The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-01-08
WHAT KANSAS NEEDS.

Editor Register
The history of all the new States from
which the Indians have been removed
within the last forty years is in most o.
its outlines very similar. They, thu
States, go through the same process be
fore they reach condition ofpermanen'
prosperity. At first they are run ovel
by a class very nearly as unsettled in
their habits and as fond Of rowing as were
the Indians. Then come class of set
tiers with greater proportion Of steady
industrious and thoughtful people, some
of whom soon tire of the privation, toll
and hardships of life in a new country
and either go back to their "wife's folks
or to the gold mines farther West and
are heard OF no more; the rest remain
and work on making the first permanent
Improvements in the country, and fitting
the country for its final settlement with
a hardy, industrious, steady, and as a
natural consequence, successful popula-
ton. Up to this point the bread and
meat question has taxed all their ener-
gies to the utmost. Now railroads come
along, villages spring up and all the ap-
purtenances Of civilized life are desired
and eagerly sought for. Now laws to pro-
tect all in their persons and property are
needed, and should be created to espe-
cially protect the small farmers, as they
are in the majority and are the ones
needing protection, those having abund-
ant means being able to protect them
selves.
Kansas I think is now in this last chap
ter of its history, and the wiser the legis-
lation We have the sooner We shall reach
that stage of prosperity that will enable
the country to stand poor crop once in
while or visitation of Locusts or Bugs
without suffering. All the States known
or called prairie States, I believe, with
out exception, have first turned their at
tention to grazing supposing that from
the scarcity of timber they could never
become strictly agricultural. Time has
proved that this was an error. All these
States have also tried "no herd law" and
nearly all have abandoned that plan as
unwise and poorly calculated to promote
the best good OF the greatest number.
What we need now is an honest indus
trious settler on every quarter section in
our country. Then there will be more
to pay taxes and less taxes for each to
pay /; better roads, bridges built over wet
weather creeks where now we stand and
shiver for halfa day waiting for them to
run down. l think more cattle will be
raised and better ones and just as fast as
farmers find out that thirty dollars to-
morrow is better than five to-day they
will raise their cattle to maturity instead
of selling the calf and, letting a large
amount Of coarse food 60 to waste that
might just as well be turned into cash by
feeding.
Spectators will tell you, that to put
stock into market three classes of men
must be employed; the breeder i. c., the
farmer, the feeder and lastly the specu-
lator. This is hardly so; the farmer must
fill two of these classes to do himself and
his land justice, he must raise his own
stock, and with their help he must work
all his coarse unsaleable food up into
manure and this makes both himself and
his land rich. Then he will be able to
have and to enjoy all the good things of
this life that the all-wise Father has be-
slowed upon his children to help needy
or distressed brother and properly fill his
mission in this life. COMMUNICATED.