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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15
it is morally right for everybody. There

It is morally right for everybody. There
are no exceptions in morals. II il is
morally right TO sell liquors under a
license il is morally right TO sell IL with
out a license; to license an evil thing
does not make il righti to make a law
against a thing that is morally right
does make IL sin. Law Is not 10
abolish our rights but to maintain
them. The law is not made for a
righteous man, but for the lawless sin
ners." There is no law against the
righteous. But evils tangible and with
in the range OF civil government. should
be prohibited. \ law 10 prohibit what
is not an evil in itself is liable TO fail
because IL viii not receive general SUD
port Many Will violate it without
feeling any otfense 10 their conscience
and the tendency Of such a law Is to
create a spirit Of lawlessness. Men
look upon such law as a violation OF
their rights and will not support it.
Her is one difficulty with our prohibit
ton Iaw.There are so many who do not
believe II is a sin TO make wine and use
IL temperately. that they are indiffeT-
ent TO the law: they let II alone and let
il become dead letter and even our
hottest prohfbitionists do not Ike %
enter complaint and lead of IN the
prosecution OF liquor dealers. they want
some other fellow TO do that Cpposi-
ton 70 the desires OF men, only increas-
- that desire. unless the opposition
= absolutely insurmqunteb BILE then. gen
orally the effect IS sour grapes
Well, il IS asked whzt viii you have
done? What Is The remedy you pro-
pose? We are not making laT. bot
some suggestions We would say make
Law Just and consistent and enforce 81
IA Law that viii secure 70 all men their
rights. their natural ard inAiIenAble
rights. that IL what law il for. But you
cannot successfully enforce temperance
by prohibiting lawful things You may
preach expectancy but you cannot exSlt
e into legal and moral obligation re
who made The nan has made ;he law
for him and defined his rights Any
thing beyond this wiIl b. inprsctioabie
We suggest. first Take TIE pro-its euS
Z The lsquor traffic "a far as possible
aEd r-nsoye The Temptation - deal IA
Il. Hot Take - the revenue tax
and All license Il the government
wants revenue ts pay Expenses iet al
home productions pay az equal revenue
fsirh lseense j. no help 20 tie .ssny~g-
aace cause b2i causgG
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15
The Literator of Wichita.


