Bisbee daily review., 1905-07-22
TOM LAWSON AND BLEEDING KANSAS.


 The following article which tells
 much of conditions in Kansas. past and present, is from the columns of Iron Ore, the well known Michigan mining paper:
 Tom Lawson has added a little to Ehe renowned hot winds of bleeding Kansas, He told the people a lot of things they had heard before a thou and times. and insisted that they should sell all their stocks and put their money into government bonds. l. made his heart sad to think of any of them being the possessor of Stand ard Oil shares that had increased only about 800 per cent in value in the past few years. While Tom was denounc- SnS he trust in words that made the leaves wither on the trees the su- Preme court was handing down a de cision to the effect that the law passed kIE the Kansas legislature last winter and aimed at the Standard Oil com pany was unconstitutional, that the state could not legally expead s400,. '90D in putting a special oil refinery. .sunE as Tom and Ida Tarbell and Q lew other old girls had said was the rsqF real thing to do. TE;s proves thatrthe lay and the prophets do net siiSzaysVvSr-k .hsruon.ousiy and wisely. | KznsasI Ezs xzcob as work upon the l nerves of its people, and for their l hysferical condition they are not al l together to blame. Some years ago. i ze might say many years ago, Capt P. P Mills, Sen, Manville Jenlls and l 1khe editor of Iron Ore took a trip through Kansas. We waded it's Big Smoky river, investigated the timber claim districts, rolled in the buffalo xalIows and returned home without i Investing any of our surplus except i 2ng a few doAars planted in chalk mine near Colorado border We saw The farmers going into town with a -Jag' of hay about as big as a flour barrel and this fixed to the wagon with a fish net to keep it from being blown away. We saw people conGre- gated from many places. on their knees praying for rain We saw the little children tied to stakes driven in the ground near the opening of a cyclone cellar; we saw numerous acres of corn parched and yellow and out of business even for fodder; we saw numerous dirty Indians and dirtier whites. Even then the Carrie Ma tfons were denouncing liquor. but there was no need of talking this tel fhe farmer as he was too poor to get drunk or form the liquor habit. NoI wonder it was a nerye-shaken popu- Izticn. Added to their other trou- lbIes were grasshoppers. They came in myriads, eating the little that was left They covered the railway tracks in a vain attempt to devour the steel rails They inierferred with the run ming of trains. The chintz bugs took what the hoppers overlooked. And this sort of thing continued for several years. Who wouldn't be ready to listen to any doctrine that asked for revenge. But better things came. The rain belt extended, the acreage of fertility expanded, the hoppers went as well as many of the human dangers. The farmers found full granaries, the mortgages were paid, republican pros perity helped, and from discontented hating people spTang an altogether diff ferent race and temper. Prosperity cures many Illusions. and the farmers of Kansas have made a great advance in common sense. There is no longer