Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-10-08

ive months ct Is cents day. For.
tunately his wants were few. % b VA
reasonably content with the one Rallul
period Of his existence, when tallow on
his boots and prairie chicken oil on HID
hair constituted the only change IN hil
appearances ON Sunday.
Mr.. Osborne probably looks with
longing back to the days when fried
pork three times day Satisfied the
cravings Of his stomach, and when q
foot march of eight or ten miles to see
his best girl filed his ideas of bliss and
happiness. Farmers were not in debt
then, for no money, except wildcat, was
to be obtained They simply lived on
and waited. Their lives were but ex-
istence in those good old times when
the farmers wives boiled soup, made
candles and by the light Of dip made
the mems clothes. The mothers, bless
their dear patient FOULS, bore the bur
dens Of management and wore out their
lives eudeavoring to secure few more
comforts for the boys who now, as men,
would have their wives and daughters
as were their mothers = household
slaves.
Mr.. Osborne may desire a return to
''the good old times" but the probable
tiles are that his wife is well content
with modern life and its conveniences
and Injuries. She would not exchange
her comforts for the rude necessities of
the more ancient period. She would
not exchange her buggy for the old,
creaking wagon, drawn by sway back
horses, of the former times, when shoes
were luxury and when a new calico
dress made girl the belle of the neigh
borhood.
Calamity is ghost now walking the
land, dangerous only because of the
fright into which it throws superstitious
people. There is no calamity in Kansas
this year. According to the United
States census the wealth of this state
reaches the enormous sum of 81 ,646, 0O0,-
900, while the mortgage Indebtedness is
$685., 4S5, 108. The mortgage indebted
ness against acres was but 1857, 145 600
January 1, 1891, incurred as a five
years debt. This would be an average
of 1887 an acre, to meet which there is
an average valuation of $14 an acre.
This is the land alone. In 1890 the
value of live stock was $114, 1000, 900,
while the corn and wheat crops of 1890
to $54,OOO,OOO, q total of
$168, 100000. To carry it out still fur
Their, we have In the five years for which
the mortgage indebtedness was con-
tracted, five times enough farm products
to paw the original indebtedness. This
certainly cannot be so very calamitous!
The total value of all the gold and
silver produced in the United States
during the past ten years amounted to
1861, O00, 900, an enormous sum. Dur
ing tho same term of years the value of
all the farm products in Kansas alone
amounted to $4,000, 100000 or nearly
three times as much! These figures are
rom the census report. The increase dur
ing the past ten years can be tsbulated
as follows, bearing in mind that the prin-
,ipai of 1880 is not included in these
figures:
Farm 600
arm prOQucCe ........................... s5,OUOUO
Manufacturing capital ................. Is 00c0
products.--............... 100000
Total increase ................... s53i, soo, 600
Total mortgage Indebtedness 235, O0O
Calamity ~ balance ,............S $685., 400 900
We have paid off Si76, 600, 900 during
he past ten years. Does anyone i'm
lgine we will be unable to pay off the
esser sum of $167, 900, 900 during the
,ext five or ten years?
Is it not time to denounce those who
ire bewailing the present condition of
,ur people and turn our attention to
by the republican party that
las SO wisely brought about this pres
mt condition, and 'stand up for Kan
'as," happy, prosperous Kansas, whose
,itizens are the proudest in the land,
yen though they sometimes follow the
cad of the libelous gang headed by
Simpson, PETER, McLallin and their