The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-12-16
KANSAS LEADS.
Prosperity Does Not Come Grom Borrowing
Money-Sensible Suggestions.

Prosperity Does Not Come Grom Borrowing
Money Sensible Suggestions.
Editor Representative:
The dishonest and lying editorials in
the Republican metropolitan press, about
Kansas and her people, is fair sample
of the view taken by the money power
when a free and independent state, tired
and disguised with corporations rule,
votes to take the reins of her state gov
eminent into her own hands and make
laws in the interest of her people, as
against that of the soulless corporations
which have we'll nigh ruined them.
These journals are prone to comment
thus, bleeding Kansas" "Poor Kansas"
Bankrupt Kansas: Eastern money
loaners will cut her off from their roll
of states and no more Eastern capital
will come to them to help them OUT
One would be led to believe that finan-
cial success must come to a people from
mOney-lOaners, that true, healthy, pros
perity comes not, as of old, from indus
try and frugality, but must be borrowed.
The fact is that the peopleof Kansas have
tried the Eastern money loaning system
so long that the money sharks have got
almost everything they owned.
Kansas contains within her borders
more native-bOrn Americans than any
state north of Mason and Dixon's line;
and more ex-federal soldiers in proper
tion to her population than any state in
the union, hence it is fitting that she
should lead in the great struggle for the
emancipation of the nation from the
bondage of the most soulless and corrupt
system of plutocratic rule which ever
cursed any people.
of
daughters are from New England and
they brought with them that true spirit
of independence and sturdy Americanism
which characterized her people before
their sense Of independence was blunted
by so long worshiping at the shrine Of
the corporations golden calf When the
people of North Dakota learn by sad ex-
perience what the people of Kansas and
Nebraska have learned, they. too. will
be ready to trust more to their ability to
help themselves and less to the tender
mercy OF the Eastern money bags, for
prosperity. The only object is to lull the
people to sleep in the promised security
that the lion is wont to afford the lamb
what Massachusetts was to the rebellion
OIL 1TI6, Kansas was in the rebellion
against the terrible slave power, and the
same spirit of worship of independence
which has dominated and led in every
movement for the upbuilding of America
is today dominating her sons and daugh-
tiers In their new home in Kansas.
What Judge Douglas said in reference
to Vermont, it is Zone of the best states
in the Union to be born in,' applies
equally to all the New England states
with his further proviso, IF one emf,
CRATES when young"
Let no true patriot for moment dis
trust the leadership of Kansas in this
momentous struggle, for most royallv
has she earned the right to lead bv her
gallant and single handed victory over
border rufi1anism in 1858, and in. their
early and well sustained triumph over
the rum power A noble band of heroes
that from their western homes lead 10
van in the present crusade for liberty,
the preservation of their homes and The
establishment of equal rights for all and
special privileges to none"
u ~ Walter Muir.