The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-30

the real misfortunes of the state OF
Kansas
.aThe party-if we can call a crazy po-
litical mob a party-which overthrow
Mr. ingalls,. have hung on ever since,
under various names. It called itself al
ter awhile the Reform party The word
reform when appropriated by party
is prima facie fraudulent, because men
who are professionally good always
need watching.
Then afterwards the party called
themselves Pops Every man who had
gambled and lost was Pop. Then.
gathering in all of the rag-tag and bob
tail, the bankrupts, the tramps and the
sore-heads they called themselves the
Fusion party.
They are now making their final
struggle, and say they can carry the
state. They have fixed up a slate, and
partitioned the prospective offices be-
tween them.
I'VE wish to show what has befallen
Kansas since the downfall of Mr.. In
| galls;-and TO do SO we must go into
| figures"
The writer then quotes figures show
| ing the birth rate in Kansas to have
| been 44,S35 above deaths per annum. He
then shows that in that ratio Kansas
should have had 1,7S2.24 population in
1899 while the census shows but 1926
119.
He quotes these official census fig
School Children
Year. Pop'n. children. enrolled. Vote
1sss s Els 20 f56 sss9 sss55 ss IS isS
He continues:
I'VE have fallen off at every point.
| Not only have we lost 5S4, 900 population
| since the downfall of Mr.. Ingalls,, but
we haven't got our share 80, 600, of the
! foreign emigration. Our laws are such
as foreigners don't like, and the short
age on foreign emigration brings up
our loss to 664, 900.
In fact, our foreign population has
fallen off 10000 in number. There have
probably 10000 gone out, and 10000 new
! come in. leaving a net loss of 10000.
! Those that have come in (niners) are
| not the same as those who went out.
Where have the 5S4, 900 people gone?
| There are thousands of them in KAN
| sas City, St Louis, and Chicago. We
! hear of them in Porto Rico, the Philip
| pines and South Africa. They have
settled up Oklahoma and the mines OF
southwest Missouri and Colorado. There
are colonies in all the western states
For nine years Kansas has been pro-
ducing an army of invasion, and like
] Vermont and Scythia has sent out
hordeS that never come back. At the
end of nine years. 1899, the state has
grown smaller. I estimate the census
of this year at about l. 457 900, being an
increase of over 80 000 It may be much
less than that.
Let anybody travel anywhere and he
will run onto a Kansas man. Does any
thing happen anywhere on earth that a
Kansas man is not in it somewhere2
Does a band-wagOn run over anybody
anywhere and kill somebody is a
Kansas man PRESENT. Yes, he is pres
ent, but he is not killed; he is not on
the ground, he is in the band-wago
Does the elephant step on the Kansas
man? No; the elephant is not built
right, he can not step on the Kansas
man, for the Kansas man is on the ele-
y phants neck and IS travelling over the
earth with the show.
The people who can get out-Who are
fixed 20 go-who have got money and
the property, have gone and are going.
and they take their money with them /;
and those who remain behind keep on
earning money for additional people to
go. And children who have no money
are continually born to supply the gaps
made by the exits of crowds. In other
words, those who go take money with
them. Those who come have no money.
They are even born without clothes, and
are constant expense for fifteen years
thereafter.
This will keep any country full of
brighter, beautiful, interesting cherubs
{ but win also keep it hard up.
> THE enterprising, the energetic, the
money maker, the 'Yank' has gone We
/ want him back. We want others to
5 | come in just like him.
z ''Yanks and banks-no cranks-
thanks.
"A bank must have a good reputation
1 or people will not put their money into
= it.
: or people will not put their money into
= During ten years of Populistic in
:, huence every law that would make for
:. elgn capital unsafe in Kansas has beer
n attempted. 1t has been the rule of riot
= socialism, anarchy and robbery
e 1--WE have in the natural history ot
f Kansas strange combinations. Amons
q others, out on the bufKalo-grass plains
in the west of the state is the combina.
= ton of the prairie dog, the owl and tn,
r snake. They all live in the same hole
and they mutually support each other
! The prairie dog as he hops I'D. chirps
: shows his basement and dives into tn;
: hole, makes every lover of natural his
n tory think of the active festive, vivac
g ious nincompoops who represent tn
y Pop party. The snake represents tn
= Silver Republican, He is a dirt-eater
The owl, the Democrats-he boots I
prairie dog town is a fusion convention
a. and the owl is the boss. He makes tn
8 others get busy"
e A section is devoted to essaying tha
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