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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
A FEW RANDOM QUESTIONS
From the Kansas City Journal

From TIE Kansas City Journal
The Wichita EAGLE recently prepared
a list of political and historical questions
which it submitted TO q local teachers
examination board. The dull thuds
which followed the attempt on the part
of the teachers to answer the questions
were very pathetic. A number Of other
PAYERS have used this idea to advantage,
aud il occurred TO the Journal that while
the fashion Is on, few pat questions TO
certain alleged educators would not be
inapropos. For instance; The Alliance
class in political economy may stand up.
II the laws of this country cypress tha
farmers. why are some farmers growing
rich under the same laws which others
are growing poor under:
If party polls l43.e0o votes az one
election, and the next year polls bar 49,
coo, how do you figure out 10 per eent
gain:
If the Alliance Is sn Independent
party why does one oE its senators sss on
The ID mocrstlc side and the other apply
for admission To tie Democratic caucus.
"A Gel tain parry sent i've represents :
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
DEMOCRATIC PERPLEXITY.

Those good souled Democrats in Kan
sas who were born such, and had long
since decided to die such, are in an awful
stew over the proposition of their leaders
to join hands with the Alliance next
year in downing the Republican party.
There is no questioning the intention of
Chairman Jones and his satellites. In
case of the election of a Democratic
president the Alliance could claim moth
ing which would leave Jones and his fell
lows in high feather with all the federal
patronage of the state in their hands.
1t looks now as if the average Democrat
will be compelled to swallow not only
Jere and PETER, but the whole Alliance
crowd, the only hope of possible recon-
pense being the promised chance of bur-
raining over the defeat of the Republican
party, which compensates for a good
many pains and disasters to the average
mossback Democrat. But for the fact
that there are about thirty wide-awake
and progressive Democrats out of every
hundred who will not vote calamity nor
have anything to do with the howler-
leaders of the howlers gang under any
circumstances, even though they have
to vote Republican ticket, renders the
Democratic leaders on the other hand
somewhat uneasy and very cautious.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
THE "PER CAPITAp DELUs1oN.

From the Century for December.
The per capita argument has always
been favorite method for sustaining a
demand for cheap money. Such de-
mands invariably arise when times are
hard, that is, when money is scarce. The
cheap-money advocates, acting on the
knowledge that great many people are
wishing that they had more money IN
their pockets, come forward with the
explanation that the real cause of the
trouble is the smallness of the monetary
circulation, the volume of currency not
being adequate to the demands of the
business OF the country. They point to
other countries, like England, Germany
and France, saying that they have a
much larger per capita circulation than
the United States, and claim that every
body in this country would have more
money in his pocket if great addition
of some form OF cheap money-either
irredeemable paper, or deprecated silver,
or subtreasury notes-were made to the
currency.
The fundamental defect in the argu-
ment is that it confounds small circula-
ton with small distribution. The trouble
Is not that the circulation Is small, but
that so many people fail to get much Of
it. If the circulation were to be doubled,
or trebled, or quadrupled, what rea-
son is there for believing that the people
who have least at present would have
any more2 How would they go to work
to get some of the increase into their
pockets? This, as we said many months
ago in one of our earlier articles in this
cheap-money series, is the crucial ques-
ton in all schemes for making money
cheap and plentiful. How can a man
who wants some of it obtain it except he
give labor or goods in return for il? II
be have labor or goods TO sell. does it
make any difference to him whether the
volume of currency be large or small?
Is it not always large enough to furnish
payment for what he has to sell? And
if he has anything to sell would he not
rather receive his payment in dear
money than in cheap money? Was there
ever man yet who did not desire TO be
paid for his wares in the soundest and
best money obtainable? Who are the
men who hope, in some mysterious man
ner, to get money into their pockets
through great issue of cheap money
by the government Are they not, al
most invariably, men who have nothing
TO sell III exchange for IT!
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16

Senator PETERS letter to the Demo-
cratic caucus begging consideration is
humiliating thing to Kansas. In it he
plead that while he was not exactly
Democrat he was very nearly one and
ought to be given show. A southern
member protested, declaring that PETERS
speeches made in the south last summer
were anything but Democratic. PETER,
however, declares that he will have his
say, committee or no committee, and
those who know him will not doubt that
when he gets the floor he will paralyze
the stenographer's arm and wear out
everybody. In the meantime Republican
Kansas will be cutting a pretty figure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
TO MovA GRANTS BODY.

