The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-16

| age.
1t will demand the most sublime devo
ton of the best citizens of our common
wealth.
II took the plebians of Rome 200 years tt
| eXtort their legal and moral rights from &
| rich and merciless aristocracy. But the
people prevailed, and out of their bitter
experience arose in fact as well AS in poetic
| fancy a majestic temple of human liberty
its foundations cemented with the tears
and blood of six generations of people and
its superstructure dedicated TO civil con-
cord"
Let US emulate the plebians and with
the acceleration Of human progress III
| these modern times; we shall achieve
greater results.
But it is said that we are run wild tow
ards destruction. We are told that our
principles are but the ground work OF
Anarchy. A sort OF basement story of the
edifice Of destruction. But We don't be-
leve it.
On, no my fellow citizens, the farmers
and laborers of this country are not An
archists. They are earnestly seeking to
avert the experiences of the old world and
TO subdue tue spirit of anarchy, with the
milk of human kindness. Too much has
been devoured over there. The demands
of a suffering, starving people have been
nnheeded, thought has been fettered aud
the last are but smoldering volcanoes of
human passion.
Oh. no. the men OF this nation are not
Anarchists, but God only knows what
another generation of misrule may bring
FORTH
1t is Just possible that continued oppres-
sion may generate the fierce fires of hate
and discord here.
The great fire Of Chicago might have
been easily extinguished by proper means
and at the right time, but there was de-
lay. The wind rose and famed the glow
lug embers into new life-a whirlwind fol-
lowed-and live Goals were caught up and
hurled through the air until forked
tongues of flames licked out toward north
and south and east and west, and grew
great architectural piles.
Mystic palaces of travel and commerce
were snrouded and devoured by the fire.
The great court house, the synonym of
law and liberty and justice, trembling,
lettering, wrapped in flames, tumbled TO
earth with a mighty crashing roar, while
the tongue of the great bell pealed out the
funeral kuell of the doomed city.
My hope for the future OF our beloved
country is sustained by an undying faith
in the integrity or the common people.
1t is the people which are bringing con-
science back with politics, Il is the people
which are marching with mighty tread
into the temple TO scourge the thieves and
overthrow the tables of the money chang
ers.
see the gallant commandries of this
mighty army assembled here this morn
ing; not with yigor and helmet, but with
determination glowing at white beat TO
right the wrongs of the people.
But while we are brave let us also be
wise. Let us welcome honorable allies
and we shall go forth to victory.
And in due time the people shall reap
the fruits of victory. In due time we will
restore to its rishtful place among metals
the silver of our native mountains and in
due time the financial circulation which
throbs through the arteries OF the body
polite shall be controlled IN IA more natur-
al way, by the great heart OF the body and
not so much by the head.
Ia due time we will restore to the people
the public lands which have been wrested
from them by violence and fraud.
In due time we will coutrOl the COM
merce of the country, and if driven to ex-
tremes we will absolutely own and operate
such railroads as are needed IN our bust
ness, and by some process too as simple as
that by which our own lands are condemn
ed and sold for right Of way and for the
public good.
We will make it possible for the people
to buy and sell their commodities in the
open markets of the world and protect
them from a protection which under cover
of law robs every man who eats or drinks
or wears clothes.
Yes, the people are for protection for
him who tolls and who eats bread in the
sweat of his face-the laborers of this
miner, the mechanic, the
artisan, the clerk, the men-and women,
too, God bless 'em!-who toll with their
hands-these are they who, by the eternal
shall have protection.
My heart has often been moved by a
graphic account of the great strike in Chi
rago which occurred on the At h of June
few years ago. The situation became
alarming. Actual starvation was at hand !
and the wives and mothers of the railroad |
men We're so driven TO desperation and so
frenZied III their determination to stop the |
moving trains that they grouped their lit
lie ones of all ages upon the track in front |
Of Il moving freight train. The children |
were placed according to age along the |
rails, the youngest near the engine the !
grown up daughters and their mothers |
.aking positions in the rear. In this posi- |
Jon the living mass awaited the coming |
rain, resolved if it must be !
10 surrender their lives as their |
final testimony in the great |
battle for bread. One of the saddest ights
was procession of sewing girls and |
women parading the streets and demand !
ng shorter hours and better pay. From |
rooms, dark, damp, foul and |
into which the free sweet /
sir of Heavens blessed sunshine never |
enters, they came forth, wan, and gUant,
md weary, poorly clothed, scantily fed,
every feature expressing their hard fate a
dreadful procession of poverty stricken
;reat ures, whose evident suffering should |
plead their cause with Unanswerable argu
nent and powerful eloquence.
Talk of patriotism and love of country ! |
" hen your daughter Is driven TO such an
you will know for truth that
here is something radically wrong and /
here must be some remedy else Christ
las died in vain, and the love of GOD is an
e mOckery.
Patriotism, like charity, begins at home
Ind what Will the home become without !
means TO sustain an honorable life2
] tell you my fellow citizens IL is the |
homes OF this country which are the con
ervators OF all that is pure and peaceable
nd gentle. Destroy the home and an
rchv will surely follow Do you want
PATRIOTISM in the people? Its born at the
amlly altar. and from there it reaches out
o the embrace of township, county, state
nd nation. II knows no north, no south, /
10 bloody shirt 40 bloody Chasmn
,ut recognizes IN the people one bond OF
ommoD brotherhood.
Fred Close, nominee for congress IN the
FIRST district, responded. He said that 1t
forded him unbounded pleasure to think
hat the mayor OF great city like Wich-
ia, city with such fine brick blocks. fine
hurches, schools and women, would vel
ONE 5000 Anarchists 20 the city OF which
e was the Official head He then proceeded
d very eloquent words TO reply 10 the adj
resses OF welcome, IN which he comp!i-
lented Wichita and its people very high
?. Mr. Close Is quite a pleasing speaker
I'D has more than ordinary influence with
is political brethren.