Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-22
''Stand up for Kansas"

It is strange logic the republicans
used when they adopted as a campaign
motto the vote catching expression,
'sStand up for Kansas
A slight investigation OF the aptEess
might be profitable before yielding to
such seductive and cunniugly devised
declaration.
AS used there is more deception than
loyalty in it, intended as boastfui APP
to pride and self interest. suggesting
defense against an imaginary foe. for
the purpose of catching the unwary and
binding fast the wavering voters.
It is used simply as an insinuation,
without cause or justification. :.
What is Kansas A great empire of
fertile soil. salubrious climate, rich in
products of grain, hogs, cattle, horses,
fruits. etc., and a population of sturdy
and intelligent men and women who
make the most of their unegualled OPP
portunities. b land OVERLOOKING with
products, and abundance.
In all these things it is rivaled by no
state in the Union. This is Kansas at
home and within herself.
With an even show and fair chance
Kansas would be the home of millions
of the wealthiest, happiest and most
contented people the sun shines on.
Within herself and as a producer you
don't have to stand up for Kansas
stands up for herself. The fruits of
her soil are her best eulogists. But
when she goes abroad, without her own
limits, to find market for her super
| abundant products and to buy what
she needs, but does not produce, then
and there it is that she and her people
suffer. Selling in free market, buying
in protected one and robbed in
freights both ways, besides contribut-
ing ungru dinghy in other ways to the
riches of her plunderers. That is not
SANDER, it is truth and an open secret.
The daily market reports, the sched-
ules of freight rates, the custom house
receipts and statistics, all tell that
Kansas is not what she ought to be, and
he who looks at these things carefully
must be poor fnancier indeed if he
does not see that Kansas must be a
debt burdened state from such con-
ditions.
That is no fault of the state as a
producer, but is the result of a policy
which discriminates unjustly against
the whole west to the advantage of the
east; which makes SO cent wheat in
Kansas and other products in proper
ton.
Is that slandering Kansas? Then
were the colonists who objected to tax
alton without representation and COM
planned of the burdensome exactions Of
mother country, villifers and SANDER
ers of their own homes and firesides.
1t is not that Kansas cannot and does
not produce that she is in bad condition
financially, but because of the unfavor-
able conditions under which she must
sell what she does produce and by
which she is hampered and imposed
upon in many ways.
He best islands up for Kansas" who,
seeing her condition and its causes,
sounds loud the alarm and seeks to
arouse the people to sense of danger,
and to show them way of escape. But
he who, to sustain a party's policy
would not only conceal the true condi-
ton of the people financially, but inn
pudently try to make them believe, in
the face of undisguised facts, that they
are prospecting as fully as they deserve
is an enemy to the state and should
have "Stop thief" for motto instead
of ''Stand up for Kansas" -Welling-
ton Standard.