The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-03-26

we have decided to send three or four
harpies out lecturing, telling the peo-
pie that Kansas is raising hell ard
letting the corn crop go TO weeds.
Oh, this is State TO be proud of!
We are people who can hold up our
headsl What we need here is less
money, less capital, fewer white
shirts and brain, fewer men with
business judgment, and more of these
fellows who boast that they are just
Ordinary clOdhOppers, but they
know more in minute about finance
than John Sherman;" we need more
more men who are posted" who can
below about the crime of '73, who
hate prosperity, and who think be-
cause a man believes in national
honor, he is a tool of Wall street. We
have had few of them, some 10000
but we need more. We need several
thousand gibbering idiots to scream
about the "Great Red Dragon" of
Lombard street. We don't need pop
ulatiOn, we don't need wealth, we
don't need well-dressed men on the
street, we don't need standing in the
nation; we don't need cities on the
fertile prairies; you bet we don't.
What we are after is the money
power. Because we have become
poorer and ornrier than a spawned
distempered mule, We, the people of
Kansas, propose to kick; we don't
care tn build up, we wish to tear
down.
"There are two ideas of govern
ment," said our noble Bryan at Chi
cago. "There are those who believe
that if you just legislale to make the
well-tO-dO prosperous their prosper
ity will leak through on those below.
The Democratic idea has been that if
you legislate 70 make the masses
prosperous their prosperity will find
its way up aud through every class
and rest upon u.s."
That's the stuff! Give the pros
porous man the dickens! Legislate
the thriftless man into ease, whack
the stuf1Ing cut OF the creditors and
tell the debtor who borrowed the
money five years age when money
per capita" was greater than 1t is
now, that the contraction of the cur
rency gives him right to repudiate.
WhOOp it up for the ragged trousers;
put the lazy, greasy fizzle who can't
pay his debts on an 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.
Oh yes, Kansas lis n great Stale.
Here ale people fleeing from it by the
score every day, capital going out of
the State by the hundreds of dollars;
and every industry except farming
paralyzed, and that crippled because
its products have to go across the
ocean before they can find a laboring
man at work, who can afford to buy
! them. Let's don't stop this year.
Let's drive all of The decent self-re-
speeding men out of the state. Let's
keep the old clOdhOppers who know
it all. Let's encourage the man who
is posted" 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 Cypress the far
mer 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 at home for that nickle's
worth of blueing.
What's the matter with Kansas?
Nothing under the shining sun.
She is losing wealth, population and
standing. She has got her statesmen,
and the money power is afraid of her.
Kansas is all right. She has started
in to raise hell. as Mrs. Lease advised,
and she seems to have an over pro-
duction. But that doesn't matter
Kansas never did believe in diversi-
fled crops. Kansas is all right
There is absolutely nothing wrong
with Kansas. Every prospect
pleases and only man is vile.'