The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-10
THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

! To the Editor OF the Eagle.
Experience is rare teacher and tut
| ton comes high. but there are a great
many people who will learn in no other
school.
The school is in session now and it is
crowded with people, but it is safe to say
that no Republicans are patronizing it as
a matter of choice.
They are willing to help the "other
fellows through to graduation as soon
as possible, but they are not willing to
forego the exquisite pleasure of rubbing
it in on the ''other fellows" who were
SO anxious to go 10 this school.
The lessons of experience, like some
brands of linIment, avail nothing unless
thoroughly rubbed in" SO that they
will not be so soon forgotten.
In vain did Republicans plead last
fall that "a change" would result dis
astrously, and that the uncertainty en-
gendered by ga change" would lead to
trouble, but the prospectus of the school
of experience has been lavishly distrib-
uted over the country with flaming
promises of good times, plenty of money
and high prices for products and labor, =
and nothing would do the country but a
term or two in this same old school that
has been so literally patronized ever
since frail humanity had being.
In one town in Kansas the writer
knows of q lawyer telling farmer last
fall that if he would vote against the
Republicans and help elect Cleveland
he, the lawyer, would give him
one dollar per bushel for all
of the wheat he would raise
the next year. Now that farmer is
constant menace TO that lawyers peace
of mind, for whenever the lawyer gets
into crowd and launches out into some
master effort to save the country, the
farmer invariably steps up and brushes
him by offering him his 81 cent wheat
for 81, which was promised him. In an
other town the writer heard a farmer
talking the next day after election last
fall. and he said, MY wheat for next
year Is worth 10 cents more on the
bushel now since Cleveland is elected
than it would have been if Harri-
son had been elected" In
this same town one of the biggest
cattlemen in the state was so
confident that Cleveiand's election
meant an enormous increase in the price
OF cattle that he went 10 great expense
TO hire a wagon which he draped in
mourning and festooned with banners
with jeeripg inscriptions about the Re-
publican party, and inside he had a
coffin labelled Republican party" with
the cause and date of its death and alto.
gether, TO use their own expressions.
they had a hi OF a time" and it is
superfuous 10 add that he and the
farmer have been having the same kind
of time ever since, but with whea; at
80 cents and cattle no price at all thew
are not doing so much uproarous laugh
lny as they did at the funeral. The
corpse they thought they had buried has
''riz' and 1T is doing all the smiling that
Is. being done now.
The pitiful plea is urged by some that
the change" is not the cause OF our
trouble because the same laws are in
force now that We mad before, but it is
suihcient answer 10 that to point out the
tact that they don't seem TO operate now
as they aid then, for whereas. prior 10 the
TALL OF 1e92 they produced such prosper
ity as we had newer had before while
now we have adversely.
IL Is no; what they have done. nor We.
what they have not done, but what they
promise 20 do that has knocked the
bottom ont Of confidence. In 1887 a
Maine wool dealer aptly illustrated The
eject OF promise similar 10 those in the
Chicago Platform OF last fall. In speak
ing o. The effect OF MIR, Cieyelands free