Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09

seems to us most laudable undertaking
it having met with hearty response
from the leading eastern papers, while
its chief promoter has the moral support
of the president and tie administrations
OF late the press of the state has taken
up the question, and cordially endorses
the idea of Kansas taking part in the
same. We cannot but believe that the
benefits to be derived from proper ex-
hibit under such favorable auspices
would greatly outweigh any expenses
attending it. As old Kansans we know
that the centennial brought 100 per
cent returns for every dollar invested.
Notwithstanding, however, it is really
the only exhibit outside the state fairs
in which the state as such has evinced
any considerable interests. Our little
affair at New Orleans, ETC., have been
weak limitations of our first splendid
success. As state We have grown from
boy hood to mans estate, since then, and
we have nothing to lose but every thing
to gain by putting ourselves in dress pa
rade and sail for London
There are few, if any, agencies of civ-
ilization that have accomplished SO
much practical good, as we'll conducted
international fairs. At no former period
had the legitimate pride of strong ma
ton been so judiciously aroused as when
Prince Albert challenged the English
people to make the Crystal Palace expo
sition at once the symbol of their ma
tional greatness. and the high water
mark of their civilization. The results
of this vast undertaking are many and
too various, to merely mention, to
say nothing of describing
them. We can only here refer
to the Kensington museum. By the
means of this admirable institution, "the
blossoms of each successive exposition
have become the fruit Of the next"
Except the green vaults of the imperial
treasury of Austria, nowhere are found
greater art treasures. Its immediate
office has been that of q perfectly
equipped university for art instruction
and through it England has received an
art impulse such as was deemed impos.
sible only twenty-five years ago. So much
for the more tangible result of great
expositicns.
We will only note, in passing, that all
Europe, while on its travel, particularly
during its summer vacation, brings up at
Kensington; and that the American ex-|
position, of which we trust Kansas will
become q most important portion,
is located in the immediate
vicinity of this wonderful museum,
its daily visitors aggregate Thousands
from all parts of the world, and whoever
goes to Kensington would be sure to 60
to the American exposition. A better
than this to cultivate cos
mopolitan acquaintance, Kansas never |
have. At the Clspham junction, one of
the railroad centers of London, but q |
short distance by rail from the point We
to above, the rails lie together
like the wires of great piano. System
and organization have done their best,
and sixteen hundred trains come and 60 |
every twenty-four hours. This, however,
is only part of the transportation sys-
tenn demanded by the local traffic Of q
city of five millions of people. Among
the many desirable results to be attained
bya Kanscs exhibition in London would
be the enlightenment of from fifty to
Americans reared on
the east side of the Alleghenies, who
yearly cross the Atlantic in the am;able
delusion that being born Americans
they must know all about their own
country, while for ell practical purposes
heir knowledge of the trans Missouri
regions are limited to the stereotyped
desert" Of their school geography.
Most Of these people ars excellent citi-
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