Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-06
Common Sense.

A Kansas man, writing to Hart
ford, Conn.,, paper, sfys many things
that will commend themselves to the
public as being good, SOUND sense. He
says:
"Good and evil are mingled here
as in most places. One who imagines
that all Kansas people are dishonest,
or that no good security can be had in
Kansas for investments, is just as far
wrong now as he was few yeare ago.
when he was ready to buy any security
that had on it the name of the state,
and who accepted the unsupported
statement of unknown Kansans who
were looking for market. The un-
wary can lose his money here just as
easily as he can lose it on the stock ex-
change in New York OF in the wheat
pit in Chicago. There are plenty of
traps here for such-traps that are set
like the darkey's coon trap to ''ketch
'em acomin' or ketch 'em agwine;" and
if there is any place where men congre-
gate and where no such traps exists,
the location has not been very widely
advertised. But the man who has been
properly cautious about his investments
in Kansas, just as he would be cautious
about them anywhere, has had no rea-
son to complain of Kansas. The writer
has in mind a gentleman, whose home
is in New York, and who recently made
his first visit to Kansas. He had, for a
year or two, been investing some money
here, through a trusted agent, well
known TO him for many years. But,
with every confidence in the honesty of
his agent, he thought it only business"
to 10 axe personal examination of his
securi ties before getting in too deeply.
When he went away, few days ago,
he left instructions with his agent to
duplicate those investments as soon as
possible And this in the face of the
peoples party lunacy." The agent had
been for several years making loans on
chattel and personal security, of his
own money, aggregating upwards of
$500, 600, during the boom" and after
wards; 5000 will cover all losses of
principal and interest down to the
present, and the gentleman is only
anxious to increase his loans upon such
securities as he has in his safe.'
Of the pOpulist party and the men
who compose it, he says:
LAS class the Kansas pOpuIiSts are
as honest as any equal number of men
that may be picked up without selec-
ton. That they have been determined
to obtain what they believed 20 be their
rights, is entirely to their credit so long
as they have kept within the law; and
it is safe to say that very few have seri-
ously entertained the idea of dong
anything unlawful in support of what
they believe to be their rights. A few
have attracted the astonished attention
of their fellows by anarchistic speeches,
but have found no encouragement to
continue their trades Anarchy does
not flourish in Kansas atmosphere"
There are many sound and timely
statements in the above quotations; and
what is encouraging as to the increase
of the feeling of fairness and business
among republicans of Kansas towards
their political opponents, is the fact
that the writer is Kansas democrat,
and the article quoted from is published
and favorably commented upon by that
paper, the Atchison Cham
stand up for Kansas" and Kansas
people. whether it is political policy or
not. Only the demagogues, the pap
hunters and the one dead moss-backs |
of repnblicanism will s'stand up for
for political effect only.