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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
a PLEA IN AVOIDANCE.

Commenting upon the EAGLES brief
reference a day or two ago to the munif-
Gent benefactions of Andrew Carnegie
bestowed upon all sorts of objects, at
home and abroad, the LeavenwOrth
Times says: This is all bosh. The
"workingmen in Carnegie's steel works
care as well paid as any workmen in the
world" This is all bosh, or very
largely So 1t is admitted that a few ex-
perts in his employ, whose services are
indispensable, receive higher wages than
is paid for similar work in some of the
foreign countries. But how about the
thousands who receive wages that barely
keeps them and their dependents from
actual want? The Times will not deny
that within and during the past five
years there have been more frequent and
serious trouble among the employees of
the Carnegie works in Pennsylvania than
in any other quarter of the country.
But granting what the Times says to
be literally true in regard to all the Car
negie employees, it still does not meet
the point we attempted to make against
the action of the millionaire lavishing
his immense wealth upon foreign OBJ
jects. If his income is so great that he
cannot satisfactorily manage it, he could
very easily reduce it by increasing the
liberal pay of his employees, and that
without the least danger of decreasing
their faithfulness or efficiency.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

A prominent Republican just after the
Democratic convention remarked that
"the Republicans found the worst man
they could find and the Alliance got one
equally as bad; the Democrats could not
find one sorry enough 20 make the race, so
they refrained from nominating a candi-
date" We do not know Mr.. Simpson, but
we do know Mr.. Hallowell. If the EAGLE
can draw any differences from this that
will afford it consolation, it is at perfect
liberty TO do so.-Pratt Register.
Your criticism of Colonel Hallowell
was expected, of course, and cuts no fig
ure in the case; but your structures of
Brer Simpson affords a deal of satifac-
tion-not that you and many others of
your party wont swallow him, but on
account of the amusement that your
wry faces and the gyrations you will per-
form in doing the swallowing act.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

We are glad TO get the EAGLE smoked
out at last and to announce to the world
that instead of Republican paper hiding
in Democratic free trade hole the EAGLE
is in favor of the great American principle
of protection.-Newton Republican.
The EAGLE has not been secreted in a
hollow as to its position on the tariff
question and could not be smoked out;
it still believes in what it has always be-
lieved in touching the great American
principle of protection, i. e., the greatest
good TO the greatest number, and it finds
pleasure in welcoming the esteemed on
to that platform.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
TOLsTOPs LATEST CRUSADE.

FROM the New YORK World.
Readers of the famous "Kreutzer
Sonata" will be interested to hear that
the author, Count Leon F. Tolstoi, has
another work almost ready for the press.
Like the "Kreutzer Sonata" it deals with
moral questions and is likely to cause a
sensation.
The plot is simple and is based on &C
tual facts. A young girl of well-tO-do
family is the heroine. Of an eccentric
nature she is gradually seized by the
fever of revolution, which impels her to
cut her hair like a man, smoke innu-
merable cigars and otherwise demean
herself in a most unwomanly manner
In due time she falls in love, and, being
BETRAYED. is driven from home by her
angry parents.
Having no money she is obliged to
place her child in founding hospital,
and there the nurse who has charge of
the little one, and is also a mother her
self, decides for some unexplained reason
to adopt the founding and to leave her
own child in its place.
Meanwhile the eccentric heroine mar
ries the father of her child and comes TO
the hospital from time to time in order
to caress her darling. She sees
him playing with the nurses little
boy, and never for moment suspects
that the nurse has played trick on her.
When her father dies she inherits his
property, and having by this time for
sworn her revolutionary ideas she re-
solves to remove her little son from the
hospital and provide him with a more
comfortable home. When she reaches
the hospital. however, she discovers that
one of the two children had just died,
and that the nurse refuses to surrender
the other.
Finally the case is referred to a Judge
and his verdict is in favor of the nurse.
SO the story ends, and the natural in
ference is that the ex-revolutiOnist has
lost her child. and is punished in this
way for her many grlevous offences
against society.
As in the "Kreutzer Sonata" Count
TolStoi inveighed against legalized mari
tai RIGHTEOUSNESS. SO in this book he in
weighs against gluttony and drunkenness
and shows how contrary they are to the
natural condition of man. The effect of
tobacco and alcohol on the human sys-
tenn he has thoroughly studied. and it IS
said that he intends TO spend the remain
der of his life in waging an Intellectual
war against narcotics, intoxicating
drinks and whatever else may tend TO
deteriorate humanity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
THE HOG FAMILY.
From Harper's Magazine for September.

