The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-08

| made funny ailusion to the tariff on
wool saying that wool has been free since
Abraham Lincoln cut the shackles OF
4,oo0,OO0 black citizens. He referred to
the investigation or the Carnegie strike
and the minority report of Mr..
Oates concerning the wages paid
He also quoted the figures of Mr.. Peck
of New York, showing the increase of the
wages of the 2S5, eco laborers Of that state
| and which every reader is acquainted with
On account of its recent publication in all
the papers. Judge Musseller's argument
was full of logic, and it may be truly said
OF 1t that it wac grea: effort.
Mr.. Kies followed He first talked about
the EAGEE and quoted some of its doc
trine, not forgetting or failing
to twist the meaning of it to
suit his side of the case. He talked in a
light vein about the effect of free trade in
sugar. but did not pretend TO reply to
Judge Museller's practical and
unanswerable argument on this subject.
He admitted that the foreigner paid the
tariff tax and criticised Mckinley for
framing bill compelling Europeans
| TO pay the debts OF the United
! States. eve will pay our own
debts" said he, in high sounding
| language, but the effect Of this
bluff fell fiat when some Republican wag
said: yes. you fellows propose to pay
your debts by population" This hurt
! Mr.. Kies and he appreciated it for he i'm
| nlediately dropped the subject and struck
out or different line. He then thought
it was better to keep close 70 the shore for
/ 10 al Ta-,
! field and said he was Garfield protection
ist, but to what purpose nobody knew
| for he said that Garfield was in
favor of slowly drifting in favor of
free trade as the industrias institutions of
the country could afford to stand it, while
everybody knows that Mr.. kies calls all
species OF tariff robbery, and would dis
! pose of it at any time. regardless of the
necessities of the country. In other words,
| he is an out and out Henry George man.
and believes that none but single tax, or
| "A land tax, is correct. He was only trying
| to pull the wool over the peoples eyes
when be said he was with the
martyred president in his tariff views. He
then talked about dimords. and conveyed
| the cheering news that Rufe Cone, the
chairman OF the Alliance committee, had
| taken off his valuable diamond. That it
was originally tear drop and consequent
" watered stock. 1t is impossible for Mr..
kies to make speech withouS having
something to say about watered stock. He
proceeded by quoting the alleged Allia-
ance resolutions signed by Hon. A. w.
Smith, Republican candidate for governor.
No other Alliance speaker but Kes is
now mentioning these resolutions for Mr..
Smith has way of disposing OF those res
olutions that makes the Peoples party
sick. THAT platform is what We want
said he holding up the Alliance declaration
of principles, made up in three sections for
the three different portions of the country.
He said that that part of the platform
which says we are on the verge of moral
ruin meant that the people were intemper-
ate and that iutemperance meant ruin.
By this he sought to court the favors of
the prohibitionists, although he is the
candidate of the democratic party, party
that has been fighting the temperance
movement in Kansas, and in every other
state during the memory of the oldest
iEhabitant He was not quite in line with
his side of the house at ali for one
hour before the Alliance portion of the
audience declared amid cheers. in answer
to Judge Museller's question, that the
people were immoral" They did not say
that the people were incorporate. the word
that was used was plain Immoral"
He affirmed and reaffirmed that the
American press was muzzled and went
over to Scotland to prove it by saying
that Carnegie owned score
or two of Scotch papers. BY the
way Mr.. kies should remember that
the only press muzzling recently attempt
ed in this section of the country
was by Alliance Judge Mckay of Harper
county, n leading light in Mr.. kies' own
party He said the press was subsidized
which, perhaps. was reference to the
subsidy he wanted to extract from the
farmers OF this county when he moved his
paper from Newton down here. 1t is rot
out of the recollection of the average
Wichita citizen that he, Mr.. Kies, asked
for a subsidy to start daily
paper in this city. He said that Australia
was the best country under the sun, W hitch
statement republican denied in favor of
the United States. Mr.. Kies, however,
didn't hint for a moment that he was go
ing TO Australia, notwithstanding its
great superiority over other governments
and countries. Mr.. kies devoted most OF !
his time to the tariff but originated no
new ideas. 1t was repetition almost word |
for word of the tariff speech delivered here |
recently by st John.
Now Mr. Museller came forward to close |
the meeting. He said the Peoples party |
platform states that the tariff question is |
a sham battle between the old parties. If !
that is true Mr.. Kies has devoted good !
deal of valuable time to sham battling
He criticised the quotations of Mr.. Kies |
from other parties and said that he still !
insisted that Mr.. kies did not thoroughly |
tine tariff subject or he would |
not have made so many breaks. !
He also said that Mr.. kies didn't !
appear to know that Kansas was |
ouly a small part of the United States as |
all of the gentleman's argument, with ref
erence TO the tariff. was applied by him 90 |
Kansas. That he could not see that it was /
for great party to legislate for |
all the country and not part OF it He |
then opened up on Mr.. kies for state |
mert he made that Massachusetts, had |
gained more in wealth in the last |
ten years than the nine priuci- |
pal agricultural states including Illinois |
On this subject he paraiized kies by taking |
up the census reports and showing that !
was taxed st its full value, |
while Illinois was taxed at one-fourth of |
its value Therefore the figures of the /
wealth of Massachusetts was much greater /
He then took the exact figures and showed. 1
hat &C present the wealth OF Illinois Is !
greater than the wealth of Massachusetts, !
"a tba exsens Of $50 $40 3S3 nosvf.b