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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
WHAT THE BISHOP MEANT.

Bishop Andrews is reported as saying
at Wichita that ministers OF the Metho-
dist church should not pay any attention
10 the temperance question.
The bishop meant that ministers should
not pay any attention 10 the quarrels over
the temperance question. Many Metho-
dist ministers pay so much attention 10
the temperance question that they are re-
garded as nuisances, and thus become use
less in their work for religion.
The different methods Of handling the
temperance question have resulted in .
quarrel over the subject thai has done
more harm than good. All men believe il
temperance including those who drink too
much There never was drunkard who
did not advise his sons TO be temperance
men.
Bishop Andrews will be risrepresented
and abused because of his statement. but
It should be remembered that there is no
question OF his honesty and sincerity
Bishop Andrews - colossal figure
among temperance men, but he is a man
Of experience and intelligence. and knows
that quarrels over the liquor question have
become disgraceful and injurious.
The quarrel in Kansas is over prohibl-
tion, and not over temperance. 4 great
many Kansas men do not believe that pro-
hibition is an effective temperance mea-
sure. Bishop Andrews himself is of this
opinion, and as much may be said OF
majority of the great temperance work
ers OF the world.-AtchisOn Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
Is IT NOT A FACT?

Anent the many Republican crit
icismS of the Eagles attitude on the
money question we would ask our CO.
temporarieS if it is not 4 fact that the
people of this country, up 10 the end
of HarriSOn'S administration. had paid
off more than twelve thousand millions
of the war debt, or upwards of one-half
OF that stupendOuS load? Is it not just
as true that the remainder of that debt,
Yet undischarged, is now greater than
il was at the end of the war? Because
the appreciation of the dollar under the
single standard would it not take d
greater number of bushels of grain,
greater number Of heads of livestock.
more days of labor, more Of all values
whatever to discharge that debt today.
after the debt has been more than half
paid. than it would have taken OF these
values 10 pay the whole original debt
at the end OF the war; X not the re-
manning undiScharged half Of that debt
a greater burden under n single gold
standard than was the whole debt IN
der the double Standards Is this not
true Of every public and private debt.
principal and interest? Is any system
right which compels the borrower t.
pay back double the value ne borrowed
and along with it = more valuable or
higher interest than was agreed upon:
Must not the labor Of this country pay
that debt, and pay it in gold, principal
and interest: II this Is true both as
20 the debt and aS To labor then where
is the wrong in demanding the right. or
in demanding that Is Dor shall have al
least as great consideration aS capital
or that labor should not be placed at
the mercy Of capital? Lincoln. under
whom the debt TO save the country was
incurred. said THE man who made the
corn should eat the corn Again he
said, Labor Is prior u ard independ-
ent Of capital Capital i only the
fruit Of labor and could never have
existed II labor had not first existed /
Labor i the support OF capital and de- (
serves much the highest considera- +
tion." II Lincoln was correct then sil- +
yer should be rehabilitated whatever 4
effect il might have on the present en- (
HANGED power Of gold. for its the labor /
ing interests OF this country which are /
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
NEW YORK FEELS THE LOSS.

The growing grain trade by way Of
the Gulf ports is viewed with an evil
dent feeling of alarm in New York. and
not without good reason. The diver
sion of the trade in corn exports has
been rapid and there is no telling where
it will stop. During the month of Jan
uary nearly 100000 bushels was ship
ped out by the way of New Orleans
alone. This is nearly four times the
expectation from that port during the
same month last year. and February
followed with as good a showing. Gal
weston also has had an active market,
handling more of the grain than ever
before.
Where corn goes wheat will follow,
and it is apparent that the hopes Of the
great central west for an outlet with
shorter haul than that TO the Atlantic
sea board are on the verge Of realiza-
ton. The distance to the Gulf from
the great grain country of the Mis-
souri, valley, which includes the entire
grain raising section of Missouri. Kan
sas and a large part Of Iowa and Ne
braSka. is but a little more than half
that To the Atlantic seaboard, taking
the average. There IS no halfway sta
ton on the route to milk the profits,
which belong TO the producer and not
To- the middleman.
But there is a limit 10 the amount of
grain that can now be shipped from the
Gulf ports. The only way TO remove
that limit is 10 provide for an import
market that VIII supply freight for the
ships which have to come there for the
grain. As it now is these ships gen
orally have TO come from the Atlantic
ports IN ballast. This. Of course, adds
to the cost of the export rate and VIII
necessarily affect the price at tide
water IL will take time 10 bring about
this change. but il is bound 10 come,
and then New York viii be 4 double
sufferer. Direct Importation to Gulf
ports j sure 10 follow the establish
ment Of a large export trade. for for
eicn products can be put down there az
about the same rates as they can be az
New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore,
taking into consideration the induce
ment for coming there.
There i 10 reason why any of the
grain exported from the Transm.SSouri
country should long continue 10 be car
ried all the way 70 the Atlantic 70 tind
an outlet when L can be loaded on
ocean vessels with only half the dis
tance 10 carry * by rail.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
ALONG THE KANSAS NILE.

