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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-15

prominent Republican,. page "a. that dur
ing the discussion over the re-charter Of
the Bank Of the United States, which oc-
cupied the attention Of congress for sew
eral years, the country suffered from a
money panic, and financial depression and
distress was generally prevalent. In 1854
measure was enacted. for eoualizing the
value Of gold and silver, and legal.zing
the tender Of foreign coin OF both metals
The good effects OF the measure was i'm
mediately seen. Gold began to flow into
the country. through all the channels of
commerce. foreign and domestic: The mint
was busy; and specie payment which had
been suspended In the country for thirty
pears was resumed. and gold and silver
became the currency OF the land; inspir-
ing confidence In all the pursuits Of in
dustry."
On the same page he gives the substance
Of speech of Senator Benton TO show the
position Of the Democratic party ut that
time; that it was intended by the consti-
tuition that gold and silver should consti-
tute the currency of the nation
If a sweeping enactment, making the
coin, both silver and gold Of foreign coun-
tries. legal tender. IN a time OF financial
panic. instead of swapping the nation In
a tide Of inflated currency, should lift il
out OF the depression and place II on 'he
basis of prosperity. It would seem, that
we ought not TO fear the opening Of our
minis TO free and unlimited coinage of
legal tender silver. at rates that have
been so long recognized.
My personal recollection IS that foreign
silver coin became so abundant. in our
country under this law. that by $50. for
every American coin IN circulation there
was al least five foreign coins, and the
country fairly buzzed with industry and
prosperity. J. MILTON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

| Secretary Of Territory Lowe has return
! ed from a trip 10 Texas.
There are still parts of Oklahoma which
! need good soaking rain.
The "old miner IS particularly thick IL
| Oklahoma just at present.
There are TOO acres of grain under cult
walton at the Chilocco schools.
The heaviest rains in the history Of Bea
yer county fell there last week.
The Oklahoma City Star speaks Of tn,
| Dancing club giving select skip
John Patton is preparing to irrigate hi.
! farm north Of Guthrie. on a large scale.
| washita county has crowded the Kick
| apoo country off the center Of the stage.
What good did that fight do the Guthrie
| Leader and the Guthrie Capital any way;
Rosewood billies have been placed In the
hands of all the Oklahoma City police
men.
Perry now wants the Santa Fe machine
shops which recently burned down at Az
kansas City.
The annual commencement exercises of
the Agricultural college at Saltwater end
ed Wednesday.
The Alva chronicle has figured out that
bring in $4,000.
Treasurer N. L. Turner has purchased
s25 900 worth OF Oklahoma City school
bonds a. 81 cents.
II is about time for the Guthrie papers
to bring out that women bathing In the
COTTONWOOD" story.
Policeman John Matthews OF Guthrie.
was tried the other day for feloniously at
lacking a colored woman.
william Wheeler OF Oklahoma City. has
eIoped with Miss Thursday Carter. He
took Thursday. Wednesday.
Articles Of impeachment have been
brought against the chief treasurer and
auditor OF the Creek nation
u. c Lewis OF Oklahoma City, il mad
The fellows are guying him because the
Salvation Army has hired him % defend
them.
The advertising department Of The Ok
do something to Offset the Washita county
noise
According 20 the Haraesty HERALD q
woman in oklahoma has been granted a
divorce because her husband insisted on
naming the baby "Grover.'
Frank Greer was right The eastern
papers have forgotten ali about those re-
quests for aid from Oklahoma in their
anxiety 10 print al the gold news
There Is talk OF the Salvation Army %
the territory moving On Okl2hO-za City 81
a body 20 fight the sttenp; Of TIRE city
council a. that place TO prevent street re-
Egi0n-
Mrs. Albert. IN the Oklahoma City Star:
L psezsss a nan more 20 tack Hon" u
r-oar OF his name than x 5o-s 20 tell =
woman OF - that she doesz.'t Look over
twenty
Al Oklahoma City JGexe has set Ian
zerous precedent THAI nay undermine iAs
whole reoubiie by refusing 20 aEs a MAJ
guilty who bad Ie; his chickens wander
on ne4xh1yors garden
Charles O. ~ oot. Who bss be<- appoint
a 70 take charge Of al f5s tGT1slte
boards in the strip. hzs seat n Is reslE-
nation as mayor of End Ma q t1Sle
hat town docs have w.th i-s rasyc-A
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DEBS AND HIS DRUNK.

