The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-09-10

voted to praise Of the State, to boast
lui facts and startling figures concern
ing her resources, now are filled with
cartoons, gibes and Pefferian speeches.
Kansas just naturally isn't in the
civilized world. She has traded places
with Arkansas and Timbuctoo
What's the matter with Kansas?
We all know, yet here we are at it
again. We have an old moss-back
Jacksonlan, who snorts and bowls be-
cause there is bathtub in the State
mouse; we are running that old jay for
governor. We have another shabby
wlld-eyed, ratified Drained fanatic who
has said openly in dozen speeches
that the rights of the user are para
mount 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 ash heap Of human failure
IN the State and have found an old
hoopsklrt OF man who has failed as
a business man, who has failed as an
editor, who has failed as a preacher,
and we are going to run him for con-
gressman-at large. He will help the
looks OF the Kansas delegation in
Washington. Then we have discov-
cred kid without a law practice, and
have decided to vote for him as attor-
ney general. Then for fear some hint
that the State had become respectable
might percolate through the civilized
portions of the nations, we have de-
clded to send three or four harpies out
featuring, telling the people that Kan
sas is raising hell and letting corn 90
to weeds.
IN, this is a 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
judgment and more of these fellows
who boast that they are "just ordinary
old clodhoppers, but that they know
more IN a minute about finance than
John Sherman" We need more men
who are "posted," who can below about
the crime of '73, who hate prosperity,
and who thinks that because a man
believes in national honor that he is a
tool of Wall street. We have had a
few of them, some 10000, but we
want more. We need several thous-
and 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 we'll
dressed men on the streets, we don't
need standing in the nation, 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 ornier and meaner
than a spawned, distempered mule,
we, the people of Kansas, 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 prosper
GUS their prosperity will find its way
up and through every class and rest
upon u.s."
That's the stuff. Give the prosper
GUS man the dickens. Legislate the
thriftless into ease; whack the stuffing
out of the creditors, and tell the
debtors who borrowed money five
years ago, when money in circulation
was more general than it is now, that
the contraction of the currency gives
him right to repudiate.
Whoop itup for the ragged trousers;
put the lazy, greasy fzzle who can't
pay his debts on an alter and bow
down and worship him. Let the ideal
be high. What we need is not the re-
spect of our fellow mon, but a chance
to get something for nothing.
Oh, yes Kansas is a 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 can find a laboring
man at xvork who CON offor1 RI huv