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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04
ALONG THE KANSAS NILl

About everything IN Kansas up to date
has been pooled but the penitentisry and
the conviets are not allowed 10 vo,.
The Popu;iscs ADVERTISE I'd Little a. a
silver Republican This Little denie<
| lie IS row Populist
The Newton Kanssn IL exercised for fear
Bryan VIII make one or two speeches In
Alaska before he gets through
When the generals arrived IN Atchison
ard Ingalls, had TO welcome them, n. tenn
porzrily overlooked the oK-csrt utterzGce.
The fever IN Kansas 10 rot as nerJ %
II va. The street discussions are per-
cepubiy fslliax of all over western Kan
sas.
electiss OF 1884 bern heid a rnonth sooner
ship a second TIM.
Tn. Populists Of Klova county have q
new scheme. They hsvs rented Q fun
page of the local n>~spsp>r. the ssgnal.
and wil edit 10 tbens>ive<.
The poll of a train be;v,>a Wichita
and Ssvtos the other Cay local Dass>as-
ers oniyj showed forty~ssr votes. thirty
for Mckinley and &c FOR BTyan.
werd reaches th@ national COMMITTEES ct
Chicago THAI Dslnkin OF Psnkin. az La
bette Comfy, hss boit1t Bryan because
Mrs. Bryan accompanied ham serozs tbs
county.
Ire farmers are trying 20 get tn essfse
% the Market again n ksnvs@. This
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04
ARE CARNIvALs DEGENERATE.

One subscriber writes tnat ne is con
! fused in regard to the real meaning OF
| the Atchison corn carnival, frequent
mention Of which he has seen in this
paper. He asks If 1T is a fact that
I Atchison. Leavenworth and Topeka, as
we'll as Kansas City, Missouri, yearly
give public frolics on the streets; IL
at Atchison girls wearing red ears of
corn are kissed at pleasure by every
body; if people really act as riotously
as they are advertised as doing at To-
peka's festival, and il women appear In
Mosques and short skirts during the
"Komical Karnival Krewe' idiocies at
Kansas City, Missouri.
Because" writes this subscriber, 'if
the people along the Missouri and Kaw
rivers are jumping around in their sus-
penders in this fashion it indicates
something"
He enlarges on this eminous remark
as follows: do you know, Mr.. Edi-
tor, that in every instance in the pages
of history, the carnival period follows
luxury and precedes the epoch of emo
tional extravaganza and epidemic gid
diness which ends in total collapse.
Milan, Florence and Genoa all went
through the carnival period. At one
time in Florence festivals became so
frequent that some of the voluptuaries
Of the city did not go out on the streets
from one end of the year until the other
without a mask over their faces. At
a still later period the legislative body
of the city had to prohibit festival
days by the score; also to make the
wearing Of mask punishable by
fine and Imprisonment. At the same
time women were forbidden to come
into the public streets without an es-
cort. These laws came TOO late TO be
effective. They did not prohibit, and
the Italian towns which were the great
cities of the world in the Dark Ages
went down in luxury, effeminancy and
lastly, complete national decreptitude."
The point the subscriber appears to
be making on AtchiSon, Leavenworth
and Topeka is that they are inhabited
principally by degenerates. While he
is entitled to his own scare in the mat
ter he is undoubtedly wrong. Atchi-
son. Topeka and Leavenworth are very
distant from decadence. Life Is too
real and earnest in Kansas to permit
anyone to be scientifically inclined. No
man ever went down the steep decliv-
ity OF moral Avernus on corn bread
No man ever shot the chutes of rugged
masculinity on fried Kaffir cakes. or
ever became Saturnalian over a wsssail
OF Topeka or Atchison ice water.
Mr.. Subscriber is simply mistaken.
If he is not Prohibitionist and II he
is q ProhibitioniSt. he is malicious.
Wichita is not as old as any OF the
cities mentioned. She stands more on
the frontier and more disposed 10 SER
ious business and less inclined TO friv-
oiity on that account. but when we are
older and have more time we intend 10
have some sort OF a cereal carnival
ourselves
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

