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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
EAST VS.. THE WEST AND SOUTH

To the Editor of the Eagle.
The man of destiny has at last COM
mitted the blunder of his life and which
will forever keep him from again be-
coming the president of these United
States. 1t is strange that Cleveland,
the man who sent his famous tariff mes
sage TO congress in 1887, should now
stumble and fall over so simple ques-
ton as the free coinage of silver, as he
seems to have done in his letter read
quite recently at the anti-free silver
meeting held in New York.
The fact is, the tariff question and the
money question both stand or fall upon
the same line of reasoning, and it is
strange that the man who astonished the
world by his free trade message in 1887,
should now come out opposed to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver The
object of tariff is to increase the price
of manufactured goods in the interest of
manufacturers at the expense of the
masses.
The object 10 contracting the currency
is. to likewise increase the value OF
money, or, in other words. its purchas-
ing power in the interest of capitalists,
also at the expense-of the masses.
Hence, the man or party that takes
the stand that Cleveland has regarding
free silver. and at the same time advo-
eating free trade, puts theirseif in a
very ludicious position. Ii shows con-
clusively that Cleveland Is a man Of
chance. or has always been claimed not
a man Of brains or statesman, by any
means.
This timely warning. coming as il does
from such high source, the west and
south should profit by. It shows conclu-
Sively that the east is going to resist any
legislation that will tend TO resieve either
of these sections from their present diff
culties. Ii also shows that both the tar
1T question and the money question are
simply local issues, and TO meet these -
sues successfully. by securing equitable
legislation 10 ali parts Of our common
country. the west and south must throw
aside all sectional and political issues,
and combine their forces TO meet the
economical isSuss that confront them.
and which threaten 10 destroy both OF
these sections. Neither the west nor the
south las Teen fairly represented at
Washington Tor years; but Il j. their
OWN faUlt, and if the next president does
rot hail from west OF the Mississippi
river. II VIII lie their fault still.
Wal! The people Of the west and south
wake to the Importance of the sItus-
tlon meet the ISSUES that confront
them:,s the au-important question.
Yours.
Il II. LOCKWOOD.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
REsUBMlssIoN ALL THE SAME.

The Wichita EAGLE declares that the
loss of Republican senator and five Re-
publican congressman was caused 10y the
refusal to give the resubmissiOnists a
hearing Bah. Any one who knows any
thing knows that the trouble with the
Republicans in the last campaign was the
Alliance, and the Alliance, so far as in
dications 60 was then and is now almost
solid for prohibition.-Em Repub-
lican.
All the same the thirty thousand Re-
publican Resubmissionist votes that went
against the Republican party would
have saved Ingalls, and two if not three
con ressmen-would have saved the
state.
And the Resubmission crowd is and will
grow stronger until hearing is COM
PEELED. The Prohibitionists would have
had little trouble in carrying the state
again had they resubmitted when first
asked Today the result would be
doubtful. A year or two hence they
will be overwhelmed by the wave of in
dignation which is rising over the denial
of the right to be heard through the
ballot box.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
A PRECEDENT FOR BRICE.

1t Is the natural prerogative q of the
Empire state to have New York men at
the head of affairs in other common
wealths. When William Walter Phelps
then known as New Yorker-first
represented New Jersey in congress, the
speaker of the house, who was warm
personal friend of Mr.. Phelps, and whose
name was James G.. Blaine, inadvert-
emily addressed him as ''the gentleman
from New York" Noticing his error,
Mr.. Blaine adrOitly continued, without a
pause-"and New Jersey" Now, if the
gentleman famous for his aesthetic bang
and his diplomatic victory over Prince
Bismarck could represent two states in
he house of representatives, why can't
Mr.. Brice be both New Yorker and an
OHIO senator at the other end of the cap
itol2
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
owing then.

