White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1870-03-24
Nsrthern Kansas.

Nerthern Kansas. =
No citizen of Northern Ksnsss has sny
reason to be dissatisfied with the progress
Of this portion Of tho State. Bu, we do.
sew and thsp. hear note Of regret that,
10 The distribution Of the State Insti,u-
tio.s. none Of them were located in North.
sru Kansas. We do not regard this as
q sseiset Of regret. None Of the State
1nstituiious- ere Of msterisl benefit to the
particular section in which they are To-
Gated, except in their immediate neigh
borhood, and then not to that degre.
which many persons suppose. They
cause the outlay of some money in the
nsighbefhooi where located: bnt the fact
shat Penitentiary, Deaf and Dumb.
Inssne. or Blind Asylum is located at q
cetisn place. induces nobody TO settle
thsre. unless it may be families who have
members sfiiicted so that they require he
benefits Of an asylum. All other persons
seeking locations. pay 10 regard to those
things.
/; has been intima atsi that the Northern
Kansas members of the Legislature were
rsriiss in their duty. in no. securing one
or more of the Institutions. We were q
member st thst time, and confess that we
did not try nor desire to secure tho locs-
tion Of sny OF them in this part Of the
Stats. II is onr recollection that no 9TH
or Northern Kansas member made any
special effort ia that direction. We all
believed that the Institutions should all
Be located at the Capital. From the
signs Of the times, we foressw the com
binstions that would annually be form cd
70 bleed the State; thss the Sts.e was
getting an elephant on her hands. and
would 10 few years, as matter of self-de-
fencs. be compelled to rs-locste the Insti.
tptions al at one point. and that point
ths Capital Of tbs State. We still be-
lisve this will be done at some future day.
not very distant.
Another cause of complaint, is the neg
lect Of Northern Kansas in the distribu-
tiss Of the leading Offices. There is some
ground fer this complaint. Bat is in a
great nessure the fault Of our own polit-
zeal managers. They 60 to Conventions
without any concert of action. and poll
10 opposite directions; aud probably at
last some shyster sells them out for bis
own benefit. At the last State Conven-
tion. Atchisen controlled 9 majority Of
the Northern Kansas Delegates. as COM
plsteiy as II they lived in Atchison, and
had been appointed BY meetings held there.
The Delegates played to the hands Of
the Atchison politicians, and were swap
ped. dickered, aad nosed around, by
Atcbison men. Whenever Northern
Kansas quits that sort Of thing, and mites
for the furlhersnce of her own interests,
she will have influence in politics.
As to the msterisl progress Of Northern
Kansss. it is all that can be desired. and
she need thank nobody for it. 1t is COM
ing ts her, upon Der own merits. South
ern Kansas has been advertised and writ
ten up 40 oil eternity" and those who
dc such work, hsve seemed to be ignorant
Of such 3 region as Northern Kansas.
All the efforts bsve been directed to rush
ing emigration into Southern Kansas,
aad . heavy stream is pouring in ihst
direction. But there is . stream pouring
- heavily into Northern Kansss. that
has not been drummed and drifted this
way BY efforts directed for that particular
sLisct. Whist il called Northern Kan
sss, is. in proportion to what is under
stood as Southern and South Western
Kassas, shout one-iourth the area Of the
State. But the proportion Of emigration
to Northern Kansas is considerably over
one-fourth. We are satisfied with it, and
so srs the emigrauts. Every person who
has seen both ections, sgree that North
srn Kansas is so much the better portion
of the State, that there is no comparison
between the two. Not more than one in
Q Thousand takes the opposite view. and
that one is frequeOtly Influenced by some
personal consideration.
Northern Kansas has no need Of State
Institutions to build her up. The peo-
pie are coming Of their own accord; and
II she does not WELD ber share of politi-
cal Influence. it is her own fault.
NJ Another case of rsscality is re-
ported at Washington. Sidney Clarke
iasInu.tes that Senstor Ross mutilassd
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