The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-26
NEW YORK AND KANSAS.

4 The Otner Gay inert WAS prlilleu plOm-
inently on the editorial page of the Wich-
| ita (Kans) Eagle letter to the editor
| which was 50 illuminating that we reprint
4 it elsewhere and invite a careful reading
| Of it We call particular attention to
| this story because the writer concludes
| with the statement that this DER true
| tale, in its essential features of ruined
| character and wrecked lives. can be du-
pncated in all parts of the country" and
because the Eagle, representative Kan
sas newspaper, gives the letter promi-
hence and fails to express any dissent
from it.-New York Evening Post
The letter which the Post reproduces
with a column of running editorial COM
ments, was written by woman,
widow, who owns the land referred
to. and which fell into the hands Of the
lessee, whose sons subsequently went
off after Populism. The fact of such a
letter from a Kansas woman should
in convincing the Post Of the intelligent
character of the Eagles rural patrons
and readers. furnish also the reason Tor
the Eagles liberal policy and indepen-
dence. The issues of the present cam
paign are more than gold and silver,
more than the tariff, even. They are
issues which have been kept in obey
ance for years, but now being at the
front must be sifted to the bottom, in
the interest Of all, 20 the end that only
sound and reliable conclusions may be
reached. All sides must be heard.
But few can be reached, and fewer
heard, from the stump and platform.
The newspaper column has become the
forum of the American people While
it is true that the Eagle is as the Post
says, a representative Kansas paper,
so is it's woman contributor a represent
ate Kansas woman. BY a casual ref
erence to the census tables the Post
will find the percent of illiteracy in
Kansas nearly nil Among such peO-
pie any effort to mislead. or to suppress
any truth, touching the pressing issues
of the hour, would not be brooked. The
question because we were satisfied of
its exact truth. Still the Eagle disSentS
from many things. Among them from
Cleyelandism, as it does from the
tenets of the other wing of the Demo
cratic party as enunciated from Chi
cago. 1t dissents with equal vehem-
ence from Popocracy and plutocracy.
New York autocracy and western an
archy are equally dangerous to a gov
eminent Of the people The Republi- |
can party, its history and achieve
ments, its men and its political tene-
ments, are the best and safest. This |
party, its measures and men, and its |
principles, we are for, as the Post and |
other Democratic New York papers |
show encoura ging signs of soon being |
also.
Evidently our great metropolitan con-
temporary is convinced that there is |
but one issue, upon the one side Of |
which is the Post, and upon the other
the Eagle. This is mistake, arising |
from circumscribed environments |
There are many issues and many sides, |
so many that there are not few who |
don't know where they are at. For |
full and succint information touching |
the cause Of side espoused by neither |
the Post or Eagle, we would commend |
the speeches of our fellow townsman,
now nightly holding forth in New York
City. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease, who
being brilliant not to say versatile and
entertaining, is as far at one extreme |
as the Post is at the other.
The Eagle believing in neither the !
Clevelandism Of the Post, or the Popu-
lism of Mrs. Lease, is Republican,
therefore, necessarily liberal and con-
servative, as broad in its charity as
is the stretch of the Transmissouri
DrairieS.