The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-01
HE TELLS SOME TRUTHS
Victor Paine Arraigns Callahan tho Dema.
gOgue.


The following communication has been
received, dated Guthrie, Oct. 80, 1896:
you want free homes only because,
under the circumstances, it is just that
you should have them, but, are you
paupers? Are your wives and chilren
hungry and ragged today? Are you
without food and clothing? Do you
count yourselves as among the poor
who are arrayed against the rich?' Is
the man who owns $50 acres Of land in
Oklahoma an object Of pity to be held up
TO the world as suffering and wretched?
Mr. Callahan, in his speeches, has adj
vertised you to the world as ragged and
tattered, out at elbows and knees, with
even the seat OF your pants gone. Is
this true picture? When you listen to
him and applaud. do you not say, that
don't mean me, he means the great
masses?'
"Who are the masses? Is it not made
UP OF individuals? The demagogue
means you, Mr.. Smith, and you, Mr..
Jones, but he would not dare tell you
so. He knows that you will think he
means some other fellow and that some
other fellow will think he means you.
And that out of sympathy for each 9TH
err you will vote for him.
At Mulhail. Sept. II, Mr.. Callahan
said:
Another fact that just enters my
mind. Previous to the war So per cent
of the college students OF the United
States went from the farm. How many
of you fellows intend to send your chill
dren TO college on 30-cent wheat? Raise
your hands, will you?"
Now, wheat is bringing more than 80
cents and was while Mr.. Callahan was
talking. Make a note of this: On the
very day that he inquired derisively,
how many OF you fellows intended TO
send your children to college, the Agri-
cultural college at Saltwater opened its
college year with an enrolment OF IS
students, and reported daily additions
with larger and better classes than in
former years. A recent canvass by one
of the students shows that, out of 125
students enrolled at the university of
Oklahoma 80 are sons of farmers and
the parents of many of the other 30 have
been farmers Was Mr.. Callahan ignor-
ant Of these facts or was he trying 10
deceive you?
Do not forget that Republican con-
gress in 1862 provided for making Eber-
bl appropriations for agricultural coll
leges throughout the land and all that
the Oklahoma farmers had to Go, was TO
accept the money and build the college.
The University Of Oklahoma, where AZ
per cent Of the students are farmers
sons, was established by a Republican
legislature.
AT Mulhal, Mr.. Callahan says: "Now,
my friends, we have laid the foundation
for discovering the cause of the dia-
monds that We wear on our knees and
elbows and on the seat OF our pants
Gaughter) Why did the people laugh?
If it is true, is it funny? No. The peo-
pie laughed at the sbsurdly ridiculous
expression. If it were true that you are
so wretched there would be no laughter.
But the farmers are not Callahan cia-
monds" this fall Plenty OF patches in
sight, but the cotton patch" is most
in style for fall wear. with patches OF
corn and wheat for winter use.
When Mr. Democrat ana Mr.. Popu-
list were married both were so ashamed
of the motives that prompted them that
they agreed 10 do business under an as
sumed name. Are the friends and rela-
tons proud of the first fruits OF the mar
Y. Callahan? Have you seen
him? Have You heard him picture you
in rags? Do you still want MN TO rep
resent you in congress?
The farmer in Oklahoma is wel-fed.
clad, his children are in
good schools: there is corn IN the crib. /
pigs in the pen. wheat in the bin. cotton
in the bale. water in the well and a
woodpile at the kitchen door
The wheat crop is already assured By
copious rainfall. and Oklahoma stands
ready 20 take advantage OF the period OF !
prosperity TO be inaugurated on Nover,-
Der 3ri by the election o. william Nc I.
kinley.
Think about these things; vote right; |
and be in line with progress, prosperity |
and success Vote for free homes. Tor I
yourself, and for Dennis Flynn.
V. 3. PAINE.