Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-11-03

linus, as Is SHOWN by the Omc1al nSures,
the assessed value of the farm property Of
S81; the town property has increased in
value, ST., 215, 1858, and the railway property
has increased in value, $11 co., 1858, making
total increase in the assessed value of the
real property of the state, in one year, OF
s45, I80, 203.
"Senator Genrge G. Vest became some
years ago q residen. of Kansas City, No. He
it is said, q poor man when he came there.
He has, 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. Four-ffths of oil 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 q 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 I have quoted.
70 serve a political purpose he gives cur
rency to vile falsehood, aud endeavors to
rupt, that her property is depreciating in
value, and that her prosperity has been
utterly destroyed. If there has ever been a
more shameless exhibition of partisan malice
and personal ingratitude than this, it has
never been brought to my notice.
"Kansas has been, ever since its organiza-
ton, republican state. Its laws, its in
stitutions have been framed and moulded
by republicans. Its 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. It has DETAINED Kansas
during all those years. It has sneered at its
sentiment, slandered its institutions and
laws, deprecated its prosperity and growth.
of falsehoods that could injure the credit
and good name of the state, and endeavored
constantly and maliciously to turn immigra-
ton and capital away from Kansas. Onr state
has grown and prospered in spite of the jeal-
ousy, the falsehoods, the defat home or
of its enemies and maligners, arouths and
abroad. It has triumphed over drouths and
tanners and slanderers, and it will 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. It has
made greater progress in thirty years than
Missouri has in fifty. The western third of
the state has suffered during the past two
the people of that section are distressed by
these calamities of nature. But as 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. Tho sour
ces of her prosperity are just as secure as
those of any other state. Her indebtedness,
per capita. is smaller than that of most
states In the Union giving democratic una
jorities. In brief. the people Of Kansas are
far more prosperous, everything considered,
than those Of most of the states Of the
Union.
SIT is new thing, in politics, for citizens
of a state to endeavor to destroy its credit,
to injure its reputation, to inf1ict damage
upon its industries, to depreciate the value
of its possessions, and to magnify its in
in order to accomplish 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. denounce it as harmful
to all the people of Kansas. I denounoe it
as crime against the state. denounce il
as the most shameless and interruptions
piece Of demagoguery ever known In this
country.