Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-23

IHdb JOu COLu0 W OO4l bu0 pOOD4O VI
Kansas? Your products in 1889 were
estimated by the department of agri-
culture at $43,OOO,OOO Those OF
Kansas at $78,OO0OOO. Your yield of
corn per acre was 1OI bushels, that
of Kansas 26s You had $4,000
head of horses IN 1889, Kansas had
$4,000. You had $4,000 head OF
attic, Kansas had 100000 You
b ad 100000 head Of sheep and hogs,
K ansas had 100000. Have you
come from the turpentine and tar
falrms, the sand hills and the dismal
sW amps, to tell the farmers of Kan
sas how to improve their stock and
grow better crops?
You, Colonel Polk, come from a
state having as large population as
Kansas, that entered the'.unicn in
1883, that is today goins backward
in the rank as fast as Kansas is go
ing forward. You come from state
whose people support 197 periodicals
to new state not yet in her prime,
less than thirty years old, that sup
port 800 periodicals. Have you come
to Kansas to tell the people how to
stand still for 100 years, like yous
own state? Don't you think, Colonel
Polk, after looking over Kansas, that
it would do democratic North Carol
ina immense good to have several
Thousand of our progressive republi-
can farmers taken to your state?
Don't you honestly believe after look
ing at our cities, our public schools,
our churches, and our splendid state
institutions that Kansas is qualified
to give North Carolina some advice
and to assist her to get q move or
herself toward more intelligent citi
| zenship and better government?
Take a useful lesson home with you,
Colonel Polk. Tell the would-be
leaders of political reform you bring
with you from the south that the first
thing you fellows want to do is to as.
sist your own states to become as
wealthy, as progressive and rs intel
ligent as Kansas before you assume
to give advice. It If q modest and it
is an appropriate thing for men to
set their own houses in order before
assuming to direct others. Colonel
Polk, can you take a gentle hint Of
this kind?
When the writer rode over your
state about year ago and saw the
poor little sand farms. the razor-back
hogs and dwarf cattle, the tar farm
ers in the piney woods, the tumble
down villages, the little log school
houses and the inferior homes, he
said inyoluntarily: "What a God
forsaken place to live in, compared
with Kansas" Yet we witness today
the chief apostle of calamity politics
coming from democratic North Car
olina to republican Kansas to tell the
farmers that they are down troden,
oppressed, and under the heel of the
capitalist. The idea of a Kansas
farmer going to North Carolina to
get information on any subject except
illiteracy is enough to bring blush
to even your cheek, dear Colonel.
Kansas has been republican since
the day it was born. The laws have
been made, the public institutions
have grown, and the grand progress
of the state has been under the guild
ance and control OF the republican
party. Colonel Polk, can you point
to democratic state where the farm
ers have made such progress as they
have in republican Kansas? We
didn't blame you, Colonel, for want
ing to disrupt the republican party of
Kansas There are very few polite
ians who like yourself, wore the rebel
gray uniform but what want to see
the republican party defeated. We
have IN this splendid young state
nearly 100000 ex-union soldiers, Col
onel, who are fully aware of the fact
that every southern political scheme
means first, last and all the time the
defeat of:republicanism. That is.what
you are here for, Colonel Polk, and
the orders you have sent from the
headquarters of your secret oath
bound political machine at Washing
ton to prevent members of the ALI
ance from attending republican meet
ings and to boycott papers that OPP
pose you may work all right down in
your state where illiteracy Is the big