Senator Plumb introduced and passed
through the senate last winter a reSolu-
ton providing for the removal Of Gen.
eraI Grants remains from Riverside to
the National cemetery at Arlington. He
is now determined TO push the matter to
a successful conclusion. He received
assurances at that time from Colonel
Fred Grant that Mrs. Grant would not
oppose the removal if congress should,
by its action, favor the proposition.
Senator Plumb feels that Mrs. Grant has
not changed her mind regarding the
matter, and that no opposition need lie
anticipated from her. He will ask that
his resolution be not referred TO a COM
mittee, but that it he permitted to lie on
the Presidents table, where be can call
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
a COWARDLY OBJECTION.
From the Emporia Republican.

The notion that newspaper or an in
dividual cannot consistently favor both
prohibition and constitutional conven-
ton is fanatical absurdity. The state,
for various important reasons, is sadly in
need of new constitution. No one dis
putes this truth. Within the near future
it must have it. 1t has already been
postponed too long for the states good.
The only objection urged is that in pro-
viding a new organic instrument the
question of prohibition must again come
before the people for action and its per-
petuation might be imperiled. This OBJ
lection is that eff a coward; not only of a
coward but of demagogue. When the
advocates of any theory or policy at
tempt to prevent the people from ex-
pressing their will upon legislation for
their own government, at suitable times
for such expression, they are playing
the part of demagogues. If the people
are not to be trusted, who may be? 1t is
coming to a pretty pass if the voters of
Kansas are to be forever kept from
making necessary changes in the organic
laws for fear that they will not decide
some particular question in manner to
please certain people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16

it up at his pleasure. He had no diff
Guilty in passing it through the senate
last winter, and he does not anticipate
any trouble this winter. What the
house will do with it he can't say.
Speaking upon this subject, Senator
Plumb said:
''My resolution is not intended as a re-
fiection either upon the gentlemen con-
shutting the Grant monument Commit
tee nor upon the city of New York. [
think that the uead soldier ought to rest
at Arlington. That is the proper place
for him. It was to Washington that he
came after he had gained his first re-
nown in the west. Washington was
virtually his headquarters from the tim
he assumed command of the Army of
the Potomac until he rounded out his
military career with the surrender at
Appomattox.
Nobody would make pilgrimage to
New York to visit the tomb. 1t would
be lost to sight in that great city. 1t is a
mere speck in its great wheel of affairs.
The people there care nothing about the
remains. Or at least to no great extent.
Half a million people who are counted in
New Yorks population have no interest
there. They transact their business in
New York, but their interests are identi
fled with the outlying communities
where they reside. Washington is the
capital of the nation. 1t is here his re-
mains ought to be brought-not to Wash
ington as city, you understand, but to
as the capital of the entire
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16

It seems funny that Missouri should be
worrying about that extra electoral vote
and Kansas be so unconcerned. If Mis-
souri, cannot have the vote without re-
districting the state it is hard to see how
Kansas can have hers counted.-Law-
renee Record.
Not to appear as antagonizing the ex-
ira session idea, if such thing shall be
deemed necessary from other considera-
tons, the EAGLE sees nothing either
funny or hard in the proposition of a
full representation of the state in the
electoral college. The extra congress
man to which the state is entitled can
be elected by the state at large, and SO
may the presidential elector.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
THE STRIP QUESTION.

