The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-13
AN INVITING PROSPECT.


There is no state in the Union which
can compare with Kansas for the pecu-
liar and intense experiences which go to
make up the sum of her wonderful his
tory. No commonwealth, in the brief
period of twenty years, has met and van
pushed the difficulties which have beset
our young state and developed that COM
handing degree of pluck and energy
among her citizens which has rendered
the very name of Kansas the synonym
for stalwart enterprise and lofty hero
ism. The tragical associations of the
early settlement of the state are held in
sacred remembrance by every advocate
of liberty in its broadcast and highest
sense, and the phenomenal de
velopment of n commonwealth which
has attained to population of a million
souls in quarter of century, has been
regarded with interest by the civilized
world. The impetus which the pro-
longed and bloody hut finally successful
contest with the encroachments of the
slave power impaired to Kansas immi-
grafton has never languished, and
though the dauntlcss pioneers who have
passed through the mutations of what
may be called the formation period of
the state have encountered many dis
couragements, they haye bravely sur
mounted them all and have lived to see
their untiring efforts rewarded beyond
the measure of their most sanguine
dreams.
Kansas is no longer problem. She is
a grand, accomplished fact and is making
the influence of her progressive civiliza-
ton felt throughout the remotest bounds
of the American Republic. The pecu-
liar character of her grand institutions
render her free and fertile borders espec-
tally inviting to those desirable classes
who value the priceless advantages of q
superior common school system and the
beneficent influence of those wise laws
which promote to the highest degree the
welfare of society and the integrity of
the body polite.
The physical characteristics of the
country have been intellectually modified
by its gradual development, and the eli.
matte influences, with each succeeding
year, have become moro conducive to the
successful prosecution of agriculture
which has suffered more or less from
those inevitable causes which oper ate in
all new countries. In the older and
more densely populated sections of the
state seed time and harvest are now at
tended with those encouraging cOndi
tons which gladden. the heart of the
husbandman, and establish tho
work of his hands. The error oil
passing beyond the line of certain rain
fall has come to be generally recognized,
and the consequence is an influx of i'm
migration into the productive portions
of the commonwealth and the eccupa
ton of its really valuable land.
In this immediate vicinity and innum
cradle other sections of Kansas capital ID
rapidly coming in from the east, eager
to utilize the granl resources Of the
rich prairies and cereal producing low
lands in the growth OF counties:
herds and fiocks, which art
unfailing sources of opulent
revenue. This impulse has been quick
ened by season of more than ordinary
promise, and, taken all in all, the out
look for Kansas has never been more
hopefully bright than it is this spring
Advices from all quarters tell of copiou.
rains, vigorous vegetation. thorough
ly healthful condition among ali class
es of live stock, and the most fiat
tering prospects for bounteous whea
and corn crop, to say nothing of frui
and other products of the soil. Ever
the far western counties, which wer'
desolated by drouth last season, are thii