The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-12-17
TIE GREAT BUSINESS BOOM IN
KANSAS.

The organs of the g. o. p. have had
much to say of late about the business
boom In Kansas and the West, and how
the mortgages are being wiped out
The Presidents message also mentions
the great business boom everywhere, and
we have now standing at the head OF
our editorial page an extract from the
message, in order to enable all our
friends to brace up, put on their mag
nifying glasses, and take view OF the
boom.
Some one has sent us newspaper
called "rhe American Noncomform-
ist, printed at indianapolis, Ind, OF
Dec. 10, 1891. In this paper we find a
long letter from Topeka, Kansas,
which gives a graphic picture of the
great business boom there, caused by
the Mckinley bill. Here let us remark,
that before the Mckinley bill passed,
Topeka was one of the most prosper
GUS cities west of the Mississippi. We
quote some choice extracts from this
| letter:
"Gewiliken crickets It's just royal fun
| to live in Topeka nowadays, and keep
watch Of things as they pass along. The
Democrat pledges "our word for it, that
we are going to have another boom this
year, and points to the fact that dam is
being built, and room is being fitted up
! on Fifth street for a cigar stand. 1t is
| true that real estate is changing hands
with considerable vigor. One agent is
| selling about dozen tracts week. He
is very busy and only keeps open house
| Monday forenoons. He stands on the
steps OF the court house and holds mat
nee weekly. lie is one OF our prominent
citizeus, and signs his contracts as sheriff
of Shawnee county. His business is re
| ported in the Capital as transfers of reaI
estate" and reappears as mortgages re-
| leased.n He is one Of the busiest men in
the county. He also deals in all kinds
| of personal property. An air of desper.
alton is discerna5le on nearly
| every business man on the avenue, prob
ably aggravated by the recent failures of
| the Capital Grocery company, which up
10 a week ago employed fifteen delivery
wagons, and John p. Cole, who has been
in business for more than n quarter Of a
century. This month will doubtless see
not less than twenty failures. For the
first time for twenty years you can find a
dozen empty store rooms in the very CEN
ter of the city, Do you remember old
John Carter, for many years the chief OF
police here? He it was who loaded men,
and women, too, with chains, to make
them work the streets. When he left the
force he had accumulated six thousand
dollars in cash. He bought two lots on
Fourth and Quincy, borrowed money to
build a three-story brick, with fifty foot
front. Now his rents will not pay the in
terest and with greasy and threadSare
coat and vest, and hole in his pants be-
hind, he is waiting till his mortgage ma
lures and he will again become pauper,
He is only one Of many. Il is refreshing
to think that the whelps who most vic
iously have supported the robber system
are tasting it's sweets themselves. II we
should fail to elect the next president our
defeat will not be withouts some consola-
ton for thousands of the fools who are
now so bitterly denouncing us will be pau
pers themselves, and bowling "calamityn
like stuck pigs" a