The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-05
ALL RIGHT THERE
FRED BENTLEY SAYS JOHNNY BULL
Is GOOD AT home.

Says the Wesserner In Europe Has the
Reputation Of Hanging on to His Money
-EuSiishmen Don't Like the Dingiey
Bill and Are Sure 10 RetsIiats When
| They Get . Chance-Trip to Europe
Very Commonplace Nowadays and
Not Expensive-That Financial Com
| mission.
| Fred Bentley recently returned from
trip to Europe and was seen yester-
day with the request that he relate some
| OF his experiences.
You want me 10 tell about my trip,
about our European relatives?" ne
said. well. after two weeks in Eng
land I will not lecture. as did one of
| our friends who went over there. Gots
| OF people in Kansas go across the pond.)
Even On ourboat, the st. Louis, it is
very common place trip now. The New
Yorker can go there and back with less
expense than ne can go to the Rocky
mountains, and it's pieasanter. too.
More western people and fewer eastern
people are travelling abroad now. 1t is
generally remarked and the westerners
are not liberal, spending their money
over there. either. They have learned
the value of dollar now better than the
easterner, because the fasteners are
harder UP that we are generally.
Talking about credit being destroyed
! a hvNo n t. en-
have done it. The Englishman has been
out stock exchanged, world without end
by the fasteners, and seems TO know it,
and crys about the American silver
commission. 1 saw them at the Hotel
Cecil pronounced "Sissil. don't yer no')
they seemed to be on the fringe of the
queens jubilee and getting data con-
corning international opera. Don't think
they have anything else 10 do.
About the Dingley bill? Well, they
don't like it over there on principle 1t
is bound to restrain our trade there as
we well as theirs here. They are sure
20 retaliate as soon as their legislative
bodies meet this winter. England has
already started the policy which caused
lots OF excitement over there, by abro-
Germany and Belgium. which permitted
these countries 10 export to her colonies
on the same terms as herself. But their
great argument there is that the Ameri-
can policy of tariff for revenue and Incl
dental protection OF the Democrats and
tne tariff of protection with incidental
revenue OF the Republicans amounts to
exactly the same thing.
Give her Cuba for fifty years and it
would be half as rich as the present
country. Her strength is in the security
Of her laws, in the fact that each class
knows its own place and does not clash.
Her spirit OF fair dealing, her CONNER
cial policy, and in her lanlord and tenant
system, fer ii is cheaper for the poor
man to rent than TO own a farm that
isn't going to advance in value. The
landlord and tenant system is an mex
orable law Of civilization and some day
We will come to it in this country, obi
Gus as it seems to US now.
How do 1 like the blarsted English
men? like them better there, than the
samples they send over here. travelling.
They are all right at home; clever. in
telligent gentlemen-just like good
Americans, would be without modern i'm
p-ovements. They have thirty-seven
millions of people and We eighty, and are
hated by the world more than any other
nation except ours. We could like her
but not by trying to get behind her
bristles. How? By cutting off her food
supply with fast sailing cruisers, and
especially by repudia ting what we owe
in ns
curities held there would break every |
house in London. But she is a good |
neighbor, a good friend, who has simply |
donated railroads, breweries and thous- |
ands of other things to this country. |
Example, 5000, 900 by the Peeled Invest !
ment company for Wichita suburban |
property. Wo don't want to lick her be- |
cause of some boys in our school has Dor |
rowed all her marbles and lost them 10 |
another fellow, besides she will be use |
ful in the future. even if she is a sort OF |
parent Don't kick a rich |
ancestor.
About the cost o. things? We produce
most things here cheaper than she does,
and could out-sell her If il wasn't for |
our credit system. A store-keeper there
has small select stock of goods. all |
pai3 for, all KEEP: until sold at his price.
Has no losses on dead stock, bad debts |
or interest paid on capital. We can beat
them on prices OF anything made by ma
chinery on iron. common clothing and /
cloaks ready made. on tools, shoes, hats.
papers. cottons, most chemicals, grain,
provisions and groceries, fruits. tailor
ing. barber shops. railroad equipment.
jewelry, borrowing money. ana on charg-
ing nigh prices on one-half the stock
and wasting the other. They beat US in
knowing how 20 eat drink, sleep and
get along without much worry and few
er hours OF work. They excel US in silks
woolens and linens. the principal neces-
sites of civilized man. and have made
no progress in the manufa cture and dy-
ing OF these in century. and yet they
always will excel Us in these as long as
sheep are tended on the South Downs
and fax grows in Ireland and silk in
the south OF France.
What did I see in Paris. Well Il IS
time 70 close tais interview.
STANDS AT TIE HEAD
Aug. J. Bosel. the leading druggist %
La. says: Or. Kings New