The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-06-01
INGALLS, ON KANSAS.

Harper's on the state with which his
name is identified, reviewing its his
tory and present status in decidedly
important article Passing over, as
we must, the half century of Kansan
history which Mr.. Ingalls, presents
very attractively, we find him deplor-
ing the delirious boom of 1887 with
it's attendant building of superfuous
towns, unnecessary railroads, in
discriminate borrowing and inevitable
reaction. Drouths and cyclones &C
centuated the misery of the situation,
and the country was in a perilous
state.
''These accumulated misfortunes. -
says Mr.. Ingalls,, "were supplemented
in 1890 by an Eruption of false teach
ers, with the instruction that such dis
asters were the result of vicious legis-
lation, and could be cured by statute;
that banks should be destroyed, bebts
repudiated, and poverty abolished by
act of Congress. It was an exhibition
of what Burke described as the Sin
sanity of nations. Conservative,
thoughtful, and patriotic men yield to
an uncomfortable impulse of resent
'ment against society. This outburst
shocked the public credit, temporarily
destroyed the ability of the debtor to
borrow or to pay, diminished the
value of property, and inflicted an
irremediable wound upon the States
good name. But it vanished like one
of the ominous and sudden catastro-
Plies of the sky. With the return of
prosperity came the restoration of
reason. More than half the enormous
indebtedness has already been liqui-
dated, and the whole will be honestly
and resolutely paid. A Kansas loan
is as secure as government bond"
LAND FOR THE FARMER.
"The farms of Kansas were not
made to order. They waited for the
plough. There we're no forests to fell,
no stumps to extract, no rocks to re-
move, no malaria to combat. These
undulating fields are the floors of
ancient seas. These limestone Lodges
underlying the prairies and cropping
from the foreheads of the hills, are
the cemeteries of the marine insect
life of the primeval world. This in
exhaustible humus is the mould Of
the decaying heritage of unnumbred
centuries. It is only upon calcareous
plains in temperate ATTITUDES that
agriculture is supreme, and the strong
structure Of the rich nourishment i'm
parted essential to bulk, endurance
and speed in animals, to grace, beauty
and passion in women, and in men
the stature. courage, health and long.
evity. Heflpare valleys in which 9
furrow can be ploughed hundred
miles long, whore all the, labor Of
breaking, planting, cultivating, NOW
ing, reaBiDE \and harvesting is pre-.
formed BY horses, engines and ma
chinery, so that farming has become q
sedentary occupation. The lister ha.
supplanted the hoe; the, cradle, the
scythe and the sickle are as unknown
to Western agriculture as the catapul'
and culverin. to modern warfare
The well-sweep and MINDLESS have
been supplanted by the windmills
whose vivacious disks disturb the
monotony of the sky. But for these
laborsaving inventions the pioneers
would still linger in the valley of tn.
Ohio and Sangamon, and the subjuga
ton of the desert would have beer
indefinitely postponed"
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