The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-18


are the things that make prosperity,
and not the political party which con
trolls the legislature The metropolitan
papers ought to know this. Thy ought
to say that in spite Of fool politics kan
sas has more corn than any other state,
better beef, finer salt, and that in the
coming era Of prosperity the working
men of the east viii find Kansas bread.
Kansas meat. seasoned with Kansas
salt That Kansas will have bigger
markets, better prices, more money,
and We hope more sense In politics.
From the Kansas city Times we
STAR SANDERS MARCHING ON.
As the Times predicted. the crop of
SANDER against Kansas, planted so
plenteously in the columns of the Kan
sas City Star, is bearing an abundant
harvest of misrep presentation and Will
hcation in the newspapers printed east
of the Mississippi river. 1t is both la
mentable and curious to note that these
reporters of the aspersions and abuse
heaped on the people of our sister
state, both in the lines Of attack and in
the citation of reasons on which they
are based, use the material furnished
them by the Star and almost its exact
language, showing Enthusiastically that
they took the Star for a text in making
their undeserved and hostile structures
And so the hOOdgates of SANDER open
ed by the Star 60 pouring on from one
paper to aOther through the north and
east. lettering investment. alarming
capital, retarding development and
working injury to the whole people OF
Kansas. and to this commercial com
munity, which is SO sensitive to the in
huences which help or hurt the state.
The Star can not undo the damage it
has done But the thrift, energy econ
omy and industry of the citizens of
Kansas, backed by the vast natural
wealth and varied resources of their
state, will enable them in time to over
come it.
From the Republican Neodesha Der
rick.
STAND UP FOR KANSAS
Well, what if Kansas did not go Re
publican2 Her soil viii bring forth as
bOuntifully as ever. The people will live
as long and die as happy within her
borders; The so per cent of her children
of school a &c viii be found in the school
houses in every valley, hamlet and VII
lage; the good people will praise God,
from whom all blessings flow, and the
rains VIII gladden. the fields and prai-
ries; the hOsannahs of harvest will ring
across the fields, orchards and mead
ows, and the Lord viii continue to lift
upon US the light of his cOuntenance
and cause his face to shine upon US $50
days per annum from the pure, blue
canopy Of heaven; Kansas climate viii
continue to be as Italian as ever, and
there will henceforth be as much JOY
among the angels over one Kansas sin
ner that repenteth as though he were
from Maine or Ohio: the everlasting
patriotism VIII charm the hosts of earth
just the same as if il had gone the other
way Shame on the blubbering pOItrOon
who pretends humiliation and disgrace
expressed a viii different from his mar
row, selfish, partisan ideas Kansas is
all right The majority of her people
rule in her affairs. and a citizen who
cant find a cheerful, hopeful patriotic
word for his state, and her magnificent
resources, superior intelligence and
matchless possibilities should keep
mum or seek seclusion in other realms
The St. Louis Republic says.
SLANDERING KANSAS
Kansas deserves better treatment
than it is getting at the hands Of the
prejudiced and i'll informed partisan
press.
The people of Kansas are as well edu-
Gated and as well hammered as the same
number of people chosen at random I'm
any other state of the Union I'm fact
1T may be asserted as a certainty, with
out the aid Of compare tive statistics on
the subject, that the citizenship of Kan
sas is superior in enlightened patriotism
in acQuiescence in the DEGREES of the
majority and in moral perception to
that Of the communities whose newspa-
pers are heaping abuse and cOntumelv
upon the Kansans.
Aside from whatever political eceen-
trlc1ues may have been developed by
the population of the state. Kansas of
fers variety of inducements to the
homeseeker and capitalist who is will
ing TO get reasonable return for his
Investment without trying to run the
politics of the state. Though PopuIist
legislature and executive have Just been
elected. the partisan press should be
made to know that no farm MORTGAGES
will be burnt in Kansas and no railroad
track torn up The Kansas Populists
may have q varied assortment of polit-
zeal idiosyncrasies and economic Va ga
rfes, but they don't take any of the rich
ness out of the Kansas soil or diminish
the salubriousness of the Kansas eli
mate Great stretches of Kansas are now
green with the growing wheat crop.
vast fields are being put in readiness for
corn, and the grass viii be growing
without cultivation when the spring IS
stIll lingering in the lap of New Ems
lands winter
Kansas is all right, and some of that
eastern capital that has been tiled uD
in the banks 50 long can ind profitable
employment in the state if the partisan
press will quit its taunts and Jibes.
II IS no more poor old Kansas, than it
is poor old Missouri
THANKS TO M'KINLEY.