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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-07

and that he was contemplating some step of a
very serious nature.
''He frequently visited my quarters and
spent hours with me out among the stock.
where my duties as foreman of the herders
compelled me to spend much of my time. He
was continually interrogating me as to the
general character of my employment; the ex-
perience necessary; how much time was re-
quired to be put in; whether my work was
pleasant or otherwise; what wages received
and so on. I answered the questions as best
could liked the young fellow and was
anxious to divert his mind from his troublas
but my curiosity was finally aroused as tn his
motive in questioning me so persistentlv op
these points, and finally asked him outright
why he wanted that information? sHerding
is entirely out of your line,' 1 remarked. sand
besides it is very humdrum and common-
place occupation at best What special interest
can it have for your
HE looked at me queerly for moment and
then quietly asked, What would Won saw IL T
should tell you that 1 think seriously Of re-
signing my commission in the service and tax
ing up stock-handling as a life businessY
Excuse my bluntness, said, but am
compelled to tell you that should think YOU
had taken leave OF your senses You cannot
surely be contemplating such STEP
eyes, he returned, my career as a soldier is
o'SAi - AiNSSA' ~ eNer began. lam clearly not
fitted for the work The life, as far as have
ived II out mere at least, is disagreeable to me,
and have resolved to abandon it as soon as
can find other work that will afford me a live
lihood. Your work seems suited to me. be-
lieve that could succeed at 1t, and 1 ask you
as friend to secure for me, if you can, the po-
sition OF assistant herder under you. If you do
will serve you and the Government faithfully,
and you shall have no reason to regret your
action
II was astonished at his proposal. and argued
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
A WORD ABOUT CUBA.

In population Cuba is about as large
as Kansas, having 1851, ,6S7 people.
The idea that it's inhabitants are but
half-civilized negroes and crosS-breeds
is a mistaken one. The island is an
emerald gem, equalling Ireland in
beauty and richer in products than any
spot of its size in the world, probably.
OF this population nearly 100000 are
Spaniards or people of Spanish extrac-
ton, nearly 100000 are negroes and
over 10000 are Chinese. To furnish
materials for a stable republic or good
government Of any sort the population
needs a strong infusion of Americans,
or of Europeans other than Spaniards.
With the prospect of better govern
ment would speedily come a better
class of Immigrants, and it is not i'm
probable that the two may come to-
gether Land is becoming too scarce
for so rich an island as Cuba to be
much longer the prey Of freebooters
and Adventures.
Clarence King, in recent issue of
The Forum, represents in the strongest
possible light the obligations of Amer
lea to Cuba. He says:
The Cuban war hangs before US an issue
which we cannot evade. Either We must
stand as the friend of Spain. and, by our
thorough prevention of the shipment of
war supplies to the insurgents, aid and
countenance the Spanish efforts to con-
quer Cuba into continued sorrow, or we
must befriend Cuba in her heroic battle
TO throw off a medieval yoke. Let us not
deceive ourselves. Spain alone cannot
conquer Cuba; she proved that in ntenyears
OF miserable failure. II We prevent the
sending Of munitions to Cuba and con-
tinue to allow Spain to buy ships and
arms and ammunition here, it is We who
will conquer Cuba, not Spain. 1t is We
who will crush liberty
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13

mention. Sackville don't like Amer
lea, and his book is about America
and Americans Sir Lionel is now a
lord, but the comforting Of that title
has contributed to neither his brains
or manners. The one redeeming fea-
ture Of the publication is the way he
rips ND the toadyism of Bayard at the
English court. 1t will be remembered
that the letter he wrote to one "Mur-
Gibson" of California. a decoy duck
who wrote as loyal iover OF Britain's
interests to Sackville for inside point
ers on the presidential situation when
Garfield was the Republican nominee.
Sackville never got over the realization
that he was made the dupe of a Yankee
trick. and his book is intended for a
scorcher and a roast Bayard was
secretary of state at the time the letter
was written. and he it was who gave
Sir Lionel his walking papers, which
the presence of Bayard at St James
is ever reminding him. From the
criticisms of both the English and
American press, Lord Lionel has again
put his foot in il, effectually cutting
off any farther chance for a residence
in Washington, the place he has longed
for and figured over ever since his
summary dismissal by Bayard.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
KANSAS ALWAYS LEADS.

