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Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
REFORM IN THE TARIFF NEEDED.

ANTHONY, March 6, 1890.
To the Editor OF the Eagle
1t today's paper G. Wood Davis takes
up about two columns attempting to
prove, what no one has ever disputed
that prices are governed by the law of
supply and demand. 1t is self evident
proposition and needs only to be stated
to be admitted.
However, before Mr.. Davis understakes
to prove that the present low prices Of
all kinds of farm products are caused
by the workings of this law of supply
and demand, 1T would be well enough for
him first to see whether or not it Is still
in force The fact is this law was re-
pealed in 1861 and the sectional discrimi-
nation law was substituted in its place
and remains in force 10 this day. Mod
ern politicians do not like the old name
and so it is now called the protective tar
iff law. You ask how does this later
law control the supply. and make in-
operative the law of supply and
demand! The answer IS, it
restricts the ordinary supply of
foreign manufactured goods, and thus
throws the mantle of protection around
the American manufacturers, while the
American farmer IS left shivering out in
the cold, TO take care of himself az best
he knows how, unprotected. Beginning
now from solid foundation. and argu-
ing from law now i'm force, instead Of
from one that has been repealed for
nearly thirty years. we find ourselves in
a position to talk inteligently.
Hence as the Law of supply and de-
mand is not now in force as las been
shown and as all will admit, the theory
of overproduction as causing the low
prices of farm products is no longer ten
able
The question then is what does cause
the low prices.
The answer is, were il not for this pro-
tective tariff law the natural law Of sup
plv and demand would be operative.
This would place the price of home man
ufactured goods on a par with foreign
manufactured goods. and while this
might not make the farmers corn worth
much more in dollars and cents its pur-
chasing power would certainly be great
" increased 10 the markets Of exchange,
which to him would be equivalent 10
raising the price This being true, farm
ing would pay better, and consequently
there would be greater demand for
land. and hence the price would be ma
teriallY advanced. The Law Of suppIy
and demand, you see, works all right,
bur the trouble j. i Is not ia force. and
50 everything goes wrong. Having
shown. now, that the law ot supply and
demand Is not ia force. we are in
q condition TO show up the falIacy
of the "hen theory" cf Nr.
Davis in which be attempts TO show that
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
EMPEROR WILLIAMS SPEECH.

The Emperor William of Germany
made a speech at banquet in Berlin
Wedndnesday night that may have some
significance He intimated that he had
about bis dominion to learn something
traveledof his people, something of their
situation, their needs and their feelings.
This would indicate that the younger
man has some conception of the power
of public eentlment. He may even have
a comprehension of the fact that in
these days not even an emperor can
safely defy or disregard that power.
His course toward the Socialists, indeed,
may be inspired by what he has learned
of his people. Emperors and kings
have sometimes gone to ruin through
not knowing the temper of their people.
The most significant thing in the i'm
perlal speech was the remark, "To him
who is with me, / am grateful, and
shall know how to cope with him who
is against me-" What does this mean:
Is 1t an implied threat? Who is it that
the Young emperor evidently thinks is
against him? There is much disapproval
of his policy toward the Socialists.
Several German princes have protested
against it, and the czar of Russia is said
to be dissatisfied with it. Does the en-
poror refer to any of these, when he
hints at the danger of his being attacked
and declares his abiding faith in his gal
liant army? There are good many of
the elements Of disturbance and revolu-
ton in Europe. A very little thing may
excite them to activity.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
RHODE ISLANDS POLITICS.

