The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03
THE vANOUIsHED LEADER.


TONS ends and all mysteries of profess
sional agitators and calamitous traitors
to the country's prosperity can not heW
it otherwise.
For perpetual and malicious cry or
Calamity is treason, mild kind, but
treason, Notwithstanding. This nation
was dedicated TO freedom, and from
that day when it overcame its original
foe until the present time its worst enc
mics have been the dangerous dema-
sogues it has at times fostered. Names
of parties may change, leaders may
fuctuate from one side to the other,
but the great, dominating element in
this country, not always in the majority.
has never changed in its belief of
grand destiny for the country. Time
and time again that dominating ele-
ment has wrested the nation from the
hands of the rascally political despoilers.
Before the Civil War fidelity to the
country had to exert its power against
the faithleSsness and rascality of that
other element in this country which has
always sought to tear the nation down
and humiliate it And so it has been
that our Aaron Burrs have been worse
enemies than our Benedict ArnOlds. So
it has been that our Jeff son Davis
has been a greater enemy than our
CORVALLIS. SO il has been tina. our
Simpson and Debs and Most are q at
er enemies to the country than the arm
ed fleets of Great Britain, the offended
royalty of Spain or a menacing Japan.
Bryan is not included with Simpson,
Debs and Most and others Of their ilk.
Happily he is above them.
But Jerry Simpson is a fair example
of a traitor, who, under the demagogic
disguise Of being the peoples warmest
friend is the governments most malic-
iouS enemy. Talk is free and prediction
everybody's right. But Jerry Simpson
not assuming the prerogatives of this
right, announced the other day that
next year hard times would return 10
the people again. He said this, not be-
cause he had reason to say it, but be-
cause he hoped it would be so; because
he wanted TO lend his hope and voice
against return Of prosperity; because
he wants to see the people of the United
States ground down and ground under,
and finally ground into revolution that
he may the more prosper politically.
There can be no doubt, there is no
doubt, that humanity in revolution is
of a common kind. A mob of Ameri-
cans. angered by hunger and penury
would have no more respect for a pres
of Russians would have for car
Popular anger and wrath is peculiar to
no nation. Misfortune obliterates race.
And it is for this public wrath and mis-
fortune that Jerry Simpson has been
working for these many years. Ma
tional calamity public disorder, gov
eminent collapse has been his sole wish.
his only expressed hope. Not once in
his whole craZy-quilt career has he
raised his voice in commentator of
his nation, in one proud, thrilling patri-
otto utterance Of affection for this, his
adopted land. And now with the
breath Of better times upon us, with the
farmers gaining in happiness and the
in contentment, with higher
priced products, with an absence of
bond issues, with an adequate tariff.
with factories booming and merchants
This man, with his evil
tongue makes the evil prediction that
the good times viii not last, using no
logic TO show why, but only expressing
his malicious wish that they shall not
last
POpulism should toss him and his
kind overheard and. if that party is 10
exist as a party, select men who have
the patriotic manhood TO rejoice In the
nations prosperity. and who are too
good Of heart and too big of brain TO try
10 befoul national happiness with fheir !
wicked tongues. If Populism does not
do this. and speedily. it will go out for
ever. TO the nations good fortune.
As for Bryan, who made a speech in |
Wichita Friday. there is this TO be said. |
He is young and capable man among |
all his fellows. with worldwide rep |
utati0n. Fashioning his career to fit An |
opportunity, he became a great cham |
pion of a given economic theory. 4
few short months have emasrulated |
the theory and left him high and dry. |
And now, as every general before him, |
IN all the worlds history. he is making |
a last and formal stand for his side. in
full knowledge that his cohorts have |
been wiped out. but smilingly assertlve |
that after ali he was right. Not a year /
has passed since his defeat and public /
good nature grants him willingly the |
privilege of making 4 final and merely |
formal apology. in the shape OF a weak |
and joyial defense. Bryan the public |
may excuse. But for Jerry Simpson !
and his kind. within the wide range Of !
the puhlie's mercy there is no provision |
of pardon
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THE EASTERN IDEA.