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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
NATIONAL HONOR AND PRIDE.

A new phrase, if not a new idea,
which has been warm IN t1e American
heart this week is this: There is no
calamity which a great nation can in
vite which equals that which follows a
supine submission to wrong and in
justice, and the consequent loss Of ma
tional self-respect and honor beneath
which is shielded peoples safety and
greatness
These words close the celebrated
message to congress by President
Cleveland.
Confessing that there is some su-
preme guiding power that elevates ma
tons and degrades them. still the POI
tentiality of all nations that history
records as great. has rested on national
self-respect and honor, and, what
Cleveland does not designate, national
pride.
National honor is more than all else
in a nations fabric. Ambition for
commercial supremacy is impossible
without it. And without it a nation
and its citizens are subject TO insult
and injustice. The little state of Hol-
land is little because it has always
been welded to peace. because it was
not a nation that jumped to the sword
to defend its ledger, because its people
would rather stay at home with hoes in
their hands. than brave a hostile ma
ton armed with rifles Holland was
early in America. but ii has nothing
here now. 1t was early in the East
Indies, but il has nothing there now,
compared with England. 1t was early
in Australia, but is has nothing there
now compared with the wide posses
sions of Johnny Bull Having the ad-
vantage of priority in settlement and
grooming under the necessity OF wider
commercial fields Holland has perpe-
tually taken a back seat. not because
il is diminitive. for England proper is
diminitive. but because its people We're
not what the English were and are
warriors in defense OF national self
respect and dishoEor. Phillip Of
Spain overran Holland and Inundated
il in every way. England. then weaker
than Holland. met the Spanish Armada
with spirit and defeated IL Napoleon
seized the Netherlands. And all
Europe had to depend on little England
TO down Napoleon.
So long as Germany was fendal and
segregated little account was taken OF
IL in international affairs. but once
united. with an emperor that i per
pe1ually appealing 10 national honor. IL
has become 4 foremost power OF the
three greatest nations Of Europe
For while peace Is beautiful Ii Is
most beautiful 20 the nation that has
warrcd aud Won And while the in
dividual danger is less In . peaceful
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22

nation than in a warning one, individ-
ual prosperity is greater and national
and individual honor higher.
The poet sings of peace. The basis
Of the worlds greatest religion is
peace. The happiness of the home is
best conserved in peace. yet it is ma
tional ferocity that engenders national
honor. 1t was the tramp of Caesars
returning legions in the streets or
Rome and the captive Zenobia drawn
behind a chariot led through the huz-
Zaing crowds, the exhibition OF the
chained Gaul and the fierce Teuton, the
wild Scythian. and the enslaved Eth
Opean that made Rome great as much
as the vast acquisition Of land which
Rome did not use in commercial way
at all at first
So the English monuments 10 Marl-
borough and Nelson and Wellington do
more TO elevate the English honor than
all its kings of commerce.
And yet Marlborough and Wellington
and Nelson led thousands OF men 10
death, not for English supremacy par
ticularly, not for English protection.
but simply for the defense of English
honor.
This. too. is the temper of the Ameri-
can people. Being so closely allied TO
England by blood it could hardly be
otherwise. Defeat 10 the nation would
consequently be impossible, because so
long as one of the nation remained he
would be hostile. For no American,
If tested il the full heat of martial
ardor, would fear TO die for the preser-
walton of national honor, little as ma
tional honor itself may bear on indi-
vidual happiness.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22

by the people of the country. and that
is. since Cleveland has been employ
ing detectives to guard his body, he has
become almost as inaccessible as an
oriental potentate. In the course of
his remarks ON Hoke Smith and in ex-
PLANTATION OF what he himself had done
to get the Wichita lands allotted, Flynn
said he had travelled LOO miles last
summer to see the president, and never
got farther than his private secretary,
Mr.. Thurber, who sent in his card and
note praying for an audience. This
not being answered after weeks
waiting. he tried again with the same
result. He then attempted, in the in
terest of his constituency TO reach Hoke
Smith whom, after vain endeavors, he
found as inaccessible as his chief.
Delegate Flynn's speech was not only
courageous and timely, but it was as
highly appreciated by his auditors, the
members of congress, as it was by his
own people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
WAR AND SILVER.

