People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-11-19

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world by shouting for thousands of
millions Of irredeemable greenbacks
TO be handed out in bundles to the
people, Poor Kansas
This from the chief newspaper of
city which was in active rebellion
against Abraham Lincoln's govern
ment when Kansas was sending a
greater proportion of her male citizens
into the war for the union than any
other state. And this, also, from the
chief newspaper Of city in which
wounded union soldiers were mObbed
in the hospitals, and city in which
rebellion had to be crushed by armed
force.
Al d this from the New York Press:
kansas remains what one OF its
despairing ones called it during the
canvass 1.-THE ash-heap OF human
failure" out OF which ''OId hOopskirts
Of men" were raked to make candi-
dates for office. What the last state
Of the state is TO be is beyond proph-
ecy. POpulism has already lessene1
its population by 100000 people, ac-
cOrding to Kansas estimate. The
men who gave the Populist majority
on Tuesday have already wrecked
two great mortgage companies by the
IimprOvidence either of their choice
or cultivation of the lands on which
they secured loans. Now that the
most dangerous PopuliSt in the state
"a man who has conducted a crusade
against property from the lower bench
has been elevated to the chief
justiceship, every dollar of capital
that can be withdrawn by outside
investors will be withdrawn. And no
more dollars will come in. Home
clpital-fOr much was acquired in the
safes earlier years-will 60 out"
Every Kansas man knows that what
it was that decreased Kansas popu-
ldtiOn was the fact that the arid DOT.
tiOn of western Kansas could not
support the vast population that
crowded into it. The rain did not
come, the crops failed and the people
had to move out. The opening of Ok
lahOma decreased our population. No
state was ever before called on to en-
dure the opening of a whole state of
virgin soil upon her borders. We
venture to say that such an event
would even reduce the population of
New York or Massachusetts. There
were no 100000 people left Kansas
that 10 itself is gross exaggeration.
And this from the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Bleeding Kansas" has voted for
Bryan for president. That is, a ma
jOrity OF the voters OF that state want
TO abandon the l0O-cent dollar stand
ard Of money for the United States.
Why? Simply in order to enable
laIge number OF persons, many of
them residents of Kansas, to pay their
debts 10 debased 50.cent dollar money,
though they were contracted in 100
cent dollar mOney-the kind of money
with which Kansas fal ms had been
bought, improved and stocked. They
have been persuaded TO think they
believe that is an honest enough
change"
And this from the New York Mail
and Express:
"NUw that the country has returned
Its verdicts upon the proposition TO
engraft POpullsm, mixed or unmixea.
upon the federal government, the
state of Kansas is likely to furnish an |
instructive political study during the !
next few years. Kansas has been
peculiarly the home of Populism and
there its blighting effects have been
most plainly visible. We had become
almost persuaded that the state was
tired of its unenviable notoriety: that
the reign of the Lewellings and Simp |
sons and PETERS and incidentally |
the Mary Ellen Leases-had perma-
nently cured the commonwealth. But
we were mistaken. Kansas has taken |
the plunge again, ignoring the lessons
of experience and defying fate.
Nov Kansas has gone back to her
first false love. POpulist misgovern.
ment, sufficient to have convinced |
any other commonwealth in the union. |
has failed to convince her. She is to |
have a Populist legislature, new Pop
ulist United Staets senator, or PETER |
reelected, and several new Populists
10 the lower house. She ignores the
fact that immigration has passed by
her gates under Populist admiuistra-
tiOn, and that her population de.
creased. She has aimed a blow at
her credit with open eyes, spuIned
the approach of outside capital. halt.
ed her development, and invited the
general ridicule that follows failure
to profit by hard experience"
And this from the Chicago Times:
kansas is not in a position to
claim anything from this administra.
tiOn from secretary down to door,
keeper. She has declared 10 favor of
debased, half value money, cheating
OF creditors, a packed supreme court,
free riot, national half reputation.
and all the other denominations of the
PopOcratic national platform. She
has given her vote to Bryan, who pub
licly lndOrses them all, to carry out
that ruinOus policy"
And this from the Minneapolis
Journal:
Poor Kansas Swept by the hot
winds from the plains of western
Texas, burnt by the summers sun and
lshriveled nv drouth sha ho, -.