In my precedaneous communication
1 endeavored to reply to Mr. Gilberts
plea for gold, Gods good gold. In to-
days paper / note most peculiar ans
wer, probably / had better call it
cross petition. Gilbert is evidently a
man of words if not of ideas, and is
clearly very much worried lest the
stripper who dareS to discuss a public
question forget to pillow, etc, etc. His
style of argument is, to say the least,
amazing. Let me adopt it and assure
him that after feeding the hogs, etc,
etc, on the day when literary blind
staggers attacked his very meek and
humble opponent and after my vesper-
tins repast of that day, intimated to
the caterer for human and beIIuine
entities, that. in consequence of feel
ing superlatively eiumbated, l had "A
great prurience of early couchee, and
requested that he should indigitate to
me the dormitory in which I might en-
joy somniferouS Quietude. / elicitated
from my host the obstruction to exSuS
citate me when the obligation of the
night was yielding to solar clarity.
Prior to my decumbency on my couch,
L submitted my pedal and crural Or
genS to a DELEGATION by copious lava
ton. After suffering a slight vellica-
ton in my femoral organ, this pediluyy
gave me a proclivity for an indulgence
of my somnolence without intercis-
sion, etc, tee.
JEREMIAH JOHNSON,
Kildare, o. T, March Is, 1895.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Oklahoma City has in all 17s attorneys
at-law.
1t is possible after all to hang a man in
Oklahoma.
Probate Judge Harper of Oklahoma City.
is trying his first divorce suit.
Sid Clarke says that statehood will come
through Republican congress.
The Capitol National bank of Guthrie
has sl4S,iSl in individual deposits.
The ladies of Ell Reno Christian church
viii soon publish a book OF recipes
Thomas Mcpherson. a prominent farmer
near Guthrie, is dead OF pneumonia
Newkirls is troubled with Sunday sa-
looms with back door accommodations.
The entire population of Saltwater turn
ed out to welcome Bob Lowery home.
". l.. Turner has been made president
of the Capitol National bank of Guthrie.
In great majority of the divorce cases
in Oklahoma the defendant fails TO ap-
pear.
If the Guthrie Leader keeps on it may
nag McCabe into voting the Republican
ticket
W. L. Mitchell. speaker of the house
of the Iowa legislature, is visiting in
Guthrie.
The Oklahoma Experiment station ad-
vises sowing barley where wheat has
been killed.
Speaking of TriIby it is said that all
Indian women have beautiful feet. But
their faces.
The legislative hall at Guthrie is closed
and Colonel Jim Dent no longer perfumes
voices at 10 cents per fume.
The morning before Milligan was hanged
there was a report out on the streets Of
Oklahoma City that he had committed
suicide.
A little child named Benton who lived
near Caddo, fell into a kettle of boiling
water last Saturday and was fatally
scalded.
The jury in the Derr case was out ninety
hours, but they arrived at a verdict that
suited the prisoner all right if they did
keep him waiting.
The Enid Wave coarsely advises a prom
inent citizen of that county TO go back
to his tribe and resume stringinS beef in
testineS on a clothes-line.
The Kildare Athletic club broke into
the press of New York City the other
morning and offered purse of $4,000 for
the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight.
The reason that the editor of the Guthrie
Leader laughs loudest ut the minstrel
shows that come to that town is to 2p-
prize the audience that his perception of
the joke is keenest.
Mr.. Van Wrinkle, a former citizen, has
returned to Oklahoma City after short
residence in Washington state. He says
things are too sleepy out there for him.
StraDopi And that name too
Inspector Newton intimates in his re-
port on Judge Scott that nearly all the
men in Oklahoma are liars. If Mr.. New
ton will come back something will be in
timated to him with stocking full of hot
mud.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15
OKLAHOMA NuRpERs AND KILLING

The concise account Of the first hang
! ing the Eagle yesterday morning brings
TO mind forcefully that Oklahoma fer
a new country has been singularly de-
void of atrocious deeds. There have
been killings almost without number.
but they were deeds of contest and
self-defense. Cold-blooded and unprO-
yoked murders for gain or the mere
satisfaction of thirst for blood, such
as the Bender murders in an early
day in Kansas, have been few.
The absence Of these crimes in Okla
homa speaks well for the territory.
The conditions FOR murder in new
country are favorable. Tie officers
to one another and are handicapped
as well by the fact that the inhabitants
are strangers and know little Of the
character of their peighhors.
But most OF the citizens of oklahoma
settled there to rear Il home and make
an honest fortune. The start was an
arduous one It did not permit of the
wild Bacchanalian revelrieS and
drunken disorders of Il new mining
camp, and as a result the hundreds
OF roughs and toughs and outlaws who
poured into Oklahoma at the original
opening and later when the strip WAS
settled, found little prey TO feed upon
and have drifted back to their old
haunts in the states, or struck out for
the Indian Territory where murderers
and all other outlaws and law-breahers
are comparatively safe.
Milligan was a bad man. His deed
was an atrocious one and he merited
his punishment The pity that many
people feel for him would vanish
could they see reenacted his terrible
crime-hacking with an axe the heads
of an unoffending family.
The very strong plea was put up for
him that he was semi-idiotic-but in
answer to that it is sufficient to say
that the state of his mind at the time
of the deed is no comfort to his victims
or their relatives, or benefit to the
safety of the community. And while
it is claimed for Milligan that he had
small mental attributes, he had SUI
ficient gumption to try to escape the
fate which had been adjudged him,
and to try to elude the processes of
the law and the pursuit of the officers
Of the law.
The first execution in oklahoma was
well-conducted. The officials did well
III limiting the number of spectators
and prohibiting the presence of Il NOR
bid crowd Of people, who should be
prevented from looking upon such
scenes, il they have not the feeling
within themselves to remain away.
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BREEDING FOR PROFIT.