The Democrats have nominated a
state ticket in Rhode Island. The cleo
ton will occur in few weeks. The last
election in that diminutive state was of
indecisive result. There was no choice
of governor, an absolute majority being
required to elect, and prohibition can
didate polling few hundred votes. but
enough to bring down the Republican
candidate to a mere plurality. The leg
islature was Republican by a small ma
jority and SO elected the Republican
nominee to the goyernorship. This was
the first election held after the removal
of the property qualification to the right
of suffrage. That act very considerably
increased the number of voters. And
the Democrats claimed that the vote
showed that the little state was no
longer hopelessly Republican. They will
probably contest this years election with
the idea that they have fair chance of
winning, and will make vigorous fight.
The result will therefore be awaited with
some interest. 1t will decide how Rhode
Island is TO be classed politically hereaf-
ter. 1t will also indicate the political
tendencies. 1t will be the first popular
expression of sentiment regarding the
course taken by the Republican majority
in the lower house of congress. 1t will
be an indication of the drift of opinion
on the tariff question. For once the
election in the liliputian state will be
Of national interest.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Two more stone quarries have been
opened at Guthrie.
Tuesday the Democrats have a territorial
convention at Oklahoma City.
4 vein of coal forty-two inches thick has
been discovered north of Ell Reno.
There has been Sl,263.Go paid for city
printing in nine months By Guthrie.
There has been So, los s. collected from
capitation taxes in Guthrie since last April.
Oklahoma will celebrate the z2nd of
April 1t will be the Oklahoma fourth
of July.
"a city that is set upon hill can not be
hid, and Noble says that is just what ;
the matter with it.
Milton Reynolds says Edmond is the
Abou Ben Adam OF Oklahoma towns and
that it keeps music on tap
Oklahoma has caught old winter in the
act Of setting smack into the lap OF spring
And the Ole scoundrel continues 10 stay
there.
The city schools Of Saltwater closed a
five months term las; Friday. The city
still has in It's school treasury, after paying
all debts, enough TO pay the expense of n
three month term.
Frank Smith, a young man who has
been working on the farm OF !. l. Bon
hannah. on Llttse river, IN OkIanOna, dis
appeared very TDysterIousIy last week.
Foul play IS suspected.
An Oklahoma opinion from the Noble
Courier: "Jo1n Jacob Asror died recently
in New York he was worth si30. 90. 90,
but ne never enjoyed II as does the average
honest eader with 100 acres OF rlcL OKLA
homa dirt, and no contest"
Ia postal matters Saltwater has been
made the distributing point for che Pau
Handle. -Four stage lines are now run
ming. w. between saltwater aud OTIHn
do, Saltwater aud ingalls,, saltwater gGd
Window and Saltwater and Perkins.
A man fired pistol of on Grand avenue
in Oklahoma City The other evening and
the bullet entered barber shop aud de-
moished mirror. Upon ;his the tonsoTIsi
artist rushed Gus. grabbed the miscFsant,
Topped lam over cD bis back and shaved
bis head With the back Of Els Oice2s.
One OF the busiest persons IN Oklahoma
az the present time Is the settler who -
iaborlng hard 20 establish bifaself and
family IN their new home ia this oeautifui
laid. No one but these who have tried
living on aud improving a government
claim can realize bow much sabor - nsc~s-
ssry 0efose comfort can DC gained. Money.
time and much Labor is Necessary bat T..
viii pay aud pzy we'll 10 stick 70 tie
claim % Oklahoma Norman Transcript
Signs Of sprinc time from the Hsnnesssy
Courier.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

The prehibitionists declare that they
will not support the Republican party in
Kansas next fall; the alliance don't pro-
pose to be governed by Republican party
nominations, and the resubmissionsts
say that until tine Republican party gives
them a chance to vote again on prohibi-
tion that they won't vote with the Re
publican party. 1t seems high time that
the Republican party were satisfying it.
self of the truth or falsity of these re-
ports, and If found true that its leaders
take the necessary steps to satisfy the
forces composing the stronger of the or
CARNATIONS.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

The name of that distinguished states
man, Senator Blair. viii not be perpetu-
ated by his great educational bin. for the
measure Is doomed to defeat. but it will
always he preserved in human memory
rs that of a man who made the longest
and duiiest speech in the whole history
of oratory. His recent speech in the
senate is undoubtedly entitled 10 the
cake in these two respects. 1t took him
eight days to make it. and it fills 1aS
closely printed columns in the Congress
sional Record. 1t was wearisome be-
yond everything ever before heard even
IN the senate chamber. The worst of
the matter is that he isn't through vet
that is he wasn't Friday when the senate
adjourned for the week.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