In 1855 the force OF the famine had
been spent. and the exodus fell of. In
the ten years from 1547 70 1857 abou.
l 300, 900 persons from Ireland landed in
the United States. AID upward Ct Co.,
90 more were IN England and Scotland.
Thus did the famine Of 1916 and lS47
drain the best blood out Of Ireland.
Finally IL was necessary to appropriate
money, but IN the meantime, IN spite Of
the generosity Of nations. hundreds Of
thousands persisted. The potato was
then the one crop that Ireland depended
on Il i 50 still The potato blighted.
all is blighted The poor, overwo-ked
soil year after year Is TILED and reslled
with the same crop. No wonder il fails
TO produce. When il does the peasan.
near the SEA shore can eXst Oh sawed.
II be can't get that he can s;a-vs. As
for that seaweed, have eaten il. and I
could find nothing seductive or comfort
In about II.
I have talked this matter over before
DOW with william O'Bzen. T. r. Gin.
John Dillon. Michael Davitr and other
Irishmen. leaving Eacssoaal Quarrels
oct Of the matter entirely, they agreed
in one thing. and thai was inzs Ireland
was standing always and ever in the
pEesence ~ - GA2zt sSScssE. sAked
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Vice President Morton has weakness
for ham sandwiches.
Justice Brown gets up steam mornings
by wrestling with fifteen pound dumb bells.
Rubinstein il literally dying OF melan-
choly. He professes most profound disdaIn
and disgust for life.
Baron Hirsch, the friend Of the Prince Of
Wales, is neither bad nor foolish man,
and he is as benevolent "a wealthy.
J. J. Westlake, of Wheeling. has in his
possession land grant made out Feb. 8,
1907, containing the signatures OF Thomas
Jefferson and James Madison.
Some time ago Mr. J. ID Rockefeller. the
Standard oil magnate, testified In court
that he couldn't swear % hi, exact fortune
by at least Sl0,OO0,O 900 or Sl2,0o0,O0O
Egbe-t Storer, Of Norwich. Conn, who il
repute6 10 be a descendant Of Hendrix
Hudson. the navigator has trunk which
is said 10 have belonged to that pioneer.
Alan Arthur, son Of the late president,
has been in England for some time, where
he IL very popular in society. He has
grown portly, and is as handsome a man as
father was
EX-HTeSl0eEL NieFelhnd anu MI luRall.
are cousins. The grandmother Of Mr.. Cieve-
land was MehitabIe ingalls,, and Mehitable
was first cousin to Rufus ingalls,, father OF
the senator.
Governor Goodell, OF New Hampshire,
recently presented each Of his council with
a handsomely wrought carving knife and
fork, made especially for them at his fac
tory at Antrim.
Senator Warren, Of Wyoming, Is 6 feet
tell, and his form is "a straight as q Rocky
mountain pine. He is "a blonde. rather
good looking. and talks and dresses well
He is 50 years old
B. 2. Hutchinson, TIE big Chicago grain
Spectator, l. about 80 years old, skrswd
aud unyielding in bargain and most I'M
conventional in his ways. He j. tail and
spare, with sharp features
Ez-Justice Strong. 81 the supreme bench. |
has a fine. ruddy color. and the firm, erect /
bearing Of a man in the prime of life. HIS /
hair j. white, bis forehead broad and high. /
and his eyes calm and deep SET lie has |
the face Of a refined student.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
DARK DAYS IN IRELAND.
There May BE Two Crop Failures and =
Severe Famine.

Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.-"What Ireland
wants today is less talk and more bread"
So spoke one hard headed Irishman to
me a couple of days ago.
The Earl of Zetland, viceroy Of Ire
land, and the somewhat too famous Sec
rotary BalfOur have at last made their
report, in which they say that distress
is chronic in some districts, and will be
acute before spring if help is not extend
ed speedily" They open the new year
with an elaborate plan for relief, and
dwell on the fact that failure of the
potato crop alone would not now produce
as much distress as exists.
1t is significant Of the natural thought
lessness of man that IN two continents
we should be in throes over the conten-
ton between half a dozen men for the
leadership of the Irish party. and should
have altogether overlooked the fact that
in many hamlets from dark Donegal"
to the bright Bay of Bantry thousands
upon thousands of men. women and chill
dren crouch and shiver over turf fires in
dingy novels, suffering from hunger
pure and simple.
Thus history repeats itself; for the
famine time more than forty years ago
was marked by disunion among the Irish
leaders that resulted in the revolt of
young Ireland" against OCOnnel and
the abortive insurrection of 1913, with all
its sad consequences. What the present
condition of affairs may come to no one
can tell. If the struggling peasants are
not given good seed potatoes through
some agency, and if they are forced TO
J,se diseased seed, then look out for two
years Of famine.
Mark you, when the dark spots began
to appear on the potato vines in Ireland
in 1915. there were 8 1000. 900 Of souls on
that island. In 1913 there were less than
5000, 900 left. These are big figuresl IL
is as though New York were submerged
in New York bay with all Of its mer
chants and more besides.
Three hundred thousand Irish died Of
starvation. A clever calculator has
figured it out that for some weeks they
died at the rate OF 5,470 per day, or four
each minute. There Is nothing in war
one half so horrible as this, unless, in
deed, it be the siege Of Jerusalem.
Now the Irish peasant is quite as much
Of a fatalist as any that can be found.
The oriental says. "Kismet-'tis fate
and bows his head. The irish peasant
says, Its the hand Of God, and sub
mirs. Just look at this statement as % |
the number Of Irish immigrants who
landed in the United States during the !
famine years and those Immediately fol- |
lowing them:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
STRANGE TALES.

