The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-25
EROM ARYoNIA.



MEssRs. EDIToRs: The citizens of Ar
vonia were highly entertained last eve
ming by the address of Rev. T. w. Jones
who had just returned from a lecturing
tour in Michigan and Wisconsin, of
which he gave us some account. His
subject was Kansas in general and Ar
vonia in particular. He was called to
various places by friends who wished
to hear a report of the ssbetter country"
The interest OF the people in Kansas he
found intense, and large audiences
focked to hear him. The conservatives
who would let well enough alone,
formed into cliques and tried to ridi-
cule the idea of emigrating to Kansas,
and tried to confound him with ques-
tons, some of them wise and some 9TH
erwise. He enumerated some of the
advantages of Kansas, such as healthy
climate, good water in abundance, wa
ter power to drive the machines of the
State, stone for building in abundance,
a soil of boundless fertility read for
the plow-no stones, no stumps in the
way-timber for use, but no forests to
be cut and burned before tillage is pos
sible, no swamps nor Dogs, no waste
lands, the climate right for the fruits of
the temperate zone; the best for stock
raising, the best for Indian corn, good
for every thing; railroads running or
sure to run in every direction, and coal
for fuel, which in many parts may be
dug on any mans farm with less ex-
pense than the wood could be prepar-
ed for fuel if you had ever so much OF
it. The best of pine lumber can be OBJ
tanned at all railroad stations at Chica-
go prices, plus the freight. And OF
what other country can so much be
be said? "But," says the inquirer, 'Ii
Kansas is SO good a country, why was
it not found out before?2 That may be
hard to answer. We are soon lost in
wandering mazes when the why is de.
manded. 1t hassbeen said of old, "a
fool can ask what the wise cannot ans
wer." The old world was in profound
| ignorence of ali the wonders of both
Americas till 1892. Now you may ash
why this discovery was not made be
fore. The answer would involve vas
amount of learning and research ant
would require volumes. So with thi
question, which to answer in full
would require the whole story of Bleed
ing Kansas, Ossawattamie Brown
Jim Lane, ETC., ETC., quite too tedious t
think Of 1t may be enough to say tina
a good many have found it out ant
gone there. More than 100000 tn
last year, which will be tripled thi
year in all probability.
"But you can't raise anything; tn
land is parched with drought" w
answer that we have an average annua
rain fall of forty inches. This is NOR
than many of the eastern States have
We had drouth in go and so did 9th
err States. We felt it more than other
because dependent on our own GRO
for bread, while older States had oil
corn to eat. "But the grasshoppers, d
they not devour every green thing
If so, how does the corn crop of Kan
sas average 4S bushels per acre and Il
linois %? How about the Philadelphia
fruit premium? "By their fruits y
shall know them" Why did you nc
bring on your grasshoppers when tha
fruit was ripening? Yet we have som
grasshoppers, though not enough I
'feed our turkeys and fatten our fowls
Grasshoppers are pretty good crop
''Bnt the 6edLwgs, are you not devoure
alive by them?" Well, there is Gel
tain class that these blood-suckers hav
mark ed for their prey: they go fc
them and with them, no matter wher
But the worst bug You are trouble
with is the humbug. The Reverence
gentleman kept his audience in the be
of humor and was greeted with in
mense applause. LLEwELLYN.
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