In the moment of imminent nation
al danger how quickly we are appraised
that gold has disappeared from circula,
tons only prevent thc owners OF gold
ton only prevent the owners Of gold
from owning the world. Al the very
first threatening word. with the first
utteranee OF President Clevelands
message. the struggle for gold between
England and American spectators
was on. As stocks and securities were
thrown overheard into the market,
Specializing firms commenced To sink
and disappear. The RothschIlds.
without whose consent, DO European
country can go 20 war. put out their
graphing irons for the few millions NJ
gold remaining In the treasury. And
how quickly turns the idolatrous gold
worshippers OF yesterday. In the Unit
ed congress, 20 the historic money
friend OF all the people since time be
gan. 'Choose ye this day whom ye
will serve" for II war comes, or even
the possibility OF declaration. the
United States mints viii be- put 90
work stamping the thousands Of tnDs %
silver now lying idle In the treasury
vaults into bright silver dollars And
there Will be no question as 20 ratio.
And every silver mine on the contin-
ent will be opened out under n law OF
16 TO 1. Gold Is necessary In war IN
such nations only as must buy supplies
from other countries. The United
States in such an even, wants no single
Item from any country. We have
everything within and Of ourselves II
the grasp OF the goldbug upon tho
material values % the world can 10
loosened in no other way then a war IN
volying all the nations 81 the world.
would prove a blessing to their people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
DENNIS PEALS HOKE SMITH.

Dennis Flynn cannot vote. but as the
sole representative of great territory
of a quarter Of a million OF people. he
has the right To talk upon the floor of
the United States congress. and he
does. He has not only right To talk.
but 10 offer resolutions for considera-
ton. He did both. He laSsoed the
Hon. Hoke Smith, secretary of the In
terror. in an effective and no less than
graceful way for the arbitrary manner
in which the secretary has nullified the
solemn DEGREES of congress touching in
tereSts of the greatest moment of the
loyal inhabitants of oklahoma. Hoke
Smith may know more than congress.
but he hasn't convinced Delegate
Flynn Of such possibility. II is bad
enough for the head of the administra-
ton to assume such perrogarive with
out his secretaries making themselves
offensive. The act Of congress pro
viding for the allotment Of the undis-
posed Of Indian reservations within the
Territory of oklahoma was plain
enough and definite and had Hoke
Smith performed his duty there would
have been no complaint from home
steaderS or criticisms from Delegate
Flynn. The conviction is solid in the
territory that the secretary has been
influenced to his diliatory course solely
in the interest OF relatives and Georgia
politicians who have pull In any
event. he has shown an utter disregard
FOR the interests Of oklahoma people
ana Of The act Of congress. and Flynn
not only said 81. but said it convincing
~ Flynn. in his arraignment. brought
out one fact not generally understood
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
PHILOSOPHY AND WAR.

II there is anything that brings a
philosopher into disrepute it is the say
age war sentiment which is inherent in
the Anglo-SaIon race.
Along with the philosopher a. he de-
sends to the depths Of public con
tempt is the poet and the peace-maker.
OF course the philosopher and the poet
and the peace-maker only descend into
public contempt when they insist on
their arguments when the people are
wrought up 70 a war frenzy. Most
poets and philosophers and peace max
ers loose their heads with the rest Of
the nation and forget all about their
peace tenets.
For instance, let Us take the cable
gram Of Robert Treat Paine to Lord
Salisbury. Salisbury says there is
nothing 70 arbltrate. Robert Treat
Paine * president Of the American
Peace society. He sent 2 cable read
ing: is it possible that Great Britain
prefers war to arbitration: America
wants arbitration and peace"
or course this struck Salisbury
rather humOrousiy. He claims there
is nothing 10 arbitrate HIS English
followers declare that America is AFRO
CANT 80 the president Of the Peace
society Is asking Salisbury 20 suTren-
der all his points-Or We will knock The
head Of him This j. rather z strange
position for a great peace advocate TO
take. II proves thar Robert Treat
Paine i an American: that be sees
only the American side OF the co1iro-
versy. just Ike all the other Americans.
Mr.. Paine i for peace. bat England
must DO all the backing down 70 e0a-
serve Z
So ne fad tire poets perprt1sliy
harping Cd the piping times - peace.-
bus The strinSs q thelr Tyre arr more
ueIodloHs when they sing Of the i0Te
and Sriefs that wAr always intsnsihesL
And The phiIoSoPh%r-;ake Thomas
Carlyle. for Instance Many people
VII remember hls description 81 war
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
KANSAS AMERICANISM.