Come TO think of it this is a funny
country in some respects. 1t Will be
remembered that Mr. Debs recently
disappeared mysteriously Just when
the authorities wanted to take him tC
Jail. After exciting the country for
twenty-four hours Debs suddenly re.
appeared and gave himself up. declar-
ing that he had been sick at the home
of friend and had fallen asleep and
slept twelve hours.
Now, DebS was drunk. When he
appeared at the marshal'S office he be.
gan at once TO make explanation OF
his failure TO surrender himself at r.
N. Tuesday as he had promised when
paroled in the morning Mr.. Debs had
fairy tale arranged 10 account for his
absence and he unfolded it at length.
Marshal Arnold listened patiently
while Debs told how he had gone TO
dinner at Hubbard's house. No. CO.
West Madison street. had eaten freely
of cuCumberS which forced him 10 80
to bed where he had fallen into 4 sleep
from which he did not awaken until
late in the evening.
While DebS was talking Marshal Ar
mold WIS taking mental notes OF the
prisoners condition. Debs' hair was
frowsy, his eyes blurred. his hands IN
steady. and his clothing rumpled. His
appearance WAS that OF man who had
been on a debauch, and Marshal Ar
mold said So plainly. His words were:
Whats the use of coming here with
that sor; of 4 yam. Debs: You have
been on drunk. and this man Hub
bard is 10 blame for IT. l never had
any trouble with you until you took up
with Hubbard am done with paroles
now. and You won't go out OF my sight
again until hand you ever TO the jail
authorities at Woodstock"
air. Hubbard made feeble expostu-
lation, but Debs admitted the truth
| and justice OF the marShals structures.
saying frankly he had been on spree.
hubbard was politely excused AMI The
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All the nlanpts visible to the eve

All the planets visible to the eye
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter. Saturn
and Cranus-nOw appear in the twi-
light sky as evening stars a most re-
markable occurrence. affording an easy
opportunity TO see and identify them
all. with the exception OF Uranus,
which is on the border line of visibility,
but cannot be seen without a telescope
In the western skies the brilliant
Venus. the Hesperus Of the aneients.
may be seen every night in close con-
junction with Mars. Lower down in
the sky by several degrees may be
seen jupiter, only less bright than
Venus. In other parts Of the heaven
will be found Saturn, a small distance
to the west and north OF the moon.
A fresh interest attaches to Saturn in
view of the fact that its rings have
Just been proven by the beautiful spec
troscopic observations OF Professor
Keeler. Of the Allegheny observatory.
10 he made up Of numerous small solid
bodies revolving in these rinG-shaped
clouds about the planet at the rate of
from ten 10 fifteen miles second
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-15
A BIG AMERICAN SHIP.

The American navy is not only COM
handing the attention OF the world for
the power and grea tness Of its men-of-
war but we are again being heard from
in the merchantmen and passenger
lines. The New York World illustrates
the big American passenger steamer
''St. Louis" which started on her
maiden trip for Europe the other day.
For long time the American flag has
been practically unknown in foreign
harbors. save when a United States
man-of-war happened along. The
builders of this ship, which Is one of the
largest that now plow the waters, have
put millions into its construction and
purpose to demonstrate that profit
able business may be done with ship
flying the Star-spangled banner. The
reports Of the ships trial and Of its
construction make it clear that the
American builders have thorough
knowledge Of their art, and that as
good work can be done ON the Della
ware as on the Clyde. Those who have
to build the st. Paul. Of like proper
tons and thereby establish regular
American line. If the venture shall
succeed, We shall see others undertak-
ing similar enterprises, and it viii not
be many years before the American
flag shall be familiar sight in foreign
ports. Our shipbuilders have already
shown, in putting afioat American war
ships, that they have lessons to teach
the foreigners. The American genius
has never been more happily demon
strated than in this respect, and now
that capitalists have been found will
ing to put up money forthe construction
of American merchantmen, we may
expect magnificent revival Of the
American shipping interest Great
Britain'S dominion Of the seas was
challenged the moment the St Louis
was launched, and we have no doubt
that Britishers regard her appearance
with far more Solicitude than they
would any other kind Of venture which
might involve a loss Of commercial
prestige. They have sung SO long the
tune, Britannia Rules the Waves"
that they are especially sensitive when
ever any other nation shows a DISPOSE
ton TO go into the sea-faring business.
But Britannia must now look to her
laurels, for the ingenious Yankee. with
to spend, has declared his pur
pose to reap his due share Of the ocean
harvest, and with his methods to meet.
British ship owners may expect smaller
The rule Of the waves is
TO be divided. 1t is well, under the
circumstances, perhaps, that we began
with the reconstruction of our navy,
and to that fact is doubtless due the
Of the American capital
lists TO put American merchantmen in
commission.
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sTRADDLE AND YOU LOSE.