From Harper's Magazine for September.
The Hog family is not American, nor is
il by any means peculiar TO this country.
The Lady Mavourneen who said with
enthusiasm that she could travel with
out insult from the Atlantic 70 the
Pacific. and that every American of the
other sex seemed to make himself her
protector. said only what Is generally
true af the American. He y naturally
Epote6assahA invintibly geOd-sistufei.
Indeed. 1t is his good-nature which has
permitted the family Hog to develop %
such proportions. A man enters a hotel
.'as if it belonged 10 him VIII he not
be forced to nav for his accommodation
and roundly: Shall he not take his
ease in his inn: Is he not willing TO
settle for all the food, drink, comfort
trouble. that he may require or occasion:
Shall he put himself out for others If
number one does not look out for itself,
who VIII look out for X.
And TO all this Jonathan gOod-natur
edly assents. II number one takes more
than his share of the sofa, Jonthan
moves up. II number one puts his feet
on a chair. Jonathan does not stare. If
number one still more grossly demon
Strates his porCine lineage, Jonathan dis
likes 70 make trouble-untll number one
comes 10 depise those whom he insults,
and plainly expects every circle 10 bow
10 the sovereignty OF seihshness- This y
fatal form Of goodnature, but il has
not unkindly origin. II springs from a
social condition ID which everybody Is
expected to help everybody else, because
everybody needs help as in frontier
community. Indeed. in many rural
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

The Globe-Democrat says the immigra-
ton to this country has been sufficient in
the last ten years to bring the population
up TO O., OOO, 900 and thinks there has been a
mistake of about 3000.0G0 in the count.
Now let US hear what Kansas City and
Wichita have to say. They will both be
claiming that 100000. - Leavenworth
Times.
Wichita has not and does not "claim'
anything as to the census enumeration
more than is claimed by every other city
in the country. Like almost every other,
it knows that its population is more than
it is given by the enumerators and is
satisfied that its shortage IS fully as
much as Its proportionate part of the
5000. 900 excess that the Globe Democrat
speaks of. 1t is a matterof some sur
prise, by the way, that the Times should
have permitted Wichita to claim any
thing, The reformation that is said to
have invaded that Office recently must
have done its perfect work.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

The tariff plank of the Michigan Re-
publican platform, adopted by the state
convention at Detroit, Thursday, favors
''such revision Of our tariff laws as will
protect producers, laborers and farmers
against the ruinous foreign productions
of cheaper labor. and especially recon-
mend those features of the Mckinley
bill which provide for the protection of
farm products, as well as manufactured
articles" " That appears to be good Re
publican doctrine, but the Atchison
Champion will no doubt he curious to
know how to go about doing 1t, mas
much as the surplus of farm products in
this country must go out into the world
and meet similar products, the produc-
tons of cheaper foreign labor, in the
open markets, which this country can
not control:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
WHAT THEY USED TO DO.

Cato, at 90 years OF age, began TO learn
the Greek language.
Plutarch, when between 20 and 40. com
meuced the study of Latin.
Orange tawny WA The ancient color sp-
propristsd 10 clerks II Was also the color
worn by the jews
The early norman used 20 place the
Viking in hi, snip and send him flaming
out 10 zen wiki aI his belongings.
The Thibetilns IN the olden days cut r.
pieces the bodies Of their dead and threw
them into the iab=sto feed the ish.
The ancient Bac1rians suffered che bodies
of their departed TeIeaEdyes 70 D. eaten By
dogs specially kept for The purpOaA.
Out Of seveuty-sJx Irish kngsNbo ruled
between A d end uT2. no Isssthan hfty-
two died violsut ,brzsths either in BATES, by
murder, or by thundcrbolts (by the latter
three were SLAM.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
THE CRITICAL SECOND CONGRESS.

