The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-16
STAND UP FOR KANSAS.


and there are men who delight in revil
ing their own. They thrive and fatten
on that which is not only injurious, but
disgusting to mankind. The calam-
ityite may be necessary as a scavenger,
but it is not necessary to place him high
up on Il platform and make him an OBJ
ject Of worship Us so many OF our people
do. Like the dweller in caves light
hurts his eyes, and he thrives best in
dark. gruesome places. The Kansan is
naturally proud of his state, and were
it not for these men who see only evil
in fair climate, good crops, fertile soil
and prosperous people, his pride might
lead him to believe himself one of the
chosen ones selected by Providence to
dwell forever in this earthly paradise,
where plenty comes to him who labors
understaudingly.
The Atchison Champion has some
thing to say that every Kansas voter
would do well TO read:
IF all the property in Kansas was
in spot cash this morning and divided
equally among the voters of the state,
in less than twelve months more than
ninety per cent. of the habitual Niclers
and GROWERS would be worse OFF than
they are to-dey. Some people viii al
ways travel in palace cars, and some
will use q tie pass anu carry their world
ly effects in Il bandana handkerchief
1t was ever thus and thus it viii re-
main till the end of time. Some peO-
pie viii acquire wealth under most adj
verse circumstances. Others cannot
keep mortgages Off their roof even il
bushels Of dollars were unloaded at
their doors. 1t Is their own fault 1t
is not the effect OF crced5 or platforms.
1t is not the result Of party policies Or
of legislation. We know men in Kan
sas who landed in this state without
penny, whose first meal of victuals
came from charity, who walked out
into the then interior counties and
went to work. They did not leaf around
corner groceries and spout politics.
They worked. They did not curse the
country; they worked. The drought
came and with it the grasshOpperS;
crops were slim, nothing to sell, things
looked blue, but they did not call meet
out of joint, that all the parties Were
corrupt, and that the proper way to re-
form things was to organize a new
party, neglect business, run for Office,
or become lecturers, and make Il living
off from their fellow men by passing
the hat and taking collection. They
did nothing of the kind. They did what
is an essential as it is to work. They
savedl
1--WE know one of these men, who is
now prosperous business man in an
interior county, who walked into the
town where he now lives barefooted.
He found employment. His wife took
in washing. His children wore home
spun. They were taught to work. We
know another Kansas man who walked
from the spot where Kansas City stands
to-day to Lawrence. He hired out as a
farm laborer. To-day he is the owner
of as good farm as there is in central
Kansas. He has a lovely home, an at
tractive family and is an enthusiastic
Kansan! He worked! He did that 9TH
er essential thing; he saved! He wasted
no breath in grumbling. He Wore out
no boots in kicking. He never was Il
reformer.' lie never talked 'calami-
ty.' He always felt better when he
was well than when he was sick. lie
had u treasure never found in 4 reform
platform or populist creed. He pos
seSsed common sense.
I'VE know n man who settled in Mar
shall county many, many years ago.
He moved there from Iowa He came
across lots. His earthly possessions
consisted of pair of poor oxen and an
old wagon, few household goods and
a pair of as willing hands as ever ac-
companied brave heart. He had no
money, but he possessed a capital that
money cannot purchase. He had in
tegrity, industry and pluck. The three
principal ingredients of common sense
were the pillars of his temple. How
abundantly they have added wisdom,
strength and beauty to his life. Soon
after his arrival he found work for him
self and his OK team. Before he had re-
ceived any wages his wife was taken i'll
and longed for Il cup of tea. He had no
money to buy an ounce of tea, but the
merchant exchanged it for work. That
man and wife live in Marshall county
to-day. They have prospered alum
dainty. Why? Ask Work! Inquire of
Economy. Consult Pluck. Learn the
answer from Integrity. These have
been his guardian angels leading
him and his to prosperity and
peace. These men all stand up for
Kansas" Legal enactments cannot
raise crops. Resolutions never paid a
debt Complaining and kicking never
earned a dollar or saved penny. We
could fill columns of the Champion with
instances like these, under our own
observations in Kansas. You need not
go outside of your city or your county
to find them. The fellows who croak
in the car of progress. They are not a
new discovery on earth. The fellows
who confess that they do not know
enough or have not nerve enough to
make living are crying for paternal
government to feed their mouths, mend
their pants and pay off their debts and
set them up with fresh start, seem to
imagine themselves Uncle Sans pecu-
liar people who are waiting for some
Moses to lead them over to some prom
ised land flowing with milk and honey, |
with Uncle SANS mamma to keep them |
alive on the way.
They remind us OF lot of calamity |
ties spoken of in the good book who were |
led through the wilderness God looked /
them all over and saw what a worthless |
lot of dO-nothings and dead-beats and |
hypocrites they were and despised them
but said in His heart: They |
are bl1ilt that yray-. tba,, are the children