The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-09

years. In October last, the board resolved
to appeal to the citizens of the various
counties, and particularly the county
court clerks to obtain Information oil
the approximate increase OF populari.n
by immigration alone. From replies re-
ceived, it is believed that there has been
an increase OF 225O0O, exclusive of St.
Louis and Kansas City. This is wonder
ful increase, but large as it is, it can still
be further increased il the board is fur
nished the means necessary to execute its
well.devised plans. III each immigrant of
that number brought but 81 900 with him,
s., 225 900 have been added to the taxable
wealth Of the State. The peculiar embar-
easements so long overhanging Missouri
having been removed by the efficiency OF
its law officers; with her we'll managed
police; with a sell and climate so gener-
Gus and productive her general state of
society SO pacific, and her financial con-
dition and standing so crsditable, the State
is rapidly attracting public attention, and
is, consequently, receiving q thrifty class
of immigrants, who come to locate In q
land where honesty, intelligence, industry
and morality are the only touchstOnes of
success and titles of nobility.
Nature has done much for this State,
and il is only left for its citizens to do
their part to make il the empire Of the
west. Henry Ward Beecher recently said ::
"The breadth of country from the Red
river country of the north, stretching to
the Gulf of Mexico, including Minnesota,
sas and Texas, is one of the most wonder
full agricultural spectacIes Of the globe. 1t
is one of the few facts that are unthinka-
bic. In this ocean of land, and nearly its
center, stands the imperial State of Mis-
souri," No greater compliment could be
paid the State; yet it is no greater than it
richly deserves 1t is thought within the
next two years there will be greater move
ments in population from the more popu.
lous States of this country and the Euro
pean States than has ever been known.
The Legislature should extend such inan-
cisl aid 10 our immigration Board as will
enable it to secure a respectable share
Of this immigration. Other States
with fewer attractions of soil, eli
mate, timber, water, minerals and health,
have made greater exertions in
the past than has this State, and have, as a
consequence, received large immigration,
and are preparing for . still more deter
mined effort in the future in the same d.
rection. Missouri should be fully prepar-
ed for this laudable contest. Having no
public or railroad lands for sale at govern
ment prices, other equivalent inducements
must be shown to compensate for this diff
ference in the value of lands. This is pre-
eminently an age of contact and rivalry in
every department and class of business
and alone to the active and vigilant belong
the victory and its consequent rewards.
Missouri has been known in the past a.
the "Robber State" False as that charge
was and is. let her hereafter be known in
the race for supremacy Is the new, free,
peacsble, prosperous Missouri, with homes,
churches schools, society and laws for ALL
But the watchful and liberai care Of this
body is required t. make it the realization
of the hopes of the most sanguine Of our
people.
WILLARD p. HALL.
Willard p. Hall departed this life at his
home in the city of ST. Joseph, on the 5,h
day of November, 1882 He became gov.
ernor of this State upon the death of Gov.
Gamble in 1864, and so acted from Jan.
nary 81, 1854, to January l, 1865. During
his administration he conducted the affairs
of his Office through those turbulent times
with such marked ability and fairness that
he commanded the admiration of friend
and foe alike. He was not a genius, in the
common acceptatiOn of the word, but was
a man of solid ability, Of intense applica-
ton, unqusstiOned honesty and dauntless
courage. He filled every sta
ton in life to which he was
called, public and private. with honor
He was an honor to his native State, Vir-
ginia; and, BY his superb intellect and
splendid life, he honored the State of his
adoption, and il will preserve his name
upon the roll of its most illustrious citi-
zens. AS he lived, he died Sustained and
soothed by an unfaliering trust" i'm the re-
wards Of an upright life; so may he rest !;
his faults lie gently on him." As great as
were his virtues as a citizen, greater still
were his learning and integrity as law
yer. Life, with him, meant work, not
dalliance; duty not pleasure; and that
life may we'll he adopted as a model by our
rising gener alton.
PORTRAITS OF STATE OFFICERS.
The Legislature should appropriate a
sufficient sum OF money to have the por-
traits OF the ex-GOvernors and Supreme
Court Judges painted and placed in their
appropriate places. the appropriation to be
expended under the direction of the Gov
ernor and Chief Justice of the Supreme
Conrt., Many of eur sister States have
made such appropriations. Already,
through my application. the portraits Of
Governors Price and Hardin have been
presented to the State, and am promised
portraits Of Governors Polk and Stewart.
This appropriation should not b. postpon-
ed. The written and unwritten history of
the laws and progress of the State were
largely exempIifed in the official acts of
its Supreme Court Judges and Governors.
EXECUTIVE MANsI0N'
The Executive Mansion was erected ia 1s7,-73
Some parts of the building have never been repair
ed. As a matter of economy and to preserve the
building in a condition worthy of the State and of
the urpose for which il built, and to protect il
from immediate decay, il shouts he pro, erly anc
thoroughly repaired without celay. ltshonld be