Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1896-10-08
WHERE POPULISM RULES
The Devastating Effect of Pop
Rule on Kansas.
WILL M0NTANIAMS lMD0RSE SUCH Z?
The State Has Lost 100000 Population In
Ten Years, Besides nilIions of
Capital.
WILL MoNTANIANS INDORSE SUCH =?

The following from the Emporia
Gazette sizes up in a most sarcastic
manner what Populist rule has done
for Kansas, and shows what ii will
do for the whole combination stand
ing on the Chicago platform if in any
manner it happens to win:
Today the Kansas department Of
agriculture sent out "a statement
which indicates that Kansas has
gained less than 1000 people in the
last year. There are about l2J.00O
families i'm the state, and there were
about 10000 babies born i'm Kansas,
and yet so many people have left the
state that the natural increase il cut
down to less than 1000 net. This
has been going on for eight years.
If there had been a high brick wall
around the state eight years ago and
not soul had been admitted or per-
mitted to leave, Kansas would be
half a million souls better off than
she is today. And yet the nation
has increased i'm population. In ten
years 10,OO0.OOO people have been
added to the national population
yet, instead of gaining share of
this-say 5000. Kansas has appar-
emily been a plague spot, and, in
the very garden of the world, has
lost population py the tens OF
thousands every year.
Not only has she lost population,
hut she has lost wealth. Every
moneyed man i'm the state who
could get out without great loss has
gone. Every month, i'm every com.
munity, sees someone who has a
little money pick up and leave the
state. This has been going on fol-
eight years. Money is being drained
| out all the time. In towns where
ten years ago there were three OIL
four or a half a dozen money lending
concerns stimulating industry b.,
furnishing capital, there is now none
or one or two that are looking after
the interest and principal alread.
outstanding.
| No one brings money into kansa.
any more. What community know,
over one or two men who have
moved i'm with more than 5000 in
the last three years? And wha-
community cannot count half 4
score of men in that time who hav,
left, taking all the money they could
scrape together?
Yet the nation has grown rich
Other states have increased i'm popu
lation-Other neighboring states
Missouri has gained nearly 1000, ,OOO
while Kansas has been losing 600, ,OOO
Nebraska has gained i'm wealth an,
population, while Kansas has gOn
down hill. Colorado has gained il
every way, while Kansas has lost il
every way since lSSS.
What is the matter with Kansas
There is no substantial city in tn
state. Every big town save one ha
lost in population. Yet Kansa
City, Omaha, Lincoln, st. Louis
Denver, Colorado Springs, Sedalia
Des Moines, the cities of the Dakotas
st. Paul and Minneapolis-all elite
and towns i'm the west have steadil
grown.
Take up the gov sernment blue boo
and you will see that Kansas is viz
tually off the map. Two or thre
little scabby consular places i'm vel
low fever stricken communities tina
do not aggregate $lO,NO "A year /
all the recognition Kansas has. Ne
braska draws about $1OO.OOO; littl
old North Dakota draws $5O,OO(