The party organs have been very
/! free in their use of the party lash. in
connection with the silver question,
, and their threats have proved quite eff
fectiHe safar as the politicians are con-
cerned Their attitude, however, is
I entirely uncalled for as was evidenced
| by the sentiment which prevailed in
the Memphis convention. There was a
general and pronounced disposition up
on the part of a majority of the leaders
gathered there to settle the money QueS-
| ton within party ranks. The new
! party following was fractional and frac-
I tional.
This has been the course the Eagle
| has advocated. The organization
growth of 2 national party, to any eff
fective proportions, is a slow one even
when backed by a pronounced senti-
ment. Political leaders and their in
terests prove bar and break in num-
erous directions. All that is necessary
to bring both old parties to time on
this silver question is courage upon
the part of the people equal TO their
convictions. 1t will never come about
by straddlig and halting in the resolu-
tons of county conventions. The
county convention has the least to fear,
and cOwardice here becomes contempu-
BILE Next in Importance, with mini
mum of embarrassment, is the congress
sional convention, which should en-
phatically reflect the sentiments of the
people of the district The whole
matter can be most speedily settled in
the affirmative through the existing
political organization because the
law-making power is held by them and
will be for long time, even though
new party should triumph at the polls.
But they must be forced to act. The
lash that the politician applies will
have, in turn, TO be applied to him, and
vigorously. In passing resolutions
favoring the rehabilitation Of silver all
international rot must be left out.
Bimetallism of a single standard of
measurement is just what the country
has now-it is in fact recommendation.
1t is astonishing that a hundred or
more radical silver men will in con-
vention permit half dozen politicians
TO withdraw for a private conference
and then return with a Straddle Of
milk and water which all proceed to
swallow.
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ANSWERS ITSELF.

The luxuries of today become the
necessities of tomorrow. The new
patent which displaced the hundred
laborers today finds a thousand add
tional patrons for its cheapened pro-
duct tomorrow.
Mr.. Carlisle in his Memphis speech
answered his own objective argu-
ment against silver by his admission
thXZat per capita circulation cut little
figure when measured by increased
| population but was of vast Importance
| when it comes to increased business.
| He said it was because the amount of
| currency required in a country depends
upon the volume of business and the
customs of the people in conducting
| their exchanges and not at all upon
the number of men, women and chill,
dren residing in it" OF course. But
| that was no argument for his side Of
| the case. The true measure of a
country's need of currency is the
! volume of its business. Currency is
based on redemption money. The bus
mess of the United States while in
creasing in a phenomenal way is sud-
denly crippled by destroying one-half
Of its redemption money and cornering
the other half. It's business more
than inhabitants" that must measure
the need Of money, but unfortunately
there is no business in the absence of
inhabitants nor is there any use of
business or money either where there
are no inhabitants. The point to the
whole proposition is that business in
creaSes much faster than population.
Business is the sum of all the efforts
required to satisfy the wants of man,
whose wants increase more rapidly
than he does. The same amount of
oats will satisfy horse as it did
hundred years ago. But not so when
it comes to satisfying man. He does
more business than he did one hun
dred years ago and he wants proper
tlonately more money. His wants are
becoming infinitely more numerous and
correspondingly pressing. individually
and collectively, while his money, the
factor of his exchange and the repre-
sentative of his values more scarce.
SO Mr.. Carlisle's objection answers it
self
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GOLD WAS CUT DOWN.
Oklahoma O. T, June e. Ise:

