The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-01
a pEDANT1c PEpuNCLE.

Old Calamity PETER is reported to have
said in his Cooper institute speech, in
New York, the other day, that Kansas
would not sell for its mortgage Indebt-
edness. We may not quote his language
exactly, but that was the idea he at
tempted to impress on his labor-union
audience, whom he must, from his talk,
have imagined to have been Wall street
brokers. In fact he addressed them as
the men largely controlling the moneta-
ry affairs of the country. He warned
those present Of the evils which would
follow their refusal to give the people Of
Kansas all the money they wanted. The
truth is that nine out of ten Of his audi
ence were hard working mechanics who
had paid their ten cents each to hear his
funeral howl made at the expense Of the
fairest, the richest and the most pro-
ductive state in the union. AS for the
assertion that Kansas is not worth
its mortgage debt, 1t is a vile
calamity SANDER The wild grasses
of its untamed prairies, standing in
their green luxuriousness today if cut
and sold at the market price OF hay
would pay off the mortgage indebtedness
of the state. What does this wild-eyed old
cadaverous graybeard think has become
of the money which the people of the
state individually and as corporations
borrowed? Was it destroyed, utterly?
Ic ~ ilroo1- or1 foc+Ario..
and buildings and business in thous-
and ways? Is it not in the bigger houses,
better barns and finer improvements Of
the farmer: in his extra horses and cattle
and orchards? Are not nine out of ten
of all the number Of dollars that we as
a people borrowed, to be found in the
added property of the state? Does this
old decrepit metamorphized political
hack take the money loaners of the east
to be fools and the people of Kansas to
be likewise? Is there one debtor in a
thousand who, except under the process
of foreclosure, would give over his
property, even up, for the secured note
of hand which stands against it, or one
in thousand who don't see his way to
pay his mortgage some time in the future
and have his property left intacts? Is
there an eastern or northern state that
is not as heavily moregaged, relatively,
as Kansas, and does a single one of these
fully developed states have half the
show of paying out that undeveloped
Kansas has. Does this pie-eating, pc
pastic old pelican of a political parasite
expect that he can go on for six years
preambulating the country with his
penniless palaver and pauper preaching
and not damage the fame and credit of
Kansas and her energetic, prosperous
and happy people a thousand times
more than he and his followers can ever
atone for? Is this pevish pessimist, this
peanut patriot, to ever pirate penury and
cry only peccavi for five thousand dol
lars per year at the expense of Kansas,
and not have his perpendicular parallel
dipped parsonage perforated with pep
percorn by patriotic press?
We would respectfully suggest to this
man, who, for the next six years, no
preventing providence, is to get $1,000
year for representing Kansas, that he
hold his tongue for a season and give the
people Of this state a chance. If he must
falkland we are inclined to the opinion
that it is clear case of must--we would
suggest that he lay himself out on Mis-
souri,, or Arkansas, or Texas, and not at
the expense of the state which, in the
hour of an epidemic, at the hands of
lot of adventurous quacks, swallowed
him as dose of the last resort.
For heavens sake, old man, and in the
name of an unfortunate but honest and
well meaning people, draw it mild as
you draw your salary. or keep still until
we can get the present enormous crop
in out of the wet.