The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-10-17

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mas said openly in a dozen speeches that
the rights of the user are paramount
TO the rights of the owner; we are run
ming him for chief justice SO that
capital will come tumbling over itself
70 get into the state. We have raked
the ash heap of human failure in the
state and have found an old hoop skirt
Oh man vino has failed as business
man, who has failed as an editor. who
has failed as preacher, and we are
going to run him for congressman-a
large. He will help the looks of the
Kansas delegation in Washington.
Then we have discovered a kid without
a law practice, and have decided to vote
Tor him as attorney general. Then, for
fear some hint that the state had be-
come thoroughly respectable might
percolate through the civilized portions
of the nation, we have decided to send
three or four harpies out lecturing,
telling the people that Kansas is rails
ing hell and letting corn go to weeds.
"Oh, this is state to be proud Of!
We are the people who can hold up our
heads! What we need here is less
money, less capital, fewer white shirts
and brains, fewer men with business
Judgment, and more Of these fellows
who boast that they are Just ordinary
old clodhoppors, but that they know
more in minute about finance than
John Sherman We need more men
who are posted who can below about
the crime Of 49, who hate posterity
and who think because man believes
in national honor that he is a tool of
Wall street. We have had few Of
them, some 10000, but we want more.
We need several thousand gibbering
idiots to scream about the Great Red
Dragon of Lombard street. We don't
need population, we don't need wealth,
we don't need cities on these fertile
prairies; you bet, we DON'T What we
are after is the money power. Because
we have become poorer and ornerier
and meaner than a spawned, dis
tempered mule, we, the people of Kan
sas propose to kick. We don't care to
build up. We wish to tear down.
"'There are two ideas of govern.
ment, said our noble Bryan at Chi
cagO. There are those who believe
that if you just legislate to make the
well-to-do prosperous their prosperity
will leak through on those below. The
democratic idea has been that if you
legislate to make the masses prosperous
their prosperity will find its way up and
through every class, and rest upon us.
That's the stuff Give the prosperous
man the dickens Legislate the thrift
less into ease; whack the stnffing out
of the creditor and tell the debtor who
borrowed money five years ago, when
the money in circulation was more gen.
eral than it is now, that the contraction
of the currency gives him a right to
repudiate. Whoop it up for the ragged
trousers; put the lazy, greazy fizzle who
cannot pay his debts on an altar and
bow down and worship him. Let the
state ideal be high. What we need is
not the respect of our fellow men, but
a chance to get something for nothing.
"Oh, yes; Kansas is great state.
Here are people fleeing from it by the
score every day; capital going out of
the state by the hundreds of dollars,
and every industry except farming
paralyzed, and that crippled because its
products have to go across the ocean
before they find laboring man at
work who can afford to buy them.
Let's don't stop this year. Let's drive
all the decent self respecting men out
of the state. Let's keep the old clod-
hoppers who know it all. Let's en-
courage the man who is posted. lie
can talk, and what we need is not mill
hands to eat our meat, nor factory
hands to eat our wheat, nor 2eities to
oppress the farmer by consuming his
butter and eggs and chickens and
produce; what Kansas needs is men
who can talk, VINO have large leisure tc
argue the currency question, while theil
wives wait at home for that nickel'S
worth of blueing. 4
What's the matter with Kansas
Nothing under the sun. She is losing
wealth, population and standing. Sht
has got her statesmen, and the none!
mower is afraid of her. Kansas is al
right. She has started in to raise hell
as Mrs. Lease advised, and she seems
to have an overproduction. But tina
doesn't matter. Kansas never did be
Heye in diversified crops. Kansas is al
right. There is absolutely nothing
wrong with Kansas. Every prospec
pleases, and only man is VILE"
Among the comments this article ha
called out, one of the most just ant
discerning is that of the Northwestern
Miller, of Minneapolis, which says:
"Kansas and What's Wrong Witt
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