The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-03
COMEDIES WITH TIE EAGLE.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
And SO they are jumping on to
you with all tours, for your SUI
gestion, that in the interest of future
good government, which means the cell
tain return of the Republican party TO
power in Kansas, perhaps it would
be better to let fiat fusion have the legis-
lature for just one session SO that all
mankind, and particularly the dupes,
honest though they may be, but who are
responsible for the present aggregation
of confusion, might get on to the man
agement, might witness the expose, tie
ignorance, the venality and shallow pre-
fences Of their leaders; that they might
see at the close of the session. in all of
its stark nakedness, the demagogism of
the combination which SO far has
brought forth nothing but shame and
disgrace for the state, and which lacks
the ability and integrity of purpose to
produce any good results.
Your critics are shouting in bell-toned
voices, principle, principle, ding-dong,
ding-dOng, dong, dong. A celebrated
parsonage about TO be gulllotined in the
interest, as it was alleged, of liberty,
said, as the ak was descending ga good
many crimes had been committed in the
name of liberty" This saying might
not inaptly be paraphrased into the say
ing that good deal of nonsense, a good
many barren results, good deal some
times of the satisfying of personal ambi-
tons, is all that this cry brings forth.
That George Douglass and his COM
patriots are within the lines of the law,
as it is made and provided, and that Mr..
Douglass in his statement of facts COM
pletely overwhelmed Mr.. Dunsmore in
his reply to the Dunsmore letter, is a
matter about which there can be no con-
troversy.
That the following of your sug-
gestion, however, as claimed would re-
suit in the end of good government, the
end of the rule of the majority in Kan
sas for all time Is untrue The Republi-
cans have made a record of their posi-
ton, of their claims under the law. 1t
is known now by all the people of Kan
sas. The executive, the commander-in
chief of all our armies and navies, has
virtually declared that they are in re-
bellion against the government-his gov
eminent.
The Republicans by surrendering now,
are submitting to force, as much so as if
the Kansas troops under the command
Of that pure citizen II. Il. Arlz had
charged upon them with fixed bayonets.
That this will result in the end in good
government in Kansas is the sheerest
kind of nonsense. That a trial of Social
ism and Anarchy in Kansas will result
in grating those pernicious doctrines
we do not believe for a moment. Kansas
in the end will be benefited by the ex-
perience, and on the first oppor-
tunity she viii wipe from off of the face
Of the earth by the peaceful ballot
the demagogues who have led her away
from the paths of virtue and good gov
eminent.
\ little dalliance of Kansas in the lap
of socialism-not in the laps of Lease or
Diggs, might in the end benefit all of the
states. 1t is partially tie mission of
Kansas to experiment in the evolution of
ideas for the benefit of mankind any
how. The lessons of socialism taught to
The people of Kansas by a little expert
ence may, nay it VIII enable Kansas to
proclaim to the world, that it is altogether
vicious and detrimental to the best inter-
est of mankind and humanity every
where. SPECTATOR.