The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-16


TINS IS my own, my glorious Kansas
None shall say a word against her.
We make no defense of POpulism Tt
has its vagaries and its impracticabil-
tiles; it has its hare Drained theorists
as abOlitiOnism and prOhibitiOnism
and woman suffra gism have had
No new thought or idea is proof against
foolish advocates They cannot be
kept from talking But PODulism IS
not confined to Kansas. Tt is part
of a movement that pervades the Unit
ed States. And because it perVades
the United States Kansas people alone,
Republicans, Popuhsts, Democrats
PrOhibitiOnists and all are to have the
life crushed out of them Those even
who have been loyal to eastern hnan-
cial IDEAS who have indOrsed every
tenet of the sound money faith, are
to be slaughtered with the others Age,
sex or previous party affiliations are
not to count All must be destroyed
AS in the persecution of the bigenSes.
when one of the slaughtering generals
expressed a. doubt about indiscrim-
mate killing for fear he might put to
the sword some who were not heretics,
he was told to Kill them all, God VIII
know his own" So in Kansas all, all
are to be punished, all are to beggared,
all are to be ruined and all are to be
pauperized-nOt one shall be left to tel
the tale How can our party 1IleAuS
reconcile their souls to such cOnSum-
mate cruelty2 VIII they not resent IT.
The most melancholy feature of all
the stream OF V1tupefaL1On ana tuld11CE
that is now poured out on Kansas IS
that it was started by Kansas people
themselVes-by Kansas editors They
have been prOclaiming for years that
they were ashamed of Kansas. They
have washed the states dirty linen in
public and WhOOped billingsgate at their
own mother state from hOusetOpS and
hedgerows until the attention of the en-
tire union has been attracted to kan
SaS AS Kansas people have belttled
their own state they could not expect
outsiders to set greater store by her
They have hurled stones at their own
house until the mob has turned to it
and is now busy hurting all the
stones Our people have declared in
public and private that the state IS un-
clean until strangers are Shrinking
away through sheer panic. Oh, what
shameful work have misguided citizens
of Kansas donei Blinded by party
spleen, they have dragged their own
reputation in the mire. One editorial
freighted with woe for Kansas was in
dited in the devils own ink at Emporia
that has done more to damn Kansas
than any other single agency More
dreadful to the good name of Kansas
than Benedict ArnOld's treason to the
cause of liberty, it was taken up by
thOughtless political managers and
printed as campaign literature in every
newspaper in the country and 1t has
done its work. Taken as gospel truth
by millions, all the newspapers in kan
sas could not refute its miScOnStruc-
tions, its warped statements, its malig-
nant conclusions. should they extend
the task over twenty years. That a son
of our beloved state should thus stab
his mother to the heart is a profound
mystery of human depravity that the
psychologist cannot unravel.
1t wasn't the crack Drained enthusi-
asts" that ruined Kansas, but the crack
Drained editors of partisan newspapers,
whose rancOr nothing could stem or
ameliOrate- They have done their
worst, and all that every true lover of
his state can hope for, is to strive to
undo it as rapidly as possible.
We are a brave and self-reliant peO-
ple we are industrious and honest The
eastern press cannot crush us If we
cannot borrow much money, perhaps
so much the better We shall pay off
what owe the sooner, and like France
When Germany forced the milliards
from her rise to heights of even grand
er prosperity, for we have our golden
fields of wheat. our bOundless seas of
waving corn, our cattle on a thousand
hills and the world must buy them and
pay US cash for them. We have the
the earth, nearly al American born,
thousands of US tracing our American
ancestry back to the seventeenth cen
tury. No metropolitan press, no mon
eyed Oligarchy can destroy our spirit
or retard our advancement We will
most enlightened commonwealth on the
globe.
Ad astra per asperai
Kansas the flaming star that leads
uplifted humanity toward that goal
which all mankind dfscerns dimlv in
the dark of centuries before us but
which Holy Writ foretells as the golden
age when peace shall reign on earth
and every man shall call his neighbor
brotherI