G. A KeyOner of Leon, Butler county
has three Ashland wilkes colts
The best prevention 70 prairie fires ia
western kansas = coIalng-greea grssE-
The total or the money paid out by the
Se1rvick creamery In the last twelve
months IS t2s.oao.
The Great Bend Tribune says that In
gals campaign IL Kansas vii be an Oya-
ton from start 70 finish.
The Medicine Lodge Crerse; runs a por-
trait of Chester Long - the head % 20
c5EoriaI column regularly
The Iaraed Ch-onoscops thinks thst
Troutmsa's boom vii assuue vast pro
portions before the state couye1tiou-
Judge Burne,;e . IA Canadian. Texas a.
tending family reua.ou &-d the golden
welding anniversary Of h-s Iyareats.
The Harper Sentinel - seknow egtnE
tta- CulIom looks Ike Abe L1reoIn. re-
marks ;ha- Abe Glta't an or h.E .ooks.
When J. T. Burton made = saee~h o.
Cray county 'he o-ae- Gsy tas o8sleee
houses were closed zzr1 tie p1bl- sca53ls
dismissed
The 1ls5lci-e Lo5-s Greece; says tsa. o.
rza remember when 3,-ke sutton bad g.
g, ia ,Hs shade of al EN- tree vale h.s-
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
TRUE CUBAN POLICY.

After a debate which seemed inter
minable. the senate has voted TO refuse
agreement in the conference report on
the Cuban belligerency. This will put
the question into a shape that will per
nit of Speedier action than if the direct
issue Of recognition and Intervention
had continued TO occupy the attention
of congress. In truth the strength Of
the opposition begun by Messrs. Hale
and Hoar lay in the fact that the house
resolutions. which were accepted by
the Senate's committee of conference,
combined the threat of Intervention
with the declaration of belligerent
rights Whatever be the merits Of the
former proposal, it is not one which
any friend Of Cuba VIII care to see con-
founded with the latter. Our first duty
Is to place the CubanS under the pro-
lection Of international law, in 50 far
as our recognition Of them can do so.
To accompany this with any action
looking 10 Intervention is a blunder in
method and policy. II is 10 prejudice
our first action as looking To Interior
objects which are not yet within range
one good result attending the debate
has been that it has held the hands Of
Spain in a certain measure by making
it highly inexpedient that the Cubans
should be able 70 point To outrageS COM
mitted during the discussions in CON
greSS. Just aS the students in the
Spanish universities have been dis
perSed u their homes, when il was
found impossible 10 coerCe them into
good behavior. so orders have been
laid upon General Weyler himself 70
avoid giving American friends II Cuba
any hold on which to base their advo-
cacy of Intervention. His orders eyi-
denJly did not require i cessation OF
active hoStilirieS; rather the contrary.
The Yankees were - BE- shown with
Whist energy and proweS> Spain was
dealing with those bandits" whom
they talked OF recognizing a. civilized
soldiers. This part ~ the program.
however. does not seem 10 have been
carried out with much success. Even
through the dust OF Misrepresentation. /
raised by his dispatch writer's in Hav-
ana. it : di>cernihle that the Spanlards
have had several severe b3cksers. and
that in one Of them they suffered heavy
losses The bandits fight - much
like soldiers. thai even the Spsniards I
do not seem 10 discover much difference /
when under their FIRE The trick ~ /.
them by such names Is NOT
new. Il i Just the language Napoleon (
used Of the Spanish patriots Of lSI1: 4
and England stamped the Burmese /
who resisted the annexation of their 1
country aS -dacoit>" and hunted them 1
down Ike Wild beasts. !
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
IT'S WELL TO BE HONEST.

