“However, Kansas is coming to the front again. Since the mortgage companies are willing to do business once more our Governor is no longer ‘ashamed of the State.’ Occasionally a Republican politician squirms and kicks as the pressure is turned on. The eloquent and volcanic Ingalls breaks out at intervals. In these eruptions he pours lava upon his party in fine style. But he does not break out often enough!
“The most serious bar to the progress of reform is that the people are too poor to pay for reform papers and magazines; out of these they might get the truth. The publishers of such are unable to send their periodicals for less than cost. Not so the party in power. Thousands of people get complimentary copies of the gold-bug papers, and other thousands get them for a nominal sum. Somebody pays for them. Who?
“I have been pleased with The Arena, both old and new. I first subscribed to it in order to get ‘The Bond and the Dollar,’ which I consider the most succinct exposition of the American money question ever written. No publication that I am acquainted with equals The Arena as an educator. I wish you godspeed in your efforts for the betterment of our people and of humanity in general. I hope (almost against hope) for the peaceful solution of the difficulties that now beset our beloved country.
“Sincerely yours,
“A. Biggs.”
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