Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-09
AFTER THE HOWLERS.
Calamity Shriekers in Kansas Called
Down by Republicans.
A LEAGUE COMMITTEE ADDRESS
Refuting the Many Alliance AspersionS
Cast Upon the State.
FACTS ON MORTGAGE INDEBTEDNESS
| LEAGUE COMMITTEE ADDRESS
FACTS ON MORTGAGE INDEBTEDNESS
rsrEc1AL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM 10 THE DrsrArcH.y
TOPEKA, KAN, Sept. Sat the recent
State Convention of Republican Leagues a
committee was appointed to prepare an ad-
dress, designed especially to refute the
ISLANDERS and calamity talk upon the State
of Kansas by the third party people. Fol-
lowing is the address of the committee:
These defamers of the State that protects
and cares for them are persistent in the
charge that Kansas, under successive Re-
publican administrations, has been reduced
to O beggarly condition. The atrocious
crime of being q State of borrowers, We
shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.
Most Of our people came to Kansas with
small means, but with large share of that
robust energy that has always dominated
the State, and in quarter of a century have
achieved wonderful material results.
Our debts stand for our investments and
not for our losses. They represent our en-
terprise, and not our misfortune: our pro-
perty and not our poverty. They will be
paid, to the last penny, in the legal currency
of the country-not coin clipped, not a
dollar deprecated.
KANSAS IN GOOD SHAPE
Kansas is emerging from an era of general
depression that is not limited to State lines,
nor confined TO the Jurisdiction of Republi-
administration. Kansas has shared
misfortunes and endured calamities that are
the common heritage of the human race
but she is neither bankrupt nor discouraged.
One of the newest STATES in settlement. she
is one of the foremost in the magnitude of
her weaith and fertility of her resources.
Kansas has been under the uninterrupted
control Of the Republican party from the
date of her admission as State, and an i'm
perial Commonwealth has been developed.
The total assessed valuation of property in
the State is SS4S, O00, 900. which represents an
actual valuation of 81 49,, ,000 600. The assessed
valuation of the State is five times as great
as that of Florida or Delaware, three times
that of South Carolina, double that of Ala
hama, Arkansas or Mississippi, $40, ,00O 000
greater than Maine, S95, 600 coo more than
New Hampshire, Sls7,0J0 0OJ more than Yer
mont, and only 10000 below the old and
wealthy State of Connecticut.
WEALTH OF THE STATE.
Kansas was the thirthy-fourth State ad-
mitted into the Union, but now ranks nine
teenth in population and eighteenth in
wealth. The wealth of the United States
during the last decade increased 43 per cent;
that of Kansas so per cent nearly double
the general average.
Tie school property of the State is valued
at SlO,6l7, l49. Free schools are maintained
from eight to nine months each year. In ad-
diUion to the common schools the State has
n University, Normal school, and an agri-
cultural college-all justly celebrated insti-
tutlons OF learning.
There are in the state 1889 church editices,
costing IS ,s0l,S70. From 1850 to 1890 there was
an increase in the church and school prop
erty OF the State OF over 81, 50000c.
A benehcieDt system of education has been |
1ostered by the Republican party, and to-
day there is q greater diffusion of popular |
education and a smaller percentage ofilIit- |
organized community upon the face of the |
globe. In all that pertains to strong and |
vigorous State, tine history OF civil society |
furnishes no parallel to Kansas.
MORTGAGE INDEBTEDNESS.
Official reports from so counties in the |
State show that during the last three |
months there was a net reduction in the |
mortgage Indebtedness of those counties of |
s., SOC. 600. Assuming that there was a pro- |
portionate reduction in the remaining 46 |
counties, the total dimunition of the |
mortgage debt of the State would approx |
mate 81 250. COO and this was during the sum- /
mer, before the farmers began to realize on |
this years crop.
Our wheat crop this year of 55 900 900 bush
els at current prices is worth S44 600 O0G.
One-fourth of this is ample for home use,
leaving S33, 600 600 to add to our Investments
or 10 nav our debts Our snrnlus corn will
bring us 10000, ,000 oats S3 600 000 and other
farm products Sll 900 600. We can and will |
sell this year sl2, ,O00, 900 worth of horses and
S25, 900 900 worth of cattle and hogs. After
supplying themselves and paying their an
nual expense bills, the farmers of Kansas
will have Sl04 0OO, 600 as the net result of a |
single years work.
ALLIANCE vAGABoNDS.
Some of this large profit will be added to
our permanent capital, but most of it will be
employed in liquidating Indebtedness. The |
wandering vagabonds who have Joined the
Alliance for political purposes only, and
who are trying to make a living by the sweat
OF their jaws. instead of honest toll, will of |
course, fail to pay their debts; but there is a
Iesolute purpose all over this State to pay, |
as rapidly as possible, all the debt incurred |
during our period of development.
The balance of trade is SO largely in our
favor that the early extinguishment of all
our debts is certain. 1t should be under
stood abroad, as it is known at home that |
the only advocates of reputation, either by
intrigue or artifce, are adherents of the