The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-23
ST. LOUIS.
KANSAS CORN AND POLITICS
VIII White DIscourses OF Their Inti-
mate Relation.

1
Chicago, July 22.-The Chicago Times
Herald prints the following: William
Allen White, editor Of the Emporia (Kan.)
Gazette, was in town yesterday. the guest
of c. l. Williams. of the Show Window.
Mr.. White is interested in a street fair
in Emporia and is in Chicago looking up
attractions for Midway. Mr.. White
was asked about Kansas as 1t Is today,
and in reply he said:
''This is a nine year in Kansas, and by
tradition and precedent 1t should be a
year of wonderful crops. The years SO,
10, SO and SO were seasons Of phenome-
nally large yield, and further than that
the memory Of man runneth not.
Strangely enough the prospects for crops
in Kansas this year are particularly
bright Although the wheat did not turn
out especially well. there Is a large acre
age of corn and much tame grass. The
wild grass which makes most of the hay
in Kansas has yielded splendidly. Only
one thing can destroy the corn now, and
that is an earthquake, and the earth
quake is not indigenous to the Kansas
soil. 1t is very likely that the Kansas
corn crop Of 1899. which sent corn down
TO 10 cents on the Kansas farms, will be
repeated. This will not be an unmixed
blessing, for unfortunately the stock of
cattle and hogs in the west, that is, the
feedsr. has run down and the farmer will
be confronted with low corn and high
cattle. and then there will be the COM
plant that the plutocrats are holding UP
oil
the corn out of the farmers bins.
'In 1889 the big corn crop and the low
price for IT had much to do with the
overturning In 1890 of the 5000 ReDubli-
can minority cast in IS; and the defeat
of ingalls, was due more to felicitous at
mospheric conditions than we would like
to admit, who see in the fall of ingalls,
the rebuke of pessimism in politics. The
corn crop of 1899. which seems OF be loom
ing in threatening proportions upon the
horizon. may make much history and set
tie or unsettle principalities and powers
''Still there Is no serious reason why
one should take a gloomy view of the
situation in Kansas The people are
prosperous. They have paid all their
debts and are now investing their money.
for farm loans is 1-2 end per cent, ?
per cent lower than it was before Nc
Kinley was elected. The banks are full
OF money, the money of the farmer, the
mechanic. the merchant the professional
man. Kansas is The home of the money
power. The Great Red Dragon OF Piu-
tocracy which Kansas used to fight IS
now transformed into an ''oiled and curl
cl Assyrian bull" which we pamper t.
his hearts desire. 1t viii lbe a difficult
task to talk free silver TO men who have
money I'm the bank on time deposit. and It
will be hopeless task to talk against ex-
pausion to fathers who have sons in the
Twentieth Kansas. BY some turn Of the
wheel Of fortune sincerely believe that
the collision between high cattle and low
corn will be avoided and what seems an
impending calamity averted Il is the I'M
expected that happens in Kansas. and
because we are expecting disaster il is
not unlikely thaht the big crop of "a will
turn Kansas as enthusiastically into the
Republican columns as the big crop OF
SO took 1t cut.
kansas likes Mckinley. and believes
that he IS earnest and honest and trust
worthy. Kansas had outward and visible
signs TO Justify her inward and spiritual
faith. and IL is hardly likely that she viii
give It UP. Bat for a staid. elderly wom-
an of IS. Kansas had most scandalous
Irritation with Governor Roosevelt when
he came out last month. OF course Kan
sas. like Mrs. Micawber. will never de-
sert Mr. Mckinley, but still the way she
made eyes at Teddy would certainly
make talk II there were the least posi-
bic chance OF an elopement But It Is
all over now, and Kansas is going about
making corn starch TO stiffen the collars
of her first love. the advance agent OF
prosperity