Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-09-10
REPUBLICAN REPLY.

The Republican League Committee OF
Kansas on the Alleged Misstatements OF
Peoples Party Leaders.
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept 9-The COM
mittee appointed at the recent meeting
Of the republican league clubs Of Kan
sas to draft an address to refute the
alleged misstatements sgainst the state
by the advocates of the peoples party,
gave its report to the public this morn-
ing. It is optimistic In the extreme.
The committee consisted of o. II. Bent
ley, 2. P. Hardness, A. II. Ellis, c. IL.
Kimball, T. P Moore, George w. Mar
tin, James A. Troutman, S. B Bedford
and Il. B. Kelly.
The members of the committee de-
clare that the atrocious crime of being
a state of borrowers they Will attempt
neither to palliate nor deny, and from
the platform of the republican league
this sentence is quoted:
Our debts stand for our investments, and
not for our losses. They represent our
enterprise and not our misfortune. our
property, not our poverty. They will be
paid to the last penny In the legal currency
of the country-not a coin clipped, not a
dollar deprecated
The address calls attention to the
states magnificent public buildings
and institutions, all of which have been
paid for The total assessed valuation
of property in the state is shown to be
S34S, 900, 900, representing an actual val
uation of 81, S92, 900, 900 Kansas was
the thirty-fourth state admitted into
the union, but now ranks nineteenth in
population and eighteenth in wealth.
The wealth of the United States dur
ing the last decade increased 4S per
cent and that of Kansas increased so
per cent, nearly double the average.
The mortgage indebtedness of the state
is thus treated:
Official reports from sixty counties
of the state show that during the last
three months there was a net reduction
in the mortgage indebtedness of those
counties of $4,000 Assuming
that there was proportionate
reduction in the remaining forty-six
counties, the total diminution of the
mortgage debt of the state would ap-
proximate 81, $50, 900. And this was
during the summer before the farmers
began to realize on this years crops.
"Our wheat crop this year is So, 600,
600 bushels, which, at current prices, is
worth S44, 900, OO0 One-fourth of this is
ample for home use, leaving $50, 900,
900 to add to our investments, or to pay
our debts Our surplus corn will bring
us $50, 900, 900, oats So, 900, 900 and other
farm products S11, 900, 0O0 We can and
will sell this year So, 900, 900 worth of
horses and SIS, OOO, 900 worth of cattle
and hogs.
"After supplying themselves and pay
ing their annual expense bills, the
farmers of Kansas will have S1O4, OOO,-
900 as the net result of a single years
work. Some of this large profit will be
added to our permanent capital, but
most of it will be employed in hquidat-
ing indebtedness.
IAN epidemic of unreason swept over
the state last fall and many of our peo-
pie were inoculated with the pestilence.
Quarantine has been established and is
rigidly maintained. The epidemic is
not spreading and many of the original
victims are convalescent. Reports that
are entirely trustworthy indicate
the rapid decline and certain death Of
the alliance as political party. Kan
sas is marvellous in its history, match
less in it's resources and magnificent in
its achievements, and the party that
maligns the state and dishonors itself
is already struck with the blight Of
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