Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-05-31
Let Up.

A man giving his name as George
Brooks, with wife and five children
ranging In age from four to fourteen
years, arrived at st. Joseph, No, from
Western Kansas, having walked the
entire distance. They were bound for
Sigourney, their old home, and their
condition was pitiful. Their shoes had
been worn out and their feet were a mass
of sores and bruises. They had went to
Kansas during the boom but had lost
their farm and stock and had to choose
between walking and starving as their
Deighbors were about in the same cOndlt-
ion, they chose the former. And yet
people will leave this, the best county In
the state, in the hopes of lettering good
thing.-ReOta (LOsga) Eagle.
Scarcely a day passes but what we
see in some eastern paper articles similar
to the above, many of them being much
worse. Usually we throw them aside
with a smothered wish that we could
attend the funeral Of these ignorant or "
ing villifiers of our adopted country, but
this deserves little comment. Four years
ago the editor of the Eagle was occupy
ing the editorial chair on the Smoky Globe
published at jerome, Kan, (Which died
on account of lack OF nourishment at an
extremely tender age) and the writer was
proprietor. During the eight months he
was so employed he drew salary averag-
ing S62.48 per month as shown by his
own books now in our possession. And
yet at the close of his service, with no
expenses save his board and clothing,
only for the advancement of travelling
expences by his employer this young man
might have been the George Brooks OF
his own fable earring the wife and five
children). And this is the kind of men
whose venom is expended in publishing
articles Gin paper that "Pa" has bought
for them to keep them at homel, crying
down country that is too good for them.
We have some patience with men who
publish such lies ignorantly, but with
men like this none, whatever, for he knows
better. No, Bro. Eagle, those shay seed,
sorghum-lappers," you left behind you
are here yet in company with a few
''tenderfeet" and although many of them
have not averaged more than One-tenth
the salary per month that you had as
editor of the "Globe," not many of them
have starved, and we are ready to COM
pare the pauper bills of this county with
that of yours at any time.
| Hora ora 1aI, xua
invite comparison.
Total amount paid by Trego county
for support of poor Of all kinds 1--WE have
no poor house or farm and all bills are
paid direct, from April l, 1889, to April l.,
1S90-S1S306 To raise money to pay
this immense sum would require a levy
of a fraction over one-fftieth of one per
cent, on the assessed value of all prop
erty for 1899 which was 81, 100000. Our
population, as given by the assessors re-
turns for 1889 was 1884, so that fraction
over nine cents each will maintain our
poor.
OF this population, but two are regular
county charges, while temporary aid is
rendered at times to some unfortunate in
times of sickness, loss by fire etc: We
have also reduced the mortgages in
debtness of the county over seven per
cent since Jan. l. 1890, as shown by the
records, and there is not single sherifs
sale advertised in the county today.
Twenty years ago, when we used to
drive cattle across where the beautiful
village of Keota now stands, had we
ventured to predict that the thousand of
acr es of untitled 'crawfsh" lands would
today have been considered the cream of
Iowa farms, surrounding a prosperous
town, jury would have been at once
impanneled to test our sanity, yet such
is the case. Ii, in twenty years, We too do
not solve the agricultural problem here,
then pitch into US. In the mean time, let
up. Spring hopes by July hot winds de-
ferred, oft maketh the Kansan heart sick,
but it is but mild collie compared to the
awful cholera produced by the average
semi-annual starving Kansas yarn spun
by the high-collared idiots of the eastern
press. As the good old Quaker said,
"does thee think, neighbor Jones, that
thy OK can draw a heavier load by max
| ing sport of mine" Let up.