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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
ANOTHER NEW CITY.
TEcUMsEH TowYsITE, Sept. %

TECUMsEH TOwNsITE, Sept. 90.
To the Editor OF The Eagle
Tecumseh, the gliftering gem of the
Canadian valley, sends greeting to her
sister cities of Oklahoma.
The townsite is all that could be de-
sired. The drainage is perfect. the
scenery beautiful, picturesque and al
most perfection. Who can doubt the
future Of city with such magnificent
surroundings? Natural groves and parks
can be seen in every direction, and the
intervening prairies are covered with a
thick coating of grass, showing wealth
of soil equal to the best prairies of Kan
sas.
Wells are being dug and in few DAYS
we will have an abundance of good
water, the absence of which at the time
of the opening occasioned serious incon-
venience. There is no truth in the re-
port whatever sent out that the people
would be compelled to go over 100 feet
for water as there are several wells in
successful operation in the city which
are only from twenty TO thirty fee. deep.
This Is the first Sabbath for the new
city. Religious services were held this
morning in A grove south of the public
square, presided over by Rev. Never,
Presbyterian and Rev. /. S. Childs, Con-
gregationalist, and at 3 o'clock another
large meeting was held
William Davis. the Sunday school mis-
sionary, and Mrs. Childs were among the
active workers today. Another large
mass meeting on the square is being held
tonight. Elder Goodrich of Illinois. an
eloquent preacher of the Christian
church, Is exhorting the people.
The coming week will be one Of great
activity. Three hundred carpenters will
change the appearance of things greatly.
To convince any candid thinking person
that Tecumseh has q very promising and
bright future. we have only to mention
the fact that the nearest city on the west
Is Oklahoma City. which Is fifty long
miles away. TIE nearest on the south
Is Gainesville, Texas. which Is Us: on
the east Muskogee, $50 miles. Tecumseh
viii certainly draw all the trade from
both whites and Indians within this
large scope Of country, and the trade Of
the Indians, with their pockets lined
with Uncle Sans annuIties, VIII dot be
among the least Of our resources. i Is
still an easy matter to get hold Of vaiu-
able claims from those who have settled
the same. More In the future.
HARDfS EBET.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

much danger of the absurdities of the
Alliance succeeding. The farmers, as
class, are sincere and honest and have
their share of hard common sense, and,
when the first exuberance OF the Al
lance movement is past they Will treat
with contempt some measures now ad-
vocated by demagogues who have WORK
ed their way to the front ranks as lead
ers. Being honest and earnest, am
confident the farmers will yet get down
TO common sense understanding OF
their real grievances and by the weight
of their influence secure adequate RENE
dies. If your farmers were renewed
from railroad Determinations and tarln
determinations the vocation OF a
farmer would be as hon 9rable, desirable
and profitable as in the days OF yore, ana
there would be no occasion for. advo-
eating government loans, hat money, or
any other of the nonsensical nostrums
with which demagogues now mlslead
them.
There should be a ceaseless and per-
sistent agitation of the abuse OF the
power and privileges acquired by rail-
roads, and their unjust exactlons ana
determinations until more equitable and
honest methods obtain. Poor's Manual
gives the amount of water" in the SlO,-
600, 600, 900 valuation ION paper of rall-
roads in this country at $4,000, 0OO,0O
Legislation for lower rates will never
cure this evil; the effort should be d.
rected to squeezing the "water out OF
the stocks, and preventing unjust dis
ordinations in charges, and the lssu-
ance of passes should be pro-
hibited. The farmers vote and
influence should be directed
against professional prohibitions, who
are insincere, dishonest or otherwise in
competent, no matter to which party
they claim allegiance. A fearless ex-
preston of sentiments, honest and right,
is always wholesome. Kansas has mani
tested disposition to cast aside political
fetiches. Places thus made vacant
should not be filled by worse material.
The coming congress will be bardened
with crazy projects and bills to cure all
prevailing ills we are subjected to, but
the worst effect will probably be waste
of time and the obstruction of useful
legislation. N. CLARK.
New YORK. Sent. 25, 1891.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
THE IMMIGRATION LAW.

