Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-09-23
INTERESTING TALK ABOUT THE
suSFLOwER COMMONWEALTH.
BIG CROPS AND PROSPERITY.
THE BOY ORATORS SUCCESS AS A
COUNTY FAIR ATTRACTION.
Turns All Kinds of FIip-FIops ON Fin.
nncial QuestiOn-Mr. Ingalls, to
Spend the Winter in Wash-
ingtOn as a Newspaper
Correspondent.

Philadelphia. Sept. 22-Ex-Senator john
J, Ingalls, talked entertainingly about dol
lar wheat. prosperous Kansas and the flop-
ping of w. ]. Bryan from q 16 to / cham
pion to a star attraction at the county
fairs of Kansas and Missouri. Among
other things Senator ingalls, said:
Kansas is wonderful state and pre-
sents new side of interest with every turn
of the tide of prosperity. We never sleep
there, and at the present time are reyelins
on the topmost wave of good luck.
Agriculture in Western Kansas has. all
the excitement of the roulette table or the
race track. The sower can never tell what
he will reap. He may raise IL crop that
will be worth more than the land on which
it grows, or he may not get his seed back
In the eastern half Of the state the condi-
tions are stable, and farming is as reliable
as in Illinois or Ohio, but in the grazing
region it is like a game OF chance, with the
dealer against the farmer
Yes. this has been one of our good years
for wheat. but not the best in the states
history: The present estimate l is SSeoo;9ev S ;
largest crop ever raised in any state In
the Union. Corn, apples. potatoes, hay and
but the hot. dry weather of August and the
rise in wheat brought them all below the
average demand. One of the fascinating
things about Kansas Is that you can never
tell what is going to happen. A year ago
Kansas was held up to public execration by
fhs paed pedged TO
tion and anarchy. To-day, with fuii sarn,
ers glutted banks. cancelled mortgages and
models and exempiars for the imitation Of
mankind.
frontery to claim that the high price or
wheat is due to the famine in India and
short crops in Europe and Central America.
Voice Wo1eott 'neo Commission. % Some Repubiicans
are inclined to take the same irratlonat
and unpatriotic view: but. whatever may
ty over the smiling land. and a farmer with
a thousand bushels of No. wheat IN ms
bin feels less acutely about the crime ne oil es -
capita Bryan is perhaps sharing as largely
as anyone in the effects of the return or
predictions about the indissoluble connec-
tion between the price of silver and the
price Of wheat he is not disS9peer.ee % nee 1ee;c oy
His popularity has apparently not dl-
miIiished He is touring the West as an
attraction at Chautauaaas, ,ya county Ianls IarIs
EXHIBITS. He is the most successful TRACE
dian and acrobat r,t OF the eentnrS Mo his share are
of the gate money was over 81, 200. At the
Allen county, Kas., fair, his half OF the
the Sedaiia fair last Wednesday he received
500 and large sums elsewhs re- Und such
circumstances the free and uniimits1 eolnt
and the gold standard becomes endurable
"Popuiists. Democrats and silver Repuo,,
licans are still fusing on state ana naiionat
issues as the fall elections Will undoupt-
edly show. Bryan as an acrobatic leader
tas given them an example OF somefsauit,
ing from one argument to another ana
safely landing on ground sufficiently nrm
to hold their opinions together Tney, VIII
continue to fuse until 1870. in spite or the
wide gulf opened up between silver and
wheat Bryan draws enormous CROWDS ev-
eryWhere and has recently transferred mis-
NET ni1rase. 'l6 to l. to 'bimetallism.
s'Judging from the papers. continued
the ex-senator, ''yOu Pennsylvania people
have some troubles of your own with
strikes and politics. I think the Hazieton
outbreak will direct popular attention 70
the immigration question and VIII pnssin'y
be the means of creating q change for tne
better"
Ex-senator ingalls, was in the city on pri,
yate business, and left for New York ana
Boston. He expects to spend the winter
in Washington as a newspaper correspond-
ent. He feels that some of his old aSso-
ciates in the senate did not understand him
fully when he reported the prizefght; and
he NAV try to convince them that he is
after all something of newspaper man.
He is entitled to the house and senate moor.
but doubtless II hs goes to washington as
a press representative some OF the states
men may object to his being allowed on the
floor and make an effort to confine hlm 10
the press gallery.