The advocate., 1891-03-25

mo on bno AAfmf replies tuo FARMER, l0e-
getting that tho arat principle Of his oxis-
ten0e is 10 DO independent. And hence
executions are being made on thousands Of
Kansas farms, know Of ono legal Arm
which has 1900 foreclosure cases from &
single trust company.
THE DAMAGING, RUMoUs EEFECr OF THE
BOOM
The Governor thus continues 10 In
form:
The people on the high lands, where there
Is no rainfall, cling most hopefully 10 their
lands. general condition Of floodtide has
been followed by a corresponding Obb. We
grow here between 1884 and 1888 as no
period ever grew before; we added twenty
Ave counties and 100000 population, and
built in those four years 5000 miles Of rail-
road In Kansas, ffth OF tho Oarth's cir
cumforence. Can you wonder that several
Of those counties are now here requesting 10
be disbanded and relieved Of tho expense Of
a separate county government, and that
thousands Of people are returning whence
they came and further oast2 Every town
site has been doomed. Electric lights,
street cars, tho improvements Of old and
rich cities have been introduced. A variety
Of taxation has grown out OF 30 much activ-
ity. People left lands worth $40 an acre In
this region, whore the land was good, TO 60
TO remote new counties, whore the rainfall
was rare, and pay $40 an acre there In
deed, all over the new west real estate has
been held higher than in the most prosper
GUS towns in the east. Wichita lots we're
rated several hundred per cent. above prop
erty in Reading, Pa, or Canton, D. There
were at least three agents lending money on
farms In every new Kansas town. Some Of
the people would goAnd pro-empt land from
the government which cost them only 500,
would borrow $500 10 $500 upon 10 and Let
tho land 90 TO the lender. But, after all, 10
DO sold out is bitterness aud evaporation.
The Republicans received the blow because
they we're 10 nearly in absolute power, and
carried, in 1883, 1OA out OF the lO8 counties
There we're counties in the state for long after
the war where not a single Democratic vote
was cast. My majority and Harrlson's rose
above $4,000. My predecessor, Governor
Martin, exclaimed in vain against extending
80 much aid TO railroads. The drought
came, and next a vast yield Of corn-14O,-
100000 bushels--and 100000 bushels Of
wheat in single year. That redundant
crop blocked the railroads, and they could
not carry il away. Ten cents bushsl TO
take IL of and 10 cents bush0l as los price
completed the despair. A general CRY en-
sued against corporations, against Congress,
against the tariff, against the banks, and for
more money.
"NEw sECTIoNALIsM GROWING OUT OF
THE ALLIANCE"
The foregoing quotation seems to be a
fsvorite one with Governor Humphrey,
and thus he prances on:
One hears a good deal, even from che vet
eran soldiers, about a union between the
south and west. sometimes wish the capi-
tal of the country had been pitched more
centrally. There is a notion out here that
our Senators and Congressmen, after they
90 TO Washington, fall under eastern in-
auences. Senator Ingalls, was injured by
being seen so little in Kansas while Senator.
Since Secretary WindOm's death the remark
has been frequent here that no died ad-
dressing New York Wall street conClave.
Rcstiveness is felt among tho peculiar but
Independent minded people at the intimate
relations between Wall street and Washing
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