The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-31

made to howl-to set up a universal
shout such as lore heifs c0ncave," once
upon time, of which Mr. Milton writes.
When the world assemblies that has been
wondering for couple of years over the
strange case Of Kansas, it ought to see
the dismantled paradise just as it is. Il
ought TO see the hooting and complain
ing owl, which is so blind to fact and
goodness that il looks in the face of the
sun at midday and says, Where is IT."
Ii ought to see, as q specimen Of the
mugwump bird, that sad creature which
is doomed to term of years in this very
naughty world, third party Prohibi-
ZIONIST preserved in alcohol, or else
stuffed with his own conceit. 1t ought
TO see the Sinking jackal of parties which
gees back into the PAST and feeds and
fattens upon what the lion tribe has left.
The wolf, whose single voice sounds
through the gloom like a multitude of
walls, should be there to exempbfy star
walton. The OK that treadeth out the
corn" for the plutocrats and has nothing
to eat himself, should be there wearing
his muZzle. And the political duck that
fops and squawks and tries to ''get in
out of the wet" should take the place of
the American eagle, just above the main
entrance. Instead of the thunderbo is
which the eagle holds In his claws the
web foot of the duck should grippe a
weathercock, and in place of the eagles
starry shield the duck should have
this campain transparency: kansas
homes mortgaged for $4,000, 900. 000,-
600, 600" Some very dead leviathan
should represent the new condition of
the mortgage shark, and the croc0-
die with his tears might body forth the
weeping lover and leader OF the
masses" In a meagerly stuffed mer-
maid the Kansas Joan of Arc would fine
illustration; while the bewhiskered billy
goat with his inclination to walk in
dangerous and dizzy places and to stand
on the margin of the sea and wonder al
the mermaid would recognize his
double In the visiting statesmen from
Kansas, who first scaled the heights of
finance to the light above the clouds, and
wondered betimes in jealousy at the
popularity of Joan. The wildcat should
We there with his well known banking
system in order to share with the billy
goat the honor which fall 90 financiers.
Tho pole cat should be there to raise an
odor and cry fraud whenever anyone at
tempts to make count" of the coI!ec-
ton. The ostrich, which buries his
head in the sand and so conceaIs the
best looking part of himself, would SYM
bOliZe the uncovered fusion Democrat
who tried to hide behind the plea of eX-
pediency. The Custer warhorse
Comanche will be there to suggest that
in the Grand Army state the Confeder-
acy is in the saddle, as will also the
wiley fox of ''fraternaliSm" that took to
its lair the old soldier geese. There
should be the cushion-footed camel with
its capacious tank for drink 10 typify
the stealthy statesman who periodically
loads up at Kansas City in order to
fortify himself against the rigors of the
desert of prohibition. A loggerhead
turtle of the swapping kind would re-
present the fuslOnists at about the time
when the offices and perquisites have
gone small part of the way round,
while good specimen of the dun-color
ed ass would permit us all to see our
selves as others see us. Let the space in
the menagerie be enlarged and let every
creature that passed before Adom to be
named, find place in the collection.
They all belong to Kansas; nay, more,
even the missing link is ours and speaks !
in congress for the Seventh district. |
Everything is ours but agriculture, pros
perity, hope and reputation. Get to-
gether the animals, stuffed and stuffing- |
less, and for ruler over them set the |
traducer of the state, whose ancestry
1welt in Brobdignag and were described |
as Yahoos in the political writings of Mr..
Lemuel CULVER. Then you will have
Kansas as she is.