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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
PROHIBITION LEADERS, CRITICISM.

| 10 the Editor OF the Eage-
In last Thursday mornings issue
noticed an extract from the Lsavenworth
| Times and a lengthy sermonette from
| your versatile pen under the head Of
Massachusetts, Prohibition" The Times
comment aud the EAGLES sermon
are but vivid illustrations of the
fact that the law of extremes has obtained
have, from their once glorious aud ex-
allied position of freedom and liberty,
plunged into the valley of license.
Under tue modern idea of personal
liberty law is disregarded, broken, and
individual rights are trampled upon.
| What we need today is absolute protec-
! ton to the American citizens freedom aud
personal liberties.
NO legislation can bargain away the
public health or the public morals. The
people themselves cannot do IL, much less
! their servants. Government is organized
with view to their preservation anu can
not divest itself of the power TO provide
for them. u. s. Supreme court, Stone
VS.. Mississippi.
Now If 1t Is morally right to buy or sell
dish of ice cream on the Sabbath it is also
morally right to buy or sell a horse or farm
on the Sabbath, but If it be refraction
of moral law no legal enactment or hu-
man juggling can make it right. The
Times evidently has no use for moral
Codes
heartily commend your position when
you say: "All penal laws are but pro-
hibito-y laws with penalties attached.
There is no other way TO restrain crime
aud such laws are right. But prohibitory
laws OF penalties passed for tue purpose OF
intoxicating either morals or religion, or
IL i'm
and the precepts OF the pulpit, are of very
doubtful utility or wisdom" Yes, any
fair minded man Of sense and judgment
will agree with you IN this statement, but
when you assume and ultimate that the
prohibitory liquor law of this state, and a.
championed by the Prohibition party, pur-
poses, or even hints that by penal enact
ments morality and religion can be en-
forced" you inject and promulgate fall
lacy that is simply born of blind prejudice.
Prejudice, you know, begets hatred, and
hatred never sees any good, but always
maligns the motives and distorts the pur-
poses of the opposition. There is province
for moral suasion aud there Is also a
province for penal law. Moral suasion
has to do with individuals whose immoral
and vicious practices have not Invaded
and trampled on the rights of others;
when this occurs penal law must super
cede moral suasion or the fabric of govern
ment 90 down. Prohibition, whether It
be of the liquor traffic, gambling OF
thieving, does not purpose to interfere
with or restrain personal liberties. but on
the other hand it does purpose protecting
individual rights from nrestrained and
unlawful license.
To do less than this would be consum-
mate folly and disaster to all our boosted
liberties.
Prohibition is God-ordained for the pro
lection of our moral and civil liberties:
while license, to commit moral wrong,
is the devil for the confusion and destruc-
tion of the race j. y. HOWARD.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
SKITS OF KANSAS NEWS.

It is said that down about Attica there
is fair peach crop this year and the
farmers are getting 30 cents bushel for
them.
Bill Hackney has now been on his way
10 Europe for week and the British gov
eminent has not ordered single war ship
home.
1t is fact that John P. st. John 10 going
TO move from Kansas TO New York CITY,
A Misrepresentation on this matter would
be cruel.
John j. ingalls, made a speech in Atchi-
son to Grocers' picnic last Wednesday.
1t was the first speech he had made in his
own town since 1879.
Dave Overmyer does not ride on railroad
passes. Neither does Populist Labor Com
missioner Todd. The railroads called in
the. ones he was using.
Mrs. Diggs is sick and has gone to the
mountains. Mrs. Diggs is the girl who
successfully accomplished the feat of call
ing Mrs. Lease liar and living.
Governor Lewelling will preach at Scott
City on Christian Socialism" Sunday,
August 10 This is cute The sanctity Of
the pulpit insures him from fatigued eggs.
Few people in Kansas have ever seen the
Russian thistle. but if il proves to be
worse than the Kansas sandbur, when it
appears. great many people Will seriously
consider moving off the earth.
Old man Elder still hobs mp for a nomi-
nation about once month"; but without
success. When he talked about the Pop
legislature and said that he would dehorn
lot Of these CATTLE" he said something
smart, but fatal
There Will not be another session of the
supreme court until September T. The
judges are now taking their vacations for
the summer, but are not altogether idle.
Many old cases are under consideration
and will be decided at the Septembe term.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
THE WIFE WITH A HEAD.

