The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-11-20

from thirty six to one hundred and forty
five millions of dollars, in round mum.
bers. With bat 100 miles of railroad
then, she boasts Of Q 600 miles now
With no permanent school fund then, she
has 81 ,620, $50 now, and suf1cient school
lands yet unsold to swell the amount to
$1S. 900. 600.
Since 1865 the State has built pepi.
tertiary, asylums for the deaf and
dumb and the blind, q State University,
normal school, and agricultural college,
increased the number of school houses
from 600 to 8 600. and is now complet-
ing Capitol building that would adorn
any OF the older states. She has appro-
priated money for q reform school, and
will coon have all the educational and
reform institutions to be found in the
most advanced communities. All this
has been done without the creation of a
large public debt; it is but trifle over q
million OF dollars, and all but $343 ,97O
of that is controlled by the State.
The energy Of the people has kept
pace with the progress of the State. In
1865 there were but thirty five organized
counties: now there are seventy-five
Then there were but 273, ,903 acres Of
land under cultivstion; now 769, ,936.
Kansas, in 1865, produced but 291 $40
bushels of wheat. This year it is esti-
mated the yield will reach 125 ,0OO, 600
bushels, with A .OOO, 600 acres Of land
yet untouched by the pillow. These are
but few Of the more striking figures
illustrating the rapid advance Of Kansas
to q front rsnk among the states.
Imagine what it would have been had
the schemes Of the border ruffians Of
Western Missouri, sustained by the last
Democratic Administration that dis
grsced the country, succeeded, and Kan
sss have been made q slave state.
The secret of this rapid growth and
general prosperity is to be found in the
fact, well put by Governor st. John, that
Kansas has put no sentinels at her doors
to make politics, birth place, religion,
race or color q condition precedent to
the right to enter the State. Kansas"
said he, twas planted in freedom, and
freedoms soil produces churches, Sab.
bath-schools, railroads, school houses,
colleges, thriving towns and cities, long
lanes skirted with beautiful farms, news
papers. books and periodicals., and NOR
al men and women, who consider it no
disgrace % work for a living"
That tells the whole story. The men
who rescued Kansas from tie clutch Of
the STAKEHOLDER. and defended it as the
homestead Of freemen; at great peril, for
more than ten years, took with them into
the territory the school house, the church
and the newspaper, and having made
firm the foundations of the new State,
threw the doors wide open to all who
would come and settle on the broad, fat
acres, Masking no inquisition into their
past history, and requiring only that they
conform to the laws of the State, as be-
comes good citizens.
Thus Kansas is towering up among
the great States of the Union, with 9th
ers close beside her rapidly following in
her steps. The census Of 1880 will make
no revelations more interesting than
those that ststistically illustrate the
growth OF these Western giants. When
they take the representation t. which
they will be entitled on the floor Of Con-
gress. it will be discovered that the po-
litical game of q country ruled by the
Solid South and one or two Democratic
Northern States, will be up. These
young and enterprising states, full of
energetic and intelligent men and women
are Republican, and have no sympathy
with party that is nosing about among
the ruins of the Lost Cause for material
out Of which it may construct q platform
and q policy.