The sun., 1896-09-06
THE MA1rER WITH xlxsAs.
Breezy Editorial Review or the Situa.
tion in the Crnnk-riddeR State.

a Breezy Editorial Review or the Situa.
tion in the Crnnk-ridden state.
Prom the E,nporio Gazette
To-day the Kansas Department ofAErlculture
sent out n statement which indicates that Kan
sas has gained less than 9 600 people In the past
year. There are about 1875, 900 families in the
State. and there were about 10000 babies born
in Kansas, and yet so many people have left the
State that the natural increase is cut down to
less than 1000 net.
This has been going on for eight years.
II there had been high brick wall around the
State eight years ago and not n soul had been
admitted or permitted 10 leave, Kansas would
be half million souls better of than she is to-
day. And yet the nation has increased in poru.
lation. In hvo years 100000 people have
beon added TO the national population, yet In
stead OF gaining a share of this say soc. 900
Kansas has apparently been a plague spot, aud
In the very garden OF the world has lost popula-
tion by tho ten thousands every year.
Not only has she lost population, but she has
lost wealth. Every moneyed man In the state
who could get out without great loss has gone.
Every month In every community sees some one
State. This has been going on for eight years.
Money 10 being drained out all the time. In
towns where ten years ago there were three or
four or half u dozen money lending concerns,
stimulating industry bv furnishing capital.
there Il now none: or one or two that are looking
standing.
No one brings any money into Kansas any
more. What community knows over ono or
two men who have moved In with more than
$4,000 In the past three years. And what com.
,ima Who nave inf taring ai fee onsv W tbev
could scrape togetherr
Yet the nation has grown rich. Other States
nsigboring States. Missouri has gained, while
Kansas has been losing half n million. Ne
whie Kansas has gone down hill. Colorado has
gained in every WAY. whilo Kansas has lost in
every way since lSSS
What Ia the matter with Knnsns7
II There S is no no substantial city In tho State.
Denver, Colorado Springs. Setala Des Mones,
the cities OF the Dakotas. ST. Paul, md Mime.
apolis all cities and towns in the West have
Take up tho Government Blue Pook and you
Will see that Kansas Is virtually OF tho map.
Two or three little scabby consular places in
yeilow-rever. stricken communities that do not
ss all about tss oo
little old North. Dakota draws $4,000; Okla
homa doubles Kansas: Missouri leaves her
seven times greater than kansas-the whole
west is ahead OF Kansas.
Take 1t by any standard you please, Kansas is
not in II.
Go East and you hear them laugh at Kansas;
60 West and they sneer at her; go south aud
gotten her. Go into any crowd of inteliiR iiRent
people gathered anywhere on the globe and you
will find the Kansas man on the defensive. The
newspaper columns and magazine pages, once
devoted to praise OF the State. to bonstful facts
now are oiled with cartoons, Etbes. and Peffe.
f,an ria ,sPeecaes fansSs jnst na,nta,!I ism. in
Arkansaw and Timbuctoo. o. ''',,''' ''''O'' -"
oh; this is "a state to be proud Of We arc
people who can hold up our heads. What We
need here iB less money. less capital, fewer
white shirts and brains fewer men with ousi-
ness judgment and more OF these fellows who
hoppers. but that they know more in a minute
about finance than John Sherman" we need
abou, the crime Of Who Ente fTt pr"sveripy Ve1w
and who think that because a man believes in
national honor he isa tool of Wall street. We
have had few OF them some 100. .OJO-but
we want more. we need several thousand
gibbering idiots to scream about the :" Great
need population. we don't need wealth. We
don't need well-drcssed men on the streets.
we don't need standing in tho nation We don't
don't. What we are after Is the money power.
Because we have become poorer and ornerier and
meaner than a spawned. distempered mule. we.
the people OF Kansas. propose To kick; We don't
care to build NJ. We wish to tear down. -,
our noble Bryan at Chicago. There are those
who believe that il You just legislate TO make
leak through on thS.e bslow The
idea has been that II you legislate TO make the
way up and through every class and rest upon
u.s."
dickens, LeGisate the thriftlcss into ease.
whack the stufiing out of the creditors, and tell
the debtor who borrowed money FIVE years ago,
when the money In circulation WAS more gen.
eral than II is now, that the contraction of the
currency gives him right to rrprdRte.
Whoop II IN for the ragged trousers: put the
lazy. greasy fizzle who can't pay his debts on all
altar and bow down and worship him. Let the
State ideal be high. What we need is not the
respect Of our fellow men, but chance TO get
something for nothing
peope fleeing from 1t by the score every day.
capital going out OF the State by the hundreds
OF dollars. and every industry except farming
paraly1ed. and that crippled because its prod
nets have to 20 across the ocean before they can
md a lHborlng man AT work who can afford 10
buy them. Let's don't stop this year Let's
drive all the deceut. self-respecting men out Of
the state. Let's keep the old Clodhoppers who
know IL all Let's encourage the man who is
"losted." He can talk and what we need is
not mill hands TO eat our meat, nor factory
hands to eat our wheat. nor cities TO oppress tho
farmer by consuming his butter and eggs and
chickens and produce: what Kansas needs is
men who can talk. who have large leisure to
argue the currency question while their wives
wait al home for that nickel's worth OF hluiuK.
What's the matter with Kansas?
Nothing under the shining sun. She is losing
wealth. population. and standing. She has got
htr statesmen and the money power is afraid
OF her. kansas is all right. She has started in
10 raise hell. as Mrs. Lease advised, and she
seems 10 have an orerproduction. But that
doesn't matter. Kansas never did believe in
absolutely nothing wrong with Kansas. Every