The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-06-03

may have letter from Kansas City de-
failing a horrible state of things there.
Kansas City is IN Missouri, and it is
notorious fact that there are spectators
there who do not like TO see so many
eastern people crossing that State and
coming on to Kansas. They have fire
quently resorted to lies and misrepre-
sensations 30 stop the tide of immigrants
who were pushing on to Kansas. IL
reliable reports be true the informer of
the World, need go but "a days ride
from Kansas City to find in his own
State worse condition of things, so
far as the lack of rain is concerned, and
SO far as the unpromising crop prospects
are concerned, than he can find any
where in Kansas. The Ohio papers are
complaining of drouth. Letters from
portions of New York complain of
drouth. So that if the statements of
the World were true we should be no
worse off than many portions of the
East.
The single well known fact that there
are thousands of people becoming per-
manent settlers in Kansas every day
gives the lie at once, in the minds of all
reasonable people, to such statements as
are made in the above extract. Before
eastern papers make such charges they
should consult some of the channels of
information and post themselves, unless
| they are possessed with desire, in or
der TO injure Kansas, of publishing
L. IL l- L. NynV
well that everybody viii not be pleased
with Kansas, but the simple fact that
some return to the east furnishes no
pretext for incorporating the cOun-
try. 1t will at once be seen by reflect
ing people how ridiculous the state
ment is that Kansas is ''overcrowded"
when it is answered that we have an
area of over fifty millions of acres, and
only about half u million people. That
of itself is comment enough Oh the
whole article. Wages of all kinds are
better here than anywhere in the east,
and if poor man desires to get some
of our rich soil for a homestead he can
do SO at a song. No country was ever
settled with more rapidity than Kansas
is being settled now. Towns are grow
ing rapidly, and thousands of new
farms are being opened in every direc-
ton. The WOrld and other eastern
papers who endorse its statements, if
they were at all informed about this
State, might find a contradiction of their
falsehoods in the single fact alone that
eastern capitalists are to-day building
more railroads in Kansas than in any
State in the Union. Hundreds of miles
are being built this season, and if it were
true that there is drouth, and that
women and children are crying for
food and water do these slanderers of
Kansas not suppose that work OH all
such improvements would at once stop?
They are being pushed right along, and
workmen enough cannot be had.
But the richest part of the stuff put
forth by the World is that ''thieves and
murderers abound" That's cool, COM
ing from New York, where men are
murdered by the hundred every year,
and where a man is hardly safe upon the
streets in broad day light-from city
that has the rottenest government that
ever disgraced any country-where
thieves are elected to the offices and the
New York World is their organ. That's
the highest degree ofimpudence we have
ever seen attained by a newspaper.
We had5ust about as soon risk ourselves
on the plains as in New York, especial
ly if we were blessed with money
enough to make it an object for some
enterprizing New Yorker to ga,Tote us.
We hope decent papers in the east
will be just enough to correct the wrong
impressions which have been made by
circulating the Worlds batch of lies.
All we ask for Kansas is truth and JUS
tice. If she cannot stand on these let
her fall.