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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29
bogus PHILANTHROPY.

If the New York bankers are any
thing they are skillful in taking credit
to themselves for every step taken to
maintain our credit. Whether it be an
act OF the government or a measure of
their own, purely for their own protec-
ton and profit, they rush into print and
take all the credit for tiding US over the
dangerous places. Last summer when
the business of the country received the
first shock of Cleveland'5 financial pol
icy, these banks, with millions Of bal
ances belonging to country banks, found
1t necessary 10 issue clearing house GER
tificates to be used in adjusting
balances and keeping things moving.
1t was at once heralded far and wide
that the New York banks had come to
the rescue and had saved the national
treasury from bankruptcy by supplying
currency-such as it was-after which
the gullible public breathed freer, and
fairly loaded them with gratitude. "To
maintain specie payments" or preserve
the parity between the little stock Of
gold In the treasury-which everyb body
knows is based upon public credit and
the currency of the country, the daily
balances must be adjusted. Sufficient
currency must be kept in circulation to
settle these balances, but 10 one is so
verdant as TO believe that New York
banks are not equally benefited by such
a device for bridging the chasm, and
that it Is of first Importance 10 them TO
preserve the confidence of country de
positors. y careful observer might have
noted that these very clearing house
certificates Were retired By the gold sur
plus which soon flowed in from the
country on the return OF confidence. 1t
was done lelsurely and without effort on
the part of the banks, and they were en-
titled 10 no other credit than merely the
act of saving themselves.
The last sample Of their patriotic de-
votion to the counry's interest is in the
late offer to supply gold for export. No
body knows better than these
bankers that the season has ar
rived when the balance of trade
will be in our favor, and that no gold
VIII be needed to adjust foreign bal
ances. 1t looks more like the trick of
cheap ward politician 10 fortify himself
by bogus effort to serve somebody's
interest Indeed there NAV be some
such element IN this little scheme. L
has received the public endorsement of
President Cleveland, and it savors so
much OF the you tickle me and I'll
tickle you" policy, that it may be re-
sarded as significant if nothing more.
The public viii hardly be caught with
the chafT which theso bsrons are so per
sistent IN blowing into its eyes, ana it
may be question whether or not they
would strengthen their own credit by
| a close adherence to facts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29
REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM.

Re-affirnIing the Republican national pat
form of 1892, ...-.. ,,o.rio+-
ism of our party is in itself guaranty 10 the
their widows and orphans, VIII be llberaiiy
cared for and We deDounce their cruel ana
deliberate betrayal by the present Democratic
administrator. -, r,,,to..
second; We adhere TO the Republican.
doctrine of protection, and believe That larlH
laws should protect the prouuctS u ''0 La A-'
as well as of he factory -. -:
Third: The American people favor d
rnetallism and the republican party oe liaIidS
the 7Ise Of both gold and silver as standard
money with such restrictions and under
sucb provisions. 10 be determined by leglsla-
1jon as will secure the maintenance OF the
t7arify- of Vs tues of the two metals, ana thstt
The purchasing and debt paying power OF the
dollar, whether of gold, silver or paper, shall
he ar a times equal. The interests OF ine
nrGducers of the country, Its farmers ana us
working men. demand that the mines De open
ed TO he coinage Of the silver OF the mines
of The United States. and that congress should
enact a law leVYing Il tax on lmpoTtationS OF
foreign silver sufficient 10 lulIy protect the
products OF our own mines.
Fourth: We favor national ard state legls-
lation for the encOuI agennen OF lrrigatloh-
Fifth. We denOunce the present state adj
uinisrration for It's violation Of the laws and
conteIuut OF the courts. the corruption and
incompetency of its officials, Its gross MS
MANAGEMENT of tbe state Institutions, ana
for the discredit it has brought upon the
GOOD name of the state. And we pledge the
Republican party and the nominees OF TINS
convention TO a faithful and economical dis
charge OF all official duties and TO strict
observance and an honest enforcement OF The
laws and to obedience to the mandates OF the
courts.
pies we invite the support OF all patriotic
citizens,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

