The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-06-26
on To TIE GULF.

When the enthusiastic hopes and
of our earlier years, b
become the experiences aud facts u
of our later ones, I:
with how matter OF fact a manner we O
receive them, wholly unlike the joy n
Gus feelings that tinged our youth 8
full anticipations. y
For years the people ofthe Neosho v
Valley worked, spent time aud mon '
eyand enthused themselves over the +
prospect of direct railroad connec- c
ton with the Gulf of Mexico.
With a spirit little short of prophe-
cy they ioOked across the intervene
ing years aud saw the whole Gem
merce of the vast inland basin OF
the west, lying between the Mis-
souri, river and the Rocky noun
tains, going unvexed to the Gulf of
Mexico, where IL should meet
the keels of the worlds COM
merce of which IT was thence
forth an integral part. URlike
many of the rosy dreams
that haunt the imaginations of those
who find Paradise in the virgin
fields where they meet the first ac-
tual encounters of life's battles, this
had substantial foundation in fact.
Paint it as you would, the grand |
central Iact still out-shown the high |
est coloring. On the one hand, fol-
lowing the beaten track eastward it
was twelve hundred miles TO tide
water, while on the south over the
route that tcdS TO be, as the prophe
cies ran, &c was only half that dis
lance, while between Kansas and the
Gulf lay semi-trOpical country of
marvellous richness, itself no mean
customer for our staple products,
the Interchange of which for ours
T would constitute more legitimate
commerce than we could ever enjoy
with the Eastern States, and contri-
butte largely TO the permanent ma
terial prosperity of the two sections.
So, in spite of the sneers of the
= whole outside world and much of
that inside, about attempting to build
railroad that crossed at right an-
!. giles the present established lines of
: travel and trade, which In the Ian
= guage of the scornfuI, "began no.
where and ended nowhere,
G the people of the Neosho VAL
L.. ,I,,,, 20 thai. fa,,orfta AMI
terprise, until finally, backed
by the sagacity, the enterprise and
capital of such men as Parsons,
Dennison, Skiddy, Belmont and
: Stevens, the road was built; from
y feebleness and insignificance it
u came to a strength and prominence
q which was at variance with the pre-
valent notion of strength only with
& age, and instead of "begining no.
o where and ending nowhere il
= s.began and ended everywhere.
&c After making sure of its footing in
% the Indian Territory and Texas, the
lie next thing was to reach out its Bri.
Is nrean arms for the trade which
I should fill its main artery. Its lat.
rs est exploit has been to capture bod
d lily its old enemies the JOY roads
l. leading into Kansas City, and break
q ing down the eXclusiveness of its
TO southern connection the Texas Cen
CT trial, compelinga prO-rate of freigh
ne w hich makes possible the shipmen
~ of grain via GALVESTON for Europe
4. from Kansas and Missouri. TIL,
be NJ. X. 81 r., the despised of a few
10 years since, now reaches Chicago
'n st. Louis and Kansas City, on tn,
n north and east, aud practically ,also
al Denver on the west, connectin.
de them all with Galveston, and open
or ing up sources of trade and profit {,
u them heretofore only existing as tn
so dream of the handful of enthusiast
Ill in the NeoshO Valley, who first pu
ne the enterprise on its feet.
Ill Yet, while the whole country ha
&c, been ringing for a month with til
acclaim of the new Kansas City con
lat nection and the establishment O
lat through rates of freight which hav
BIZ so important bearing upon the flu
on ture productions of the country, an
of while deleoat;ons from Kansas Cif
"a to Texas have been responded to b.
delegations from the solid men O
Texas, looking with eager eyes upo
the cities and fields with which the
ba have so recently been brought int
90 close communication, the only sec
:. ton of the State which seems L
M view the whole proceeding and it
:, possible results with lack of inter
est is that same Neosho vale
=, whose chief watchword in the earl
:, enthusiastic days was "On to tn,
IN Gulf" But this indifference mu
=. be more seeming than real. For tn
possibility that opens is the differ
"a ence between independence aud de
!. pendence to this people. There ca
u be no question that Galveston vii
!, shortly be great grain market, an,
90 that there will be difference O
many cents per bushel in favor O
~ the Kansas producer between tn
-, nett price there and via New York
:, or even st. Louis. The opening O
:, this route will also put st. Louis Of
-. her mettle. 1t is blow aimed q
-. her supremacy in this section as
grain and trade mart. She will bi,
=. high for Kansas grain rather thai
70 lose it. Kansas CITY, too, will ente
80 into sharp competition for the prof
- of gathering in for the Southern AM
Do foreign market the products of thi
:, section. Altogether, the outlool
is hopeful, and we look to see re
49, vival of the old time faith in tn
- Gulf market and the consequen
ooI prosperity of the country.
-, Nor A CANDIDATE.-We see by
:. card from ID. p. Lowe, in the Fl
:. Scott Monitor, that he will not be
49,, candidate for Congress this fall
49, This rather surprises us. Tn,
=. State has had few public servants
=. in our estimation, who hav
- a. Al. n