neigh
boris wheat or barley, even in favor
able season for grain When we con-
slider that far several years hogs have
brought from to E cents per pound and
grain has proved a failure at least part
of the time, it is easy to see why some
farmers have prospered and others have
fallen behind.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

Senator Cullom, the author OF the in
terstate commerce law in the shape it
was enacted, admits that the long and
short haul clause has had the contrary
effect TO that intended, that is, TO increase
instead of lower rates; in view of which
he thinks that clause Will either be re-
pealed or amended 50 as TO cure the de-
feet Better wipe out the nuisance al
together. Instead of renredying evils it
was ostensibiy designed TO, it has ag-
gravated them and has proven a serious
detriment to the commerce of the coun-
try. If congress wants to do the people
a real service in this matter, let it re-
move all barriers to healthy, legitimate
competition among the common carriers
of the country and prevent combina-
tons among them for the purpose Of
bullins rates. Do this, and there is not
much danger that the public viii suifer
from excessive charges, nor Yet that the
carriers will suffer from the other ex-
IRENE.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

The counties of Sedgwick, Sumner,
Cowley and Butler, the big -Four, pro-
duced last year 29,114,3 02 bushels of
corn, and 4,765, $50 bushels of wheat
enough to load Sc, 69S cars. These same
counties have 50.311 horses, 8, 1873 mules,
1913, 759 head of cattle, including mich
COWS, 1890 hogs, and 64,643 sheep.
Butler leads the state in sheep by more
than double, having 34,245, Cowley
county second with 10000. We doubt
whether there is another locality of
equal area on the continent, if ia the
world, that can excel this.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
A STRANGE INFATUATIoN.

In view of the great furore raised over
the opening of the Sioux reservation In
South Dbkota to settlement and the tide
of emigration that is pouring in there
from the northern and northeastern
states, a pen picture of the adjoining
territory of Wyoming, drawn by an east
ern man who mas just written therefrom,
will no doubt be of interest. He says:
"If Uncle Sam would give me a deed
to the whole territory. l would be like
the Irishman with the elephant. We
have lots of people here, like other
places. and think there is no country like
this, and l agree with them. What l
dislike is that nothing grows that Is
worth anything. The whole territory Of
Il, 0O0.00 square miles will not produce
as much as your county, mean
vegetables. 1t makes me laugh to my
self to see the 'tenderfeet' get Off the
train, set the glasses well out on their
noses and admire the beauties of nature
in the shape of Castle Rock. 1t would
do my soul good to see a watermelon
vine in full bloom Or a roasting ear
patch. At present rates of cold and
snow it is going to depopuiate the terri
tory az cattle and sheep. They are
starving by the hundred"
Couple with the foregoing the actual
condition of distress among the people OF
the Dakotas sent out almost daily in the
dispatches, and it would seem to be a
strange infatuation that impels people
thither with the hope of lettering their
condition. And DIT seems doubly strange
to US of this favored land when we note
the matches abundance Of everything
that the earth produces needful for
mans comfort and happiness, and in
view of the fact that the gates to this
Edenic section stand invitingiy ajar
with the word welcome Inscribed upon
the arch spanning the entrance. We can
only attribute the actions OF those infat-
uated persons to their eagerness to es-
cape their cramped conditions and sur
roundings in the bleak and steril' local.
tiles where they have hitherto existed.
and the absence of any proper represen-
tation to them of the advantages and in
ducements offered industrious home
seekers right here in the very beart Of
the continent.
AS soon as the present immigration
movement in this state gets IN position
to do so and begins active operations we
cannot but believe that the human tide
that is just now wasting itself as above
indicated will be turned this way.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

The Cherokee strip viii be opened and
along with it a number of other lands,
and territorial government extended
over the whole, Oklahoma and No Mans
Land included. Should temporary gov
eminent be given to oklahoma and not
TO No Mans Land, the enactment would
not be very satisfactory to the latter,
but it could get along a while longer
very well without territorial govern
ment, as its former course. tiattenng
when all the difficulties it had to con-
tend with are remembered, shows.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

