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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-11
EDUCATE THEM UP.

| Five national parties with as many
distinct tickets, will be before the
| American people this fall, each predict
ing their chances of success on a cam
| paign of education" All that is ne
| ceSsary 10 success is the enlighten-
ment Of the pe0pe. Should the capaci-
ty of the American people prove equal
to this proposed political curriculum
we will be, by November, the most en-
lightened nation of people the world has
ever seen. The farmer is TO be en-
lightened together with the miner, the
factory hand, and everybody else, upon
the SoundneSS of the gold standard
and the benefits of free silver, upon
the prosperity which a high tariff will
insure, and the easy times which low
tariff can only warrant; upon the adj
vantageS to be derived from incOr-
porated capital and the danger of cor
porate rule; upon the woes that flow
to humanity through the liquor traffic
and the impossibility of adequate reve-
nue. to run the government should the
internal revenue and the license on
liquors be abolished. The idle miner,
the factory man on half time and the
farmer whose products cast him more
than they will bring in open market,
are all to be shown 1.-The way OUT by q
campaign of education.
This proposed campaign of educa-
ton is the idea of the politician. most
OF whom do not know what they are
talking about They are presuming
on universal ignorance which has no
existence. The crowd on the corner
of every town. the conclaye in every
village store of the land, the knots,
the muSterS. the throngS, the squads,
the groups everywhere are talking, and
having read-up they know what they
are talking about If anyone should
doubt this let him join one of these
groups and assert something which he
cannot verify and see how quick he
will be called down by one or half
dozen who will flash pamphlets, stats
teal tables, papers, or the like, from
some pocket containing the official data |
No one of less general Information !
than an English premier or Ii Hung |
Chang wants to attack the spokesman |
who holds down the street corner 1
crowd, much less the attitude of a |
tutor This is, or will be- u.nquestion- |
ably a campaign of education" but |
the fellow who is going 10 learn the /
most is the fellow who proposed to do /
the teaching.
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THE CHIEF JUsTICFsHIP.

Who will be Chief Justice Martins sue
cessor? This is one of the important
questions TO be settled by the Republican
state convention at Topeka. IL ought
to be settled easily. There is plenty OF
excellent material at hand. The Repub-
lican party OF Kansas contains many law
yers of ability and ripe experience who
would ill the position capably and salts
factorily. The names of several of them.
probably, will be presented for nomina-
ton
There Is something else TO consider be-
sides capabihty. however. The candidate
for this high position must be not only an
able lawyer and experienced jurist. but a
man who can be elected He must be
strong not only with che bar. but with the
people The Republicans may have a
walk-over in Kansas this year. and they
may have the hardest fight or their lives.
The party cannot afford TO take any
chances. II must nominate winners.
Who among the eligible candidates for
chief justice can make the strongest race?
an intelligent consideration OF this ques-
ton can have but one result. The best
man for Chief Justice Martins success
sor IS Chief Justice Martin. He fills all
the requirements as 10 qualifications and
he can get the votes. He VIII not only
poll all the Republican votes of the state.
but he will receive thousands OF Demo
cratic and Populist votes. He has been
a free silver man. but so have nearly all
other Republicans OF the state. He is a
loyal Republican. and will stand on the
party's platform The fact that he has
been for free silver VIII not hurt him In
the estimation OF voters who were them
selves silver men only few years ago.
ani 50 declared in state convention. Dis
has been expressed with the
decision on the mortgage redemption case.
but there IS no reason TO believe that JUS
tice Martain did not render an honest
and conscientious opinion. The fact
that the decision was endorsed by the
courts OF several other states and terri
tories shows that Il possessed merit. a.
though the supreme court Of the United /
States did not uphold g.
The convention will probably be guided I
by the time-honorea custom. based On 4
justice and fair play % giving worthy /
officials the Endorsement OF a second nom
nation IN following this custom there i
would be no sense or fairness In discrln- i
against Jus.fce Martin. he Is
entitled 10 denomination. and every co~-
sideratioa OF party honor ard party er-
demands that he receive Il. Ths.
.wo Of three Republican papers which
Ire advising 20 the contrary are not con-
'uiting the party's bet interests and Their
counsel shoud be ignored-Kansas CITY
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THE KNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN

