, 1896-08-24

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 ito get into the state. We have
raked the ash heap of human failure
hoopskirt of a 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
looks of the Kansas delegation in
Washington. Then WI have discover
ed a kid without a law practice. and
have decided to vote for him for at
torney general. Then for fear some
hint that the state had become respect
able might p~ercolate through the civil
lied portions of the nation. we have de-
cided to send three or four harpies out
lecturing. telling the people that Kan
sas is raising hell and letting corn go
to weeds.
Oh. this is a state to be proud Of!
We are a people who car 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 10, who hate pos
terity, and who think that because a
man believes in national honor that
he is a tool Of Wall street. We have
had a few Of them, some $50, 900, but
we want more. We need several
thousand gibbering idiots to scream
about the Great Red Dragon" OF LON.
bard street. We don't need population,
We don't need wealth, we don't need
well-dressed men on the streets, we
don't need standing in the nation, we
don't need cities on these fertile
prairies; you bet we don't. What we
are after is the money power. Because
we have become poorer and ornier and
meaner than a spawned. distempered
mule, we, the people of Kansas. pro-
pose to kick. We don't care to build
up, we wish to tear down.
There are two ideas OF govern
ment," said our noble Bryan at Chi
cago. There are those who believe
that if o just legislate to make the
well-to-do prosperous their prosperity
will leak through on those below. The
democratic idea has been that II you
legislate to make the masses pros
porous their prosperity will find it's
way up and through every class and
rest upon u.s."
That's the stuff give the prosperous
man the dickens. Legislate the thrift
less into ease; whack the stuff1ng out
of the creditors. and tell the debtor
who borrowed money five years ago
when the money in circulation was
more general than it is now that the
contraction OF the currency gives him
a right to repudiate.
Whoop it up for the ragged trousers;
put the lazy. greasy fizzle. who can pay
his debt on an altar and bow down and
worship him. Let the state ideal be
high. What we need is not the re-
|spect OF our fellow men, but a chance
to get something for nothing.
Oh, yes, Kansas Is a great state.
Here are people fleeing from it every
day, capital going out of the state by
the thousands OF dollars, and every in
dustry except farming paralyzed, and
that crippled because its products have
to go across the ocean before they can
find a tailoring man at work who can
afford to buy them. Lets don't stop
this year. Let's drive all the decent,
se!t-reSpecting men u Of the state.
Let's keep the old-cLodhoppers who
know it all. Let's encourage the man
VINO is posted" He can talk, and
what we need is not mill hands to eat
our meat. nor factory hands to eat our
wheat. nor cities to Cypress the farmer
by consuming his butter and eggs and
chickens and produce; what Kansas
needs is men who can talk, who have
large leisure 20 argue the currency
question while their wives walt at
home for tina; nickel's worth of blu
ing.
What's h matter with Kansas!
Nothing under the shining sun. She
is losing wealth. ~poplation and stand
ing. She has got her statesmen. and
the money power is afraid of her. Kan
sas is all right. She has started In to
raise hell. as Mrs. Lease advised, and
she seems to have an overproduction.
But that doesn't matter. Kansas never
did believe in diversified crops. Kan
sas is all right. There is absolutely
nothing wrong with Kansas. Every
prospect pleases and only man is ue."
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