\ thousand Indians are starving III
North Dakota. They are, of course, de-
pendent upon the government and it is
TO this cause that their misery may be
traced. Ii they were citizens, mingiing
with civilized communities, strengthen
ing their minds ami bodies by honest
labor and gaining their own subsistence,
they would beSet an Independence that
would not brook extreme poverty and
starvation. The namby-pamby Senti-
ment that the Indians were robbed of
their lands by white men and deserve
great commiseration is dying out The
greatest good that can be conferred upon
he red man Will be when the white man
gives him citizenship and ciyillzes him.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
The Farmers Condition the Best

4 TOM me Atcnf>o2 Diooe-
The farmers are not the only people IN
hard luck; the merchant who deals with
them has his share of II. When the
farmer does sell, no matter how low the
price, brings cash, but the merchant sells
on time, and some of them on very hong
time at that. The farmers ought 10
adopt the cash system In their alliances,
so that when they buv. they viii always
get the lowest prices. The farmers
through the alliance could also establish
assessment insurance companies. and
assessment loan companies and thereby
make loans and insure each others
property. The farmer can be Iradepelld-
ent in this WAY. for he Is the producer,
and the people are competed TO buy his
productions and if he can live without
giving AL the profits 10 the consumer
he can be independent
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
ERRATA.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
In my article in yesterdays EAGLE, IN
stead of reading, 1.-THE war was the
cause" it should read the war was not
the cause of the decline Of our ship
building and ocean-carrying trade. The
decay began several years before our
war, SO the war could not have caused
it. The war was contributing cause to
the continuance Of the decline and IN
preventing restoration. u"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

The IRISH mile 10 2.240 wards.
The swiss mile - .. 10 yard.
The Italian mile Is ! .7sS yards
The scotch mite - I So Yards.
The Tuscan fB.ie l. i.-5 yards.
The German mile u :, 100 ysgds.
The Turkish mile il ! .Ss8 yards.
The Arabian mile = 2. I43 yards.
The Flemish mile n s SO Yards.
Tire Vienna post mile ~ : IS yards.
The Roman mile il So or 2. 1f25 yaris
The Werst mile Is i .iS7 or / .557 ysrris.
The Dutch and Puiasian mile is s,&53
yards.
The Swedish and Darisb mile Is 1919
ysr3s.
The English and American mile y
1.759 yards.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
Knows How Il Is Done.

From the Kansas City Journal.
Seattle now appears in the weekly
clearing house report, and Seattle s
clearings for last week are recorded al
81 ,035, S31. or nearly three times as much
SIS Topeka'S clearings. We are inclined
TO believe that the Seattle clearing house
is making the bad blunder OF lying at
the very beginning of its career.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

Tuesday morning the Sioux reserva-
ton in South Dakota was opened and
within few hours the whole of it was
dotted with boomers tents and outfits.
New towns will spring up and new op-
portunities are offered to settlers. The
difference between the opening of Okla
homa and that of the Sioux reservation
is that the latter was a sectional excite
ment, the former one that engaged the
attention of the entire country.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

Since Bill Nye dissolved partnership
with Josh Riley in the lecture business
he might form more agreeable alliance
with Nellie Bly,, vino has just entered
the lecture field. Nye and Bly, would
make an attractive team.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

Leavenworth's Bandana club still eX-
lists, and has issued invitations to BAN
Duet to be given by it tomorrow night.
The Topeka Democrat calls for the or
ganization of Quaker Dat club IN that
town as a sort of offset, but the proposed
name implies too much enterprise to tit
tho caSa
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

A young Harvard graduate is getting
np a series of and 10 cent concerts at
Boston to keep the poor out of the sa-
looms. The admission tickets entities
the holder to bun and cup Of coffee.
This is a good deal better than writing
an essay on genealogical idea of the
solution of the totality of the compost
ton of phenomena In the universe or
learning to turn a double action back
handSnrinp
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

The result of defeating the Mormons
IN Salt Lake City is exceedingly prob
lematic. If the Mormons should con-
clude to desert the valley depression IN
real estate will be great, besides no peo-
ple can be found who could get out of
the soil of that valley as much of money
and of prosperity as has been wrumg
from 1t by that hardworking, economical
,,aanla
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