Waite or tho best of them, howl that it
is good. "They first pitied, then endured
and then embraced" Just this result
was pointed out to Click, Medley and the
rest of them, when the first break was
proposed, and what have they got to
show for it but Mugwump Martin; in
the United States senate and Jerry Simp-
son who never was Democrat in the
house. Click and Medley got places but
they would have had the same places
Just as soon had they RETAINED from
their political wenching. Republicans
do not love Cleveland the head Of the
Democratic party and many of them
have no use for him either as a man or
as an official but he is hated by the aver
age Calamityite. And Sol sliller well
suggests if Cleveland should be assassin
ated everybody knows to what party the
assissin would be traced,-to the party
that holds all the anarchists, socialists
and communists. Yet the Democratic
party Joined these enemies in success
full effort to down the Republican party
of Kansas and in joining have lost such
a per cent that in all human probability
they will fuse again this fall although
for appearance sake they will nominate
a straight Democratic ticket.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29
nKI.AHohiA ouTLINEs.

Bonds for S. 600 school house have been
voted in Blackwell.
The fellows in the FL Reno Jail have
beeu put TO work on the streets.
The latest attraction in Perry consists
in watching the new street sprinkler get
up and dust.
It is clsimed for the Wichita Indians
that they have never taken up the Ratchet
against the whites.
4 war OF tailors is on in Guthrie and the
Leade. says that when tailors fall out
honest men get fits.
There Is crescent shape mound near
Ponca City. Many people dig around in
it and find curious things.
Sixteen binding machines have been sold
in Poncs City this spring. That is the tie
that binds Oklahoma TO osperity.
Many walnut trees are being planted in
Oklahoma There is great money in them
IS walnut lumber is becoming scarce.
Governor Renfrow is in Washington
where he has gone 10 explain several
charges that have been made against him.
Colonel Houston Of Woodward, who is
making 4 fight on Judge McAtes, is a
Fc4AlAhC u TIC A@L-OAS s-AAl A4DG5kOA VI
Texas
Il IS now charged that the railroad
guards blew up the Pond Creek bridge aud
then blamed il on the citizens il order TO
bring discrsdit on the town.
Larson. the Tecumseh horse thief who
was recently sentenced TO seven years IN
the penitentisry. viii make an appeal he
has been placed under So. 600 bond.
George Washington, = rich Caido In
dian. died in 49, \ jug Of water was
buried with him And FIRE was lighted On
bis grave and was kept going thirty days
Daring hard wind the other day = man
in Cross lost his hat. The Wind was blow
Ing a gale from the south and several
hours later the straw hat was picked up q
Newkirk.
At Perry Claude z. Parker. sheriff o.
Lincola county; William Morrey, govern
mens iowaslte surveyor, ". I Shswcross
aut Fred Hoyt have been arrested. charged
with conspiracy ID connection with the
opening CT the Cherokee strip, n which
sI0e. co worth c. pgopsrty i iRTelVs1
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29
GOATS FOR GOOD.

The Democratic leaders IN Kansas
have come TO realize that in intriguing
aud pimpiEg with the calamitY.t,s they
have lost big per cent Of their party
The leaders are done with fuson but in
calling the flock back to the fold they
find that many OF them have become
goats for good. They won't come. y
number of their heutenants ana corpo-
rails, here and there. with a greater num-
Der Of privates everywhere, have an
nounced that they prefer Coxey To Cleve-
land, calamity 10 Democracy These
fellows made an awful face when Their
bosses first compelled the fusion dose.
bat they have come TO like II as a species
OF acquired taste. and now. as loudly IS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29
VI tlc LdsIc,
II WE BUT KNEW.

II we but knew the weary way.
The poisoned paths Of hostile hate,
The toughest roads OF fiercest fate,
Through which our brothers journey lay,
Would we condemn as now we do.
His faults and failures. If we knew.
Would We forget the shadows grim.
The lonely hours of grief and pain.
The foliies dead. the pleasures slain,
The tears and tolls tina. hindered him,
And only prize the deeds that grew
To might and conquest, il we knew?
Would careless hands sow tares of strife
Amid the blooms of happy care,
And plant, in spite of sign and prayer,
Wild thorns within The blameleSs life,
Till SORROWS rule the nations through
With scarce a rival, if We knew?
Would we be quicker with our praise,
And gladly give the greatest needs
In recompense for mob deeds.
And heroes crown with brightest bays,
And Stay the foes that hearts Undue
With doubt and weakness, If we knew?
From lofty kings, would constant worth
On peasant brows their crowns bestow.
And rising from her overthrow
Eternal justice rule the earth,
While right would strip the favored few
To bless the many, if We knew?
five but knew, All. weIl-a-day!
From lives that murmur. full of Ills,
Behind the shadows of the hills
God hides our brothers heart away,
And we shall know in wales OF rest
That His eternal ways are best.
-FHEEMAN Z. MILLER.
IL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

