The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-31
KANSAS COMNENT
OUT THERE Inv KANSAS.

member the time when eastern money
loaners gave notice that they would
not send any more money "out there
in Kansas" These same old settlers,
many Of them, lived to see the day
that the great commercial center or
the east had to depend on Kansas
banks for good deal of money. Kan
saS does not need to blow her own horn
now. The whole world knows that 1t
is one of the most productive states in
the union. Kansas hard wheat ana
Kansas corn have found their way into
all the markets of the world, and now
nobody asks what Kansas will pro-
duce. Everybody knows. People are
now coming from the east and paying
$50 and 500 an acre for Kansas land
that 35 years ago sold for $1.25. Thirty
five years ago central and southern
Kansas was considered an experiment,
but that stage has been passed and now
even the short grass country In west
ern Kansas is being proved produc-
tive section that is fast becoming rich.
Wichita Eagle.
WALL STREETS SQUALL.
Wall streets wall having dwindled
down to a squeak, the people can now
pull the cotton from their ears and
the financial world indulge, In smile
of speculation. Such a suspension as
the Knickerbocker Trust company 20
years ago would have resulted in
prostrating panic. The reason why
such thing was impossible at TINS
time is attributable to the fact that
the big balance of the surplus cash In
the country is held by the west and
by the United States treasury. Were
it otherwise the New York banking in
situations would have called on the
debtor banks of the west for every cent
possible. But the Knickerbocker Trust
company is not yet a wreck. On the
contrary the indications are strong that
it's suspension will prove only brief. It
is apparently quite solvent, with Its
capital unimpaired. Its stockholders
will find themselves still the owners
of a rich and powerful Institution, UNI
less all signs fail.-Wichita Eagle.
TIT FOR TAT.
A few years ago when every Kansas
farmer had to sell his produce as fast
as he could harvest it and haul 1t to
market in order to pay the interest on
his farm mortgage, shaking up IN
the money circles of Wall street would
make the cold chills run down his
back: But those times are past. wan
street can have money panics and any
old kind of trouble now and 1t does
not disturb the peace of mind OF the
average Kansas farmer. He has MS
money in the local banks where 1t Is
safe or has it invested in $500 land and
is on easy street. Kansas farmers
would be willing to dump Few mill
lions into Wall street to tide the gam
blers over the rough sea they seem to
be up against, provided the rate of in
terest is placed where 1T used to be
when the money came from the street
for the farmers to use and provided
further that the same kind of gilt edge
security is furnished as used to be de-
manded of the farmer.-Smith County
Journal.
%
IT, MAKE IT COUNT.
Kansas, and in fact all the west, is
for Taft. This. and other western
states should give expression to this
sentiment early and thus help his can
didacy in doubtful states. Let's be for
him like we were for Mckinley in 1886
and for Rooseveltin 1904. in an effective,
practical and telling way.-kingman
Leader-Courier.
THE UNEXPECTED.
There's no denying it's the unexpect-
ed that happens. The Magills who
were acquitted of murder refuse to go
on the stage, although offered $50 a
week Hutchinson News.