The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-13


put down the rebellion. Then we 10th
turned our attention to business, each
buying home partly on time, and after
working very hard for many years. at the
age of GO find ourselves" busted financially.
| Strange as il may seem, neither OF us has
used tobacco or whisky. My comrade has
voted the Republican ticket straight every
time, while have been q Kicker all along
| the line
We both read your editorial, Comes O.
the Low Priced Idea''-in Sundays EAGLEf
May "a, ult-rereadiug aud taking under
advisemeDt the paragraph near the close,
! 'sIf the Atlantic ocean was wall OF
| fire and the Pacific an impossible
gulf, and America thus forced to
within herself. what with her gold and sill
yer. her iron and coal mines, and all her
inexbaustible sources of production. in fif-
ty years her people would be the most opu-
lent aud dazzling by wealthy OF all his
tory"
After sleeping over night we took our
| accustomed seats. and as usual, commenc-
enthusiastic. 'Just the thing" said he,
lust what we want" The United States
surrounded by fire and impossible gulf.
The EAGLE has hit the nail square on the
| head. Now" said he. "old comrade,
| what objection TO this plan?"
"Well," said I, you know l admire the
EAGLES independence in many things pol
| itical; especially the fight it has made for
cheaper freight rates to and from Wichl-
ia, and to aud from the gulf But, serious
IT, comrade, would it not be rather hard
on the old maids of Kansas to deprive
them of their tea to console them if woman
suffrage should be defeated in the coming
elec:ions
And would it not work great hardship
M, al n ha
of laboring people to deprive US of our cot
fee? And 10 force US to wear butternut-
colored clothes for want of indigo,
would't it make the old comrades swear?
And what would we do for a market for
our surplus wheat. corn, hogs and cattle?
And as our leading manufacturers can
supply our people with all the goods
needed for home consumption, and run on
half time, how would factory employees re-
ceive greater pay than now!
And again it is well known fact that
our Wall Street spectators have made
large blocks Of their wealth by watering
railway and other stocks and unloading
them onto Britishers and other foreigners,
and if stopped in this pasiime and they
turn on honest yeomanry-where will we
be at, anyway?
Easy now, says my old comrade, you
don't see this long headed scheme of the
EAGLE. This wall Of fire and impossible
gulf would confiscats the interests of all
foreigners, not only in stocks of all kinds.
but vast tracts Of land that would revert
to the government-aud further, it would
repudiate all our public debt held abroad
oh yes, this scheme would twist the Brit
ish lions tail. Selah!
And then we would reopen the mints
and coin all our silver, 16 to ], and every
thing would soon be on the up grade-and
there is a great migration scheme in
this plan of the EAGLE This wall
OF fire along our Atlantic seaboard
would drive the inhabitants OF Boston.
New York and other cities westward, and
where is there a more favorable place for
them than Kansas. and why not Wichita
become the great commercial and manu-
featuring center?
Now this Interpretation of my old COM
rade made me scratch my head. in fact the
grandeur of the scheme almost took away
my breath. And said he, now what do you
say? We'll, in a tone of humiliation. / re-
told about the five brothers getting rich
trading jackknives among themselves
Saturdays; but maybe, after all, was off
wrong.
Then got back at my old comrade with
the statement that had read of a country
across the waters that built great wall
around their territory and refused for a
when our country having persuaded her
to open her ports to our trade, brought
some of her people to our western coast.
the working people treated them unkiIdly
and wanted them to go back and stay in
their own country, but the wealthy people
wanted them to remain in the land of the
free and the home of the brave, because
they would work for less wages than our
own people.
Now nv old comrade scratches his head
and says he will read up on China.
That may be the EAGLES scheme won't
pan out well rs he thought it would. but
still be thinks there is great merit in it;
and we both want more light on the scheme
to make us all rich in fifty years; and he
joins with me in asking the EAGLE to give
us more light on the subject. We need a
Moses to lead US out of the wilderness, and
why not the Peerless Princess furnish the
Moses? SUNFLowER
Arkansas City, Kan, June 3, '9i.