The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-03
UTTERS STRONG WORDS
p. I. Bonebrake Ably Defends
Kansas Against EasternAbuse.
President Of One of Topeka's
Biggest Banks Speaks Out
For the Benefit Of Eastern Vilifers as
Well as for Those Who Hon
estly Desire Information.

The following is a copy Of the letter
sent by P. l. Bonebrala, president of
the Central National bank. to Governor
Woodbury. Of Vermont, relating to kan
sas affairs.
at the request of your friend Mt. f.
B. Merriam I submit TO you a few
thoughts On affairs i'll Kansas.
know that eastern parties who have in
yestnents in Kansas are anxious about
their outcome.
This anxiety is induced much more
by assaults on the state by eastern pa
pers than because OF the actual result
81 the election I beg 20 say thar we
area mot alt cranks nor regulators, nor
has Kansas gone to the dogs Yet We
stH have the same climate and soil
that ia one year produced T0,000, 600 OF
bushels o1 wheat @51 100000 Of corn,
more beef and pork than any state in
rhe union. 81 lille all lesser cereals, veg
etables and fruit have kept pace there
with. We still have a.025.6 miles of
railroad in the state, S335.5S0. Q23 . of
property as taxed, with a real value Of
three times that amount. with a state
debt of only $4,000. a permanent
school fund of S.. 0s7. 634.15. an annual
disbursement of 1896. G6 to the COM
mon schools $3.50 schOoIhOases. valued
at $40 1888 OBJ. with university. nor
NAL school. agricultural college insti-
rurfans for the blind. deaf and dumb.
insane. penitentiary. reform school.
soldiers home. soldiers orphans. home
and state capitol. all costing SS.S25.925,
without the equipments. From this
VIII be seen that the state can and VIII
continue to do business.
il IS undoubtedly true that the result
of the election Will largely stop perma-
nent Investments Of eastern money.
Had this been done ten or fifteen
years ago ii would have been q blessing
10 the state At that period syndicates.
loan companies and capitalists east
prairies TIP loan them money and buy
their bonds Every cross road must
have a railroad, and every railroad
crossing must become q city. and every
city must have water works electric
lights and paved streets, and bonds
were issued therefor The people were
led I'd believe that Kansas was an ad-
diti0n TO the New Jerusalem Then the
-hard times" that prevailed all over
the country prevailed in Kansas. /
and being a new state. it felt the re-
action more than her older sisters
repeat that kauSanS. as a. body are
not repudiatOrs. In fact It could not
be So Her people We're almost all
born ana received their education east
of the Mississippi and north Of Mason
and Dixon S line I'D is a SANDER on our (
fathers and mothers, most of whom
set live ia the middle and New Eng +
land states. to say that their sons and
daughters were educated to become /
rascals and frauds.
III it is a disgrace to have voted the /
Eemccrar fc-P 0puIist ticket. then KAN (
sas can we'll afford to invite compar- I
ison with her sister states Of Illinois, +
Indiana Michigan. Ohio Pennsylvania /
ana New York ia all of which many f
more votes of that kind We're cast than T
liza Kansas.
we have been charged with lawIess- F..
ness Again we invite comparison. n OF +
long ago. in the city of chicago riot /
ars were destroying life and property F
while the governor and 194.y9a business z
fRtW and allowed LEe