The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-25


Randall in writing his ''Life of Thomas
Jefferson" pictured the blessings which
were ever to flow from LETTERS MAN doc
trines. Lord Macaulay and Randall were
friends and the great English statesman
and historian wrote from Holley lodge,
Kensington, May %, 1857, what he saw
in Americas future, as follows:
"What happened lately in France is
an example. In 1913 pure Democracy
was established there. During a short
time there was reason TO expect a gen.
erai spoliation, a national bankruptcy. a
new partition of the soil, maximum OF
prices, ruinous load of taxation laid on
the rich, for the purpose of supporting
the poor IN idleness. Such a system
would. IN twenty years, have made
France as poor and barba:ous as the
France of the Carlovingians. Happily
the danger was averted, and now there
Is despotiSm, silent tribune. an en-
shaved press. Liberty is gone, but civil
llzation has been saved. l have not
the smallest doubt that, if we had a
| purely Democratic government here, the
elect would be the same. Either the
| poor would plumber the rich, and civiii-
cation would perish, or order and pros
| perity would he saved by strong mill
/ tarv government. and liberty would
| perish. You may think that your coun-
| Try enjoys an exemption from these
evils. | will frankly own to YOU that /
am OF very different opinion. Your
fate | believe to b. certain, though it Is
deferred by a physical cause. As long
as you have boundess extent of fertile
nd 4 LIB
ulatiou will be far more at ease than
the Iaboring population of the old
world, and while that Is the case. the
jefferson politics may continue to exist
without causing any fatal calamity.
But the time will come when New En-
gland will be as thickly peopled as old
England. Wages Will be as low, and
will fiuctuate as much with you as with
US. You will have your Mdnchesters
and Birminghams, hundreds of thou
sands of artisans will assuredly be some
times out of work. Then your institu-
tons viii be fairly brought to the test.
Distress everywhere makes the laborer
mu,inOus and disconnected, and inclines
him TO listen with eagerness to agitatOrs
who tell him that it is monstrous in
EQUITY that one man should have mil
meal. In bad years there is plenty of
grumbling here and sometimes a
little rioting. But it matters little.
For here the sufferers are not the
rulers. The supreme power is
in the hands of a class, numerous indeed |
but select; of an educational class; of a |
class which is, and knows itself to be, |
deeply interested in the security of prop |
h, g
cordingly the malcontents are firmly yet |
gently restrained. The bad time is got /
over without robbing the wealthy 10 re- |
lieve the INDECENT. The springs of ma
tlonal prosperity soon begin to flow !
again; work is plentiful, wages rise, and
all is tranquility and cheerfulness. | /
have seen England pass three or four
times through such critical seasons as |
have described. Through such seasons
the United States will have to pass in
the course of the next century, if not of
this. How will you pass through them.
| heartily wish you good deliverance.
But my reason and my wishes are at
war, and l cannot help foreboding the
worst. 1t is quite plain that your govern
ment will never be able to restrain a
distressed and disconnected majority.
For with you the majority is the govern
ment, and has the rich, who are ALWAYS
a minority, absolutely at its mercy.
The day will come when In the state
of New York. a multitude of peol 9,
none of whom has had more than
half breakfast, or. expects TO have
more than half dinner, will choose
legislature. Is it possible to doubt
what sort of a legislature will be
IN, - IL = I
preaching patience, respect for vested
rights, strict observance OF public faith.
On the other is demagogue, ranting
about the tyranny of capt. alists and
usurers, land asking why any body should
be permitted 10 drink champagne and
to ride in a carriage while thousands of
honest folks are in want of necessaries.
Which Of the two candidates are likely
to be preferred 10y workingman who
hears his children cry for more bread?
l seriously apprehend that you will,
i'll some such season of adversely as |
have described. do things which
will prevent prosperity from re-
that You will act like
people who should in a wear of
scarcity devour all the seed corn, and
thus make the next year not of scar
CEt Otli VI dboOlutE Inc SDOlla-
ton will increase the distress. The dis
tress will produce fresh spoliaton.
There is nothing to stop you. Your
is all sail and no anchor.
As l said before, when a society has
entered on this downward progress.
either civilization or liberty must
perish. Either some Caesar or Napo-
leon will seize the reins of government
with a strong hand, or your republic
will be as fearfully plundered aud laid
waste by barbarians in the twentieth
as the Roman Empire was in the
fifth, with this difference, the Huns and
NandalS who ravaged the Roman EN-
pire came from without, and that your
Huns and Nandals Will have been en-
yendered within your own country by
Dy your own Institutions.
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ON TIE BORDER OF TEXAS.
From tho Rush Springs Light.