Judge Benedict, in the United States
district court of New York, has dealt the
new immigration law a severe blow by
his ruling in the Feinkoff case, which
renders it an easy matter for pauper inn
migrats to come into this country if they
are willing to go TO the courts to enforce
this right.
The law says OF this subject:
The following classes of aliens shall be
excluded from admission into the United
States, in accordance with the existing
acts regulating immigration, other than
those concerning Chinere laborers. ALI
IDIOTS, insane persons, paupers or persons
likely 10 become a public charge, persons
suffering from loathsome or a dangerous
Contagious disease, persons who have been
convicted of felony or other infamous
crime or misdemeanor involving moral
turpitude, polygannists, and also any
person whose ticket or passage is paid for
with the money Of another, or who is as
sisted by others to come, unless it is
affirmauvely and satisfactorily shown on
special inquiry that such person does not
belong to one of the foregoing excluded
classes, or TO the class of contract laborers
excluded by the act of Feb 26, 1885.
Judge Benedict holds that instead of
an immigrant being compelled to prove
that he is entitled to admission into this
country, it must be shown that he is an
undesirable citizen. The man Feinkoff,
for instance, over whom the case arose,
arrived at New York without money,
but with S25 of baggage. He had a
trade, that of cabinet making, and
thought he could earn living here.
The inspector thought differently, and
detained him on the ground that he
would become a public charge The
court ruled that this latter point was
not proved, and therefore Feinkoff could
not be detained or sent back to Austria.
The decision, in brief, is that if an i'm
migrant swears that he can support him
self and has supported himself in Europe,
the new law caunot keep him out, even
if he lands here without cent, and it is
by 10 means certain that he can get
work. Thus construed the law will keep
out only actual inmates of almshouses.
The decision virtually places the bur-
den of proof on the immigration officer
instead Oh Oh TIE lillIllSlaho HAllSelIy as
the law apparently intended TO do; and
thus construed the new act, fr ON which
so much was expected in checking I'M
desirable immigration, is of very little
moment or value.
Congress has been legislating on the
subject of immigration for many years,
and if Judge Benedict's ruling shall be
by the supreme court, as it
probably will if carried there, it is diff
cult to conceive what further action
can take TO check and prevent
the continued Influx of undesirable for
eigners 10 this country. We might
close the door entirely, but that would
work as great hardship in some respects
as to throw 1t wide open would in others.
We can't afford to do either, and yet we
must do something.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
RAILROAD MEN DENOUNCE THE
PEOPLES PARTY.

C. c. Grouse, editor of the Neodesha
Register, the organ of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, was a constant
observer of the proceedings of the last
legislature and labored diligently in be-
half of the railroad employees. As to the
regard felt by the Alliance members for
the laboring men, Mr.. Grouse says in
his paper:
If they should be successful in 1892 in
elect ne the legislature. senate and gov
ernor, God knows what will become of
the railroad employees of this state. Their
actions last winter proved plainly they
were no friends of the wage carriers and
if they should obtain the power they will
pass laws that W Il compel half of the
railroad men of Kansas TO seek new oc-
equations. They proved this last winter.
You who have read the papers know
this to be fact. Be warned in time. Do
not give an Alliance man a vote. Do
not give them half a vote by staying
away from the voting place.
Anything to beat the Alliance" is our
motto. They are our enemies.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

Roswell P. Flower, the Democratic
candidate for governor in New York,
voted for free coinage in the house last
winter. The Topeka Democrat thinks
this is the best evidence that eastern
sentiment is not entirely on the gold
side Of the silver issue. Perhaps so; but
has the Democrat heard of any declara-
ton from the would-be governor on the
coinage question since his nominations
Voting in congress is one thing; declara-
lions of convictions when a candidate
for state Office is quite another. If the
esteemed Democrat should ask Mr.
Flower for an expression of his views
upon the silver question he would most
likely inform it that that question has
nothing to do with state politics. Neither
has the tariff, but that party tries mighty
hard to work it, nevertheless.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
Another Theory.