A maa in Lancaster county. Pa. catches
rabbits on hook and line
a very explicit Connecticut old blue law
Says that a man shan't kiss his wife on the
Sabbath.
a man Of 30 years. arrested at Williams
port. Pa, for larceny, gave his occupation
as that OF dude
To settle bet man In Van Vert coun-
~. o., wheeled a wheelbarrow containing
80 cats for three miles over a muddy coun-
try road.
Three brothers were recently engaged In
a lawsuit at Knoxville, Tenn. One brother
prosecuted the second. and tho third broth
er defended him.
a sensation in New York recently was a
handsome turnout drawn by two well
grOomed mules, driven by a handsome
hveried coachmAn.
A defendant in a New York court con
fessed that he was the most notorious
liar in the world. can't help it. would
rather tell lie than not"
The Russians write their good wishes for
the New Year on paper. Those who re-
ceive these missives burn them. then put
the ashes in glass OF champagne and
drink and swallow them.
a monster egg is exhibited in the mu-
scum at Buda Pesth. Hungary 10 is an
egg Of the prehistoric bird 4Epiornis aud
but few museums possess such a specimen,
AS hens eggs would find room In IL. and 10
would hold nearly ninequarts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17

Michael Davitt once what first should be
done to avert famine in Ireland. He put
the matter somewhat this way:
There are splendid fisheries all along
the coasts of Ireland. Give the fisher
men at these places beats, and give them
time to pay for them; build docks here
and there along the coast aud improve
the means Of transportation. You will
thus give the fishermen a chance 10 dis
pose Of their stock in the London mar
ketS and in other markets. Then help
the small farmer to improve his little
holding and provide him with good seed
for his crops Don't give anything 10
him outright. Let INN pay for it in
such way as he can. Don't treat him
as a pauper. Make him self-sustaining.
Open MP the long closed mines Of Ireland
and give the unslilled laborer chance.
1t will be good investment for the gov
eminent.
Thus speak Michael Davitt and others.
One portion of these views has been
curiously proved TO be sound within the
past few weeks, and by no less person
than Charles Stewart Parnell. The lat
ter was tainted on the hastings with
having wasted to no purpose the fund
that was raised for him some years ago.
In reply Parnell showed that he had in-
vested the greater part Of the fund in
reopening old mines in the Wicklow
mountains. Just in the midst of all the
shindy in Kilkenny there came 10 him
the news that fine vein of ore had been
struck in those same mines. so that Par
nell is in a fair way to make a good deal
of money out of thatinvestment, and, in
cidentally, his chief foe, Davitt, has
been proved true prophet. Now if
Parnell can make money in Irish indus
tries, why cannot the government?
If Ireland were to have another fam
inc that would cost her ZOO, 900 at least
of her population, the Irish leadership
would be hardly worth struggling for,
there wouli be so little of Ireland to
lead. The fighters in the Irish party and
outside of t seem to have lost sight of
this fact. They may discover it later.
JouN OBRIEN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
KEEP 1T THERE.
MEDICINE LODGE, Feb. IA, 1891.

