The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-14

s rat good wages, so far from being hostile
/ t. their progress. Is its Very foundation
| When manufacturers all see their interest
| that way we shall witness the happy
death, for this country at least, of that old
political economy doctriue, that profits
are dependent on low wages Business
| prosperity will then come from extension
| OF business, and not from the dimuniIion
| of " ges.
"BuJ if protection tends 10 division of
the weali h of the country, why have the
workingmen voted the Democratic ticket
| Why have hey who are most cOncern-d
fiiled 10 see his great advantage to them
of which you pre- ich my friendss
| FIRST GET SOMETHING To DIVIDE
| This hum n nature of ours l. queerly
made up 4 man cares infinitely more
for a little thing which is present han for
a great thing altar off ami, as he thinks
! contingent. Il man will be set wild by
sand in his shoe and give no thought IL the
! Gu =, ion OF a final place OF punishment
: for the wicked, \ man will be deeply out
ragged by a bug in his cup and give
no need 10 a thunderstorm lowering black
| in the distant sky. but when the storm
breaks and cap-izes his tent. as this one
has, beats him black aud blue with hail,
and leaves him damp and shiveriug, he
realizes the difference between storm
| and 4 hug.
Therefore. 7 believe that the working
| man this year and hereafter will say to his
| employer, you aud | will adjourn our
| fight. we will go together TO get some
thing to divide aud after that we will fl sht
| on the division, for we cannot longer d. lat
when there is nothing TO fight for
Another thing which led this country
| into the error OF 1892 WAS the history of the
| last thirty years. During all that time we
h az been prosperous. wages had Increased.
so all parties agree, III the ratio of from 81
4 I'll a II
1860, in 1891 got for the same work a dol
lar and sryenty-one cents, and that dollar
and Seyenty-one cents bought nearly as
much as two dollars did when the world
Was thirty years younger.
PROSPERITY WAS A NATURAL THING.
The generation which lived under Il. j.
Walker and James Buchanan had passed
away. A new generation had come.
II wing lived all their lives in prosperity,
with increasing wages. people Came to
feel that prosperity Was a ia ural thing,
some thug bOru of the climate perhaps,
or of the soil and utterly Disconnected
with the government. For the last eight
teen months it has slowly crept into the
minds of all the people that there may
have been some brains put Into the gov
ernment of this country durinE its thirty
years of prosperity. that all this happened
not by luck or Chance, but by good man
agement and sound ideas.
Il am not going to enter into any
penegyric of the Republican party. II is 4
party like any other, with many good
deeds and some bad ones, but on the whole
the friend of the currency, OF honest liv-
ing, of business prosperity and fair in
terpereter of the peoples wishes. Nirtne
III this world Is comparative. We never
get perfection. All we can say is that one
man is better than another, and that il is
wiser to choose the better. One piece of
goods rescued from the general jettlson of
the last two years is the fact that the
Democratic party has been tried in actual
command. We Can now make comparisons.
not between what each party says it will
do, but between what each has done.
SOAKED EY THE COMING STORM.
81 notice that this fact troubles the
Democratic orator. The late governor of
Massachusetts, III presiding over the con-
vention TO nominate the other Russell,
who has already been soaked with the
coming storms, demands TO know what
the Republican party propose to do. He
ana all the rest want 10 get back on the
ola platform, which was of professions
and not OF deeds. This country has had
enough of promises; what it wants il
chara cter. Anybody can make promises.
Even the Democratic party, dis neveled and
torn, Continues to promise and Is ready.
notwithstanding ream OF dlshOnored
paper already protested at the btuk and
anybody will take.
II don't wonder. When a politician
back ia my own state, now dad, after
helping TO muddle away $3.50 coo uut OF the
treasury of The state of Maine, was asked
by MT. Blaine why he kept issuing his
notes after they could only be sold at 80
per cent. he replied that he could stand IL
if the buyers could. There is no reason
why Democratic leaders should stop issu-
ing promises AS long as the public viii
take them. They are never redeemed.
We Republicans cauno. compete. We try 10
pay rs we promise.
SMASHED THE WAGON ALL TO PIECES.
IF you pay your notes you cannot af-
ford 10 swap paper with man who doesn't
pay. In saving what | have said aDout
the Democratic party, l mean no
disreSp-ct 10 ind viduals, / do not claim
that we are much better as individuals
than they, perhaps not at all. except IN the
average, aud small average at that.
Why is il then, If the indivi iuals are Eo11.
the party is bair said Democrat. Tue
answer l. simple enough 4 parry i
made uD for an object: To do something Or
stop something, or merely 20 crit Cts. he
other party. That last fuIc ION IL Dem
ccrats performed pretty w-ll- little hys-
tevicti and inconsistent perhaps, bat Wig
orous aud omuipres~nt. Bat when it came
into power the trouble began. Ii
had TO get somewhere, rot stan
on the sidewalk, AMI MT fHd
fault with the driving Now b.
finest Individual horses that was ever put
into a tea m would never get anywhere
Il they all pulled IN opposite directions.
They could ouly sma-h TIE va on- Iha.
IS what the Democratic parry done. Thy
have smashed the wagon and The only
remedy they propose II 70 bsu!-n from al
IA Ure harness. the men wIo we'll they
have &C Ell badly enough in some respects. .
have saved ali he pieces there are ieii CO
tue wreck. Now, would = not DC better
on the whole TO have the next wagou car
r!eu 70 Its next stage WIKI some horses
that cannot b-raS Is up'
THE CHEAP HOME HE DOESN'T GIT
You will notice tnst ! have nos Dis
CusSed the pres -nt taEIG aCt, the much de- (
uounc-d seu -te bill d nOL yfopos 20 {
discuss l. Time will do tasL Ia- vice
president II tn .lt=d State- has s=eo Il
- g!oT!fy EiS party very much over Tree
lumber aud an ax-i homes. IAev "a 1
snow, but 7 venture tie prrlIctioa tsat tae i
hsEsss AMI Nebraska farmers xI.l awe I
40 cheaper homes II tie long "a tie I
small prOiuct II CsnadE cannot dictate I
~ price except a. the borders. wCere .
mUca t-0u lie witl e0sae. Ost "a . n ead +
the tariff TX which wsnt into the u.t-i 4
states Treasury TaiI D. found "a tIs 4
Treasury OF The DoUi-lou q tsD-
ada. while tb= western farmer. wiki 1
wh=st a. MY eeGts IA Chicsgo.
wall md shz. Jhe cheap home -LIca - 4
dues not get Nil b. far from = asppr one. 4
And tie fsFner q Northern SrW srE. 4
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9 De representative 9. TIE vestsra iarrner I
had moTe vision n las head soc sess stay
ing power - AS vecN4 chez =
sTyE. L CALg AID SoLEsE FoT-
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