Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-05
A RAsi ARISTOCRATi

there is, Ill tuc tIlcOIcLlCui ouu 1Oh-
timental state of Kansas, a very bitter
animosity against the aristocratic ele-
ment of society and particularly
against the weather. class. During
the last campaign one of the watch
words was, "the rich are growing
richer and the poor poorer" This
may be true, but it has been true since
the creation of the world. When
NJ oses started with the children Of Is
rael out of the land of Egypt there
was no aristocracy and all had about
the same amount Of wealth, but when
they got through the wilderness few
lucky Jews owned the largest part Of
the cattle, horses, wine, women and
other articles of commerce. Solomon
was a poor young man when he start.
ed out in life, but being possessed
with more than ordinary common
sense he succeeded in accommodating a
GOOD share of the shekles and about
all the women Of the Kingdom.
And so it has been and will be UNI
til there is radical change in human
nature. Some people save money,
others throw it away; some people are
lucky, others are hit by every misfor-
tune; some arc provident even to pc.
nuriousness, others are generous and
wasteful. Hetty Green of New York,
worth forty millions, and the richest
woman in the world, does not spend as
much money for luxuries as the wife
of Baxter Springs mechanic out of
lob. She walks through the mud
with draggled skirts rather than pay
street car fare, wears the cheapest UNI
derclothing, does good share of her
own washing and borrows a prayer
book to praise God out of on Sunday.
Phil Armour, the packer, started in
life as a butcher with less money than
Walt Naylor, but worked and still
works harder than any man in Cher
okee county, and byI perseverance ell
ergy, economy and some brains has
accumulated a fortune of twenty mil
lions. Potter Palmer has been "bust-
ed" several times in life, but by sort
of miserly thrift-blacking his own
boots and tending his own bar, he now
enjoys an income of over one thous-
and dollars a day. Old clutch" made
his fortune by getting up at 4 o'clock
in the morning to read the first edition
of the daily newspapers, and econ
omizing on clerk hire, plug hats and
medicated paper.
The personal history of all the So
called "gold bugs" "silver kings" and
"money kings" show that nearly all
made their fortunes in a legitimate
way, and the history of the tramps
and impecunious cuckle-bur philan-
thropists, If truthfully written, would
show a perfect reproduction of the
Prodigal Son or the Idle Apprentice.
We need some of these moneyed
kings in Kansas; we are lacking in
capital more than all else. We need
the men of brains and money to assist
us in developing the best state in the
Union. Heretofore we have made
call for men and women who could
only give us theories of sentimental
localities. Hetty Green, with her
draggled skirts and forty millions of
money, would render Kansas more
substantial aid than q whole brigade
of female sap-suckers, fantastical ca
vorters and progressive law makers.
A mopstiCk factory in Baxter Springs,
with capital TO ran 1t, would be OF
more intrinsic valuc 10 the community
at large than the enforcement Of all
the advanced ideas Of the sentimental
prophets and phrophetesses of Kansas.
Stringent laws in opposition togOld
bugs and capital will work great harm
to the state, and with the exception Of
gratifying a spiteful feeling Of envy
can do no good to anyone. In order
to bring eastern manufactures west Of
the Mississippi we must encourage
capital and by liberal laws hold out
some inducements to moDsyed men,