The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-03-05
KANSAS AS AN ADYRRTLsEI

KANSAS AS AN ADVERTISER.
At the banquet Saturday evening ten
dered the Press and Modoc clubs of
Topeka, by the prOprietors OF the Wind
sor hotel, Governor Martin made the
following happy reply In response TO the
toast: behold how judIcious advertis.
Jag has created great and prosperous
commonwealth"
Il do not know" said the governor,
''that the sentiment am called on to re-
spond TO, does full justice to Kansas
Judicious advertising - u wise thing, as
the most sagacious and successful busi-
ness man knows. 1t draws public at
tention, and thus multiplies customers
II may even attract patronage TO u hum
bug, tor u brief while. But even adver-
Using is not able to make humbug q
permanent success.
Kansas has been in the advertising
business tor thirty Vears. With Kansas,
everything IN the advertising line goes.
Kansas, for three decades past, has been
the best advertised spot on the CONT
nent. The border troubles, the civil war,
the Price and Quantrell raids, the
drouths of 1880 ana 1874. the grasshOp-
per invasion of the same years, John
Jim A1uhCg AoAuc, NuC
Benders, the Centennial exposition, prize
exhibits at horticultural shows, the rail-
roAda, our flambeau clubs, the Modocs,
| Tom Anderson, our newspapers, cy-
clones, political and otherwise; the st.
/ John LegAte Clarkson controversy Char
ley Jones' hammer at Chicago, the Okla
hOmA boomers, prohibition, the new
judicial d stricts, the New Orleans ex-
hibit, all these, and a hundred other
things, have contributed their share
toward advertising Kansas.
But behind and above all these inspir-
ing but ephemeral Incidents, wonders
troubles, excitements and persOnsges
there is Kansas, growing always, not be.
cause of these things. but often In spite
of them: prospecting, not by their infiu-
ence entirely, but because Kansas ha:
nothing that is unsubstantial in bel
nuke up A fertile soil healthiul eli
mate, an intelligent. enterprIsing anC
brave people. These are the enduring
foundations on which have been bull
, our great and prosperous commonwealth
Kansas Is su. Ia speak, "all wool AMI I
yard wide" Kansas is sound in winC
and limb. Kansas lie the electric ligh
of the union. Kansas is the state o
great crops, great herds, great flocks
great railroads. great schOO
houses, great developments ant
great prosperity. There is moth
z ing small about Kansas except he
z rivers, aud these were probably mad
small because Providence, IN tashIonini
the state, created q land So rich an,
: eOoily that II was deemed extravaganza
waste much of IL in big water course.
II is a great pity that the founders {
Topeka IN plating the town did nc
z emulate this good example. and max
a the streets of the capital narrower, 8
), that they could be paved without DANCE
of entaIlinS bankruptcy on the 10
- owners
: There WAS time, years ago, when
a was necessary TO do a great deal of AZ
vertlsiug for Kansas. But the reputs
ton of the state Is now fixed. First i
" corn, first 10 wheat, first 10 schoS
J, houses. and central. not only in Ii
"a heart Of the continent but IN heart of 1
- citizens. the Kansas man, vheresoever I
NAV wander. Is pround of his state, an
le advertises, judiciously or in any 9th,
way. itS attractions and advantage.