The women advocates of female SUI
frage have discovered that before they
can be all that they aspire 10 be, thai
Moses, Christ and Paul must be ellmI-
mated. Its poser, but some CT them
have opened up their batteries on the
Bible. They say it is old and obsolete,
anyhow, not intended for an age IN
which women are universally conceded
to be so superior morally and so equal,
mentally, q man. They hold that Paul
was talking for the benefit of lot Oh
Corinthian women who didn't know
beans when the bag is open, and that
such as they ought to have staid at
home and minded their husbands. These
screechers forget that God spake for all
time and not for the humanity of any
particular period. He spoke for Jew
and Gentle, for male and female,
Christian and heather and had no yves"
for one and mo" for the other. In 60
ing back to the creation He declares
that 1.-The man is the head OF the
woman" knowing at the time that
women like Mrs. Diggs and Mrs. Lease
would eventually bob up In Kansas.
Whenever the imported Old maids who
annually sweep down on Kansas read IN
their Bibles: Neither was tho man
created for the woman, but the woman
for man." they hurrah through their
hats for Bob Ingersol. ''Ye wives be
in subsection to your own hus-
bands" don't hurt them because
they haven't got any husbands
and never expect to have. Such
of that crowd as do have them make no
account of them one way or the other.
These aspiring sisters, we know, never
did have any use for man-made laws
and they have learned to hate Paul and
Moses, both of whom spoke by inspira
ton, or otherwise they are what Ingersoll
asserts, but ordinary men full OF mis-
takes-imposters. If the husband is not
the ''head" of the wife then is Christ not
the ''head" of the church, while as for
the old maid contingent it makes little
difference whether they have head
or not. Its only the women who have
hO ouCh Acit IudI "dHO ~ 'OtC' AHSJ
want to be doing something that would
make it look as though they counted.
If we have misquoted our Bible-but
then we haven't. ''For after this man
ner in the Old time the holy women also,
who trusted in God, adorned themselves,
being in subsection to their own hus-
bands. Even as Sarah obeyed Abra-
ham calling him Lord, whose daughters
We are, as long as We do well" So, as
for US and ours, we will take our
chances with the Book that stood has the
test of all the mutations and revolutions
of the centuries; all the Vaccinations
and innovations of man and his times,
as it will in eternity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
BUILDING BAITLESHIPs.

From the Century.
The Cramp ship-yard has nearly a
quarter of a milo of water front.
Along this frontage are ships in va
rious stages of construction, some on
the stocks and some in the water, IL
Illustrating almost every step in the
building of a vessel. Here, near the
entrance to the yard, is an acre or more
Of punching machines, enormous con-
trivances that, as they close their jaws,
with their ungainly teeth bite out
holes for rivets in the plates and
frames as easily as a farmers wife
takes out the core of an apple. Over
there is steel checker-board frame
into which big pins are set in a curve.
Against the pins stalwart sledge-
swingers, half naked. bend the cherry
red frames and plates, ss they are slid
out of the furnace, into the shapes
they must assume for use in the YES
sells. Here is a great row of black
smith FORCES.
Over there is building where a
dozen monster boilers are in construc-
tion. and where travelling crane lifts
md moves them as easily as a hotel
porter does big trunks. Here are big
ship engines, some set up and some
taken down. Here are foundries
where mangarese-bronZe screws are
EAST, and where brass and iron are
fashioned into a thousand forms.
Here Is the great mold-loft whers
every line in the ship is laid down. and
from which wooden counterparts of
the vessels are made before the steel
construction begins Here are the
woodworking shops, the gun factory,
the great storehouse. and there Is the
boating derrick that can pick up a
seventy-ton boiler move it three hun
fred feet. lift it high in the air, and
place it IN ship in thirty minutes,
with as careful an adjustment as a
matchmaker uses in fitting move
nent in its place.
And here are five thousand men en-
oloyed in various apacities-machin-
SITS, wood-workers, molders. and per
laps most noticeable of all. riveters IN
sets OF three. one man to hold big
sledge against the red-hot rivet, and
two, one a right-handed worker and
the other left-hauded. TO pound 1t IN
ii it becomes 4 part of the ship. SO
the work goes on until after about two
sears the ship that existed only N
specifications becomes q living thing. =
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
pEprR1JCAN STATE PLATFORM.

