The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-10
POOR KANSAS!

tunste State cf Kansas has dealt Itself
another slap in the face.
Kansas offers a terrible example to it's
sister States OF the effects OF the PopuIis-
4 tic crsziness. IT was to Kansas that the
Brysnites might well have pointed for sh
illustration TO tho country OF what the
country might expect under an admins
trstion according to Bryanite doctrines.
Kansas up To within the last five or ,ix
yesrs, was indeed the sdnfiower State be-
fore the blighting OF the glorious bloom.
It's population trebled between 1860
and 1870, trepled again in the next de-
cade and again developed by more than 40
per cent. between 1880 and 1890. with the
exception, perhaps OF Minnesots, no
State ever enjoyed SO splendid n, boom.
The boom had a substantial agricultural
backing and the state became pros
porous as we'll Ms popuIous. IL was attrac-
tive to capitalist and home seeker alike.
beyond that Of almost any other State
you could mention. Then the Populistic
fever set in, the era of LEwELLINa, of
MARY LEASE, of PETER. Of Sockless
JERRY SIMPSON. and the nation stood first
amused and then amazed at the develop
ment thereof.
What has resulted 10 q matter OF terri
bly, cold figures. Kansas has lost 90. 600
in population In six years. 1t has become
one OF the best states in the country to
set away from rather than about the
most inviting to 20 to. This appalling
and significant emigration has been
chiefly from the eastern and longest settled
section rather than from the newer wet
ern section OF resources undeveiopsd and
perhaps undetermined. One fifteenth OF
the total population of 1890 has gone out,
the loss falling chiefly on a half dozen
counties. And it is more than coInci-
dence that poor Kansas has suffered this
loss at the time of the rise of the Pop
uiistic party of which the Farmers Al
liance was the nucleus and which easily
swallowed the Dem ocrstic party.
The Populstic State government, mong
the reckless measures proposed and |
adopted, passed one that attempted TO in
terfere with tho relations between |
lenders and borrowers as BILLY |
BRYAN would have liked to do-a part OF
which was overruled oy the federal
Supreme Court as impairing the obliga-
tion of contracts, that alone resulted In
the withdrawal of some SIS, 900, 900 OF East
ern capital, and the prompt calling OF OF
all loans by savings banks and insura nee
companies. Kansas built her Populistic
wall high about her boundaries. No one
has cared to send any new money to Kan
sss and Ksnsans themselves. who could
turn their pos ession into cash nave left
the state BY thousands. Every State in
tho West has advan ced mean W h lie. though
ttere has been common suffering from
agricultural depression. Kansas has be-
come the laughing stock Of the ueis bor-
ing States, and the North and East want
none Of her. Her politics have assaiIed
the industrious and the prosperous and
have sought TO iogislate the thriftless into
prosperity. Sno las no Industries to speak
of, now. for neither cspitalist nor la borer
cares TO venture across her borders 10
tempt f,te in seethiug Populisn. She
started In. to quote Mrs. LEASE "to raise
he'll, and she has raised 1t. The
"money rover" ia, indeed, afrsid of her
but unfortunately for KANSAS the
"money power'' can worry along with
out her.
And now the unfortunate State OF Kan
sss has voted for Bryanisp and demon
strated that she is thoroughly well sstfs-
fed with her miserable condi iiion.