e to Kansas have gone to other States to live, leaving about
55,000 yet in Kansas. About 30,000 of that number have settled in
the country, some of them on lands of their own or rented lands;
others have hired out to the farmers, leaving about 25,000 in and
around the different cities and towns of Kansas. There has been
great suffering among those remaining in and near the cities and
towns this winter. It has been so cold that they could not find
employment, and, if they did, they had to work for very low
wages, because so many of them are looking for work that they are
in each other's way.

"Most of those about the cities and towns are men with large
families, widows, and very old people. The farmers want only
able-bodied men and women for their work, and it is very hard for
men with large families to get homes among the farmers. Kansas
is a new State, and most farmers have small houses, and they
cannot take large families to live with them. So, when the
farmers call for help, they usually call for a man and his wife
only, or for a single man or woman.

"Now, in order that men with large families may become owners of
land, and be able to support their families, the K. F. R.
Association, if they can secure the means, will purchase cheap
lands, which can be bought at from $3 to $5 per acre, on long
time, by making a small payment in cash. They will settle the
refugees on those lands, letting each family have from twenty to
forty acres, and not settling more than sixteen families in
anyone neighborhood, so that they can easily obtain work from the
farmers in that section or near by. I do not think it best to
settle too many of them in any one place, because it will make it
hard for them to find employment.

"If our association can help them to build a small house, and
have five acres of their land broken, the women and children can
cultivate the five acres, and make enough to support their
families, while the men are out at work by the day to earn money
to meet the payments on their land as they come due. In this way
many families can be helped to homes of their own, where they can
become self-sustaining, educate their children, and be useful
citizens to the State of Kansas.

"Money spent in this way will be much more profitable to them