The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-18
LEAGUE ADDRESS.
A Republican Rebuke Of tho
Calamity Cry.

/ IbCDuUhCoAf ACoSuCos tDC
were appointed a committee to pre-.
pare-an address, designed especially to
refute the SANDERS upon the state Of
Kansas by the advocates of the peo-
pies party.
These defamers OF the state that pro-
tects and cares for them, are persistent
in the charge that Kansas, under sue
cessive republican administration, has
been reduced to beggarly condition
The atrociOus crime of being state OF
borrowers. we shall neither attempt 10
palliate nor deny. Most of our people
came to Kansas with small means, bus
with large share OF that robust ener-
gy that has always dominated the state,
and in quarter Of century have
achieved wonderful material results.
"Our debts stand for our Investments,
and not for our losses. They Represent
our enterprise, and not our misfortuns;
our property, and not our poverty.
They will be paid to the last penny, In
the legal currency OF the country-nok
q coin clipped, not q dollar depreciA-
ted.n
Kansas is emerging from an era q
general depression that is not limited
i to state lines. nor confined to the juris-
diction of republican ADMINISTRATORS
Kansas has shared misfortunes and en-
| dured calamities that are the commeA
heritage OF the human race, but she b
neither bankrupt nor discouraged. Que
of the newest states in settlement, she
| Is one of the foremost In the magnitude
Of her wealth and fertility of herrs-
sources
Kansas has been under the uninter-
rupted control of the republican partl
| from the date of its admission so
state, and an imperial commonwealth
has been developed. A magnifceA4
capitol building, and charitable instasar
tons, with superb equipage, aggregak
ing in cost q, OOO, 600, have been but4
and paid for, and the state has nos 1o69
. dollar BY defalcation or the dishonesty
of public officials.
The total assessed valuation Of Jpes-
perty in the state is s34s, O00, 900, wkfsa
| represents Q actual valuation of tl, 392-
DOC, 900. The assessed valuation of tho
state is five times a. great as thst4r0
Florida Or Delaware, three times thst
Of South Carolina, double shat ,oi ALA,
bama, Arkansas or Mississippi, SO, co.,
600 greater than Maine, s9E66QOOe
more than New Hampshire, s181, 00a,-
coo more than Vermont, and only SId,-
0OO. 900 below the old and wealthy stats
of Connecticut
Kansas was the thirty fourth stain
admitted 10 the Union, but now ranks
nineteenth in population, and sirh-
teenth In wealth. The wealth of tho
United States, during the lasvdeeade,
increased 43 per cent; that 81 Ksnsas
80 per cent nearly double the GENERAL
average.
Kansas is the second state in the
Union In railway mileage, having IN
aggregate of &, 800 miles.
The school property of the state h
valued at $40, eli. JAG. Free schools arc
maintained from eight to nine months
each year. In addition TO the commoa
schools the state has a university, q
normal school, and an agricultural col
lege-sll justly celebrated institutions
Of learning.
There are in the state 2.33e church
ediices costing ss,S01, $40 From 1889
to 1890 there was an increase in the
church and school properly OF the
state OF over twelve and half million
dollars
A beniicient system Of education has
been fostered BY the republican party,
and to-day there is greater diffGssion
of popular education, and smaller
percentage Of illiteracy ana crime, in
Kansas, than in any other organized
community upon the face of the globe.
In all that pertains to strong and Wig
orous state, the history Of civil society
furnishes no parallel to Kansas.
MORTGAGE INDEBTEDNESS
Official reports from sixty counties q
the state show that during the laSs
ton in the mortgage Indebtedness q
those counties of one and half million
dollars. Assuming that there was Q
proportionate reduction in the remain
ing forty-six counties, the total diInin-
ution OF the mortgage debt of the stass
would approximate 81, ESQ, 900, and this
farmers began to realize on this years.
crop. Our wheat crop this year Of S.
OOO, 900 bushels, at current prices h
worth ss4, OOO,0 600. One-foursh of this
is ample for home use, leav-
ing $50, 10000 to add to our in
vestments, or to pay our debts. Our
surplus corn will bring US $40, OO0, 600
oats So. OOO, 600, and other farm pro-
ducts 81, 0O0,O We can and will sell
this year sl2 900, 900 worth of horses,
and s25, 900, 600 worth OF cattle and hogs.
After supplying themselves and paying
their annual expense bills, the farmers
Of Kansas will have sl04, 900, 900 as the
net result of Jingle years work. Some
of this large profit will be added to our
permanent capital, but most of il win
be employed in liquidating indebted
ness. The wandering yagabonds who
have joined the alliance for political
purposes only. and who are trying 10
make living by the sweat OF their
jaws, instead of honest toll, will, Of
course. fail to pay their debts; but
there is a resolute purpose all over the
state to pay. as rapidly as possible. all
the debts incurred during our period a
The balance OF trade In
30 largely in our favor that the early
OF all our debts is GER
lain. 1t should be understood abroad,
Is 1t is known at home, that the only
advocates Of reproduction, either by in
trigue or artifce, are adherents of the
peoples party.
An 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 il
-igidly maintained. The epidemic II
not spreading. and many of the origi-
nal victims are conyalescent.
Reports that are entirely Trustworthy
Indicate the rapid decline and certain
ieath Of the alliance as q political
party,
A marked decrease in the vote OF
hat party is sure to be recorded in
November.
The new party. under the seductive
leadership Of demagogues, Who magnify
he farmers misfortunes, and belittle