Deseret Evening News | 1891-08-22 | Page 4 | Peffer's Puffball Statistics

mil it's liimmi. staii'stiii. HcvATvnt I'm Lit of Kansas Is causing ifulto ftu excitement ntuong elltlcal reformers, by his assertions relating to tils uwnHlate. In recent epei cli bo ald."the mortgage Indebted, less of Kansas Is JloO.OM.ixsj, while the laud value Is only ilu1,V00,uiXI. If the Ktate of Kansas was ut up nt miction mic-tion at 'id daes notice, It would not sell for enough to pa) Its ludcbtoduiis." This statement, together with sen ral others of iluillir Import, liavo Wen widely circulated, especially ly Alliance Alli-ance and Dcmocratlo newij-apete. In thtsecolumns about two weeks ago a roe. law of the condition cf Kan-sasfarmsand Kan-sasfarmsand farmers was given. The article was bated on ft risut Issued by the secretary of tho Htate board of agrlculturi. In that It waa clearly shown that tha valuo of farm lauds alone In Kansas was $fJi:,000,liOO, whllo the total value for all varieties of land within the Hlato was estimated atJI,5',(HK),l. About three Jiars ago, Alien Teller was a ltetib1lcan, he said: ''The actual amount of present Indebtedness Indebt-edness for which the tsrms of Kansaasre mortgaged does not much, If any, exceed ex-ceed IJO.OOO.OOn, Ices than ono-teolh of the ainouut published by Deiutarallo cam-lgncrs, cam-lgncrs, Itmustbe admitted tint thecondl-tlouof thecondl-tlouof thenvvrage farmer lu the fut has not been ft roseate ono. However, Henstor Teller, by lilt exaggerated, and Inflated lewdniliui dues Injury to his rty nnd lu himself. He itibllshcs figures which any schoolboy inn demonstrate de-monstrate to be false. Hu oven contradicts con-tradicts himself, tiuch meu are the llotsftui and Jelsoui of our lollllcal ocean, and wilt ultimately drift Into a corner w here they will remain bidden forever from ubllo view.