The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-18
NO REPuprArIoN IN KANSAS.

At recent state convention of Re
publican leagues, the undersigned
were appointed a committee to pre-
pare an address, designed especial!
to refute the ISLANDERS upon the Stat
of Kansas by the advocates of til,
Peoples Party.
Thee defamers of the state tina
protects and cares for them, are per
sistent In the charge that Kansas, un
der successive Republican admins
trations has been reduced to a beg
carly condition. The atrocious Grim,
of being a state of borrowers, we shall
neither attempt TO palliate nor deny
Most of our people came to Kansas
with small means, bnt with a large
share of that robust energy that has
always dominated the state, and in 6
quarter of a century have achieved
wonderful material results.
"Our debts stand for our invest
ments and not for our losses. They
represent our enterprise, and not oul
misfortune; our property and not oul
poverty. They will be paid, to the
last penny, in the legal currency o.
the country-not coin clipped, not a
dollar deprecated"
Kansas is emerging from an era Of
general depression that is not limited
to state lines, nor confined to the fur.
isdiction of Republican administra.
tions. Kansas has shared mis- for.
tunes and endured calamities that are
the common heritage of the human
race, but she is neither bankrupt nor
discouraged. One or the newest states
in settlement, she is one of the fore
most in the magnitude of her wealth
and the fertility of her resources.
Kansas has been under the uninter-
rupted control of the Republican
party since the date of its admission
as state, and an imperial common.
wealth has been developed. A mag
nificent capitol building, and charita-
BILE institutions, with superb equipage
aggregating in cost S6.OO0,OOO, have
been built and paid for, and the state
has not lost dollar by defalcation or
dishonesty of public officials.
The total assessed valuation of prop
ertyin the State is SS4S, 1000, 900, which
represents an actual valuation of
81 ,392, 000,0 The assessed valuation
of the state is five times as great as that
of Florida or Delaware, three that of
South Carolina, double that of Ala
hama, Arkansas or Mississippi, SI0,-
100000 greater than Maine, S96, 600 900
more than New Hampshire, Sls7 ,OOO,-
600 more than Vermont, and only Sl0,-
100000 below the old and wealthy
state of Connecticut.
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, during the last de-
cade, increased 43 per cent, that of
Kansas so per cent, nearly double
the general average.
Kansas is the second state in the
union in railroad mileage, having an
aggregate of $1,000 miles.
The school property of the state is
valued at S10,6l7, l49. Free schools
are maintained from eight to lime
months each year. In addition 70 the
common schools the state has uni
versity, normal school and a agri-
cultural college-all justly celebrated
institutions of learning.
There are in the state 1889 church
edifices costing 1901. $50. From 1880
to 1890 there was was an increase in
the church and school property of the
state of over twelve and half million |
dollars.
A beneficent system of education
has been fostered by the Republican |
party, and today there is a greater
diffusion of popular education, and a
smaller percentage of illiteracy and
crime in Kansas than in any other or
ganized community on the face of the
globe. In all that pertains to strong
and vigorous state the history of civil
society furnishes no parallel to Kan
sas.
MORTGAGE INDEBTEDNESS.
Official reports from sixty counties
of the state show that during the last
three months there was a net reduc-
fion in the mortgage Indebtedness of
those counties of one and a half mill
lion dollars. Assuming that there
was proportionate reduction in the
remaining forty-six counties, the total
diminution of the mortgage debt of
the state would approximate $3.50
600, and this was during the summer,
before the farmers began to realize on
this years crop. Our wheat crop this |
year of 100000 bushels, at current Z
prices is worth S44 900, 900. One-fourthl
Of this is ample for home use, leaving ]
81, 0Oo, 600 to add to our investments, {
or to pay our debts. Our surplus corn :
viii bring us 10000, 900, oats $780, I
900, and other farm products SlI,
BOO. We can and will sell this year +
sl2, 0O0, 900 worth of horses, and S25.- r
DOC, 900 worth Of cattle and hogs. At
Ter supplying themselves and paying a
their annual expense bills, the farm '
srs of Kansas will have So, 000, 600 as 4