The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
OF COURSE. IT'S A SHAM.

One thing, much remarked by the
Populists, Is considered to be very smart
bv them. Every Pop in the country has
said it, and Immediately after spouiing
it cut, has concluded that it is an idea
entirely original with him and conse-
ouentlv feels tremendously elated.
This thought is the one which is ex-
MESSED in the words, ''the tariff fight is
a sham battle.
This has been declared by most of the
Populists of note in the country. 1t is
believed by great majority of the mem
bers of the Populi5t party, as they do not
paw any attention to the tariff question
at their meetings, or conventions, ex-
cept 10 declare that the tariff fight is a
sham battle.
The Populist party has no settled
opinion on the tariff. It is rather in
clined to free trade, but on vote IN
congress, the Populists are, it has been
noticed, divided.
As the Populists have no united
opinion on the tariff, and are not think
ing about it, they declare 1t a sham
battle.
Is the tariff battle sham?
In yesterdays EAGLE there were two
very small dispatches. One of these
said that the tin-plate mills in the South
Wales were re8uming. The other said
that the silk works of Lyons, France,
were increasing their forces end had
placed immense orders for the raw ma
terial with China.
With a general and average reduction
of three fourths TO one-half in the new
tariff law, these will not be the only Eu-
ropean factories to open up or to run
with an increased number of wOTkmen.
Does this point to The fact that the
tariff fight is sham battle? There Is
Just 80 much of the American market.
1t has to be supplied. The Republican
party wants to supply that market with
goods that are made in this country.
The Democratic party believes that the
country would get goods cheaper if Eu-
rope supplied them.
The Democratic party has demon
strated what disasters would come to
our factory workers if the European
goods, made at starvation wages, were
admitted free 10 this country. The Re-
publican party has demonstrated that
high tariff on European goods will raise
the wages of our factory workers.
But of course the millions in high
wages paid to the wage workers of
America under high protective tariff
is merely the result Of ''sham battle. >
1t must be plain to the average man,
MISC, that Tom Reed and William Nc
Kinley and Benjamin Harrison and Con-
gresham Wilson and President Cleve-
land are thieves, liars and knaves. Their
one desire is that TO cheat and rob and
deceive the American people. They are
keeping up this sham battle to blind the
people to more vital questions.
In comparison with them of course,
Kyle is a god. PETER and Lewelling
and Artz and Osborne and Willis and
Waite are the only honest men in this
country today. Ii a man does not belong
to the Populist party, he is thief and a
rascal.
The pages and plges reasoning and
research by all the great political econo-
mists on the question of tariff duties has
been the veriest rot, certainly. All of it
has been written TO make this sham bat
tie appear mere real and TO fool the
people. At least that is the Populist view
of it,and Populists are reformers and act
usted by honest speech, honest thought
and honest actions.