The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-16

we are a people who can hold up our
heads. What we need here is less
capital, fewer white shirts and brains.
fewer men with business judgment and
more of these fellows who boast that
they are just ordinary old el9dhoppers.
but that they know more in a minute
about finance than John Sherman. We
need more men who are posted, who
can below about the crime OF 10, who
hate prosperity, and who think that be-
cause man believes in national honor
that he is a tool of Wall street.
We have had a few of them. some
$50, 600, but we want more We need
several thousand gibbering idiots TO
scream about the Great Red Dragon,
of Lombard street. We don't need
population. we don't need wealth, we
don't need well-dressed men on the
streets, we don't need standing in the
nation, we don't need cities on these
fertile prairies; you bet we don't.
What we after is the money power.
Because We have become poorer and
ornier and meaner than a spawned,
distempered mule, we, the people of
Kansas, propose to kick. We don't
care to build up, we wish to tear down.
There are two ideas of government,
said our noble Bryan at Chicago. There
are those who believe that If you just
legislate TO make the well-to-do pros
porous their prosperity will leak
through on those below. The democra
tic idea has been that if you legislate
to make the masses prosperous their
prosperity will find its way up and
through every class and rest upon us.
That's the stuff. Give the prosper
Gus man the dickens. Legislate the
thriftless into ease; whack the stufing
out of the creditors, and tell the debt
ors who borrowed money five years
ago, when the money in circulation
was more general than it is now, that
the contraction of the currency gives
him right to repudiate.
'Whoop it UP for the ragged trousers:
put the lazy, greasy fiZzle who can't
pay his debts on the 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 a
chance to get something for nothing.
oh, yes, Kansas is a great state.
Here are people fleeing from it by the
score every day, capital going out of the
state by the hundreds of dollars, and
every industry except framing para
lyzed, and that crippled because its
products have to go across the ocean
before they can find laboring man at
work who can afford to buy them.
Let's don't stop this year. Let's drive
all the decent, self-respecting men out
of the state. Let's keep the old clod
hOpperS who know all. Let's encour-
age the man who is posted He can
talk, and what we need is not mill
hands to eat our wheat, nor cities to
Cypress the farmer by consuming his
butter and eggs and chickens and pro-
duce; what Kansas needs is men who
can talk, who have large leisure to
argue the currency question while their
wives wait at home for that nickel's
worth of blueing.
whats the matter with Kansas?
Nothing under the shining sun. She
is losing wealth, population and stand
ing. She has got her statesmen, and
the money power is afraid of her.
Kansas is all right. She has started
TO raise hell, as Mrs. Lease advised,
and she seems to have an overproduc-
ton. But that doesn't matter Kansas
never did believe in diversified crops.
Kansas is all right. There is absolute
~ nothing wrong with Kansas. Every
prospect pleases and only man is
vile +"