Four years ago n farmer in Alton
township bought fine young brood
mare for which he paid $50. She has
raised him three colts and will foal
again this spring. The decline in
the value of his mare during the four
market value-S3000-an the aggre-
gate amount realized from the four
foals will just about replace the orig
inal purchase money. Allowing that
the use of the mare has paid for her
feed the net loss to her owner is the
interest on the money for four years,
or abUt $4,000.
at the date of the purchase the gov
eminent was coming four and a half
million ounces of silver per month.
Now the minis are idle. At the same
period the revenues were sufficient to
pay current expenses and our national
debt was being reduced every month.
Now we are borrowing money to pay
expenses, and the national debt Is
growing ut the rate of over S100, 100000
annually. Then the presidential chair
was occupied by a gallant old soldier
who advocated the use of silver as
money. Now it is filled by an able
bodied patriot who hired substitute
to go to the front, and, later, contracted
the currency by putting Il quietus on
silver, with the above result to the
= +.
increase in the value of every dollar
of gold in Wall street. Further COM
ment is unnecessary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

rights and vhen their rights are IN
vsded by law Il arousss determined
opposition. Moral reform cannot be ef-
fectsd By arbitrary laws that coualc,
with personal liberty and inalsnabie
rights. Moral saasi0n on such que--
Hous IS better than !asv. peepotic laws
eeeniually become dead letter The
fruit of the Spirit - ia temperance
Temperance - a Christian grace and
excludes al excess. man may b.
bot prohibitionisi and ye; no; a temper
ate man. Tor be may Dc rabii with
envy. fun of backbitinR and Islander
Christian temperance covers the whole
ground and 20 be successful IN temper
snce reform we must use the means Gcd
bar appointed Temperance raids IN
some form have be carried on more
than I 10 years. fTon the days az The
Harciorites and 3 aayians down TO
tie present ttuls and re have more cis~
tilleriez and lIgUoT tran ever the worif
Rad before When zen undertake 20
reform the world ard leave God and his
word cut ~ The acco9nt Il viii bs a
failure when TIE church undertakes
~ convert th@ world ~ 4 diluted ex-
puugsd edition ~ ChTtssiaplty God will
mock th.fn Ne see - "a history.
Cfgurches originally pIs~ have bscoFns
a Babylon. the mother II h4rlots
Let the church - true - heT connie
sim. Let Der - brave cad stand BY Cod
an9 the truth. Let her preach. pray suss
vote along The sane ifue We have
reached psriof when Ne have 10 uze
Or co@arGz IS TIC pulpit CT IA TIE s~r-
ate. Tie greatest e1s1ases q the cnurcr.
are ziia.a ser sails. The great enc
rlss- % ihe state are eo~ardly. greedy
anprincip5ea politicians zao ain .sst
mex party AID their esu.try .or ths
s.'5sis- i>eyal Americans. come To TIE
f-oat and ist IA put the r..sesiw out
: = i'fns hAN cone zhen patr.o;ssrs.
intelligence and honesty ana r!xh,eouz
principles n2uzt take the place OF ia.
iHisEas sn3 political gzmtsszx. say %
t'fsy Nan and party that souia un-
serrTsFse or ih~rsisz. '.hznds or.
ALiQUrs.
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Second. Allow grocers and merchants

