The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1896-10-15

tou While ksasas has gone down hlll
ColHrAdo has esiasd 10 every usy, Shdt
h,nsss has lost 10 every way since ls's
Nhal Il The matter uith k,Bsasf
There is 90 substantial otty 10 the state
Every big town save one bss lost "a potu
latiou, Yet K,nsss CITY, Omshs, Lincoln,
St, Louis, Denver, Colorado Springs, Sod
alia, Des Moiues, the cities Of the DaAo
tas, ST. Paul aud Minneapolis all cities
and towns 10 the west have steadily
grown.
IsEe up the government blu3 book snd
you will see that Kansas is virtually on the
map, Two or three little scsbby cousular
places 10 yellow fever ttuoken commnri
ties that DO not aggregate $4,000 q year
is oil the recognition Kansas has, Nebrss
ks draws about 800 O00, little old North
Dakota draws 500 900: Oklahoma doubles
Kansas; Missouri leaves her q thousud
miles behind, Colorado is almost seven
times greater thso X ,nfas the whole wet
is bead Of Kansas,
Take It 10y apy standard you please, Kan
ass Is not 10 1t,
Go east, and you hear them laugh Il
Kansas, go wet and they sneer at her, go
south and they "cuss" her, go north and
they have forgotten her. Go into any
crowd Of intelligent people gathered any
where on the globe aud you will hnd ;he
Kansas mau on the defensive. The nGws
paper columns aud magazine pages, once
devoted to praise OF the state, to 10 stinl
facts and STIRLING figures conoering her
resources, now are filled with cartoons,
ebes and p, iierisn speeches Kansas just
naturally iah't 10 the civilized world She
has traded places with Arkansaw aud Tim
bu ctCo
Whats the Ter with KansssY
WeLsll knovYet here we are at it again.
We have have az old IN 1ss back Jackson
ian, who shouts aud bowls because there
is batl tub in the state house, we are run
ming that old jay for governor. We have
another shabby. Wild eyed, rattle brsned
fanatic who has sei openly in a 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 over itself
20 get into the state. We have rske the
ash heap OF human failure in the state and
have und an old hoopskirt OF man who
has failed as business man, who has fail
ed az au editor, who has failed as q preach
er. and we ara going to run him for con
pressman at large. He will help the looks
of the Kansas delegation In Washington.
Then we have discovered u kid without q
law practice, and have decided 10 vote for
him az attorney general Then for fear
some lint that the state had become res
pectable, we have decided to send three
or four harpias out lecturing, telling the
people that Kansas is raising hell and let
ting corn go to weeds
Oh, this is tate to be proud OIL We
are a people who can hold up our hesde.
What we need here is less money, leHs cap
ital, fewer white shirts and brains. fewer
men with business judgment, and more OF
these fellows who boast that they are
"just ordinary old clod hopptrs, but that
they know more 10 minute about hn
spce than John Sherman. We need more
men who are "posted,' who can below
about the crime OF 73. who hate posterity
and who think that because man believes
in pationsl honor that he is tool OF Wall
Street. We have had few OF them, some
l5O coo, bat we want more, We need
severslthoussnd gibbering idiots to scream
about the Great Red Dragon" OF Lom
bard Street. We don't need population,
we doL't need wealth, we don't need well
dressed men on The street, we don't need
standing in the nation, we don't need
cities on these fertile prsiries; you bet
we don't. What we are sfter is the mon
ey power. Because We bsve become poor
er and ornier and meaner than spawned,
distempefed mule, we, the people OF Kan
sss. propose to stick, We don't care 10
bnlld mp, we wish to tear down.
There are two ideas OF government, y
sid our noble Bryan at Chicago, Their
are those Who believe that il you l1st ePls
late to make the well.to-do prosperous
their prosperity will leak through on those
below. The Democratic idea has bee
that il you cgislste to make the mass
prosperous their prosperity will find its
vsy up and through every cla 3 and rest
upon ns.
That's tie ftuf. Give the prosperous
man the dickens L'gislste the thrlltless
iato ease; whack the stuliing ont Of the
creditors, and tell the debtor who borrow
ed money Eve yeers sg when the money
10 circulstlon was more general than It Is
low, ths' the contraction Of the currency
gives him a right to repudlatp.
Whoop it up Tor the ragged troussrs,put
the ley, greasy fzgle, who cant pay bis
debts, on 90 altar and bow down and wor
ship him. Let the state ideal be high,
What we need is not the respect OF onr
fellow men, but chance TO got sometl j 9
for nothing,
Oh, yes. Kansas is great state. Here
are people fleeing from it by the score
every day. capit.l gong ont OF the state
bv the huudreds Of dollars, aud every 10
dnstry except fam jna psrslyzed, ,snd thst
crippled because tts prod nets have TO -
across the ocean before they can dud D
lsboring man At Vork who cln sh0td +
buy tLem, L.t's dou't stop THE year,
Let's drive oil the decent, self respecting