The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-27
DEMOCRATIC RESPONSIBILITY.

All of the surrounding horizons, the
political, the financial and the social, are
lined with unsolved problems;with prob
lens that not only involve the present
and future happiness of every Ameri
can citizen, but which threaten life,
liberty and the pursuit of prosperity; yet
congress is dilly-dallying along as if its
members had nothing TO do but to kill
time. Legislation for which there is any
urgent demand is smothered by dilatory
motions or killed outright by the methods
of obstruction. The anti-option bill,
which at least promises to in
crease the price of farm
products by elimenating the gambling
element from our markets, has been
badgered with amendments until it has
lost every semblance of the spirit for
which it was drafted. The Indian Ter
ritory bill for opening seven million
acres of lands to settlers seems to have
been pigeon holed-for pay. The COM
mttee appointed to investigate the
Homestead strike, in the interest of right,
justice and peace, if it ever reports at ali,
will take the coward chute and prove
non-committal. And still there is beneath
our feet socialistic volcanoes, and in
the air political tornadoes. The
army of Pennsylvania has been called
out, bat an army in time of peace, in
Republican government, is but the EN-
blem and menace of monarchial power
and should find no place, at such time,
on American soil. The remedy for all
such disturbances ought to be found in
wise and arbitrative legislation and not
in the blood of a revolution. An armed
force IS exasperating to the average
American born citizen, whether that
force be of the Pinkertons, the state
militia or city police. The power of an
army should only be invoked in this
country in exegencies wherein the she'd
ding of blood is absolutely necessary to
the preservation of life.
Much if not all of the threatened
troubles of the hour spring from the
burthens imposed for sustaining ficti-
tious values and unreal properties. The
winnings of option deals, which aggre-
gate a thousand times the value of all
annual products of the country, the
margins in excessively bonded proper
ties of every description managed by
stock corporations, and the dividends of
species of watered stocks, go to make up
the underlying causes of all social and |
political troubles, and they are causes /
and troubles for which abundant RENE |
dies can be found in legislative halls, !
in those of the congress of the |
United States.
That body is dominated, as everybody
knows, by the Democratic party, party .
whose spirit was begotten of slave oil
garchy, party whose only boast is of |
rusty traditions, consequently party
all untitled to meet the many new and
wants of a progressive age,
the present period of which is teeming
with new Developments and consequent
new demands for new political and new
social adjustments. The average Demo-
cratic congressman does not seem TO
have thought or an ambition other
than the commands and interests of the
which maintain and con-
troll the incorporated interests of his par
cratic committee on Indian affairs
will not permit the opening of the strip to
so, the Democratic commit
tee sent to inquire into the Homestead
troubles will not report the true cause
of the difficulty; so, the Democratic
majority defeated the free coinage meas
ure; so, the Democratic majority Grip
pied the anti-option bill and sent it to
the senate in It's present almost worth
less condition; and, SO, that same I'M
tradition blind Democratic
majority will fail to grasp the needs of
tie hour; fail, and utterly fail, to re-
ieve single stress or to mitigate a
wong, much less apply any adequate
remedy for any of all the present threat
ening evils.