MEDICINE LODGE, Feb. IA, 1891.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
The great question to solve, before it is
too late, is the sugar bounty. They will
kill one of the greatest industries of Kan
sas If they take the bounty off sugar. 1t
will be, in the near future, the greatest
industry and the making of Kansas the
greatest state in the world if encouraged
by keeping the bounty on, which the
railroads and towns help pay, and it
does not amount to anything as a state
tax, it is so small. Our factory here
will not run if they do not get the boun-
ty. They have never received one dollar
yet from the government bounty.
made one suggestion to our representative
Frank Hickox, to pay the farmer or pro-
ducer of cane 1 cent per pound and the
factories l cent. This will give us all en-
enlargement to 60 on, and it will attract
capital to build and put up sugar fac
tories all over the state of Kansas. And
mark this, if this plan is carried out
Kansas will soon raise sugar enough to
supply the United States. 1t will make
Kansas the greatest state in the world.
Kill this industry by taking the bounty
off as it is just in its infancy, and all the
wheels in the factories that have been
built will shut down and not move; but
give it bounty for few years, till it
gets to going, and then take it off.
Boys in Topeka, give this a thought;
investigate it; don't make a mistake you
will regret and make US all ashamed of
you. Help any industry that is strug-
CLING to make a success. The welfare of
Kansas is at stake; do not leave a stone
unturned to make everything count, if
you love your state. A FARMER.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17

The New York Herald's canvass of the
Democratic members of twenty-seven
state legislatures, made Just before
Cleveland's anti-silver letter came out.
shows that Grover was preferred to Hill
everywhere except in New York. The
New York Democrats were for Hill
fifteen to ne, of the thirty-fve who ex-
pressed preference. Had the canvass
been made after the aforementioned let
ter was published, it is probable that the
forty-seven who declined to express a
preference, would have declared in favor
Of Cleveland. Our guess now is that the
expresident will come out OF this con-
test with his party the winner. The
Democrats are by Grover pretty much As
hey are in regard to their liquor: if it Is
good they drink il and praise il: if bad
hey drink it and curse it; but they
brink il, just he same.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17

have been vned with its cap-stone al
the capita ch bears his name.
Althou, German Empire was as
great "a ,ity before Sedan as
after it. as not until Prussia
was launching its deadly shot
and shell into the monuments of art and
civi ization adjoining Paris, that the
Germans were willing TO crown their
emperor.
As one Of the great military con-
querors of the world, therefore Sher-
mans place is secure.
BY the side of those four years
achievements the rest of his career wi |
slowly sink into the dull unread records
of the historian and the antiquary.
Sherman was great by the strength of
his will; by the unflagging fiber of his
nerves; by his absolute confidence in his
own resources, in the armies he COM
manded and in the people whose cause
he fought.
He was not depressed by defeat. nor
exalted by vict ries; he neither exagera-
ted his successes, nor extenuated his
losses. He saw clearly executed deter
minedly, lost or won without disturbing
his solid. well-poised mind.
S erman was great in his magma
nimity. When his military work was
done all was done. His foes were sent
back TO their homes without humilia-
ton; as their military conqueror he
treated them with a consideration and
respect that long left its mark of graft
tude upon their hearts. Among his
sincerest mourners today will be many
xx-h hose Fortune 70 r-ial1 n him tho
first token of their renewed allegiance to
the government they had sought to
overthrow.
In the fierce light which beat upon
him Sherman was eminent in his sweet,
pure home life. Not spot nor cloud
darkened the atmosphere of his home.
Across the threshold dwelt peace and
love. The laurel and palm of victory
were not more welcome to the successful
general than was the shelter of his own
vine and fig tree to the husband and the
father. His was the soul of THE Happy
Warrior"
Whose master bias leans
To home felt pleasures and TO gentle scenes"
In these days of discord and turbulence,
of strife, divorce and profound discOn-
tent, tho wholesome piacidity and hap
piness of Sherman's family relations fall
like the shadow of a great rock in a
weary land.
His affection for his family was Of
itself touching idyl.
He has taken his place among the great
men of the world. Nothing can touch
him further. The good he has done will
live after him; whatever time may de-
prive him of, it can not take away one
atom of anything he has accomplished
for human freedom, by the power of his
will, the strength of his mind and the
honesty of his purpose.
$50 fleet the work Of man back TO earth again;
Ancient and holy things fade like dream"
EMMETT CALLAHAN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17

