New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-23
THE KINS1S NILLTNNITN.

A great many persons in Kansas who bought
farms several years ago nj two or three dollars
an acre and subsequently. having persuaded
Eastern capitalists 10 build railroads to theni'
borrowed money on them 10 the amount oil
from twenty 10 thirty dollars an acre on pohd
and mortgage. became very much diSgusteh III
finding after while not only that the mort
gagces expected payment of interest ana prih-
cipal. but that the railroad builders wahteu III
least per cent on their investment. pr'''!
way this is they said. to develop III" re-
sources Of a country. Here is an entire STATE
svomncI with mortgages. and the Shylocks
who hold the mortgages expect To have the III
terest paid. Here are crops which the building
Of railroads has encouraged the intelligent anu
Industrious farmer 10 raise. and the grinding
monopolies actually refuse to haul them 10 mhr-
ket unless they are paid for 1t. The money
power is against us. II Expresses us ana grihus
ia. and refuses To authorize the issue OF more
money when there is VIGOROUSLY not enough
to 90 round and the raw material for making II
can be bought in open market Tor SIXTY cents
a dollars worth. Let us rise ana assert our
rights rs tillcrs Of the soil. foodproducers'
w-alth-crea'ors. public bcncfactors.
They rose Rose with mouths stuffed full OF
plans for making money plenty. transportation
cheap. corn on the cob legal tender. the money
power humble. the granger proud aud every
BODY happy. They sent PETER To Washing
ton as Il sort Of advance agent to bill the town
for the coming millennium. and they put
Lewclling on deck at Topeka To swing the
State ont at the proper time into The van OF
the millennial procession. SO for year or two
times have been quite highdaddy in Kansas.
Great intellectual activity. Much Graeco-koihhh
wrestling with problems of craftsmanship; WIN
the result that most of them have been thrown
and had their stuiing Knocked out. and VIII
never more disturb the domain of political econ
op,v mr. ,hc science of government All over the
State wisdom sproucd and spindled like corn,
and was covered with words like cob with
kernels Nothing like II since Athens in the
time OF Pcriclcs, when there was little II any
thing moving except the human chin ana the
public works and the poor were furnished win
theatre tickets Under Pcriclcs Lewclling ana
Mrs. Aspasia Lease ;hc whole state chat'crs
vouby and waits for the free distribution oi
circus tickets. That day. in the popular De-
lief is only Just round the corner-liable TO
dawn any minute.
In this state of things ii will pay to keep an
eve on Kansas II has been known for some
time that the people Of that State have the
feeling whenever they look on the map and see
how they are bounded that they have not been
fairly treated by Nature and Providence. One
disadvantage under which the cntcrprising agri-
culturlsts in the western part of the State labor
Is that they are further from market than their
fellow a griculturists nearer the East States
manship has devised partial remedy for THIS
however. in the regulation of freight rates by
law The remedy will be complete when the
project of State control OF railroads Is carried
ont and freight is carried for nothing. lheh
there will bc absolute equality all over the State
A great injustice and wrong will still remain,
however. in the location Of the State so far
from tidcwatcr. This. rs will be- seen at II
Glance puts the Kansas farmers at Il dlShdvnn-
tagc when compared with farmers who live
nearer the sea- which intelligent men who nave
the power TO elect Governors and Legislatures
cannot tolerate. Governor Lcwclling has gwen
his whole mind To the consideration Of THIS PROD
lem and dispatch from Topeka puhilSi'u
yesterday morning gives the result lie mas
concluded Il contract for Il line of steamers To
take the crops of Kansas direct to European
ports. For the present these steamers VIII run
TO Galveston. AS the railroads which now con-
meet the Kansas farms with Galveston Wickedly
charge freight rites. il Is contemplated 10 buiiu
a new line across the State from Dakota To IN"
Gulf. which will doubtless haul the Kansas
crops TO tidcwaicr for nothing In case ms
d.
scheme should fail it will only De necessary Tor
the Governor and Legislature To make Topeka
n port of entry and have the steamers laI'd IN
the heart Of the State When this Is done. ana
all mortgages are declared public enemies ana
their mortgages annulled and money Is h'auc
cheap and plentiful by the issue OF lrgai'ehuer
notes secured by Subrrcasury deposits OF core
on the cob. and free circus tickets are issued to