The officers of the Illinois State
Grange announce that they have seen a
straw binder at work that was brought
out by their oifer of $40 900 for deed
for such an implement. The machine.
they say, worked satisfactorily, and they
rendered the inventor the money offered
for the patents of the machine, but he
declined, as he had better offer If the
machine Is a success it is worth more
money than that, and the inventor will
probably make nearer a round million
from it. In fact, the farmers of the
country could afford to have him make
million out of it, for it will save them
many times that amount in very few
years.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

f'What / Know About Trix" is not ex-
ectly the title. but it is the theme of a
serial now running in the Atchison Cham
pion. daily, and deals in short, crisp,
pungent paragraphs on current Kansas
matters political, both as to persons (by
intimation) and practices. As between
the editor of the Champion and the ed
itor of the Emporia Republican, it is nip
and tuck which shall succeed to the
leadership Of the Kansas Rebellion, erst-
while credited exclusively TO the account
of the editor of the EAGLE, but who has
long since been distanced by several of
the ''presS gang"
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

George Francis Train is actually on
his way to Tacoma, Washington, where
ne proposes TO start on his trip around
the world, in which he expects to beat
Nellie Bly's time. The chief danger of
failure for him is the liability of being
stopped as a freak. II he could by any
fCrtuitous circumstance be sent to keep
company with McGinty this country
would be prompted to put on its best
suit of clothes.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
The Blovintor segelnR.

From The NeWton NeVNblCtu.
Until Chicago was given the worlds
fair it ridiculed the impecuniosity Of
New York and boasted of how IL could
run a fair out of its own capaclous and
well filled pocket; but since the white
elephant has been awarded 20 II the
ploviating city has begun TO ask for gov
ernment and state aid. IL viii get
neither, and there viii probably be no
fair, in which event nothing will be lost.
The time viii be too short to prepare ex~.
hibits and places for their exhibition,
such as a celebration of the kind ought
have
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

The New York sun considers Governor
Horace Boies ot iowa as - poor sort of a
Democrat \ Democrat being a poor
sort Of thing and BoieS being a poor sort
of a Democrat. the people Of Iowa who
want to be governed are necessarily in a
poor sort OF a situation. But thev will
know more eventually. Late muuIcipal
elections show that the era of improve
lnent has already set iu.-Newton Repub-
hcan.
As to quality this may be gratifying
enough, and is, if the Improvement" in
quantity. indicated by the returns from
the said municipal elections, is to have
anything like permanent or long contin-
ued sway. But the promised improve
ment is the only thing about the situa-
tion up there that is the least consoling
10 Republicans.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
Glorifying the west.

From She ChlsagO Herald
The population, the wealth, the splen-
dor, the political influence and the cul-
ture Of America are about 10 center in
the Mississippi valley. with Chicago as
the metropolis. The predominating in
fluence Of the east over the destinies of
this country is about 10 cease forever.
In the near future the seat of power. II
not the seat Of government. is to be not
far from Chicago. The victory Of Chi
cago, therefore. Is the victory Of the
west. and her honors are the honors Of
the west. 1t IL the great Mississippi val
ley which won the day and which Is
about 10 rule the world.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
Rum and Ruin.

trOTa itle y DoFa10 Heplifiicsfi.
a Lawrence woman who takes a great
deal Of interest IN the third party move
meni, and mounts the platform on every
occasion TO tell how rum j. running tbs,
home, has boy who Is going n he'll BE-
cause be has no home. lie j. an idler
and Ioafer. and spends MS evenings
around the drug stores with the smell %
Gardiner seeds. JOINT whisky and lunch
counter sandwiches on his breath. 81
wears good clothes. when everybody in
town knows he never carmel q cent il
his iife. Yet his mother - trafnping up
and down the state lay after day. telling
aox whisky j. running the home. Whisky
never gets a show Al home tili tas
women begin - negiect II.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

Hypolite is not having an altogether
serene time of 1t in Hayti. His govern
ment does not run along SO smoothly as
to make its conduct simply delightful
pastime. He sometimes wishes he had
let Legitime alone with the troublous
concern. He has no assurance as to Just
how long he can avoid another upsetting
revolution.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

During the last month or six weeks
the EAGLE has admitted TO its columns
almost unlimited range to the discussion
of current economic questions. This has
been done upon the idea that in the mul-
titude of counsel there is wisdom. Not
one of the many articles published, per-
haps, has met the unqualified approval
of the editor as being conclusive in its
reasoning and statement of facts, but all
have contained many strong points and
valuable suggestions, and their publica-
ton can not fail to be of advantage to
the readers and the community, if the
good in them shall but stimulate all to
prompt and intelligent action for the fu-
ture. 1t Is only by comparison that we
can discover errors and mistakes and
provide against them hereafter.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