the fever bark was accepted as al
most miraculous panacea. Nor does
this estimate of its powers appear ex-
travagant when the ludicrous and
often barbarous nature OF the remedies
which il gradually superseded are taken
into consideration. ''Plaisters and
possets' We're amoug the prevailing
nOstrums; but their ingredients were
rather suggestive of the contents OF a
witch's cauldron than of the beneficent
applications of later days Fever was
20 be cured by music and ague by cleo
tricity, while the placing of the fourth
book of the Had under the long-suffer-
ing patients head was supposed TO be
of magical value in both disorders.
Above all, fear was thought to be es-
pecially necessary in the treatment of
ague, and the description of many of
the methods then used seems to have
been well calculated to inspire it
Humboldt doubted whether the cura-
tive nature of the bark was originally
known to the PeruvianS but the prob
ability seems to be that its qualities
were fully understood by the natives
long before the Spaniards landed on
their shores. There is a tradition that
the properties of the bark were first
practically realized by fever-stricken
Indian, who, being left behind In the
forest by his companions. drank of
stream which flowed through il, and
which had been impregnated by the
bark of the Over-hanging cinchona
trees. His cure was SO speedy that
it was looked upon as miraculous, and
the Indians focked to the stream TO
partake of its supposed occult virtues
1t is also asserted that the pumas and
jaguars of the mountain forests are in
the habit of gnawing the cinehona
trees, and this is the more worthy Of
belief as it is known that the instinct
of many domestic animals, a. probs-
bly, of all wild ones, leads them 10 seek
particular herbs for medicinal pur-
poses. Moreover, savages of the low
est type resort specifically 10 various
kinds of vegetable "bitters" as eUEe
tor fever and ague-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

mouse for the remainder or rne,u1gnu.
During the ringing of the last bell two
men regularly performed on the fife
and drum on the corner opposite whers
the guard-house was situated, and the
negroes who came out to listen TO the
music dispersed in quick time as the
last tap was given the drum, and tho
last stroke of the bell fingered in the
air. The watchman in the tower called
the hour, and all relspsed into silence
again. / give literal copy of one of
1hese passes:
CHARLESTON, March IL. 1855.
Paris has PERMISSION 70 pass from my resi-
denee in Beaufoin street. near Rutledge, TO the
corner OF VanderhorSt's wharf aud East Berry,
and from thence back again to my residence.
before drum-beat in the morning, for one
month. JAMES B. CAMPBELL.
j. l. HUTCHINSON, Mayor.
One OF the most interesting places
was the church OF Rev. j. L. Girardeau,
a very large building, capable of seat
ing perhaps fourteen hundred persons.
In the morning the lower floor was oc-
eupied by the white congregation, and
the negroes, as in the other churches,
sat in the galleries, but in the after
noon the negroes filed the body of the
house, the whites being seated only at
the sides and in the galleries. To one
not accustomed to the sight, the church
then presented striking appearance,
and we had an opportunity OF seeing
all shades and varieties of color, in
both complexion and dress. The old
and staid negro women generally
wore bright h&ndkerchiefs twisted
around the head, sometimes with the
addition, though not the amendment,
of bonnet perched upon the top there
OF, crown uppermoSt; but the younger
and gayer portion OF the community
wore bonnetS of all styles, from the
most fashionable to the most obsolete.
Tie only music was by the negroes,
and il was really worth hearing. As
of course they could not read, the
hymn was retailed, two lines at time,
by the minister, who usually began the
singing, and it welled out refreshingly
strong and true. Before the services
commenced the audience sometimes
struck up voluntary, greeting the
ears as we entered in the form of some
grand old tune sung by the assembled
throng. The courtesy which surren-
dered the main part of the church to
the negroes for half the time was only
one out of many customs in the city
which testified to the general kind feel
ing existing between master and slave,
where true nobility asserted itself in
relation to interiors as well as to equals.
In the homes of Charleston the negroes
were treated like sort of children Of
the household, and this because of a
real affection.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

