Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-04-17
Kansas Sufferers.
Los ANGELES, April 16, 1875.

EDITOR HERALD: We find the fol-
lowing in your issue this morning:
Some cold-hearted misanthrope has
been forwarding kilograms to this
coast to the effect that the Kansas suf-
fers were bountifully supplied and
there was no necessity for further ef-
forts to relieve their wants. Many
letters just received by respectable cit
izens of this city shows how false and
wicked these reports are. We give a
few extracts: l
KANsAs-I have been connected with the
work oil the American Bible Society for twen-
ty-five years, but have never made such
report as this one. There is literally no mon
ey circulating save what is sent nom the East
to keep our people from starving, and that is
only moity of what Is needed.
tleman is that Il has hssoYB Besa who this gen.
with the American Bible Society so
long, and although you endorse him
as "a respectable citizen of this city,"
we feel it duty as a citizen of Kan
sas, but recently from that State, to
correct the statement he has made
above. First, we acknowledge that
the State of Kansas, and more especi-
ally the Western portion of it, was
greatly injured last season by drought,
chintz-bugs and grasshoppers, and the
people in some sections needed aid;
still the State, taken as whole raised
much more than enough to support
her entire population If it had been
equally divided, anu the great mistake
the people or Kansas made was allow
ing set of beggers to flood the East
and West making such statements as
we find in your paper this morning.
To be sure, money is not lying around
on the street corners to be picked up
by every passer by, yet, if one has
anything to sell land the majority of
them have, except the people in the
new counties that had not been there
long enough to get start before they
were visited by the grasshOpper
plague last season.. they can always
find it at from II to Is per cent. on
from one to five years time.
Many are coming to this State
hoping to find a better climate and at
the same time better their condition
financially, but, ii what our American
Bible Society man says is true, "that
there is literally no money circulating
save what is sent from the East,n it is
self evident that the large numbers
that are coming to this State from
Kansas could not get here as it is
rather an expensive journey. Hun
dreds vi people have already crossed
the Rocky mountains this Spring ex-
pecting to settle on the Pacific coast,
and many more no doubt will follow,
and q majority of them purchase
homes and remain here if this country
meets their expectations, hence facts
only should be published that will
bear the test of investigation. Such
statements as the above however In
relation to Kansas will not make
friends for this country among the
better class of people in Kansas, for
every resident of that State knows it
is untrue and, therefore, dislikes to
see such statements published, al
though he may have left the State
never to return. q s..is sli. s. ig.. i.
sa agA LOUIS WALKER.
Mr.. WALKER is mistaken in say
ing we endorsed the Agent of the
American Bible Society-neither did
we say he was citizen of this city.
But, We did say these letters were re-
ceived by respectable citizens of this
city. We have no other means of
getting at the truth of the condition
of affairs In Kansas than through the
mails and from those who come direct
from there. AS we are anxious the
truth shall be known, we will pub.
lish everything that seems to come
from reliable source. MR.. WALKER
has been a citizen of Kansas for many
years and an editor of journal of
some prominence in that State and
ought to know the condition Of affairs
there as well as the Bible Agent. Our
object in publishing these extracts
from Kansas letters was, not to offend
the people there, but to do them good,
therefore, we have no apologies to
offer. MR.. WALKERS statement
speaks for itself, and no people In the
United States will be more delighted
to receive favorable news from Kan-
sas than the Californians, for no peo-
lule have contributed more literally to
Wat they considered a relief to suf-