The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-06
BUT THIS WON'T CHANGE IT.


plation with the great majority, is
with us again. We say again because
the days are classified into sevens and
this Sunday will seem like the seventh
day before it, while, in truth, 1t Is the
first time this Sunday has ever appear
ed, and is now before Us fresh-hatched
in the nest OF time.
AS on the previous Sunday, many
men will contemplate on things in gen.
eral and come to the conclusion that,
whatever befall, they do not care
continental fragment Of profanity.
Either the history-make of the world
have become insipid or the people OF
the earth are having q severe attack of
indifference. The Sunday dispatches
are before US. We are expected to be
profoundly interested. We ought to
be, certainly. Do we not live in the
greatest age Of man.? Is not the best
book in literature open before us that
we may read and profit? Isn't the
eliminating successes Of mechanical
and scientific experiments within reach
Of our hands? Isn't the commOnweal
better and superior to the slavery and
serfdom Of other times? And yet we
are not profoundly interested. We
read the dispatches and watch the
movements of the men who rule the
world. The sultan of Turkey, monarch
Of his people, shivering in his bed
while the mob outside is playing cross
tag with the militia. Emperor Will
lam curls his mustache, so the dis
patches gravely tell us, and rushes out
and pops a few tame deer in the eye.
The Conservatives and the Radicals in
England keeps up their everlasting,
idiotic buster. The commission to in
vestigate the Chinese outrages investi-
gates few investigations and then
quits. In this country there are two
or three state conventions. Tickets
are nominated and resolutions adopt
ed-resolutions that few men read and
those who do ridicule. The prize
fighters talk, and the interminable and
celebrated murder trials continue, and
the friends Of this presidential aspirant
say this, and the friends of another
aspirant say that A judge holds some
one in contempt here. A court ap-
points a receiver there, and the whole
panorama moves on before the eyes
of the reader. 1t is indeed a great
world and the daily newspaper brings
it all before him. The turn and twist
Of political faction, the trifing senti-
ment of every potentate, and the idle
conjecture of every forecaster Is before
him, printed there, and, yet, gentle
reader, SO profound is the Indifference
of that reader that while he is in COM
pany with the history Of the world,
while he watches and peruses the docu-
ment that may cause nation to fall
and a king to topple, that while this
reader is an actual stirrer in the great
cauldron of world-events, he will drop
that paper and rush around the corner
10 see a dogfght.
The sultan and his regency, Emper-
or William and his manouevers, Sails
bury and his foreign policy. Grover
Cleveland and his prospective mes
sage, Parkhurst and his plans for re-
form, Ii Hung Chang and his proposed
promotion, all things that may make or
break generation or nation or a |
political party fade away before the |
ineffable delight of watching the issue |
between two dogs that have fallen out |
Why is it? i tmust be because the |
result is near. One of the dogs must
lick the other and the specta tor knows |
It, and is keen for the result One or |
the other Of the dogs wins and there |
is an end to it But this conservative,
pokey old world never comes to re-
suits. One can read in history that |
simple statement that "Xerxes took l.
10000 men into Greece and was
beateU."
How pleasant indeed is that state
ment How suddenly the issue comes /
upon Us and how quickly the whole
business is settled. But IL was diff /
ferent in Xerxes' time. Had the peo-
pie had newspapers in that time those
newspapers would have told about
Aerxes' enmity OF Greece for forty
years. Every spring they would have
had the thing worked up TO the point 4
where IL was mOmentarily expected 1
that Xer1es would get ready 20 go on 4
the warpath- Finally il would have
been announced that he was getting
his standing army in readiness The 1
people would have had this fred into
them for about ten years Then an
other year and Xerxes would have i
started for Greece. This would have 1
given the newspapers plenty Of chance
10 conjecture IL would have said
that il was rumOrei that be was dying
81 the cancer, that he h2d quarrel
with this general and that: that BE-
had fallen OF his horse and delayed
the army ten months And finally
when the battle was fought II would
have taken three or four weeks 10
have cleared the matter up. aad when
The people had found out at last tina:
ae was licked. they would have sighed
heavily and said: We'll. lie Was
loag enough about It, l