Whether accounted for upon the cpl
demic theory or not, it is fact that
there has been an unusual amount of
lawlessness in many parts of the coun-
try during the past month, embracing
pretty much the entire catalogue of
wrong-doing Eagle.
We have no faith in the epidemic
theory. The prevailing depravity is, we
believe, due to the fact that people no
longer believe in literal hell-a lake of
fire and birthstone, where sinners burn
forever and forever. Nobody Of sound
mind believes that old hair rails
ing chestnut now, but it is a sad
thought to us that people cannot be
just, upright and honorable without
being scared into it. 1t really seems
that as the belief in a hell disappears,
poor, weak humanity is going to make
hell on earth. 1t seems the time is
coming when honest men will have TO
club together and take turns in guarding
their property with rifles and shotguns,
but this will not avail when the criminal
class outnumbers the people of recitude.
Hence it behooves every good moral
citizen to kill as many burglars and
robbers and murders and rapists as
he can right at once. 1t will stop the
breed to some extent and delay the up
rising of the criminal majority The
Wichita Arrow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
KANSAS AND HER RESOURCES.

Under the above heading a Missouri
paper dishes up Kansas in the subjoined
manner, and while, on the whole, it is
not very creditable showing as to the
display of enterprise, and was not meant
as compliment to the state, it contains
some germs of truth that the state
should ponder over and profit by:
Kansas has mineral; she has water
powers which, if developed. would build
a Lowell on every stream; she could pro-
duce wool enough to clothe the nation;
she raises all the cereals and fruits; she
raises hogs and cattle. And yet her
beans are sent to Boston, where Boston
laborers can them, to be shipped back to
hungry Kansans. She ships her hogs
and cattle east, and then the corn to
feed them; foreign laborerS do the feed
ing, the Strengthening, the curing and
canning, and what they chonse to dish
out to Kansas is shipped back. Kansas
raises barley, rye, hops; she ships these
east to be brewed by foreign labor. The
beer Is there kegged or bottled and
shipped back. The same is true Of
whisky. In word, Kansas to a
great extent SHIPS ali ner pfOQuctS
abroad and takes whatever foreigners are
disposed to pay, deducting freight The
remnants are shipped back and the Kan
san pays whatever is asked, including
freight back again.
"Thus she furnishes labor to millions
beyond her boarder. pays freight two
ways, takes whatever is melted out to
her for products and pays all that is de-
manded for whatever is graciously re-
turned. She thus aids to build up CEN
tiers abroad and keep prosperity at a
distance.
kansas need not ship from abroad a
pound of bacon or lard, yard of wooden
fabrics, pound of salt, jug of whisky
or key of beer, can Of fruits or scarcely
any other manufactured commodity.
She is a great commonwealth, 400 miles
long, 200 miles wide, to the stars above
and China below. Let her people bless
God for rains and not any party. Stop
so much politics of the crank kind, put
her wits to the development of all her
not accepting one, and who
can fortell her future:"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
FORGETFUL POLK.

Ordinarily military men take pleasure
in recalling their rank and deeds, but
L. L. Polk of North Carolina, while in
Kansas found it convenient to forget
his. 1t was with difficulty he recalled
the fact that he had even been rebel of
either high or low degree. He gave it
as the best of his recollection that he
had never rose higher than a second or
third lieutenant, but only acknowledged
the lieutenancy after he had got ready
to skip the state. But Comrade McAlis-
ter, the crippled soldier and nominee of
the Republican party of Sedgwick
county has a parole, it is SAID, which is
duly signed 81. L. Polk, Brigadier Gen
eral in command of Salisbury Prison. !"
Mr.. Polk has gone back to North Caro-
lima, presumably to look over his army
papers and find out just what his mill
tary rank really is.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

