The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14
AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.

There are class Of people in Amer.
lea, a growing class, who call them
selves Americans, whose individual
members are asking ''what does a Re-
public amount to anyway? This class
is made up Of those who absorb the
profits Of American labor and Amer
lean enterprise. They annually go to
Europe, and annually spend in Europe
millions of American dollars. They are
not truly Americans at heart, and the
more they see and enjoy the European
privileges which their money so readily
commands the less American are they.
In short they care little for their native
land farther than they reap the re-
| suits of its energies and genius. which
results are diSsipated in wasteful self
indulgence on the bOunties of older
civilizations whose glitter and pomp
is aristocracy. Gold is the god of this
growing class of Americans, and costly
jewels their playthings; women their
pastime, and fine wines their recrea-
ton. Americas toiling millions to
them are all right so long as the mil
lions do not rise above their toiling
conditions. The happiness and pros
perity of Americas millions is a men,
ace to these annual European tourists.
to these abSorberS of American blood.
and controllers of American destiny.
The brokers and bankers of this class
are found in the financial heart of
every commercial city, their servitors
in every capital of the country. In
speaking of America 10 their foreign
entertainers they praise only its mater
ial resources and its financial posSibili-
ties. Their paid agents and expert
StatiSticianS count the number Of acres
under plow, and watch the weather re-
ports: estimate the probable tonnage
TO be moved, and determine how much
freight charges each commodity will
bear; calculate the output of every kind
of mine, the produce OF every sort OF
factory, the margins Of profits of all
which they deem 10 be theirs by virtue
OF their Stock-exchanges their boadrs of
trade, their chambers of commerce and
the money of their banks, and even of
the treasures whose volume they con
troi. The national treasury itself is
not safe from their nanipulations nor
the precious metals of which money is
coined. they sending the price OF the
one up and destroying the value of the
other at Will, whereby the farmers
bin Of corn, the miners pound of ore.
the planters bale OF cotton. all, be-
coming theirs.
The man who never goes 10 Furope.
the man who never expects n go 10
Europe. the man who loves the govern
ment and the institutions OF America.
loves its mountains and prairies, It's
woods and streams. and all that * is
physically. socially and politically. past
or present ouinumbers the man who
spends his millions in Europe a thou
SAND 10 one. The plain from which |
the Caesars sprang. the waters that
reflect the palaces OF the Doges. the
grape-laden hills and cathedral |
Swallowed valleys Of Spain. the castle |
hestudded banks Of the Rhine and all |
that England or France has 10 offer
beside in the way Of the mis-; and dust |
and ruin Of ages. with all their tinsel- |
crowns, and feather-bedecked nobility.
fan TO attract. much less win the heart
from its fealry 10 this land OF man /
hood and human equality of the man /