As the Honorable William J. Bryan
goes whirling across the country tell
ing the people what he knows and incl
dentally advising them what is best
for them, the question naturally re-
ours to every reflective person, what
ever his party, who is Mr. Bryan and
what has this young man ever done
that his words should be accepted as
the essence of experience? AS he stands
upon the rear platform of his car in
Producing his wife as his mascot, and
the inspiration if his genius, the mind
| reverts to another man in his quiet
| home in Ohio, who in avoiding every
thing like stentation, is known to be
competent, honest and fitted with the
wisdom of actual test and experience.
/ The people have watched the course
/ OF that uDobstrusive Canton man for
| thirty years. He was a soldier fight
ing for the preservation of his country
! when Mr.. Bryan was in kits or skirts,
an infant on his mothers nee. With the
/ record of that Ohio man all are ia
miliar. There is no question touch
ing his experience, his patriotism or
his wisdom. Outside of his soldier
record, for fourteen years in the nation
al house Of representatives he left his
impress upon every important piece
Of legislation, until finally as leader of
his party on the floor he gave his name
to the best tariff bill ever enacted by
congress, under which the people were
prosperous, consequently contented
and happy. subsequently as COVER |
nor of the great state of Ohio he dem |
onstrated that he is a great executive |
as well as a successful legislator and |
patriot-soldier. Tried in every phaze /
of public life he has trimuphed in all. |
For dozen years he ras been nation
al figure. Tiwce has he waved aside
a nomination for president ,once when
it would have come to him under the
But Mckinley would only accept such
great honor and responsibility from
the hands of the people, not from the
momentary enthusiasm of a crowd
carried off its feet by an eloquent APP
peal. He would not accept an honor
at the expense of another on behalf
OF whom he was himself appealing. 1t
is therefore inevitable that parallel
be drawn between these two men who
in experience and faith are at no single
point alike. One appears, unexpected
ly, as the champion of untried theories
in national government, the other
stands as the experienced head of that
party which having preserved the gov
has afforded its people their
eras of greatest prosperity.
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TALMAQGE AGAIN.

There is no greter time server and
fence straddler in this country. eclesi-
astically, politically or commercially.
than Il. Dewitt Talmage, and none
more uncertain. T. Dewitt announces
that he is being asked by everybody
how he stands on the money question.
Everybody ought to know that he is for
the biggest pile in sight even if he is
compelled to crowd a another preach
from his pulpit to get at it. But 7. De
Witt answers that this is great nation
and that honest Christian men are 10
be found on both sides. He goes on to
say that his associations and aftilia
tons place him on the gold or single
standard side but that he believes that
free silver in winning would bring
such a revival of business and such i
boom as was never experienced in the
country; that there would be a general
commercial shaking up of the CONT
nent. That's L. Dewitt all over. He
holds to that which he does not believe
because of his associations and affili-
atoms" L. Dewitt is a great trim
mer. If he can't be on both sides of
question he will be on neither. He
says he is for gold but that silver
would be the best
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BRYAN AND sEwHATHIsNAME

The breach between the southern and
western PopulistS is just as wide as II
was the day Sewall was spewed up
and IN and Tom Watson nomina ted
and the soreness between the silver
Democrats OF the west and the gold
Democrats OF the east is none the less
infiamed. The very existence of the
Fopulist party in the south is a living
protest against Bourbonism. The Popu-
lists in many instances represent the
progressive Young Of the Bourbon me-
thods and reactionary policies of the
old Democracy. The great mass OF Pop
ulisIs in the south is composed of poor
whites. and between them and the
wealthy SoutheTners is traditional
pre- iudiee grown more bitter with each
succeeding year.
The recent election in Alabama, in
which the Democrats fraudulently OBJ
tanned the majority they claimed, has
grearely angered the PopulisSs and
made fusion still more difficult The
outlook now is for very little support
81 the Democratic presidential ticket
by southern Pcpulists. While /,
meets with more favor among the wes,
ern Popuiists. yet Il the lighting blood
of the organization is once stirred VI
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The aaeha Daily Eagle guesdau gornue august l. 1896