1t is quite the rage among the heavy
weight editors and distinguished maga-
zine writer's to discourse upon fthe
present evil tendencies of municipal
| government So far as we have seen,
the conclusion is unanimous that the
great cities are ruled by fraud. In
several of the older states these great
| centerS of population hold the balance
of power, and so rule the state. The
| aggregate electoral vote Of a few of
| these states constitutes majority in
the electoral college, hence we have
| half dozen cities ruling the destiny
of this nation. Whether this is true
or not remains for these writers and
| the future to demonstrate.
What seems strange is, that if such
| dire calamity is to come 10 the whole
country, through the franchise of the
! thugs and repeaters of the great cities,
the majorities residing in the country
have not thought of the Kansas plan.
Here We have solved the whole prob
lem at one fell stroke. Through the
benign influence of our metropolitan
police law every voter in the state has
a voice in the government of cities of
the firSt-claSS. The duly elected high
court of authority, which determines
whether the people of Wichita are to
drink wine or water, has its authority
from the cow-puncher in Sherman and
the trapper in Cheyenne counties, as
well as from any resident of this city.
The state, let it be remembered, rules
the corporate cities, the exercise of
no functions depending largely upon
the efficacy of the said high court.
Discretionary power may be used, it is
true, but such latitude is only exer-
cised in proportion as the people of
given city are particularly wicked or
saint-like. When the great majority,
as in Wichita, would like voice in
the regulation of their domestic af-
fairs, the heavy hand Of the law is
laid upon them. Where there is great
unanimity of sentiment in favor of the
higher Christian standard, as in Leav-
enwOrth, there is a clemency III the
exercise of judicial authority. The
weakest link in this self-adiusting ar
rangement is, that the court itself is
made up of human beings. There is
room for personal interest, either finan-
cial or political. TO assert itself, and
there is the bare possibility that lines
may be drawn, not always on the
parallel OF strict justice. This, how
ever, is so rare that an occasional
breach hardly constitutes an objection
To the law.
Let the tired editors. and the brain
racked theorists lay aside their phloso-
phieS, and come, as a committee of the
whole to this sun-embowered common
wealth. and see for themselves the
operation of municipal government
made easy by the whole people partici-
pating.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
PAYING THE FIDDLER.

Some thirty years ago the govern
ment took a hand in the enterprise of
transcontinental railroads. From the
Missouri river TO the Pacific coast was
one vast uninhaoitated area of noun
tain and plain, traversed only by slow
going ox-teams. A stage line reached
from the Missouri to Denver and after
wards to Salt Lake, and then the Pa
cific. Nobody or corporation could be
found to undertake, even backed by a
big land subsidy, the construction of
railroads through thousands of miles
of country in which nobody lived. So
the government offered an additional
bonus in the way of aid-bonds.
Quite an amount of those bonds will
be due within a few weeks Over S.
100000 must be raised during the next
few months to pay off these bonds.
November 6, the day following cleo
ton, the government must provide for
S64O 900 of Kansas Pacific bonds. JAN
uary 1 it must take care of 81 900, 900
Central Pacific bonds, 81 1,440,O00 Kan
Sas Pacific bonds, $640,0O0 Central
Branch Union Pacific bonds. A month
later it must be prepared to cash ST.,
800. 900 of Union Pacific bonds.
How to raise nearly $4,000, 900 during
the next three months to pay off these
railroad bonds when there Is not
enough money in the treasury to pay
current expenses any month, is the
problem worrying Secretary Carlisle.
He may recommend legislation provid-
ing for refunding these bonds at
lower rate of interest, but If his recon-
mendation met the approval Of con-
gress it would hardly be able TO take
the necessary action by the first Of
January when half this amount will
have been due. The government can
not afford to default on its bonds, and
if the bOndholders ask for their money,
the money must be forthcoming. Every
adds to the perplexities and en-
attending the admins
tration of the governments finances
because Of the wretched bOtch which
the Democratic party made in its So
called revenue bill
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
AN EMERGENCY RATE.