At this moment two historic and roya
persouages who are crossing the stage Of
the world seem to be stamped by the fatal
fly of the ancients. They are like two eyo-
cations of Hsehylus or Euripides. They
suggest Gdipus and Jocasta. One is the
Emperor Francis Joseph, the other the
Empress Eugene. On both a crushing
fatality seems 70 rest.
One, mounted on the throne. saw herself
precipitAted from il in the midst Of is
greatess luster Struck TO the heart by
those mortal blows. Reichshofen, Spiehs-
ren, Sedan, she saw Der husband led away a
prisoner after having surrendered his army
to the victor. She saw her palace invaded
by the threatening mob. and deserted by
the food Of courtiers she was accompanied
20 her exile only by that American citizen,
by that Thomas ". Evans, who alone was
faithful in misfortune.
She saw her husband, Frustrated By
pain and adversely. die ingiorious in that
exile; and finally her son, her only son,
on whose head ceutered al her pride. all
her hope. persisted IN a barbarous and lone
some land. fer from Europe, far from all
that could east last ray On his premsturs
grave. And yet she lives, she goes about.
bue LaAks. kEc EEfl-lAo EdEt1t hLE kse1 "
see its monuments. she even enters that
Palace OF Industry which she inaugurated.
and which even years ago was looked upon
- Babylonian dream. and she passes.
al Incarnation % fatality. under the as
tonished eyes OF the people who gaze upon
her
The other is Francis Joseph. BE ascend
Cd the throne amid the noise and trspida
ton Of = fearful storm. He SUCCESSFULLY
received az TIE heart those triple ponisr5
thrlsts Magenta SoiFerino. sadOrA He
signed. bowling with rage, that treaty Of
PTsgus which snssehsf from his brow TIE
German imperial crown. then. amid ths
Eioony solitude witch made RS domestic
hearth 4 desert. Re learned the mysterious
ca.sstTopne Ehich deprived hiE1 Of his only
son. the heir q rs crown. the oniy futurs
and the SUPREME hope q tie emplre.-D.
BlOE5tz Ia Harper's.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
THAT INTERSTATE" LAW.

The Atchi5on Champion takes up the
question of the abuse of the power lodged
in the interstate railway commission and
which that paper handles in an able and
convincing way. The Champion quotes
Commissioner SHOEMAKER as declaring
that the theory on which the act was
constructed was that competition
among railways was of great public adj
vantage and that arrangements to di-
minish the force of competition must be
prejudicial to the public, but that this
has been disproved by experience" In
other words this commission would say
that ''competion is not the life of trade. 5"
It will be hard to persuade the people of
Kansas that the interstate commission
have always been guided in their de-
cisions by the idea embodied in the
above inconsistent declaration of one of
their number.
The Champion quotes the EAGLE in
two or three places in its article. The
declarations SO quoted were based by us
upon facts involved in the experience
and efforts made by Wichita to save
lines of trade and interests which were
being ruined by open and fragrant dis
elimination.
Public discussion of the matter will in
time repeal the law or ''bust" the one
sided commission.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
THE ROCK ISLAND MUST PUSH IT'S
WICHITA LINE TO TIDE WATER

From the Chicaso News
That part of Mr.. Goulds interview in
which he mentions a new line to New
Orleans in connection with the Missouri
Pacific has set western railroad men to
thinking.
The completion of the line from Fort
Smith to a junction with the Cotton Belt
will give the road short route to New
Orleans via the Cotton Belt and the
Texas Pacific. both of which are con-
trolled by Gould. 1t is probable that
this viii be done within few weeks. Il
is also probable that the same rates will
be adopted from Kansas points to New
Orleans that are in force from Kansas
points TO Chicago. This will. of course,
divert to the southern port all the ex-
port grain traffic that has heretofore
gone east by way of Chicago. and will
work considerable injury to some of the
Chicago roads.
The Rock Island will be the road most
likely to suffer in the event of such &C
ton An official of that company admit
ted as much yesterday. Zone thing is
certain" he said. IF Gould carries out
this plan, and / have no doubt he will,
the Rock Island viii be compelled to
build 10 tidewater. We have been NOV
ing in that direction slowly for several
years, but this l imagine viii force US to
stir our stunps and get into Galveston as
quickly as possible. Why, the Missouri
Pacific can make even higher rate to
New Orleans than we make 70 Chicago
and still get away with all the export
business, for the ocean rate applies from
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01
The Razor and the African.