Oklahoma, O. T, June e, 1875.
To the Editor of the Eagle
To a reader OF the Eagle. who has been
2 sincere hide-bound believer in the in
fallabslity of the Democratic party. and
has during two terms OF Cleveland. grad
ually hsd all that sort Of thing phys.cked
OF: OF him. until he had finally discovered
that in politics as well as other matters.
there is nothing in a rane-' The esli-
to-iaIs Of the Eagle upon the hnArc!ai
and revenue questions. is az least. coz
ISOLATION
The Eagle Is now growing, n tnat
strength which results in an able and fear
less advocacy OF the measures TO which
the best interests OF the masses. IS an alb
soiute necessity
And every Democrat that Ike myself.
recognizes The base berfyaI cf the rights
OF the people. upon the vital questions OF
finance and revenue. 10y the executive the
legislative and judicial departments Of
government. IS administered by bis OWL
party, ought 10 welcome the truth. and
sound doctrine. even wnen coming from =
Republican source
Apropos. upon the silver question i aHc
IA American Politics" By Cooper e.
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ghe aaliha Daily EAGLE Saturday H1oruo 9ue s. 1893

prisoner was sent to the jury room and
put to bed under guard. In five min
uteS he was sound asleep.
When Debs was awakened at 3
O'Clock he surveyed himself in the glass
and remarked that he must have looked
'rocky" when he came in at noon.
After bath he was once more the
gentle appearing, suave Debs. He
smiled grimly at any reference to ECU
cumbers,'' and asked that George
Howard might be brought in to keep
him company. His old lieutenant re-
manned with him until 4:30, when he
left TO take the train.
Deputy Marshal Sol Van Praag, who
was charged with the duty of hunting
up Debs and arresting him Tuesday
night. was kept busy yesterday explain
ing why he had failed to find his man.
1t was known that Debs was making a
round Of levee resorts, and had even
wandered into the most public places
in the downtown district.
Ii this isn't funny, what is? Here
is man who less than a year ago
paralyzed, actually paralyzed, this
country. He stopped traffic. He wor
ried the president of the nation. He
excited the whole army. He also made
a great many people dodge back their
heads for fear of revolution; he was
responsible for the destruction of mill
ions of property. After a long legal
fight, in which thousands of his fol
lowers were with him and during
which Debs was talked of as presi-
dent, Debs, as an overture TO entering
prison, and he regards his imprison-
ment as a martyrdom, gets on an old
fashioned, high stacatto, vermillion,
boilerfactory drunk! Is this BETTING
a martyr? Is it befitting liberator?
Is it betting leader under whose
guidance thousands of men gave up
employment? Shades of Martin Irons.
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sides. 80 that they are safe am In
hopes that we viii eventually be able TO
restore the old fort where 1t will serve its
purpose Of preserving the memories OF the
struggle for national unity
Demolishing the old fort, rich in the
memories Of partyr who died for a
principle, the floor Of which still retains
the gprints Of his great boots, rich
in sacredness and sanctity, demolish-
ing this to make room for livery
stable, rich in the odors of horse; rich
in hostler PROCLAMATION; rich In the sane
THY Of dollars and cents!
But what can you expect OF a city
the towers Of whose smallest breweries
overtop the steeples Of its highest
churches.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-15
PREJUDICE BLIND.

A majority Of the Republican papers
Of Kansas are for a bimetallism on a
gold standard They want silver only
as measured by gold. which is but a
bimetallism on a monometallic basis,
otherwise bastard hermaphodite prin-
cipally "sound" and no scents" The
Kansas City Gazette upon the other
hand is for bimetallism with silver as
the standard. There is more scents"
sense, and less sound" sound. in Mar
tins platform. because gold being ocr-
nered is an impossibility. The eighty
two weeklies and ten dailes in decrying
a fifty-cent dollar want a two-hundred
cent dollar. They denominate the
double-power dollar a sound" dollar,
so do the goldbugs and conspiracy rob-
bers. What the people demand is an
honest" dollar. honest as a currency,
honest for redemption and an honest
measurement Of all material values.
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PERSONAL PLUMES.