FROM the Embellishments
We trust that Republicans throughout
the country are properly impressed with
| the knowledge that this is a critical peri
cd in the history of the party. 1t is a
| fact well known to observers of Amer
lean political phenomena that the party
in power ALWAYS encounters formidable
| obstacles in the canvass for congress oc-
curing in the middle of an administra-
ton. The party which wins the presi-
dency generally carries the house Of rep
resentatives chosen at the same time.
There are exceptions, of course, to this
order of things. as in 1916, when a Re-
publican president and a Democratic
house were elected together. Generally,
though, the opposite is the case. But in
the second congress the president is not
so favorably treated. He is not always
confronted with hostile house during
the latter half of his term, but he
usually meets one which is not so
tractable as that which comes into
power with him. 1t is the rule,
that is TO say, for the party
which controls the executive branch of
the government to meet with reverse
in the congressional election occurring in
the middle of the presidential term, al
though, when its majority has been
large, this reverse may be a mere
dlminution of its preponderance.
The reasons, of course, for this change
may readily be pointed out. An admin
istration always, in some important par
ticulars, falls short of the expectations
of thousands of the men who assisted to
create it. These expectations, in many
cases, are altogether unreasonable and
absurd, but the effect on those entertain
ing them is to lessen their party earnest
ness and enthusiasm, if not to disturb
their party loyalty. Other causes, such
as dissatisfaction with the way the spOils
of office have been distributed and over
confidence in the potency of the organi-
cation, diminish the party zeal and handi-
caps it in the canvass. In cases where the
margin Is so narrow as that held by the
Republicans in the present house the sit
uation is especially critical. A reverse
in our case would change the partisan
complexion of the house and put the
Democrats in control of that body.
These are the conditions which confront
the Republicans at this moment. The
record of that party during the first ses-
sion of congress has been made, and that
of the administration for more than a
third of its term is before the country.
On this record, whether favorable or the
opposite, the party must appeal to the
people. The plain and imperative duty,
therefore, of the party in this exigency
is to nominate its best and most popular
men in every congressional district and
to bring every Republican voter to the
polls.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
RAILWAY TIES.

| The Russian government Is building a
railroad Ia almosta straight Il ne from Mos
COW 70 Behring sea which il Is expected
will be completed within five ge-rs.
Jay Cooke, who was once the financial
head Of the Northern Pacific and whose
disastrous failure precipitatSd the panic OF
1873, has accumulated another fortune.
During the first three months % 1890
there were exported from SC,f hand loco
motives Of total value Of go 40. against
a quarterly average Of $4,000 in 1859, and
Of Ri, 900 in 1853
The popular belief that great speed Ia
attended with great dancer h not con
tirmed by the experience On English rail
ways. In 1851 20, 90 go passena.srs were
carried and only one fatal accident &C
CURED.
A block system apparaiusrwas recently
exhibited which automatically rfngs bell
OF blows a whistle Ia tho cab Of Al engine
entering block that Is occupssi b. anoth-
er train The noise continues until tie
train ahead leaves the block.
Cars on the Jungfrau lEay have NOV
able flaps. which mag BE expEnsLd anti
they nearly touch tee tunnel Mnnz. In
this way the ear becomes kind Of piston
acting IN the tunnel as q cylinder. ,ald the
air acts as al automatic brake.
The Bzlti more and Ohio il using coke on
several engines hauling TIE last trains Be
tween Philadelphia aud ;, zshE-1gton. The
only change made u TIE ioeoDsOssvs - TO
increase the opening hctwesn The CRATE
bars about - per cent and " Substitute q
vEriabls Tor fixed exbauft.
A remarkable invention bss been made
IN Austria whereby The ssrics1s results
from railway collisions &rs SrvsSatsd-
Glass tah>s prosegt beiorr taetnsSa- and II
they are broken b Sd oSstscle &n sslsctTts
movements "a applsd - the bsAkea. 1rIng-
ing the train iulznsdISSsiy 70 a ssAbdssn
In order 70 expedite The dsliv-r-y a mails
between the United States sae Yurope,
the postmaster general has proposed aad
viii eRdsavor 70 carry cut. ca The ships q
the Hamburg A,neF.1za and Sorth Ger
man LlOydz lines, system a marine post
ocios service similar % tat q tie railway
pOstofSce service
Statistic q the progress and prosyects
Of railway Construction l-i the ssz:@s sogth
Of The OHIO and essf % tas Mississippi
river Tor Is0. sEo< thAs 90 nI.i.z q track
have zen iaA1 siEcs I'll "a 4. 49,. ana %.rlf
rnises are IN prDcess = Construction, So
nile are locatsc uu11-T sz-TeTal. atsd
1870 milss pruJsctsd. VIA far prosPSeis
q construction
Grand Secretary 2 Y. D-bs. q BE Loco
motive FirsE1ea- estimate - ruu-r1cAl
EyrsaRrh q the dsfsrsr; Eniirr8d Ork1EAza-
ts0as ~ fellows. BrOtherhooe u Loo9nO-
tive EnEp~ers. - DO Brotherhood q 10
connective Pfrsanen. =. go. Bruzbs-hood q
Railroad TrHlnEen. lsn"e SWfrrfrEzen's
Mutual All NE.oesztlon. s.91N- bFUtEsF-
hood q hailrsSd Gozs1 atom. 100.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

