New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-28
VINDICATLNG KANSAS.
AGAINST THE EASTERN MORTGAGE SCAN.
DALS
AN OVERWHELMING POPULAR VERDICT AGAINST
THE SPECULATIVE AIARMIsTs.

hN OVERWHELMING OfbLAh NE6DlII AOAlN 81
THE SPECULATIVE ALARMIsTs.
TO tAe EDITOR Of The Tribune.
Sir: From time to time letters from Kansas
signed Frank Wikeson have been published in
| sThe New.Yorl, Tlmesp and other Eastern papers
Their writer displays more imagination than regard
for truth For time the purpose Of these letters
was 10 me ipcomprehensible. Then came the late
political campalrn and with IL what IS known here
as the Galloway circular, statement In tabulated
form purportng TO give by counties the mortgage in
debtedness OF Kansas from an actual examination OF
the records Galloway was tho chairman OF tho
State Democratic Committee. Tho surface purpose
OF the circular was to create panic and stampede
| the farmers into voting the Democratic ticket AS
this printed campaign lie began TO circulate the proof
Of its fasity came TO the 'front.' No investigation OF
the records had been made. Tho figures given were
| not authentic but simply giesses This Gallo
way circular was Of the kidney as the letters
Of wilkeson. who said in The Tines Of December
10:
As predicted in the columns Of "Thc Tines some
months ago the farm mortgage question has entered
Western politics. The tariff cut no figure during the
last campaign in this State The farmers did not
understand The question, but they did understand the
operations OF poverty creating farm mortgages They
knew to a cent the sum they paid out as interest
money. but they do not realize that the mortgages
are tho legitimate children OF the war tariff Re
pubHcans and Democrats alike struck at the instTu-
| ment Of Oppression which they plainly saw, while
tho tariff. which created the conditions which make
the laying OF mortgages necessity thfouEhout me
agricultural West was hidden from their limited IN
elleotual vision So they demanded mortgage reform
instead OF tariff reform and tip Kansas farmers nave
elected sufficient number OF state Senators and Rep
esenaves 10 insure the enactment Of tho protective
laws which they desire. Candidates ior we Kansas
selves 10 vote Tor Inc desired legislation Almost all
tho candidates who so pledged themselves were
elected. And candidates who did not pledge them
| selves so TO vote were very generally defeated.
For present purposes 1 will accept as true that
The farn.mortvava ouest,on entered Kansas politics
| In the recent election. Who put it therel 1t was
done officially BY the Democratic Central Committee
| by means OF tho Galloway circular. This party,
through its press and campaign speakers, from its
candidate for Governor down, in every county seat
| In every schoolhouse echoed and reechoed The IN
famous libel the state Of Kansas, until the very
skies rang with their camor that Kansas farmers
tho victims Of poverty creating mortgages, the
| legitimate children OF the tariff" The Pres-
dental candidate Of the Union Labor party made
personal canvass and 600 Union Labor professional
| agltators marched up and down the state ranting
against Eastern capitalists Every effort was made
by these combined forces TO fire the farmers hearts
| and gather them Into the Democratic fold The Re
publican pnsss and speakers met these alarmists by
simply pointing to Kansas aud It's wondrous develop
ment tho object lesson being before tho eyes Of every
Kansan The result Of the campaign IS THAI Of 1874 state
Senators and Representatives. only eight wero elected
who in anywlse affiliated with tho Galloway-Wilkeson
| eampaleu And yet according to Mr. wkeson's
| letter OF December . Kansas must have gone Demo
| cratic for Il was the Democrats and Union Labor
| candidates who made the pledges quoted above. In
| NO state OF the Union tho principles OF the
Republican party more fully apd ably pressed upon
The voters than IN Kansas. Protection TO homo in
dustries and a home market we're the themes OF
| our Republican press and orators. The world knows
how Kansas went at the election. The kansas
farmers themselves have given the lie to these reek
| less vapoHngs.
Campaign lies should subslde with the campaagn
but Mr.. wflkeson, under date Of December in
| d The New.York Timesn again renews his attacks
| ON Kansas There "a no excuse for this new crazy
| patchwork OF ISLANDERS upon tho State IN which.
