The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-17
He DROPS TRUSTS
Carl Browne Declares His
March to Washington Off,
TALKS FOR EXPANSION
He Commends the War in the
Philippines.
AXIS FOR EXPANSION

On last Sunday afternoon in Garfield
| hall there was delivered a remarkable
speech by a remarkable man-remarkable
in this, that the acknowledged genius of
Carl Browne should, for once run in a
channel of the practical instead of the
chimerical; on patriotic lines instead Of
partisan.
1t was an address that would do great
good at this time if delivered throughout
the country
He had fine audience and was evil
IDENTIFY feeling fine.
He wore the buckskin coat he wore in
Washington when he got on the grass,
and in a seat in the audience, almost
directly in front Of him, as if to cheer
him on was his golden-haired girl wife,
who so Economically left a luxurious home
to be the companion of a roaming re-
former
Mr.. Browne first drew a number of eff
hand sketches, and after telling a few
amusing stories, usual with him to get his
audience into an easy frame of mind,
said that it was well known to many
that it was the day set by a proclamation
that he had issued last July in Denver,
for the petition in boots against the
trusts to leave for Washington, but that
he had been compelled to give it up as
there were none reported here TO march
with him, although he had been agitating
for the proposed march for two years
past and had traversed seven states and
two territories on the mission-Ihat his
scrap book from newspaper reports would
show that he had organized great many
clubs of over one hundred in number, and
yet there was no one ready to go but him
self. On making inquiries why 1t was,
he was told thht the workingmen he
counted on were now at work at increased
wages, while the farmers who were to
contribute supplies were too busy gather
ing 5ountiful crop to pay off their mort
gages-the force of which he said he was
bound to admit When he realized that the
proposed march was at an end he also
realized that, like Othello his occupation
was gone" What to do next was the
question to make the pot boil?'
His wife suggested that they go to his
long neglected homestead in California,
which he left in 1898 to go to the Worlds
Fair as an artist and correspondent and
which he had not visited since, for the
reason that he got off in the Coxey move
ment and latterly had become an timer
ant reformer, but putting his hands into
his pockets he found them empty, and so
he bethought him of taking the lecture
platform on some live question, and
chose the Philippine war, on which he
had never expressed himself save in
superficial way, without much thought.
He then consulted some Of his friends who
backed him in procuring the hall and ad-
vertising the lecture.
His lecture was delivered without ref
erence to manuscript and In a highly
creditable manner, winning considerable
applause. even from many who were op-
posed to expansion, supposing that the
speaker would take that side OF the Ques-
acknowledgements.
He began by saying that as 1t was Sun
day he would give as a text the two
familiar lines of the hymn:
God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform"
He said in part:
To-day we may embrace something that
yesterday we condemned. simply from
more knowledge. The laws of nature
are all mysterious-even the simplest-un-
til we find them out. Government Of man
was the most important question con-
fronting man collectively, hence ever in
teresting Someone had said that that
government was the best that governed
the least If we had the whole world
filed with men, women and children
practicing the precept of the Nazarene
Love thy neighbor as myself there
would be no need of government at all
the idea of the anarchist in its true sense
''All knowledge We have about man, &C
cording to my limited reading, shows that
man has progressed from the time when
he was strong of fang and long of arm
with which to fight, until now he knows
enough of the laws of nature to touch an
electric button and blow up a battleshio
or an armored train, or annhilate whole
army.
Blackstone, I believe, tells us that
there was time once, somewhere. when
people chose the tallest among themselves !
as rulers But we also know there was a
time when he of the strongest muscle /
was the ruler, and this first attempt cited
by Blackstone, to give expression as to /
who the ruler should be was simply a
remembrance of when strength alone /
ruled.
After the age Of the cave-man and the /