The railroads have announced an
emergency rate for Kansas fruits and
potatoes to all common points in Col
orado. 1t is hoped that the cut will in
giving the railroads more business fur
niSh more remunerative prices for the
surplus products of this state. The
cut is 10 % cents per cwt, and it went
into effect on the 9th inst. The old
rate was 63 cents per hundred pounds.
1t in effect a recognition OF interior
Kansas in that for the present il Is pro-
posed to charge a Kansas farmer no
more for hauling his products to the
Rock mountains than is charged from
Missouri river points. OF course If
the Colorado price for the product re-
mains the same the Kansas farmer
will be benefited forty cents on every
hundred pounds he ships. But il the
Colorado buyer makes his purchases
In Kansas the cut may rebound in the
interest OF the consumer. The rail
roads hold always that such Is the
effect. However the railroads are
after more business. succeeding in
which the greater the sales in the
aggregate will be those of the Kansas
man
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
wHIRLS WITH WICHITA.

Leayenworth Times; The Wichita run
war is over, with the same old result
No convictions.
Marion Record: The State Fair a.
Wichita last week was slirnly attended
Horse races and big pumpkins have los
their drawing capacity.
FL Dorado Republican: Judge c. Reed
OF Wichita. Is spoken Of as Repebli-
can candidate for PopuEst Justice Al
lens seat on the supreme bench
Eureka Herald: Can this by the To
peka Journal. be true7 such g thing as
a moral side 10 any question never seems
70 en;er Marsh Aur6ock's head"
Topeka Press; The wichita papers cal
Assistant Attorney General Campbell
Tiger Bill" and it Is natural therefore
that they should al be engaged in buck
ing the tiger.
Lawrence Journal: Wichita yesterday
captured the big wholesale house Of The
Anheuser-Bnsch Brewing company, and
col6Scated its contents Wichita mus
be preparing 20 go poa al extsnded EH1z-
Wellington Voice. The wichita Far
was a great hOo5oo. Il f. pity tina; .
lan<i2bIe enterprise Ike q fair caE't be
Tun any no,s ws;hoa, making x Gen
% thieves and robbers The main fss-
ture Of te-e wichS-A Fair last week vss
rs s.de-sho ard fak.rs-
Elhuwood Advocate: Tssie Tiger Bih
Campbell was bussiy e7szgui = rsse>z-
ing Wichita from the crres of the rsz
te1cs. d1-.ng sk;e sxx- week. lis son ssr
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
PANIC THREATENED.

There is much talk, the world over,
of the African gold boom. Millions
of English money has gone into the
Kaffir mine excitement, and a stock
exchange or something of the char
acter in that interest has been opened
in New York City. 1t is held by some
that a collapse of the Kaffir craze will
in the reaction bring American securi-
ties to the front as an investment The
truth is, and everybody ought to see
1t, that break in Kaffir stocks will
adversely effect American stocks and
securities. Only a week ago Friday,
news from London of a big break in
African investments was followed by
a semi-panic in Wall street London
Immediately became heavy seller or
American stocks. Thousands Of shares
Of railroad and other stocks were put
on the market for what they would
bring. After the collapse in the Ar
gentine, which carried down the Muir
iettas and the Barings, there was a
general liquidation and calling in Of
investments in London. About the
only thing they could sell at the time
was American securities, and, although
they marketed them with all prudence
possible, the sending home to our mar
ket an indefinite sum-yariously esti
mated at from OO,OOO,OOO TO $780,
600, O,OOO-was a very positive influence
in creating the panic Of 1898. The
conditions in other parts Of the world
are no better today than they were
then, relatively. American securities
stand today as the most easily mar
keted Of any held in London and on
the continent, so that a collapse of the
speculation there would almost surely
be followed by liquidation necessi-
tating the sale of American securities
for the reasons mentioned.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
DOWN WITH THE BOSS.

OF all the dangers which now menace
"a government of the people, by the
people and for the people," more than
any other, is the political boss and his
methods. There is a marked uneasi-
ness among the masses Of the country
over material conditions, brought
about by the greed of corporate power,
but an apprehension bordering on de-
spair comes of a recognition of the
fact that the political boss in being the
tool of the money power. is becoming a
tyrant, the most dangerous known to
modern civilization. He is a COM
pound of all that is cunning, deceitful,
false and unprincipled. His followers
are heelers, groveling slaves, for the
most part vulgar and aggressive, in
short lick-spittles The unpleasant,
the unfortunate thing about the boss
rule is the truth that the people are
more inclined to seek his favor than
to make any effort to crush him. But
none the less sure is 1T that before the
power Of the political boss independ
ence and manhood are going down.
Commencing with the rule of New
York City, political bossism has be-
come a factor of control in almost
every town and city in the land. No
state as such is free from it L hese
bosses, in the name of morality, re-
ligion and temperance, adopt policies
for open advocacy while they rob in
discriminatory.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13

