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A progressive guide to rural Iowa: ‘What’s The Matter With Kansas?’

By Douglas Burns 5/9/07

In one of the more scathing, yet effective, editorials ever penned by a small-town newspaperman, William Allen White of The Emporia Gazette in 1896 took on the issue of “What’s the matter with Kansas?”
He blasted the emerging populist movement. The relatively young GOP picked up the brilliantly constructed opinion piece and used it to boost [...]

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