People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-05-27
COUNTY CONTRIBUTORS.

Items under this head are sent by men of the
county who are interested in the reform cause.
Ed
James Glover, Of Bluff City, Harper
county, claiming to be an enthusiastic
and most careful farmer, has an ar
ticle 10 the Kansas Star on the
cost of raising wheat. He estimates
the average yield at 221S bushels and
average profit per acre at 1852, placing
the cost of producing wheat at 81 cents
per bushel and claims the farmers are
getting rich. He closes by saying
while farming can never become a
purely intellectual business, yet now
adayS farming with brains is a sue
cess" What GALL Brain farming is
the only kind he does. A few years
ago as agent for the town company, he
hired forty acres of wheat put in and
harvested in order to give the farmers
an object lesson, but when the wheat
was marketed the loss column so over
balanced the profit, that it was the
company instead of the farmers that
received the lesson. Since that Glover
has been content with brain farming.
As an agent for everything from a
clothes pin up to an insurance COM
pany, he will sit in his office when the
thermometer is up to 100 and tell you
just how you should harvest and care
for wheat and when the thermometer
falls to zero he will sit by good warm
fire and tell you how to winter calves.
Kansas has an OVerproduction of liars
and dead beats and the sooner we are
relieved of such trash the better.
Beware of false phrOphets, which
come to you in sleeps clothing, but in
wardly are ravening wolves. Ye shall
know them by their fruits. Do men
gather grapes of thornS or figs of this
ties ?"-Aatthe,C VII, Is, Is.
The Nicaragua canal company
wants government loan of $1OO,OOO,-
600 and Senator Sherman wants them
tohsve it. The entire estimated cost
OF the canal, including electric lights
and railroads for transportation of
canal supplies is only S64,OOO,OOO; then
who is to get the SS6OOO,OOO- Doodle.
There is gathered around the CAP
itol of the nation gang of pirates,
who Numbered successfully at the
doors until they have driven this gov
eminent into the most preposterous
acts of bad faith and legalized robbery
that ever oppressed a free nation
since the dawn of history."-O. p. Nor
ton. Rep)
We are told by the republican press
how rapidly we are paying our indebt-
ness, yet statistics gathered by repub
licsn officials under oath, show the
county debt of the counties of Kansas.
after deducting the sinking fund, has
increased from S7,95O92l in 1880 to
Sl4,59S,751 in 1890 or an increase of So
e2.SSO in ten years under republican
rule.
Notwithstanding the fact that we are
hewealthiestnation on the earth. there
are 100000 people who never have
their appetites satisfied in any single
day in all the year, and 100000 able
bodied tramps willing but unable to
lind employment.-John J. ingalls,.
The treatment by the several house
committees of the bills introduced by
the Kansas Alliance members, while
probably as good as they deserved, has
been contemptuOus in the extreme
No attention whatever has been paid
the various fantastic and absurd schem.
es for making everybody rich, emanat
ing from Kansas, and but one of them
has been dignifed with even an unfay
orable report. The solitary exception
has been a modest bill introduced by
Baker, of the Sixth district, for thu
erection of post-Offices in towns of {
certain population, which was judged