The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-12-24
xorEs OF TRAVEL.

KOTES OF TRAVEL.
The two hours waiting At Pratt VA
beguiled of its tediogsness BY citizen 0
the town entertaining US with bis mis-
fortunes and those Of his neiEhbors. Hi
condition and those be mentioned ahort
q striking one of ''hard times" He CAM
from Illinois four years ago and bough
500 acres Of land, which he sowed t
wheat. the poor crops since the yea
1892, the great wheat year. has nearly
ruined him; and yet he has faith In TIN
ultimate outcome of Kansas. This mar
mentioned neighbor who had an abun-
dance Of farm implements but who did
not have enough money to buy sack Of
flour. His neighbor, during the great
wheat craze, had bought $1,000 thresh-
ing machine, and he has every farming
implement necessary, with numbers OF
fine horses and wagons. There are
plenty of families all over the country
who are ''long" on farming implements
but 'sshort'' on cash. Instead of invest
ing in cattle and the economies of the
farm, they have depended on sustaining
a reputation of being "wheat king"
In the short crop years the man is fortu-
nate who, having all sorts of farming i'm
plements, is not in debt for them. Per-
haps favorable year will bring pros
perity again to him, and he can change
his methods of farming and engage in a
diversity of farm production.
What struck us as peculiarly incOnsis-
tent was the statement of our entertainer
that "kansas would come out all right"
but he believed an ''insurrection'' was
necessary to purge the country Of men
who were despoiling it. Now an sim
surrectiOn' would destroy all sorts of
property aud ''Kansas would not be all
right" The gentleman in bemoaning
his fate, said he was an anarchist. Pros
periiy would not come with reign of
anarchy. 1t is true there are certain
combinations of capital and usurpation
of power that are thrOttling the life blood
of the people, and if ''insurrection'' is
necessary to destroy these evils surely
anarchy must result. Shakespeare said
sit were better to bear the evils we have
than to fly to others we know not Of"
Aud Shake no doubt had in mind that
the treatment Of the disease was some
times worse. than the evil itself.
The trust combinations and how to get
rid of them will become a part of our
political creed in the future. and it will
be the Republican party who will put
down these aggregatiOns of capital and
industry.
The tendency to aggregation of bust
ness and concentration of capital is ex-
.mplified in Kansas City. The larger
dealer is absorbing the business of the
smaller one. A tour through some of the |
arge retail establishments would con-
vince person that dealing in special
lines of goods by the exclusive dealer |
had passed out of existence. Here you
,an find IN one store almost every article |
Of domestic use-frOm needle to suit |
Of clothes; from box of pills to a lady's
And prices are cut down to |
meet the large trade that throngs these
immense hives of industrious business.
For instance, box of pills that retails
ut % cents box can be bought in one
Of these big stores at IL cents a box.
These immense establishments are con
veniences to the general pnblic, and
while the small dealer may suffer from
the encrOachments on his trade, some
people are being benefited by the ad-
offered in the general stores.
There is large employment in these
stores, every line of goods has one or
more clerks. Perhaps employment is not
by the ABSORPTION of the smaller
BY the larger dealer And yet the retail
stores appeared to be not less and every
seemed to be thriving.
A young lady on the train, no doubt a
wife, was deploring the condi- |
ton of the farmers, and corn only Isl
cents bushel. Observing the large
piles of corn everywhere-even in
''Western kansas''-we wondered what
the hogs and cattle were doing, aud corn
too cheap to pay for handling. But
''cheap corn" and lack of hogs and cat
tie can be accounted for. Upon inquiry
We find, even in the corn producing sec
tons of the country, tina: there is a scar
city of hogs and cattle. Hogs pay at 81
cents said farmer. How to get the
corn and how to get the hogs, is the