The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-13

LATURE.
| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
1t is true that the people of Kansas
and of this nation have had just cause
| for organizing Alliances and complain
| ing of the government of both state and
nation. The Farmers Alliance was a
good step towards reform. Had they
| kept out of politics they could have de-
manded reasonable laws from one or the
other old parties and got them. They
| had the power to do so, but whenever
there is al uprising OF the people that Is
likely to become a power, the cranks
and smart alexis are ready to help or
ganize, and they are generally good
takers and push themselves forward to
secure the Offices. And this is just what
state. Enough of them got elected TO
the house of representatives to control
the legislature on joint ballot, and there
was good deal expected of them by the
Alliance. And what have they done?
One thing that was demanded of them
was to defeat Mr. ingalls,. They were
forced to down him. Had it not been
for the threat made that any one of them
who cast vote for ingalls, would never
live to see his family again. and being
watched day and night, l think Mr..
ingalls, would have been elected. The
next main question they were to attend
to was the money power, and the mort
gage business. And what have they done
to relieve the debtor! Nothing. Some
were almost foolish enough to expect
their debt cancelled by them; for this
debt and interest question is what made
such sweep in the late state election,
for a man that was in debt and who
could not pay his interest was like
drowning man catching at a straw.
The house began at the wrong end OF the
string at this business. The eastern man
that was willing to lean his money in
Kansas at to per cent was not the
man to go back on and drive his money
out o. the state. We want his money
and cannot well get along without it.
They should have passed law that
would have reached the commission man
that become the agent Of the owner of
the money, that charge all the way from
6, s, 10 per cent or as much as he can
get and take it out of the principal and
compel the borrower to pay interest on
money he never had for five years. And
this is not all. He tries to make the loan
as much as he dare to make his commits
sion as much as possible.
Millions of dollars of eastern money
has been loaned in Kansas this way, and
a good deal Of the security will not pay
interest on taxes. Look all around the
Garfield and out to Paramount and
lots of other places. No man that..has his
home mortgaged never need to fear
foreclosure of his mortgage as long as he
keeps up his interest, taxes and lnSur-
ance, for they do not want their money.
1t is only the interest they want, and an
honest debt must or should be paid
Now a word about resubmisslon. Mrs.
Lease, in canvassing the state favored 1t.
and not one of the members dared say in
their canvass one word against 1t, or the
most of them would have been defeated,
and a good many of them were in
structed to vote for it, but they proved
traitors to the people that elected them
They were willing to force woman suf-
frage on the people, that nearly all OF the
women of the state did not want. Air.
Hurt and Dir. Ruble both voted for it
against the will of the people that elected
them. And this was the test vote for
resubmission. Mr.. Hurt promised his |
best friends that elected him that he |
would work and vote for reSubmisSlon. |
But he did neither. 1t has been pub
lished that he left the house before the |
vote was taken. AS he walked out he |
grasped the hand of Boss Kelley: the lat
ter said vote" but Hurt refused to stay. |
Since this some of his friends have had |
published an excuse for him not voting. |
saying he was called at the bedside of |
Representative Anderson. As Mr.. Hurt |
is a prohibitionist, and probably had |
enough influence III the house to have |
passed the bill or defeat it, his excuse |
Will be hard to accept. Had the house
let woman suffrage alone and gave the |
people reSubmissiOn, the Alliance could |
have swept the next state election. Any |
party that will stick to prohibition and |
woman suffrage, it will break it up.
This has been one OF the most ex-
pensive legislatures the state ever had. |
Fifty thousand dollars more 10 be fooled |
away to boom Chicago. Had they given
US resubmisslon and then spent seventy
five or one hundred thousand dollars at
the worlds far it would have done some !
good. The object OF this is to encourage
and the Board of Trade OF |
Wichita is satisfied that it is no use to
spend any more money for that purpose
without first getting resubmission; for
they have tried it to their satisfaction
with both time and money. Now the
members will come home and
lay all the blame on the senate. Ii was
a good thing the senate was there TO stop
some of their extreme measures. But
the action of the senate was far from
the peoples wants. Is it possible for
Kansas, the best agricultural state in the
Union. elect legislature and gov
ernor with liberal and broad views that
will make laws that will do the most
good TO the greatest number and save
the state from utter ruin? Give Us per
sonal liberty, not fanaticsn, hypocrisy
and intolerance. Yours respectfully,
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