The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-12
KANSAS lS1S1lGRATlON.
What Our State made out or Her Dis.
play at the Centennial.


The following article from that
energetic paper, the Kansas City
Journal of Commerce, which is a
good and true friend OF Kansas,
speaks for itself.
The want of wise public policy
was never more emphatically ex-
emplified than in what is now seen
at the Union Depot every day.
Car load after car load, extra train
after extra train, filed with home
hunters rolling out into Kansas,
while Missouri finds land-poor
owners vainly seeking purchasers.
There are moral causes FOR this
that have been discussed before,
but there are also immediate causes
patent on their face. While the
dominant party press of Missouri
are cursing Yankees and insulting
carpet-baggers, these people, who
comprise eight-tenths of the immi-
grating classes, do not care to be
insulted, and pass on to the land
of school-houses and free ideas.
But there is an immediate cause.
The nation inaugurated an in
ternationai exposition in 1876, at
Philadelphia great advertising
bazaar for American products and
resources. Missouri has as tall
corn, as heavy wheat, as rich oats,
as large vegetables and all soil pro-
ducts in perfection equally with
our sister State of Kansas. But
she derided the exposition as q
Yankee show, and but for the Of
forts of two or three men and half
q dozen of women she would never
have been known at Philadelphia.
As 1t was, she was stuck away
under q hill, and we had to get q
guide to direct us to the place in
ordar to mingle our humiliation
with the sorrows OF Prof. Tracy,
at the scant show over which he
stood solitary sentinel-far ex-
ceeded even by the distant colony
of "niggers'' in Liberia.
But the Kansaslegislature erect
ed q commodious building and
filled it with the choicest products
of her fat new acres--a marvel OF
beauty and q magnificent represen-
tative OF all that makes life desir-
able and comfortable-the evil
dence Of land overlooking with
corn, wine, oil, milk and honey.
It was Differed by wIde-awske, in
telligent men, specialists in all de-
Partments, capable Of answering
any questions as to soil, produc-
ton, mines, climate, latitude or al
titude. whether asked by farmer
or scientist. Not only this, but
week by week. from May to No
vember as the season perfected
her products, the fresh samples
flowed in with unceasing regular
ity and abundance.
The wonder of the exposition
was Kansas in 1876, and the
wonder of 1873 is the immigration
to Kansas, the result Of that re-
markable advertisement. It is Q
lesson in modern civilization, and
tells its own story to all who have
their eyes open-provided always
the eyes are not, IS those of the
Missouri rulers are, in the backs
OF their heads.
1t is, however, fortunate for
Kansas City. that while she terri
torially belongs to this stolid
power to the east of her, she is
commercially z part Of the modern
civilization to the West. and all
this Hood Of immigration Is part
of her heritage. We rejoice with
Kansas at the stream Of prosperity
pouring in upon her. and We look
to the future IS hopefully as II on
her soil. II Missouri win persist
in going back or in standing still,
she cannot drag Kansas City with
her. This tremendous movement
must heweYer have reflex IN
Husnce and Aid il extiE nishlne
medieYelism in our OWE State.