People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
Kansas Credit.

to the price of wheat, saying that he
was not pursuing the question for
partisan purposes, but because he was
an honest seeker after knowledge on
that point. The VOICE gave him so
much information that no induce
ments have been successful in caus.
ing him to comment thereon since.
Our last sentence in that contro-
versy was an appeal to the Ne,Cs to
come out boldly like some other Re-
publican papers-'If your party is
wrong on that question, have the
courage to say sO"-but in the face
of his honest appeal for information,
he wholly ignored further dis
cusSiOn. And now he has the sublime
gall to say that the VOICE is too
blindly partisan to admit facts"
The VOICE wants to say right now
Mr.. NelCS, that when we fail to
have reason for the faith that is
within us, we shall not play the hyp-
Ocrite before the people as you did,
but will admit the truth if it forever
damnS the party. We are no slave to
party, as you silently conceded your
self to be.
NOV to the point. The Topeka
Capital and other papers have pub
lished statements from foreign loan
agents that Kansas borrowers were
the most reliable and prompt payers
of any their company ever dealt
with. If this is so, why can they not
obtain loans as easily as borrowers in
other states? If this is so, how did
they come by the name of "repudia-
tiUnists?" Reader, give us your at
tentiOn moment.
The VOICE stated that it was as
easy to borrow money in Kansas on
farms as it was it in any other state.
If this is so, and we believe it is, it
is great compliment to our farmers
and to our soil. For there has been a
combination of circumstances and of
effort to break down our credit. In
the first place, we have had to carry
Western Kansas with her drouths
and failures, most eastern people be-
ing unable to discriminate between
that section of the state and the
mere fertile section. In the second
place, the people have asserted that
manhood so characteristic of Kan
sans in years agone, by denouncing
gross wrongs in legislation and de-
handing equitable laws. Because
they have done this they have been
set upon by a lot Of political Sh. s.tcrS
like the editor OF the NeUS and his
friends, who, Notwithstanding, they
frequently concede the justice Of the
demands of the people, turn around
and denOunce them as ."cranks" and
"repudiatiOnists.' This cry is taken
up by the diabOllcal press reports,
and the whole Of yankeedom is led to
believe that the farmers of Kansas
are going to repudiate their debts.
Now we challenge the Ne,cs to
bring to light single Populist utter
ance, printed or oral, in which repu.
diatiOn has been advocated. He
knows as well as he knows any
thing that he and his cussed clan
have put those words in the mouths
of the people and hence if damage
has been done TO the credit Of the
state, they are responsible for it and
not the farmers, who, according to
the testimony of the money loaners
themselves, are the promptest payers
in the whole United States. These
scamps have openly insulted the in
tegrity and intelligence of the farm
ers to whom they owe whatever Of
prosperity they may enjoy and they
deserve to have their names written
on the black pages of scorn and
contempt.
ut is not" says the Ne,DS, that
Kansas real estate is worth less than
1t actually has been" land it might
have added mot but that they are as
ready and willing to pay as ever")
but because Kansas people have
been lied about and a spirit of dis
trust created against it," The NelDs
has in this sentence acknowledged
the truth and driven the nail in its
own coffin.
Lei people who love truth and hon.
or in politics as well as in religion,
hold these facts in remembrance.
WINE POnuliStS ought To he Satisfied