People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-06-06

anyone else in his situation, would
rather have two or three hundred dol
lars than two or three horses and bug
gieS provided the horses and buggies
could not be converted into that much
money. | have known farmers to
buy buggies and musical instruments
at the same time their grocery bills
were unpaid. The greatest piece of
fnanciering | ever knew occurred
when the first circus showed in Wei
lington. A man who lived in Seventy
Six township land lives there yethwas
in George Stipp's store and wanted to
60 to the show but didn't have the
half dollar. In order to secure the
necessary wealth he bought dollars
worth Of coffee on tick, went out on
the street and sold it for seventy-fve
cents and went to the circus. At
this same show another man, farmer
and school teacher, by occupation,
lost fifty dollars on a buncO game,
and tried to get an attorney to prose-
cute the bunco man to recover the
money lost, but the lawyer didn't
want that kind of a case. These in
stances illustrate the mismanage-
ment of some people.
One of the most ineXcuSable things
that our farmers are guilty of, and
that has caused the loss of thousands
Of dollars, is buying costly implements
and leaving them out in the sun and
rain from one years end to another:
sometimes leaving them where last
used, until the next season, and at
the same time knowing that standing
out in the weather Injuries them many
times more than than the use of them
ever done. | believe that if the
farmers of Sumner county now had
the money thus wasted, it would 90 a
long way towards carrying them
through this years crop failure,
| have heard the remark, and | be-
lieve it to be a fact, that the farmers
of Kansas many of them, wasted more
of the products of their farms than
many of the farmers of the eastern
states produced. am satisfied from
personal experience and observation
that many of Us individually, are to
blame for some of the adverse circum.
stances with which we are surround
ed. Don't lay all the blame on Kan.
saS. Make haste slowly and look
where you are going to light before
you leap. There is no country that !
have heard of but has some disadvan'
tages. There may be a better place
than Kansas, but not in this world
However, | am not ready to leave
Kansas even for this beautiful land
we have heard ,of, from uOur youth
Where will 70 60, if you leave Kan
saS? Will it be to Missouri? Dry
weather, hard times and frost, have
visited that state too. Another thing
if you are going there to farm, a large
part of the state is heavily timbered
no man can plow among stumps ant
not violate some of t1e ten command
mentS. The success Of nearly al
kinds of business depends to a grea
extent, on the prosperity of the agri
cultural and labOring classes. Nov
my business friends. you who are get
ting ready to leave Kansas, wher
will you find the above classes, wit
the exception of the. present season
more prosperous any more prodiga
with their money than the people o
good old Sumner county? Therefor
we say in all seriousness stay with u
awhile longer. Times will be better
and good corn crop will help u
farmers back on our feet again, an
we will buy all the goods you have
Don't leave Kansas"
Some may think | haven't had m
: lip down but | have, and that isn't al
it's down now so that l can almos
! tramp on it. The wind today blow
: ing regular gale, the air filled wit
dust; nobody but wooden man coul
: keep stiff upper lip. NotwithstanC
: ing all the winds that may blow, a
the dust that can fv, all the gras
hOppers and chinch bugs, all the har
times and all else of an adverse natul
, that can come, I'll not leave KaDsa
Let US take courage my brother. Go
never made this beautiful land of oul
for naught. My faith in the future
. this great state is mistaken. Kanst
has been and still is my ideal stat,
and grand old Sumner is my idol
> G. W. BAILEY.
D Wellington, May q.
Another of Growers Letters.
, The Democratic editors of the stat