The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-13

machinery and power will prove less
than the chaff and litter of a whirl
wind which will sweep the land, and
in sweeping annihilate every existing
political organization.
The papers, magazines and litera
ture of the times are full of it, and oul
dispatches yesterday morning contain.
ed letter from Senator Henry Teller
which is quasi-official announcement
Of the fact.
The Anglo-Saxon is conservative and
slow to accept political or government.
| al innovations, but once convinced of
his right his demand is the voice of
omnipOtence, once convinced that he
is being wronged, crowns crumble,
thrones disappear and usurpatiOn and
wrong are pinned to the earth by the
staff upon which hangs suspended the
scales of justice All English history
| proves the truth of this.
Four-fifths of the entire body of the
! American people are disconnected, to-
| day. and in being determined to force
! different state of things. hope that
a reverse tariff policy from that upheld
by the present administration may
bring full relief. SO they are sweep
ing on for protection and reciprocity
next November. But a large per cent
Of them comprehend the ground work
of the unequal and unsatisfactory con-
ditions, and while admitting that a re-
versal Of the Cleveland policy will
bring some relief to the industrial and
productive interests Of the country,
that there are other and greater funda-
mental wrongs which must be righted.
Among these is the peoples money
the volume of the national currency,
and the giant grip which combined
capital in the way of mOnopolieS and
trusts, through the administrative, leg
islative and judicial hands of the states
and of the nation has been fastened
upon every material interest of the
people. And so in the face of a clear
the ballot, Cleveland is telling his
party leaders that their only hope is
the gold standard; the majority of the
Republican leaders are declaring that
anything but the gold standard means
financial ruin; while all the metropol-
itan dailies of the old creditor states,
and all the salaried officials and
monied representatives of the gold and
bond syndicateS, and corporate trusts
and monOpolistic combines, are threat
ening the farmer, the merchant and
the manufacturer with absolute and
speedy bankruptcy unless their mon
opolistic scinch, the only singly sound
standard Of gold is maintained,
coupled with the gratuitous lie that all
right thinking people are against any
thing else, and that only ignorant fan
atics and dishonest schemers are for
silver
There are hundred or so thousand
of monopolistic capitalists and their at
torneys and representatives in the
land, but there are millions of others.
The millions go unheard and UNDECIDED
save at the ballot box. The thousands
are heard every day through the news
papers and are felt every day through
the lawmakers and through the courts
In face Of the fact that all the members
of all the many trades unions of the
country are unanimously demanding
the RECOMMENDATION of silver; in face of
the fact that the Populist party, com
posed almost wholly of farmers. are
unanimously demanding the rehabili- |
tation of silver, in face Of the fact that |
more than half of the voters and fully |
One-half of the entire Democratic |
party are demanding Ia TO /; in face |
of the fact that uninfluenced by its |
leaders, bosses and capitalistic direc- |
tors One-half Of the Republican party |
would be declaring that no American |
product stands so much in need of pro
lection as silver. and that it should be |
money as good as gold; and in face of |
the fact that in the combination of all |
these silver forces Of the parties and |
interests named il combined would /
sweep away all parties. and that IN
less the cry of the people is needed that
that IS just what viii happen, the rep
resentatives Of the Republican party
propose to take the chances of a strad-
die on the silver question st ST. Louis
in June
Concedins that the overwhelming re-
vulsion against Clevelandism will
nominate the champion
of protection and sweep him into the
executive chair. which now seems so
certain. still. in the event that the
enactment Of high protective tariff
law does not bring back the prosperity
or the past or that degree of il which
is desired-and which it cannot alone
can the Republican party afford. by
not recognizing silver. to take the
chances OF confronting a combination
OF all the forces named, four years
hence:
No handwriting gu the wall was ever
palmer. In reading viii the delegates
10 the national Republican convention
II St Louis on June 10th. beedF