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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
THE RHODE ISLAND ALLIANCE.

For the first time since the Inaugural.
ton of the Alliance as a political move
ment it appeared in the election returns
of Rhode Island of the past week. And
the figure it cut in the campaign in that
STATE was of the nature of comic sill
houette. An address to the "Indepen-
dent Voters" began this way.
Ism: this about the size of it? The Re-
publican party and the Mckinley bill,
the Democratic party and the Mills bill;
difference only about per cent. Are
there not home issues Of more vital i'm
portance? The ticket to vote if you
would gain them, etc, etc"
There is no state in the country in
which the tariff is of more practical i'm
portance than it is in Rhode Island, and
here we have political faction depre-
ciating the Importance of the tariff issue
by declaring the difference between the
Mckinley bill and the Mills bill is only a
matter of per cent. Are all the tariff
reform heroics we have had to endure
here reduced to a mere 8 per cent
matter?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
COLUMBUS DAY.

-Four hundred years ago October 18th,
next, Columbus set his foot on the shores
of the New World, which, 10 Americans,
is the only world which promises much
to humanity. On October 18th, next.
the Worlds Exposition will be opened at
Chicago, commemorative of the most
important single event to humanity, save
the birth of Christ, in history. 1t is now
proposed that the most representative
American institution, the public schools,
be the center of each local celebration.
The Worlds congress commission and
the American superintendent of educa-
ton have endorsed the idea of the
schools of America celebrating that day,
and Francis Bellamy of Boston, for the
executive committee, is sending out the
necessary instructions.
We cannot think of any wav which
viii be happier and more significant for
all that Americans hold dear than the
making of this day. by the uniform ac-
ton of the governors of each state, a hol-
iday, and the gathering of our children
to participate in the exercises of uni
form program, which shall enable the
children in the remotest hamlet in the
country to participate in the same songs
and hear to some extent the same words
which will be sung or spoken at Chicago
On that day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
MR., BRECKINRIDGES PATCH.

In brilliant speech on the free-wool
bill made before the house Wednesday,
Representative Breckenridge complained
of the expense in this country of good
wool clothing. Many an American, said
Mr.. Breckenridge, is unable to have a
patch on his pantaloons ''for the simple
reason that the miserable wooden goods
which he is compelled to buy will not
hold together long enough to take a
patch" This melancholy wall is likely
to take rank in coming campaign
speeches as battle-cry against oppres-
sion.
But beforeit does, the Chicago News
suggests that Mr.. Breckenridge should,
as token of good faith, take off his neat
Prince Albert coat in the house and
demonstrate that his utterance is not
merely the expression of personal
grievance and affection.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
suNFLowER s1LHouErrEs.