Guy de Maupassa1t has olIerrd b re
committees q the Theatre Frznoaiss a o1s
act play ia we're called "HhtOire du Fisux
Tsmps'
Joseph Hsszorth wiz an during the com
ing season IA - Man Of the World" and
Aunt JAnk. " under tie management q
II. 8 Taylor
Joseph KAinz. the famous MSnich oour.
actor. hAs elossd = contract w1lh Gustav
Anb-Tg. Of New York. for forty perform
sBoes Al $40 night
Vim. a Brady. the young California
naAE&Rer. was foar ye4rs ago q property
man in a bar Yraxseisoo thsa1ne. Today
be Il worth $40 30. AL q UAJch be hAs
made hlnssif
One scene. painted By Hoyt. IN The
Merry Aona.-ch. " ooznic oDs1a. IL called
The corridor % thu elephants. The ossEng
Of porphyry and ysrsSzzs Assnsa<is sagoorssd
~ hzss sazt~s - sk=pA@aH-
Ths Eaxi a-A Cl1zEtz.s e T'xzrh<oks have
bss As Yoa Like ~" played In III qa~.s-
ranzse u Wilton house. SalAakary. whsrs
u b azssd a hilSssn<ssT Ektn's DrsEn'
Was once played IN 5h~kosps7n~'s TINA
Howard r Tzyhor. author and Adaotsr
Of -~vvraI ssoo@-zfal Dlsys. hA~s-Cursd tha
right 70 dzssnAsSs MARI Tw~1uss Lac bod.
A CSurncacat YEsAes a. Rink AS1huxss
COur+" IL vii - sspsetarulAg comedy.
TIE swNaDrT faxra bzrsed m nov arid
the Ills % Ee-~ Hzn2shfrs u o. p4rsurs
that tbs nnau<Ssrs q Tbs Old Hoza-
stead" inGsnd % zzAks fsAsrrs Il IN d.
laSt 90 q aA< ylAg -ksa 10 bekfns - foursh
season In NV York-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
ANOTHER WILDCAT BANK GONE UP
IN < ANSAS."

The above caption heads an article in
the New York Financier of the 18th
inst, giving detailed account of the
closing up of the Nicholas Banking
company" corner of Twelfth and Grand
avenue, Kansas City, Mo. The item was
copied from the Kansas City Journal and
due credit given to the kansas Jour
nal" The Financier is edited by that
eminent windbag, j. E. Ewing, who
claims to be able to recognize and call
by name seven thousand bankers in the
United States, yet he does not know
enough of the geography of his own
country to understand that Kansas is not
responsible for failures in Kansas City,
No
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
COURTLY PhsTiMEs.

King william ~ Holland will at any
time turn ASIDE from the discussion Of
business 70 have "a l,srse Of csanls.
The youug CmpeTOr % Germany adorra
chez and viii bsuzg over a tsbis Cor hours
at tine trying u workout problem.
The car IS devoted 20 the game % trio
trac. and vghsns1sr Be .erts a lsdsuys hour
he win ship away TO indbige In hh fsv0ritS
pastinne.
The future king Of ,EnEiznd. the Prince
Of WaIes. IL devoted 20 osg-Sis and borso
racing, and gives ab'oz ~ mich time To
the one a. toths other
King HumbeTt OF TIA Sc rgvcr - hsppy
~ when on n fishing eTpsdtt.on. lie VIII
patiently wait for ho5rs Tor = bite. and sx-
prsssas unbOunGed ErE4Ecat ion Whsn be
has good lack.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

