Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-11-01

this statement, but / denounce it as a
shameless falsehood. In 1887 the assessed
value of the property of this State was as
follows:
Lands. 2Oa 666
Town lots ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Sc 6 6.S73
Railroads. .-......--.. .......-...... 4l,222 665
IOtal - o>r'.uiO,I3 Ia
'fFor the year 1888 the assessed value of
the same property was as follows:
Lands .-.......--....... .-....Sl6S, 50541
Railroads -.-..-..-..-.--.. ...-...-.. 52Ss96a
Total 1895, s5O3 47
''Thus, as is shown by the official figures,
the assessed value of the farm property of
Kansas has increased in one year. SIC ST.
SS1; the town property has increased in
value, ST., 215 263. and the railway property
has increased in value, 81, 60T 263, making
a total increase in the assessed value of
the real property Of the State in one year,
of SO, 40, 203.
Senator George G. Vest became some
years ago, resident of Kansas City, Mo.
He invested in property in that city. He
was, it is said, poor man when he came
there. He has, have been told, been en-
riched by the rapid increase in the value
of Kansas City property. The growth and
prosperity of Kansas City is due, almost
entirely, to the growth and prosperity of
the State of Kansas. Kansas City i, the
product of the commerce of Kansas. Four
fifths of all the business done in Kansas
City comes from Kansas. Not one-t.nth
of the trade and commerce of that city
comes from Missouri. And yet this Mis-
souri, Senator stands up in a city that is
a product of Kansas and ISLANDERS and
defames the State whose growth and
prosperity has enriched him by crea-
ting and building the city in which he ut
tered the atrocious SANDER have quoted.
To serve political purpose he gives cur
rency to a vile falsehood, and endeavors
to make the world believe that Kansas is
bankrupt, hat her property is depreciat-
ing in value, and that her prosperity has
been utterly destroyed. If there has ever
been a more shameless exhibition of par
tisan malice and personal ingratituda than
this, it has never been brought to my no.
tice.
"Kansas has been, ever since its organ
ization, Republican State. It's laws, its
institutions, have been framed and
moulded by Republicans. It's growth and
development have been without parallel
in the records of American common
wealths. The Democratic party has
hated Kansas for thirty three years. 1t
has DETAINED Kansas during all those
wears. 1t has sneered at its sentiment,
slandered its institutions and laws. de-
preciated it's prosperity and growth,
invented and given currency to all
manner of falsehoods that could injure the
credit and good name of the State. and en-
deavored, constantly and maliciously, to
turn immigration and capital away from
Kansas. Our State has grown and pros
pered, in spite of the jealousy, the false
hoods, the defamation of its enemies and
maligners, at home or abroad. 1t has tri-
umphed over droughtS and grasshopper in
vasions, and Democratic defamers and
slanderers, and it will continue to triumph
over them. 1t has better institutions of
learning, more wholesome laws, and a
more intelligent population, than has the
s ate Senator Vest represents. 1t has
made greater progress in thirty years than
Missouri has in fifty. The western third
of the State has suffered during the past
two years from the effects of severe
droughts, and the poop g of that section are
distressed by these calamities of nature.
But as a whole the people of Kansas are as
prosperous as those of any other State in
the Union. Kansas has within her
limits as many happy and con-
tented homes, In proportion to
population as any other State. Her
wealth is more equally distributed than
that of any other State. The sources of
her prosperity are just as secure as those
of any other State. Her indebtedness per
capita is smaller than most of the States
in the Union giving Democratic majorities.
In brief, the people of Kansas are far more
prosperous, every thing considered, than
most of the States of the Union.
"It is a new thing, in politics, for citizens
Of State to endeavor to destroy its credit,
to destroy its reputation. to inflict damage
upon its industries. to depreciate the value
of its possessions and to magnify its in
debtedness in order to accomplish poll
tical purpose. But this is what the Demo-
cratic State Central Committee has at
tempted to do. / denounce this new de-
parture in politics as infamous. I denounce
it as harmful to all the people of Kansas.
denonnce it as a crime against the State.
denounce it as the most shameless and
INSCRIPTIONS piece of demagoguery eyre
known in this country.
I'm his annual report for the fiscal year
ending June so, 1888, recently published,
State Auditor McCarty very properly says
touching this subject:
"'For the purpose of obtaining reliable
information in relation to the amount of
mortgages on real estate in Kansas. it
seems to me it would be G move in the
right direction to have some legislation
which should provide for official returns
of such Indebtedness, to be made to the
Auditor of State. who should publish the
same by counties in the biennial reports
of this depar tment. At present there
is no method of ascertaining the
mortgage debt, and exaggerated
statements are made by interruptions and
designing demagogues representing that
the State is buried by an enormous mort
gage indebtedness. This is calculated to
mislead the public and injure the good
name and credit of the State, the result of
whic would be an increased rate of in
terest to parties compelled to borrow
money on real estate security
al hope the suggestion will be acted on
by the Legislature. 1t is the best method
that can be devised for silencing the de-
famers of Kansas and confounding the
political demagogues who are attempting
to make political capital by destroying
the credit of our citizens and of the State"
The II. c., W. & n. W.
TOPEKA, Kan, Oct 26.-The annual re-
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