Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-29
LANDLS OR STREETER 2

This will be one of the questions to
be decided next Tuesday. Every
thoughtful citizen who has the best in
terests of the county at heart, must al
ready have decided which name his bal
lot Will carry; but there may be those
who are not entirely familiar with the
claims that these competitors have on
the Office of clerk of the district court.
So we will resort to the deadly paral-
lel' to show up the two candidates.
Then we find on the one hand:
Harry 8. lands, a man who has his
every dollar invested III Barber county
soil; who has devoted every day fer ten
years to building up this county, to i'm
proving its stock, to encouraging his
neighboring husbandmen, to buying
their surplus grain and stock, to mag
mfying the Importance of thorough
agricultural training, and making a
business of doing well everything that
Is worth doing. Harry Lands has done
more than this: He has regularly, year
ly, paid more taxes into the Barber
county treasury liz any and every year
for ten years than has d. II. Streeter
paid altogether during the past ten
years. And still more: When Mr..
Streeter with his alleged vast herds of
cattle, has purchased two carloads of
| corn. MIR. Lands purchased three car
loads from the same person, and thous-
ands of bushels from others.
When Harry S. Lands took the posi-
ton of county superintendent of schools
four years ago, he found the entire pub
lie school management of the county in
a most deplorable condition. The
school districts had generally overdrawn
their accounts with the county treasur-
er, probably ten being the exception.
To-day the school districts have over
So, 900 to their credit-and but few are
overdrawn dollar. When he went in
Office, the average school term was but
a little over months, now it exceeds 6
months. Under his superintendent
the levies for school purposes have been
reduced from Is to 10 mills. Through
his efforts the attendance at the county
normal has been increased from SIS in
1887 to 1876 in 1890. He has succeeded
IN raising the average of teachers en-
plOyed in the county from 10 to -
years; the average experience in teach
ing has been increased to 40 weeks and
the average weeks of normal attendance
by these same teachers exceeds 10
weeks. In the language of Editor Ak
line, addressed to leading republican,
Mr.. Lands has done more for the
county than any officer ever elected in
Barber county"
On the other hand: d. r. Streeter
has been little more than visitor to
Barber county. To-day he does not
own the house that shelters him, and
but for the small hopes of being elected
to office, he would be hunting new
cattle country, where his herds could
Craze on new pastures for another ten
years, free from all the vexations of
taXatiOns as they have been during the
past ten years. While the average Bar
Der county citizen has been wrestling
with drOuth and hard times, MIR. Streeter
has been bound to no country other than
the Cherokee nation. While It's actual
citizens have built railroads, bridges,
school houses and churches, Mr..
Streeter has had but to practice shoot
ing with his splendid guns, his sharp
scented pointers, orampse himself with
us ileet hounds and the festive lac,
rabbits, with naught to interfere with
his luxurious ease save the problem of |
now small per cent. of his earnings no
would have 10 give up to ''Lo, the rich
lndlanl" His land experience has
been confined to speculation IN Kio |
wa town lots; his only badge of honor
was won at prize shoot for glass balls. |
he tolls not. neither does he spin vet
1t is doubtful if the riches tax-dodring
Cherokee cattle king is arrayed as he. |
He has not caused even Two blades of !
grass to grow where but one had grown |
before; he has not been public bene- |
factor or even mediocre citizen.
Then having gazed on the two pic
lures, we ask the voters, the taxpayers.
the men who expect to make Barber
county their home, who expect to enjoy
the fruits OF honest toll for yet many |
years, which will you have for clerk of |
your district court?
Lsndis OF Streeter?