The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-05
COUNTY OFFICERS.
EASTERN INVESTORS

week contains the information that
Boston business men are becoming
alarmed at the large amount of goods
imported through the gulf ports.
Railroads having termini in Chicago,
and those whose carrying trade is
t. largely in the west are interesting
themselves in the building up of gulf
ports.
Their future is as certain AS any
thing car possibly be, and we hope to
see the day that every dollars worth
of goods for the people west of
Chicago will come in through the gulf
ports for two reasons: 1t is cheaper
for our people, and will be the great
est factor in the prosperity of this
section of the Z. S.
The West has sat patiently under
the revilings of the people who live IN
the East; for years we have been re-
ferred to as the ''wild and WOOley
West;' we have been caricatured and
maligned because of our opinions on
. public questions. Our people, while
giving all due homage to the noble
souls who fought for our freedom, and
to the great statesmen to whose good
ness and wisdom we owe our present
form OF government, believe that if it
were possible to hear from those whose
glory shines undiminished on far
off shore, they would say to us:
''Times change, people develop;
conditions are not the same in this
age of electricity and great mod
ern utilities and forces of which we
knew so little" We believe they
would say: adopt your organic law
the people" And so we of the great
West, while reveling the old things, do
not believe them adapted to our needs
to-day, because the crafty millionaires
. in whom the possession of great wealth
has bred a satanic avarice, have sub
.yerted provisions meant to benefit
mankind to their own personal ends,
SO that every commodity of to-day and
even the land-God's heritage to his
It.. people-pays tribute to them. You
III: the East may say Kansas mort
cages bnng only 80 cents OH
the dollar, or less. You put your
money here of your own free will, be-
cause in your avarice you thought it
would earn you a greater per cent than
if left on the Mass. market. If you
had come yourselves and looked the
situation over, your business sagacty
in consultation with the active, rest
less spirit of the west, might have
saved us both from the consequences
of Over-investment. Bat 10, you al
ways handle us with tongs. You sent
agents here who had no interest hut
to loan as much money as possible to
get commissions, and both the East
and the West are suffering from the
indiscretion. IL does not seem eX
actly the right thing to IL loyal and
patriotic citizen to hear you easterrers
bowling So loudly over getting bitten
a little. Where is your manhood and
your bravery? You haven't developed
. as much in your counting houses and
offices rs the glorious sunshine and
fresh western breeze has developed in
this section. Do you think 1t any
comfort to Kansas citizen to know
that his securities sell III any market
below par? He feels badly over it,
but he bravely takes the lesson TO
heart, and says to himself that he de-
serves it, perhaps, for allowing him
self to be too visionary. AS there is
no evil without some good, the lack Of
eastern money Is making us develop
our own resources to a greater extent.
and we shall profit in the end and re.
tain our dignity; we have not gone
around weeping and wailing Ike lot
of children, fer something We are part
ly to blame for.
Foremost among our detractois is
Massachusetts, whose rate of Hitter
acy is far, far greater than that of
Kansas. Her press and her people
generally, even those who know our
people, question their. integrity when
there Is a change of opinion upon any
public question. They tell us we are
not conservative, Well, we have long
ago learned that being conservative is,
usually, being selfish. 1t is the spirit
which says: 1.-The condition is all
right for me and mihe, so it must not
be- meddled with.'' 1t is the same
spirit that stoned the grand old abo-
litionists IN the streets of Boston in
the ante bellum days.
We say to the people of Massachu-
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