The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-04-12
KANsAs IA WASHINGTON.

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KANSAS III WASHINGTON.
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Il has long been the subjso geasral
remark that Kansas is more largely fep-
resented 10 the Washington lobby than
J say other Ssate In the Udion II proper
} lion 10 the number of inhabitaGis This
fact ia accounted for on one of two lisp.
,iothsses. The fret and mos creditable
one is that her people are unusually smart,
Ieaterprisiog, wids awake. quick 10 see the
I"ohances, . and ready 20 take them. II
q thereis any thing good 10 contracts or rich
IN patronage, they scent il from afar, aud
! pursue il with veagsarce. There is
undoubtedly good deal ia this sugges-
/ tion. The men Of Kansas In the paFtic
ulars referred TO, are ahead Of tieiE Eeis
| lows 10 mcsl sot the ssaa Aud the
/ reason. i6s tilis 81 0bVicss enough. Kan
sas is one Of the new SEates. Her people
have been silted from he older aud stab
! Ter communities. Aud nooDe will dis
puIe but that, as = general rule, the more
vigorous and daring strike out for new
hOmesain new countries. WhilS the pru
dent, The tIm'd, iths unambitioas aud IN
Weaned remSin at home. 70 search, to
travel, to explore, TO cross oceans, to win
conquesIs, Ia create institutions, TO mould
empires, 90 plant TIE seeds of newer aud
! nobler OiyIhzsuOas, is both the destiny
aud the recOmpense of the heroic will and
! tseming brain.
And then Ihs peculiar circumstances
# Kansas history have tended alike 20
weed her of sluggards aad coward and
TO develop iato noblsr manhood those
who have endured. Tragic events make
heroic men. And Kansas history has
been tragedy. The battle of liberty TOR
| this continent was fought aud won on
her soil anu by her sons. The gEander
events of our tsrrihls national conflicts
have thrown these conflicts into the shade,
bat their history is yet TO be written, aud
W0en read by other ages aud in the light
OF other fires than ours, our childTsn's
children will read with wonder the story
OF Kansas bloody baptism. and pronounce
with admiration the names OF men and
women which will be
''Fred,u.'s then, and flames.
Some Of the few, the immortal names
That we're not born to die"
That such people, and those who are
drawn TO them, should be remarkable for
vigorous enterprise aud risky adventures
! is not SO very remarkable after ell. 1t
there are fat offices, they are the men 20
1 ill them; If there are big con traots, they
are the men to lake them; it there are
difficult Missions they are the men to
undertake them; it there are deep mines ,
they are the men TO open them; it there
are broad oceans aud high mountains,
they are the men to cross aud climb them
if there are hard battles, they are the men
to fight them.
| This Is the agreeable side of the pic.
ture. And it would be very agreeable 10
leave the other sldsjuntouched. But our
object Is truth, not pleasure. And so ne
are forced to the assertion thst Kansas
has more than her share of class OF men
which a State could we'll afford 10 lose.
and De richer tor the loss. We refer to
the professional politicians, the public.
service scavengers, the born and bred
! Office seekers, men too lazy 10 work aud
100 proud to beg, whose Oal J means of q
livelihood IS in The Precsrious and pestif-
erous business OF office hunung aud Of
hcs holding. 1t Is said that there is
something redeeming in almost all pur-
suits. Ii there is any exception, II Is
certainly here. A man who mas 40 pro.
fsssion, or who has SO. long neglected il
that ne ID gOodfOr nothing TO it or it to
him, no trade, no calling, no business
but TO run for tho Legislature when
! theIe is a chance to sell out, aud TO run
| to Washington when there is q chance
tor spoils, who will accept Office under
any administration, and eat bushel OF
dirt Tor tue sake of getting pack of
crumbs; sucn a MAD is a moral nuisance,
a political leper, a Stale blood sucker,
aud the commonwealth which has many
OF them has a burden grievous to be
borne. We affirm slthout hesitation that
our noble youug State has more of these
barn cles cllnglng TO her than is for he
good. Some OF them aspire TO nothing
higher than q system of piratic black
mailing. Conscious of no ability to Sc.
cure office or profit themselves, they earn
their living by maleyOlenlly throwing
barriers IN the progress OF toe others, ia
the hope OF creating opposition enough
to make il an object for their silence 10
be bought. Others are adopts 10 gigantic
lsWiadlss, masters Of the art of fraud,
having all the sudscious impudencs nec'
essary TO create q claim by forgery, and
secure its payment by perjury.
That these classes too largely represent
our State 10 the National Capital is the
subject of notorious remark, and of keen
regret to those whoars jealous Of her fair
tame. Il is pEesumpliye evidence almos,
that mac Is a rouge if he halls from
Kansas, the eYidsnce is considered com
2leIs if be is known as a Kansas pOliti
clan.
1t gives as DO pleasure to say these
things. Like some other plain and an
/. paIatable truths which We have uttered
they may only serve to ''calI on the dogs
of war;" But that they.ueed TO be told
and the people to be aroused to the impor
lance of higher standard in the conduc
} of their political atfaiFs. is our apology
for utteFiag them. Believing as we d.
: that there is such thiugas purity in pol
itics without which belief Ne should 0
} COURSE despair of the Republic, We con.
{ fess TO an ambition that our young and
historic State should at least, IN this re
spect, not sufferin comparison with he
sister Statse. That she now doess 4
some extent perhaps unjustly. is beyont
conuadiction.- ONalra Home journal.
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