How rapidly the old guard are passing
away! With the deaths of Gen. Sher-
man and Admiral Porter two of the old
est and most prominent characters con-
nected with the American army and
navy are permanently retired from pub
lie view, as to their persons. And it
may be said that they are the last of the
more conspicuous in their respective
branches of the armed service of the
government. But il is only their mortal
parts that have returned to earth: their
heroic characters, their chivalric
deeds go into history TO adorn and en-
bellish it and to stimulate and lead on in
their laudable ambitions TO do and dare.
the young men of the present and for
the indefinite future. Meanwhile their
glorified spirits return to God, who gave
them, to remain and abide with the ran
somed throng for aye.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17

With all their admiration for and
devotion to the cause of Cleveland. the
Missouri Democrats are still Jealous of
the reputation and party standing of
their own Little Napolean of Statecraft.
u. G. V, and when the Cleveland anti
silver letter was promulgated the party
contingent in the legislature of that
state just reared up on their hind legs
and reared. They interpreted the latter
to he a whack at Vests free coinage
amendment that was substituted for the
silver bill and passed by the senate, and
a number Of them wanted 20 censure
Cleveland openly and direct in a specific
resolution TO that effect. This did not
prevail, but after good deal of fiery
discussion they resolved:
That II is the sense of this house that
we are unqualifledly ia favor of the free
coinage of silver and that we thereby
represent the sentiments Of the people Of
the great state OF Missouri.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17

A Chattanooga reporter asked Mr. Jay
Gould what he thought of the Gospel
of Wealth. and Mr.. Gould told him
that he did not understand what that
was. This answer reminds us of a story
told of a distinguished Charleston lawyer,
who, representing clients in Carolina,
addressed a powerful letter to the Georgia
attorney, with whom he was in CORES
pondence, and asked him "by what law
of God or man the widow was entitled
to the entire estate of the intestate. :"
The Georgia attorney briefly replied
that he knew nothing of the laws of
God, but that by the laws of Georgia
she could take and hold it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17

A DESERVED PROMOTION.

The general circular announcing the
promotion of II. r. Nickerson to the
general SUPPLEMENTARY on the Santa
Fe railway was issu d yesterday. This
promotion is a most deserved one so far
as Mr.. Nickerson is concerned, o wise
one SO far as the interests of the Santa Fe
are concerned. and a satisfactory one so
far as the people from one end of the
state TO the other along the Santa Fe.
But few months ago Mr.. Nickerson.
who for so long had been superintendent
of the Arkansas Valley division, was
promoted to the uperintendency of the
Chicago end of the road with his office
in that city, but the resignation of Mr..
Sands opened the way to another promo
ton, which President Marvel and Man
ager Robinson availed themselves of by
filling the position with one who had
been with the road from the first, and
who had in years of faithful service
demonstrated his superior qualifications.
The EAGLE congratulates not only the
management and Mr.. Nickerson, but all
the people served by that great line of
railway
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-17
GEN. w. T. SHERMAN.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
One of the greatest warriors of human
civilization has at last Internationally
surrendered to that fell sergeant. death,
so strict IN his arrest. No such colossal
figure has filled the horizon of history,
since Napoleon at st. Helena succumbed
TO the summons OF death, or Wellington.
smitten by an apoplectic stroke as sud-
denly as if one of the bullets of Water
loo had struck him down. 1t is not
simply the hero who is dead, but the con-
quering hero; and the hero who conouers
ms foes in war. conQuers the world and
vauquishes oblivion. He who with the
iron arm feeds his nations pride, lifts
high its banners, and puts its enemies
under its feet, may count on immor-
tally.
No excuses for his enemy's defeat. no
attempt to credit his own success to his
good luck or the resources Of his coun-
try, will be patiently borne. The fact OF
victory alone blazons his name in light
SO dazzling that criticism ''pales its in
etTectual firer" before il.
His rude strength and cunning which
goes crashing through obstacles that
appal tie common mind, fire the heart
Of the multitude.
Their huzzas and statutes are chiefly
for him. Among statesmen and philan-
throplSts he i a giant among pigmle>
The pomp and circumstances Of
glorious war still kiudle the imagination
as they did IA the times OF Achilles and
the Caesars. and a they always Will
hereafter. until nations and mankind
shall learn war no more.
Had our Washington achieved the in
dependence of the colonies bv neCoIia-
uons and statecraft. no monument 10
him would, IA I'll human probability,