| The New York Post expresses editor
ial surprise over the financial 'vagaries
! Of Kansas which state. according to
| the late census, shows a greater per
cent of American born population than
any other state in the Union. The
surprise Of the Post would not be so
great if its editor lived in Kansas, in
stead of in community, grown power
full at the expense Of the west. How
happens it." observes the Post, chat a
state so thoroughly American as Kan
sas," sends such unsound men to the
United States senate as Lucien Baker
on the silver question, and elects such
men as PETER and Lewelling? After
delivering itself of this supposed poser,
it then refers TO Minnesota and Wis
consin as being full, of foreigners, yet
which states are for sound money!"
and to North Dakota, which state elect
ed to the United States senate native
Of Norway, who uphoids the single
gold standard. 1t all happens, Mr..
Post, all comes about, through higher
average intelligence of the people of
Kansas, and a CORRESPONDENCE lower
average of enlightment in the other
commonwealths named. Under exist
ing conditions the people of Kansas
have been forced to become ''hewers of
wood and drawers of water and they
not only realize their condition, but I'M
derstand how it all came about Upon
the other hand. the Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin and Dakota people are laboring
under the same disadvantages, but
they do not know enough TO realize the
why's or wherefores. However, Ne
braSka, Minnesota and Wisconsin did
send silver men to congress, but they
were all American born. 1t is unfortun-
ate for the gold-bugs and blood-suckers
Of New York that there is not greater
degree of ignorance and blindness in
the west. The Populist movement did
not spring from prosperity, but from
oppressive conditions, enforced by
eastern greed, whose stronghold is
New York City, whose nest is Wall
Street The fact that the census, just
out, shows Kansas TO be the most
thoroughly American and the trans
Missippi states of the highest aver
age intelligence, ought TO furnish
the data for a different conclusion than
that arrived at by the Post. The
United States may be plunged into
war over the far away Venezuela ques-
ton, but revolution is also imminent.
1t will be bloodleSs, but after it is over
the New York papers will not be ex-
pressing any such surprise as the Post
evinceS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
IT WILL BE THE ISSUE.

On TO Venezuela, The national honor
must be preserved. and the Monroe
doctrine upheld. These will doubtless
st once figure as 4 waF cry, and decia-
ration Of principles in response 10
which the political hosts will seek to
rally for the approaching national cam
paign. But whstever else may happen,
barring actual war, the issue will be,
must be Protection upon the one hand
and tariff for revenue only upon the
other. Mr.. Cleveland in his message
20 the present congress, threw down
the gauntlet when ne declared that "a
Protective tariff curtailed our trade ne
lations and upheld our entrance into
the markets OF the world" The ut
teranCe was no less protest against
the overwhelming defeat OF his party
in the last election than the repetition
Of a party pyiaciple and conviction.
The lscrSe.Sity NJ Democratic leaders
Is only equalled by the logged apathy
and hide~hound conservatism Of the
great body OF the party. The idea OF
creating renewed activity and enter
prise IN all business circles" by an in
crease Of orr bonded indebtedness Is
beyond the comprehension Of any one
not incased in mossbackism. To talk
OF prosperity. and At the same time TO
cling 10 i policy which is responsible
for all the depression and disaster Of
the past three years. all the while ignor-
ing that which would bring immediate
and direct relief as that food will allay
hunger, Is beyond comprehension.
Every sane man should understand
that something must be done to In
crease our revenues up TO the point Of
actually necessary expenditures. To
continue To- run in debt. into interest.
bearing debt. can mean only and finally
shipwreck. Under the circumstances
the advocacy Of Protective Tar
in policy becomes patriotic endeavor.
whatever may be the convictions Of the
Democratic party touching free-trade
and cheap living. honor compels con-
sideration OF obligation The presi-
dent talks about patriotic endeavors."
but such talk would be hypocriucal II
We should refuse TO provide the ways
and means of meeting our national cur
rent expenses. There is but one way.
That will be the paramount issue.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
FORCE AND MORALITY.

Is force, after all a moral influence!
Are the supposed moral results of
force, real, lasting or desirable? Is
enforced morality more a saving grace
than religion? Does not, or may not,
laws which are enacted solely to en-
force morality work more harm than
good, by enfeebling characters and by
engendering a spirit Of lawless opposi-
ton? These are questions which are
beginning to confront the people Of
several American states. The direct
tendency of such legal rules seems TO
lower the standard Of manhood in
country of self-governing people, and
in loss of trust in individual RESPONSE
bility. The spirit Of such laws seems
against the breeding of a race fit for
leadership and command" Chauncey
NJ. Depew is held to be fine type OF
American manhood, headman with
out seeking to be political director or
leader. In talking about the late Magis-
trate Mott case. and the results and ten
denotes of the attempted enforcement
of laws growing out of preacher-poli-
tics and sought to be enforced by a
police commission of almost unlimited
authority, he says that such highland
ed rule, and espionage, would not be
tolerated even in st. Petersburg, or in
any other Russian city. The rights Of
people. old as civilization itself, are
sought to be corrected. No such super
vision of individual freedom, he de-
clares, exists in Paris. Berlin or other
European cities. Under the Rev.
Parkhurst reign and Roosevelt rule,
good, Jealous young men are sent out
to tempt old women whom they may
meet on. the streets after certain
hour, to thus ascertain whether they
are pure or not. These well dressed
spoilers are followed by policemen, in
Structed to arrest any woman who does
not feel herself insulted. That such
proceeding is a crime against women
ought to be conceded. No woman or
man in this or any other country, ought
to be subject to arrest unless in the |
commission of crime. AS Mr.. Depew |
says, We must concede to women the |
same rights to personal liberty as man;
that she is free to go and come as she |
pleases; that she may go wherever man |
may rightfully go, and that no police |
man and no magistrate has the right |
to deny her those rights. All these
men, policemen and good youths, must |
be taught the sacredness of personal !
liberty and the right Of the people,
women as well as men, to the free pos
session of the streets
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
NOT SENSATIONAL JINGoIsM.

