The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-05
LYON COUNTY FAISuFIED
Ridiculous Lies 81 an Ala
Solicitor.
EHI~ story Utterly without
Foundation.

NEOSHO RAPIDS, March 1, 40.
EDITOR NEWS: A few days
since, while reading a copy of the
Times, printed at Denison, Texas,
saw the following startling state
ment of the condition of affairs in
Lyon county Kansas. 1t was made
by Robert Clark, who claimed he
was authorized to beg for Lyon
county, and read as follows.
t'Mr. Clark informs us that near
Emporia during the late cold wealth
er there were twenty or thirty per-
sons frozen TO death. They have
nothing to eat nor to wear. and
many are suffering terribly. Mr..
Clark will remain in Denison about
week and will then go south. We
hope our citizens will contribute
literally
Who this Clark is I do not know,
and it is CT little consequence, but
his statement is, or should be, of in-
terest to every one who wishes Ly-
on county well. / would like to
know who authorized him to go in
to this business for Lyon county.
If such wholesale misrepresentation
as this is necessary, or is usually re-
sorted to to obtain aid for Kansas,
(and that it is resorted to is a motor
ious facD l think it would be
much better to go 10 work and aid
Ourselves. Our State has suffered
enough already this year, but 1
think it will be found, eventually,
that all the plaques that have ever
visited Kansas com bined, have not
injured her prospects for the future
as much as these ranting beggars.
The Legislature has provided a
way in which aid can be secured
TO certain amount. This will be
sufficient for the great majority of
cases. The few whom this bill
will not relieve can be aided by
contributions, at least the few in
Lyon county can, or if they are able
to work they can find plenty of
work at the coal banks east of this
place, where good hand can make
from one to two dollars q day.
If there are more whom this law
will not relieve in the western part
of the State than can be aided by
contributions in their own counties,
then ask aid for them in the
eastern part of the State. There
are plenty of men in Lyon
county able and willing to
contribute for such a purpose. Let
us try and do something to put an
end to the disgraceful spectacle of
men canvassing every township in
the eastern States for aid for Kan
sas. 1t is disgrace to the State
and to every honest, industrious,
self-reliant man in the State. And
it is more disgracefnl to Lyon coun-
ty than to the State. The story GO
ing over the country that Lyon
county, one of the richest and most
prosperous farming and stock rails
ing communities III the State, is not
able nor willing to take care of its
own poor! Wouldn't this sound
well? 1t seems to me as though 1
see in the near future thousands of
thrifty, industrious men anxious to
emigrate to such a State and such a
county! Perhaps L am radical on
this question. If SO it is because L
think radical reform in this aid
business is needed. / hope The
News, as the organ of the county,
will give this liar just rebuke, and
that the next man who goes forth to
lie aud beg for Lyon county will
get a good, warm coat of tar and
feathers, as his first contribution. 1
will give something toward the ex-
penses of such suit for him N.Y.
self. NJ. J. o.