The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-11-27

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| homes In the United States were mort
1 gagged"
And DIR. McCune. editor of the Economist,
| catching the scent of this "calamity howl
published to the world: THE people OF
| Kansas owe on mortgages. bills of sale,
deeds OF trust, etc, si64, 600 700. The facts
are" said he. kansas is bankrupt and her
people ruined"
All the smaller fry, Tray, Blanch and
Sweetheart, reiterated these abominable
| falsehoods all over the land until the credit
OF our people was ruined. Another repre-
sentative of the insane calamity howl, Mr
Glover. congressman and vice president OF
the National Alliance. disgraced himself by
writing to the Travellers Insurance Co., OF
Hartford, Conn.,, who hold a mortgage on his
farm upon which sew eral Installments of In
terest were due: II don't expect to ever
have to pay your mortgage-the Legislature
will relieve me of It"
Senator Peff + should have known that
there were but 135 % 90 homes in the United
States and that the records showed that only
2,50 900 were mortgaged at all
Simpson and PETER should both have
known that the highest reliable estimate of
our Indebtedness. and which PETER adm ed
in discussion with Burton to be approx
mately correct, was only 100000. And
they should have known that the wheat,
corn, oats, flax, sorghum, hay. horses, cattle,
"
in l>69 and lSJJ, averaged for each year, ac-
tually sold for s2+,0OO 90. and the same will
easily sell the present year for 50 -, 10000
Ag lin, Congressman Jerry simpson in n
speech said: Our mineralogsts and
miners can approximately compute the
amount of gold and silver in our mountains
and L am in favor of issuing greenbacks
based upon these precious metals un-
mined"
Congressman Otis, not to let "Herod" get
ahead of him, promulgated the chimerical
scheme OF the silk paper money issue"
while Senator PETER, who was elected by
the alliance on profession of faith in the
St Louis platform. in one of the recent dis
cussions with Burton, proclaimed himself a
protectionist
As the amazing and croynlng act of his
folly, In the face of the anti monopoly
principle so strongly pronounced by the al
lance and St. Louis platform, the State Al.
lance of Kansas entertained the PROPOSE
tion, and appointed a committe to consider
1t, of partnership between the State Al
lance and u combine of capitalists of Wall
street who agree to furnish S2l, 90, 90 to do
all the merchantile business of Kansas for a
share in the profits. What consistency and
what conception of honesty in adherence to
principle Is here exhibited
Gentlemen, have been thus prolix in re-
citing all these matters-many others are
omltted-with sorrow and shame but Ii was
necessary to expose in the clearest manner
the cause for the terrible defeat of the peo-
pies party on Noyember2 B.
The masses of the people of Kansas are
honest, thinking, reading people and it
would be a scandalous reflection upon that
Intelligence, and their honor and pride to
suppose for one minute that they would in
dorse such criminal folly and such chimer-
ical, impracticable political nonsense and
such slander and detraction of Kansas and
the ruin of the peoples credit as we are now
suffering.
On the 18th of August last 1 wrote, and it
was published in the Lantern of that date:
Il desire here and now to enter my protest
against this lecturing businass as it is now
carried on; it Is doing incalcuiable injury
and only defeat and modification will result
from it. Let PETER, simpson Mrs
Lease. Vincent. Doster and all others be
called home. The mercenary merchandise
campaign must close St,tssmanshi
must come to the front and discus
sion must be addressed to the re ason
and judgment of the people.
stop all calamity howl Much harm has
been done to Kansas financially, but much
injury has been done to the peoples party
by wild, untruthfu, u3guaried and exag
gerated statements. We have passed
through the 'whoop up period The cam.
paign must be one of intelligence, or the
peoples's party in Kansas will be utterly
overwhelmed"
do not claim This as a prophecy. buf only
claim that the terrible set back the party
met I'm the late election Is the exact logic of
these events of the past six months.
"Watchman, what of the night?"
What promiss have you for the future? Is
wisdom to be learned in our school of ad-
versity? II not then let the peoples party
disband. Is it to 20 on into the political
battle of 1N9! under the same generals OF the
last campaign? IL so, 1t will see desertions
bv the thousands. Birds that foul their
own nests" will excite stlll more contempt
and distrust
The Farmers Alliance can survive on the
basis of its original organization but among
outsiders it can and will have no aiders and
abettors IN politics, only from the Old green
hackers, socialists, anarchists ami cranEs.
unless new departure be speedily taken.
The preacher of calamity" must be
silenced Those who cannot live in our
state without s,andering her and trying
to ruin her people. should for decrncy's
sake, leave it. Travelling mercenary mis-
sonaries must be called off Our congress-
men must learn that thev should be advo-
Gates of our cardinal principles as pre-
scribed by the party and not the originator5
of new tangled nonsense.
The foolish and impracticable scheme OF
the sub -treaSury-and tho wall street mer-
camille monOpoly-must be repudiated and |
the alliance and peoples party come back |
TO the original and 1T Louis ayr -ement, as |
made in 1888. and conduct their campaigns |
under the directions of committees from the |
rank and file OF the party. in the spirit OF |
American ideas, or our party will not be ''in |
t." If this cannot be done. let us disband |
II not done all our most ardent hopes will |
turn to ashes upoa our lips"
A,Is Nt,.,N,
cations are based on something substantial |
and honest: their teachings must be practi- |
,al and capable of being at once put into 1
practice. and so, beneficial. They must feel /
hat there is more than contributions to pay |
,rlaries TO a regiment of national and state |
officials OF organ cations; more than dues |
20 keep the slanderer of Kansas. DIR. Nc /
Cune. in Off ,e: more than dues to pay /
7. Willis :20)O salary and expenses to /
ravel the country over and preach calam-
ty, and ruin the credit OF the very men /
hat pay to support him; more than to |
work. shout and pay to put cranks, shysters /
md demagogues in Office or keep In Office /
hose who have disgraced the state and de-
eated the party that honored them
Gentlemen, you are the watchmen upon /
he walls. VIII you tell us
what the signs of promise areT
Thousands of good and true men await
he future with great anxiety.
Respectfully yours. JOHN RICE.
Kicking the Dead.
The Kansas City Journal gets off this
,ost mortem story on Jerry Simpson:
At Salina, when j. r. Burton was
N al5inp his Oneninp sneech in the de- |