Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-01-23
A Few Interesting Figures.

add and cipher and juggle with fig
ureS. We are imaginative - the
creatures of fine dreams. We love to
wander off into glorious speculation
concerning the dimensions and grand
eur of certain castles in Spain, and
the consideration of the deep damna-
tion of the per capita of the public
debt absorbs Us in its horrid thral
Here. however. are some figures
that are worth considering: 1t will
pay the Kansas farmer, who has
looked earnestly for the free coinage
Of silver to relieve him of his bur-
denS, to get out piece of paper and
lead pencil and ''think on these
things
According to the reports of the
mining authorities of the United
States, the total silver output of the
United States is worth in round num-
bers thirty-six and half million
dollars. That is for the year 1895,
from all the states in the Union If
it were added to the per capita of
money in circulation it would increase
the per capita about 80 cents. That
isn't much. Still it is something: it
is worth considering.
If Kansas had silver output of
thirty-six million dollars she would be
flying high. If she had an income
from any such source now undevel-
oped, she would consider herself very
fortunate. The party that could say
to the people, ''Here we have in
creased your annual income thirty-siX
million dollars" would haye party
luck better than perpetual charter
to hold office.
What we all want out here in Kan
sas is money.
Yet. up in Iowa, they have given
up silver and have found a softer snap.
They make forty-one million and a
half dollars in Iowa from their cows
alone.
This beats free silver, doesn't it?-
beats it all hollow. They make forty
one and one-half million dollars sell
ing milk, butter, cheese and calves;
and at the end of the year they have
the same old "Bossy- and ''Speck"
and ''Spot'' and ''Brindle" and 'Bess'
that they had the year before.
The Kansas COW is sticking her head
over the pasture fence, lowing and
mooing, with her bag swelling with
fOrty-one million dollars worth of
milk. while the old man is down town
tearing his shirt because the pluto
Gratis won't coin thirty-siX million
dollars worth of silver. The forty
one million dollars worth of Kansas
cows milk would be distributed among
one million people; the. thirty-siX
million dollars worth of silver would
be distributed over the whole country
among seventy millions of people.
Is it Il wonder that the Kansas COW
bellows and tries to jump the fence
and comes down to the grocery store
and breatheS her warm and fragrant
breath into the old mans ear and
calls him ring-tailed, star-spangled
idiot, in the gentle language of
cowdom.
The Kansas steer isn't in it at~any
point with the Kansas COW. Men are
sloshing around deeper and deeper in
bankruptcy, chasing the big red Kan
sas steer, and the women folks of
Iowa are picking up the little old
three-legged stool and driving the
COW into a corner while they conquer
the world.
These figures about the Iowa COW
are not estimates. They may be had
of the state dairy commissioner at
Des MOineS. They are Official. The
Kansas COW beats free silver any way
you look at her.
And what Is more, as soon as the
people of the EaSt-the people with
money-See that Kansas has got back
to the reservation and quit ghost
dancing. money will come pouring in.
Politics doesn't pay for an Individual.
There is no money in it for COM
munity. Kansas must drop politics
and go into business. Kansas is all
right, if her people will just stop
chewing the rag and get down to
making money The Kansas cow
offers an open and easy opportunity
to begin. There are Others
Now is the accepted time Let us
forget silver, and save the ''Strip-
pings BY this sign we can conquer
Emporia Gazette