The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-26
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TO the Editor Of the EaSe.
1t is customary when one goes abroad
to rite letters back home to the heather.
! Il trust that time and distance will OBJ
| literate this remark ere | return 70 Kan.
! sas.) In this way we have all heard OF
| the 'blarney stone" time or two, and
how the prince of Wales sings Eta "a IA
| Boom de Aye" while he plays baccarat,
and whether it takes two or three gulps
for the Paris COW to recover her cud,
and how Queen Victoria still covers her
| vaccination mark with her chewing
gum upon state occasions, and many
other vital points which the guides re-
tail six for quarter. One might have
CROPPED Oh in utter darkness, but for
these kind tourists who go abroad and
buy up this information and send iG
back to us for the reading. And these
are the ones I'm after. If [ can get one
tourist to read this letter shall feel am
ply repaid for the columns of foreign
letters |. have waded through, hunting
for something to read. But to harmless
people | would say that if you are perus-
ing these lines with the hope of
learning something just as well refer
at one to the Siamese legislature Of To-
peka last winter, and you'll come out
ahead. We expected when we came
i,ara Lrt Na,,- Narl- x,,n,,ll hova
bodily to the fair, and we hoped by this
little coup de etat to ascertain jerry
Simpsons really, truly, reason for voting
against the anti-option bill. But the
Wall street fellows left their bears at
home, and you can't get anything out of
them, Jerry's solid bears and all. Verify,
Calamity, thou art 10.
While here we asked if we couldn't see
General Electric and Mr.. Cordage, the
two acrobatic gents, whose marvellous
tumbling and quick slides, set all New
York in a furore of excitement-and
even England watched their gambols
with unabated interest. But we were
told that they were both out of sight,
and even Speculation hill" upon which
they performed has flattened out. This
is a wonderful city.
Yes, the bears are at home, and there
is another class Of animals at home
New York city paupers. Many claim
these to be the cubs of these same Wall
street hears.
But to speak of this class is to grow
serious,
Go speak to their ignorance. Look at
their wretchedness. List to their misery,
And, then, if you can--without CHASTITY
effect-couple their lives with anything
humorous.
They have all heard of the great fair,
in vague sort of way, just as they've
heard of heaven. They know that it is
something bright-something that the
world is talking about-something that
the world is going to; and, oh! how they
long for glimpse of its splendor. But
out of the thousands who will visit the
fair from New York city, its paupers
will scarce be represented.
fancy hear you saying: "This talk
of the poor is twaddle. Lift them
from their present surroundings and
they would be wretcbed;" They could
not appreciate-they have no aspira-
tons 1T is their own fault" Many a
conscience has fallen asleep in this be-
lief. But God knows better, if we do
not; God knows how many hearts have
beaten themselves to death, vainly en-
deavoring to snap the letters of poverty,
God knows how many souls have risen
again and again from the hopeless mis-
ery which environed. chung to them ere
they were lost-lost, too often. for the
help of humane hand. And here. TO
my mind, comes an aliegory; ! think OF
another great worlds fair-that grand
finale, of which many in broadcioth are
talking with silvered tongues of elo-
quence. seeking rather TO win the gold
of the classes than the hearts OF the
masses. Many are talking; few are
and for which fewer still are
making active preparations. This great
fair at whose gate each mortal-mIlIion- /
aire and pauper-will one day knocl. for
and | wonder if New York F,
city's paupers VIII not be as we'll repre-
sented in that fair white city at Chicago {
as this other class will he represented in /
that fair white city of God. Ii seems TO I
me THAI the very sins of the former,
rather than the cultured gold of the lat (
ter, would prove successful passport to /
what they have never known in this (
and peace; eternal rest at last, /