The only apology for the proposed duty
on tan plate, which would impose a tax OF
ten million dollars a year upon COM
modify which enters into the domestic
economy of the poorest people, is the dis
covery of tin mines in South Dakota. And
II turns out that these mines are owned by
an English company and are under English
direction.-k. {. Star.
This isn't much worse than Senator
Teller's give-away declaration concern
ing the silver-lead ore duty. He declared
that if a duty is not imposed on that
commodity there will be nothing IN the
tariff measure for the Republicans of the
northwest TO fight for. If such duty is
imposed, as now seems probable, he will
find that it will take a great deal more
fighting to defend the bill among western
Republicans,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

That is big scheme of Nelson Morris
to establish immense slaughter pens and
packing houses on the sea coasts, east
and west, for the purpose of preparing
all the meats needed to supply the ex-
port demand, but the scheme won't
work. The trend of the packing bust
ness has for years been towards the
source of supply for the raw material
an economic principle that applies to the
entire industrial system and is being
practically applied as far as it can be.
The advantages in freight rates, shrink
age, cost of handling and other items of
expense, TO say nothing of the physical
condition of the live animal that must
now be inspected before being slaughter
ed, are all with the western packer and
against the eastern, and cannot be over
come. The scheme is purely utopian.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
a Remarkable Disappearance.

From the Kansas City News.
Talk about vacant houses i'm Kansas
City. The most remarkable case Of the
disappearance of tenants ever recorded
comes from st. Paul 1t Will be rernem-
bered that in the original census of that
city the office of the PioneeT-Press was
reported as sheltering one hundred and
ten dodgers. Persons who knew that "A
newspaper office was no place for sleep
ers were somewhat astonished at this
state of affairs. But at last the plausible
theory was advanced that the staff of
the paper, getting the early editions,
damp from the press, were lulled TO gen
tie slumbers thereby and slept at their
desks or cases. More than one man has
been thus hypnotized by reading a 81.
Paul paper. However, "A recount Of the
St. Paul district has knocked this theory
in the head because the enumerator who
once found one hundred and ten tenants
in the PiOneer-Press building now fails
TO find a single one. Is it possible that
they have all moved to Minneapolis
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

1t is asserted that certain members of
the house now threaten to sustain the ac-
ton of the senate on the tariff bill in
reducing the duties on articles in which
Pennsylvania is interested, on account of
the position Senators Quay and Cam
eron have taken on the election bill.
That is a rather odd declaration or
threat, if true What does it mean, as
to the tariff? Those certain members
had better look leedle oud. Retaliation
is a dangerous thing to fool with. Like
the boomerang, it is liable to knock the
fellow out who throws it,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30

The Democrats, that is, many of them,
are still kicking, and as vigorous as ever,
at the attempted sell out at Pratt through
the Campbell resolution. You can no
more make Democrat, who is one from
principle and conviction, support some
thing he don't want to, than you can
make a horse drink slop. You may lead
the horse up TO the trough, but that's the
end ont. So with a straight, simon-pure
Democrat: if he must vote for apolitical
enemy, he will take the one that is open
and frank; one that he knows where to
find.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-30
KELLEY ON THE CoNGER BILL.

Hon. Harrison Kelley is not in favor
of the bill imposing a tax on what is
known as compound or imitation lard.
The Emporia Republican thinks his argu-
ments are reasonable, and clear enough
to be convincing. 1.-The bill, as he re-
CARDS il, proposes to tax the farmers of
one section of the country fer the bene-
fit of the farmers of another section. 1t
purports TO be drawn in the interests of
the farmer. but which farmer? The
farmer that raises the hog? or the farmer
that raises beef cattle? If purer and
healthier substance is to take the place
of the grease of the hog, why should we
object to it and try to tax it out of
existence? Mr.. Kelley thinks the tax on
oleomargarine is wrong and ought to be
repealed. Oleomargarine is all right and
cottonseed oil lard is all right; there are
many people who want them and are
willing to pay for them in preference to
buying butter and lard. Their manu-
facture ought not to be Disseminated
against. All that is necessary is to pre-
vent their being palmed off on the pub
lie for what they are not" They should
not be handled as counterfeits, and this
is, as we understand it, what the bill in
question proposes to prevent, by requir-
ing it and kindred products that are
offered for human food to be labeled or
branded as what they really are. As for
the imposition of a tax, that is a matter
to be determined by the necessities Of the
government for revenue.