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

anything to make the tariff worse for tina
for that Is contrary TO our principles To
sum 1t all up in word, the Democratic
pirty promises war on business certainty
while the Repub leans must give you rest
W-ao not promise you prosperity for
these conditions are not OF our choosing
We do not recommend the senate bill. Ii
was not of our enacting. But 1t Is very
cert lin that If there is any good IN II, the
only way to get at ir is give it chance.
MORALLY AND LEGISLATIvELY WHIPPED.
''Of course business in this country mus
revive 10 some small degree Il we can have
peace. Il cannot stay where il Is now un-
less American enterprise is dead, and that
eau never be. We shall have struggles
over wages and lessened profits, and in
creased competition TO contend with, and
whatever failures TO protect there are in
this bill will find themselves out. This
much hurt will come-that wages will not
again reach their former level. l do not
doubt but we shall learn at the costly
school of experience. and. perhaps, !earu
enough to pay the cost OF tuition.
We sha learn among other things to
avoid the chairman of tie ways and means
committee aud his entire school, as men
who are pursuing u by-gone dream. Did
you notice how that gentleman adorned
his last address by an outburst of enthusi-
asm which showed how much his head
was actually in the clouds. L cite it not
because il Is OF much Importance. but sim
ply as showing what leadership we have
now.
The battle for tariff REFORM" said he.
has been wonderful and inspiring"
Il well remember the close of that con-
test when, to use The language of the ID m
ocratic correspondent of the Democratic
Times OF Chicago, every mem Der of the
house Democracy had been morally and
legislativrly whipped
THE APPLAUSE OF REAL FRIENDS.
Il remember well how every time rose
that day thought how much they looked
like a grain field devastated by a. hail
storm. They were devast tied. not By Us.
for they had hundred majority, but by
themselves. l little thought that l should
live TO hear hat that scene was inspiring.
Wonderful it was, indeed, but inspiring
never. Perhaps the orator when ne nsed
both words was not thinking of that scene
but OF the brilliant dinner in London,
where his legs were under the British
mahogany and he was cheered By the APP
plause of real friends.
Perhaps, however, he meant to refer to
the condition of this country the last year
and half, perhaps this wonder aud in-
SEPARATION came from the deserted work.
shops, impending cuts of wages, struggles
between employers and workmen. Per-
haps in cloudland there is something
cheering in the fact that only LOO miles
of rail way was built the first nine mouths
of this very year of our Lord, the lowest
record tor thirty years. In the last six
months on portion only of its liues, the
great Pennsylvania railroad has spent
-, 600. 600 less than usual in its expenses.
That fact means that $1,000 600 less has
gone out In wages TO the tralnmen, in new
buildings, in extensions, in engines and
Cars; in a word, the workingmen of this
country have lost that vast sum.
PERVERSE LONGING FOR MATERIAL GOOD.
Perhaps, when you add all the suspen-
sions TO expenditures on the part of all the
roads, there Is something so truly inspir-
ing to the reformer that he can really Ioug
to stir up strife so as TO prolong such low
able condition OF human affairs. But this
world, welded to material good, will
think otherwise and long for the better
days gone by.
Education is the necessity of the human
race; not book education, but education in
the working of human affairs. Ny best
in these times is that some les
sons are being learned. not out of books,
but in more solid fashion, out of exper-
fence. Nor is the lesson to be learned ouly
by those who voted wrong. Some oil Us
who voted right have much TO unders tand
as to the foundation of things.
FAST ENOUGH FOR PRACTICAL LIFE.
Perhaps the knowledge which comes to
us comes last enough for practical Inf
w hen years ago we defended protection on
the ground of infant industries, we stated
good grounds for the establishment of
but if today protection,
which is hot taxation of the many for the
one, but merely method of securing to
everybody in America tue markets of the
were hot the best methods of
distributing among the people the God
given gifts TO enterprise by which our
is so full. | should not be for it..
Ii did not believe that protection was
only met nod of making this country. in
the admirable language of Senator Jones.
do all its own work, l should not demand
its retention.
1T is perfectly true that prosperity of
any kind leads To large fortunes for those
who have the genius TO organize great
but Jhl5 Is the case everv-
where. Sir Joseph Whitworth, the great
steel manufacturer in England, did not
die "A pauper, and Lord Armstrong and
the Rothchilds hardly seem in the way of
Mv.consolation when /
see great riches, for | own up To the same
envy that afflict my brethren, of those
who are better off than myself, is that all
those riches are of no profit to the owners
unless they build railroads or mills or dig
Tor the poorest of US, out of
the bowels of the earth.
woRKINGMAN WILL GET HIS SHARE.
The more prosperity there is the more
there is TO distribute, and there is the
chance that the worker. whether with
brain or muscle, has to rest from his en-
Dloyer his share. / am not the author of
this idea. Ii comes from Pennsylvauia
who declared before the COM
mittee of ways and means that If the con-
gress would only pass laws which would
enable enterprise TO make profits, the
would see that they got their
share. Aud this very dav, in the strike
which Is, or was, going on in Massachu-
SETS, the very basis OF the argument on
both sides IL the price of the goods and the
profits.
The orators on the other side have ALWAYS
declared that strikes would Cease when
they had power, but they have not passed
away yet. On the contrary more looms are
idle in the Country than we have ever had
IN the past. Strikes are always uufortu-
nate things, but not always bad things
Their success consists not in their victories,
but IN their possible existence. Men who
see their way Clear to profits will not re-
fuse recOmpense TO those they employ
when the great Reorganization Of strike
Is possible under a seuse OF injustice on the
part of organized labor To borrow again
Mr.. Evar's' illustration, the with
ness o. which Is only equaIled by it,
wisdom, the only way thus far
discovered TO distribute consumabis and
enjoyable wealth is first TO give he chance
TO create it aud then let each side struggle
for its share. DO not say this is all he
way there ever will bes | hope not. No
one will more gladly welcome than |. auy
metnod for the fair and peaceful distribu-
ion. But there Is onr thing certain, uu,il
you have profits they cannot be distrib-
1ged
TEE GOOD OLD Selfish MOTIVE.
why do | oesire fair distribution of
profits: Ii l. because | profess 10 be spe-
,iil friend Of those who labor. Auy body