The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-06
KANSAS CANNOT BE DowNED.

By the aid of the Democratic party OF
result the eastern press has vented its
spleen and all New England had a fit.
A large majority of the Democrats who
conspired to put the Pop party into
power came to Kansas from eastern
states. The Pops are ex-Republicans
and ex-Democrats from everywhere. a
great majority of them being American
born, many of them natives Of Kansas,
state long recognized as the child Of
New England. What Kansas is today
mentally, morally and materially, she
owes to New England. That the state
went for Bryan at the late election by a
small majority is not denied. But all
the states by which Kansas is bounded
did exactly the same thing and in a
more emphatic manner. However, be-
cause the Republican party which has
guided the destines of Kansas from the
beginning, was beaten through an open
trade and shameful fusion in which
all principle was sacrificed. eastern pa
Ders have abused the state without stint
investors have threatened and capital
lists denounced. The loyal press of the
state has explained and assured all to
10 purpose until the people of the realm
are becoming not only annoyed over the
senseless howl but inclined to an indie
pendence not unmixed with feeling Of
Kansas is still here. and all that she
ever was. and in every way, save as to
the political incident referred to. The
population she has lost carried nothing
away She is still the central state Of
the Union, with more miles of railway
than any state new or old, save two;
with a greater number Of school houses
and churches to the population than any
other commonwealth of the Union; led
by none in her aggregate production OF
corn and wheat and meat; with no
greater debt per capita than any other
state, but with vastly more energy and
here with 1885 $50, 023.2 % Of
a ssessed property, which is but one
fourth the real value, and she is here to
stay, maintain and flourish, whatever
her critics may say or ever do. AS Z. L.
president of the Central Ma
tional Bank of Topeka and an ex-state
official, says in an interview: 1--WE still
have the same climate and soil that in
one year produced 70OO0.O00 bushels of
wheat, 267, 100000 of corn, more beef
and pork than any state in the Union,
while all lesser cereals, vegetables and
fruits have kept pace Herewith. We
still have 9.025.6 miles of railroad in the
state; $685., $50, O23.23 of property as
taxed, with a real value of three times
that amount. with state debt of only
s256,0O0; a permanent school fund of
s6 0S7. 63415: an annual disbursement
Of $436. 1O6.06 to the common schools;
$50 school houses, valued at SlO.999.31
with university, normal school. agri-
blind, deaf and dumb, insane, peniten-
larry, reform school, soldiers home,
and state capitol, all costing SS,S26,925,
without the equipments. From this will
be seen that the state can and will con-
true to do business"
So Kansas will not be downed, cannot
De downed. In boom times she made
he mistake Of too largely discounting
1er future, borrowed too much of the
surplus capital Of the fellows who are
1ow doing the bowling, built up and inn
proved ahead of the times, and that was
by actual accomplishments;
out we still have all we borrowed in adj
lition to all we had and all that we
gained since, and, in the end, we will
OWN it all free of incumbrance. In short
Kansas is as free, as enlightened and as
oyai as she ever was, and no more
crazy Oh the silver question than many
other states. Being squeezed, she nat
Irally looked about for the speediest re-
ief. Silver seemed, to a majority, the
most surely to promise that. Had we
been creditor state we would have as
taken the Shylock schultz as
did Massachusetts. We are not repudi-
ators but an honest people who propose
TO Pay our Debts to the last farthing,
but in tine meanwhile 10 live and if pos
sibjc to save something from the wreck
upon us by greedy eastern
capitalists who persuaded us to accept
more of their surplus accumulations but
which we secured to them by mortgages
which we cannot just at this moment
lift.