The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-11-13
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ALLEN COUNTY,
AND HOW ABOUT KANSAS?

The folly of November 3rd will hurt
Kansas. There is no doubt about
that. 1t will be harder to induce
capital to invest here. 1t will be
harder to get immigrants to locate
here. 1t will be harder to borrow
money or renew old loans, and inter-
est will be higher. There can be no
possible doubt of these things. Capt.
tai doesn't want to invest in a State
which is dominated by party whose
chief corner stone is antagOuism to
capital. Immigrants don't want to
come to a State which has endorsed
party which has been declaring for
six years that verybOdy within its
borders was getting poorer every year.
Owners of money don't want to loan
it in State whose Legislature, Gov
ernOr and Supreme Court rest under a
suspicion at least of regarding lenders
of money as thieves and robbers. If
Kansas had given a majority for Me-
Kinley and elected a Repu blican leg
islature, Governor and Chief Justice,
there would have been no trouble
about renewing loans, and interest
would in all likelihood have been
materially reduced. But the majority
of those who most need these favors
evidently voted against the party that
would have brought them, and unless
all the present signs fail they will have
abundant cause to repent their action.
1t is the general feeling among loan
agents that few if any new real estate
loans will be made, at least until
after the meeting of the Legislature, !
and that renewals will be denied and |
foreclosures remorselessly enforced |
against those in default.
We earnestly hope, however, that
this policy will not be followed. 1t
would result in great hardship and |
loss to many people, and it would do
gross injustice to the State as whole.
1t is not surprising that Kansas
should have bad reputation, for the
blatherskiTes have been busy with |
all kinds of wild talk for the past six
years. But Kansas doesn't really de-
serve the reputation the blatherskites
have given her, and she is whole lot
better than her present political COM
plexiOn would indicate. Kansas
doesn't believe IN reputation, nor
in any other form CT robbery. She
has endless energy and bountless
resources, and she is sure to be rich
and happy sometime. Kansas is not
to be judged 10y the company she is
keeping this year.
And the REGISTER is going to ven
ture now what may be re- arded con-
sidering its SQUIRE, as somewhat re-
markable predictions: And it is that
there will lie no wild and unreason-
able Legislation enacted att opeka this
winter. Ii the POpulist party had
gained control of the legislature six
years ago, or even four years ago, we
should have held much different
view, for the radical and revolution
airy ideas entertained by the party in
the beginning would undoub tedly
have resulted in the enactment of
some ruinous laws But even the
POpulist marty has learned something
in six years. Ii has learned that a
lot of the high sounding theories with
which il first began to do business are
mere empty vagaries; that for the
most part The remedies that it once
a. specifies can really cure
nothing; that there is limit to the
power of mere human Kansas Iegis- ,
lation. And 30 the "Be it enacted
that poverty is hereby abolished, and