Second. Allow grocers and merchants
TO sell liquor by the pint or gallon.
Third. Prohibit dram shops. proalbit
absolutely all saloons ana all places
where liquor IS sold by the drink. Al
low no liquor 20 be drank on the premises
where sold. Tipping Is not q necessi-
IS.
Fourth. Make law confscstiTs the
property where a saloon or dram shop
is opened.
Fifth Make a law making the sale o.
adulterated liquors a peDitentiary Of
Tense
Sixth Let the government appoint
liquor inspectors.
:. Regulate the price as far an possible
The removal OF license and revenues
will put down the price and the tenpta-
ton 20 deal IN liquor FOR gain win De
greatly diminished. When a gallon y
pure liquor can be sold for - 70 20 cents
no man can aforC: 10 spend a day %
retail a few gallons when the profits
would not pay his rent The teDpta-
ton % open "A saloon or "jointF would
be gone and no owner would rent prop
eT:y FOR that purpose for fear ~ con
I-EAlGfH- ENL what A4% AAle-<t Fff4f1
there De in such q IaXs y would stoE,
the ho~I against sumptuary lass and
the tyranny % the prohibition law that
does not Prohibit 7, wDuld tend 90
check lawiessness and iusub0Fcira tiogl-
Would prevent the aduiterztion and
dTugging OF ii4uo-s- IL would pat pure
liquors "a the market a. reasonable
price and do away with the saloon We
DO not need saloons. ths wants ~ man
does not require them Bat now Ne
have saloons and jolatE without NUM-
Der and Il one needs liquor for any pGT-
pose he has 10 psy FOR ten gallons
when be buys only one and that may b
3 drug mixture This Lax. az suggest
ed. 70 regulate the liauov trsfssc would
satisfy the ma soriiy of Fezso8shis E-sen
and suppress TIE saloon. WHICH Il
great cure of city and nation EeaSon-
able zaen would say Ne al sEsta4z.
this ia~ and Danish ihe saloon. f9r Z
So need liquor vs can get pufr article
without hinarsnce ard 81 q moderate
prize AID Il ought 81 satisfy sag ran.
such a lax would - cuforce9 b1t re
present lss< - rsot eafaTzet- Il Is to
stringent; and ftsls s. oae Czg@@ oF IL
fagi-re. y p@gple want al article e.
which ifsey beiieFe tney have . fsarzsl
right the Wnl hste is aaatrser ~.
l@~ .. 2'~osls sFe .eal9.- =. g..
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buyer his absolute right to full value
received. It would save the reckless
buyer from many needless and often
expensive purchase. 1t would enable
the merchant TO reduce his margin
of profits by being able to discount
his bills. 1t would so adjust trade TO
everybody's needs and requirements
that all classes would be on an equal
footing. and nowhere would there be
cause for complaint.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Rev. Irl Hick says that Kansas will
be blessed with abundant crops for
three successive seasons, beginning
with 1885. And Sol Miller of the Troy
Chief, adds: I'VE said that before
Rev. Irl Hicks did As soon as the
result OF the election was known, we
said that Ged Almighty had got back
to Kansas, and that we would have
good crops again
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The Marion Record. Ed Hoch's pa
per. discussing the disposition OF the
late Republican house concerning
printers fees. SAYS: The fact il. IL
: getting about tire for the newspaper
men. who are the hardest owrking and
poorest paid people in the state. a.
Il rule. Ia get together and give tie
been heard Of but for the newspapers.
to understand thar they must vote fair
or take the consequences.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The FIVE young prominent business
men of Topeka, arrested FOR playing
cards. under the Cubbison law must
90 to the penitentiaIy. Now watch
the legal twist that will knock the
Cubbison law out in the first round.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Fly hard work the Kansas City pa
pers have worked up a decided senti-
ment against priZe-fghting in Kansas.
The prize fights are given in Kansas
City and the Kansas fellows go UP 10
that town To spend their money.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Rev. Dixon. the sensational New
York preacher. has been forced by his
congregation 10 resign The congre-
CATION was the good old-fashioned kind
that held the Sermon on the Mount
70 he better literature than a political
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Only about $4,000 has been paid In
on the Income tax up to date, and if
the United States supreme court should
decide against it, the fellows who paid
that will wish they hadn't.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

II burglar shot 4 Topeka man down
in cold blood the women would bring
the wretch flowers and cake while he
sat in his cell If man was caught
IN game of poser at Topeka, an angry
mob would surge up the street crying
for his immediate death.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

s.. Louis and Chicago wholesalers
are paying the uransportati,n and city
expenses of merchants who will spend
n thousand dollars in either city. The
marchant Will make it good in the price
Of goods.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