If, as Congressman Sayres of Texas
says, no money will be appropriated by
the present congress to pay for the Cher
okee strip, all the labor and expense in
Cured by the government through its
commissioners in treating with the
Cherokees for the purpose of securing
the lands named will be so much money
and labor wasted, and will leave but one
alternative for the opening of the lands
to settlement, and that is for the gov
eminent to ignore the Indians claim to
the strip and for the president to declare
it part of the public domain and open
to settlement. The question of title will
be passed upon by the court of last re-
sort sometime in the early future, and
this may facilitate q final settlement of
the long vexed question.
It has confidently been expected that
all preliminaries would be arranged so
that the land could be opened In the
spring, and il is hoped thai this may yet
be done, Whether with good and suffi-
cient reason or not the pressure of the
popular demand for the opening of the
strip cannot be much longer resisted,
peaceably. The popular feeling is that
the question of right and title to these
lands on the part of the Cherokees has
been under consideration long enough to
be fully and satisfactorily settled. and
that further dalliance on the part of the
government will be accepted as an indi-
rect invitation to intending settlers TO
enter upon and occupy the lands, and
that idea viii unquestionably be acted
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16

tives to congress. Four of them chose
seats on the Democratic side of the
house, and one chose his seat on the Re-
publican side. What proportion of the
party would you say was Democratics
a certain political party has eight
votes in favor of loaniug money on
crops and things. In the same house
there are over three hundred votes
against the proposition. By the old
fashioned rule OF three, take your states
and figure out how long it Is going to
take the eight men to get the money.
Ten bows have twelve agate marbles
each. They can borrow other marbles of
an eleventh 10y at three white alleys a
week But they put their marbles to-
gether in the Gands of one of their num-
Der and borrow them back at two @hite
alleys each. How many potterles are
they ahead of the game?
Who was it that said: "You can fool
some of the people some of the time and
all of the people some of the time, but
you can't fool all of the people all of the
timer" And isn't that about the case so
far as you have gone?
Can you find any fault with this SEN
tence: ''The Republican party is the
party of works for the people; the DEM
ocratic party is the party which works
at the people, and the Peoples party
works the people.
If Kansas has decreased her mortgaged
deb so per cent. in ten years besides
building the greatest state on earth, why
can't you give her show 10 pay the rest
without bowling yourselves hoarse about
calamity? Answer in round numbers.
How much money have the
taxpayers gwen to the Alli-
lance county and state officers
in the past eighteen months. Subtract
this from the amount of injury they
have done the state and tell US how
much the state would have made had it
paid them in cash to leave.
If man can make So a day as an Al
lance lecturer and is too lazy to work,
how many lectures will he be allowed to
store in the subtreasury when it comes.
If Columbus had it to do over again.
do you suppose he would have included
a state in his American discovery which
refused to put up money for the worlds
fair because an Alliance man couldn't
be the commissioner?
A correct answer to these questions
will entitle the person sending it to a
subtreasury receipt for an unsold file of
the Journal for twenty-five years, or
81, 900 when the receipt is redeemed.
This is an extraordinary offer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
SOLDIERS, WAGES AND PENSIONS

From the Chicago Inter-ocean.
The New York Mail and Express has
done good service by compiling tables
that show part of the monetary loss
borne by each private soldier of the
Union army during the years of 1862,
1868, 1854 and 1865 in consequence of the
deprecated valu- of the greenbacks in
which he was paid. We say part of the
monetary loss. because not even the
well arranged and carefully compiled
tables of the Mail and Express can show
the whole loss. AT the first soldiers were
enlisted on a wage scale of 81 per
month. Later the rate was increased TO
$13 per month. and this rate was con-
tinued until May, 1864, after which it
was increased to $40. But very soon
after the outbreak of the war the
average wage of the commonest
farm laborer reached 81 per day,
or SEQ per month of working days.
1t is well within bounds to estimate the
wages of soldiers throughout the war at
not more than half that of unskilied
labor.
But of loss directly traceabie to the
depreciation of greenbacks the Mail and
EXPIRES figures that in the year 1862 the
soldiers $156 in greenbacks, the pay for
twelve months marching and fighting,
were worth $3.50 in gold. The S156
which he received for his pay in 1868
was worth but S106 in gold. The $3.50 in
greenbacks which was the soldiers pay
for four months at S13, and eight
months at SIG for 1864, was worth less
than $50 in gold; and his yearly stipend
of 1912 for 1865 was equivalent to but
1925 of the money in which the bonds
We're paid.
These figures give emphasis to Major
McKinley's plea that the soldier who was
paid in deprecated paper shall not suffer
additional loss by being pensioned on
silver.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16