Ben Clover seems to be the "Dunkin Of
Punkin' of the national congress.
Brown county instructed for Morrill,.
Mr.. Morrill, named his own delegates.
A Kansas man has discovered that it is
usually the driving clouds that hold the
rain.
Bernard Kelly's trouble is inf1ammatory
rhematism. There are hopes for his re-
covery.
Senator Ingalls, did not have to join the
army to get his wonderful command of
language
Many letters are still received at the
Washington postof1ice addressed to Sena-
tor Plumb.
The cyclone in Kansas recently travelled
eighty-six miles an hour and didn't stop
at stations.
The northeast corner of the state, of
course, has Morrill, Wright to the gov
ernorship.
Ralph Ingalls,, son of Senator ingalls,.
expects to open a law Office IN Topeka
within month.
The band that meets Ben Clover at the
depot upon his return from congress, will
probably play a ''slumber song"
PETER is against fusion. PETER is good
deal better man than he would be if his
term should be out short of FIVE years.
A New York doctor says that talking
developes the Adams apple. If this is
true, Kansas fruit cropis practically as
sured.
While the Republicans are watching
Attorney Iyes' boom flare up they can see
at least one propitious point-he is a resi-
dent of Topeka.
doctor, are cyclones contagious?"
Contagious? what do you mean?"
"Oh nothing, only my wife storms
around SO much.
Ben Clover declares in the congressional
directory that he was married on All
FOOLS Day. After minute investigation,
the joke seemed to be on Mrs. Clover.
Farmer Funston's vindication on the
floor of congress, of his total abstinence,
ought to remind Jerry Simpson that his
Cleveland champagne party still stands
undenied.
An Atchison man who is dying of ter
rible disease was recently called upon to
arbitrate between his two grown sons,
who were quarreling as to which should
have his gold watch and chain after he
was buried.
The New York Voice correspondent who
accused Funston of drinking red liquor,
twas certainly no gentleman" Further
proof of this is furnished when later infor-
nation shows that the correspondent in
question is d woman.
At this moment Funston has the deep
sympathy of Mrs. Lease. Mrs. Lease has
always believed that the Republican party
tried to poison her lemonade, and Funs-
ton finds it necessary to denounce the
newspaper correspondent who has been
trying to mix the water he drinks with
whisky.
A Boston man recently bought farm
in western Kansas and tried amateur
farming. One of the neighbors in passing
the next day heard him say: Abandon
the direct progression to the straight
thitherward, and deviate by inclinary and
aberrant dextrogyration into dextral in
cidence" 1t was the amateur Boston
farmer saying, Gee, Buck" to his yoke
of oxen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,

It is now the 10Th. IL may yet be the
22nd.
The Capital says Guthrie needs public
library badly.
Chandler will vote on the question OF in
corporation, April -.
The Perkins postofice is now full
fedged money order office.
The Choctaw road has new engine.
The old engine broke down.
No attention is paid TO politics on the
West Side. Too much boom for that
The Cheyenne opening seems TO be a
matter of great wait with the settlers.
The Cheyenne Indian will soon have TO
make a hoe out of his tomahawk and go to
hustling.
Look out for frauds. Nobody can insure
you claims You have chance as good as
anybody's else.
The Saltwater Gazette has changed
hands. j. E S ,ter and J. w. Meats are
now proprietors
Joe Paul's trial for the murder OF his
father viii be called up at Paris, Tex,
Saturday, April -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
LOOK AHEAD!

1t is gratifying to the people of Wich-
ita to look backward to the early history
of this city and to note the great prog
ress that has taken place of recent years.
| 1t is indeed a marvellous development, of
which they have every reason to feel
proud. But our people are not content
with looking backward. The rapid
growth of the city is not thing of the
past. 1t is still in progress, and the de-
veiopments of the future bid fair to far
outstrip all that the past has witnessed.
Our predictions of steady growth and
large expansion of trade for Wichita are
based upon solid grounds, and any per-
son who will take the pains to investi-
gate the resources of the country tribu-
tary to this city cannot fail to be con-
WINGED that great future is in store for
her.
Wichita must grow with the improve
nent of the great agricultural area en-
braced in Southern Kansas, particularly
that within a radius of a hundred miles
from this center of trade. In a general
way all the southern counties of the
stale and the territories of Oklahoma
and New Mexico, furnish trade for our
merchants and manufacturers, and as
these outlying regions grow in popula-
ton so will their business relations here
expand. AS yet the development of the
mineral and agricultural resources of
these great territories has scarcely begun.
The limit of profitable production
in Southern Kansas is restricted only
by the demand. As the markets ex-
brought within reach by the increase
of transportation facilities, production
will increase. Large as our present
production is in the line of horticulture
and agriculture, it is but fraction of
what the country is capable of doing.
The traveller who goes over the lines of
railway in the southwest and the vari-
Gus local roads tributary to Wichita sees
many thriving communities whose pros
perity is based upon horticulture, agri-
culture and live stock. He also sees
hundreds of thousands of acres of good
land, as yet unimproved or used only for
grain or pasturage. All this land, when
brought under close cultivation, is capa-
Bile of yielding enormously and of sup
porting a large population of fruit
growers and farmers.
ANY calculation of the future of Wich-
tia which fails to take into considera-
ton the charms of her climate, and
of other advantages appealing very
strongly to home-makers, would be in
complete. There is no fairer city under
the sun, and none blessed with a more
agreeable climate. People of wealth
from all other parts of the United States
and from foreign countries are attracted
hlther by these advantages. The charms
of the city as a place OF residence must
figure 10 no small extent in the rapidi;y
OF her growth and the accession Of pop
ulation and capital from abroad With
the multiplication of railroads, the sup
ply of cheap fuel ard the enlargement
OF markets, there will be a steady growth
of manufacturing industries, giving en-
ployment 10 many thousands OF persons
and reacting beneficially upon the city's
trade.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
WHAT WILL WE DO ABOUT rTa

