The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-04-12
THE rRUrR ABOUT KANSAS.

THE TRUTH ABOUT KANSAS.
Under the above heading late issue |
of the Atchison Champion contained |
the following:
Notwithstanding the fact that no
oughly, yariously and continuously adj
vertised than Kansas, no little ignor-
ance concerning its true character, its
climate, soil. crops, resources, growth
and possibilities still prevails among
eastern people.
For some unaccountable reason many
people in the New England and Mid
die states imagine that Kansas is a
wild. arid country, located on the ex-
by Indians, buffaloes, coyotes and
grasshoppers; crowded with cowboys,
who ride rough shod over the prairies,
booted and spurred; sort of travelling
arsenal, with tendency to go of upon
the slightest provOcation, scattering
death and destruction in its path; that
it is swept by cyclones and burned up
by drouths, with a population COM
posed principally of class of ignorant,
nomadic people, rough and uncouth III
their manners, and generally unrelia-
BILE; that the farms are indiferently
cultivated. the cities shanty towns, and
the whole state one vast bubble, dis
tended to its utmost limits and liza
bic to burst at any moment.
They seem to have no true concep-
ton of the actual condition of affairs
in Kansas. Its geographical location
the location of its cities and towns, its
phenomenal railway and marketing
| facilities are each imperfectly under
stood.
This dense ignorance concerning
Kansas which prevails among many
eastern people, and among the more
| intelligent, too, is simply inexplicable.
but it prevails nevertheless.
They do not comprehend Kansas.
They do not know that it is located
midway on the American continent
between its eastern and western
boundries, and almost in the exact
centre, north and south.
The truth is that Kansas is the most
natural and direct thoroughfare be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
over which the restless tides of traye
from one side of the continent to the
other continually surge. The Indians
excepting few hundred corralled IL
two or three small reservations, were
years ago removed from the state
! The buffalOes have long since entirel.
disappeared. The coyotes have nearl,
all migrated to Colorado.
The state has never in its history ha'
but two grasshopper visitations, tn
last one fourteen years ago. Cyclone
are no more frequent or destructive i
Kansas than they are in Pennsylvani
) and other eastern states.
Drouths are no more common and n
more disastrous in Kansas than il
D Ohio, Illinois and Indiana, and within
/ "a 10 at cforlrf fhnxr han Iac
common in Kansas than in the state
! named. There are no cowboys" i
! Kansas any more.
The people of Kansas are distin
j guished for their intelligence, cultuT
2 and refinement, and no better socis
) conditions are to be found anywhere i
the world.
There is large average of improve
and scientific agriculture in Kansas a
5 in any other American state.
The cities of Kansas are well built
Q completely furnished with the lates
5 modern municipal improvements, sue
a as paved streets, gas and electric ligh
water works, street cars, and every
4 thing else to be found in first-clas
. eastern cities.
e It's climate is the perfection of til
e temperate zone. Its seasons-veI
Z short winters, early springs, the sun
D
: June to December-afford the mos
. favorable combination to be found i
any latitude.
Its soil is simply uneXcelled fC
depth, richness and productiveness.
Its average crop yields, one year wit
4 another, per acre, exceeds that of III
e nois.
: Its mineral resources-coal, leat
!. zinc, salt, natural gas, as yet only pa
+ tally developed, are no inconsiderab
3 factors of the total of her Oversize
!: resources.
e The growth of the state, its develol
\ ment in everything that constitutes
J. state-population wealth, educatiOna
r religious and eleemonsvnary institl
9 tions are simply phenomenal.
Its prosperity rests upon found
5 ton as substantial as the earth itsel
Z and all this, supplemented by its L
8 markable healthfulness, make up,
3 brief, the actual status of affairs
Kansas.
q These facts, easily verified, are M
!. fully known and appreciated at the
Il true worth, we say, by many easter
people, even after all that has bee
written and said and printed aboI
Kansas.
Now every sentence of the above a
2 ticle is true. This being the case IL
question naturally arises as to what
the best manner of letting in hgl
, upon the darkness of our friends in Il
d east? The answer is simple. FloC
b the eastern states with Kansas new
papers. They, even if not read, w
# speak in louder tones than any 9th,
e method. A good paper is a sure ind
II cation of a good town. Kans.s hi
just as many good papers as she HI
good towns. But, as asserted in the
columns some days ago, newspape
q sent to strangers, from a strange eli
n in strange state, if not bearing Il
u pronounced earmarks of a boom &c
ton, viii be read from beginning
end, advertisements and all. IT