The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-13
WHAT THE POPS WILL DO.

1t is becoming quite evident that the
Pop party of Kansas is going to take .
reef in the sails of its policy. so far as
the state administration and the legisla-
ture are concerned. That, individually.
| they al have wheels in their heads is
everywhere conceded, but the curious
| thing is that they should have them
selves discovered the fact and consent
| cd to united effort to have the wheels
| ali go the same way and go more slow
| ly tn the end of less buZZing confusion.
| This resolve has not been without not
iceable beneficial effect, even to the ex-
| tent that evidences of somthing very
nearly resembling real sanity is being
evidenced by individuals here and there.
The circular work will go on undoubt
| edly, but the teeth of the periphery are
becoming less jagged under the grinding
process of responsibility. 1t is said that
no two Pop heads are ever alike in
anything save in an insane desire for Of
fee. But they cannot all have office,
but all must have something to eat, real
izing which fact they have concluded
that. after all, in ''busting the state
they would bust themselves. So
among other things it has been given
out that there is to be no Mexican dol
lar legal tender scheme. nor enact
ments wiping out all collection laws. nor
yet attempts to make everybody inde-
pendently rich by legislation Upon the
other hand, we are assured that the
credit of the state shall only not be i'm
rerilled any farther, but that everybody,
including the creditor. shall have show
for his white alley" Among Other
things some of the more level-headed
have declared in favor of the Missouri
trust Geed law. Some of them declare
that a maximum freight rate bill must
Ee nassed, but they view with more or
IeSs uneasiness the recent orders of the
federal court permitting the abandon
lIent of lines of railway and for the
tearing up of others. The average Pop
even would rather pay three cents
mile TO travel on railroad than SIX
cents by stage, or to pay twenty cents
hundred for railway freight, promptly
delivered, than one dollar per hundred
By ox-team. And while the Pops all
want "cheap money not a few of them
have begun TO demand that it shall be
real money, and not worthless PETER
fat Still others are found openly ad-
yocating the cutting down of official
fees and the abolishment of unnecessary
offices. the revision of the schOol-book
steal and the doing away with railway
dead headism. One senator-elect is so
radical in his conservatism as to de-
mand that the insurance companies
shall pay the full of their policies, and
also favors clothing the state board of
railway commissioners with power to
enforce their findings.
Rounding up the aggregation as a |
whole, and taking them all together, |
there are hopeful signs and assurances
that though untried as statesmen they |
are coming to realize something of the |
which are resting upon |
their shoulders, and that they will in |
such degree recognize the demands of |
the many interests conflicting and other |
wise, which they should conserve, that |
the people and the state may not be ir- |
damaged: that they will, in
failing to do any great things, resolve
to do no harm.