Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-09-17
Manifesto By the Republican State
League,


The committee appointed BY the re-
publican leagues at their recent state
convention, to prepare a manifesto, have
finished their labors.
The following address was sent out by
Secretary Butteraeld:
At the recent state convention of re-
publican leagues. the undersigned were
appointed committee to prepare an adj
dress, designed especially TO refuts the
ISLANDERS upon the state of Kansas by the
advocates of the peoples party.
These defamers of the state that pro-
tects and cares for them, are persistent in
the charge that Kansas, under successive
republican administrations, has been re-
duced to s beggarly condition. The
atrociouS crime of being state of bor-
rowers, we shall neither attempt to pal
late nor deny. Most of our people came
to Kansas with small means, but with u
large share of that robust energy that has
always dominated the state, and in a
quarter of century have achieved won
derful material results.
sour debts stand for our investments,
and not for our losses. They represent
our enterprise and not our misfortune;
our property and not our poverty. They
will be paid, TO the last penny, In the
legal currency of the country-not coin
shipped, not dollar deprecated"
Kansas is emerging from an era Of gen
eral depression that is not limited TO state
lines, nor confined to the jurisdiction OF
republican administrations. Kansas has
shared misfortunes and endured calami-
ties 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 foremost In
the magnitude of her wealth and fertility
of her resources.
Kansas has been under the uninter-
rupted control of the republican party
from the date of its admission as a state,
and an imperial commonwealth has been
developed. A magnificent capitol build
ing, and charitable institutions, with
superb equipage, aggregating in cost $6,-
100000, have been built and paid for, and
the state has not lost dollar by defalca-
ton or the dishonesty Of public officials.
The total assessed valuation OF proper
ty in the state is $34S,000,000. The as
sessed valuation of the state Is five times
as great as that of Florida or Delaware,
three times that Of South Carolina, double
that of Alabama, Arkansas or Mississippi,
$4O,000,000 greater than Maine, 100000,
900 more than New Hampshire, $167, O00,-
600 more than Vermont, and only $40,
900. 600 below the old and wealthy state
of Connecticut.
Kansas was the thirty-fourth state ad-
mitted into the union, but now ranks
nineteenth in population, and eighteenth
in wealth. The wealth of the United
States, during the last decade, increased
43 per cent; that of Kansas 80 per cent,
nearly double the general average.
Kansas is the second state in the union
in railway mileage, having an aggregate
of 5000 miles.
The school property of the state is
valued at s1O,617, 149. Free schools are
maintained from eight to nine months
each year. In addition to the common
schools the state has a university, nor
NAL school, and an agricultural college
all justly cele brated Institutions of learn
ing.
There are in the state 1889 church
edifces costing $s,SO1, $40. From 1880 to
1890 there was an increase in the church
! and school property Of the state Of over
| twelve and half million dollars.
A benefcent system of education has
been fostered by the republican party,
and to-day there is greater diffusion OF
| popular education, and q smaller per
centage of illiteracy and crime, in Kan
sas, than in any other organized COM
munity upon the face of the globe. In
all that pertains to a strong and vigorous
state, the history of civil society fur
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