ever there are humiliat1ng exceptions
where men are elected to this high and
responsible position through corporate
and money influences and by political
jugglery, as are the first choices by
the majority party thus often defeated.
Presidential electors execute the ma
jority will Of their states. respectively,
so legislatures are supposed. and
and ought, to record the choice of the
people of their states for the United
States senate. However, Mr.. ingalls,
has been on record for some time as
favoring the election of senators by
popular vote. and if he is returned he
will no doubt advocate the submission
of an amendment to the federal con-
stitution to that end
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
ELECTION OF SENATORS.

Ex-senator Ingalls, is favoring the Sc
lection OF United States senators by
direct election Of the people. 1t is
pretty safe 10 say that were that the
rule now he would most certainly be
returned TO his old seat. No man
could beat him for the Republican
nomination, certainly no one could beat
him before the people. Unquestion-
ably the idea OF the trainers OF the
federal constitution was that congress
men should represent the people di-
rect, by districts, and rs mass. while
the senators. in being elected by the
states, through their legislatures.
should represent the state govern
ments in the national assembly. that
is the senators should represent their
states respectively as states. And so
the president is chosen not by a ma
joriiy OF the people lut by majority
of state electors. CaGaestionably a
majority OF the senators elected 10 the
United States senate are a choice of
the majority Of the people constituting
the majority party OF the state. How
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13

running beer stand on the fair grounds.
1t Is quite evident that Mr.. Campbell has
been devot;ng too much of his time to
spring has had TO suffer the lack Of proper
training as consequence
Medford Patriot: The wihcita Eagle
mentions a shower Of bugs, some as large
as mice, which visited the city last We'd
nesday night. II the citizens OF Wichita
perused their Bibles last Sunday they
might have read OF the various plaques
sent upon the Egyptians for retaining the
Israelites. and turn from their evil ways
No doubt II was a visitation because of
Their resistance to the prohibitory liquor
laws of the state.
Lawrence Journal: In an address at
flag raising at Topeka. yesterday, Eu-
gene Ware told the children that was Is
a very necessary and a very desirable
thing to have in the country, and pre-
6icted that there would be war very
soon, soon enough to give the boys before
him an opportunity to become colons and
general Gene didn't say who was gong
10 fight. but the general opinion Il thar
he had the Wichita rebellion In his eye
The Wichita Eagle administers great
roast to Kansas people Cor spending
million dollars a day for three or four
days during carnival at Kansas City. A
feature of the great gathering was that
with a saloon or every corner. and ore or
two in the middle Of the block, drunken
men were exceedingly scarce. We re-
member seeing but one who had difficulty
in walking straightforward City Ga
zette. How does this 'sze up" with the
declaration of the Topeka Journal to the
effect that in the capital city Of Prohibi-
ton Kansas drunken men are seen lying
all around town? Perhaps George Mar
tin didn't have his glasses on when he
was looking for Kansas City drunks.-
Lawrence Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13

Nearly every paper In Oklahoma has a
word of commendation for him
The Ponoa City Courier puts is In this
way: Mr.. J. r. Scott has been appointed
secretary OF the Republican central COM
mittee, vice F. A. Groendyke gone.
Notwithstanding Mrs Hatch's express
ed dissatisfaction. the opinion over the
territory IS that Clyde MattOx got all he
deserved from the hands of Grover Cieve-
land
A man well known 10 the reporters Ia
Oklahoma In travelling from Wichita TO
Purcell. will get three personals in daily
papers in three different Oklahoma towns
In one day.
Some Ponca City fishermen were cap
tured by the Indians the other day. taken
TO the agency and warned not 20 fish I'm
Indian streams again Their traps and
nets were con1scated-
Frank Greer says the counties % Okla
homa started out on a practically casn
basis October first Every warrant Is
sued now will be paid IN January from the
first seIni-annual payment OF taxes which
now comes due December L
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
A MISTAKEN POLICY.

