The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-02-05
THE KANSAS PRESS.
Interesting "reminiscences Of Kan
sas Newspapers and Editors.

Interesting "reminiscences Of Kan
sas Newspapers and Editors.
At the celebration Of the twenty-fifth an
niversary of the admission Of Kansas into
the Union, held at Topeka, January 90.
among the many interesting papers read
was one by Hon. d. W. Wilder on 1.-THE
Press Of Kansas" as follows:
| That saying of Governor Berkeley has been
worn threadbrre by quotation, because It
shows the spir Of . people. In 1871. long
! after books had been printed in Cathoi
Governor of Virgin. q said: II thank God we
have not free schools nor printing. and !!
hope we shall not have these hundred years"
sas 6l7. Her sons brought revolvers to Kan
sas; the revolving cylinders brought here by
Yankees carried the lead on the outside. in
! an Impressive way, and were long distance,
/ paper-wad shooters-l.oW an hour ut the
slOwest We made the other kind, too, and
| Calling himself matured his invention in
! In i775 the thirteen American Colonies had
thrty-seven newspapers. Imperial New
| England had fOur-abOut the number they
have n Dodge CITY the
was six hundred, or the same as that of the
| Kansas papers of tn day, including the
parents, or cooperative ana auxiliary pa
! pers.
IN 1884. 10, years ago. the first daily news
paper appeared, the american Ddiiy Adper-
tiser. of Philadelph a. There were only four
has thirty-two. In 1850, the whole On on had
$50 papers: in 1910. $50. In 1874. when the Re-
public was half Il century old, the whole
country had no more newspapers than KAN
sas has now. And yet they say we are
bOastful people. Why, SO much modesty and
SO much progress never met before to boom
a State. MOdeSty'S mo name for t., as the
saying goes. No young State has ever
eQualed Kansas in the number Of its papers;
none in preserving ITS history. Every issue
os every pape st u, Nansas Is e2Mnd ana pre-
Prof North saws the american press is
| the freest, the most self reliant. the most
al to home and vicinity interest in the
| world" and these ira Is our papers have in
| the superlative degree-for we have the
most of them. taking in ali vicinities News
papers are not to be sneered at by Presidents.
/ politicians or moralsts. The read ng matter
| in one issue of all the papers and per cd Gals
published in the United States is equal TO
the contents of library of l.5O0 octave vol
umes of go pages each. All Kansas families
have library In $50 the ma matter pass
ing through all the Offices in the I'm ted States
was counted, and Kansas led entythree
| States.
In 1885. last year. twenty eight States had
less newspapers than Kansas: we are the
tenth in the LIST, headed by such States as
| New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts.
the list every year; INVENTIVE ght Suites
passed in TWENTY-FIVE years, includ ng the
State founded nearlv three centuries ago.
The Central state will ''get there"
In 1860 Kansas had 81 papers: in 1870. 81: in
1850. 3i1: i'm 1ss, 6l7. In 1850 we hal 20 DIAL es;
in 1885, II. There are now eiphty-six Organ-
lied counties. and papers probably i'll Il
hundred. Before the courier could reach the
capital with the returns, one or two more
papers would tie started. Do you saw that
these papers are ephemerai and transient:
the number is doubled everv decade. When
the fever and strife of imm grafton and early
settlement have passed away, and every
county has stable poPulat on. say in about
1900. the papers will cease to increase n num-
bers and gain in size and quality. They are
now telling the world where to come; TINT
part of our mission will soon be ended. The
true pioneer looks forward to that dav of u
finished state with Il sad sigh. IL such fun
to start new papers. to see them, and to read
them. We have got used to it-like the
miner who couldn't 20 to sleep with any sat
isfaction unless there was a roar ng row in
the next room. Every day l look for new
papers.
old: the county is not vet organized
The Sod House is do ng duty. u snug quar-
terS on the Cimarron. IN Ford County--play-
ing game of freeze out as 1t were
The Border RutfGn, Il term originated by
pro-savery man who Stl lives. g the name
Of a paper. now for the first time, in the I'M
ORGANIZED county of Hamilton.
The Thomas Cat, at Colby, preceded by
about S year the organization of Thomas
County. The New York Sun has an Office
cat; our Cat has the Office. 1t is "a fighter
from way back. and "whoops it up in the
most lively manner.
! The Butalo CHIP was burned-some years
ago.
! they are one-is a cheerful person. He s n
rustler, and keeps up the fun as long rs he
can pay for Goa! and rent: and when he dies
his last words are as clipper as the first. He
'syalpd
when he steps on to the platform or when he
is dropped of" but plain United states
and capt ons of that sort And he has no
notion that the world is gong to stop. or he
himself cease to bob up sereney." because
his subscribers in Rainbelt or Greeley Center
/ did not come down with the dust.
| The pioneer free State press OF Kansas
showed what it was by the enemies it made.
The ru!iians destroyed the presses-Iudge
Delahay's Mt LeavenwOrth, two mt LAWRENCE
and all ara mt Lawrence when Quautrll's
assass ms came in. The Parkville Lumindiy.
Kansas paper on the other SIDE of the
: river. the paper of the staunch Presbr-
| terians. George Parke and Frederick starr.
was destroyed. The first free State paper IN
st Joseph, further up the r yer. started by
+ our Don phan County boss, and edited BY
] your present talker was ru ned by rufIans
! a few years later and its owners left penn-
| less ed as criminals. Let those apollo
/ e re who come after us! Those who were
! there don't buy brushes.
| When your friend is away from home you
want to get letter-dOn't YOU? Want one
| every day. And when the letter comes. how
happy you are: in what friendly state OF
| weekly paper and the da ly. and that S what
| they do for the mind and heart of Kansas:
| they make US pleasant persons ard helpful
neighbors.
| Some men take a paper for no other pur-
| pose than to grOwl when they read it. and to
| them n newspaper is bencfcent visitor; il
they did not growl at the paper: the wife and
oh hrnr Tod, Hnf
! scriber, who reads the articles aloud. who
reads everything in the paper. and finds fault
| with every line and syllable. is one of our
| best patrons. He really ENJOYS the paper;
| he would no more m SIS a number than the
constitutional candidate would do SO. He
calls promptly on the LIST of January and
! pays his bill like q tile man, saying the
VIII lie: Your blamed paper gets worse and
worse every year. but my wife wants to see il.
and long as we take it I'm blamed if don't
| pay for t.
The Congressional Globe, of Wednesday,
| January 81. 1861. under the subhead, Mes
| sages from the Pres dent" announces the
| approval of IAN act for the admiss on of
| Kansas The Globe was a paper that re-
| corded the talk of others. but made no talk
on is own account, and yet, on this occasion
the GlDbc said: The announcement of the
| Kansas was received with slight applause on
| the floor and in the galleries.
That little ripple of applause. begun on the
| Potomac, has been gradually deepening and
broaden ng until it is now tidal wave of
| joy, good cheer and enthus asm, flooding the
whole earth.
| Kansas is the child OF the North, not Of the
| Union: the Tn on was her enemy until she
| made it, And she is the child of the news
papers Before we had an influential press
the editors Horace Greeley. Charles A Dana.
; DIR. Ray. Henry Ward Beecher. John Went
| worth. Charles T. CongdOn, William c. Bry-
| ant, Parke Goodwin, the aggressive Repub-
lican editors of the North. made our cause
their OVID, fought for us. raised money for
| us. and sent us men. clothing and rifles, Dur
| ing the darkest days Of ls,6, Greeley pub
/ il reached more than S.tl.i19 and was one of