The southern argus. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kan.) 1891-1???, 1891-07-16
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
"ALIsTER" RIVALS "FEARLEss."
Political Clans Meet at the Metropolis
Negro Left Out-Politics I'm Ohio,
Kentucky and Iowa.
TOPEKA, KAN. july IL 1901.

TOPEKA, KAN. July LIZ, 1891.
Now that the fourth of July with its
expressions of patriotism is gone our
busy city will move on in the seven
tenor of her way" Slowly but sure
ly business is picking up. The excess
i've rains during the past weeks have
tended largely TO the retard business
here. But it is hoped that the won
derful yield of crops this year will
tend to mitigate the evils under which
Kansas has been suffering, and that
the state at large will enjoy o renew.
ed business awakening. In an ex-
tended editorial the Topeka Capital of
last Sunday gave glowing picture of
| Kansas prosperity and the reviving
confidence of the eastern investor in
Kansas lands. I desire to call the
serious attention of every Kansas edi-
| tor to very important questionable
absolute necessity of urging our peo-
pie to buy lands while they are now
cheap and while the resistless tide of
foreign emigrants has been DETECTED
into the south and other western states.
Land is now cheaper than it has been
for years in Kansas. The failure of
crops last year drove many settlers
from their land on which they had
small loans to various loan companies.
Iu many cases these lands have been
decided TO the companies for a small
consideration. Neither the loan COM
panies, nor the eastern investor want
the land. They want the money or
the interest on the money they invest
"A lands ORC noxrv
at ridiculously small prices. But you
say it takes money to buy land and |
we have none. While it may be true
that the masses are almost without
money there are those among our peo-
pie who can raise few hundred dol |
lars-enough at least TO meet the first
payment-and with this, by industry, |
energy and frugality any farm can be |
made TO pay for itself. The greatest |
argument in the solution of the Ne |
gro problem is land and money. The
Afro American, in order to do his |
share in the solution of this problem. |
must own lands, and if he has land he |
has money. He has home. he becomes |
a factor in the community in which Ire
lives. Urge the Negro to come to
Kansas.
Topeka is the political as we'll as
the financial center of the state. This |
has been fully exemplitied by the not
able political gathering here during
the past week. All the prominent
political leaders have been here, con-
ferred together and gone, some TO the
Rocky mountains to fish, some to the
political battles that are raging in
Kentucky, Ohio and Iowa, and others
10 the four corners of the state, to meet
again on the oath inst. First the Cope
land Hotel was the council chamber
Of the Republican politicians who had
accidently dropped into the city. 1t
was a gathering of the old wheel
horses and the new blood around the
senior senator Plumb. Next came our
Alliance leaders, Simpson, McLallin
and PETER, with their visionary ism of
sub-treasury and two per cent nation
al land loans, in short conference
before leaving TO aid in the defeat p |
of Senator John Sherman in Ohio.
Last, but not least, was the conference
of the Democratic editors at the
Throop Hotel. The future policy of
the party was carefully considered
and about the only conclusion reached
was no fusion with the Alliance. The
great politicians have been home look
ing after their crops. Kansas men are
CONSPICUOUS in whatever they enter.
But it seems strange that our Afro
American politicians are never called
in during these formative conferences
of the party. Is it possible that the
anlnpoA IF this IN "a N
that they do not enter into party con-
sideration only when everything is
formed and the time for voting has ar
rived? With four Negro journals in
this state and a correspondent in al
most every town in the state their in
fuence should be recognized. The
editors should see to it that they are.
ALIsTER.