The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-08-17

tional circumstances, ever did days work
or performed an hours labor that contribut-
cd 10 the actual wealth of the world. Law
yers, bankers, capitalists, BpeculatOrs and
these Glasses Of our. citizens are in q sense
drones in the great hive of human industry.
We are the consumers of the products OF
other peoples labOrs, and the gatherers OF
the traits of other peoples toll. Hence, it
comes with a very i'll grace from any mem
Der of these classes, whatever his political
relations may be, to contemptuously and
Extensively speak of this great productive
class of our fellow citizens as calamity
howlers."
In thus speaking of consumers and non.
producers, do not intend it in any often
sive sense, nor do propose to underestimate
their value as members of society. The
producer and consumer are necessary to the
well being of each other, and in these rela-
tions they are excellent supplements each to
to the other. In order to make the product
useful and valuable to the producer, there
must be a consumer, but the consumer
should not arrogantly assume a position
and claim of superiority because of the fact
that he is a consumer instead of a producer.
Modesty and humility better become his
position than arrogance and insolence.
speak to you in this frank manner be-
cause my knowledge and appreciation Of
your character warrant me i'll believing
that you have unvittingly fallen into this
habit of contemptuously speaking of this
great body of your fellowcitizens, and that
You do not really mean to reflect upon the
intelligence, integrity and moral worth of
the people whom you call calamity howl
ers."
Political Methods Discussed.
Further on in your letter you say:
While you and / have always differed
thought we we're both striving
for the same end in trying to build up our
young commonwealth and encourage all
public improvements and maintain the
credit and honor of the state.
In this statement, you are correct. 1
have always thought the same thing and
have no reason to believe otherwise now,
but we have never agreed as to methods for
the accomplishment of the desired result.
As to whether in the past, / have contrib
uted in any way, to the welfare, honor or
credit of the state, is not for me to say.
However, am to understand you to mean
that the great body of our fellow citizens
known as the peoples party, are engaged in
a conspiracy against the honor, the credit
and the welfare of the state3 You certainly
do not mean to be so understood. What
right have you or to say or intimate that
the 100000 or 125,000 citizens of Kansas, the
bone and sinew of the commonwealth, the
very life blood of the state, and whose
labors have produced every dollars worth
of property in it, are enemies to the state;
that they are engaged in conspiracy to de-
stroy it's credit and honor? Is not the very
suggestion an insult to the intelligence and
manhood of the citizens of the state, and
surely no honest or intelligent man believes
the statement to be true. They. are the men
who, by their hardy courage, constant toll
and unnumbered hardships, have reclaimed
the wilderness and civilized our magniA-
cent prairies and converted them into
blooming gardens and fields of golden
grain. They have plowed our lands, fenced
our fields, built our homes, erected churches
In every valley and crowned every hill with
a school house. They are the men whose
labOrs have produced all that you and l and
every other non-producer, within the bor-
ders Of this magnificent commonwealth,
eat and drink and wear. They have made
and own the material wealth of the state,
and laid the basis of its moral and intel
lectual power. Surely such men are not
engaged in a conspiracy or scheme to undo
and destrov all khaae aDlandid accomnliah-