The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-04-01
NO MORE CALAMITY.

Kansas is Prosperous Notwithstanding the
Waiiings of Demagogues-Th Calamity
Howler's Occupation Gone.
''One OF the things to be remember ID
right now," says late number of the
Topeka Capital. ''is the fact that Kan
sas has before it the work of getting
up the biggest crop on record. 1t is tc
be the greatest effort of our life. We
need it in our business and we need ii
for statistical purposes at the worlds
fair next year. The rains and the
SHOWS have been propitious Our
people have their ambition on hand
to break the record of previous
years. What we lack in wheat acre
age must be more than made up in
corn, oats aud other crops. The ground
is in fine order for spring planting.
Stock is in good condition. Prices
for all kinds of products have been
fair and once more Kansas will
march forward towards the front
of the band wagon. The wealth
in the soil of our valleys and
prairies beats the mines of Colorado or
any otner state. Every body wants to
rent land and lots OF Kansas farmers
are at the old trick of buying the quar-
ter adjoining them. That's all right
1t will never again until Gabriel toots
his horn be as cheap as it is to-day.
All over the state the mania to get out
of debt has possession OF the people as
severely as the mania to get into debt
head over heels had hold of them five
money borrowed, there is more econ
omy, and a new feeling of independ-
ence is coming to the people. 1t is
healthy and it is good to see. As the
corn cribs fill up the chattel and real
estate mortgages are paid, and the
household from father aad mother to
baby feel better. There is not so
much talk in the family about bad
laws, corruption of plutocratic gov
ernmert and the heel of the tyrant
on the neck of labor AS good crops
come the wall of calamity and
disaster dies out. The talk of the agi-
tator who wants to revolutionize the
world and have a division of property
grows tiresome; the town loafer who
comes out to see the farmer to tell him
about 'the way out" becomes a nui-
sance and his talk sounds like the rant
of an Office seeker who cannot gain a
living at honest labor. The locked
doors of the alliance hall when every
body except the farmer was voted an
enemy to all that is honest, and every
new scheme orrevolutionizing govern
ment and society was listened to with
rapt attention is no longer source of
and deep interest. With
good crops come new courage and
healthy desire to turn against the
apostles of misfortune and despair.
Kansas again takes its place in the
mind as good as the best, and as true
to the husbandmen as any other spot
on the earth. Her schools and churches
are not excelIed, and her people and
her laws and her institutions as good
or better than the best of other states
and thus the malaria of hard times
and the reign of unreason will depart.
Spring is here and there is lots of
work to do. The bright side of the
picture, the hopeful present and the
future full of promise is before us. All
the nightmare of calamity, all the wind
defamation of misfortune is behind us.
We go forward to plow and to plant
and to trust our neighbors as of old.
The harvests will come and the debts
will go and the song of the new crop of
political reformers who want office on
the wave of calamity will be heard no
more in our land forever"