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TOO MUCH MONEY.

Acting Comptroller of the Currency
Coffin, reviewing the periods of panic
in 1857, 1873 and 1898, draws the infer
ence that an excessive volume Of cur
rency, whether good or bad, If sudden
ly attained, is sure to induce specula-
ton and end in panic and disaster.
He finds that the large increase of gold
money before the civil war, after the
discoveries In California and Australia,
induced excessive investments in clip
per-shipS for the ocean trade. Ton
mage was increased 90 per cent in ten
years, imports were excessive, prices
fell and the panic Of 1851 was the re-
suit.
The panic of 1873 was due to over
speculation following a sudden in
crease Of the currency to S774,0O0, 900,
all but S25,000.O00 of this sum being
paper. The silver panic of 1893 was
due, Mr.. Coffin thinks, TO the quick in
fiation Of our silver currency. In that
year the circulation was s., 323, 000, 900,
which was excessive. 1t was brought
TO that figure by the continued issue Of
silver dollars, without regard for the
demand, from 1878 to 1890 and by the
sudden issue of S156,000,0o0 of Sher-
man treasury notes under the act OF
1890. This last issue and its near ap-
preach TO free coinage was the straw"
says Mr.. Coffin, that broke the camel's
back" Public confidence was impair
ed The speculation due to an eIces-
sive supply of semi-fat money at once
"petered OUT and stagnation followed.
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THE COMING IsSuE.

There is an issue in this and other
countries which viii ere long force Its
way into party politics, il indeed 1t is
not already being felt. 1t is vital
Issue and will not fail of reaching
every man. The cause of the issue is
being referred 10 ny the orators OF
every party in the present campaign.
In its behalf appeals are being daily
made in every speech. Back Of the
money question underlying every pro
posed policy this cause IS found. Il
is that or "labor- The issue will be
between organized labor and incorpor-
sted capital, between the creators Of
initial wealth and the controllers OF
aggregated wealth. No disparaging
cries. 10 denunciations, however We
hement, can cover up or queneh such
issue. IL will be worldwide and viii
involve everything AMI all. No crown.
station or power viii be able TO escape
IT, 1t is an outgrowth OF universal
intelligence and manhood. Germany
is slready in the throes OF this new
issue. England holds il in allowance
only by its military arm. But il viii
be first made and settled in the Unitts
States. and at the ballot box. Laws
and executives will conform. Whether
in the wsy of an income tax or what
not, money, aggregated capital. must
bear its proportion of the hurthens OF
Governments The wealth that is al
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-01
LEEDY Is A DAISY.