| first Vanderbilt who started out in the
world without anything. The matter
Of dollars and cents makes not the
slightest difference with me. When
the time comes l shall be married and
! afterwards shall do the best can to
support my wife and myself She and
/ her family know the exact state of my
affairs and she is willing to share my
lot with me, even if it is my fortune to
start out poor man." The truthful
reporter adds, with an evident feeling
of the most sincere commiseration,
that this brave young Vanderbilt has
only the beggarly sum of 5000, 900
left him in his own right by the will OF
his grandfather 1t is only in the light
of this statement that we can appre-
ciate the real heroism displayed by
this poor young man. We hear so much
in the practical, prosaic days about the
folly of young people marrying until
they have laid up little ahead for
contingencies and rainy days that it is
delightfully."- refreshing to finad young
American who casts these material con
siderations to the winds, and who
listening to the voice of love alone,
bids defiance to the storms of life and
marries without a tremOr, trusting
wholly to his own strong right arm
and TO a pitiful legacy Of 100000.
What magnificent courage! Let us
hope that Mr.. Vanderbilt will be able
to support his wife without being
forced to ask her TO take in washing or
do her own cooking. But if the worst
comes to the worst, and he remains all
his life struggling to keep body and
soul together on the wretched income
from his little legacy, they will, at
least, be consoled by the proud recol-
lection Of their mutual self-sacrifice
and by the thought of a sublime devO- |
ton that laughed at poverty and brave /
~ faced a gloomy and threatening fu- !
ture on a mere pittance of two million
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in the south the heat will be felt in
the west and the Democrats will ge,
much less support from the Populists
than they had expected.
1t Is evident that the regular" Demo
cracy of New York is deeply concerned
about the fate of the state ticket which
will be nominated next month, and.
therefore, national issues are for the
present avoided as far as possible in
order that the arrangement which
the leaders have in view may not be
spoiled by premature agitation. The
New York Journal states that the gold
Democrats will hold a convention and
nominate state ticket Mr.. Stanch-
field will be named for governor and
the regular" convention is expected to
indorse Stanchfield, regardless of any
action 1t may take upon the national
ticket and platform. The situation is
represented as delicate in the extreme,
and the Journal adds that for this rea-
son Senator Hill will probably not at
tend the notification meeting at Madi
son Square Garden. 1t is plain that the
regulars are as eager for the spoils as
they have always been. The patron
age of the City and state of New York
is worth many million dollars annual
ly, and if Tammany and the state ma
chine can control the Offices, it is of
little consequence to them whether the
ticket is successful or not.
Jones. chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee, had an in
-erview with Senator Hill and State
Chaoirman Hinkley Wednesday, in
which the unusual conditions prevail
ng in New York were discussed from
he standpoint of practical politics.
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JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Considerable apprehension is being
expressed with reference to Japan's
rapidly developing manufacturing in
terests. There is Il fear that despite
high protectiove duties Japan may
swamp American markets.
Mr.. Hsyakawa, counselor of the Jap
anese ministry OF finance, whose visit
TO this country has already resulted in
the perfection OF freight agreements
with several American traBscontiDen-
tai railways and the steamship lines TO
be established between Japan and two
or more Pacific ports OF the United
States, has called attention, in an in
terview published yesterday in the
manufacturers Record, 10 the opportu-
mites open in Japan 10 American trade.
Japan exports to this country nearly
seven times as much as she imports
from Us. Yet having practically 10
iron and steel industries, and the Jap
anese being in 4 state OF intense acti-
witty In providing themselves with a
complete railway system railroad COM
psnies with an aggreate capital Of s60.-
100000 having been recently organized.
Japan should be a good market for
American rails, locomotives and rail
way appliances. The cotton spinning
industry in Japan continues to make
great strides forward. and IL should
not be difficult 10 suppisnt in Japan
the raw cotton OF India. which Is suit
Ell only 10 the production OF coarse
yarns With the longer and liner Ameri-
can staple.
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OVER ON THE NILE.

