The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-01-17

to the treasury of the State, che difference
is as wide if not wider in our favor than it
is in the item of population.
EmpOria is within four or I've miles Of
the center of the State north and goath.
and is nearer the center east and west, of
what must be the inhabitable portion. for
the next fifty yeare, if not for all time to
come, than any of the important points in
the State. The location is extremely heal
! thy, and the inhabitants of the town and
country are religious. temperate. industri-
Gus and enterprising. Emporia is better
supplied with mail facilities than any point
on the NeOsho. She has tri-weekly line
Of stages from Lawrence, running through
from that point in day, making us less
than two days travel from the metropolis of
| the State, and the service on this route will
undoubtedly be increased to run daily, at
no very distant time This route connects
with a tri-weekly mail to the capital of the
State. We also have semi weekly mail
traversiug the entire Neosho Valley, con-
Meeting with the Santa Fe mail at Council
Grove, and with Western Kansas at Fort
Riley, and having its eastern terminus at
Fort Scott, giving US direct communica-
ton twice week with all the Southeastern
counties. A line of stages will probably
be put on this route in the spring, and the
amount of mail matter transported over por-
tons Of it already demands that the service
be increased to three times week. We
also have semi weekly mail via Cotton
wood Falls to the Walnut aud Whitewater
country, and weekly route directly South
to the Verdigris and Fall River country.
All these things certainly conspire to make
this very desirable location for an insti-
tuition of learning.
The Neosho Valley is second only in i'm
portance, in wealth, and in position, to the
Kaw Valley, aud in the richness of her soil,
and in the breadth of her tillable valleys and
uplands, she is not surpassed in the State.
If the institutions Of the State are to be
equitably distributed, she certainly de-
serves the second best, the Kaw Valley hav-
ing the Capital. She claims it and the
representatives of the people cannot do a
better or more just act than to give it to
her. She is entitled to it. We do not be-
lieve all the patronage of the State should
be expended to build up the Kaw Valley.
Her towns want TO monopolise everything.
She has already got her share, and will get
more. Give US the University, and it will
do more to help railroad enterprise in the
Neosho Valley, and to develope Southern
Kansas, than all things else that could be
bestowed upon US. This is certainly mat
ter which demands the attention of all
Southern Kansas men. They, especially,
should do all they can to strengthen and
build up Southern Kansas. The North will
help us if we help ourselves. They will do
what is right. This University question is
one which will be of far greater Importance
to the future than to tie present, and men
should not be governed altogether by a
small donation to the State, in voting on
this important matter. They must look at
what Southern Kansas is to become in a few
years, and not what she is now. The Wes-
tern portion of the State deserves some
thing. twill be rich and important some
day. But the South will always outstrip
her to a greater extent, even, than she does
now. Let the members think of these
things candidly, before making up their
minds to vote on the University question.