The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-04-27
HOW KANSAS STANDS.
Some Pertinent Inquiries Answered Kan
sas May Have Her Troubles but They Are
Not Any Worse Than Those of Her Sis

Not Any Worse Than Those of Her Sis
ters-
Secretary Coburn, of the state board
OF agriculture, addressed some inquiries
to Mr.. C. s Gleed. of Topeka, who has
spent some time in the east, asking his
opinion as to the status of Kansas in
the industrial, commercial and finan-
clal world, to which he received a
lengthy reply and publishes in his
quarterly report, and from which the
following is taken:
The general reputation Of Kansas is very bad
middle, and frstclass among those who OBJ
serve critically. The superficial observers are
tnose who know nothing Of Kansas except
what they find in the crime and freak depart
men s OF the big papers The newspapers must
sell II they desire to live: they must bo inter
esting If they desire to sell to be interesting
70 Inc majority OF buyers they must contain
plenty of hot stuff" The writers write what
the papers want to print. and so it is entirely
natural that theNews from Kansas should
nearly always be limited to sensations OF the
"red hot" kind
The second class OF observers are those who
pay little attention to what the papers contain.
Dut yet have only hearsay, secondhand
knowledge of Kansas matters
The third class Is made up Of those who have
-. SS'ooi' SioScs UuSiucoS huOWleuHe Oh inc
state The man who merely has bad Kansas
mortgage or several of them, cannot neccssari-
" assume to know Kansas All he knows is
that some reckless or knavish loan agent or
agency has sold him bad securities Kansas is
not to blame for that Those observers who
study the statistics, and are able to intelligent
iy compare net results in Kansas with net re-
suits elsewhere. know that Kansas is all right,
ana deserves to be ranked with the very first
states, and second to none
What do eastern people think Of Kansas by
lhls time as an investment fieldi
ihey have not, whole changed their re-
Gently formed opinion, but they hive begun to
cnange, and are now changing rapidly. When
Inc symptoms OF our collapse from the boom
period first appeared, and, afterwards when
the full xtent OF our collapse was known, they
thought they had discovered that Kansas peo-
pie were all confidence men" and swiudlers
AS thev saw it, the fair face Of our state was
tattooed over with the hideous sig OF fnan-
clal dishonesty. Then, one morning. the east
looked In the glass and, b hold! it's own face
was as badly disngured as that Of Kansas lis
own financial favorites went to grass with fear.
ful rapidity. Eastern promises to pay fell to q
lower average than western promises to pay.
Stocks and bonds which had been considered
hgner than the stars above Kansas securities
cime plunging earthward with fearful unanim-
tty. Chaos arrived-and it did not come from
the west Now, the east was entirely willing,
no doubt, to charge all this trouble to the west
1t was willing, but it was not able. 1t
had too much sense to try to do SO.
1t could not believe that the region between
the Mississippi river and the Rocky mount
aims was powerful enough to paralyZe the
financial world east of the Mississippi river
Tar enough 10 include England And so were
born better thoughts about Kansas and other
s ia ties in the west Without having any per
sonal connection with the business Of len ling
eastern money in the west, 1t has yet come to
nv knowledge, incidentally, that lenders are
getting back their Kansas courage I know
one gentleman. in Massachusetts, who recent
ly bought s20, ,OO) worth Of Kansas mortgages.
A savings bank in Vermont, the other day,
bought $4,000 woftl have repeatedly known
eastern people to discuss their bad Kansas
losst S with an agent and then, in the same in
terview, bargain for new securities We shall
never Il hope) get the wholly unrestricted
command of money that We once had but we
shall in due time get standing that will in
sure US the cheapest money for all legitimate
uses.
What will be the immediate future of emf.
grafton to kansas?
Emigration SEEMS to be very much a matter
of fashion First it runs in one direction, and
then in another. Kansas has not had a chance
for good while. The Oklahoma openings, the
rushes to southern California and the north
west country, and other counter attractions,
have combined to keep emigration from head
ing toward Kansas in any strong way. The
tiuO ID ot htuu, uON CNCI, III OplulOu, Wueu
there is to be a general and steady inflow Of
people seeking better land, better climate and
better conditions generally, than they have
hitherto had in this country or Europe There
are few more entirely new regions to be
opened by railroads or by acts of congress- and
everywhere there is a rapid closing up OF the
ranks. Room is wanted and we have 1t here
in Kansas 1t is bound TO be applied for, and
every citizen should feel a large degree Of per-
soral responsibility in the matter of getting
only the best class of newcomers. Every Kan
san knowing good farm that NAV be had at a |
bargain should make a personal attempt to
have 1t purchased by some new conner who
really knows the farming business. and who |
has thrift, energy, and clear grit half mil
lion such people added 10 our population in the |
next five years IS b. no means an impossiblity. |
What is TO be the future Of the grain and cat |
tie markets in which Kansas producers are in |
terested?
1 have no hope OF seeing dollar wheat until |
an extended period Of low prices has driven |
farmers somewhat out OF the wheat business |
failure in crops or some other especial occur |
renee has cut cn part of the product Few !
people have any fair comprehension OF the vast !
Increase in recent years OF the wheat .produc. |
ng area the vast decrease in the cost Of pro- |
1ucing wheat, due to improved mechanical ap- |
pliances the vast increase in the numbe and !
quantity of things eatable which can be substi- |
.uted for wheat. and the vast c. anges worked |
4 the markets by the greatly improved |
Methods of transportation A surplus in one |
ocality can now be rushed to the place where |
t is needed in comparatively no time
But in spite Of these considerations, expect |
% a decided improvement over present |
prices, because when political conditions are
hanged. and eastern manufacturers begin to
ray out their usual volume Of money in wages. |
he amount of food consumed will be immensely
This. with the cutting down in
Quantities produced will give prices decided
Upward hitch 1 think Kansas ought to work
,ut her own salvation by producing and manu-
acturing. far possible. all she uses
Whatever is shipped out should be in the most
condensed possible form Then we scall get
he greatest proportion Of money for a given
Train on our producing power.
CHARLES S GLEED
"A brawny farmer presented him.
elf at country school dragging an
,vergrown boy reluctantly through the
loor. whats yer limit here? This
,oy's arter an iddicashun," he de-
handed The timid teacher replied
hat the curriculum lem braced read
ng, arithmetic, history, algebra, trigo-
THAT will do," inter-
'upted the farmer. Load him up
,eavy with triggernometry; he's the
,nly poor shot in the family. N. i.
Mercury.
Count August Breunner, has just
lied at Flume, in Austria. He was the
ast member of an old Rhenish family
which settled in Syria in the four
eenth century. The late count was