The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-24

anywhere on tho globe and you viii ina
| the Kansas man on the defensive. The
| newspaper columns and the magazine
pages, once devoted to praise OF the state,
| to boastful facts and startling ngures
concernig her resources, now are filled
! with cartoons, gibes and Pefferian speech
cs Kansas just naturally isn't in the
civilized world. She has traded places
with ArkansaW and Timbuctoo
What's the matter with kansas2
VIC all know, yet we are at it again.
We have an old moss-back Jacksonian,
who snorts and bowls because there is a
bath tub in the state house; we are run
ming that old jay for governor. We have
| another shabby, wild-eyed, rattle-brained
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 down
over itself to get into the state. We have
raked the ash heap of human failure in
the state and have found an old hoop
skirt Of a man. who has failed as a bust
ness man, who has failed as an editor
who has failed as preacher, and we are
going to run him for congreSSman-at
large. He will help the looks of the Kan
sas delegation in Washington. Then we
have discovered kid without a law prac-
tice and have decided to vote for him
as attorney general. Then for fear some
hint that the state had become respecta-
BILE might percolate through the civilized
portions of the nation. we have decided
to send three or four harpies out lectur-
ing, 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 a 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 those fellows who boast that
- al
but that they know more in minute
about finance than John Sherman" We
need more men who are posted" who
can below about the crime ofs'73, who
hate posterity and who think that be-
cause 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 thousand
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 well dressed men
on the streets, we don't need standing
in the nation, we don't need cities on
these fertile prairie; you bet we don't.
What we are after is the money power.
Because we have become poorer and or
nier and meaner than a spawned, distem
pered mule, we, the people of Kansas,
propose to kick. We don't care to build
up we wish TO tear down.
1HeTe are Two IDEAS OF government,
said our noble Bryan at Chicago There
are those who believe that if you just
legslate to make the well-to-do prosper
Gus, their prosperity will leak through
on those below. The democratic idea has
been that If you legislate to make the
masses prosperous their prosperity will
find it's way up and through every class
and rest upon US"
That's the stuff. Give the prosperous
man the dickens. Legislate the shiftless
into ease; whack the stuffing out of the
creditors, and tell the debtor who Dor
rowed money five years ago, when the
money in circulation was more general
than it is now. that the contraction of
the currency gives him a right to repu-
date.
Whoop it up for the ragged trousers;
put the lazy, greasy fizzle, who can't
pay his debts, on an altar and bow down
and worship him. Let the state ideal be
high. What we need is not the respect
of our fellow men, 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 in
dustry, except farming, paralyzed, and
that crippled because 1t products have to
go across the ocean before they can find
a laboring man at work who can afford
to buy them. Let's don't stop this year.
Let's drive all the decent, self-respecting
men out of the state. Let's keep the old
clod-hoppers who know 1t all Let's en-
courage the man who is posted He
can talk, and what we need is not mill
| hands to eat our meat, nor factory hands
to eat our wheat, nor cities to Cypress
| the farmer by consuming his butter and
eggs, and chickens and produce; what
Kansas needs is men who can talk, who
have large leisure to argue the currency
question while their wives walt at home
! for that nickePs worth of bluing.
What's the matter with Kansas?
| Nothing under the shining sun. She is
losing wealth, population and standing.
| She has got her statesmen, and the money
power is afraid of her. Kansas is all
| right. She has started in to raise hell,
as Mrs. Lease advised; and she seems
| to have an overproduction. But that
| doesn't matter. Kansas never did believe
| in diversified crops Kansas Is all right.
| There is absolutely nothing wrong with
Kansas. every prospect pleases and only
man is vile"
HE WAS KING OF BUNS.