lies strength in years of growth and
| prosperity would prove its weakness IN
| the hour of trouble. lie saw that such
freedom and personal liberty as Is guar
anteed by America, with lis almost I'M
limited suffrage franchise. would attract
| the uneasy and tie dissatisfied
| of all lands, of ali such as would fan
of realizing the value or meaning of the
| boon and blessing of government OF
the people, and who, therefore, in such
times of industrial depression, financial
reverses and internal trouble, as comes
to all nations, would take advantage Of
their unlimited citizenship TO become
enemies of destruction, rather than
friends for upholding and maintai ming
that which had cost them nothing. I'm
der such circumstances, and in the alb
sence Of the restraining force, relied upon
by centralized governments, with no
power to check. save that of the Ordi-
nary civil arm, and with these dissatis-
fled foreign elements holding individual
equality and as an aggregation the bal
ance of political power III closely con-
tested elections, the strain might become
more than tho fabric, grand as it Is,
could withstand.
Tue menace to America today, its trou-
bles, political and industrial, are directly
traceable, largely, to elements which
would have remained quiescent under the
crowns, respectively, of their native
l. ,rA Of fhaiv do
structive spirit except the occasional in
cident of the murderer's bomb or the
assassin's dagger. The municipal cor
ruptions Of all our great cities. the min
ing and other labor strikes, the march
ing industrial armies, would not have
existed or materialized but for in fuen-
ces growing out of unrestrained immi-
grafton, and a practically unguarded
endowed with almost unlim-
tied suffrage prerogatives, even in such
the occurrence of which also. by the
way, is largely attributable to our loose
i'm immigration laws.
Like the threshing machine overfed,
our magnificent governmental structure,
of ponderous proportions and intricate
and delicate parts, has become clogged
by the overproductiou of an unlimited
supply. The inflow has proved too vast
for proper assimilation. TOO many hun
dreds of thousands hold the insignia of
citizenship, and are given voice to
decide, who are not American citizens
in fact, neither i'll education or spirit.
They are only SO in name, although
they can proclaim that legal right only
in foreign and strange tongues. Amer
lea is in 20 danger as republic under
republican institutions and republican
form of government, but if the country
is to become the government of an adj
mixture of the incongruous, antasOnis-
tic and dissatisfied elements of every
nationality from Russia westward to
the Orient then Gladstone's vision of
crown or that which would be insup-
portably worse, an anarchy, may not
have been an illnatured or strained
one, but prophetic.
America never stood so much in need
of an enlightened patriotism as now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29
ITEMS or GENERAL INTEREST.

"
All kinds of insects, so far as known.
are afflicted with some sort of parasite.
An elephan, is fifty to sixty years
IN attaining maturity, and VIII live a
century and half
A Roman shoe or sandal-maxer was
assisted in his business by twenty diff
ferent deities.
Many African tribes pray to snake
deities, hoping 20 conciliate them and
SO not be bitten
There may be many good qualities
IN niser. but his love FOR money kills
them au.-Ram's Horn.
Empires are broken down when the
profits of administration are 30 grea.
that ambition Is satisfied vita obtain
ing them--DT. johnson.
The nests Of the termites. or white
ants, are, proportional 10 the size and
weight Of the builders, the greatest
structures in the world
-Giles-"Did ne tell ron he couldn't
speak French" Merritt-.No." Giles
Then, how did you know?" Merritt
He spoke some. Life.
Talent IS the capacity Of doing any
thing that depends On application and
industry; 1t Is a voluntary power, while
genius IS involuntsry.-Hazl
Uncle Dick-"Well. Rob. arc you
getting on any better in arithmetic
Rob should say 50 The boy that
sits with me knows his lessons always"
Inter Ocean.
Where ambition can cover It's enter
prises, even 20 the person himself, m
der the appearance q principle. i Is
the most iucurable aad infoxlbie Of
PassiOns--HGIoe
Freddy Have yoa-kzw-S1eh .
thing ss-hsvE-S full dress cigah7~ The
TODacconist-''No, sir but We have
some IN very elegant wrapper ~--Pins.
Tn. London
At the Police Court -1fagistrate-
TEL ne under what eircunnssaucss you
committed the robbery Prisoner
'snder sxtenua,izg circumstances,
your worship. --Tif-Ksts
-Iti better by a noble bo'd-ess - r1u
the ris@ q being subject % bali q The
evils W. Anticipate, than 20 remain N
eosvardly lsst-essaess for fear ci what
E-sy happen- -Herodosus.
On anniversary days The Chinese
pace food on the graEss o. their a1ees- I
to-S i dsy or two i Always diSap- Z
pears and - oourse ,hs spirits q ihs /
csoess-d mus have deyours1 Il
The E@st Indian ship worIa VII n 1
q few uonths destroy znT Tos@ei b. .
eating oE- tke tuteria- 81 tie hans 4
and p.anlzs They ALL b. lsfJ roera /
saeI that can - shattered sT the Sst I
-Ruu-irelis = ezperLrzents have been
rlade - drserrulhe urhsther toaGs oould 1
i've rrasn iaalos.d IN slocks q ssons.
AID i-. ever 49, sh- teaas 1Lsd eesore
The ead q the s~-oan FsAr-
--S---s sle z-<.--z--s.. .. LIS c<z.zry
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29
;1AsTER AID SERVANT.