capita circulation and no scarcity Of
currency 1t had behind il. too. just
about as much value intrinsically
tahout 90 per cent of the face valued as
Mr. Bryan proposes 10 put behind the
silver dollar. Yet the people of France
would not take il at par at any time.
not even before the final excessive is
sues. although laws were passed un-
der which il was made Q crime 10 sell
assignats at less than their face value
That offense was made punishable
with imprisonment for twenty years
In chains still down. anl ever down.
went the market value and purchasing
power Of this nat money. All this ex
errion Of the national power failed TO
keep it as good as gold On August ].
1795, the gold Louis Of % francs was
worth go francs in paper and the de-
probation went on until February,
1876. 1t was worth just 100 francs,
that is to say. one franc IN gold vas
worth 2Ss francs In paper money that
was based on two-thirds OF the entire
national domain OF France and backed
BY al the terrors OF the law. with the
guillotine in the background for any
man who dared TO impeach the sound
ness OF this currency.
1t was incidentally proved that cheap
money will surely boom prices Prices
or all commodities went up 70 appalling
figures in France. Thibaudeau, in his
Memoirs. speaks Of sugar as selling for
500 francs per pound. soap fer go
francs, candles for 40 francs. Mer-
cier. in his lifelike pictures OF the
French metropolis at that period, men-
lions 600 francs as carriage hire for q
single drive and 5000 francs for an
entire day. American workingmen'
should particularly note. however. that
while the price OF everything was in
f1ated in about the same proportion.
the wages OF labor were not; they, on
the contrary. went down. As manu-
factories had closed. wages had fallen
until all that kept them up at all was
the fact that so many laborers were
drafted off into the army and. sent
abroad 10 be killed. When the final
crash came. on July IL 1Io6. the whole
vast issue OF the French paper money
was repudiated. and the bulk of il was
thea found to be in the hands of the
working masses OF the French people
In the language of the historian Won
Iybel: The financiers and men Of
large means, though they suffered ter
rfbly, were shrewd enough to put much
of their property into objects of per-
manent value. The working classes
had no such foresight or skill or means
On them finally came the great crush
ing weight Of the loss
Such was the greatest. though by no
means the only object-lesson in mod
ern history, teaching the mass OF work
ing people that they have nothing 10
gain and everything 20 lose by striking
down the worlds honest and stable
standard Of value and creating money
on the fat principle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