AS to the infereEtlal question of
! "What are you going to do about it!'
almost daily put to the interior towns of
Kansas by the Kansas City, Mo-, papers
touching our struggle for chance to
live and for equitable rates from the
railroads, which roads we as people
! built and which we are maintaining
today, the EAGLE answers: We are go
ing to have our rights! The impudent
! disregard of the roads to the commls-
! siuners' order and the violation of their
own solemn agreement in the compro-
mise rates subsequently signed by the
railroad attorneys and the committee
representing the interior jobbers. left US
seemingly at the mercy of the insolent
Missouri combine, but in their greedy
blindness an Atchison firm was per-
suaded to carry the whole matter into
courts by way of an injunction proceed
ing. That is just where the people of
the interior desired their cause to go.
In the event of the allure of the Atchi-
son district court to render an equitable
decision the case will be carried imme-
diately to the state supreme court. If
because of the location of that courts
members and of their environments, JUS
tice is denied, then the EAGLE will in
connection with the influential papers of
Hutchinson, Salina, Arkansas City and
other prominent and hopeful in
terror points, make a direct appeal
to the people of the state for the election
of such a legislature as will force the
common carriers of the state to be COM
mon, and mighty common" There is
no more danger of failure to force
these state corporations to not only carry
out the order of the commissioners and
do the right and equitable thing to every
section of the state, in spite of Missouri
river boycotting influences, and in spite
of the legislative member that here and
there can be bought by railway money,
than that the summer will in due season
again come round with its life and
wealth Of crops.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
BAD TALK.

From the Ell Dorado Republican.
Governor Humphrey Is the "Uriah
Heap" of Kansas Republication; Morrill,
is banker and will be beaten if nom
mated; A. w. Smith has been up stairs
with every railway corporation in Kan
sas; George T. Anthony is running the
state to promote his own selfish pur-
poses; Ben Simpson has been governor
of Kansas for eight ears, notwithstand-
ing he has not occupied the guberna-
torial chair; if prohibition is put in the
Platform the Republicans will be beaten;
the opposition will fuse and the opposi-
ton will not fuse. These are some of
the expressions to be seen in the Kansas
Republican newspapers every day in the
week and it seems to us this sort of I'M
seemly racket should be stopped.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

1t was announced in a number of
eastern papers few days ago that Wich
tia had been completely RACED to the
ground by tornado In the same papers
it was state that a cyclone visited Chi
cago the other day, jammed part of the
city into the government pier and swept
the worlds fir grounds as clean as a
Dutch housewives floor. These state
ments only go TO show how small an in
cident of fact may be amplified into a
volume of fiction. The storm OF the first
instant that passed over the eastern sub
urbs of this city did some damage, but
the city proper sustained no injury. In
Chicago a single building was demol-
ished. though in the building there were
a number Of persons several of whom
were killed and some others injured.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
These are Indicators:

II pieces Fine French India Twills, AZ
inches wide, new colorings, regular dollar
Equality, 81 cents Six yards makes dress.
There's value here.
Spices Fine French Crepons, 50 inches
wide, regular dollar quality, at 81 cents. 7
yards makes dress.
Here is value.
II pieces 5o-inch light weight French
Broadcloths, twllled back, value $3.50, at 70
cents. II yards makes a dress
These are values.
Over 100 pattern dresses cut in price
some even at half
10 pieces all-wool Scotch Outing Elan
nels in stri pes, usual SOC quality, at 20 cents
These values.
7 pieces light tan and grey plaids and
checks, 85c quality, al inches wide, at 81
cents. IL yards make dress.
These will indicate somewhat the feast
Of values prepared for this sale. We can't
name them here
Help will be concentrated from other
departments to avoid your waiting.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
SLEEP LITTLE ONE.

