The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-26
DON'T NEED Them
New York Offers Kansas 5000
Harvest Hands.
Alderman German of That City
Fathers the Scheme.
HE BEGAN TOO LATE.
Director GerOw Says Harvest
is Practically Over.
Not Very Anxious For New York
Help Anyway.

An Associated Press dispatch an
nounces that the learned body known
as the New York board of aldermen
debated the question of coming to the
rescue of Kansas harvest by sending
an army of 5000 of the unemployed
from that city here. One Aldern an
German initiated legislation to start
the emigration. The movement is
worthy. only a little slow. ri11 that
ponderous body gets it's machinery go
ing and the expedition started the har-
vest in Kansas will be over.
The state employment bureaus work
in supplying harvest hands is practical
ly ended. The railroad rate has been
taken off from all Kansas points. kan
sas City alone still has a reduced rate
to harvest hands.
Director Gerow says that the states s
bureau has sent out 20G0 hands in
round numb bers, and that he thinks his
estimate of 5000 hands above the nor
NAL farm working force is made good,
and that such a force is now in the
fields doing the work. He thinks fully
1000 workers came in by wagons and
privately going direct to favorite locah-
ties where they had worked in previous
years.
kansas does not need any 5000 help
ers to come out of the streets of New
York for its harvest gathering, said
Mr.. GerOW this morning In the first
place, by the time they would get out
here the harvest would be over. In the
second place, such people that a New
York alderman would gather up on the
streets and send here are the kind
that this community does not want 1
know something about New York
aldermen; / was born in that city. The
largeness of their hearts and their So
licitation for humanity comes from
some kind of a job up their sleeves
fc Nrarolr
comers, and Governor Stanley is al
ways extending the glad hand. He
has not got it out for this proposed in
vasion from Manhattan borough. how
ever. Kansas always welcomes thrifty,
helpful people; but this state does not
aim to be the poor house of the ma
ton"
Attorney General GODDARD said he
thought Kansas could get along with
it's harvest readily enough and thanks
for New York's interest with the
help that we get from Missouri think
we can pull through and garner all the
golden sheaves. Experience has been
that New York'S cOloniStS are more OF
a burden than a help. I presume that
is why Kansas is loath to call on the
big eastern cities for their poor to come
along as help in time of need
when the AissourianS who CON
over to help u.s. said another state
officer, get through with the work
they have their homes to go back to- If
quer their exaggerated sectional feel
ing and settle down as workers"
State Auditor Cole said: THE dan
ger is that New York's delegation
would be a shiftless and helpless lot
Then, too, the movement is late and
the harvest will be all over by the time
the red tape gets unwound to get the
men out here
Director Gerow fell out completely
with D. ". Blaine. of Pratt, today
Blaine had himself interviewed in
Wichita to the effect that his labor en-
ployment scheme was giving Kansas
Is 600 harvest hands this season. Gerow
considers Blaine a champion hot air
man. Blaine goes on to say that he
has an agent in each county and a CEN
trail bureau in Kansas City
"As a bit of gall. that takes the bun, y
remarked GeroW. Blaine has been
shouting around about 5000 and 10000
men for harvest all spring, and now he
steps in to take the credit for furnish
ing harvest hands. The credit, if any
credit is necessary, should go to the
local state bureaus. Fort Scott,
Cherryvale, Atchison and those places
are due for credit. 1t must be remem-
bered that the state employn ent bu-
reau has furnished 1000 men. All the
work attending the gathering of them
together and sending them out has been
done by the city clerks. This duty was
put upon them by the legislature, and
they do not get cent Of pay for this
ozrf,-o work -