1t is said TO be discouraging to set
NIL night behind losing hands at poker.
But it isn'e in it with trying 10 do
profitable business under Il Democratic
administration.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The merchant who is given a pass
ana expenses in Chicago and ST Louis
to buy goods will pay well; his goods
VIII be marked higher and the people
will pay il in the end.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Grover Cleveland is earning his
salary with better satisfaction to the
public in shooting ducks than by any
of his official acts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Two paths are open to Mrs. Castel-
lane. She must either get a divorce,
or give the lie TO the prophecies of most
of her countrymen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

\ pond of water is to be put in the
midst OF the Kansas house grounds.
uf course the taxpayers are hard up,
but they must have ornamental ponds.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The governor of Colorado announces
with seeming joy that the men killed
by bloody mob were not Italians, but
American citizens.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Women are crowdinG men out of
many vacations. Worth was the only
man except Mr.. Lease, who ever tres
passed on woman'S fields, and he died.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The Netawaka Wasp says this week:
News comes to us of a suicide south
nj town; we viii give the full particu-
lars next week if possible"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Only some American citizens shot
down in cold blood in Colorado. Had
they been Italian citizens there might
have been some trouble.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Probably the most damaging result
Of the session of the Indiana Iegisla-
ture was the shock it gave the acct
dent insurance companies.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The latest vaudeville craze in New
York is maiden who dances on her
hands. This is not strange The
success of Trilby shows that feet are on
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

At least the government ought to get
. per cent income tax on the profits
made by Wall street on the sale of
government bonds.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The first week after the adjourn
ment Of congress was the brightest
in commercial and financial circles
since before the panic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Physical culture is needed more than
a knowledge of political economy in
the qualifications of an Indiana repre-
sentative
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Milligan declared on the scaffold
that he was going straight to glory.
But there may be Il change Of cars
that he didn't count upon.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The new city marshal of Topeka re-
ports that he has found only seventy
places in that city where the laws
are being yiolated-that is the laws
of Kansas made at Topeka
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Let the supreme court understand
that it decides the income tax un-
constitutional, that hour Jerry Simp-
son viii repudiate it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

We have drifted into that place in
the eternity of dates where the momen-
tous question again takes ON new life.
f'Have you reciStered?-'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The real reason of CaslMIr- Ferier'S
resignation was the jealousy of his
wife. Mrs. Cleveland will never have
any trouble of that kind
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Milligan said he was going straight
to glory, but his future home will prob
ABLY be built outside the fire limits.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Harry Hayward bet $40 on the YER
dict of the jury and lost it, He will
bang. But not because be bet They
have no Cubbison law in Minnesota.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The Free Silver party may be simply
firing a shot across the Republican
party's bows.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

A Denver woman is to start paper
called the kiss" Like other papers
of its kind its trouble will be too much
lin
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

A backward spring is hard on early
vegetables but it nips the early base
ball games as well.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The hanging Of Milligan in Oklahoma
is an assurance that Oklahoma will
not follow in the footsteps Of Kansas
in Benderian crime.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Niagara has more ice formed around
1t than at any time since 1850. There
may be a fall Of ice, but not of its
price.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Twenty widows have turned up to
claim ex-senator Fairs estate. NO
wonder the old man died.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The governors Of Louisiana appear
to think that the first duty of an ex-
ecutive is TO excuse the action of mobS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Worth makes the man and the alb
serce of Worth will be trying on the
women.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

NIilligan is the only man ever hanged
in Oklahoma. But in the language
of the jfin-di-sicle dude, there are
others"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

One popularity Of our north winds
is that they are both biting and bit
ter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Two or three bills We're killed in the
Indiana legislature and several men,
herS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

Salvation is free whether the MethO-
dist church allows us to use lndlVIdaui
communion cups or not.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

The Cuban rebellion, like the Cuban
cigar, went up in smoke.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-15

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