Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-11-09

eussio.. depoaaee it as crime
ar-fr.- Kansas. I denOunce 15 as
ana il.amoUs attempt to destroy the
cre6i5 and good name Of kansas
/ IN order 10 servo O pQ-1lcaI3 pur-
pose. / deuo1nce its figures and ITS state
Eneuts concerning the Indebtedness or Kan
sas people as false and misleading. de-
/ 1iOunce it as the act of public enemy. 1
/ denOuuce it as an injury to every citizen or
/ Kansas. i denource It from the standpoint
of a citizen Of Kansas, interested IA the
growth and prosperity OF the state as a
slanderoua, lying, malicious attempt to bres
down the credit OF our people and destroy
the development OF Kansas.
These sIandereTs Of Kansas at home ind
glad and willing allies abroad. In a speech
recently made by Senator Vest, Of Missouri
at Kansas City. he Is reported as saying:
III saw IN q paper yesterday as came
on the train to this city, where by the rec6nt
census of Kansas, our nelghborlng com
monwealth, that the price Of farms had de-
preciated in one year S39, 60 and far
uers in western Kansas were leaving their
homes, sacrificed under these mortgages
drawing 8 per cent interest.
81 don't know where Senator Vest saw
this statement, bat denOunce 1t as shame
less falaehood. In 1887 the assessed value
of the property Of this state was as follows:
Lands o.. Ia2, ~, b65
Town lots. 99'955'95S
railroads. 4t,z11,Oo5
Total .............................. s25O,O7O.1l4
'For the year 1888 the assessed value Of
the same property was rs follows:
Lands. Sl68 558t4I
bo~h 4S'9955'5Sq
Total s2g5, .sl7
''Thus, as is shown By The Official figures,
the assessed value of the farm property of
Kansas has increased IN one year, $685.
SSI; the town property has increased IN
value, ST., 2I5, 263, and the railway property
has increased IN value, ST., COZ ,253, making
a total increase in the assessed value of the
real property Of the state, In one year, Of
S45, 1S0, COB.
Senator George G. Vest became some
years ago a resident of Kansas City, Mo. He
invested in property In that city. He was,
It Is said, a poor man when no came there.
He has, 1 have been told, been enriched by
the rapid increase in the value Of Kansas
City property. The growth and prosper ity
of Kansas City Is due, almost entirely, to
the growth and prosperity OF the state OF
Kansas. Kansas City Is the product of the
commerce of kansas. EOur-dfths of al the
business done in Kansas City comes from
Kansas. Not One-tenth of the trade and
commerce of that city comes from Mis-
souri,. And yet this Missouri senator stands
up in city that is product of Kansas and
ISLANDERS and defames the state whose growth
and prosperity has enriched him by Great
ing and building the city IN which he uttered
the atrociOus SANDER have quoted.
To serve q political purpose he gives cur
rsncy to a vile falsehOOd, aud endeavOrs to
make the world believe that Kansas is bank
ruDt, that her property IS depreC1atng III
value, and that her prosperity has been
utterly destroyed. If there has ever been
more shameless exhibition of partI= malice
and personal ingratitude than this, 1t has
never been brought to my notice.
kansas has been, ever since It's OrganiZa-
ton, a republican state. Its laws, its in-
situations have been framed and moulded
by republicans. It's growth and develop
ment have been without parallel IN the re-
cords Of American cOmmOnWealths. The
democratic party has hated Kansas for
thirty-three years. 1t has DETAINED Kansas
during all those years. 1t has sneered at its
sentiment, slandered It's institutions and
laws, DEPRECATED its prosperity and growth,
invented and given currency to all manner
of falsehOOds that could 1uJure the credit
and good name of the state, and endeavored
constantly and ma1clOuSly 70 turn ILnLn1 gra-
ton and capital away from Kansas Our state
has grown and prOspered IN spite of the jeal-
Ousy, the fal5ehOods, the defaG home or
of It's enemies and maigners, arouths and
abroad. Il has GrIumphed OVER drOuths and
grasshOppers 1nVasiOns, and democratic de-
famers and slanderers, and 1t viii continue
to triumph over them. 1t has better insti-
tutions Of learning, more wholesome laws
and more intelligent population, than has
the state Senator Vest represents. 1t has
made greater progress IN thirty years than
Missouri has In fifty. The western third of
years from the effects of severe drouths, and
the people Of that section are distressed by
these calamities of nature. But as a whole,
the people of Kansas are as pros
porous as those of any other state
In the Union. Kansas has within her
limits as many happy and cOntented homes
In proportion to population as any other
state. Her wealth is more equally distribu-
ted than that of and other state. The sour
css of her prosperity are inst as secure as
those of any other state Her indebtedness,
per capita, is smaller than that of most
states in the Union giving democratic ma
jorities. In brief, the people Of Kansas are
far more prosperous, everything considered,
than those of most Of the states Of the
Union.
at is a new thing, in politics, for citizens
OF a state to epdeavor to destroy its credit,
to injure It's reputation, to indict damage
upon its industries, to depreciate the value
of It's possessions, and to magnify its in
debtedness, IN order to accomplish a pOliti-
cal purpose. But this is what the democrat
iC state central committee has attempted to
do. denOunCe this new departure IN poll
tics as infamous I denoUnce 1t as harmful
to all the people of Kansas. 1 denOuncs it
as crime against the state. 1 denOunce it
as the most shameless and unscrupulOus
piece of demagOguery ever known IN this
country.