One of my earliest recollections was that the people of Kansas had agents all through this country asking donations of Bibles and Sharps rifles for the people of Kansas. And from that day to this. whenever a Kansas community had an overplus of hay or oats or forage of any kind that they did not know how to dispose of. they went to work and stirred up an Indian war. so as to get the Army out there and make a market for the sale of their produce. Why. sir. it is only about ten years since the landgrant railroads. with their immigration bureaus. had run into the State of Kansas more people than they could support. and they had not money enough to get back over the same railroads they went there by. and the peoplegathered along the frontier and tried to break out of the State. and it was necessary to call on the United States Army to keep them in.
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Kansas communities stir up Indian wars to create a market for their produce.