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What did Mary elizabeth lease mean when she said Kansas had better stop raising corn, and start raising hell

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y 1890 her involvement in the growing revolt of Kansas farmers against high mortgage interest and railroad rates had placed her in the forefront of the People's (Populist) Party. She traveled throughout Kansas, as well as the West and the South, for the cause. She was a powerful and emotional speaker; Emporia editor William Allen White, who did not share her political views, wrote on one occasion that "she could recite the multiplication table and set a crowd hooting and harrahing at her will."

More an agitator than a practical politician, Lease separated from the suffrage movement and by 1896 had become alienated from the Populist Party. She became less involved in politics. She divorced her husband in 1902 and spent the rest of her life with one or another of her children in the East. She died in 1933.

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