| The policy Of the railroads of Kan
sas is without parallel in the history
of large commercial organizations.
| Kansas cannot make move that does
not effect the railroads for good or
evil, and yet they make no effort to
foster interests along their respective
lines. nor do they make any combined
effort TO bring about condition that
will people the state, or correct evils
/ that are depopulating Kansas. Po-
litically the roads stop with controlling
legislation that interferes with their
preconceived ideas Of doing business.
There isn't an official of any trunk
line in the state that does not know
that the prohibitory law and resultant
fights has kept thousands of people
from setting along their lines, and yet
they never lift a hand TO change the
condition that is sapping the life out Of
their earnings. What Kansas needs
is more people, and the state and the
roads are doing all they can TO keep
people from coming here and drive out
those who are here. BleSt with the
best material advantages of any state
in the Union, a policy is being pur
sued that has driven several hun
dred thousand people out the state.
A state that has raised more wheat
and corn in as ingle year than any
other of the 43 states is today stig
matized by the world as something
little short of a bedlam, and is scarcely
ever mentioned but to be DETAINED.
This condition can never be changed
unless those controlling large inter-
ests combine with the more sensible
people of the state to lift Kansas out
Of her present condition. With the
same laws that they have in Illinois
or Ohio or any of the central western
states, and an effort upon the part of
the railroads to build up the towns,
communities and counties along their
and the abolition of all discrimina-
tions and the population and business
of Kansas could be doubled in five
years or less. The policy which has
governed Kansas for ten years or more
has been ruinOuS one so far as peo-
pling the state and developing its in
terests and values are concerned.
There is no hope for the vast railroad
mileage of Kansas outside of the ma
terial development of the state. There
is no power equalling that Of the rail
roads themselves in bringing about
such much desired development
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
FoD the Eagle.
ASK TIGER BILL.

From high Olympus Jove one morning
The spires and turrets Of fam'd Wichita;
Behold this mart he cried. where con-
cord reigns-
The Peerless Princess Of prolific plains.
In peace and harmony her sons unite
To build a city on that favoring site,
They're not intoierant like senseiess
clOdS+
Their aots proclaim that they are demi-
There. men from ev'ry cline and ev'ry
state
My liberation try 20 initiate;
And he that loves their flag. red, white
and blue,
A man and brother Is. ard patriot. too.
There giants Intellectual would fight
For Home Rule'-man's inahenable
They're ali Americans in word and deed,
Not bfgots fighting against class or creed" !"
Up from the NOrthland Pluto came in
With angry brow oiynpian heights he
With sulphurous breath and countenance
unblest
The mighty Jupiter he thus ADDRESSED:
Dread conqueror, I've heard thy voice
afar.
Beyond where winds howl at the Polar
Star;
Permit me to cross DER the boist'rous
seas,
Beyond the pillars of great Hercules.
ITO that lov'd land of thine where concord
reigns-
To the Peerless Princess OF prolific plains;
There, I'll bring teachers from where wis
dom mods
To divide and conquer all your demi-
gods.
Who will assert for want of sense and tact
That law springs from a legislative act;
There / will act thro' this 'disgruntled
clique
And pile up taxes till I make them
sick
Sect wars 'gairst sect wherever I appear,
For stronger doctrine or for weaker beer.
I'll give them preachers, mark the conse-
Quence,
They'll ne'er convert one man to God or
But they will win fanatics loud applause
BY saving souls thro' legislative laws;
THEY'LL preachra a law which abrogates all
thine,
Thou shalt not drink pure cider. beer
or wine"
Great Jove replied: ''rhe gods themselves
require
Nocturnal draughts Of mild Promethean
fire,
From all the goods the gods above pro-
vide;
On thy foul mission go, give consent"
And from Olympus low-brow'd Pluto went
To Wichita his mission to fulfill.
Is he successful here? Ask Tiger Bill"
ONE OF THE MACKS.
Glen Mary, Oct To-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-10-13
LORD LIONEL.

He who goes TO Europe writes 8
book, as he who comes from Europe
does the same thing The subjects OF
the writers is adversely to their places
OF abode. Sackville West. he. Sir
Lionel, who was British minister al
Washington and VINO wrou. gnidbug
letter 20 California in the interest OF
Grover Cleveland for which he was
bounced at fhe request OF this country
Sackville-SacSville still lives 10 write.
He has written a hook Of which tae
Eagles telegraph columns has made