The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-08
The Lmmentabie Rogers
Portland Orezonian.

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John r. Rogers, Populist governor OK
washington, was at Astoria. on Sunday.
Like a true Populist lover Of calamity. hs
stlu keeps his designation with his woe.
refusing to believe that farmers or anybody
else can have grounds for hope OF pros
perify or happiness. Though he admits
that wheat Is doing much for the farm
ers now" he quickly RECEIVERS his doleful
voice and proceeds in this strain of la
mentauon, to-wit:
81 don't believe, however. the farmers
will ever pay of their mortgages at their
present profits. I have raised wheat N.Y.
self don't believe the reports from Kan
sas and other states that farmers are pay
ing of mortgages II Is buncombe. Mort
cages once placed on farms stay there.
Land changes hands. Loan companies get
the farms, ard teuantry system Is soone.
or later established"
Now let us take an actual report from
Kenses. Mr.. J. X. Hudson, founder Of
the Topeka Capital newspaper and pub
Usher Of Il for many years. who has lived
in Kansas since the days II was A terri
tory, and knows Kansas as well and thor
oughly as any man--Mr. J. X Hudson.
who Is making tour Of the Pacific states.
and Is now IN Portlnn6-Mr. J. X Hudson,
OF Topeka. and whom Rogers well knows.
tells the Cregouian that never IN the his
tory OF the state were the people Of Kansas
IN so good condition. financially and in.
dustr!ally. as now. During the last FIVE
years they have been paying off their debts
and the good crops and high prices Of this
year VIII practically finish the business Of
ofht-paying for the great body Of them.
With rare exceptions, the people OF Kansas
Viii be out OF debt this year Thera hays
been heretofore many foreclosures .bv loan
companies. on loans that were largely
speculative end ought never 10 have been
made: bet that species of H1ugdatfsn "a
fiuished-was practically finished some time
ago-whlie debts OF the other sort sel,ts
based on legitimate security. have been
gradually cancelled by payment during a
number ~ years past. and lstterIv have
been paid of with 4 rush. The crors ard
prices % this year VIII connleta the b,ls-
mess and sponge the slate clean "a tho
deep satisfaction az everybody exccrt thu
popuNst politician az the Rogers strfr.e.
The state hank examiner OF Kansas
Prudential. IN his latest report shows ~ I.
the loans ~ over so banks n .ha s4a,a
have been largely reduced nv rav-nart ~
debts, and that the total loans Of these
banks. cree much larger. are not rswr IN
eT~eVs ~ thrt- "a 0ftaf stock - 80 Z.
Kansas from wanting more money "a,
money = actually going a-hegxfnz IN KAN
SEES for somebody - hire n.
~ STATE rom which Rogers r1fg~a aaf
is somewhat further advance8 on the rad
81 deht-paytng than the state which has
the misfortune % won this sad old calamity
howler for governor. but thu reorta q the
state q Washi0Eton. as well as those OF
Oregon. are paving their debts. too and
wiu show Popaiists politicians who howl
calamity &c 3 trade mighty uttis r,a-,v
hereafter Rogers thinks there f~ another
EubeTnator,sl term, or term p, the senate.
IN the chant Of these 6oleful HYMNS ~
calamity. He sRa many more are likely
- fn4 tNst taev have pressed ms fure
sung from the organ plrs az asrnaxor-c
humhuw, - an extreme that has ffIasf
everybody with tnpatserce and disgust.
Nothing ersnds the politician II The Rogers
type 80 hard - the fact that tie prices os
staple proGUcts are high ard the people
Gre growing prosperous. Every debt paga
il = fresh grief. every mortgage cancelled
IS = rev modification. 20 the Rozers-Pen-
mover politician, because Il reduces his
stock n trade: ard. Ike Shvicck. he cries
cat; you take ny hfe when yea 90 take
The means whereby liver Though money
IS rolling IA FOR our products