That man Leedy, whom the Pops
nominated for governor, and after
wards compelled the Democrats to
swallow, must be daisy. To dignity
his rambling talks as political speeches
would be to do violence TO the English
language. He does not seem to know
enough to make Second-class curb
stone debater. Among the various
vagaries which he is guilty, In his finan-
cial diSauisitions, is the declaration
that ''the people of this country want
a kind of money which no other nation
would touch under any circumstances"
The reports say that this kind OF
idiocy is often cheered by Populists.
Leedy would build a Chinese wall
around the United States and a smaller
one around each state and then go into
a general rot, we suppose. His tenet
can mean nothing else. His ideal life
is that Of the hermit or recluse, who
wants nothing of the world nor will
have anything to do with his fellow
man. No exports, no imports, no COM
mercial or industrial life, without any
further use for railroads or steamships.
every man left to shift for himself-a
nation of beggaredly tramps. Leedy
must be a fool or otherwise he takes
the people to be. Such tomfooling,
cockadoodle blatherskiting is humiliat-
ing. Yet this man is running for gov
ernor of Kansas. a state with thou
sands of school houses, with nearly two
hundred thousand farms, with five
hundred towns, cities and villages, and
millions of property, all the result OF
money and industry, and within the
lifetime Of the present generation.
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Cherokee Strip got its first touch
of frost the other evening.
Francis, the new secretary OF the In
terror, looks good deal like Joe Post
OF Kinghsher.
If Callahan is telling the truth he ought
TO be willing to defend his speech But
he has backed out.
When the Oklahoma Republicans are
shouting for free homes they do not want
to forget the Republican policy OF PRO
lection to Lessees'' either.
According to the Oklahoman the mer-
chants Of Yukon, as a present TO the edi-
tor there who recently married. filed his
paper full Of advertisements.
Callahan says that free homes IL not an
issue. II Callahan knew as much about
free homes as Flynn does. Callahan would
think It was an Issue mighty quick.
1t Is said that a lightning-rod peddler Is
travelling around over the territory max
ing bets with people that Callahan viii
not vote for either Watson. Sewan or
Bryan.
V. A. warkup, a prominent Democrat
Of Kib1are. announces that ne will work
and vote for Dennis Flynn, as he be-
lieves Flynn is too valuable Q rustler for
Oklahoma 10 lose.
Callahan said at Mulhan: "Free homes
would be the greatest blessing to the
people of this territory that could befall
them for the time being" And now his
managers say 1t is no issue.
The editor OF the En- Reno Herald has
declared himself possessed of an awful
thirst for war by announcing that there
are in Ii Reno 80 pianos and only about
three hundred people who can play them
'Mr President" said Attorney General
Harmon 90 Grover the other day. do you
know that you have just appointed free
silver man Judge out in OklahomA?''
YES" answered Grover. IT do. And
hope they VIII make II as hot for him as
they have the other judges. I've got
no use for these silver feIlows."
The territorial papers are publishing the
following advertisement: In May last an
Usage IDdian. wah-hu-no-pe by name.
was pardoned by the president and dis
charged from the penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, taken to Kansas City and put On
board the cars for Guthrie, Oklahoma
Since that time nothing has been heard
OF him He has never returned TO his
home and no trace OF him can be found
He can only speak few words OF Eng
lish, and is not considered smart Any
information that may assist in tracing
him viii be thankfully received by the
Osages. Address John N. Flower. Gray
Horse, Ok
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THE IDEALIsTIC PROPHET.

There is little question that Bryan is
an idealist rather than practical man.
His experience as a statesman was
brief but his talks for free trade while
in congress are very like his talks for
free silver On March 16, 1892, little
more than four years ago, in a speech
on the floor of congress he declared
that '.free trade will not injure labor;
but 1t will save to the men who pro-
duce the wealth of the country larger
! portion of that wealth. 1t will bring
joy, prosperity and happiness, not to
few, but to everyone without regard to
station or condition"
That was what he said. That was
the promise of the man then who is so
profuse with his promises now. That
was his idea of the workings of Dem
ocratic tariff reform bill which it was
proposed to scale horizontally down
to a free trade basis What is the
result? The Democratic tariff policy
has injured labor. 1t has thrown hun
dreds of thousands Of people out Of
employment, causing a loss Of millions
in wages. Instead Of prosperity, Joy,
and happiness, 1t has brought poverty,
misery, and discomfort TO millions Of
people. Democratic free trade has
not done single thing which Mr.. Bry-
an promised it would do. On the con-
trary, it has had exactly the opposite
effect from what he predicted.
But Bryan is not only an idealist but
something of a fatalist a man Of pre-
destination and REORGANIZATION. He
evidently believes that he is one who
has been called. Like Cleveland in
that respect he thinks himself an in
strument Of Destiny. IL he believes
he is going to be elected in any event
he ought for his own sake let up on
his speaking. The reports have it
that he has grown haggard and wild
eyed and that he may collapse at any
time. If his election We're even pos
sible he would be in no shape to meet
the responsibilities which would be his
Immediately the result was declared,
responsibilities affecting the entire
American people. AS nobody wishes
the man harm his committee ought TO
insist on a more quiet itinerary. Fol-
lowing his now sure defeat it would
prove humiiating 10 himself and party
to have him mentally collapse imme-
distely succeeding the close of the
campaign. That both a mental and
physical collapse are threatened there
seems no doubt.
His great crowds signify nothing be-
yond the curiosity OF an unusual in
teresting campaign. He is not making
any votes. nor can make any out OF
personal sympathy for himself.
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1T Is SETTLED.

