John Brown decided that, inasmuch as the nation would not free the slaves, be would rj« them to Canada in small detachments. We can run the combines out of our own stfe by affording state protection to the individual, apd in doing so, the state is only performing the work for which tt was erected. This is sot crankiness, but the wisdom of the highest statecraft. The people at Kansas plowed up her prairies, builded her cities, aided in the construction of her railroads, planted and well watered her public institutions for thoir sons and daughters, ^nd they resent having their wealth—the product of toil and privation— stolen by, not only the Standard Oil Company, but by any other combine, including the railroad companies.