That the English army dispatched
to make its mission good there is now
little doubt. 1t means another con-
tinent for Great Britain. According
to dispatches from Kosheh, on the
Upper Nile. to the London Times. the
railway around the cataracts was ten
day ago completed as far south as
| Ferkeh, and the road-bed was finished
! as far as Kosheh. Landing places,
wharfs and houses for stores are being
! prepared several miles south of Kos
! Eeh, where the railroad is to termin-
| ate On the river. With the completion
of the railway the Egyptians will be
able to maintain communication by
river and by rail at all seasons Of the
year and in all conditions of the Nile.
The river is now rising, and will soon
be high enough to permit steamers
and sunbOats TO pass the cataracts.
One o. the new stern-wheelerS has al
ready reached Alexandria, and all are
expected to ascend to Kosheh by Aug.
26 The cholera has been raging in
the Anglo-Egyptian army, and has
carried off several British officers. 1t
is now at length under control. The
battle at Ferket almost annihilated,
it seems. the considerable force the
Khalifa had at that point The COM
mander and fifty or more Emirs were
Iii limo Of no in
the service.
When the news reached Wad el Bis
hara, the Dervish commander at Don
COLA, that worthy, it is reported, tore |
his beard and exhibited other orien- |
tai signs Of dismay. He wrote a let |
ter to the Khalifa asking whether he |
should abandon Dongola or stay. In /
the latter case he must have large rein |
forcements. The Khalifa's reply is
not yet forthcoming, but it may be |
assumed that he will tell Wad ell Bis /
hara to fight it out Meanwhile Wad
is conscripting such Of the unwilling
Arabs Of Dongola as connot escape.
His present force is insufficient Disas-
ter and retreat does not improve its
morale, and many of the Dervishes are
said to be deserving in small parties 10
their respective countries. Since 1855.
when the English We're last fighting
the DerviShes on the Nile, new guns
have come into use. The magazine
gun and the Maxim now play havoc
with dense masses The slaughter AT ]
Ferkeh has caused even the leaders OF
the Dervishes to lose heart Osman
Azark, a daredevil fighter and one of
the Khalifa's best lieutenants, is said
to have assured Wad el Bishara that
resistance is useless. ''The guns OF
these enemies of God" he reported,
ARE unlike the arms they used in for
mer wars; they pour bullets like water
and are certain death TO the faithful"
The DerviShes themselves fight diff
Instead of making their for
mer mad rush iwth spears. in a conf
dent hope of blissful immortality, If
killed. they now stand and shoot Their
practice is better and their courage is
but they do not thus in
spire the terror the once did. When |
Il comes to mere shooting, the Egyp-
ian with better arms may be more
than q match for them.
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NOT AN ISSUE. EH2