tor or crank. but when the higher Of
| fees are to be filed the same people
become wonderfully exacting.
| The moment candidate before the
American people becomes too general
in his condemnation: the moment he
begins to shoot at random and hit limo
cent and guilty alike; the minute he
must lose ground with the American
people. The candidate who proceeds
with caution but with absolute GER
tainty; who weighs his words and ac-
tons with great care, some how or
other gets the American people to trust
him and to accept his words at the
value he puts upon them. The people
are not hypnotized or humbugged in
this. 1t is human nature to value q
man at his own valuation until he by
his actions proves otherwise. The
man who is cautious in word and deed
becomes in public opinion a safe SER
want The man who puts a value on
his own utterances by weighing them
carefully gives them over to the public
with an added value. There is no
doubt Of this.
We all have fair illustration of this
in the contrasted speeches Of Bryan
and Mckinley. There has not been
morning Eagle now for many weeks
when speeches from both did not ap-
pear. No matter what anyone may
think about what Bryan advocates or
says, all should agree that Bryan's
addresses are emotional and for
while effective He talks as the words
come to his mouth. He exercises alb
solutely no caution. He puts no value
on his words by weighing them, but
hurls them out helter-skelter-hit and
miss-denouncing this, threatening
that, and scolding ever.
There is nothing emotional about
William McKinley's speeches. They
are pure reason, spoken in a digniied,
simple way. If he tells of an evil 1t IS
to Immediately suggest tried, q pos
sible, a practical remedy. He talks
with calmness and ease. His throat |
is not on the point of giving way I'M
der the strain every day or two. He |
is not ON the brink Of a collapse at the |
end Of every week. There is nothing |
liz the dispatches about his face being
haggard, or his eye being lustreless.
One man is making himself scold;
the other is the statesman and shows
it. One man is wearing himself out
with emotional explosions daily. The
other is building his campaign OF
speeches which like the stones In the
arch sustain one another and do not
sap the energy and fire Of their creator
Bryan was a wonderful figure before
he Chicago convention. The first
lash Of his emotions startled the coun-
.ry and captured a national conven-
ion. But emotions dissipate. Nc
zinley at the st. Louis convention was
Known as a noble, earnest, honest
statesman. He has said nothing to
he people since except what his rea-
on had told him to be true. Or in
,ther words: Emotions dissipate; rea-
on is tonic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Ne1t Tuesday Dsanss Flynn yin meet
the people q GRAFT county ~ Pond Creek
Judge Roberts o. Kipgnsher - goang IN
70 Garfield county and make . few
speeches th;s month
born yearly. The Deiewares ere The last
prolific Of the Indian trtbex
The later Ocean Of Chicago has q COM
piimentary write-up Of Oklahoma apropos
Of It's coming importance In the cotton
market
IL is said tina, as Callahan cannot rsds
a horse worth a cen, Pat Magic assures
his followers that the ''man on HORSEBACK.
has not yet arrived.
bought him q bicycle and some fine grey
hounds with this OUTFIT this winter he
Will hunt taekrAbbls-
VIII Little thinks that Dennis Flynn
VIII carry Noble county by laoca ThAse
are his own figures. however. and he re-
serves the right TO revise them
r C. Eichoss Of Greer county has been
nominated by the Populists for the iegis-
lature Greer county will soon think &c
never was anywhers but In Oklahoma
The Oklahoma newspapers proceed in g
campaign against a woman candidate for
county superintendent mighty F.nxeriy
They cannot rip In a. they DO on tho men.
A Kansas paper says that Governor
Renfrow can change the subject o<tener
in a sentence and never use a comma or a
period than any public Official IN the wee,.
Perhaps virgi HOBBS would like to
meet BIZ Grimes In Joint debate. no words
outside of webster's TO Be used and each
man to have a voice IN selecting the SER
geant-at-zrms.
The Oklahcman Of Oklahoma city comes
out ana Acknowledges IN a peculiar way
that Callahan lis a minister OF the xos-
pel.'' This - true. II rs said. too,
that Callahan IS an uncommouly good
minister
In one western Oklahoma town a man
and woman run a hotel together as part
ners. They were formerly man and wife
but were divorced They afterward mad.
up and went into the hotel business a.
partners but they have never been re-
married nor do they live together rs hus-
band and wife.
a young recruit OF the National guard
al the Guthrie fair tried 10 20 home with
out permission. lie was pursued. sur
with bayouets. and brought back
10 camp IN disgrace. His name ~ with
held by the Guthrie pagers on account at
his age. And 50 another tragic incident
in the history OF Oklahoma 10 disposed Of.
The Republican, Popuhsts AMI Demo
cratic papers alike compliment Governor
Renfrow on MS annual report. This ~
as 81 should be when an offcer does HIS
duty he should &c: credit for H. THE Re-
publican psp>r, compliment Renfrow now
lust as the Democratic and PopuIis, pa
p.rs eomplimented Dennis Flynn when he
got the free homes oiii through the house
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04
FUTURE pIcN1os IN THE CLOUDS.