Re-af5rming tia Republican national pIal-
form OF lS92. oo-,e+a-t ,s4riot-
isT, of our party is in itself a guaranty 70 the
nation that the interests vi On III iileri !,
their widows and orphans, VII oe IIDSIdilA
cared for and we denounce Inelf cFueL en u.
deliberate betrayal by the present Democratic
Administration. -, p,.-,1;oo-
second; We adhere 70 the I ipt uo me - :,
doctrine of urotecrion. and believe mat tarlH
law shoul{ protect the products OF the laIln'
a well as OF the factory s,. Ii
Third. The American people favor bl-
ueraIlisrn and the f.epuDllcan party demands
lie yse of both gold and silver a standard
renee with such restrictions and under
such provisions 10 be determined Dy ieSlsld-
Iion a. viii secure the maintenance OF the
psrify of w ,ues OF the Two metals anu LII
Inc ,irrcbasinc and debt paying power OF the
dollar. whether OF gold, silver or paper sb4li
be al all times equal. The interests OF ne
producers Of the country, ITS farmers anu lls
workirer mon demand that the mines be open
ed fothe coinage Of the silver OF the mines
Of the United States, and that conSTeSS; sio''II
enact n iaw levving "A tax on lnsportaJlohs OF
f,rajrr silver sufficient TO tully protect TIE
products Of our own mines.
Fourtb. We favor national ard state legls-
lafion for the encouragement OF irrigation.
Fifth We denOunce the present state al
-ninisfration for is violation of the laws ana
contempt OF the courts. the corruption anu
I1competencv of its officials, Its gross ms
announcement Of the state INSTITUTIONS anu
for tine discredit il has brought upon the
good name Of the state. And we pledge the
Republican party and the nominees OF ms
convention 10 q faithful ana economical US
CHARGE of All official duties and TO a strict
observance and an honest enforcement OF inc
laws and to obedience 70 the mandates Oh the
sixth: To the maintenance of these princi-
rles We invite the support OF ali patrlotLc
citizens.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
INGALLS, AL OVER.

One John Brown, a coloreI man, de-
mands that ingalls, be taken off the
stump. because he once made a speech
on the humanity in the deportation of
the race back 10 Africa. ingalls, replies
in an open-letter roast which don't leave
much hide on Mr.. Brown, closing with
the following caustic paragraph:
In view therefore of the fact that |
am not the inventor, but only the histor-
ian of the plan which you disapprove:
and because also Of the extenuatlng cir
cumstance that l was friend of tie
calored race before some of the empty.
ignorant and mercenary crap shooters
who now pose as their Representatives
were born. 1 venture t. hope that YOU
Will recall the ultjmajum YOU have sub
mltted TO the committee, and not deprive
De summary of the opportunity of
being heard by the people upon the
important state and national issues
presented in the campaign.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31

The Republican county and district conNeh-
lions for The purpose OF nominating CandioaGc9
for the following Offices TO ie filled IN the NO
vember 1884 election. will Toe held August ID
The offices 10 be filed are as follows;
FIRST Clerk of the district court.
SecOnd-Probate judge.
Third-County attorney.
Fourth-Superintend Of public lnstruc-
ton. 100
Fifth-Commissioner of the Sixty-eighth
representative dist-ict.
SiXth-Three representatives, from the sixty
seventh. SiXty-eighth and SiXty-ninih dls-
trIcts respectively.
The convention Will be held at the Auditor
ium in this city at IL O'Clock a. m, except the
convention for the purpose OF nominating can
didates for the district offices, which viii he
held as follows. towit: TonOminate candidate
for commissioner and representative of the
SiXty-eighth district at O'Clock a. m; 10
nominate a candidate for representative OF the
SiXty-seventh district at 10 o'clock d. M; and
10 nominate II candidate for representative of
the Slxty-ninth district immediately after the
adjournment of the county convention
Said convention is called by order of the Re-
publican county central committee, and the
apportionment shall Toe a follows, towlt: One
deiegate-at-iarge Tor each voting precinct IN
the county and one at large for each ward in
the city. and one delegate for each twenty-five
votes and major fraction thereof, cast for
Chester l. Long in the fail Of 1872. which ap-
portionment among the several wards and
precincts Will entitle them to the following
representation. toWlt.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31

