The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1896-10-22
DONE BY POPULISM.
WHAT THE FANATICS HAVE DONE
FOR KANSAS.
what Populism Will Do For the
United States II Bryan Is Elected
What Minnesota May Expect II
John Lind Is Elected Governor
Rattle-Brained Fanatics Leave
Trail of Ruin and Disaster In the
Fair State of Kansas.

(Extract fro Emporia (kan) GaZette)
To-day the Kansas department OF
agriculture sent out q statement which
indicate that Kansas has gained less
than 1900 in the last year. There are
about 125,OOO families in the state. and
there were about 10000 babies born IN
Kansas; and yet, SD many people nave
left the state that the natural increase
is cut down to less than 2,OCO net. This
has been going on for eight years.
If there had been a high brick wall
ar,und the state eight years ago and
not a soul had been admitted OF per-
n,itted to leave, Kansas would be half
a million souls better off than she Is
to-day. And yet the nation has in
creased in population. In five years
100000 people have been added to
the national popIlation-yet, instead
of gaining a share Of this-say 100000
Kansas has apparently been plague
spot the very garden of the world has
lost population by the ten thousands
every year.
Not only has size lost population. but
she has lost wealth. Every moneyed
man in the state who could get ont
without great loss has gone. livery
month il every cormunity sees some
one who has a little money pick up
and leave the state. This has been go
ing on for eight years. Money is being
drained out all the time. In towns
where ten years ago there were three
or four or half dozen money-lending
concerns, stimulating industry by fur
nishing capital, there is now none, or
one or two, that are looking after the
interest and principal already out
standing.
No one brings any money into Kan
sas any more. What community knows
lover one or two men who have moved
in with more than $4,000 in the last
threee years? And what community
cannot count half score of men in that
time who have left, taking all the
money they could scrape together?
Yet the nation has grown rich. 9th
err states have increased in population
and wealth-othe~ neighboring states.
Missouri has gained nearly 2,O0O,00O,
'while Kansas has been losing 100000.
Nebraska has gained in wealth and
population. while Kansas has gone
tdown hill.
What is the matter with Kansas?
There is no substantial city in the
state. Ev":y big town save one has
lost in population. Yet Kansas City,
Omaha. Lincoln, It. Louis, Denver,
colorado Springs, Sedalia. Des MOines,
the cities Of the DakOtas st. Paul and
NinneapOlis-all cities and towns in
the West-have steadily grown.
Take UP the government blue-book,
ord you will see that Kansas is vi1'tu-
ally off the map. Two or three little,
scabby. consular places in yellow-fcyer
stricken communities that do not ag-
gregate $4,000 year. is all the recog-
milton Kansas has. Nebraska draws
about 100000; little North Dakota
draws $4,000; Oklahoma doubles Kan.
sas; Missouri leaves her thousand
miles behind; Colorado is almost seven
times greater than Kansas-the whole
West is ahead of Kansas.
Take it by any standard you please,
Kansas is not in it.
60 East, and you hear them laugh at
Kansas; go West. and they sheer at
her: go South. and they "cuss" her; go
North, and they have forgotten her.
Go into any crowd of intelligent peo-
pie gathered anywhere on the globe,
and you will find the Kansas man on
the defensive. The newspaper col
umns and magazine pages, once de-
voted to praise of the state, to boaStful
facts and startling figures concerning
her resources, now are filed with car
&oons, gihes and Pefferian speeches.
Kansas just naturally isn't in the
civilized world. She has traded places
with Arkansaw ard Timbuctoo.
What's the matter with Kansas?
We all know; yet here we are at 1t
again. We have an old moss-back
Jacksonian, who snorts and bowls be-
cause there is bath tub in the state
house; we are running that old jay for
governor We have another shabby,
wild-eyed, rattle-brained fanatic who
has said openly in a dozen speeches
that ''the rights of the user are, para
mount to the rights of the owner" We
are running him for chief justice, so
that capital will come tumbling over
itself to get into the state. We have
FAXED the ash heap of human failure
IN the state and have found an old
Hoopskirt of man who has failed as a
business man, who has failed as an
editor, who has failed as a preacher,
and we are going to run him for con-
gressman-at-large. He will help the
poks Of the Kansas delegation in
Washington. Then we have discover
ed a kid without law practice, and
have decided to vote for him as at
torney general. Then for fear some
hint that the state had become re-
spectacle might percolate through the
civilized portions Of the nations, we
have decided to send three or four
harpies out lecturing, telling the peo-
pie that Kansas is raising hell and let
Nng corn go to-weeds.
Oh, this is 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 these fellows
who boast that they are "just ordinary
old clodhoppers, but that they know
more in a minute about finance than
John Sherman" We need more men
Who are posted" who can below
about the crime of '73, VINO hate pros
perity, and who think that because a
man believes in national honor that he
u tool Of Wall street We have had
q few Of them, some 100000, but we
want more. We need several thousand
gibbering idiots to scream about the
"Great Red Dragon" of Lombard
street. We dent need population, we
don't need wealth. we don't need well
dressed mon on the streets. we don't