The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-06
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JERRY SIMSONISM IN KANSAS.
Ell Perkins on Kansas POpuIisn,
Free SiIverism and Temperance.
Topeka Letter in New York Sun.

Topeka Letter in New York Sun.
Kansas is ali tangled up. The cradle of
greenbackism and free silver has almost
ceased to rock. The home of Sockless
Jerry Simpson is in mourning for the de-
, feated Altgeld. Mrs. Lease, Tillman, Joe
Blackburn, and the Boy Orator. Hog
cholera is in the hog pens, and COWS and
money are scare. The descendants of old
John Brown of Osawatatnie have ceased
to be Jayhawkers and are now embracing
the Border Ruffians of Missouri Bleed
ing Free Kansas has fallen into the arms
of Texas and South Carolina. When l
asked the editor of the Topeka Capital
what the popuiists were doing around the
capitol, he said:
'They are looking for something to tax.
They can't collect the tax on mortgaged
farms, and now they are going to tax the
eastern mortgage. They've got high-sal-
aried popullsts inspecting Rockefener's
kerosene oil in every county in the state.
AT the same time Rockefeller's kerosene
retails in Topeka at cents a quart, while
the populists retail their milk at cents.
Railroads are passing dividends and dis
| charging men, while the free silver popu-
! lists are drafting laws to cut down rail-
road fares to two cents, which will drive
the Santa Fe and Missouri Pacific out Of
| the state. The p0puliSts are walking
! themselves, land they are going to make the
| Boston orphans and widows who own the
| Santa Fe walk, too. The great Boston
! franchises is so pinched by jerry Simpsons
| legislation that it is about to close its
| Southwestern branch to kloWa on the Dor
| ders of the nation"
The populistic legislatures have liked II
so that any Kansas farmer can raise three
| crops on a mortgaged farm before the
mortgage can be foreclosed.
| When asked Jerry Simpson, recently re-
, elected to congress, If the pops We're really
going to remonetize Mexican dollars, he
said
NO sir That's Kansas City Star lie.
| We've looked it over and we find that
there is about $4,000, 100000 worth of 50-cent
silver in the world and if Kansas tried
| to double its commercial value, twelve bill
lion half savages in Mexico, India, China
and Africa would load us down and sink
the state. Kansas is flyer, not a sinller.
We don't tie weights on our legs in Kan
| sas; we soar!'
While the populists of Kansas have been
| very foolish politically a great fortune
! has come to her materially. Oil and gas
| have been discovered in paying quantities
in an immense district. The district eX-
tends from Paola, fifty miles south of Kan
sas City southwestward to Osawat annie,
| Neodosha, Eldorado, independence and
| Cherrydale, to Coffeevile. This gas belt
is about as extensive as the gas belt in
| Indiana. Already the zinc smelling works
| around Joplin, Mo-, are moving up to
Kansas. This county, with it's zinc, coal
| Oil and gas, promises to rival Indiana.
| Free gas will bring many manufacturers
| and great prosperity to Southern Kan
sas. Coal is everywhere. In Pitts5urg
Kan, coal is delivered at so cents per ton
Every day I see paragraphs in Kansas
| fle rCTlpTN p1 h nt fbA
| prohibition law to Kansas again?"
1 think this law will be submitted again,
but it will be defeated. The brains of
Kansas are satisfied that prohibition
keeps money in the state. Kansas Used
to send $100O0,OO0 annually to Peoria and
Kentucky for whisky. Now she sends out
about 81 100000; 100000 saved to the state
every year!
Still, whisky gets into Kansas. But
there is no bar or sign of a bar in the
state. 1t is drunk for medicine in drug
stores through a physicians certificate.
Two men are never seen drinking together
Boys Is years old in Kansas have never
seen a bar.
Exaggerated stories about Kansas
drinking are popular, but they are not
true They are told for fun. At Wichita
l did see funny thing. A shattered man
came lettering into a drug store. His eyes
we're wild, and he held pint bottle in his
hand.
'fSave me quicky' he said. I'm poi
sonedw and then he held his stomach and
looked up at the druggist with paid face
and beseeching eyes. please put some
spirits in these herbs, quickr' he said
holding out the bottle
The frightened druggist hastily poured
some whisky into the medicine, and hand
ed it back to the suffering man, who drank
the bottle dry in an instant.
"As the sufferer passed out of the door
] said: My friend, what herbs have you
in the bottle|
Cherries, b'goshr' he said, and then
he winl6ed one eye and continued: "Tbose
cherries have saved my life twice to-day"
AT Eldorado, where l lectured last night.
they told me about a wicked Missouran
who got drunk in that town. He went into
an Edorado drug store and asked fo- a
drink.
I'm sick" he said, land need it,
"But, my friend" said the druggist
you'll have to bring a physicians certi-
scription."
mo other way?" asked the excited Mis-
sourian.
mo. No prescription, no WHISKY; and
I'm sorry to say that our physician is now
in Topeka"
And no possible way to get a drinlx?p
well, yes" said the druggist. in case
of snake bite we can give whisky to save
a mans life"
''Do you know where can find a
snske?" gasped the sufferer.
''They say Jim Smith caught one in the
sorghum patch yesterday"
''Tll be back in a minuter" said the man.
rushing out of the door
About two hours afterward he came hus-
Ting back, exclaiming Got it'll Snake
bit mel Gimme the whisky"
but what delayed you so long?" asked
the druggist.
Court in session, and four judges, af-
teen lawyers and thirty-six jurymen walt
ing tor that snake! Eli Perkins.
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