Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-09
Recovering from the Pestilence.
A Singing H"buke to the Defamers Of
Kansas and the Republican Party.

Al convention OF tne state hepuDllCan
league of Kansas, held Aug 26, commit
tee was appointed to prepare report on
the financial and political situation i'm that
state, in answer to the persistent and ma
licious Misrepresentation of the "People's
party and its allies. In its report, which
has recently been published, the committee
says;
These defamprs of the state that protects
and cares for them are persistent i'm the
charge that Kansas, under successive Re
publican administration, has been reduced
to beggarly condition. The atrocious
crime of being state of borrowers we
shall neither attempt to palliate or deny.
Most of our people come to Kansas with
small means, but with a lar share of that
robust energy that has always dominated
the state, AMI in a quarter Of century
have achieved wonderful material results.
Our debts stanl for our investments and
not for our losses. They represent our
enterprise ami not our misfortune; our
/ property and not our poverty. They will
| be paid, to the last penny, in the legal cur
/ ency of the cOuntry-nOt coin clipped,
not dollar deprecated.
Kansas is emerging from an era of gen
eral depression that is not limited to state
lines, nor confined to the jurisdiction of
Republican administrations. Kansas has
shared misfortune AMI endured calamities
that are the common heritage of the human
race, but she is neither bankrupt nor dis
couragel. One of the newest states in
settlement, she is one of the foremost in
the magnitude of her wealth and fertility
of her resources.
Kansas has been under the uninterrupted
I nF 81, IL,
date of its admission as a state, and an inn
perial commonwealth has been developed.
A magnificent capitol building and chart
table institutions, with superb equipage,
aggregating in cost SG,OOO,00O, have been
built and paid for, and the state has not
lost a dollar by defacatiOn or the dishonesty
of public officials.
The total assessed valuation of property
in the state is SI4S 100000, which repre-
sents an actual valuation of 81 1902 ,0O0,O 900.
The assessed valuation of the state is five
times as great as that of Florida or Della
ware, three times as great as that of South
Carolina, double that OF Alabama, Arkansas
or Mississippi, 100000 more than
Maine, S9G 900, 900 more than New Hamp-
shire, S1S7, 100000 more than Vermont,
and only Sl0OOO,OO0 below the old and
wealthy state of Connecticut.
Kansas was the thirty-fourth state adj
mitted into the Union, but now ranks
nineteenth in population and eighteenth in
wealth. The wealth of the United States,
during the last decade. increased IS per
cent: that of Kansas 80 per cent, nearly
double the general average
Kansas is the second state in the Union
in railway mileage, having an aggregate Of
$500 miles.
The school property of the state is valued
at 1857. $40. Free schools are maintain
, ed from eight to nine months each year
In addition to the common schools the
. state has a university, normal school, and
an agricultural college all Justly celebrated
institutions of learning.
There are in the state church edifices
costing S,s0l so. From 1850 to 1890
there was an increase in the church and
school property of the state of over twelve
and half million dollars.
4 beneiicent system of education has
been fostered by the Republican party, and
/, today there is greater diffusion of popu-
lar education and smaller percentage of
illteracy and crime in Kansas than in any
other organized community upon the face
of the globe. In all that pertains to a
, strong and vigorous state the history of
P civil society furnishes no parallel to Kansas.
70 Official reports from sixty counties of the
stata chou, that Juri,,,, tho last tbraa
montbs tbara was nor raInction in the
, mnrtrage Indebtedness of those counties of
~ IN 0Oo As.i,,,ino that ,bsre v.as a
,,rnnor,iouata ral,,c,in1, In Tho ra,raini,g
fnr,,,,si, no,,,tios tI,o tntal ,ii,,inmtion ~
,bn ,,,nr, ,,,, 5oh, 90 ,h., stat, ,,'o,,d on,
a ,,roximat1. e 550 oo0 AMI tbis was Jmrinc
: iLa s,,m,rnar Lafnr. Tho f,rn,ers LaTon ~
,aaIi,s an this ,oar,s cron onr ubea,
cror tbis ,aar 9f ~ OOn 900 bnsbels a,
o,,rro,,t ,,ric.s l. ,,.or,L Sif Ooo ooO Ono.
e fonrth 81 tbis l. amnIa for hone msa leay.
in, S92 600 o06 70 adJ n orr Investment,
o. r7 ~ nov o,,r doi,,s ON. smrlrs corn vii
e Irino ny 500 600 900 oats Il o0O 900 anJ
: other farm nrodncIs S11 OOOOo0
= W. can and viii seII his vear SO OOO ON
e ,,.or,h of hnrsas and 90; 600 900 n,orth n,
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n soI,,es and ,aYinc, tbair annual eynense hill.
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J. 600 o. ,Lo not rns,,I, of siroio ,.oar'
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+ Jahtadnass
t Tho n'ordo,.in,, voc.honds wbo bov,
n ioinnd tho ATianee Cor noiitjcal nnrnose
r oni,, and Who aro ,rDirg ~ make a Ivin,
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d t9iI I'M of oo,,rso fsiI n nav their dehts
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