| half teaspoonfuI of soda and one snc
one-half cups q tour--Prairie Farmer.
! Newspaper misprints are often
amusing. One of the funniest have
| lately seen is the reference 20 'Nr.
/ Hanson lazy vicar and sole tenor, ST.
/ Paul's cathedral" That printer had
! obviously never heard Of lay" vicar.
London Figaro.
A woman in Cambridge, England,
who has built ND successful business
in tyPewriting, has obtained a machine
fitted with the Greek alphabe, and
mathematical signs, so she can utilixs
/ II for the benefit Of mathematical and
! classical scholars.
| The PhilRdel phis Stsrilized Milk
and Ice society was organized recently.
and the mayor Of the city was chosen
/ president The society Intends 20 sup
l ply the poor with sterilized miis pure
/ ice water and disinfectauts, az coat
/ price.
/ "A blast % I .iOo pounds % dynamite
/ IN q holes was made recently ~ =
[ quarry near Providence. z. l.. blowing
off the face % clif and dislodRiug
about 20. ON tons Of stone. some q the
/ biocl-s Weighing nearly g tons The
holes were 20 feet deep, and The work
Of drilling is said % have coat g. 600
with $3.50 more for the explosive.
Tho mean temperature % several
| leading cities Is as follows. Athens, 81
| degrees: Boston, -; Calcutta, -.
Charleston. 60; Constantlnople, ss'
Dublin, 60; Havana, e. Jerusalem. 60;
| London. 50; Mexico 90; Moscow, Al
Naples. e.; Paris. 81 St Louis. IS; San
| Francisco. Sc, Savannah. CT. Stockholm
q. Washington, -. ZANZIBAR. 50.
--Arcbis Tagzart, ono % the Broad
way giants q New York's poliss foros.
IS member Of family a large pro-
/ portions. Eleven sons and daugkt-rs
average 2l3 pounds weight. and SIS feet
two and n hale inches IN height Tbs
tous are al over six feet and two daugh
tiers stand Eve feet nine. The family
cones from north Of IreIs I'd stock, Ro~
a. SewburR, =. Y.
a Norwegian invsntisu FOR The pro-
dncti0u froz skin milk 81 = new ma
terra which haz been called lartsts or
nliid ivory. mas trst taSea practical
share. and facto-v for - productions
Is about % start o1era tons "a Iceland.
This new n,sts-iss tra-H = clos~ res<EEs,
blanos 20 rezl ivory. and. ia addition
cAn - made in BLACK or any solor de-
sired
The Iarzs.t ard Blost wonderful
srriag o. f-ssh water - the uori1 -
or The gulf coast q Florida. IN Her
nando county. The Wsko,ches river. =
stream larEs enough % foaf small
stesuasr. Is made entirely q water
s-outec from f5is Tigantio nstural
vel. s~hich IS ninety feet in cisnstS-
sn5 zbost seventy or eighty fee. deep.
lie water - sd % o. remarkably
Pu-e-
Or ths srensnr &C Azgsst o. is>s.
banqGs. zas z!sea - ths Chlu~ss
Embassy =; % St James hots. "a 49,
toE- Al .1sz e ths late isc.usI f.sss
Gay % gathered ~hsa Z. "a SD a..
sr@ecass we're mad g. Mayer saur.
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Char.~s sumEsr. KalVA Waldo Esrsr-
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otAsrA Ga Aazuss - the esty gor.rr-
tzsut gsvs the V.&itors "a sIcnrals1
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
TIE PHANTOM LOCOMOTIVE.

from the Chicago Times
did You ever hear OF phantom To-
| comotive?' inquired one of the old-time
Union Pacific engineers of number OF
| his associates who were relating their
| experiences and hairbreadth escapes a
few days ago. All the men, who have
grown gray az the throttle, admitted
this was new one on them, and the
| old-timer proceeded.
Back in the EOS the Union Pacific
ran an engine called the 'pusher' on
the west side of Sherman hill to assist
the trains up between Laramie and the
summit. After helping train up tbs
hill the engine would be run back 20
Laramie.
Il was in charge of an engine pull
ing the regular passenger train up the
hill one gray morning. Just as we
neared the snowshed that used to
stand at Harvey siding an engine sud-
denly popped out in front Of u.s. Be
fore / had time 70 even get a square
look at her she disappeared in the shed
and was lost TO view. The whole thing
happened so suddenly that Twas dumb
4
an engine. and so was my fireman.
ct once shut off and the train came TO
q standstill. The conductor came over
and asked what was the matter. Bill
said l. L just saw an engine pop out OF
that snowshed and just as suddenly
disappear again
Are YOU positive?' said the knight
u the pinch, and he peered up the
track, and I asserted I was We had
better move on, anyhow, and il you
see one it viii probably keep out Of our
way
80 we proceeded up the hill, keep
ing careful watch for the mysterious
engine which made ny heart jump into
~ throat as she emerged from that
snowshed. TIE siding was reached.
ont there was no sign OF an engine
threatening rs with kcad-end COLI
sion The trainmen laughed a. ne and
said 7 must have seen a spirit. Had IL
not been for the fact that nv fireman
sided with me I don't know but that /
should have given up and admitted
was mistaken.
a careful watch failed 20 reveal
baE sign OF tne stray engine ara When
we stopped at sherman al the train
men had a hearty laugh az nv expense
But ] vas stiil positive aus insisted On
making a hunt. and we found an en-
zine bid away in TIE little ronndhO1se
located ~ that point.
The engineer was man named
Jordan he had overlooked q new
time card and had stsrtec! 20 take Ms
engine hack % Laramie after helPinga
freight up 20 The summit he could
So the headlight % our engine before
be emerged from the snowshe1. The
sccoanted for his sudden disappear
snce His engine Eas almost stopped
when he came out. sad i DID not take
long 70 get q going back up the hili
again a. Lively rate The engineer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31