Gene Ware. the Hon. Eugene +.
! Ware. of Kansas, the poet, lawyer and
everyday man of affairs. is a patriot
| and a philosopher. In giving express
sion lately TO sentiment, which the
last few days have revealed as exist
ing. and as being cherished in almost
every mans breast, he was unmerci-
fully badgered from one end of the
state TO the other. In an address 10
an audience of school boys he eulogized
war. war as the conServator of real
peace as patriotiSm's truest inspira-
ton. and as the most direct highway to
national prosperity. His endorsement
came swiftly and unexpectedly, came
from millions in day.
Lately, Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes,
at Sanden's Theatre, Cambridge, es-
sayed the theme of our inspired poet,
and under the title, The Soldiers
Faith" glorified war and the war
spirit. 'War is the business OF youth
and early middle-age," he said, and all
Boston was Mortified. He opened the
eyes Of the boys of the elite by encour-
aging them to pity the moralist and the
philanthropist, who hold that war is
wicked, foolish and soon must disap-
pear. THE society,"" continued Judge
Holmes, ''for which many philanthro-
pist, labor reformers, and men of fash
ion unite in longing, is one in which
they may be comfortable and may
shine without much trouble or any
danger" General prosperity, in which,
while all thrive. some get rich, seems
to him to breed belief that money is
the main thing. and so to foster the
hatred of the poor for the rich. I'm
this snug, over-safe corner Of the
world" he SayS-that is, a continent
where Jingoism is pure exouc-we
need some discipline like war TO re-
mined us that we ought not to be as
safe and comfortable as we are, and
to make us ''ready for danger" if not
spelling for fight.
We leave it to those who choose, TO
criticise Holmes. But it is fact that
Americans are degererating, education
ally, into polo playing and the like,
and devoting their life talents and
everything, including their honor and
morality, to the struggle of money
getting. There is worth in heroism.
There is no such thing as moral cour-
age in the absence of physical courage.
Arbitration is masked cowardice.
That class Of men who demand the ar
bitration Of great national wrongs, in
things that they hold to be immoral, or
not up TO their standard, they will not
only not listen 10 arbitration, which is
but enforced compromise, but will
crush the individual opponent to the
earth. by law. or by the force Of public
opinion and condemnation.
Gene Ware has not only been COM
mended, but his position sustained and
ratified.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-22
PATRIOTISM PAYS.

President Cleveland sends q special
| ton and profoundly Stirs the civilized
governments of the entire globe. With
in three days he writes another and the
body of statesmen to whom the first
was addressed could hardly be per-
suaded to give it a respectful hearing.
One was state paper, par excellence,
rejecting the patriotism Of seventy mil
lions Of people, couched in language
which would have honored the head of
Jefferson or Blaine. The other was
dollar-politics, was but the prayer of
the devotee of a street and its god of
gold Within the difference of these
TWO state papers our president can find
the secret of the discredit of his second
term with not only his own party, but
with the people at large. He has per-
sistently talked for the poor man."
but labored in the interest Of mammOn.
The eXigency which induced or other
wise inforced a declaration rejecting
the patriotic sentiments and exalted
convictions of a nation of patriots, dis
covered no Republican, no Democrat,
no Populist in the congress of the
United States but the representatives
of people loyal to the traditions. of
the most progressive, the finest and
most intelligent government on earth,
and loyal to the patriotic impulses of
its head. Whatever may have been
the melting motive, or the interest
which inspired that first message, the
fact remains that on its face there was
only love Of truth, devotion to prin-
ciple and patriotic resolve, such as in
spired jefferson in the penning Of the
Declaration of Independence, such as
that in which the foundation of the con-
stitution itself were laid, and upon
which the subsequent imposing super
structure of a mighty nation of free
men was builded, an edif1ce in all its
beauty of infinite detail, and of grand
uer of proportion at once commanding
not only the admiration but the fear
and respect of all the world.