The failure OF Chanute's ''albatross"
flying machine in Chicago again sum
into the future If Il was ever intended
that man should fly
Chanute and his assistant prepared
their artificial bird for a flight. II
slid out into the air lightly. was struck
by a side gust capslSed and plunged
into a ciump OF trees. wreckinS itself
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

and scratching up the classic face OF
| the inventor
Mr.. Chanute and his flying Albatross
have retired for the winter. This
probably means he has surrendered
entirely and win not appear with his
Albatross again.
But some day the secret. and it is a
secret will be discovered and the flying
machine which will not stick to the
ground will be . visible and tangible
reality.
To whom the honor Of discovering
the secret Of the smallest sparrow will
fall, no one knows It is an unbroken
package on the shelves Of the future.
However, anyone wishing to take .
speedy and comfortable route {carry-
ing chair cars) to the insane asylum
should at once take up the study Of
flying machines. People who have
tried in vain to 60 stark mad on other
things have found the dying machine
just the thing to jolt the betting OF
their mentality.
The real flying machine inventor al
ways reasons by analogy. he as
sumes that the boat came from the
duck. He also assumes that the
spokes in a wheel came from a mans
legs. The duck hit the water with his
web-foot and progressed. Man hit
the same moist substance with pad
die and moved on himself, after the
duck. Man also became weary OF his
slow locomotion on land and to In
crease his speed clustered several legs
about common hub. placed tire on
the outer edge, to reduce the Jolts and
resistance, and made q wheel. Over
water and land man is consequently a
trifle rapid. But when he tries TO
crawl up in the air and walk around on
the climate he is miserable failure.
As he has studied the duck and the
legs before, he now looks to the thing
which flies and tries to counterfeit it.
He follows the bird with his eye, hop
ing to follow it with his corporosity
later. Some day he will do it. The
feather, in his form, In his hone. in his
strength or in all of these combined,
but IL is there.
1t will do no good to say that man
will not learn to fly because it is IN
necessary. 1t is true that we could
hardly gain a birds speed and we GER
tainly could not go straight-up much |
over FIVE miles and live, but history
shows that men discovered the prin- |
ciples Of boat before they developed
the anxiety to travel, and that the loco
motive Of the present day, for intsance,
came In and itself engendered the nee
essity for rapid transportation. Less |
than ninety years ago a learned scien-
life congress In Paris decided that for
freight, "steam cars" would
never be of any account.
When we find the flying machine we
will find an ample use for it. beside
picnic excursions TO the clouds and
pack.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04
THE ONE FRIEND OF PENSIONS

Not until this year could IL he said
with strict regard for the truth that
the war, its results and its causes had
ceased 10 be a political issue in this
country. Now the fact can be truth
fully recorded that the issue is gone
1t should be remembered for the
southerners that the only Americans
who were ever whipped were whipped
by other Americans. Their defeat
was CALLING one. 1t has taken the
crowded and critical events OF over
thirty years to remove from the south
ern mind. chivslrous. hahghty and
many times domineering the bitter rec
objection that IL had failed.
But so completely has time erased
this feeling that We find all platforms
of the national parties declaring for
pensions for the old soldiers.
The Populist party says simply In
its national platform: I'VE favor just
pensions for our disabled Union sol
diers." The men who placed this plank
in the national platform were largely
from the south, hundreds OF those vot-
ing for IL being ex -Confederatcs
The Democratic party in its national
platform says:
Recognizing the just claims Of de-
serving Union soldiers we heartily In
dorse the rule OF IN, present commits
sioner Of pensions that no names shah
be arbitrarily dropped from the pension
roll and the fact Of an enlistment ann
service should b deemed conclusive
evidence against disease or disability
before enlistment
The Republican platform says In 1856
what IL has said since before the close |
OF the war:
The veterans or the Union army de-
serve ami should receive fair treatment
and generous recognition Whenever
practical they should be given The pref
e-eacs In The matter Of employment
and shey are entitled TO the enactment
OF such laws as are beet calculated 20
secure for them the fuiclnsat of the
hedges made to them In the days OF
the country's peril We dsnovnce the
practice n he p<nEe1 bureau. 50
r-cklessly ard uniEst1y carried On BY
the present administrators e. reducing
pen.ions and arbitrarily Dropping
names from the rolls "a deserving THE
severest cene-nnssioa q ~, Amer
lean people.
To the old soldier himself. however.
the declaration in favor OF Just pen
sions by the Democratic and P0pGiis,
parties is taken largely a Il formal
There was a .ime IN the
nation when only one party srose TO
thank the soldier Of the north. This
was the Republican party which 81
baltimore Ia 1864. before TIE war was
ended declared for ample and perlna-
nen, provision for tno~e who hsEe re
ccived disabling AMI honorable wounds
Ia the service % the County"
The opposition for years in oonsrexs
against pensions has been outside Tie
parry. And today while
The Democratic platform SQUADS far
enough 70 the un;hinklnz 3, has ifs
thorn N the Circumstances that tsoz-
sznd- Of deserving old soldiers under
ne administration % Ho<. Saith have
teen dropped arbitrarily from iae Lists
shiie thousands more have had their
,ersi0as reduced TIE Den,ocrafie
,srfy has simply progressed Far
saough 10 compliment the Untoa sol
her: ,, 10 DOT ready yet 20 Do him co.s
penszf0ST jusic~.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

