The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-27
THE EN- aM1ES OF KANSAS.

From the Emporia Republican.
There is no longer any doubt that 1892
will be one Of the greatest crop years III
the history of Kansas. The recent rains
have placed even the late corn beyond
all danger. Our wheat crop was larger
than that of any other state IN the
Union, and our yield of corn will not be
surpassed, if it is equaled. The farmers
have been steadily reducing their in
debtedness in spite of the partial failure
of crops in recent years, and with the
bOuntiful harvests that are now assured,
1892 will all almost put THEM "out OF the
woods
The indications are that an era of
prosperity is dawning upon the state,
but it must be remembered that good
crops are not the only favorable condl-
tons required. Kansas soil may be bet
ter than that OF any other state; we may
have the finest climate in the world
our schools aid churches and homes
may be the best, and we may raise
larger and better crops than any other
state, but if we have not friends, we car
not be truly prosperous. Nature, good
government and the energy OF the peO-
pie have given us all of these other ia
yorable conditions and the people will
decide at the approaching election
whether or not we shall have friends.
They will decide whether Kansas shall
be controlled and represented by her
friends or her enemies They will say
by their ballots whether or not the Peo-
pies party congressman who have sian
dered and miSrepreSented the state that
has honored them shall be returned to
continue the work. They will decide
whether or not Mr., Lewellmg and his
associates, who are advertising the state
as bankrupt beyond redemption, shall be
rewarded with the highest offices in the
gift of the people. 1t may sound
harsh to call these men enemies
of Kansas, but what else shall
be said of them? What shall be said
of Jerry Simpson, who stood in the
halls of congress and said that Kansas
farms were practically worthless, that
men could not make a respectable
living on them? What shall be said of
Rightmire and others of his ilk, who
scatters circulars broadcast over the
country, declaring that Kansas is mort
gagged for two or three times as much
as it is worth? What shall be said of
Lewelling, who says he is campaigning
i'll the interest Of 100, 900 starving chill
dren: 1t is hard to believe that men
who seek to serve the state i'll official
positions would willfully try to injure
it, yet it is useless to deny that these
men do injure the state, whether they
do SO willfully or not. At the same
time their misrepresentation appears
to be deliberate and malicious. 1t can
not be possible that they believe what
they say. If it could be pointed out that
any one of them ever publicly gave ut
terance to single sentence favorable TO
Kansas it might be possible TO believe
that they are working for what they I'M
derstand TO be the best interests of the
state. But that cannot be done. Not
one of the Peoples party congressman
ever said anything ABOUT the wonderful
growth of Kansas, or about her rapid
increase in wealth and population, or
about her splendid resources, or about
anything calculated to create IA favorable
impression of her. They are enemies and
no amount of beating about the bush can
make them anything else.
Nature has been kind to Kansas; now
let the people be kind to themselves by
turning down their traducers and pros
perity will come.