Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1901-02-09
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9.
KRANKY KANSAS.

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smashing things right and left.
Before the ". &. I. T., or the joint
keepers and county attorneys had
formed a union the famous Red
Legs of Kansas chased the unlaw
full border ruflians of Missouri over
the border, and the ia, hswkrrs
were unlawiully smashing slavery
by confiscating every negro they
could get their hands on.
When Bleeding Kansas was ter
ritory they came flocking in from
every state in the union--wild eyed
men aud unsatiated he women. agi-
tstors. temperance cranks. aboli-
tionists. .Spiritualists. phrenOlo-
gist., osteopaihists, astrologers.
fortune tellers. root doctors. three
card monte men, reformers. Nor
mons with a plurality, grass wild
ows, elocutionists. lightning rod
agents, and revivalists. They came
from every state in the union and
from every quarter of the globe.
New England ,ssrnt the most of
them. but they swarmed in from
other states as well and Kansas
has ever since been known ss the
haven for cranks. Every ism that
has been tried and failed ia other
states Immediately finds place in
our statutes and so0n brcomes one
of the obsolete laws Of Kansas.
Mrs. Nation claims to he doing
Gods work. but in some instances
the laws of God and Kansas con.
flict aud II will take the supreme
court 10 decide which shall prevail.
We believe the Kansas statutes
should govern so long as they con.
form to the constitution and follow
the flag, but we may have new
constitution and adopt I.eviticus.
Revelations and Deuteronomy in
their place aud at the same time
recognize Mira. Nations Ratchet
brigade OF home defenders.
II may have been Gods work to
take slaves from their masters be-
fore the war: but il was just ~ un.
lawful as IL il In ihese degenerate
days To smash mirrors and oil
paintings aud whiskey cocktails.
II may be Gods work TO chain ne
groes to stake. kerosene them aud
after having burned out their alb
doniens, cut off their ears for tro.
phias and sacred menientoes, but IL
Ia unlawful.
Just az We had begun TO believe
we were rid OF stay-laws. govern.
ment ownership. Webb Mccall and
u lot of other political and relig-
iOus crankisms. here comes Mrs.
Nation with her hatchet brigade
and pistol head, d husband hell
bent on the total destruction and
demolition of one Of the greatest
industries of Kansas. just as we
were getting over the effects of the
drouth, the chinch bugs, the grass
hoppers, the smallpox and free sill
yer, here comes the Supreme Grand
Worthy Matrou of Crankism organ
izing an army of Ammonium fanat-
ice. armed with tomahswks and
buug starters, already on the war
path. with the avowed intention of
smashing every joint Ia kansas.
And where would Kansas be
without q joint? They are the nd
astra per aspera of her prosperity.
They have given the state world
wide reputation and kept her name
before the public for twenty years.
They have demonstrated the fact
that prohibition 10 a humbug. Kan
sas used 10 be famous for her long.
horned eteers, short-haired women.
and pot.bellird ponies. but they
have all gone out with the buffalo
grass. prairie dogs and Seven Day
Baptists, leaving no nothing TO
speak of but our joints and drug
stores with perInits. Can we give
them up TO CRAFTY IN old craukess
with spit curls and bow legs. who
Gomez from the Breckenridge dis
trict of Kaintucky snd says befo'.
and do and war
Neither Nation may be doing
Gods work in her crazy sort Of way,
but she 10 blocking the wheels of
commerce and destroying large
quan,ities of good iiquo', powerful
good iiqno', sah! She 10 taking the
revenues which belong TO the cities
and driving the county attorneys
into the poor house. She cannot
harm Baxter Springs. We have no
Joints 20 smash, no saloon mirrors
10 break, no nude pictures TO de-
stroy. no hoochee.coochee attach
ments TO annihilate, but great
great Christopher! won't she warm
up Gaienaf And poor old Colum-
bus. that old hypocritical sodom,
rotten with smallpox and high
school swindlers, teeming with vice
and unlawful rum holes, dead
broke poiiticians and pap suckers
what q shaking up of dry bones
there viii be when the Nation army
climbs into Columbus.
Seriously, we hope Mrs. Nation
will not come TO C erokee county,
and for the credit of Kansas IL is
about time for her to subside. She
10 either . fanatic. crank, or fool
and 10 either case ought TO be put
in an asylum TO cool OF. In no
other state would she have been al
lowed 10 run ut large this long.
While she may be causing some
personal injury to joint keepers,
she IL also destroying the property
of innocent people, and doing the
cause Of Temperance much harm.
II whipkey selling is unlawful. Il
can be dealt With legally. II the
county elforneys fail 10 their duty,
recouraa can be had against them. |