The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-02-28
GOOD TIMES COMING!
EFortls OF Cheer From Men Who
Are in q Position to Know
OF What They Speak.
They all Predict the Early Return Of
Good Times. Especially TO Kan.
sas-Read and Take Courage.

BLEEDING KANSAS ON A BOOM.
Chicago Tribune: kansas is on
the eve Of wonderful boom. Her
cities have all bad their boom. This
effect has been in some respects harm
ful. Now there is to be boom in
farming lands" That lie the prophe-
ry of Geo. Y. johnson, of Lawrence,
Kansas. Mr.. johnson has been prom
inenlly connected with the sgricultu.
raj interests of Kansas for over twenty
years For many years he was at the
head of the State fair organization. As
the representative Of eastern financial
interests loaning money on Kansas
real estate he has occasion to travel
over all parts of the State and to look
thoroughly into the condition Of the
farmers. 81 have seen the ups and
downs of Kansas, I think I have
learned to judge something Of what
certain conditions of affairs indicate.
TO me everything points to the most
prosperous era the farmers Of Kansas
have ever seen. Prosperous farmers,
OF course. means prosperity for every.
one. One who has not seen 1t can
have no idea of the great crops the
Kansas farms have produced this
year. Corn cribs and granaries were
long ago filled to overlooking. The
farmers are piling the ears of corn into
great stacks. A year ago the corn
crop of Kansas was ~ OO0, 900 bushels;
THE year 1t is 276, 900, 900 bushels. The
State has never known anything like
it. The average yield will be from 25
to 10 bushels per acre. Careful esti-
mate places the wheat crop this year
al 1900, 900 against SO, DOC, 900 year
ago. Prices are low, to be sure, but
a farmer with something to sell, even
if he has to sell it at low price, is a
deal better off than the farmer who
has nothing to sell whether the price
is high or low. Ifprices of farm pro-
duce are low, 30 are the prices of the
things the farmer has to buy. A hun.
dred bushels of corn will buy as good
an overcoat today as it would buy
when the price of corn was twice what
it is now. The present crop has not
not fairly started for market yet. The
railroads are swamped. Along the
line of the Atchison road alone there
are 5000 car loads of Kansas corn
waiting foo the cars into which 1t is to
be loaded.
"Tbere is evidence everywhere of
most unusual prosperity with the
farmer. Two weeke ago to-day hap
pened to be i'm the town of Salina. On
that single day there was recorded
there the discharge of chattle mort
cages to the amount of $4,000. This
could not be without good crops; but
the people of Kansas are beginning to
zee that there is something beside good
crops to account for it. Now 1 wac
against the prohibition movement,
but / have been forced to believe the
evidence see before my eyes. The
$50, 600, coo, which it formerly took to
pay for Kansas liquor has gone great
way towards buying better clothes,
better homes, and paying debts. Pro-
hibition i'm Kansas is q success. The
men who were its enemies are now
among it's strongest friends. 1t lie no
longer a matter of theories but of re.
suits, and there is no one who can look
sGarely at these results and compare
them with conditions before the law
was passed without declaring the law
a success
ERASTCS wINAN'S OPINION.
Mr.. Winan lie the head of the Dun
Commercial Agency, and has express
ed himself as follows: "If next year is
not the most prosperous year in our
history, great calamities-which man
cannot see-must occur. In all my
business experience / have not seen q
more favorable outlook. From all
parts of the country good news is COM
ing in. Nearly every great industry
is reported to be prospecting, and busi-
ness men of large and small trade APP
pear TO be in unusually prosperous cir.
cumstances. The development of the
general wealth of the country has been
unparalleled. For the first time the
southerners are obtaining as good
prices for their iron, ETC., as are obtain.
ed by northern manufacturers.
The wealth Of the nation has also
been increased by the development Of
immense iron and copper mines in the
northwest. 1 have received news
which shows better than ANYTHING else
could how plentiful the western crops
have been. / hear that farmers in
some sections are using corn for fuel.
They find it cheaper than coal, SO it is
said, and have had such large crops
that they have been able to sell the
usual early quantity; keep enough to
supply themselves, and lay aside some
for fuel. / venture to predict that
there will be few failures next year."
GOOD TIMES FOR KANSAS.
The Kansas City Journal says:
The Atchison Champion predicts
that Kansas is Oh the eve of the
greatest prosperity in it's history. 1t
cites the fact that values during the
past year haye touched bottom all
along the lire, and that from now on
there is certain to be q marked up
ward tendency and most substantial
prosperity.
There is every reason to believe that
the point is well taken. For two years
and half now Kansas has suffered q
severe depression in all hnes Of indus.
tries. 1t was largely the result of a
reaction from the boom which prevail.
ed during 1883 and the early part of
1857, together with severe crop failures
aud an unfortunate railroad situation.
Under The feverieh influence of the
boom, values we've inflated and legiti.
mate business generally disorganized,
people fancying they saw a quicker
road to fortune through speculative
enterprises, mostly in the way of real
estate schemes, than through the
medium of legitimate trade. The re-
suit was that in order to carry out
these schemes vast sums of money
were borrowed, and the most expen-
eiye imprOyements of all kinda varo