Jose de Heredia, the Cuban poet, has Just
been formally received into the French
academy.
Lolita, now a retired actress. was the
guest Of honor last Monday Of the Profess
sional Woman's league of New York
Walter s. Hobart, a Harvard student,
has an income Of s5seeo month. He is
- years old and is the son Of a California
mine-owner. He is the owner Of a
racing stable and is a fine rider.
Mrs. Cornelia Walter Richards. who was
one Of the first editors OF the Boston
Transcript, celebrated her eightieth birth
day last week. Her brother. Lynde "
Walter, was the founder Of the paper.
800
Major Henry Stanton, 1.-The Sweet Poet
Of the Elkhorn," who is dying In Ken
lucky, had the singular distinction for .
poet Of being a practical inventor. He
devised the iron tie for binding cotton
bales, and it was success.
Governor Morton Of New York, has
been made a member Of the Society Of
Mayfiower Descendants. The governor
traces his ancestry back to Stephen Hop
kins. who was one of the Pilgrims to
reach these shores in 1s0.
The forthcoming auction sale OF the
largest hotel in Kansas. the Throop House
at Topeka, recalls its builder. Colonel H
p. Throop, who, in 1883. was the most en-
thusiastic boomer in the state. worth
100000; today he is penniless.
DR.. W. I. Abbott, who has been travelling
in Central Asia, has forwarded to the
National Museum at Washington a coll
lection of the skins Of 22s birds and more
than a hundred mammals. The greater
number Of these are species new to science
The latest social lion in Gotham bears
the jaw-cracking name of the Chevalier
Garibaldi Coteletti. He arrived recently
on the steamship Kaiser william, and
was Immediately put up at all the leading
clubs. He is the vice president Of the
Royal Yacht club of Italy.
Mr.. John Wannamker has increased his
life insurance to the remarkable aggregate
of s. 100000. He is certainly the most
heavily insured man in America and pos
sibly in the world. John b. Stetson OF
Philadelphia, has policies on his life for
$50 coo and Hamilton Disston for 500, 600.
Chauncey Depew is said to be insured for
$500 900.
Alphonse Daudet was not exactly COM
in his reference to English
women. of whom he met many in bis re-
cent trip to perfdious Albion. Not only
is the English woman not handsome in
features" he says, but there is nothing
seductive IN her physical form, and, more
over, she is an utter stranger to elegance
and good taste"
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prophecy: And in the sixth day of
the moon, when the procession is moy-
ing, a hermit, fat and OF good belly.
will come hence from the thickets OF
Maine and step in front of the drum
mo inr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-15

Now that Miss Yaw has gone to Eu.
rope some specialist should examine
the throat Of a coyote and see how il
is possible for one coyote To give an
imitauon of twenty seven cat-fghts.
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Mrs Lease proposes TO roll back the
dark and tear-Stained curtains of his
tory. Mr.. Lease on the other hand
rolls back the front window cur,ai,
and goes after the flies with a folded
newspaper
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On her arrival in Europe the other
day a friend Informed Miss Pollard
that by the supreme court decision She
would not have TO pay an income tax
on that $4,000 which she has not re-
Ceiyed from Breckinridye
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George Peek made a brilliant talk at
Richmond, Va. Ia which he compi-
mented the south. In this connection
1t has been observed that brilliant
speeches are not made in the south
when the south is roasted.
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Ida Wells, the colOred woman, will
marry one OF her own race. She may
live longer in the minds of the people
on that account than Douglass who
married into another race.
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When Jim Corbett's snout and renu-
tation is broken; and he has become \
0runkard, his wife, who now wants a
divorce from him. viii return home for
the purpose of giving him some one n
abuse with imp9nity.
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In the opinion of the Lawrence Jour
nal the gold discovery in Oklahoma
is a fake. As Lawrence is 500 miles
from the gold fields, the Journals eye
sght is Qneommonly good.
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fitzsimmons weighs 1S5 pounds and
Corbett 1SS; If the Dallas ministers
will watch the evolution of prize
fight step by step they will find it in
tenSely interesting.
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Sol Miller has discovered that Bill
Nye Is dead-beat- Bill Nye is a
purer man than Sol Miller; he is also
better writer; has more of a mind;
and Is juSt as honest: but is not quite
so Wei known as Miller in Troy, Kan.
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The world is discovering that Trilby
was impure. The world has known
it all along. but it didn't care to make
the accusation until it grew tired OF
her. Same old world.
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Kansas roasting ears are going to be
so big that the average man at the
breakfast table will resemble a flute