The records of the treasury depart
ment show that the balance of trade
in our favor under the Mckinley tariff
period was S45,O00,OOO, against only
I S1J0,0OO,O0O in round numbers under
| the Wilson German tariff law. Another
official exhibit shows that the first 90
months of the Mckinley bill the ma
| tional income was S1O2,OOO,OOO more
than for.the same priod under the Will
! son bill. Taking the treasury loss of
| income and the loss of balance of
trade added together make sum of
! $241, 743, $50, or almost the amount
that Cleveland bonded the country
since March /, 1898.
Had the Mckinley protective tariff
been maintained there would have
been no loss of S147, 100000 in our ma
tional revenue. Had the Mckinley
tariff been maintained there would
have been no loss of S95,OO0,0O0 OF
gold sent out of the country 10 pay
that extent Of unfavorable trade bal
ance brought about by the German
tariff Had the Mckinley tariff been
maintained the S95.OOOOOO of gold
would have been circulated among our
own people at home, the treasury
would have received $14I 600, 600 more
money to meet. its obligations, there
would have been no financial panic and
no necessity for increasing the ma
tional debt. which increase is, there
fore, directly traceable to Democratic
tariff tinkering.
holds that the tariff question, that the
questions of revenue and protection
are of vastly more Importance TO the
American people now than the silver
question or any other issue. That paper
says that in all the wide range of hu-
man inquiry there is no question more
vitality connected with the veal of this
country, with the thrift, contentment,
progress and security of the American
people than is the protection policy OF |
the Republican party.
The American farmer, mechanic, mer |
chant and manufacturer knows this TO |
be the fact. and consequently cannot
be deceived by those who are political !
~ and pecuniarily interested in having 1
this issue eliminated from the present /
campaign Every man of affairs /
whose occupation or business. wheth- 1
er large or small. is dependent upon 1
American markets and domestic con
ditions. knows that the measure Of his
success is determined by the average
prosperity OF the masses. This is
true cf the farmer, who is
becoming more and more dependent
upon the home market for the sale of
his products The foreign market a.
becoming more uncertain each year.
and. with the exception OF al OCCASION
al prospect Of war, can hold cut little
promise 10 the American producer. The
present demand on the part Of the Brit
ish agriculruralists for increased protec
ZION for their interests. points 20 a
change in Great Britain's policy in
this respect which will make the Eng
Iish markets closely restricted 10 for
aign farm products
Still. the American market i nc,
1nly the best in the world, but in its
rapid and enormous Development ar
lords greater opportunities than would
he combined markets OF the world II
heir deficiency demand ere given n
= exclusively The imports OF the |
.ntre world amounts 10 about S60so.-
~. go Der year. while our domestic ex- !
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-11

Probably very few citizens OF Kan
sss are aware that Senator Ingalls, took
a very considerable hand in framing
the gold reserve bill and supplying the
phT-1seolagy OF the proviso y hich shut
OF the eosdbag scheme " deposstiDg
greenb@cks and taking out gold oer1ln-
Gates instead IL seems. however. thar
there Is 10 specific authority for the
slo.oDoGpo reserve 20 i-e held a. q
gold reserve. separate and exclusive.
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WEBSTER ON RECIPROCITY

In q speech, in congress, April .,
1924. Daniel Webster in speaking of
commerce and the tariff and reciprici-
ty laws growing out of trade declared
that: Commerce is not gambling
among nations for stake, TO be won
by some and lost by others. 1t has
not the tendency necessarily to i'm
poverish one of the parties TO it, while
it enriches the other: all parties gain,
all parties make profits, all parties
grow rich by the operation of just and
liberal commerce. If the world had
but one cline and one soil, if all men
had the same wants and the same
means, on the spot of their existence,
to crafty their wants, then, indeed,
what one obtained from the other by
exchange would injure one party in
the same degree that it benefited the
other; then. indeed, there would be
some foundation for the balance OF
trade. But Providence has disposed
our lot much more kindly. We inhabit
various earth. We have reciprocal
wants and reciprocal means of graft
flying one another's wants. This is the
true origin of commerce, which is moth
ing more than an exchange of equiva-
Tents. and, from the rude barter of its
primitive state TO the refined and COM
pick condition in which we see it. its
principle is uniformly the same, its
only object being in every stage TO pro-
duce that exchange Of commodities
between individuals and between
nations which shall conduce 10 the adj
vantage and happiness of both
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Nothing has been heard from En-
peror William since he went out on
that yacht TO study the financial ques-
ticn. The probabilities are thar he
has had discussion with the crew as
% whether silver was the legal tender
TO an amount above five dollars or not.
and that in the excitement ensuing the
crew have murdered him.
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acknowledged as the true course OF
Populism's first six years.

The pressure may be SO great on
Sewall that while remaining on the
ticket himself he will, out Of consider
alton for the Populist conscience, re-
fuse to spend any money in the cam
paign. Ii he does this about one mil
lion and half Populists will imme-
diately drop dead
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How many pigs have you got?' .
Kansas farmer was asked. .Oh. some
where between two hundred and five
hundred don't know exactly" But
that same farmer knew that the gold
reserve on March q, 1888 kas S345,61S,
966 and fifty-two cents.
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Bryan says: Throw n stone up and
it comes down. That's gravitation.
Take something else; Is will come
down: that gold standard" applause
and cries of I'VE never thought of that
before'1