The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-06-29

of undoubted talent and courage have
| frequently admitted that they were
mistaken; even the all.wise Creator
| once repented that he had "made man
on the earth"-or woman either, fam
cy; bat the Kansas newspaper takes
| nothing back, and in its course there
is neither Variableness nor shadow OF
turning. This masterful tenacity has
its drawbacks, and sometimes works
cruel injustice; and I think it might
be tempered with little more of care
and of candor. 1 would not have it
weakened, but elevated. First, be sure
you are right, then stick to it-for it is
this genius of sticking to it that has
brought both the press and the State
TO their present well earned celebrity ;
and this it is, more than anything else,
that is to carry them for ward to those
yet nnwon and cOmpleter honors which
await them in the rounded circle of the
coming years.
THE DESTINY OF KANSAS
is in the keeping of her press. Never
before have there been such chances
for the newspaper to serve the state.
The period of brick-making without
straw has passed. We have something
TO show for our faith; we have some
thing to work with and to build upon.
And the signs are all propitious. The
press has but to be true to itself-to
the theory of its origin, the spirit of
its groWth-and it cannot then be
false to the state. 1t has but to main
tain its characteristic devotion. to local
interests as first consideration, to hold
fast to its distinctive preference for
news over owlishness, to avoid the pol
iticians as it would the spotted fever,
to preserve its freedom and It's right to
speak its honest thoughts, to seek ne
patronage that must be secured by
mortgaging its independence, to keep
in clean dress and cultivate a sunny
temper, and it will lift Kansas, step by
step, to such height of grace and ra-
dance as will make the progress of our
first sixteen years, marvellous and I'M
matched as it is, seem but common
place in comparison.
am not over enthusiastic, am not
flying a kite that cannot see. am
merely fOrecasting the future by the
lights of the past and present. know
what we have done, and knowing that,
it needs no prophet to tell what we can
do. The secret of a stars existence
once discovered, the calculation of its
destiny is but a matter of mathemat-
les. l do not expect the millennium
to be wrought in Kansas. l do not
think that here in this
MODERN EDEN
the transgression of Adam is going to
be cancelled and forgiven. l do not
believe, with the sanguine poet, that
out OF the latent misery of this s'land
of space and Dreams" the second
Christ is to come. But 1 do believe
that Kansas has within herself all the
elements of new and superior growth
in human progress, and that there will
be no rest, and no delay, and no relin-
quishment of energy or of confidence
while the work remains unfinished. l
believe that the achievements of the
past are the assurances of the future !;
that we shall go on gathering to our
selves the best of the country's vigor
in muscle and in mind; that here in
dustry will find its amplest scope, its
sureSt and fairest reward; that wealth
Is to accumulate without decay of man
hood or danger OF eonvulsion; that our
churches, and our schools, and our
homes. Will check all excuses, and dis
pei all ignorance, and keep sweet and
strong the common virtues which are
the rarest glories of any people.
And when everything shall have
been done that it is possible to do
when the last stone shall have been
put In the temple, as it were-and the
perfected splendor of il all shall
"Lie like shaft of light across the land"
the Press can place its hand upon its
Jubilant heart, and borrowing a line
from the Had, say to the State, in
truth and sincerity, and with an homes
and accurate pride,
All illustrious as thou art, made thee SUCH