A Washington dispatch of the 18th
states that Senator Cullom of Illinois has
announced his candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for president in case
Secretary Blame shall decline the nomi-
nation. Mr.. Cullom has ample ability
to make a good president, and his candi-
dacy would insure Illinois to the Repub-
lican party-where it belongs and will
remain in any event-and the same can
be said of scores of other Republicans of
that and other states. Fact is, the Re-
publican party is not short on material
to make good presidents, or officers of
any other class or grade.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
Fof the Eagle,
PLUTocRAT AND DYNAMITER.

Little drops of dyno, little hands of crank,
Shakes the mighty Pluto. and the pleasant
bank.
Hear the mighty roar he makes in his power
full press
One would think that you and were Plutos.
like the rest.
The Tribune of Chicago comes out with serious
mien
To prove that he who oddly thinks is pretty
near insane.
Especially if in his thoughts he gets so far
from base
That in his formations fine the Pluto has no
Place,
1.-THE Anarchist is not like US, he hates his fell
bowman,
To take the Pluto's word for it and kill i'm
while you can"
The million people by the lake are in such
mortal danger,
From every state we should send men to keep
those devils under.
The Plutocrat will furnish cars and pay for
transportation;
He's better'n us, he hates them worse, and be-
heves in Inhalation.
Some time ago there was a man, he was no
Anarchist,
He made no threats against the laws Che had
those in his grip,
But when the people vexed him sore with
wishes and demands,
He told us plainly, once for all, 1.-THE public be
Cd d-d!'
Now when we read the Tribune's rule, that
makes it out so plain
That any man who damns the laws must
surely be insane,
We see at once that Bill was cute and diplo-
matic-quite,
He damned no institutions fine, but US, with
all his might.
So let US curse, not trusts, combines, or laws
by which he works,
But damn the Pluto to his face, and damn him
off the earthl
e G GTTRFRT
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
SALE OF DYNAMITE.

FL ON the n. o. Times Democrat.
Since the Russell Sage affair the New
York papers have been investigating the
dynamite question in that city, and are
a great deal shocked to find that there
are no laws restricting or regulating in
any way its sale. Any one, crank or
maniac, can purchase dynamite as freely
as -four. One of the firms dealing in
this dangerous explosive frankly con-
fessed that the dynamite used short
time ago in blowing up a railroad train
in New Jersey had been purchased there,
and thought it sufficient that this crimi-
nal had been sent to the penitentiary for
long term.
The New York papers naturally raise
the question whether it would not be
wise in this age of cranks aud maniacs to
limit the sale of dynamite in much the
same way as we prohibit the sale of poi
son, on the ground that it is not safe to
trust so dangerous an article in irrespon-
sible hands.
Dynamite is a necessity today, an ar
ticle which enters into many important
uses, and its sale cannot be prevented;
but this equally true of many poisons.
like arsensic. We find it necessary,
however, to carefully supervise the sale
of the latter. Ought we not do the same
with dynamite, which is far more dam
gerous?
There have been a number of dynamite
outrages of late and more are likely to
occur. This is an age of cranks and
maniacs, of disturbances, political, labor
and social, relief for which is far too
often sought in big explosion. We
have had one or two warnings on this
subject already. Would it not be well
to guard against them in future by few
simple precautions, such as prohibiting
the sale of this dangerous explosive to
persons who can give no account of
themselves, and who cannot say tor
what purpose they wish it. Let us have
no more horror like the Russell Sage af-
fair, and these are inevitable unless the
states in some way restrict, guard OF
control the sale of dynamite.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16

