The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-04
WINDOWS MISTAKE.

] To the Editor Of the Eagle.
1t was a great surprise and disapoint-
ment to me to read your recent press
d spatch of Treasury WINDOWS enter
! tainment at the Board of Trade banquet
in New York, and his sudden death after
| delivering such a remarkable speech.
! was one of Minne5ota's former citi-
zens who helped elect him to the senate
and loved and admired him for his at
tachment TO the west at that time
| for he then said that the east could not
prosper without the west, and now he
/ speaks to a toast" Our country prosperity
dependant upon its instruments of COM
MERGE"
it sounds very strange to me, perhaps
the peculiar influence of Washington
has an unfavorable influence on some
estern men and l believe it would be a
blessing to America if the capital was re-
moved to the center The facts in the
case Will not warrant such a toast nor
such a speech. How can the toast be
true when the harbor at Liverpool is
full of idle European ships and the
American custom houses are blockaded
with foreig goods brought here princi-
pal V on foreign vessels. and American
industries are languishing for a home
market that the Mckinley bill depriveS
TIA m of. Better n mass meeting for
remonstrance of the people against the
bill with a true toast proposed. "our
country's prosperity dependant upon its
producers, its manufacturers and its
laborers, in the exclusive enjoyment of
its own home market" Better have the
government stop trying to collect $780,
000 geo on the importation of 500, 000.-
600 of foreign manufactured goods
brought here by foreign importers. The
greater part of which can be grown and
made in America, and place the revenue
on the 800, 900. 600 worth of goods and
raw products let in free that we can
not make nor grow. and try and develop
a substitute for them. Better a tax on
the foreign importation of metals, in
Guiding gold and silver money and ore,
and make a free coinage of all metals
the people can use in exchanges, to
make them merchantable. and all the
legal tender notes the people can use.
instead of filling the treasury with gold
and silver and the subtreasuries with
spectators money, when the common
am too poor to carry one.
l see no more improperly in the gov
eminent coming money of any kind than
10 fix its stamp on postage stamp. on
scale or measure, or fixing The weight of
a bushel of grain, ton of coal or hay. !
One Is the measure of quantity. the !
other the measure of quality or value. !
Better stop letting the spectators form
rom hines ~ rob rba n ,Y,lo nf hundreds I
of millions of dollars bv their 100 per
cent advance on the daily products they
buy and sell. when 10 per cent, or less, /
would be ample to live. and let live, on. /
Do this and our producers would pros
per, the manufacturers would thrive !
and commerce increase. Then, and not !
till then, will Secretary WINDOWS last |
words be fulfilled: Every American in /
dustry viii be quickened and our whole |
people feel the impulse Of new and en-
during prosperi V.
Then will the Kansas farmer 20 to his /
plow with a glad heart and TO his /
pastures with a contented spirit know I
ing well when harvest comes he VIII /
realize a competence for his labOr, with /
surplus enough 10 pay his taxes and /
trihe for his declining wears.
Then VIII the manufacturer 90 about 1
his mi with satisfied mind. assured 4
that at least he has q home market be /
can call his own and with the superior /
raw material at his command, the best /
cotton, best wool. best silk, best hemp /
and best fax the world affords, he can 1
add the superior skill Of American labor 1
and improved machinery. the result of (
American ingenuity, which viii enable /
him 10 find a suitable market abroad for 4
his surplus. H. T. BDwELI-