If the newspapers of the country
should some morning print under Can
ton date the words: Mr.. Anderson
and citizens of Kansas 1 greet YOU"
one Topeka citizen would cross his
hands. and die with a cherubic smile
on his waxen lips.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

Those Populists who think the la
borer in America is afraid to say how
he will vote on account of his EN-
rloyer will please to produce one. The
American laborer doesn't happen to be
built that Way.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

A German scientist says that there is
a state between sleeping and waking
in which man can anticipate the fu-
ture correctly. II is in this condition
every morning that the Pop comedies to
himself that Mckinley will be elected
before he reaches the Mississippi river.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

Bryan will never believe he talked
TOO much. Election night he will ST,
on his front porch and when he sees
how badly be is beaten he will re-
mark: MY goodness! wouldn't have
got any If / hadn't made those
Speeches"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

The painful intelligence should be
dropped casually to Populists that on
November D some men will come down
town wearing campaign buttons, and
other men will come down with their
buttons left off.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

In the tumult of the campaign the
American people are to be reminded of
the congratulatory circumstances that
at the wild oats age Mckinley and
Bryan both suspected they would be
running for the presidency some day
6nd-didn't.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

Bryan will be very, very tired when
he has finished his campaign and he
will be able to rest much more COM
Portable in Lincoln than In the White
House. beleagured. as it will be, with
office seekers al once.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

In Ohio one man is TO shave his head,
gid 1t, and walk a mile in public if
Mckinley is elected. If Bryan is
elected man with his head silvered in
the same way viii walk the mile. This
is what is known as idiocy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

Tom Watson is Disguised. He
would like Sewall 10 fight him. But
as Sewall will not, nothing is left for
Watson to do but to knock the chip
off his own shoulder and strike vicious
ly at himself
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

Yes l am a candidate for coroner.
said the man to his Questioner. But
i do not know whether free coinage
will bring silver up to-but what's the
use. and drawing a club he smote
the oueStioner dead.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

When Mckinley is elected he will
sigh heavily and be glad it is over.
This will be the only pleasure the Pops
will get out Of the fight. They then
may say that they mad him scared any
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

Il repeat" cried Republican yes
terday, Bismarck is a foreigner"
"Come off," cried the Kansas Populist.
HE amt no foreigner. He was born
in Germany, not England"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

John G. Carlisle respectfully declines
to meet Joe Blackburn in Joint debate.
After weighing the word respect
fully the two Kentucky factions pull
ed the trigger and let the hammer down
easy
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

In Kansas, owing to a misunder-
standing among the voters, there will
be only eight tickets on the ballot At
this hour it is feared that fully six and
half of them are in danger.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

1t must now be apparent to ever
man not blinded by partisanship that
bis neighbor who does not agree with
him On finances is so blinded.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

While everybody In Kansas is betting
Oh the election the Cubbison law is out
behind he barn with death rattle in
ttS throat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

The difference between Noah Web
ster and Bryan is that while Webster
pronounced an enormous amount of
words he did 1t to himself, in the
privacy of his study.