Show ACCORDING TO exGovernor GLICK of Kansas the farms of that state are mortgaged mort-gaged for 250000000 As the assessed value of these farms is only 180000000 it is apparent that the money lenders have I been recklessly generous assuming that the full value of the mortgages represents the amount of money loaned However no anxiety need he felt for the banks and mortgage companies They will look out for themselves The farmers are the ones who are in need of sympathy Kansas is one of the best agricultural states in the union The crops there are reasonably certain and may be counted upon as being fairly good Some years the yield is enormous As a rule there is a fair market And yet with all these advantages the money obligations obli-gations resting on the farms are greater in the aggregate than the cash value of the land What does this condition of things prove Either that farming is an unprofitable unprof-itable industry or that the Kansas farmers farm-ers are not as thrifty as they should be We apprehend that the former is the case as the farmers are hard working and economical As a rule they hire nothing done which they can do themselves and it is very little money they spend foolishly or unwisely t |