The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-12
KINGS OF THE RANGE
MEET In CONVENTION
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that can be turned into money within two
and half years. 1t is, not so much what
| IS done as what there IS to snow for It
| after it is done. The beef. butter and
| cheese markets at large should be at
| the command of the United States, ara
/ Kansas ought TO have good deal 10 say
! about it. We have the climate, soil, and
/ now with alfalfa. our conditions are
J complete for any competition. Produce
| draft horses, Improve eur cattle and hogs
! 70 utilize their waste, raise sheep and 10
/ protective tariff viii be needed to sus-
I tain our industries. We can discount
/ cheap labor. cheap money and starvation
! living, and beat all competitiOn-but CID
! nese and they must get beyond the
reach of steam laundries or go with the
] balance. Already American enterprise ~
/ building steel bridges in English South
/ Africa, electric street railways ii the
! streets of London and subways under
( them, selling all sorts OF recently inl-
! proved mechanical economies, ami their
/ products. all through Europe; notably,
cutlery in BirTning ham, and within the
last two years Massachusetts ShOemakerS
/ have opened UP in London an immense
stock Of shoe wear from their home fac
tory. Imagine an American tourists sur
prise upon seeing the sole means of heat
! ing the throne room in the queens pal
ace at Amsterdam TO be a Crown Jewel
stove made at Detroit, u. S. a. or in
meeting on the road TO the Lake Of XII
larney an Irish woman carrying home
in her donkey cart a sack of Kansas
But the pessimist-perhaps the mana
gers of the Continental Creamery COM
pany, may say that all this may be so
now, but how long can 1t laSt-with all
the utilities Of the country in the grasp
Of the trusts They are a fearful men
ace to our prosperity; but so far, who
viii say that the people have not been
greatly benefited by the conditions which
have led up to them? Refined kerosene,
the product of the greatest of them all.
since Kansas was opened TO settlement;
steel rails from 500 per ton to $50; barb
wire from Is cents TO 4; matches from
cents to one: salt from 81 dollars to
from a little under to a little over 81;
how about beef and pork? Have the
farmers and live stock interests improved
their opportunities as the coal oil men,
the iron men or the packers have theirs?
What kansan twenty years ago expected
to live to see nothing of the hog not
utilized but It's sequel to see salt worked
in Kansas from siXty-fOot veins, coal oil
Astounding in one-fOurth Of all the states
and territories, or coal, iron, copper and
people OF YeTkeS consolidation of the
titles that short time back many own
ers thought their lands too worthless to
pay taxes on and sold at a dollar per
acre-uow worth $500 10 ten times that
sum? Figure the profit on 10000 acres.
This wealth is the result strictly of an
ticipating correctly the country. No great
cause for complaint against such results
anticipated to advantage. Perhaps no
people OF YerkeS' consolidation Of the
Chicago street railways. Before 3 cents
was required on each line; now cents
is good over so many lines as deS red.
Perhaps neither with the NOrthern-Pa-
cifc- Burlington transaction, where one
party sold end the other bought at twice
the real value, of course, on anticipation
of the future or perhaps on the Judg-
ment of the buyers as TO the ability OF
the case Of Mr.. Phillips of Chicago in his
recent rye deal who drowned in a pond
of his own creation. MessrS. HDl and
Morgan. and you and T. might differ as
to whether or not an isthmian canal viii
be built. and, if So when. and its effect
upon transcOntinental transportation.
Those gentlemen may make big money,
or may 80 under in their pond
But such things are at utter variance
with the ideas upon which this republic
rests. Be II ever so dangerous 10 the
promoters. the trust idea is in practi-
cal operation and is too dangerous TO the
public to be tolerated in this country 1t
is not because that particular case may
not be beneficial to the public as well as
the individual, but the greed of man
VIII not allow it to so continue long. The
power of great wealth to business af-
fairs is bound to be a great danger where
there is no power Of restraint. In a
monarchy there Is a restraining hand.
because it IS the king and subject but
IL must not Dt uStl 10 the WIOnS OF ING
subject or some day there would be no
king King George found that the axiom
that the king could do no wrong, did not
hold good in cases. SO. where the peo-
pie rule conditions should be looked at
fairly by the people rs the government.
not rs q mob. Here is where the trOu-
be lies with the trust question. Politics
is prolific in making scOundrels or cow
ards, perhaps both. of its deyotees. Too
often the only qualificatio of the poll
ucian Is deiaagogy. and it succeeds where
integrity and decenCy would fail, and
the politicians are fast becoming the gov
eminent Forewarned is forearmed. The
people should be the government. and
then if II is not judiciOuSly admins
tered it VIII be the fault of those who
suffer. You ought 10 bestoW on our most
vital affairs as close attention as you
do upon YOUR cattle. the one should save
money, the other make money.
There is no reason in the rapid in
crease of our state expenses. The ad-
ministration which starts in with the
lOudeSt talk of economy comes out with
the worst disiisured face. It has got
SO now that each senator has clerk.
stop il before each typewriter must have
maid The public officials must stop
paying their political debts at the public
expense. Men should be put in pubic
place who have character enough To /
be found without the blowing alone of /
their own horns It Is even worse in the
national Recommendations the merit !
IT, What apology can be offered Tor
sending a commission TO attend the cor
onation of King Edward2 Worse, even,
II Is the honoring a condition or thinEs I
which the American people despise. All !
honor TO that sturdy American repreSeu-
tative. Bayard. of Delaware, who refused /
10 wear knee buckles and sword At
the court of St James. Americans /
should be Americans everywhere aud on /
all occasions.
1T has been the history of this coun- I
tIN that with every expansion of terri !
tory there has been an expansion OF pros
peTity. Why should not this rule stu /
hold good2 For the first time we are /
raising tropical products within our own (
territory. The acquisition of each Cali I
fornia and Alaska was met with jeers. I
W hat wealth they have added Our mar /.
thine commerce. ruined during the clNH /
war is fast being more than restored /
% the advantage OF the factories and (
born sailors of the east and the gram /
and cattle Of the west. and the cotton !
Of the south: and this without the need I
As the savage chief replied. when asked +
where his f0rtlhcationS were. 'Everey man :
Is brick. Lex the American people be 4
true go WSclVeS-nonest frugal. ten /
reratc. patriotic at home manly. enter
prisluE. above an things. American 4
abroad-and the earth is ours.
The Tuxedo quartette, composed OF I
Felix Nc Neal Murray kirlSwood Paul I
Noble and Gilbert Tucker. with Miss 4
Grace Chapman as acCompanist. sang in .
their usual pleasing manner and were /
forced 10 respond To two very hearty 1
encoreS- This organization o. Wichita /
young men Won great favor with the +
catlemen and others last night by their /
beautiful and well trained voices and .
MASS chapman received s. number OF very f
pretty compliments Tor ner work IT the +