The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-05-23

ing blather and intrigue, have succeeded
in getting the question again submitted
but at the hands of revolutionary Pop
ulist legislature.
The world of right minded people
dread all forms of fanaticism. The
great sustaining conservation OF mind
which makes organized society with
all its blessings, possible. fears a com
munity of cranks of whatever character.
| Kansas has suffered politically, fiuan-
cially and socially. in the past, from
Utopian frenzies and scatter r-brain
idiocies, yclept progression, and is suf-
fering now. From some unexplained
reason Kansas has ever been the favor
ite field to which rhapsodists and in
cerrlgibles have come with their
theories and experiments. Having been
born of a triumphant conception it has
been for her people from John Brown
and his band, Calhoun and his cohorts,
down TO Lewelling, Lease and their
lunatics, one long wall Of cad astra per
| aspera."
Kansas may be superior civilization
with greater amount of intellectually,
more morality and a higher political life,
and in these respects be far in advance
of even the states boasting the wealth
of the nation; but, as Kansas must look
to said states for much, in many direc-
tions, her people can hardly afford to
entirely disregard the combined convic-
tions of such states, or their prejudices,
if you will.
Female suffrage would deter people
from becoming residents of Kansas, as
the adoption of female suffrage by
Wyoming and Washington stopped the
flow OF immigration to those sections.
If adopted here it viii but add to the nm
certainty of eur already uncertain
status, and home-seekers will hesitate,
enterprising men become doubtful of
our desirableness, and capitalists avoid
location OF SO great abnormalty.
Money is conservative even to timid-
ity, and its investors ever look for uni
form and unvarying conditions. Rebel
disfranchisement, prohibition, the land
alien law and the Populist rule, and
other idfosyncracies Ly turns, have
diverted millions of capital from Kansas.
Conceding that each and all of these pol
icies were right, in and of themselves.
they nevertheless find no footing in the
great conservative eastern communities
where wealth and all that wealth affords
most do flourish; in those common
wealths where art and refinement.
schools and churches, and all that civ
ilization has in superior way to offer,
and that hold the best types. The ques-
t.onable glory of setting the pace for
every. so-callsd progressive ism will
hardly compensate our people, at least
those OF us who must live and do, TODAY.
for all the lack of bread and suuer-
abundance of poverty.
As the world breads a man with
wheels in his head, so does the average
conservative individual steer clear of
fanatical communities. 1t Is only the
abnormal extremist who is anxious or
even willing to identify himself with a
free-loye society, or TO become a men,
Der of socialistic colony. The adop- [
ton of a few more visionary expedien is
and Utopian necessities may entiee from !
New England, and the other wealthy
states Of the east, hosts of bi-gendered |
adolescence of stridulous tendencies in !
short petticoats. but not that more vir;Ie /
element whose pantaloon pockets are |
stuffed with money and their heads with /
brains and enterprise.
Kansas has been the arre ndissement
OF all classes of adventurers, her people |
the victims OF every kind of experiment /
for world of dreamers, but th. oues- |
ton is how much more can she stand |
aud her men remain men and her
women what God designed them, and the |
state stlI continue 10 command the |
respect and confidence Of th.. world