Like the almond buds when they first unclose
Came baby face among mountain SHOWS;
Two dark eyes looked on the world a day,
Then their light went out:-and who can sa!
What that one wee look of life was worth,
Or which is the better, death or birth;
We cannot answer what it may be
LIES weary puzzle? Deaths mystery?
What was thy mission, little white star,
Where art thy gone, art thou near or lar!
Somewhere, for nothing is lost know,
Death is provided for" Love says SO;
Nature tells naught OF her great designs,
Sleep little one under soughing pines.
Thy cradle song is the night-winds sigh,
Grooming sibilant lullaby;
The castled rocks their shadows throw,
And tenderly mantel thee, far below,
Safe, so safe on the mountains breast,
To live or to die which is the best?
Death must be well, for on each dead face,
An infinite peace finds resting place.
NAN w. HEALY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
FOR STATE SUPERINTENDENT.

Professor d. S. Pence of this city is
being very favorable mentioned in many
portions of the state in connection with
the Republican nomination for state
superintendent of public instruction. 1t
would seem that no man talked of has
such backing from the educators and
superintendent as he. Professor Pence
is not only widely known as the last
president of the State Teachers associa-
ton, but he is known throughout the
state to school officers for the many
superior blank and book records which
he has devised. Professor Pence is serv-
ing his second term as county superin-
tendent of schools, a position he filled in
the state of Indiana before coming to
Kansas. He is thorough gentleman
and scholar, energetic and progressive.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

Our Peoples party congressman from
this district is opposed 10 placing wool on
the free list, unless the tariff is removed
from wooden goods.-Emporia Republican.
That is just what the free wool bill that
passed the house proposes, as we under
stand it, 1t places wooden manufac-
lures as well as raw material on the free
list, thus depriving both the American
producer and American manufactures
of the protection heretofore accorded
one or both against unequal foreign
competition.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
THE SALT LAKE TEMPLE.

The capstone of the great Norman
temple at Salt Lake City that was placed
in position as noon Tuesday, marked the
the thirty-ninth university of the lay
ing of the foundation stone of the great
pile. The record of Mormonism since
this huge religious edifice was begun by
Brigham Young more than generation
ago is of great interest. In the erection
of the temple 100000 has been spent.
Viewed solely as religious sect the
''latter-day saints" have had tenacity
of purpose and virility in action that
have produced marvellous results. Apart
from their peculiar rites, their belief in
polygamy and their frequent conflicts
with United States law, their pioneer
labors in the development of Utah have
been remarkable results.
On the completion of its great temple
Mormonism doubtless takes an in
ventory of the present and a
survey of the future. Most of
its pioneer leaders are gone and a major
ity of the younger prophets desire no
more conflicts with the eentiles. The
territory has largely passed under the
control of men of American sentiment.
The suppression of polygamy by law is
no longer openly resisted. But the Nor
mon sentiment is still the ruling force in
Utah, and those who say it is dead are
superficial Investigators.
Another generation may have to come
and go before the American people will
feel safe in intrusting sovereign state
hood to Utah. Meanwhile the Mormons
will worship peacefully in their great
temple at Salt Lake, their harmless
symbolic rites being freely tolerated by a
government that is bound to suppress
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

John NJ. Thurston, the Nebraska Re-
publican orator, has no symprthy with
the efforts being made by Ex-Governor
Thayer in the Nebraska courts to Gust
Governor Boyd. He says the Republi-
cans of Nebraska look upon his efforts
as those of feeble old man, and for
this reason nothing was done to interfere
with his idioms. But the etate supreme
court has finally decided against him aud
the matter is at an end, to the relief
pf all
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

