Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1902-04-02
lIoa,, par.y leadsra bod bylLhs mOsl

prOmlncnt .tScpnoNchn lOelhais'
=. A csse directly in poinu 1.-THE
banquet given IN Kansas City IN
Pebrnary by tbs Young Meas Re-
puhlicah Association, . State or
ranixatIon .qi ,yhleh both.Col, Ker'
sna and Ohairman Atkins are mem.
bera. tho Hon. HcnryJ. Allen Of
Kansas made use Of this Language;
sln Mlasoprl are macy remote
commnuIties, un,raveresd by news
papers. The people who we're born
there aud who yet lice there are
hereditary psmoorats The pro.
blsm there can be solyed only BY 1
the allow process Of edRcation.
Asuilke frop Mr.. Allep's language
the word ,Democfats' and even
thon sneh q AIandee qn the State
would have raised st0rm Of lndig'
paiIon 10 any DepoetAtic gather'
ing.
sAad yet this hlanderous attack |
on Che commonwealth Yves applaud
! cd IS tho 500 ReppbIicapa who eat
aropud the banquet board, ard was
pnblished with approval by the
; leading Republican papers o. tne
state.
.'In all That -spdieoce OF Repabii'
can party ,managers there was DOT
one who did pot sink his State
pride helow The level Of mere par
/. iisan politics. 1--WE bAye no GUAR
rel with Mr.. Allen. He had evident
IIy been readiog Missouri Repupli
can newspapers and listening 70
Missouri Republican orators, and
, his copclusions were the direct aud
natural result Of the informat'ons
be had receigsd.
! at is not surprising that people
' away from Missouri who read Repub
|. Iican neyspapers form the opinion
olthat the state has pany remote com
munities, untraversed by railroads,
pnligbted by electricity and unvislt-
ed by newspapers.
Il p.But IL there had been q loyal Mls-
sourlan present, he would have said
J, 10 Mr. Allen that be bad been grossly
o mislnformed as TO Missouri, That
o OF lhe Il5 coonties in this state, All
q but five are traversed by railroads
: and abat these five, instead pf being
: peupled By Democrats are over
= wbelmingly Republican, and have
" been SO ior the past forty years,
~ HHe would have informed Mr.
Alien further that The nunber Q
communities 'nnlighted by electric
ef ity, we're much fewer iR Missonr
~ than in his own State Of Kapsae
"a He could have informed him iurlhe
:. that there is no county in Missouri
that has not one or more newspap
u, ers; while in his own State OF Nan
'st sas there are five copntles which
ss have no publication At.all'
IN "This loyal Missonrian could, ha'
:. he been present, haye said fprthe
u MF. Allen tIlaE IN his own rsas
. Of Kansas there Rrs just the sam
IN. nnmber of counties 'nptraversed D
ri, railroads. as In Missouri, and tbs
a.. four of the five bear the good III
publican names Of Stanton, Steven
y Morton and Grant
ieI "Then this loyal Missourian coal
es- have gone further and informe
he Mr.. Allen that the State he had {
ag grossly slaudered has the large'
s &: nermanent 4 school fund of any Stal
10 the Union aggregating over Slz
na' 600. 900, that, 10 addition TO the u
i'll. terest on this magnificent SUE
rill Missouri distributes TO her dislri
,te schools one third Of her entire sta
~ 81, revenue amounting TO over mi
ion dollars annually.
yes ale could have said to Mr. ALI
uFi that the tax rate in Missouri :
in State purposes ID less than hs
,ha what it is Ia his own State OF ha
~ sas; further, that the Missouri y
" rate is the lowest Of any State
way the Union.
are pThen this loyal Missourlan cou
the have gone still further and infor
v;ll I'd Mr.. Allen thai Missouri assess
-, corporate property go per g
- = higher than his own State OF ~
sas, and that, in addition, the +
and speeia! taxes collected ir' i
railroads ard other corporations
ooA Missouri more than pay the ent
ook expenses of oil The State departm'
ady Ii condition very unlike that
of j his own State Of Kansas.
- ia uBat there seems to have o.
= no Missourian present who cared
TWO defend tho fair name OF The ~
'urI' CANNON wealth. Instead, there W
ratio birds Of III omen who chattel
nub- much ag.loOted school fund.- Of J
! q lied acconnts,' and clapped tt
a W. Wings in approyal when their 9
l;oan State was tradnced. missouri
~ a,h. made wonderful advancement,
~ ii the last few decades 10 MAZE
~ ievelopement and progress,
I. III however because Of the policy
~ ~ The Republican party leaders
s.s.s - Republican newspapers, but
'"'a spite of their persistent and u'si
! est cry oil poor old Missouri,
I "Who has heard y republl
u r. party leader, or leading y
J y, sra paper, since the days Of joseph
.asd McCullagh, speak 10 praise q = !
.s;s,, ouri's magnificent school iand
j. 4 Of her exceptionally low tax !
= ~ u or say anything concerning 7
80 State which waald invite . 81
- immigrant or encourage the in'
". ment of d dolla. of capitait
,aaa - NThere are maay ia,r minded,
Z 80 ~ licspirited Republicans in Miss
! s,.',e ' but Il is significant fact that
81 800 Z men wbO shape the policy o.
;as c marty do not come from thai elj
pref. r,.,..,, pvos,,,et-News.
s...a If Butler eounty caAnot
=.