The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-14

| her to understand that our ports would
be closed TO her sugar. With i'll con-
ceaied chagrin she acceded to our de-
mand
| France was placed in the same cate
| CORY with some of her products, she
| having no other alternative yielded to
the Inevitable more gracefully than her
ancient rival and foe and with a pro-
| found obeiSance saws with pleasure
| Monsieur Blaine" England and Cana
da, Spain, Portugal, Cuba and the Isles
| of the sea, Sonth America and Mexico
with their innumerable productions from
manufactures, forests, groves, planta-
tons, plains and mines which this nation
| does not or cannot supply herself from
| within her own borders, clamor at our
| gates for entrance. offering 20 take In
/ exchange the surplus products or our
! farms, orchards, vineyards, mines. fur
| nacleS and looms. ranches and planta-
| tionS,a and the commodities of our bound
| less domain has the world for market
| and millions of dollars viii flow into tn e
lap of our nation and into the hands of
! its favored and prosperous people.
Volumes could be written on the bene-
| fits arising from this grand acknowledge
mentof the magnitude of It's Importance TO
| this country time alone will demonstrate,
as decades and centuries come and go.
Upon the glowing pages of The future
history of this republic the name OF
Blaine will stand pre-emenent as one OF
the most striking and illustrIous charac-
| tiers America ever pro uced. The i'm
press of his genius has been left on all
the laws enacted by congress which
affect the honor, welfare and prosperity
of the land for the past thirty years.
The history of the Republican party is
the history of this nation since 1860.
They alone have made its history all that
is worthy of the record, and of this every
true patriot feels proud, and during this
important period he has been its most
trusted leader and its chief counselor; in
all national affairs, where he led they
followed. And now in the lighted lamp
of experience how wise and happy it ali
looks, reading like romance and almost
that it must have been shaped and
guided by an inspired hand. Nothing
the Democrats dare to try 10 undo, al
though at the time they wildly pro-
tested, holding up their hands in holy
terror at what they termed to be "wick-
ed, cruel and unjust legislation" threat
power. How utterly they failed to re-
deem their pledge the records prove,
knowing too we'll it would be the sound
ing the death knell of their party, to
make the attempt. Although Blaine of
Maine is despised ana hated above all
other men by Democrats, he has really
been their best friend. Their cruel darts
dipped in the poison of calumny and
scandal, hurled with fendish and ma
llclous vindlctivenesS at his torn and
bleeding heart, not even respecting his
great sorrow as he passed under the
dark and blighting shadows of the death
of his idollZed son and beloved daughter.
Yet more i'll sorrow than in anger he
chided them for their cruelty,
lending his mighty influence to defeat
the force bill, which simply meant if
it became law to stand by the colored
men of the south to enable them to exer-
else their rights of suffrage and have
their votes honestly and fairly counted,
and the inevitable result would be the
exclusion from power and supremacy
forever, the Democratic party.
Blaine is the idol OF his friends. All they
asked or prayed for, were to permit him to
serve just one term as president of this
great people, to show to the world how
brilliant an administration a man
Of his towering genius and
overslawowing mind could give.
But such contamination has passed
beyond all human possibilities.
RemorselesS time has aged him the
same as it does all of us common NOR
tails, and the saddest of all words are
"What might have been" Nothing re-
mains to comfort us but the grandeur of
his immortal achievements the history
of which is ours and the realization of
their grand purposes and benefits we as
a people and countless millions to come
will live to enjoy. These are lasting
monuments of his greatness of mind and
sublimity of character more enduring
than brass or marble. Sadly we lay by
in the sacred memories of the past,
these buried hopes" and tenderly we
cover them over as we would our loved
and cherished dead. ID. Z. FULLER.