Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-20

IaUnef mas been living IN eastern Nan
saS. 1t appears to have been part
of the political deal whereby the no
tOriously incompetent G. V. Bartlett
was appointed state forestry commits
siGner that old Mr.. BriStOW should be
foreman of the station at Ogallah.
TregO county. 1t was Bartlett'S duty,
as commissioner, to select the fore
man: and if he were qualified for
minute in year to hold that office he
would not have tolerated this inter-
ference. 1t matters not how good a
man old Mr.. BriStOw may be on gen
eral principles western Kansas man
ought to have had this fOremanShip.
The interests of the forestry service
required it. Common fairness to
western Kansas is demanded.-O
borne Farmer.
The last two clauses of the Farmers
article defines our position exactly.
The welfare of the forestry station
imperatively demands that a practical
western man shall have control of the
same and, no difference if Mr.. BriStOW
is paragon of excellence in all that
goes to make up a gentleman and
good citizen, the fact remains that,
on account of his lack of experience,
he is incompetent for this particular
work, and the governor and his pri-
vate secretary were both cOgniZant of
this fact. Again, northwestern Kan
sas has absolutely nothing but this
paltry forestry station. The forestry
commissioner is selected from the
southern part of the state and the
10 WIN Ctnp
portion. This we submit is unfair
1t is extremely unjust. We are a
portion of Kansas and will continue
loyal to our state, but the WORLD will
cease to rotate when it cannot defend
the rights of it's own community. We
would be entitled to nothing but
scorn and contempt if we were too
cowardly to resent the slight and in
Justice done US in this matter.
To our mind, one of the strongest
arguments in favor of woman suffrage
has been the oft repeated one that
politics would be purified and that
reform, at least upon moral lines,
would no longer be an ''iridescent
dream, when woman entered the po-
litical field But the following from
the Lacrosse Chieftain has given our
faith a very rude shock. 1t must be
that the women of that city are very
different from those we are acquaint-
ed with, or the writer was one of
those who ''gOt left, or it may not be
true at ALL We would rather believe
the latter.
1.-THE means resorted to by some of
the republicans, at the recent city
election, and especially by some of
the women, who have showed their
capacity and willingness to do the
dirty work for a few busted pOliti-
clans, is disgusting to man of liberal
mind, as we'll as disgrace to some of
our best citizens with whom the par
ties referred to are associated. At no
time in the history Of the town has
the progress of Christianity received
such blow as it has by the actions of
some prominent members of the
church, especially women, in resort
ing to lying and misrepresenting, in
order to elect their candidate for
mayor"
IF it should prove true. as often
asserted by enthusiastic irrigatiOnists,
that our uplandS can be watered by
an ineXhauStible underfiOw, or sub
terranean lake, we are now on the eve
of a golden era in western Kansas.
The period for guessing has passed
and the practical tests that will be
made this season will determine this
matter beyond conjecture. If these
experiments prove that our water
supply is abundant, no difference if it
is hundred feet under the ground,
our imagination would not be vivid
enough to depict the changes that
would occur within the next decade.
Within the next six months the
future of western Kansas as an agri-
cultural country, will be positively
determined.
DURING Harrison's administration
$50, 900, 600 OF silver money was added
to our money supply each year. Large
quantities of gold money was also
added. This is the record of the re-
publican party. 1t proves it to be a
gold and silver party, and the only
bimetallic party in the country to-
day.
THE mail cars on all mail trains
during the month of April have
mail weigher aboard whose duty it is
to weigh the mail that is carried by
the railways. When a mail sack is
put aboard the weight of it is taken.
This is done every four years, and on
his report the compensation to the
railway for carrying the mail is based.
THE successful irrigation of our
bottom lands is not an experiment,
but an actual, demonstrated fact.