The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-09-09
this matter from political standpoint,
though the asinine brayings of our es-
teemed contemporary may give them a
pointer in that direction.
1t Hurts a New Country.

1t Hurts New Country.
Aside from the revolutionary utter
ances by some of the peoples party
speakers we have but two serious reasons
for objection to this organization.
One is the increasing tendency of its
newspapers and public speakers to at
tack our protective tariff system. The
other is confirmed habit they all have
of presenting the darkest side of the pic
ture when referring to the affairs of our
country. and entirely ignoring those mat
tiers and circumstances wherein we enjoy
superior advantages over other regions
of the earth.
1t is not our intention to treat of the
tariff at this time, and we shall only no.
tice briefly the habit of disparagement.
or calamity bowling, as it is termed by
those journals which are unnecessarily
severe in commenting upon the new par
ty.
In the last issue of the Times we no.
ticed an item from the pen of our fellow
townsman, B. F. Milton, containing the
following statement concerning some
mortgages recently foreclosed by him for
the loan company whose attorney he is:
There was fourteen QD mortgages paid
off Yesterday at the court house. They
were paid in the usual way, by sheriff
sales
This statement. so far as the number of
sheriff sales are concerned, is literally
true, yet if read by an eastern farmer
would give most false and unfavorable
opinion of the pursuit of agriculture in
western Kansas. If our neighbor feels it
his duty to make especial effort to jot
down for publication such statements in
a newspaper which has more or less cir
culatiOn among eastern farmers seeking
information with a view to changing 10
cation, why could he not have told the
whole truth, and said the defendants are
nOn-residents who do not even attempt
to farm in Ford county: That said lands
if sown to wheat last fall would with the
crop harvested this year have paid every
dollar of encumbrance thereon and leave
ample surplus to support family anoth-
er year? That farmers who live on their
lands and plant reasonable portion of
it to wheat are paying their mortgages in
cash?
Now what is the effect of stating the
dark side without explanation, while
emitting to give the brighter aspect of
the picture in Western Kansas?
The most important effect is to check
immigration and leave the country thin
ly settled. Another result would be to
discourage investors from wanting west
ern Kansas securities, so that lack of
competition among money lenders would
make interest high for those who might
need to borrow, or renew loans already
made. The quickest and suresl way to
secure low freight rates on grain is to tell
the truth and the whole truth, so the
world may know we can make more
wheat with less work and expense than
any other region under the dominion of
the stars and stripes; attract thrifty farm
ers from less favored parts to cultivate
our fertile lands and people our beauti-
full prairies with a dense population.
Then traffic would be so heavy that rates
would be lowered in short order, as the
more business the sharper competition
would become, by the various railway
systems putting in branches or feeders to
secure share of the freight.
The benefits of heavy influx of farm
ers to new country possessing our nat
ural advantages are so well known and
appreciated as to require no further emu
meratiOn, while the only benefit of with
holding that which reflects credit upon |
our country is to enable the political ex-
perts who now have control of the peo-
Plies party to continue their dominion
over the masses.
We are perfectly willing that the pro-
fessionals should continue in authority
over the peoples rarty, providing they
do not retard the incoming tide of pros
perity by their garbled and misleading
One of our honest and sincere farmer
friends called this week TO secure infor-