The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-25
THE THING THAT HURTS.

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Kansas, to her financial credit, 10 her
material prosperity and to her every
interest and enterprise, that the state
goes Republican this fall. Nothing
could so surely and quickly relieve the
stress of the past few months and restore
the confidence of her own people as an
overwhelming Republican victory. By
restoring the affairs of county and state
to the Republican party the distrust
which has for months depressed every
pursuit and clouded every industry
would give place to confidence for the
present and hope for the future. Be-
cause of the idiosyncrasies and the inn
practical theories advocated BY the
| leaders of the party. or of the
fusion of parties, now in pow
| er, the conservative and safe
business men of experience in every
community in the state have hedged
| their affairs, while all enterprise has
come to dead standstill and markets
and prices have dragged. The Populist
oficerholder and place-seeker, in con-
senting to this deplorabie condition of
things, will try to make his deluded fol-
lowers believe that the troubles which at
this country are the result of misrule
which has been and is inspired By grind
ing monopolies, such as gigantic railway
combinations and the like. The average
reader, if intelligent, does not have to
be told that the railroads and the great
manufactures have been and are now
in more dire straits than ever before, and
that the greater the amount of their
capital the more iminent their dam
ger. Banks have collapsed by
the hundreds, mercantile and
manufacturing concerns have assigned
by the thousands and branch and trunk
line railroads, have been forced into the
hands Of court receivers. Every inter-
est from the greatest to the smallest has
been forced to struggle for existence
In consequence the demand for labor
has been curtailed, wages have gone
down and the price of every conceivable
product of farm and factory has shrunk. |
The cause of all the trouble, the trouble |
in toto, and altogether, came, and only
now exists, because of political distrust,
state and national. 1t is not scarcity |
of money, but lack of confidence. |
There is as much money in the country,
there is more money, but nowhere from
Wall street down to the stand of the |
peanut vender is there any confidence in |
what tomorrow may bring forth. |
Cleveland, and his party of free trade,
low wages and gold gtandard, have
the affairs of the country at |
large in their coils. In our own
Kansas Lewelling and horde of other
unknown fellows are holding the reins
of state and lashing the pesple contin-
uaily with croakings and with prophe-
cies of evil, and paralyzing all of their in
terests with threats of destruction.
With these adventures it is only howls
and threats from start to finish. Was
Mckinley or some other good protective
in the White House today,
backed by an old time Republican con-
gress, with Republican governors and
legislatures in all the western
and middle states, times would be good
and all the west booming in growth and
development, with busy railroads, flour
ishing banks, profitable business and
good prices for farmers and wage work
ers everywhere.
There is no mistake about this.
There will be no return of good times
so long as the present era of uncertainty
and such era will continue
just as long as the party which threatens
10 revolutionize and destroy is permitted
TO rule in this state. The quickest way,
the one way, the only way, to restore
confidence and prosperity, is TO wipe
out these imported leaders and breeders
of dissention and distrust by the over
election of all the Republican
tickets in the state this fall and
the RELOCATION next fail of all the wind
mill scapegraces. those disturbing soph-
lists, brass-cheeked pretenderS and long
tongued hypocriles whose professed
mission it has been to save, but who
have almost ruined Kansas.