When three British frigates chased the
United States ship Constitution odd
Ironsides) into Marblehead bay enc Sum
day afternoon, many years ago, old Or.
Bentley was preaching in the church on
shore. He dismissed the congregation
with the words: "We have served God
in the forenoon, and now we will serve
our country in the afternoon. One of
his hearers, Joseph rockingham, of
Exeter. n. H., is still living.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

The wholesale warfare inaugurated
by the wholesale grocers of the country
against the sugar combine is move in
the right direction, but its success could
and would be greatly facilitated by an
act of congress removing the import
duty on refined sugars. With that off
the combine would dissolve. Sugar is
one article of universal consumption
and anything that enhances the cost of
it to the consumers is tax burden.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
Eacts Us Fancy.

From u. Kansas City 6Azstts-
We meet in the midst Of a nation
brought 10 the verge OF moral, political
81 ,cateri.J min Business
IS Frustrated; our homes covered with
mortgages; labor impoverished --fSi-
Louis Peoples party platform. Resi-
dents Of Harver county have sent
&. 500 10 the Russian sufferers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

Young Partridge, who has made
s.. 600, 900 by going short OF wheat in
Chicago. gives it as his opinion that a
college education IS not essential 10 sue
cess in business. Ii didn't look as If 1t
was in his case, for time, but now
looks IS If he should be pretty familiar
with the science of mathematics TO figure
out of his present dilemma
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

Because early vegetables are losing
their patrician air and are making the
acquaintance of ordinary people, while
Strawberries are exchanging their jaun-
diced look for a robust red, the st. Joe
News takes it for granted that summer
is almost here. Credulity is an admira-
BILE quality, but it is no guaranty against
disappointment. Ask Hicks.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

1t is very evident that a majority of
the Democrats of the country are bent
on making Cleveland the party nominee
for president, and it is equally patent
that a sufficiently strong minority to
prevent his election are determined that
he shall not be. And there you have
the situation in a nutshell. On the other
hand nobody is talked of among Repub-
licans for president but President Harri-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10
Which , whoa

From the Kansss City Gazette
The Alliance members of the house
from Kansas, Baker, Clover. Davis and
Simpson. voted with the Democrats for
free wool. Otis voted with the Repub-
licans against the repeal OF the duty.
These jawsmiths are elegant representa-
tives OF farming interests.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

Hills name was greeted with Kisses in
the Massachusetts, Democratic conven-
ton. But David B. Hill is not taking
misses and instructed delegates into ac-
count. He has his hand on the lever
which will make condition confront"
''that Chicago delegation which in turn
will make the Democrats hesitate before
they give up New York"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

Senator Blair's fate should be warn
ing to statesmen yearnlng for diplomatic
places not to take too prominent part
in the exclusion act against the Chinese.
China has given her ultimatum that
statesmen who do not like the Chinese IN
America will not be allowed to admire
or mix with them on their native soil.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

The people of the United States are
not inclined to admire the United States
senate. As body it is too aristocratic
However, the rowdyIsh character of the
present house of representatives is doing
much to commend the dignified, con-
servative course and manner OF the
senate TO the public.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

That great Democratic house OF repre-
sentatives. which made TODD about the
Mckinley bill. has strained with all its
might, got red in the face, pulled and
bowed. and after a terrible struggle, has
succeeded in amending one little item OF
that hill
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

David B. Hill did not expect MasSa-
chusetts anyway. He is after bigger
game. He will have the whole Chicago
convention in front his shotgun, with
hands up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

The Chinese, the Irish and the Iceland
people all have explorers who discovered
America before Columbus. In the great
vast OF the bea;ific hereafter, the auth or
of Beautiful Snow and Columbus are
probably sympathizing ueighborst 10 each
other
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

The delay of the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe opening means nothing more than
that a few thousand more settlers VIII
make the race. Covered wagons string
ing out for Oklahoma, can be seen all
over the Mississippi valley.