Prom H2-7et's 2SaElS~-
Old 81. Nichael's church was vel
worth visit, with its tiled aisles and
square pews- In its steeple- ls3 feet
in height. were The chimes which
marked the quarters Of the hour. and
here too were ruug- morning and
evening, the bells which regulated
the negroes n their perzmb7sztlons-
Ia winter the evening bells ring from
quarter % six 20 SIX. and for a quarter
OF an hour before nine This last vas
called the last bel-ringins. and after
il had ceased 20 sound any unfortunate
negro found IN the streets, unless he
could show a pass from his master,
was summary deposited = he guard
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29
Is AMERICA But BTTBBr =,

England's great man, Mr.. Gladstone.
IS about TO visit the United States. THIS
statesman, referring TO the government
OF this country, during one of its dark
hours, declared it TO be but q bubble
that would some day burst The ex-
preston was, at the time, accepted by
the people of the United States as one
inspired by the envy of a monarchial
subject, who had gained great promi-
hence as an official But was il: IN
queslonably, TO our mind. Mr.. Glad
stone saw that the source Of the Repub,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

Major Morrill, Was originally a tanner,
and next ran saw-mill. Between a tan
ner aud a buzz-saw. the poor Calamityites
will find that whichever way they turn is
Calamity indeed.-ksnsas Chief
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

1t is impossible to sleep on Pullman
car now. You can't even take any nap
off the upholstering.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

Being president of France is really a
greater danger than looking into the
muzzle of an unloaded gun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

The cat came back bus there was no
Lexow committee waiting for it as there
is for Croker.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

The Pullman sleeper isn't making any
more progress than the early morning
sleeper with a fly on his nose.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

McVeagh, nominated for senator by
the Illinois Democrats, is mugwump.
And this year mugwump will have no
more show than Democrat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

The Republican League declared in
favor of statehood for Oklahoma. I'm.
fortunately congress is not taking in
structions from that source.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

The Paris Journals have long called
Casimir-Perier the James G.. Blaine of
France" II he is he will soon make
short work OF anarchy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

Corn is growing so fast that the joints
are as open as they we're in Topeka last
week
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

It was natural for the Republican
League to bow its head in sorrow over
the Democratic party. 1t is about to
hI1rrr Ii
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

Breckinridge'S speeches are better than
Breckenridge himself. His speeches are
not exactly unfit for publication.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

Herr Most says that assassins should
use the knife and not the pistol. Some
body should use large adult club On
Most and do it quick.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

The first thing modern Rip Van
Wrinkle would ask when he awakened
would be: "Has the Wilson bill passed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

The Illinois Democrats barely men,
toned Cleveland but they slobbersd all
over Alleged. Great heavens! Cleve-
land isn't as bad as that!
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

When the Illinois Democrats patted
Cleveland on the back they also gave
him jolt hard enough to knock his
false teeth loose.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-29

Perier might get some valuable point
ers from the car of Russia on the mo-
mentous question: How to be happy
though bombed.