The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-02-16

reduction of freights. we will have
to furnish 152, 24T, 600 bushels. Add
this 10 the above, and we have the
enormous amount of I90, EOS. $50
bushels to furnish as freighs, to hold
our own on the investment. a sum
equal TO 6,34O, 29I bushels every
year, or the sum of 2,756 bushels 10
every grain grower, allowing that
one half of the voters in the county
are such.
The motto is will it pay us to ship
our feed. when we can feed it and
make from IS to 100 per cent. more
Tor could if we did not have such
enormous taxes to pay.) How well
will il pay TO initiate your CITY with
q transient population, above the
natural growth of the surround
ing country, inviting competition
in your own business, and then
to wake up in q few months
and find your transient population
goDe-a repetition eff the times and
trade of 1912. Did it pay the CHI
zens and land agents of our village
to initiate it above the natural
growth OF the surrounding country !?
Did it pay US TO build two hotels
here to be run out by lunch room !?
Did it pay our citizens to build q
mill far ahead of the business of the
country, and then have it run out
by the little mill of L. Armor
Did il pay to induce scores of labor
ing men to spend their all TO build &
little house tor their families, and
then wake up with the first blast of
drouth and hOppers to find their en-
ployment gomez Will it pay the
citizens of Emporia to do the same
thing oyer again? Will it pay the
poor farnar to spend the last pig or
calf to rig himself out with . team
and harness for q few weeks work
on the nrrrOw gauge? Will it pay
US to ship our corn aud pork to the
very center of the best corn and
pork market IN the world, and then
have IL shipped back again at 300
per cent. the first time the grass
hoppers come? But / do believe it
will paw to feed our grain here.
pack our pork and use II here or
ship it to nonpropucing corn and
pork country south, or what will
soon be manufacturing and min
ing country, west.
Goodbye Narrow Gauge.
Farmers, will it pay to stay at
home on the Goth to make 25 or so
cents, while our opponents are al
the polls trying to run each and
every one of US in debt 1892! Wake
up; go to the polls and the victory
ia nf
we are stuck in the mud, but think
way in at that, and would it be right
to thrust the poor farmer through
the little end TO enable them to get
out at the big end by selling our
farms again. File, fie friends, your
craft has gone to the borders. Fol-
low it. We can sell our farms by
advertising, provided we don't have
to sell them at the Court House
door.
There is one great consolation for
US all. We are on the road to
''kingdom come" We read that il
is hard for rich man 10 enter there
And if Lyon county, with its past
is not on the road to
l don't know where you
will go to find it.
Wake up, farmersl Wake upI la
berers of all kinds? Wake ND,
merchants Woke up each and every
one of you; put On your thinking
caps. Begin on q firm basis; the true
GAUGE of home resources
such as feeding pigs and cattle, rails
ing broom-corD, sheep and wool
anything that will bear shipping.
manufactures of all
kinds, such as We need for home
use, and save chipping and trans
portation of all kinds. Dent build
upon the sandy foundation of bonds,
and debts of all kinds, to
be swept away with the first foods
Of hOppers and hard times. Come
1own to the natural resources OF
our country. Build on them, and |
we may almost defy all the hoppers |
and drOuths that may come.
o. LAMBERT.