The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-10-17
TRUTH ABOUT KANSAS
THE EXACT CONDITION IS DE-
SCRIBED.
POpuliSm Has Taken Hold and the De-
cent People are Leaving for
Other States.


Other States.
To-day the Kansas Department of Agri-
culture sent out a statement which indicates
that Kansas has gained less than 1000
people in the last year. There are about
1875, 900 families in the State, and there were
about 10, 900 babies born in Kansas. and yet
so many people have left the State that the
natural increase is cut down to less than
1000 net. This has been going on for eight
years.
II there had been high brick wall around
the State eight years ago and not soul had
been admitted or permitted to leave, Kansas
would be half Il million souls better Off than
she is to-day. And yet the nation has in
creased in population. In five years 10000
600 people have been added TO the national
populations; yet instead of gaining share of
this-say $4,000 - Kansas has apparently
been plague spot. and in tho very garden
of the world has lost population 10y 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
secs some one who has IL little money pick
up and leave the State, This has been going
on for eight years Money is being draind
out all the time. In towns where ten years
ago there were three or four OF half Il dozen
money lending concerns stimulating industry
by furnishing capital. there is now none or
one or two that are looking after the interest
and principal already outstanding
No one brings any money into Kansas
any more What community knows over
one or two men who have moved in with
more than $4,000 in the last three years?
And what community cannot count half a
score of men in that time who have left.
taking all the money they could scrape to-
gether?
Yet the nation has grown rich Other
States have increased il population and
wealth-othcr neighboring States. Missouri
has gained nearly 100000, while Kansas
has been losing 100000. Nebraska has
gained in wealth and population, while
Kansas has gone down hill.
WHAT Is THE MATTER?
What's the matter with KHnsas?
There is no substantial city in'the State.
Every big town save one has lost in pupu-
lation. Yet Kansas City, Omaha. Lincoln,
st. Louis, Denver. Colorado Springs, Sc
dalia, Des Noines, the cities Of the Da-
kotas. st. Paul and Minneapolis all cities
and towns in the West - have steadily
grown.
Take up the Government blue book and
you will see that Kansas is virtually off the
map. Two or three little scabby consular
places in yellow fever stricken communi-
ties that do not aggregate $4,000 year is
all the recognition Kansas has. Nebraska
draws about 100000; little North Dakota
draws $780, 900: Oklahoma doubles Kansas;
Missouri leaves her n thousand miles behind:
Colorado is almost seven times greater
than Kansas-the whole West is ahead of
Kansas.
Take ii by any standard you please, Kansas
is not in it.
Go East, and you will hear them laugh at
Kansas; go West, and they sneer at her; go
South, and they "cuss" her. 90 North and
they have forgotten her. Go into any crowd
Of intelligent people gathered anywhere on
the globe, and you will find the Kansas man
on the defensive. The newspaper columns
and magazine pages, once devoted to the
praise of the State, to hoasth facts and
startling figures concerning her resources
now are filed with cartoons. gibes and
PefGerian speeches, Kansas just naturally
isn't in the civilized world She has traded
places with Arkansas and Timbuctoo.
IAN OLD JAY FOR GOVERNOR"
What's the matter with Kansas?
We all know; yet here we are at it again.
We have an old mossback Jacksonian, who
snorts and howls because there is bath
tub in the State House; we are running
that old jay for Governor. We have an
other shabby, wild-eyed, rattle Drained ia
matte 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 tumblng over itself
to get into the State. We have raked the
ash heap of human failure in the State
and have found an old hoopskilt of II man
VINO mas lalleu us Il business man, VINO mas
failed as an editor who has failed rs u
preacher, and we are going to run him
for Congressman-at-Larg He will help
the looks of the Kansas delegation in Wash
ington. Then we have discovered kid
without a law practice and have decided to
vote for him as Attorney General Then. for
fear some hint that the State had become re
spectacle might percoIate through the
civilized portions Of the nation, we have
decided to send three or four harpies out
lecturing, telling the people that Kansas is
raising hell and letting corn go to weeds.
Oh. this is a State to be proud OF. We are
people who can hold up our heads. What
we need here Is lcss money, less capital
fewer white shirts and brains, fewer men
with business judgment and more of these
fellows who boast that they are ''iust ordi-
nary old clodhoppers, but that they know
move IN a inmate about finance tEau John
Sherman" We need more men who are
''posted," who can halcw about tho crime Of