Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-17

T. 3. Murdoch, in Eldorado Republican.
The majority of voters of Kansas are not
PopuliSts.
A majority of the Populists are not repu-
diationists. .........
A very large majority of the people of
our state are good citizens. They are pa
triotic, public-spirited and at all times in
favor of good government.
Kansas people. as a rule. are we'll clothed.
well fed, live in comfortable homes and
are up to date in everything. They read
more. talk more, work less and get more
out of life than the people of any of the
states.
We have less real poverty, less real pau
perism, less crime, less business for the
courts than any.of our neighbors.
Any event of Importance, transpirinS in
any part of the world, is known in every
school district in Kansas. discussed and
forgotten, before it reaches the rural COM
munities Of other states.
Nothing escapes Kansas and no national
or international question is too abstruse
or complicated for the most remote or "un-
civilized" communities to analyze and in
telligently digest.
Kansas absorbs everything and forgets
nothing.
Kansas country school house barn-storm-
ers made thousands OF. better and more log
icaI money and tariff speeches, during the
last campaign, than were made by Eastern
speakers. of national reputation, sent here
There is more OF America, more of Amer
icanism, more of gentle blood of the bright
est patriots of the century, more men and
women with classical educations and with
4 finer sense of discrimination between
right and wrong, more people whose men,
tality traverseS higher social planes and
who possess to more exalted degree that
touch of nature which is more quickly
reached and more readily responsive, than
is found anywhere under the flag.
Kansas consumes more of the tropical
fruits. swallows more of the products of
salt water, feeds on better beef and pork,
poultry and game, digests more brain food
grown in this and foreign lands than any
other people; and, on the theory that IF
you eat beef you think beef" her people
are better qualified to grapple the problems
of life than those of ancient Greece or
Rome, or those of any civilization since
the writing of history began.
Upon the theory that the smallest pebble
dropped into the lake vexes the water to
the farthest shore so the slightest question
of religious, political or material concern,
reaches the homelife of every member of
the Kansas family as unerringly as that
sunshine follows night.
Kansas people subscribe for more maga-
sermons. pay more for lectures, pay more
money for theaters and operas, travel more
on the railways, own better horses and
carriages. ride more on bicycles, consume
less tobacco and whisky, use less profane
language have more respect for the laws
of God and more regard for the rights of
man than any other people.
Kansas has fewer long-haired men and
short-haired women, fewer cranks, hoboes
and drunkards, fewer liars, lunatics and
loafers than any other state in the Union.
Kansas voted for Populism and free sill
Yer upon the theory that ''greenback infia-
ton during and after the war. made good
times and that silver initiation would
cause their return.
A majority of Kansas people have no
sympathy with anarchy, no patience with
the men who seek to array one class
against another. Kansas people respect the
laws and love the flag. They are specula-
tive, sympathetic, and often go to eX-
tremes but in due time they will get back
into the ranks and will again be stalwart
leaders in the great march of progress and
good government
Kansas don't ask sympathy or deserve
abuse. Kansas is all right.