So far as Mckinley and Bryan are
concerned this campaign is settled.
Mckinley will have an Overwhelming
majority of the electoral votes. Mr..
Bryan knows this. and his committee
know it. Yet We find men, Kansas
men, who are supposed to average the
brightest in the world, claiming or pre-
tending to a belief in the possibility of
the election OF Bryan. This is very
foolish. 1t is prejudice or overweening
desire, not good sense. Even if the
Democratic party was not hopelessly
divided in New York, in Maryland and
in Kentucky there would be no show
for Bryan. There is no longer any
talk Of Indiana and Illinois being
doubtful states. Kansas and Nebraska
which were really doubtful six weeks
ago, will both get into the band wagon
They are Republican states and the
average Republican does not relish the
idea of either throwing away his vote
or of getting left. Mckinley repre-
sents everybody that Is held as Of first
importance by Republicans. Many
western Republicans would have liked
to have tried On the experiment OF free
silver, but very few Of them would
consent for the sake Of such an expert
ment to give up all things else In
political way In which he believes. He
would liked to have free silver tested
by the Republican party, not by the
PopuliStS. When it comes to coupling
free silver with free trade and Popu-
lism very few Republicans can be
found who would hesitate moment,
IL indeed there are any. Mr.. Bryan
might spend every day between this
and election day in Kansas and he
could not carry it The people would
turn out to hear him and they would
probably listen to him with more than
ordinary curiosity, but there is not a
thing outside of the silver question of
which he could talk that they would
take any interest in Bryan is said to
be, at heart, q. Pop; but whether Pop
or Democrat no Kansas Republican
could have any use for him or his prin-
ciples. AS congressman, and as an
editor, he has held 10 the very things
which Kancas Republicans have ever
voted against, and against which they
are unalterably set
The election OF Mckinley is not only
as certain as was that of Grants, and
Bryan's defeat as inevitable as that of
Greeley's, but Kansas on the 4th day
of November will be found in the Re
publican column Of states.
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ALONG TIE KANSAS NILs.

Judge T. F. Carver is figuring IN eastern
periodicals. as an iudorSer of an electrical
healing device.
among the Republican papers OF the state
That Botkin Is a gooer.
The editor % the Lawrence World has
seen photographs of Bryan taken when
he was younger and wore a rtiIl beard
Ae a Burton meeting n Florence the
oeher night one hundred and s-xty-four
horsemen from Marion carried torches
eastern orator VINO bad just concluded q
speech In KaDsas. that Kansas lies N
the temperate 7one?'
Ovzmye- is making q hard fight this
year for fusion Overnyer made q gallant
fight for straight Democracy, but re
wagon with the Big bard wasn't travelling
his way.
There Is a new society down IN Batter
coun4y. the nenbeTs Of which take s,a
cath lot TO talk politics or vote The
membership - Pop1Est and E viii hep
TIE Republicans tbs fall
PeorEe who ATTENDED II. A;chiSoz corn
carnival say < vas terribly shocking. thzt
things were done which were as uhn-
censec as the rnonkeyseines n Fio-enes
ard OTHER CITIES n ItzsY which eiye car
niyziS-
George Martin q KAnsss City. Kansas.
IS OF top n his county and working Like
a beaver for TIE Republican ticket
Geo-e. Martin vas re srs- mar IN t1ss
country 10 bot thls year, preceding even
Tesler.
Re~1fiy there ives a scarcSy 81 twD-
cent STAMPS IN the Ksnsas Cry. kznszs.
postoffscs. The postmaster - sSsveT
u1sa and OF aaoca1Et % tk-s pczrritY tAe
administration DsuScrass are try1Es 20
have hfas removed
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The adhita Daily Eagle Thursday orung, @etober 1896

