The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-08-14
WORK FOR THE FARMERS.

The following trenchant article
which appears TO have been suggested
by an article of our own, we clip from
the leading column Of the Parsons SIN,
and was written by NJ. W. Reynolds,
one of the most vigorous and practical
writers in the west:
There is work for the farmers, the
rranocrs, The industrial classes 10 do.
And Mr.. Murdoch. state senator, and
editor of the Wichita EAGLE, tells in
rood measure, published elsewhere in
our columns, the work to he done, and
how TO do il. Mr. Murdoch has been
in the state some sixteen years, has
had large legislative experience, and
ouobt TO know what he is talking
about.
The farmers will control the next
LEGISLATURE as they ought long since to
have done. Reform is needed in every
lcnar,mcut. the laws for the assess
,nept and collection of taxes, school
matters, railroad affairs, expenses Of
courts, public appropriations, etc. If
our memory serves us about SfVoo
went and was wasted upon ncwspa-
pers. large proportion of which was
paid TO the Kansas City Times, II.
Louis Globe and other papers outside
of the state If honorable % lcgisla-
tors want newspapers, let them sub
scribe and pay for them as other pco-
pie do.
Our public institutions are run at an
enormous and cNtravagant expense.
The first thing the farmers should do
is to remove the charitable institu-
lions to Topeka, directly under the eye
and control of the legislature, and the
educational institutions to Law
renee. the seat of our noble uni
yers,tv. Keeping up high school
at Manhattan at the expense of the
state is a fraud upon the common
wealth. And the state has no more
need of running a farm than black
smiths shop We believe thoroughly
and fully in scientific culture. But the
Agricultural college, so called, should
be an appendage TO the University,
thus dispensing with the services OF
duplicate faculty. Ten acres is enough
to illustrate the theories taught in the
laboratory. And that is all that the
students of agriculture need, AN eX-
detrimental farm TO test the truths ana
theories taught in the book and the la
boratory. One acre of the soil viii
test an experiment as well as NIFTY
acres. A quarter section OF Kansas
dirt is not required for purposes of
chemical analysis. If the religious de-
nominations want TO build up scotia
riau one horse colleges upon every |
mound, that is their business. They |
nav their money. But ii is 40 reason
WHY the state should invest i'll the eN-
"c..slvc folly.
The railroad assessment law needs
10 be torn up. root and branch. It's a
fraud. One rule of taxation for cor
poratioms and another for the farmers
is not just the thing. If railroads are
to be taxed upon their net earnings,
let our farms and farmers be taxed ac-
corlng TO the same rule. The railway |
assessor needs mansard put on him
at once The supcriluous work of that
ofiicious individual should be stopped
instantcr. That hole the farmers Will
plug up this winter, or we mistake
their spirit.
The expenses of oar courts arc cnor-
mously high They must be greatly
reduced. The fact is there must be
looping of and cutting down every
where. And the farmers will do IT.
They know how il is with themselves