Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1879-09-06
s%LANDERiNG MISSOURI.
IErom the sedalia Democrat

daughters.
sLANDERiNG MISSOURI.
From the Sedalia Democrat
George Alfred Townsend, of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, purports to have
interviewed Joseph B. McCullagh, of
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Nc
Cullagh was at Saratoga, and Town
send ran across him there. Then fol-
lowed the seance which the Enquirer
publishes and the Globe Democrat
republishes. A great many people
know by reputation the brilliant
Bohemian Townsend, and a great
many the enterprising editor Nc
Cullagh but it will be difficult to
make any large number of either
class believe that Townsend would
hesitate very long to make any sort
of a sacrifice for a sensation, or that
under any possible circumstances
McCullagh could have deliberately
given the following as his deliberate
opinion:
"What kind of a governor has
Phelps made in Missouri 2"
every good he is the best COVER
nor Missouri has had for years. lie
has pardoned no murderers nor as
sassins, as was formerly the case.
Every one of them has been hanged"
elias not Missouri greatly suffered
because of its recovery by the
rebels ?"
"They have ruined the state. Mis-
souri, Is thrown away back in the
progress of things and her cas- So
cially seems almost hopeless in some
parts. St. Louis is about the whole
state ; our Missouri population is to
a considerable extent emigrating into
Kansas and further west. In return
we are getting no emigration that is
worth anything. Violence, lynch law
and outlawrY have blasted some
of the finest land in the world. Kan.
sas is filling up with a magnificent
population and to the hopeful minds
of men is what Missouri ought to be
it is the new Missouri"
"Where did that rascally popula-
ton come from originally which puts
| Missouri in such distress i"
"They came from Kentucky and
Virginia, where disorder is SO much
ingrsined it is very hard to tell when
there will be enlightenment. 1t will
be many years before Missouri comes
up to the security and character Of
Illinois"
For one, we do not believe that
McCullagh made any such reply to
Townsend sc Townsend gives in the
interview. He is a man of too much
sense for that. He has too much re-
gard for the truth for that. His state
pride is too strong to retail q SANDER
like that. At best it is probable that
the medium of the interview was
one he would not have chosen, and
that words were put in his mouth
which he uttered, and senti-
ments accorded to him which he never
entertained.
1t Is fashionable, however, in GER
! tain republican quarters to keep one
huge, dilated, extraordinary loyal
nose ~eternally turned up ut Missouri.
One long standing and favorite mode
of reproach is to make Missouri 9
dwarf and Kansas a giant. Then the
old, immemorial partisan horse-fiddle
} is got out to grind the same old tunes
the party of addition, division and
silence have been grinding ever since
, they stole all the railroads and dis.
: franchised all the taxpayers.
The charge that Missouri is a rebel
state IS most generally the foundation
upon which all the balance of the
charges rest. If by rebel state a state
T is meant where those who own the
land, pillow the fields, plant the crops.
: pay the taxes, support the civil ad.
ministration, build the school houses
educate the children, and %energetlcal.
ly develop all the wonderful re-
sources of Missouri, are mostly dem.
Ocrats, then is the assertion true
, Otherwise not. There are no longer
any O rebels. That man is a fOol
who refuses to believe that a MAORI
ty will not rule in Missouri just as 6
majority rules everywhere, and s
, majority i'll this state are democrats,
} 1t is reasonable to suppose that the
, men who own Missouri would go tc
work deliberately and systematically
l to plumber her, load her with debt
violate her laws, %depreciate her prop
l erty and finally make her a bankrupt
: or a wilderness? At last the state i!
only the people, and human nature
: ia human nature pretty much all over
: the world. Hence we disbelieve ut
7 terly that the statement attributed tC
Mr.. McCullagh was ever made by
him, or that he was in any manner
party to such slanderous declaration
But to b facts, a few of which il
. will be well to consider. Missouri
r has 1892 school houses, or al average
: of II to the county. The attendant,
, upon these schools amounts to 448,
O33.. Her school property is valued
= at $8,321, 1893, ard her permanent
school fund at So, 27S, O46 80. She hal
= 40 colleges and seminaries, 5 norma
+ schools. and she spends annually
e $3,424,4O8 SIS to pay and maintain al
e army of teachers numbering 11,26s
3 AS enormous as this showing is fol
P a rebel state, every figure is official
and can be verified by consulting tn,
t last report of DR.. Shannon, the stat
superintendent of public instruction
Nor is this all. In the matter o
e church organizations: Missouri ha,
: 1929; Iowa, 2,793; Kansas $50; Hi
i nois, 4,278. Church edifices: Mis-
e souri,, 2,OS2; Iowa, 1,446 Kansas
9 301; Illinois, 3,459. Sittiugs: Mis-
: souri,, 691, $50 Iowa, 431, 7O7; Kansas
102, 1856 Illinois, 1,2O1, 4O3.
Value of church property: Mis-
souri,, So, 707, 1853 or S. 60 per capita
Iowa, SIS, 730, 1852 or 81 80 per capita
t Kansas, $7O7. 200 or nearly 50 pc
capita Illinois, 1922, 1894. 2S3 or 50 81
9 per capita.
Thus, when the real figures ar,
given, just see how plain a tale will
put down the states slanderers an
n stultifers.
J., As for outlawry, violence, and til,
worthlessness of human life in Mis-
n souri,, even the few carpet-bagger
v there are in the state, predatory liar
seeking whom they may blacken O
devour, have long ago quit attempt
y ing to make that sort of capital. Out
side of st. Louis, Missouri is nov
b singularly free from deeds of blood
shed or violence. Only at rare inter
walls does some desperate rencontr
e startle a community, and never i
y there a political feud or partisan Kill
ing. But especially does the charg
d of rebel sit lily upon Missouri whe,
E. it is known that she furnished NOR
troops to the federal army than bot
d Maine and Vermont, md more thu
E. Minnesota, Kansas and Iova con
80 bined.
is PENCILS AND POSTAL CARDS.
le "A gentleman in Illinois, who ha
20 occasion to write to his mother a fe,
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