The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-10-04

ing them to have to endure untold misery,
leaning upon Abraham 8 bosom. He may
have to call upon them to bring him a
little water to cool his tongue. What
few remain here at this time as q rule
are not psupers, and we hope never TO
be. We are not begGRrs but we did ask
and still ask for q loan Of seed wheat
While many can secure their own wheat,
some can not, and those who can are not
able under the present conditions to
assist others, and seed must be furnished
from other sources outside Of these
counties, Ur thousands Of acres must lay
idle. l appeal to the early settlers Of
eastern Kansas as my witnesses, il it is
not fact that most Of the counties east
Of Great Bend sometime during their
settlement were not compelled to ask
and did receive aid from other sources.
We landed here in '86 in strange
land and among strangers with little
means; we had our houses to build, sod
being the material most used. We had
to experiment to know what grains were
best to plant or SOW in this soil and eli
mate. We first tried corn a few seR-
sons with little success; we then tried
small grains which were much more of
q success, with wheat as the leader. By
this time our houses began to decay and
tumble down, many were forced to re-
build. The two seasons before this our
small grains were success, the first OF
the two we received from 65 to IS cents
for wheat; during these seasons much
machinery had to be bought to cut and
thresh our grain; the last Of the two
seasons the bottom fell out of prices and
we were compelled to sell our wheat at
from 40 to 81 cents, and the cry went up
from every schoolhouse by designing
men, Of ovsrproduction; that we had
worked too hard and produced too much.
But regardless Of low prices, last fall We
bought additional horses, put in q larger
crop than ever, the acreage to the family
being from 100 to 800 acres. The ma
jority Of the people were left in debt.
The pores Of the heavens seem to have
been closed against us, and it seems
that they refused to give forth the nee
esssry rain in season; therefore the
famine must be like unto the one that
we read of in the good book that hap
pened in olden times to the Egyptians.
We only differ from them in that they
had q Pharoah to dream dreams and
Joseph to interpret them and thereby
the people were forwarned Of the
calamity that was soon to befRll them,
but we had none. Instead, we had
some lying correspondents as we learn,
from our county, to report to some lying
papers in the midst of the famine, say
ing to those who would willingly ad- |
minister to our wants and needs, that |
we are frauds and as prosperous az usual |
and need no aid in any way. We need |
wheat badly, but we desire the names |
Of those false correspondents Of this
county just as bad. Who can give themH |
To complete the calamity, a money |
famine was created by the power Of |
money, and our bank and others all over |
the land refuse to loan the people money.
This season there was not 200 bushels OF |
grain raised in this county, and now the |
enemies Of labor, when grain, II We had |
it, is lower than ever before, from the |
same schOolhouses cry out and say, sit is |
lRziness; IL the farmers did not sit |