A few more such reductions, remarks
the Kansas City News, and the Kansas
farmers will be ruined. The grim irony
in the remark will hardly be relished by
the victims, in view OF their present
condition
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

The report of the Harvard university
saws that the best and greatest work Is
in the post graduate departments. The
best and greatest work is done IN the
post-post-graduate department - actual
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

England always makes great preten-
sions about protecting the poor savages'
The amusing part of it is that IN her
boosted zeal in doing it she usually an
nihilatcs the savage entirely.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

Plumb's proposition to extend the gov
ment of Oklahoma over No Mans Land
was q wise one and one which would
tend to force the strip open for settle
ment.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

What the country wants just now
more than any one thing else, IS one
hundred million more of currency.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13
EXCHANGE sEors
a Warning.
From Lf-,

How doth the little busy tee
Improve each shining mn utsY
Aad sometimes. too. be Las his iIr,
Bat, friead. don J0a begig IL
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

Ferdinand Wood. the great Democratic
leader and patron saint, died nine years
ago today.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

. The Cherokees have no fee simple title
to the strip and Ingalls, ought to have
known that fact.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

The packing house products OF wen
tia have begun to cut figure IN the de-
alterations of the traffic associations.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

Senator Ingalls, should post up on the
Cherokees' title to the strip, or rather on
their want of title.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-02-13

We have too many and they must go
money out Of them. There is nothing that W
what you can get IS per cent cheaper than
week only. Winter goods are slaughtered
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-30
TaE WEEKS sRoWs.

Lewis Morrison's Faust and Prinn-
rose and West tho Attractions.
The theater will be open but two nights
this week, it being Holy week. Tomorrow
night Lewis Morrison viii appear in
"Faust" This story of love d temptation
and punishment by ramorse is Immortal.
II is as old as the world, rs new as young
love. 1t can never fail to interest human
beings SO long as they have reason and
human hearts.
The New Orleans Picdy,tae Of March 10
says OF its production at the Grand Opera
House in that city: Mr.. Morrison's acting
IS perfect, his facial expression a study and
his clear and distinct utterance in reading a
delight. Rosabel Morrison, who plays Mar
guerite' with refinement and tender deli
cacy that makes it charming, is a handsome
young lady who inheritS some of the his
trionic genius Of her talented father. TIE
scenery for this production OF Faust
every inch Of 1t used here being brought by
the Morrison combinatIon-ls III every way
superior, and mechanical and electrical APP
phances novel and startling. Eacl scene
is a picture. The Broken mountain scene
is grand. An evening with this illustration
of the story Of Faust and Marguerite will
be well spent"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-30

A new lot Of Lamps, all kinds. fine line
Brass FIRE sets. FIRE Dogs and FeDders.
Coal Vases and Plato Warmers, second
lO,.
RodgerS English Cutlery, Carving Sets
etc. Steer Hated Ware, FORKS and Spoons
Sffs.
Dinner, Chamber, Tea, Fish, Game.
Salad. leo Cream. Examine our rich Cot
Cgla,s. Large yariety Il Art Pottery,
EDQiish. french, German, japanese ani
American.
Dolls AID Toy Tea Sets at reduced prices.
Plush ID q sing Cases cheap Our sale ~
Dioner, Tea, and Chamber SETS has bean
large, bat W. have Iois ieit, which VII -
N 4 popular prices, Doet ial - $40
silvsis ~ * o. loHef aad upper ho2Ts'
80 Isrought9B slgeet --Aaf,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-30
20 and 2215 Barnard Street.-Ad
Oddities, Alligators, Etc.

To do, or to be ultra or odd, is inherent
in the disposition of large portion of man
and woman kind. Bright colors and oddi-
ties for dress have always been admissible
in everything save shoes and boots. PRINT
tive simplicity. until within a few years,
has seemed TO be the rule in everything
pertaining to tue clothing for the feet,
ich has reached years Of discretion. Be
it odd or not. just the same, one Of those
fancy oozs Oxford ties, or elegant Good
wear hand welt boots. on q lady's foot will
surely be ndmired by an Observing eye.
You can see them displayed in the windows
at 1872 Broughton street. a magnificent
line Of straw hats for boys, and an unex-
&c ed variety Of ladies and cnildren's fancy