An early repeal of some Of the pro-
visions of the interstate commerce law is
not improbable. 1t is thought likely
that the present long and short haul
clause will be modified, if not entirely
repealed. Under the present arrange
ment export business is limited, and
large stocks have accumulated in the
west on accountof the decreased demand
for shipment abroad If the whole thing
cannot be wiped out the changes sug-
gested will probably afford some relief.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

After all the talk about the granaries
of the world competing us IN grains 1t
remains fact, nevertheless, that Kan
san can beat the world in the production
of beef and pork and mutton and horses
and in poultry
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

An exchange says: "Messrs. Hohen-
zollern and Bismarck are still sitting up
of nights getting returns from the recent
elections, and trying to figure out how
to declare victory in a party loss of
about IS per cent" They should send
over to this country for some Democratic
political experts to help them out. Then
they would learn how easy and simple
the thing IS
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

Some of the irate United States sena-
tors who object to what the press say
about them want to abolish the gallery
for correspondents. 1t would be great
deal easier, if the issue were raised, to
should retaliate by ignoring these would
be-autocrats, there would be nothing
left of them. Imagine the grief of Sen
ator Blair il he could not get even his
temperance speeches printed.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
ExCaANG E SHOTS.
Kansas Sugar.

rom the Kansas Farmer.
The Medicine Lodge sugar plant and
ground cost $l25. .i42. and was COM
pleted September -. 1889. A part from
the bounty the profits ON the seasons
work Were s., ,Si6. This is not big money,
but 1t is at least as good return as AN
experimental industry should be ex-
pected 10 make at the start. Pluck aud
patience Will win with beets and sorghum
m kauzag
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

The Topeka Capital declares the resub-
mission orators to be public nuisances
and advises them to go home and stay
there.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

During hail storm in Texas the other
day hailstones fell to the depth of SIX
inches. Nothing on small scale Is
permitted in that state.
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

Fifty millionaires were counted al
John Jacob Astors funeral. Did not the
occasion have some suggestions of the
vanity of earthly riches?
Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09

The California illustrated World oE
San Francisco. as a sporting and dra-
matte review. IS unique and very clever
publication, filling on the Pacific coast
the position occupied by the illustrated
wesklies OF its class On the Atlantic
coasE. II Is making the most Of the VIC
tory achieved by its champion. jim
CorbeFt. over JAKE kilrsin. AMI very
clever showing il makes. too.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-08-29
Daintily Designed Napkins.

Housekeepers have lately found pleas
ant pastime in the decoration of napkins
suitable for use with various dishes. There
are fish napkins, embroidered in tiny shells,
sea weed and coral; egg napkins, embroid-
cred with chickens in shades of yellow silk;
corn napkins, with ears of corn partly I'M
covered, the grains showing; biscuit and
potato napkins, with nonsense rhymes en-
broidered in the corners, and other nap
kins too numerous to mention. They are
used of course to cover the dishes contain
ing the article to which they are dedicated,
to keep it hot until served.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-08-29
THERE WAS No Roy.
She Thought Herself Beautiful.

The logged purpose of the Russian was
eloquently shown in the steadfast lips of
Marie Bashkirtseff and there was the sign
of her high, quick temper and impotence
of all restraint in the slightly inflated nos
trils.
An idea of her coloring and expression
can be best given by quoting some of her
own naive expressions:
MY hair is the color of gold l am
white and pink, pretty as an angel-or as a
woman"
"Oh, my God, feel that am beautiful"
81 look like Beatrice di Cenci"
MY complexion looked absolutely daz-
cling and so delicate, so soft, the cheeks
scarcely rosy; the only strong points of
color were the lips, the eyebrows and the
eyes"
And this precocious, radiant, misunder-
stood genius, filled with boundless ambi-
ton and unreasonable egotism, lived only
long enough to leave in half a dozen paint
ings a promise of greatness as an artist.
Her splendid illusions, her visions and
plans, her alteration of her own beauty
ended at "a. What might have been an
unparalleled life for woman faded into
an epitaph on tomb.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-08-29