From the New York Advertiser.
The use of the razor as lethal weap-
on is curisously enough confined to ne
grOes. No white nam can use it in an
affray without cutting his fingers off. In
explanation of its use, Inspector Byrnes
once said to me that it undoubtedly
arose from the vocation of the negroes as
BARRIERS But this does not explain how
such a weapon can be used in a melee
without injury to the user. have never
seen a white man who would dare to
make slash with it, for he knows that
if the blade fails to strike its object it
must close on the fingers that hold it,
The almost complete severing of Police
man Sherman's head by a razor in the
hands of a negro recalls Poe's story of a
gorilla that was armed with the same
weapon.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

The signs clearly indicate that some
great change IL about 20 take place. All
thoughtful observers declare that quarter
of a century will see tie downfall q al
the Old monarchiss q Europe. Com.
nunism. nihilism aud anarchy arr bub
bling 70 the surface ali over the world A
single decade - likely % So the Britls1
empire dissolved. hrr landed estates ~
vided and Der church property eon6seated.
Turkish dominion IN Europe Is on "a
wsne. and the Jews are rspegptng Paley
tine
Evidently Nostradamus knew what "a
wa talking about, even II Be va q lttls
on on dstes.-st Louis Republic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

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New Ideas and Artistic Patterns Described
by Decorator and Furnisher.
The dado of wall paper is little used Pt
present, and Is not needed except in large
rooms with high ceilings
A deep wainscoting of hard wood or q
movable hanging fastened by hooks TO a
rail or molding Is honest and serviceable,
and should be employed when such hori
Eontal division Of the wall space is desira-
bic.
The frieze still remains IN favor and -
tains its place in nearly all schemes of wall
decoration. Its width depends, of course,
on the height of the room. and with the
dado or wainscoting it aids in modifying
the unnecessary height of the ordinary
modern room The lowering of the ceiling
in many of the new houses will have the
effect of narrowing these finishing bands
into the old fashioned borders, or of dis
placing them altogether.
Where natural forms in decoration are
desired, a frieze Of flock paper, with a bold
ly painted design, may be used above the
door spaces in panels A trailing spray Of
wild roses on a ground Of soft yellow in
Ginning TO brown. great punches OF Grim
son and amber tinted roses on field Of
turquoise blue or dull gold background.
with stalks OF tall red lilies. may be used
with excellent effect.
In many of the finest patterns lilac
effects are introduced. lilac being a fash
ioHable color
Another departure in the present sea-
sons goods are the new enclosing effects
in silk goods. In one range OF papers the
ground is embossed with a daisy pattern;
in another the ground is minute repre-
sentation of combed work, and in another
line of papers the ground is heavily en-
bossed to represent burlap.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

The Bardsley embezzlement in Phila'
delphia was promptly and thoroughly
Investigated by the courts, not only for
the purpose Of convicting the criminal
who was Immediately responsible for
the outrage upon the people but to asoer-
tain who the accessories were, If any.
But notwithstanding this rigid and
sweeping investigation by the courts,
the Democratic governor (by accident
of the state, thinking to make bit of
political capital out of the affair, has
called a special session of the legislature
to make investigation of it. The real
purpose of this move is to trump up
something that will smirch some prom
inent Republican official, and it doesn't
matter, with Pattison and his gang, by
what methods it is accomplished.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

That was most timely, dignified and
patriotic declaration of the Rock River
Methodist conference at Joliet, ILL.,, Tues
day, in regard to the question of popular
education. Our public school system is
one of the most important and valuable
features in governmental economy and
needs to be guarded with the most
jealous care against encroackments from
whatever interest. Education in its
broad and liberal sense is the hope of the
nation, and being the prerogative of the
state, the state must sustain and defend
the system independent of sectarian in
fluence and class interference.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-01

If Melbourne makes n success of his
precipitation manufacturing machine at
Goodland, Kan, his fortune is secured
The farmers will pay him dollars where
they pay Simpson, PETER and Mrs. Lease
cents. and the occupation of the latter
trio viii be gone. The experiments have
been successful elsewhere and the coudi-
tons appear to be right here. But,
should they fail something che will be
tried. In any event the state has had
surfeit of SIS, P's and LIS, and will give
them room in the near vacancy.