ready produced, and not its initial pro-
ducer, must keep the tithing boxes full.
Property, not the individual, must meet
the cost of the protection youchsafed by
government to property. Life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness will take
care of themselves, and at little or no
costs. Incomes which are greater
than necessities and comforts, which
grow upon themselves, Will have to
contribute of their excuses to tighten
the burthens OF those who have the
bare necessities without the comforts.
Since civilization began money has
ruled the world The time is coming
when it will not only be compelled to
take back seat but to contribute its
equitable share. just as the farm and
factory have been doing, by paying for
the advantages it enjoys.
Our dispatches of yesterday morning
told Of eight hundred telegraph opera
tors On the Canadian Pacific leaving
their work in a body. They did this
in the interest Of manhood and in de-
nance or the orders or the managers
who represent the millions OF money
invested in that great transcontinental
railway. The managers OF that cap
ital, the men who are employed by its
owners, will hold that these operators
are standing in their own light The
laborers OF the Dominion will sympa-
thjZp with The strikers The issue
up there is that the organized capital
which owns and operates the Cana
dian Pacific forbid the organization Of
labor. The issue can only be temper
arily settled by strike. Strikers will
never settle the labor question or CON-
pei its rights. Men beisg greater than
money the way to settle it is by laws,
and men, not money, must make the
laws
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mi1istration was Republican: from
1885 to 1889 it was eDmocratic; from
1889 10 1898 it was again Republican,
and during the first three years Of that
administration important bills were
passed both in relation to tariff and
currency. Since March 4, 1893, the
Democrats have been in power and
passed the Wilson-G German tariff bill,
which, however. did not meet the de-
mands Of the party. and on that ac-
count President Cleveland would not
put his signature to ii. Had 1t made
the sweeping reductions he wanted,
and which the Chicago platform de-
manded, it would be difficult to tell
what would have been the result; but
the depression Of business, the injury
to the manufacturing industries the
lowering Of wages and falling in prices
Of products, the strikes, riots and social
and political upheayal would newt
ably have been far worse than any
thing we have yet experienced.
As an indicator Of the business OF
the country under Republican and
Democratic policies and presidents, re-
spectiyely, he cites the figures OF the
clearing houses The business trans
acted through the clearinghouse or
the United States each year gives an
indication as to the general prosperity
and the amount Of business done. The
finance reports for 1894, on page $50.
contain a table giving the transactions
OF the New York clearinghouse every
year from 1854, the time it was organ
lied, to 1894.
The total amount Of bushes done in
each Of the last four administrations,
beginning with that Of Garfield and
Arthur, is as follows:
GARFIELD and Arthur. .lSS-S $1@. S8. s8. 9es
CLEVELAND ..-...--.--. IssS-sS ~ 1880
Last Yrs Harrison. .iO-s IS io7. 4.sS,5ss
Last yrs Cleveland. 1885 IS, 4s.S2 l6o
An examination Of these figures
shows that the business done through
the clearing-h house Of New York dur
ing Garfield and Arthur's administra-
ton was $45, 141 ,S57. 91S more than it
was during the four years Of Cleve-
lands first administration. During
the last three years Of Harrison's ad-
ministration it was 1880, 96S.41S
more than 1t was during the first three
years Of Cleveland's present admins
tration.
These facts are very significant, as
they clearly show that the entire
amount Of business in the country has
been seriously injured every time that
Democratic administration has been
in control OF the government. The
above statement only applies to the
clearing house Of New York City, the
business Of which is a little more than
half of all the cities OF the United
States The falling of in the bust
ness of the whole United States for
the entire four years Of Cleveland's
present administration will be nearly
$40, OOO, 100000.
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THE MANIFEST MAN.

The manifest man OF all the race,
Whose heart ~ open like his face.
Puts forth his hand 10 help another.
IT'S not the blood OF kith and kin,
It's not the color Of the skin,
IT'S lot the heart that bea IS within
Which makes the man man and brother
His words are warm upon his lips;
His heart beats TO his finger tips;
He Is a friend and q royal neighbor;
Sweet children kiss him on the way
And women trust him, for they may:
He owes no debt he cannot pay:
He earns his bread by honest labor
He strikes oppression in the dust;
He share Is the blow aimed at the just;
He shrinks not from the post OF danger
And in the th5ckest OF the fight
He battle bravely for the right.
For that is mi ghtier than night.
Though Graded in a humble Manager.
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IMPORTS OF GOLD.

