The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-22
KANSAS.

An intelligent gentleman who is one
of our oldest citizens, told us Yesterday
that he had been travelling through Leav-
enworth and Wyandotte counties. AL
| though he had visited them recently he
was very much surprised to see their
growth. New houses, he stated, were
going up on nearly every quarter sec
ton, and substantial improvements
| were in constant progress. The same
gentleman has recently visited many
parts of Kansas. What we have stated
of Leavenworth and Wyandotte coun-
ties is probably true of every part of
our state. On our return we stated
that We believed Kansas was growing
at the rate of one hundred thousand a
year. The statement seemed almost
wild and eXtravagant. But Judge Bal
ley, who is as well informed as any man
| in the State, has already said that cur
estimate was too low.
Men who live i'll New York and New
England will read these statements as
Western absurdities. But when they
remember the very recent history of
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wis
consin, Iowa (Which has already one
million inhabitants), they will not con-
slider startling this intensely rapid
growth of Kansas. 1t seems TO go
ahead any way. You can't stop il. The
war, which devasted its entire border,
didn't hurt it. 1t is going on; it is
bound TO go on.
AT the next Congressional census
Kansas will be found to have four or
tive members. Massachusetts is losing.
New York is losing, Pennsylvaniais is
losing, and Ohio is now losing.
The Empires in tile West.
Kansas, which i'll '54 was thought to
be Oh the extreme border, is now found
to be the center OF the continent.
Old gentlemen i'll Portland and Gin
cinnati are putting on their spectacles
and re-eXamining the map OF the VI GRID.
1t is II new thing to them. They havnt
got used TO it. They are putting their
fingers INTO their rusty but piethoric
pocket-bookS to know whether thew
viii invest i'll EInporia or Junction CITY.
The spectacles shake. The fingers trem-
bic, but they have got to come up. That
money is ali due here. We are not beg
glng iOr it. he laws OF trade bring IL
here. The old gentlemen, q little ex-
cited, sit down and wipe the sweat of
from their fOreheads, and tell their boys
and girls that they guess they will
have TO put little money into kansas.
And SO it comes. And SO, almost with
out knowing it, we spring Minerva-iike
| into the 1uil stature of our power. 1t
I q
which only few years ago was marked
| on your maps as The Great American
Desert, is already a controlling power
i'll the Republic. Men want to know
the opinions of Kansas. When YOU
write your name OIL the register of the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, men come around
to speak 10 you before you have had
time to take ont tOOth-pick. They
want 10 know about that country.
"Have you ever been in OsaWatOmie =
Are YOU acquainted in Lawrence n
/ !" on are from Kansas -
And so they bore us. We have to
stand it. 1t is one OF the burdens that
is put upon new State. On the whole
we stand it pretty well.
Every citizen ought TO be proud of it.
We have great and glorious State here.
1t is the duty of every man and woman
i'll it TO raise high its moral standard,
and to make our people known as the
best as well as the bravest there are on
this continent.-Le0centc C0nSerC-
attire.