The Globe-republican., 1892-10-07

five months at 70 cents . day. For
tunately his wants were few, 20 he was
reasonably content with the one gallus
period of his existence, when tallow on
his boots and prairie chicken oil ON his
hair constituted the only change in his
appearance on Sunday.
Mr.. Osborne probably looks with
longing hack to the days when fried
pork three times a day satisfied the
cravings of his stomach, and when a
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 e1-
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 return to
''the good old times" but the probable
tiles are that his wife is well content
with modern life and its conveniences
and lu1uries. 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 a 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 20 calamity in Kansas
this year. According to the United
States census the wealth of this state
reaches the enormous sum Of 81, 646,O OO.-
600, while the mortgage Indebtedness is
S235,4S5. los. The mortgage indebted
ness against acres was but S167, 145 600
January 1, 1891, incurred as a five
years debt. This would be an average
of S3.S7 an acre, to meet which there is
an average valuation OF S14 an acre.
This is the land alone. In 1890 the
value of live stock was STA, ZOO, 900,
while the corn and wheat crops of 1890
amounted to S54,000,00O, total Of
S16s,O00,000. 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
$780,, O00,0 an enormous sum. Dur
ing tho same term of years the value of
all the farm products in Kansas alone
amounted to S2,5O0,00O.OO0 or nearly
three times as much! These figures are
from the census report. The increase dur
ing the past ten years can be tabulated
as follows. bearing in mind that the prin
cipa. of 1850 is not included in these
figures:
Farm 500 OC0
farm products -.-.......--.......-.... so o.0e0
ManufacturIng capital ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. . 0Oo,0
Manufactured prod gcts.............. A., 10000
Total increase ..................... 1914 SO0, coo
Total mortgage lndebtedness..-........23 10000
Calamity ~ balance ............. s2ee9, 300
We have paid Off SIG, 100000 during
the past ten years. Does anyone i'm
agine We will be unable to pay of the
lesser sum of S167, 100000 during the
next five or ten years:
Is it not time to denounce those who
are bewailing the present condition Of
our people and turn our attention to
stand ng by the republican party that
has so wisely brought about this pres