The fact cited by the Eagle that the
national Republican party had its or
! igin in an effort TO nullify law. that its
! highest inspiration came of open de-
| fiance TO solemn statutory enactments,
seems to have stirred up quite a breeze
! in certain quarters. Let the jades
| vince: our witherS are unwrung." ."
Some of these gentlemen viii know
| mere when they have unlearned some
| things. John says that in affirmation
of the high priests charges against
| Christ that the Jews cried out, I'VE
have a law, and by our law He ought
to die" That cry has been the justi-
fication Of injustice and persecution of
all ages, and he who fails to admit it is
big0-
1t was civil"law' that cast the three
Hebrews into the fiery furnace; that
consigned Daniel to the lions den; that
put to death the apostles; that gave to
the wild beasts the early Christians;
that clothed with authority the horrors
of the inquisition; that burned HusS
and Jerome and tortured and put to
death millions of martyrs in the Dark
Ages; that whipped and banished and
hanged Quakers and Baptists in New
England and Virginia The burthens
and the wrongs Of the ages have been
flaws" In this country Of life, liber-
ty, and the pursuit of happiness"
country whose founders, in rebelling
against unjust laws, held that only
such laws as were necessary to protect
life and property should be enacted,
this country that boasts continually its
freedom of conscience, its equities and
Righteousness. its greatest wrongs are
its unjust laws. The burthens of to-
day, the inequalities and the injuries
out of which has come much of the vice
Of the times, are because of unrighteoUs
laws, laws enacted at the behest of the
powerful and in the interest Of class
and combine as against the individual.
Very much Of the financial ruin and
disaster of the past four years, Of the
present material depression, Of paralyz-
ed industry and collapsed values are
traceable 10 legislative enactmentS.
What this country needs is honest
men, and that demand includes the
editorial professional as well as the pol
itician. the law-maker and the member
Of the legally protected corporation.
God ordained civil government for men
and of men, but a righteous govern
ment is impossible without honest men.
Law doesn't make right, but it should
conserve only the right. Men consti- |
tute the state" but the individual man
is accountable and must give an ac-
count of himself. Laws cannot take /
the place of truth and honesty. but they /
should uphold these. and these only. /
The poet Lowell oddly but forcibly set |
forth this individual responsibility /
thus:
"If you take a sword and dror It,
An 90 stick a feller thru.
Goy'ment aint to answer for il,
Cod'Il send the bill to you"
The editor who because of party
shackleS. patronage or preferment fails
to be true to his honest convictions is
4 coward not only but unworthy the
he assumes.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION

A national conference in the interest
Of a permanent system of arbitration
between the United States and Great
Britain is 10 he held in Washington on
April 22. The purpose of the confer
ence. according 10 the call, is TO ex-
press the general conviction that such
a System of arbitration should be
speedily provided for by the proper
authorities. and with the most cOmpre-
hensive application practicable" The
movement is confined 10 Great Britain
because it seems wise 10 concentrate
our immediate efforts upon the at
tainment of a permanent system be-
tween the two great English speaking
peoples" but the members Of the con-
ference are not to be regarded as un-
concerned about the wider application
Of the principle involved. Among the
signers OF the call are the chief justice
General Miles, the commander of the
army: Cardinal Gibbons, and many
others distinguished in every walk OF
life. 1t is proposed that the confer
ence shall contain representatives of
every state and territory in the Union,
irrespective of party and creed, the
combined membership Of the two
houses of congress being taken as q
general basis of numbers and appOr-
tionment. The government of the
United States. by repeated acts and
declarations, has appeared before the
world as an advocate of international
arbitration and the signers Of the call
for the conference rightly say that
patriotism, philanthropy, statesman
ship and religion have spoken as with
one voice in favor" of this method of
settling international differences.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

School children who have a high
sense Of honor. and parents who have
the welfare Of their children al heart
will approve the recent decision of the
supreme court Of Massachusetts,. that
a school teacher has no right 70 require
a pupil 10 tell tales on a companion
Such a decision is certainly in the in
tereSt Of honor and morality. whatever
the teachers who Try 10 promote treach-
cry among their pupils may think about
it. The boys or girls who are trained
in school 10 be spies and informers will,
when they reach adult life. from force
of habit be pests, instead of useful
members of society. They viii be-
long TO that perniciouS element made
up Of goSsipS, scandal-mongers, breed
ers and puryeyors Of hate. and jealousy
always busy for evil-never for good.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

demanding that all debts shall be paid
in the value of the original loan, wheth-
er they be public or private.
The public writer or speaker who
does not comprehend that the dollar Of
today, under an enforced single stan
dard. is twice as valuable, has twice
the purchasing power that ii had even
ten years ago. or in other words, who
does not see that all other values, as
measured by the single standard, have
shrunken one-half, not excepting the
product of either the farm or factory,
is TOO dumb to talk to the people.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

the line Of class legislation directed
aters. The Philadelphia Press COM
menting on the bill says: NO Law
against what IS known as the theater
hIi can be enforced unless there is a
public sentiment behind IL" The Press
cOnsign 10 Oblivion politicians in Kan
SaS for expressing such sentiments
The Cincinnati papers are protesting
also. But law Is law and whatever
Cincinnati may want or not want in the
premises hats are prohibited AMI what
ever the men and women of Cincinnati
may think TO the contrary the hats
must come off.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
I23 and I27 Main Street