BIZ the slmpI, rse IN values 81 real estate, no has
| become wealthy In Leavenworih County. according
10 the leading paper OF Leayenworth. Mr.. Wllkeson
owns 100000 worth OF real estate. He Is credited
with 10 600 acres IN saline County. As real estate
Spectator he Is a success farmer he Is failure
| This Is the opening paragraph Of his letter;
| gaiina Kan. Dee a-On all Kansas highways
which lead from the arid 1.-THE land west of the
| One hundrcdih meridian arc whmcapped wagons -
here two there three yonGsT S S1I a seorc t
by tho Mexican sirOcco's fiery breath last slmmcr
The DISCOURAGED people who ride ~ these wagons know
\ that tho American desert SIN cAlsts
| The ono hundrcdth meridian passes through Kan.
sas FIVE counties west OF Ssllna. What no calls
arid zone Is tho western frontier on tho Colorado line
The above f. simply text for he applies his opening
sentence broadly and generally to the State at large
| How man In HIS senses could SIT at a desk in tho
elm. beund city OF Saliva. whero 10000 people lve
with rs electric lights. its water works. its four col
| eges its street-cars, and let his Imagination
away With his brain, so long single honest
| lion puIsates I'm his heart. Is beyond conception
would like I'm charity 10 believe that no Is insane
but there Is method running all through his SEEM
ing madness--the same thread Is found IN tho Cal
| oway circular and In all The writings and speeches
of tho Buzzards.'
Galloway, wllleson and their confedcracs arc
seeking to inIure the credit OF Kansas. They revel
| In falling values throw doubt over Investments
| fflghten capital with Tho bogy Of banded farmers.
| aud hint at reputation. Railroad and other stocks
viii thus DO deprecated. and money be made on
| Wall Street Garry CONSERVATION TO tImd capital
| and money will no longer Freely o3me 10 Kansas,
| loans viii be called In, and foreclosures pressed
/ And then the wrecler appe7S on the sceno and
gets IN his work, for which he has watched AMI
| planned Vast cattle syndica'es VIII feed their
| herds whore now are beautiful farms. the homes OF
| happy farmers
| Either some such object dWelS III ihe minds OF
| these men, or they arc Insane ,.., 49,
| am homesieader, living on my homestead Els
County has been my nS%s Sc9 ese plains az
| America have seen the plough hst Slowly, then
| rapidly. conquer the American desert have seen
Tie realm OF profitable cultivation expand from tho
Missouri River untll it now eniplaSeS me irrigated
| Mountains Tho tale OF Aladdin aud his lamp IS al
| most commonplace compared with me growth OF
| Kansas and as rapid changes from ne wild plains
OF few years ago 10 the prosperous state U now Is.
| The motto OF the state IS CHARACTERISTIC; Through
| difficulties TO the stars Kansas las bad her ups
| and downs Sometimes her towns have been huilded
I'm adyrnce OF her real necessities TX 50, the town
patiently waits. and in o short Tine the country
catches up She has had border ruihans ana drouths,
Indians and Rrasshoppcrs and yet true 70 her motto
she presses. on to the stars; For every man who
has made a failure I'm Kansas can name dozen who
| have been successful. For every man tbal can DO
| found who has lost money In her real estate can
| name Won hundred who have become independent
owners OF Kansas farms. For every local crop failure
I'm Kansas l can point 10 more N INC ODE states;
In the brief pcrIod OF rs Statehood kansas mas raised
| more good ciop than any Of rs sister Staics But
the chlefest pride OF Kansas IS IN its men ana women
| Inc state which banIshed the saloon VIII Ieaiously
| guard us honor ., H. a.,
Kansss asks no other rule TO be measured by than
| that OF experience Judge Us by inc past, Judge
ms by what we have accomplished We Sn MI, 90 as
| well In the future hoNHN7AHNDI-i'
| Ellsworth, Kan, Jan. D. loe0
| ,N.r A N IUEHTER