The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-22

ciares we are Nation OF Eighters-The
First that Patented a Three Day Battle
and RELOCATED the Old Plan of Letting
the Side that was the Worse Scared
Get Licked-wants Cuba to Have Her
Freedom.
Topeka, Kan, Oct. 21-Eugene F.
Ware has come out in an open letter in
defense of his war speech recently de-
1ivered before the pupils of the Topeka
high school, at a flag raising. He COM
nlences by explaining that Fighting
Joe" Hudson was 10 have delivered the
speech, but was unable to be present
Then Attorney General Buck" Dawes
was substituted, but he had to go away.
I'VE walked in where the other follows
feared to tread" says Mr.. Ware, land
made a few sensible remarks, as Dick
Blue would say, and ever since then the
Pop papers and the female suffrage
women have been referring TO 1t IN
language SO incoherent that one cannot
tell whether it is praise of blame" But
he chooses 10 consider them all bellis-
erents. upon the theory Of the Texan,
who, in an early day, came go Kansas
TO suppose that the other fellOr's intsa-
lions wus peaceable if he WIS heeled."
The first one TO attack the speech
and to show up in curSory way its
many shortcomings was a colored
brother. He pointed out in clear and
concise language that when we enumer
ated "our ancestors" who had died for
the flag and our independence, we had
not mentioned the colored man. The
writer apologiZed and promised to in
cIude among his ancestors, in the next
speech, every color in the solar spec
trUm, including the recently discover
ed aniline tints. The writer then went
down to his house justified.
THE next day Mrs. Otis, the wife Of
the Populist gentleman who ran a
milk wagon and congressional cam
pafgn simultaneously without getting
th6m mixed, called together large
room full of amiable sweet and soulful
ladies (all of whose names are unknown
TO US, hence our cautious admirdtlon),
5and made them a speech which was
butte long and of a mildly hydrolacteal
character. In this speech war was de-
picted as being improper, unsafe, and
at times dangerous; and she cited more
than one well-authenticated instance
in which a man had lost his life. Many
said, shed large, oval salty, pearly,
humid, sympathetic tears.
Then we met an old soldier, and he
braced US up and said the speech was
all right and just suited him. Then the
postman handed the writer a Populist
newspaper published in Garnett, in
which he was denouced as the lickspit-
tie of the money power, who wanted q
war so as TO enslave the people.
AT this point of time the writer was
about to turn for assistance to we'll
known female, whose husband was en-
gagged in housekeeping in Wichita. She
was very warlike female, and was de-
seconded from a large assortment of
dukes and calls of various contemporary
nationalities whose names she gave TO
the various reporters who are looking
for hot stuff She was our special adj
Iniration when she was Joan-of-Arc-inS
st around Kansas behind little Annie
Diggs, telling the farmers to raise more
ard less corn She and the lately
lamented Lewelling, and the lately de-
mented Doster, had got up war and
tried to get Colonel Hughes to Kill the
legislature; and they court-martialed
Colonel Hughes because he handnt
murdered anybody.
well, imagine our surprise when she
DIlDllSlSQ
She spoke of our Savior in very compli-
mentary terms and denounced war.
How she could counsel peace, when she
was in the habit of shaking her fist I'M
der other peoples noses and calling
them several blank varieties Of liar all
at once; and how she could talke about
good will to man and at the same time
Invoke - in such a heart-palpitaung
and picturesque way; and how she
could talk about Jesus of Nazareth and
the great crime of 1873, all in the same
breath, was d surprise. We were also
surprised when she said the writer had
no son and was not himself able 10 90
military duty; both of which statements
were wlfully irrelevant and untrue
well. the writer came TO the con-
clusion to restate the proposition. He
didn't mean, when he spoke about war,
of the kind of war the Populist party
originated in Kansas and various 9TH
er places. That war did Kansas great
damage, as also did the Pepulist wars
in Illinois and Colorado. Nevertheless
although these Pop wars did immense
damage to the state, they still did good.
They educated the people. States have
TO be educated as well as people. Ma
lions have 10 be educated as well as
staes. and education costs money. kan
sas has learned great deal IN three
years. She has picked up quite an edu-
cation. War is The high school of ma
tons. There nations get their diplomas
some nations do not pass their eXami-
tations, but the United States always
aid. and Kansas always did.
1.-The civil war did not cost US dol
lar because we got out of IL more than
w. nut in. We got national unity and
strength. We abolished slavery. We
stored up patrotism, We showed Europe
what we could do and took our place as
a nation of the first class We invented
The theory of three-day battles, begun
at Pea Ridge and patented at Gettys-
burg. The battles of history had only
lasted long enough to permit one side 10
get scared. 1t generally took fear about
half =. day to percoiate through an army
and then IL ran. If the G. \. r. had
been at Waterloo. do you suppose they
would have started of early in the az
feynoou? No. they would have stayed
until day after tomorrow.
we are a nation OF 10000. zoo. with a
duty and a destiny. We VIII Yet put
the earth into the hands of receiver.
II will not be long before We have l5o,-
300. 900 of people. On us rests the duty
and the destiny. to give and dissemll-
ate representative government 10 all
people of the earth Some day the SER
stor from ireland will rise UP IN the
chamber at Washington and reply ~
the senator from Cuba. We nave stead
rlv progressed through war Our revo
lutionary fathers were full Of IL Sup
hose they had not fought the revolt
lion; they would all be dead now, any
how. and nothing accomplished.
During a war, socialism and anarchy
disappear. Those who could not make
money can make glory and can make
history A young man from the ma
chir,n shons fights UP. beconles a colonel