The aggregate Of public confidence
has been during the last thirty years
with the Republican party. 1t is not
necessary to 60 into an analytical ex-
PLANTATION of this to prove it to anyone.
The election Of Cleveland in 1892 found
the country in a condition Of wonderful
prosperity. By Septer1ber OF 1888 the
whole thing had gone to pot and there
it has remained until the present mo-
ment.
Now Cleveland Is about TO retire.
The belief is general that the Repub-
Iican party will win in the nation with
little trouble. So general is this belief
that certain pars Of he business world
are looking up even now.
No doubt Grover Cleveland and his
administration believe that they are
entitled to the credit OF his betterment.
but neither the Republican or Demo
cratic party is willing to credit him
with the fact
With his party estranged, himself
political wanderer, Grover Cleveland
today finds the one thing that has
haunted him during his four years
term at last disappearing and haunting
him no more. The gold reserve which
he did not expect to keep up without
the retirement Of the greenbacks is up
today and is going up. Cleveland did
not think such thing possible, but il
is true nevertheless 1t will be human
nature for him to claim some of the
credit.
The export and import of gold and
the difference for this year up to this
date and for several years preceding,
is shown in the following table:
Exports OF gold from Janua<y
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CLEARING HOUSE INDICATIONS.

DR.. E. p. Miller OF New York, has
compiled for the United States Repub-
licsn central committee a pamphlet Of
statistics showing from the weekly
records and reports OF the clearing
house of New York, the difference in
the volume OF business of the country
under the last four national admins
ira tons, respectively, or the actual re-
suit in prices and volume between the
protective and Democratic policies.
The figures are ali taken from the Of
fetal records ana they cover the lead
ing productive and industrial interests
OF the United States, including aus
money transactions. The pamphlet Is
entitled, 'Repuhlicaniss VS.. Dem
ocracy.'' II is one Of the most con
vineinc and unsnswerabIe documents
that has been published, and the ma
tiopal committee IS publishing an i'm
mense edition DR.. Miller wrote the
editor OF the Eagle few days since
that he believed what he had collected
are unanswers bic We agree with him
He saws that the election which Is 70
take place on the 3rd of November.
1896, will be one Of the most important
in the history OF this country The
main issues are whether American in
dustries shall De protected and pro
n1oeed, and a sound currency and the
public credit maintained; or whether
we shall have free trade with ruined
industries and free silver with a de-
based currency and ruined public
credit
During the last sixteen years we have
had alternately. every four years.
change Of administration From the
srh OF Aisrlh ISL 10 1885. the adj
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The Outlook calls attention to the

The Outlook calls attention TO the
fact that, although the Louisiana State
Lottery has been forbidden to do bus
mess through the United States mails
and has become an exile, reduoed 20 a
general state Of innocousne1, there Is
q like concern IN Kentucky that con-
tipues 10 flourish in spite Of the law.
IL Is called the Frankfort Lottery Of
Kentucky. aud il IS selling tickets even
10 this day. A suit was brought by
the Commonwealth as far back as 1892
10 prevent the further operation Of the
lottery, and il came up for trial IN the
csunty court az Louisville. Mr.. Carlisle
appearing for the plaintiff The ded-
sion was In favor o. the LOTTERY. and the
case was carried no % the supreme
court Of the United States. but has
remained undecided, and the lottery
continues 10 flourish.
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Cleveland administration the produc-
ton was 1.323, 900, 900 bushels. and the
average price has been fifty-one and
twenty-six hundredths cents. This Is
one thing democracy has done for the
farmer.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. this
outOurst Bryan paused for the usual
applause. But the audience went down
into its pocket and discovered it had
left its . @ 9 at home.