The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-29
A NON-PARTISAN VIEW.

The sending of cotton from the south to
| San Francisco for shipment thence TO
| China and Japan is one Of the anomalies
OF commerce. Cotton Tor the Orient mas
Orleans and Mobile. but the demand mas
increased so enormously in the last year
that those ports alone can no longer sup
ply it, and il has been found necessary 10
send vast quantities overland by rail to
San Francisco. If our cotton can pay this
heavy freightage and still compete profit
ably IN China and japan with the product
OF India and Egypt. 1t is plain that new
and enormously valuable market is IN
folding in the east for the American
planter.
| do not think the writer Of the above
editorial paragraph, taken from the fourth
page Of todays Eagle, draws at all the
conclusion which the facts stated warrant.
These facts seem to me to demonstrate
that some unseen influence, some foctor
little understood, is stimulating the devel-
opment of manufactures in the east in
way that may well be matter for alarm
rather than congratulation.
In my judgment the chief factor in this,
as in other matters affecting the universal
balance of things whereby business par
alysis or prosperity arrests or promotes
civilization. is the money factor. believe
that in the suicidal policyof the gold stand
ard and the limitations of money thereby
imposed upon western nations and their
civilization by the release of silver in favor
Of the igenious peoples of the east has
placed in their hands a weapon for our
ultimate and lasting injury, which your
facts show they have not been slow to I'M
derstand and adopt.
Unless we change our policy, and that
quickly, the yellow man with the white
metal will indeed soon give TO the white
man with the yellow metal an object lesson
In that school wherein even fools are
forced 10 learn, from the results of which
centuries even will permit no escape.
They avail themselves at once of all the
inventions of western civilization, and
with their cheap labor-the result Of civ
ilizat!on developed through centuries with
a circulating medium cruelty limited below
the wants of teeming population-when
their complete system Of manufactures il
established they Will place Us under a
competition TO which no tariff can oppose
q barrier and before which the price OF our
labor will go down as inevitably as death
to the dead level OF theirs-either this or
our own manufacturers must go out OF
business and our people become ''hewers
OF wood and drawers OF water" furnishers
OF raw material for the yellow man OF the
east or them that dominate his energies
and capabilities.
This submit IL rather high price 20
pay for single gold standard" Let !;
be clearly understood that no tariff what
soever can defend our productions sgsins.
the overwhelming premium placed upon
those Of s.lver-using peoples by the mere
difference Of exchange between the two
money metals imposed by our own adop-
ton Of the gold STANDARD
We have thrown the whole occult fore.
OF money into the scale against ourselves
In the race fer prosperity. and 70 ore need
10 be surprised that our prosperity Is dy- |
re. nor II our civilization Itself shall 5issp-
pear in the struggle for survival that Is |
coming s z JoCELTN.
Wichita. Dec. y 1854