The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-09-17
POOR KANSASl
What Populism and Distrust
Have Done For Her.
WHAT'S WRONG WITH KANSAS ?

Under This Caption . Newspsper Of That
State Tslls How the Policy Of Hate,
Discora and Reputation Ras Driven
Population and Capital From the Conn
,nonwealth and Brought Its Good Name
into Disrepute.
tFrsm the En- poria Gazette, August 1871
To-day the Kansas department of ag-
eiculture sent out a statement which in
dioates that Kansas has gained less than
1900 people in the last year. There are
about 126, 900 families in the state, and
there were about 10000 babies born in
Kansas, and yet 80 many people have
left the state that the natural increase
n cut down to less than 1900 net. This
has been going ON for eight years.
If there had been high brick wall
around the state eight years ago, and
not a soul had been permitted to leave,
Kansas would be half million souls
better off than she is today. And yet
the nation has increased in population.
In five years 10, 200. 900 people have been
added to the national population, yet
instead Of gaining a share of this-say
800. .00O-Kansas has apparently been a
plague spot, and in the very garden of
the world has lost population by the ten
thousands every year.
Not only has she lost population. but
she has lost wealth. Every moneyed
man in the state who could get out
without great loss has gone. Every
month in every community sees some
one who has little money pick up and
leave the state. This has been going on
for eight yescs. Money is being drained
out all the time. In towns where 10
years ago there were three or four or
half dozen money lending concerns
stimulating Industry by furnishing capi.
tai there is now none or one or two that
are looking after the interest and prin.
cipal already outstanding.
Go east, and you hear them laugh at
Kansas, 60 west and they sneer at her,
go south and they ''cuss'' her. 60 north
and they have forgotten her. Go into
ed anywhere on the globe and you will
find the Kansas man on the defensive.
The newspaper columns and magazine
pages, once devoted to praise Of the
state, to boastful facts and startling
figures concerning her resources, now
are filled with cartoons, gibes and PETER.
ian speeches. Kansas just naturally
isn't in the civilized world. She has
traded places with Arkansaw and Tim.
buctoo.
What's the matter with Kansas?
We all know; yet here we are at it
again. We have an old mossback Jack.
sonian, who snorts and howls because
there is bathtub in the statehouse we
are running that old jay for governor.
We have another shabby, wild.eyed,
rattle Drained fanatic who has said
openly in dozen speeches that "the
rights OF the user are paramount to the
rights of the owner" we are running
him for chief justice, so that capital will
come tumbling over itself to get into
the state. We have raked the ashheap
OF human failure in the state and have
found an old hoopskirt Of man who
has failed as business man, who has
failed as an editor, who has failed as a
preacher. and we are going to run him
for congressman at large. He will help
the looks Of the Kansas delegation in
Washington. Then we have discovered
kid without law practice and have
decided to vote for him as attorney gen.
eral. Then for fear some hint that the
state had berome respectable might per- :.
colate through the civilized portions of
the nation, we have decided to send
three or four harpies out lecturing, tell.
ing the people that Kansas is raising
hell and letting corn go to weeds.
Oh, this is state to be proud Of We
are 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 judgement,
and more of these fellows who boast
that they are ''just ordinary old clod.
hoppers, but that they know more in
minute abort finance than John Sher.
man" We need more men who are
''posted," who can below about the
crime OF 'fS. who hate posterity, and
who think that because . man believes
u national honor chat he 10 q tool Of
Wall street. We have few of them,
some l60. 1000, but we want more. We
need several thousand Ribbering idiots
to scream about the "Great Red Dragon"
of Lombard street. We don't need pop.
ulatton, we don't need wealth, we don't
need well dressed men on the streets,
we don't need standing in the nation,
We don't need cities ON these fertile
prsiries; you bet we don't. What we
are after u the money power. Because
We have become poorer and onrier and
pasansr than q spawned, distempersd
mule. we, the people Of Kansas. propose
to kick. We don't care to build up, we
wiqh to tear down.
"There are two ideas of government"
said our noble Bryan at Chicago.
"There are those who believe that il
you just legislate to make the well.to.
DO proeperous their prosperity will leak
through on those below. The Demo
cratic idea has been that IL you legislate
to make the masses prosperous their
prosperity will find it's way mp and
Slr0agh Svezy class and rest upon u.s."
That's the stuff. Give the prosperous
man the dickens. LeGislate the shift.
less into ease whack the stufang out Of
the creditors, and tell the debtor who
borrowed money i've years ago, when
the money In circulation was more gen.
eral than 10 il now. that the contraction
Of the currency gives him right to re-
pudiate.
Whoop IL mn for the ragged trousers: