The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-08
DEFAMING KANSAS.

Kansas does not need any defense
now from such squibs as the following,
which is clipped from the Paragraph,
printed at Bloomington, Illinois, and
sent to us by friend. There are living
witnesses against such senseless liars in
every eastern town. We print it,
though, at the request Of our friend, to
show the means being used by little,
narrow-minded idiots, who occasional
ly stray out this way, to prevent immi-
grafton to Kansas:
al have had an experience OF six months in
Kansas, have travelled about 700 miles in the
State, taking notes and making special inquiry
OF the old settlers about the country, WhereV-
er could. These people say this is the best
crop year the State has ever had. Cora is
good In most Of the State. Wheat Will aver
age seven bushels to the acre (shrivelled at
that, which am informed is the average Of
the last ten years. Some Of the farmers saw
were making hay as fast as they could, In or
der to have enough for two years. feed. They
said they would have none next year.
What about the climate of Kansas? Well
learn from the oldest Inhabitants that it is as
the United States. The soil is very good in q
few localities, but the balance is not worth
much. While travelling through twenty coun-
ties / met with but three or four men who
are satisfied to stay here II they could get
What about the titles to land! WelI-the
railroad companies give quit-claim deed; re-
serving the right to run q railroad across the
land at any point and in any direction they
please; and reservlng also all coal mines and
may be found on the premises at any time.
Warrantee deeds are about "played out' here.
Notwithstanding the worthlessness OF the til
ties, from 90 to S75 an acre is asked for land.
n where
have used their deception and intrigue with
greater success than in this State. warn ev-
erybody against placing any confidence IN
what a specuiator in Kansas land may say.
Shun them, and believe them not.
There are but two good qualities that belong
70 Kansas, and they are the tineness Of the
wild grass and the shortnesS OF the winter.
Timber Is very scarce, and of n poor quality
while truthfulneSs and honest men are scarcer
than timber. c. W.
The only thing that surprises US is
that this fellow ever lived to travel 700
miles in any country. We conclude he
had guardian with him.
He says "wheat will average seven
bushels to the acre." and is "shrivelled
at that" Now, if this fellow really
travelled in Kansas, and had the least
particle of intelligence and honesty, he
must have seen on every hand the testi-
mony which condemned the above as q
willful misstatement. The average crop
in Kansas is not less than twenty bush
els of excellent wheat to the acre, while
a large number of fields yielded thirty.
What motive could possibly have in
duced him to tell such a barefaced false
hood is perfectly unaccountable to US.
And this is the average for ten years,
says this Munchausen of the PGnta-
graph. We have seen half a dozen as
good wheat crops in ten years in Kan
sas.
The only thing that has interfered
with haying since 1864, that we know
of, has been too much wet weather.
Well venture the assertion that this
fellow has long ears and a yearning for
the hay stacks.
He only met three or four parties, in
travelling through twenty counties, who
would not sell their farms. Astonishing
observation! After reading j. V. WIS
statement about the wheat yield, we
have no confidence in mis- word, and
pronounce this, also, a barefaced false
hood. One of the reasons why people
come to Kansas-and the principal one,
perhaps-is to better their condition
financially, and hence they are peculiar
ly a trading people. A large number
of them will sell anything they have if
they can get more than they gave for
it. Not one out of twenty leave the
State when they do sell. They imme-
diately invest again. When they get
another start they sell again, and so
they go; and many of them have made
large sums of money in this way. This
is necessarily the case in a new country
to far greater extent than in an old
settled country.
The writer's information in regard to
the question of land titles is about on
par with his knowledge of other sub
jects he writes about-thst is, there is
not q word Of truth in it. The law in
relation to the right of way for rail-
roads Is about the same as exists in 9TH
er States. The fact that hundreds of
thousands of acres OF land are changing
hands every month in Kansas at the
prices holders ask for it, is sufficient
evidence that the quality OF the land is
almost invariably good, and that clear
titles are made. People are not fools
enough to invest in lands where no
good title can be given. We warn ev-
erybody against believing what Kan
sas liar may say. They are meaner
than any class of men we have. The