LEssING's SKETCH OF THE CLIMBING BOY.
considerable ability as an artist. While at
Gaya they witnessed the performance Of
An expert Indian juggler, who caused
plants to grow, produced boy from under
blanket, cut him to pieces, brought him
back to life and then sent him climbing up
rope to vanish from sight in upper air.
The young men made record of the
strange things they saw, Mr.. leasing using
dis pencil and Mr.. Gilmore his camera.
When the artist and photographer COM
pared results they found that what their
eyes had seen the camera refused to record.
Said Mr.. Gilmore in recent chat with q
Chicago Tribune reporter:
"Lessing's sketch shows the tree grown
from the bush, while the camera shows
there was no bush there. leasing saw a
baby, and so did I, and he has got it in his
sketch, but the camera demonstrates that
there was no baby. Lessing's sketch of
the boy climbing the Irvine is evidence that
he saw it, but the camera says there was
no boy and no Irvine. From which Pm
compelled to believe that my theory is alb
solutely correct-that the fakir had simply
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-08-29

increasing the number of the flocks so
much as they are endeavoring to bring to
bear the influence of thoroughbred sires
in raising the standard of the flocks. As
a result, many large flocks show we'll
developed marks of the Merino ana
Southdown, proving that there has been
put in motion revolution in the methods
followed. 1t is good sign and before
many years it is hoped that the last ma
tive Mexican sheep, with its half pound
of coarse hair-like wool, will haye fol-
lowed the long-horned steer and the
bucking Texas pony into OBLIVION, so far
as the livestock markets are concerned.
Investments in the sheep business. if
carefully placed, cannot fail to do well
in southern Texas. They must, however,
be backed by cash in order to start on
basis commensurate with the magnitude
of the undertaking. On such large
scale are the ranches necessarily conduct
ed, that small flock is entirely crowded
out. But there is room enough and to
spare for the largest. Experienced sheep
men do not look for an increase in Texas
flocks in the immediate future. They
reason rather that there will continue an
improvement in grades, more attention
will be paid to the mutton market, and the
whole vocation raised to higher plane.
The tariff is not considered as cutting so
much of figure as that it shall be fixed
permanently in order that the raisers
certain that in producing for a particular
end the present condition of affairs shall
continue.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-08-29
Sheep 0nterest.
THE SHEEP REGION OF TEXAS.
Cor. American Wool Reporter


In southern and southwestern Texas, a
sheep raiser is not prominent unless he
has at least 10000 head. The flocks are
almost numberless, and large portion
of the wool of the west comes from this
section. "We are as sensitive to all
changes in the Market" said one of the
largest wool growers to me, las if our
flocks were in Massachusetts. The tele-
graph keeps us in close communication
with the great centres of trade, and all
take the leading papers of the Atlantic
States" This is found to be true upon
visiting the various ranches. The sheep
owners are an intelligent and progressive
class of men and are hard at work in
raising the standard of their flocks. The
sheep of Texas are far from being the
mongrel razor backs that they were five
or 10 years ago. The breeding to high
grade rams has increased the wool yield
and improved the carcass. The tariff
tinkering has done much to hinder sys-
tematic development of the industry.
"If Congress would only let us alone one
way or the other" one man expressed it,
tive would know what to depend upon.
But this constant discussion and threat
ening keeps US in a state of of uncertain
ty. The Texas sheep men are learning
well the lessons of double products" he
went on, "that is, wool and mutton.
| With orr warm yintars wa can produoa
meat as well as wool, and with little ex-
pense. 80 we have much advantage
over our northern competitors who are
compelled to depend more upon one
principal source of revenue. The market
for mutton is at present Chicago, but
one will be opened nearer home, or at
least with the opening of a deep-water
harbor, one will be had with less cost for
transportation in the near future. Long
trains of fat sheep have been shipped
north this season, and, without exception,
the prices realized have been satisfactory
and have convinced the sheep men that
mutton raising is profitable method of
handling sheep"
Northern blood is doing much to make
the sheep business more systematic and
attractive. Instead of the haphazard
methods of the greasers and Mexican
rancheros, there is coming into the ma
jority class of intelligent, wealthy men
with well-defned ideas on the value of
pedigree in stock raising They are not