The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-08-01
ANTHONY leo.

1t is pretty well understood that George
I. Anthony writes just enough Of Alfred
Gray's agricultural reports TO enable him
to claim the credit Of them. A page or a
paragraph is sufficient. In his vivid mag-
ination it swells and grows and leavens un-
IL after a few repetitions he begins to aP-
propriate the book to himself. Gray be-
comes only his clerk or a;uanuensis.
The few things he does write are easily
detected a, for instance his "In Conclusion
in the Centennial Report and his "Review
of the Year" on page ), of the Fourth As-
ricultural Report. His barbarous style be-
trays him. So also his offensive imperious
ness, his great "l' and little "u" methods
of expression.
In the fourth paragraph Of the "Review
Of the Year." page ), he says:
"H is no impeachment oi their intelligence
or Lore Of ofkno~iedqe 10 say that the people # Kan
sas Enos less o hcmsdres and act less in intelli-
gent methodicai concert, than almost any people
Of rhich pe hare knoHedge"
"Know thyself," said the old Greek phi
losophy, for to do so is and was the highest
form OF knowledge, yet the ignorant barbara
ans of Kansas have less self-knowiedge than
the Feejee Islanders. And by strange
miracle their dense ignorance is no i'm
peachment of their intelligence
"Know less of themselves" "sct less in
intelligent concertw We bow in the dust
before this anointed teacher, this apostle
who takes the scales from our eyes to has
ten his millennium. With our two hundred
newspapers, our FIVE hundred churches, our
four thousand schools and our Board Of
Agriculture, We did vainly belieye Kansas
to be the best organized for Intelligent
concert" the best informed in self-knowl-
edge of any spot OF Gods earth. We know
| now how easy it is to think We look at the
moon when We only see "a green eheese."
But here again, this herald Of the "better
time" comes on page 6. He says:
"Kansas is less State to-day, than =
Territory wherein State is TO be created" ;"
What field then, for missionary like
George I. Anthony! Step aside, ye "pio-
neers" and wait and see "ihe coming Of the
glory" of your benefactor.
How easy it is for the world to be mista-
ken. Geo. I. proves this He makes it
clear. He knows it all. This Kansas is
no State, it is only Territory. The "pio-
neers" builded in vain. They fooled away
their long and painful years. The tim5ers
with which they laid the foundations of q
State were rotten. The structure they
reared Is not the model State the world
would have us believe, but hollow and
| silded sham. This generous builder
comes all the way from Medina, New
York, to ten us so, and show us how to do
it. He rubs cat our cob-castle Of State,
resolves us back into territorial and sod
corn condition, and begins anew. And We
must all sit down like little boys at school
in fear of the new master and suck our
thumbs and wait to zee him do il.
'And still tho wonder grew,
That one sm,l head could carry all he
Not alone for the present does he build.
Nor yet alone On The foundation of asricul-
turs and by means Of his Board. He is The
architect general Of al the departments d
ths Staas Goveznnent He neglects neoe
a lie baainsn ef otheu. The depart