Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-10-08

OklanOmH nOuDleS kanSAS, MIS-
souri, leaves her thousands miles
behind; Colorado is almost seven
times greater than Kansas-the
whole west il ahead of Kansas.
Take it by any standard you please.
Kansas is not i'm it.
Go east and you hear them laugh
ut Kansas; gb west, and they sneer
ut her; go south. and they "cuss"
her; go north. and they have forgot
ten her. Go into any crowd Of intel
ligent people. gathered anywhere on
the globe and you will find the Kan
sas man on the defensive. The news
pages, once devoted to praise of the
state. to boastful facts and startling
figures concerning her resources, now
are filed with cartoons. gibes and
naturally isn't in the civilized world.
She has traded places with Arkan-
sas and Tin:Suctuo.
What's the matter with Kansas?
We all know; yet here we are at it
again. We have an old mossback
Jacksonian, who snorts and howls
because there is a bathtub i'm the
state house; we are running that
old jay for governor. We have
another shabby, wild-eycd, rattle
braincd fanatic who has said openly
i'm u dozen speeches that ''thc rights
of the user are paramount to the
rights Of the owner" we are run
ming him for chief Justice, so that
capital will come tumbling over it.
self to get into the state. We have
raked the ash heap of human failure
i'm the state and have found an old
hOopskirt of a man who has failed as
u business man, who has failed as an
editor, who has failed as a preacher,
and we're going to run him for con-
gressman at large. He will help the
looks of the Kansas delegation AT
Washington. Then we have dis
covered a kid without a law practice,
and have decided to vote for him as
attorney general. Then, for feaI
some hint that the state has become
respectable might percolate through
| the civilized portions of the nations
we have decided to send three OIL
four harpies out lecturing, telling the
people that Kansas is raising hel
and letting corn go to weeds.
Oh, this is a state to be proud of
We are N people who can hold M
our heads. What we need here il
less money, less capital, fewer whit
business judgment and more of thes
fellows who boast that they ar
''just ordinary clodhoppers, but the.
know more i'm IA minute about financ
than Johh Sherman" We nee,
more men who are posted" wh'
can below about the crime of IA
who hate prosperity, and who thinl
that because a man believes i'm ma
tional honor that he is tool q
Wall street. We have had a few q
them, some 100000, but we wan
more. We need several thousan'
gibbering idiots to scream about tn
Great Red Dragon of Lombar
street" We don't need population
we don't need wealth, we dom
need well dressed men on the street
we don't need standing in the nation
we don't need cities on these fertil
prairies; you bet we don't. Wha
we are after is the money power
Because we have become poorer an
ornier and meaner than a spawned
distempered mule, we, the people c
Kansas, propose to kick. We dom
care to build up, we wish to tea
down.
There are two ideas of govern
ment," said our noble Bryan at Oh
cago. There are those who beliey
that if you just legis1ate to make til
well-to-do prosperous their pro-
perity will leak through on thor
below. The Democratic idea ha
been that il you legislate to mai
the masses prosperous their pro-
perity will find it's way throug
every class and rest upon u.s.
That's the stuff. Give the prOspe
ous man the dickens. Legislate I'll
thriftless into ease; whack the stui
ing out of the creditors. and tell Il
debtors who borrowed money II,
. years ago when the money in circl
llation was more general than 1t