South Cardinals Alliance legislature
seems determined to gain some notoriety
whether it accomplishes any reforms or
not. The last noteworthy act passed
was a bill prohibiting the issuing or re-
ceiving free passes from railroads to anv
person in any way connected with the
public civil service. The act only needs
the signature of the governor to be q
law, In view Of the present control of
most OF the offices in the state. from
governor down. by the Alliance, the en-
actment of such law by that party
would seem strangely inconsistent with
the promptings of human nature; but
this idea is somewhat modified by tie
reflection that the Alliance expects to
give way in a short time to the returning
reign Of the Democracy. In view Of this
last it is extremely doubtful that the
governor will approve the anti-free pass
act.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
Solution for Making Leather w.,.rprosf


A much sought desideratum, namely. a
really practicable method OF waterproohng
leather and raw hides. is claimed 10 have
been practiced by an Austro- Hungarian
chemist with much success, his method
being TO impregnate the material with a
gelatine solution, combined with some
mineral salt TO cosgulate the gelatins In
the pores. An effective mixture for pro-
ducing the desired result is found to bs
the following; Twelve hundred parts water,
fifteen parts gelatine and five parts potash
bichromate; or 800 parts water. fifty parts
gelatine and thirty parts potash bichro-
mate.
The temperature of the solution may
vary from 80 dogs T. TO the boiling point.
When the bichromate percentage ia small
the liquor is mixed cold and the leather
or hide is immersed for period Of some
twenty-fouT hours. As the proportion APP
proaches the point of saturation the tenn
perature must approximate more nearly
to boiling and the time OF immersion be
reduced until IL becomes momentary.-
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
THE REBELLION STILL ON.

From the Topeka Lance.
A short time ago, in the spirit of fun j,
Salina paper nominated local con-
temporary for governor, and ever since
the Topeka Capital has been frothing at
the mouth and showing other symptoms
of bydrophobia. Yesterday morning it
let itself out in an item directed against
the young crowd, and talked very much
as it did several years ago, when the new
element in state politics began to 'notice
thiEgs"-it refers IN sighting way to
the ''young crowd" wants TO know what
prodigies of genius the members have
performed, and wants them to prove
their fitness for office by deeds, etc, etc.
The Lance is not authorized TO speak for
the young crowd, but it hazards the as
sertion that the Capital complains before
it is hurt; so far, no member of the
young crowd is seriously in the field, and
possibly none will be. They will De con-
tented if a good man is nominated for
governor, but they, and not the barna-
cles. will be the Judges of that. As TO
prodigies of genius performed by the
Young crowd, none are claimed by them,
but, for the information of the Capital it
might be stated that they have made the
barnacles and boodlers the most despised
of all political creatures IN Kausas-they
have created a demand on the part of the
people for men Of honor, honesty and
brains for public office-they have en-
couraged the party to throw off the load
of has beens" it has carried for loi these
many years-and they have laid the
plans for reformation in the Republic
can party no less complete than that Of
Luther in the religious world. These
may not be prodigies of genius, but they
are worth remembering.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-16
AT HIS OLD TLlCK,

st. John, he, John P, is down in
Montgomery county. Indiana, trying to
organize prohibition party, to the end
that sufficient number of Republicans
may be enlisted to make the state sure
for the Democracy in the presidential
campaign of next year. He is trying to
work Roosierdom in the interest of
Cleveland as he worked New York, and
against Blaine. The Charlottesville
Daily Journal, which gives an account
of his doings down there, incidentally
mentions fact that will be new to his
Kansas worshipers. We knew that he
had played the pedagogue and petti-fog-
ger in Missouri before coming to Kansas,
but history had been silent as to his
Indiana experience. That paper goes on
to say that ''John P, st. John had been
in Montgomery county before last night.
A number of years ago he was a naughty
school teacher at Alamo. He engaged to
WELD the CAD and slap jaws for term
of six months, but after he had taught a
month and half he came UP missing one
fine morning. When the scholars
arrived there was no fire in the stove and
the water was frozen in the sponge
bucket. John P. st. John had folded
his license like an Arab and silently
flown his kite"