Asa Coleman was found guilty OF for
| gerry a Oklahoma City.
Arkansaw never did think much OF Ok
| hhOma politics anyway.
In nearly every part OF Oklahoma how
against tax collectors IS going Up.
The Oklahoma C.ty Oklahoman says q
was railroad combination tkat did II.
The result might have been somewhat
different II the newspapers had been
friendly TO Cassius Barnes.
The Okiahoman OF Oklahoma City got
scent Of the fact that McKinley money
was being used at Oklahoma city.
City elections viii be held in Oklahoms
this year and the presidential campaign
Will presently be wholly forgotten.
The Oklahoma papers have quit telling
where people lived before coming TO the
Strip. when they Gle or get married.
The Oklahoman says that John P1tZer.
while acting as chairman OF the Oklahoma
fear OF row.
Too late TO remedy the matter. the Okla
homa City convention remembered that IL
had acted in a way that the Guthrie Lead
er wouldn't like.
Jim Kelly OF Oklahoma City. the great
McKinIeyite. is feeling pretty bad. But
he should put on a smiling face i Will
make him live longer.
The probability is that McCabe just
wanted 10 call the attention OF the dele
gates at the Oklahoma City convention 20
the fact that he was present
At Okeene recently a woman a; revi-
val suddenly asked deputy marshal:
do you love Jesus?'' We'll" he said
I'VE are on pretty good terms"
Dennis Flynn says with a good deal OF
confidence and with an accent on each
word that the senate will pass the free
homes bill and Cleveland will sign it."
Previous to the Oklahoma City conven-
ton smuggling match took place between
Bennett a coiored man. and Harris. =
white man Dick Plunkett refereed it
Away out west the sherins receive let
ters from men asking them not TO push
them for their taxes but 20 wait awhile.
Then they pick Up and sneak out OF the
country.
Dick Plunkett sat on a front seat al the
Oklahoma City convention but did not act
as sergeant-at-arms. II there had been
a cali TO arms. however, Dick would have
been on his feet IN a second.
OF course that Oklahoma dispatch 70
eastern papers about two men on a church
steeple being killed by lightning was a
fake. II deveiopes that there is no Bap-
t'st church in Beaver county thar has a
steeple.
IN the Lincoln county convention sn
orator said: crook the pregnant hinges
OF the knee that thrift may follow faWn-
ing" and EGle GiIstrsp was The only per
son in Chandler who knew ~ wasn't orig
in4L She put II IN quotation marks.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
TEE PARsoN-s Proxy.

By. Ea;s y. Hamilton. Hough.on. 1l-f-
in < Co. publishers TAe author hzs
selsctet FOR the scene % Her son q vlsE
mo15taizo1s district Of this country. the
f-hsh1ta1-s of V1-ch-tr1u -aelr extreme
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ao-s susr .1.ols q i-t-udsrs. TIE Sud
6sz eVpez-zrrs 30 tAls bzckwoo1s settls-
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pzrs5a la b-oE@- leg S9sseqrea rs
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
COMMON SENSE.

Abraham Lincoln's first speech on the
tariff question was short and to the
point. He said be did not pretend 20
be learned in political economy, bur he
thought that he knew enough - know
that when al American paid twenty
dollars for steel 10 an English manu-
facturer. America bad the steel and
England had the twenty dollars But
when be paid twenty dollars for steel
70 an American manufacturer. America
had both the steel and the twenty dol
lars That was The sum and sub
stance OF the tariff question - be view
ei ir
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

PETER is anxious 10 have the Cleve-
land bond deals investigated David
Hill is not. and he proceeded TO sit
down on PETER when the old man
wanted it voted upon. There is one
Kansas man whom Hill couldn't Sit
dawn upon.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

The time may come when the world
will have reached such an intellectual
heighth that few of US viii be able
to grasp a freight rate discussion.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

The result in the selection Of dele
Oklahoma might have been different
IL Your Uncle Cyrus had remained
away. And it might have not.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

The supreme court recognizes the
popular prejudice against monopoIies
and To make it little harder on the
monopolieS, pats the prejudice ON the
borl-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

There are wicked people living ouE-
side OF Kansas in this country, people
who stand up and question the wisdom
and possible efficacy 81 Law waen MT
backed by public sentiment The Ohio
has been passing law II
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

PaderewSh says that everything is
rotten-preSs. statesmen and govern
ment. II is too bad Kansas decided To
support Tillman for president before
Paderewski spoke.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

Even the Reed and Allison boomers
recognize that popular sentiment in this
country is for Mckinley. They say
that the sentiment is wrong, but they
know il exists.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-04-01

The supreme court has settled the
long and short haul controversy. \
railroad must not charge more for haul
ing short distance than a long one.
But the railroads will.