The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-09-18
A SEASON OF PROSPERITY.
Kansas Celebrates the Attainment Of
Her Mnlorliy. r4


Kansas Celebrates the Attainment o.
Her MnJoriiy.
TorEHA, HAS, September lG.-1he ex
ercises OF the day opened with a grand pc
rade through the city Of veterans from
Camp Douthitt, with State bands and State
militia. There were over twenty thousand
old soldiers in the city last night, three
fourths Of whom joined in the parade this
morning. The veterans marched back tc
the Fairgrounds, where they were cd
mitted free. Upon their arrival there they
were passed inside the speed.ring, and
Hon. james G. Blaine spoke to them from
the grand stand. h5;9 at n.Tl
Mr.. Blaine spoke without notes. Hi,
speech consistad Of rapid review Of the
history Of Kansas, Of the achievements ol
the State, Of its extraordinary develop.
ment, Of its still more extraordinary future.
In tweniy-one years Of the States existence,
following Its stormy and bloody experience
as Territory, It had grown 10 be u com.
monwealth Of a million Of people, with q
property this year Of perhaps $50, 900,
Accustomed as we have been fora century
to marvels Of growth In America, the
development OF Kansas seems to us q
mystery and almost u miracle, and
apparently thisgrowth has begun. When
Kansas shall have five millions OF people
its power 10 export will be more than five
times as great as 1t is today OF your fifty.
two millions OF acreage, not more than one
out Of eight has been cut with the plow, and
the greater portion Of your vast acreage is
such that II needs only to be tickled with a
hoe to laugh crop, and that which will
not laugh the crop OF cereals, will perhaps
produce an even richer result In the pro.
duction Of beef and Of wool. Your growth
in wealth is, therefore, remarkable. In the
valuation tables by which you agree to ap.
portion your taxes you estimate yourselves
to be worth less two hundred millions,
scarcely more than your annual product.
Reckoned upon any fair basis, with due
relation between principal and income
maintained, Kansas cannot to-day be
reckoned as worth less than one thousand
million dollars, and yet twenty.eight years
ago she was Of no more value to civilization
than the plains Of Tartary.
There are present here to-day large mum.
bers of men who have seen this entire
growth, and who have largely and honora.
bly, contributed 10 it. During the very
same period, during even the twenty-one
years Of Kansas existence as 4 State, the
growth OF the whole country has been ex.
traordinary. Indeed, within those twenty.
one years the people Of the United States
have acquired twice as much property and
wealth AS had benn acquired on the North
American Continent from the discoy.
cry by Columbus down to the day when
Abraham Lincoln was elected President,
A great change awaits on the trade and
commerce OF Kansas. To-day you look 70,
your markets and your exchanges to the
East. The day will come, and may not be
far distant, when you will look to the West.
| can myself remember that honest old
Governor Ritner. OF Pennsylvania, aston,
ished his hearers by predicting the day
when the valleys OF Pennsylvania would
be unable to produce the breadstufIs and
provisions required by the coal and iron
workers in the mountains, then considered
in a large part worthless and barren. Tha,
prediction has long since become history
in. Pennsylvania, and with these grand
chains Of mountains to the West, with
their gold,' and their silver, their iror
and their lead, and endless abundance O.
coal for the development Of all the
productive capacities, the great prairies oil
Kansas will be taxed beyond their capacity
to furnish the necessities Of life to thu
millions OF miners that will be employed
in bringing to light the hidden wealth oi
Colorado and New Mexico. The civiliza
tion that Cortez left in Mexico fifty yean
before white man'sfoot touched Plymouth
Rock, and century before VIM. Penn
sailed up the Delaware meets you 10 tht
southwest, and rises from that distant pas
to give 4 name to your great age OF railways
which in turn unite the people, and brinl
into closest commercial alliance tht
descendants Of the Spanish cavalier at SAINT,
Fe and the offspring Of the New England
purilans ION the plains Of Kansas"
Mr.. Blaine spoke at length on the veter
ans OF the war, who formed great part o
the vast audience. x. -
Dr..G. S. Loring, U. S. Commissioner o
Agriculture, followed Mr. Blaine. Hi
speech was devoted to review OF kansa
during the years of her minority, and th,
fast development Of her industries durinJ
this year, which finds her Just txenty-on,
years DID, Born amidst great civil convul
sion, she has grown with astonishing ra
pidity. Commencing with nothing in he
n fn O q 10 mn hnoek ~
amounting this year to lG0, 0,0O0, 900 bush
els, and Of wheat S5,0O0,0OO bushels
Her cattle number 100000 and he
swine 100000. The acreage of corr
has risen to 4,452,oo5l acres, OF sor
ghum to 1887 acres, Of broom cor,
l07,320 acres, her cultivated grasses III,
5S7 acres and her. occupied acreage to lii
017,5S5 acres. She has taken already fore
most stand among the agricultural States
and she has been called on to furnish
active and useful members Of the commit
tees on agricultural in both houses OF Con
gress. The farms are an important part
OF that system of American civilization
which is based on independent land
holding. s'S.ssf7I NE z s,:;2tzR'.i,
DR.. Loring here entered on an elaborate
review Of what agriculture has done fol-
the country in peace. and war from the
earliest period until now. He described
the work done by the American farmer
in the Revolution and the means they
bad iurn ished for the preservation Of oul
financial honor in the great crisis Of the
country. He recommended small farms
as most profitable, and gave interesting
fncts OF the profits gained from loca'
markets. He closed with a detailed
sketch OF the work going on in the De
partment Of Agriculture. ~
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