The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-01-25
ARKANSAS GOLDBUG.

attention of our dearly beloved cotem
poraries of the state again called t
the silver trend of the times, in which
connection they might recall. ON theil
own hook. the Eagles oft repeated pre-
diction that the Republican natiOna
convention of 1886 would be confront
ed with that issue, and that Kansas
was, and is, for silver without regard
| to party.
An old party barnacle, by the name
| Of y. c. Mcfarland, who lives on
money-interest. is out in the Topeka
! Capital warning the Republicans of
Kansas against sending any man from
| this state TO the national convention
who might stand with western men
! for a silver plank in the platform.
/ The sun of the parasite is
| setting. and the goldbug's day is we'll
nigh done. His monOt0nOus chirp in
| the gathering twilight sounds lone
some. Mcfarland, who straddled the
neck of the Republican party as long
as he was able to ride, no doubt voices
the gold-salaried sentiment of that
corpOratiOn-owned town, and he may
indeed. as is claimed, still be able to
hold the cinch on Morrill,, neverthe-
less he is but a relegation of the st.
John usurpatiOn, Il relic of Kansas
dynasty long since petered, save in
Topeka. Politically Mcfarland is a
Prohibitionist, professionally a collect
or of interest, financially a gold mono
metallist Of the Wall street stripe,
whose propaganda will awaken no re-
spOnse beyond the shores of the Shun-
gamunga.
Interest-mOney has been doubled in
value property of every description
has shrunken One-half, the prices of
products have dropped fifty per cent,
labor is becoming the unrequited slave
of intereSt-accumulating capital, bust
ness is stagnated, enterprise para
lived. and despair is settling down,
not only over the homes of the country
but over whole communities, towns
and states, under the efforts of the
creditor and nOn-pTOducer to enhance
the value of his holdings by decreasing
that Of everything else through a re
stricted volume of money. And so
we have the Mcfarland iIk, in Kansas.
demanding through the public prints
the ostracising of any man found
pleading his own rights or those of
the people.
While the people constitute parties
and make their leaders, they do not
own the one or control the other, ex-
cept for brief intervals following pO-
ltical upheavals or downright revolu-
tiOnS. That the Eagle was right in
its predictions that in the failure of a
return of general prosperity the money
issue was inevitable in the party con
ventionS of 90, and that good times
would be impossible with half the
volume of money diScredited, so we
still believe and hold The cloud of
discomfort, which then was no larger
than mans hand, is spreading out
over the whole political sky. and the
electrical flashes of indignation and of
conscious wrong has become threaten
ing. If not averted the storm will
break and in such fury as shall sweep
the old parties from their powerful
moorings, leaving their floating wrecks
less than encumbering debris. 1t is
not necessary TO refer 10 the rumbling
resolution of inquiry in the German
reichstag OF day before yesterday. The
low uminOus stir which is heard pre-
ceding the earthquake. is Omnipresent
is everywhere in our own land. The !
resolutions Of the silver conference in |
the Eagles dispatches yesterday from !
Washington is more than the heat J
lightning Of Il silverIined western
cloud, AS is the non-partisan protest |
ing majority Of the United States sen !
ate more than Il handwriting on the !
political wall. Tariff talk, and the |
threatened wage of war over the !
trumped-up and far-away issues of the |
TranSvaal and the OrinOco may alb |
SOrb the people, and pre-Occupy the |
attention of the public, in which their |
hurt viii, for a brief space, be forgot !
ten, and their woe, for a time. go un- |
needed. but the TancOuring outrage in
hicted by monOpoliStic greed, whereby
they were not only robbed of half the
value of their possessions, but sought
10 be overwhelmed in helpleSsness, ir- |
refutably hastens forward the day of
final reckoning.