The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-15
WRATH
Poured Out bya Disguised West.
(, ~ 81 ern Editor.
lyila1TslsNRONGWlTllK KANSAS
a. Howl Worth R.ading-ttore Crank.
and Less Money Seem to be tho Need OF
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~ good,Po ii,leai Moral 10 IL.
4 Ere I'M " e. lJmporin Gazette. To-day
gthe,K ansI ) Department II Agriculture
sent |ur ID statement which Indicates
that II lansias has gulhed less than 1000
people IN he lest year. There are about
$4,000 Var allies III, the state, and there
wSrcsat oiit 10000 babies born in Kan.
I sas, and yet 50 many people have left
D the stat, ) that the natural Increase y
cut dow u TO less than 1000 net. 'rsis
Z has been aoihg,on for eight years.
ls III ;ther ; had been a high brick wall
\ around I We state eight years ago and
mi u ssotl " has been admitted or per-
am!tted 40 Leave, Kansas would be half
a,million. I piis ;better'oft than she isto-
day. And Sesithc nation has Increased
I'd Z populhtS lungf1n i've years 100000 900
people have been added to the national
population. yet instead Of gaining n
share Of til. is.=say 5O0O OO-KansasI has
Apparently been a plague spot, and In
the Very gu sden OF the world has last
population rS the ten thousands every
1 ysar.s ~
Not only h ps she lostinponnlntlon, hut
\ she, has lost wealth. Every rioneyed
Z Inansin the state who could get Uut
without grva loss has gOnes Every
4; Jflouthtain eve ny community sees some
one who has Iaallttlc money pick up
and leave the state. This has been go
Tag on, for eigl 1t years. Money has been
drained out al the time. In towns
where ten yeat IS ago there were three
sor, four, or half tai dozen money-lendins
K concerns stimu lating industry by FUR
s iiishing capital Where Is now none, or
one or two tina are looking after the
interest and + Tincipal already out
standipg.
p s;Nosone brings, ANY money into Kan
sas any more. " llat community Knows
Z over one or two men who have moved
in with more. Ct an $4,000 in the last
three years.? md what community
Gannot count hal I score OF men In
u that time who ha, We left, taking all the
money they could, scrape together?
-s Yet the fationI fns grown rich. 9th
or states have inc reased In population
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS \ nelghborllig states.
Missouri has gained nearly 2,0O0.0O0
while Kansas las been losing 100000.
Nebraska has gained in wealth and
population while Kansas has gone
! down hill. Colorado, has gained In ev-
ery{wayywhile Kansas has lost in every
way, lsifce 1855.
WHAT'S flIe Matter!
~ What IS the matter with Kansas?
There Is no substantial city in the
state. Every big town but one has lost
in population. Yet Kansas city, orna-
ma. Lincoln, St LoSils. Denver, .Colora-
Z do Springs. Sedalia, Des Moihes. the cit
tcs Of the Dakotas. ST. Paul and Min
neapoMs-all cities and towns in the
west-haves steadily grown.
) Take up the government Blue Book
and YOU will see that Kansas Is vlr-
G tuaIly'dTf the map. Two or three little
:, sea bbyI consular places in yellow fever
Z stricken communities that do not ag-
Efegate sl0O 900 u year IS all the rec0g-
: milton N ansas has. Nebraska draws
( "a bout 500. 600; little old North Dakota.
$40. 900: Oklahoma doubles Kansas;
Missouri leaves her miles behlrd; Colo
y rado Is almost seven times greater
than Kansas-the Whole west is ahead
aot Kansas. T+,
TakeIit by. any standard you please,
kansas Is, not In IL.
Go east, and you hear them laugh at
Kansas, go west and they SHEER. at lta:,
goiSouth and they .'cuss" het, go forth
and they have forgotten her. Go Into
= any: crowd OF Intelligent people gather
ed. anywhere on the globe and You
will find the Kansas sman on the de-
Z fcnsiye. The newspaper columns and
magazine pages. once devoted to praise
Of the state. to boastful facts .5and
startling figures concerning, herGfre-
& sources. nav are filled with cartoons.
gibes ann Pefferian speeches. Kansas
Just naturally isn't in the civilized
:SwSrld Size has traded places with Ar
kansas AMI Timbnctoo.
a, What Is The matttr With Kansas?
81 We all know; yet here we are at IT.
again, We have an old m0ss-bacil
q acksohian, who ysnorts and bowls be-,
cause there Us a bathtub In the state
house; we are running that old
81 lay for governor, We have another
s shabby, wlld.eyed, rattle-bralned ia
matte who has said openly In a dozen
are paramount to the rights OF the
8 3s5wner;."9 we are running him for chief
= ii,stlce. so that capital will come tunlb-
Ling over itself to get into the state. We
y have raked Fthe ash heap OF human
failures in the state and have found an
& eoId houpskirt OF man who has failed
/. as. n business man. who has failed as
n an editor. who has Jailed as n preacher,
3 and we arc going tosrun him for con-
sgressman-at large. He will help the
5lFlooks of the Kansas delegation in
/. washington. Then we have discovered
n kid without law practice, and have
II decided to vote for him as attorney
general. Then. for fear some hint that
"a the state had become respectable might
+ spercblate through the civilized portion
az the nation. jWe hive decided to send
three orsfour lrarpies out lecturtng, tell
ling the people that Kansas is raising
4 he'll and letting corn so 10 weeds. ~
y EsEs OH. this Is state To be proud Of,
I'VE are n people who can hold up our
* heads. What we iced here Is less mo-
Y ney, less capital, fewer white SHIRTS
: and brains. fewer men with business
Judgment and more of those fellows
4. who boast hat they are Just ordi-
y nary old clollioppers, but that they
know more In a minute about finance
than John Sherman" We need more
4 who8are ''nosted." who cah below
about the crime or 1873. who hate pos
ferjty,i Say that men who believe in ma
;5Stlonal honor are tools Of Wall street.
I've haze had II few OF them, some 1907
600, but we want more.
More Idiots Needed.
we need several thousand gibbering
idiots, 20 scream abJut the .Grea,
rcd Dragon of Lombard street. We
5don't need population, We don't need
5LEa,t,i, ss,,.,, inr,'f need we'll n rnsseb men