The French ars going to make the
road of the live anarchist a rocky one,
but short and straight. The section Of
the bill agreed upon by the Chamber of
Deputies confines anarchists to solitary
cells with no permission to see visitors,
friends or relatives. The shout vive la
anarchy will be left in their threats.
When it comes to their trial it will be a
military tribune and not a criminal
court. and no newspaper report Is to be
permitted. Mr.. Murderer will be
simply snuffed out, quietly squelched in
the absence of fuss or feathers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The territorial fair begins in Oklahoma
City September IS.
Chief just -. D ,le aud wife are going to
Michigan on IA vacation.
\ Topeka man cid So cents for tie Perry
school bonds but was not taken up.
Most OF the Rock Island trains rush
through Euid At the same old break-neck
speed.
The Guthrie News says sore head is a
sore head because he cannot digest the
earth.
Receivers Lave been appointed for the
Nckennon Opera house and estate in
Guthrie.
The total valuation Of property in Okla
homa. rs returned by the assessors, IS
Sl9.947 922 Sc.
J. p Campbell of Kingfsher will be on
hand at the Democratic convention ia Il
Reno this week.
Joseph WHISKY accompanied the remains
OF MS son. Lee Wisby. who was bitten By
a taraBtala, 10 Missouri
Since he fixed up the difficulties, Pond
Creek aad End think thera Is 10 man on
earth ike Governor Ren:row.
New York has a good many congressman
already Oklahoma IS not going to give
her another by electing Ralph Beaumont.
The fact that theithermoms;er reached
TO in the shade only got one lire in the
WatonSa Republican. Ii must be con-
mon occurrence.
George Gardenhire says be IS out OF
politics. He IS a Pcpulist, but the nOui-
old man Il stomach.
The Hsnuessey Clipper sees only one
trouble with baseball game with beer
ksg on third base How" il asks, ''czn
Won ever get > man - scorer"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31

1t is a singular coincidence that this
extraordinary period Of business gloom
began the month the Democratic party
stepped into power. 1t is a singular
coincidence that the preparation to
a complete shutdown of the manu-
factories of this nation. 1t is a singular
coincidence that the repeal of the pur-
chasing clause in the silver act, accom-
plished by Cleveland, was followed by
increasing depression. Above all it is a
singular coincidence that during the
thirty years that the Republican party
was in power the condition of the coun-
try was one of unexampled prosperity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
BEAUMoNTs LITTLE CHRONIC.

tIOIn Inc UuLLtle Leader.
The last issue of the Oklahoma State,
Ralph Beaumont's paper, contains an
alleged cartoon depicting Oklahoma
congressional contest. The mighty
Beaumont himself is represented as a
prodigious setter dog standing calmly
in a stubble field. Over his head fiutters
an eagle, labeled the Wichita Buzzard.
At his heels are five other dogs, whose
respective collars are labeled, king
fisher Free Press" Guthrie Leader. -
Oklahoman," and "Times Journal
while in the back ground is the Flynn
cat. The cartoon is not apropos.
There is too much weinerwurst in
Leader thanks Ralph for representing
Us as corpulent bulldog.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-31
MOTORS OF TIE FUTURE.

Prom the washington star.
The average observer OF events re-
CARDS electricity. in all proba ability. as
the only form OF motive power which
can be taken into consideration with
the mechanical progress of the future,
said a resident OF II Louis recently
The fact Is. however, that advanced
students Of mechanics are to-day CIV
ing almost a. much attention 20 the
power contained in the air we breathe
a they are 70 the subtle fluid that per
Ineates that atmosphere Il Is ques-
ton, indeed, Il the practical aPPllca-
ton OF compressed air VIII not solve
the problem OF harmless rapid transit
N populous communities OF course
ty harmless ! mean the accomplish
uent OF the best results with re le@s'