The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-02
AS SEEN BY A HOOSIER.

ASHLAND, Kan, Aug. %.
! To the Editor Of the Eagle.
! After an absence of four wears, I am
visiting my old stamping grounds, in
southwest Kansas. Eight years ago
| election day, came to what is now Ash
land, Clark county. Many were the
ups and downs the first four years.
Every settler was vieing with his neigh
Dor for the best piece of land. Eight
years has made some change in the coun-
! ty; but few of the "old timers" are left,
but those who have ''held the fort" are
reaping their reward, with twenty to
thirty bushels OF wheat to the acre, and
many other signs of improvement, such
as fruit trees, shade trees, farm houses,
and something to sell and not all to
buy.
My longing to visit the southwest was
intensified by a desire to know what
spirit had taken hold of the people of the
Big Seventh that induced them to send
''Our Jerry" to congress. We know
Jerry is a fair fisherman. if somebody
would dig the bait back in "Inianna. :"
can contract TO import 10000 Just as
good ones in side OF thirty days if
Kansas will provide them a
living without work-any thing Lord from
marshal 20 congressman,-as Indiana
now has the Australian ballot system
and cannot profitaby use its 10, 900 heel
ers. As to their political complexion |
could not guarantee that, as anything
will 90 oh ba,,e fy-Sy,l nfifco 70 :. b,,,l-
saw. l will guarantee that they are
away up in political economy, as high as
our Jerry. Never having created dol
lar in their life they can tell tie dear
people Just how to do it. They know as
much, in fact, about political economy
as last years Democrat knows about
tariff reform.
Having lived in Kansas | am often
asked, what kind of people lives in that
state, that sends such men to congress, as
they generally try to pick up man
that has showed some ability in bust
ness-law, learning, farming, or some
thing. OF course | always tell them
that Kansas climate eOOn makes new
man out of anything, and then point
with pride to his record as marshal
But, laying all jokes aside, l can truth
fully say to the voters of the Big Sew
enth that il is worth one million in hard
cash TO you to stop this foolish bunCombe
about the condition Of your people, and
the only way to stop 1t is to send Jerry
back to his fishing, and make him dig
his own bait.
Look, here is land in Clark county
that produced this year twenty to forty
bushels of wheat to the acre. and vet
this same land is being sold for taxes,
when in fact it is worth $50 per
acre TO any man that desires
to farm. Why is it that land
values has gone down SO in the last two
to three wears? Who IS TO blame for it?
The same parties are to blame for it,
that were they in business, would ruin
their own credit by telling their credit
ors that they are business and fnan-
cial wreck.
l have tried TO make the condition of
the people of Kansas a study since |
have been here. [ have tried to find out
what allied them; what the people want.
| have come TO this conclusion: That
they are suffering from political and
financial hyprochroHdriac, i. e.. and i'm
imaginary disease, and that they are de-
pending upon the medical skill Of hvpos
like Simpson, PETER, LeweIling and
others to remove the complaint by iniec-
tons Of political economy hashed I'D
from the dark ages.
| got one dose since | have been here
by Hypo Judge Bashore of Pratt. If it
would not make dog turn to his vomit
l am no Judge. 1t was my first dose.
When l left here four years ago such
doctrine would have been Missed at, but
the spell is on, and nothing but good
sound dose of Republican ballot VIII dis
pei it. There is nothing as good for the
spirits as a Republican ballot. You
never hear Republican ranting about
hard times. about oppression, about an
imaginary wrong. When we think what
the Republican party has done not only
for Kansas, but for the whole Union. it
makes happiness instead of down in the
mouth. And when | think that I am
better man than Uncle Sam was in 1860.
iE makes me full Of JOY.
| can borrow money now at 6 10 : per
cent, aud when the Republican party
took hold of the reigns Uncle sam had
10 paw - Der cent. just think of il!
Bleeding Kansas, 1860, Now a pros
porous people. Empty treasury, 1850:
now full one. No manufactures, 1860;
ROW thousands of them. ! find the peo-
pie here Imagine the east Is their enemy.
The hypos here talk a great deal about
the growing ia wealth at their expense.
Have patience; the east Is several wears
older than YOU arr, about the allotted
lie OF man. You are Just passing
through that stage Of life that you are
neither toy nor man. Add fifty 10 sixty
years of good Republican rule 10 your
age and l venture the prediction that
Kansas wealth " ali surpass thar of any
state in the Union Where Is the state
today that produces $40 worth Of any
one product per capita, hut Kansas The
Kansas wheat crop has done II this year
Kansas Is as much dependent upon the
east with It's natural resources for man
ufac;uriDg as the east Is dependent upon
Kansas Tor her products OF SOL and farm.
send kind greetings 10 tie east. You